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Style: American Realist
Period: 20th Century
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identi...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Ski North Carolina
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFineArts is pleased to offer this beautiful watercolor by renowned North Carolina artist William Mangum of skiers on a ski run, likely in Mangum's ho...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Bailing Hay
42 x 40 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
Signed lower right
Unframed
Our gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, "Jo Cain: Echoes of an Era," a tribute to the enduring legacy of Joseph Lambert Cain and a celebration of his art that transcends time and remains relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s, all are available on 1stDibs.
BIO
JOSEPH LAMBERT CAIN (1904–2003)
A painter, muralist, and art educator, Joseph Cain...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
[Morgan Le Fey]
By Hazel Brill Jackson
Located in Boston, MA
Signed on base: "Hazel Brill Jackson". Also with artist's monogram. In fine condition.
Hazel Brill Jackson (Born December 15, 1894, in Philadelphia) spent most of her early childhoo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
Retro Urban Street Photograph - A Conversation in Blues and Reds
Located in Miami, FL
Two men have a conversation and joke-it-up on the steps of a boarded-up store named Nicks Cleaners. The whole scene is awash in dreamy blues and reds. Absorbing the influence of bot...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Beautiful Child (Artist Proof)
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Beautiful Child" Artist Proof, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s
Depicts a young girl.
Color: Black and Whi...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Beach Discovery oil/c Magical Realism - Nude Woman, Sand Sculpture & Boy 1970s
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
An amazing, magical realism painting by renowned artist, Herbert Laurence Davidson (1930-2018). This painting depicts a young boy’s innocent discovery on the beach of a sand sculptur...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Pulp Magazine Marine Combat Scene Shoot Out in Blue Noir
Located in Miami, FL
What makes this work important?
It's not that it's a commissioned artwork for a men's 60s pulp adventure magazine depicting the instant a soldier is shot. The big point of the painting is how brilliantly the formal elements are thought out, designed, and executed. John McDermott tells a story using a complex figural composition in an unexpected wide-angle vision. The work is as abstract as it is representation. His use of light is significant because it creates a high-contrast two-color style that bears the mark of its creator. This is a work done by a master artist/illustrator without peers compared to artists living today. If the contemporary art world gave awards for draftsmanship, painting technique, and graphic design .... John McDermott would win the highest accolades.
Initialed lower left - unframed
John McDermott (August 30, 1919 – April 20, 1977), also known under the pen names J.M. Ryan and Mariner, was an American illustrator and author noted for action and adventure illustrations.[1] McDermott worked as an in-between and effects animator for Walt Disney Studios and as a US Marine combat artist,before establishing himself as a cover illustrator for 1950s paperbacks and pulp magazines such as Argosy, American Weekly, and Outdoor Life. Under his J.M. Ryan pen name, he wrote the novels The Rat Factory (1971), a derogatory satire of Walt Disney and the Disney studio; Brooks Wilson Ltd (1967), on which the 1970 film Loving was based; and Mother's Day (1969) about Ma Barker. Under his own name, he novelized director-writer Bo Widerberg's screenplay for the 1971 film Joe Hill, which would be his final published book.
Early life
John Richard McDermott was born 30 August 1919 in Pueblo, Colorado, the younger of two sons of Henry McDermott, an oil broker. McDermott was a young child when his father committed suicide.[4] The family eventually moved to Los Angeles where McDermott's mother, Hazel, worked in a beauty parlor. He graduated from Hollywood High School in 1936. Although he had had no formal art education, he took a job as an artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Career
Disney
At Disney, McDermott worked as an in-betweener and effects animator on Brave Little Tailor, Pinocchio, The Reluctant Dragon and Fantasia. His experiences while working at Disney, particularly during the time of the 1941 Disney animators' strike, would later become the basis for his 1969 satirical novel The Rat Factory. McDermott left Disney to fight with US forces during World War II.
US Marines
McDermott World War II sketch titled "Buddy is Wounded"
On September 29, 1942, McDermott enlisted with the US Marine Corps. He served as a "pistol and palette" combat artist assigned to the map-making section. As a sergeant with the III Amphibious Corps, McDermott was involved in battles in the South Pacific theater of war, documenting the Guam, Okinawa and the Guadalcanal Campaigns. McDermott considered his wartime years to be his art education.
"In the Marines, as a combat artist, I traveled with the troops and for three years got all the drawing opportunity anyone could want. My work changed enormously during this time and I’m sure it was due to constant drawing, every single day, from life, just putting down what I saw around me. In a few instances it was a dangerous kind of scholarship."
According to the Marine Corps history journal Fortitudine, McDermott was so prolific that his contemporary style pen-and-ink sketches became easily recognizable to both Marines, from published work in Leatherneck Magazine, and civilians, from glossy copies supplied by the Marine Corps to the nation's press.His wartime art appears in World War II history books and is displayed at the Pentagon and the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
Illustration
Following the end of World War II, McDermott moved from California to New York City to work as a freelance illustrator. McDermott made his reputation drawing modern action, war and adventure scenes. His work adorned the covers and inside story pages of popular pulp magazines of the 1950s such as Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book, Outdoor Life and American Weekly.
McDermott's illustrations appeared on numerous covers of 1950s paperback novels published by Dell, Fawcett Gold Medal, Bantam Mystery and others. His action graphics were geared toward thriller and detective genres, such as Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm books Murderers' Row and The Betrayers. He also created covers for science fiction comic titles such as Voyage to the Deep[citation needed] and horror-themed paperbacks such as the classic 1955 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Illustration Board, Gouache
Classical Study
Located in Boston, MA
Gammell Trust #W126. Signed and dated in pencil lower right: "R.H. Ives Gammell, Paris, 1917".
This is a very early work and despite the fact that it is squared off for enlargement,...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Hungry Wolves Hunt a Women Up a Tree at Night - Gay Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Trailblazing Gay Female illustrator of the Golden Age Ida Waugh paints and powerful narrative of a woman cowering in a tree while a hungry pack of wolves wait beneath her for dinner feast. Signed lower left. Framed under glass,
Ida Waugh (October 24, 1846 – January 25, 1919) was an American illustrator of children's literature who often collaborated with her lifelong companion, Amy Ella Blanchard.
Personal life
Ida Waugh was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 24, 1846, the daughter of painter Samuel B. Waugh and his first wife, Sarah Mendenhall, therefore she was half-sister of painter Frederick Judd Waugh. Her step-mother was Mary Eliza Young Waugh, a miniaturist.
She attended Académie Julian and Académie Delécluse in Paris, studying with Georges Callot, Paul-Louis Delance, and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.In 1868 she attended the first "Ladies Life Class" at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; in the same class there were Emily Sartain and Catherine Ann Drinker.
Career
Ida Waugh collaborated with her partner Amy Ella Blanchard in publishing children's books, Waugh as illustrator and Blanchard as writer. Waugh also published books on her own
Other than a children's book illustrator, Waugh was an award-winning painter. In 1869 she exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts two works, "The Bargain" and a portrait bust of Carl Gaertner.
Her self-portrait and another painting, "Little Cosette" (1870), are in the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, both donated by Mrs. John S. Haug in 1961.They were part of the exhibition "Women and Biography" in 2014, including: Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, Edith Emerson, Anne Minich, Catherine Mulligan, Mitzi Melnicoff, Alice Kent Stoddard, Aubrey Levinthal, Martha Armstrong...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
The Chapel, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
By Louis Orr
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFineArts is pleased to offer the etching The Duke Chapel from the Centennial Edition of 100 prints.
Excellent condition and nicely framed with Tru Vue ultraviolet filtering glass.
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
The White Gate (New Castle, Delaware)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The White Gate (New Castle, Delaware)
Lithograph, 1961
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Numbered and title in the lower left (see photos)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 15 ...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dreamer
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Dreamer" Edition of 150, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s
Depicts a boy dreaming.
Color: Black and White
...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Exquisite Sound
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Exquisite Sound" ArtistProof, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s
Depicts a female Cellist.
Color: Brown and ...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
American Clipper at Sea
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "American Clipper at Sea" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Robert Sanders, b. 1950. It is signed at the lower r...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Raymond Howell, Chinese Dim Sum Feast, 1979, Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in San Francisco, CA
Raymond Howell, Chinese Dim Sum Feast, 1979
Oil on masonite
28" x 36" unframed, 35.5" x 43. 75" framed
Biography from Raymond Howell website:
Raymon...
Category
20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Blonde Nude
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Blonde Nude" Edition of 150, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1963
Depicts a nude woman lying from behind.
Color...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Beach Family
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Beach Family" Edition of 125, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1963
Depicts family in swimsuits and towels on a h...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Busy Woman
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Busy Woman" Artist Proof, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s
Depicts a woman sewing.
Color: Black and White
...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original Vintage Color World War 2 Propaganda Poster TAKE CARE Offset Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
TAKE CARE Don't be delayed by V.D.; 1946 military poster by Franz Oswald Schiffers.
the 1946 U.S. (or Australian) World War II (WWII) health poster warning soldiers overseas of the consequences of venereal disease.
Thisis a vintage 1946 public service announcement poster by Franz O. Schiffers (1902-1976). Schiffers was commissioned to create several posters warning against venereal disease for the U.S servicemen stationed overseas. The artwork is bold, clear and direct. In the post-World War II era, the piece sent a serious message to prevent contracting disease through relations with foreigners. In today's day and age, these pieces are quite humorous and decorative. Virile soldiers are shown to be up against the looming threat of venereal disease. The soldier standing on the pier watching his ship sail away would have to make a very embarrassing explanation to his wife or girlfriend as to why he was left behind.
Franz Oswald Schiffers (born August 5, 1902 in Eilendorf in Aachen , February 12, 1976 in Berlin ) was a graphic artist and film poster artist . He was one of the first graphic artists of the 1930s to achieve photorealistic effects in their works. At his father's request, Schiffers initially trained as a teacher before moving to Berlin in 1925 and became a graphic designer at UFA (Universum Film AG). After designing a series of movie posters there, Schiffers became independent in 1932 as a commercial artist (now a graphic designer). In the 1930s, Schiffers specialized in advertising posters for beverage producers - especially beer advertising. The trademark of his beer posters is the meticulous design of beer glass with shiny drops of water that trickle down the misted glass. In this photorealistic context one also speaks of " veristic " graphics.
After the seizure of power by the National SocialistsNazis , Schiffers temporarily worked for the Reich Propaganda Ministry. He designed u. a. the so-called "shadow man campaign" with the well-known slogan "enemy hears with!" - A German graphic artist who designed movie posters and advertisements in late-1920s and early 1930s Germany. During the Nazi era, Schiffers was commissioned by the Nazi propaganda office to create German propaganda...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
'Threshing' — 1940s American Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Hart Benton, 'Threshing', lithograph, 1941, edition 250, Fath 48. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white, wove paper, with full margins (1 3/8 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Published by Associated American Artists. Image size 9 5/16 x 13 13/16 inches (237 x 351 mm); sheet size 12 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches (318 x 422 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, High Museum of Art, McNay Art Museum, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“Benton’s idiom was essentially political and rhetorical, the painterly equivalent of the country stump speeches that were a Benton family tradition. The artist vividly recalled accompanying his father, Maecenas E. Benton — a four-term U.S. congressman, on campaigns through rural Missouri. Young Tom Benton grew up with an instinct for constituencies that led him to assess art on the basis of its audience appeal. His own art, after the experiments with abstraction, was high-spirited entertainment designed to catch and hold an audience with a political message neatly bracketed between humor and local color.” —Elizabeth Broun “Thomas Hart Benton: A Politician in Art,” Smithsonian Studies in American Art, Spring 1987, p. 61
Born in 1889 in Neosho, Missouri, Benton spent much of his childhood and adolescence in Washington, D.C., where his lawyer father, Maecenas Eason Benton, served as a Democratic member of Congress from 1897 to 1905. Hoping to groom him for a political career, Benton’s father sent him to Western Military Academy. After nearly two years at the academy, Benton convinced his mother to support him through two years at the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by two more years at the Academie Julian in Paris.
Benton returned to America in 1912 and moved to New York to pursue his artistic career. One of his first jobs was painting sets for silent movies, which were being produced in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Benton credits this experience with giving him the skills he needed to make his large-scale murals.
When World War I broke out, Benton joined the Navy. Stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, he was assigned to create drawings of the camouflaged ships arriving at Norfolk Naval Station. The renderings were used to identify vessels should they be lost in battle. Benton credited being a ‘camofleur’ as having a profound impact on his career. “When I came out of the Navy after the First World War,” he said, “I made up my mind that I wasn’t going to be just a studio painter, a pattern maker in the fashion then dominating the art world–as it still does. I began to think of returning to the painting of subjects, subjects with meanings, which people, in general, might be interested in.”
While developing his ‘regionalist’ vision, Benton also taught art, first at a city-supported school and then at The Art Students League (1926–1935). One of his students was a young Jackson Pollock, who looked upon Benton as a mentor and a father figure. In 1930, Benton was commissioned to paint a mural for the New School for Social Research. The ‘America Today’ mural, now on permanent exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was followed by many more commissions as Benton’s work gained acclaim.
The Regionalist Movement gained popularity during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Painters, including Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry, rejected modernist European influences preferring to depict realistic images of small-town and rural life—reassuring images of the American heartland during a period of upheaval. Time Magazine called Benton 'the most virile of U.S. painters of the U.S. Scene,' featuring his self-portrait on the cover of a 1934 issue that included a story about 'The Birth of Regionalism.'
In 1935, Benton left New York and moved back to Missouri, where he taught at the Kansas City Art Institute. Benton’s outspoken criticism of modern art, art critics, and political views alienated him from many influencers in political and art scenes. While remaining true to his beliefs, Benton continued to create murals, paintings, and prints of some of the most enduring images of American life. The dramatic and engaging qualities of Benton’s paintings and murals attracted the attention of Hollywood producers. He was hired to create illustrations and posters for films, including his famous lithographs for the film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s ‘Grapes of Wrath’ produced by Twentieth Century Fox.
Benton’s work can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago, High Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Library of Congress, McNay Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Truman Library and many other museums and galleries across the US. He was elected to the National Academy of Design, has illustrated many books, authored his autobiography, and is the subject of ‘Thomas Hart Benton,’ a documentary by Ken Burns.
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Senator" William Gropper, Social Realism, WPA Political Art, Caricature
Located in New York, NY
William Gropper
Senator
Signed lower center
Oil on board
16 x 12 1/4 inches
ACA Galleries, New York
Private Collection, New York
Bonhams, American Art Online, August 23, 2023, Lot 3...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Mrs. Leland Hayward, 'The Jansen Shop', New York City, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1964, Mrs Leland Hayward, better known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, who later became US Ambassador to France, at her antiques shop 'The Jansen Shop', New York City.
Complimentary d...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
St. Mary's Episcopal School for Girls, Raleigh, North Carolina
By Louis Orr
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFineArts is pleased to offer this Louis Orr etching that rarely appears on the market.
It has been stored in a folder since publication and is in pristine condition.
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Portrait of Tommy Hawkins with Python
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Tommy Hawkins with Python, 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Titled and dated on verso by the ...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hidden Pond
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hidden Pond
Lithograph, 1958
Signed in pencil lower right of image
Annotated: Ed/40 in pencil by the artist lower left
Edition: 40
Provenance:
Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH (acc...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original 1944 "Back 'Em Up Buy Extra Bonds" Eisenhower vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Buy Extra Bonds!, the 1944 U.S. World War II (WWII) War Bonds poster ("Back 'Em Up!") encouraging people to purchase more than the recommended amount of war bonds and featuring Boris Chaliapin...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Nonconformist Removed by the State. Satyr / Pan Mythology
Located in Miami, FL
This cartoon by Charles Addams is generations ahead of its time.
To get the punch line, you need to know the meaning of a Satyr or Pan.
Satyr: Part man and part beast. - A male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated permanent erection. Early artistic representations sometimes include horse-like legs; Satyrs were characterized by their vulgar, indecent ribaldry, and were rowdy lovers of wine, music, dancing, and women. They inhabited remote locales, such as woodlands, and they often attempted to seduce or rape nymphs and mortal women alike.
It's prudish 1950s America, where TV programs show husband and wife sleeping in separate beds. The discussion and representation of sex was repressed. To make a bold statement about censorship and the uncompromising moral climate of the time, Addams uses a reference from the mythical world to make a statement about the real world. In doing so, he anticipates the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s.
The satyr/pan symbolizes nonconformistism. He has his own earthy customs, attitudes, and ideas. Because of that is being handcuffed and formally taken away by the state whose goal is to repress natural erotic fun and frolic that is ubiquitous in todays society.
A proper and perfectly pressed Park Ranger cleans out a lustful undesirable from pristine woodlands. With startled expressions, a vulnerable family of correct women witness the event as they are about to have a picnic. The Satyr grasps his Pipes of Pan just over his crotch. The background is populated by phallic symbols. This is one a the rare instances where Addams address the issue of sex. The Ranger is a dead ringer as a self portrait of Addams.
Original illustration for a cartoon, showing a uniformed ranger leading away a manacled satyr, in front of a startled picnic party. Ink and grisaille wash on Whatman cold press illustration board, signed "Chas Addams...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of Man in Headband
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Man in Headband, ca. 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Studio stamp on verso. The print was us...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Meditation and Minou
By Will Barnet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Meditation and Minou
Color lithograph and serigraph, 1980
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo)
Printer Styria Studio, Inc. New York
Publisher: Harry Abrams...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Screen
WARNING! Register*Vote, INFLATION means DEPRESSION
By Ben Shahn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
WARNING! Register*Vote, INFLATION means DEPRESSION
Photo lithograph, 1946
Signed in the image lower left
Published by CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) before their merger w...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
"Fall Landscape"
By Hugo Herbeck
Located in Austin, TX
By Hugo Herbeck (1923-2009)
This landscape by Hugo Herbeck captures the atmosphere of autumn in the Central Texas Hillcountry. A road in the foreground with a barbed wire fence exten...
Category
20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Original Durham England British Railways Vintage Travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Durham, England 1953 British Railways vintage poster. Conservation linen backed in excellent condition; it is ready to frame.
This vintage poster features a modern mid-century design that adds nostalgia and charm to any space.
The image on the poster is an original 1953 artwork by Anthony Frank Kersting, showcasing two women sitting under a tree by the river, engaged in fishing.
Durham England Theme: The poster highlights the beauty of Durham, England, with the iconic Durham cathedrals showcased prominently in the center of the image, surrounded by white clouds.
Perfect for Decoration: This vintage poster is perfect for decorating any space, whether it's your home, office, studio, or any other area that could benefit from a touch of vintage charm.
Unique Collectible: As an original vintage poster, this unique collectible can add value to any vintage art collection...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Antique Autumn Fall Landscape Pumpkin Harvest by Kennedy
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Autumn Fall Landscape Pumpkin Harvest by Andrew Dwight Kennedy. Framed. Signed.
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Board, Oil
'Spiderboy' — 1930s American Realism, New York City
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'Spiderboy', 1937, etching, edition 40, Ryan 86. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 7/8 inches). A s...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
'Cleveland Public Square' — 1920s Urban Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Cleveland Public Square', etching, edition not stated, 1927. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. Annotated 'Cleveland Public Square S489', in another hand, in the bottom right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, in brown/black ink, with skillfully-controlled plate tone, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 3 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches; sheet size 17 1/4 x 12 1/8 inches.
ABOUT THIS IMAGE
'Public Square' is the two-block (formerly four-block) central plaza of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Based on an 18th-century New England model, it was part of the original 1796 town plan overseen by Moses Cleveland and remains today as an integral part of the city's center. The 10-acre (4.0 ha) square is centered on the former intersection of Superior Avenue and Ontario Street.[2] Cleveland's three tallest buildings, Key Tower, 200 Public Square, and the Terminal Tower, face the square.
Public Square was part of the Connecticut Land Company's original plan for the city, overseen by Moses Cleveland in the 1790s. The square is signature of the layout for early New England towns, which Cleveland was modeled after. While it initially served as a common pasture for settlers' animals, less than a century later in 1879 Public Square became the first street in the world to be lit with electric street lights—arc lamps designed by Cleveland native Charles F. Brush. The square was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1975.
Public Square is often the site of political rallies and civic functions, including a free annual Independence Day concert by the Cleveland Orchestra...
Category
1920s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
When Predators Meet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "When Predators Meet" 1988 is an offset lithograph by renown Western artist Gary Carter, born 1938. It is hand signed and numbered 817/...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
JJA Proflie
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFineArtsIs pleased to offer this silk screen portrait by the African American artist Calvin Burnett of Marlborough, Massachusetts.
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Screen
'The Connectors' — 1930s American Realism, New York City
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'The Connectors', 1934, etching, edition not stated, Ryan 66. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on handmade, cream laid paper, with margins (1/2 to 1...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Vintage Color WWII Poster "it will look even Bigger..." Offset Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a vintage 1946 public service announcement poster The artwork is bold, clear and direct.
"it will look even bigger… after the war!" Girl looks on longingly at 10 dollar bill....
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Original Make Your Own Declaration of War vintage World Ware Two poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Make your own Declaration of War, Buy War Bonds. Size 22" x 28:. Original 1942 World War II (WWII) American military vintage poster. Archival linen ba...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Men Working Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Men Working Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Men Working: WPA Mural Study
17 ½ x 10 ½ inches
Oil on ...
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1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Vintage Color World War II Propaganda Poster Delayed! Offset Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
DELAYED VD; 1946 military poster by Franz Oswald Schiffers.
Delayed! VD, the 1946 U.S. World War II (WWII) health poster warning soldiers overseas of the consequences of venereal disease. He can see the bright lights big city in the distance but he is chained to the VD block...
VD Almost! is a vintage 1946 public service announcement poster by Franz O. Schiffers (1902-1976). Schiffers was commissioned to create several posters warning against venereal disease for the U.S servicemen stationed overseas. The artwork is bold, clear and direct. In the post-World War II era, the piece sent a serious message to prevent contracting disease through relations with foreigners. In today's day and age, these pieces are quite humorous and decorative. Virile soldiers are shown to be up against the looming threat of venereal disease. The soldier standing on the pier watching his ship sail away would have to make a very embarrassing explanation to his wife or girlfriend as to why he was left behind.
Franz Oswald Schiffers (born August 5, 1902 in Eilendorf in Aachen , February 12, 1976 in Berlin ) was a graphic artist and film poster artist . He was one of the first graphic artists of the 1930s to achieve photorealistic effects in their works. At his father's request, Schiffers initially trained as a teacher before moving to Berlin in 1925 and became a graphic designer at UFA (Universum Film AG). After designing a series of movie posters there, Schiffers became independent in 1932 as a commercial artist (now a graphic designer). In the 1930s, Schiffers specialized in advertising posters for beverage producers - especially beer advertising. The trademark of his beer posters is the meticulous design of beer glass with shiny drops of water that trickle down the misted glass. In this photorealistic context one also speaks of " veristic " graphics.
After the seizure of power by the National SocialistsNazis , Schiffers temporarily worked for the Reich Propaganda Ministry. He designed u. a. the so-called "shadow man campaign" with the well-known slogan "enemy hears with!" - A German graphic artist who designed movie posters and advertisements in late-1920s and early 1930s Germany. During the Nazi era, Schiffers was commissioned by the Nazi propaganda office to create German propaganda...
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1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
'Westminster Abbey' — 1920s Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Westminster Abbey', etching, edition not stated, 1927. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-i...
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1920s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Rockefeller Limo Reflection
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Khawam’s first genre of paintings started in 1980 during the heights of the Superrealism movement in New York City where Khawam was the youngest among the group and in his first year...
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1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Jack Levine WW11 Painting
By Jack Levine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jack Levine: 1915-2010. Well listed American social realist painter with auction results over $220,000. This fabulous gem was most likely painted between 1942 and 1945 as he was serv...
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1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Telephone Pole Worker
38 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches
Oil on pap...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Original Vintage Color World War II Propaganda Poster Soldier Offset Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Going home? Don't be delayed by V.D.; 1946 military poster by Franz Oswald Schiffers.
Going home? Don't be delayed by V.D. VD, the 1946 U.S. (or Australian) World War II (WWII) health poster warning soldiers overseas of the consequences of venereal disease. Bound up in rope.
Going home? Don't be delayed by V.D.! is a vintage 1946 public service announcement poster by Franz O. Schiffers (1902-1976). Schiffers was commissioned to create several posters warning against venereal disease for the U.S servicemen stationed overseas. The artwork is bold, clear and direct. In the post-World War II era, the piece sent a serious message to prevent contracting disease through relations with foreigners. In today's day and age, these pieces are quite humorous and decorative. Virile soldiers are shown to be up against the looming threat of venereal disease. The soldier standing on the pier watching his ship sail away would have to make a very embarrassing explanation to his wife or girlfriend as to why he was left behind.
Franz Oswald Schiffers (born August 5, 1902 in Eilendorf in Aachen , February 12, 1976 in Berlin ) was a graphic artist and film poster artist . He was one of the first graphic artists of the 1930s to achieve photorealistic effects in their works. At his father's request, Schiffers initially trained as a teacher before moving to Berlin in 1925 and became a graphic designer at UFA (Universum Film AG). After designing a series of movie posters there, Schiffers became independent in 1932 as a commercial artist (now a graphic designer). In the 1930s, Schiffers specialized in advertising posters for beverage producers - especially beer advertising. The trademark of his beer posters is the meticulous design of beer glass with shiny drops of water that trickle down the misted glass. In this photorealistic context one also speaks of " veristic " graphics.
After the seizure of power by the National SocialistsNazis , Schiffers temporarily worked for the Reich Propaganda Ministry. He designed u. a. the so-called "shadow man campaign" with the well-known slogan "enemy hears with!" - A German graphic artist who designed movie posters and advertisements in late-1920s and early 1930s Germany. During the Nazi era, Schiffers was commissioned by the Nazi propaganda office to create German propaganda...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Good Health Week
10 ½ x 15 1/2 inches
Oil on pape...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Manning de Villenueve Lee Early 20th Century India
Located in San Francisco, CA
Manning de Villenueve Lee:1894-1980. Well listed American painter and illustrator with Auction records up to $22,500. This spectacular painting is one of our favorites. Probably pain...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Original Vintage Color World War II Propaganda Poster "Almost" Offset Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
ALMOST VD; 1946 military poster by Franz Oswald Schiffers.
Almost! VD, the 1946 U.S. World War II (WWII) health poster warning soldiers overseas of the consequences of venereal disease.
VD Almost! is a vintage 1946 public service announcement poster by Franz O. Schiffers (1902-1976). Schiffers was commissioned to create several posters warning against venereal disease for the U.S servicemen stationed overseas. The artwork is bold, clear and direct. In the post-World War II era, the piece sent a serious message to prevent contracting disease through relations with foreigners. In today's day and age, these pieces are quite humorous and decorative. Virile soldiers are shown to be up against the looming threat of venereal disease. The soldier standing on the pier watching his ship sail away would have to make a very embarrassing explanation to his wife or girlfriend as to why he was left behind.
Franz Oswald Schiffers (born August 5, 1902 in Eilendorf in Aachen , February 12, 1976 in Berlin ) was a graphic artist and film poster artist . He was one of the first graphic artists of the 1930s to achieve photorealistic effects in their works. At his father's request, Schiffers initially trained as a teacher before moving to Berlin in 1925 and became a graphic designer at UFA (Universum Film AG). After designing a series of movie posters there, Schiffers became independent in 1932 as a commercial artist (now a graphic designer). In the 1930s, Schiffers specialized in advertising posters for beverage producers - especially beer advertising. The trademark of his beer posters is the meticulous design of beer glass with shiny drops of water that trickle down the misted glass. In this photorealistic context one also speaks of " veristic " graphics.
After the seizure of power by the National SocialistsNazis , Schiffers temporarily worked for the Reich Propaganda Ministry. He designed u. a. the so-called "shadow man campaign" with the well-known slogan "enemy hears with!" - A German graphic artist who designed movie posters and advertisements in late-1920s and early 1930s Germany. During the Nazi era, Schiffers was commissioned by the Nazi propaganda office to create German propaganda...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Judaica Pastel Portrait Rabbi Painting WPA Era Artist, Social Realist
Located in Surfside, FL
Bernard Gussow 1881 -1957
Bernard Gussow was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Russian Federation. Bernard Gussow is known for genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings.
Ber...
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1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
Original "Give It Your Best" 48-stars large American flag vintage poster 1942
By Charles Coiner
Located in Spokane, WA
Original ‘Give It Your Best!’ vintage poster. This poster features the U.S. flag with 48 stars. Archival linen-backed and ready to frame. Larger format version of this poster.
...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
"Searching for Shelter" American Frontier Winter Blizzard Scene Snow Horse Cold
Located in Austin, TX
This Western illustrative painting by Gerald McCann depicts men with their horses on the frontier climbing through a snowy mountain pass and searching for shelter from a blizzard. Th...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Many Men from the Rilke Portfolio, Minimalist lithograph by Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, Lithuanian/American (1898 - 1969)
Title: Many Men from the Rilke Portfolio
Year: 1968
Medium: Lithograph on Richard de Bas, signed in the plate
Edition Size: 750
S...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Calvin Burnett
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFineArts is pleased to offer this early relief etching by Calvin Burnett of Marlborough, Massachusetts.
Another copy of this print is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the collection of rare African American prints.
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Cowboy
33 3/4 x 36 inches
Oil on paper, c. 1930s
Signed...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Industrial Working Man WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Working Man WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Man with a Tool
39 ¾ x 38 ¼ inches
Gouache...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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