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"Painter" 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Working Man Modern WPA Era
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Painter" 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Working Man Modern WPA Era
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Painter
41 ½ x 36 3/4 inches (sight)
Gouache on paper c. 1930s
Signed lower rig...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism
Located in New York, NY
Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism
Alfred Mira (1900-1981)
Greenwich Village NYC
14 x 17 inches
Oil on board,...
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
ABSTRACT American Woman Abstract Non-objective Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing
By Irene Rice Pereira
Located in New York, NY
ABSTRACT American Woman Abstract Non-objective Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing
Irene Rice Pereira (1902-1971)
Abstract
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Watercolor, gouache, and ink on black paper
Signed lower right
Framed by Bark
BIO
rene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of fifteen; she took a secretarial job because her father had died. She took art classes at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one she married the first of three husbands, Humberto Pereira, whose name she kept.
She traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa and was much inspired by the expansive vistas of the Sahara Desert. Returning to New York, she began incorporating these visions into her work, increasingly experimental in her styles and methods. At first she painted on canvas, then she devised a means of actually incorporating light into her works by painting on layers of glass and mounting the layers together.
In 1942 she married George Brown, an engineer, who helped her experiment with a variety of materials. By the 1950s she became more interested in writing poetry and, divorced from Brown in 1952, she married George Reavey, an Irish Poet...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"At Home Abroad" 1935 Broadway Play NY Times Published Illustration 20th Century
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in New York, NY
"At Home Abroad" 1935 Broadway Play NY Times Published Illustration 20th Century
Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003)
At Home Abroad
9 1/2 x 17 inches (sight)
Ink on board
Signed upper right...
Category
1930s Performance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
Morris Carnovsky "Counterattack" 1943 Broadway Play Theatre Caricature Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Sam Norkin's original illustration for COUNTERATTACK, 1943, featuring Morris Carnovsky; ink on paper, dimensions: 19 ¾” x 15 ½”. Unframed.
Samuel Norkin (1917-2011) was a Brooklyn, New York-born cartoonist who specialized in theatre caricatures for more than seven decades. His drawings of theatre, opera, ballet and film celebrities appeared in Variety, Backstage, The Philadelphia Enquirer, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and many other publications. Norkin learned composition and anatomy from the muralist Mordi Gassner...
Category
1940s Performance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
"Antenna Birds" New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal Mid-Century American Scene Modern
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
"Antenna Birds" New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal Mid-Century American Scene Modern
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Antenna Birds
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1950s
12 1/2 X 9 1/4 in...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Underwater Whale
Life Illustration published, c. November 7, 1953
1...
Category
1950s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Cadets Football Game
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
14 1/4 X 1...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Fortune cover published, Decembe...
Category
1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Cathedral
New Yorker cover proposa...
Category
1930s American Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1955 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1953 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
The World We Live In
Birds of Paradise
Life Magazine Illustration ...
Category
1950s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
The World We Live In
Coral Reef
...
Category
1950s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Army Wedding
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
11 1/2 X 8 inches ...
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Perplexed Gentleman
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
13 1/4 X 8 ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Published 1938. American Scene Modern WPA
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Published 1938. American Scene Modern WPA
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Fortune cover published, January ...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Mixing Mortar
12 1/2 X 14 3/4 inche...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting. Colliers Magazine Cover Published 1933 Wedding Illustration
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Colliers Magazine Cover Published 1933 Wedding Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
The Wedding
Colliers published, June 17, 1933
17 1/4 X 11 1/2 inches (sight)
Framed 23 1/4 X 17 1/2 inches
Gouache on board
Signed lower right
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
JAPAN ISSUE
Fortune cover proposal, c. 1936
14 1/4 x 12 inches (sight)
Framed 19 3/4 X 17 3/4 Inches
Gouache on board
Signed lower left
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
Category
1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century c. 1930s
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Oil Terminal
Lamp Magazine, published, c. 1930s.
15 3/4 X 12 inches (image)
18 X 14 inches board
Gouache on board
Signed lower right
unframed
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Santas Feet At Midnight
New Yorker c...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting Fortune Cover Published 1937 American Modern - Met Museum
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Fortune Cover Published 1937 American Modern - Met Museum
NEWS: A printed copy of this magazine is included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent exhibition, “Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s”
Antonio Petruccelli...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Steel Workers
Textile design
19 1/4 X ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Play Ball
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
12 x 8 inches (sight)
Framed 18 1/2 X 14 3/4 inches
Gouache on board
Estate sticker verso
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Vanity Fair
Illustration proposal, c 1930’s
18 X 13 3/4 inches (sight)
...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Fortune Magazine Cover Published 1941 Illustration Precisionist American Scene
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Fortune Magazine Cover Published 1941 Illustration Precisionist American Scene
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Military Tent City
Fortune Cover published, May 1941
17 1/2 X 15 in...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Art Week
22 X 17 inches
Gouache on board, c. 19...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Firemen
Textile design, c. 1929
19 1/4 ...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern 1930s Workers
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern WPA 1930s Industrial Workers
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Brick Layers
House Beautiful cover proposal, c. 1939
...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting. Fortune Cover. Sept 1933 Illustration American Modern WPA Era
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Fortune Cover. Sept 1933 Illustration American Modern WPA Era
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Wild Horses & Dynamo
Fortune cover published, September 1933
13 X ...
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s
By Daniel Ralph Celentano
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Riders Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s
Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980)
Subway Scene, 1930s
8 x 9 inches
Ink and wash on paper
Singed lower ...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
By George Grosz
Located in New York, NY
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
George Grosz (Germany, 1893-1959) "City Scene," 17 x 12 inches, signed and dated “33” lower left, watercolor on paper. This drawing, created while Grosz was living in NYC. Period frame, It has been authenticated by Ralph Jentsch, the globally recognized Grosz expert.
Provenance: Hirschl & Adler and 511 Gallery...
Category
1930s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"King & I" Orig 1951 Broadway Drawing Published NYT Tony Awards Mid 20th Century
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in New York, NY
"King & I" Orig 1951 Broadway Drawing Published NYT Tony Awards Mid 20th Century
Al Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003) "The King and I," 14 3/4 x 30 inches. Ink on board. Signed lower right. ...
Category
1950s Performance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
11 x 4 1/2 inches. Framed by Heydenryk.
Provenance: Gary Snyder Fine Art
B...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Philip Goodwin (20th Century) "Times Square," 23 ½ x 17 ¼ inches. Gouache...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Going to the Festival" WPA Ashcan 20th Century American Scene Modern Realism
By Daniel Ralph Celentano
Located in New York, NY
"Going to the Festival" WPA Ashcan 20th Century American Scene Modern Realism
Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980) "Going to the Festival," 14 1/2 x 10 1/2. Watercolor on paper, c. 1930s....
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era
By Ralph Fasanella
Located in New York, NY
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era "Victory for Now"
Ralph Fasanella (1914-_1997) "Victory and After,” gouache on paper. Signed, titled...
Category
1940s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 3
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 3
10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy.
Offered here is one of several original drawings by WPA artist David Fredenthal that were first published in the 1940 illustrated edition of the novel TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell.
Background on the Drawing
Erskine Caldwell remarked, on seeing the work of David Fredenthal, 26-year-old painter: "That boy could draw my Tobacco Road people." A casual comment, it was enormously productive.
The young painter was just finishing a two-year Guggenhcim Fellowship, preceded by a year's study in Paris, two one-man shows at New York's Downtown Gallery, and a fellowship at the Cranbrook Academy near Detroit. He was out in Colorado Springs when he heard what Caldwell had said about him.
Fredenthal hadn't read Tobacco Road. He had not even seen the play - now breaking all records in its seventh year on Broadway. But he swapped a portrait for a second-hand Ford and headed East.
In New York he learned that Dnell, Sloan & Pearce were bringing out a deluxe edition of Tobacco Road. But he had no entrée to the publishers, and Caldwell, to his disappointment, was out of town. So he drove on to Georgia to have a look at the Tobacco Road people.
He found Dr. I. C. Caldwell, the author's father, in Wrens, Ga., going on his ministerial rounds among people like the Lesters. Fredenthal got a room from a couple who ran a 1-pump filling station...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing
By Jean Xceron
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing.
A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into obscurity---especially since he was reportedly quite prominent during his lifetime. However, a partial explanation of that omission is the fact that many of his papers and early records have been lost. He was a painter of biomorphic abstractions and did collages, which were influenced by Dadaism.
Xceron was active in New York City when modernism was gaining influence. Of him during this period, it was written that his artistic role was "a vital link between what is commonly termed as the first-generation (the Stieglitz group, the Synchromists, etc.) and second-generation, the American Abstract Artists, the Transcendental Painting...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Reginald Marsh "Brooklyn Bridge" NYC Modernism WPA Mid-Century Watercolor Modern
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh "Brooklyn Bridge" NYC Modernism WPA Mid-Century Watercolor Modern
Reginald Marsh (American, 1898-1954) Brooklyn Bridge, 1940, Signed and dated Reginald Marsh May 1940 (lr), Watercolor over traces of pencil on paper , 15 x 22 inches sight.
Reginald Marsh was born in Paris, France in 1898, the child of artist parents. He was born over a small cafe on Paris' Left Bank. He was brought to the United States in 1900 and was drawing before he was three. He studied art at Yale University and the Art Students League, during which time he worked primarily as an illustrator for New York newspapers and magazines. After studying in Paris in 1925 and 1926, he turned seriously to painting. In 1929 he was introduced to the egg-tempera medium, which he used extensively the rest of his life.
Marsh's gusto for painting the bottom crust of society contrasted curiously with his background. His parents, both well-known artists, were steeped in academic traditions. He attended Lawrenceville Academy and Yale; perhaps this elite background made it possible to paint the earthy people he did with a journalist's objectivity.
An admirer of Rubens and Delacroix, he disliked modernist art; indeed, his lifelong preoccupation was with people - enjoying themselves at beaches, at amusement parks, or on crowded city streets. Marsh was a second-generation Ash Can School painter and printmaker, best known as an urban regionalist. He spent his days sketching in small notebooks...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"The Knockout" Boxing Sports American Watercolor WPA Mid-Century Modern 30s/40s
By Robert Riggs
Located in New York, NY
"The Knockout" Boxing Sports American Watercolor WPA Mid-Century Modern 30s/40s.
Robert Riggs (1896-1970)
The Knockout
22 x 30 inches watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
Framed: ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Manhattan Bridge" NYC American Scene Modernism Watercolor WPA Urban Realism
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh "Manhattan Bridge" NYC American Scene Modernism Watercolor WPA Urban Realism, 20 x 14 inches. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 1938. Signed...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII. 18 x 24 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1940s. Signed lower right.
BIO
...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Landscape Mid 20th Century Work on Paper Hamptons, NY Drawing Pastel
By Robert Dash
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Landscape Mid 20th Century Work on Paper Hamptons, NY Drawing Pastel. Signed and dated '62 lower right. 9 x 12 inches (sight) and 15. 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches framed.
BIO
Robert Dash is known for his Hamptons paintings...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA.
David Fredenthal (1914-1958) "View of New York from New Jersey,"7 x 10 inches. Watercolor on Paper, c. 1948. Signed lower right.
David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He was a draftsman with seemingly a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket.
As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's.
After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23, and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947.
Because of Fredenthal's prodigious drawing gifts, he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel "Tobacco Road...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis
Located in New York, NY
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis.
Miles White (1915 – 2000)
BYE BYE BIRDIE
11 x 8 inches
Mixed Media on...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s
By Frank Van Sloun
Located in New York, NY
Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s. 9 x 12 inches. Tempera on paper, c. 1936. Authenticated and signed ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Egg Tempera
"My Fair Lady" 1958 West End Theatre Costume Drawing Mid 20th Century Modern
By Cecil Beaton
Located in New York, NY
"My Fair Lady" 1958 West End Theatre Costume Drawing Mid 20th Century Modern
Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980) "My Fair Lady," Pen and ink on paper. ...
Category
1950s Performance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Ann Miller in Follies Broadway Musical Contemporary Drawing Illustration Eloise
Located in New York, NY
Ann Miller in Follies Broadway Musical Contemporary Drawing Illustration Eloise
Ann Miller in Stephen Sondheim's "Follies." The 1998 production, played at the Papermill Playhouse. Affixed to the back of the drawing is a brochure promoting the show. Mixed media on paper. Signed lower left. Inscribed lower right: "Ann Miller at 75 'I'm Still Here' in Stephen Sondheim's 'Follies' 1998." Framed. 17 x 12 in. (sight). 22 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (frame)
'Tops in Taps' Ann Miller was still going strong at 75 years old when she made her last appearance in the musical, "Follies." She was one of M.G.M's most prolific dancers and considered by many to be the greatest female tap dancer of all time.
Hilary, a friend of many years, is still going strong at 96. We saw this production at the Papermill Playhouse. Years ago, I was a press agent working in Henry Luhrman's office where we represented "Sugar Babies" with Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney.
Bio
Hilary Knight (born November 1, 1926) is an American writer-artist who is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator of Kay Thompson's Eloise (1955) and others in the Eloise series.
Knight has illustrated for a wide variety of clients, creating artwork for magazines, children's fashion advertisements, greeting cards, record albums and posters for Broadway musicals, including Gypsy, Irene, Half A Sixpence, Hallelujah Baby! and No, No Nanette.
The son of artist-writers Clayton Knight...
Category
1990s Performance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Yiddish Theatre Cubist Costume Design 1924 Deco Color Field Modernism Broadway
Located in New York, NY
Yiddish Theatre Cubist Costume Design 1924 Deco Color Field Modernism Broadway.
Boris Aronson (1898 – 1980) "Day and Night," 17 ½ x 13 inches. Gouache ...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA
By Jo Mielziner
Located in New York, NY
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA. 8 x 10 ¾ inches. Graphite on paper, 1936. Initialed on lower right. The play opens October 14, 1936 at Broadway’s 44th Street Theatre.
Handwritten title, date, and signature on lower center of original matte which is now affixed to the verso. Inscription on lower right of matte reads, "For Prince & Barbara - Jo Mielziner...
Category
1930s Performance Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Deco Dancing Hungarian Expressionism European Drawing Modernism Figurative Dance
By Hugó Scheiber
Located in New York, NY
Deco Dancing Hungarian Expressionism European Drawing Modernism Figurative Dance. 22 1/2 x 16 inches. Signed lower left. Framed.
BIO
Hugó Scheiber was born in Budapest in 1873. At the age of eight, he moved with his family from Budapest to Vienna.
In 1898, to help support his family after they had returned to Budapest. He started working during the day, attending painting classes at the Commercial Art School in the evening. In 1900, he completed his studies.
Scheiber showed an early interest in German Expressionism and Futurism. In 1915 he met Marinetti, who invited him to join the Futurist movement. Because Scheiber's paintings conflicted with academic style of the Hungarian art establishment, his work was virtually ignored in his own country. In 1919, he and his friend Béla Kádár held an exhibition organized by Hévesy in Vienna, which was a great success, so much so that the Budapest Art Museum purchased two of his drawings.
In 1920, Scheiber returned to Vienna. A turning point in his career came in 1921 when Herwarth Walden, founder of Germany's leading avant-garde periodical, Der Sturm...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Steel Factory" Cuban Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing WPA Latin Art Industrial
Located in New York, NY
"Steel Factory" Cuban Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing WPA Latin Art Industrial
Ink on paper. 12 x 19 inches. Pogolotti lived in Paris in the 1930s. The drawing here comes from the collection of his Parisian ophthalmologist, Dr. Prokopenko . Unfortunately, the artist lost his eyesight in 1938.
Marcelo Pogolotti (1902–1988) was a Cuban painter...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in New York, NY
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889 – 1975) “Today Magazine” Cover ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Ink
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Original Broadway Set Design Mid 20th Century American
By Jo Mielziner
Located in New York, NY
Jo Mielziner (1901 – 1976) "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," 7 ½ x 11 ½ inches. Pencil on paper. Label verso from Richard Stoddard, Dated June 18. 1996. Mr. Joe W...
Category
1950s Performance Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Bless You All Tony Award Broadway Costume Design Mid 20th Century Theatre Modern
Located in New York, NY
Bless You All Tony Award Broadway Costume Design Mid 20th Century Theatre Modern.
Miles White (1915 – 2000) "Bless You All," 15 x 11 (sight) inches. Mixed media on paper. The musical opened December 13, 1950 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. Miles won the 1951 Tony Award for Costume Design.
Miles was one of my closest friends for the last 20 years of his life. We live with one of his two Tony Awards and a dozen drawings.
BIO
White was a top Broadway and Hollywood costume designer. The artist created the costumes for the original Broadway productions of OKLAHOMA, CAROUSEL, PAL JOEY and BYE BYE BIRDIE...
Category
1950s Performance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in New York, NY
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway.
10 x 7 1/2 inches. Graphite on paper. Signed, titled "42nd Street" and dated July 26, 1923, lower l...
Category
1920s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern
By Louis Stone
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern.mixed media. 21 x 16 (sight). Housed in a hand carved frame.
Louis King Stone ...
Category
1940s American Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Gouache, Board
Italian Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century
By Piero Dorazio
Located in New York, NY
Italian Modern Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century - "Gonage"
Dorazio completed "Gonage" in 1949 when just after the artist had been awarded a stipend by the French government and admission to the Academy Beaux Arts. There he met George Braque who became great friends but also an influence on Dorazio, of which "Gonage" is a living testament.
"Gonage" actual size of the drawing measures 12 x 9 1/2 inches. It is signed on the lower right. The work is affixed to a 19 x 15 inch board which includes the artist's signature and date. There is a torn table on the lower left entitling the piece "Gonage".
Provenance follows this piece as a gift in 1950 to the artist-colleague Luigi Lucioni, who then gifted it in 1955 to his friend, the uncle of the current owner who has owned the work since 1988.
Bio
Born in Italy, Piero Dorazio studied architecture in Rome. At the same time his first abstract works were executed. In 1947 he received a scholarship from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he contacted Modern artists, who lived in Paris. He founded the galleries "Age d'Or" in Florence and Rome to represent avant-garde arts in Italy.
During a one year stay in the USA he got acquainted with leading artists of Abstract Expressionism such as Marc Rothko...
Category
1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
19 1/4 x 11 1/2 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by ...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 2
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 2
10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy....
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
