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Before the War
By Amy Friend
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Dare alla Luce series, I initially responded to a collection of vintage photographs, retrieved from a variety of sources both personal and anonymous. Through hand-manipulated ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

1944 UK poster: Great Britain's War Effort (Taxation) - World War II propaganda
Located in London, GB
want. We have two other posters from this series. Great Britain's War Effort No. 5 (Taxation) Printed
Category

1940s Modern More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Bulgari Rome Trombino Emerald Diamond Ring
By Bulgari
Located in New York, NY
Signor Trombino before the war for Mr.Bulgari A platinum ring, set with emerald and diamonds, signed
Category

Vintage 1960s Italian More Rings

Materials

Diamond, Emerald, Platinum

Midcentury Vintage Walnut Wardrobe from Waring and Gillow, 1960s
By Waring & Gillow
Located in South Shields, GB
A walnut wardrobe from Waring and Gillow, circa 1950s They were possibly one of the last pieces of
Category

Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Wardrobes and Armoires

Materials

Walnut

René Lalique: Bacchantes vase, circa 1927
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
was made before the war circa 1930. Perfect condition. Signature with the wheel in intaglio on the
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Early 20th Century Vases

Materials

Glass

STUNNING WARING & GILLOW TRIPLE MIRROR BURR WALNUT DRESSING TABLE j1
By Waring & Gillow
Located in Pulborough, GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this Stunning Waring & Gillow Burr Walnut Dressing Table
Category

20th Century British Vanities

Materials

Walnut

Japanese Antique Crab Bronze 'Made before the Second World War' 'N'
Located in Paris, FR
Object of crab with bronze: A very precious object made before the second world war, when bronze
Category

Mid-20th Century Japanese Animal Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Stamped Waring & Gillow Ltd Walnut Chest of Drawers Sideboard, circa 1930s
By Waring & Gillow
Located in Pulborough, GB
Stunning stamped Waring & Gillow Ltd with original brass handles. This piece is one of a kind
Category

20th Century British Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Brass

FINE 1920'S WARING & GILLOW LANCASTER BURR WALNUT DOUBLE WARDROBE j1
By Waring & Gillow
Located in Pulborough, GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this Exquisite 1920's Waring & Gillow Lancaster Burr Walnut
Category

20th Century British Wardrobes and Armoires

Materials

Walnut

WARING & GILLOW PARIS THOMAS CHIPPENDALE TASTE LiBRARY DESK BROWN LEATHER TOP
By Waring & Gillow
Located in GB
Waring & Gillow Paris writing table with the original hand dyed brown leather top and hand carved legs in
Category

Early 20th Century English Edwardian Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Leather, Hardwood

1930s Waring & Gillow Hand Painted Chest of Drawers Cupboard William Morris
By Waring & Gillow
Located in Pulborough, GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this Antique Waring & Gillow Hand painted Chest of Drawers
Category

20th Century British Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Walnut, Paint, Paper

Mid-Century Chest of Drawers in Walnut from Waring and Gillow, 1950s
By Waring & Gillow
Located in South Shields, GB
A walnut chest of drawers from Waring an Gillow, circa 1950s They were possibly one of the last
Category

Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Dressers

Materials

Teak

FINE ANTiQUE ART DECO WARING & GILLOW BURR WALNUT HOUSEKEEPERS LINEN CUPBOARD
By Waring & Gillow
Located in GB
Art Deco Burr Walnut Waring & Gillow Housekeepers cupboard Please note the delivery fee listed is
Category

20th Century English Art Deco Cabinets

Materials

Walnut

FINE ANTIQUE ART DECO WARING & GILLOW 1932 STAMPED BURR WALNUT DRESSiNG TABLE
By Waring & Gillow
Located in GB
Art Deco Burr Walnut Waring & Gillow 1932 stamped dressing table Please note the delivery fee listed
Category

Vintage 1930s English Art Deco Vanities

Materials

Walnut

1956 SIR WILLIAM COCKER WARING & GILLOW BEDROOM SUITE ART WORK WARDROBE DRAWERs
By Waring & Gillow
Located in GB
Waring & Gillow Lancashire 1956 bedroom suite complete with the original dated sketch Please note the
Category

Vintage 1950s English Victorian Bedroom Sets

Materials

Mirror, Hardwood

Japanese Antique Crab Bronze 'Made before the Second World War' 'N' 2
Located in Paris, FR
Object of crab with bronze: A very precious object made before the second world war, when bronze
Category

Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Sculptures and Carvings

Materials

Bronze

Golly There No End to War Before - Colorful Figurative Drawing, Duck Wars Series
Located in Houston, TX
Devil and Daniel Johnston. This ink on paper drawing titled "Golly There No End to War Before," is one
Category

2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Paper

New tapestry Ukrainian folk art
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
my idea before the war, I continue to implement my ideas, old and new. My arrival home gives me new
Category

2010s Feminist Sculptures

Materials

Textile

Russian Ballet.
By David Bomberg
Located in New York, NY
drawings seem to have been executed before the war and lithographed at the time Diaghilev’s ballet came to
Category

1910s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

War of the Worlds
Located in London, GB
Original British front of house card for The War of the Worlds 1953 it was used inside the foyer of
Category

Vintage 1950s British Posters

Materials

Paint

War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds
H 8 in W 10 in D 0.1 in
Art Deco Evening Bag. Old Shanghai
Located in New York, NY
evokes the cosmopolitan atmosphere of elegant Shanghai which prevailed just before the war. A silvered
Category

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Evening Bags and Minaudières

Berthomme Saint-André, Before Bathing, 1926
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Cézanne than purely orientalist. He left Algeria in 1928, to return there in 1931. Before the war
Category

1920s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Tobia Scarpa for Venini Murano Blown Glass Midcentury "Occhi" Murrine Vase
By Venini, Tobia Scarpa
Located in Brussels, BE
forms and techniques developed by his father before the war. This model is known in Venini archives
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Art Glass, Murano Glass

The Cyclops - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Roma, IT
war, Berthommé Saint-André exhibited regularly in all the major Salons: from 1928 at the Salon
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Paper

The Woman's Face - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Roma, IT
. During the interwar period, his inspiration was close to surrealism. Before the war, Berthommé Saint
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Paper

The Little Pig - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Roma, IT
palette. During the interwar period, his inspiration was close to surrealism. Before the war, Berthommé
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Paper

Apoc Angels Before And After War - African Abstract Painting Blue Yellow Brown
By Daté Kodjo Amouzou
Located in Sofia, BG
"Apoc Angels Before And After War" is an African abstract portrait painting by the talented
Category

2010s Folk Art Abstract Paintings

Materials

Cardboard, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

The Nude - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Roma, IT
war, Berthommé Saint-André exhibited regularly in all the major Salons: from 1928 at the Salon
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Paper

The Woman - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Roma, IT
war, Berthommé Saint-André exhibited regularly in all the major Salons: from 1928 at the Salon
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Paper

Crate Chair by Gerrit Rietveld, Designed in 1930s The Netherlands
By Cassina, Gerrit Rietveld
Located in Hellouw, NL
crate desk is also from this period before the war; purchased by the main store at the Keizersgracht in
Category

Vintage 1930s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Armchairs

Materials

Pine

The Old Man's Face - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Roma, IT
war, Berthommé Saint-André exhibited regularly in all the major Salons: from 1928 at the Salon
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Paper

Angelo Lelli Lelii Ceiling Lamp from the 50's
By Angelo Lelii
Located in bari, IT
the innovative lighting company Arredoluce in Manza, Italy, in the years around World War II. Little
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Metal, Brass

The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet
Located in Paonia, CO
cabinet.  Here we can see Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury
Category

1860s Other Art Style Portrait Prints

Materials

Engraving

Marcel Bouraine Art Deco Bronze Bird Bookends 1930s
By Marcel-André Bouraine
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
both majestic and whimsical. He has the distinction of being primariy self taught before the war years
Category

Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Animal Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

"Op Art Akte" 1970 VIRT, Zdenek
Located in Bristol, CT
photography in the Czech Republic has been active even before the war, and even the photographer Joseph Sudek
Category

1970s More Art

Materials

Paper

Crow Before The Eagle by Greg Singley
Located in Phoenix, AZ
expressed in what they left behind. Their war shirts, head dresses, lances, medicine shields and ceremonial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Regalia Before The Consul by Greg Singley
Located in Phoenix, AZ
expressed in what they left behind. Their war shirts, head dresses, lances, medicine shields and ceremonial
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

My grandfather was a light maker, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Federico Cortese
Located in Yardley, PA
electrician, carpenter, handyman ... In his small village of origin, before the war, public lighting had not
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Oil

The War Bonnet by Lon Megargee
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Lon Megargee 1883-1960 "The War Bonnet" Wood block print Signed: original pencil signature, lower
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Edith Desternes, The Church Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Auvers-sur-Oise, 1920s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
French painting of the time. She exhibited her works with Fonseca before the war at the Barreiro gallery
Category

1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nommie Durell Landscape with Tree Oil on Canvas, England, C1950s
By Nommie Durell
Located in Leicester, GB
methods and conscientious objectors, they worked at Dartington Hall during the war. Post-war she also
Category

Vintage 1950s English Modern Paintings

Materials

Paint, Canvas

Royal Marine Artillery Camp. The Evening Before the Battle of Messines.
By Percy John Delf Smith, R.D.I.
Located in Storrs, CT
6 3/8 x 7 7/8 (sheet 9 1/4 x 10 1/2.) Series: Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918. A rich
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint

Ateliers de Marolles, Jean Touret, Midcentury Wrought-iron Chandelier, ca.1950
By Jean Touret
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
, taken prisoner at the beginning of the war, is sent to the south of Germany, in the wooded mountains of
Category

Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Wrought Iron

Star Wars
Located in London, GB
Original Russian film posters for Star Wars, 1977. The film was directed by George Lucas and
Category

1990s Russian Posters

Materials

Paper

Star Wars
Star Wars
H 41 in W 26 in D 0.1 in
Untitled - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Roma, IT
. Before the war, Berthommé Saint-André exhibited regularly in all the major Salons: from 1928 at the Salon
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Paper

Pink French Porcelain Crystalline Vase Mougin Nancy
By Mougin Frères
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
porcelain vase was made before the war, the period which was the height of the brothers’ artistic production
Category

Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

Materials

Porcelain

War Scene
By Abel Pann
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "War Scene" c.1930 is a color lithograph on Wove paper by noted Latvian/Israeli artist
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

War Scene
War Scene
H 18.25 in W 24.5 in D 0.01 in
Art Deco Working Man Bronze Sculpture, Edouard Cazaux, France, 1920's
By Edouard Cazaux
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
service of the Lachenal ceramists before the war, but also of friends such as Jean Mayodon. In1923 Cazaux
Category

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Structural tapestry
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
the project on my idea before the war, I continue to implement my ideas old and new. My arrival home
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Sculptures

Materials

Textile

Structural tapestry
Structural tapestry
H 78.75 in W 35.44 in D 3.94 in
Christ before Herod, a drawing from the School of Titian
Located in PARIS, FR
which is interposed between two appearances before Pilate; " Then Herod, with his men of war, treated
Category

16th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Chalk

Star Wars: the Last of the Jedi Book 6 Return of the Dark Side
Located in London, GB
American artist/illustrator Drew Struzan was created for the book cover of Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Posters

Materials

Paper

Well Before….the Trusty S.C.O.R.E.* Crows
By Michael Beam
Located in Buffalo, NY
Peenemunde 1943—During World War II, German rocketeers developed Vergeltungswaffen or "V" weapons
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil

IBIZA oil painting canvas by J.Masia 1959 , Spain
Located in DÉNIA, ES
stage of the Spanish Civil War. After the war he became part of the editorial team of the newspaper
Category

Vintage 1950s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas

BEFORE THE DRESSING TABLE..Peter Kuhfeld RP.NEAC contemporary British artist
By Peter Kuhfeld
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
who have often appeared in their paintings. Kuhfeld is the only child of a German prisoner of war and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Before Cave of Plato
By Sofia Borges
Located in New York, NY
archival objects and illustrations such as museum dioramas, taxidermy animals, Cold War-era ephemera, and
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Colorful Civil War Recruitment Broadside for the "Manhattan Rifles"
Located in York County, PA
MASSIVE & COLORFUL CIVIL WAR RECRUITMENT BROADSIDE FOR THE "MANHATTAN RIFLES,” WHICH MUSTERED INTO
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Antique 1860s American Political and Patriotic Memorabilia

Materials

Paper

Dolf Breetvelt Sculpture in Solid Elm Netherlands, 1963
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
extra character. Adolf (Dolf) Breetvelt attended the academy in The Hague. Before the war he was an
Category

Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Elm

Rowers Before the Race - British 1930's art sport lithograph rowing
By Gerald Spencer Pryse
Located in London, GB
Magazine, and The Graphic. During the Great War, Pryse produced a considerable body of lithographic work
Category

1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Lithograph

BEFORE THE DRESSING TABLE..Peter Kuhfeld RP.NEAC contemporary British artist
By Peter Kuhfeld
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
who have often appeared in their paintings. Kuhfeld is the only child of a German prisoner of war and
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

STUNNING ViNTAGE BURR WALNUT BEDSIDE CUPBOARD OR LAMP END WINE TABLE VERY NICE
By Waring & Gillow
Located in GB
walnut Waring & Gillow bedside lamp wine table or cupboard Please note the delivery fee listed is just
Category

Vintage 1930s English Art Deco Night Stands

Materials

Walnut

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    Whether war posters are in the public domain depends on their age. If a poster is more than 95 years old, it is usually in the public domain. Shop a selection of war posters from some of the world's top galleries on 1stDibs.
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    The Hildebrandt Brothers made the original Star Wars posters. The duo consists of twin brothers Greg and Tim Hildebrandt. Notably, well-known film poster artist Drew Struzan came out of retirement to design the artwork for Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015. You'll find a variety of film poster art on 1stDibs.
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    Opinions on which World War II propaganda poster is the most famous differ. However, two posters introduced characters that would go on to become iconic. The first is "We Can Do It," featuring Rosie Riveter, who has become synonymous with women's equality. Another influential design is " I Want YOU For U.S. Army," with its bearded figure wearing a star-spangled top hat. The image gave birth to Uncle Sam, the well-known symbol of the U.S. On 1stDibs, find a range of WWII posters from some of the world's top galleries.
  • 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 13, 2023
    More than 200,000 propaganda posters were made during World War II. The Office of War Information (OWI) was responsible for hiring artists to design the artwork. Famous posters include “I Want You” for the U.S. Army, featuring the well-known Uncle Sam character, while the popular “We Can Do It!” design depicts Rosie the Riveter. On 1stDibs, shop a selection of World War II posters and other vintage and antique posters.
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    The easily recognizable poster created during World War I in 1917 is I Want You for U.S. Army. James Montgomery Flagg designed the poster, which shows Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer. Find a collection of James Montgomery Flagg art on 1stDibs.
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    During World War II, the American flag was the 48-star flag used from 1912 (incorporation of New Mexico and Arizona) to 1959 (incorporation of Alaska). The rows and columns of stars were arranged in a regular pattern, unlike the offset rows of the modern American flag. On 1stDibs, you’ll find a collection of antique American flags from some of the world’s top sellers.