An Innovative Mid-Century Modern Landscape by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Unique, 1960s Mid-Century Modern, European City View Watercolor by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Artwork is formatted in a trapezoid shape, an innovative compositional dev...
Paper, Watercolor
$1,800
A Large, Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Landscape Painting w. Female Figures
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, dynamic Mid-Century Modern summer landscape painting with female bathers by notable Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. A superb example of the artist's uniquely expressive figura...
Canvas, Oil
$1,200
A Charming 1940s Modern Watercolor of a City in Mexico w/ Cathedral and Rooftops
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming 1940s Watercolor of a City in Mexico with Cathedral and Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. A well executed early work by Pen, completed during the artist's...
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
A Fantastic, Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Jockey, Horse Race, by Rudolph Pen
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Wonderful, Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Jockey & Horse Race by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. Painted circa 1955, the painting exemplifies the artist's love of horse racin...
Canvas, Oil
A Unique Mid-Century Modern 1960s Chicago Harbor Scene Watercolor by Rudolph Pen
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Unique, Mid-Century Modern 1960s Chicago Harbor Scene Watercolor by Noted Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Artwork is formatted in a trapezoid shape, an innovative compositional device for...
Paper, Watercolor
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Watercolor, Harbor Scene & Rooftops by Rudolph Pen
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Cubist Watercolor, Harbor Scene & Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. A vivid European harbor scene, depicting the whitewashed buildi...
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
A Large, Dynamic 1960s Mid-Century Modern Summer Landscape Painting w. Bathers
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, dynamic Mid-Century summer landscape painting with female bathers by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely expressive figurative w...
Masonite, Oil
$1,500
A Colorful, 1950s Mid-Century Modern WC Harbor Scene, Door County, Wisconsin
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Colorful, Vibrant, Mid-Century Modern Great Lakes Harbor Scene by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. This charming watercolor, completed in the early 1950's, depicts a wonderfu...
Paper, Watercolor
$750
A Vibrant Modern 1960s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor, "Garden in a City Park"
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Modern Watercolor, "Garden in a City Park" by Notable Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Painted in the 1960s, most likely depicting a picturesque city ...
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
A Captivating, Expressive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Coastal Beach Scene, Portugal
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Captivating, Expressive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Coastal Beach Scene of Portugal by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen (Am. 1918 - 1989). Pen travelled extensively throughout Eu...
Masonite, Oil
A Striking 1960s Mid-Century Modern City Rooftops View, Painted from a City Bus
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, 1960s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor of European City Rooftops, Painted from a City Bus. Rudolph Pen was fond of these innovative city rooftop compositions completed whil...
Watercolor, Board
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Summer Landscape, Oxbow School, Saugatuck, MI
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Captivating Mid-Century Modern Summer Landscape Painting by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen (Am. 1918 - 1989). Painted during the 1960s while the artist taught at th...
Canvas, Oil
$750
A Vibrant, Colorful 1960s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor of Village Rooftops
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Watercolor of Village Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Depicting a tropical hillside village of terracotta rooftops nestled beside a...
Paper, Watercolor
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Mountain Village, Rooftops
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Modern Painting of a European Mountain Village, Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. . An brilliantly colored, expansive European landscape...
Canvas, Acrylic
A Captivating Mid-Century Modern Landscape Painting with Standing Female Nude
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Captivating, Expressive Mid-Century Modern Landscape Painting with Standing Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. This vibrant, colorful oil painting, depicting an a...
Masonite, Oil
A Large, Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Figurative Landscape Painting by Rudolph Pen
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, dynamic Mid-Century Modern summer landscape painting with standing female bathers by notable Chicago artist, Rudolph T. Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely ex...
Canvas, Oil
$850
A Large, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing, Old Port, Québec City, Canada
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of the picturesque Old Port in Quebec City by notable Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. Artwork is formatted in a trapezoid shape, an innova...
Paper, Ink
A Colorful, Panoramic Mid-Century Modern View of Nazaré, Portugal by Rudolph Pen
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Colorful, Panoramic Mid-Century Modern View of the famed fishing village (and renowned surfing locale) of Nazaré, Portugal by Rudolph Pen. Painted in the 1960s, this vivid waterco...
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor
$1,600
A Vibrant, Expressive, 1960s Mid-Century Modern Painting, Mountain Village
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Expressive, Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Mountain Village by Notable Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. An open and expansive European landscape painting depicting a hillto...
Canvas, Oil
$393
H 11.7 in W 8.27 in D 0.04 in
Original Drawing-Sunset Song-Drawing Time Series-British landscape-plein air-ink
By Shizico Yi
Located in London, GB
This original Ink/Charcoal/gouache drawing was created by Shizico at the transitional sunset light in early spring. Like a modern-day Monet, Shizico has built her own garden over the...
Charcoal, Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper
$75,000
H 31 in W 27 in D 2 in
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
By Richard Whorf
Located in New York, NY
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA TILL THE COULDS ROLL BY (Film Set), oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches signed “Richard Whorf” lower right and signed and dated on the verso “R. Whorf/ Dec. 21, 1945. Frame by Hendenryk. ABOUT THE PAINTING This painting is from the collection of Barbara and Frank Sinatra, dated December 21, 1945 (just nine days after Frank Sinatra’s 30th birthday), and depicts the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Culver City backlot during the filming of Till the Clouds Roll By, the direction of the film having been taking over by Richard Whorf in December 1945. It is not presently clear if Whorf gave the Sinatras this painting as a gift, as the presence of the Dalzell Hatfield Galleries label on the verso indicates the painting may have been sourced there. Frank and Nancy Sinatra acquired a number of works from Dalzell Hatfield Galleries during the 1940’s, or perhaps they framed it for the couple. Sinatra performed “Old Man River’ in the film. Sinatra and June Allyson are depicted in the center of the painting. PROVENANCE From the Estate of Mrs. Nancy Sinatra; Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. An image of the Dalzell Hatfield label and the back of the original frame (which we replaced with a stunning Heydenrk frame) are attached. Nancy Sinatra was Fran's first wife. Nancy Rose Barbato was 17 years old when she met Frank Sinatra, an 18-year-old singer from Hoboken, on the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1934. They married in 1939 at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jersey City where Frank gave Nancy a recording of a song dedicated to her titled "Our Love" as a wedding present. The young newlyweds lived and worked in New Jersey, where Frank worked as an unknown singing waiter and master of ceremonies at the Rustic Cabin while Nancy worked as a secretary at the American Type Founders. His musical career took off after singing with big band leaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey...
Canvas, Oil
$58,000
H 17.75 in W 15.5 in
New York Harbor with Ferry boats and Victorian Houses - Holiday Magazine Cover
By Saul Steinberg
Located in Miami, FL
Steinberg's Holiday Magazine Cover, " The North of Jersey " is similar to his famous New Yorker Cover "View of the World from 9th Avenue”. ...
India Ink, Gouache
$1,012Sale Price|25% Off
H 20 in W 24 in D 0.13 in
Vibrant Post War Bay Area Landscape - Original Watercolor Painting
By Omer Ferdi Sahingil
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant Post War Bay Area Landscape - Original Watercolor Painting Lively landscape of hills with trees and houses by Turkish-American artist Ömer Şahingil (Turkish/American, 1915-1...
Paper, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper
$1,260Sale Price|30% Off
H 20 in W 16 in D 0.25 in
Post War Berkeley Hills Original Watercolor Painting of Victorian House, Signed
By Omer Ferdi Sahingil
Located in Soquel, CA
Post War Berkeley Hills Victorian House Original Watercolor Painting, Signed Original 1947 watercolor painting of Berkeley home in the featuring an iconic Queen Anne Victorian house...
Paper, Watercolor
$380Sale Price|20% Off
H 9 in W 11 in
1960's French Post-Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Cattle Grazing River Landsc
By Georges Bousquait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cattle Grazing by Georges Bousquait, French 20th century signed & dated 1963 oil on canvas, unframed board: 9 x 11 inches inscribed verso provenance...
Oil, Canvas
Sun Image
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sun Image, 1936, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 30 x 24 inches, presented in a newer frame Jerre Murry was a California modernist painter. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Murry stu...
Canvas, Oil
$13,500
H 40.5 in W 50.5 in D 3 in
“Washington Square Park, 1938” NYC Social Realism Female American Artist Oil
By Dorothy Eisner
Located in Yardley, PA
An exceptional, large, early work by American artist Dorothy Eisner (1906-1984). This painting was recently exhibited at Gracie Mansion in 2019 as part of “She Persists” - a show de...
Canvas, Oil
$22,500
H 17.75 in W 15.25 in
"Hydrangeas, " Walter Inglis Anderson, Mississippi Southern Illustrator, Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Walter Anderson ( American, 1903 - 1965) Hydrangeas, circa 1950 Mixed media on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches Provenance: Luise Ross Gallery, New York Private Collection, New Jersey Acquired from the estate of the above, 2021 Walter Anderson firmly believed that quality art was an important part of life and should be made available to everyone. As he said, "There should be simple, good decorations, to be sold at prices to rival the five-and-ten." Noticing that only poor quality art was available in stores and little was available for children, he resolved to make art which could be reproduced easily and sell inexpensively — linoleum block prints. This technique enabled him to provide affordable, quality art. The technique of linoleum block printing is a simple concept; however, it requires much skill and talent to actually produce memorable art. Anderson purchased surplus "battleship linoleum," thicker than ordinary linoleum with a burlap backing for better support, to create his blocks. During the mid-1940s, he created almost 300 linocuts working in the attic of the sea-side plantation house, Oldfields, his wife's family home in Gautier. Masses of linoleum chips accumulated at the foot of the attic stairs as he often worked night and day. He began with sketching out a design directly on the linoleum. Once he had carved the image into the surface, he used the back of faded, surplus stock wallpaper that a friend sent him, laying long strips on top of the inked linoleum. A roller made of sewer pipe filled with sand served as his press. When the print was completed, he often colored it by hand with bold strokes and vivid colors. The prints were sold at Shearwater Pottery, the family business, for a mere dollar a foot. But "what about a well-designed fairy tale for a child's room?" he asked himself. Since there was a lack of affordable art for children, much of his work with linoleum blocks focused on subjects for children. He depicted fables and fairy tales ranging from Arabian Nights, to Germany and the Grimm Brothers' Rapunzel, to the French story of The White Cat, to the Greek tales such as Europa and the Bull, and to tales from China, India, and other cultures. Anderson also created "mini" books featuring the alphabet and Robinson Cat. The blocks are not only alive with the story being depicted, but they are also filled with designs taken from Best-Maugard's Method for Creative Design. Swirls, half-circles and zig-zag lines fill every available space on the linoleum block making them come alive and capture their audience. But fairy tales, children's verses and the "mini" books, consisting of about 90 blocks, were not the sole subject of Anderson's linoleum block prints. In total, he created approximately 300 linoleum blocks with subjects ranging from coastal flora and fauna, coastal animals, and sports and other coastal activities. Anderson even created linoleum blocks to be used to print tablecloths and clothing, some worn by his own children. Color and subjects of the linoleum block prints were not the only things that got them noticed. In 1945 when Anderson was creating these prints, the standard size of linoleum block prints was only 12 by 18 inches. These small dimensions were due to the common size of the paper available and the restrictions made by national competitions. Since Anderson used wallpaper...
Paper, Crayon
$47,000
H 28.25 in W 34 in
"Boats Amongst the Mangroves, " Watercolor & Gouache on Paper signed Doris Lee
By Doris Lee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boats Amongst the Mangroves" is an original watercolor and gouache painting on paper by Doris Lee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It depicts boats and other objects on a f...
Watercolor, Gouache
$2,900
H 15 in W 19 in
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
By Henry Ernst Schnakenberg
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970) Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight Oil on Canvas Signed lower left 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed Bio In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...
Canvas, Oil
$1,200Sale Price|40% Off
H 12.88 in W 22 in D 0.07 in
Vibrant Post War Bay Area Garden Landscape - Original Watercolor Painting
By Omer Ferdi Sahingil
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant Post War Bay Area Garden Landscape - Original Watercolor Painting Lively landscape of a path and steps through a garden by Turkish-American artist Ömer Şahingil (Turkish/Ame...
Watercolor, Paper
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H 11.5 in W 29 in D 0.13 in
A Vivid, Expansive Watercolor of Mexico, Summer Landscape with Country Villa
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vivid, Expansive Watercolor of Mexico, "Summer Landscape with Country Villa" by Noted Chicago Modern Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Most likely depicts a picturesque country estate near ...
Paper, Watercolor
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H 14 in W 22.5 in D 0.13 in
A Striking 1940s Classical Landscape Watercolor with Arches and Rooftops, Mexico
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking 1940s Landscape Watercolor with Classical Architectural by Noted Chicago Modern Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Most likely completed during the artist's trip to Mexico in 1944 a...
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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H 24.5 in W 32 in D 2 in
A Large, Vibrant Mid-Century Modern California Landscape Painting
By Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, Vibrant Mid-Century Modern California Landscape Painting by Listed American Painter, Rudolph Pen. A lush depiction of a verdant green valley and surrounding hilltops, paint...
Board, Acrylic