1940s Art

A stylish, vintage early 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's accessories and Elizabeth Arden cosmetics. Artwork size: 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Archivally ma...

Date: 1942 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 18.50" x 15.70" Signature: Signed Image of woman holding pie and a man calling out to farmhands. An early 20th-century illustrator work...

Original Avenge December 7th vintage poster. Linen backed; excellent condition. Artist: Bernard Perlin. Office of War Information, Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-491978 Dramatic original World War II poster depicting a sailor with his fist raised, standing above a scene of an exploding battleship, with the words “Avenge December 7” in red across the middle of the poster. The striking image on OWI “Poster No. 15,” memorializing the events of December 7, 1941, was created by artist Bernard Perlin. U. S. Government Printing Office. Year: 1942 As a Life Magazine war art correspondent living in Europe during the 1940s and 1950s, Perlin continued to document social change uniquely. An American painter primarily known for creating many American posters during WWII and for magic realism...

This rare original 1941 poster by the French illustrator André pays tribute to one of the greatest musical geniuses of the 20th century: Django Reinhardt. Created for Disques Swing, ...

A magnificent oil on canvas by Russian American WPA artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984), dating from 1943. Depicting a Maternity scene - or possibly a m...

A splendid painting from the first half of the 20th century. Oil on canvas, first canvas, signed "C. Mannucci" in the lower right corner, attributed to the great painter Cipriano Man...

Date: 1948 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 17.25" x 13.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left Magazine Story Illustration

This striking Air France poster by Perceval captures the romance and optimism of mid-century air travel through a bold and uplifting composition. A powerful aircraft soars upward thr...

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 Benj...

Waterfront by Toni Frissell Street dancers perform on the coastline of Portugal, 1946. (Toni Frissell) Limited signature stamped edition print 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper si...

3722 Japanese Woodblock on paper set in a vintage wood frame Image size 9x10.5"

Original 1940 Ladies’ Home Journal newsstand vintage poster. Archival linen-back and ready to frame. Grade A- condition. This exceptional large-format newsstand poster was create...

Mid Century Sierra Mountain Lake Landscape Sweeping mid-century landscape of a lake and snow-capped mountains by Lillian Josephine Heath (American, 1864-1961). A gigantic, snow-cove...

Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Maccari in 1940s. Hand signed lower left. Very good condition.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 1946. Oil on canvas, 73x92 cm

The 1941 original poster, "Trois couleurs, un drapeau, un empire" by Eric, edited by the Secrétariat aux Colonies, is a striking piece of wartime propaganda that encapsulates France’...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris by Mourlot and published by Pierre à Feu and Maeght Editeur for the Marcel Duchamp / André Breton project Surréalisme en 1947. Issued in...

Self Portrait with Arms Over Head, vignette on Paul Cadmus on left Graphite drawing on thin wove paper, c. 1940's Unsigned Provenance: Paull Cadmus Jon F. Anderson (1937-2018) Condition: Sheet size: 15 x 10 1/4 inches Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship. Together, the three formed PaJaMa (a mashup of their first names, Paul, Jared, and Margaret). Using Hoening’s Leica, they captured themselves, their artist friends, and members of the gay community posing in artful tableaux on the beaches of Fire Island, Provincetown, and Nantucket over the following eight years. Those captured by their camera include the photographer George Platt Lynes; Cadmus’s sister and artist Fidelma; artist Bernard Perlin; and Monroe Wheeler, director of exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, among others. Though she produced few canvases, Hoening’s paintings demonstrate the influences of French and Cadmus, particularly with her adoption of the time-intensive, traditional medium of egg tempera that they championed. In the 1940s, the Frenches’ social circle continued to expand. They befriended the British author E.M. Forster, who stayed with them on his first trip to New York in 1947, spending a few days with them in Provincetown, and visiting them again in 1949. When Cadmus began a relationship with the young artist George Tooker in 1944, the trio became a foursome, with Tooker regularly vacationing with the group and appearing in PaJaMa’s photographs...

This is an original vintage 1948 travel advertising poster for Spain, created by artist Jose Morell. It was published by the Spanish State Tourist Department and features women perfo...

"Riggs openly identified as gay to his friends in the Philadelphia art community, but did not disclose his orientation to his employers." - Woodmere Art Museum Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel "Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...

Medium: lithograph with pochoir coloring (after the 1885 watercolor). Printed in 1948 on Johannot paper for the rare "Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir" portfolio and published...

Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Left Contact for exact dimensions. Blue Book Magazine Cover, November 1947

"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed - work is unframed. - Riggs was a Gay Artist.

Original linen-backed vintage travel poster for Ville d'Anvers (Antwerp, Belgium). The expression "Ommegang," meaning "procession," is derived from the old Flemish words. The gl...

Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm). Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...

Literature: The Saturday Evening Post, April 4, 1942, cover illustration. J. Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post: Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration From America’s Fa...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left This work was featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 11, 1949 The Post described the cover as follows: "Having found the setting he wanted for his circus-theme cover painting - on the Brotherton farm near Westport, Connecticut- Stevan Dohanos began rigging up a beam for the farm boy...

Uncle Sam is an iconic figure in American political posters. I'm Counting On You created in 1943 by Leon Helguera (1899-1970), builds on this well established imagery made famous by ...

Medium: pochoir (after the 1871 watercolor). Printed 1946 in a limited edition of 300 for the rare "Berthe Morisot Seize Aquarelles" portfolio, published in Paris by Quatre Chemins. ...

Signed lower right, 'Justin Murray' (American, 1912-1987), titled, verso, 'The Doctor's Office' and painted circa 1945. Framed dimensions: 9¼ x 1½ x 21 inches. Born in Minneapolis, ...

Substantial and period mid-century modern American Scene watercolor of the Oakland, California countryside by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), 1944. Signed lower right "Earl Loran...

3910C Antique impressionistic winter landscape.Oil on canvas applied to board Displayed in a gilt wood frame, Signed lower left by Johanssen. Image size 17.5 H x 23.5 W

ABRAM ADOLPHE MILICH 1884-1964 Tyszowce, Poland 1884-1964 Paris (Polish) Title: The Young Woman from Arles / La Jeune Arlesienne (Homage to Van Gogh), 1941 Technique: Original Sig...

Etching on cream laid paper with a deckle edge and with an unidentified watermark with an "AL" inside an ovoid cartouche with a garter and buckle (likely English 19th century), 9 1/2...

Lord Lithgow, Time magazine cover, March 16, 1942 matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches. Not framed. Pencil on paper

Figurative landscape capturing dock workers' afternoon break by John Theodore Edward Stoll (b. Germany; 1889, d. California; 1974). Signed "John Stoll" lower right. Titled "Drowsy Bu...

Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era "Victory for Now" Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997) "Victory and After" 27 x 37 inches Gouache on paper S...

Sylvia Mayzer Rantz, 'Ninth Inning', lithograph, 1949, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '9/24' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper. The ful...

6035 Antique portrait watercolor of my Italian Nonna 1940's In an elaborate wood frame Image size 10x7.5" Signed lower right

Pencil sketch of a theater set designed to depict an elegant nineteenth century sitting room, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a whi...

Amazing oil painting on panel depicting an autumnal scene in the Pont Marie area of ​​Paris. The bridge occupies the center of the composition, while the Seine River flows through th...

Stamped with photographer's estate ink stamp, inscribed with title and numbered on reverse C-type print Available in two sizes: 20 x 16 inches, from an edition of 21 + 3 PPs 24 x 20...

The work represents a wide eye cat staring at a rooster. The work is as simple as it's complex. The negative space is as important as the positive space. It's as sophisticated as it'...

Date: 1946 Medium: Oil on Paper Dimensions: 20.25" x 18.25" Signature: Signed Lower Right Exhibitions: September 2007: Society of Illustrators

Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel There is from frame burn and scattered surface abrasions but they are minor. Additionally, there are a 3 or 4 very fine hair line scratches not visible unless you look very closely. The work is varnished and has a reflective quality to it that makes it hard to photograph. In person the viewing experience is much better. You can see more detail in the shadow areas. The colors are rich, deep and saturated. Riggs was very particular in researching the tribal costumes...

The 1945 poster by Raoul Dufy for the "Le Havre Grand Gala Cinématographique," held at the Palais de Chaillot, stands as a poignant and artistic reminder of post-war solidarity and c...

Medium: Mixed Media on Whatman Drawing Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Titled and marked "P4447" on Saturday Evening Post label verso. "The Refugee" by Bud Hutton and illustrated by Robert Fawcett...

Original U. S. 1 sheet, DOWN TEXAS WAY vintage movie poster. Starring the Rough Riders, Buck Jones, Tim McCoy AND Raymond Hatton, Luna Walters, Dave O'Brie...

Marc Mouclier (1866-1947) Le Drapeau à la fenêtre, 1942 (The Flag in the window) signed and dated lower right oil on cardboard panel 41 x 32,8 cm framed 62 x 54 cm This magnificent...

Harold Fletcher Trew (1896–1973) View of Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Argyll Royal Academy Exhibition, 1949 Oil on canvas Signed lower left and inscribed on the reverse A superb Scottish ha...

A charming, vibrant 1940s Modern landscape painting of Calais, Vermont by famed Chicago artist, Harold Haydon. A wonderful example of the artist's favo...

Antique American modernist oil painting by Harry Lane. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Exhibited. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.

This piece is an original photograph shot by George Hurrell in 1941 and printed at a later date. This image depicts Rita Hayworth, an American actress an...

This atmospheric early 20th-century street scene presents a refined vision of urban life in Denmark, most likely set in central Copenhagen (Indre By), the historic heart of the city....

Original poster: AOA to USA, American Overseas Airlines. THERE'S ALWAYS SUNSHINE ABOVE THE CLOUDS. This poster is archival linen-backed...

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Square Head of a Man with Soft Features (Plate IV) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper Year: 1949 Edition: 289 Frame Size: 21" x 18" ...

Vincent Mazzocchini, French Landscape with Medieval Bridge – Oil on Wood This captivating original oil painting created by French artist Vincent Mazzocchini (20th Century) is a rare...

Step into the serene charm of southern France with this captivating watercolor landscape artwork by François Pascal (France, 19th century–1948). Expertly painted on paper, this work ...

Bernard Gussow 1881 -1957 Bernard Gussow was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Russian Federation. Bernard Gussow is known for genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings. Ber...