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Expressionist Judaica Havdalah Oil Painting Jewish American Modernist Ben Zion
Expressionist Judaica Havdalah Oil Painting Jewish American Modernist Ben Zion

Expressionist Judaica Havdalah Oil Painting Jewish American Modernist Ben Zion

By Ben-Zion Weinman

Located in Surfside, FL

Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He ...

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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Modernist Rabbi Judaica Painting on Gold Background

Modernist Rabbi Judaica Painting on Gold Background

By Harry Sternberg

Located in Surfside, FL

During the Great Depression he was a WPA artist, and his murals are in post offices in Chicago, Chester and Sellersville, Pennsylvania.

Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Illustration Board

Czech American Floral Oil Painting Jan De Ruth Vibrant Modernist Flowers in Vase
Czech American Floral Oil Painting Jan De Ruth Vibrant Modernist Flowers in Vase

Czech American Floral Oil Painting Jan De Ruth Vibrant Modernist Flowers in Vase

By Jan De Ruth

Located in Surfside, FL

He was a contemporary of many of the Jewish WPA artists who lived in New York City. SELECTED AWARDS: Butler Institute of American Art Purchase Prize Ogunquit Art Center Knickerbocke...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Plant-like
Plant-like

James BrooksPlant-like, c.1945

$12,000Sale Price|20% Off

Plant-like

By James Brooks

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

As a WPA artist, he painted the 12 feet by 235 foot mural, "Flight" (destroyed) at LaGuardia Airport, NY, in 1942.

Category

1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

New Bauhaus Chicago, Union of American Artists (UAA90), 1941, Myron Kozman
New Bauhaus Chicago, Union of American Artists (UAA90), 1941, Myron Kozman

New Bauhaus Chicago, Union of American Artists (UAA90), 1941, Myron Kozman

By Myron Kozman

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Myron Kozman (1916-2002) Abstraction #303 Color serigraph on paper, 1941 Signed, dated, titled, and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos) Annotated: UAA 90 lower right (see p...

Category

1940s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Early 20th Century Oil on Canvass "The Hunters" artist Benjamin Kopman
Early 20th Century Oil on Canvass "The Hunters" artist Benjamin Kopman

Early 20th Century Oil on Canvass "The Hunters" artist Benjamin Kopman

Located in Lambertville, NJ

His first major exhibition was at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1914, followed by several others during the 1920s. Kopman worked for the WPA as an...

Category

Vintage 1910s American Paintings

Materials

Giltwood, Paint

Albert Kotin Portrait Face Oil and Gouache Abstract Expressionist Signed 1950s
Albert Kotin Portrait Face Oil and Gouache Abstract Expressionist Signed 1950s

Albert Kotin Portrait Face Oil and Gouache Abstract Expressionist Signed 1950s

By Albert Kotin

Located in Surfside, FL

Framed Condition: Good Modernist Composition, a c. 1950s oil and gouache on paper by Albert Kotin (1907-1980), an early-generation New York School Abstract Expressionist and WPA art...

Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Gouache

Ozymandias (unique, signed Abstract Expressionist painting by renowned painter)
Ozymandias (unique, signed Abstract Expressionist painting by renowned painter)

Ozymandias (unique, signed Abstract Expressionist painting by renowned painter)

By Ben Wilson

Located in New York, NY

His paintings of the ’30s and ’40s were expressionistically rendered, often Biblical parables, filled with what he called “the grief of the intolerable” and reflecting an acute aware...

Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Waterfall (abstract expressionist landscape collage)
Waterfall (abstract expressionist landscape collage)

Waterfall (abstract expressionist landscape collage)

By Elsie Driggs

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

She married the painter Lee Gatch in 1935. Positions: WPA artist; asst., MMA, 1923. Teaching: instructor, 1945-48.

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

San Francisco Waterfront Looking Toward Oakland C1930's; Signed "GHS" Watercolor
San Francisco Waterfront Looking Toward Oakland C1930's; Signed "GHS" Watercolor

San Francisco Waterfront Looking Toward Oakland C1930's; Signed "GHS" Watercolor

Located in Incline Village, NV

As an aside, during the Great Depression, the WPA treated artists as laborers. Works were often stamped with government markings rather than treated as high-end gallery pieces.

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1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

A Large, Compelling Mid-Century Modern Figurative Painting- Equestrienne & Clown
A Large, Compelling Mid-Century Modern Figurative Painting- Equestrienne & Clown

A Large, Compelling Mid-Century Modern Figurative Painting- Equestrienne & Clown

By Gerrit Hondius

Located in Chicago, IL

Hondius was influenced by French Expressionist painter and printmaker, Georges Rouault. He was an artist with the WPA during the Depression years of the 1930s and 40s, and completed...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Purple Iris
Purple Iris

Purple Iris

By Ed Mell

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Originally located just off Main Street in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, we have moved to Tempe to accommodate and showcase our large inventory including: • Original works by Maynar...

Category

Early 2000s Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Fragments of August
Fragments of August

Fragments of August

By Lawrence Kupferman

Located in Surfside, FL

Lawrence Kupferman was born in the Boston area (b.1909 - d.1982) , and he became one of the most important abstract artists to emerge from there in the early 1940s. Kupferman worked ...

Category

20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Color Pencil

Daniel in the Lions' Den
Daniel in the Lions' Den

Daniel in the Lions' Den

Located in New York, NY

Ukrainian-born, lower East Side based, Sarah Berman was active on the NYC-WPA and in artists' circles. Daniel in the Lions' Den is an etching, signed and titled in pencil.

Category

1930s Ashcan School Animal Prints

Materials

Etching

Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman

Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman

By Benjamin Kopman

Located in Surfside, FL

A leading American Jewish painter, his first major exhibition was at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1914, followed by several others during the 192...

Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman

Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman

By Benjamin Kopman

Located in Surfside, FL

A leading American Jewish painter, his first major exhibition was at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1914, followed by several others during the 192...

Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman

Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman

By Benjamin Kopman

Located in Surfside, FL

A leading American Jewish painter, his first major exhibition was at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1914, followed by several others during the 192...

Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman

Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman

By Benjamin Kopman

Located in Surfside, FL

A leading American Jewish painter, his first major exhibition was at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1914, followed by several others during the 192...

Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman

Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman

By Benjamin Kopman

Located in Surfside, FL

A leading American Jewish painter, his first major exhibition was at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1914, followed by several others during the 192...

Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

Oil Painting Israeli Landscape Theresa Bernstein Ashcan Realism
Oil Painting Israeli Landscape Theresa Bernstein Ashcan Realism

Oil Painting Israeli Landscape Theresa Bernstein Ashcan Realism

By Theresa Bernstein

Located in Surfside, FL

Bernstein and her husband William Meyerowitz (a WPA, New deal artist), who was also an artist, lived and worked in Manhattan and Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Category

20th Century Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Board

Hayes Lyon “Portrait of Bessy Lyon" 1945 American Modern Oil Painting
Hayes Lyon “Portrait of Bessy Lyon" 1945 American Modern Oil Painting

Hayes Lyon “Portrait of Bessy Lyon" 1945 American Modern Oil Painting

By Hayes Lyon

Located in Denver, CO

Provenance: Private Collection, Denver, Colorado An exceptional example of Hayes Lyon’s American Modern portraiture, this painting is particularly appealing to collectors of Colorad...

Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

”Admiring the Picture”
”Admiring the Picture”

”Admiring the Picture”

By Benjamin Kopman

Located in Southampton, NY

His first major exhibition was at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1914, followed by several others during the 1920s. Kopman worked for the WPA as an...

Category

1930s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Rodeo Queen by Luis Jimenez

Rodeo Queen by Luis Jimenez

By Luis Alfonso Jimenez

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Originally located just off Main Street in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, we have moved to Phoenix to accommodate and showcase our large inventory including: • Original works by Mayn...

Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Indians of North America 1936 by Jo Mora
Indians of North America 1936 by Jo Mora

Indians of North America 1936 by Jo Mora

By Joseph Jacinto Mora

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Betty Hoag McGlynn • Original works by Maynard Dixon, Lon Megargee, Ed Mell, Fritz Scholder, Bill Schenck, Bill Lesch, Luis Jimenez, Greg Singley, Dan Budnik, and other 20th centur...

Category

1930s Other Art Style More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Family Life"
"Family Life"

Nahum Tschacbasov"Family Life", 1937

$9,600Sale Price|20% Off

"Family Life"

By Nahum Tschacbasov

Located in Southampton, NY

Here for your consideration is a important, rare social realism oil painting by the WPA (Works Project Adminstration) artist, Nahum Tschacbasov.

Category

1930s Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Texas Swing by Luis Jimenez
Texas Swing by Luis Jimenez

Texas Swing by Luis Jimenez

By Luis Jiménez

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Originally located just off Main Street in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, we have moved to Phoenix to accommodate and showcase our large inventory including: • Original works by Mayn...

Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Bronco
Bronco

Bronco

By Luis Alfonso Jimenez

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Originally located just off Main Street in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, we have moved to Phoenix to accommodate and showcase our large inventory including: • Original works by Mayn...

Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Coscolina Con Muerto (Flirt With Death)
Coscolina Con Muerto (Flirt With Death)

Coscolina Con Muerto (Flirt With Death)

By Luis Alfonso Jimenez

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Originally located just off Main Street in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, we have moved to Phoenix to accommodate and showcase our large inventory including: • Original works by Mayn...

Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Love Honor Obey?
Love Honor Obey?

Love Honor Obey?

By Lon Megargee 1

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Credit: Abe Hays • Original works by Maynard Dixon, Lon Megargee, Ed Mell, Fritz Scholder, Bill Schenck, Bill Lesch, Luis Jimenez, Greg Singley, Dan Budnik, and other 20th century...

Category

1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

New York Harbor
New York Harbor

New York Harbor

By Dong Kingman

Located in Missouri, MO

From 1936 to 1941, he was a project artist for WPA and became a pioneer for a new school of painting, the "California Style."

Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Old Mission Station, San Francisco, California
Old Mission Station, San Francisco, California

Old Mission Station, San Francisco, California

By Dong Kingman

Located in Missouri, MO

From 1936 to 1941, he was a project artist for WPA and became a pioneer for a new school of painting, the "California Style."

Category

1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Chinese Theater, Los Angeles
Chinese Theater, Los Angeles

Chinese Theater, Los Angeles

By Dong Kingman

Located in Missouri, MO

From 1936 to 1941, he was a project artist for WPA and became a pioneer for a new school of painting, the "California Style."

Category

1960s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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