1940s Art

A. J. Hamilton Front Line University 20th Century Oil on canvas, signed lower left, inscribed and dated '1944' verso Image size: 25 5/8 x 22 1/4 inches (65.1 x 56.5 cm) Hand-made con...

Original “Less Dangerous than Careless Talk” vintage World War Two poster. Archivally linen=backed in fine condition A-, ready to frame. Bright colors and excellent detail. Very clean. The images shown are the exact poster you will receive. A- "Less Dangerous than Careless Talk" is a World War II propaganda poster designed to caution against the dangers of loose lips...

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...

Le Croates is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. The artwork is depicted through strong lines i...

Adolf Dehn's, lithograph on chine collé, Curtain or The Flora Dora Girls, is an ode to burlesque with dancing girls and fabulous costumes. It comes on the heals of a 1930 pre-code mo...

Original Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier vintage lithographic poster. Artist: Charles Kiffer (1902 - 1992). Size: 19.25" x 27.25". Archival linen-backed antique vintage poster; ready to frame. An original lithograph was done for the inauguration of the new Alhambra Theater, featuring Maurice Chevalier. Over the years; Kiffer designed 13 for Chavalier from 1927 - 1963. (Kiffer also designed for Josephine Baker, Edith Piaf, and many other performers.) Today this version with the text of the Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier is a rare poster. Mid-century-modern. The Alhambra was a music hall located at 50, rue de Malte in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. It opened on August 11, 1866. This image with the familiar tilted hat is a recognized image associated with several different poster designs created for the actor Maurice Chevalier. In addition to the images created for the French cabaret; a similar image is also associated with the liquor poster...

Vintage black and white photograph showing the interior of a fashion salon, most probably the NK Department Store (Nordiska Kompaniet) in Sweden. Known as Nodiska Kompaniet, this high-end store was a hub for luxury and modern design in Sweden. Raymond Loewy, a prominent industrial designer, was known for designing similar streamlined interiors for American department stores like Bamberger's and Jay Thorpe...

Medium: lithograph with pochoir coloring (after the 1895 drawing in sanguine). Printed in 1948 on Johannot paper for the rare "Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir" portfolio and ...

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...

Medium: lithograph with pochoir coloring (after the 1895 drawing in sanguine). Printed in 1948 on Johannot paper for the rare "Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir" portfolio and ...

Jean Cocteau Surrealist Portrait, 1946 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On BFK Rives vellum, 32,5 x 25 cm (c. 12,7 x 9,8 inch) Edition limited to 300 copies (unnumber...

To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." N. V. Gray The Royal Wedding: Picture Map of the Route through London (1947) Lithograph 50 x 76 cm Produced by H.A. & W.L. Pitkin Ltd for the Daily Telegraph and published by Geographia Ltd., of Hutchinson & Co. Signed in plate lower right. Complete with slip showing the genealogy of the two parties. Princess Elizabeth (later Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip...

This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who has died requires a licence for export regardless of t...

Mary Van Blarcom, 'Gardenias', color serigraph, c. 1945, edition small. Signed 'Van B' in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. A rich, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (5/16 to 1 1/16 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 6 x 8 3/8 inches; sheet size 6 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THE ARTIST Painter, printmaker and craftsperson, Mary Van Blarcom was born in Newark, New Jersey and studied at Wellesley College. She was a member of the National Serigraph Society where she served on the board of trustees from 1945 through 1952 and was 1st vice-president from 1949-51. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Artists Equity Association, the American Color Print Society, the New Jersey Artists Association (Director), and Artists of Today. Van Blarcom exhibited actively throughout the 1940’s at many prominent art organizations including: Montclair Art Museum, 1941-45 and 1947-51 (prize, 1948); Society of Independent Artists, 1942-44; Artists of Today, 1942-46; Elisabeth Ney Museum, 1943; Northwest Printmakers, 1944, 1946-49; Laguna Beach Art Association, 1945-47, 1949; National Association of Women Artists, 1945-50, (prize, 1946); Library of Congress, 1946-47; Museum of Modern Art travelling exhibition, 1945-47; Carnegie Institute, 1947; Serigraph Gallery, 1946, 1951 (solo); American Color Print Society, 1947-52; Newark Museum, 1947-48, 1951; California State Library, 1947, 1949; National Serigraph Society, 1949 (prize), 1950 (prize); University of Chile, 1950; New Jersey State Museum, 1950; Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1951; and the Main Gallery, NY, 1952. Van Blarcom’s work is in the collections of the Newark Public Library, U.S. Library of Congress; the American Association of University Women; New York Public Library; Tel-Aviv Museum, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Princeton Print Club...

Lord Keynes is  a black and white vintage photo, realized  in 1940s., by Walter Stoneman. The photo depicts an elegnant portrait of the British Economist, Lord John Maynard Keynes. ...

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;...

A beautiful oil on board depicting Stonehenge, by modern British artist Vivian Bewick. Excellent quality study if the mysterious Bronze Age landmark. Inscribed with artist details o...

Rolf Stoll (American, 1892-1978) Kae Dorn Cass, 1940 Oil on canvas Signed upper right 32 x 25 inches 38 x 31 inches, framed Exhibited: The 27th Annual May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1940 This work won first prize for oil painting- Portrait category Provenance: Collection of Kae Dorn Cass's niece Kae Dorn Cass Rolf Stoll Rolf Stoll, a painter of figure subjects, landscapes and floral still lifes, was an important member of the Cleveland art scene during the second quarter of the century. He was also an influential teacher, as well as one of Ohio’s foremost portrait painters. Rolf Stoll was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1892. As a boy, he attended a military academy, during which time he developed an interest in art. He received his early formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He emigrated to the United States in 1912, settling in New York City. A decade later, after studying at the school of the National Academy of Design and supporting himself by working as a commercial artist, Stoll decided to leave New York. Upon the recommendation of Warren Pryor, one of his teachers, he decided to move to Cleveland, Ohio. After arriving in Cleveland, Rolf Stoll continued to work as a commercial artist. However, in 1926, he joined the faculty of the Cleveland School of Art, where he taught drawing. Two years later Stoll was appointed head of the school’s portrait painting department. A talented portraitist, Stoll’s sitters included industrialists, community leaders and many prominent members of Cleveland and Ohio society, as well as over twenty faculty members from Case Western Reserve University. Stoll also gave portrait classes at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute from 1926 to 1953. In his male portraits especially, he was admired for his ability to convey the dignity of his sitter’s professional position without sacrificing individuality. As noted by one contemporary reviewer, Stoll was a “master of rich color, a searching student of human types, a forceful portrayer of all that the face reveals of the mind and the soul.” In addition to his activity as a portraitist, Rolf Stoll painted figure subjects and floral still lifes. He was also known for his views of the Ohio countryside...

This stunning French polished brass frame is perfect for paintings, drawings, lithographs, mirrors, or any creative decoration. The piece was expertly crafted in France circa 1940. T...

China ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s. Not signed. Very good condition.

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

Work painted near to the Arve river Dated 1943 in the back Work on canvas sold with frame Total size with frame 47x56 cm Adolphe DE SIEBENTHAL...

Original WWII vintage poster: The United Nations Fight for Freedom. Featuring flags from around the world. Note that this poster was created earlier than the foundation of the U...

Norman Parkinson's iconic image of models wear a variety of hats on the roof of the Condé Nast building on Lexington Avenue, New York City. Published in American Vogue on 15th Octobe...

Abel Warshawsky (American 1883-1962) Spring Fantasy, 1948 Oil on artist's board Signed lower right and verso 16 x 13 inches 20 x 17 inches, framed Impressionist painter A.G. Warshaw...

This charming yet ideologically charged 1941 poster by Vladimir Lebedev is based on a poem by Samuil Marshak and forms part of the visual world surrounding the book “We Are Soldiers....

Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 27 by 30 inches overall, and 20 by 24 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. ...

Work on canvas Original frame 63 x 55 x 5 cm The city - View of Geneva This work of art depicts an urban landscape at the edge of a natural area. Dominated by shades of green and gra...

Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964) The Adobe, c. 1940-41 Watercolor on paper Signed lower right 14 x 20 inches 18.5 x 24 inches framed Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 –...

Beautiful oil on canvas painting with aerosol spray paint of two reclining figures by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed upper right and dated 1949. ...

Bold, regal, and unmistakably French, this 1946 original poster for Armagnac Ryst captures the proud heritage and tradition of one of Gascony’s finest spirits. The composition featur...

"Standing Proud" by Herbert Mason St Paul's cathedral standing above the surrounding burning buildings during the London blitz. Unframed Paper Size: 30"...

Howard Daum Croton Park, 1940 Signed, titled and dated lower right Watercolor on paper 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches Provenance The artist Ashby Gallery, New York Carl Ashby, New York Estat...

Taos Pueblo Screen print, late 1940's Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled in pencil lower left (see photo) Edition: Unknown Clasic depiction of Ranchos de Taos, the oldest continually inhabited city in North America. Condition: Excellent Image size: 5 x 6 3/4 inches Sheet size: 6 1/4 x 7 5/16 inches Anna Barry (1970-2001) “In 1944, after several prior trips to the area during which they had become friends with several of the Taos Founders, Ira and his wife, the artist Anna Barry moved to Taos, New Mexico. They would reside in the area on and off until 1955. Like many others, Moskowitz was entranced by New Mexico's light, landscapes, and cultures. By the time Ira arrived there, the region had already attracted Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Henri, and Leon Gaspard; the Southwest was starting to be recognized as an art center. Moskowitz and his wife became acquainted with Oscar Berninghaus, Andrew Dasburg, Ernest Blumenschein, and Mabel Dodge Lujan, among others. Ira wrote of that time that "Our house was always open and we had scarcely a single meal without visitors dropping in." "Anna Barry was an artist/printmaker. She married Ira Moskowitz (from a long line of Polish rabbinical leaders) in New York in 1938. They soon visited Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico, returning there for extended periods until in 1944 they moved there permanently—staying until 1949 when they returned to New York. Her work in New Mexico depicts mostly the pueblos and their people, capturing ritual ceremonial dances in colorful serigraph prints and other artworks. She and Ira (also an artist) worked closely together during their New Mexico sojourns. The pueblos seemed their favored subjects there. She signed her New Mexico work as, "Anna Barry." Her prints are colorful and often detailed. The only ones I have seen (6 in all) were 5"x7" in size. Anna probably lived longest in New York, but perhaps was also in both Europe and Israel for extended periods. (See the AskART Ira Moskowitz biography.)" Courtesy of Fred McCraw "Anna Barry (née Anna Barshefsky), painter, printmaker and teacher, was born to Russian émigrés Max and Ida Goldberg Barshefsky on 20 May 1909 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1930 U.S. Federal Census her family name is changed to Barish and they are listed as living in Bronx, New York. It is not yet known where she had formal art training but she was listed as a teacher on the 1940 U.S. Census. She married artist Ira Moskowitz on 13 November 1938 and they began frequenting New Mexico. They befriended such luminaries as Mabel Dodge Lujan, Georgia O’Keeffe, Oscar Berninghaus, and many others who had become attracted to the unique landscape. Barry and Moskowitz moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1944 and remained until 1949 when they returned to New York. One can’t help but wonder if Anna Barry studied with serigrapher/painter Louie Ewing...

JAMES CHAPIN (1887 – 1975) COMPOSITION c. 1940 Lithograph signed in pencil, Image 11 7/8 x 7 ¾ inches, sheet 13 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches. Just a hint of mat line in the margins and on the verso. Some remnants of old tape prImarily at the left & right sheet edges. Rather scarce print but possibly published by Associated American Artists. WONDERFUL PORTRAYAL OF AN UP AND COMING ARTIST...

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

Signed lower right, 'Guy Maccoy' (American, 1904-1981), dated 1941 and titled, lower left, 'Vermont Quarry'. Serigrapher, muralist and teacher, Guy Maccoy began his art studies at the Kansas City Art Institute and continued with Ernest Lawson in Colorado Springs. Upon moving to New York City, he studied at the Art Students League and at Columbia University. In 1932 he began producing silk screen prints in New York City with his wife, Geno Pettit...

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring colorful designs for women's red Robin Hood hat, suit and coat. Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 in...

Original Gene Autry Gold Mine in the Sky linen-backed original vintage movie poster. The poster does show some foxing on the original theatrical fold marks. Republic Pictures. ...

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...

MARK FREEMAN (1908 - 2003) MANHATTAN CLIFFS, 1947 Lithograph (offset?) with 2 color plates. Signed, titled and dated. 19 1/2 x 15 in., large grey sheet, 22 3/8 x 17 1/2 in. Very good condition. A large and very strong image of New York.

Original French poster: Ribet-Desjardins Télévision Unic Radio Ribet - Desjardins Television Unic Radio. Original 47 x 63 antique French lithograph...

Montague Dawson 1895-1973 British US Submarine Caught in Enemy Searchlights Signed "Montague Dawson" (lower right) Oil on canvas, en grisaille In this dramatic wartime scene, Mon...

Post-Impressionist, pastel figural showing a young woman in a cobalt dress seated in an olive green chair and holding a flower, beside a table bearin...

Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1941. This photograph, taken in 1941 in Rouen, France, depicts a foggy street scene during World War II. The street is lined with traditional h...

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

Signed lower left, 'D. Badcock' for Douglas Badcock (New Zealander, 1922-2009) and painted circa 1948. Preferring to paint en plein-air, Douglas earned a reputation as one of New Ze...

Artist: Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita Title: 'Profil de madone' Year: 1957 Medium: lithograph on paper Size: 55.5 x 38 cm. (21.85 x 14.96 in) Edition: 165/220 signed & numbered in penc...

This 1942 map comes from the Atlas de la France Vinicole, an influential cartographic work by Louis Larmat dedicated to documenting France’s major wine regions. The sheet focuses on ...

This is an original World War II poster designed by renowned illustrator David Stone Martin, issued as OWI Poster No. 8 by the U.S. Office of War Informat...

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...

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's hat by Maria Guy. Likely an illustration study for a print advertisement for the famed Chicago depa...

"Race Order" by Bert Hardy Maserati racing cars in the pit during a road race at at St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, May 1947. Original publication: Pict...

Untitled (Aztec heads in profile) A Prelimimary Study for a Mural watercolor, goucahe, ink and colored pencil on paper, 1943-1946 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Kiriki Metzo (his daughter) Fletcher Gallery (her agent) Inspired by the artist's trip to ancient Aztec Mexico with fellow surrealist artist Carlos Merida (1891-1985) Influence of Carlos Merida interaction with de Diego How Carlos Mérida's Mayan-inspired modernism and Mexican folk motifs specifically transformed Julio de Diego's surrealist compositions and color palette in the 1940s Carlos Mérida’s Mayan inspired modernism pushed Julio de Diego’s 1940s surrealism away from purely European, dream like imagery toward hybrid, flatter, more patterned compositions built from stylized “Mexican” motifs, while situating his use of color within the vibrant, abstract field and pattern approach associated with modernized Mayan art—even though surviving texts describe Mérida’s palette much more explicitly than de Diego’s. Mérida’s Mayan modernism: form and color • Mérida is described as a key modernist who fused Surrealism, Cubism, muralism and European abstraction with pre Columbian Mayan...

Karl Eugene Fortess, 'Tanks & Trees', lithograph, c. 1940, edition 100. Signed, titled, and numbered '100/P' in pencil. Inscribed 'For Usui - K.' in the bottom left margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches); a slight crease across the top right sheet corner, well away from the image; otherwise in excellent condition. Image size 13 1/8 x 10 inches; sheet size 17 3/8 x 13 3/16 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Provenance: Estate of Francis Pratt. Francis and her husband Bumpei Usui...

Romantic landscape, oil on panel. A saw mill is viewed from across a rapid river in this delightful scene near Woodbridge, Ontario, by Bernice Martin. Title, date on verso. This painting is unframed. Woodbridge, Ontario, is a settlement named in 1855 after a wooden bridge that crossed the Humber River as an entry point into the town. Martin's work is rooted in the post-Impressionist, atmospheric landscape style made well known by J.W. Beatty a forerunner to the Group of Seven. “I look back on my life and my painting hours were the happiest. I’d spend long hours and forget time…my time was always measured by the passage of light.” —Bernice Fenwick Martin Born in Shelburne, Ontario, Bernice Martin studied at the Ontario College of Art under noted Canadian artists J.W. Beatty and Franklin Carmichael. After the death of Beatty in 1941, she found friendship in Peter Clapham Sheppard with whom she studied and worked with until his death in 1965. Working in oil, watercolor and woodcut, Martin focused on local scenes such as the Toronto harbor, small towns in Ontario and Northern landscapes including Muskoka, Haliburton, and Algonquin Park regions of Ontario. Martin’s works were showcased at the Royal Canadian Academy from 1945-1947 and displayed in solo exhibitions in Toronto galleries throughout her career at T. Eaton Co...

Leonard Nowak, 'The Thinker?', conté crayon and India ink, c. 1940s. Signed in ink, lower left. Original cartoon drawing, on textured, off-white wove dra...

Drawing in pen on paper. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.

Mary Van Blarcom, 'Crown of Roses', color serigraph, c. 1945, edition not stated but small. Signed in pencil beneath the image, lower left. Titled in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. A rich painterly impression, with fresh colors, on cream laid paper, with full margins (3/8 to 7/8 inch), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 8 13/16 x 12 11/16 inches; sheet size 9 1/2 x 8 5/16 inches. ABOUT THE ARTIST Painter, printmaker, and craftsperson, Mary Van Blarcom was born in Newark, New Jersey, and studied at Wellesley College. She was a member of the National Serigraph Society, where she served on the board of trustees from 1945 through 1952 and was 1st vice-president from 1949-51. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Artists Equity Association, the American Color Print Society, the New Jersey Artists Association (Director), and Artists of Today. Van Blarcom exhibited actively throughout the 1940s at many prominent art organizations, including Montclair Art Museum, 1941-45 and 1947-51 (prize, 1948); Society of Independent Artists, 1942-44; Artists of Today, 1942-46; Elisabeth Ney Museum, 1943; Northwest Printmakers, 1944, 1946-49; Laguna Beach Art Association, 1945-47, 1949; National Association of Women Artists, 1945-50, (prize, 1946); Library of Congress, 1946-47; Museum of Modern Art Traveling Exhibition, 1945-47; Carnegie Institute, 1947; Serigraph Gallery, 1946, 1951 (solo); American Color Print Society, 1947-52; Newark Museum, 1947-48, 1951; California State Library, 1947, 1949; National Serigraph Society, 1949 (prize), 1950 (prize); University of Chile, 1950; New Jersey State Museum, 1950; Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1951; and the Main Gallery, NY, 1952. Van Blarcom’s work is represented in the collections of the Newark Public Library, the U.S. Library of Congress; the American Association of University Women; the New York Public Library; Tel-Aviv Museum, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Princeton Print Club...

Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s. Hand signed lower right. With another watercolor drawing on rear. Very good condition except for a central fold.