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Style: American Modern
NOISE REMIX (Bonus Print) - Original Screenprint, Handsigned, Limited /75
Located in Paris, FR
Shepard Fairey (Obey Giant)
NOISE REMIX (Bonus Print)
Screenprint
Handsigned in pencil by the artist
Dated 2020
Numbered /75
Size 46 x 46 cm (c. 18 x 18 in)
Excellent condition
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Red Betty
Located in Lafayette, LA
This work is Entitled " Red Betty". The main image is of a woman with a round hairdo looking off to the right.
Signed and dated In graphite pencil en ve...
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Printer's Ink
Les Belles et la Bête: Before the Hunt
By Peter Milton
Located in Middletown, NY
Resist ground etching and engraving on cream wove paper, 22 x 39 inches (558 x 990 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 27/160 in pencil, lower margin. With the blindstamp of the printer, Robert E. Townsend, in the lower left margin. A beautiful, richly inked impression of this highly detailed, large image. In very good condition with minor mat tone, extremely minor scattered light surface soiling, and one pin-point sized dot of brown discoloration on the lower left margin, recto, well outside of image area.
[Milton 99].
Milton states that there is a metaphorical evolution at the root of his body of graphic work, and with Les Belles et la Bête, Before the Hunt, he found himself at a crossroads that he viewed as a sort of artistic adolescence, which he felt demanded a natural examination of mysteries of sexual awakening. The image is brimming with fantastical images and metaphors for the confrontation of sexual exploration; a Freudian analyst appears in the left of the image, scattered tableaus of paired figures...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Engraving, Archival Paper, Etching
Virasat Curved, figurative bronze mantle piece
By Robert Cook
Located in Greenwich, CT
A remarkable and unique format bronze of unique cast that could be great for a mantle or console table.
In Robert Cook's book entitled “Waxing and Waning” he discusses three castings...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Art
Materials
Stone, Bronze
The Evening
Located in Bayonne, NJ
Meshberg was a master of metaphysical landscape/city scape painting. He deeply admired metaphysical still life paintings by Giorgio Morandi and ha...
Category
1990s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Colorado Mountain Town, Framed Summer Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
By Doris Lee
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by Doris Emrick Lee of a Colorado mountain town landscape in the summer time. Landscape including houses, roads, and telephone poll...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Samson, Bronze Sculpture by Arnold Goldstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bronze sculpture of blind Samson collapsing the temple in the ultimate act in the story of Samson and Delilah created by American artist Arnold Goldstein...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Giraffe Gates, bronze sculpture
By Robert Cook
Located in Greenwich, CT
This unique cast bronze is the perfect work to silhouette in front of a plain wall area. It acts as a line drawing in space. Robert Cook explored the limits of the lost was casting ...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Park Scene (Chelsea, Manhattan)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Park Scene (Chelsea, Manhattan)
Oil on artist's board, c. 1947-49
Signed lower right (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Dehn Heirs
Condition: Good, needs a light cleaning
Original wormy chestnut frame
Painting size: 9 1/4 x 12 inches
Frame size: 14 1/4 x 17 inches
One of the earliest know Virginia Dehn paintings after her marriage to Adolf in 1947. The lived in Chelsea at 433 West 21st St.
Inscription by artist verso:
Virginia Dehn
443 W. 21 St.
New York City
V.70
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn
Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Reclining Female Nude
By Emil Ganso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude
Charcoal on paper, c. 1933
Signed lower right (see photo)
Provenance:
Weyhe Gallery, New York (Ganso's dealer 1925-1941)
Joseph Mark Erdelac, Cleveland, noted collector who had a large collection of Ganso works
Ganso was born in Germany in 1895. At age 14, he apprenticed to a baker and then worked his way to America when he was 17. He worked in bakeries in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Cincinnati and Akron, Ohio. By 1916, Ganso out of a job, and was living the life of a bohemian in New York City, sometimes on less than 30 cents a week.1
In 1921, Ganso painted a realistic nude on a bedsheet, and was forced by the police to remove it from an exhibition. The bedsheet with the painting was later stolen. He soon had a job baking again at $140 a month, and with time to spare for painting and study. Ganso quit baking in 1925 when a New York dealer gave him financial backing of $50 a week. Ganso prospered from his art after that.
His work is in over 15 American museums, and the Print Club of Cleveland awarded him a $500 purchase prize for a wood engraving. A versatile artist, he painted a variety of subjects.
(from a profile written by Clyde Singer...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Graphite
Robert Indiana, "Santa Fe Opera, " Hand signed, numbered, 1976
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Robert Indiana
Santa Fe Opera
1976
Silkscreen in colors
Hand signed in pencil
37.5 x 27 inches
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Rainy Day, Providence
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on Japan paper, 9 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (245 x 322 mm), full margins, from an edition of approximately 50. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower center margin, t...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Drypoint, Handmade Paper, Etching
"New York City Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge), " Leon Dolice, East River, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960)
New York Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge), circa 1930-40
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Spanierman Gallery, New York
The romantic b...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Highbridge (Harlem River, New York City)
Located in Middletown, NY
Lithograph on bluish green wove paper, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (223 x 146 mm), full margins. In very good condition with no visible defects.
A dramatic 19th century view of the Harlem ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
VI Rose Nose Cat
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
VI Rose Nose Cat
Colored chalks on black paper, 1977
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Part of a series entit...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Chalk
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder
"Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist
Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's)
these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph.
James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor”
Clive Gray...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fires of Spring in Big Woods
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamp lower right
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Moonlight Shanties
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Moonlight Shanties, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches, signed lower right, signed and titled verso
About the Painting
In Moonlight Shanties, Joachim depicts a lower-class neighborhood sitting along-side an elevated road or railway which crowds out the small nearby houses and structures. Joachim’s use of an expressionist palette and gestural brushstrokes together with the isolated figures obscured in the shadows, create a feeling of unease, isolation and even loneliness. From the 1920s through 1940s, American artists commonly employed expressionist conventions in their social realist works which portrayed the gritty side of urban America, especially the communities of the city-dwelling poor. Expressionist styles were considered appropriate for bridging the gap between the modernist idea of art-for-art’s-sake and the narrative qualities demanded by the dual crises of the Great Depression and World War II. Moonlight Shanties successfully uses these expressionist methods to portray a neighborhood and its people who appear to be literally and figuratively “on the edge.”
About the Artist
Paul Lamar Joachim...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
"New York City Skyline View from the East River, " Lionel Reiss, Jewish Artist
By Lionel Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
New York City Skyline View from the East River
Watercolor on paper
13 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Turkeys in the Trees, Early 20th Century Farm Landscape Watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Turkey in the Trees, c. 1922
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
22 x 29 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a mast...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Balcony" 1938 WPA Print Mid 20th Century American Broadway Theatre Modernism
By Leon Bibel
Located in New York, NY
"Balcony" 1938 WPA Print Mid 20th Century American Broadway Theatre Modernism.
Silk screen on paper, 15” x 20". Numbered 15/20 lower left. Pencil si...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Untitled [Abstraction]
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper, 18 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.
Signed (at lower right): Morris; (with monogram, on the back): GLKM [monogram] / 1932 [sic]
Executed circa late 1940s
A passionate advocate of abstract art during the 1930s and 1940s, George L. K. Morris was active as a painter, sculptor, editor, and critic. An erudite man with an internationalist point of view, Morris
eschewed the social, political, and figural concerns that preoccupied so many artists of Depression-era America, believing that painters should focus their attention on the beauty, refinement, and simplicity of pure form instead. His goal, he said, was “to wedge the expression further and further into the confines of the canvas until every shape takes on a spatial meaning” (as quoted in Ward Jackson, “George L. K. Morris: Forty Years of Abstract Art,” Art Journal 32 [Winter 1972–73], p. 150).
Born into an affluent family in New York City, Morris was a descendent of General Lewis Morris, a
signer of the Declaration of Independence. From 1918 until 1924, he attended the Groton School in
Connecticut, studying classics and art. He continued to focus on literature and art while attending
Yale University (1924–28), an experience that prepared him well for his future activity as an artist-critic. After graduating in 1928, Morris studied at the Art Students League of New York, working
under the realist painters John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller, as well as Jan Matulka, the only
modernist on the faculty. In the spring of 1929, Morris traveled to Paris with Albert E. Gallatin, a
family friend and fellow painter who introduced him to leading members of the Parisian avant-garde, including Jean Arp, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Hélion, and Piet Mondrian. Morris also took classes at the Académie Moderne, studying under Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant, important exponents of Synthetic Cubism who influenced his aesthetic development. Indeed, after experimenting with the simplified forms of Modernism for a few years, Morris moved on to abstraction by 1934, adopting a hard-edged, geometric approach inspired by Leger’s cubist style and the biomorphic shapes of Arp and Joan Miró.
Following his return to New York in 1930, Morris built a white-walled, open-spaced studio (inspired
by that of Ozenfant, which had been designed by Le Corbusier) on the grounds of Brockhurst, his
parents’ 46-acre estate in Lenox, Massachusetts. In 1935, he married the painter and collagist Estelle “Suzy...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Bathing Beauties
By John Albok
Located in Dallas, TX
Vintage gelatin silver print
9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.
Titled, dated and artist stamp on verso.
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 192...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Two Volkswagons
Located in East Hampton, NY
Black & White Photo of two rusted Volkswagon's sitting in a desert
Comes unframed
Also available in 20"x30"
About the Artist: My intent is to create a mythic dreamscape that explo...
Category
1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Backyards of Broadway' — 1920s American Precisionism, New York City
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Backyards of Broadway ( Waterfront I )', lithograph, 1926, edition 10, Flint 7. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on BFK Rives off-white, wove paper...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Mid Century California Landscape Painting "Colored Roofs" Gouache on Paper
Located in Arp, TX
Thelma Corbin Moody (1908-1986)
Colored Roofs
c. 1960s
Gouache on Watercolor Paper
22" x 15", Unframed
This piece is unsigned and came from a large...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache, Paper
The Dance of Salome, Abstracted Figural Framed Triptych, 1960s Oil Paintings
Located in Denver, CO
The Dance of Salome or the Dance of the Seven Veils is a Triptych painted in 3 panels in oil on board. Each panel depicts a semi-abstract, cubist style individual figure: Herod, Herodias and Salome. Painted in bright colors of yellow, orange, red, green, fuchsia, purple, pink, white, blue, black and brown. Presented in vintage frames, framed dimensions of each panel measure 29 x 17 x 1 ½ inches, Image size is 23 ½ x 12 ¼ inches, each. Overall dimensions of the triptych measure 29 x 53 ½ x 1 ½ inches as displayed with 1 inch spacing between each panel.
Based on the Dance of Seven Veils in which Princess Salome danced...
Category
1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original NEXT! 6th War Loan vintage 1944 poster World War 2
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War II poster: NEXT!. 6th War Loan. Original World War 2 government issued poster. Linen backed with original fold marks restored. T...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
By Leon Bibel
Located in New York, NY
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
Leon Bibel (1912 - 1995) "The Audience," 52 ½ x 41 ¼ inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1963. Signed lower right. Framed.
BIO
Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Leon Bibel was born in San Francisco in 1913. He trained at the California School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School.
In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project at Harlem Art...
Category
1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Belles et La Bête I: The Rehearsal
By Peter Milton
Located in Middletown, NY
Resist ground etching and engraving on Rives heavyweight buff paper, 20 x 36 inches (508 x 914 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 103/160 in pencil, lower margin. Minor mat tone. A rich and finely printed impression of this complex and iconic work by Milton. Framed handsomely under Plexiglas with archival materials in a solid wood frame with silver finish.
[Milton 98].
Milton states that in the evolution of his body of graphic work he found himself at point that necessitated the exertion of nerve in his subject matter. He found it imperative for growth to explore whether his compositions had previously been too polite, and through this process he experienced a great burst of artistic and psychic liberation. Milton refers to this awakening as a sort of adolescence, which he felt demanded a natural examination of mysteries of sexual awakening. Les Belles et La Bête...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Engraving, Archival Paper, Etching
Spring Unveiling Urban gardener subject warm spring pastel color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a pastel painting on toned archival signed and dated by the artist. The subject matter refers to a time in the artist's life in Brooklyn where fig trees were wrapped and tie...
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Pastel, Paper
City Park, Denver, Colorado, Large Semi Abstract Colorful Oil Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Large format oil painting on canvas of City Park in Denver, Colorado by 20th century Denver modernist, Edward Marecak. Semi-abstract park scene with various types of trees, figures, ...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"New York City Harbor" Leon Dolice, Downtown Skyline, East and Hudson River
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960)
New York Harbor Skyline at Twilight (Searching), circa 1930-40
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Spanierman Gallery, New York
T...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
1950s "Figure in Shadow" Figurative Gouache Painting America Modernist
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Figure in Shadow"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24" x 18" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of Fine Art
The Art Students League
Pratt Graphic Arts Center
University of Paris 1953-54
University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55
Faculty: Art Department of the New School
Museum of Modern Art
School of Visual Arts
Stacy Studio Workshop
Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns
George Wittenborn
The New School
Print Exhibitions, Chicago
University of Oklahoma
Honolulu Museum
Monclair Museum
Wisconsin State College
Louisiana Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Hilltop Through the Trees, Modernist Watercolor Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A vibrant modernist landscape watercolor by Laguna Beach, California artist Nevalda Bartolini Liberi (Italian/American, 20th Century). This lovely and bright watercolor features a view of a beautiful hillside, seen through a grove of twisting trees. A charming house is glimpsed in the distance.
Signed "Nevalda Bartolini" lower right.
Displayed in a new white mat. Unframed.
Paper size: 15"H x 22.25"W.
Nevalda Bartolini Liberi was an Italian-American artist active in New York in the 1960's, and later in Laguna Beach, California. She was married to the prolific painter, sculptor, and former Laguna Beach gallery owner Dante Liberi...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
Located in New York, NY
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
TILL THE COULDS ROLL BY (Film Set), oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches signed “Richard Whorf” lower right and signed and dated on the verso “R. Whorf/ Dec. 21, 1945. Frame by Hendenryk.
ABOUT THE PAINTING
This painting is from the collection of Barbara and Frank Sinatra, dated December 21, 1945 (just nine days after Frank Sinatra’s 30th birthday), and depicts the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Culver City backlot during the filming of Till the Clouds Roll By, the direction of the film having been taking over by Richard Whorf in December 1945. It is not presently clear if Whorf gave the Sinatras this painting as a gift, as the presence of the Dalzell Hatfield Galleries label on the verso indicates the painting may have been sourced there. Frank and Nancy Sinatra acquired a number of works from Dalzell Hatfield Galleries during the 1940’s, or perhaps they framed it for the couple.
Sinatra performed “Old Man River’ in the film. Sinatra and June Allyson are depicted in the center of the painting.
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Mrs. Nancy Sinatra; Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles.
An image of the Dalzell Hatfield label and the back of the original frame (which we replaced with a stunning Heydenrk frame) are attached.
Nancy Sinatra was Fran's first wife. Nancy Rose Barbato was 17 years old when she met Frank Sinatra, an 18-year-old singer from Hoboken, on the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1934. They married in 1939 at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jersey City where Frank gave Nancy a recording of a song dedicated to her titled "Our Love" as a wedding present. The young newlyweds lived and worked in New Jersey, where Frank worked as an unknown singing waiter and master of ceremonies at the Rustic Cabin while Nancy worked as a secretary at the American Type Founders.
His musical career took off after singing with big band leaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original 'Is YOUR trip necessary?' vintage WWII poster World War II
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster. Is Your Trip Necessary? Original American military poster: Millions of troops are on the move... Is YOUR trip necessary? ...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
1950s "Red Sun" Mid Century Abstract Art Students League NYC
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Red Sun"
c.1950s
Gouache and oil pastel on paper
13.75" x 17" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks.
Donald Stacy (1925-2008) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of Fine Art
The Art Students League...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
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...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
"Nude by the Mirror" Mid-Century Modern Expressionist and Cubist Figure
By Byron Browne
Located in New York, NY
Byron Browne (1907 - 1961)
Nude by a Mirror, 1958
Oil on canvas
26 x 20 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Doyle New York, Doyle + Design, June 7, 2017, Lot 20
Born in Yonkers,...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
La Bella Venezia
Located in Middletown, NY
(New York: John Taylor Arms, 1930)
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a fancy "G" watermark, 7 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches (182 x 442 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Ed. 70" in pencil, lower margin. From a total edirion of 81 plus 5 trial proofs. Printed by Henry E. Carling. Number 18 from the Italian Series. A superb impression of this scarce print, with all of the subtleties and details of the reflections in the water printing clearly. [Fletcher 232]
[Illustrated: Page 192, Arms, Dorothy Noyes, "Hilltowns and Cities of Northern Italy"].
Along with his constant companion and wife, Dorothy Noyes, Arms spent decades exploring and documenting gothic structures throughout Europe. Noyes, an accomplished travel writer, had gifted Arms an etching set...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Etching
1950s "Eve" American Modern MidCentury Figurative Gouache & Oil Pastel
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Eve"
c.1950s
Gouache and oil pastel on paper
14x17" black wood frame 14.75"x17.75"
Unsigned, Eve written in paint along right margin
Came from artist's estate
Donald S...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Oil Pastel
Original "Anastasia" vintage US 1-sheet movie poster 1956 linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, linen-backed, 1956 Anastasia movie poster with Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner and Helen Hayes. NSS: 56/550. Linen-backed.
See images for minor...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Unemployed Marchers — 1930s Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Unemployed Marchers', 2-color lithograph, c. 1938, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '2/25' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper, w...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Lych Gate; Little Church Around the Corner - New York
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and sand ground on cream laid paper, 10 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (262 x 193 mm), full margins. Inscribed "No. 29" in black ink, lower right margin. In good condition with minor tim...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
1950s "Nude in Park" Mid Century Figurative Painting MOMA Artist
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Nude in Park"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24" x 18'" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Introducing a stunning black and white p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
John-Paul Philippe, "Untitled", table top abstract steel sculpture on wood base
Located in Glenview, IL
"Untitled" is an abstract steel sculpture on a wood base by New York based contemporary artist John-Paul Philippe. The artist was born in 1955 and began his career as a painter.Due t...
Category
1990s American Modern Art
Materials
Steel
Original "The Big Show" vintage US 1-sheet movie poster 1961
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "The Big Show", US 1-sheet linen-backed movie poster from 1961. Very fine condition. Professional restoration of original theater fold marks. A - A- condition, ready t...
Category
1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Luigi Lucioni, (New England Barn)
Located in New York, NY
Painter and printmaker, Luigi Lucioni was known for his portraits, still life paintings, and landscapes of Vermont and Italy. This 'New England Barn' ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Hollywood, California
By Ernst Haas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Ernst Haas (1921-1986) is a prolific Austrian-American photographer and photojournalist. Haas made significant contributions to the advancement of photography over the course of his career spanning 40 years.
Haas is best known for his early innovation with color photography, making his name synonymous with the medium. His dynamic 1953 story on New York, "Images of a Magic City...
Category
1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untangling a Fly from the Tree
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate depiction of a fly fisherman by Harvey Eckert (American, 1946-2018). Signed in the lower right corner. Presented in a wood frame with a double mat and anti-glare glass. Image size: 14"H x 18"W
Harvey Eckert (American, 1946-2018) was an American artist from Kansas. He attended Colby Community College, Hays Emporia State and graduated from Wichita University with two degrees. While living in Montana, he was employed by Bob Wards, Fran Johnson’s Sporting Goods and Cashell Engineers as a surveyor and draftsman. Eckert illustrated three books, Caddisflies by the late Gary LaFontaine, Montana Trout Flies and The Master Fly Weaver by the late George Grant. He did illustrations for the following publications: Montana Outdoors, Colorado Streamside, The River Rat published by Trout Unlimited, Fly Fisherman, Rod and Reel...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Original Vetements Forchic French fashion vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original lithograph, linen backed. Vetements Forchic. Pour Lui; Elle a Choise. Archival linen-backed vintage French fashion poster in fine...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
View From My Room, Spain
Located in Greenwich, CT
Waldo Peirce painted View from My Room, Spain while traveling throughout Spain with his good friends, Jack Johnson, a former heavyweight champion, and the...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Slim Aarons 'Digging for Clams on Black Beach' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Digging for Clams on Black Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1960 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging for clams at low...
Category
1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
Field, Abstract Landscape Lithograph by Millard Sheets
Located in Long Island City, NY
Field by Millard Owen Sheets, American (1907–1989)
Date: circa 1977
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 250
Size: 24 in. x 35 in. ...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder
"Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper a reproduction lithograph after the drawings by the artist
Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's)
these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph.
James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor”
Clive Gray...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Harbor with Sailboats — Early 20th-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Josimovich, Untitled (Harbor with Sailboats) ', linocut, 1923, edition 35. Signed, dated, and annotated '4/35' in pencil. Initialed 'G J' in ...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Linocut
Ice Man, 110th Street
By John Albok
Located in Dallas, TX
Unique
Vintage gelatin silver print
10 x 8 in.
Titled, dated, and artist stamp.
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 findin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
American Modern art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic American Modern art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Destro, Howard Schatz, and John Taylor Arms. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large American Modern art, so small editions measuring 0.25 inches across are also available.
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