1940s Art

The search for the perfect kitchen poster ends here! This charming and lighthearted image was created for the German pasta brand, Perlach c1948. The star of the show in this design i...

LEMONS & POTS Oil on Board Size: 48.5 x 55.5 cm (including frame) A visually striking and expressive modernist still life composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1949. Th...

This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features actress Joan Fontaine (1917 - 2003) and co-star Joseph Cotten (1905 - 1994) receive direct...

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...

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 ...

Exquisitely done profile of a cat done with graphite, watercolor and brushed wash by the Norwegian born artist, Charles Hermansen. Signed lower middle. Circa 1940. Condition is very...

Whitehead, Buell (American, 1919-1993) DEATH VALLEY SUNSET. Lithograph in colors, 1946. Edition size not known. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. I...

signed ‘Gropper’ (lower right); with the artist's studio stamp (on the verso)

Portrait of a Woman by Emily Elizabeth Guthrie Smith Signed upper right 30 x 24 Framed Pastel on paper

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.5 x 19.25 inches; image size: 11.42 x 16.54 inches, with centerfold, as issued Inscription: Unsigned and unnu...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.5 x 19.25 inches; image size: 11.42 x 16.54 inches, with centerfold, as issued Inscription: Unsigned and unnu...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.375 inches; image size: 9.05 x 11.81 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Masonite Sight Size 14.50" x 11.25", Framed 20.50" x 17.25" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 16, 1945

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.375 inches; image size: 9.84 x 11.81 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.375 inches; image size: 9.05 x 11.81 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.5 x 19.25 inches; image size: 11.42 x 16.54 inches, with centerfold, as issued Inscription: Unsigned and unnu...

This fantastic British 1940's figurative interior oil painting is by noted artist Leonard Fuller. Painted circa 1940, the colourful composition is looking into a busy Woolworths stor...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 9.05 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 8.66 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 19.25 x 12.5 inches; image size: 15.35 x 11.42 inches, with centerfold, as issued Inscription: Unsigned and unnu...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 9.05 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 9.05 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 9.05 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 9.05 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 9.05 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 9.05 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 12.2 x 9.45 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From ...

Charming 1940s modernist mountain landscape painting featuring a white farmhouse, outbuildings, and trees set in a verdant meadow near Gunnison, on the western slope of Colorado. Maj...

Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 8 x 6.25 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the vo...

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 ...

Although born in Liberty, Indiana, Jay Hall Connaway (1893-1970) was fascinated by coastal life and marine scenery, an attraction that had profound effects on his life and artwork. A...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 9.05 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 19.25 x 12.5 inches; image size: 10.63 x 11.02 inches, with centerfold, as issued Inscription: Unsigned and unnu...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 7.87 x 9.05 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From ...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 9.05 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued ...

This 18 x 9 x 4 inch carved wood sculpture is unsigned and comes directly from the artist's family. Louis 'Lou' Bunin (28 March 1904 – 17 February 1994) was an American puppeteer, artist, and pioneer of stop-motion animation in the latter half of the twentieth century. While working as a mural artist under Diego Rivera in Mexico City in 1926, Bunin created political puppet shows using marionettes...

Le Duc D' Aumale is a Lithograph on China paper realized by Auguste Raffet in 1843. Signed in the plate. lithograph on china paper, 1st edition. Good condition with foxing.

Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988) Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943 Watercolor on paper Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.” Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo. After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.” In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality. A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...

Bright vibrant blue, orange, red, yellow, green lithograph in color. This is signed in the plate and dated. Leger's abstract drawing lithograph was drawn by the artist direct on to p...

Medium: offset lithograph (after the Rodin watercolor). Printed in 1945 on Vélin de Lana paper and published in Paris by the Musée Rodin in an edition of 2...

3703 Oil on artist board Set in a vintage wood frame Image size 13x9.5"

Oil on board painting by George Vander Sluis (1915-1984) titled Storm Over Victor (Colorado Mountain Town) from 1946. WPA Era Mountain Landscape wi...

Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Saturday Evening Post magazine cover, October 25, 1941

The Artists Country Home Rodgau Germany Original Oil on Linen 1944 Oil painting of the German Countryside circa 1944 by an anonymous artist. (German, 19th-20th C). Well painted of a...

This original 1945 poster, Patrie – Journal des Combattants Français, was published by the French Ministry of War as a stark reminder of the atrocities committed under the Nazi regim...

Helena Malarewicz-Krajewska (born 14 July 1910 in Biecz , died May 7, 1998 in Warsaw) is a Polish painter, active advocate of socialist realism. Studied between 1928 and 1929 at the Free School of Painting and Drawing in Cracow , from 1929 to 1934 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw : painting by Mieczysław Kotarbiński and Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski and graphic art by Władysław Skoczylas and Leon Wyczółkowski . During his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw he worked in the Association of Independent Socialist Youth "Życie". At the end of 1945, Helena and Juliusz Krajewscy lived in Warsaw. Helena Krajewska participated in the creation of the first Polish Fine Arts Association. Krajewscy became members of the PPR party organization at the Fine Arts Association. In 1947 she became the President of the Board of the Warsaw District of the Union of Polish Artists , and in 1948 the Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party at the ZPAP. In December 1985, an exhibition of works by Helena and Juliusz Krajewski took place in Warsaw's Zacheta. After 1989 some of the paintings of the Krajewski were transferred to the gallery of socialist realist art of the Zamoyski Museum in Kozłówka. This piece was created using oil on card in wooden gilt frame under glass. Keywords:, Poland, Polish, impressionist, impressionism, outside, farm, farming, hay, haystack, stack, tools, workers, blue sky, clouds, horse, horses...

Constantin Font, born January 11, 1890 in Auch (Gers) and died in 1954 in Paris, is a French artist, painter of genre, nudes, landscapes, orientalist, sculptor and engraver. Outstand...

Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper Year: 1947 Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, I...

Juan Reus (1912-2003) Original Vintage Bullfighting Poster March 1944 107cm x 53cm Juan Reus was born in 1912 in Valencia, where he became a well-known pain...

A mid-century, stone lithograph titled 'Christopher' by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950), created in 1943 and with certification of authenticity stamped verso. A bright and...

This poster from 1945 by Cecil Calvert (C.C.) Beall (1892-1967) and commissioned by the Official US Treasury was made for promoting the 7th War Loan, just days after the victory in E...

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"Machu Pichu" - Black and Grey Lithograph #10/200 Bold black and grey lithograph by David Alfaro Sequeiros (Mexican, 1896-1974). This piece is a high contrast, abstracted landscape....

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...

Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...

FLIGHT American Futurism Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Oil Painting Realism Daniel Celentano (1902-1980) "Flight," 26 x 26 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1940s. Signed lower right. Ori...

Irving Penn Title: Untitled (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn) Medium: Glossy, fibre based paper Date: New York, circa 1949 Dimensions: 11 x 14 inches Stamped ...

TITLE : Les Lepreuses (text by Heny de Montherlant) EDITOR : NRF, Paris 1946 PRESENTATION : in-4 in leaves under slipcase ILLUSTRATION : 26 original lithographs by Kees VAN DONGEN (w...