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Period: 1940s
Soldier Santa
By Orson Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Soldier Santa
He moved from Chicago to New York in 1893. Known for the richness of his work in pen and ink, he drew, in 1898, fifty illustrations for The Choir Invisible. By 1907,...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Red Cross At Work
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This piece is framed.
Approximate Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Size: 25.00" x 37.00"
Advertisement for Maxwell House Coff...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage French Oil Still Life - Roses & Reading
Located in Houston, TX
Spectacular oil painting on paper of an elegant bouquet of roses in a decorative pitcher sitting upon a leather bound book by French artist Marrot, 1942. Signed and dated lower left....
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Harlequin with Nude - Original Tempera on Paper by Maurice Rouzée - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Harlequin with Nude is an original painting realized by Maurice Rouzée in the 1940s. Tempera on paper; good conditions, except for some small folds on the lower right corner and a sm...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Family Heart - Mid Century Hawaiian Symbolist Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic figurative abstract of wispy figures surrounding a heart by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
Symbolist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Time magazine cover, April 6, 1946
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
Low Tide - Mid Century Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century seascape of the waves spilling over the rocks into the tide pool by Margaret Esther Rogers (British/American, 1872-1961). Si...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
The Baker, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Framed Dimensions: 32.00" x 28.00"
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, March 16, 1940
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Great Bird
Located in Miami, FL
Frederick Haucke creates his own brand of surrealism in the 1941 stunner that was with the famous Perls gallery.
The painting is signed lower right
Signed and dated verso
Verso with Perls Gallery, New York label.
work is in original framed
Provenance: Millicent Rogers...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Basket of Summer Flowers Still Life
By Muriel F. Merritt
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright and colorful basket of flowers by Los Angeles, California artist Muriel Fleming Merritt (American, 1889-1976). Signed and dated 1946 lower right...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
James McCracken Oil on Board
Located in San Francisco, CA
This oil on board is by James McCracken (1875-1967). It is a lush, exotic composition, depicting a Buddha statue atop a lotus flower. There are other flowers in the background as wel...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Hawaii "The Journey - Anti-matter" - Mid Century Abstract Hawaiian Mythology
Located in Soquel, CA
Hawaii "The Journey - Anti-matter" - Mid Century Abstract Hawaiian Mythology
Symbolistic and romantic 1940s figurative of pasteled figures journeying down path titled "Journey - Anti...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Nude with Fruit Basket, Oil Painting by A. Raymond Katz c1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 - 1974)
Title: Nude with Fruit Basket
Year: circa 1949
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 48 x 33 in. (121.92 x 83.82 cm)
Category
Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Conductor
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member ...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
The First American Law School
By Simon Greco
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 12.00" x 16.00"
1948 pattern for Liberty.
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Cargo Transfer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
DeChirico Study
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on panel by American female artist Catherine Koenig created in 1941.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Secret Project
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine Story Illustration
Signed lower left
Amos Sewell had a special empathy for children and also particularly enjoyed depicting homespun, rural subjects. These special gifts were ideally combined in the illustrations he made for a series of stories about Babe, Little Joe, Big Joe, and Uncle Pete by R. Ross Annett that ran for over twenty years in The Saturday Evening Post.
Sewell was born in San Francisco and studied nights at the California School of Fine Arts, working days in a bank. After some years of this, he decided to try his luck as an illustrator in the East. To get there, he shipped out as a working hand on a lumber boat going by way of the Panama Canal.
In New York, he studied at the Art Students League and at the Grand Central School of Art. Among his teachers were Guy Pene DuBois, Julian Levi...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Monroe Street Bridge, Saturday Evening Post cover, June 12, 1948
Located in Fort Washington, PA
In this iconic Saturday Evening Post cover, the artist paints himself as the solitary fisherman underneath a Monroe Street Bridge in Spokane, Washington....
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hawaii "Future Dreams" - Surrealist Mid Century Modern Abstract 1940 Hawaiian
Located in Soquel, CA
Hawaii "Future Dreams" - Surrealist Mid Century Modern Abstract 1940 Hawaiian
Symbolistic and romantic mid century modern abstract with figure coming out of the mist...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The Heart Remembers
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1941
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 50.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Missed Again
By William H. Foster
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 26.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman Receiving Box of Chocolates at the Post Office, Liberty Magazine
By Richard Fayerweather Babcock
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 29.00" x 23.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine cover: Liberty Magazine (Canada), February 24, 1940;
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Falstaff Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Oil on Board
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Icing the Cake, Cover of The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Masonite
Sight Size 14.50" x 11.25", Framed 20.50" x 17.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 16, 1945
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera, Gouache
"Untitled"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on masonite painting by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower right and dated 1946. In good condition. The painting is framed in a contemporary...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
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 illustrations were eagerly anticipated by enthusiastic readership across the country, and none more so than his holiday designs. One of Leyendecker's most celebrated creations was his groundbreaking idea of the New Year's Baby. Originally portrayed as a fleshy sweet-faced child complete with tiny angel wings, the New Year's Baby gradually morphed into a worldly tot acutely aware of the social and political issues facing the nation at the time. In fact, Leyendecker's final Post cover illustration was the 1943 New Year's Baby.
Following the success of these Post covers, the artist was hired to create advertisements for the American Oil Company (AMOCO). Throughout the 1940s and through the final years of his life, Leyendecker produced ads incorporating his famed New Year's Baby into AMOCO advertisements, as in the present work, Happy Landing...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
The Winter's Tale, Cover for The American Weekly
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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 Shakespe...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Yosuke Matsoke, Time magazine cover illustration , July 7, 1941
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Answer the Call
Located in Miami, FL
Answer the Call, 1954
Gouache on board
31 × 24 in
78.7 × 61 cm
Joseph Binder was an Austrian-born designer whose influence permeated Europe and the United States. He applied reductiv...
Category
Bauhaus 1940s Paintings
Materials
Photographic Paper
1940s English Country Cottage Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940s genre landscape of traditional English cottage painted in the European style by Henry T. Harvey (English/American, 1908-2000). Signed lower right corner. Presented in...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Self Portrait, " Oil on Masonite signed by Francesco Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Self Portrait" is an original oil painting on masonite board by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts the artist holding a pipe in front of a...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Father and Son, Women's Day Magazine Cover, January 1945
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Father and Son, Women's Day Magazine Cover, January 1945
The illustrations of Douglas Crockwell were often simply signed “Douglass” to avoid confusion with the signature of Norman Rockwell, particularly since their work was being published on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post during the same period. Necessary too, because Crockwell also worked very realistically, and like Rockwell, was particularly good with children.
Their backgrounds, however, were entirely different. Crockwell was born in Chicago, Ohio, and took his degree in Science at Washington University, followed by study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago and the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. He received his first commission for a cover for The Saturday Evening Post in 1933, and this was followed by many more, as well as work for other periodicals and a long list of national advertisers.
During the ‘thirties, he also completed Post Office murals in Vermont, New York State and Mississippi, and began to work on experimental animated films. The films, and inventing a “pan-stereo” viewing...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Up at Bat, The Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 10, 1940
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Price on Request.
The Saturday Evening Post cover, August 10, 1940
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Composizione con figure e motivi architettonici
By Mario Sironi
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil drawing on paper.
In very good conditions, including a golden wooden frame (cm 46.5 x 4 x 55).
Provenance: Siorni's heirs. Stefano Cortina, Milan. Paul Nicholls...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Boy Feeding Birds, Oil Painting by Ben Benn 1946
By Ben Benn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Benn, Polish/American (1884 - 1983)
Title: Boy with Doves
Year: 1946
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.44 cm)
Benn Benn was a pio...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Flag and Capitol
By Syd Cockell
Located in Missouri, MO
This is an original oil on velvet painting created c. 1942. Syd Cockell was an accomplished American illustrator during World War II.
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
DANZA DE LA SULTANA
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on front; hand signed and titled on verso by the artist. Frame size approx 28.75 x 37 in. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificat...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 30, 1941
By Charles Dye
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1941
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 32.00" x 26.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, ...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Pond Reflections Watercolor Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Pond Reflections, a mid century impressionist watercolor painting by California artist C.G. Standeford (American, 20th Century). Presented in a giltwood frame. Circa 1940's. Signed o...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Soldier Trying to Reassemble, Outdoor Life Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.20"
Signature: Signed Center Right
Outdoor Life Magazine Cover, February 1943
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Passenger Train
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 16.00" x 33.75"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Exhibitions: Exhibited at International Galleries Contemporary American Illustration, May 1...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Formal Affair
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: July 1942
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 36.00" x 26.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Illustration for Cosmopolitan magazine.
Tom Lovell’s illustrations range from adventur...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the Ski Resort, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By John Carlton Atherton
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Gouache
Dimensions: 21.25" x 16.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, February 3, 1945
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
French Abstract - Blue Chevrons
Located in Houston, TX
Impactful abstract painting of triangular shapes in hues of blue floating on a black background, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. ...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
"Le Baiser d'apres Boucher", Impressionist Portrait, Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Le Baiser d'apres Boucher", Impressionist Portrait, Oil Painting, Signed
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed and dated '1947' by the artist on the lower left hand c...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Masks
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian artist Miette Braive(1916-2000), was classically trained in Belgium, before moving to Paris to pursue her art career as first a student and then a contemporary of the famed F...
Category
1940s Paintings
Abstract
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Rolph Scarlett (Canadian/American, 1889 - 1984)
“Abstract”
Signed and dated 1947, lower right
Gouache on paper
Provenance: Private collection, Miami Florida
About
Rolph Scarlett w...
Category
Abstract 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Fishmonger, Mid-Century 1940's New York Impasto Figurative Cityscape
By Dorothy Rossen Greenberg
Located in Soquel, CA
A vivid mid-century impasto figurative cityscape oil painting of New York during the 1940s by Dorothy Rossen Greenberg (American, 1915-2005). A Fishmonger plies his trade amidst a harbor side street scene, amongst the hustle and bustle of the city.
Signed lower right corner "D. Rossen."
Unframed.
Canvas size: 21.5"H x 17"W.
In 1947, Rossen was awarded first prize in sculpture at the Village Art Center, New York City. Winner of the Chi Omega...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Burning Castle
By Stefan Hirsch
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
New Departure: Pioneers for Fifty Years
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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;
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hawaiian - Creation's Conception, Large Mid Century Modern Cosmic Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Hawaiian - Creation's Conception, Large Mid Century Modern Cosmic Abstract
Stunning blue and green large scale abstract that evokes the cosmos and captures many moods by Marguerite L...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Paula"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
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 Benj...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Parachuter with Abraham Lincoln and George Washington
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 40.00" x 36.50"
This image was used in magazine advertisements and promotional calendars.
Exhibited: 22nd Avvual Exhibition of Advertisi...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Garden
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Two women in a garden and two men walking and talking in the background.
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll on a lonely western road. A ...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Big Sur, California by Ellen Pearl Johnson
By Pearl Johnson
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic landscape oil painting of Big Sur, California by Berkeley California artist Ellen Pearl Johnson (American, 1935-2019). An exception...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Canvas
Spring Wahine - Mid Century Modern Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful and arresting oil painting of women in an abstracted springtime forest bringing flower leis to Hawaiian Island Earth Spirit by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American, 1906-...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Up the Kennebec
Located in Wiscasset, ME
John Folinsbee (1892-1972) was born in Buffalo, New York and, after finishing his studies at the Art Students League in 1916, moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania where he joined a renown...
Category
Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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