1940s Paintings

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...

John Edward Costigan, N.A. American, 1888-1972 Woman and Child Oil on canvas Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left 24 by 30 in. W/frame 32 by 38 in. John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters. At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions. A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century. John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934). Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.) During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution. John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career. This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...

Merio Ameglio Italian, 1897-1970 Notre Dame, Autonne Oil on Canvas 18 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 26 by 29 ½ in. Signed lower left & titled on reverse Merio noted impressionist painter p...

Merio Ameglio Italian, 1897-1970 Parisian Street Scene Oil on Canvas 18 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 26 by 29 ½ in. Signed lower left Merio noted impr...

Benjamin Chasen American, 1911-1962 Still Life Oil on Canvas Signed & dated 1941 28 by 36 in. w/frame 34 by 42 in. Provenance: Private Collection Greenwich CT Le Trianon...

Signed with initials Tempera on hand-made paper laid on panel 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches

Augustin Lesage is a French painter attached to the movement of art brut. Jean Dubuffet included the paintings of Lesage in his collection in 1948, onl...

Orpheus and Eurydice Erle Loran, American (1905–1999) Date: 1949 Oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower left Size: 24 x 36 inches

Gerome Kamrowski Pink Garden, 1947 Signed lower left Watercolor on paper 22 x 30 inches Gerome Kamrowski was born in Warren, Minnesota, on January 19, 1914. In 1932 he enrolled in ...

Untitled (Tree with Pinwheel) Untitled (Tree with Pinwheel), Magical Realist Painting by Russell Lynes. 1947 Signed, l.l. Oil on canvas 23 x 17 inches

“Composition” is a oil on canvas painting by Modern artist Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980). By the early 1930s he had established a reputation as a member of the international...

Benjamin Benno was a British-born American artist, best known for his Cubist and abstract works. This artwork is signed and dated. Abstracted Cityscape Benjamin Benno, American (190...

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s. The Landing/Dawn Landing, 1944, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 x 30, titled verso; exhibited in the Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Trends in Southern California Art at the Foundation of Western Art, Los Angeles, from early November to December 30, 1944 (see Millier, Arthur, Trends Show Attracts Best Southland Art, The Los Angeles Times, part III, p.6, November 4, 1944, illustrated in Edward Biberman, Time and Circumstance: Forty Years of Painting by Edward Biberman, The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles (1968), p. 57, presented in its original frame The Landing/Dawn Landing is a rare and critically acclaimed example of Edward Biberman's World War II paintings...

This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Fallen Comrades/Interlude, 1949, oil on masonite, signed lower left, 35 x 56 inches; Gallery Z la...

This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Oil on canvas, 15 ¾ x 24 inches, Signed and titled verso on stretcher Exhibited: [Solo Exhibition] Cha...

Abstract geometric drawing by early Houston. TX artist Robert Preusser. The work features bursts of lines and colors that create movement throughout the composition. Signed and date...

Modern Western wilderness scene by early Texas artist Otis Dozier. The work features two men kneeling and cleaning a hog set against a desert landscape. Signed and dated in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a wooden frame with a cream matting. Visible Dimensions Without Frame: H 14 in. x W 19 in. Artist Biography: Otis Dozier (1904-1987) was raised on a cotton farm between Forney and Mesquite, developing a love for art and nature at a young age. After his family moved into Dallas in 1920, he received his earliest art training from well-known instructor Vivian Aunspaugh. Following his 1925 graduation from Forest High School, Dozier continued his art studies at the Dallas Art Institute with Olin Travis and Tom Stell. Also, during the 1920s, he accompanied his parents and three sisters on at least three automobile trips through the American West, familiarizing himself with the region that he would later depict in his art. Six of Dozier’s works were included in 1932’s “Exhibition of Young Dallas Painters”; a number of these artists, including Dozier, Jerry Bywaters, John Douglass...

Apache Family Herding Sheep, by Allan Houser, 1945, painting, Navajo, Apache, landscape unique 1/1 signed front lower right

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Street Cleaners, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 28 ¾ x 42 inches, Gallery Z...

Apache Woman on Horseback, by Allan Houser, Haozous, painting, paper, horse Painting on paper from 1946 by master artist Allan Houser. Ft. Sill Chi...

An energetic cubist painting composed in a configuration similar to a traditional still life. This painting bears the signature of the artist and uses a multitude of colors in flat washes to invoke a fractured image. Cubist Still...

Completed when the artist was only 25, this painting references a fight between two mythological figures. Commonly called Furies, the Erinyes or Eumenides were Greek goddesses of ven...

We are proud to present a recently discovered painting by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010). "San Pedro", is an original mixed media painting on pa...

We are proud to present a recently discovered original abstract/figurative painting by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010). "Three Friends" is an original mixed media painting on panel, signed, dated 1945-50, good original condition with a dimension of 12 x 10 inches, currently unframed. We are including a biography on American artist Robert McIntosh, please contact the gallery for additional information. Presenting a magnificent, early original pastel, "The Artist's Portrait", by American artist Robert McIntosh. "The Artist's Portrait", is an original pastel on artist's paper, signed, dated 1937, 13 x 9.75, currently unframed, the portrait was acquired directly from the personal collection of the artist. We have included the artist's biography below please contact the gallery for additional information, Robert McIntosh (1916-2010) Robert McIntosh was born on March 11, 1916 near San Francisco, in Vallejo, California, the second son of Harry and Jesusita Coronado McIntosh. He found his lifelong passion for painting by the time he was ten years old and never swayed from his calling. The family moved to Stockton when Robert was 12. Their home was just six blocks from the newly opened Haggin Museum, filled with a treasure trove of European and American paintings. He became particularly enamored with the fine examples of 19th century French pastoral landscapes. As teens, Robert and his brother Harrison befriended local painter Arthur Haddock who taught them the craft of art and brought them along on outdoor painting trips. Robert also became skilled at drawing portraits that captured the subject's personality. Soon, the sheer joy of expressing himself this way became a consuming interest. ​When not sketching, McIntosh would wander the stacks of books at the public library, discovering and studying the Masters - in particular, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Whistler. At a Gauguin exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, Robert discovered a "whole new world of color" and the importance of designing the space in the eternal rectangle. "I envision a frame around everything I see, "he admitted. "The artists' challenge is to put something meaningful, interesting or beautiful in that space." ​In 1934 McIntosh won a competition for a scholarship to the Art Center School of Design, the first award they ever bestowed. The entire family moved to Los Angeles and a new vista opened to the young artist, both visually and culturally. Robert began to take on portrait commissions and had exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum of Art and the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento. During the Great Depression, Robert began to work at Disney Studios painting backgrounds for such classics as "Fantasia". Ron Barbagallo, of Animation Art...

Cavallo, by Ferruccio Ferrazzi, Religious, Painting,Horse, Vatican, Brown,Tan “Cavallo” by Ferruccio Ferrazzi is a work lost during World War II and restored by the Mosaic School of Art at Vacan City. Circa 1940s. Ferruccio Ferrazzi (15 March 1891 – 8 December 1978 in Rome) was an Italian painter and sculptor as well as a professor at Accademia di Belle Arti of Rome.) Born in Rome, Ferrazzi was the eldest son of the sculptor Stanislao Ferrazzi. In 1904, he was trained in the studio of Francesco Bergamini, a former pupil of Michele Cammarano. The following year he attended the Scuola Libera del Nudo and at the Accademia di Francia. He first exhibited at the 1907 Exhibition (LXXVII Esposizione Internazionale di Belle Arti) in Rome. In 1910, he won a scholarship to the Instituto Catel which allowed him to take up art as a career. In 1913, he exhibited Genetrix at the First Roman Secession Exhibition (Prima Esposizione internazionale d'arte della Secessione Romana). In December, he was granted the national art pension which gave him financial security and allowed him to set up a studio in Via Ripetta. A visit to the Louvre in Paris revealed his interest in Georges Seurat whose style was similar to his own. In 1926, he became a professor at the Accademia di San Luca. The same year he was the first Italian to win the Carnegie Prize. In the spring of 1933, he was elected to the Italian Academy. After the war, he created mainly religious works, both paintings and sculptures. In the 1950s, he spent most of his time at the Casa di Santo Stefano in Monte Argentario where he created his ambient sculpture Il Teatro...

A very rare technique used by the Artist, for one of his closest friends, the scholar Lamberto Vitali. With the ancient frame of 19th Century. Ref. Ca...

An original oil painting on canvas by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 24 x 30 inches, signed and dated lower left. By the early 1930's Benno had established a reput...

An original oil painting on canvas by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 24 x 30 inches, signed and dated upper left. By the early 1930's Benno had established a reput...

An original oil and sand painting on wood by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 32 x 18.75 inches, signed and dated lower left. By...

Artist: Fernand Leger, French (1881 - 1955) Title: Statuette au Vase Jaune Year: circa 1949 Medium: Gouache on Paper, dedicated (a Nicole) l.r. Size: 5 x 5 ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Inscribed: "My best wishes to/my friend Judy Bedell/sincerely/Norman Rockwell Included with the painting, the dress that the model wore for this pai...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left The Saturday Evening Post unpublished cover, 1943 The story behind the New Year's Baby Hitching to War is a fascinating one: The...

Robert Elton Tindall (1913-1983) "Bleeding Heart" 1944 Egg Tempera with Resin Oil Glazes on Panel Signed and Dated 5/44 Lower Right Site: 12.5 x 15.5 i...

Robert Elton Tindall (1913-1983) "Philodendron" 1941 Egg Tempera with Resin Oil Glazes on Panel Signed and Dated Lower Right Site: 13.5 x 11.5 inches Framed: 21 x 19 inches Proteg...

Oil painting on Board realized by Balla as portrait of his second daughter Elica. A beautiful, top quality portrait among the most beautiful of his figurative painting. It includes an original contemporary wooden frame designed and colored by Balla himself (he used to often produce himself the frames for his works). Signed on top left "BALLA" in capital letters. Giacomo Balla (Turin, 1871 - Rome, 1958) Giacomo Balla was born in Turin in 1871. Since he was a young boy, when he begins to attend the Albertina Academy, he dedicates his studies to the violin and painting. His first artistic accomplishment dates back to 1894, a self-portrait. In 1895 Balla moves to Rome with his mother and then in 1900 he moves to Paris for several months. His early years as a painter indicate an interest in the divisionist paintings of Pellizza da Volpedo...

An impressionist seascape with boats along a shoreline. Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Sailboats on Shore Year: 1949 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and d...

An original oil painting by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980). By the early 1930s he had established a reputation as a member of the international avant-garde and exhibited wit...

Presenting for the first time in decades, an exceptional geometric abstract oil painting by American artist Philip Pinner, 1910-1977. Equilateral Varia...

Just discovered within the archives of American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010), we present for the first time, a magnificent mixed media painting, Table de Miro. Table de Miro, i...

Francois Gerome "The White Dress" c. 1940s/50 Oil on Canvas approx. 10 x 8 inches approx. 16 x 13 inches framed FRANCOIS GEROME French, 1895 Francois Ger...

Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the day before settling in Los Angeles in the 1930’s. The artist continued his art education and began exhibiting throughout galleries in Southern California. As with many artists, his earliest style was more academic realistic imagery, transitioning due to his intense fascination with the cubist avant garde movement, into cubist imagery which became the trademark style of painting for the remainder of his life. This is the first presentation of the paintings of Maurice Green since his death in 1993. “The Serenade”, is original mixed media watercolor on artist board, signed, e very early work c.1945, this is a painting which clearly defines his talent as a fine cubist artist.

Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Untitled, Vases Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed and dated LL Size: 18 x 15 inches

Presenting a just discovered mixed media painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, (1916-2010.) Formations, is an original mixed media gouache on heavy artists paper, signed, da...

Presenting a just discovered mixed media painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, (1916-2010.) Tango, is an original mixed media gouache o...

Presenting a just discovered mixed media painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, (1916-2010.) Cocktails ll, is an original mixed media gouache on heavy artists paper, signed, d...

Presenting a just discovered master level abstract painting, Green Forrest, by American artist Robert McIntosh (1916-2010.) Green Forrest is an original mixed media painting on hea...

By the great California Impressionist, Samuel Hyde Harris. "Above the Beach" c. 1940s Oil on Board 12 x 16 (image) 18 3/4 x 23 1/4 (framed Signed Titled Verso At 14 years of age Sa...

By the great California Impressionist, Samuel Hyde Harris. "Lone Pine (Cottonwoods)" c. 1940s Oil on Board 16 x 20 (image) 23 x 27 (framed) At 14 years of age Sam Hyde Harris was already a successful commercial artist. A 1903 letter of recommendation from Andre & Sleigh, stated that, "We have the pleasure in stating that Samuel Harris (aged 14 ½ years) has given every satisfaction during the 8 or 9 months he has been engaged in our Artists Department." After moving to California with his family Harris got a job as painter of signs, billboards and hand-lettered show cards in 1906. He developed a reputation for doing excellent commercial work and opened his own commercial art studio by 1914. His commercial art business received a boost in 1920 when he was hired by the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company to work on their poster advertising. He was later hired to do artwork Southern Pacific Railways as well. He began studying painting with Hanson Puthuff in 1906, and continued studying throughout much of his life. As early as 1920 he was exhibiting with the California Art Club. He continued exhibiting his paintings for the next fifty plus years including with the Painters and Sculptors of Southern California, the Pacific Advertising Club Association (1929), the San Gabriel Artists Guild, the Laguna Beach Art Association and many other venues. He won countless awards in hundreds of exhibitions throughout Southern and Northern California. Sam Hyde Harris was "Highly recognizable because of his six-foot-three stature and cigar." He "was known for his jovial personality and his love for his adopted California and her landscape." He preferred painting en plein air to the studio. He loved the outdoors. Harris's paintings employ a progressive composition, pushing the viewers eye to an unexpected place. He taught art classes at the Chouinard School of Art (1935) and for many Clubs and Groups. He met and married Marion Dodge in 1945. They moved to Alhambra in 1946. He bought Jack Wilkinson Smith's "Artists' Alley" studio on Champion Place in 1950. He loved looking at the San Gabriel Mountains from his Champion Place studio. Biography submitted by Maurine St. Gaudens, Administrator, Marion Dodge Harris Estate: Sources: Maurine St. Gaudens, Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, Gary Lang...

Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core prac...

Signed lower right: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "J. Kainen/ Eyrie- Dec 1949".

Presenting a rare early oil painting from the, "WPA" period, 1941, by American artist Ron Blumberg, “The Farmer” After his classical training in Paris, Blu...

Date: 1940 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 38.00" x 30.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Original Cover Illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, December 28, 1940 At the heart of this touching and humorous Christmas work which appeared on the December 28, 1940 cover of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, is the juxtaposition of the heads of the astonished boy holding a Drysdale package, the Drysdale poster of the store Santa in costume, and the drowsy man wearing the Santa pants and boots under his overcoat, obviously on his way home from work. Rockwell’s gift as a storyteller in pictures is displayed here at its best. The simple use of predominantly three colors – red, black and white, and the omission of any extraneous detail, add to the strength of this fine example of illustration art. Exhibitions Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts, Ford Lauderdale, Florida, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, February 11- March 5, 1972. The Booklyn Museum, March- April 1972 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, May 26, 1972- July 23, 1972 McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, July 1972- August 1972 M.H De Yound Memorial Museum, Golden State Park, San Francisco, California, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, September 9, 1972- September 5, 1972. Osaka, Japan, Hankyu Department Store, April 4-9, 1975. Press The Saturday Evening Post, December 29, 1940, cover illustration. A.L. Guptill, Norman Rockwell: Illustrator, New York, 1946, p.179, cover illustrated. T.S. Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist and Illustrator, New York, 1970, no. 529, illustrated. T.S. Buechner, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1972, p. 78, illustrated. M. Hart Hennessey and A. Knutson, Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1999, p. 160, illustrated. C. Finch, Norman Rockwell’s America...

Date: 1944 Medium: Oil and Graphite on Paperboard Sight Size 14.00" x 11.00", Framed 22.00" x 19.00" Study for cover of The Saturday Evening Post, May 27, 1944 Norman Rockwell disc...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 20.75" x 40.00", Framed 30.75" x 50.00" 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...

Artist: Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) Title: The Soul Never Dwells in a Dry Place Date: October, 1946 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.l. Size: 24 in. x 31 in. (60.96 ...

Presenting an exceptional mid century oil painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, "The Picnic, is an original oil on panel, signed and dated 1950. ...

We are proud to present a just discovered, "Red Box Car WWII", by American artist Robert McIntosh (1916 - 2010.) Robert McIntosh won first prize at the Los ...

A magnificent painting by American artist Ron Blumberg, from one of his rarest periods, the, "Psychological Period", which lasted only from 1948 - 1952 and was never replicated. This...

Presenting a rare, early original mixed media watercolor by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010) McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, inclu...

Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core prac...