Renaissance Man Antiques

"Purification" is a rare artist's working print, which served as the basis for a mural or bas-relief sculpture for a building in the 1930s, probably a water treatment build...

This important and stunning example of WPA-era idealization of the American worker, glowing from molten iron nearby, was executed by John Garth in the 1930s, one of several paintings...

Best known for her depictions of New Mexico and the Southwest, here Virginia True painted a brilliantly-hued Cubist scene reflecting her years in New York. Showing the influence of P...

Although it shares a name with Grant Wood's iconic painting, the subject of Eugenia Redka's painting here is much different, a charming white painted Gothic church in the middle of t...

John Lear was a contemporary of Paul Cadmus and like him, highly focused on depicting the male figure in various settings and positions. However, Lear never gained fame beyond his ci...

An extraordinary and very rare example of Art Deco memorial sculpture, this depiction of a nude soldier -- clothed with nothing but his metal helmet and a loincloth -- was created by...

This bronze is a fine example of art that glorified and honoured the 20th century worker, a theme that was sounded by sculptors and painters throughout Europe and America through the...

Drenched with color and suffused with voluptuous sensuality, this allegorical depiction of a nude Justice is a Hollywood-influenced take on Classical themes. Like the traditional fig...

Teeming with male nudes and mythological scenes illustrating stories such as Diogenes' search for an honest man, and Romulus and Remus' role in the birth of Rome, this rare bronze ur...

A cross between Grant Wood and Paul Cadmus, this remarkable American regional scene painting depicts a young man in a white t-shirt walking a group of cows down a country lane with p...

Entirely charming and whimsical, this depiction of a rotund satyr beguiling a woodland rabbit is clearly the work of a master carver. Sculpted from a cylinder of ruddy mahogany, the ...

A highly unusual vase by Jean Mayodon, one of France's leading artists in the Art Deco era, this piece depicts two scenes of nude male hunters with several deer. One of the hunters i...