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"Of Truth or Consequences", WPA-style Oil Painting, 1940s, Deep Pink, Van Loan
By Dorothy Van Loan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Executed in gorgeous shades of deep pink, dove gray and olive, this scene of two nude women perched on folding chairs was painted by Dorothy Van Loan, a celebrated modernist from Phi...
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Vintage 1940s American Paintings
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Canvas, Paint
"Fawn", Art Deco Painting of Resting Deer, Brown, Green and Yellow, Ohio Artist
By Louis Kabrin
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This lovely, striking Art Deco painting -- executed in gouache (opaque watercolor) and applied with an airbrush, a new tool that became widely popular in the 1930s and 40s -- was mad...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Five Olympic Rowers", Monumental Art Deco Painting of Nude Male Oarsmen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most stunning and monumental depictions of male nude figures -- and male athletes -- ever accomplished in the Modern era, this large painting shows five nude rowers, relax...
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Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Paintings
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"The Modern Olympia", Odalisque Painting with Nude and Attendant, Sweden, 1926
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted a year after the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes) debuted in Paris, i...
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Vintage 1920s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
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"Peace After the War", Important Surrealist Painting, De Chirico Influence, 1933
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Undoubtedly the most important example of American Surrealism we have ever offered, this 1933-vintage painting by Daniel Koerner depicts a deeply-fissured Classical statue and a fema...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Basket Fishing", Powerful Mid Century Painting with Shirtless Man, South Africa
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This powerful depiction of a half-nude man capturing a fish in his conical basket -- much like men and women have done for centuries -- is painted in a rich, deep palette of warm bro...
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Vintage 1950s South African Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Steering the Ship", 1941 Illustration Art with Sailor for Saturday Eve Post
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Boldly conceived and executed, this original maquette for a proposed Saturday Evening Post cover by Larry Segall depicts a sailor at the helm of a ship, his hands on the wheel and hi...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"The Harvest", Art Deco Painting with Male Laborer in Blue and Purple
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Gloriously painted in a palette of blue, purple, white and yellow, this painting by Jocke Åkerblom depicts a laborer in the field, wielding his scythe, with a glorious sky above that...
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Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
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"Townscape in Corsica", Brilliant Art Deco Landscape Painting by Åkerblom, 1937
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted with a strong, vivid palette which captures the brilliant sky, terra cotta roofs and golden walls of this townscape, probably in Corsica, this work is a fine example of Art D...
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Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
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"Promise of Hope", Art Deco Painting with Male Nude and Dove, Sweden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted in a lovely, colorful palette and full of hope and symbolism, this painting by Jocke Åkerblom depicts a standing male nude figure looking into the distance, the sky swathed i...
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Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Rehabilitation", Impressive, Large Art Deco Study for Queens, NYC Courthouse
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Teeming with allegory and symbolism, this large and elaborate study by Eugene Savage for a major mural to be executed in mosaic was painted for the new Queens Supreme Courthouse -- a...
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Vintage 1940s Paintings
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Paint
"Building a Home in Colonial America", Important Tempera Painting, Riggs, 1930s
By Robert Riggs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Striking and important, this scene of two Colonial era figures -- probably father and son, one with reddish hair and the other blond -- shows them sawing and splitting logs for a new...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Drummer w/ Beachcomber Hat", 1940s Portrait of Shirtless Man in Blue and Brown
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted in the 1940s when Americans were traveling more widely and becoming deeply interested in "exotic" lands and cultures, this portrait of a handsome young man -- probably Mexica...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Archer with Geese", Exceptional Art Deco Painting with Male Nude, Pierced Frame
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bold and striking, this high style Art Deco painting depicts a nude male archer with his bow stretched and his arrow aiming toward a flock of geese overhead. In the background is a ...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"St. Sebastian in Gold and Coral", Striking Art Deco Painting by Remy, France
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A vivid and striking example of Art Deco painting, this depiction of St. Sebastian in tones of gold and pink-papaya shows the figure with a rich, brown complexion, wounded with four ...
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Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Loading the Wagon", Important Regional Scene Ptg, Thomas Hart Benton Colleague
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This classic example of American Scene painting, depicting a group of four laborers loading the harvest onto a wagon amidst the fields, has the energy and dynamic of Thomas Hart Bent...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Portrait with Centaur", Art Deco Painting by Muralist for Texas Hall of State
By James Owen Mahoney
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A rare and important work by one of America's most important muralists working in the 1930s and 40s, this painting of a female figure on the edge of a magical forest, accompanied by ...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Seven Deadly Sins", Fabulous Art Deco Mural Study by Eugene Savage
By Eugene Francis Savage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A companion painting to another piece in our gallery, this painting -- "Truth and the Seven Deadly Sins" -- served as a study by Eugene Savage for a major mosaic proposed for the new...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Arms Raised", Striking Portrait of Nude Male Youth by Jarl, Denmark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking combination of realism and abstraction, this portrait of a nude male youth with his arms behind his neck -- Stanley Christensen -- is beautifully expressed in tones of cha...
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Vintage 1920s Danish Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Abstraction in Blue, Red & Yellow", Divisionist Painting, attr. Severini
By Gino Severini
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Boldly painted in vivid hues of red, deep pink, yellow and shades of blue, this abstract painting is attributed to Gino Severini, Italy's leading Modernist painter, who executed work...
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Vintage 1940s Italian Modern Paintings
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Paint
"Lost in Thought", Large Painting of Young Man and Bathers, Felix Meseck, 1938
By Felix Meseck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Centered around a young man in a blue swimsuit who is lost in thought, looking into the distance, this atmospheric painting shows a group of swimmers enjoying a lovely summer day. T...
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Vintage 1930s German Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"On the Waterfront", Nine Sailors at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1946 Oil Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted just after the end of World War II in a style that could be called Art Deco meets Mid Century, this striking painting depicts nine sailors in their Navy uniforms, most of the...
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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Paint
"Cocktail Party", Sophisticated Art Deco Painting by Patterson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sophisticated view of a 1920s cocktail party -- probably taking place on the upper levels of an Art Deco tower in New York or Chicago -- was painted by Robert Patterson, one of ...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Elephants and Seals", Two Circus Scene Paintings, Mid Century, Cleveland Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly conceived and executed, in vivid shades of pink, pale blue, slate green and black, this pair of Mid Century paintings bring life, humor and color to scenes of circus life...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Six Scenes in Arcadia", Art Deco Paintings w/ Female Figures, Radio City Artist
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of color and life, this group of six small vignettes on one sheet depicts pairs and trios of female figures dancing and frolicking in various idyllic landscapes -- rolling hills...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Summer", Domestic Scene by Sheppard w/ Reclining Male Nude
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This moody and atmospheric painting depicting a quiet domestic moment is reminiscent of the best work of John Koch, but it was painted by a more recent master of figurative painting ...
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Vintage 1980s American Modern Paintings
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"Burlesque and Cubist Composition", Two-Sided Painting by William L'Engle
By William L'Engle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliant and memorable, this painting has two sides: a scene of nude burlesque dancers, ornamented in red feathers and red shoes on one side, and on the other, a highly abstract, Cubist composition in tones of taupe, wine, pale green and black. The artist was William L'Engle, and clearly he considered the Cubist composition more important, because it has a hand-painted border and is monogrammed. L'Engle was a towering figure in the Provincetown art colony, and was extremely well connected to America's artistic elite, starting with his trip to Europe as a young man with Waldo Pierce and George Biddle. Over time, William and his life Lucy became close to a wide range of important figures in painting, theater and the arts, including Charles Hawthorne, Eugene O'Neill, Gerrit Beneker, John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Harvest Landscape", Art Deco Mural Study for Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen
By Jais Nielsen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Proof that Scandinavia equalled France in its embrace of Modernism and what we now call Art Deco, this important mural study was made by Jais Nielsen in 1923 for Tivoli Gardens in Co...
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Vintage 1920s Danish Art Deco Paintings
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Paper
"Procession in Bali", Atmospheric Oil Painting by American Muralist, 1930
By Carl W. Brandien
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Highly atmospheric and full of mystery, this 1930 painting by muralist Carl Brandien depicts a procession of Balinese figures walking down the heart of a valley that is framed by pal...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"New Mexico Panorama", Southwest Landscape Masterpiece, probably Frank Applegate
By Frank Applegate 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Treated almost like a diptych, with two sheets of paper joined together to form one panoramic scene, this watercolor masterpiece -- probably by Frank Guy Applegate -- depicts a serie...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Veiled Woman with Jug", North African Scene in White & Blue by Julius Bloch
By Julius Bloch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted in white and blue in a way that captures the blindingly bright sunlight of North Africa, this painting by Julius Bloch depicts a veiled woman carrying an earthenware jug, fra...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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Paint
"St. George and the Dragon", Fabulous Art Deco Painting by Manne Östlund, 1934
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most fanciful and dramatic depictions of the St. George and the Dragon story we have ever seen, this painting by Manne Östlund shows a shirtless, modern St. George slaying...
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Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Lounging Nude in Marrakesh", Brilliant Oil Painting, Pinto, collected by Barnes
By Salvatore Pinto
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted in a brilliant palette of orange, deep red, sky blue and forest green, this scene of a half nude female figure lounging on a black settee probably dates to the 1930s when Sal...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Restraining the Bull", Striking Art Deco Painting w/ Shirtless Male Figure
By Frederick Cooper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dramatic and bold, this painting of a shirtless man restraining a bull -- his skin dark as night, and the bull's hide as pale as moonlight -- is a classic example of Art Deco design....
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Tunisian Man in White Shirt", 1930s Watercolor Painting by Porter Woodruff
By Porter Woodruff
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piercing and powerful portrait of a Tunisian man with an open-necked shirt provides a glimpse into the life of artist Porter Woodruff in North Africa. Woodruff was best known for his paintings and illustrations for Vogue magazine -- one of five American fashion illustrators who worked for the magazine -- as well as House & Garden. He was born in Tennessee, but spent much of his creative life in Paris and Tunisia, where he lived with Georges Sébastian, an important Hungarian-born, French orchestra conductor...
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Vintage 1930s Tunisian Art Deco Paintings
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"The Fall of Icarus", Dramatic 1940s Painting w/ Male Nude by Emlen Etting
By Emlen Etting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia artist Emlen Etting returned again and again to the theme of Icarus Falling, in part because it gave him an opportunity to depict the nude male in motion. This is the fi...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Pipe Fitters", 1951 Paean to the Working Man by Gere, Wisconsin Painter
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although this painting dates to 1951, a few years after the Works Progress Administration (WPA) period ended in the 1940s, this tight composition of two pipe fitters doing their work in a cramped space is very much akin to America's Depression-era murals that celebrated the American worker. The painter was Byron Gere...
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Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Circus", Large and Ambitious Painting by John B. Lear w/ Male Nudes, 1965
By John B. Lear
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This early and ambitious watercolor painting by John B. Lear shows the growing scale and detail of his best work, here incorporating three nude and semi-nude male figures in a surrea...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Portrait of a Young Jockey", Vivid, Superb Portrait Painting by Peter Hurd
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perhaps the finest portrait we have ever offered, this depiction of a young jockey in 1941, his complexion warm and glowing and his blue eyes echoing the color of his shirt, was pain...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Waking Angel", Remarkable, Early Painting of Nude Male Figure, Leyendecker
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This beautiful depiction of a young male angel, stretching as he awakens from his sleep, is a remarkably assured and skilled painting by the young Joseph Christian Leyendecker, later...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Paintings
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"State Fair Scene with Horses & Merry-Go-Round", American Scene Painting, 1947
By Edmund Brucker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large and dynamic, this 1947-vintage painting depicts a shirtless man handling a high-spirited Percheron horse that won a blue ribbon at the Indiana st...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Mail by Stagecoach, Lynn to Lowell", WPA Mural Study by Aiden Ripley
By Aiden Lassell Ripley
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An evocative and atmospheric example of WPA mural painting, this large study in watercolor and crayon depicts a stagecoach being loaded with mail and passengers for the journey from ...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Chinese Noblewoman w/ Lotus Flowers & Orchids", Art Deco Painting, Pink & Blue
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly painted in deep pink, sky blue and ivory tones, this 1936-vintage oil painting depicts a Chinese noblewoman in an embroidered gown and elaborate headpiece, flanked by sym...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Portrait of Swedish Student", Art Deco Painting in Blue and Gray by Söderberg
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully painted in a quiet palette of blue, gray and warm skin tones, this portrait of a college student with blonde hair and fair complexion was made by Ernst Söderberg in 1920....
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Vintage 1920s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
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"Nude Pan with Pipes", Large, Vivid Painting w/ Male Nude by Broadway Designer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Like his contemporary, Raoul Pene du Bois, Waldo Angelo served as an important designer for Broadway productions over decades, but in his private time, he produced a number of beauti...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Black and Red Nude", Large Male Nude Painting by Christopher Clark, 1954
By Christopher Clark (1875-1942)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bold and striking, this large 1950s painting of a nude male youth, executed in black gouache or charcoal on a rich, deep red ground, was made by Christopher Clark. The artist is bes...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Children of the Crucible", Striking Art Deco Mural by Beck, T. Roosevelt quote
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This important and very rare mural study, executed in oil on canvas, was painted by Dunbar Beck in the 1930s, evidently for a project that was never completed. The painting depicts i...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Red Tape", Early and Important Surrealist Painting by John Lear w/ Male Nudes
By John B. Lear
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the finest, and certainly the earliest painting by John Lear that we have seen or offered, this image depicts three male nude figures connected by a trailing line of red ribbo...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Commerce and Industry", Beaux Arts/Art Deco Allegorical Mural w/ Male Nudes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fabulous example of allegorical mural painting, this large piece by Edward Holslag features a central winged figure holding a reflective orb, flanked ...
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Vintage 1920s American Beaux Arts Paintings
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"On the Beach", Art Deco Painting of Reclining Young Man in Swimsuit
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Charming and full of light, this gouache painting of a young man in a black swimsuit lounging on a wide beach was painted by Louise Alix in the 1950s. The man's rosy complexion, the...
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Vintage 1950s French Art Deco Paintings
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"Standing Model", Male Nude Painting in Blue by Åkerblom, Oil on Canvas, Sweden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Boldly painted in an expressionist palette that calls to mind the work of Edvard Munch and other Nordic painters who were in the artistic vanguard of the 20th century, this depiction...
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Vintage 1940s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
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"Leda and the Swan, " Important Painting by Rene Buthaud
By René Buthaud
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Like many of his contemporaries in the 1920s and 1930s, in both America and France, Buthaud was fascinated with figures from classic mythology. Leda and the Swan was a motif he retu...
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Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Paintings
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Paper
"Herod and Salome", Sensuous Art Nouveau/Art Deco Painting in Blue and Green
By Ewald Dahlskog
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stylized, yes, but sensuous and powerful, this transitional Art Nouveau-Art Deco painting depicts King Herod whispering into the ear of Salome, calling upon her to deliver the head o...
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Vintage 1910s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
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"Late Afternoon on the Beach", Mid Century Painting w/ Blond Nude Male Figure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This atmospheric and magical view of a single nude male figure on a California beach is imbued with lovely, unexpected colors and textures which rise up to a sky that is a pale shade of green. The blond young man has been sunbathing on a towel stretched along the sand, and seems to be placidly examining the viewer -- the painter -- from afar. The artist is Duane Wakeham...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Two Women Lounging", Richly-Imagined Portrait of Figures in Satin & Silk, 1940s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Voluptuous in its approach to scene and palette, this sumptuous portrait of two women, lounging side by side amongst pillows and fabrics in satin and silk, was painted by Rudolph Sch...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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"After the Bath", North African Scene w/ Female Nude by Robert, Art Deco
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This rich tapestry of life in and around a quiet courtyard in North Africa -- with domes, towers and minarets in the distance, and a woman lingering on a balcony to one side -- was p...
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Vintage 1920s Swiss Art Deco Paintings
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"Coca-Cola and Coffee", Important Industrial Design for 1949 Vending Machine
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An astonishing and important example of Moderne-Mid Century Modern industrial design, this original watercolor rendering of a short-lived Coca-Cola/coffee vending machine was painted...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Picking Roses", Art Deco-Jugenstil Painting of Classicized Woman in Rose Garden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Richly colored and stunningly beautiful, this 1920s depiction of a female figure in Classic Greek garb, her hair in a bun and her dress radiantly dyed candy-apple red, was painted by...
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Vintage 1920s Swiss Art Deco Paintings
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"Dancing Angel", Classic 1940s Tempera Painting with Nude Male Figure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Reminiscent of the work of Jared French in its material (tempera), its color palette and its approach to the male figure, this lovely depiction of two dancing angels, one in the fore...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Orpheus with Lyre and Cape", Fine Art Deco Eglomise Painting in Gold and Wine
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An elegant and sophisticated example of high style Art Deco eglomise painting, this depiction of a stylized Orpheus figure with lyre and cape is painted in rich tones of gold, black ...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Paintings
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