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"ULANDA - Painting in Studio Class" Bay Area Figurative Movement Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"ULANDA - Painting in Studio Class" Figurative Study Oil on Canvas
A dark-haired woman is standing at an easel, by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). The subject is ca...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jersey Shore III
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jersey Shore III
Casein on Masonite, 1967
Signed lower right (see photo)
Initialed, dated and titled verso
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Virginia Dehn (the artist's widow)
Dehn Quests
Created on location on the Jersey Shore. The Jersey Shore was the main playground for thousand to escape the summer heat of New York. This small painting shows Dehn's mastery of patterning color to depict movement and recreation. Part of a suite of paintings done on this theme. Within a year of it's creation, Dehn dies from a heart attack.
Casein on Masonite
Condition: Excellent
Image: 6 x 11"
Frame: 9 3/8 x 14 1/2"
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs. In many ways Dehn’s later artistic achievement was clearly a reaction against the grinding rural poverty of his childhood.
After graduating from high school in 1914 at the age of 19—an age not unusual in farming communities at the time, where school attendance was often irregular—Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art from 1914 to 1917, whose character followed strongly reflected that of its director, Munich-trained Robert Kohler, an artistic conservative but a social radical. There Dehn joined a group of students who went on to nationally significant careers, including Wanda Gag (later author of best-selling children’s books); John Flanagan (a sculptor notable for his use of direct carving) Harry Gottlieb (a notable social realist and member of the Woodstock Art Colony), Elizabeth Olds (a printmaker and administrator for the WPA), Arnold Blanch (landscape, still-life and figure painter, and member of the Woodstock group), Lucille Lunquist, later Lucille Blanch (also a gifted painter and founder of the Woodstock art colony), and Johan Egilrud (who stayed in Minneapolis and became a journalist and poet).
Adolf became particularly close to Wanda Gag (1893-1946), with whom he established an intense but platonic relationship. Two years older than he, Gag was the daughter of a Bohemian artist and decorator, Anton Gag, who had died in 1908. After her husband died, Wanda’s mother, Lizzi Gag, became a helpless invalid, so Wanda was entrusted with the task of raising and financially supporting her six younger siblings. This endowed her with toughness and an independent streak, but nonetheless, when she met Dehn, Wanda was Victorian and conventional in her artistic taste and social values. Dehn was more socially radical, and introduced her to radical ideas about politics and free love, as well as to socialist publications such as The Masses and The Appeal to Reason.
Never very interested in oil painting, in Minneapolis Dehn focused on caricature and illustration--often of a humorous or politically radical character. In 1917 both Dehn and Wanda won scholarships to attend the Art Students League, and consequently, in the fall of that year both moved to New York. Dehn’s art education, however, ended in the summer of 1918, shortly after the United States entered World War I, when he was drafted to serve in the U. S. Army. Unwilling to fight, he applied for status as a conscientious objector, but was first imprisoned, then segregated in semi-imprisonment with other Pacifists, until the war ended. The abuse he suffered at this time may well explain his later withdrawal from taking political stands or making art of an overtly political nature. After his release from the army, Dehn returned to New York where he fell under the spell of the radical cartoonist Boardman Robinson and produced his first lithographs. He also finally consummated his sexual relationship with Wanda Gag.
The Years in Europe: 1922-1929
In September of 1921, however, he abruptly departed for Europe, arriving in Paris and then moving on to Vienna. There in the winter of 1922 he fell in love with a Russian dancer, Mura Zipperovitch, ending his seven-year relationship with Wanda Gag. He and Mura were married in 1926. It was also in Vienna that he produced his first notable artistic work.
Influenced by European artists such as Jules Pascin and Georg Grosz, Dehn began producing drawings of people in cafes, streets, and parks, which while mostly executed in his studio, were based on spontaneous life studies and have an expressive, sometimes almost childishly wandering quality of line. The mixture of sophistication and naiveté in these drawings was new to American audiences, as was the raciness of their subject matter, which often featured pleasure-seekers, prostitutes or scenes of sexual dalliance, presented with a strong element of caricature. Some of these drawings contain an element of social criticism, reminiscent of that found in the work of George Grosz, although Dehn’s work tended to focus on humorous commentary rather than savagely attacking his subjects or making a partisan political statement. Many Americans, including some who had originally been supporters of Dehn such as Boardman Robinson, were shocked by these European drawings, although George Grocz (who became a friend of the artist in this period) admired them, and recognized that Dehn could also bring a new vision to America subject matter. As he told Dehn: “You will do things in America which haven’t been done, which need to be done, which only you can do—as far at least as I know America.”
A key factor in Dehn’s artistic evolution at this time was his association with Scofield Thayer, the publisher of the most notable modernist art and poetry magazine...
Category
1960s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
The board measures 9 1/2 x 15 1/2.
Provenance: Mervin Jules Estate.
Bio
A painter, illustrator, pri...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mandala No. 15, Abstract Ovoid Geometrical Mid-Century Painting Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Mandala No. 15, 1969
Acrylic on paper
Signed and dated verso
27.5 x 22 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national ar...
Category
1960s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mountain Sunset, Colorado, Vintage 1950s Autumn Landscape Painting with River
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painted in 1958 by Harold Vincent Skene (1883-1978) titled 'Mountain Sunset'. Colorado mountain autumn landscape featuring changing leaves...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
View From the Park (Colorado) Mountain View Oil Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on canvas painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1987-1968) titled 'View from the Park'. Presented in a custom frame measuring 28 ¾ x 32 ¾ inches; image size is 22 ½ x 26 inches.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chickens
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Clifford Edgar Jones 1915-1975 American Chickens, 1948. Oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches unframed and 34" x 27.5" inches including the frame. Signed at lower right Clifford Jones ‘48’. P...
Category
1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Figures
By Otis Huband
Located in Dallas, TX
Born in 1933, Otis Huband declared his intention to be an artist at age 6. He earned his BFA and MFA at Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William & Mary, now Virginia...
Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th C. Figurative Abstract Painting Cleveland School African American Artist
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Beachwood, OH
Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993)
Untitled
Oil on canvas board
Estate stamped #611 verso
24 x 18 inches
Charles Elmer Harris was born in 1917 in Cleveland, Oh...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Panoramic Painting of the Harvest by Leonard Creo
Located in Larchmont, NY
Leonard Creo (American, 1923-2019)
Untitled, c. 1960s
Oil on canvas
29 x 48 in.
Framed: 30 1/8 x 49 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed lower right: Creo
Creo was bor...
Category
1960s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
TOAST TO THE BAR MITZVA Modernist Judaica Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Subject: Jewish American Family Bar Mitzvah with Rabbi
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
In this painting, Joseph Wolins uses vibrant and complimentary colors and...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Nude Figure Painting by Alma Davies, Student of Raphael Soyer
Located in Larchmont, NY
Alma Davies
Untitled, 1954
Oil on canvas
40 x 25 7/8 in.
Signed verso: Alma Davies (illegible inscription)
Dated verso: 3/5/54
Inscribed on stretcher bar: Student of Raphael Soyer
W...
Category
1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Arno" Italian Village by the River Oil Painting by Bruce McCracken
Located in Pasadena, CA
This oil painting from the 65s by California Artist Bruce McCracken derives its title and inspiration from the mythical Arno River in Tuscany. Dividing the historic city of Florence into two distinct parts, the Arno has long captivated the collective imagination and continues to be a subject of exploration for many contemporary artists.
Set against the backdrop of the Arno's picturesque banks, the artist likely sought inspiration from the vantage point of the Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) in Florence. The painting is divided into two distinct horizons. The upper section showcases architectural buildings poised upon a medieval arch...
Category
1960s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Untitled Abstract Landscape Oil Pastel Painting Figurative Abstraction
By John Evans
Located in Surfside, FL
John Evans (American, b. 1945), Untitled oilstick on paper, signed in pencil lower center, gallery label (Allan Stone Gallery, New York) affixed verso, sheet: sight size is 22"h x 3...
Category
1990s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Olympia-Lipa, Comic Figurative Painting French Style by Natalie Shiporina
Located in Sempach, LU
I would like to write a couple of words about the Heroine of my paintings - LIPOCHKA.
"I'm Lipochka, hello!" - that's how she used to introduce herself to men. By passport - Olympia....
Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Madam Suburbia" (Woman and Baby by the Yellow Window) in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Madam Suburbia" (Woman and Baby by the Yellow Window) in Oil on Canvas
An auburn-haired woman sits in a chair with her infant child, by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 19...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Stars
By Dale Nichols
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower right: DALE NICHOLS 1953; on stretcher bar: “STARS” by Dale Nichols
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
R.E.M. - Murmur (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Rock and Roll, Pop, Legendary)
By Kerry Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith
R.E.M. - Murmur
Mixed Media on Crescent board
Year: 2022
Size: 21x20in
Signed, dated by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1633
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"Of...
Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Board, Mixed Media
Neon modern roller girl "TAKE THE HIGHWAY"
Located in THOMERY, FR
This painting is from the series 'Rollers & skate', a series of variations on California's skateboard culture of the 70s, which takes a new turn today. The artist defends feminist va...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Cowgirl in the Studio - Figurative Study in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Cowgirl in the Studio - Figurative Study in Oil on Canvas
A woman in a vest, cowboy hat, and boots by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). The model is sitting on a stoo...
Category
1970s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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 left
Origin...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Modernist Architectural Oil Painting - Joseph Sutter Southern California
Located in Baltimore, MD
Like it’s listed companion piece, this is a late Art Deco/Moderne architectural painting with vibrant colors and bold composition. This work is untitled but features a whimsical and futurist metropolis. The oil on canvas measures 24” wide by 30” high and with its original silvered frame 27 1/2” x 33 1/2” overall. Unlike its companion work, it is not signed or labeled. This painting dates to ca. 1940.
Joseph Albert Sutter was born in Switzerland in 1891 and arrived in Los Angeles in 1926. He became active in the 1930’s Federal Art Program...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Double Ovoids, Mid-Century Blue & Black Figurative Abstract Ovoids
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Double Ovoids with Blue and Black, 1960s
Acrylic on scintilla
15.25 x 12.25 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting....
Category
1960s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Transection w/ Architectural Forms, Geometrical Figurative Abstract Acrylic
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Transection with Architectural Forms, c. 1980s
Acrylic and graphite on board
12 x 20 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract ...
Category
1980s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Modernist Oil Painting Abstract Dock with Boat Judith Shahn
By Judith Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting by Judith Shahn, the artist renders a boat and dock in a series of lines. The artist takes a naive approach at depicting the subject by simplifying the elements in t...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Maze, 20th Century Geometric Figurative Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Maze, 1982
Acrylic on cardboard
Signed and dated upper right
7 x 9.5 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting.
Clar...
Category
1980s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
American School, Abstract Untitled
Located in New Orleans, LA
American School, Artist Unknown
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bison, 20th Century Oil Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
By Harvey Gregory Prusheck
Located in Beachwood, OH
Harvey Gregory Prusheck (Slovenian/American, 1887-1940)
Bison
Oil on board
Signed lower right
9.5 x 11.5 inches
16.5 x 18 inches, framed
Harvey Gregory Prusheck was a Slovenian-Amer...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Classic Vertical Nude - Mixed Media by Leon Dusso
Located in Pasadena, CA
This delicate oil and ink painting on panel by Dusso depicts a beautiful and graceful woman seen from behind, her nude figure enhanced by the framing of her hair. She holds a vase in...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil
The Hillside, Colorado, 1930s Landscape Oil Painting, Hillside Farm with Truck
By Hayes Lyon
Located in Denver, CO
WPA era oil on canvas landscape painting by Hayes Lyon (1901-1987) titled 'The Hillside' from 1938. American modernist portrayal of a hillside farm with a b...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ponte Neuf (The Old Bridge)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Oil on panel, 14 ½ x 18 inches unframed, 22 x 25 ½ inches framed, inscribed “painted by David McCosh Property of Edward b. Rowan” and numbered “8” verso
Exhibited:
The First Exhibit of the Iowa Artist...
Category
1920s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tribe of Benjamin, Large Judaica Mixed Media Collage Painting
By Archie Rand
Located in Surfside, FL
Tribe of Benjamin, Biblical mural with wolf. I believe this is a study for a stained glass window. Untitled, mixed media on paper, signed lower left, inscribed "To my dear friend Dav...
Category
1980s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media
Johnny Hodges - The Big Sound (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Rock and Roll, Pop)
By Kerry Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith
Johnny Hodges - The Big Sound
Mixed Media on Crescent board
Year: 2016
Size: 21x20in
Signed, dated by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 91-0194
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Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board
Floral Still Life, by mid-century modern master artist
Located in Rockport, MA
Great still-life oil painting by Helen Stein. Has recently been restored to excellent condition.
11x15 inches painting : 16x21 inches with frame
Hele...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Botanic Garden II, Modernist Oil Painting Pool With Flowers and Garden
By Debra Yoo
Located in Surfside, FL
18.50" x 23.50" sight size
Debra Yoo received a degree in Fine Art and the Humanities from the University of Chicago, strongest influences were painting professor Vera Klement and the proximity of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her undergraduate work was primarily abstract, deeply influenced by Matisse, Russian icon painting, Robert Motherwell, and Barnett Newman.
After graduation she decided to pursue a growing interest in painterly realism. At that time Minimalism and Conceptualism were dominant, but there was (as there is still) a core of distinguished American artists who practiced the kind of contemporary realism based on modernism. Matisse continued to be a guiding light, but she also became interested in the work of Larry Rivers, Louisa Matthiasdottir...
Category
1980s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Artist and His Family, 1950s Interior Figurative Oil Painting, Red Green White
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by Donna Marecak (1922-1998) titled 'Artist and his Family' from 1950. Interior scene with four figures, a baby, and a cat gathered around a table. Painted in ...
Category
1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Wood Chopper, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
The Wood Chopper, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1917
Oil on masonite
33 x 24 inches
"We were fortunate in that the two farms in Brecksville were still open to our visits. The urbanization of the township was then only beginning and we spent several summers there where I tried to capture something of the rural peace so soon to be erased from the countryside." - Wilcox
Exhibited: “Water Colors and Oils by Frank N. Wilcox,” Cleveland Museum of Art, January 1937.
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School...
Category
1910s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
1990 Untitled Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Illustrator Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
Untitled
1990
Oil on canvas
60"x48" artist framed
Signed lower right
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
He was born in san Franc...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Arthur Smith Modernist Erotic Painting
By Arthur Smith
Located in Larchmont, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled, 20th century
Oil on board
8 x 9 7/8 in.
Framed: 14 1/4 x 16 3/8 in.
Signed lower left: A Smith
Arthur Smith is a listed American paint...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Flower Still Life
By Adrian Dornbush
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Oil on canvas, 24 ½ x 19 ½ inches unframed, 32 x 27 inches framed, signed and inscribed “Adrian Dornbush/ Flower Still Life” verso, a remnant of exhibition label verso, stamped “1454” verso, original frame
Exhibited:
i) Midwestern Artist’s Exhibition Representative Work from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska & Colorado, Kansas City Art Institute, February 1 to March 2, 1931, no. 34 (see catalog with a listing of work with this title); and ii) Special Display and Sale of Late Oil Paintings Produced by Cedar Rapids Own Artists from the Little Gallery, at Newman’s Department Store, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 1932 (see [Advertisement], The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), March 15, 1932 – listing a work with this title, together with paintings by fourteen other artists, including Grant Wood, Marvin Cone...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother and Son (Colt and Mare)
By Herman Maril
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches unframed, 22 x 18 inches framed, signed and dated lower right, inscribed “Mother and Son by Herman Maril ‘31” and “property Edward B. Rowan Falls Church VA” verso
Literature:
i) Dows, Olin, Herman Maril, The American Magazine of Art, Vol. 28, No. 7 (July 1935), p. 407 (illustrated with the title “Mare and Colt...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Helene Sardeau (The Artist’s Wife)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Fresco, 20 x 16 inches unframed, 22 x 18 inch...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Mixed Media
Red Interior, Oil Painting, Scene Through Window
By Jennifer Presant
Located in Surfside, FL
Education
2002 – MFA; cum laude, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1993 – BFA; Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1992 – Lorenzo Di Medici Institute, Florence, Italy
Select Gallery Exhibitions
Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
Eden Rock Gallery, St Barthelemy, F.W.I
Blank Space Gallery, New York, NY
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
Quidley & Company, Boston, MA
Zolla Lieberman Gallery...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
VASE WITH FLOWERS IN THE MIRROR Modernist Oil Painting
By Joseph Raskin
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Raskin painted still lifes throughout his career, often using them for formal and technical experimentation. Here, the artist renders a bouquet of a wide variety of flowers in...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Modernist Oil Painting Bridge over the Water Landscape
By Saul Schary
Located in Surfside, FL
Saul Schary was born in 1904 in Newark, New Jersey. Painter, Printmaker, Illustrator. He lived and worked in New York City and New Milford, Connecticut. Schary studied at the Art St...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Central City, Colorado, 1950s Semi-Abstract Cityscape Gouache Painting, Red Blue
Located in Denver, CO
'Central City, Colorado' by Leonard Silverstein is an original gouache on paper from 1954. Hand signed, titled, and dated by the artist in the lower right...
Category
1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Early Spring, 1930s Impressionist Style Oil Painting, The Artists Studio
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on canvas painting, titled 'Early Spring' (Thompson's Studio) painted in 1933 and signed by John Edward Thompson (1882-1945). Impressionist style portrayal of the artists studio ...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Social Realist Street Scene Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting Mid 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures an architectural street scape...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Swing
By Will Barnet
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Will Barnet; on verso (photo available): Will Barnet / Aug 1963
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s "Curled Up Cubist" MidCentury Figurative Gouache University of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Curled Up Cubist
c.1950s
Gouache on paper
24" x 18" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of Fine Art
The Art Students League
Pratt Graphic Arts Center
University of Paris 1953-54
University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55
Faculty: Art Department of the New School
Museum of Modern Art
School of Visual Arts
Stacy Studio Workshop
Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns
George Wittenborn
The New School
Print Exhibitions, Chicago
University of Oklahoma
Honolulu Museum
Monclair Museum
Wisconsin State College
Louisiana Art Commission
Philadelphia...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
1939 Mexican Farm Worker WPA Artist Adolf Dehn American Modern Gouache Painting
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Surfside, FL
ADOLF ARTHUR DEHN (American, 1895-1969)
Portrait of Mexican Man with Agave Cactus plant, 1939, Gouache Painting
Hand signed and dated '39 lower left.
Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y. Label verso
sight: 20.5 in. X 15 in. Frame is 32 X 24 inches
This was subsequently made into a lithograph in 1941 titled Man From Orizaba
Standing in the foreground of an agave field is man wearing a straw hat, a white button up collared shirt, white pants and sandals. The man has shaggy black hair, a beard and moustache and large eyes. His right hand is clenched as if holding something and his left hand is open holding some flower-like objects. He stands in the middle of a large agave plant that expands the width of the composition. In the middle ground are large agave plants in subsequent rows. Behind the agave plantation is a mountain range with snow covered peak on the right hand side. Above the mountain range is a partially cloudy sky.
Adolf Dehn (November 22, 1895 – May 19, 1968) was an American artist known mainly as a lithographer. Throughout his artistic career, he participated in and helped define some important movements in American art, including regionalism, social realism, and caricature. A two-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he was known for both his technical skills and his high-spirited, droll depictions of human foibles.
Dehn was born in 1895 in Waterville, Minnesota. He began creating artwork at the age of six, and by the time of his death had created nearly 650 images.
Dehn went to the Minneapolis School of Art (known today as the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), where he met and became a close friend of Wanda Gag. In 1917 he and Gág were two of only a dozen students in the country to earn a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York. He was drafted to serve in World War I in 1918, but declared himself a conscientious objector and spent four months in a guardhouse detention camp in Spartanburg, SC and then worked for eight months as a painting teacher at an arm rehabilitation hospital in Asheville, NC. Later, Dehn returned to the Art Students League for another year of study and created his first lithograph, The Harvest.
In 1921 Dehn's lithographs were featured in his first exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in New York City. From 1920 to 1921 in Manhattan, he was connected to New York's politically left-leaning activists. In 1921, he went to Europe. In Paris and Vienna he belonged to a group of expatriate intellectuals and artists, including Andrée Ruellan, Gertrude Stein, and ee cummings...
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Located in Surfside, FL
Subject: American Family
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
In this painting, Joseph Wolins uses vibrant and complimentary colors and broken brushwork.
Joseph Wo...
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Canvas, Oil
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By Joyce Treiman
Located in Surfside, FL
Joyce Treiman
Ink on paper, framed under glass; signed in pencil lower right;
Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches; 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches frame.
Joyce Wahl Treiman was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher. Her work ranged from "the impishly perverse and humorously paradoxical to the brilliant and profound." She was known as an excellent draftsperson throughout her career. She made several trips to Europe to study the old masters, and the human figure is central in her work. In her later paintings she is known to have inserted self-portraits. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and then studied at the State University of Iowa (today the University of Iowa) under the influential painter Philip Guston. During World War II she worked as a commercial artist but resigned when she began to have success with exhibitions of her work in Chicago and New York.
In 1945 she married Kenneth Treiman, and son Donald, now an Architect, was born in 1950. The Treimans, along with Rene and Rose Wahl, moved to Los Angeles in 1960. She was in an exhibit of Tamarind prints...
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India Ink, Paper
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Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.
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On the Back Porch, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
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Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
On the Back Porch, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1922
Watercolor on paper
Monogram lower right
21.5 x 27. 5 inc...
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Apple Still Life Oil Painting Betsy Podlach American Post Feminist Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Betsy Podlach (American, born 1964.)
Still life with Fruit, a Bowl of Apples
Framed 25 X 26 24 X 25 inches
Betsy Podlach graduated from Harvard, cum laude, (she studied at Harvard with Alfred Decreido and William Reimann as well as Carlos Fuentes continuing her studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, Ms. Podlach was awarded an art fellowship and residency at The International School of Art in Umbria, Italy.
Betsy Podlach is an American painter who considers the Italian Venetians and the american abstract expressionist painters her mentors. The two painters she is most inspired by are Titian and Jackson Pollock, Both use the picture plane and abstraction and space, light, movement and form to communicate a physicality built entirely on the principals of painting, in the “classical” sense of a flat plane and lines, color, shape, space and light applied to that flat surface to create magic – light, space, form, emotion, force, movement, the physical and the spiritual. She describes her work as a figurative version of abstract expressionism. She was influenced by many of the abstract expressionists from the NY school...
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1990s American Modern Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Fortune cover published, Decembe...
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