Gerrit Albertus Beneker was born on January 26, 1882, at Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied with John Vanderpoel, Frederick Richardson, F. V. DuMond, Henry Reuterdahl and Charles W. Hawthorne. He was a member of the Provincetown Art Association and the Beachcombers Club. Beneker exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1913–32 and in the Scarab Club, Detroit, in 1916, the Cleveland Museum in 1919, the Corcoran Gallery from 1919–32 and the Detroit Institute of Art in 1930. He had worked in institutions like Provincetown Art Association, Butler Institute of American Art, Grand Rapids Art Gallery and Victory Liberty Loan poster. He also worked as a painter of magazine covers for Leslie's Weekly, The Reader, Scribner's Magazine, The Christian Herald and Harper's Weekly. In 1919, he was a painter in residence for The Hydraulic Steel Company in Cleveland, where for two years he painted the steelworkers of America. He died on October 23, 1934, at Truro, Massachusetts.
$450
Original 1918, Sure! We'll Finish the Job, Victory Liberty Loan, vintage poster
By Gerrit Beneker
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1918 Gerrit A. Beneker "Sure! We'll Finish the Job" Victory Liberty Loan Poster, archival linen-backed in good condition, ready to frame. Grade B+ An iconic and authentic ...
Lithograph
$45,000
WWI American Scene Ashcan Modern 20th Century Historical Realism Industrial WPA
By Gerrit Beneker
Located in New York, NY
WWI American Scene Ashcan Modern 20th Century Historical Realism Industrial WPA Gerrit Beneker (1882-1934) "Constant Driving Will Win the War" 30 x 40 inches Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1918 lower right In 1905, Gerrit Beneker began his art career as an illustrator. He married Flora Judd, his high school sweetheart from Grand Rapids and they moved to Brooklyn, NY. Gerrit's early passion was to create an art that would inspire and provide honor to the workingman. As such, he had no interest in painting portraits of pretty women, which were so often seen on the magazine covers of the day. Rather he wanted to seek out workingmen on the bridges, tunnels and skyscrapers of NYC, and paint them in their environments. He completed over 150 magazine covers, numerous ads including many for Ivory Soap...
Canvas, Oil
"Newark Industrial Exposition", Poster Design Celebrating the American Worker
By Gerrit Beneker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly juxtaposing the silhouette of an factory worker, with his sledgehammer, against the backdrop of an industrial landscape in beautiful hues of purple, lemon yellow and tang...
Cypriano (A Basque Boy)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper. 6 5/16 x 3 3/4 inches (159 x 94 mm), full margin. Signed in pencil lower center margin, from the edition of 111. A well inked impression with a minor cre...
Handmade Paper, Etching
"The Privateer Ship America on the High Seas" by James Brereton
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Dimensions listed include the frame. Featuring the Privateer ship "America" under full sail. Title and dated on the reverse. The dimensions liste...
Paint
$800
H 24 in W 35.5 in
Muse (a young novice in colorful swim suit struggles thru a pool of blue)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Muse is #43 of 45. It depicts a young woman in a colorful swimsuit doing her best to swim through the blue waters of the pool. Her mouth is pursed and the bubbles flow out. I sold an impression of this image to an olympic swimming...
Etching
$1,682
H 17.13 in W 12.17 in D 0.2 in
Art Deco Poster Design, Gouache on Paper, Man in Dressing Gown, 1920s
By Theodor Kindel
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco poster design man in dressing gown by Theodor Kindel. Gouache on paper laid on board. Unframed. Austria 1920/1940. Theodor Kindel was a well known graphic artist who worked ...
Paint
$2,750
H 31 in W 46 in D 1.5 in
Framed Untitled Oil/ Canvas (Shipyard Workers) Courtney Charles Allen, 1896-1969
Located in San Francisco, CA
This untitiled oil painting is thought to have been painted either before of after WWII, is an excellent example the painter's work at this time. Courtney Charles Allen (1896 - 1969) was born in Norfolk, Virginia, was a WWII Veteran in France and was active/lived in New York, and Massachusetts. Courtney Allen...
Canvas, Wood
$325
H 12.5 in W 14.5 in
A 1928 Modernist Woodcut, Self-Portrait of Notable Chicago Modernist Emil Armin
By Emil Armin
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1928 woodcut on paper of a self-portrait of notable Chicago Modernist artist, Emil Armin. Artwork size: 10 1/2" x 8". Archivally matted to: 12 1/2" x 14 1/2. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. Edition 7/30. Emil Armin was born in Radautz, Austria in 1883. By the age of 10, Armin was orphaned and was raised by his older siblings. He supported himself by working in restaurants and drew in his spare time. In 1905, at the age of 21, Armin immigrated to Chicago. He began studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907, but financial difficulties forced him to start and stop a number of times, finally graduating in 1920. He studied with George Bellows and Randall Davey. Armin was an integral part of Chicago’s 57th Street Art Colony and exhibited in both the more avant-garde Chicago No-Jury Society Shows, as well as the more formal and conventional Chicago Society of Artists Exhibitions, the Chicago Renaissance Society and Art Institute of Chicago (1922-1949) exhibitions. He taught at Hull House...
Paper, Woodcut
$5,200
H 24.75 in W 32.75 in D 1.5 in
"Beach Scene with Figures and Sailboats" Impressionistic Oil Painting in Holland
Located in New York, NY
A wonderfully rich beach scene done in Zandvoort Holland in the Mid-20th Century depicting figures in the sand. Some figures are by the water with sailboats as kids play in the dista...
Oil, Canvas
$5,805
H 47.25 in W 31.5 in D 1.19 in
Poster for the "Exposition Internationale Des Arts Décoratifs", France, 1925
By P. Roque
Located in Paris, FR
This poster was created by P. Roque for the famous 1925 Decorative Arts Show held in Paris (Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs - 1925). This show is most famous as it laun...
Paper
$1,200
H 35.83 in W 47.64 in D 1.19 in
Emile, Haitian Artist, Naivist School, Oil on Canvas, 1970s, Local Workers
Located in København, Copenhagen
Emile, Haitian artist. Naivist school. Oil on canvas, 1970s. Local workers walking by the river. Signed. In very good condition. The canvas measure...
$1,880Sale Price|46% Off
H 38 in W 27.75 in
Mr. Unpopular (Funk Art, Conceptual Humor, Postwar American Art, ~46% OFF)
By William T. Wiley
Located in Kansas City, MO
William T. Wiley Mr. Unpopular Original Color Lithograph Year: 1980 Edition: L.P. Impression outside and edition of 35 Publisher: Landfall Press, Chicago, IL, United States Paper Si...
Lithograph
$7,500
H 20 in W 30 in
"Sunset on the Marsh" Dennis Sheehan, Dusk, Sunset Reflections, Natural Beauty
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Sheehan Sunset on the Marsh, Summer, circa 2025 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 20 x 30 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon...
Canvas, Oil
$2,450
H 18 in W 14 in
Oscar Ricciardi Courtyard Naples Women Wash Antique Oil on canvas Painting 1900
By Oscar Ricciardi
Located in Buffalo, NY
This vibrant and atmospheric painting by Oscar Ricciardi depicts a sunlit Mediterranean courtyard animated by daily life. Set against warm stucco architecture and a pale blue sky, th...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 25.5 in W 21.5 in
"Wellfleet, Cape Cod, " Gerrit Beneker, American Impressionism, Provincetown
By Gerrit Beneker
Located in New York, NY
Gerrit Beneker (1882 - 1934) Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, New England, 1926 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches Signed, titled, and dated lower left Provenance: Louis H. Barnett, Fort Worth, Texas In 1905, Gerrit Beneker began his art career as an illustrator. He married Flora Judd, his high school sweetheart from Grand Rapids and they moved to Brooklyn, NY. Gerrit's early passion was to create an art that would inspire and provide honor to the workingman. As such, he had no interest in painting portraits of pretty women, which were so often seen on the magazine covers of the day. Rather he wanted to seek out workingmen on the bridges, tunnels and skyscrapers of NYC, and paint them in their environments. He completed over 150 magazine covers, numerous ads including many for Ivory Soap...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 17 in W 14 in
"Riveting the Post" WPA Modernism Provincetown Early 20th Century Industrial Art
By Gerrit Beneker
Located in New York, NY
"Riveting the Post" WPA Modernism Provincetown Early 20th Century Industrial Art Gerrit Beneker (American 1882 – 1934) "Riveting the Post," 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches - image, 11 ¼ x 9 ¼ - sheet. c. 1920s. Mixed media on heavy stock paper. Signed lower left. Signed on the verso: Gerrit A Beneker 61 Poplar Street Brooklyn NY phone 2214 Main. Gerrit Albertus Beneker, born 1882 in Grand Rapids, MI. died in 1934 in Truro, MA. He studied with John Vanderpoel, Frederick Richardson, F. V. DuMond, Henry Reuterdahl...
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache