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WWII Auxiliary Police Helmet
Located in Seattle, WA
Intact helmet from Auxiliary Police Force measurements are approximate- contact dealer for
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Vintage 1940s American Political and Patriotic Memorabilia

Materials

Metal

Pair of Antique Bamboo Police Shields
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Authentic pair of Indian police shields made of bamboo. I am dating these to the 1940s. A brilliant
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Vintage 1940s Indian Wall-mounted Sculptures

Materials

Bamboo

1940's Mid Century Modern Long Spindle Back Bench in Solid Stained Oak
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A classic solid bench from a Philadelphia Police station circa 1940's. It features solid dark
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Benches

Materials

Oak

Street Riot Oil Painting Mounted Police WPA artist Social Justice Americana Art
By Arthur Smith
Located in Surfside, FL
Riot, Revolution, Police figures on Horseback in City Streets. Hand signed lower right. Painting
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

1940s Art Decò Rounded Cabinet Dry Bar Sideboard by A. Fallica for A. Liporesi
Located in Vigonza, Padua
financial police in Rome. Also in Rome, in 1928 he participated in the 1st Italian Exhibition of Rational
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Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Dry Bars

Materials

Oak

French Art Bronze Bracelet by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
). The playful piece is called "Le gendarme et le voleur" (The police agent and the thief". The model
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Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Collectible Jewelry

Materials

Bronze

Mid 20th Century Vintage Porcelain Enameled Metal Sprinkler Fire Alarm Sign
Located in Stamford, CT
Police or Fire Dept. This sign came off an industrial building built in the late 1940s. The sign was
Category

Mid-20th Century American Signs

Materials

Metal

Art Deco Hungarian Desk in Walnut
Located in Houston, TX
Desk top is made out of high police walnut wood with cowhide insert in the middle. There are 2
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Vintage 1940s Hungarian Art Deco Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Chrome

Art Deco Hungarian Desk in Walnut
Art Deco Hungarian Desk in Walnut
H 29 in W 55 in D 27.5 in
Gothic Cathedral Style Hanging Lamp
Located in Palm Springs, CA
police precinct building. The lights we have are nearly identical to those in the show. Height can be
Category

Vintage 1940s American Gothic Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Steel

Phones
Located in Santa Monica, CA
crimes occurring in the 1940s and 1950s. The composition of the works in this series is based on vintage
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching, Aquatint

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition XIV Etching American Abstract Expressionism
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Conrad Marca-Relli - Etching & Aquatint American Modern Abstract Expressionism
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching, Aquatint

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching, Aquatint

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching, Aquatint

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Vintage Modern Lithograph Poster 1960s Pop Art Mod Figure
By Richard Lindner
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage 1960's Lithograph poster for Vancouver Canada art show. Richard Lindner was born in Hamburg
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1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Triangles and Spiral
By Alexander Calder
Located in Missouri, MO
Calder once said, “by nature and chance.” From the 1940’s on, Calder’s works, many of them large-scale
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Color, Lithograph

Hope Cove - Mid 20th Century Devon England Coastal Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
-67). Born in Pimlico, south-west London, the eldest of three sons of a police officer, he was
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Silkscreen for Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness, iconic 1970s, signed/N Framed
By Bridget Riley
Located in New York, NY
demonstrators "should have been shot down by the police." All of the convictions were ultimately overturned by
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1970s Op Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Pencil, Screen

Abbott Pattison Designed & Sculpted Italian Modern Marble & Glass Coffee Table
By Abbott Pattison
Located in Palm Springs, CA
, Highland Park, Illinois Meninger Foundation Hirschorn Collection Nathan Cummings Collection U.S. State
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Vintage 1960s American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Marble

Landscape with Trees
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later
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1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Unforgiven by Alan Le May, First British Edition, 1957
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
to an old struggle as he returns to the desolate Texas territory of the 1870's” (Kirkus). Three years
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Vintage 1950s English Books

Materials

Paper

Weegee "Distortion: Stripes"
By Weegee
Located in Toronto, Ontario
install a police radio in his car. This allowed him to follow the city's first responders and to document
Category

1940s American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Mid Century Textural Color-Field Abstract in Royal Blue-Purple by Peter Witwer
By Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
Peter Witwer (American, 1928-1968). This highly textured mixed media piece, c.1960's, uses a
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1960s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Mixed Media, Oil

"Home Corral" Very early Wieghorst California Western Painting awesome colors
By Olaf Wieghorst
Located in San Antonio, TX
worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days
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1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Still Life with Flowers
By Emil Ganso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
while the artist was in Woodstock, New York in the 1930's Provenance: Weyhe Gallery, New York
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1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Grey & Tan Abstract Expressionist Textural Mid-Century Abstract by Peter Witwer
By Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
estate developer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended school in New York City in the late 1940s and moved
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Plaster, Oil

Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited
Category

20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

Untitled
Untitled
H 17.63 in W 16.25 in
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of
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1920s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Untitled
Untitled
H 17.63 in W 15.13 in
Abstract Expressionist Composition on an Orange Field - Oil on Canvas
By Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended school in New York City in the late 1940s and moved West in 1958. Part
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Plaster, Oil

Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later
Category

1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

Untitled
Untitled
H 11 in W 8.88 in
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be
Category

1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

Untitled
Untitled
H 10.13 in W 8.88 in
Strike Breakers — social realism, Great Depression
By Daniel Ralph Celentano
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
workers bent on organizing unions, and the police and hired security squads backing the interests of
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Chandelier Arts and Crafts Attributed to Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1883
By Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
chief clerk of the City of Glasgow Police. He attended Reid's Public School and the Allan Glen's
Category

Antique 1880s Scottish Arts and Crafts Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Bronze

Africa - Collage Painting in Orange - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
remainder of the 1940s, he confirmably drew for Holyoke's Captain Aero Comics (as Al Hollingsworth),[6] and
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1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Burlap, Wood, Oil

Weegee "A Trip to Mars"
By Weegee
Located in Toronto, Ontario
photographer to obtain permission to install a police radio in his car. Following the city's first responders
Category

1940s American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Pair of Karel Appel Curtains, 1963, Documented at Stedelijk Musem
By Karel Appel
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
famous Cobra, the European group of the late 1940s to early 1950s, which promoted spontaneous
Category

Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Quilts and Blankets

Materials

Cotton

Souvenirs Du Pays Natal - Original China Ink Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1920s
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
this is his recurring addiction to opium. His return to work in the early 1940's was primarily due to
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Ink

Landscape with buildings and trees
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with buildings and trees Watercolor on paper, c. 1930's Signed in pencil lower right (see
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Weegee 'Cafe Romance', New York, 1953
By Weegee 1
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
revealed the non-stop spectacle of life in New York City. During the 1930s and 1940s Weegee worked as a
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20th Century American Photography

Weegee 'Cafe Romance', New York, 1953
Weegee 'Cafe Romance', New York, 1953
H 21 in W 24 in D 0.25 in
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be
Category

1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

Untitled
Untitled
H 10.13 in W 8.88 in
"Petit masque découpé Montserrat", 20th Century Bronze by Julio González
Located in Madrid, ES
Particulière, Madrid, Valsuani Frax Foundation, Spain EXHIBITED Museum IVAM (Valencia´s Institute of Modern
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1930s Cubist Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Two Studies of Henriette (Head of the artist's wife & The Artist's wife writing
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be
Category

1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Husain by Maqbul Fida Husain, Richard Bartholomew, Shiv S. Kapur, H. N. Abrams
By Maqbool Fida Husain
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Husain by Maqbul Fida Husain, Richard Bartholomew, Shiv S. Kapur · H. N. Abrams · hardback · 60
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Late 20th Century Indian Expressionist Books

Materials

Paper

Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his
Category

1920s Cubist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these
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1930s American Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these
Category

1930s American Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor
Category

1930s American Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these
Category

1930s American Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

John Wade, Arsonist, After Police Line-Up in Patrol Wagon
By Weegee
Located in New York, NY
Artwork information: Gelatin silver print; printed c.1940s Titled in ink with photographer's
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1940s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Italian Murano etched glass octagonal mirror
Located in San Francisco, CA
into a prosperous trading center with its own coins, police force, and commercial aristocracy. Then, in
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20th Century Italian Wall Mirrors

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There is a broad range of police 1940s for sale on 1stDibs. Today, if you’re looking for Art Deco editions of these works and are unable to find the perfect match for your home, our selection also includes abstract. There are many variations of these items available, from those made as long ago as the 19th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add police 1940s that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of gray, black, beige, orange and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by (after) Alexander Calder, Steven Spurrier, Leon Kelly, Weegee and Bram Van Velde are often thought to be among the most beautiful. Frequently made by artists working in lithograph, paint and oil paint, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

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