1930s Art
Period: 1930s
Color: Red
Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism
Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981)
Bell YFM-1 Airacuda Fighter Planes
17 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches
Gouache, Airbrush and Ink on Illustration Board, 1938
Signed A. Ross lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
BIO
Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s.
He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure.
In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood
and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935.
He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2.
It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war.
Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959.
He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job.
Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955.
They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross.
He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
"Tailored At Fashion Park" c1930s Menswear Advert Signage
Located in Bristol, CT
c1930s menswear advert easel card (in perfect/ as new condition) for a tailoring company out of Rochester, NY featuring a stylish gent in elegant tailored sport jacket & gabardine tr...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Cardboard
"Tailored At Fashion Park" c1930s Menswear Advert Signage
Located in Bristol, CT
c1930s laminate advert board featuring dashing gent in double-breasted suit w/ straw boater
Art Sz: 17 3/4"H x 11 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 18 3/4"H x 12 3/4"W
Fashion Park Clothes was a R...
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1930s Art
Materials
Cardboard
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 right
The painting is part of a 1,000 piece collection of art and objects from the 1939 World’s Fair. The collection as a whole is available.
Savage created the mural for the facade of the Communications Building. An image of the completed mural, along with a published postcard, is part of the listing. Note the center top female figure, she resembles the figure in the offered painting.
BIO
Eugene Francis Savage was born in Covington, Indiana 1883. He underwent various forms of art training in the early years. He was a pupil of The Corcoran Gallery and The Art Institute of Chicago, and was later awarded a fellowship to study in Rome at The American Academy.
While under the spell of that ancient city the young artist began to render historic figures that were suitable for the classic style needed for mural painting in the traditional manor. During this period he was able to study and observe Roman and Greek sculpture, although much of the academic training was accomplished by using plaster casts along with the incorporation of live models. This method survived and was used efficiently throughout Europe and the United States.
After leaving the Academy, Savage was commissioned to paint numerous murals throughout the United States and Europe. This artist received acclaim for the works he produced while under commissions from various sources. This young master was a contemporary of Mexican muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957). In this period he was to show the influence of his contemporaries in formulating a modern style. Savage also played a vital role in the WPA Federal Art program, and he was a member of The Mural Art Guild..
Savage was elected an associate member of The National Academy of Design in 1924 and a full member in 1926. From 1947, he held a professorship at Yale University where he taught mural painting, and some of his students went on to significant positions.
By this time the artist had painted large-scale murals at Columbia, Yale University, Buffalo N.Y., Dallas, Texas, Chicago, Indiana, along with other commissioned works. He also achieved recognition for a series of murals commissioned by the Matson Shipping Line and completed around 1940. For this commission, Savage made many exacting studies of customs and folkways of the Hawaiian natives. However, the award-winning murals were not installed as planned but were put in storage during the war years when the ships were used for troop transportation and were in danger of attack.
However the mural images were reproduced and distributed by the shipping company including nine of the mural scenes that were made into lithographed menu covers in 1948. The American Institute of Graphic Arts awarded certificates of excellence for their graphic production, and the Smithsonian Institute exhibited the works in 1949. Today Savages' Hawaiian Art production is held in high regard by collectors of Hawaiian nostalgia.
In later years the artist focused his attention on a theme that dealt with the customs and tribal traditions of the Seminole Indians of Florida. He produced many variations of this theme throughout his lifetime, and the pictures were usually modest scale easel paintings, precise and carefully delineated. Many of these pictures incorporate Surrealistic elements and show some minor stylistic influences of the painters Kay Sage...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Asprey And Company Ltd. [Trade Catalogue]
Located in Bristol, CT
11 3/8" x 8 7/8"
Asprey and Co. Ltd. New Bond Street, London. No date [1930s]. Hardback; laminated crocidle-effect boards, backed with vellum spine. 207 illustrated pages. c. 40 hor...
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1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original 'Produits Lavocat' vintage poster for Force and Energy
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Lavocat aliments irradies. Force, Energie par les produits. This is a classic French late Art Deco period poster featuring a buff rugby player almost outpacing a steed - due no doubt to Lavocat, an 'irradiated' food. Even today, the American FDA believes that irradiating food can burn off harmful bacteria, airborne germs, and other microbes which can adversely affect food. We love this poster's depth of color, texture, and oomph - powerful and very, very Art Deco. This poster is an original Art Deco lithograph. This poster is related more to sports and running than food, but food provides energy.
Note that the red is cherry red since different monitors produce the red color of this poster in different qualities. Excellent condition, undated on the poster.
Behind the rugby runner is a black horse that appears to be neck and neck...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Driving School Courcelles Auto Ecole Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - Permis de Conduire 100F Courcelles Auto Ecole 69 Boulevard Berthier / Driving licence 100 Francs Courcelles Driving School - featuring an Art De...
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1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original poster by J.A. Vidal was made to promote a car care product. It can be
Located in PARIS, FR
Original poster by J.A. Vidal was made to promote a car care product. It can be seen from the representation of the shapes and silhouette that it is an ArtDeco style poster.
Automob...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
Original 1930 Art Deco style poster by Jean Carlu - Théatre Pigalle Feu du ciel
By Jean Carlu
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful Art Deco style poster by Jean Carlu for the Pigalle Theater - Feu du ciel.
Jean Carlu (Bonnires-sur-Seine France 1900 - 1989) was a French graphic designer specialised in posters. He was member of a family of architects; his brother Jacques Carlu...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
Mid Century Still Life with Burgundy and White African Daisies & Statue
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful vintage impressionistic still life with burgundy and white African daisies (Osteospermum) in brass cache pot with statue by Marie Michael (Am...
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Original Vintage Propaganda Poster Communism Destroys Family Spanish Civil War
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Spanish Civil War era propaganda poster - Communism Destroys the Family / El Comunismo Destruye la Familia - featuring an images in ...
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1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Jojo Festival For All Clown Dance Music Show Cabaret Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the JoJo Fest fur Alle - the Jojo Festival for Everyone on 4-5 February 1933 at the Rhein-Neckar Halle with Yoyo Girls the European Dance Champion K.R. Weinlein M. Seidel Erwin Schmieder and his Orchestra 22 Show booths Cabaret Art...
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1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster It's Beautiful Now In New York State Travel Hiking Fall
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - It's Beautiful Now In ... New York State The State That Has Everything - featuring a stunning design in late summer early fall autumn colours of deep...
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Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Paper
Henri Laurens - Ocean - Original Color Linoleum Cut
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Henri Laurens - Ocean - Original Color Linoleum Cut
1938/1959
Medium : Color Linoleum Cut on Montgolfier Canson vellum
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
XXe siècle
Henri Laurens was born in Paris in 1885. Impaired by tuberculosis when he was only 17, he is leg-amputated seven years later. First a stone cutter, he then becomes sculptor. In 1899, he studies drawing. Henry Laurens...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Sketch for Fisk Tires - Fit for a King
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paperboard
Signature: Signed and Inscribed, Signed Maxfield Parrish and inscribed A gift to his son / Maxfield Parrish Jr. / June 1939 on the reverse
Sight Size 3.50" ...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Valentines Day, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 29.00" x 21.00", Framed 34.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Valentines Day, Saturday Evening Post cover, February 16, 1935
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1930s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vins Camp Romain
By Claude Gadoud
Located in New York, NY
Vins Camp Romaine. Ca. 1935. Color lithograph,
62 1/2 x 46 1/2" on linen
Category
Art Deco 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
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