1940s Prints and Multiples

Classic map compiled by: C.W. Owen, Jr 1948 of the 'Territory of the Potomac Hunt' Kennels: Travilah, MD Map Sz: 17"H x 18"W Frame Sz: 22"H x 23"W The Potomac Hunt is one of Maryl...

Suffering and pain is al modern artwork realized by Corrado Cagli and Massimo Bontempelli. Black and white lithograph realized by Corrado Cagli with a text by Massimo Bontempelli. ...

We are in 1944. It was not until autumn that France was liberated from its Nazi invader, thanks in particular to the American landing. In the streets, these posters were put up to w...

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Square Head of a Woman Half Smiling (Plate XII) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Original etching on Montval wove paper Year: 1949 Edition: 289 Frame Size: 21" ...

Original OUR AMERICA TRANSPORTATION #4, horizontal vintage WWII time frame Transportation creates new wonders. Professional acid-free archival linen backed mint condition. This #4 for Transportation has two variations produced by Coca-Cola to feature the future of modern air travel. This is a rare variation of the Coca-Cola Our America transportation series. This poster #4 for transportation is the only Coca-Cola Our America poster that had two different versions. This poster is in excellent condition. The initially issued fold narks were flattened, and the touch-up work is exceptionally well done. So well done, you would have to look to find them! As mint as this poster can be! A futuristic plane design is shown as "transportation creates new wonders' as the double-decker plane with lower and upper passenger loading. You can stop and drop off passengers directly at the plane from your car! You can arrive by boat or water taxi or by using the new suspended freeways. The scene has semi-delivery trucks driving directly to the loading bays. The airplane engines...

Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University). ABOUT THE ARTIST Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe. Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston. In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press: “The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.” The other speakers were Karl Knaths...

Fragments for the promised land is a modern artwork realized by Pericle Fazzini and Giuseppe Ungaretti Black and white lithograph realized by Pericle Fazzini with a text by Giuseppe...

Moon by day is a modern artwork realized by Filippo De Pisis. Black and white lithograph with a text by the same Filippo De Pisis. Good conditions except for some folds, foxings, a...

Post scriptum in the bottle is a modern artwork realized by Domenico Purificato and Libero De Libero. Black and white lithograph realized by Domenico Purificato with a text by Liber...

Astrid is a modern artwork realized by Vincenzo Cardarelli and Carlo Carrà. Black and white lithograph realized by Carlo Carrà with a text by Vincenzo Cardarelli Good conditions. ...

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 ...

Original Holiday Magazine "The Beaches and Alaska" Newsstand Vintage Poster Features:- - This is an original 1948 Holiday poster created for the magazine The Beaches and Alaska edition. - The image features a billowing beach umbrella, a couple running with their air mattress into the ocean, beach ball blankets, music, and more. - The poster is in excellent condition, archivally linen-backed and ready to frame. - This would make a great addition to any collection or as a gift for someone who loves the beach. Description:- This is a beautiful and rare original 1948 Holiday poster created for the magazine's The Beaches and Alaska edition. The image features a billowing beach umbrella, a couple running with their air mattress into the ocean, beach ball blankets, music, and more. The poster is in excellent condition, archivally linen-backed and ready to frame. This would make a great addition to any collection or as a gift for someone who loves the beach. Holiday was a US travel magazine from 1928 - 1977, first published by the AAA (American Automobile Association) until the mid 40's when it was sold to Curtis Publishing Company who ran the magazine until 1977, when it was sold to Travel Magazine who merged it with their publication to form Travel Holiday. A fun beach scene poster...

Fuga si, fuga no is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Scordia and Mino Maccari. Black and white lithograph realized by Antonio Scordia and a text by Mino Maccari. Good condition...

Piazza San Pietro is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Donghi, and Leonardo Sinisgalli in 1945. Black and white lithograph. Both pages are hand-signed in pencil and the left one ...

Trout Fishing on the Gunnison (Colorado) Lithograph, 1941 Signed and dated '42 in pencil lower right Annotated lower left: "40 Prints-The Gunnison River, Colorado-For Anne & Jack" Ed...

Night time is a modern artwork realized by Orfeo Tamburi, Giorgio Vigolo in 1945. Black and white lithograph. Both pages are hand-signed in pencil and the left one is dated" 1945" ...

Original vintage World War Two National Savings home front poster - Keep on Saving Salute the Soldier - featuring an image of soldiers in uniform marching w...

Original United Nations 1945 vintage poster. We the Peoples of the United Nations" The opening phrase "We the peoples of the United Nations.", echoing the preamble of the United States Constitution...

Medium: lithograph with pochoir coloring (after the 1883 watercolor). Printed in 1948 on Johannot paper for the rare "Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir" portfolio and published...

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 (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 (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...

Pablo Picasso L'Atelier (The Studio), 1948 Lithograph Hand signed by artist and numbered 45/50 from an edition of 50. Measures: 25.5 x 19.5 inches In the artist's catalogue "Picasso Lithographe II...

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...

Original poster was made in 1940 by Robert Génicot 🇫🇷 (1890-1981) for the Moroccan Office of Tourism. He was notably an artist appreciated for his drawings of Morocco. The use of ...

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 ...

My Parents is a modern artwork realized by Alberto Savinio in 1944-1947. Black and white lithograph. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Edition of 32 prints, this piece is a...

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Monogram J (Plate II) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper Year: 1949 Edition: 289 Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3...

An original poster made in 1942, in the middle of the World War when France was partly occupied. The war effort had to be supported and all the communicatio...

A true masterpiece that makes you travel in a glance and that we are proud to present to you! Lucien Boucher 🇫🇷 (1889 - 1971) is a painter, engraver, poster artist and draughtsman who marked his time. He began by studying ceramics at the School of Sevres before being sent to the front in 1914. He was taken prisoner, and that's when he started to draw. First hired as a caricaturist by the weekly humoristic magazine "Le Rire", he will end up designing posters and flyers for Air France. This fantastic work of Lucien Boucher represents, a mythical phoenix flying in front of an Air France plane on a map of Asia marked by pagoda palaces and minarets, an Asian sailboat at sea and the snow topped by Mount...

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Oval Head with Dividing Line (Plate XXIX) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper Year: 1949 Edition: 289 Frame Size: 21" x 18" Sheet Siz...

Original vintage British Railways poster - The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright Scotland - featuring a peaceful scenic view by Charles Oppenheimer (1875-1961) of the Solway Riviera coastal...

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: 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 ...

Original poster of the ERP European Reunification Program, Inter-europaische Zusammenarbeit, which translates to "Inter-European Collaboration." The European Reunification Program (ERP), later known as the Marshall Plan, was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate European economies after World War II...

The X Ball is a prestigious event organized every year, usually in the spring, at the Garnier Opera House, by the X Ball Committee of the Association of Former Students and Graduates...

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 (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...

The Diary is a modern artwork realized by Mino Maccari, and Velso Mucci, in 1944-1947. Black and white lithograph realized by Maccari and a test written by Valso Mucci in Italian on...

This impression (after the original woodcut) was printed on japon paper in 1943 in an edition of 250, and is one of Gauguin's beautiful Tahiti compositions. Image size: 6 1/4 x 12 in...

Original vintage World War Two poster - A British Short Sunderland Flying Boat patrolling the sea lanes - featuring an illustration of an RAF Royal Air Force bomber plane flying abov...

Morning Paper Mezzotint, 1941 Signed in pencil lower right Publisher: 32nd Presentation Print of the Chicago Society of Etchers Edition: 350 Illustrated in GREAT AMERICAN PRINTS 1900-1950 by Norman and June Kraeft Reference: Old Print Shop No. 86 Condition: Excellent Original brown paper hinges in the upper corners recto Plate/Image size: 8 7/8 x 5 15/16 inches Impressions of this image can be found in the permanent collection of: Minneapolis Institute of Art Wichita Art Museum Hope College, Kruizenga Art Museum University of Connecticut, Benton Art Museum Amherst College, Mead Art Museum "Mastro-Valerio was educated at the Salvador Rosa Institute in Naples, Italy (1906-1912), and came to the U.S. in 1913. He settled in Chicago, and after a brief period as a commerical artist, established a portrait studio near the Loop. Among his patrons were the industrialists Harvey S...

Night time is a modern artwork realized by Orfeo Tamburi and Giorgio Vigolo in 1945. Black and white lithograph. Both pages are hand-signed in pencil and the left one is dated 1945....

Hayter, Stanley William. PERSONNAGE VIRTUEL. BM182. Engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper, 1947. Edition of 70, signed, dated, and numbered 42/70, all in pencil. 11 3/4 x 8 7/8...

Medium: lithograph (after the gouache). This is the whimsical and striking surrealist composition, created by Rene Magritte for the cover of the December 1946 issue of "View", devoted to Surrealism in Belgium. View was a quarterly American art revue, published in New York from 1940-1947, focused especially on surrealist art. The total sheet measures 12 x 9 inches (305 x 230 mm). This was the actual cover and there is text printed...

A beautiful poster made by George Moschos 🇬🇷 (1906-1990). Andros is the second largest island after Naxos. It is also the northernmost island of the Cyclades and is only 2 hours b...

"The Covered Wagon" On the Oregon Trail Prairie Schooner and Cattle Facsimile in oil or silk screen Oil print by Gilbert Ross Tonge (American, 1883 - 1970...

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - The Gloucesters, a famous regiment from Great Britain, raided Letpadan and drove the Japanese from the town, inflicting heavy casua...

Wood engraving The Battle of Berlin was the last land battle of the Second World War in Europe. Launched on April 16, 1945 by the Soviets, it ended on May 2, 1945 with the surrender of...

The Story " Reason" - Illustrated is a modern artwork realized by Nicola Ciarletta and Giovanni Omiccioli. Black and white lithograph realized by Giovanni Omiccioli and a story writ...

To see our other original vintage propaganda posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot fin...

Piazza San Pietro is a modern artwork realized by Mino Maccari, Aldo Palazzeschi in 1944-1945. Black and white lithograph realized by Maccari and a poem written by Aldo Palazzeschi ...

The Man in the Well is a modern artwork realized by Alberto Savinio and Lorenzo Montano Black and white lithograph realized by Alberto Savinio and a text by Lorenzo Montano Good c...

Original vintage Soviet World War Two period propaganda poster - We will expose and destroy the provocateurs and spreaders of panicking rumours / Разоблачим и уничтожим провокаторов ...

Original vintage ski travel poster for Le Mont Dore Auvergne in France featuring a fun design by Jean Even (1910-1986) depicting a skier wearing a racing bib skiing down a slope at s...

Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Help Britain Finish the Job! - featuring dynamic artwork depicting a warship at sea crashing through waves towards the viewer and s...

RAPHAEL SOYER (1899 - 1987) THE MODEL 1944 (Cole 64) Lithograph Signed in pencil, edition 250, 11 ¾ x 7 ¾ Full margins, sheet 15 ¾ x 12 with deckle edge. Very slight toning to the ...

To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" 1943 Army World War II USA Original aeroplane recognition poster (1942) 44 x 59 cm A summary of US aeroplanes from the series of US Navy identification posters that we have in stock. Fighters: P38 Lightning...