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Period: 1930s
The Monk - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The monkis an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Good condition. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 ...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Paint, Oil

Portrait of Woman - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Original oil on board Beautiful and representative artwork of a female fi...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Colorful French Townscape by Impressionist Maurice Léonard
Located in New York, NY
M Leonard Untitled, c. 1930 Oil on board 14 3/4 x 21 in. Framed: 21 1/8 x 27 1/2 in. Signed lower right: M Leonard
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Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Reading Woman - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Reading Woman is a beautiful and impressive oil on canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli. It was realized between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s and represents a reading...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Paint, Oil

Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Landscape with figure of horse, driver and wagon Medium: Oil Surface: wood Board EMANUEL ROMANO Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984 Emanuel Glicen Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897. His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born. His father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland. In 1926 Emanuel Glicenstein Romano and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later. Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame. In 1936 Romano was worked for the WPA Federal Art Project creating murals. ( there were many jewish artists active with in the WPA period. notably Chaim Gross, Ben Shahn, Isaac and Moses Soyer, Abraham Rattner and many others. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida. Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel. In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York. Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicenstein Museum. COLLECTIONS Indianapolis Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art Boston Fine Arts Museum Fogg Museum Musée Nacional de France Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait of a Seated Woman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of a Seated Woman oIl on canvas, c. 1930 Signed on the reverse in oil paint: "Paul W" Created while the artist was a student at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Provenance: Estate of the artist Condition: Cleaned and stretched by Monica Radecki, South Bend, Indiana. The painting is unframed Canvas size: 30 x 24 inches This work created while the artist was in art school. Winchell studied art at the Minneapolis and Chicago Art Institutes in the 1930’s. He went on to teach at both institutions. Winchell studied under the noted artists Daniel Garber and Leon Kroll. Winchell exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Art Institute of Chicago and the Kansas City Art Institute. He retired to a quiet life in Painsville, Ohio. Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris Anisfeld (1878-1973), Daniel Garber (1880 – 1958), Charles Woodbury (1864 – 1940), George Oberteuffer...
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American Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Pont Alexandre III
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated 1939 Lucien Andrion captures a beautiful sun filled day on the Seine with his signature style. The Pont Alexandre III bridge is adorned with gilded scul...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid-Century, Men working on a roadway in France in the Summer
Located in Woodbury, CT
THEODORE CHARLES BASIL HITCHCOCK Mid Century or slightly earlier scene of men working on a pathway in a French Town. He was a painter and teacher who studied at Hornsey School of Art, after attending London University, his teachers being Adrian Hill and John Charles Moody...
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Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Woman - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting. Not signed. Good conditions Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Paint, Oil

Letter of Thanks by A. Gerardi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
This is a Letter of Thanks Signed by the Italian artist Alberto Gerardi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, April 6th. Around 1938. One page, single-sinded. In Italian. Excellent con...
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1930s Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Ca. 1935 Atmospheric Tonal Farm Scene by Artist Joseph Lane
Located in Chicago, IL
An atmospheric, tonal farm scene by artist Joseph Lane. Image size: 25" x 30". Framed size: 29" x 34". Joseph Lane was born in Austin, Texas in 1900. ...
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1930s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Death of the Young Men 1938 - British art figurative Surrealist oil painting
By Jack Sassoon
Located in London, GB
This very interesting Surrealist painting is by Jack Sassoon. One can only speculate whether Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), the English war poet, writer an...
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Surrealist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Eltham, London
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Francis Dodd R.A. 1874-1949, was an English landscape and portrait painter, draftsman and etcher. He attended the Glasgow School of Art and travelled through Europe, France, Italy an...
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1930s Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

The Woman on Sofa - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Woman on Sofa is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – G...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Terrestrial Paradise - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Terrestrial Paradise is an original modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Good conditions Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Paint, Oil

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Anemones and daffodils, Signed oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Bunch of anemones and daffodils in a vase Signed lower left Oil on canvas In good condition 36 x 31 cm In its original frame : 51 x 46 cm Maurice As...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

A Lovely ca. 1930s Watercolor of Summer Nocturne Moonrise by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A lovely 1930s watercolor on paper of a summer nocturne moonrise by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 11" x 14". Archivally 8-ply matted to to 14” x 18”. Estate stamped on rev...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"Tugboat at Dock, " Reginald Marsh, Modern WPA Industrial Ship
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh Tugboat at Dock, circa 1937 Signed lower right Watercolor and pencil on paper 13 3/4 x 20 inches Housed in a Lowy frame. Provenance: Sotheby'...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Autograph Letter by Jean Dubuffet - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
This is a Autograph Letter Signed by Jean Dubuffet and addressed to Nesto Jacometti. Vence, November 28th, 1957. One page, single-sided. On watermarked paper. In French. excellent c...
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1930s Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Woman in Pink - Oil Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in pink is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Original oil on plywood. Beautiful and representative work of a female figure...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Shopping Day
Located in Los Angeles, CA
> > Painter George Melville Smith (1879-1979) Painter, illustrator born in Chicago. Smith began formal art studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at the age of seventeen, after first studying as an architect's apprentice. In 1925-26 he studied in Paris under Andre Lhote, then worked as a painter in France, Spain, England and Italy. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago four times during the 1930s, and was included in the Whitney Museum's 1933 exhibit which also featured Grant Wood...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman Reading - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman reading is an modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. The artwork depicts a portrait of a woman.
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Oil, Paint

Muslim - Original Mixed Media on Paper by Lucie Navier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Muslim is an original painting realized by Lucie Navier. Original tempera painting on paper. The sheet is glued on green cardboard (cm 30.5 x 25). Very good conditions. Colorful ...
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1930s Paintings

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Ink, Tempera, Watercolor

Early 20th Century Monterey Cypress Tree
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning oil painting in gorgeous pastel tones titled Old Monterey Cypress by P. M. Anderson (American, 20th century). Signed and dated "P.M Anderson,...
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American Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Flowers in vase. 1931. Oil on cardboard 45x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Janis Pupols (1886 – 1956) Graduated Landscape studio of V. Purvitis in Latvia Art academy (1927). He took part in exhibitions since 1925. Artist painted landscapes in different t...
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Expressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Peacocks - Original Mixed Media on Paper by Lucie Navier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Peacocks is a painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1930s. Original tempera painting and pastels on cardboard. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner in red paintin...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Tempera, Pastel

Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing. Study to Scale Mural Sketch for “Evolution of Textile Production” East. All,...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

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Egg Tempera, Board

Cyprus
Located in Boston, MA
Gammell Trust #T64. Signed and dated lower right: "Cyprus May 18, 1930 / R. H. Ives Gammell, Cyprus, 1930". Gammell painted landscapes both to demonstrate technique and observation ...
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Realist 1930s Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Board

Gerardi's Artworks purchased by the Countess - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
Gerardi's Artworks purchased by the Countess is the main content of this Autograph Letter Signed by Alberto Gerardi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, September 17th 1939. One page, single-sinded. In Italian. Excellent condition, including original envelope. Perfectly readable, thanks to an elegant calligraphy. Touching letter addressed to the Countess and patron of arts, thanking for her purchase proposal of a hand study drawing...
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1930s Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Autograph Letter by Alberto Gerardi - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
This is a Autograph Letter Signed by Alberto Gerardi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, December 9th (1939-40). One page, single-sinded. In Italian. Excellent condition, including original envelope. Perfectly readable, thanks to an elegant calligraphy. The Italian artist writes this letter to his mentor and patron of arts, the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt, to inform her he was sending her two artworks she was interested in (a drawing representing a study of hands and a little wax model called Santa Teresa del Bambino Gesù...
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1930s Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Art Deco Spring Flowers - British 1930's art floral still life oil painting
Located in London, GB
This beautiful British Art Deco floral oil painting is by noted Cornish artist Philip Rashleigh, who used the name Frank for exhibition purposes. The Rashleighs were an old and disti...
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Art Deco 1930s Paintings

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Oil

"La seine à Puteaux" - Oil, cm. 55 x 46, 1930 ca
Located in Torino, IT
River,French landscape, impressionist, Seine, Important work exhibited in: Genève, Musée Petit Palais,Cagnes sur mer, Château Musée, Salon de Provence, Musée de l’Emperi. Senna lan...
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Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Bunch of flowers in a vase, Signed oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Bunch of flowers in a vase Signed lower left Oil on canvas In good condition 46 x 38 cm Framed : 52 x 44 cm Maurice Asselin was born on June 24, 1882 ...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Cafe Porto Fino Italy - British Post Impressionist oil painting Italian Riviera
By Forrest Hewit
Located in London, GB
A superb oil on canvas Post Impressionist work by British artist Forrest Hewit. This vibrant work depicts an external café scene under trees, with a dozen figures seated or standing at tables. It dates to circa 1930. One can feel the summer heat in this colourful piece. One of the most popular resort towns on the Italian Riviera, little Portofino has just over 500 permanent residents. But that all changes on summer days when the sun is shining, and the yachting set drops anchor in the harbour to wander about. Boutiques, art galleries, cafes and restaurants line the tiny streets. Signed lower right. Provenance. New English Art Club exhibition label verso. RBA label verso. Condition. Oil on canvas, 30 inches by 20 inches unframed and in excellent gallery condition. Housed in a fine frame, 35 inches by 25 inches framed. Good condition. Forrest Hewit (1870-1956) was a very unusual character amongst his fellow artists. Whereas many of his contemporaries turned away from commerce or the professions to become painters, he was very successful in following both paths. Towards the end of the 19th century Manchester was one of the foremost centres of the cotton trade in which Hewit established a career in which he rose to the top and became a prominent member of important institutions and various committees. Alongside this illustrious career ran an equally successful life as an artist. Considering the above, it is no surprise to find that in this field he also became a prominent figure as an Honorary Vice-President of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. His paintings are extremely rare as the majority of his output was purchased for permanent collections worldwide. He exhibited widely at the Royal Academy from the outset of his career; the Paris Salon; the New English Art Club; the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1940 and extensively at leading venues throughout England. When he retired from commercial life he had the opportunity to increase his output, which allowed him to stage a series of one-man exhibitions at the New Burlington Gallery in 1936; the Grosvenor Gallery in 1937; the Manchester Academy in 1938; the Goupil Gallery in 1939; Salford, his birthplace, in 1943 and Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1948. He first studied under Thomas Cantrell Dugdale who was probably responsible for his interest in French painting. He also studied under Walter Richard Sickert...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

River. 1933. Oil on cardboard. 36 x 43 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Janis Pupols (1886 – 1956) Graduated Landscape studio of V. Purvitis in Latvia Art academy (1927). He took part in exhibitions since 1925. Artist painted landscapes in different t...
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Expressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Seashore. Oil on cardboard, 32x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Janis Pupols (1886 – 1956) Graduated Landscape studio of V. Purvitis in Latvia Art academy (1927). He took part in exhibitions since 1925. Artist painted landscapes in different t...
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Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

In the meadow. 1931. Oil on canvas, 25x34 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Janis Pupols (1886 – 1956) Graduated Landscape studio of V. Purvitis in Latvia Art academy (1927). He took part in exhibitions since 1925. Artist painted landscapes in different t...
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Expressionist 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Exquisite ca. 1935 American Precisionist Painting of a Yellow Rose by Harry Lane
Located in Chicago, IL
An exquisite ca. 1935 American Precisionist Painting of a Yellow Rose by Harry Lane. Image size: 13" x 9 1/2". Framed Size: 20 1/2" x 17 1/2"...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

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Oil, Board

1932 Precisionist Still Life Painting of a Plate & Jug by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A vibrant & Dynamic precisionist still-life painting of a jug & a plate by artist Harold Haydon, dating from 1932. Artwork size: 10 1/2" x 13 1/4". Framed size: 16" x 19". Prove...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Saint Paul Church in Orleans, Signed oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Saint Paul Church in Orleans Signed lower right Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm In good condition In its original frame : 56 x 64 cm The subject of this pain...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

"Odalisque yellow" Oil , cm. 40 x 50 1937 free shipping
Located in Torino, IT
Odalisque ,yellow,orange, orient Giulio DA MILANO (Nizza, 1895 - Torino, 1990) Giulio Da Milano was a Giacomo Grosso's disciple and he was very close to the artists that used to patronize La Coupole de Montparnasse (from Kisling to Pascin, from Derain to Vlaminck). He is considered one of most representative exponents of the Turin’s artistic scene in the ‘30s-‘40s, close to the Gruppo dei Sei. His works can be found in the following museums: Turin, Modern Art Gallery...
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Expressionist 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hunters at Billy's
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 95 x 114 x 6 cm
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1930s Paintings

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Oil

1930's Pebble Beach Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous 1930's seascape of Pebble Beach by M.C. Richardson (Late 19th/Early 20th Century), 1932. Attribution on verso with notes of exhibition (Legion of...
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American Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sunrise on the Horizon, Idyllic 1930's Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Brilliant 1930's landscape of the sunrise over the horizon illuminating a verdant scene around a body of water by listed artist Eloisa Schwab (American,1894-1990). Signed "Eloisa Schwab" lower left. Unframed. Image, 20"H x 24"W. Born in Havana, Cuba, Schwab studied at the Academy Julian in Paris and the Art Students League in New York with George Bridgman and Kenneth Hayes Miller and exhibited extensively from the mid 1920s to 1960s at venues including the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, and the Pennsylvania Art...
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American Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Istanbul Turkey - Irish Post Impressionist landscape oil painting female artist
By Gladys Nolan
Located in London, GB
This striking oil on canvas painting is by Irish artist Gladys Nolan and was painted circa 1930. This Post Impressionist view is of Istanbul, Turkey with the spires of the iconic Blu...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

20th century oil painting portrait child subject female artist signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bright Eyes" is an original oil paint on canvas mounted on board by Pauline Palmer. It depicts a young child in blue with wide eyes smiling in front of a ...
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American Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

"Central Park Picnic, " Lydia Freeman Cooley, New York, figurative, ca 1930's
By Lydia Freeman Cooley
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in 1906, Cooley settled in New York City where she studied at the Arts Student League with John Sloan. Her genre paintings of women, children and the working class are in the As...
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Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

The old sinner and the female figure. Paper, mixed media, 13x15.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The old sinner and the female figure. Paper, mixed media, 13x15.5 cm watercolor, ink on paper. Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurm...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"Sasha"
Located in Southampton, NY
Portrait of the artist's daughter Sasha at 8 years old by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Oil on masonite on a wooden stretcher backing. Signed lower right and dated 1938. Sasha later was to become the second wife of the the writer, Saul Bellow. Condition is good with some wear to top left of painting. In original, unrestored condition. Unframed. Nahum Tschacbasov lived in New York City for most of his adult life, arriving in the United States as a young boy in 1907. His numerous one man shows included ACA gallery, Perls Gallery and John Heller...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Mother and Child with Goldfish
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A whimsical pastel featuring a Mother with her Child on her lap that just pulled a goldfish from it's bowl. A charming large work that is exquisitely framed. Peggy Dodds Williams ...
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Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Circa 1930 Gouache for the Coloniale & Internationale fair of Bordeaux
Located in PARIS, FR
Circa 1930 Gouache for the Coloniale & Internationale fair of Bordeaux Exhibition - Colony
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1930s Paintings

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Paper

"Along the Kanahawa River, West Virginia, " Ernest Fiene, WPA Coal Steamboat
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Fiene Along the Kanahawa River, West Virginia, 1936 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 26 x 36 inches Fiene made a series of paintings, drawings and lithographs which are based on his travels through Pennsylvania and West Virginia during the winter of 1935-36. The industrial areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia are represented in numerous oils, among which are some of his most well-known. Fiene wrote of the trip, "The increasing snow and atmospheric conditions [in the Kanawha River valley} enhanced this mountainous coal mining country with a majestic beauty." Winter on the River is Fiene's only American Artists Group print and there were only two lithographs produced from the West Virginia trip. The American Artists Group (AAG), under the direction of Carl Zigrosser, who was then working at New York's famed Weyhe Gallery, published ninety-three prints by over fifty artists in 1936 and 1937. Zigrosser's goal was to popularize contemporary American art through original prints offered at the low price of $2.75. The project was also a means to provide income for impoverished artists during the Depression. The prints were featured in many of the leading print exhibitions and publications of the period. The lithograph produced from this image is now in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pensacola Museum of Art, San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, Syracuse Museum, Yale University Art Museum. Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923. Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925. In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. The first monograph from the Younger Artists Series was published on Fiene in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects. By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene’s paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene’s paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene’s paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City. With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled “Changing Old New York,” in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene’s oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well. Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene’s Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy. On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes. Fiene’s landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. Through the fall and winter of 1935-36, Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings from this trip were featured in an exhibition held at the First National Bank in Pittsburgh in October of 1937 by the Pittsburgh Commission for Industrial Expansion. Fiene said of these works that he formed rhythm, opportunity for space and color, and integrity in the Pennsylvania mill and furnace paintings. Fiene received the silver medal for one of the Pittsburgh paintings...
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American Realist 1930s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Full Bloom
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Full Bloom Oil on canvass, 28 x 21 1/2 inches Signed lower right: Robert Hallowell Provenance: Estate of the artist Marbella Gallery, New York Illustrated in Ma...
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American Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial "Cellar with Horseshoe"
Located in New York, NY
"Cellar with Horseshoe" WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial Joseph Solman (1909-2008) "Cellar with Horseshoe," 16 x 20 inches, oil on canvas circa 1938, initial...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sportcabriolet coachwork design by Alexis Kellner AG for the Cadillac 341-A.
Located in London, GB
Gouache and watercolour heightened with gum-arabic on very dark green card, annotated in pale ink with body type below, numbered ‘78’, in upper left corner, German copyright label on...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper

Marion Kramer spectacular 1930s old town scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Marion Kramer spectacular 1930s old town Depicting, vintage truck, Coca-Cola sign, regionalist painting Oil on canvas 32.5 x 42 framed, 27 x 35.5 unframed
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1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A small bouquet in a vase, oil on canvas, signed
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A small bouquet in a vase Signed lower left, Oil on canvas 33 x 24 cm In a modern frame : 44 x 35 cm Maurice Asselin is a painter and engraver, membe...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

#90 Strange Creature
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#90 Strange Creature Oil and pencil on board, 1932 Signed and dated in the image lower right (see photo) Provenance: Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, OH Condition: excellent Archival framing Image size: 10 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches Frame size: 25 x 24 inches Painter, illustrator and commercial artist Norbert Lenz was born in Norwalk, Ohio and received his artistic training at both the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art. During his career Lenz exhibited his paintings and drawings at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art. Today the art of Norbert Lenz is held by the Columbus Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art. Lenz was also a very highly regarded commercial designer of stamps. He worked for a number of years at the House of Farman, a leading vendor of first day covers...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil

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