John Garth grew up in Topeka, Kansas and attended Washburn University, Art Institute of Chicago and graduated from Yale University in 1914. He studied at the Arts Student League and in Europe from 1914–15, including being in Berlin, working with Renoyitski and Conrad Fehrand. Garth taught at the Roberts college in Constantinople for eight months, returned briefly to Topeka and then was in Hawaii in 1916. He served in World War I, then settled in San Francisco, California. Garth temporarily was art director of the Pacific Railways Advertising Company and from 1920–35 conducted the Garth School of Art.
"Industrial, " Collection of Ironworker Paintings and Drawings by Garth, 1920s
By John Garth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This remarkable ensemble of paintings, studies and prints, collected together as a kind of scrapbook page by John Garth, celebrates the American ironworker. It includes no fewer than...
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'The Animal Kingdom, ' Art Deco Mural Study with Male Nudes by John Garth
By John Garth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
To our knowledge, this study is the only known image of this mural, created by John Garth to show an idealized Man at work and at play, all nude or semi-nude, and accompanied by anim...
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"Toltec, " Important Sketch for Art Deco Painting with Male and Female Nudes
By John Garth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This stylized and richly-colored, almost cinematic, depiction of a nude Toltec male youth by John Garth shows the figure holding a knife and chalice, hinting at human sacrifice, stan...
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Vintage Boho Original Male Nude Painting on Canvas
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
The Vintage Boho Original Male Nude Painting on Canvas captures the essence of American artistic expression with its bold and evocative portrayal. T...
Canvas, Wood, Paint
$574Sale Price|20% Off
H 14.97 in W 19.69 in D 1.97 in
Signed Painting "Books and Cup" Germany, 1920s.
Located in Chorzów, PL
The picture is painted with oil paint on canvas. Origin : Germany Year : 1920 Dimensions: Frame: height 38 cm / width 50 cm Image: height 26 cm / width 38 cm
Canvas
$4,784
H 16.93 in W 30.32 in D 1.58 in
1920s Framed Painting of Spanish Architecture, Granada, Signed M. Rioja
Located in Marbella, ES
1920s Framed painting of Spanish Architecture, Granada, Signed M. Rioja.
Canvas, Wood
Georg Kirsta, 1927 Art Deco Nude Portrait
By George Kirsta
Located in Sharon, CT
Beautifully painted in the deco manner of Tamara De Lempicka. Kirsta, a Russian artist escaped to Western Europe during the revolution, pursued a career as a painter and theatrical s...
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$55,616
H 37.8 in W 96.07 in D 1.58 in
Large Jaap Gidding Attributed 'Underwater' Painting Tuschinski Theatre 1920s
By Jaap Gidding
Located in Tilburg, NL
Large Jaap Gidding Attributed 'Underwater' Painting from Tuschinski Theatre Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1920s. Mesmerizingly beautiful unique and very large museum quality painting ...
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Olympia Signed Hilgers Painting 1930 Art Deco Nude
Located in Marseille, FR
Oil on canvas painting signed Hilgers bottom right. 1930s, depicting a young woman naked kind of Olympia in the Art Deco style.
Canvas
French Early 20th Century Male Nude by Didier-Tourné
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
An early 20th-century gilt framed oil on canvas painting by French artist Jean Didier-Tourné (1882-1967), depicting a lean male nude in a kind of contraposto stance as he turns away ...
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$530
H 14.18 in W 18.9 in D 1.19 in
Antique Danish 1920s maritime oil painting of fishermen and boat in stormy sea
Located in Ebberup, DK
This is an antique Danish oil on canvas maritime painting of a group of fishermen launching a wooden boat into a restless sea. Some stand i knee-deep water, others are already aboard...
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1960 Young Naked Woman Painting Signed Hilgers Olympia Nude Art Deco
By A. David
Located in Marseille, FR
Oil painting on canvas signed Hilgers in the lower right, from the 1930s, representing a young woman sort of naked Olympia in the Art Deco style. Canvas size 100 x 50 cm and frame di...
Canvas
French Early 20th Century Male Nude by Didier-Tourné
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
An early 20th-century gilt framed oil on canvas painting by French artist Jean Didier-Tourné (1882-1967), depicting a lean, mustached male nude in a kind of contraposto stance as he ...
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The Bathers by Eric John Youngquist, c. 1920s
Located in Chicago, IL
This monumental 1920s oil on canvas, The Bathers, reinterprets William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s renowned 1884 masterpiece through the distinctive vision of Swedish-born artist Eric John ...
Canvas, Paint
Large Abstract Male Nude by Shawn Savage
By Shawn Savage
Located in Pasadena, CA
Large-scale abstract male blue nude by renowned artist Shawn Savage. Acrylic on canvas. Newly framed in a matte black floating frame.
Canvas, Acrylic
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H 39.5 in W 32 in D 2 in
"The Ironworker, " Important Depiction of American Industrial Worker, John Garth
By John Garth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
To our knowledge, this painting of an ironworker with his Hammer raised behind him, glowing from the furnace nearby, is the most important of a series of paintings by John Garth depi...
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"Ironworker, " Important Sketch of Industrial Labour by John Garth, 1925
By John Garth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This striking idealization of the American worker, glowing with deep reds and oranges from the molten iron in the scene, is a sketch by John Garth for an oil painting he executed in ...
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H 23 in W 18.75 in D 1.25 in
"Ironworker, " Important WPA-Era Depiction of Industrial Worker by John Garth
By John Garth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This important and stunning example of WPA-era idealization of the American worker, glowing from molten iron nearby, was executed by John Garth in the 1930s, one of several paintings...
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"The Ironworker" Paean to the American Industrial Worker, 1930s
By John Garth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This important and stunning example of WPA-era idealization of the American worker, glowing from the molten steel nearby and misty from the bluish smoke swirling in the air, was exec...