Modern Art
MODERN STYLE
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
Period: 1940s
"At the Opera" WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre American Scene
Located in New York, NY
"At the Opera" WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre American Scene
John Winters (1904 - 1983)
"At the Opera"
17 x 14 inches
oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1943 lower r...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gromaire, Composition, Gromaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Gromaire, 1949. Publis...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gromaire, Composition, Gromaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Gromaire, 1949. Publis...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Evening from the Shelton, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Raoul Dufy School Prints Colorful Modernist Drawing Lithograph Marching Band
Located in Surfside, FL
Bright vibrant blue, yellow lithograph in color. This is signed in the plate and dated. Dufy's abstract drawing lithograph was drawn by the artist direct on to plastic plates newly d...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Homage to Leger
By Jean Kellogg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Homage to Leger, 1941, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14 x 17 inches; inscribed ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gromaire, Composition, Gromaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Gromaire, 1949. Publis...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gromaire, Composition, Gromaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Gromaire, 1949. Publis...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Flowers and Arches
By Helen Lundeberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flowers and Arches, 1943, oil on board, initialed and dated lower left, 4 x 7 1/8 inches, presented in an older, but likely not original frame
This work is part of our exhibition A...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
*William Kienbusch (1914 – 1980)
Shooting Gallery, Sixth Avenue
Poster paint on paper, c. 1941
15 ¾ x...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Paint
The Old World
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Old World, by 1943, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 43 ½ x 30 ½ inches, artist’s name and title inscribed verso; exhibited 1) Romantic Painting in America, Museum of Modern Art, N...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stieglitz, Night, New York, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, John Marin, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Barn, Lake George, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
A Valley Streetscape at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
A Valley Streetscape at Night, 1948, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower right, 18 x 24 inch...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled (Cubist Portrait)
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Cubist Portrait), 1945, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower middle, 20 x 16 inches,...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Orange Grove Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Orange Grove Landscape, 1941, gouache on illustration board, 14 inches x 18 inches (image), 22 x 26 inches (framed) signed and dated lower right, newly framed with museum glazing
...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Vintage War Home Front Recycling Poster Bones Make Explosives WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two Home Front recycling poster - Bones Make Explosives Put Out All Bones For Salvage - featuring a great modernist graphic design by Reginald Mount (1906-...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Untitled (Transcendental Composition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Transcendental Composition), oil on board, 1947, oil on board, signed and dated lower r...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, 1940, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, dated and titled verso: “Marcel Cailliet ’40 – S.C.” and “Marcel Cailliet Landscape”; likely exhibited at the annual juried st...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harlem Renaissance Signed Ellis Original Abstract Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 22L x 30H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
William Carroll, Norma Jeane Triptych, original photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This triptych is three original photographs printed from the original camera negatives, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. These images depict a young Norma Jeane at ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 ½ x 26 ½ inches, presented in a period frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Man on a Stair" American Scene Social Realism WPA Mid 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Man on a Stair" American Scene Social Realism WPA Mid 20th Century Modern
Robert M. Cronbach (AMERICAN / NEW YORK / MISSOURI, 1908 - 2001) modernist bronze sculpture depicting a st...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fernand Leger School Prints Colorful Modernist King of Hearts Drawing Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Bright vibrant blue, orange, red, yellow, green lithograph in color. This is signed in the plate and dated. Leger's abstract drawing lithograph was drawn by the artist direct on to p...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, A la memoire de Angela Lamotte II, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IV, N° 13, Novem...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
American School Modernist Abstract Cityscape Holiday Lights Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Image size, 20H x 30L. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Matisse, A la memoire de Angela Lamotte I, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IV, N° 13, Novem...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Reclining Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude
Charcoal and colored chalks with white highlights on tan laid paper, c. 1948
Signed and monogrammed by the artist lower right
(see photo)
A masterpiece dr...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Chalk
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Casablanca - Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart Original 1942 Print
Located in London, GB
Casablanca - Original 1942 photograph
Vintage 1942 Casablanca Lobby Card:
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and he...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Montego Bay Fisherman 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Montego Bay Fishermen 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Fishermen at work on a beach in Montego Bay Jamaica circa 1940.
by Toni Frissell
30 x 30" inches / 76 x...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Colombe sur lit de paille, Ceramic Plate by Pablo Picasso 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973)
Title: Colombe sur lit de paille, (Dove on a Straw Bed) [Ramie 79 variant]
Year: 1949
Medium: White earthenware clay, white enamel brushe...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Signed Exhibited American Female Modernist Woman Sewing Framed Portrait
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century modernist interior portrait oil painting by Sadie Skoletsky Rosenblum 1899-1987. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, étudier for céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Collotype and Lithograph on archival gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; nev...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antique American Impressionist Hamptons Polo Field Horse Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid century polo field modernist landscape. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, mounted on supporting sheet by the publisher, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From t...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
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