1930s Art

Nishimura Hodō, Daffodils (Suisen), woodblock print, April 1937, unsigned. A very fine impression with fresh colors, skillful Bokashi (color gradation), and gauffrage (embossing) in...

Betty Grable, 1930s / Everett Collection. stunning and vivid photograph of classic Hollywood film star Betty Grable. "With the man the world is his hea...

Original poster, in an Art Deco style, was made in 1936 by Francis Bernard 🇫🇷 (1900-1979) to promote the Olympia typewriter. Francis Bernard is a...

Olga Sacharoff (Tiflis, Georgia, 1881 - Barcelona, 1967). "Untitled". 1930. Oil on canvas. 64 x 53 cm. Signed in the lower right corner "Olga Sacharoff" Provenance: - Private ...

Hermann Volz (1847 Karlsruhe - 1914 ibid.), Naked warrior with short sword, c. 1935. Partially (?) patinated bronze with cast plinth mounted on a black marble base (6.8 cm high). 32....

Aaron Bohrod, 1907-1992 Lobster Shack, 1938 Oil on masonite 16 x 20 inches Signed and dated ower left: Aaron Bohrod 1938 Bohrod-3 Provenance: Private estate, Rhode Island, 2004 Am...

François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941) The White Villa, 1938 Original Woodcut Print Signed with the stamp of the artist On Japan paper 35 x 24 cm (c. 13.8 x 9.5 inch) Excellent condition

This original etching was executed by the master printmaker Paul Jouve in France, circa 1930. Entitled Tigers au repose"(Tigers resting), it depicts two tigers on a striated mound wi...

Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....

Signed lower right, 'Tom E. Lewis' (American, 1909-1979) and created circa 1935. Accompanied by old backing with label. A period Modernist still-life of flowers informally arranged...

Nicely painted American school modernist portrait. Oil on canvas. Framed. Ready to hang excellent condition.

An original oil on board by American artist Julius Richter. Julius Richter, was a physician, surgeon and educator. He was born Dec. 19,1876, in Alleghany, Pennsylvania. He was educ...

Oil and colored sand on canvas realized by Irina Zdanko (1905-1999) in the 1930s. Not signed. In Excellent condition, it includes a beautiful contemporary wooden frame. Prov. Priv...

Machine Age Industrial WPA Era American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Jo Cain (1904 - 2003) Elliot 17 ¼ x 35 ¾ inches Gouache on board, c. 1930s Signed lower left 27 x 46 in...

An original monotype etching by American artist Dennis Berardinelli

La Promenade en Bateau is an original modern artwork realized by Raoul Dufy in 1930s Original Lithograph. Good conditions. Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) He was a French artist and design...

This poster stops you cold. Look at how Marcello Dudovich positions that rearing horse—monumental, commanding, impossible to ignore. Created around 1930 for ENIT, Italy's national to...

Sequeiros, David Alfaro (Mexican, (1896-1974). ZAPATA. Lithograph, 1931. Signed in pencil, not numbered. Published by Weyhe Gallery, New York. There was a regular edition of 50, most...

This gorgeous Art Deco portrait oil painting is by British female artist Elsie March. Elsie was one of 9 siblings, eight of whom became artists. Although Elsie later went on to focus...

“Selfie” on the stairs of a young Frank Sinatra. Self Portrait circa late 1930s. Likely taken on the stairs at Sinatra’s parents in Hoboken, NJ. Giclee 300gsm smooth archival rag pa...

Henry de Waroquier The cat, the dove and the death, 1936 Original drawing : pencil, ink and lavish Handsigned in the lower middle There is a collage of the artist : by opening it yo...

The 1930 original poster by W. Langdon Kihn for the Icelandic Millennial Celebration, commissioned by Cunard Line, is a historical piece promoting travel to Iceland during its millen...

Monterey Customs House and Sailboats on the Bay by unknown California artist (American, 1930+-) Some age wear to paint. frame is contemporary with slight wear and included at no cost...

This striking travel poster for the Pennsylvania Railroad promoting Washington, “The City Beautiful,” captures the grandeur and symbolism of the nation’s capital through a bold and h...

Original 1937 US One-Sheet Poster Manhattan Merry-Go-Round Featuring Joe DiMaggio. The film starred Jackie Gleason, Gene Autry, Leo Carrillo, Louie Prima, and Cab Calloway. And in...

Charcoal , signed lower right and dated 'Paris 1935' Image size: 25 x 19 inches (63.5 x 48 cm) Original oak frame An accomplished example of Russian art from the mid 20th century. ...

Gorgeous still life lithograph of a a vibrant purple Iris made in the 1930's by artist unknown in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe.

Pochoir realized after André Masson in 1933. Editions Jeanne Boucher (Paris) and John Becker (New York). Not signed. Very goo condition except for a minor rip in the medium right ...

George Hurrell Anna May Wong Taken in 1938, printed at a later date Silver Gelatin print Hand signed by Hurrell in ink Edition: 184/190 from the edition of 190

Nason, Thomas. LANDSCAPE WITH SHEEP. BPL 178. Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks, 1935. Edition of 75, numbered "49/75," signed in pencil, and titled in pencil at the bott...

This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches, Signed lower right, Signed verso on stret...

This print was made for the American Abstract Artists Portfolio, 1937. All the images were lithographs made on zinc plates. Usually they were signed or initialed in the image -- on t...

Fighter Boxing Woodstock American Scene WPA Era Mid 20th Century Social John Ruggles (1907-1991) Sight: 17 1/2 x 13 1/3 inches. Framed: 22 x 18 inches...

Painted by Anne Margrethe Grosell (Danish, 1909- 1999), circa 1935, and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity. Unsigned. An accomplished Post-Impressionist self-portra...

Vintage modernist abstract musical painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang ...

Original American Lobby Card of Walt Disney’s Movie „Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs“, USA 1937. Here the Evil Stepmother and Queen. Keywords: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, ...

Nice lithograph numbered 9/10 of Louis-François Schmied representing Athena. François-Louis Schmied (1873 - 1941), is a French painter, wood engraver, printer, publisher, illustrator, and bookbinder of Swiss origin. He is considered a major artist...

In this striking Art Deco poster designed by the French duo Pierre & Jacques Bellenger, the luxury shoe brand Bally is elevated—quite literally—via a cleverly structured composition ...

A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well execu...

Cyril Power (1872-1951) color linoleum cut, Monseignor St. Thomas, circa 1931, signed and titled in pencil at the lower right, apart from the edition of 60. Reference: Redfern 24. In very good condition, on buff oriental laid tissue, conservation matted, with margins, 13 7/8 x 11 1/8, the sheet 15 x 12 5/8 inches. A fine impression, with the colors fresh and vivid. Printed in four colors (yellow, red, blue and dark blue). The prints of the Grosvenor School artists were created by applying colors with successive blocks. The margins show the colors of each of these blocks (see illustration of the margin). The subject matter of this print relates to TS Eliot...

Ernest Fiene Along the Kanahawa River, West Virginia, 1936 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 26 x 36 inches Fiene made a series of paintings, drawings and lithographs which are based on his travels through Pennsylvania and West Virginia during the winter of 1935-36. The industrial areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia are represented in numerous oils, among which are some of his most well-known. Fiene wrote of the trip, "The increasing snow and atmospheric conditions [in the Kanawha River valley} enhanced this mountainous coal mining country with a majestic beauty." Winter on the River is Fiene's only American Artists Group print and there were only two lithographs produced from the West Virginia trip. The American Artists Group (AAG), under the direction of Carl Zigrosser, who was then working at New York's famed Weyhe Gallery, published ninety-three prints by over fifty artists in 1936 and 1937. Zigrosser's goal was to popularize contemporary American art through original prints offered at the low price of $2.75. The project was also a means to provide income for impoverished artists during the Depression. The prints were featured in many of the leading print exhibitions and publications of the period. The lithograph produced from this image is now in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pensacola Museum of Art, San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, Syracuse Museum, Yale University Art Museum. Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923. Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925. In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. The first monograph from the Younger Artists Series was published on Fiene in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects. By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene’s paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene’s paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene’s paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City. With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled “Changing Old New York,” in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene’s oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well. Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene’s Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy. On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes. Fiene’s landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. Through the fall and winter of 1935-36, Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings from this trip were featured in an exhibition held at the First National Bank in Pittsburgh in October of 1937 by the Pittsburgh Commission for Industrial Expansion. Fiene said of these works that he formed rhythm, opportunity for space and color, and integrity in the Pennsylvania mill and furnace paintings. Fiene received the silver medal for one of the Pittsburgh paintings...

The 1932 original poster by Paul Iribe, titled "Baptêmes Champagne," encapsulates the spirit of celebration and luxury associated with the world of champagne. Created during the gold...

Frida by the Window by Lucienne Bloch depicts the iconic Mexican artist posing with her back towards the window, with only a sliver of light illuminating her. Image size: 10 x 7 in....

Artist: ​Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) Title: Coco Chanel, Paris, 1937 Year: 1937, printed later by the photographer Medium: Silver Gelatin Print Size: 14 x 11 inches Condition: Excelle...

"At Home Abroad" 1935 Broadway Play NY Times Published Illustration 20th Century Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003) At Home Abroad 9 1/2 x 17 inches (sight) Ink on board Signed upper right...

Victor Mikhail Arnautoff (1896 - 1979) Motion (Mile Rocks Lighthouse), San Francisco, 1939 Oil and tempera on board 60 x 40 inches Signed lower left Provenance: The artist California School of Fine Arts (CFSA) John & Lynne Bolen Fine Arts, Huntington Beach, California Exhibited: New York, World's Fair, Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, 1939. San Francisco Museum of Art, 1962. Literature: American Art from the New York World's Fair 1939, Poughkeepsie, 1987, no. 11, p. 41, illustrated. Robert W. Cherny, Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art, Urbana, Illinois, 2017. The lighthouse in the distance is the Mile Rocks Lighthouse in San Francisco Bay, built in 1906 after many shipwrecks made the lighthouse necessary. In 1962 the lighthouse was reduced in size to make room for a helipad. Arnautoff was the son of a Russian Orthodox priest. He showed a talent for art from an early age and hoped to study art after graduating from the gymnasium in Mariupol. With the outbreak of World War I, he enrolled in the Yelizavetgrad Cavalry School. He went on to hold military leadership positions in the army of Nicholas II and the White Siberian army. With the defeat of the Whites in Siberia, he crossed into northeastern China and surrendered his weapons. Arnautoff remained in China for five years. He again tried to pursue art, but was impoverished and took a position training the cavalry of the warlord Zhang Zuolin. He met and married Lydia Blonsky and they had two sons, Michael and Vasily. In November 1925 Arnautoff went to San Francisco on a student visa to study at the California School of Fine Arts. There he studied sculpture with Edgar Walter and painting with several instructors. His wife and children joined him, and they all continued to Mexico in 1929, where, on Ralph Stackpole...

THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975) COMING ROUND THE MOUNTAIN (MISSOURI MUSICIANS) 1931 (Fath 4) Lithograph, signed in pencil. Although Fath indicates an edition of 75, it is numbered ...

A dazzling fusion of cartography, commercial ambition, and visual storytelling, this circa 1935 original poster by Walter Eckhard serves as a remarkable artifact of early globalism —...

Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....

James Goodwin McManus High Noon, circa 1935 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Provenance Private Collection Ric Serrenho, North Granby, Connecticut (acquired from the above in 2004) James McManus...

Chicago-born Golinkin studied at the Artist Students League with George Luks. After working as an illustrator for New York papers he joined the Navy in 1939 and retired as a Rear Adm...

A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Standing Male Model (Legs, Backside and Feet) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). This is a double s...

One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Nolte. His work is an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. Impress...

"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape Philip Goodwin (20th Century) "Times Square," 23 ½ x 17 ¼ inches. Gouache...

Medium: pochoir. Printed in Paris in 1932 on Velin du Marais paper at the atelier of Daniel Jacomet for the Les Joies du Sport portfolio and issued in an edition of 750. This was pub...

Beautifully detailed oil on heavy card stock painting of an orientalist scene with camels resting and two figures taking the shade under a tree with several large impressive building...

This circa 1930 original poster by René Vincent was designed to promote Tapis Ameublement at the prestigious Au Bon Marché department store in Paris. Reflecting the refined elegance ...

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 ...

Mily POSSOZ Flowers MEDIUM : Etching SIGNATURE : Handsigned LIMITED : 35 copies PAPER : Rives vellum SIZE : 20 x 15" INFORMATIONS : Bears the blind stamp of the editor "Marcel Guio...

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933