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Period: 1940s
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed - work is unframed. - Riggs was a Gay Artist.
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Vintage English Portrait Oil Painting of an English Writer
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3423 English writer portrait, oil on board displayed in a gilt -wood frame, signed by Welsh.Image size 10 H x 8 W
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Suzanna and the Elders
By Ben Shahn
Located in Miami, FL
A modern interpretation of the biblical story Suzanna and the Elders.
Signed lower right
Ink and wash on paper
The Downtown Gallery
Felix Landau Gallery
Ernest Brown & Phillips, Ltd...
Category
American Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper
Tribesmen with Headdresses - Photo Realism
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Clemence Dane Attribution
Located in San Francisco, CA
Attributed to WiniFred CleMence Ashton Dane: 1888-1965. She was a British novelist, playwright, and artist. She has auction prices over $2,900. This incredible portrait seems to be ...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Bert Lahr as Burlesque Clown - The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depicted in his comedian's costume which he wears while staring in Jea...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pastel Portrait of a Circus Clown
Located in Hallowell, ME
Pastel Portrait of a Circus Clown
Samuel Brecher, American, (1897 - 1982)
This portrait of a clown is pastel on paper, is fully signed by Samuel Brecher and dated 1943.
This pastel painting of a clown measures 21.5 inches tall by 15.5 inches wide.
Matted in the frame the pastel portrait measures 33.5 inches tall by 26.5 inches wide.
Samuel Brecher was born in Boryslaw, Austria, a town near the Carpathian Mountains...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
How Sure Can You Be? McCall's Magazine Illustration of Loving Couple
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross - or Alex Ross. This work is a perfect artistic statement with every formal element in perfect harmony. It's a masterf...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of the grand daughter of the artist. Oil on panel. Signed.
Located in Paris, FR
Portrait study of the grand daughter of the artist. Oil on panel. Signed. Unframed.
This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period -
Midtown Galleries label on verso, Unframed Signed and date...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
HUGO SCHEIBER 1873-1950
1873 - Budapest - 1950 (Hungarian)
Title: Self Portrait
Technique: Original Signed Pastel Drawing on Paper
Size: 37.7 x 30 cm. / 14.8 x 11.8 in.
Additiona...
Category
Futurist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine", 1948
Located in Miami, FL
When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine" illustration
How friendship and love were depicted in post-war America. There was a sense of innoc...
Category
Academic 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
General Douglas MacArthur
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
In the Timken War Bond campaign, JC Leyendecker completed more than a dozen paintings that were rep...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
" D'apres Delacroix" Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"D'apres Delacroix" Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed and dated '47 by the artist on the lower left hand corner
Oil pai...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Colette II - Jewish Art, Post War, Oil Painting
By Joseph Floch
Located in London, GB
JOSEPH FLOCH 1894-1977
Vienna 1894 – 1977 New York (Austrian)
Title: Collette II, 1944
Technique: Signed Oil Painting on Canvas
Size: 120 x 89 cm. / 47.2 x 35 in.
Additional Inf...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Nuturing
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the Belgian symbolist's.
"The Nurturing", oil on canvas, dated 1947, is Van Caulert's depiction of the nurturing of post war Europe, as the shrouded woman offers an apple to an androgynous figure.
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Theresa Thompson"
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Manuel Avila Camacho, Time magazine cover, - Journalist Portraiture
Located in Miami, FL
Journalist Portraiture. Gouache on board
Signed Lower Right matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches. Archivally Matted Not Framed
He illustrated more than 300 covers for Time magazine a...
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Cosmopoilitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Cosmopoilitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Art Journalism - War Lessons, Illustration for Collier's, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Marta Sawyers. Illustrator Journalist. She was sent to war-ravaged countries to “Paint the Story”.
What's unique here? This represents the work an Artist Journalist/War Correspondent...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
"Portrait of a Young Lady"
By Alice Naylor
Located in San Antonio, TX
Alice Naylor Portrait of a young girl.
(1892-1974)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 16 x 12
Frame Size: 24 x 21
Medium: Oil
Portrait or Self Portrait?
Biography
Alice Naylor (1892-1974)
A painter who preferred watercolor and acrylics, Alice Naylor studied at the University of New Mexico with Andrew Dasburg and the San Antonio Art Institute with Xavier Gonzales...
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boy with Molotov Cocktail, Russia Invades Germany
Located in Miami, FL
This work sells itself. Just look at it and an elaborate explanation is not required. There is virtually no one alive who can paint a picture like Crockwell. Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Signed lower left
Provenance: National Museum of American Illustration , Newport, Rhode Island
Crockwell gives us a complex and inventive composition by showing two wonderful portaits in the foreground and beyond a broken wall...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Nobildonna - Il Guanto Rosso (Noblewoman - The Red Glove) - Oil on Canvas
Located in Roma, IT
Signed lower left: FANTUZZI.
Archived in the General Catalogue of Eliano Fantuzzi, No. A-6, order number 15/76741.
Very good conditions.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under ex...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Young Lady, French Impressionist Portrait, Oil Painting, Signed Mid Century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Young Lady, Impressionist Portrait, Oil Painting, Signed
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed by the artist on right hand corner
Oil painting on board, unframed
Board...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Uncle Sam
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Rushelle in the Garden"
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 ...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"Jewel"
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 ...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Lady in Yellow, Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lady in Yellow, Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed by the artist on the lower right ha...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Bert Lahr - Circus Performer - Modernism
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
A recent Kuhn Circus Performer sold for $312,000 at Bonhams, NY
Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depict...
Category
American Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Portrait of Harriet Toby, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
American Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
The Bouquet Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a woman holding a bouquet of flowers by Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower right. Unframed. From the Estate of Helen Gleiforst.
Helen...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, 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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Mongols
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
There is from frame burn and scattered surface abrasions but they are minor. Additionally, there are a 3 or 4 very fine hair line scratches not visible unless you look very closely. The work is varnished and has a reflective quality to it that makes it hard to photograph. In person the viewing experience is much better. You can see more detail in the shadow areas. The colors are rich, deep and saturated. Riggs was very particular in researching the tribal costumes...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Le Violoniste - Expressionist Oil, Portrait of a Violinist by Jean Albert Pougny
By Jean Pougny
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed expressionist oil on canvas portrait circa 1942 by French painter Jean Albert Pougny. The work depicts a violinist in an interior.
Signatur...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contrast of Lights - Portrait of Elica Balla - Oil on Panel by G. Balla - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
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 include...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Elizabeth Anne" Abstract Portrait Painting
By Jeanne Billfaldt
Located in Houston, TX
Impressionist portrait painting of a woman. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. The painting is framed in a dark wooden frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 24 in x...
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Serenade
Located in West Hollywood, CA
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.
Category
Cubist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Auto Portrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to ...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait - The Red Shirt
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
American artist Ron Blumberg.
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 of the Art Students League.
Painted just after the artist returned from New York, c.1945, "The Red Shirt...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dody in the Afternoon
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Noted German Expressionist artist Fritz Schwaderer, was classically schooled in fine art in Germany in the early-mid 1920’s. Schwaderera...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Princess
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil on canvas by American artist Alexander Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld was classically trained in Poland before settling in Los An...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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