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Art Deco Desk by Maurice Adams
By Maurice Adams
Located in Lee-On-The-Solent, GB
Maurice Adams, first published in 1930. The Grosvenor range was distinguished by its highly finished
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Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

Art Deco Desk by Maurice Adams
Art Deco Desk by Maurice Adams
H 29.14 in W 46.86 in D 23.86 in
Birks and Sons Platinum Ladies Art Deco Diamond Dress Watch from 1930's
By Adams
Located in Long Beach, CA
/ MATERIAL: Platinum CIRCA / YEAR: 1930's DIMENSIONS / SIZE: Length 26mm X Diameter 18mm MOVEMENT / CALIBER
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Vintage 1930s Swiss Art Deco Wrist Watches

Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Art Students League with Frank DuMond. During the mid-1930s, Adams maintained a studio on Washington
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Art Deco Corner Display Cabinet by Maurice Adams
By Maurice Adams
Located in Lee-On-The-Solent, GB
A fine Art Deco Maurice Adams corner display cabinet from the ‘Grosvenor’ range. Circa.1925. Made
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Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Corner Cupboards

Materials

Walnut

Art Deco Dining Table and Six Chairs by Maurice Adams
By Maurice Adams
Located in Lee-On-The-Solent, GB
A fine Art Deco Maurice Adams dining room table and six chairs. In walnut with well designed
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Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Dining Room Sets

Materials

Leather, Walnut

Jean Crawford Adams Original Charcoal Drawing - Chicago Industrial Subject
By Jean Crawford Adams
Located in Phoenix, AZ
of her industrial paintings. Titled: “View from the Studio.” Circa 1930's. Provenance: Robert Henry
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Mid-20th Century Drawings

Materials

Paper

Rare Vintage Silver Gelatin and Polaroid Photograph Prints Ansel Adams Portrait
By Ansel Adams
Located in Surfside, FL
West, Adams spent a considerable amount of time in New York during the 1930s and 1940s, and the Alfred
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Original 1930's English Art Deco Walnut and Macassar Ebony 8 Seat Dining Suite
By Maurice Adams
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An Art Deco eight seat dining suite by Maurice Adams. Burr walnut veneered table with figured
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Vintage 1930s English Art Deco Dining Room Sets

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Leather, Macassar, Walnut

Art Deco Streamlined car table lamp circa 1930s
By Maurice Adams
Located in Dereham, GB
Art Deco Streamlined car table lamp circa 1930s Streamline car in the form of a Mid 1930s Delage
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Vintage 1930s English Art Deco Table Lamps

Materials

Oak, Sycamore

Pair of Gorgeous Adams Paint Decorated English Armchairs Circa 1930s
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is superb pair of English paint decorated Adams style chairs. The chairs are in good antique
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Vintage 1930s English Adam Style Armchairs

Materials

Walnut

1930s Photograph of Ansel Adams and Ed Towler
By Wilson D. Ellis
Located in Soquel, CA
Ansel Adams and Ed Towler by Wilson D. Ellis (American, 20th Century). Titled "Ansel and Ed Towler
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1930s American Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Folk Art Brigantine Weathervane by Frank Adams, Martha's Vineyard, circa 1930s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Folk Art Brigantine Weathervane by Frank Adams (1871 - 1944), West Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Weathervanes

Materials

Metal

Antique Coffee Table Louis XV by Adams Always
Located in Lake Worth, FL
ALWAYS Adams Always Fine Furniture Louis XV style tiered table, circa 1930-40s. Beautifully designed
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Vintage 1930s American Louis XV Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Glass, Mahogany

Upcycled Vintage Wednesday Adams Slip, Studio VL
By Studio VL, Leslie Chin x Studio VL
Located in New York, NY
. Small size 2-4, 1930's USA Reworked. One of a kind.
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1930s American Day Dresses

Pair of Louis XVI / Adams Style Bronze Ornate Sconces, Two Light, France, 1940s
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of Louis XVI / Adams Style Bronze Ornate Sconces, Two Light, France, 1940s A finely crafted
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Mid-20th Century Louis XVI Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Brass

Flight II. Amy Johnson. Surrealistic portrait of pioneering British aviator
By Tom Adams
Located in Segovia, ES
Tom's work in New York. Adams did eventually work in the States in the early 70's where he was asked by
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Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Dona Ascensione
By Kenneth M. Adams
Located in Fairlawn, OH
size: 9 x 8 1/2 inches Adams was a member of the Taos Society of Artists. He became an Associate of the
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1930s American Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Offset

Antique 1930s Leon A Makielski Huron River Landscape Signed Etching 23"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique circa 1930's pencil signed etching by Leon A. Makielski titled "Huron River," showing a
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Vintage 1930s Prints

Materials

Paper

Woodland
Located in New York, NY
Adams Wirt Garrett was a Texas native who was raised in Oklahoma and came to New York City. He
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1930s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Drypoint

1930s American Farm Scene, Landscape Watercolor Painting Farm Buildings Windmill
By Samuel Bolton Colburn
Located in Denver, CO
art during the 1930s and 1940s, a period when American Scene artists nationwide shunned abstraction
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

A set of Cutlery 37 Table Knife Fork Stainless Sheffield England 1930s Art Deco
Located in Hampshire, GB
marked as the J. Adams Ltd (Sheffield Knives) which is a famous family business which has been making
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Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Sheffield and Silverplate

Materials

Stainless Steel, Steel, Metal

"Autumn Backroads" by Robert Emmett Owen
By Robert Emmett Owen
Located in Wiscasset, ME
art training at the Drury Academy in his home town of North Adams, Massachusetts.
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Vintage 1930s North American American Classical Paintings

Materials

Paint

Au Circus
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gallery Chicago, New York and Palm Beach 1961, Adams Gallery London, England 1956, O'Hanna Gallery
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1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Au Circus
Au Circus
H 32 in W 41 in D 3 in
Woman with child
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
artist exhibiting at the finest galleries and museums in American and France in the 1920’s and 1930’s
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1930s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Barge Toiler -Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Labor Plaster Depression-Era Sculpture
By Max Kalish
Located in New York, NY
with Isidore Konti and Herbert Adams for the next two years. In 1912, Kalish studied with Paul
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1930s American Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Plaster

Eileen Lake
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Eileen Lake Crayon on paper, early1930's Initialed in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled and
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Crayon

Full Bloom
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
galleries and museums in American and France in the 1920’s and 1930’s. His other professional life included
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1930s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Long Light Notre Dame
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
and museums in American and France in the 1920’s and 1930’s. His other professional life included
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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Trees Over the Vineyard
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
1920’s and 1930’s. His other professional life included graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover and
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
in the 1920’s and 1930’s. His other professional life included graduating from Phillips Academy
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Good Time Charley - Lithograph - American Post War
By Jasper Johns
Located in London, GB
JASPER JOHNS b. 1930 1930 Augusta, Georgia, USA (American) Title: Good Time Charley, 1972
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Staten Island
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
1920’s and 1930’s. His other professional life included graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover and
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Untitled (Country Landscape with Figures)
Located in Chicago, IL
Iowa State College in Ames, IA in 1918 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering; however, Griffen’s true love
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Evening - New York - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Johann Berthelsen
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Indianapolis Conservatory of Music. He formed a lifelong friendship with painter Wayman Adams, who was the same
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1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"SIESTA BY AN OVEN" LITHOGRAPH BY EARLY TEXAS & NEW MEXICO ARTIST OUTDOOR OVEN
By Ward Lockwood
Located in San Antonio, TX
Adams. He was much impressed with the diversity of contemporary art movements including Futurism
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1950s American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Juniper, Lake Tenaya
By Edward Weston
Located in Fairlawn, OH
(1930-2016) graduated from U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1954 and went on to graduate the first
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1930s American Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Plaza Hotel in Winter" Johann Berthelsen, New York City Snow Scene, Cityscape
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in New York, NY
the U.S. and Canada in operas, concerts, Gilbert & Sullivan, and operettas. Despite considerable
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Hugh Boycott Brown, Impressionist view of boats at Pin Mill. Suffolk
Located in Harkstead, GB
and Bernard Adams; and during the 1930s was much encouraged by Sir John Arnesby Brown. By then Boycott
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board, Canvas

Bowling
Located in Los Angeles, CA
the Art Students League. He won the Institute’s prestigious John Quincy Adams scholarship and painted
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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Bowling
H 7.75 in W 10.5 in
Blizzard Uptown, New York City
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in Missouri, MO
Berthelsen enjoyed a rich and varied career, touring the U.S. and Canada in operas, concerts, Gilbert
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Post Office, New York
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
American and France in the 1920’s and 1930’s. His other professional life included graduating from
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1930s Abstract Impressionist Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Snowy Peaks (Mont Blanc)
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
and France in the 1920’s and 1930’s. His other professional life included graduating from Phillips
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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

"Hiddensee, Herbst (Autumn)" Hans Hofmann, Modern German Abstract Landscape
By Hans Hofmann
Located in New York, NY
the reverse Oil on paper 18 x 22 inches Provenance: John Adams Fine Art, London Private Collection
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1920s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Vanity Fair, for whom Dehn worked in the mid 1920’s to the 1930’s. Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Crayon

Arthur Siegel Cement Mixer 1953, Abstract Dye Transfer Print, Signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
available to the public in the late 1930s, most respected "photographers" were extremely skeptical of its
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Vintage 1950s American Modern Photography

Materials

Paper

Edgar Brandt, Art Deco Console, Altesse Model, Cast Iron, Grand Antique Marble
By Edgar Brandt
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s. In addition to his work as a designer and metalworker, Brandt was also a
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Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Console Tables

Materials

Marble, Iron

Ponte Vecchio Florence
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
finest galleries and museums in American and France in the 1920’s and 1930’s. His other professional
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1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Flowers" Mary Abbott, Colorful Floral Still Life, Female Abstract Expressionism
By Mary Abbott
Located in New York, NY
pedigree: a descendent of luminaries, such as President John Adams, she was the daughter of Naval Commander
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1950s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Ponte Neuf (The Old Bridge)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Students League. He won the Institute’s prestigious John Quincy Adams scholarship and painted in France in
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1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Winter Storm, NYC"
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in Lambertville, NJ
befriended the painter, Wayman Adams, who had studied under William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. The two
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"New York Harbor"
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in Lambertville, NJ
befriended the painter, Wayman Adams, who had studied under William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. The two
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Red Dress
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
1920’s and 1930’s. His other professional life included graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover and
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1920s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Eroded Rock, Point Lobos
By Edward Weston
Located in Fairlawn, OH
(1930-2016) graduated from U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1954 and went on to graduate the first
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1920s Abstract Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

East Indian (Impressionist Figure)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
East Gloucester, MA in 1926. She then studied with Wayman Adams in Elizabethtown, NJ in 1933, 1935
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Dante's View, Death Valley
By Edward Weston
Located in Fairlawn, OH
negative. Robert B. Egelston (1930-2016) graduated from U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1954 and
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1930s American Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Antique American Snowy New England Winter Horse Farm Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
, most notably for the actress Maud Adams. During the 1930's Beaumont served on Committees including the
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1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Snowy New England Winter Horse Farm Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
, most notably for the actress Maud Adams. During the 1930's Beaumont served on Committees including the
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1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"In Foreign Parts" Eugene Higgins, Southwestern Pueblo, Modern Figurative
By Eugene Higgins
Located in New York, NY
Peterson in 1925 and with Wayman Adams and Janet Scudder in 1927. The members would travel around the
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1910s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

"Untitled" Mary Abbott, Abstract Expressionist Collage, Ninth Street Women
By Mary Abbott
Located in New York, NY
luminaries, such as President John Adams, she was the daughter of Naval Commander and military adviser Henry
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Paper

Coolidge Dam, Arizona
By Edward Weston
Located in Fairlawn, OH
negative. Robert B. Egelston (1930-2016) graduated from U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1954 and
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1930s American Modern Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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    Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary American artist whose work probes and deconstructs the African American experience, specifically as it relates to the long history of art as well as consumerism. His mediums include painting, collage, sculpture, performance, drawing and video. Browse a wide selection of authentic Derrick Adams art pieces on 1stDibs.
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    Yes, people had record players in the 1930s. In fact, record players began to become more common during the decade and continued to grow in popularity throughout the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Thomas Edison made the first phonograph record player in 1877. Shop a variety of record players on 1stDibs.
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    In the 1930s, phones typically looked like rotary telephones. They had either a round or square base with a numbered dial that spun when you dialed and a handset receiver with both an earpiece and a mouthpiece. A cord connected the handset to the base. Find a variety of rotary phones on 1stDibs.
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    What brides wore in the 1930s varied. Some wore long flowing dresses made of satin or silk. Long sleeves were popular and designs often featured only minimal embellishments like appliqués and beading. Because many people faced difficult financial situations due to the Great Depression, brides also sometimes simply wore their best dresses on their wedding days. On 1stDibs, shop a collection of vintage wedding dresses.