1930s Paintings

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 ...

The beauty of curvature. Paper, mixed media 16x12 cm watercolor and pen on paper Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his rel...

Antique American modernist painting of a circus by Dennis Meighan Burlingame (1901 - 1964). Oil on canvas, circa 1935. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image...

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...

Painting size 12 ½" x 14 ½", framed 18" x 20 ¼" x 2" Signed "Friedman" lower right Inscribed verso: "Title: Autumn Day Drive. Associated impressions of two drives Hudson River and F...

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...

Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s An artist on the WPA mural project, Deutsch was born in Lithuania and died in Los Angeles. Works of Boris Deutsch are housed in Carnegie Institute, National Museum of American Art, Los-Angeles County Museum of Art, Scribal Museum, Pomona College...

Artist: Kamesuke Hiraga, Japanese (1889 - 1971) Title: Corse Year: 1931 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated l.l. Size: 25 x 21 in. (63.5 x 53.34 cm) Frame Size: 33.5 x 29...

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. Thes...

An original modern abstract portrait of a child by American artist Will Barnet. The work has a letter of provenance from the artist's wife. The i...

Archaic dancer. 1933, paper, mixed media, 20x9.5 cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his rel...

Untitled (Fabric Design) Annotated on the verso with the studio address of the artist Signed in ink lower right corner: “Marguerite Gross” Gouache on heavy paper, 1930-1939 In 1930 ...

Edward Le Bas R.A. 1904--1966, was an English painter and art collector. Le Bas read Architecture at Cambridge and studied in Paris he then moved to London to study at the Royal Coll...

Lacquer painting on silver foil representing a woman resting in the wood. Art deco painting from Italian painter Cavenago. Signed low in the center. On wood panel.

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 49 x 36 x 2 cm

Hook Creek Hungarian American European Modernism WPA 1935 Long Island Canal Boat Oil on canvas board 12” x 15". The framed size is 18 x 21. In addition to this painting, we will include and etching of this scene.. The Print measures 3 1/2 x 6 inches and the sheet, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. It is signed: S. Csoka, 1943. Stephen (Istvan) Csoka was born in Gárdony, Hungary on January 2, 1897 and died in New York in 1989. He is best remembered as a painter and etcher of portraits, nudes, landscapes, genre, and horses. Csoka studied at the Budapest Royal Academy of Art and his memberships include Associate of the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Society of American Etchers in Brooklyn, NY; the Society of Brooklyn Artists; and the Hungarian Etchers Association. Csoka's exhibitions and awards include a medal at the Barcelona International Exhibition in 1929; a prize at the City of Budapest Exhibit in 1930; prizes at the Society of American Etchers in 1942 and 1945; prizes at the Library of Congress in 1944 and 1946; a prize at the Society of Brooklyn Artists in 1944; a prize at the Philadelphia Watercolor Club in 1945; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1945; the Carnegie Institute in 1943, 1944, and 1945; the Art Institute of Chicago in 1944; the Los Angeles Museum of Art in 1945; the National Academy of Design from 1940 through 1945; one-artist shows at the Contemporary Artists in 1940, 1943, and 1945; and the Minneapolis State Fair in 1943. *Stephen continued to recieve awards and exhibit his work throughout his life. In 1997, Hofstra Museum sponsored a Retrospective/Centennial exhibition in honor of his birth. Collections representing Csoka's work are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the British Museum, London, England; the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; the Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN; the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM; the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, the Museum of the City of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; Holocaust Museum, Glen Cove, NY; National Academy of Art, New York, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; New York Historical Society, New York, NY;New York Public Library, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Livingston Arts Center, Mount Morris, NY; Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN; City College, New York, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; Hungarian Consulate, New York, NY; Hungarian Heritage, New Brunswick, NJ; Hunter College, New York, NY; IBM Collections; Princeton Print Club...

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...

Magazine illustration for "Home for Lunch," published in Ladies' Home Journal, March 1940. Oil on canvas. 27 x 32 inches. Signed "Sundblom" in lower left image. Medium: Oil on Canva...

"Cabin on Lake Michigan Shore" is an original oil painting on board by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts a small cabin on the lakeshore surrounded by bright vegetation. 14" x 20" art 22 3/4" x 29" frame Francesco J. Spicuzza, born in Sicily on July 23, 1883, came to America at the age of 8. He supported himself as a fruit peddler until a newspaperman gave him $4 a week to go to school. He attended classes at the Milwaukee Art Students League, where he studied under Alexander Mueller. There he learned to paint in the then-fashionable "Munich School" technique, with detailed realism in heavy browns and grayed-out hues. Spicuzza completed eight grades in four years, and then in 1911, three businessmen advanced him enough money to allow him to study in New York under artist and teacher John Carlson. It was during this time that Spicuzza changed his style of painting, developing an impressionistic use of color, form and atmospheric renditions. After a period of grinding poverty, one of Spicuzza's pictures won a major New York competition. It was the first of 60 wins, both in the U.S. and Paris. He became a fashionable painter, and many of the leading collections have his work. Spicuzza's typical works were beach scenes, still life, landscapes and portraits done in pastels, oils, ink, charcoal and watercolors. Much of his work traced the history of Milwaukee in the early 1900s. He was probably best known for his scenes of women and children splashing in the waves...

Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Published 1938. American Scene Modern WPA Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Fortune cover published, January ...

William Baziotes (1912 - 1963) Untitled, circa 1935-1940 Oil on board 14 x 19 3/4 inches Illegible Inscription present to the verso Provenance: Previously from the estate of Consta...

"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...

The present artwork is an unusual example of the paintings of Fritzi Brod. It is painted on both sides: on one side, an image of three Native Americans on ...

Original Painting. Fortune Cover. Sept 1933 Illustration American Modern WPA Era Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Wild Horses & Dynamo Fortune cover published, September 1933 13 X ...

Theater Spain. Paper, mixed media, 9.7x8.3 cm watercolor, ink on paper. Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives gi...

This gouache and tempera with pencil is signed in gouache by the artist in the lower right image "Kàdàr Bèla". The paper bears the collector’s mark of Rudolf Bedő and an invetory num...

A dramatic, Cubist oil on canvas painting in beautiful burled walnut frame with gilt-wood inset. Signature lower left.

1.Ruins by the river Watercolor  50 x 33 cm Signed lower right 2.Tomb Black pencil with white chalk highlights 32 x 25 cm 3.Méharée Black chalk with colored highlights 29.8 x 43.2...

Measures Painting 12.5 x 15.625 inches sight Framed 23 x 25.875 inches Walter Lowell Faurot (1896–1976) was an American artist renowned for his contributions to commercial art, wate...

Measures Painting Painting 9.5 x 13 inches sight Framed 18.5 x 22.75 inches Helen Katharine Forbes (February 3, 1891 – May 27, 1945) was a distinguished American painter and murali...

Ralph Holmes "Square Tower Ruins" Hovenweep National Monument, Utah Have included a photograph of how the subject looks today. (1876 - 1963) California, Illinois Artist Image Siz...

Presenting a very unusual vintage oil painting by French artist Antoine DeRoux. “Atelier DeRoux” is a double sided work; the front an image of the artist’s studio in Paris, and on the rear, a beautiful cubistic painting of a woman reading a book...

Presenting an original painting by WPA artist Ted Gilien. Book of 1000 Sorrows, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1936, beautifully framed, a testament to peace, as the ...

Lovely realist landscape done with acrylic paint of a quaint town and a pastel mountainscape in the background. Signed in lower right corner "M. Warren." With a label on reverse that reads "'Andes Mountains...

Gwendolyn Collins was a wealthy painter who did most of work between 1922 - 1933. She lived in a Mount Street in Mayfair and did not join any art groups or societies. When her st...

As a pupil of William Straube, Dora Hitz, Max Pechstein and Willy Jaeckel, Edith Meyer von Kamptz achieved her own individual aesthetic designs with colourfu...

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...

Primo Dolzan is an Italian painter born in Tezze Sul Brenta in Veneto. Painter of landscapes and still lifes. Exhibited at the Salon of Artists in Paris between 1933 and 1935. The p...

Charles Cousin French, 1904-1972 A Venice Canal Oil on canvas 20 by 26 in. W/frame 28 by 34 in. Signed lower right Charles made his debut at the Sal...

Signed lower left: Seymour Ball Inscribed upper left: To Morris E Weiss with best wishes Seymour Ball" Matted not framed

Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Fortune cover published, Decembe...

Albert Swinden (1901 - 1961) Still Life of Fruit, 1937 Oil on canvas 18 x 30 inches Provenance: Graham Gallery, New York Albert Swinden (1901–1961) was an English-born American abstract painter. He was one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists, and he created significant murals as part of the Federal Art Project. Albert Swinden was born in Birmingham, England in 1901. When he was seven, he moved with his family to Canada, and in 1919 he immigrated to the United States. He lived in Chicago, where he studied for about a year and a half at the Art Institute. He then relocated to New York City, where his art education continued briefly at the National Academy of Design. He soon changed schools again, to the Art Students League, which he attended from 1930 to 1934. He studied with Hans Hofmann and gained an appreciation for Synthetic Cubism and Neoplasticism. According to painter and printmaker George McNeil, Swinden "could have influenced Hofmann ... He was working with very, very simple planes, not in this sort of Cubistic manner. Swinden was working synthetically at this time." While still a student, Swinden began teaching at the Art Students League, in 1932. Swinden married Rebecca Palter (1912–1998), from New York. Their daughter, Alice Swinden Carter, also became an artist. Carter, who attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, received an award from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston for her large sculptures. Swinden was hired for the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and he is best known for the murals which he painted as part of that project. In 1935, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia attended the opening of the inaugural exhibit at the Federal Art Project Gallery, accompanied by Audrey McMahon, New York regional director for the Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project. Among the works on display was Abstraction, a sketch by Swinden; it was the design for a mural planned for the College of the City of New York. A newspaper account described it as consisting of "brightly colored T-squares, triangles and rulers in horizontal, vertical and diagonal positions". La Guardia asked what it was, and upon being told it was a mural design, he said he didn't know what it depicted. Someone joked that it could be a map of Manhattan. The displeased mayor stated that "if that's art, I belong to Tammany Hall." (Tammany Hall, which the Republican mayor referenced, was the New York Democratic Party political society.) Fearing that the mayor's negative attitude could jeopardize the future of abstract art within the Federal Art Project, McMahon dispatched an assistant to summon an artist who could speak to the mayor in defense of abstraction. The assistant returned with Arshile Gorky. Swinden played an important role in the founding of the American Abstract Artists. In 1935, he met with three friends, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, her future husband Byron Browne, and Ibram Lassaw, with the goal of exhibiting together. The group grew and started meeting in Swinden's studio, which adjoined those of Balcomb and Gertrude Greene...

Anthony Thieme (Am. 1888–1954) Dutch landscape with Windmill. Oil on canvas Signed (A. Thieme) L/L, A very large and formidable oils painting on canvas by Anthony Thieme. The land...

Bumpei Usui Backyard, Staten Island, 1933 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Provenance: The artist's estate Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New...

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 ...

Jacques Lipchitz Watercolor with ink and wash sculptural Painting. this painting represents Lipchitz’s most iconic Bronze and stone sculpture “The Rape of Europa” which was exhibited...

"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion Mervin Jules (1912 – 1994) "The Tailor" 9 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches Oil on masonite, c. 1930s Signed lower ...

Guy Pene du Bois' "Two Figures in Courtroom" is a WPA era American scene oil painting created in a realistic style. Modernism at its best The work is framed by Heydenryk. Pène du Bois descended from French immigrants who settled in Louisiana in 1738 and was raised in a Creole household. He was born in 1884 in Brooklyn, NY and first studied with William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art and later continued his training with Robert Henri. Pène du Bois was greatly impressed with Henri's credo that "real life" was subject matter for art and throughout his life a realist philosophy informed his art as well as his parallel career, art criticism. In 1905, Pène du Bois made his first visit to Paris where he painted scenes of fashionable people in cafes rendered in the dark tonalities and impasto associated with the Ashcan School. By 1920, he had achieved his mature style, which was characterized by stylized, rounded, almost sculptural figures painted with invisible brushstrokes. The subjects of his paintings were often members of society whom he gently satirized. In 1924, Pène du Bois and his wife, Floy, left for France where they would remain until 1930. Returning to America showcases pictures the artist produced after this very productive period abroad. After five years of living in France, Pène du Bois was able to observe American life with fresh eyes. His work becomes more psychologically intense and less satirical. In Girl at Table a slender, blond is shown gazing at a small statue that she holds at arm's distance. The meaning is elusive, but a powerful sense of longing is evoked. Similarly, paintings such as Dramatic Moment and Jane are taut with unresolved dialogue. Both pictures depict mysterious interiors in which a lone woman anxiously awaits the denouement of a suspenseful scene. Other pictures, for example, Chess Tables, Washington Square and Bar, New Orleans, recall Pene du Bois's Ashcan origins in their depiction of urban entertainment. During this period, landscape becomes an important subject for Pène du Bois. Girl Sketching...

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...

Original Oil by Chicago artist J. Jeffrey Grant (1883-1960). A typical and beautifully executed subject by the artist. The work is in excellent conditi...

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...

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...

Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) JAPAN ISSUE Fortune cover proposal, c. 1936 14 1/4 x 12 inches (sight) Framed 19 3/4 X 17 3/4 Inches Gouache on board Signed lower left BIOGRAPHY: Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests. In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s. ‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune. Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...

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...

Bumpei Usui Shanties in the Bronx, 1933 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 14 x 20 inches Provenance: The artist's estate Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New Y...

From the estate of the artist.

Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing. Study to Scale Mural Sketch for “Evolution of Textile Production” East. All,...

Jacques Martin-Ferrières (French, 1893-1972) Le marché de Raguse en Yougoslavie, avec la fontaine, circa 1938 Oil on canvas Measures: 22-3/4 x 29-1/4 inches (57.8 x 74.3 cm) Framed: ...

This captivating 1930s modernist gouache painting by Boardman Robinson (1876–1952), titled The Vendor of Masks, depicts a striking mask vendor’s display with male and female figures,...

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