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Style: American Modern
Period: 1930s
Chicago, Michigan Avenue n°2 - Original etching, c. 1931
Located in Paris, FR
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan Chicago : Michigan Avenue n°1, c. 1931 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On vellum 38 x 50 cm (c. 15 x 20 in) V...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Etching

'Variation 8, Vol. I' — from the series '1 to 40 Variations'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Katherine S. Dreier, 'Variation 8, Vol. 1' from '1 to 40 Variations', lithograph with pochoir and hand-coloring, 1934, edition 65. Stenciled signature and date, lower right. Annotate...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Lithograph

1938 Grover Page 'The First Sit Down Strike'
By Grover Page
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 9.25 x 9 inches ( 23.495 x 22.86 cm ) Image Size: 7 x 5.5 inches ( 17.78 x 13.97 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Part of AMERICAN BLOCK PRINT...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Woodcut

"New York City Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge), " Leon Dolice, East River, Mid-Century
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...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Paper, Pastel

"Brahma vs. Leghorn, " Farm Scene Wood Engraving by Howard Thomas
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Brahma vs. Leghorn" is an original wood engraving by Howard Thomas. In front of an understated farm house, Brahma and Leghorn face off, ready to battle. An unidentified plant sits on the center. Image: 6" x 7.44" Framed: 13.75" x 15.18 Thomas Howard (1899-1971) born a Quaker in Ohio, trained in the Midwest at Ohio State University and the Chicago Art Institute. He taught in the Art Department of the Milwaukee State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) where he became good friends with Carl Holty, Edward Boerner, Robert von Neumann...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Woodcut

"New York City Harbor" Leon Dolice, Downtown Skyline, East and Hudson River
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...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Paper, Pastel

1939 Donna Miller 'Thanksgiving'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 9.25 x 9 inches ( 23.495 x 22.86 cm ) Image Size: 9 x 6 inches ( 22.86 x 15.24 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: This piece derives from the 19...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Woodcut

Two Women and a Child on the Beach at Provincetown
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Women and a Child on the Beach at Provincetown Unsigned. Watercolor on paper, c. 1934 A beautiful Provincetown beach scene, included in the catalogue raisonne. Please see Babcoc...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Watercolor

St. George Hotel Searchlight
Located in Fairlawn, OH
St. George Hotel Searchlight Lithograph, 1930 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled lower left (see photo) Edition: 30 Printed by Meister Schulz, Berlin The image depicts t...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Lithograph

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

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Gouache, Board, Watercolor

"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. His work was exhibited at the Carnegie...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Allison Coolidge (Belmont)
Located in Boston, MA
Dated and titled on stretcher: "'37/ Mr + Mrs Chas. Coolidge/ Allison/ -Belmont". In 1929 Molly Luce and her husband, Alan Burroughs, moved from Garden Street on Beacon Hill in Bos...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Study of Classical Drapery)
Located in Chicago, IL
A graphite on paper, study of a classical drapery by artist Jan Matulka. The image is drawn on the back of a typewritten, folded sheet of stationery, from Dyer, Hudson & Co., New Yo...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Paper, Graphite

Still Life at a Table, Study in Yellow by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1931 delightful watercolor still life at a table; a study in yellow by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ont...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen

An Interior Scene, Study in Yellow by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1931 charming watercolor interior scene; a study in yellow by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Can...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Forest Scene, Study in Yellow by artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1931 charming watercolor forest scene; a study in yellow by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canad...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Ink, Pen, Watercolor, Paper

Still Life at a Table, Study in Yellow by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1931 delightful still life at a table; a study in yellow by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canad...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Still Life at a Table, Study in Yellow by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1931 delightful watercolor still life at a table; a study in yellow by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ont...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen

WPA Scene American Modernism 20th Century Workers Strike Realism Industrial
Located in New York, NY
WPA Scene American Modernism 20th Century Workers Strike Realism Industrial "Pawns" 16 x 20 inches,. Oil on board, c. 1930’s. Signed lower left. Stowell Sherman...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Oil, Board

Origiinal 1939 "Plombieres Les Bains (Vosges)" vintage French spa poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Plombiers Les Bains (Bosges . Original vintage French travel poster: Artist: Adrien Senechal. Travel from Paris in 5 Hours. Note ...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Lithograph

'Archway' — 1930s American Modernism, WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Archway', color serigraph, 1939, edition 25. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered ' /25' in pencil. A rich, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; ...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Screen

Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil
Located in New York, NY
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil. Signed lower left. Not much is known about Marco de Marco, but just look at...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

'Cargo Carriers' — 1930s New York Harbor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'Cargo Carriers', etching and drypoint, c. 1932, edition 10, Kennedy 44. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression with rich burr and selectively wiped overall ...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Etching, Drypoint

'Abstract Boats' — 1930s American Modernism, WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Abstract Boats', color serigraph, 1938, edition 12. Signed, dated, and numbered ' /12' in pencil. A fine, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; t...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Screen

'Food Not Cannon' — rare WPA modernist work of Social Conscience
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Food Not Cannon', etching, 1937, edition 12 (an early state, probably unique). Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 2 1/8 ...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Etching

Manhattan Nocturne
Located in Storrs, CT
Manhattan Nocturne. 1938. Etching and drypoint. Kraeft 70. 7 1/8 x 11 7/8 (sheet 10 1/2 x 15 1/4). Edition 100. Presentation Print of the Society of American Etchers, 1938. Provenanc...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Drypoint, Etching

Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981) Bell YFM-1 Airacuda Fighter Planes 17 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches Gouache, Airbrush and Ink on Illustration Board, 1938 Signed A. Ross lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist. BIO Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure. In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935. He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2. It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war. Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959. He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job. Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955. They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross. He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Ink, Gouache, Board

Waiting for the Bus in a Blizzard- WPA American Scene 1938 NYC Modernism Realism
Located in New York, NY
Waiting for the Bus in a Blizzard- WPA American Scene 1938 NYC Modernism Realism. 16 x 16 inches, Oil on board, Signed and dated 1938 lower left. ...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Oil, Board

Trees Over the Vineyard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trees Over the Vineyard Watercolor on heavy paper, c. 1930 Signed with the estate stamp verso (see photo) Sheet size: 16 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches Condition: Excellent Illustrated: Marbell...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Watercolor

American Veterans Remembrance Day Poster Study (National Poppy Day, Am. Legion)
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful study for an American Veterans Remembrance Day Poster Study (National Poppy Day, American Legion) by Elaine Jeanne Glickman (Ginsburg), created at Ferry Hall in Lake Fore...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Board, Watercolor

Flood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Paper, Crayon

Nude Walking, Early 20th Century Bronze Sculpture, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945) Nude Walking, 1930 Bronze Signed and dated on base 17 x 9 x 4 inches Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Bronze

Man Trimming Tree
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Crayon on paper, 11 5/8 x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed lower right, Matted, but no...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Paper, Crayon

Original Loeche-les-Baines vintage Swiss spa travel poster a.k.a. Leukerbad
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. LOECHE-LES-BAINES (a.k.a. Leukerbad) vintage travel poster. Mounted on acid free archival linen. Very good condition. Suisse, Switzerland original travel poster. Loeche...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Offset

Untitled (Hulda Goeller)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Carved and painted wood and gesso, 23 x 15 3/4 x 3 inches, Signed verso "Carved by Charles L. Goeller...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Wood, Gesso

She Gets Her Way (Couple with Vase)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Crayon on paper, 11 ½ x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Paper, Crayon

'The Aquarium' — WPA Era 1930s Graphic Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fritz Eichenberg, 'The Aquarium', wood engraving, 1933, edition 200. Signed and titled in pencil. Initialed in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression, on pale yel...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Woodcut

An Eagle Ceremony at Tesuque Pueblo
Located in Fairlawn, OH
An Eagle Ceremony at Tesuque Pueblo Woodcut printed in two colors, 1932 Unsigned as usual; initialed in the plate lower left (see photo) As published by Elmer Adler in "The Colophon:...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Woodcut

WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Watercolor

WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Watercolor

WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Watercolor

Walter DuBois Richards, The Lobster Float
Located in New York, NY
Ohio-born Walter DuBois Richards (1907-2006) was educated at the Cleveland School of Art. He re-located to New York around 1933 where he had a successful career as a commercial artis...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Woodcut

WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Watercolor

Neon Lighting WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism American Scene Modern Figures
Located in New York, NY
MAURICE BECKER (1889-1975) 'Neon Lighting 17 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches Oil on masonite Signed, dated 1936 and titled on verso BIO Maurice Becker, painter, political cartoonist and social reformer, was born in 1889 either in Gorky or Niznij Novgorod, in Russia. His family came to the United States in 1892, to New York City. After high school, Becker worked in a clothing factory. He studied with Ash Can School artist Robert Henri in 1908, and exhibited in the famous 1913 Armory Show in New York City when he was only twenty-four years of age. At the Armory show, Becker showed a drawing of a dog's head...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Oil, Masonite

WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Watercolor

WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Watercolor

WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
Located in Chicago, IL
A tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with his family in 191...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Watercolor

'The Steps' — WPA Era 1930s Graphic Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fritz Eichenberg, 'The Steps', wood engraving, 1933, edition 200. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 200' in pencil. Initialed in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impr...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Woodcut

"Bathers" American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Modernism Ashcan Fauvism
Located in New York, NY
"Bathers" American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Modernism Ashcan Fauvism Charles Demuth (1883-1935) "Bathers" 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches watercolor on paper, c. 1930 Signed lower le...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Paper, Watercolor

The Artist's Wife oil painting by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hans Burkhardt The Artist's Wife (1930) Oil on canvas, 20" x 16" 24" x 20 ½" x 1 ½" framed Dated 1930 lower right recto. Annotated "To Elsa HB Louise Burkhardt 1930. HB" verso. ...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Oil, Canvas

Quick Change
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Quick Change Watercolor on paper, 1930-1931 Signed lower right: Honore Guilbeau Illustrated in American Art Review, August 2014, page 84 in an article by Dr. M...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Watercolor

Miss Sarah K. Smith’s Studio Porch, Wheaton, Illinois
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming watercolor by Illinois artist Rowena Fray, depicting an art class on Sarah K. Smith's studio porch in Wheaton, IL. Fry studied art at the Watkins Institute in Nashville, ...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Watercolor

'Madman's Drum (Plate 41)' — 1930s Graphic Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Madman's Drum, Plate 41', wood engraving, 1930, edition small. Signed in pencil. A fine, black impression, on off-white tissue-thin Japan paper; the full sheet with marg...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Woodcut

PONCHARTRAIN Louisiana New Orleans Beach AMUSEMENT PARK Ferris Wheel CARNIVAL
By Laurence Edwardson
Located in New York, NY
Laurence Edwardson (1904-1995) was a prolific artist born in New Orleans He painted modernist landscape, figures and portraits. His work includes many Louisiana landscapes, portrai...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Acrylic

The Balcony (Venetian Gateway).
Located in Storrs, CT
The Balcony (Venetian Gateway). 1931. Etching. Fletcher catalog 237 state iii. 8 1/16 x 5 1/16 (sheet 12 5/8 x 10 1/16). Edition 110 (plus 34 trial proofs)...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Etching

Standing Male Nude, Arms Upraised (Kouros)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Male Nude, Arms upraised (Kouros) Graphite on wove paper, c. 1930 Signed lower right (see photo) Possibly exhibited in May 8-June 1,1973 at Alan Stone Gallery entitled Eroti...
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1930s American Modern Art

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Graphite

Abstract Street (Untitled)
By Hananiah Harari
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Abstract Street (Untitled), 1939, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 12 x 32 inches; provenance includes a private collection in Venice, California; presented in what is likely the artist's original handmade frame About the Painting The present work is the culmination of a series of mainly horizontal urban abstractions Harari completed between 1937 and 1939. Deeply influenced by Stuart Davis, Harari’s New York streetscapes began with clearly recognizable objects and landmarks as in Into New York (1937 - Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art), New York Harbor (1937), Up and Downtown (1938), and his other mural proposals for the Nurses Home on Welfare Island (1937) and the Williamsburg Housing Project (1938). At the end of the series, Harari’s vistas became increasingly abstract with broad planes of color representing buildings and streets, the slightest cross-hatching forming a bridge or elevated train track and the vague suggestion of a streetlight looping in the right center of the composition. Figures, birds, and a street vendor’s cart are reduced to pictograms scratched into the surface of the canvas. Abstract Street (Untitled) is among Harari’s most spare works of the 1930s and 1940s and calls to mind the seemingly childlike, but deeply sophisticated works of Paul Klee from the 1920s. It serves as an excellent reminder of why Harari was heralded as one of the earliest members of the American Abstract Artists. About the Artist Hananiah Harari was an artistic polyglot who was equally at home working in styles as diverse as Cubism, Constructivism, Expressionism, Hard Edged Abstraction and trompe l’oeil Realism. A native of Rochester, New York, Harari initially studied as a child at the Memorial Art Gallery in his hometown and later as a scholarship student at the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. In 1932, Harari left for Paris where he befriended Nahum Tschacbasov, Benjamin Benno and John Graham and studied at the ateliers of Lhote, Leger and Gromaire. He also studied fresco painting at the Ecole de Fresque. By 1933, Harari had completed enough work and gained a sufficient reputation to have a solo exhibition at the American Club in Paris. The following year, Harari and his childhood friend and fellow artist Herzl Emanuel traveled to Palestine, where the artists worked hard in the orchards and fields of Kibbutz Deganiah, but produced little art. After returning to New York, Harari married Emanuel’s sister, Freda, and set out on the development of what noted scholar Gail Stavitsky has called an “original synthesis of the old and new." Harari became an early member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA), an organization formed to give modernists exhibition opportunities. Harari was also a member of the socially conscious Artist’s Union and the American Artist’s Congress. From 1936 through 1942, Harari worked on the Federal Art Project and assisted Marion Greenwood on a project as part of the Mural Division, but to his disappointment did not lead his own project. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Harari completed a series of paired paintings with the same subject matter depicted in a Cubist manner and in trompe l’oeil Realism. Harari was acclaimed by Clement Greenberg and six of the artist’s works were selected for the Museum of Modern Art’s important 1943 exhibition American Realists and Magic Realists. During World War II, Harari served in the US Army Air Corps. Following the war, Harari continued to produce fine art while also producing commercial art. During the McCarthy Era, Harari’s progressive politics and leftist leaning art...
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1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Oil

"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art
Located in New York, NY
"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964) "Street Signs" Modernist gouache and traces of pencil on paper in t...
Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache, Pencil

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