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Style: American Modern
Sunday Outing, possibly Island Beach, Greenwich, CT
Located in New York, NY
A charming and exquisitely framed piece that is evocative of the late 1930's and early 40's in America. Simkhovitch was a regional artist and WPA muralist and he was famous for his ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Hooverville by Day (Colorado), 1940s Signed Oil Landscape Painting Neighborhood
Located in Denver, CO
1940s oil on canvas painting by George Biddle (1885-1973) titled "Hooverville by Day (Colorado)". Signed and dated by the artist in the lower left corner, titled verso. Painting depi...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Committee Chair" Mid 20th Century American Scene Modern Contemporary Political
Located in New York, NY
"Committee Chair" Mid 20th Century American Scene Modern Contemporary Political. 23 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches. Signed lower left.
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
BIO
William Gropper (1...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Musicians WPA Social Realism American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Music Chairs
Located in New York, NY
Musicians WPA Social Realism American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Music Chairs. 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Signed lower right.
Provenance. The Estate of William Gropper
BIO Willia...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Power Plant Grant Coulee Dam Industrial Mid 20th Century Abstract Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Power Plant Grant Coulee Dam Industrial Mid 20th Century Abstract Realism Modern. 18 x 20 inches. Signed lower right.
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
BIO
William Gropper (1897- 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Santa Fe, New Mexico
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Cleveland, OH
Frank Wilcox
1949
Signed & Dated Lower-Left
Oil on Masonite
21.5 x 29.5 inches
26.5 x 34.25 (framed)
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1969 American Modern "The Concert"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Powerful mid century American modern painting of 3 musicians. Really well painted mystery piece. It is oil on canvas dated on back with a name of either artist or possibly the 3 sub...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
"New York Subway," 36 x 48 inches. Oil on Masonite (backed with a wood frame), Signed and dated ’47 up...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1950s "Nap in the Light" Mid Century Figurative Painting University of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Man in Door"
c. 1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24" x 18" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait of Two Women, Exterior Figurative Painting, Framed Watercolor Painting
By Lloyd Moylan
Located in Denver, CO
Modernist watercolor on paper painting by Lloyd Mylan of two women sitting amongst an exterior landscape. Painted in colors of pink, orange, blue, and green. Presented in a custom go...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Art Institute
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original 1942 oil on board painting by American female artist Catherine Koenig depicting the interior of the Buffalo Art Institute which was home to the legendary Charles Burchfie...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
New York City Tenement Family Modernist WPA Era Oil Painting Wolins
Located in Surfside, FL
Subject: American Family
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
In this painting, Joseph Wolins uses vibrant and complimentary colors and broken brushwork.
Joseph Wo...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painti...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1970s Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting, Modernist City Scene With Couple
Located in Denver, CO
1950s oil on board painting by George Cecil Carter portraying a modernist couple, thought to be Alfred Stieglitz & Georgia O'Keefe. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions meas...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintin...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Watercolor
Concert, Figurative Oil Painting by William Harnden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Harnden, American (1920 - 1983)
Title: Concert
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed
Image Size: 15.5 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 22.5 x 27 inches
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
American WPA Jewish New York Modernist Madonna Mother and Child painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A magnificent oil on canvas by Russian American WPA artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984), dating from 1943.
Depicting a Maternity scene - or possibly a modernist take on the virgin ...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green Shoes
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Julia Lambright, Green Shoes, Egg tempera on panel, 2022, 42” x 30”
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Wood Panel
Modernist Brightly Colored Oil Painting of a Bird and Flowers, Teal, Purple
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by Martin Saldana (1874-1965) titled "Bird" circa 1950-1955. Painted in bright colors of teal, orange, purple, and yellow. Presented framed, outer dimensions me...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Harriet Toby, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Drama Teacher" 1938 WPA Mid 20th Century American Theatre Surrealism Modernism
By Leon Bibel
Located in New York, NY
"Drama Teacher" 1938 WPA Mid 20th Century American Theatre Surrealism Modernism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on Canvas. Signed land dated ’38 lower left.
The photograph in the listing depic...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Theatre Modern Figures
Located in New York, NY
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Theatre Modern Figures. Oil on paper mounted to canvas. 21 x 35 inches.
Provenance. The Estate of William Gropper
BIO
Will...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
"Dance Rehearsal" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Modernism Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Dance Rehearsal" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Modernism Social Realism
William Gropper (1897 - 1977) "Dance Rehearsal," 60 x 44 inches, Oil on canvas, 1947. Signed lower lef...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reclining Nude
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Joseph Stella. "Reclining Nude" is a figurative painting, oil on canvas in a bright palette of yellows, greens, and tans by American Modernist artist Joseph Stella. The...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waiting in Time
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Julia Lambright, Waiting in Time, $4,850.00, Egg tempera on panel, 2022, 45” x 32”
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board
Sausalito Hillside, California, 1940s Modernist Framed Landscape Oil Painting
By Hugh Weller
Located in Denver, CO
American modernist landscape of houses on a hill in Sausalito, California, by Hugh Weller (1898-1982), original oil painting on board depicts houses and trees on a hillside in colors...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Air Raid Shelter
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Air Raid Shelter" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in a palette of dark hues of grays and reds by American artist Irving Norman. It is sig...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Halleluja, A story
Located in New York, NY
Initially read as archaic and simple, Halleluja is a complex celebratory spring painting full of color, imagination, and humor and combines many elements seen throughout her later ca...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Portrait with Orange" 1969 Portrait Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Florence Hasenflug
"Portrait with Orange"
1969
Oil on canvas
14"x16" wood period frame 18.75"x1.5"x23"
Signed and dated on reverse
Florence Hasenflug (1914-2010) was born in and edu...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s "Nude in Kitchen" Mid Century Figurative Painting University of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Nude in Kitchen"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24" x 18'" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"The Informer" Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modern Political Senator Colorful
Located in New York, NY
"The Informer" Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modern Political Senator Colorful. The canvas 19 1/2 x 27 x 12 inches. Signer lower center.
BIO
William Gropper (1897- 1977)
Throughou...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Storm Over Victor (Colorado Mountain Town), 1940s WPA Era Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by George Vander Sluis (1915-1984) titled Storm Over Victor (Colorado Mountain Town) from 1946. WPA Era Mountain Landscape with houses, trees, and clouds. Prese...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Woman in Pink"
By Moses Soyer
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an oil on masonite by the well known American social realist artist, Moses Soyer. Signed lower right. Circa 1950. In its original wormy chestnut fram...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Ancients, Native American Ceremonial Scene, Cultural Commentary
Located in Doylestown, PA
"The Ancients" is a 18 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. T...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man Thinking of Winter Fields, American Modernist Painting by Female Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Man Thinking of Winter Fields" is a 12 x 9 1/8 inches, oil on board painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. Signed and titled "Man Thinking of Win...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harvesters WPA Depression Era American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism Workers
Located in New York, NY
Harvesters WPA Depression Era American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism Workers
Canvas measure 28 x 39 1/2 inches. Painting is signed "Harry Gottlieb" lower right. The painting has...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
City Park, Denver, Colorado, Large Semi-Abstract Polychromatic Oil Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Large format oil painting on canvas of City Park in Denver, Colorado by Edward Marecak. Semi-abstract park scene with various types of trees, figures, and a large pond. Presented as ...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
African Idol — African-American artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (African Idol), watercolor, c. 1950s. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '570' in ink. A fine, spontaneous wat...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers with Personages
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Flowers with Personages" c.1970 is an oil painting on paper by American artist Mary Zarbano, 1931-2019. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwor...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s Signed Southwestern Landscape Oil Painting, Figures, Horses, Pink Green
By Erle Loran
Located in Denver, CO
Original, American Modern southwestern landscape oil painting, signed by Erle Loran (1905-1999). Painting depicts a pair of figures surrounding a group of three horses in an impressi...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Dichotomy, mid-century figural abstract green oil painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Dichotomy, 1962
Oil on paper
Signed and dated upper left
20 x 25 inches
Mid-century figural abstract green painting of woman swimming ...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Street Scene NYC Urban Mid 20th Century American WPA Modern Social Realism Large
Located in New York, NY
Street Scene NYC Urban Mid 20th Century American WPA Modern Social Realism Large. 36 x 60 inches. Signed lower right.
Provenance: Estate of William Gropper
BIO
William Gropper (189...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Towing the Boat
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Winslow Homer (1836-1910) . "Towing the Boat" is a modern painting, watercolor and pencil on paper in an earth-tone palette by American artist Winslow Homer. The artwor...
Category
Late 19th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Modernist Standing Nude Figure & Red Pitcher on Green by Tarmo Pasto
By Tarmo Pasto
Located in Soquel, CA
Modernist Standing Nude Figure & Red Pitcher on Green by Tarmo Pasto
Stunning large-scale modernist figurative of a female nude with red pitcher by Dr. Tarmo Pasto (American, 1906-1...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Hunters and Mountain Lion, American Modernist Female Artist, Cultural Commentary
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Hunters and Mountain Lion" is a 46.25 x 30 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color pa...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Golfer Swinging, Vintage 7 Up Ad "Get Real Action" in Green and Yellow - Golf
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
This strobe-like dynamic composition with bright and bold colors reflects the energetic taste of the 7 Up brand. It lies somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Peaks' use of b...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board
Train Conductor, 1930s WPA Modernist Portrait of a Man, Brown, Gold, Blue, Green
Located in Denver, CO
1937 portrait painting completed in oil paint on board by Archie Musick (1902-1978). Portraying a single male figure wearing a train conductor hat with a landscape in the background....
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Deep in the Jungle - Figurative Painting - American Modern Art By Marc
Located in Carmel, CA
Blue women: at home in the jungle- attuned to the wild.
Deep in the Jungle - Figurative Painting - American Modern Art By Marc Zimmerman
This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zim...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Speed God Mercury, Collier's Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 29.25" x 21.00", Framed 44.00" x 35.00"
The Speed God Mercury, Collier's Magazine Cover, January 19, 1907
Leyendecker,...
Category
Early 1900s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Plumeria Night - Surreal Nocturnal Figurative Landscape with Vase of Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
Plumeria Night - Surreal Nocturnal Figurative Landscape with Vase of Flowers
Plumeria night, a large dynamic oil painting by Marguerite Blasingame (American, 1906-1947), c.1935. Th...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Rosa with Blue Robe" American Modernist Figurative Painting
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
Rosa with Blue Robe
9-20-1984
Acrylic on rag paper
44.5"x33.25 unframed
Signed, dated and titled in pencil on reverse
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Ple...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Rag Paper
Untitled, Young Female Nude, Interior Scene, Oil on Panel
Located in Detroit, MI
"Untitled" portrays a young female nude in an intimate setting within the artist's studio. This painting is done in the classical vein of full portraiture. The model, however, is not...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Academy
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "The Academy" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in a palette of dark hues of grays and reds by American Artist Irving Norman. The Lithuanian...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black Dog, 1960s Framed Modernist Oil Painting, Pet Portrait, Black White
Located in Denver, CO
Black Dog, vintage 1961 original modernist painting of a dog in black, gray and white by Colorado Springs Broadmoor Academy artist, Charles Bunnell (1897-1968. Painted in oil on canv...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Strike WPA Depression Era Social Realism Modern Mid 20th Century American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Strike WPA Depression Era Social Realism Modern Mid 20th Century American Scene. The canvas measures 17 1/2 x 26 inches. Signed lower left.
BIO
William Gropper (1897- 1977)
Througho...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Wind, Large American Modernist Oil Painting Woman with Flowers
By Doris Turner
Located in Surfside, FL
Nice American Modernist Oil Painting. with old label verso. not dated but estimating it to the 70s. Not sure which Doris turner this is. reminiscent to many of the French artists sho...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carmen Miranda Latin American Modernism Hollywood Portrait Mid 20th Century WPA
By Paul Meltsner
Located in New York, NY
Carmen Miranda Latin American Modernism Hollywood Portrait Mid 20th Century WPA. 35 ¼ x 30 inches. Oil on canvas, 1942. Signed lower right. Titled and signed on the stretcher.
Our g...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in an Armchair, Modernist Bay Area Figurative with Primary Colors
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman in an Armchair, Modernist Bay Area Figurative with Primary Colors
Bold and expressive Bay Area Figurative painting by California artist Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963), c.20...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
