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Grunvald Samuel

Skyline and Tugboat, East River, New York City
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in New York, NY
Samuel Grunvald excelled at watercolors and was a native New Yorker who portrayed his city as such
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1940s Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

1940's American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Tenement Market
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
right Lower East Side Tenements Pushcart Market Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

1940 American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Pushcart Tenements
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

1940's American WPA Modernist New York Watercolor Painting 59th st Central Park
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
6.25 X 7.5 inches. Hand signed lower right Provenance: Greenwich Gallery (Greenwich CT) Samuel
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

1930's American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Harlem River Dr
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
inches. Provenance: Greenwich Gallery (Greenwich CT) Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

1940's Americana WPA Modernist Watercolor Painting Catskill Mountains Bungalow
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
right Country Scene Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

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Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with a 1...
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1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Early 20th Century Carmel Point Lobos and Monastery Beach Seascape
By Rinaldo Cuneo
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous, vibrant early 20th century seascape painting of Point Lobos looking toward Monastery Beach, Carmel by Rinaldo Cuneo (American, 1877-1939). Signed "Cuneo" lower right. Prese...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right and verso 8 x 10 inches oil on board. BIO The son of a men's haberdasher, Mervin ...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Selection of Three WPA Era Paintings
Located in Atlanta, GA
Group of Three WPA Era Paintings, American, circa 1930s-1950s. From left to right, they are: 1) Brick mason oil painting, American, circa 1930s. It measures 23.5" H x 27.5" W. 2) In...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

Selection of Three WPA Era Paintings
Selection of Three WPA Era Paintings
H 33.5 in W 27.5 in D 0.5 in
W.P.A. Style Painting, Science, Politics Industry 1940s-1950s, Oil on Board
By WPA
Located in Buffalo, NY
Amazing W.P.A. style painting, trip-tic depicting science, politics industry, worker's, 1940s-1950s. Oil on board, measuring: 52" x 32". Attention to details. Unfortunately not signe...
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Vintage 1940s American Folk Art Paintings

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Wood, Paint

"Central Park Winter" New York City Impressionist Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist New York City winter city-scene depicting figures in the snow in Central Park. Many people are painted in a most intimate, yet energetic way, having fun on this snow da...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

Johann Berthelsen Central Park New York Under Snow
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in Dallas, TX
Johann Berthelsen Danish/American, 1883-1972 Central Park with People in the snow and the downtown in the background barely visible through the snow. Signed Johann Berthelsen (lr) Oi...
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Vintage 1930s American Aesthetic Movement Paintings

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Paint

"Nude Musicians" WPA Mid 20th Century American Modernism LGBT Social Realism Gay
Located in New York, NY
Carl Gustaf Simon Nelson, American (1898-1988) "Nude Musicians," 30 x 35 inches, oil on canvas Signed and dated 1938 signature lower right. Provenance: Collection of Seymour Stein B...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Tavern Snow, West Village" Impressionistic Oil Painting in New York City 1920s
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
"With shades of Pierre Bonnard’s Parisian street vistas and Edward Hopper’s New York shopfronts, American impressionist Cindy Shaoul’s oil paintings depict the much-loved locales and...
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2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique American School Impressionist WPA Woman Ballerina Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American school abstract expressionist painting. Framed.
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Ashcan School Nocturnal Cityscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique original nocturnal cityscape oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1920. Signed illegibly. Image size, 12L x 16H. Housed in a period frame.
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1920s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Snow, Madison Square New York City with American Flags
By Guy Wiggins
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his winter scenes of New York City, Guy Carleton Wiggins is the most famous Impressionist painter of New York City snow scenes! This is an exceptional one and its in a S...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting by Werner Drewes, Green Blue Red Yellow
By Werner Drewes
Located in Denver, CO
Abstract oil on canvas painting by Werner Drewes painted in vibrant shades of green, blue, and red from 1944. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner of the canvas. Presented ...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Frog - Drawing in pencil by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Frog is a drawing in pencil realized in the early 1930s by Emmanuel Gondouin, (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934) The artwork is depicted through strong strokes. Emmanuel Gondoui...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

1940s Signed Realist WPA Banana Flower Oil Painting
Located in Miami, FL
1940s Signed Realist WPA Banana Flower Oil Painting Offered for sale is a stunning 1940s realist WPA oil painting oil on board. The painting is signed and the subject is a new flow...
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Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Materials

Wood, Masonite, Paint

Unemployed Marchers — 1930s Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Unemployed Marchers', 2-color lithograph, c. 1938, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '2/25' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper, w...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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Urban Scene, Pushcart Series, NYC Tenements
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
Arrived in US in 1921. Worked for Federal Art Project, taught at Colony House in NYC. Member: Art Guild, Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club. exhibited at Montross Gallery,...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

1940's American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Subway Riders
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
right Provenance: Greenwich Gallery (Greenwich CT) Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

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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.

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