American Modern Art

Winker is pulling out all the stops to make as stunning a Western Landscape as possible. The sky in this impression is open. There are also impressions with clouds in the sky. Sign...

Robert MOTHERWELL Tricolor with Dollar, 1973 Original lithograph (Printed in Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On heavy paper 31 x 24 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch) Edited by ...

Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003) Title: Nude in Interior with Stained Glass Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 25 in. x 30 in. (63.5 cm x 76.2 cm)

Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Stevedores, Ohio River, c. 1920 Watercolor on paper Signed lower right 21.5 x 29. 5 inches "The trip Otto Ege and I made from Pittsburgh to Marietta by riverboat and then by train to Mammoth Cave, was the next high spot in my artistic explorations. We saw something of the Old Southern river life on the way - the roustabouts, the showboat and river town life at Point Pleasant, and then to the sombre tonal mysteries of the Cave. These sights added much to my pictorial vocabulary..." - Frank Wilcox Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School...

Etching on cream wove paper, 5 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches (135 x 107 mm), signed in the plate, lower right. Third state (of 3), from the novel The Flower Girl, vol. 2. by Paul de Kock. In go...

Old Town Auburn, Vintage California Large-scale Landscape Watercolor by Les Anderson Large-scale early 1970's landscape watercolor of quaint and historical Old Town Auburn, California by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). This 1971 watercolor depicts the iconic landmarks of Auburn, known for it's California gold rush history. Signed "Les Anderson" lower left. Titled "At Auburn, California", signed and dated "Les Anderson '71" on verso. Gallery tag on verso from Wharf Gallery in Monterey, California. Displayed in a vintage wood frame with linen liner. Image size: 18.25"H x 27.25"W. Framed size: 24.75"H x 33.75"W x 1.5"D. Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009) owned and operated Wharf Gallery, Monterey and the Bear Flag Gallery in San Juan Bautista, California for many years and was known for his plein air watercolor paintings and abstracts in oil...

The full title really should be ...And So I Give Your The Next President of the United States. The scene is the Republican Convention, in Philadelphia, in 1948. There are so many fas...

Original 1976 July 4th in Old New York vintage Bicentennial festival vintage poster. The poster is copyrighted by Macy’s New York. Artists were: Griesbach and Martucci. Arc...

Lure of Lamu, 1987 - Palm Trees on Lamu Archipelago near Kenya in Indian Ocean, features a yacht gliding past the hotel resort on the island of Lamu in the Indian Ocean 16 x 20" pri...

Hugh Masekela, The Father of South African Jazz - Signed Lithograph Ink on Paper Bold lithograph by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). Rendered in a s...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904–2000) Over and Above: No. 6, 1963 Oil, sand & fish bones on canvas Signed and dated upper left 53 x 31 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achie...

Mary M. Johnsen Four Paintings, c. 1950s Watercolor Dimensions: 1. Mat: 18 x 21 1/4 in., page: 8 x 12 1/4 in. 2. Page: 14 7/8 x 22 in. 3. Mat: 15 x 19 in., page: 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 in....

Of course it's possible that these baseball players aren't from a Philadelphia team, but I doubt it. There was so much drama and intrigue with both the Philadelphia Phillies...

Original 1968 Pat Paulsen for President vintage political poster. Vote or get off the pot. Archival linen backed and ready to frame. A- condition. Semi glossy paper stock. Th...

Chalet Costi, Zermatt, 1968 - Ski Couple in Snow with Skis on Zermatt Mountain 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Chalet Costi, Z...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Medieval Heads, 1966 Acrylic on scintilla Signed and dated upper right 23.5 x 30 inches Clarence Holbrook...

This painting is part of our current exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Untitled (Elevated Platform), 1950, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 30 x...

Original AMERICAN LABOR - PRODUCING FOR ATTACK vintage 1943 poster. Size: 19.5" x 22.25. Professional archival linen backed; ready to frame. War Production Board, Washington D.C. Original. Lithograph. printed by the US Government...

Boris Margo is one of the artists whose work is instantly identified with 'Mid-century American Modernism.' Usually abstract with a spiky surrealist edge, it speaks to extensive inno...

Early modern original watercolor and gouache ad layout for Foley's by Houston portraitist Robert C. Joy. The work features a mink stole laid out in the shape of a question mark. Ther...

DARTH VADER from the original Kenner release of the Star Wars toys in May of 1977 This is pre release is the first release in the much anticipated series "The Toys" "They encapsulat...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Volcano and Arch, Taormina, 1961 Watercolor on scintilla paper Signed and dated upper right 11 x 11 inches "My last year in art schoo...

Carl Thorp 1912-1989 1963 “Entrance to Hunts Circus” Oil on Board 18x24 inches Image size 24x39 inches with frame Good condition Carl Thorp and was an American artist who studied at...

Skiers in Lech, 1979 - Skiers in Snowy Austrian Landscape in Winter Environment 16" x 20" print Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. Skiers in Lech ...

Etching on cream wove paper, 3 3/16 x 1 9/16 inches (81 x 41 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin, and with an inscription and dedication in t...

Guardians of the Spire; Amiens Cathedral Number 2 New York: 1937. Etching and drypoint on watermarked F.J. Head cream-colored, antique laid paper, 6 3/4 ...

Whimsical wood assemblage/sculpture of a cat and man looking out a window with reclaimed shutters by Daniel Albert Harris (Hungarian/American, 1914-1984), circa 1970. Signed lower center below shutter "ZEV". Purchased as part of a collection of his works. Size: 48"H x 32"W x 5.25"D. By listed artist Daniel Albert Harris (Hungarian/American, 1914-1984) who adopted the name of Zev, which means 'Wolf' in Hungarian. Born Daniel Harris and adopting the name of Zev, he studied at the Masters Institute of the Roerich Museum in Hungary, in New York City at the National Academy of Design, and at New York University, where he also taught for two years. His artistic talents were discovered by Grace McCann Morley of California in the early 1940's, and she invited him to exhibit in the Abstract & Surrealist Art in America exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1944. Zev built a fantasy structure in Big Sur, California called "Crazy Crescent" which has since been condemned by city officials. He also illustrated Eugene Walter's book Singerie-Songerie, a version of Hamlet for monkeys. Harris changed his name to ZEV, which means 'wolf' in Hungarian, when he moved to Europe in 1953. He first went to Paris, then Spain where he created huge sculptures for a villa in Spain, and then Rome where he died in 1984. SOLO EXHIBITIONS San Francisco Museum of Art, 1947 Pinacotheca Gallery (Rose Fried...

A striking large-scale abstract expressionist figurative acrylic on canvas by Bay Area artist Julius Wasserstein (American, 1924-1985). Two abstracted figures, a man in a suit and a woman in a blue wedding dress...

Original vintage travel poster: HOLLAND AMERICA CRUISES. Artist: David Klein. This poster is printed on a thicker paperstock and doesn't require ...

Beverly Hills Hotel Pool - Hotel Swimming Pool and Parasols in Hollywood 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. Beverly Hills Hotel Po...

Signed by artist "M. O'KEEFE 2013" at lower left. Media is graphite on clay-coated panel. Overall dimensions including the frame are 18 x 15 inches.

A serene 1940s Vermont Landscape, depicting evergreen trees and a lake by artist Harold Haydon. Image size: 16" x 20". Framed size: 20" x 24". In a rustic brown wood frame. Es...

Original, Stop, Loose Talk to Strangers. ‘Enemy ears are alert’ vintage poster. Excellent condition, linen-backed WWII vintage war poster: STOP LOOSE TALK TO STRANGERS ENEMY EAR...

A ca. 1935, oil on Masonite, still-life painting featuring a spoon, salt & pepper shakers, bottle, egg and an artichoke by artist Francis Chapin. Painting is in a gray, painted wood...

Leon Bibel, 'Clown', color serigraph, 1939, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff la...

Benton Spruance, 'Nero', 2-color lithograph, edition 35, 1944, Fine and Looney 233. Signed, dated, titled and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. Initialed 'BS' in the image, lower right. A...

A colorful Mid-Century still-life painting by Wisconsin artist William C. Buxton. Artwork size: 23 1/2" x 18". Framed size: 28" x24". William Buxton was born in Appleton, WI in ...

'Girl and Cat', lithograph, 1935, edition 33, Fine and Looney 121. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '5/33' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression...

Lawrence Nelson Wilbur (1897-1988), 'Tranquil Harbor' (Gloucester, Massachusetts), wood engraving, edition 55, 1958. Signed in pencil, and signe...

Etching on cream wove Japon paper, 7 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches (188 x 197 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. In excellent condition with some minor surface soiling...

This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches, Signed lower right, Signed verso on stret...

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...

Original poster: FILL UP THE RANKS PILE UP THE MUNITIONS! Artist: F. Gardner. Year: 1915. Horizontal original British WW1 poster. Very good cond...

Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, by American artist William S. Schwartz, c. 1940, gouache painting, signed l.l, framed. William S. Schwartz (February 23, 1896 – February 10, 1977) was an American artist who lived and worked in Chicago. Schwartz was born in Smorgon in Belarus, then in the Russian Empire in 1896. His parents were Samuel Schwartz and Tauba Reznikoff. At the age of thirteen, he moved to the nearby city of Vilna to attend art school. Four years later, he emigrated to the United States and eventually enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduating, he put his art career on hold to concentrate on a budding career as an opera singer. When Schwartz returned to painting, he distinguished himself with dreamy, symbolist works and abstractions that tended to bewilder viewers. He also scandalized conservative audiences with numerous lithographs of nude women. During the Great Depression, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project (WPA) payroll painting murals. He was one of the seven WPA artists who contributed to a mural at Riccardo's, Schwartz (Music), Malvin Albright (Sculpture), Ivan Alrbight (Drama), Aaron Bohrod (Architecture), Rudolph Weisenborn (Literature), Vincent D’Agostino (Painting), and Ric Riccardo (Dance). In 2002 Chicago philanthropist Seymour H. Persky acquired the murals for his personal collection. Through the WPA, Schwarz received commissions to produce murals in post offices and public spaces. He created his “Americana Series,” a group of four paintings featuring poets, painters, composers and scientists. His Composersdepicts four contemporary musicians, among them, Victor Herbert. The mural was discovered at Glencoe Public Library, IL, in 2007, and include: Americana No. 1 Poets: Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe; Americana No. 2 Painters: Saint Gaudens, Bellows, Sargent, Innes, Whistler and Homer; Americana No. 3 Composers: Herbert, DeKoven, Chadwick, MacDowel; Americana No. 4 Scientists: Thomas Alva Edison, Steinmetz, Alexander Graham Bell...

This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Oil on canvas, 13 x 9 inches, Signed lower left

The Alchemist by Michael DeCamp, American (1928–2013) Date: circa 1975 Photograph, signed Edition of 50 Image Size: 15.5 x 23.5 inches Size: 20 x 27 in. (50.8 x 68.58 cm)

"Abstract in Gold and Black" is a well-balanced calm piece. The placement of the gold and white can be read as a distant landscape giving much imagined space to the heavier black area which contains a linear element and the color blue. Semivan is a Master Printmaker and sculptor. He often breaks his surfaces and extends beyond the perimeters in his sculptures. The particular placement of the black area in this piece suggests such a breakage beyond the edge where one imagines a continuation of the strokes or linear elements. This is an altogether extraordinary print. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Douglas Semivan...

This is from a series done about the Habad Hasidic Jewish community in Chicago. This is from the holiday Lag Baomer. Jay Wolke lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. He has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University and the California Museum of Photography. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Three monographs of his work have been published: All Around the House: Photographs of American-Jewish Communal Life (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), Along the Divide: Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway (Center for American Places, 2004) and Architecture of Resignation: Photographs from the Mezzogiorno (Center for American Places, 2011). Kehrer Verlag will publish his fourth monograph, Same Dream Another Time, in 2017. Wolke received his B.F.A. in Printmaking / Illustration at Washington University, St. Louis, and an M.S. in Photography at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Since 1981 he has taught photography and art at various universities. From 1992-1999 he was Coordinator of Graduate Documentary Photography at the Institute of Design (IIT). In 1999-2000 he was Head of Art and Graduate Studies at Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy. He is currently a Professor of Photography at Columbia College Chicago, where he also served as Chair of the Art and Design Department from 2000-05 and again from 2008-14. Wolke has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, Focus Infinity Fund and the Ruttenberg Arts Foundation. His photographs have appeared in numerous publications including Geo France, New York Times Magazine, Financial Times Magazine, Village Voice, Exposure and Architectural Record. SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Mostre Marte, Salerno, Italy, “Architecture of Resignation” 2014 PrimoPiano Gallery, Naples, Italy, “Architecture of Resignation” 2014 Foundation Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy, “re-Located” 2014 Ralph Arnold Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, “re-Located” 2013 Spertus Institute, Chicago, “All Around the House” 2012 University of Indiana Northwest Savanna Center, “Architecture of Resignation” 2010 Sheldon Arts Galleries, St. Louis, MO, “Architecture of Resignation” 2007 California Museum of Photography, Riverside, “Architecture of Resignation” 2006 St. Xavier University SXU Gallery, Chicago, “Architecture of Resignation” 2005 Schneider Gallery, Chicago, “Architecture of Resignation” 2005 City Gallery, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, “Along the Divide” 2002 Foundation Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy, “Architecture of Resignation” 2002 St. Louis Art Museum, "All Around the House" 2000 Comunita Ebraica Salle Servi, Florence , Italy, “All Around the House” 1998 Art Institute of Chicago, "All Around the House" 1995 Harvard University, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA, "A Jewish View" 1994 Quad City Arts Center, Rock Island, IL "Temporary Usage" 1993 Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, "Temporary Usage" 1992 OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY, " Photographing American Dream Cities" 1991 Mid-Town Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY, "American Dream Cities” 1988 Portland School of Art, Portland, ME, "Las Vegas Portraits" 1987 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, " Vegas Portraits" 1985 Chicago Historical Society, “Dan Ryan Project” SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Le Murate, Florence, Italy, “Arno Collective Imaginary” w. Massimo Vitali, Arno Minkkinen 2015 Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, “Henri Cartier-Bresson e gli altri. I grandi fotografi e l’Italia”, 2014 Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA, “Racial Imaginary” 2014 Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, “Architecture, Landscape” 2014-15 Millennium Park Foundation, Chicago, “An Anatomy in Photographs” 2012 Chicago Cultural Center, “Industry of the Ordinary: 2003–2013” 2009 David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, “Social Landscapes” 2009 Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, “39 Verbs” 2009 University of St. Francis, “The Night Hope Won” 2008-09 Chicago Cultural Center, “Made In Chicago: Photographs from Bank of America Collection” 2006 David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, "7 Documentarians: Berenic Abbott, Walker Evans, Larry Clark, Jim Dow, Danny Lyon, Garry Winogrand, Jay Wolke" 2006 Art Institute of Chicago. “Darkroom to Digital” 2005 Fort Worth Community Arts Center, “Cattle Drive” 2001 Illinois Art Gallery, “The Land Around Us” 1998 Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago, "Chicago Streets" 1996 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, "In Focus" 1995 Madison Arts Center, "Photography from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois" 1994 Chicago Cultural Center, "Broad Spectrum" 1991 ARC Gallery, Chicago, "National Exposure" 1989 Art Institute of Chicago, "The City Inside and Out" 1989 Chicago Historical Society, "Changing Chicago, Public Diversions" 1988 Illinois State Museum, Springfield, "Lenscapes" 1987 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; Nabisco Corp., NJ; Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA "American Interiors", traveling exhibit curated Lieberman/Saul Gallery, NY 1986 National Endowment for the Arts/ Midwest Arts Alliance, national traveling 1985 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, "New Color Photography" 1985 Society for Cont Photography, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO, "Photo '85" 1984 Art...

This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Crayon on paper, 10 ½ x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed...

Artist: James McCain, American (b. 1944) Title: Hunter Year: circa 1980 Medium: Bronze Sculpture on Wooden Base, signature and numbering inscribed Edition: 85/250 Size: 12.5 x 6 x ...

Chelsea Rags. Chelsea Rags. 1888. Lithograph. Way 22, Levy 35, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 26. 7 1/8 x 6 5/16 (sheet 12 3/4 x 8). Printed on cream laid paper. Provenance: Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip, Whistler's sister-in-law, her seal verso: (Lugt 405). Michael Parkin Fine Art, Ltd. from whom purchased in 1972. Christie's, King Street.Signed with the butterfly in the image. One of 13 impressions listed by Way, before the image was transferred to supplementary stones for the edition of 500-1,000 printed by Way and issued in the Albemarle, January, 1892. Signed with the butterfly in the stone and in pencil. Housed in an elegant silk mat with a silver liner, and in a 16 3/4 x 14 3/4-inch silver leaf frame decorated with fleur-de-lis decorations. "And his interest in London has not been restricted to the Thames. Seeing the beautiful, where other men might be discouraged by dullness, he has taken his subject, now in the little cheap shop opening a low window upon the street, now in the forgotten church hidden away in a lonely square. And Chelsea Rags, the Shops of Chelsea, the Drury Lane, as well as The Butcher's Dog, are impressions of vague Rembrandtesque interiors where figures, grim or graceful, peer from out deep shadows— shops as lovely in his prints as the halls of a Veronese, or the palaces of a Claude." Elizabeth Robins...

"Leonard Bernstein" - Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper Bold lithograph by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). Leonard Bernstein is raising both ha...

Signed in felt pen by Stan Lee (1922-2018), and numbered AP 38 / 200 artist's proof and 800 copies. Bound volume in an acrylic box. 12,6 x 17,3 inch. 27,65 lbs, 444 pages. Taschen,...

Etching on cream laid paper, 3 3/16 x 1 9 1/6 inches (81 x 41 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin. From the second state (of 2) before the re...

Crucifixion Engraving, 1958 Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Printers Proof II' in pencil A printed by Master Printer Jon Clemens, c. 2000 A brilliant impression full of burr Im...

This is a wonderful drawing by one of America's most treasured artists, Chaim Gross. Throughout his lifetime Gross has gone through tragedy and a real test of faith however, he has the unique ability to focus and direct his expression to the most joyful and beautiful works of art, such as the present lot. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes. His acrobats, cyclists, and mothers and children convey joyfulness, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work remained consistent with his Hasidic heritage, which teaches that "only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God." Chaim Gross, born in Wolowa, Austria in 1904, was educated at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and at the Art Student's League in New York. Chaim Gross's work was greatly influenced by his experiences during a period of international conflict, World War II. He had moved to Kolomyya from Wolowa to get a better education, but the Germans came to occupy, killing, raping, and looting. Gross and his family were chased from one village to the next. He wrote, "We were sleeping on roofs and in the fields, with the sound of cannon fire...

Original mid-century modern oil on canvas board painting of a woman with birds by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and ...

William Thon, 'Upper Tuscany', a two-sided watercolor, c. 1955. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, expressionist work, with fresh colors, on cream watercolor paper; the image...

"Rocky" is an acrylic photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of...

Keep Your Cool - Backgammon Players in Swimming Pool Water in Summer Scenery by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. Kee...