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Period: 1920s
Recognized Seller Listings
'Mehr Sonne fur 1924' (More Sun for 1924)— 1920s German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Mehr Sonne fur 1924. Viel Gluck Wunscht Karl Michel U. Frau', woodcut, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 162' and '15/20' in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression on buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting – English translation: "More Sun for 1924. Good Luck Wishes from Karl Michel and his Wife."
Image size 4 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (118 x 121 mm); sheet size 7 3/4 x 10 inches (198 x 254 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
The New Father, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left by Artist
Liberty Magazine Cover July 14, 1928
This artwork was also reproduced as the cover illustration of the 1997 book 'The Modernization of Fatherhood' by Ra...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
Nude
By William Wiessler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude
Oil on canvas, 1923
Signed and dated lower left: Wm. Wiessler, '23 (see photo)
Condition: excellent
Canvas size: 24 1/4 x 29 1/4"
Frame size: 33 5/8 x 38 5/8"
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Radecki Galleries, South Bend
Thomas French Fine Art...
Category
American Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Oil
NANIGOS - CUBA, 1927
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Portland, ME
Yunkers, Adja (American, born Latvia, 1900-1983). NANIGOS - CUBA, 1927. Miller 1. Color Woodcut. Edition of 250 published in Sweden in 1942 in the magazine Creation (Miller notes an ...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
STADTISCHES OBDACH (Urban Shelter)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KATHE KOLLWITZ (German 1867 -1945)
STADTISCHES OBDACH (Urban Shelter) 1926 (Knesebeck 226, Klipstein 219.bB),
Lithograph from the unsigned edition for the annual edition of the Kuns...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Beauty Enjoying Summer Fireworks
By Ito Shinsui
Located in Burbank, CA
Title: Fireworks 花火
Series: The Second Collection of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin shū dai nishū 現代美人集第二輯)
Date: 1932
A young woman is shown enjoying the summer fireworks, her face shown in profile as she looks towards the display. She holds a summer fan on her lap, and her kimono features large blue stripes and is tied with a colorful obi that features a morning glory pattern. The summer evening sky is a soft grey rather than a deep black, perhaps reflecting the brightness of the fireworks. Numbered verso, from a limited edition of 250 prints.
Condition: Excellent impression, color and condition.
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô
Literature: See “All the Woodblock Prints of Shinsui Ito...
Category
Showa 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Alexander Hamilton at His Desk
By Herbert Paus
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour and Ink on Paper Painting
Located in London, GB
Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
28 x 38 cm (11 x 15 inches)
Inscribed, dated and signed lower left, Les Andelys 1927 Ludovic Rodo
Thi...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
'Soaring Steel' — 1920s Realism, Chicago Cityscape
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Samuel Chamberlain, 'Soaring Steel', drypoint, 1929, edition 100, Chamberlain and Kingsland 79. Signed, titled, and numbered '64/100' in pencil. Annotated '48.00' in pencil, in the artist's hand, bottom right margin. A superb, finely-detailed impression, with selectively wiped plate tone, on heavy Rives cream wove paper; full margins (1 3/8 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
The subject of the print is the construction of the Daily News Building in Chicago, Illinois.
Image size 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (311 x 241 mm); sheet size 15 1/2 x 12 3/8 inches (394 x 314 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Public Library, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Western Australia Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
'There is something about the atmospheric vibrancy of an etching which imparts a peculiar and irresistible life to architectural drawing...A copper plate offers receptive ground to the meticulously detailed drawing which so often appeals to the architect'. —Samuel Chamberlain, from the Catalogue Raisonné of his prints.
Samuel V. Chamberlain (1896 - 1975), printmaker, photographer, author, and teacher, was born in Iowa. His family moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1901, and in 1913, Chamberlain enrolled in the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied architecture under Carl Gould. By 1915, he was enrolled in the School of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. With the United States' involvement in the First World War, Chamberlain sailed to France, where he volunteered in the American Field Service. In 1918, he was transferred to the United States Army to complete his tour of duty. After the war, he returned to Boston and resumed his architectural studies, which he eventually discontinued, working for a few years as a commercial artist.
Chamberlain received the American Field Service Scholarship in 1923, which he used to travel to Spain, North Africa, and Italy. In 1924 he was living in Paris, where he studied lithography with Gaston Dorfinant and etching and drypoint with Edouard Léon, publishing his first etching the following year. In 1927, he studied drypoint with Malcolm...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint
Manon (Deuxième Tableau, #7), 1920
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté first met the legendary beauty Ganna Walska in 1920 when she contacted him about creating designs for her nascent opera career. He created many designs over the years for her, i...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Au Japon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Au Japon
Pochoir (Stencil Print), 1925
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Signed in the image lower left (see photo)
Stamped verso: Made in France
Note: The artist won a gold medal in Paris in 1925 for his porchoirs
Condition: excellent
Image size: 11 1/2 x 13 inches
Sheet size: 20 x 25 3/4 inches
The artist is Italian, Vittorio Accornero de Testa, working in Paris.
The image combines Art Deco and Japonism, two of the most famous styles of the period of the 1920's.
Condition: Excellent, never matted or framed
Victor Max Ninon (Vittorio Accornero de Testa, Italian, 1896-1982)
Biography
Vittorio Accornero de Testa was born in Casale Monferrato in 1896. He completed his first studies at the "Leardi" institute, but was forced to interrupt them due to the war events of the First World War . At 19 he was second lieutenant of the Alpine troops and in 1916 he took one of the first pilot's licenses. During the war he knows the bitterness of shooting down in air combat (for which he is decorated), but also the good fortune to stay alive, albeit with a disability. His art blossomed in the postwar period, first signing his works simply Ninon and then, probably at the suggestion of a French publisher, under the pseudonym of "Victor Max Ninon" (Victor and Max indicate strength and masculinity, Ninon boyhood) .In 1919 and 1924 he made illustrations for theGiornalino della Domenica , also together with his first wife Edina Altara , for Ardita and La Lettura . In 1923 he won the cover competition organized by the magazine El Hogar of Buenos Aires and in 1925 with his pochoirs he imposed himself in Paris at the international exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts , obtaining a gold medal. In the same year he made two covers for the US magazine The Smart Set . In the 1920s he made numerous series of art deco style postcards for the Milanese publishing house Degami . On June 4, 1929, aGenoa embarks on the Conte Grande together with his wife Edina Altara , for New York . The two stayed in the American metropolis for a few months: in this period Accornero worked on the creation of theatrical sets and created some covers for Country Life magazine . Accornero gets awards and prizes, but the great economic crisis of the time and the nostalgia for Italy convince the two to return to their homeland, where they resume their activity as illustrators.
In 1934 Accornero moved to Milan, separated amicably from his wife and continued to dedicate himself to the illustration of children's books, abandoning the pseudonym Victor Max Ninon. It illustrates about 60 books, from the fables of Andersen , Perrault and Grimm , to the tales of Poe , as well as the famous Pinocchio and Cuore published by Mondadori, Mursia, Hoepli, Martello. Several books illustrated by Accornero have been published in French, Spanish, German and English. In addition to the periodicals already mentioned, he collaborates on the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Boys , Mondadori, and with the Italian magazines Lidel , Il Secolo XX, The Italian Illustration , Fantasies of Italy , The Woman , Cordelia , For You Lady , Grace , Metropolis , La Domenica del Corriere , The Corriere dei Piccoli .
In 1936 enters the world of cinema, creating sets and costumes for Wedding Vagabonde of Guido Brignone and The White Squadron of Augustus Genina . From 1935 to 1950 he also devoted himself to the theater, taking care of sets and costumes for numerous operettas, ballets and performances at the Scala in Milan and for the Milanese theaters Manzoni, Lirico and Olympia. Stages Marcello di Giordano, Nina pazza d'amore by Paisiello, I cantori di Nurimberga by Wagner, La Bohème by Puccini and other works. For this activity he is also cited in the Theater encyclopedia.
In the 1940s and 1950s he wrote and illustrated six books for children for Mondadori: Tomaso (1944), Giacomino (1949), Tomaso Cacciatore (1950), Zio Stefano (1950), In Campagna che delizia! (1953), Tomaso, dear Tomaso (1955). His illustrations of Perrault's Tales published in those years by Hoepli are famous.
His art in the fifties evolves towards hyperrealism . There are many personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including those at the Gallerie Gussoni (1959) and Bolzani (1963 and 1966) in Milan and Walcheturm (1962) in Zurich. Eminent critics praise his work, from Orio Vergani to Enrico Piceni, from Reto Roedel to De Chirico himself. On the Domenica del Corriere , the journalist, writer and painter Dino Buzzati...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Screen
Chez Mondrian
Located in New York, NY
When André Kertész moved to Paris from his native Hungary in 1925, he quickly became immersed in the city’s artistic milieu. The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian had been living in Paris ...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Two Callas
Located in New York, NY
This supremely elegant photograph illustrates why Imogen Cunningham’s botanical pictures are a keystone of modernist photography. In the 1920s, Cunnin...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
En Espagne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En Espagne
Pochoir (silk screen) printed in colors
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right
The artist won a gold medal in Paris in 1925 for his pochoirs
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 11-1/2 x 13"
Sheet size: 19 1/2 x 24 3/4";
The artist won a gold medal in Paris in 1925 for his porchoirs
The artist is Italian, Vittorio Accornero de Testa, working in Paris.
The image combines Art Deco and Japonism, two of the most famous styles of the period of the 1920's.
Biography
Vittorio Accornero de Testa was born in Casale Monferrato in 1896. He completed his first studies at the "Leardi" institute, but was forced to interrupt them due to the war events of the First World War . At 19 he was second lieutenant of the Alpine troops and in 1916 he took one of the first pilot's licenses. During the war he knows the bitterness of shooting down in air combat (for which he is decorated), but also the good fortune to stay alive, albeit with a disability. His art blossomed in the postwar period, first signing his works simply Ninon and then, probably at the suggestion of a French publisher, under the pseudonym of "Victor Max Ninon" (Victor and Max indicate strength and masculinity, Ninon boyhood) .In 1919 and 1924 he made illustrations for theGiornalino della Domenica , also together with his first wife Edina Altara , for Ardita and La Lettura . In 1923 he won the cover competition organized by the magazine El Hogar of Buenos Aires and in 1925 with his pochoirs he imposed himself in Paris at the international exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts , obtaining a gold medal. In the same year he made two covers for the US magazine The Smart Set . In the 1920s he made numerous series of art deco style postcards for the Milanese publishing house Degami . On June 4, 1929, aGenoa embarks on the Conte Grande together with his wife Edina Altara , for New York . The two stayed in the American metropolis for a few months: in this period Accornero worked on the creation of theatrical sets and created some covers for Country Life magazine . Accornero gets awards and prizes, but the great economic crisis of the time and the nostalgia for Italy convince the two to return to their homeland, where they resume their activity as illustrators.
In 1934 Accornero moved to Milan, separated amicably from his wife and continued to dedicate himself to the illustration of children's books, abandoning the pseudonym Victor Max Ninon. It illustrates about 60 books, from the fables of Andersen , Perrault and Grimm , to the tales of Poe , as well as the famous Pinocchio and Cuore published by Mondadori, Mursia, Hoepli, Martello. Several books illustrated by Accornero have been published in French, Spanish, German and English. In addition to the periodicals already mentioned, he collaborates on the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Boys , Mondadori, and with the Italian magazines Lidel , Il Secolo XX, The Italian Illustration , Fantasies of Italy , The Woman , Cordelia , For You Lady , Grace , Metropolis , La Domenica del Corriere , The Corriere dei Piccoli .
In 1936 enters the world of cinema, creating sets and costumes for Wedding Vagabonde of Guido Brignone and The White Squadron of Augustus Genina . From 1935 to 1950 he also devoted himself to the theater, taking care of sets and costumes for numerous operettas, ballets and performances at the Scala in Milan and for the Milanese theaters Manzoni, Lirico and Olympia. Stages Marcello di Giordano, Nina pazza d'amore by Paisiello, I cantori di Nurimberga by Wagner, La Bohème by Puccini and other works. For this activity he is also cited in the Theater encyclopedia.
In the 1940s and 1950s he wrote and illustrated six books for children for Mondadori: Tomaso (1944), Giacomino (1949), Tomaso Cacciatore (1950), Zio Stefano (1950), In Campagna che delizia! (1953), Tomaso, dear Tomaso (1955). His illustrations of Perrault's Tales published in those years by Hoepli are famous.
His art in the fifties evolves towards hyperrealism . There are many personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including those at the Gallerie Gussoni (1959) and Bolzani (1963 and 1966) in Milan and Walcheturm (1962) in Zurich. Eminent critics praise his work, from Orio Vergani to Enrico Piceni, from Reto Roedel to De Chirico himself. On the Domenica del Corriere , the journalist, writer and painter Dino Buzzati...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Screen
L'Enfant Et Le Maître Décole (The Child and the School Teacher)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Enfant Et Le Maître Décole (The Child and the School Teacher
Etching with hand coloring by Chagall, 1927-1930
Signed in the plate lower right (see photo)
From La Fontaine Les Fable...
Category
French School 1920s Art
Materials
Etching
Landscape with Trees
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with Trees
Watercolor on paper, 1929
Signed in pencil lower right corner
Obviously influenced by the Cezanne works in the collection of his patron Alfred C. Barnes of Phila...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Dames charmante et charmante a tous egard
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
(A charming lady chatting with a lady perfect in every possible way)
Signed in the plate. No pencil signed impressions are existent.
Edition: 368 (including 50 imps on japan) includi...
Category
French School 1920s Art
Materials
Etching
'Manhattan Old and New' —1920s Realism, Cityscape
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Samuel Chamberlain, 'Manhattan Old and New', drypoint, 1929, edition 100, Chamberlain and Kingsland 81. Signed, titled, and numbered '81/100' in pencil. Titled and annotated '30.00' in pencil, in the artist's hand, bottom margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
A superb, finely-detailed impression, with selectively wiped plate tone, on heavy Rives cream wove paper; full margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/4 inches), in excellent condition.
The subject of the print is the lower Manhattan cityscape just before the Depression.
Image size 8 3/4 x 6 13/16 inches (222 x 173 mm); sheet size 12 3/4 x 10 inches (324 x 254 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Zimmerli Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
'There is something about the atmospheric vibrancy of an etching which imparts a peculiar and irresistible life to architectural drawing...A copper plate offers receptive ground to the meticulously detailed drawing which so often appeals to the architect'. —Samuel Chamberlain, from the Catalogue Raisonné of his prints.
Samuel V. Chamberlain (1896 - 1975), printmaker, photographer, author, and teacher, was born in Iowa. His family moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1901, and in 1913, Chamberlain enrolled in the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied architecture under Carl Gould. By 1915, he was enrolled in the School of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. With the United States' involvement in the First World War, Chamberlain sailed to France, where he volunteered in the American Field Service. In 1918, he was transferred to the United States Army to complete his tour of duty. After the war, he returned to Boston and resumed his architectural studies, which he eventually discontinued, working for a few years as a commercial artist.
Chamberlain received the American Field Service Scholarship in 1923, which he used to travel to Spain, North Africa, and Italy. In 1924 he was living in Paris, where he studied lithography with Gaston Dorfinant and etching and drypoint with Edouard Léon, publishing his first etching the following year. In 1927, he studied drypoint with Malcolm Osborne...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint
'Heart of San Francisco' — Vintage 1920s Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Heart of San Francisco', etching, c. 1927, edition not stated. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2...
Category
American Realist 1920s Art
Materials
Etching
Les Baigneuses by Paulémile Pissarro - Nude scene, riverscene painting
Located in London, GB
Les Baigneuses by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
89 x 118 cm (35 x 46 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, Paulémile - Pissarro. 1928.
This work is accompanied by...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the Masquerade, Chesterfield Cigarette advertisement
By Saul Tepper
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed and dated lower left by Artist
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
'Viel Gluck 1923' (Good Luck Wishes) — 1920s German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Viel Gluck 1923 Wunscht der Graphikverlag, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothenfelde', woodcut, 1922, edition 20. Signed and numbered op. 135d and 20/20 in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream Japan paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/8 inches), in good condition. With the artist’s blind stamp in the top left margin. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting - "1923, Good Luck Wishes from the Graphic Press, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothfelde."
Image size 5 x 3 1/2 inches (127 x 89 mm); sheet size 6 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (168 x 149 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Sheepman Eyed Him With a Hostile Glare
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated Lower Right by Artist
Hendryx, James B. “The Round Seven Mystery.”
The American Boy, September 1922: 9.
caption: The sheepman eyed him with a hostile glare. ‘Why didn’t you ride right through ’em?’ he asked.
Hendryx, James B. Connie Morgan in the Cattle Country. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1923: 96.
caption: The sheepman eyed him with a hostile glare. “Why didn’t you ride right through ’em?” he asked
Exhibitions: 1925 Washington; 1935 FAO Schwartz
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
The Blue Pump
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
July 1927 Cover of Good Housekeeping
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Mixed Media
GEFALLEN (Killed in Action)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KATHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)
GEFALLEN (Killed in Action) 1920 (Klipstein 153 (1st state, a of c of 2 states)
Lithograph on laid paper. Image 16 ¼ x 15 ¼ inches, Large Full Sheet, 25 ½...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
May I Have the Pleasure, Good Housekeeping Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
Titled on the reverse: May I Have the Pleasure
Good Housekeeping cover, November 1926
As Jessie Willcox Smith biographer S. Michael Schnessel has a...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
SAN JACINTO
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869-1958)
(Mt.) SAN JACINTO c. 1926
Color block print. Signed in pencil. Unknown edition but uncommon. Image 6 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches. On Gearhart's typical fibr...
Category
American Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Dancers by Orovida Pissarro, 1927 - Etching Print
Located in London, GB
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The Dancers by Orovida Pissarro (1893 - 1968)
Etching
19 x 24 cm (7 ¹/₂ x 9 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed an...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Etching
'Tanks #1' — 1920s American Precisionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Tanks #1', lithograph, 1929, edition 50, Flint 39. Signed, titled, and numbered '11/50' in pencil. Signed with the artist's monogram in the stone, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (3/4 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards.
Image size 13 15/16 x 8 1/16 inches (355 x 204 mm), sheet size 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches (400 x 286 mm).
Exhibited: 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock', Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008.
Literature: 'Prints and Their Creators, A World History', Carl Zigrosser, Crown Publishers Inc, 1974; 'American Lithographers...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Merry Xmas, Post Cover
By Ellen Pyle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, December 18, 1926
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
'Elisabeth' — 1920s German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Elisabeth', woodcut, edition 20, 1923. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op.142b' and '12/20' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil.
A fine impression, on heavy fibrous Japan paper, with full margins (1 3/16 to 3 1/2 inches),
in good condition. Printed by the artist, With the artist’s blindstamp in the bottom center margin. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 4 15/16 x 6 inches (131 x 152 mm); sheet size 10 x 6 inches (254 x 152 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Summer Sports
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left by Artist
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Titania and Oberson in their Bower
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Magazine advertisement: RCA Victor: ‘‘Talking Machine’’ phonograph ca. 1925
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Christmas Turkey
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Advertisement for the Interwoven Stocking Company, New Brunswick, NJ.
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Gouache
'Fruit Piece' — 1920's American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Pamela Bianco, 'Fruit Piece', lithograph, c. 1925. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower left. Annotated 'No. 8' in pencil, upper right...
Category
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Glimpses of the Moon
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
Story Illustration for Hearst's International, January 1923.
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
Tying on a Fly, Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
The Saturday Evening Post, May 25, 1929.
While his work graced the covers and pages of many famous American magazines between the 1920s and 1940s (inc...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
Bag and Baggage, LIFE Magazine cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
LIFE Magazine cover, December 15, 1921
"Coles Phillips embodies innovative American periodical and advertising design between 1911 and 1927, a period considered a Golden Age of illu...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Gouache
Chance Encounter in Street with Coach
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
“As the stage swung down into the city, he pointed out a girl strolling along with a greyhound on a leash of a blue silk ribbon” Magazine story illustra...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
Three Men Talking
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left by Artist. Literary Digest Cover, October 3, 1920. Written on back 'Property of Funk & Wagnalls'.
Provenance: From a Wantagh NY Estate
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
Collier's Weekly Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left by Artist
Collier's Weekly magazine cover, April 23, 1921
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Graphite on paper, 1930
Signed and dated upper right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. (label)
C...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Pencil
Promeneuse sur un chemin by Paulémile Pissarro - Work on paper, watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Promeneuse sur un chemin by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
30.5 x 35 cm (1...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Christmas Sketch
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed on Reverse by Artist
Advertisement for the Interwoven Stocking Company, New Brunswick, NJ.
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Gouache
KOPF (Head)
By Max Kaus
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAX KAUS (German 1891-1977)
KOPF (Head( (Rifkind 1387)
Woodcut, unsigned, monogram in block. As issued as plate 1 from “Genius” Zeitschrift für werdende und alte Kunst, vol. 2, no. ...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Brooklyn Waterfront
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Brooklyn Waterfront
Lithograph, 1931
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist
Edition: Undetermined (very small), plus artist's proofs
Printed by Meister Schulz, Berlin
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Virginia Dehn, the artist's widow
Dehn Quests
Bibliography:
Lumsdaine and O'Sullivan 152
Illustrated: Adams, The Sensuous Life of Adolf Dehn, Fig. 9.14, page 213 (This impression)
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
American Modern 1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lake Fog
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Lake fog
Year: circa 1928-1932
Medium: lithograph
Pencil signature, numbered 6
Image size: 9 9/16 x 11 7/16
Harold Keeler was born in Denver, Colorado in 1905. He studied at both th...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Variations, 10' — 1920s French Art Deco Pochoir
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 10' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in the matrix, in the left bottom margin. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh, vivid colors and metallic silver, on heavy, cream wove paper with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches). A repaired tear in the center left margin, not affecting the image, in good condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 14 3/8 x 11 9/16 inches; sheet size 17 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches.
The pochoir production is by Jean Saudé, the French printmaker known for his mastery of the technique and the author of the first how-to book on the pochoir process. Published by Éditions Albert Levy, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, New York Public Library, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Additional works from this suite of vibrant Art Deco floral designs are available from Keith Sheridan LLC...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Art
Materials
Stencil
Chinois inventa, dit-on, la poudre a canon, nous en fit don
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chinois inventa, dit-on, la poudre a canon, nous en fit don
(The Chinese invented gunpowder, they say, and made is a gift of it)
Aquatint, roulette, drypoint, acid bite, and scorper, 1926
From: Miserere, Plate 38
Initially started by Ambrose Vollard, this portfolio was published in 1948 by Editions de l'Etoile Filante, Paris
This image is the cover illustration for the 1938 MOMA catalog...
Category
French School 1920s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
untitled (polo player on horseback)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (polo player on horseback)
Chalk on tan paper, c. 1920
Unsigned
Provenance: Gift of the artist
William McGill (Keller's student)
Image size: 4 3/8 x 5 ...
Category
American Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Chalk
Garland Studies I
Located in New York, NY
Image dimensions: 7 ¼ x 10 ½ inches
Framed dimensions: 16 ½ x 20 inches
To produce his murals, Sargent painted monumental canvases in his studios in London and Boston, adhering them...
Category
American Impressionist 1920s Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Scarlet: The Story of a Woman with a Past" Liberty Magazine 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed "Howard Chandler Christy" Lower Left
"There in a box hammock was Phil Hanrihan sprawling, a woman in a scarlet shawl clinging, her cheek against his." Story illustration for ...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Charcoal
The Bugler
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist
Advertisement for the Interwoven Stocking Company, New Brunswick, NJ.
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Gouache
The Arrival
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Advertisement for the Interwoven Stocking Company, New Brunswick, NJ.
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Gouache
Ceremonial Dance by Orovida Pissarro, 1927 - Etching Print
Located in London, GB
Ceremonial Dance by Orovida Pissarro (1893 - 1968)
Etching
19.2 x 24.8 cm (7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches)
Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1927
Inscribed lower left Final state no. 12/35 and ...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Etching
Lantern Lighter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Advertisement for the Interwoven Stocking Company, New Brunswick, NJ.
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Gouache
Seated Contemplation
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Initialed and dated lower right
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil
Stagecoach at the Holly Inn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Advertisement for the Interwoven Stocking Company, New Brunswick, NJ.
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Gouache