1940s Art

Vintage modernist abstract expressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 24L x 36H. Signed.

Jack Lorimer Gray Nova Scotia Coast Signed lower left Oil on Masonite 29 1/4 x 49 1/4 inches Jack L. Gray was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1927, the only child of civil engineer...

The Saturday Evening Post, April 7, 1945, Cover Illustration. Stated on page 4 of the Post: Just to show you how cover artists work, we asked John Falter to send us one of his early...

Original 1940 Loterie Nationale Vintage Poster. Tranche de l”Historie de France. Linen-backed in very good condition – excellent, ready to frame. The team of Eddgard Derouet and C...

Work on wood Green wooden frame and gold borders 70 x 81 x 2.6 cm

Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This impression in violet ink was printed in France in 1944 for the rare "Correspondances" portfolio, published by Teriade in a limited editio...

Symbolic and surreal landscape with three women in a mystical garden setting walking toward a plaque "The dream and the dreamer are one" by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Unique painting with dream-like quality with three blonde figures looking at a garden folly...

Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana. Largely self taught as a printmaker, Bartlett worked in a style that once identified as his, immediately t...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie B, var. 1 (Series B, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002) - The New School, Year: 1943, Medium: Suite of 10 etchings, lacking cover sheet, Image Size: 7.75 x 6 inches, Size: 15 x 11.75 in. (38.1 x 29.8...

This exquisite lithograph by Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Madame Yxe (Madame Yxe), from the album Georges Rouault, Divertissement, originates from the 1943 edition published b...

Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...

Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed lower right.

Still life "Wine with Orange" by Claude (Charles Claude) Buck (1890-1974). Signed lower left. Artist's notes and color scheme on verso. Displayed in rustic giltwood frame. Image, 14"...

Antique American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 17 by 23 inches overall and 16 by 22 painting alone.

Antique impressionist still life painting by Irene ( I. Stry) Stry (1899/1904 - 1963). Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size, 24L x 20H.

Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Dragon vert, Medium: Etching and aquatint, signed and numbered in pecnil, Edition: 14/50, Image Size: 10.5 x 8 inches, Size: 16.25 x 13 in. (41....

Original Washington (D.C.) American Airlines mid-century vintage travel poster. Professional archival linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame. Featuring one of the ...

Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie O, var. 15 (Series O, Variation 15), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Th...

Consigned to American Legacy Fine Arts by H&N Fine Art as part of the Katherine A. Norris Legacy Collection, Newport Beach, California; Bonham’s California, April 11, 2005, lot 205, sold for $7,000; Estate of Sam Harris Signed "Sam Hyde Harris...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie Z, var. 1 (Series Z, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

William Ross Abrams, 'The Green Sugarbowl', color woodcut, 1949, edition 24. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'Artist’s proof' in pencil. A fin...

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...

A rare and breath taking work, with masterful bursh work and sublime execution of light. We are drawn to the subtle beauty and elegant pose. The tasteful compostion lends an intimate scene into the artists studio where Philip has captured her effortlessly. This piece comes displayed in a wonderful frame and hanging wire on verso. Art measures 24 x 20 inches Frame measures 30 x 26 inches Robert Philipp was born on February 2, 1895 in New York City. He was an American painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars. Moses Solomon Philipp showed early talent and grew up in a family atmosphere that fed and cultivated his creativity. At age of 15, he entered the Art Students League for four years and then continued his training at the National Academy of Design. His teachers at the League included George Bridgeman and Frank DuMond, and at the National Academy he studied with Douglas Volk...

Francis Mabel Hollams (British, 1877–1963) Three Portraits of “Scrap,” a Wire-Haired Terrier Oil on wood panel, monogrammed lower left “FMH” Circa 1940–1950 A delightful and charac...

This exquisite lithograph after Clarke Hutton (1898–1984), titled Harlequinade, S.P.13., originates from the School Prints Ltd. series, published by School Prints Ltd., London, under...

Thomas A. Robertson, 'The Orange Point', color serigraph, edition 54, 1941. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed/54' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper;...

This exquisite lithograph by Andre Derain (1880–1954), titled Le Port (The Harbor), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. II, No. 8, originates from the 1940 issue publish...

Gelatin silver print on paper, a later printing by Cole Weston With the Edward Weston stamp verso, signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil by Cole Weston verso: PL40-K-4 Comes ...

George Platt Lynes Photograph #9 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949. George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition. This photograph is #9 from a collection of 12 different poses in this series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949 (as per the NY Public Library archives). The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion's personal photographic collection. George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian. Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...

Paris: City Winter Scene by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) watercolour and gouache painting with charcoal on artist's paper, unframed Sheet: 9.75 x 13.5 inches Intriguing painting by the...

Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). Printed in 1944 at the Rene Kieffer atelier and published by Rombaldi in an edition of 300 for the rare "La Varende" portfolio. Size: 15 1/2 x...

"Labor in a Diesel Plant" Machine Age American Scene Industrial Mid 20th Century Letterio Calapai (American 1902-1993) ''Labor in A Diesel Plant'' Wood engraving, 1940 17 x 10 1/2...

Medium: lithograph with pochoir coloring (after the 1887 watercolor). Printed in 1948 on Johannot paper for the "Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir" portfolio and published in P...

Medium: lithograph with pochoir coloring (after the 1882 drawing in sanguine). Printed in 1948 on Johannot paper for the "Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir" portfolio and publi...

A unique pair of vintage herbarium / botanical displays collected and created by S. Lindwald in June 1946 in Sweden. These botanical specimen are preserved behind glass in a new doub...

Laszlo Willinger Vivien Leigh, 1940 Original vintage photograph from the original negative Hand signed, framed Sheet dimensions: 12 x 9 inches Framed dime...

This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount, with image number "6" in the lower left corner. Portfolio Two stamp with print #6 and set #A in red c...

Etching on paper, realized in 1946. Image dimension: 25.8x32.5. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Edition of 40/65. Ref. Lamberto Vitali "L'opera grafica di Giorgio Morandi" Gi...

5131 Vintage framed oil painting of grist mill in a snow filled landscape Signed B.Burt Image size 19.5x23.5

Map of historical landmarks, American Indian territories, rivers, mountains, dams, colleges, federal grazing districts, cities, agriculture, and other activities that were present in...

Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century Carlos Lopez (1910-1953) "Bounty" WPA Mural Study for Michigan Post Office 19 ½ x 22 ½ inches Oil on B...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Arnold Aaron Friedman (1874 - 1946). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Framed.

This exquisite halftone print after Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), titled Sky, originates from the 1947 folio Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio, 1864–1946. Published by Twice a Year Press,...

Impressive early American modernist still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 10H by 8L.

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie L, var. 4 (Series L, Variation 4), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Ben Shahn Susannah and the Elders, 1947 Signed lower right Watercolor and ink on paper 22 x 29 3/4 inches Provenance The artist The Downtown Gallery, New York Felix Landau Gallery, ...

This exquisite lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Lithographie VI (Lithograph VI), from the album Repli, Gravures de Henri Matisse (Repli, Engravings by Henri Matisse), ...

This original 1940s grayscale watercolor by Charles Ragland Bunnell depicts a semi-abstracted view of the Golden Cycle Mill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Rendered in subtle gradations of black and gray, the composition reflects the influence of WPA-era Modernism, combining industrial subject matter with expressive abstraction. The work is a notable example of mid-20th-century American Regionalism, capturing both a sense of place and a forward-looking artistic vision. Bunnell’s restrained palette and simplified architectural forms transform the industrial landscape into a dynamic modern composition, emphasizing structure, rhythm, and atmosphere. The subject references the Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company, a major contributor to Colorado’s early 20th-century mining industry, located in what is now Old Colorado City. Through this modernist lens, the painting documents an important chapter of Western industrial history. The watercolor measures 8 1/8 x 9 5/8 inches (sight size) and is presented in a custom black frame measuring 18 x 19 ½ x 1 ⅜ inches, making it a refined, display-ready piece for collectors of American Modern art, WPA works, and industrial landscapes. Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968) was a pioneering Colorado modernist, New Deal art...

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Seated dancer, removing her slipper, originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and intimate observation, capturing the grace, poise, and psychological immediacy that define his iconic ballet imagery. In Seated dancer, removing her slipper, Degas reveals gesture and inner emotion through economical contour and lyrical nuance. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 17 x 13 inches (43.18 x 33.02 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, one of the notable American ateliers specializing in fine art lithography during the mid-20th century. Artwork Details: Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917) Title: Seated dancer, removing her slipper, from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 17 x 13 inches (43.18 x 33.02 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1945 Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Printer: Albert Carman, City Island, 1945 Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Notes: Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman. About the Publication: Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published in 1945 by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, stands as one of the most elegant and scholarly mid-century American fine art folios devoted to the ballet imagery of Edgar Degas. Conceived as a high-quality interpretive portfolio, the album presents a series of lithograph-and-pochoir renderings based on Degas’s original drawings, executed with exceptional attention to tonal subtlety, contour fidelity, and the emotional interiority that defines the artist’s draftsmanship. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman on City Island, the publication embodies an American postwar effort to restore and celebrate European masterworks through meticulous handcraft and artisanal color application, honoring Degas’s distinctive line and the atmospheric delicacy of his studio-based studies. Produced in a substantial edition of MMMD examples, the portfolio offered audiences rare access to Degas’s private working drawings—images rarely seen outside institutional collections—while exemplifying the technical refinement and interpretive care characteristic of Carman’s workshop. Today, Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches remains a sought-after historical publication, valued for its craft, fidelity to Degas’s aesthetic, and its role in preserving and disseminating the artist’s intimate ballet imagery in a beautifully executed mid-century fine art format. About the Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon. Edgar Degas lithograph...

Magnolia, c. 1946, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 22 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches, this original oil painting was part of Reindel's Flowers of Our Land series, commissioned by the John M...

Eduard Houbolt (Hof van Delft, 1885 – The Hague, 1954) Iris Numerata Signed, dated and inscribed “Eduard Houbolt / fecit. ad vivum / 10. Juni. 1947 / IRIS N...

'Portrait of Renée', oil on board, by Louis Latapie (1941). When combined with the artist's passionate brush strokes, the wood panel upon which this piece is painted, creates both a ...

Original 'U. S. SAVINGS BONDS will help you get there! NOW Back Your future. Linen-backed, excellent condition. Archival linen backed with original government-issued fold ma...

Cobwebs and Rocks Watercolor, 1940 Signed, dated, and copyrighted lower right Exhibited: Zimmerli Art Museum, Benjamin Benno: Retrospective Exhibition, 1988 Illustrated: Gustafson, Zimmerli Museum: Benjamin Benno: Retrospective Exhibition, 1988 Color Plate 14 copy copy of the catalog accompanies the watercolor Condition: excellent Image size: 14 3/4 x 21 inches Provenance: Estate of the Artist Ruth O...

'Bouquet de Fleurs' Impressionist Still Life of Flowers, Signed Oil Painting By artist, Degerna, Mid 20th Century Signed and dated '1949' by the artist on the lower right hand corner...

Signed lower right, 'A. K. Skeele' for Anna Katharine Skeele (American, 1896-1963); titled, verso, 'Taos Yard' (visible from front, lower left) and painted circa 1945. Born in Ohio ...

Born in New York, Julian Levi spent his early years in Philadelphia. He began his art studies art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Arthur B. Carles, Daniel Garber, and Henry McCarter. On graduation, Levi was awarded a scholarship which he used to travel to Italy and Paris. During his stay in Europe, which lasted five years, from 1920 to 1925, Levi was influenced by Cubism. He was especially drawn to the art of Juan Gris, adopting the gentle color harmonies and precise linear treatments of forms found in Gris's works. In 1924, Levi participated in an important show of Philadelphia modern artists which included works by Charles Demuth, Hugh Breckinridge, Franklin Watkins...

James Brooks (1906-1992). Plantlike, c.1945. Oil on canvas measures 18 x 24 inches; 24 x 30 inches in a painted wood frame of the period. Signed "J. David Brooks" lower right, Signed...