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Period: 1940s
Returnable Items Only
Kawase Hasui -- Snow at Hie Shrine, circa 1946 - 1957
By Kawase Hasui
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Kawase Hasui (Japanese, 1883-1957)
Snow at Hie Shrine, circa 1946 -1957 (dated in the publisher's seal)
Woodblock
Sheet size 37.5 x 26.0 cm (vertical oban)
Frame size 51.3 x 38.5 x 2...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Paarden
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL
Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon
HORSES
1947
Gouache on paper
31 X 40 cm.
Signed and dated: lower left ‘Quirijn van Tiel 47’.
Provena...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Gouache
Adolph Kronengold (1900-1986) - Alaska Landscape Oil on Board, ca 1940’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Adolph Kronengold was born in New Orleans in 1900. He studied locally at Tulane, before moving on to New York and Philadelphia. There he studied at the Art Students League and the P...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Art
Materials
Oil
Flag Raising in Leroy Street - Old New York - Vintage New York
By Kyra Markham
Located in Miami, FL
Flag Raising in Leroy Street.
Lithograph. 320x245 mm; 12 5/8x9 5/8 inches. Edition of 25. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Ed. 25" in pencil, lower ma...
Category
American Realist 1940s Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Night Journey
By Byron Browne
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Brown's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Here Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and abstraction. ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nachtgespenst / Night ghost
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Wave, 1948
Located in London, GB
JEAN MIROSLAW PESKE 1870-1949
Ukraine 1870-1949 France (Ukrainian/Russian/French)
Title: La Vague / The Wave, circa 1948
Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on canvas laid on board.
This work was painted circa 1948.
size:33 x 41 cm / 13 x 16.1 in
Additional Information: This is an original painting by Jean Peske...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Art
Materials
Oil
Shotgun Hunting Abstract with Shooting Bullseye
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and masterfully thought out the composition of rifle, gun shells, target shapes, and buck shots. Most likely done for a ad or men's magazine.
Signed lower right Atherton. Housed in a rustic House of Heydenryk frame...
Category
Post-Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Gouache, Board
Lisa on Silk, New York, 1940 - Horst P. Horst (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
Horst P Horst (1906-1999) (Black and White Photography)
Lisa on Silk, New York, 1940
Signed on reverse
Silver gelatin print
14 x 11 inches
Horst was a perfectionist who raised the s...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tan Lines, The Saturday Evening Post cover, September 27, 1941
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed lower right: Albert W. / Hampson
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bathers Playing with a Ball at the Beach - Polish Art British German
By Jankel Adler
Located in London, GB
This is an original drawing by Jankel Adler and as probably painted in the early 1940's.
Provenance: Acquired by the grandfather of the previous owner in the south of France (possib...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Ink
Central Park Zoo with Sea Lions and Animals
Located in Miami, FL
A charming and stylized depiction of a day at the Central Park Zoo. with World War Two uniformed visitors front and center. Sea lions put on a show in front of a packed audience. The...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Art
Materials
Gouache
The Porter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Provenance, The Executive V.P. office of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The First Flag Raising
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Du Pont Safety Calendar, 1941, June
# 2270 in the Catalogue Raisonné, 2009
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bridal White
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right and Titled on reverse
Dimensions: 28.13" x 25.13" (71.45 cm x 63.83 cm)
Literature: Temple Bailey, Bridal White, The American Mag...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Balinese Beauties (Mapeed), circa 1945
By Johan Rudolf Bonnet
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978)
'Mepèèd' (Mapeed)
Signed lower right
Titled upper right
Pastel on gouache pigmented paper, 57 x 34 cm
In original carved ebo...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Gouache, Pencil
Woman from Behind
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This painting was reproduced on page 151 of John La Gatta-An Artist's Life by Jill Bossert, Madison ...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
American Realist 1940s Art
Materials
Tempera
Wallpaper Blouse, Saturday Evevning Post Cover, October 1941
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post magazine cover, October 25, 1941
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Gouache, Board
Ballentine Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Prospector firing Rifle ( Happiness is a Warm Gun ) Gay Art
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
Robert Riggs was a gay man. Being gay in American during the 1940's time was something not to flaunt in public. Rigg's had to communicate his underlying feelings in more symbolic ways.
Throughout Riggs oeuvre, one sees continuous references to strong hunked out manly men and vulnerable boys. It is a core element of is iconography and is described in a powerful graphic style.
In “Prospector firing Rifle” is a Dick Pic. Riggs is clearly making a sexual statement about the moment of climax. The long, straight rifle explodes and is captured at the peak moment of climax. Meanwhile, the bag two bags of gold clearly resemble the other part of the male anatomy. Riggs was a thoughtful and meticulous visual thinker and nothing in any of Riggs’s compositions were haphazardly placed. In tribute to the artist’s suppressed feelings, I have given this work a second title “Happiness is a Warm Gun...
Category
Academic 1940s Art
Materials
Tempera
Secret Project, Magazine Story Illustration
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.25" x 13.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine Story Illustration
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Nude Girl, Polynesian Girl Tahiti, Annabella
Located in Miami, FL
In some instances, a painting will look significantly much better in person than it does digitize. This is one instance. In-person, this painting will knock your socks off. It is...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Man on Ladder in Library
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00"
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Advertisement for Gulf Oil, 1944.
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Catch the Turkey, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of Liberty Magazine, November 23, 1940
Little boy trying to catch a turkey.
Magazine Included
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Rescue
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand Illustration
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. ...
Category
American Realist 1940s Art
Materials
Oil
A Passenger Train
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 16.00" x 33.75"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Exhibitions: Exhibited at International Galleries Contemporary American Illustration, May 1...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Study for Sculpture of Nude Woman Balancing Baby
By Chaim Gross
Located in New York, NY
Study for Sculpture of Nude Woman Balancing Baby, 1949, by Chaim Gross (1902-1991)
Ink on paper
10 ½ x 7 ½ inches unframed (26.67 x 19.05 cm)
1...
Category
Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Schneelanschaft / Snowy landscape
Located in Wien, 9
The artwork is signed and dated on the lower right and provided with sticker verso. The frame is a golden showpiece.
Provenance: Private collection Sweden
Category
Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ginger Rogers, circa 1948
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration is on 13.50" x 10.00" illustration board with a 8.00" x 5.00" image.
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Dancer & Actress Ginger Rogers...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
Chestnut Street's New Theatre
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed lower right.
James R. Bingham was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. During World War II, he put in a stint animating Army Air Force films and received an appointment as a Naval officer attached to the Office of Research and Invention.
Following the war, the heroics and adventure in his life was confined to the usual subject matter of his illustrations, such as a long series of pictures for Erle Stanley Gardner’s “Perry Mason...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Art
Materials
Board, Gouache
Walter Pidgeon
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This piece is on 15.00" x 11.00" illustration board with the drawing measuring to 7.00" x 9.00."
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Walter Pidgeon for `U.S. Steel Hour: The Theatre Guild on the Air` studio audience program guide to promote his appearance as writer William Magee in the radio adaptation of the venerable comedy-mystery, `Seven Keys to Baldpate` (based on George M. Cohan`s play from Earl Derr Bigger`s novel) heard live over ABC Radio on...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Pen
Alfred Drake in the Lead Role of Barnaby Goodchild in "Sing Out, Sweet Land
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Alfred Drake in the lead role of Barnaby Goodchild for 1944 Broadway musical revue `Sing Out, Sweet Land`. Directed by Walter Kerr & Leon Leonidoff, designed by Albert R. Johnson & Lucinda Ballard, the show ran 12/27/44 - 3/24/45, for 102 performances at the International Theatre...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
The Broadway Cast of "Kathleen"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Drawing by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), Broadway cast of `Kathleen` by Michael Sayers, staged by Coby Ruski...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
George Jessel, circa 1945
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Graphite on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
On illustration board, matted. The piece measures to 18.00" x 14.00" overall with an 8.00" x 6.00" image.
Caricature by George...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Illustration Board, Graphite
1948 Broadway Revival of "Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Drawing by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1948 Broadway revival of `Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II`s Show Boat`, starring Billy House as Cap`n Andy Hawks and Carol Bruce as Julie Dozier, City Center Theatre, directed by Hassard Short, produced by Richard Rodgers...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
At Home Wedding
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1941
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 45.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Illustration for Look magazine & Calendar Illustration
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pin-Up Study
By Peter Driben
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Graphite Pencil on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
A pin-up study
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks)
By Harry Lane
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, 16 x 20 inches, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coas...
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Alpine Landscape - 20th Century Impressionist Snowy Winter Canadian Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1940's impressionist oil on canvas laid on board depicting a snow covered Alpine Landscape by Canadian RA artist Adolphus George Broomfield.
This excellent quality and c...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Art
Materials
Oil
My Only Working Tool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
My Only Working Tool, 1949, oil on panel, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 12 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, exhibited at the Art News Second Annual National Amateur Co...
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled (Cubist Portrait)
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Cubist Portrait), 1945, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower middle, 20 x 16 inches,...
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, 1940, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, dated and titled verso: “Marcel Cailliet ’40 – S.C.” and “Marcel Cailliet Landscape”; likely exhibited at the annual juried st...
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Key Sketch for 60 Foot Movie Announcement on “Safety First"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Key Sketch for 60 Foot Movie Announcement on “Safety First,” 1948, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14.5 x 12.5 inches, titled in pencil verso; presented in a newer frame...
Category
Abstract 1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Farm in Winter)
By Julius M. Delbos
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Farm in Winter), 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 26 x 30 inches, presented in a...
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Army Poker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Army Poker, c. 1943, probably tempera on board, signed upper right, 16 x 20 inches, inscribed ver...
Category
American Realist 1940s Art
Materials
Tempera, Oil, Board
Untitled (Industrial Street)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Industrial Street), c. 1940s, watercolor on paper mounted on illustration board, estate...
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Board
A Valley Streetscape at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
A Valley Streetscape at Night, 1948, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower right, 18 x 24 inch...
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled (Transcendental Composition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Transcendental Composition), oil on board, 1947, oil on board, signed and dated lower r...
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Bay Area Abstract Expressionist - Blue Hydrangeas by Honora Berg
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Blue Hydrangeas in Acrylic on Paper
Vining Blue Hydrangeas by San Francisco's artist Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985), 1946. The vertica...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 ½ x 26 ½ inches, presented in a period frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Old World
By Russell Cowles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Old World, by 1943, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 43 ½ x 30 ½ inches, artist’s name and title inscribed verso; exhibited 1) Romantic Painting in America, Museum of Modern Art, N...
Category
Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Self Portrait, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, 14 ¼ x 12 1/4 inches, signed lower left, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of th...
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orange Grove Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Orange Grove Landscape, 1941, gouache on illustration board, 14 inches x 18 inches (image), 22 x 26 inches (framed) signed and dated lower right, newly framed with museum glazing
...
Category
American Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Gouache, Board
Georges Louis Claude (1879-1963) A bouquet of blue flowers 1940, oil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Louis Claude (1879-1963)
A bouquet of blue flowers
signed with the initials GLC and dated "II 40" in the lower right
oil on paper
62 x 47 cm
In good condition traces of pins...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Art
Materials
Oil
Virgin Mary tempera painting religious altarpiece
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Vila i Rufas (1924-2011) - Virgin Mary 1948 - Egg tempera
Painted on gold metallic surface.
Painting measurements 40x32 cm.
Frame measurements 53x45 cm.
Inactive xylophagous ga...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Art
Materials
Egg Tempera
Flowers and Arches
By Helen Lundeberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flowers and Arches, 1943, oil on board, initialed and dated lower left, 4 x 7 1/8 inches, presented in an older, but likely not original frame
This work is part of our exhibition A...
Category
Modern 1940s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
