1940s Paintings

Jerusalem by Ludwig Blum Oil on canvas 25.6 x 32 inches / 65 x 81cm Signed Painted circa 1940

Signed Lower Right by artist

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Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated '1941' Upper Right This illustration was published for the interior story "Sugarfoot" by Clarence Budington Kelland in the Saturday Evening Post, February 7th, 1942. Signed and dated '1941' upper right Harold von Schmidt grew up in the West a generation after Remington...

Exhibited: Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York Caldwell Gallery, Manlius, N.Y.

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Signed lower right: Andrew / Loomis Shaw-Barton Calendar illustration

BALTASAR LOBO Abstract Seated Nude Female Figure 1946 Gouache & Ink on Paper Provenance: Ivan Boesky Collection, La Jolla, California Signed & Dated "Lobo '46 Bruxelles" Baltasar...

This oil on canvas is signed and date in the upper left and measures 38" x 45.25" including the frame. Sam Uhrdin (Swedish School, 1886-1964). Sam Uhrdi...

Date: 1940s Medium: Mixed Media on Board Dimensions: 22.50" x 17.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right

Original cover illustration for The American Weekly, published November 27, 1949. Depicting a scene from “The Winter's Tale,” this illustration is from Pogany’s “Beauties of Shakespeare” cover series for the magazine. Signed lower right. William Andrew (Willy) Pogany was a native of Hungary and his first studies in Budapest and Paris were in engineering. Success in caricaturing led him to pursue and art career, first in London and then in America. His influences were the Oriental artists and illuminated books, and much of his career was devoted to book illustration. Among his many successes were The Rubaiyat, The Kasidah, The Children’s Book of Northern Myths, The Witch’s Kitchen, The Frenzied Prince, Sonnets from the Portuguese...

"Swinging Harmony," is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar O'Kiechle. It transports viewers into a lively dance scene featuring a couple of black dancers swinging at the heart of the...

Medium: Oil on Linen Signature: Signed and Dated Story illustration for "Farewell Without Regret" by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger for Good Housekeeping, published July 1940, page 58. The...

Date: 1940 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: 36.00" x 37.00" “New Departure: Pioneers for Fifty Years” Advertisement, New Departure Brakes, ca. 1940;

Date: 1940 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 29.00" x 23.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Magazine cover: Liberty Magazine (Canada), February 24, 1940;

Story illustration for “Abbé Doret’s Secret” by Manuel Komroff for Cosmopolitan, published February 1942. The full caption reads: “As the gardener passed he lifted his cap twice ‘Do...

A bright portrait of a woman in pageant dress before a St. Louis skyline and riverboat.

MANE KATZ [Katz Emmanuel] 1894-1962 Kremenchug, Ukraine 1894-1962 Tel Aviv (Russian / Ukrainian / French / Israeli) Title: Fishermen by the Boats, circa 1941 Techinique: Original Signed Oil Painting on Canvas Size: 51 x 61 cm / 20.1 x 24 in Additional Information: The work is signed "Mane Katz" on the right hand side. This work was painted circa 1941. Provenance: Graham Gallery...

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...

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 o...

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Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel Robert Riggs was a gay man. Being gay in American during the 1940's time was something not to flaunt in public. Rigg's had to communicate his underlying feelings in more symbolic ways. Throughout Riggs oeuvre, one sees continuous references to strong hunked out manly men and vulnerable boys. It is a core element of is iconography and is described in a powerful graphic style. In “Prospector firing Rifle” is a Dick Pic. Riggs is clearly making a sexual statement about the moment of climax. The long, straight rifle explodes and is captured at the peak moment of climax. Meanwhile, the bag two bags of gold clearly resemble the other part of the male anatomy. Riggs was a thoughtful and meticulous visual thinker and nothing in any of Riggs’s compositions were haphazardly placed. In tribute to the artist’s suppressed feelings, I have given this work a second title “Happiness is a Warm Gun...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Watching Over Them, Brown & Bigelow illustration

When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine" illustration Surreal depiction of a young mid-century girls social life Good House Keeping Magazi...

A recent Kuhn Circus Performer sold for $312,000 at Bonhams, NY Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depict...

A nude white woman gazes out and over a Giorgio de Chirico like surrealist landscape to an overly dramatic sunset with stylized orange rays. In the center of the composition is a cut-out of a mountain with a moat. In the extreme foreground is a silhouetted orange plane with a spiral of leaves. Along with the empty landscapes of de Chirico, it's possible that Frederick Haucke was influenced by Salvador Dalí " The Persistence of Memory" in 1931, and Dali's painting was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1934. In that painting, Dali, paints a vacant landscape doted with symbols from the unconscious. This painting by Frederick Haucke owes a debt to giants of the Surrealist movement but still, Haucke carves out his style. The shape of the nude's hair echoes the shape of the sunset. What the symbolism to the mountain is and the flower in the foreground we will leave to the viewer to speculate. It was shown at the very prestigious Pearls Gallery in New York City. Artists in the famous Perls' stable included Derain, Dufy, Rouault, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Pascin, Soutine, Chagall and Vlaminck. With a 1971 retrospective of Alexander Calder's work. This Haucke from the Perls Gallery...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left Dimensions: Sight Size 30.50" x 34.75," Framed 36.00" x 39.50"

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Exhibited: The North Carolina Museum of Art , October, 1967 Exhibited: November 5th to December 4, 1977 Titled: Study for Gomorrah, 1944 His work is in the collections of: Philli...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Upper Left This illustration appeared in Edmond War's story, Speak Only With Your Heart, McCall's magazine, 1942. From the Estate of Charles Martignette. Won the Harvard Award in 1929; Newspaper Award in 1936 and was elected to the Society of Illustrations Hall of Fame in 1980. Saul Tepper was born on the Lower East Side of New York City, and remained a New Yorker all his life. As a youngster, Tepper was awarded a correspondence course from the Landon School of Art. He also studied at The Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and at the Grand Central School of Art, under Harvey Dunn. Tepper first worked as a letterer in a fashion catalog...

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

Gouache on paper, 18 7/8 x 14 3/4 in. Signed (at lower right): Morris; (with monogram, on the back): GLKM [monogram] / 1932 [sic] Executed circa late 1940s A passionate advocate of abstract art during the 1930s and 1940s, George L. K. Morris was active as a painter, sculptor, editor, and critic. An erudite man with an internationalist point of view, Morris eschewed the social, political, and figural concerns that preoccupied so many artists of Depression-era America, believing that painters should focus their attention on the beauty, refinement, and simplicity of pure form instead. His goal, he said, was “to wedge the expression further and further into the confines of the canvas until every shape takes on a spatial meaning” (as quoted in Ward Jackson, “George L. K. Morris: Forty Years of Abstract Art,” Art Journal 32 [Winter 1972–73], p. 150). Born into an affluent family in New York City, Morris was a descendent of General Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. From 1918 until 1924, he attended the Groton School in Connecticut, studying classics and art. He continued to focus on literature and art while attending Yale University (1924–28), an experience that prepared him well for his future activity as an artist-critic. After graduating in 1928, Morris studied at the Art Students League of New York, working under the realist painters John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller, as well as Jan Matulka, the only modernist on the faculty. In the spring of 1929, Morris traveled to Paris with Albert E. Gallatin, a family friend and fellow painter who introduced him to leading members of the Parisian avant-garde, including Jean Arp, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Hélion, and Piet Mondrian. Morris also took classes at the Académie Moderne, studying under Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant, important exponents of Synthetic Cubism who influenced his aesthetic development. Indeed, after experimenting with the simplified forms of Modernism for a few years, Morris moved on to abstraction by 1934, adopting a hard-edged, geometric approach inspired by Leger’s cubist style and the biomorphic shapes of Arp and Joan Miró. Following his return to New York in 1930, Morris built a white-walled, open-spaced studio (inspired by that of Ozenfant, which had been designed by Le Corbusier) on the grounds of Brockhurst, his parents’ 46-acre estate in Lenox, Massachusetts. In 1935, he married the painter and collagist Estelle “Suzy...

This Gil Elvgren gouache painting on board was probably intended to be used as an ad for beer. The husband is returning from work with a bouquet of flowers behind his back, while his wife is waiting at the door with a bottle of beer for her husband. This painting was probably done in the late 1940's. The model in this image has the typical Elvgren look, which is very similar to Elvgren's models that he used for his pin up calendar...

Date: 1945 Medium: Gouache Dimensions: 21.25" x 16.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, February 3, 1945

Il dipinto è firmato e datato in basso a sinistra "Colacicchi 43". Sul retro, nella grafia del figlio del pittore, "Casa al Dono 1943". Il dipinto è riferito al periodo della second...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Preliminary study for Life magazine, Circa 1941. Features a study of the work titled; "The Postman Always Drinks...

Original Christmas cover for Judge magazine, published December 22, 1917. Santa is dressed as a World War I soldier with a sack of toys holding a drum and toy soldiers. Orson Byro...

Date: 1944 Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 20.00" x 25.00" Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right Story Illustration: "Katie Cling & the Dutchess", by Dorothy Staley, Goo...

Journalist Portraiture. Gouache on board Signed Lower Right matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches. Archivally Matted Not Framed 
 He illustrated more than 300 covers for Time magazine a...

Eugene Camille Fitsch Am./Fr., 1892-1972 - Signed lower right. Framed dimensions 20 3/4" x 34 7/8" framed Provenance: Studio of the Artist to Private Collection Boston, Massachuse...

Signature: Farmer Smoking his Pipe Medium: India and colored inks "Dorne never got around to producing his volume of instruction for the Famous Artists Schools, but a lot of that ma...

This is an original oil on velvet painting created c. 1942. Syd Cockell was an accomplished American illustrator during World War II.

Date: 1944 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00" Signature: Signed Upper Left Advertisement for Gulf Oil, 1944.

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...

Original watercolour circa 1947 of a Palm Beach tropical pool oasis by the acclaimed German artist & architect Franz Bueb (1919-1982) who designed Town & Co...

Date: 1940 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: 26.00" x 26.00" Fertilizer advertisement, image of a man, girl, boy and dog. This illustration was also a...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right and Titled on reverse Dimensions: 28.13" x 25.13" (71.45 cm x 63.83 cm) Literature: Temple Bailey, Bridal White, The American Mag...

Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Ernest Hamlin Baker is an excepti...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed and dated March 1943 lower right. Hayley Lever (1876 - 1958) Hayley Lever's exceptional career path took him from th...

This work is meticulously and brilliantly rendered to capture not only the likeness of the sitter but spirit as well. The image is pushed to the forefront of the composition and s...

While most can not even count all 102 stories of the Empire State Building, artist Alice Smith accurately paints each and every story with exacting detail ...

Date: 1943 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 17.50" x 25.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left Born in San Francisco, Amos Sewell was a ranking California tennis player in his 20s wh...

ALFRED ABERDAM 1894-1963 Lviv 1894-1963 Paris (Polish/French) Title: Women in an Interior, 1948 Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on panel size: 32.5 x 26.5 cm / 12.8 x 10.4...

This oil painting is hand signed by the artist "Kremegne" in the lower right corner. The work was painted in circa 1948. Provenance: The Issachar Ber Frydman collection. Acquired i...

An intriguing and complex composition composed of guns, rifles, ammo and a bullseye. Work is housed in a rustic Heydenryk frame.

The work represents a wide eye cat staring at a rooster. The work is as simple as it's complex. The negative space is as important as the positive space. It's as sophisticated as it'...

Calendar art, from the 1940's. Man working in his shop

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned "The ragged edges of Manhattan. . . the rowdy brothels, the dirty hallways, the seething streets of Yorkville -- this was where Mattie Dolan...