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Period: 1940s
Point Lobos Cove, Carmel California by Adelaide Bartleme
Located in Soquel, CA
Point Lobos Cove, Carmel California by Adelaide Bartleme
Point Lobos Cove circa 1940s by Carmel artist Adelaide Bartleme, (American, 1881-1973). The niece of a well known New York ar...
Category
Post-War 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Early Modern American Portrait, Pennsylvania/Massachusetts, Frank Anderson Trapp
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a very stylized and powerful portrait by the noted artist Frank Anderson Trapp. It is dated 1940, and is very much in the modern style of French painters Ferdinand Leger...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Fisherman
Located in London, GB
'The Fisherman', oil on board, by Gabriel Vié (circa 1940s). This artwork depicts a solitary man fishing in a river surrounded by abundant foliage. He is p...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$2,353 Sale Price
20% Off
"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern
Ludwig Bemelmans (1898 – 1962), “Coney Island"
35 x 27 inches
Oil on board
Signed lower right
Origi...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique French Oversized Interior Scene Oil Painting The Dapper Frenchman 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5140 Oversized Antique French oil painting depicting a Frenchman in an interior scene
Framed
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Water Nymph
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-2738a Acrylic on artist board
Displayed in a vintage gilt wood frame
Image size 11x15"
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$440
Antique American Period Cubist Abstract Signed Framed Rare Artist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare early American modernist cubist abstract by Anita F. Plumb. Framed. Pastel and gouache on paper. Signed. Image size, 20H by 26L.
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Fleet Week”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on masonite painting of Fleet Week with sailors flirting with young women on the dock by the American artist, Sarah Pace Carothers Rhode. ...
Category
Ashcan School 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
$2,400 Sale Price
33% Off
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painting.
Realist painter-printmaker Kyra Markham...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century: Wartime Figures
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: A Wartime Study of Figures Relaxing in Springtime
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
Unsigned
watercolour, graphite and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet: 12.25 x 9...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
$387 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Signed Vintage Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract expressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 24L x 36H. Signed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Flower Still Life Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist flower still life oil painting by Samuel Brecher (1897 - 1982). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 28 by 30 inches overall and 22 by 24 inches painti...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Crime', c.1945 painting by Pamela Denyer
Located in London, GB
Pamela Denyer (1923-2013)
Crime
29 x 22 cm
Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell
Although little is known about Pamela Denyer other than that she studied under A. E. Halliwell...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century Fingerpainted Landscape in Acrylic, in Diamond-Shaped Frame
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Fingerpainted Landscape in Acrylic, in Diamond-Shaped Frame
Unique landscape by Hollywood, California artist Genevieve"Gen" Matucha (American, 1903-1989). The scene dep...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Mid-Century Modernist 'Composition Biomorphique' Tempera Painting
Located in New York, NY
This strikingly etherial Mid-Century Modernist Vera Idelson 'Composition Biomorphique' Tempera on masonite Painting originates from Israel, created in 1946. A unique and gorgeous pi...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Taos Splendor - Mid Century Southwest Landscape
By Walter A. Bailey
Located in Soquel, CA
Significant landscape painting of Taos, New Mexico river and buttes by Walter Alexander Bailey (American, 1894-1989). Rendered in saturated colors, a lone tree stands at the edge of a river. The river flows back into the distance, guiding the viewer's eye to a lush green plain. At the edges of the plain, large mesas rise from all sides in purple and red.
Signed lower right corner.
Unframed.
Image size: 24"H x 30"W.
Bailey studied at the Kansas City Art Institute with Thomas Hart Benton and Charles Wilimovsky. In the 1940s he worked as a scenic and motion picture artist in Hollywood. In 1927 to 1929, he taught a Master Class in Taos, New Mexico, and in 1932-1934 he taught a Master Class in landscape painting at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Born Wallula, Oct. 17, 1894, Walter Bailey was a painter, illustrator, muralist, etcher, block printer, lithographer and teacher. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1920 with Charles A. Wilmovsky, Randall Davey, & Anthony Angarola. He worked on the art staff of the Kansas City Star.
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Art...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Abstract Original Painting - Blue Calligraphy on Crimson Water
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Abstract Original Painting - Blue Calligraphy on Crimson Water in Oil and Tempera on Paper
Wonderful Bay Area abstract composition by San Francisco's artist Honora Berg ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Tempera
Antique Italian Figural Painted Ceramic Tile "Two Sisters"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5146 Antique Italian Hand painted ceramic tile of two sisters
Hanging hardware on back
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Ceramic
Sketch n. 13 - Original Painting by Giovanni Brancaccio - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch n. 13 is an original modern artwork realized by Giovanni Brancaccio in 1948.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,610 Sale Price
25% Off
American School Modernist Surreal Cityscape Landscape Signed Regional Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nice modernist American school painting. Oil and watercolor and gouache on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18L x 23H.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$995 Sale Price
33% Off
Portrait of a woman and child by Italian artist Luigi Corbellini (1901-1968)
Located in AIGNAN, FR
This colourful oil portrait painting on canvas of a woman and child is a pleasure to the eye. Deep rich colours temp your eye towards the woman and child. A woman, head on hand, lo...
Category
Italian School 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Cubist Still Life Cat Portrait Framed & Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Important cubist still life oil painting by Douglas Warner Gorsline (1913 - 1985). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lake and Canoe by Adolphe De Siebenthal - Oil on Canvas - 46x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Adolphe de Siebenthal (1895–1958) was a Swiss painter known for his classic landscapes rendered in cool tones.
His works have been featured in n...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Surrealist Still Life with a Guitar
Located in San Francisco, CA
When you enter visually into the sumptuous scene captured in this painting, the unknown artist is playing with you. They are teasing you to slightly suspend your careful awareness of...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Young Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Outstanding male portrait by 20th-century American artist, Vito Tomasello.
Portrait of Young Man, John Alcorn, Eliot House, Cambridge MA.
Pencil on pap...
Category
Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Spanish town street oil on canvas painting Spain urbanscape
By Rafael Fernández de Soto
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael de Soto - Village street - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 41x33 cm.
Without frame.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Opera Garnier Paris - Impressionist Figures in Interior Oil by Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in an interior oil on board circa 1940 by French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. This charming work depicts a grand red room with gold trim filled with balleri...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American School Modernist WPA Winter Ice Skating Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American modernist winter landscape. Detailed and well painted skating scene. Oil on canvas. Nicely framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
1940s Modernist Oil Painting – Adobe Church Landscape, New Mexico Southwest Art
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative vintage oil painting from the 1930s–1940s captures a classic adobe church in New Mexico, likely inspired by the historic San Francisco de Asís Mission Church in Rancho de Taos. Painted by Denver modernist Paul K...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,760 Sale Price
20% Off
"Arroyo Seco, New Mexico" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Southwest Oil Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
28 x 42 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign a...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Beach Scene Scene Original Framed Oil Painting
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
American Painting Native American Dance Exhibition New Mexico Antelope Dancers
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil painting by American artist Rudolph Wedow. This fantastic painting depicts Antelope Dancers in San Felipe Pueblo in New Mexico.
Created...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Amsterdam Canal Scene Pastel Landscape 1948
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3966 Antique Amsterdam canal scene set in a vintage wood frame
Image size 11.5x8.5"
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
'Paris Opera House', California Artist, Chouinard Art Institute, Crocker Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'A Heinsbergen' for Antoon Heinsbergen (Dutch-American, 1894-1989), inscribed 'Painted in Paris from the top floor of the Grand Hotel Paris' and dated 1941.
A panoramic view of early twentieth-century Paris with early automobiles, charabancs and pedestrians filling the boulevards converging on the Paris Opera beneath sunny blue skies.
Painter and theatrical designer, Antoon Heinsbergen immigrated to Los Angeles as a small boy and first studied at the Chouinard Art School and the Otis Art Institute. He subsequently became sought after as a decorator of theaters and, working with a crew of 185, designed and painted wall and ceiling decorations...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Nicely Framed Abstract Expressionist Large Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a modernist wood molding. Excellent co...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Charming American Impressionist Landscape Painting
Located in New York, NY
Mystery American Artist
Untitled (Landscape), c. mid 20th century
Oil on canvas
19 x 23 in.
Framed: 23 1/2 x 27 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.
Initialed lower right: FV
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Framed Impressionist Beach Scene Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist beach scene oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Southern Woman Artist Grace Martin Taylor Watercolor - West Palm Beach
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Early Watercolor of West Palm Beach by Southern Woman Artist Grace Martin (Frame) Taylor.
The work is in excellent condition and nicely framed under glass.
Painting measures 11"h x ...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique American Impressionist Coastal Seascape Wide Gold Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely executed early 1900s American impressionist coastal seacape painting. Oil on canvas. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period giltwood molding. Excel...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled (Cubist Portrait)
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Cubist Portrait), 1945, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower middle, 20 x 16 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, perhaps exhibited at Murry's solo exhibition at the Los Angeles's Screen Cartoonists' Gallery, July , 1945, presented in its original frame
Jerre Murry was a California modernist painter. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Murry studied at the Detroit Academy of Art and worked as an artist for the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Murry traveled to the Bahamas, where he was inspired to paint modernist scenes of island life and people. By the early 1930s, Murry had relocated to Los Angeles, where he caught the attention of Synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald Wright, State Supervisor for the Federal Art Project (FAP) in Southern California. MacDonald Wright enrolled Murry into the FAP. Murry’s Gauguin-influenced painting Sun Image was exhibited together with other FAP artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1936, and Murry was also included in the FAP exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 1937. Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles, the Chamber of Commerce Gallery in Santa Barbara, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art also showed Murry’s work during the 1930s. Murry created a murals for Los Angeles Water & Power Company, the Boise, Idaho Post Office, and Glendale Junior College. In 1939, Murry's work was exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition and the New York World's Fair. He also was included in the All California Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of art that same year. He went on to exhibit in Los Angeles at the Foundation of Western Art's Trends in Southern California Art shows in 1940 and 1941, at Raymond and Raymond Gallery in Hollywood and USC’s Elizabeth Holmes...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Antique American School Impressionist WPA Woman Ballerina Portrait Oil Painting
By Richard Hook
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted early 1900's oil painting. by Richard Hook. Great color and composition. Nicely framed.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Oil Landscape of Santa Clara Valley Before Silicon Valley
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Oil Landscape of Santa Clara Valley Before Silicon Valley
1947 Original oil painting depicting a landscape of Santa Clara Valley orchards, prior to the Silicon Valley bo...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Signed Mid Century Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Watercolor, and pastel on paper. Framed. Signed. Image size, 6.5H by 10L
Category
Abstract 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique San Martino Hills Naples Italy 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-2879a San Martino Hill ,Naples Italy, a 1940's oil on canvas applied on board,displayed in a gilt wood frame.Signed by Ferrara
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Basketball Player
By Ben Shahn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Basketball Player
Gouache on card stock, c. 1940
Signed by the artist in ink lower center
A study for the fresco mural in the Social Security Buildin...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Archipelago Landscape From Sweden
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating artwork by Carl Gunne, dated July 10, 1945, portrays a serene archipelago landscape. The painting, executed with a delicate blend of pastel hues, captures the essenc...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quebec in winter
Located in Westmount, QC
Graham Noble Norwell, Canadian, 1901-1967
Saguenay, circa 1949
watercolour on paper
21 x 28 in (sight)
Signed lower right
framed
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape
Symbolic and surreal mid century nocturnal landscape of a lone house on a s...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
A Quiet River - Oil on Canvas by A. Whipple
Located in Soquel, CA
A Quiet River - Oil on Canvas
Oil painting depicting a river flowing through a grove of trees. Vibrant green trees surround the river, hues of deep greens make up the trees to the l...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$420 Sale Price
20% Off
A Humorous 1945 Painting Titled "En Route to VT, Hotel Room" by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A diminutive & humorous 1945 Painting titled "En Route to VT, Hotel Room" by artist Harold Haydon. Haydon called these diminutive paintings "Thumb Box" paintings. Image size: 6" x...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Still Life - Large Post Impressionist Belgian Guitar Interior Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful post-impressionist interior still life oil on canvas depicting a guitair and fruits on a chair, by modern Belgian artist and sculptor Roger Duterme.
Ther work is signed ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman with a White Horse
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated 1948
David Burliuk’s vibrant depiction of a Ukrainian countryside captures a moment of quiet resilience and rural harmony. A woman, adorned in a red ker...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Lake view by A. Muller - Oil on canvas 60x73 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas with a frame; total size 80x93 cm
Category
Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,496 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled (Modernist Three-Panel Screen)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Modernist Three-Panel Screen), 1948, mixed media on paperboard mounted into a three-section screen, 58 x 45 inches, signed and dated on each panel upper right
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Charles Malcolm Campbell...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board
Blue Lake in the Rockies and Hunter - Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Blue Lake in the Rockies and Hunter - Oil on Linen
Cascades and snow capped mountains over look a blue lake with a successful hunter carrying his trophy deer by Vern Byers (American...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
$1,320 Sale Price
20% Off
New England Winter Forest Snow Landscape Silver Frame Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted and highly detailed winter landscape painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reclining Nude, Oil Painting by Paul Sieffert c1940
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Sieffert, French (1874 - 1957)
Title: Reclining Nude
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 15 x 24 in. (38.1 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 18.5 x 27.5 inches
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl in profile oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Miret Aleu (1912-1999) - Girl in profile - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 41x33 cm.
Frame size 50x42 cm.
Painter born in Barcelona in 1912. He studied drawing at the Baixas Aca...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,073 Sale Price
40% Off
'She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not', Girl in a Gingham Dress, 1940's, Folk Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A sensitively painted portrait of the artist's daughter, Nancy, aged two and a half, shown wearing a floral-striped, jade green gingham dress.
Signed lower right, 'Martha Tracy Frey' (American, 1915-2010) and painted 1944; additionally inscribed verso 'Picture of Nancy Jane Frey from life-sized photograph when about 2 1/2. Painted by her mother in 1944.' This Kern County...
Category
Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
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