1940s Paintings

Adolph Kronengold was born in New Orleans in 1900. He studied locally at Tulane, before moving on to New York and Philadelphia. There he studied at the Art Students League and the P...

Modern painting by Margaret Balzer Cantieni (1914-2002). Tempera on wood board. Signed in lower right corner "Balzer '46". Painting measures 1 1" x 14" with frame 16 1/2" x 19 1/2". Margaret Balzer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers and William Stanley Hayter...

Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...

Landscape of Fontainebleau Georges Bousquet Moret (1904-1976) was, first, an engineer passionate about arts. This passion led him to devote his f...

"Bearsville NY" Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976) Bearsville NY 26 1/4 x 36 inches Oil on canvas Singed lower right, t...

A beautiful 1940's impressionist oil on canvas laid on board depicting a snow covered Alpine Landscape by Canadian RA artist Adolphus George Broomfield. This excellent quality and c...

This exquisite watercolor by Swedish artist Olle Hjortzberg is a testament to the beauty that lies in simplicity. Depicting a modest bouquet of summer flowers, this piece evokes a se...

Really impressive early American modernist painting. Oil on board. Framed.

Waterfall Bearsville NY Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Cubism Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976) Waterfall, Bearsville NY 40 1/2 30 inches Oil on canvas Signed lower...

'Cubist Still Life', gouache on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). Surely this very attractive piece was inspired by Juan Gris (1887-1927) and Georges Braque's ...

"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism Gerrit Van Sinclair (1890 – 1955) Parade 20 x 15 inches Oil on board, c. 1940s Signed lower right Fram...

Swiss Alps Landscape - Original Oil on Canvas Original oil landscape by Alphons Muller (Swiss, 1898-1955) depicting the Swiss Alps. Dark green trees emerge on either side, with a sm...

Colliers Magazine 1947 American Scene Social Realism Modern Families in the Snow Katherine Wiggins (American 20th Century) "The Shrimp" 20 x 24 inches Egg tempera on masonite. c. 1...

Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976) Title: "Intermission (Ballerina)" *Signed by Fried lower left Circa: 1940 Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas Framing: Recently framed in a gold Louis XV style frame Framed size: 39" x 33" Canvas size: 30" x 24" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Port Orange, FL; acquired from Herbert Arnot Gallery, New York, NY in the early 1970's. Titled by Fried on verso. The artist's copyright stamp and various reference number on verso. Biography: Pál Fried was born in Budapest in 1893. He received his art education at the Académie hongroise des arts (Hungarian Academy of Arts) where he was a pupil of Hugo Pohl who became one of his major influences. While under Pohl's direction, he executed many portraits of female nudes and Orientalist works. Later he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was the pupil of Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. In Paris, he was greatly influenced by the French Impressionists, especially Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. This inspired him to prepare many paintings of ballerinas...

Born in Russia, the son of Friede (1878 – 1956) and Benjamin Hoffman (1878 – a. 1942). Benjamin was a dealer in mineral and seltzer water and the family resided on Snediker Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, just down the streetfrom the home where George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) was born. This area of Brooklyn, known as Brownsville, “witnessed the development of one of the largest communities of Eastern European Jewish immigrants during the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20 th century.” Today, little remains of this once thriving Jewish section of Brooklyn, which today houses many commercial and repair businesses. Hoffman studied at the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design and in the art program at Cooper Union. His work at the National Academy received praise, and in 1921 he was awarded the 2nd prize and an honorable mention from the John Armstrong Chaloner Paris Prize Foundation at the National Academy, which allowed the recipient to study in Paris, France for as long as five years. The following year he was awarded the 1 st prize in the competition (with The Reform Advocate running the headline “Young Jew Wins Art Prize”) as well as the Suydam Bronze Medal for his achievements in the Academy’s Men’s Night Class. In 1923 he was residing in Long Branch, New Jersey, when he was awarded 4th place in the Chaloner competition. Early on, Hoffman exhibited his work throughout the city, including in 1925 with the recently organized Society of Independent Artists. He also received several solo exhibitions during the first part of his career, including one at Ferargil Galleries in 1929. In the spring of 1930 a solo exhibition of his portraits, including paintings and drawings, was held at at Babcock Galleries, where a reviewer noted: “Portraiture is obviously Mr. Hoffman’s specialty… his best work is characterized by a sensitive appreciation of character set down in a vigorous decisive statement. Later that same year, in August, he participated in Babcock’s summer exhibition where reviewer Jerome Klein, writing for The Baltimore Sun, felt Hoffman’s and other artists work was already becoming old fashioned, remarking “…if an effort toward accomplishment is to be made, it must be in the language of today. It is for that reason that such contemporaries as Eugene Higgins and Nathan Hoffman, in this show, seem artists of a bygone era…” The onset of the Great Depression appears to have slowed his success, as was the case for many up-and-coming artists. By 1939 Hoffman had become a gallerist in addition to being a painter, operating the collective exhibition space “Sutton Gallery,” which was originally located at 358 East 57th Street. There Hoffman exhibited his own works as well as those created by other prominent New York artists including David Burliuk (1882 – 1967), Charles C. Curran (1861 – 1942), Louis Eilshemius (1864 – 1941), Ann Goldthwaite (1869 – 1944), Maurice Kish (1895 – 1987), Lawrence Lebduska (1894 – 1966), Bradford Perin and Ellis Wilson...

Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.

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...

By French famous Transgender artist, Michel Marie Poulain (Born Paris December 5, 1906. Died 1991) this rare oil on canvas it represents the Queen and he...

1940's Original Oil Painting of Cheerful Yellow Roses by Nell Walker Warner Antony Anderson, art critic of the Los Angeles Times, stated Nell Walker Shostrum Warner (American, 1891-...

'Still Life with Strings', ink and pencil on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). This gallery acquired this artwork with two similar works for which this one may...

Nicely painted impressionist coastal view with a lighthouse. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.

Winter Stream, New England, Impressionist Leo B. Blake. This winter snow river and birch tree landscape scene is reminiscent of Gruppe’s Vermont or New Hampshire pieces. The white sn...

Signed lower right “Iv. Constantin Svartlöga 1940” for Ivan Constantin Sannesjö Johansson, also known as Iwan Constantin, (1887 - 1946) - was a Swedish painter and graphic artist. Sp...

Vintage nicely painted abstract expressionist oil painting by Frederick James Gill (1906 - 1974). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Work on canvas

Nicely painted mid century abstract oil painting. Great color. Framed.

GRUPPE Emile Albert, (American, 1896-1978) Title: “Gray Day, Gloucester” Oil on Canvas Painting: 20' x 24 Inches Signed lower right: Emile A Gruppe Framed: 24.5 x 28.75 Inches (N...

Marcel Dyf French, 1899-1985 “Place de La Concorde” , 1948 Signed Dyf and dated 1948 Paris (lr) Oil on canvas Canvas: 29 x 39.75 Inches (73.6 x 99 cm) Framed: 35 x 45.25 Inches ...

Emile Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Motif #1, Rockport, Massachusetts. A cold , rainy and gray morning or evening in Rockport gethhing the nets in order to start the day of fishing an...

Emile Albert Gruppe Birches Along The Road Signed:. l.r. Emile A. Gruppe; also signed and titled on stretcher Oil On Canvas Dimensions: 30 by 25 inches Framed 34.5 by 29.5 inches An...

Joaquin Angulo Garcia (1905-1985) - Woman in profile - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless.

This superb Scottish 1940's portrait oil painting is by noted artist Murray Urquhart. He has been described by one of his sons as obsessed with painting, to the exclusion of most oth...

Work on canvas

Mid Century Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Blue Hydrangeas in Acrylic on Paper Vining Blue Hydrangeas by San Francisco's artist Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985), 1946. The vertica...

Dorothy King was born and lived in London in 1907. She studied at the Hornsey School of Art under JC Moody, then briefly at the Slade School of Fine Art with Randolph Schwabe. She to...

'Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles', Provence, watercolour and pencil on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1946). A line of Plane trees greets visitors to almost every vi...

Nicely painted impressionist painting of Paris signed "Villon". Great color and composition. Framed.

This superb Post Impressionist floral oil painting is by noted successful Russian born female artist Nadia Benois. Benois came to England and settled in London in 1920 having married...

Another delightful large painting by the post impressionist master; Emile Albert Gruppe. The landscape take you down a snow covered road by a cool icy running stream through a New En...

Nice colors and an early cubist work. Finely framed. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.

Bruno Croatto (Trieste 1875 - Rome 1948), View of Siena (1941) Oil painting on panel 50 x 60 cm signed, located Siena and dated 1941.

Helena Malarewicz-Krajewska (born 14 July 1910 in Biecz , died May 7, 1998 in Warsaw) is a Polish painter, active advocate of socialist realism. Studied between 1928 and 1929 at the Free School of Painting and Drawing in Cracow , from 1929 to 1934 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw : painting by Mieczysław Kotarbiński and Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski and graphic art by Władysław Skoczylas and Leon...

Olle Hjortzberg (Swedish, 1872-1959) Stilleben met gula rosor (Still life with yellow roses), 1946 Oil on Masonite Sight: 25-1/2 x 21-1/4 inches (64.8 x 54.0 cm) Framed: 35 X 30.25 ...

'Fish, Dove and Musical Instrument', gouache on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). Surely this very attractive piece was inspired by Georges Braque (1882-1963) ...

Frame size 42 x 52.5 inches ELISABETH RONGET "AU CAFE” OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED FRANCE, C.1940 Elisabeth Ronget 1886-1962 Elisabeth Boehm Ronget was born in 1896 in Conitz, Polan...

Nicely painted mid century modernist interior portrait oil painting by Sadie Skoletsky Rosenblum 1899-1987. Great color and composition. Framed.

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...

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...

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...

This lovely 1940s French polished brass frame is perfect for paintings, drawings, lithographs, mirrors, or any creative decoration. The frame has a large proportion and can be hung i...

Joaquín Asensio Mariné (1890-1961) - Beach - Oil on canvas Oil measures 65x81 cm. Frame measures 81x96 cm. Asensio Mariné (Barcelona, 1890-1961) was a painter who specialized in lan...

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 an original frame Julius Delbos...

Emile Gruppé (1896-1978) Fishing Boats A large and commanding marine sailboat fishing boat scene with blue waters and blue skies. Birds are flying up above and fish swimming below ...

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...

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 ...

Work on wood

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...

JJ Nowotny Untitled, 1944 (date partially obscured but appears to be '44) Oil on canvas 24 x 30 in. Framed: 31 x 37 x 2 in. Signed and dated lower right