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Period: 1930s
Untitled (Kneeling Male Nude)
By David Smith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Kneeling Male Nude)
Graphite on paper, c. 1930
Unsigned
Annotated in pencil verso:
"This drawing was made by David Smith in the Matulka class at A. S. L. 1931
Signed
Doroth...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"A Dancer's Fantasy" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
"A Dancer's Fantasy" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modern
Agnes Mills (1915 – 2008)
A Dancer’s Fantasy
48 x 55 inches
Tempera on masonite
Signed “Aggie Mills’ ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Masonite, Egg Tempera
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Graphite on wove paper, heightened with color, c. 1930
Unsigned
From a sketchbook created while the artist was working in Paris
Conditi...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Graphite
Signed American Regionalist Midwest "Storm in the Valley" Framed Landscape Oil
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Preliminary study for Cretan Dancer bronze sculpture
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary study for Cretan Dancer bronze sculpture
Unsigned
Graphite on tracing paper, 1930-1934
Sheet size: 6 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches
Created while the artist was woring in Paris, c. 1...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Graphite
Prairie Woman – Portrait of Elizabeth Nottingham
By Edward Laning
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Prairie Woman – Portrait of Elizabeth Nottingham, 1930, oil on canvas, 26 x 20 inches, signed mi...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Dancer Study
By Christian Bérard
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink on paper, 27cm x 20cm, (54cm x 48cm framed). Provenance: Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.
Bérard, an artist, fashion illustrator and designer. Bérard and his lover Bo...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Pen, Paper
Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse), c. 1930s, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, signed lower ri...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Abstract Street (Untitled)
By Hananiah Harari
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Abstract Street (Untitled), 1939, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 12 x 32 inches; pr...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Music (attributed)
By Philip Kran Paval
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Music (attributed), brass and wire construction, c. 1936, 28 x 14 x 5 inches; perhaps exhibited...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Brass
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
Located in New York, NY
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
Cecil Bell (1906 – 1970)
Street Life Under the EL
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas, c. 1930s
Signed upper...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winged Male Figure - Apollo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Winged Male Figure - Apollo, c. 1930s, polychrome bas-relief of cast aggregate, 12 x 26 inches; the...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Concrete
Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Industry and Commerce, 1936, tempera on panel, 16 ½ x 39 ½ inches, signed verso “John Ballat...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Tempera
Quarry Workers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Quarry Workers, c. 1930s, mixed media on board, unsigned, 24 x 24 inches, possibly exhibited at...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Refreshment and Intermission
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Refreshment and Intermission, tempera on board, 11 x 19 inches, c. 1930/40s, signed lower middle...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Tempera
San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Study
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Maquette right panel...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Factory Worker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Factory Worker, c. 1936, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 18 ¼ x 36 inches; exhibited in City ...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Riverside of the Saone in Lyon, Original antique oil on canvas, French school
Located in PARIS, FR
This medium-sized artwork offers a serene depiction of the Saône river, brimming with untouched beauty. Anchored boats lay peacefully on the calm waters, their stationary forms juxta...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Discouri (Castor and Pollux)
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, pencil and gouache on paper, signed (lower right), 33cm x 33cm, (55cm x 54cm framed). The work is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
Aged only 15, C...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Watercolor, Gouache
NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century
Eugene Savage (1883 – 1978)
1939 World’s Fair Mural Study
45 x 30 inches
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower righ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
Located in New York, NY
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
Victor Arnautofff (1896 – 1979)
City Street
12 x 14 inches
Oil on board, c. 1930s
Signed lower left
...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
NEGROS COLADOS (Hanged Black Men)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO (Mexican 1883 – 1949)
NEGROS COLADOS (Hanged Black Men) 1933 -34 (Orozco 20)
Lithograph, signed in pencil. 12 ¾ x 9 inches. Sheet 16 x 11 ¼ inches. Printed by George Miller for the Contemporary Print Group, New York. Edition 100-150. In very good condition
Orozco’s comments “The whole world is shaken and bloodied by racial hate” (Orozco, An Autobiography p.99) A chromatic illusion of fire - “It had been made shortly after Orozco completed the Dartmouth murals, in response to a request from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
Category
Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
SELF PORTRAIT / AUTORETRATO
By Diego Rivera
Located in Santa Monica, CA
DIEGO RIVERA (1886 – 1957)
AUTORETRATO / SELF PORTRAIT, 1930
Lithograph. signed and numbered 14/100 by the artist in pencil. Image 15 x 11 ¼”. Full sheet 20 1/8 x 15” with deckle edges on all four sides. Very good condition save for an expertly repaired vertical tear at top of sheet and a small blue ink smudge on the verso.
Rivera’s lithographs are scarce. He only produced 10. They were all published by Weyhe Gallery, NY, then led by Carl Zigrosser. Five were published in 1930 and five in 1932. This example is 1930. Beginning in 1930 Rivera produced a series of monumental mural...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
TURISTAS Y AZTECAS / TURISTS AND AZTECS
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO (1883 – 1949)
TURISTAS Y AZTECAS / TURISTS AND AZTECS, 1935 (Orozco 22)
Lithograph from the signed and unnumbered edition of 52, total edition 167. Image size 1...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
MACHINES
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO (Mexican, 1883-1949)
MACHINES, (aka Dos cabezas y Maquinas, Dos Cabezas, Maquinas) 1935 (Orozco 26)
Lithograph. Image 12 x 17 inches. Full margins, sheet 16 x 2...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
PROLETARIANS
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO (1893 - 1949)
PROLETARIANS (aka Basurero, Scavengers ) 1935 (Orozco 27)
lithograph, One of 88 signed and numbered of a total edition of 133, (+ 42 unnumbered a...
Category
Other Art Style 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Marelen Dietrich
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 B...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Women
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO (1893 – 1949)
WOMEN, 1934 ( Orozco 25)
Lithograph, One of 127 signed & unnumbered impressions, (total printed 255)
Printer Jesus Arteaga. Image 12 1/2 x 17 inches, sheet 17 x 23 inches.
Large sheet. top sheet edge with deckle edge and with some remnants of old old tape. Some slight mat burn verso., just a hint on the recto.
This impression is also dedicated to Rosita Boyce by Clemente Orozco - (the Artist's Son) in 1961
From "Jose Clemente Orozco - Graphic Work" by Clemente Orozco, University of Texas Press, 2004.
"The image is a detail of the Mural "Contemporary World" in the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City.
The mural depicts "the real prostitution of power is implied by prostitutes fighting for survival. in a game of exuberance and decadence. The theme of women, especially prostitutes, has a special significance in Orozco's work, from his early watercolors to this fresco.."
This print is related to Orozco's MACHINES also on 1stdibs offered by this dealer.
Mexican Prints...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Wrestler
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in drawing and painting.
Zorthian ...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Atelier DeRoux
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a very unusual vintage oil painting by French artist Antoine DeRoux. “Atelier DeRoux” is a double sided work; the front an image of the artist’s studio in Paris, and on the rear, a beautiful cubistic painting of a woman reading a book...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of the Model
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in drawing and painting.
Zorthian ...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Cologne, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Black and White
"spiraling over the Colosseum" attributed Guglielmo Sansoni TATO cm. 31 x 22
Located in Torino, IT
Futurist works, unsigned
1930s
It could be an opera study
"Sorvolando in spirale il Colosseo (Spiralata)", 1930, olio su tela, cm80x80 From Guglielmo Sansoni...
Category
Futurist 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Commissionaire’s Dog' Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
'Commissionaire’s Dog'
Kurt Hutton, 1938
A hotel commissionaire talking to a small dachshund dog in Piccadilly Circus, London, 1938.
A beautiful image of a commissionaire dressed ...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Jeanne Marguerite Frey - Surbek (Swiss, 1886-1981) c. 1935 Etching Gabés Tunesia
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Jeanne Marguerite Frey-Surbek
(Swiss, * 23.2.1886 Delémont, † 17.5.1981 Bern)
Country Road near Gabés, Tunesia, North Africa
• Etching
• Platte, ca. 7 x 11 cm
• Sheet, ca. 33 x 25.5 cm
• Monogrammed lower right
• Edition noted lower left 74/100
• Printed title lower right
Looking through my stock, buyers will notice my liking of female artistes working in Switzerland and here I introduce you to another important heroine of Swiss artistes and present a sweet little Swiss School orientalist pre-war etching...
Category
Naturalistic 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Early 20th Century Young Girl With Pink Bow Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful portrait of a young girl by listed aritst artist Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst (American,1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower left. Unframed.
Image, 20"H x 16"W.
Gleiforst wa...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil
Located in New York, NY
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil. Signed lower left.
Not much is known about Marco de Marco, but just look at...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Vintage Fashion Advertising Poster Jawo Gentlemens Department Store
Located in London, GB
Original vintage men's fashion advertising poster for the Jawo department store in Vienna featuring stylised text in bold red, white and yellow against the black background - Sind Si...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Guinness Chestnut Tree Irish Dry Stout Beer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Guinness poster - Under the spreading chestnut tree A glass of Guinness stood. The smith, a mightier man is he His Guinness did him good. And would it do the same fo...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Les herbages dans la parc à Mondeville
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Georges LE MEILLEUR (1861-1945)
Les herbages dans la parc à Mondeville
Oil on canvas
Size: 90 x 117 cm
Signature stamp lower left and back.
Provenance:
- Collection of the artist...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Vintage Italy Travel Poster Bolzano Gries Dolomites Franz Lenhart
By Franz Lenhart
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Italy travel poster for Bolzano-Gries Centro Delle Dolomiti / Bolzano Gries Centre of the Dolomites featuring stunning artwork by Franz Lenhart (1898-1992) depicting...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Bombay See India Mumbai Old Temple Street Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Bombay See India - featuring a great design showing men riding on an ox cart, people walking on the busy street and a horse drawn carriage in front o...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Louis Schanker was an important early American modernist painter. He was best known for his work of the 30's and 40's done in a semi-abstract mode that was influenced by European m...
Category
Abstract 1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster Cunard The Connecting Link Europe America
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster advertising Cunard The Connecting Link Europe America featuring a great design depicting a Cunard Line ocean liner sailing out of the large gree...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Nord Air Express Air France Sabena Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Nord Air Express Air France Sabena featuring an Art Deco design showing a tri-engine propeller plane flying at speed over a map of Euro...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Imperial Airways Istanbul Bosphorus Straits Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Imperial Airways The British Air Line featuring a stunning illustration of a flying boat / seaplane landing on the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul Tur...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Imperial Airways Air Taxi Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Imperial Airways Go There By Air-Taxi featuring a great illustration of a propeller plane in blue flying over a river runnign between f...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Ski Travel Poster Winter Sports Vosges France Roger Broders
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster - Alsace and Lorraine Railways Winter Sports in the Vosges The Munster Walley and The Hohneck - featuring a stunning Art Deco design by the notable...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Golden Ray Air Union Paris London Art Deco Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - Paris London Golden Ray Air Union - featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Edmond Maurus (1903-1977) depicting a propeller plane flying at speed thr...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Megeve Ski France SNCF Railways Art Alps Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Megeve issued by the state owned French National Railways (SNCF Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais; founded 1938) featuring a view of tr...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Bandol Cote d'Azur French Riviera Art Deco Design
By E. Paul Champseix
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Cote d'Azur ete Bandol hiver Le pays du soleil et des fleurs / French Riviera summer winter The land of sun and flowers Bandol featuring a colo...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Ilfracombe Southern Railway Devon Coast
By Kenneth Denton Shoesmith
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster for Ilfracombe On Glorious Devon's Ocean Coast by Southern Railway featuring scenic artwork by the British maritime artist Kenneth Denton Shoesmi...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Food Advertising Poster Canadian Apples For Health And Beauty
Located in London, GB
Original vintage fruit food advertising poster - Canadian Apples for health and beauty - featuring an illustration of a young blonde haired girl holding a red apple and smiling to th...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Vintage Signed Surreal Street Scene Skeleton Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
Category
Surrealist 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Vintage Travel Poster Brussels Bruxelles Belgian Railways Fred Taylor
By Fred Taylor
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel poster for Brussels Travelling In Belgium By Rail / Bruxelles Voyagez En Belgique en Chemin De Fer featuring stunning artwork by the notable artist Fr...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Sudbahnhotel Semmering Ski Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for the Sudbahnhotel in Semmering featuring a great Art Deco style image of people skiing down the slopes in front of the imposing grand ho...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Jersey Island Sunshine Art Deco Leonard Richmond
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train and air travel poster for Jersey Sunshine Sands Scenery featuring a colourful countryside painting by Leonard Richmond (1889-1965) showing people at the seasid...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Cruise Ship Travel Poster Picturesque Holland Machiel Wilmink
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise ship travel poster - Visit Picturesque Holland - featuring stunning artwork by Machiel Wilmink (1894-1963) showing the Statendam ocean liner sailing under the...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Paper
