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Style: Modern
Period: 1940s
"Girl in Pareu"
By RAD Miller
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Robert Alexander Darrah “R.A.D.” Miller (1905 - 1966)
Robert Alexander Darrah Miller, called “RAD” by his friends, was born in Philadelphia. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1923 to 1927 under the tutelage of Daniel Garber. In 1928, Miller moved to Bucks County where he would meet and marry Celia Belden Marshall, daughter of Dr. George M. Marshall, who at that time owned the Phillips Mill property.
Nearly a year later, in 1929, a committee headed by artist, William Lathrop, negotiated to purchase the Mill property from Dr. Marshall for the purpose of holding art exhibitions. Thus, the Phillips Mill Art Association was formed. RAD Miller was a regular exhibitor at the Phillips Mill with the traditional New Hope Impressionists. Many of the original founders of the New Hope Art Colony, set in their ways, frowned upon the concept of modernist painting. A decision was made by the Association to not include the growing group of modernist painters in the area to exhibit with them at Phillips Mill. Although clearly not a traditional impressionist, Miller was not being excluded with the others, largely because his father-in-law formerly owned the mill and was one of the Association’s board of directors. RAD was sympathetic to his fellow modernists. In 1933, he was one of the original members of the Independents, a group formed for modernist artists who chose to embark on a more non-traditional creative path. They would exhibit in tandem with the Impressionists but at different locations.
Around the time of his arrival to New Hope in 1928, Miller struck up a friendship with Thomas Hart Benton, and in 1932 he worked under Benton on a mural project. RAD’s paintings...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Rescue
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Schneelanschaft / Snowy landscape
Located in Wien, 9
The artwork is signed and dated on the lower right and provided with sticker verso. The frame is a golden showpiece.
Provenance: Private collection Sweden
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks)
By Harry Lane
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, 16 x 20 inches, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coas...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
My Only Working Tool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
My Only Working Tool, 1949, oil on panel, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 12 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, exhibited at the Art News Second Annual National Amateur Co...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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,...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, 1940, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, dated and titled verso: “Marcel Cailliet ’40 – S.C.” and “Marcel Cailliet Landscape”; likely exhibited at the annual juried st...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Farm in Winter)
By Julius M. Delbos
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Farm in Winter), 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 26 x 30 inches, presented in a...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Valley Streetscape at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
A Valley Streetscape at Night, 1948, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower right, 18 x 24 inch...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled (Transcendental Composition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Transcendental Composition), oil on board, 1947, oil on board, signed and dated lower r...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 ½ x 26 ½ inches, presented in a period frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Old World
By Russell Cowles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Old World, by 1943, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 43 ½ x 30 ½ inches, artist’s name and title inscribed verso; exhibited 1) Romantic Painting in America, Museum of Modern Art, N...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Self Portrait, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, 14 ¼ x 12 1/4 inches, signed lower left, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of th...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orange Grove Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Orange Grove Landscape, 1941, gouache on illustration board, 14 inches x 18 inches (image), 22 x 26 inches (framed) signed and dated lower right, newly framed with museum glazing
...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Flowers and Arches
By Helen Lundeberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flowers and Arches, 1943, oil on board, initialed and dated lower left, 4 x 7 1/8 inches, presented in an older, but likely not original frame
This work is part of our exhibition A...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Riders of Pigeon Hill
By Jon Corbino
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders of Pigeon Hill, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24 x 36 inches, label verso with title, artist’s name and address; same information inscribed verso; ex-collection...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sea Shells – Blue & Gold
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sea Shells – Blue & Gold, c. 1940s, watercolor on paper, signed upper left, 15 x 19 ¼ inches (image); title and artist’s name and address inscribed verso, presented in a newer glazed...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rabbit Hunters
By Roger Medearis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rabbit Hunters, egg tempera on Masonite, 12 x 9 inches, 1947, signed and dated lower left, signed, titled and dated verso “Rabbit Hunters Egg Tempera Roger Medearis 1947,” exhibited ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Untitled (Horns and Bow)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Untitled (Horns and Bow), 1941, oil on board, signed and dated lower right, 15 x 20 1/x inches...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Blue Lake
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Blue Lake, c. 1940s, oil on masonite, signed lower right, 20 x 36 inches, label and inscriptio...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Gracie Mansion
By Isabella Banks Markell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Gracie Mansion, c. 1944, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 25 x 30 inches, presented in a ne...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Homage to Leger
By Jean Kellogg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Homage to Leger, 1941, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14 x 17 inches; inscribed ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Biomorphic Composition)
By Dave Fox
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Untitled (Biomorphic Composition), 1948, oil on textured paper mounted on board, signed and da...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"At the Opera" WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre American Scene
Located in New York, NY
"At the Opera" WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre American Scene
John Winters (1904 - 1983)
"At the Opera"
17 x 14 inches
oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1943 lower r...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
*William Kienbusch (1914 – 1980)
Shooting Gallery, Sixth Avenue
Poster paint on paper, c. 1941
15 ¾ x...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Paint
Vintage Signed American School Cute Illustration Hungry Hippo Animal Portrait
Located in Buffalo, NY
Watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed. Cute animal portrait!
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Hamptons Polo Field Horse Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid century polo field modernist landscape. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harlem Renaissance Signed Ellis Original Abstract Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 22L x 30H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chrysanthemums in a Green Pot - Modern British Flowers Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large signed and dated 1940 modern British oil on canvas by Patricia Fell-Clark, the painter and novelist known for introducing the Beatles to Ravi Shankar.
The work dep...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Signed Exhibited American Female Modernist Woman Sewing Framed Portrait
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century modernist interior portrait oil painting by Sadie Skoletsky Rosenblum 1899-1987. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Hamptons New York Sandy Path Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 and...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
An ink drawing Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait of an old Jewish man. Coming over from Europe on a ship crossing. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Surrealist Still Life with Apples, Mid 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Still Life with Apples, 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated upper right
18 x 24 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of na...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Taxco, Mexico', Paris, Louvre, Who Was Who in American Art, PAFA, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charles Killgore' (American, 1889-1979) and painted circa 1940. (N.B. the artist's last name variant is 'Kilgore).
Born in Huntington, West Virginia, Charles Ki...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Fiberboard, Oil
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970)
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape
11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed
Bio
In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American School Modernist Long Island Hamptons Beach Scene Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Nautical Cityscape Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage mid century abstract painting. Feels like an abstract cityscape of New York City. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signe...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Flower Still Life Framed Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American School Modernist Abstract Cityscape Holiday Lights Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Image size, 20H x 30L. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Framed Signed Exhibited Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Exhibited at the Butler Art Institute.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A diminutive and charming painting of a porcelain pitcher by French/American Artist Andre Delfau. The painting is framed to 11 3/4" x 13 1/2".
Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre ...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique American School Modernist Landscape Framed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Fall Cat Still Life Framed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life with a cat. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique Italian Impressionist Venice Trompe L'Oeil Flower Cityscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well done and interesting vintage Italian impressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Antique French Post Impressionist Modern Kitchen Seafood Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted French modernist still life. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Houses Architecture Precisionist NY Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Abstract Cubist Flower Still Life Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well painted period cubist still life. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed 1956 Antique American School Modernist Abstract Indian Space Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive and large mid century abstract painting. Signed and dated illegibly lower right. Oil on canvas.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life
Located in Chicago, IL
A large and wonderful Modernist still life of a cast iron pot, squash and ladle by artist Flora Schofield. Framed to 24" x 26".
A painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schofield (Schoenfield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France.
In 1923, Schofield’s abstractions caused a split at the venerable Chicago Society of Artists. When her artwork was was accepted by the jury, the notable Impressionist painter Pauline Palmer and the notable Modernist painter Carl Hoeckner got into a row that ended-up splitting the group. The Impressionists then broke away into their own organization called the ”Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors”.
Paintings by Flora Schofield have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Salon d’Automne and Salon de Independants, Paris; the Salons of America; the Society of Independent Artists, New York; the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita; Gallery Carmine, Paris; the National Arts Club Galleries, New York; Marshall Fields Galleries...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Signed American School Modernist Nude Woman Cubist Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Amazing and rare 1946 American school painting. Super modern and well painted. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life by Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Hudson, NY
A fantastic mid-century modernist still life by Vaclav Vytlacil. This piece comes from the estate of the Artist, which was handled by Martin Diamond Fine Arts.
Still Life (1946)
Ca...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Casein
Portrait of Ludmilla Barta
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
59.5 x 51.5 x 5.5 cm
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled oil painting of children playing by Eugenie Schein
Located in Hudson, NY
Eugenie Schein was both a dancer and an artist. Her artwork subjects revolved primarily around dancers and dancing, though she also captured everyday scenes in New York.
Both Midto...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique Ashcan Street Impressionist Nocturnal Cityscape Burlington Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive and well painted street scene by Mildred Bunting Miller (1892 - 1964). Titled Burlington City. Housed in a great giltwood frame. Has the feel of a Hopper!! Oil ...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1944 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Pasture Houses
Located in Bristol, GB
PASTURE HOUSES
Size: 56 x 67.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A richly coloured mid-century modernist landscape composition, painted in oil onto board and dated 1944.
Featuring ...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
