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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Double Vision 70 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Vibrant Red Abstract Artwork
Double Vision 70 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Vibrant Red Abstract Artwork

Double Vision 70 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Vibrant Red Abstract Artwork

By Ricky Hunt

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A mare and foal shading under the trees
A mare and foal shading under the trees

A mare and foal shading under the trees

By Arthur Spooner

Located in Stoke, Hampshire

Arthur Spooner (1873-1962) A mare and foal shading under the trees Signed lower right Oil on canvas board Painting size - 14 1/8 x 18 1/2 in Framed size - Arthur Spooner (1873–1962...

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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite
Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite

Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite

By Ansel Adams

Located in Pacific Grove, CA

This silver gelatin print with exemplary provenance is unsigned but bears several stamps from the artist's family on the back of the mount, including the authentication stamp of Adam...

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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Swedish Interior Oil Painting - Open Doors to Summer
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Swedish Interior Oil Painting - Open Doors to Summer

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Swedish Interior Oil Painting - Open Doors to Summer

Located in Bristol, GB

OPEN DOORS TO SUMMER Size: 58.5 x 49.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A wonderfully serene mid-century interior scene that captures the quiet pleasure of a sunlit room opening o...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Abstract Horizon
Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Abstract Horizon

Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Abstract Horizon

Located in Bristol, GB

ABSTRACT HORIZON Size: 72 x 91.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A mid-century modernist abstract landscape painting that captures a rugged, windswept terrain through expressive ...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Is that Gun Loaded?  NRA original vintage gun safety poster
Is that Gun Loaded?  NRA original vintage gun safety poster

Is that Gun Loaded? NRA original vintage gun safety poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original “Is that Gun LOADED?” vintage National Rifle Association of America vintage poster. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, mint, and ready to frame. Printed in 1946 on a thick cardboard stock. Excellent condition, vibrant green and reds. 22 x 14 inches. NO paper loss, no tears. These are images of the exact poster you will receive. The poster shows a careless man incorrectly holding a rifle pointing towards another person. The men’s camping gear...

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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Still Life
Still Life

Still Life

By Pierre Bisiaux

Located in Dallas, TX

Signed "P. Bisiaux" at lower right The overall dimensions, including the frame, are 29 x 34 7/8 inches

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Experience Chicago via Amtrak Vintage Travel Poster — Original 1970s Print
Experience Chicago via Amtrak Vintage Travel Poster — Original 1970s Print

Experience Chicago via Amtrak Vintage Travel Poster — Original 1970s Print

Located in Spokane, WA

Experience Chicago via Amtrak — Golden Age of American Rail Travel This original vintage Amtrak travel poster celebrates the golden era of American passenger rail, capturing the exc...

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1970s Modern Art

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Offset

64x48" Elvis by Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography
64x48" Elvis by Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography

64x48" Elvis by Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography

By Destro

Located in Los Angeles, CA

"ELVIS BY ANDY WARHOL" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images. Archival photographic paper Framin...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

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Archival Pigment

Martha Burchfield American Modern Watercolor Painting Barn Fall Red Yellow Gray
Martha Burchfield American Modern Watercolor Painting Barn Fall Red Yellow Gray

Martha Burchfield American Modern Watercolor Painting Barn Fall Red Yellow Gray

By Martha Elizabeth Burchfield Richter

Located in Buffalo, NY

This evocative watercolor by Martha Burchfield presents a quiet rural homestead nestled among evergreens and autumn foliage, rendered with confident brushwork and a restrained, harmo...

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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Original 1942 Pour L'An II COMPAGNONS  Rooster vintage French poster
Original 1942 Pour L'An II COMPAGNONS  Rooster vintage French poster

Original 1942 Pour L'An II COMPAGNONS Rooster vintage French poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Professionally archival linen-backed vintage French poster: pour L'An II COMPAGONS Tous Unis Celebrons, Notre Pain, Notre Sang, Notre Terre. This full lithograph antique poster fe...

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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

'Lolita' 1962 Original Vintage Lobby Card Unframed

'Lolita' 1962 Original Vintage Lobby Card Unframed

Located in London, GB

Lolita 1962 Unframed Original Vintage Cinema Lobby Card Extra Large 10x14" inches / 25x36 cm paper size Unframed (framing options available - please enquire) About the film: Lolit...

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1960s Modern Art

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C Print

Road Repairing, Lower Manhattan at Night

Road Repairing, Lower Manhattan at Night

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Road Repairing, Lower Manhattan at Night, 1934, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower right, 24 x 16 inches; original label verso has title and address Margit Varga was an artist,...

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1930s Modern Art

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Masonite, Oil

Antique view of Rome with an aqueduct spanning the Tiber
Antique view of Rome with an aqueduct spanning the Tiber

Antique view of Rome with an aqueduct spanning the Tiber

By Richard Earlom

Located in Middletown, NY

London: Boydell, 1810. Aquatint with engraving printed in sepia on cream wove paper with a partial 1805 watermark, 6 x 9 1/2 (153 x 242 mm); sheet 10 3/8 x 14 1/8 inches (264 x 360 ...

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Early 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint

'Diptych' —  Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17
'Diptych' —  Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17

'Diptych' — Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17

By Stanley William Hayter

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Stanley William Hayter, 'Diptych', color engraving and scorper, 1967, edition 50, Black & Moorhead 314. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '10/50' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh, vibrant colors on antique-white wove BFK Rives paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches). Minor skinning and tape residue on the top and bottom sheet edges, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 13 7/8 x 19 1/2 inches (146 x 108 mm); sheet size 19 7/8 x 25 3/8 inches (394 x 292 mm). Hayter created this work using engraving and scorper on 2 plates, printed side by side. He used alkali blue, printed intaglio, and a phthalo green with a hard roller on the surface. The proofing was in three states, the first with engraving (a single proof); the second adding further engraving and scorper (a single proof); the third added further engraving and editioned: color trial proofs, 5 artist's proofs, edition of 50. The edition was completed in three printings: 8 in 1967; then Hector Saunier printed numbers 9 through 18 in 1968, and numbers 19 through 50 in 1969. This impression is from the Saunier 1968 printing. Note: the online image cannot accurately convey the vibrancy of the printed alkali blue/phthalo green. An impression of this work is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris, now known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists he is credited with influencing are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall. The hallmark of the workshop was its egalitarian structure, breaking sharply with the traditional French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labor and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, who, with other Surrealists, worked with Hayter at Atelier 17. The often violent imagery of Hayter’s Surrealist period was stimulated in part by his passionate response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism. He organized portfolios of graphic works to raise funds for the Spanish cause, including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso. Hayter frequently exhibited with the Surrealists during the 1930s but left the movement when Paul Eluard was expelled. Eluard’s poem Facile Proie (1939) was written in response to a set of Hayter’s engravings. Other writers with whom Hayter collaborated in this way included Samuel Beckett and Georges Hugnet. Hayter joined the exile of the Parisian avant-garde in 1939, moving with his second wife, the American sculptor Helen...

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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Engraving

Ormond Gigli 'Girls in the Windows'
Ormond Gigli 'Girls in the Windows'

Ormond Gigli 'Girls in the Windows'

By Ormond Gigli

Located in New York, NY

Ormond Gigli Girls in the Window, 1960 (printed later) Color coupler print 44 x 44 inches Signed, dated and numbered edition 22/45 Ormond Gigli: The Visionary Behind the "Girls in...

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1960s Modern Art

Materials

C Print

Sacre-Coeur Montmartre Paris Street Scene, Large Signed Oil Painting Rare Winter
Sacre-Coeur Montmartre Paris Street Scene, Large Signed Oil Painting Rare Winter

Sacre-Coeur Montmartre Paris Street Scene, Large Signed Oil Painting Rare Winter

Located in Buffalo, NY

French School plein air modernist Paris winter scene. Signed oil painting on stretched canvas framed. Thick impasto painting technique. Overall dimensions: 40.5 x 28.5 inches. Art :...

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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sister Kate — Mid-century, Jazz-inspired Modernism
Sister Kate — Mid-century, Jazz-inspired Modernism

Sister Kate — Mid-century, Jazz-inspired Modernism

By James Houston McConnell

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

James Houston McConnell, 'Sister Kate', color serigraph, 1947, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '24' in pencil. Annotated '10.00 - 19 colors - 24 copies - #24' in pencil. A fine impression, with vibrant, fresh colors, on heavy tan wove paper, with full margins (11/16 to 1 1/2 inches). Tack holes in the four margin corners, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce. Image size 8 5/8 x 14 1/16 inches (219 x 357 mm); sheet size 11 1/16 x 15 1/2 inches (281 x 393 mm). Another of McConnell's mid-century modernist, jazz-inspired serigraphs, 'Combo', is featured in the British Museum's 2008 publication (and traveling exhibition) 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock'. ABOUT THE IMAGE "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate", often simply "Sister Kate", is an up-tempo jazz dance song, written by Armand J. Piron and published in 1922. The lyrics of the song are narrated in the first person by Kate's sister, who sings about Kate's impressive dancing skill and her wish to be able to emulate it. She laments that she's not quite "up to date", but believes that dancing like "Sister Kate" will rectify this, and she will be able to impress "all the boys in the neighborhood" like her sister. Over the years this song has been performed and recorded by many artists, including Frances Faye and Rusty Warren, a 1959 version by Shel Silverstein...

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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

"Sleepy Hollow" Marin California Overlooking San Francisco Bay Davis F Schwartz
"Sleepy Hollow" Marin California Overlooking San Francisco Bay Davis F Schwartz

"Sleepy Hollow" Marin California Overlooking San Francisco Bay Davis F Schwartz

Located in Soquel, CA

"Sleepy Hollow" Marin California Overlooking San Francisco Bay Davis F Schwartz Rare and significant work; beautifully rendered landscape of Sleepy Hollow near San Rafael, Marin County, California by Davis Francis Schwartz...

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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Board

Goofy (Walt Disney Productions Cartoon Animator)
Goofy (Walt Disney Productions Cartoon Animator)

Goofy (Walt Disney Productions Cartoon Animator)

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Dick Ruhl (American, 1926-1991) Original Gouache Painting of Goofy, one of three images created specifically for Disney Interview portfolio, Los Angeles 1943. (see reference in bio below). Image measuring 12 x 18 inches. Signed & dated 1943 lower right. Framed measurement: 19 x 25 inches. Dick Ruhl was the grandson of German immigrants who settled in Nebraska as farmers brought to the US by the federal government to raise food for a growing population after the Civil War. On his mother’s side, his family dates back to Nathan Hale. Her father was in the Union Army and given a small farm by the government near Guthrie, Oklahoma. Dick’s parents, John and Lucille, were married in Chandler in 1902, and his dad got a job with the Frisco Railroad. Since the main yard and a hub were in Sapulpa, they moved here, initially settling at Elm and Lee street, but later they bought five acres at 1300 Cleveland and built a simple home with a water well, outdoor toilet, and coal oil lamps. Dick is a Sapulpa native who left his hometown at 16 to become an animator during the “golden age” of Disney Studios. Photo courtesy of Sapulpa Historical Society. Dick finally came along in 1926 and was born in the Sapulpa City Hospital at Division and Cleveland Streets. According to Dick, his doctor, William Polk Longmire—a famous Sapulpan in his own right—named Dick after himself on his birth certificate, listing Dick’s name as “Polk Knox Ruhl.” It wasn’t until 1937 that it was discovered and changed to James Richard Ruhl. Dick was doing farm chores at 5 years old, mostly feeding the animals and milking the cow. Every evening, he delivered milk to his last customer, a cousin named “Nellie,” whom Dick says was a bootlegger. Dick recalls one evening as he put Nellie’s milk in her icebox, a handsome gentleman named Charlie took him up on his lap. “He was wearing a gun, which impressed me,” Dick said, adding that Charlie gave him a shiny half dollar as a gift. “Each evening I rushed to Nellie’s, hoping to meet Charlie again, until one evening, she told me he would never be back.” Nellie showed Dick the evening Sapulpa Herald announcing that Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd had been killed. Dick started school at 5 years old and said his teacher “loved and whipped me through first grade.” It must have done some good because he was able to skip the 2nd grade. In 3rd grade, his teacher, Miss Giles, had her students draw a house. “I don’t know why, but I drew my house in perfect perspective,” Dick said. “She bragged about my talent and it was then I decided to become a great artist.” Dick turned a small chicken house at his parents’ farm into his first studio and gallery. “My clients were ducks, chickens, and an occasional pig,” he said. As the country fell into the Great Depression, Dick said “it didn’t mean anything to me. We raised our food and Dad eked out a small wage on the railroad. Mom made our clothes from feed sacks purchased at Lee Nevin’s Feed Store, and we had credit at Bodkin’s Grocery, House’s Grocery, and Katz Department Store.” It was in High School that Dick began to really pursue his creative talents again. “The WPA sponsored an art class at the library in the basement,” he said. “My algebra teacher let me attend the art class instead of algebra.” Dick said his art teacher was Henry Simpson—a retired Western artist from Ft. Worth— and another teacher named Mrs. Casteel, whom Dick said “gave me the greatest advice I have ever learned: ‘Don’t think you’re all that good! You’ll meet artists who are better than you, but don’t get discouraged, keep doing your thing.’” Disney comes calling Dick was working at the Criterion Theatre in Sapulpa when Disney released “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs...

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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Chalk, Gouache

Le Grand Concert-II e Festival de Peinture et Sculpture (after) Raoul Dufy, 1957
Le Grand Concert-II e Festival de Peinture et Sculpture (after) Raoul Dufy, 1957

Le Grand Concert-II e Festival de Peinture et Sculpture (after) Raoul Dufy, 1957

By (after) Raoul Dufy

Located in New York, NY

This lithographic poster was designed after a gouache by Raoul Dufy, "Le Grand Concert" 1948, for the second Festival of Painting and Sculpture in 1957 in the town of Vichy, France, which was sponsored by the Lions Club...

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1950s Modern Art

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Lithograph

1950's Modernist Signed Painting  - Interior Abstract Scene
1950's Modernist Signed Painting  - Interior Abstract Scene

1950's Modernist Signed Painting - Interior Abstract Scene

By Bernard Labbe

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Interior Abstract by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), signed, stamped verso original gouache painting on paper overall size: 16 x 12 inches condition: very good and ready to...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Quarry Workers

Quarry Workers

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Quarry Workers, c. 1930s, mixed media on board, unsigned, 24 x 24 inches, possibly exhibited at...

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1930s Modern Art

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Mixed Media

Israeli Surrealist Abstract Lithograph Naftali Bezem
Israeli Surrealist Abstract Lithograph Naftali Bezem

Israeli Surrealist Abstract Lithograph Naftali Bezem

By Naftali Bezem

Located in Surfside, FL

Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם‎‎; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor. Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent...

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20th Century Modern Art

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Lithograph

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