1930s Art

"Stefan Norblin 🇵🇱 (1892- 1952) was a versatile artist with a mastery of the Art Deco style, known in his day for his paintings, posters, illustrations and theater costumes, as wel...

A splendid, historic poster! It was 1939 when this poster was made. All the major British soldiers had gone abroad to fight, and there were no soldiers left to defend the country. So the country called on all those too old for the army and teenagers aged 14 and over to join the home front. The Home Service Battalions were a force of the British Army during the First and Second World Wars, intended for national defense and other tasks. Those who joined these battalions were exempt from service outside the UK. War - United Kingdom - 39-45 Men 41...

Abraham Rattner (1895-1978) The lovers (autumn) Original lithograph, 1938 Signed in the plate Printed by Mourlot On light vellum size 35 x 25 cm (c. 14 x 10 in) Very good condition ...

Very well executed original gouache on archival paper by the well known American artist Benjamin Kopman. The scene depicts three figures admiring a picture. Signed lower left. Circa ...

Still Life is a modern artwork realized by Giordano Becciani in the Mid-20th Century. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Includes frame. The artwork is hand signed on the lower margin. ...

Dan Super "SAM HOUSTON" (1873-1953) Houston Artist Image Size: 3 3/4 inches tall Medium: Carved Horn of Sam Houston to celebrate the Texas Centennial. Texas Centennial 1936 "Sam Houston Pin Cushion Holder" Biography Dan Super (1873-1953) Dan E. Super, Jr. (1873 – 1953) Dan Super had the eye of a sculptor, envisioning and then creating hundreds of objects from the elongated form of a Texas Longhorn’s tusk. At the age of six, Dan Super carved his first drawing into a piece of the horn of a Texas Longhorn. Over the next 56 years, he made utilitarian pieces like pencil cups, pin cushions, and backscratchers, realistic replicas of animals and birds, and imaginative carvings of elegant nudes. While these carvings resemble the traditional art of scrimshaw, carvings from whale bone, we’ve not been able to identify another carver who used the Texas Longhorn as his material. “My work is done with an ordinary pocketknife, hacksaw file and rasp,” Super wrote in 1937. He used the horn in every way conceivable; whole, allowing the shape to define the object he was making, flattened to make mosaic or inlay work. He incised and pierced it and carved in the round. His own hands polished the horn to a sheen. Daniel Super, Jr. was born in Houston on August 22, 1873. His father owned stock years, D. Super and Brothers Co., providing the young Super with ready access to his raw material. Throughout his life, he worked in the businesses key to the identity and success of young, booming Houston, cattle, oil, real estate and rail. In 1896 he married Lula, and took over the family business, expanding it to include a grocery. He closed the company in 1912 and got into the oil business...

Cincinnati Union Terminal, Perspective From East Drypoint, 1930-1931 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Initialed and dated the the plate above the pencil signature From: Cincinnati Series (8 Plates), this No. 2 Edition: 155, completed May 4, 1931 Delivered to Fellheimer & Wagner, 1931 Louis Conrad Rosenberg 1890-1983 An American architectural etcher and engraver of the 1920's and 1930's era, Louis Conrad Rosenberg first studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Wonderful mid 20th century impressionist landscape of California's American River by Walter F. Mire (American, 1916 - ?), circa 1945. Signed o...

Nude on the Bed is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s. Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner. Good conditions. Édouard Chimot (26 November 18...

NYC Subway Riders Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980) Subway Scene, 1930s 8 x 9 inches Ink and wash on paper Singed lower ...

Couple is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s. Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner. Good conditions. Édouard Chimot (26 November 1880 – 7 Ju...

After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #10, Ausschnitt aus dem Bilde “Medizin”; multi-color collotype detail from Medicine, one of the faculty paintings for the Uni...

Paul Kelpe, Untitled (Abstract Composition), lithograph, 1937, edition unknown but small. Signed and dated in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with all the nuanced texture an...

ADOLF ARTHUR DEHN (American, 1895-1969) Portrait of Mexican Man with Agave Cactus plant, 1939, Gouache Painting Hand signed and dated '39 lower left. Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y. Label verso sight: 20.5 in. X 15 in. Frame is 32 X 24 inches This was subsequently made into a lithograph in 1941 titled Man From Orizaba Standing in the foreground of an agave field is man wearing a straw hat, a white button up collared shirt, white pants and sandals. The man has shaggy black hair, a beard and moustache and large eyes. His right hand is clenched as if holding something and his left hand is open holding some flower-like objects. He stands in the middle of a large agave plant that expands the width of the composition. In the middle ground are large agave plants in subsequent rows. Behind the agave plantation is a mountain range with snow covered peak on the right hand side. Above the mountain range is a partially cloudy sky. Adolf Dehn (November 22, 1895 – May 19, 1968) was an American artist known mainly as a lithographer. Throughout his artistic career, he participated in and helped define some important movements in American art, including regionalism, social realism, and caricature. A two-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he was known for both his technical skills and his high-spirited, droll depictions of human foibles. Dehn was born in 1895 in Waterville, Minnesota. He began creating artwork at the age of six, and by the time of his death had created nearly 650 images. Dehn went to the Minneapolis School of Art (known today as the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), where he met and became a close friend of Wanda Gag. In 1917 he and Gág were two of only a dozen students in the country to earn a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York. He was drafted to serve in World War I in 1918, but declared himself a conscientious objector and spent four months in a guardhouse detention camp in Spartanburg, SC and then worked for eight months as a painting teacher at an arm rehabilitation hospital in Asheville, NC. Later, Dehn returned to the Art Students League for another year of study and created his first lithograph, The Harvest. In 1921 Dehn's lithographs were featured in his first exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in New York City. From 1920 to 1921 in Manhattan, he was connected to New York's politically left-leaning activists. In 1921, he went to Europe. In Paris and Vienna he belonged to a group of expatriate intellectuals and artists, including Andrée Ruellan, Gertrude Stein, and ee cummings...

Antique American school cubist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.

Original vintage GWR travel poster for Royal Leamington Spa issued by Great Western Railway featuring a stunning Art Deco design by Ronald George Lampitt (1906-1988) depicting a smar...

Anton Schutz, 'Venice, Maria della Salute', etching, c. 1930. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with skillfully wiped plate tone, on cream wove paper, ...

Artist: Fritz Henle Title: Frida Kahlo in her Rebozo Medium: Original Silver Gelatin Photograph Edition: 16/25 Signature: Estate Stamped on Back Year of Work: 1936 Dimensions: 14 x 1...

(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan) Watercolor on paper, 14 x 21 inches unframed sheet, 24 x 30 inches framed, signed and dated lower right About the Artist: Born in 1909, Tom E. Lewis studied architecture at the University of Southern California. Beyond that training, Lewis was largely self-taught as an artist. He began watercolor painting during the late 1920s and focused on scenes of California. Lewis was an active organizer of the arts and exhibitor and aided the formation of the Progressive Painters of Southern California. Prior to World War II, the Treasury Section of Fine Arts awarded two commissions to Lewis, the first completed in 1938 for the Hayward California Post Office and the second completed in 1941 for the El Dorado County California District Attorney’s Office...

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'Canard Nyroca - Canard Milouinan' (Ferruginous Duck) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series o...

Original vintage ski and winter sport travel poster issued by Southern Pacific - Play in the Snow - featuring a fun and colourful design depicting a smiling lady holding a snowball a...

Original vintage travel poster issued by the Spanish national tourist board Patronato Nacional del Turismo PNT - Alcala de Henares Cradle of Cervantes Renaissance University / Cuna D...

WPA era oil on canvas landscape painting by Hayes Lyon (1901-1987) titled 'The Hillside' from 1938. American modernist portrayal of a hillside farm with a b...

To see our other original vintage travel posters including more pre-war London Transport posters, 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 poster you want. Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980) Away by Green Line Original vintage poster 103 x 63 cm A poster produced for London Transport illustrating the pleasurable destinations to be reached via Green Line Coaches. Sutherland's design depicts a scythe, a sheaf of wheat, and a farmer's sunhat - three promises of country life which the city-dweller might now easily access, thanks to the advent of British coach travel...

Excellent French Mid century Impressionist, on the banks for the River Seine, Paris The painter was active around the middle of the 20th century, painting landscapes, portraits, and...

Figure of Woman is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1935s. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a little yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. 195mm by 265mm (sheet)

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Agence Meurisse, Paris. La Santé, jailhouse in Paris, circa 1930. Features: Original silver gelatin print photography u...

HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD (1907-1985) The Model - Design for Eltham Palace Coloured chalks, arched top Framed 21 by 13 cm., 8 ¼ by 5 in. (frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ½ in...

Max Ernst - Elektra Lithograph 1939 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Signed in the plate From XXe siècle Unsigned and unumbered as issued

This magnificent original poster from the late Art Deco period was created for the Lavocat brand. It shows a rugby player running at stallion speed - no d...

Mid 20th century Impressionist, A Bridge on the Seine in Paris, Possibly Le Pony Neuf a well knoen bridge over the Seine. The painter was active around the middle of the 20th centur...

Original vintage LMS train travel poster issued by the London Midland and Scottish Railway - The Lake District For Holidays - feat...

A compelling peek into the African American church on a Sunday.

Depicted is the birthplace of John Howard Payne in Easthampton, Long Island, N.Y. The prepatory drawing for this drypoint is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. The print is ...

Original vintage train travel poster for Corse / Corsica issued by the state owned French National Railways (SNCF Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Fra...

"Exposition d'Art Français" features a busy, dreamy depiction of the French countryside in a very loose style. Created by Raoul Dufy as the poster for an exhibition held in Kaunas, L...

Francesco Messina (Linguaglossa 1900 – Milan 1995), Fisherman (1930) Bronze sculpture measuring 131 x 52 x 65 cm, signed and dated 1930 on the base. Francesco Messina’s Fisherman w...

Martin. 1936. Paper, pastel. 27.5x11.5 cm

"Apollo" by Henri Bouchard (1875-1960) An Art Deco period masterpiece! Exceptional bronze sculpture with a golden-brown patina Signed " H. Bouchard " Unique piece This work personifies Apollo, god of the Arts. Represented here as Apollo Musagète, leader of the procession of muses and winner of the serpent Python. This subject was commissioned to adorn the entrance to the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and whose monumental bronze is still exhibited there. To participate in the Venice Biennale in 1938, Henri Bouchard had reduced in 1937 the large Apollo of the Palais de Chaillot, which had not yet been installed. Vintage cast by Bisceglia (cast founder stamp) made during the artist's lifetime. Incised dedication below signature : " à mon cher ami E. Sandoz " This is a unique cast made for the sculptor Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (1881-1971). This cast was exhibited at the 1938 Venice Biennale. France 1937 height : 82 cm width : 45 cm depth : 30 cm weight : 31,2 kgs Stickers under the bronze cast : - Sticker mentioning that this cast has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of 1938 under the number 354 ("Biennale Internaz. d'Arte Venezia – 1938 – XVI – 354"). - Sticker mentioning that this cast went through Italian customs ("ne – merci – dogana italiana – visitate - 9622") - Damaged Sticker mentioning the name ("A…") and the address ("25…") of the owner of the cast (maybe for the workshop "Atelier Henri Bouchard", 25 rue d’Yvettes, 75016 Paris). Provenance : - Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, Paris, according to the dedication. - Property from the Collection of Seymour Stein (entrepreneur and founder of Sire Records, famous American record label ; and avid collector of 19th and 20th century fine art...

An excellent impression of one of the rarest and most desireable Verner images- Road to Folly (Beach) showing the basket people selling roadside fruits and...

Original vintage travel poster - New Jersey Seashore Go by train Pennsylvania Railroad - featuring a stunning image of people relaxing under colourful parasol umbrellas on a sandy be...

Antique impressionist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 13L x 9.5H.

To see our other original vintage travel posters including more pre-war London Transport posters, 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 poster you want. Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980) Away by Green Line Original vintage poster 103 x 63 cm A copy of this poster is held by the London Transport Museum (1983/4/4500). A poster produced for London Transport illustrating the pleasurable destinations to be reached via Green Line Coaches. Sutherland's design depicts a pitchfork and a corn dolly - two promises of country life which the city-dweller might now easily access, thanks to the advent of British coach...

Beautiful print of Jean Cocteau 🇫🇷 (1889-1963) a French poet, painter, draughtsman, playwright and film maker. In the workshop of Madeleine Jolly and Philippe Madeline in Villefran...

"Pippermint Get" original poster by Jules Isnard Dransy advertising Pippermint Get, a liqueur which was first produced by Jean Get in 1796 in Revel, France. Signed Dransy in front lo...

Original vintage London Transport travel poster featuring Rotten Row 1895 by Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901-1976). Great artwork depicting a busy scene in Hyde Park showing smartly dre...

'Le Pont Neuf', gouache on fine art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris. It is called 'The New Bridge' because at the time of its inauguration (built 1578-1607), it embodied a very modern look compared to other bridges which spanned the Seine. Lucien Génin has captured its beauty in this lively depiction from the 1930s. Just before the bridge is a 'Bateau Mouche' an open excursion boat that provides visitors with a view of the city from along the river. The artwork is in good overall condition commensurate with age and medium used. It has been newly frame with anti-reflective glass. Please enjoy the photos accompanying this listing. Signed by the artist in the lower left hand. Upon request a video may be provided. About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...

George Picken Playground, Carl Schurz Park, 1938 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 28 x 36 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist A native New Yorker, George Picken was born in 1898. His father, an artist and photographer, emigrated from Scotland; his mother came from Wales. They joined other European immigrants settling in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. Picken enlisted in the army during World War I and saw action at Verdun. After the war, he stayed in France and like many Americans returning from the vibrant Paris art scene, was inspired by the radical movement known as Impressionism. Upon his return Picken decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an artist. George began his studies in 1919 at the Art Students League during Robert Henri, Max Weber, and John Sloan’s tenure. There he took classes in studio art, illustration, and etching through 1923 studying extensively with George Bridgman. The writings of French philosopher Henri Bergson were widely circulated among the artistic community and looking at Picken’s early paintings one cannot help but wonder if as a young artist he was influenced by Bergson’s ideas. Bergson said, "[There are] two profoundly different ways of knowing a thing. The first implies that we move round the object; the second that we enter into it. The first depends on the point of view at which we are placed and on the symbols by which we express ourselves. The second neither depends on a point of view nor relies on any symbol. The first kind of knowledge may be said to stop at the relative; the second, in those cases where it is possible, to attain the absolute.” Picken’s recognition came early with showings of his work while he was a student. His drawings were published in the New Masses, a significant left-wing publication. The New York Public Library honored him with one-man shows in 1924 and 1928 and his work was included in group exhibitions at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Whitney Studio Club, Montross Gallery, and the Art Students League. During this time Picken married Viola Carton, one of Reginald Marsh’s models, and they lived in Westchester. Later they moved to Yorkville in Manhattan between 82nd street and East End Avenue where they began their family. Picken’s grandson Niles Jaeger recalled that, “Grandpa’s home and studio were in a five-story walk-up apartment, heated only by a coal stove. But there were wonderful views of the East River and the Queensborough Bridge...

A rural interior scene by Austrian artist Edmund Adler. The scene is typical of Adler's paintings of Austrian culture and rural life. It is full of gemütlichkeit.

Edith Piaf on stage watercolor and pencil on paper, mongrammed K for Charles Kiffer (1902-1992), Workshop stamp. Charles Kiffer is well known for his figures, paintings, prints, pos...

The Hamburg-Amerika Line was a transatlantic shipping line established in Hamburg, Germany, in 1847, and operated until 1970. This poster from 1935 promotes the Hamburg America Line ...

Original Linocut by Henri Matisse - Teeny Artist : Henri MATISSE 1938/1959 with the artist's printed monogram and inverted date, as issued 31 x 24 cm ...

Antique American modernist landscape signed painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed. Framed.

An oil painting by artist Benjamin Benno depicting the main characters from the novel “Don Quixote” in a cubist style. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza...

Original vintage skiing and winter sport travel poster - Winter in Austria / Vinter i Osterrike - featuring a stunning Art Deco design depicting a lady in a stylish blue ski suit and...

Original vintage London Transport travel poster for London Zoo via Camden Town Chalk Farm or Regents Park Underground Station - There's a Transport of Joy at the Zoo - featuring stun...