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Studio Interior Mid 20th Century American Scene Modern WPA Still Life Realism
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
Studio Interior Scene Mid 20th Century American Modern WPA Still Life Realism The painting measures 10 x 12 inches. Framed, the work is 13 1/4 x 15 1/...
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1930s American Realist Interior Paintings

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Oil, Board

Studio Interior Mid 20th Century American Scene Modern WPA Still Life Realism
Studio Interior Mid 20th Century American Scene Modern WPA Still Life Realism

Joseph Solman
Studio Interior Mid 20th Century American Scene Modern WPA Still Life Realism, c. 1930s

NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
By Cecil Crosley Bell
Located in New York, NY
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative Cecil Bell (1906 – 1970) Street Life Under the EL 22 x 30 inches Oil on canvas, c. 1930s Signed upper...
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1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative

Cecil Crosley Bell
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative, c. 1939

NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century Eugene Savage (1883 – 1978) 1939 World’s Fair Mural Study 45 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas Signed lower right The painting is part of a 1,000 piece collection of art and objects from the 1939 World’s Fair. The collection as a whole is available. Savage created the mural for the facade of the Communications Building. An image of the completed mural, along with a published postcard, is part of the listing. Note the center top female figure, she resembles the figure in the offered painting. BIO Eugene Francis Savage was born in Covington, Indiana 1883. He underwent various forms of art training in the early years. He was a pupil of The Corcoran Gallery and The Art Institute of Chicago, and was later awarded a fellowship to study in Rome at The American Academy. While under the spell of that ancient city the young artist began to render historic figures that were suitable for the classic style needed for mural painting in the traditional manor. During this period he was able to study and observe Roman and Greek sculpture, although much of the academic training was accomplished by using plaster casts along with the incorporation of live models. This method survived and was used efficiently throughout Europe and the United States. After leaving the Academy, Savage was commissioned to paint numerous murals throughout the United States and Europe. This artist received acclaim for the works he produced while under commissions from various sources. This young master was a contemporary of Mexican muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957). In this period he was to show the influence of his contemporaries in formulating a modern style. Savage also played a vital role in the WPA Federal Art program, and he was a member of The Mural Art Guild.. Savage was elected an associate member of The National Academy of Design in 1924 and a full member in 1926. From 1947, he held a professorship at Yale University where he taught mural painting, and some of his students went on to significant positions. By this time the artist had painted large-scale murals at Columbia, Yale University, Buffalo N.Y., Dallas, Texas, Chicago, Indiana, along with other commissioned works. He also achieved recognition for a series of murals commissioned by the Matson Shipping Line and completed around 1940. For this commission, Savage made many exacting studies of customs and folkways of the Hawaiian natives. However, the award-winning murals were not installed as planned but were put in storage during the war years when the ships were used for troop transportation and were in danger of attack. However the mural images were reproduced and distributed by the shipping company including nine of the mural scenes that were made into lithographed menu covers in 1948. The American Institute of Graphic Arts awarded certificates of excellence for their graphic production, and the Smithsonian Institute exhibited the works in 1949. Today Savages' Hawaiian Art production is held in high regard by collectors of Hawaiian nostalgia. In later years the artist focused his attention on a theme that dealt with the customs and tribal traditions of the Seminole Indians of Florida. He produced many variations of this theme throughout his lifetime, and the pictures were usually modest scale easel paintings, precise and carefully delineated. Many of these pictures incorporate Surrealistic elements and show some minor stylistic influences of the painters Kay Sage...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century
NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century

Eugene Savage
NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century, 1939

Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
By Victor Michail Arnautoff
Located in New York, NY
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF Victor Arnautofff (1896 – 1979) City Street 12 x 14 inches Oil on board, c. 1930s Signed lower left BIO Born in the Ukraine of Russia, Victor Arnautoff became one of the most influential muralists in San Francisco in the 1930s and worked for the Federal Arts Project, WPA, in the expressive, social protest...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF

Victor Michail Arnautoff
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF, c. 1930s

"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern William Gropper (1898 - 1977) Unemployed 20 x 16 inches Oil on canvas, 1937 Signed lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist Bio Throughout his life, William Gropper used his artistic talents to protest social injustice. Born in New York City, he grew up there in poverty and left high school to work as a dishwasher and delivery boy. He eventually began a career in art and was able to study with Robert Henri and George Bellows from 1912 to 1915. He adopted their realistic painting style, and his own work expressed sympathy for common laborers and outrage at society's ills. In 1919 Gropper established a reputation as a political cartoonist working for the New York Tribune. His blunt, forceful style attracted the attention of other publications, and he provided illustrations and cartoons for a variety of magazines, from the left-wing New Masses to mainstream Vanity Fair. Like many social realist artists of the 1930s, Gropper supported liberal political causes, depicting subjects such as the plight of migrant laborers and striking factory workers. In his first gallery exhibition in 1936 at ACA Galleries, Gropper's work was so well received by critics, collectors, and artists that the following year he had two one-man exhibitions at ACA Galleries. In 1937, Gropper traveled west on a Guggenheim Fellowship and visited the Dust Bowl and the Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams, sketching studies for a series of paintings and a mural he painted for the Department of the Interior. That same year he had paintings purchased by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art Institute of Chicago (1935-49), Carnegie International (1937-50), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1939-48), and National Academy of Design (1945-48). He was a founder of the Artists Equity Association and member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. From 1940 to 1945 William Gropper was preoccupied with anti-Nazi cartoons...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern

William Gropper
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern, 1937

WPA Mural Study 1940 American Scene Modern Social Realism Figurative Mid Century
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study 1940 American Scene Modern Social Realism Figurative Mid Century Michael Loew (1907-1985) Detail for Mural (Social Security Building Washington D.C.) 24 x 24 inches ...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

WPA Mural Study 1940 American Scene Modern Social Realism Figurative Mid Century
WPA Mural Study 1940 American Scene Modern Social Realism Figurative Mid Century

Michael Loew
WPA Mural Study 1940 American Scene Modern Social Realism Figurative Mid Century, 1940

NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural Ernest Fiene (1894-1965) Cityscape 36 x 30 inches Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1930. lower right Provenance Estate of the artist. ACA Galleries, New York Exhibited New York, Frank Rehn Gallery, Changing Old New York, 1931. New York, ACA Galleries, Ernest Fiene: Art of the City, 1925-1955, May 2-23, 1981, n.p., no. 5. BIO Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923. Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925. In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. The first monograph from the Younger Artists Series was published on Fiene in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects. By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene’s paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene’s paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene’s paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City. With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled “Changing Old New York,” in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene’s oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well. Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene’s Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy. On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes. Fiene’s landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. Through the fall and winter of 1935-36, Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural
NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural

Ernest Fiene
NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural, 1930

"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern
By Ludwig Bemelmans, 1898-1962
Located in New York, NY
"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern Ludwig Bemelmans (1898 – 1962), “Coney Island" 35 x 27 inches Oil on board Signed lower right Origi...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern
"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern

Ludwig Bemelmans, 1898-1962
"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern, c. 1940s

"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion Mervin Jules (1912 – 1994) "The Tailor" 9 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches Oil on masonite, c. 1930s Signed lower ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion

Mervin Jules
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion, 1930s

"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...
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1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

"Antenna Birds" New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal Mid-Century American Scene Modern
"Antenna Birds" New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal Mid-Century American Scene Modern

Antonio Petruccelli
"Antenna Birds" New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal Mid-Century American Scene Modern, c. 1950s

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...
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1950s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea, 1953

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...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration

Antonio Petruccelli
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration, c. 1939

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...
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1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration
Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration, 1935

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...
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1930s American Realist Interior Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church
Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church, c. 1939

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 ...
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1950s American Realist Animal Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting Life Mag Published 1955 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1955 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1955 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century, 1955

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 ...
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1950s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene
Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene

Antonio Petruccelli
Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene, 1955

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 ...
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1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA
Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA, c. 1939

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 ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene, 1939

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 ...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Published 1938. American Scene Modern WPA
Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Published 1938. American Scene Modern WPA

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Published 1938. American Scene Modern WPA, 1938

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...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA

Antonio Petruccelli
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA, c. 1930s

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...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting. Colliers Magazine Cover Published 1933 Wedding Illustration
Original Painting. Colliers Magazine Cover Published 1933 Wedding Illustration

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting. Colliers Magazine Cover Published 1933 Wedding Illustration, 1933

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...
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1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration
Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration

Antonio Petruccelli
Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration, c. 1936

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...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century c. 1930s
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century c. 1930s

Antonio Petruccelli
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century c. 1930s, c. 1930s

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...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet
Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet, c. 1939

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...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting Fortune Cover Published 1937 American Modern - Met Museum
Original Painting Fortune Cover Published 1937 American Modern - Met Museum

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting Fortune Cover Published 1937 American Modern - Met Museum, 1937

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 ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism
Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism, 1927

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...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco, c. 1939

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) ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s
Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s, c. 1930s

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...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Fortune Magazine Cover Published 1941 Illustration Precisionist American Scene
Fortune Magazine Cover Published 1941 Illustration Precisionist American Scene

Antonio Petruccelli
Fortune Magazine Cover Published 1941 Illustration Precisionist American Scene, 1941

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...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration
Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration

Antonio Petruccelli
Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration, c. 1930s

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 ...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco

Antonio Petruccelli
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco, c. 1929

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 ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern 1930s Workers
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern 1930s Workers

Antonio Petruccelli
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern 1930s Workers, c. 1939

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 ...
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1930s American Modern Animal Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Original Painting. Fortune Cover. Sept 1933 Illustration American Modern WPA Era
Original Painting. Fortune Cover. Sept 1933 Illustration American Modern WPA Era

Antonio Petruccelli
Original Painting. Fortune Cover. Sept 1933 Illustration American Modern WPA Era, 1933

Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil
Located in New York, NY
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil. Signed lower left. Not much is known about Marco de Marco, but just look at...
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1930s American Modern Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil

Marco de Marco
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil, 1930s

Bathers 1940s Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Ashcan
Located in New York, NY
Bathers 1940s Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Ashcan Marion Gilmore (1909-1984) Bathers 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches oil on canvas boar...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Bathers 1940s Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Ashcan
Bathers 1940s Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Ashcan

Marion Gilmore
Bathers 1940s Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Ashcan, 1940s

Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism George Pearse Ennis (American, 1884-1936) "Forging a Gun Tube #1...
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1910s American Modern Interior Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism
Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism

George Pearse Ennis
Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism, 1918

Abstract Non Objective Mid 20th Century American Modern Color Field 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Non Objective Mid 20th Century American Modern Color Field 1950s James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) Abstraction 84-1/2 x 42-1/2 inches Signed and ...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Non Objective Mid 20th Century American Modern Color Field 1950s

James Daugherty
Abstract Non Objective Mid 20th Century American Modern Color Field 1950s, 1958

Guy Pene du Bois WPA American Modernism Realism NYC Scene Oil Lawyers in Court
By Guy Pène Du Bois
Located in New York, NY
Guy Pene du Bois' "Two Figures in Courtroom" is a WPA era American scene oil painting created in a realistic style. Modernism at its best The work is framed by Heydenryk. Pène du Bois descended from French immigrants who settled in Louisiana in 1738 and was raised in a Creole household. He was born in 1884 in Brooklyn, NY and first studied with William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art and later continued his training with Robert Henri. Pène du Bois was greatly impressed with Henri's credo that "real life" was subject matter for art and throughout his life a realist philosophy informed his art as well as his parallel career, art criticism. In 1905, Pène du Bois made his first visit to Paris where he painted scenes of fashionable people in cafes rendered in the dark tonalities and impasto associated with the Ashcan School. By 1920, he had achieved his mature style, which was characterized by stylized, rounded, almost sculptural figures painted with invisible brushstrokes. The subjects of his paintings were often members of society whom he gently satirized. In 1924, Pène du Bois and his wife, Floy, left for France where they would remain until 1930. Returning to America showcases pictures the artist produced after this very productive period abroad. After five years of living in France, Pène du Bois was able to observe American life with fresh eyes. His work becomes more psychologically intense and less satirical. In Girl at Table a slender, blond is shown gazing at a small statue that she holds at arm's distance. The meaning is elusive, but a powerful sense of longing is evoked. Similarly, paintings such as Dramatic Moment and Jane are taut with unresolved dialogue. Both pictures depict mysterious interiors in which a lone woman anxiously awaits the denouement of a suspenseful scene. Other pictures, for example, Chess Tables, Washington Square and Bar, New Orleans, recall Pene du Bois's Ashcan origins in their depiction of urban entertainment. During this period, landscape becomes an important subject for Pène du Bois. Girl Sketching...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Board

Guy Pene du Bois WPA American Modernism Realism NYC Scene Oil Lawyers in Court
Guy Pene du Bois WPA American Modernism Realism NYC Scene Oil Lawyers in Court

Guy Pène Du Bois
Guy Pene du Bois WPA American Modernism Realism NYC Scene Oil Lawyers in Court, 1930s

Trucks in the City African American Self-Taught Florida Outsider Folk Art Urban
By Purvis Young
Located in New York, NY
Trucks in the City by African American, Folk, Self-Taught, Florida, Outsider Art Purvis Young Urban Young was an American artist from Miami....
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Late 20th Century Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Trucks in the City African American Self-Taught Florida Outsider Folk Art Urban
Trucks in the City African American Self-Taught Florida Outsider Folk Art Urban

Purvis Young
Trucks in the City African American Self-Taught Florida Outsider Folk Art Urban, 1980s

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...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA

Richard Whorf
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA, 1945

"Time Remembered" Mid 20th Century NYC Modern American Scene WPA El Railway 1940
Located in New York, NY
"Time Remembered" Mid 20th Century NYC Modern American Scene WPA El Railway 1940 A view of the Third Avenue El (elevated railway) at 28th Street, New York. Signed lower left. Titled verso. c. 1940. oil on board c. 1940, 27.875 h × 21.75 w inches. BIO Staats Cotsworth...
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1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Time Remembered" Mid 20th Century NYC Modern American Scene WPA El Railway 1940
"Time Remembered" Mid 20th Century NYC Modern American Scene WPA El Railway 1940

Staats Cotsworth
"Time Remembered" Mid 20th Century NYC Modern American Scene WPA El Railway 1940, c. 1940

Radiant Reflections Abstract 1950s Oil Mid 20th Century American Woman Artist
By Irene Rice Pereira
Located in New York, NY
Radiant Relections. Abstract Non-Objective 1950s Oil Mid 20th Century American Woman Female Artist. Signed lower right. Provenance: Estate of Foy C. Casper, Norfolk, Virginia (a close personal friend of the artist and a former director of the Irene Rice-Pereira Foundation). Sothebys American art sale October 10, 2008. The canvas measures 50 x 40. The work has been restored, relined and is housed in its original frame, made by the artist's second husband, George Wellington Brown, a marine engineer from Boston. BIO Periera was an American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher who played a significant role in the development of modernism in America. She is known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and lyrical abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school. She helped found the Federal Art Project...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Radiant Reflections Abstract 1950s Oil Mid 20th Century American Woman Artist
Radiant Reflections Abstract 1950s Oil Mid 20th Century American Woman Artist

Irene Rice Pereira
Radiant Reflections Abstract 1950s Oil Mid 20th Century American Woman Artist, C. 1950s

"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban
By Purvis Young
Located in New York, NY
"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban The painting measures 65 x 48 inches. We love that in the middle of ...
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1990s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban
"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban

Purvis Young
"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban, c. 1990s

"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
By Leon Bibel
Located in New York, NY
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary Leon Bibel (1912 - 1995) "The Audience," 52 ½ x 41 ¼ inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1963. Signed lower right. Framed. BIO Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Leon Bibel was born in San Francisco in 1913. He trained at the California School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School. In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project at Harlem Art...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary

Leon Bibel
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary, 1963

Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century
By Bernard Gussow
Located in New York, NY
Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century "Late Afternoon, Columbus Avenue, New York", impasto oil on canvas, signed lower left, signed verso (under relining, shown in photo), and titled verso on stretcher, in maple mitered cove frame, 23 1/4" x 27 1/4", SS: 19 1/4" x 23 1/4", Relined. BIO Russian-born Gussow trained at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. He also studied under Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His first claim to fame was exhibiting two works at the Armory Show in 1913. Gussow exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists between 1917 and 1934 and at Salons of America in the 1930s. The Whitney Museum of American Art, for example, has his Subway Stairs. The Barnes Foundation...
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1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century
Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century

Bernard Gussow
Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century, c. 1920s/30s

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...
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1940s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era

Ralph Fasanella
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era, 1945

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...
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1940s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing

Jean Xceron
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing, 1949

Abstract Mid-20th Century Oil Non Objective NYC Radio City Music Hall
By Donald Deskey
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Mid-20th Century Oil Non Objective NYC Radio City Music Hall. Oil on board, 23 x 20 inches. Signed lower right. Provenance: Michael Desk...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Abstract Mid-20th Century Oil Non Objective NYC Radio City Music Hall
Abstract Mid-20th Century Oil Non Objective NYC Radio City Music Hall

Donald Deskey
Abstract Mid-20th Century Oil Non Objective NYC Radio City Music Hall, 1970s

Red to Black, 1954 Abstract Oil Mid-20th Century Modern Non-Objective. Published
By O. Louis Guglielmi
Located in New York, NY
Red to Black, 1954 Abstract Oil Mid-20th Century Modern Non-Objective. Published. Signed and dated upper left. 40 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches oil on canvas. Provenance: Estate of O. Louis Guglielmi. Robert Schoelopf Gallery. Andrew Crispo Gallery. Published in the artist's monograph as seen in the attached photos. BIO Painter O. Louis Guglielmi moved stylistically from a symbolic Social Realism, Precisionism, and Surrealism, ultimately to abstraction, but his subject matter, when it existed, dealt with society's underdogs. He had experienced slum living as a youth, moving from place to place because of his violinist father's need to find employment. Though Guglielmi was born in 1906 in Cairo, Egypt, his Italian parents moved the family to Italy. In 1914, they were living in New York City in Harlem's Italian slum. Guglielmi was involved in the political and artistic protests of the trial, conviction as anarchist bombers, and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Red to Black, 1954 Abstract Oil Mid-20th Century Modern Non-Objective. Published
Red to Black, 1954 Abstract Oil Mid-20th Century Modern Non-Objective. Published

O. Louis Guglielmi
Red to Black, 1954 Abstract Oil Mid-20th Century Modern Non-Objective. Published, 1954

"Backstage, Ambassador" Broadway Theatre NYC Mid-century Modern Modernist Cubist
By Sam Norkin
Located in New York, NY
"Backstage, Ambassador" Broadway Theatre NYC Mid-century Modern Modernist CubistSigned lower left, titled on the stretcher. Norkin was a Brooklyn, Ne...
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1940s American Modern Interior Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Backstage, Ambassador" Broadway Theatre NYC Mid-century Modern Modernist Cubist
"Backstage, Ambassador" Broadway Theatre NYC Mid-century Modern Modernist Cubist

Sam Norkin
"Backstage, Ambassador" Broadway Theatre NYC Mid-century Modern Modernist Cubist, circa 1945

"Airplanes Dive Over Enemy Skies" Italian Futurism Futurist Transportation Plane
Located in New York, NY
"Airplanes Dive Over Enemy Skies" Italian Futurism Futurist Transportation Plane Guglielmo “Tato” Sansoni (Italian, 1896 – 1974) "Airplanes Dive Over Enemy Skies (Aerei in Picchiata su Stabilimenti Nemici)," 20 x 28 inches. Oil on canvas. Circa 1930s. Signed lower right. Titled and signed verso. Guglielmo Sansoni...
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1930s Futurist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Airplanes Dive Over Enemy Skies" Italian Futurism Futurist Transportation Plane
"Airplanes Dive Over Enemy Skies" Italian Futurism Futurist Transportation Plane

Guglielmo Tato Sansoni
"Airplanes Dive Over Enemy Skies" Italian Futurism Futurist Transportation Plane, 1930s

1, 000 piece Museum Quality Collection of Art & Objects from NYC 1939 Worlds Fair
By Chester Beach
Located in New York, NY
1,000 piece Museum Quality Collection of Art & Objects from NYC 1939 Worlds Fair is available for sale. This sculpture, "Riders of the Elements," is the original 7' plaster maquette from the NYC 1939 World's Fair by Chester Beach...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

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Plaster, Canvas, Oil, Photographic Paper

1, 000 piece Museum Quality Collection of Art & Objects from NYC 1939 Worlds Fair
1, 000 piece Museum Quality Collection of Art & Objects from NYC 1939 Worlds Fair

Chester Beach
1, 000 piece Museum Quality Collection of Art & Objects from NYC 1939 Worlds Fair, 1938

Landscape American Hungarian European Modernism 1938 Realism Long Island WPA era
By Stephen Csoka
Located in New York, NY
Landscape American Hungarian European Modernism 1938 Realism Long Island WPA era. The canvas measures 18” x 20". The artist signed the stretcher as well as the canvas. The scene depicts a spots in New York where Queens borders with Nassau county, Rosedale, which abuts the Five Towns. The border runs through Hook Creek, another painting we are currently offering. Stephen (Istvan) Csoka was born in Gárdony, Hungary on January 2, 1897 and died in New York in 1989. He is best remembered as a painter and etcher of portraits, nudes, landscapes, genre, and horses. Csoka studied at the Budapest Royal Academy of Art and his memberships include Associate of the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Society of American Etchers in Brooklyn, NY; the Society of Brooklyn Artists; and the Hungarian Etchers Association. Csoka's exhibitions and awards include a medal at the Barcelona International Exhibition in 1929; a prize at the City of Budapest Exhibit in 1930; prizes at the Society of American Etchers in 1942 and 1945; prizes at the Library of Congress in 1944 and 1946; a prize at the Society of Brooklyn Artists in 1944; a prize at the Philadelphia Watercolor Club in 1945; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1945; the Carnegie Institute in 1943, 1944, and 1945; the Art Institute of Chicago in 1944; the Los Angeles Museum of Art in 1945; the National Academy of Design from 1940 through 1945; one-artist shows at the Contemporary Artists in 1940, 1943, and 1945; and the Minneapolis State Fair in 1943. *Stephen continued to recieve awards and exhibit his work throughout his life. In 1997, Hofstra Museum sponsored a Retrospective/Centennial exhibition in honor of his birth. Collections representing Csoka's work are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the British Museum, London, England; the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; the Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN; the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM; the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, the Museum of the City of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; Holocaust Museum, Glen Cove, NY; National Academy of Art, New York, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; New York Historical Society, New York, NY;New York Public Library, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Livingston Arts Center, Mount Morris, NY; Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN; City College, New York, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; Hungarian Consulate, New York, NY; Hungarian Heritage, New Brunswick, NJ; Hunter College, New York, NY; IBM Collections; Princeton Print Club...
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1930s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape American Hungarian European Modernism 1938 Realism Long Island WPA era
Landscape American Hungarian European Modernism 1938 Realism Long Island WPA era

Stephen Csoka
Landscape American Hungarian European Modernism 1938 Realism Long Island WPA era, 1938

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 "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...
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1910s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

WWI American Scene Ashcan Modern 20th Century Historical Realism Industrial WPA
WWI American Scene Ashcan Modern 20th Century Historical Realism Industrial WPA

Gerrit Beneker
WWI American Scene Ashcan Modern 20th Century Historical Realism Industrial WPA, 1918

Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right and verso 8 x 10 inches oil on board. BIO The son of a men's haberdasher, Mervin ...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern

Mervin Jules
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern, c. 1930s

Philip Evergood American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Still Life Interior
By Philip Evergood
Located in New York, NY
Interior with Man at Table American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Painting Philip Evergood (1901 - 1973) Untitled (Interior with Man at ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Philip Evergood American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Still Life Interior
Philip Evergood American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Still Life Interior

Philip Evergood
Philip Evergood American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Still Life Interior, 1932

UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) "Union Square" 24 x 36 inches Oil on canvas, c.1940s S...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC

Jo Cain
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC, c. 1940

Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s
By Boris Deutsch
Located in New York, NY
Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s An artist on the WPA mural project, Deutsch was born in Lithuania and died in Los Angeles. Works of Boris Deutsch are housed in Carnegie Institute, National Museum of American Art, Los-Angeles County Museum of Art, Scribal Museum, Pomona College...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s
Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s

Boris Deutsch
Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s, c. 1930s

"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painting. Realist painter-printmaker Kyra Markham...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism

Kyra Markham
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism, c. 1940s

NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful "New York Subway," 36 x 48 inches. Oil on Masonite (backed with a wood frame), Signed and dated ’47 upper left. The colors of the painting are extraordinarily vibrant. The white gold frame, signed Richard Tobey...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful

Trew Hocker
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful, 1947

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