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Period: 1940s
'Winter Landscape', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Robert Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) circa 1950. Unsigned and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Born in Oakland, Robert George Gilberg first studied at the O...
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Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Summer during the hay harvest. Middle of the 1940s, oil on cardboard, 40, 5x53cm
Located in Riga, LV
Summer during the hay harvest Middle of the 1940s, oil on cardboard, 40,5x53 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of app...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Wind on the lake
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Wooden frame 69 x 77.5 x 5.5 cm
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1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Antique American Abstract Bridge Landscape Oil Painting by Will Hollingsworth
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American surreal abstract landscape painting Will Hollingsworth. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period modernist fr...
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Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fortune Magazine Cover Published 1941 Illustration Precisionist American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Fortune Magazine Cover Published 1941 Illustration Precisionist American Scene Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Military Tent City Fortune Cover published, May 1941 17 1/2 X 15 in...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

1940s Small Foothill Town
By Lura Eva Pursell
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming folk-art inspired landscape of small hillside town that reminds one of Americana and a simpler time. By Lura Eva Pursell (American, 1875-1965), circa 1940. Signed lower left...
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Folk Art 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Country farm at winter. Middle of the 1940s, oil on cardboard, 52x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Country farm at winter Middle of the 1940s, oil on cardboard, 52x70 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of applied arts...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Buffalo New York Regionalist Modern Landscape Signed Exhibited Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape painting signed "Welch '42". Oil on board, circa 1942. Signed. Image size, 16L x 14H. Housed in a modern frame.
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Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Big Sur, California by Ellen Pearl Johnson
By Pearl Johnson
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic landscape oil painting of Big Sur, California by Berkeley California artist Ellen Pearl Johnson (American, 1935-2019). An exception...
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American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil, Canvas

A Pastoral View of "Gospel Hall, Calais, VT" by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A "Thumb Box" (diminutive) painting of the Gospel Hall in Calais, VT by artist Harold Haydon. Image size: 4 1/2" x 6". Framed size: 9 3/4" x 10 3/4"....
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

TheLake - Tempera on Cardboard by Marius Carion - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
The Lake is an artwork realized in the 1940s by Marius Carion (Belgian, 1898 - 1949). Original tempera painting on cardboard. The artwork has the name of the author hand-written in...
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Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Tempera

A Tiny Painting of the Racine, WI Ravine, by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
Artist Harold Haydon called his tiny paintings "Thumb Box" paintings. This 1943 oil on paper painting depicts the Racine Ravine (Wisconsin Lakefront Beach). This is the perfect ser...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Oil

DeChirico Study
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on panel by American female artist Catherine Koenig created in 1941.
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Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Antique Store
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original charming 1940's modernist painting depicting an antique store in the countryside. This piece comes housed in its original period frame.
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1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

View of Venice
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Georges-Noël Béraud (1912-1972) Pseudonym : Marc Aldine Oil on canvas signed low right with pseudonym Marc Aldine View of Venice Golden frame Size canvas : 55 X 81 cm - Size frame : ...
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Academic 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Landscape. 1942, cardboard, oil, 50x69.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape. 1942., cardboard, oil, 50x69.5 cm Oto Pladers (1897.8.III – 1970.2.V) Oto Pladers learned in Riga city school of art (1913 – 15). He was called into the army in 1916 and ...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Provence landscape , 1946 - oil paint, 46x61 cm.
By Maurice Mendjinzky
Located in Nice, FR
Oil painting on hardboard depicting a Provence landscape with olive trees and hills. Signed on left side low. Maurice Mendjizky, was born on July 20th 1890 a Lodz in Polonie and died on may 8th in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (Alpes-Maritimes, France). A museum is tributed to him, the Mendjisky - Ecole de Paris museum, in Paris. He lived in St. Paul de Vence and good friend with Renoir, Signac, Modigliani and Picasso Au départ passionné de musique, il part dès son plus jeune âge à Berlin étudier dans une école de composition. Mais, excellent dessinateur, il s’intéresse finalement à la peinture et part pour Paris. Entre 1906 et 1907, il fait un rapide passage dans l'atelier de Fernand Cormon à l'École des beaux-arts de Paris. Il quitte vite l'atelier pour une vie plus libre où il travaille beaucoup et se fait rapidement remarquer par les grands marchands de l’époque. Il expose chez Georges Petit en 1912. La préface du catalogue est d’André Salmon. Ces mêmes années, il fait la connaissance de Léopold Zborowski, un des grands marchands d'art de l'époque et devient l’ami de Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Renoir. En effet, c'est en 1913 qu'il rencontre Renoir. Ce dernier l’invite régulièrement chez lui aux Collettes, à Cagnes-sur-Mer. Enthousiasmé par la lumière et l’atmosphère de la Côte d’Azur, Maurice Mendjizky incite ses camarades, Modigliani, Chaïm Soutine, Léonard Foujita à le rejoindre. Après un séjour en Pologne et Russie, il revient à Paris et rencontre la Alice Prin...
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Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Monumental New York City Brooklyn Bridge Cityscape Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Monumental antique American modernist abstract cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Very impressive painting in person here.
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Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Brighton Beach, August 5" Nathan Hoffman, Brooklyn, Impressionist, Sunny Day
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman Brighton Beach, August 5, 1941 Signed, titled, dated and estate stamped on the reverse Oil on board 9 3/4 x 14 inches Born in Russia, th...
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American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Dusk in the Garden - Greenwich Village - Moody Monochromatic - Whitney Museum
Located in Miami, FL
The setting reminds us of a Rear Window by Alfred Hickcock but Evergood did it 8 years before. It's most likely Greenwich Village since Evergood lived there. This is a very big and heavy to lift painting Signed lower left Framed 56 x 51 in a period very heavy rustic wood frame. Exhibited Center Gallery, Bucknell University, PA, among others venus. gallery label remnants on verso - The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis The Whitney Museum of American Art Annual 1949 - Label Provenance: Naomi and Walter Rosenblum Best Viewed with a top gallery light...
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Expressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Polished Brass Frame for Painting, Drawing or Mirror, 1940s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely 1940s French polished brass frame is perfect for paintings, drawings, lithographs, mirrors, or any creative decoration. The frame has a large proportion and can be hung i...
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Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Brass

20th Century Oil on Board Italian Signed M. Gheduzzi Landscape Painting, 1940
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Framework oil on board depicting a wooded landscape with a character of good pictorial quality. Modern frame in carved and g...
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1940s Landscape Paintings

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Wood, Oil

American Modernist Snowscene
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern 1940s American oil painting depicting a rural landscape in winter. This work comes housed in a rustic barn wood frame likely original to the piece
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

Antique American School Modernist Abstract Mid Century Framed Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist abstract painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a great period modernist silver leaf frame.
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Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Temple Church London after Bombing: Clifford Charman painting Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Spring sunny day. Cardboard, oil, 29. 5 x 36 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Spring sunny day. Cardboard, oil, 29.5 x 36 cm Janis Pupols (1886 – 1956) Graduated Landscape studio of V. Purvitis in Latvia Art academy (1927). He took part in exhibitions since 1...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

American School Modernist Framed Original Sunset Signed Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Sissonne France" Watercolor Naturalistic Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Naturalistic watercolor European landscape painting. The work is signed, titled, and dated by the artist. The watercolor painting is mounted to a brown matte but is not framed. Dimen...
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Naturalistic 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

Study of Autumn, 1949, oil on plywood, 20, 5x29, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Oto Pladers (1897.8.III – 1970.2.V) Oto Pladers learned in Riga city school of art (1913 – 15). He was called into the army in 1916 and continued studies after the war in Latvia Art ...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Plywood, Oil

"Prospect Park, Brooklyn, " Nathan Hoffman, New York City Impressionist Landscap
Located in New York, NY
Born in Russia, the son of Friede (1878 – 1956) and Benjamin Hoffman (1878 – a. 1942). Benjamin was a dealer in mineral and seltzer water and the family resided on Snediker Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, just down the streetfrom the home where George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) was born. This area of Brooklyn, known as Brownsville, “witnessed the development of one of the largest communities of Eastern European Jewish immigrants during the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20 th century.” Today, little remains of this once thriving Jewish section of Brooklyn, which today houses many commercial and repair businesses. Hoffman studied at the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design and in the art program at Cooper Union. His work at the National Academy received praise, and in 1921 he was awarded the 2nd prize and an honorable mention from the John Armstrong Chaloner Paris Prize Foundation at the National Academy, which allowed the recipient to study in Paris, France for as long as five years. The following year he was awarded the 1 st prize in the competition (with The Reform Advocate running the headline “Young Jew Wins Art Prize”) as well as the Suydam Bronze Medal for his achievements in the Academy’s Men’s Night Class. In 1923 he was residing in Long Branch, New Jersey, when he was awarded 4th place in the Chaloner competition. Early on, Hoffman exhibited his work throughout the city, including in 1925 with the recently organized Society of Independent Artists. He also received several solo exhibitions during the first part of his career, including one at Ferargil Galleries in 1929. In the spring of 1930 a solo exhibition of his portraits, including paintings and drawings, was held at at Babcock Galleries, where a reviewer noted: “Portraiture is obviously Mr. Hoffman’s specialty… his best work is characterized by a sensitive appreciation of character set down in a vigorous decisive statement. Later that same year, in August, he participated in Babcock’s summer exhibition where reviewer Jerome Klein, writing for The Baltimore Sun, felt Hoffman’s and other artists work was already becoming old fashioned, remarking “…if an effort toward accomplishment is to be made, it must be in the language of today. It is for that reason that such contemporaries as Eugene Higgins and Nathan Hoffman, in this show, seem artists of a bygone era…” The onset of the Great Depression appears to have slowed his success, as was the case for many up-and-coming artists. By 1939 Hoffman had become a gallerist in addition to being a painter, operating the collective exhibition space “Sutton Gallery,” which was originally located at 358 East 57th Street. There Hoffman exhibited his own works as well as those created by other prominent New York artists including David Burliuk (1882 – 1967), Charles C. Curran (1861 – 1942), Louis Eilshemius (1864 – 1941), Ann Goldthwaite (1869 – 1944), Maurice Kish (1895 – 1987), Lawrence Lebduska (1894 – 1966), Bradford Perin and Ellis Wilson...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique American Large Surreal Masterpiece Landscape Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique surrealist oil painting of a landscape with a sculpture. Oil on board, circa 1949. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. Image, 35"L x 22"H.
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Surrealist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sketches of a figure: Hilary Hennes Miller c.1940 English Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
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Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Carbon Pencil

French Impressionist oil painting Caldwell Woods Chicago Plein Air Original 1940
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original french impressionist plein air painting depicting the Caldwell Woods Nature Preserve in Chicago, IL. Louis Phillipe Kamm traveled to the US, visiting major cities, and p...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"The Saint of the Flaming City, " Oil on Canvas signed by Raymond Breinin
By Raymond Breinin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Saint of the Flaming City" is an original oil painting on canvas by Raymond Breinin. It depicts a group of figures looking over an abstracted and green city as the colors of fire rage through the sky. The artist signed and dated the piece in the lower right. This painting was lent by the David Barnett Gallery to the Art Institute of Chicago for their 52nd Annual Exhibition. 30" x 40" art 39 3/4" x 49 3/4" frame Raymond Breinin, Russian/American painter & designer (1910-2000), was born in Vitebsk, Russia, where he commenced his art studies with Uri Pen (who was also the first teacher of Marc Chagall) and later attended the Vitebsk Academy of Art where Malevitch was the director. He came to the United States with his family in 1922. When he came to America he attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. A painter of murals for the WPA, he was invited to join the Downtown Gallery in New York City, one of the foremost galleries at the time, where he exhibited in one man shows and group shows over a period of 18 years. The winner of numerous major prizes at the Chicago Art Institute and other museums, he also won the $1000 purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition. He designed the sets and costumes for Anthony Tudor's ballet, "Undertow" produced by the American Ballet Theater. He executed commissions for "Life", "Fortune" and "Redbook" magazines, for the Capehart Corporation, Eli Lilly...
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Expressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Marcel Dyf “Place De la Concorde”
Located in Dallas, TX
Marcel Dyf French, 1899-1985 “Place de La Concorde” , 1948 Signed Dyf and dated 1948 Paris (lr) Oil on canvas Canvas: 29 x 39.75 Inches (73.6 x 99 cm) Framed: 35 x 45.25 Inches ...
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1940s Landscape Paintings

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Paint

Threshing 1940. Canvas, oil. 54.5x73.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Threshing 1940. Canvas, oil. 54.5x73.5 cm Artist painted scene of every day life of countryside people in working atmosphere - threshing and haying. There is captured two haystacks, tractor, barn, and people in working process. Information about artist...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

George Horace Davis Illustrated London News Design Agricultural Mechanisation
Located in London, GB
From our collection of original designs. To see more, scroll down to 'More from this seller'. George Horace Davis (1888-1963) Design for publication in The Illustrated London News...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Gouache

In the sun 1942, oil on cardboard, 24x33 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Indriķis Zeberiņš (born in 1882, died in 1969), painter, graphic artist. Studied at the studio of J. Rosenthal in Riga (1905–1906), at the school of the Society for the Promotion of ...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Antique American School Abstract Landscape Fauvist Beach Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 24L x 22H.
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Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Montmarte, 1946 Oil Painting by Andre Vinot
By Andre Vinot
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Andre Vinot, French XXth Title: Montmarte Year: 1946 Medium: Oil on Canvas mounted to Wood, signed l.l. Image: 16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50.8 cm) Frame Size: 25.5 x 30 inches
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Skyline and Tugboat, East River, New York City
Located in Greenwich, CT
Samuel Grunvald excelled at watercolors and was a native New Yorker who portrayed his city as such as he depicted its skyline, architecture and particular character with love and ent...
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1940s Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Bridge Nocturne oil painting by Johann Berthelsen
Located in Hudson, NY
One of Johann Berthelsen's iconic nocturne views of New York City across the Hudson River. Bridge Nocturne (c.1945) Oil on canvas, 22" x 28" 29 ½" x 36" x 2" framed Signed "Johann ...
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American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Keeping Appointments with Convoys, Pennsylvania Railroad, 1943
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper Laid Down on Board Signature: Signed "J. Clymer" Lower Left This illustration was used in a 1943 advertisement for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
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1940s Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Board

Voilier - ship, 1948 - oil on canvas, 51x59 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil painting on panel representing a boat in the sea. Framed André Petroff naquit à Saint-Petersbourg en 1894, il étudia avec Bilibine et Roerich. Par la...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Painting early 20th Century Venice boats seascape
By Giacomo Rosselli
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Giacomo ROSSELLI (1901-nc) "Venice" Oil on canvas signed low right Old frame gilded with leaves Dim canvas : 60 X 81 cm Dim frame : 80 X 100 cm Certificate of authenticity delivered ...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

The Wildwood, New York Harbor painting circa 1940 by Margaretha E. Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Margaretha E. Albers, American (1881 - 1977) Title: The Wildwood Year: circa 1940 Medium: Oil on Board, signed Size: 12 in. x 16 in. (30.48 cm x 40.64 cm)
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American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Chinese School Gouache Painting in Carved and Painted Frame circa 1940's
Located in Rochester, NY
Decorative Chinese school painting. Fine detail and painted with rich colors. In a wonderful carved frame painted in pastel blue.
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1940s Landscape Paintings

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Paint, Gouache

"A Poudre Lakes - Continental Divide - Milner Pass" Early Watercolor Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Purple tonal naturalistic watercolor landscape by Texas artist Harry Worthman. This watercolor is an early watercolor made by the artist. It is signed, titled, and dated by the artis...
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Naturalistic 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

The Guide
Located in Bristol, CT
Charming watercolor by B.M. Kremitske signed BMK (LL) from June, 1948 painted after Winslow Homer Art Sz: 6"H x 10 1/4"W Frame Sz: 11 3/4"H x 16"W
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1940s Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

"Springtown Grocer"
By John Foster
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: R. John Foster (1908 - 1989) R. John Foster lived all of his life in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He studied at the...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Environs of a Bridge oil painting by Seymour Franks
Located in Hudson, NY
Hand-signed and dated "Franks 44" lower right. This work is in its original hand painted frame, made by the artist. The frame measures 29 ½" x 35 ½" x 1 ¾" and the canvas measures 26...
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Abstract Expressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman and Child
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A. American, 1888-1972 Woman and Child Oil on canvas Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left 24 by 30 in. W/frame 32 by 38 in. John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters. At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions. A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century. John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934). Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.) During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution. John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career. This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Łańcuchów Village - Mid 20th Century Oil Landscape by Helena Krajewska - Poland
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Helena Malarewicz-Krajewska (born 14 July 1910 in Biecz , died May 7, 1998 in Warsaw) is a Polish painter, active advocate of socialist realism. Studied between 1928 and 1929 at the Free School of Painting and Drawing in Cracow , from 1929 to 1934 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw : painting by Mieczysław Kotarbiński and Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski and graphic art by Władysław Skoczylas and Leon...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Tombstones in a country graveyard
Located in Maidenhead, GB
British, c. 1940-50 Tombstones in a country graveyard With a study of two herring verso Signed in initials with brush handle lower right, ‘R.M.’ Oil and graphite on board 30.3 x 37....
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Post-War 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

1940s Winter Colorado Mountain Landscape Gouache Painting with Snow and Train
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning 1945 winter landscape painting by American artist Edgar Britton (1901-1982) captures the beauty of a snow-covered mountain scene with a tree-lined road, likely in Color...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Archival Paper

Untitled (Red Wheelbarrow), New York Harbor Scene
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited: Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York Caldwell Gallery, Manlius, N.Y.
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Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Night drive
Located in London, GB
This highly atmospheric, original and unusual painting, by James Exley, was executed in 1941. The focus of the headlights, dancing off intricately detailed branches and trunks, is m...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Fascist Flew By - after Arkady Plastov
Located in Oostende, BE
This artwork is an oil painting on canvas created by "Shapovalov." It is inspired by a work by Arkady Plastov, capturing the style and essence of the original piece. The scene depic...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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