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Period: 1930s
Le Viol II
Located in Wien, 9
- handsigned on the lower right - dated and unreadable inscripted in the plate - from the Suite Vollard - plate size: 19,5 x 27,6 cm; sheetsize: 34 x 44,5 cm - edition of 260, unnumb...
Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

Fred Astaire Leaning Outdoors
Located in Austin, TX
Fred Astaire was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, and television presenter. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential dancers in the history of film and t...
Category

Contemporary 1930s Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

La Rivière by PAULÉMILE PISSARRO - Post Impressionist Landscape Painting, River
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE La Rivière (The River) by PAULÉMILE PISSARRO (1884-1972) Oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm (36 1⁄4 x 28 3⁄4 inches) Signed...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Portrait of a Boy, Kong, Oil Painting circa 1930 by Charles Cabot Daniels
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Cabot Daniels, American (1899 - 1953) Title: Young Boy - Kong Year: circa 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 20.5...
Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Houses at Unterach on the Attersee, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
Located in Chicago, IL
Original 1931 collotype created from Gustav Kilmt’s Houses at Unterach on the Attersee, oil on canvas, c. 1916. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office), Vienna, in an edition of 500. In 1931, Max Eisler published the most notable posthumous collection of Gustav Klimt works to date. Using a complex gravure process, Klimt’s original...
Category

Vienna Secession 1930s Art

Materials

Paper

Composition, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Marie Laurencin
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin de Rives BFK à la forme paper. Paper Size: 9.84 x 11.81 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Alice...
Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

“Clothes Make the Man” Original cover for Liberty Magazine - For the Love o' Lil
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published October 3, 1931 Sandy is excited to receive an unexpected $35 income tax refund check. After going to the bank, he goes to lunch with ...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, New York Harbor Scene Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice New York Harbor Nocturne Signed lower right Pastel on paper 12 x 19 inches The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
Category

American Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Anthony Thieme Mackerel Fleet
Located in Dallas, TX
Anthony Thieme, Netherlands (1888-1954). Titled: 'Mackerel Fleet' oil on canvas, Circa 1930 Signed lower right A, Thieme and on verso Anthony Thieme / 1803B Mackerel Fleet. Mounted ...
Category

Aesthetic Movement 1930s Art

Materials

Paint

PHOEBE PASSES MY GATE
Located in Portland, ME
Hutty, Alfred. PHOEBE PASSES MY GATE. Drypoint, c. 1931. Edition size c.75. 8 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (plate), 10 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches (sheet). Print...
Category

American Realist 1930s Art

Materials

Drypoint

Les arbres by Paulémile Pissarro, 1930 - Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Les arbres by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972) Oil on canvas 60 x 72 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₈ inches) Signed and dated...
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1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Klimt, Die Freundinnen, Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype, metallic inks on vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.86 x 17.91 inches; image size: 11.65 x 11.81 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....
Category

Symbolist 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Emmanuel Aubain (1872-1965) A Landscape, signed oil painting
Located in Paris, FR
Emmanuel Aubain (1872-1965) A Landscape Signed lower left Oil on canvas transefered on cardboard panel In quite good condition, some abrasions in the r...
Category

Art Deco 1930s Art

Materials

Oil

Pastel Portrait of a Woman, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original magazine cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, published January 24, 1931. Pastel portrait features a fashionable young woman Artwork Dimensions: 39" x 30" Me...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Vanity Fair Illustration proposal, c 1930’s 18 X 13 3/4 inches (sight) ...
Category

American Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Gouache, Board

1936 Original travel poster - St Valery En Caux Seine-inférieure
Located in PARIS, FR
A very nice poster on the theme of tourism, made in 1936 by Marchand. This poster was commissioned at the time by the Réseau de la Mer. Until 1934, Les Chemins de fer de l'État took...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

Red Rocks Park 1930s Oil Painting – Snow-Capped Mountain Landscape Artwork
Located in Denver, CO
"Red Rocks Park" – an original circa 1935 oil painting by noted Denver artist Eula Ray, capturing a serene winter landscape of the iconic Red Rocks of Colorado. Rendered in oil on bo...
Category

American Impressionist 1930s Art

Materials

Oil

"Beached"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: John R. Grabach (1886 - 1981) John Grabach was a highly regarded New Jersey artist, teacher, and author of the classic text...
Category

American Impressionist 1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Industrial Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern WPA
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern WPA Jo Cain (1904 - 2003) Hammering Nails 39 x 50 ½ inches Gouache on paper c. 19...
Category

American Realist 1930s Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Klimt, Bildnis Baronin Bachofen-Echt, Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype, metallic inks on vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.86 x 17.91 inches; image size: 12.56 x 9.17 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. ...
Category

Symbolist 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Klimt, Die Umarmung, Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype, metallic inks on vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.86 x 17.91 inches; image size: 12.24 x 7.6 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. N...
Category

Symbolist 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Les baigneuses - Eté (summer), '30s - oil paint, 73x60 cm., framed
By Suzanne Blanche Kaehrling
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas by Suzanne Blanche KAEHRLING, representing two girls on the beach. The painting comes with its frame. Suzanne Blanche KAEHRLING, painter from Alsace, lived and worked ...
Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Oil

1939 Original poster by Derouet Lesacq for the National Lottery - Eiffel Tower
Located in PARIS, FR
Vintage advertising poster made by Derouet Lesacq in 1939 for the National Lottery with the slice of the Eiffel Tower. Economy - Paris Lafayette Paris
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Davis - ships carpenter - building Cape Evans hut.
Located in London, GB
PONTING, Herbert. Davis - ships carpenter - building Cape Evans hut. circa 1935. Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott’s Terra Nova exped...
Category

Naturalistic 1930s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Ski trip to Immenstadt in the Allgäu 1930, Limited ΣYMO Edition, Copy 1 of 50
Located in Cologne, DE
The photographers note regarding this work is "Skiing vacation to Immenstadt in the Allgaeu area, Germany 1930s." This work comes to you as a new Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Willia...
Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Color

1930's Wintry American Modernist Flat Iron NYC street scene
Located in New York, NY
New York City Wintry Street Scene of the Flat Iron Building from the 1930's by Margit De Corini (1897-1982). Oil on Canvas. Signed lower right. D...
Category

American Impressionist 1930s Art

Materials

Oil

"Golddigger, " Isaac Friedlander, WPA, New York City, Social Realism, 1931
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Isaac Friedlander was born in 1890 in Mitau, Latvia. He studied painting and printmaking at the Academy of Rome—the only formal art training he would ever have. After the overthrow o...
Category

Realist 1930s Art

Materials

Engraving

"Untitled (New England Landscape)" Kyohei Inukai, Colorful Modernist Village
Located in New York, NY
Kyōhei Inukai Untitled (New England Landscape), circa 1930 Signed Lower Right: Inukai Oil on canvas 32 x 40.5 inches Kyōhei Inukai (Earle Goodenow) lived in New York in the 1930s a...
Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist New York City Ashcan Cityscape Modern Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 15L x 12H.
Category

Impressionist 1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Marquees Venues" by Michael Ochs
Located in London, GB
"Marquees Venues" by Michael Ochs Archives Marquees Venues (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives). Unframed Paper Size: 12" x 16'' (inches) Printed 2022 Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Black and White

"The Narrows"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956). Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Walter Baum was one of the only membe...
Category

American Impressionist 1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

STILL LIFE WITH FROWERS
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PHILIP REISMAN "STILL LIFE WITH FROWERS" OIL ON PANEL. SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1935 20 X 16 INCHES Philip Reisman 1904-1992 Philip Reisman was born July 18, 1904 in Warsaw, Poland....
Category

Impressionist 1930s Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

1933 Original travel poster for the Alpine city of Trento in northern Italy
Located in PARIS, FR
Original travel poster promoting the Alpine city of Trento in northern Italy, published by ENIT, the Italian tourist board, and the Italian railroads. It features a beautiful illustration of the 1896 historical monument...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

SHADOWS OF VENICE - IL PONTE DI RIALTO, VENEZIA.
Located in Portland, ME
Arms, John Taylor (American 1887-1953). SHADOWS OF VENICE - IL PONTE DI RIALTO, VENEZIA. Etching, 1930. Edition of 140 + 14 Artist's Proofs. 10 x 12 inches (Plate), 11 3/8 x 157/8 in...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Etching

1937 original exhibition poster by Daragnès for "Le Livre au Trocadéro"
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1937 original exhibition poster by Daragnès for "Le Livre au Trocadéro," created for the Exposition Internationale in Paris, represents an important moment in the celebration of ...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

'Sun Beams into Grand Central Station' Limited Edition Photograph 20X30
Located in San Rafael, CA
Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows at Grand Central Station, New York City, circa 1930. (Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images) As an authorized Get...
Category

Contemporary 1930s Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

A ca. 1938 Graphite on Paper Study of Classical Drapery by Modernist Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1938 graphite on paper, study of a classical drapery by notable Modernist artist Jan Matulka. The image is drawn on the back of a typewritten, folded sheet of stationery, from...
Category

American Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Champagne Joseph Perrier Poster by Stall 1930's Original Vintage French Liquor
Located in Boca Raton, FL
The Joseph Perrier Company traces its history to 1825 in France. The Company continues to this today with a proud heritage of 190 years. The design celebrates the full bodied taste of this Champagne and the image of the grapes emphasizes the richness and purity of the product. The artist, Joseph Stall (1874-1930) has created a crisp image that reflects the clear taste and eye appeal of the actual Champagne Joseph Perrier...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

QUATRE FEMMES NUES ET TETE SCULPTEE (BLOCH 219)
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate 82 from La Suite Vollard. Bloch 219. Baer 424. Etching on Montval paper. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with larger margins). Number...
Category

Cubist 1930s Art

Materials

Engraving, Paper

America impressionist portrait young boy 1937 Modern Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A fantastic modern portrait of a young boy. This work is signed what appears to be Paul Sellers and dated 1937, but we have not found information on the artist. The work dated 1936...
Category

American Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Untitled (Female Figure) [Arm and Leg Extended; and Despair Pose]
Located in New York, NY
Literature: Alfonso Panzetta, Jared French by Jared French: 600 Unpublished Works from the Artist's Italian Years (Turin, Italy: Umberto Allemandi & C., 20...
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1930s Art

Materials

Graphite

"Rush Hour" British Modern Mid 20th Century Vorticist European Vorticism Woman
Located in New York, NY
"Rush Hour" British Modern Mid 20th Century Vorticist European Vorticism Woman Sybil Andrews CPE (British/Canadian, 1898-1992) Rush Hour (Coppel SA 11) Linocut printed in Chinese orange, Chinese blue and black, 1930, on tissue thin oriental laid paper. Signed, titled and numbered 8/50 in pencil lower left, framed. Block 209 x 251mm (8 1/4 x 9 7/8in) Sheet 249 x 310mm (9 3/4 x 12 1/4in) Framed by Bark 14 1/2 x 16 inches BIO Sybil Andrews was a printmaker, painter, graphic artist and educator who was born in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England. She moved to London (England) in 1922. In 1947, she emigrated to Campbell River (Vancouver Island) British Columbia, Canada, where she worked, taught and lived for the rest of her life. She died at a hospital in Victoria (B.C.) Her mediums were the colour linocut (1) (most famous), etching, posters, pastels, ink, watercolour, monoprint and oil. Her subjects were human activity (at work, sports, travel, etc.), figures, animals, genre, allegory, architecture and landscape. Her style was Art Deco (see AskART styles), Futurism, Cubism and Vorticism (2). Her work is identified by a simple format, clean lines, distortion, vivid colours, drama and rhythm. Quote: "The colour linocut was just the medium for me, being interested in dynamics and ideas and patterns... It is impossible to be fussy with lines, you have to simplify, you are forced to simplify your idea to its fundamentals." Andrews produced 76 linocuts in her life, of which 43 were made from 1929 to 1939, which is considered to be her best period. John Hassall's art correspondence course (1918) was the beginning of her formal art education. She went from there to Heatherley's School of Fine Art (London/1922) where she studied under Henry Massey (see AskART) and met artistic partner Cyril Power (see AskART). At the same time, she studied independently with sculptor Henri Glicenstein (see AskART) who taught her drypoint etching and to draw from life. She also attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art (1925). Iain McNab (1890-1967) was Principal and Claude Flight (3) (see AskART) an instructor who had a great influence on her choice of linocut as a primary medium. Some of his other students and her associates were Edith Lawrence (1890-1973), Lill Tschudi (1911-2001), Eileen Mayo (see AskART) and William Greengrass...
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Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Linocut

Untitled (Female Figure) [Blanket on Lap]
Located in New York, NY
Literature: Alfonso Panzetta, Jared French by Jared French: 600 Unpublished Works from the Artist's Italian Years (Turin, Italy: Umberto Allemandi & C., 20...
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1930s Art

Materials

Graphite

Robert Riggs Original Stone Lithograph, Boxing Subject “Afternoon at Max’s”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Boxing subject original stone lithograph by Robert Riggs (1896-1970) Pencil titled lower left “Afternoon at Max’s” Pencil signed lower right “Robert Riggs” Image measures 15 1/8"h x ...
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1930s Art

Materials

Paper

Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal. Original Handcolored Lithograp...
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Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Chromolithography of Douaumont Fort - Verdun battle - WWI - Great War
Located in PARIS, FR
Nice chromolithography on the Douaumont fort. Fort Douaumont, briefly called Fort Gérard, is a fortified structure located in the commune of Douaumont-Vaux (Meuse department), in the...
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1930s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

"Maine Coast, Ogunquit, " Ernest Albert, American Impressionism, Seascape
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Albert (1857 - 1946) Maine Coast, Ogunquit, 1937 Oil on canvasboard 18 x 20 inches Signed and dated lower right; titled on a label on the reverse A distinguished theatrical and scenic designer who also became a landscape painter and muralist, Ernest Albert worked in New York, St. Louis, and Chicago. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1857, and showing early talent, received the Graham Art...
Category

American Impressionist 1930s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Jean Harlow
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph from the original negative, shot by Clarence Sinclair Bull in 1936. This piece depicts Jean Harlow, who was a...
Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Les Blés (Wheat Field), Signed Impressionist Lithograph by Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Les Blés (Wheat Field) Raoul Dufy, French (1877–1953) Date: 1933 Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 27/200 Size: 16 x 20.5 in. (40.64 x 52.07 cm)
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Impressionist 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Romantic Couple In Wartime Paris on Rainy Parisian Night
Located in Miami, FL
The technique and subject matter work well together in this loosely but masterfully rendered World War 1 romantic illustration of a Soldier and a Parisian woman. Even though this wo...
Category

Romantic 1930s Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Pencil

"Les Roulottes", 20th Century Oil on Wood Panel by Spanish Artist Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR Spanish, 1891 - 1966 LES ROULOTTES signed "Lagar" (lower left) oil on wood panel 9-1/2 x 13 inches (24 x 33 cm.) framed: 17-1/8 x 21-1/2 inches (43.5 x 54.5 cm.) PROVEN...
Category

Fauvist 1930s Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Saint Tropez Latitude43 Art Deco 1936 Original Poster Côte d'Azur French Riviera
Located in PARIS, FR
Latitude 43 was designed by the avant-garde architect Georges-Henri Pingusson. The building, listed as a historical monument in 1992, is a reference in ter...
Category

Art Deco 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

Woman in Blue Hat
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: "S. Simkhovitch". Estate stamp on backing board verso.
Category

Realist 1930s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Eric Gill 1934 Woodblock Print Canterbury Tales The Doctor's Tale, Initial H
Located in London, GB
From a series of wood engravings by Eric Gill. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Initial Letter 'H' for The Canterbury Tales (1929) - The Doctor's Tale Woodblock Print Published Hague & Gill 1934 in an unnumbered edition of 300 23x21cm Following Chichester Technical and Art School, Gill moved to London in 1900 to train with the ecclesiastical architects W D Caroe. Finding architecture somewhat pedestrian he took stonemasonry lessons at Westminster Technical Institute and calligraphy lessons at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, coming under the influence of Edward Johnson, the designer of the London Underground's own typeface. In 1903 he ceased his attempts to become an architect, instead becoming a monumental mason, letter-cutter and calligrapher. Based in Ditchling, he began direct carving of stone figures, the semi-abstract figures taking their influence from mediaeval statuary, mixed with influences from Classical statuary from the Greeks and Romans, with a little post-Impressionism added in. With major commissions from Westminster Cathedral for its Stations of the Cross (1914), a series of War Memorials including the Grade II* memorial in Trumpington, and three of the sculptures for Charles Holden's 1928 headquarters of London Underground at 55 Broadway, St James's, and a series of sculptures for the new 1932 Broadcasting House. The list continues. Never one to rest on his laurels, he was at the same time engaged in typographical adventures. He had collaborated with Edward Johnson on the latter's initial thoughts on his London Transport typeface, but in 1925 designed Perpetua on his own, and Gill Sans between 1927-30. For the Golden Cockerel Press he created, in 1929, a bolder typeface to complement wood engravings. And of course Gill was publishing decorated...
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Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Woodcut

Ma de Proverbis
Located in Chicago, IL
Color lithograph on Arches, 1970. Signed and numbered 37/75 in pencil (there was also a deluxe edition of 25 in Roman numerals on Japon). Published by Edicions Polígrafa, Barcelona.
Category

Modern 1930s Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Corse", 1931, Oil on Canvas, Kamesuke Hiraga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kamesuke Hiraga, Japanese (1889 - 1971) Title: Corse Year: 1931 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated l.l. Size: 25 x 21 in. (63.5 x 53.34 cm) Frame Size: 33.5 x 29...
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Impressionist 1930s Art

Materials

Oil

Whimsical Fishing Illustration Cartoon 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one of a fisherman signed "W. Steig" Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938. Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed. In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper. William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988. Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each. Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage. In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator. Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand." Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me." According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist...
Category

American Modern 1930s Art

Materials

India Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board

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