1930s Art

Signed in pencil on mount. the image date is 1936, printed 1980

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 – 1955) Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...

Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benjamin sustained an active career for over seven decades. D...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Arthur B. Carles (1882-1952) Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Arthur Carles was a painter whose work went through phases...

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...

Wire Haired Girl and Cat Pen and ink with watercolor, c. 1930 Signed with the Estate stamp "B" Provenance: Estate of the Artist By descent to his son Edward ...

Untitled (Study for The Aerialists) Graphite on paper, 1932 Signed lower right in pencil: "John Steuart Curry" Dated: 1932 in pencil Exhibited: Schroeder Romero & Shredder, NYC (la...

WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural James McCracken (1875 – 1967) WPA Landscape 28 x 36 inches Oil on canvas, c. 1930s Signed lower right ...

BERNARD (JOSEPH) STEFFEN (1907 – 1980) PULLING CORN (FODDER HOPPER) c. 1935-45 Color serigraph signed with a full signature below the image at the lower right sheet edge . Unknown e...

Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976) Buttermilk Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1933 Oil on canvas 18 x 30 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York Harold Ordway Rugg Private Collection, Western New York Georgina Berrian was born in Spuyten Duyvil, New York in 1893. She was educated at Barnard College...

Reginald Marsh Tugboat at Dock, circa 1937 Signed lower right Watercolor and pencil on paper 13 3/4 x 20 inches Housed in a Lowy frame. Provenance: Sotheby'...

Work on canvas

Pat Keely (d. 1970) The Royal Navy 75x51cm Original lithographic poster 1939 Printed for HMSO by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd, London If your age is f...

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...

The photographers note regarding this work is "A bicycle with its shadow in the autumn sun, Germany 1930s." This work comes to you as a new Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle William Turn...

Original poster: Pulitura Pavimenti, Italian stone lithograph; size: 39" x 55"; archival linen backed in excellent condition; really fun poster. ready to frame. There is slight f...

Duel is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in 1935. Monogrammed on the lower margin. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 1...

Oil on board, undated [around 1934-38], signed lower left, and also signed, titled and inscribed with Artist’s address ‘ADRIAN ALLINSON/87A CLIFTON HILL/NW8/VENETIAN SIESTA on board ...

Man hiding is an original modern artwork realized by André Derain. Etching on paper. From the Suite "Le Satyricon", 1934. Includes frame.

Kawiarnia la rotonde is a modern artwork realized by Moïse Kisling. Black and white lithograph. Signed on plate. Polish painter (Krakow 1891 - Sanary-sur-Mer, Var, 1953), naturali...

Akt is a modern artwork realized by Moïse Kisling. Black and white lithograph. Signed on plate. Polish painter (Krakow 1891 - Sanary-sur-Mer, Var, 1953), naturalized French. Pupil...

Akt Podwòjny is an modern artwork realized by Moïse Kisling. Black and white lithograph. Signed in plate. Polish painter (Krakow 1891 - Sanary-sur-Mer, Var, 1953), naturalized Fre...

Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...

Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...

Charles Evans (1907-1992) Mediterranean Costal Town, 1932. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Sheet measures 8.5 x 10 inches; mounted in frame measuring 8.5 x 10 inches. Signed a...

Mother and Child is a black and white photograph of a painting realized by A. Von Mayden in the 1930s. Good conditions with slight foxing. Included a Passepartout:46 x 35 cm

Aristide Maillol (Fr, 1861-1944) A very large original charcoal drawing by Aristide Maillol verified by Olivier Lorquin, Director of Galerie Dina Vierny at the Musee Maillol in Par...

Graphite on paper Image size of rectangular works: 33 x 43 inches (84 x 109 cm) Image size of arched central work: 38 1/4 x 29 inches (97 x 73.5 cm) Provenance Private Collection o...

Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...

Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...

Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...

Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...

Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...

Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...

Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...

Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...

Man On the Horse is a black and white photograph of a painting realized by G.V Loune in the 1930s. Good conditions with slight foxing. Included a Passepartout:35 x 46 cm

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Canticle of David (Cantique de David), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13.1 inch) I...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Samson overthrows the pillars (Samson renverse les colonnes), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Mont...

The photographers note regarding this work is "A bicycle with its shadow in the autumn sun, Germany 1930s." This work comes to you as a new Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle William Turn...

Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway Litho crayons on illustrator’s board, c. 1932 Signed: Adolf Dehn (VED) lower right corner (signed by Virginia De...

Going to Market, Jamaica Image: 24.0 x 14.0 cm Mount: 36.8 x 25.8 cm Wood engraving 1932 One of Fourteen Wood Engravings, from drawings made on Orient Line Cruises by Robert Gibbings...

The photographers note regarding this work is "A girl at Samland in East Prussia hanging up flatfishes fro drying, Germany 1930s." This work comes to you as a new Fine Art Print on ...

The photographers note regarding this work is "Perfect customer service at the petrol station, Germany 1930s." This work comes to you as a new Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle William T...

Eros is a pencil drawing realized by Maurice Vertès in the 1930s. Good conditions with slight folding.

The photographers note regarding this work is "Three women at the stairs in the public garden of Wuerzburg Residence, Germany 1930s." This work comes to you as a new Fine Art Print ...

The photographers note regarding this work is "Three women at the stairs in the public garden of Wuerzburg Residence, Germany 1930s." This work comes to you as a new Fine Art Print ...

Original American Lobby Card of Walt Disney’s Movie „Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs“, USA 1937. Here is the Princess Snow white in the forest rounded by animals. Keywords: Animatio...

"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 Chines...

"Kiosk in Paris" British Linocut 1/150 European Modernism Swiss Vorticism Deco Lill Tschudi (Swiss, 1911-2004) Kiosk in Paris (Coppel LT 29) Linocut printed in brown black, vermil...

Benito Mussolini is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. Missing pigments. otherwise quite good condition. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic ...

Old days Photo - Roman Arch is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album includi...

Old days Photo - Doux Ricordo 1933 is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1933. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including historic...

Old days Photo - Mussolini is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1930s. Fair conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including historical ...

The photographers note regarding this work is "The bedding on the fresh air at Frankfurt on river Main, Germany 1930s." This work comes to you as a new Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle ...

Colour stencil with dense gouache inks on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered with printed title-heading designed by Delaunay, upper left, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or ...

Colour stencil with dense gouache inks on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered with printed title-heading designed by Delaunay, upper left, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or ...

Colour stencil with dense gouache inks on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered with printed title-heading designed by Delaunay, upper left, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or ...