1940s Art

Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), Wagon Crossing a Bridge (Wagen auf einer Brucke), woodcut, c. 1941, signed in pencil lower left, with the artist’s work number lower center (1867). Reference: Prasser W 82, only state. In very good condition, with margins, 3 1/2 x 4 3/4, the sheet 4 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. A fine fresh proof impression of this intricate cubist composition, printed in black ink on a thin Japan wove paper. Prasser notes a few proofs, on various papers, some unsigned. This print was included as No. 5 of the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Lyonel Feininger, 1941, edition of 30; as with many of his small woodcuts...

Original vintage World War Two poster - SSAFA Soldiers' Sailors' & Airmen's Families Association - The Fighting Man's link with his home. For Forces' Families Flag Day, September 3rd...

Original ‘Give It Your Best!’ vintage poster. This poster features the U.S. flag with 48 stars. Archival linen-backed and ready to frame. Larger format version of this poster. ...

Keep 'em Flying!, artist: C. C. Beall: original linen-backed, excellent condition, World War Two vintage poster. The poster of Uncle Sam is constructed with several vignettes of workers, soldiers, scientists, the U. S. flag, and more. I have provided several details of this fabulous and uniquely designed vintage poster. The 1941 U.S. World War II (WWII) Home Front poster ("Keep 'em flying-Airplanes-flags-Machines-production-Nothing lags. Put your shoulder To the wheel; Courage staunch With nerves of steel. Greet each day, Or pledge a toast-"Keep 'em flying" is our boast. Here's a slogan For us all-An answer to Our country's call. Keep 'em flying; Keep 'em clear. The time is ripe, The time is HERE To pull together-One bold front-Each one prepared To do his stunt. Workers and The men who hire-Housewives-children-All aspire To help and work With little pause-One mind, one heart, One goal, one cause. So-'KEEP 'EM FLYING!' - Jack Childs"; "Presented by the United States Army Recruiting Service") featuring collage art of soldiers and other personnel overlaid with an image of Uncle Sam by Cecil Calvert Beall. Incredible design with the military, red cross nurse, American Flag, chemist, pilots, farmer, steel worker, and Navy guns...

Original "Beware Spreading Vital Information Will Undermine Our War Effort. Do your Part In Silence" vintage World War 2 poster. Ori...

Original vintage poster: Quality Workmanship A sound Foundation on which to build one's future Cooperative Thoughtful Skilful Dependable Careful This lithograph was printed in 1940 by Elliott Service in NYC. Very good condition with only a minor tear on the bottom, which was laid down during linen-backing. Similar in design to Mather’s Work Incentive posters...

The Couple is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1940s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an Ita...

General and Girl is a pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1947 ca Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition, with slight folding. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, J...

Police and Woman is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1945. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) wa...

Original vintage World War Two poster featuring a dynamic design by Eric Aldwinckle (1901-1980) of a hand clenching a hammer against a red, white and blue shaded background with the ...

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

The Walls of Jericho." This is an original 1948 half-sheet movie poster for the film " The poster features a striking image of Cornel Wilde and Linda Darnell in battle and has been ...

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Ex Libris Salvatore Bono is an original Modern Artwork realized in the 1940s. Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensi...

Rare Authentic original "Take me out to the ball game' vintage movie poster. NSS: 49/119. Linen backed. Frank Sinatra, Ester Williams, Gene Kelly. M.G.M's Gay Technicolor Musical! TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME Cast overview, first billed only: Frank Sinatra .... Dennis Ryan Esther Williams .... K.C. Higgins Gene Kelly .... Eddie O'Brien Betty Garrett .... Shirley Delwyn Edward Arnold .... Joe Lorgan Jules Munshin .... Nat Goldberg Richard Lane...

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W 1944 Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown *Book sold separately*

Fuga si, fuga no is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Scordia and Mino Maccari. Black and white lithograph realized by Antonio Scordia and a text by Mino Maccari. Good condition...

Lithograph on Arches paper, one of ten Printer's Proof aside from the regular edition. c. 1948. Printed by the Atelier Mourlot. This print is unsigned but ...

Original United Nations 1945 vintage poster. We the Peoples of the United Nations" The opening phrase "We the peoples of the United Nations.", echoing the preamble of the United States Constitution...

Konrad Cramer, 1888-1963 was a painter, photographer, printer, and illustrator. Based in the fertile Woodstock, New York, artistic community along with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Russell Lee, Cramer was both educator and artist. He ran a summer school for miniature camera photography in the 1930s and later taught one of the first American college courses in photography at Bard College. Although he began as a painter of abstract, geometric forms in bold colors, Cramer is most known as a photographer. Konrad Cramer was born and raised in Wurzburg, Germany. Cramer studied to be an artist at the Karlsruhe Academy under Ludwig Schmidt-Reutte and Ernest Schurth. He became interested in the German avant-garde early in his schooling, he was a member of the Blaue Reiter, exposed and encouraged by the experimental works of Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. An additional influence on Cramer's artistic development was the Cubist landscapes of Paul Cézanne. Florence Ballin Cramer opened a gallery on 57th Street in 1919, encouraged by the sculptor Elie Nadelman. Florence Gallery exhibited and sold the works of living artists. Although it only survived briefly, it was the first New York gallery to show works by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Alexander Brook, Ernest Fiene, and Stefan Hirsch. Cramer then settled with his wife in Woodstock, New York, where Ballin had painted with the Art Students League each summer since 1906. Cramer established a reputation as one of Woodstock's most modern painters with an impressive series of abstract paintings exhibited at the MacDowell Club in 1913. In the 1920s Cramer developed a personal representational style which blended modern and regional influences. Cramer received a Rockefeller grant in 1920 to study educational methods for craftsmen in Germany and France. In 1922 he took a teaching position at the Woodstock School of Painting and helped establish the Woodstock Artists Association, where he served as a director. While teaching and painting, Cramer also applied his artistic talent to illustration and textile design. Konrad Cramer first exhibited at the Whitney Studio Club in 1924 and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's first and second biennials in 1933 and 1935. He was also included in the 1935 exhibition Abstract Painting in America at the Whitney. Cramer was later included in the Whitney Museum exhibition Pioneers of Modern Art in America in 1946. In the 1930s Cramer participated in many other museum invitationals, including: the Carnegie International (1929, 1933, 1937, 1938); the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1934, 1936), and the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1935, 1937). In 1934 Konrad Cramer and his wife travelled to Mexico where they produced many paintings and drawings. Back in Woodstock in 1935, Cramer briefly joined the (WPA) Federal Art Project, administering the regional program in Woodstock. In the mid-1930s Cramer took up photography to clarify aesthetic issues in his painting. Cramer had gotten to know Alfred Stieglitz upon his arrival in America in 1911 and wrote an essay about 291 Gallery for Stieglitz's magazine Camera Work in 1914. Through Stieglitz and then in the 1930s fellow Woodstockers like Russell Lee, Cramer became interested in the possibilities of photography and began working with it as an artistic medium. In the 1950s Cramer collaborated on a traveling exhibition and book of abstract photographs with Manuel Komroff...

Original poster: Radio L.M.T. "La Meilleure Tonalite". Elle l'aime tant. French antique vintage poster for the L. M. T. Radio. The radio wit...

Original vintage cruise travel poster - Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth Fastest Ocean Service in the World Cunard White Star - featuring a colourful image...

Original poster: THE SAURDAY EVENING POST. Artist: Noman Rockwell. Size: 21.75" x 28". Archival linen backed in very fine condition. The painting for this original poster ...

Original poster: SIRENE et PHOQUE; artist: P. Scheiurllez. 1940's original antique French lithograph coffee poster. Original lithographic, archival ...

Bull is an original artwork realized by the french artist Jean Lurçat (1892 Bruyeres - 1966 St.-Paul-de-Vence) Lithograph print, mid-20th century. Very good conditions. Jean L...

Nude is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Ink Drawing. Good Conditions. Georges Henri Tribout (1884-1962) ...

Sexual Desire is a black and white linocut on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by Mino Maccari. Hand-signed with the pseudonym "Jean Barbe" and numbered in pencil on lower marg...

Original 1940s watercolor on paper painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell portraying a semi abstracted view of Golden Cycle Mill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Painted in shades of black and gray. Presented in a custom black frame, outer dimensions measure 18 x 19 ½ x 1 ⅜ inches. Image sight size is 8 ⅛ x 9 ⅝ inches. Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company was a mining company in Colorado City (now Old Colorado City) in El Paso County, Colorado. Piece is clean and in excellent condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the artist: Artist and teacher, Charles (“Charlie”) Bunnell worked in a variety of styles throughout his career because as an artist he believed, “I’ve got to paint a thousand different ways. I don’t paint any one way.” At different times he did representational landscapes while concurrently involved with semi- or completely abstract imagery. He was one of a relatively small number of artists in Colorado successfully incorporating into their work the new trends emanating from New York and Europe after World War II. During his lifetime he generally did not attract a great deal of critical attention from museums, critics and academia. However, he personally experienced a highpoint in his career when Katherine Kuh, curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, personally chose one of his paintings – Why? - for its large exhibition of several hundred examples of abstract and surrealist art held in 1947-48, subsequently including it among the fifty pieces selected for a traveling show to ten other American museums. An only child, Bunnell developed his love of art at a young age through frequent drawing and political cartooning. In high school he was interested in baseball and golf and also was the tennis champion for Westport High School in Kansas City. Following graduation, his father moved the family to Denver, Colorado, in 1916 for a better-paying bookkeeping job, before relocating the following year to Colorado Springs to work for local businessman, Edmond C. van Diest, President of the Western Public Service Company and the Colorado Concrete Company. Bunnell would spend almost all of his adult life in Colorado Springs. In 1918 he enlisted in the United States Army, serving in the 62nd Infantry Regiment through the end of World War I. Returning home with a 10% disability, he joined the Zebulon Pike Post No. 1 of the Disabled American Veterans Association and in 1921 used the benefits from his disability to attend a class in commercial art design conducted under a government program in Colorado Springs. The following year he transferred to the Broadmoor Art Academy (founded in 1919) where he studied with William Potter and in 1923 with Birger Sandzén. Sandzén’s influence is reflected in Bunnell’s untitled Colorado landscape (1925) with a bright blue-rose palette. For several years thereafter Bunnell worked independently until returning to the Broadmoor Art Academy to study in 1927-28 with Ernest Lawson, who previously taught at the Kansas City Art Institute where Bunnell himself later taught in the summers of 1929-1930 and in 1940-41. Lawson, a landscapist and colorist, was known for his early twentieth-century connection with “The Eight” in New York, a group of forward-looking painters including Robert Henri and John Sloan whose subject matter combined a modernist style with urban-based realism. Bunnell, who won first-place awards in Lawson’s landscapes classes at the Academy, was promoted to his assistant instructor for the figure classes in the 1928-29 winter term. Lawson, who painted in what New York critic James Huneker termed a “crushed jewel” technique, enjoyed additional recognition as a member of the Committee on Foreign Exhibits that helped organize the landmark New York Armory Exhibition in 1913 in which Lawson showed and which introduced European avant-garde art to the American public. As noted in his 1964 interview for the Archives of American Art in Washington, DC, Bunnell learned the most about his teacher’s use of color by talking with him about it over Scotch as his assistant instructor. “Believe me,” Bunnell later said, “[Ernie] knew color, one of the few Americans that did.” His association with Lawson resulted in local scenes of Pikes Peak, Eleven Mile Canyon, the Gold Cycle Mine near Colorado City and other similar sites, employing built up pigments that allowed the surfaces of his canvases to shimmer with color and light. (Eleven Mile Canyon was shown in the annual juried show at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1928, an early recognition of his talent outside of Colorado.) At the same time, he animated his scenes of Colorado Springs locales by defining the image shapes with color and line as demonstrated in Contrasts (1929). Included in the Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition in Kansas City in 1929, it earned him the gold medal of the Kansas City Art Institute, auguring his career as a professional artist. In the 1930s Bunnell used the oil, watercolor and lithography media to create a mini-genre of Colorado’s old mining towns and mills, subject matter spurned by many local artists at the time in favor of grand mountain scenery. In contrast to his earlier images, these newer ones – both daytime and nocturnal -- such as Blue Bird Mine essentially are form studies. The conical, square and rectangular shapes of the buildings and other structures are placed in the stark, undulating terrain of the mountains and valleys devoid of any vegetation or human presence. In the mid-1930s he also used the same approach in his monochromatic lithographs titled Evolution, Late Evening, K.C. (Kansas City) and The Mill, continuing it into the next decade with his oil painting, Pikes Peak (1942). During the early 1930s he studied for a time with Boardman Robinson, director of the Broadmoor Art Academy and its successor institution, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center from 1930 to 1947. In 1934 Robinson gave him the mural commission under the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) for West Junior High School in Colorado Springs, his first involvement in one of several New Deal art...

Ex Libris Pokomskiego is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the half of the 20th Century. Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Sigled in pencil on the low...

Owl is an original artwork realized by the french artist Jean Lurçat (1892 Bruyeres - 1966 St.-Paul-de-Vence). Lithograph print, belongs to the suite "Géographie Animale", publis...

Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Original etching on Montval wove paper Title: Oval Head of a Woman with Hair (Plate XIX) Portfolio: Carmen Year: 1949 Edition: 264/289 Framed Size: 19 1...

Ex Libris Romeo Laanlan is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the 1940s. Original Red and Black wood on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total d...

Butterfly is an original artwork realized by the french artist Jean Lurçat (1892 Bruyeres - 1966 St.-Paul-de-Vence) Lithograph print, mid-20th century. Very good conditions. J...

Ex Libris Alma Parna is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the first half of the 20th Century. Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on ...

Ménage à Trois is a black and white linocut on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by Mino Maccari. Hand-signed "Jean Barbe" and numbered in pencil on lower margin. Edition of 300...

Original linen-backed World War II antique poster. "More Tomahawks for Our United Warriors" Buy War Bonds now!. In this poster by Charles Presbeton...

Original watercolor on paper, signed in pencil.

Ex Libris Helkama is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the 1940s. Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Hand-signed in ...

Original vintage travel poster for Ancient Evora Portugal Tradition and Picturesqueness showing the decoration at the top of an ancient pillar with a re...

Ex Libris Pokomskij is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the 1940s Original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Sigled in pencil on the lower margin. The work is g...

Pencil signed w/ artist stamp on verso Commissioned for Vogue Magazine Nov 15, 1947 Page 102 539 East 88 St. New York City Lolas Gallery De Menocal (1919-1995) graduated from ...

Composition is an original drawing in china ink and watercolor on cardboard realized by Bertrand Mogniat-Duclos in 1940. This Artwork is depicted through strong and confident stroke...

Under the Crescent Moon is a black and white linocut on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by Mino Maccari. Hand-signed with the pseudonym "Jean ...

Pablo Picasso Carmen Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Original etching on Montval wove paper Title: Head of Satyr (Plate XXV) Portfolio: Carmen Signe...

Original vintage World War Two home front poster - Save tractor fuel Release the Tankers to feed the Tanks - featuring the bold text above and over an image of a tanker ship and silh...

Working Woman is an original drawing in sanguina on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foxings. Sheet dimension: 22 x 22 cm The artw...

Pleasure is a beautiful black and white linocut on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by Mino Maccari. Hand-signed "Jean Barbe" and numbered in pencil on lower margin. Edition of...

Ex Libris Potomskiej is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the half of the 20th Century. Original Colored woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Sigled in pencil on the...