American Modern Art
Style: American Modern
Color: Yellow
Shovel Handles, 1950s Framed American Modernist Oil Painting, Green Bronze Blue
Located in Denver, CO
"Shovel Handles" is an original vintage 1953 modernist oil painting by mid 20th century Denver artist, Paul K. Smith (1893-1977). Signed dated by the artist in the lower margin, titl...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Original "G.M.E. Sanitaire" vintage French kitchen poster
By G. Raoul
Located in Spokane, WA
Original G.M.E. Sanitaire vintage French poster. Linen backed in very good condition and ready to frame.
GME Sanitaire c'est la Cuisine is a French vintage poster that has been linen backed for preservation. The poster advertises the GME tile and cladding company, which specializes in kitchen tiles...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original "Radio Point Bleu Musical!" vintage French poster, linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Radio Point Bleu Musical!” vintage French antique poster. Archivail linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame. Signed J.L.B. in the plate at upper right. No specific year is indicated on the poster.
Point Bleu / Radio Musical! Paris: Bedos & Cie. Lithograph poster for the French radio manufacturer, showing a woman’s face in silhouette with a treble clef over her ear; red and blue lettering against a bright yellow background. Printer: Paris: Bedos & Cie. The poster does not have a date, but most of the Point Bleu radio posters...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
1950s "Yellow" Mid Century Nude Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper
Yellow
c. 1950's
Gouache on Paper
15" x 18", Unframed
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing tim...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Original "The Rocky Horror Picture Show' US 1 sheet vintage movie poster 1975
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" US 1-sheet vintage movie poster. Archvial linen backed. 1975, Style B. Original fold marks pr...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
gravesend, oler woman w city scape window yellow tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive ...
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Original "The Rose Bowl Story" vintage Football movie poster US 1 sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original ROSE BOWL STORY authentic 1952 vintage movie poster. Archival linen-backed vintage theater used film poster. Very fine condition, ready to frame.
Original story and screenplay by Charles R. Marion.
Actors: Marshall Thomas; Vera Miles; Natalie Wood; Keith Larsen; Thom Harmon; Ann Doran; James Dobson; Jim Backus; Clarence Kolb; Barbara Woodell; Bill Welsh; Jean Andren; Gertrude Astor; Lela Bliss; Herbert Brackett; Oran Breeland; Paul Bryar; Willam Cabanne; Richard...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
"Arena" First 3 Dimension Western vintage movie poster 1953 US 1-sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
“Arena” The First 3 Dimension Western. Original theater issued vintage movie poster - 1953. Professional archival linen backed with the original theater-issued fold marks restored. Ready to frame. Size: 27" x 41.5"
Original linen-backed 1953 first 3-D Western movie poster. The FIRST 3-D Dimension Western MGM full-length feature. You live dangerously in MGM's great outdoor romance! Print by Technicolor. Photographed in Technicolor Ansco Color. Gig Young, Jean Hagen, Polly Bergen...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
"Sunflowers, " Frank London, Modernist Yellow Floral Still Life with Window
Located in New York, NY
Frank Marsdon London (1876 - 1945)
Sunflowers
Oil on canvas
31 x 22 inches
Signed lower right
Exhibited:
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art.
Frank Marsden London was born in the small Southern town of Pittsboro in central North Carolina in 1876. When he reached adulthood, London attended the University of North Carolina...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Original USSR USA Superman superpowers original vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1968 Cold War Superman Style Poster by Roman Cieslewicz USSR / CCCP USA. Created as the cover of the French left-wing art magazine ‘Opus Internatio...
Category
1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Mid Century Modern Abstracted Landscape, Big Sur Coast Cliffs
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Abstracted Landscape, Big Sur Coast Cliffs
Colorful mid-century landscape of jagged cliffs along the dramatic Big Sur coastline by an unknown artist. Unsigned. P...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard, Canvas
Reclining Nude
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Joseph Stella. "Reclining Nude" is a figurative painting, oil on canvas in a bright palette of yellows, greens, and tans by American Modernist artist Joseph Stella. The...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liquid Light Study 1028
Located in Lawrence, NY
#4 of 8
signed and dated
Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in t...
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Human Body Series 1632
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 of 8
archival pigment print
signed, numbered
printed to order
Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in the 1990s with two collections of underwater photography, Water Dance and Pool Light. He has since gone on to photograph dancers, athletes, actors, the homeless, flowers, circus performers and design and execute his own compositions. His work often straddles the blurry line between fashion and art and makes the argument for fashion photography as art.
Schatz's focus is the human body...
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Body Knots Series #256
Located in Lawrence, NY
#17 of 24
Signed and numbered
Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
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Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase.
Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes.
Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine.
In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi.
Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
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1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache, Board, Watercolor
Jean Cocteau - Blue Lady - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Blue Lady
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm
Edition: 200
1959
Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais
Unnumb...
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1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Nude Musicians" WPA Mid 20th Century American Modernism LGBT Social Realism Gay
Located in New York, NY
Carl Gustaf Simon Nelson, American (1898-1988) "Nude Musicians," 30 x 35 inches, oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1938 signature lower right. Provenance: Collection of Seymour Stein
Bio
Carl Gustaf Simon Nelson (1898 - 1988)
A painter, graphic artist and teacher whose paintingfocus was color and content landscapes, Nelson at age five immigrated with his family to Sioux City, Iowa from Sweden in 1903. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts* from 1920 to 1921, then at the Art Students League* in New York from 1923 to 1927 with Kimon Nicolaides and Kenneth Hayes Miller. He taught at the American Peoples School of New York, an adult education project; at the Cambridge School of Design from 1948 to 1952; and finally at the Boston YMCA until 1968.
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1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Box at 'Faustus'
By Diana Thorne
Located in Storrs, CT
The Box at 'Faustus'. 1929. Drypoint. 11 x 8 7/8. Edition 100, #39. Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil. A rich impression printed on the full sheet of pale blue/green-toned wove paper. Signed in pencil. A tongue-in-cheek image of the devil in the opera box...
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1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Large French Judaica Lithograph Carborundum Etching Jewish Hebrew Embossing
Located in Surfside, FL
Theo Tobiasse
Suite: Shavuot Festival
Year: 1984
Medium: Original carborundum embossed etching lithograph in colors on Arches paper (deckle edged paper)
Signature: Hand signed by the artist
Publisher Nahan Gallery, New Orleans
Theo Tobiasse, born Tobias Eidesas, 1927 in Jaffa then in British Mandate Palestine, died 2012 in Cagnes-sur-Mer in France. Well known painter, engraver, draftsman and sculptor. French Jewish artist.
The youngest son of Chaim (Charles) Eidesas and Brocha (Berthe) Slonimsky from Kaunas, Lithuania, Théo Tobiasse was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1927, where his Jewish parents lived since 1925, far from the threat of pogroms and upheavals of East European policies. The family encountered material difficulties and decided to return to Lithuania, ultimately leaving for Paris in 1931 where his father typographer finds work in a Russian printing press.
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1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
"Morning" Nude Couple in Bed - Figurative Composition in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate and expressive depiction of a nude couple by Byron Richard Rodarmel (American, 1932-2007). A couple is intertwined on a bed, rendered in a soft palette of peach, yellow, pin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 30.25 in W 40.25 in D 1.5 in
Colorful Russian French Judaica Jewish Shtetl Wedding Lithograph Mourlot Paris
By Mane Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Mane-Katz (1894-1962) Original Lithograph published by Andre Sauret, Monte Carlo, 1966, printed in France, by Mourlot. The ouvrage sheet is not included. this is from a limited editi...
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1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Beach Scene Nude
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
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Located in Soquel, CA
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Art
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Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
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Located in Soquel, CA
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20th Century American Modern Art
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Located in Soquel, CA
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1970s American Modern Art
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Parisian Model
By Max Weber
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Parisian Model" is an oil on canvas painting by Max Weber painted in 1908. The work is signed and dated, lower right, "Max Weber Paris 1908". The painting size is 35 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches. The framed size is 43 x 27 x 2 1/4 inches.
"Parisian Model" was painted in 1908, when Weber participated in a life class in Matisse's studio in Paris and painted several nudes. Weber was influenced toward a more Cubist styler after seeing Cezanne's work in the 1906-07 Salon in Paris, and he consorted within avant-garde circles in Paris as early as 1905. After returning to the US in 1909, Weber was credited with showing American audiences Cubism based on his firsthand knowledge of the key players and the style.
Several drawings of Weber's from this time are in museum collections at The Met, the Smithsonian, and MoMA and show a similar style and stocatto gesture. Parisian paintings by Max Weber are extremely rare as there are hardly any that have sold publicly.
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Gerald Peters Gallery...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Art
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Canvas, Oil
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Located in Missouri, MO
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Les Trois Oeufs, 1974
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Located in Arp, TX
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"Parisian Nude"
c.1950s
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Located in Paris, FR
After Keith Haring
Swing Guy (Pink), 1983
Screenprint Event Poster
Printed signature in the plate
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1980s American Modern Art
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Located in Paris, FR
After Keith Haring
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Printed signature in the plate
Each on heavy paper 100 x 70 cm (c. 40 x 28 in)
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1980s American Modern Art
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Screen
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Located in Paris, FR
After Keith Haring
Swing Guy (Pink), 1983
Screenprint Event Poster
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 100 x 70 cm (c. 40 x 28 in)
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Located in Paris, FR
After Keith Haring
Swing Guy (Pink), 1983
Screenprint Event Poster
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 100 x 70 cm (c. 40 x 28 in)
Created after Haring for the Montreux Ja...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
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By Keith Haring
Located in Paris, FR
Keith Haring
Swing Guy (Pink), 1983
Original screenprint
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 100 x 70 cm (c. 40 x 28 in)
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1980s American Modern Art
Materials
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Located in Houston, TX
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1960s American Modern Art
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Oil
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Located in Soquel, CA
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Early 2000s American Modern Art
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Located in Dallas, TX
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
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By Jason Berger
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right.
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Canvas, Oil
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