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Period: 1940s
Mid Century Desert Landscape -- Adobe House at Black Canyon, Arizona
Mid Century Desert Landscape -- Adobe House at Black Canyon, Arizona

Mid Century Desert Landscape -- Adobe House at Black Canyon, Arizona

Located in Soquel, CA

Beautiful desert canyon landscape of Black Canyon, Arizona featuring Adobe home in foreground by Claire McAnear (American, 1989 - 1986), 1945. Presented in aged gilt-toned wood fram...

Category

Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Cardboard

Sailing Near Santa Barbara, Mid Century Coastal Seascape with Sailboats
Sailing Near Santa Barbara, Mid Century Coastal Seascape with Sailboats

Sailing Near Santa Barbara, Mid Century Coastal Seascape with Sailboats

Located in Soquel, CA

Gorgeous American impressionist mid century coastal landscape painting of sailboats near Santa Barbara by John Dominque (Swedish/American, 1893 - 1994), 1946. Signed "Dominique" and ...

Category

American Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Floral Still-Life with Bearded Irises, Parrot Statue by Nell Walker Warner
Floral Still-Life with Bearded Irises, Parrot Statue by Nell Walker Warner

Floral Still-Life with Bearded Irises, Parrot Statue by Nell Walker Warner

By Nell Walker Warner

Located in Soquel, CA

Substantial and period mid-century still life of a bowl of bearded irises with a parrot figurine by noted California artist Nell Walker Warner (American, 1891-1970), c.1940's. A charming parrot statue...

Category

Other Art Style 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Linen, Stretcher Bars

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By James Koenig

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original oil on canvas painting by American artist James Koenig created in 1944.

Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Well-Dressed Leg: Dorian Leigh, New York

The Well-Dressed Leg: Dorian Leigh, New York

By Lillian Bassman

Located in New York, NY

Gelatin silver print Signed in pencil, verso 14 x 11 inches, sheet size 11 x 10.25 inches, image size This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Lillian Bassma...

Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Duchamp, Le Cheval, Composition, Du cubisme (after)
Duchamp, Le Cheval, Composition, Du cubisme (after)

Duchamp, Le Cheval, Composition, Du cubisme (after)

By Marcel Duchamp

Located in Southampton, NY

Etching, Engraving, Drypoint on vélin du Lana Papiers Spéciaux pure rag paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Du Cubisme, 1947. Published ...

Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Etching, Engraving, Drypoint

Rooftop Bathers (Untitled)

Rooftop Bathers (Untitled)

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Rooftop Bathers (Untitled), c. 1940s, oil on canvas, 22 x 32 inches, signed lower right Betty Waldo Parish gives us a delightful slice of life in 1940s New York, as we see a coupl...

Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Set of Four Framed Wood Cut Prints After André Derain
Set of Four Framed Wood Cut Prints After André Derain

Set of Four Framed Wood Cut Prints After André Derain

By André Derain

Located in Pasadena, CA

Rare Set of Four Original Color WDCT Skira 1943 after RABELAIS (François). The Horrible and Terrible Deeds and Prowess of the Renowned Pantagruel, King of the Dipsodes, Son of the ...

Category

Fauvist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Woodcut

Owl - Original Lithograph By Jean Lurçat - 1948

Owl - Original Lithograph By Jean Lurçat - 1948

By Jean Lurçat

Located in Roma, IT

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...

Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Modernist Cityscape
Modernist Cityscape

Modernist Cityscape

By Esther Rollick

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original modernist oil painting by American female artist Esther Rollick.

Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Handball In Central Park, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Handball In Central Park, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Handball In Central Park, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot. This is an estate stamped ...

Category

American Realist 1940s Art

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Vintage 1940’s Circus Acrobat Oil on Canvas Painting.  Unique modern style.
Vintage 1940’s Circus Acrobat Oil on Canvas Painting.  Unique modern style.

Vintage 1940’s Circus Acrobat Oil on Canvas Painting. Unique modern style.

Located in Baltimore, MD

This is a highly stylized circus acrobat scene. Done “en grissille” or shades of grey, it portrays an acrobat on a trapeze high above the crowd, abstractly shown lower right. The stark composition, enhanced by the theatrical lighting...

Category

Art Deco 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Stipple Drawing in Black and White of the First Lady of Haiti - African American
Stipple Drawing in Black and White of the First Lady of Haiti - African American

Stipple Drawing in Black and White of the First Lady of Haiti - African American

Located in Miami, FL

1942 Calendar illustration featuring the First Lady of Haiti (Madame Elie Lescot]) rendered in a precise stipple effect and celebrating African-American women which was titled "Twelve American Women." It was executed during the hight of World War II. Lois Mailou Jones...

Category

Academic 1940s Art

Materials

Ink, Pencil

Ruine, Surrealist Lithograph by André Masson
Ruine, Surrealist Lithograph by André Masson

Ruine, Surrealist Lithograph by André Masson

By André Masson

Located in Long Island City, NY

André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Ruine, Year: 1945, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 10/30, Image Size: 8 x 6.25 inches, Size: 14 x 11 in. (35.56 x...

Category

Surrealist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Orange Face"
"Orange Face"

"Orange Face"

By Rolph Scarlett

Located in Southampton, NY

Circa 1945 Signed lower left Sight size 12 x 10.5 in Overall size in newly matted one inch wide black frame 25.5 x 21.5 in

Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Les Mamelles de Tirésias.
Les Mamelles de Tirésias.

Les Mamelles de Tirésias.

By Erté

Located in New York, NY

Original publicity lithograph for the opera, Les Mamelles de Tirésias. Signature printed lower right. Paris, 1947. The opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 June, 1947 ...

Category

1940s Art

Materials

Paper

Mid Century Abstract
Mid Century Abstract

Mid Century Abstract, 1940

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Mid Century Abstract

Located in Buffalo, NY

Modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Unsigned. Image size, 37"L x 25"H.

Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nadia au visage rond

Nadia au visage rond

By Henri Matisse

Located in London, GB

Henri Matisse Nadia au visage rond 1948 Aquatint on Marais wove paper, Edition of 25 Paper Size: 60.2 x 46.4 cms (23 3/4 x 18 1/4 ins) Image Size: 44.4 x 34.7 cms (17 1/2 x 13 5/8 in...

Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Aquatint

Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead (Manaò tupapaú), Gauguin (after)
Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead (Manaò tupapaú), Gauguin (after)

Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead (Manaò tupapaú), Gauguin (after)

By Paul Gauguin

Located in Southampton, NY

Woodcut on vélin Utopian paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Gauguin, A portfolio of 12 color woodblocks, Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903 from the collection of the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946. Rendered by Albert Carman (1899-1949); published the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston and The Studio Publications, Inc., New York and London; printed by Holme Press Inc., New York, in an edition of MMMD. Excerpted from the folio, Paul Gauguin and Emil Bernard at Pont-Aven, Brittany, in 1888, each made a bas-relief, wooden panel to decorate a piece of furniture for a friend. In order to keep a record of their designs, a few inked impressions were made on paper. The illustration at left is a reproduction of a print which is possibly one of the above mentioned. It is further possible that this experiment later gave Gauguin the idea of making woodcuts. Just as his work in painting expressed a revolt against the overemphasis on factual representation of the nineteenth century in favor of decorative pattern and color, so also his woodcuts leaned strongly to the same side of the balance. Ten of the cuts reproduced (all excepting Soyez Amoureuses and Changement de Residence), which constitute the whole of his best known series, were made at Pont-Aven beginning in the fall of 1894, after Gauguin's return from his first trip to Tahiti and after he broke his ankle. They were at first roughly cut with a common carpenter's gouge, and the flat surfaces sandpapered and engraved with a sharp in-strument, perhaps an engraver's burin. A few trial proofs were printed in black ink only. Then the hollows were deepened with a woodcutter's gouge and highlights were added. An edition of thirty to fifty impressions of each subject, with the addition of color blocks (one, two or three), was made by Louis Roy...

Category

Post-Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Woodcut

1940s Floral Still Life -- Anemones & Porcelain Statue
1940s Floral Still Life -- Anemones & Porcelain Statue

1940s Floral Still Life -- Anemones & Porcelain Statue

By Marguerite Stuber Pearson

Located in Soquel, CA

Vivid mid-century floral still-life with anemones and statue by Marguerite Stuber Pearson (American, 1898-1978), circa 1940s. Signed lower right corner. Presented in rustic gilt-toned bamboo and wood frame. Image size: 20"H x 24"W. Framed size: 24"H x 28"W. Born in Philadelphia August 1, 1899, Marguerite Stuber Pearson was the daughter of confectioner, Arthur G...

Category

American Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Linen

"Dahlias" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Floral Work
"Dahlias" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Floral Work

"Dahlias" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Floral Work

By Chiura Obata

Located in New York, NY

Chiura Obata Dahlias, 1940 Signed, dated and stamped lower right Watercolor on paper 15 x 9 5/8 inches Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto. In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism. He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928. Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...

Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Showgirl"
"Showgirl"

"Showgirl"

By Ruth Adele Mysel

Located in Southampton, NY

Very well executed watercolor on paper by Ruth Adele Mysel of a beautiful showgirl. Signed lower right. Circa 1940 to 1950. Ruth Adele Mysel was raised in Boston and attended the Ne...

Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Antique American School "City of Light" Abstract Architectural Framed Painting
Antique American School "City of Light" Abstract Architectural Framed Painting

Antique American School "City of Light" Abstract Architectural Framed Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Measuring: 21 by 17 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Han...

Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

American, Oriental Still Life with Ceramics
American, Oriental Still Life with Ceramics

American, Oriental Still Life with Ceramics

By Ernest Albert

Located in New York, NY

An amazing and impressive quality still life! Ernest Albert was a true Connecticut landscape artist, devoted to depicting the different seasons in an Impressionist manner. Albert was...

Category

American Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Three Sisters Oregon in the Redwoods 1930s
Three Sisters Oregon in the Redwoods 1930s

Three Sisters Oregon in the Redwoods 1930s

Located in Soquel, CA

Beautiful mid century California landscape of trees reflecting over a nearby lake by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century), c.1940s. This idyllic setting is dotted with wild flo...

Category

Naturalistic 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Linen

Interior Design - Drawing by Victor Courtray - 1948

Interior Design - Drawing by Victor Courtray - 1948

Located in Roma, IT

Interior Design is a beautiful drawing on paper, realized in 1948 by the French architect  Victor Courtray (1897-1971). Ink and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed and dated on the low...

Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Village Market, Large Italian Painting by Colucci
Village Market, Large Italian Painting by Colucci

Village Market, Large Italian Painting by Colucci

By A. Colucci

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: A. Colucci Title: Village Market Year: circa 1940 Medium: Oil on Board, Signed l.r. Size: 32 x 53 inches (81.28 x 134.62 cm) Frame: 38 x 60 inches (96.52 x 152.4 cm)

Category

Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Hans Burkhardt

Located in New York, NY

Lithograph, 1948. Signed by the artist and dated in pencil, lower right. Numbered 4/12 in pencil, lower left.

Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

“Abstract Sailing, 1945”
“Abstract Sailing, 1945”

“Abstract Sailing, 1945”

By Nahum Tschacbasov

Located in Southampton, NY

Oil on academy board by the Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and dated lower left, 1945. Condition: Excellent. Presently not framed. Biography : Russian-America...

Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard