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Period: 1940s
Antique American Impressionist Winter Central Park Signed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 16L x 12H.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Harbor
By Joseph Meert
Located in Greenwich, CT
by Joseph Meert ( 1905-1989)
Gouache dated 1948, titled 'The Harbor'
signed l.r.
matted , unframed
Condition : excellent original vivid colors and composition
Meert's work is in th...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Whitby Abbey Ruins Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Striking and atmospheric painting of Whitby Abbey ruins by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame were two of f...
Category
Symbolist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940s Abstract - Westedge
By Mark Voris
Located in Cleveland, OH
Mark Voris [Tucson, AZ; 1907-1974]
Westedge
ca. 1940s
Signed Lower-Right
Oil on Canvas and Collaged Canvas
24 x 28.25 inches
27 x 31 inches (framed)
Mark Voris (1907–1974) was an A...
Category
Abstract 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Prairie Rose, Book Cover, 1941
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: Sight Size 30.00" x 21.00," Framed 32.50" x 23.00"
This was illustrated on the cover and on page 39 of A Prairie Rose...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Magnolia" Oil Painting by Edna Reindel
By Edna Reindel
Located in Houston, TX
The colorful oil painting includes a depiction of a Southern Magnolia flower in the center of the composition.
Believed to have been featured in the 1947 John Morrell Company Calend...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Oil Painting Boats in the Harbor
By Hugo Casar
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: Germany
Dimensions: 15" x 30"
Dimensions w/Frame: 24" x 38.5"
This Beautiful Mid Century Modern Painting is don...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressionist French Farm Woman Figurative Oil Painting 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3254 Oil on canvas
Illegibaly signed lower left
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
"The Clever Sister.", Story Illustration for Woman's Home Companion
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: December, 1946
Medium: Gouache and Graphite on Board
Dimensions: 17.50" x 26.75"
Signature: Unsigned
"The Clever Sister." Illustration for the first part of the story of the s...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Graphite
"Garden Splendor"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Russian/American artist, Nicolai Cikovsky. Signed lower left. In good unrestored condition. Housed in custom made wood and lemon gold gilt frame. Overal...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century At the Cafe -- Cat and Dog
By Elizabeth Evelyn Sherman Sellon
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful oil painting of a cat and a dog by Elizabeth Evelyn Sherman Sellon (American, 1896-1986). Also known as Elizabeth Sherman. Signed "E.S. Sellon" lower middle right faintly. ...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Saint of the Flaming City," Oil on Canvas signed 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 fir...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Blue Dancers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
EMIL KOSA JR.
"BLUE DANCERS"
OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED
AMERICAN, C.1940S
30 X 40 INCHES
Emil Kosa Jr.
1903-1968
Emil Kosa Jr. was born in Paris, France on November 28, 1903. His f...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Zoo New York City with Sea Lions
Located in Miami, FL
A charming and stylized depiction of a day at the Central Park Zoo. with World War Two uniformed visitors front and center. Sea lions put on a show in front of a packed audience. The...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Antique American Modernist Interior Scene Nude Portrait Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior view painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 13.25L x 10.25H.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
female nude original oil on canvas painting woman certificate
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Cruz Herrera (1890-1972) - Female Nude - Oil on canvas
Measurements drawing 55x33 cm.
Frame measures 75x53 cm.
Unsigned.
Certificate of authenticity is attached.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Sparse Modern Expressionist Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 18L x 24H.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Castelli Romani - Original Painting by Luigi Campanelli - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
Castelli Romani is an original painting realized by Luigi Campanelli (1943).
Hand-signed, dated and numbered on the back: L. Campanelli 1982 "Castelli Romani".
Hand-signed and date...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
American Eagle Fortune Magazine Cover Illustration ( alternate )
Located in Miami, FL
Alternate cover for Fortune Magazine February, 1940. Gouache on board. 350x285 mm; 13 3/4x11 1/4. Signed "A. Petrucelli" in lower left image. Tipped to mount, matted, and framed.
Pet...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
'Winter Landscape', Post-Impressionist Oil, Charlottenborg Academy of Fine Arts
By Victor Georg Kühnel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial and atmospheric winter landscape showing a view of fields and farm buildings draped in snow.
Signed with initials lower right, 'V.G.K.' for Victor Georg Kuhnel, (Danis...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bendell-Bayly RAF Lancaster Bomber original oil design for World War 2 poster
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage propaganda posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot fin...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Halleluja, A story
Located in New York, NY
Initially read as archaic and simple, Halleluja is a complex celebratory spring painting full of color, imagination, and humor and combines many elements seen throughout her later ca...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Itzhak Holtz (Judaica Master) Oil Painting Portrait John Sloan Ashcan Artist WPA
By Itshak Holtz
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting Portrait of Ashcan Artist John Sloan. Signed I. Holtz.
The youngest of four children, Holtz was born and spent his early childhood in Skierniewice, Poland, a small town ...
Category
Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Morris Shulman Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape painting. Oil and gouache on paper, circa 1940. Signed on verso. Image size, 26L x 18H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.
Category
Abstract 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Early Modern American Cubist Yellow, Blue, and Red Abstract Geometric Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern Cubist geometric abstract painting by American artist Albert Eugene Gallatin. The work features the illusion of three dimensional blue and black rectangular shapes float...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Portrait - Original Painting On Board by Eraldo Mori Cristiani - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original painting, realized by Eraldo Mori Cristiani in 1941.
Oil painting on board. Author, date, and place are reported on the back of the artwork.
Includes a frame...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur, the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right
watercolour and gouache painting on ar...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
“Bouquet by the Sea”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board original painting by the well known American artist, Nicolai Cikovsky. Thick vibrant colors with a vase of flowers, a banjo and a notebook with photographs with ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940 Modernist Still Life with Flowers, Framed Floral Oil Painting, Red Yellow
Located in Denver, CO
An original modernist still life oil painting by John E. Thompson (1882-1945), table is draped in red cloth and flowers in vase are red, yellow, blue/purple and white with green stem...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Clown's Dressing Room, 1940s American Modernist Circus Interior Scene, Figures
Located in Denver, CO
'Clown's Dressing Room' is an original painting by Edgar Britton (1901-1982) from 1945 of an interior scene of the dressing room for clowns at a circus, likely one held in Colorado S...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Board
Oil on Canvas of a Bouquet of Roses Signed Magnin
Located in Pasadena, CA
A bouquet of white roses painted with oil on canvas in its original 1940s frame.
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Mid Century Lake Tahoe Mountain Overlook Landscape
By Norman Gainsborough
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century landscape of an expansive Lake Tahoe overlook, a gorgeous scenic view with Bald Eagle sculptures by Norman Gainsborough (American, 20th Century), 1947. Signed and dated l...
Category
Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Madeleine, Paris
Located in New York, NY
Charles Blondin was a French impressionist painter and printmaker known for his depictions of Paris during different seasons. Born in 1913 in France his most active period dates fro...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Gloucester Docks”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on fiberboard painting of fishing boats at the docks of Gloucester by the well known North Fork Long Island artist Caroline M. Bell. Circa 1945. Signed lower left by th...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Bord de lac by Paulémile Pissarro - River scene, oil painting
Located in London, GB
Bord de lac by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 21 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile- Pissarro.
Executed circa 1940
This work is accompanied ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carmicael Graphic Oil Painting
Located in Pasadena, CA
"Hope is all we have but if we believe it is enough"
A statement piece and graphic painting full of emotion and color by Jae Carmichel (1925-2005)
Jae Carmichael, painter, sculptor, ...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Disconnected
By Weston Taylor
Located in Minneapolis, MN
A dazzling original 1942 pastel on illustration board by Weston Taylor, commissioned by the C. Moss Calendar company for a pin up calendar titled "Disconnected." This is a classic ar...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Pastel
Art Institute
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original 1942 oil on board painting by American female artist Catherine Koenig depicting the interior of the Buffalo Art Institute which was home to the legendary Charles Burchfie...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
Mystery Signed Impressionist Street Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Bit of a mystery piece. Very well painted in impressionist style oil on wood board. It is signed lower left F something? It could either be an American or European street scene, it i...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ralph Pallen Coleman (American 1892-1968) A Monumental Painting of Jesus Christ
Located in New York, NY
Ralph Pallen Coleman (American 1892-1968) A Monumental Painting of "The Resurrection of Jesus Christ", circa 1940.
Measuring 102" high x 77" wide (framed), this massive oil on canv...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hungarian Equestrian Horses
Located in Houston, TX
Mare and foal subjects painted with a seascape in the background. Artist has signed the painting in the bottom right corner and dated it. Framed in a gold vintage frame.
Dimensions...
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Cloud Study Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modern abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Unsigned. Image size, 48L x 36H. Unframed.
Category
Abstract 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Impressionist California Seascape/Landscape 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4034 Antique Impressionist oil on artist board
Set in a vintage carved wood frame image size 11.5x9.5"
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stormy Lakeland Landscape in Switzerland / Verso Sunflowers - Swiss School
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Alphons (Alfons) Müller
(Swiss, * 24.8.1898 Mitlödi, † 8.6.1955 Biel)
Still Life with a Quince, an Apple and Grapes
Oil on artist board, ca. 49 x 75 cm
Wooden frame, ca. 56 x 83 cm...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Medina Train Station Water Tower Urban Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Partially unfinished mid century industrial landscape of a train station in Ohio by Joseph Yeager (American, 1892-1958) on thick, heavy card stock. The station is most likely in Medi...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Cardboard
At the Ball - Post Impressionist Oil, Dancers in Interior by Marcel Cosson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A beautiful oil on canvas circa 1940 by sought after French Post Impressionist painter Jean-Louis-Marcel Cosson depicting a group of elegantly dressed couples attending a ball in a g...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Fisherman by Reuvin Rubin - Oil painting
By Reuven Rubin
Located in London, GB
Fisherman by Reuvin Rubin (1893-1974)
Oil on canvas
55 x 44.5 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 17 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed lower right, Rubin
Executed in 1940
Provenance
Private Collection, London
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Pont Royal Bridge
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris, France: The Pont Royal
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right
watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Image: 12 x 8.75 inches, sheet 16 x 12.25 ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Still Life with Vase of Flowers - Original Oil by Artur Murle - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Vase of Flowers is an original modern artwork realized in 1946 by Artur Murle.
A mixed colored oil on canvas.
Includes a wooden frame.
Hand signed and dated by the...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Animal Painting Dog Oil Royal College Art Artist Modern Bedlington Terrier
Located in La Chapelle Aubareil, FR
This beautifully gentle, oil on canvas-board work, was made by renown artist Margaret Thomas, a Modern British painter who trained in the inter-war years at both The Slade and The Ro...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Queen , 1947, by French Transgender Artist JM Poulain
Located in Paris, FR
By French famous Transgender artist, Michel Marie Poulain (Born Paris December 5, 1906. Died 1991) this rare oil on canvas it represents the Queen and her child in a style of som...
Category
Feminist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Black Cat and Vase Still Life
By Joseph Tanous
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century still life of fruit, vase and black cat by Monterey artist Joseph Tanous (American, b. 1925), c. 1940-50. Signed lower left corner. Presented in rustic painted w...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940's LARGE Monogrammed Cubist Modern Woman with Cat
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed Cubist Painting of a Woman With a Cat
Oil on Masonite
33 x 49 inches
40 x 55 inches, framed
Monogrammed cubist painting of a woman, seated on her knees and playing with...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Desert Beach Dune Western American Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist desert beach dune oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Unsigned. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 24"L x 16"H.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Pair of Paintings Notre Dame Paris River Seine
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Two Views of Notre Dame Cathedral
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
both signed lower right
two watercolour and gouache paintings on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet: each measure 9....
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Study for 'Happy Landing' Amoco Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
During his over four decades as the preeminent illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Joseph Christian Leyendecker's clever ...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
Flower Garden - French Impressionist Gouache, Landscape by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A stunning gouache on board landscape circa 1940 by sought after French Impressionist painter Edouard Leon Cortes. The piece is a wonderful depiction of the artist's garden in Lagny ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
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