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"Spirit of Oshkosh, " Art Deco Mural Study by Eugene Savage, 1937
By Eugene Francis Savage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This very rare and important study for "The Spirit of Oshkosh," a major mural in Wisconsin, was painted by Eugene Savage in 1937. Savage is best know...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"African Youth with Gourds and Flowers, " English Art Deco Painting, 1946
By Stuart Maxwell Armfield
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliant painting executed in vivid colors, this view of an African male youth holding a basket of gourds and an enormous bouquet of calla lilies, day lilies and other tropical bl...
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Vintage 1940s Great Britain (UK) Art Deco Paintings
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"Negro Night Club, " 1945 Painting Depicting African American Social Life
By Adalie Margules Brent
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliant and lively depiction of a crowded cafe scene in 1945, this painting by Adalie Margules Brent depicts a slice of Black America at the end of World War II, probably in New Orleans, complete with a waiter, fashionably dressed men and women and wafts of cigarette smoke...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Farmer with Scythe, " Depiction of American Worker by U.S. Capitol Muralist
By Allyn Cox
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Drenched with sun and full of optimism, this depiction of a shirtless farm worker, with scythe in hand, is a high-spirited paean to the American laborer, at a time when the Works Progress Administration and other institutions were commissioning murals that celebrated industry, agriculture and commerce. Here, the worker is lean and strong, and his face shows signs of sunburn from his hours in the open. The painter was Allyn Cox, son of the famous muralist Kenyon Cox...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Heron in Jeweled Landscape, " Rare, Glowing Lacquer Painting with Gold Leaf
By Pierre Paulin
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Influenced by the classic lacquer paintings of Jean Dunand and other great artists of France's Art Deco era, as well as the stylized landscapes of China and Japan, this glowing depic...
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Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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Lacquer
"Big Trunk, Yellow and Green, " Early Painting by Stuart Shils, 1986
By Stuart Shils
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted before he was widely known and exhibited, this oil by Stuart Shils is vibrant with verdant green and brilliant yellow tones -- a Fine example of modern American Impressionism...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Paintings
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Paper
$1,200 Sale Price
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"Utopian Motif, " Lovely Art Deco Painting with Frieze of Agrarian Labors, 1946
By John Ramsey Conner
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Lovely and ethereal, reminiscent of the pale, ideal compositions of Puvis de Chavannes in France and America, this utopian vista depicts a series of figures gathering fruit and grain, all in formal classical poses like an ancient, early Renaissance painting...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Beautiful Gardens" Art Deco Painting for Ladies Home Journal, Horn and Hardart
By W. Schatz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted in brilliant shades of fuscia, persimmon, olive green and aquamarine, this original gouache painting was painted to advertise the Ladies Home Journal in a Horn and Hardart...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Fruit Pickers", Hawaii or California Scene in Orange and Yellow by Poole, 1928
By Horatio Nelson Poole
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by Horatio Nelson Poole, famed for his scenes of Hawaii and California, this brilliantly-hued gouache shows a group of women picking fruit, likely oranges or lemons, their ba...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
$4,400 Sale Price
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"Tiger Lilies, " Brilliant Still Life in Oranges and Blues by Wachtel
By Simon Wachtel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliantly-hued and vivid painting of tiger lilies from the 1930s, this impressionist painting was executed by Simon Maurice Wachtel, a Pennsylvania painter whose works are rare. ...
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Vintage 1930s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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$5,625 Sale Price
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"Claridge Tower, " Superb, Large Architectural Rendering, circa 1960, Cleveland
By T. Marshall Rainey
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the finest midcentury architectural renderings we have ever seen, this large and vivid painting executed in gouache and oil o...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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Paint
$6,000 Sale Price
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"Spotted Leopard, " Art Deco Painting in Green and Periwinkle by Kleinhenz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This striking painting presents a fantastical leopard in a shade of periwinkle superimposed over a brilliant backdrop of stylized palm fronds in a vivid shade of green. The colors ar...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
$1,160 Sale Price
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"Industrial, " Collection of Ironworker Paintings and Drawings by Garth, 1920s
By John Garth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This remarkable ensemble of paintings, studies and prints, collected together as a kind of scrapbook page by John Garth, celebrates the American ironworker. It includes no fewer than...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Music, " High Accomplished Painting with Multiple Nudes by Conner, 1946
By John Ramsey Conner
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This detailed and highly-finished study by John Ramsey Conner for an allegorical painting depicts a relaxed grouping of nude figures executed in pale tones of ivory, mossy green and ...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Nudes with Witches Hats, " Surrealist Painting with Male Couple, 1949, Lohman
By Robert Lohman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted during the heyday of American Surrealism, this watercolor depicts a sleeping nude female figure holding a laurel wreath, seemingly disconnected from a pair of male nudes saun...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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$2,320 Sale Price
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"Modern Dance, " Vivid Midcentury Painting with Nudes by Lohman
By Robert Lohman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This energetic and compelling depiction of modern dance, with a range of nude and semi-nude figures, and a more traditional ballerina in the distance, was painted by Robert Lohman, o...
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Haywagon, " Charming Art Deco-WPA Era Painting with Folk Art Influence
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This remarkable oil painting, clearly influenced by American Folk Art, Art Deco stylization and the idealization of rural workers promoted by the WPA, depicts a farm family and a han...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Vision of Angels, " Important Night-Time Scene, WPA Era, African American Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although not signed, this brilliant scene of a nude black male figure, marvelling at a vision of angels in the heaven from his position on the ground...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Bird Feeds Snake, " Whimsical Children's Book Illustration by Blanchard, 1960s
By Robert Blanchard
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Entirely charming and whimsical, this original painting by Robert Blanchard depicts a fantastical scene: bird and snake as best friends, the tall, fuzzy bird feeding...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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$2,000 Sale Price
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"Charon Rowing Souls to the Afterlife, " Striking Midcentury Mixed-Media Painting
By Richard Schwarzkopf
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bold and striking, this depiction of Charon rowing departed souls to the afterlife was painted by Richard Schwarzkopf, renowned for his paintings and illustrations in what has been called the German Expressionist Art...
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Vintage 1950s German Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Rearing Horses, " High Style Pair of Art Deco, Mixed-Media Pieces by Von Liski
By Robert Reinhardt Von Liski
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This extraordinary pair of Art Deco pieces, each depicting a pair of horses, one with its head up and one down, was executed in ink, colored pencil and gouache by Robert Reinhardt Von Liski, a Prussian-American artist. Von Liski worked in Chicago as a commercial artist in advertising agencies and elsewhere, and did work for RCA Victor and Arrow Shirts...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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Gouache
"Prometheus & Eagle", Midcentury Painting by German Expressionist Illustrator
By Richard Schwarzkopf
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large and bold depiction of the fate of Prometheus, suffering for his gift of fire to the world, was painted by Richard Schwarzkopf, renowned for his paintings and illustrations in what has been called the German Expressionist Art...
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Vintage 1950s German Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, " Large Midcentury Painting in Rust and Blue
By Leslie Snow Feron
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by Leslie Snow Feron, an important New Hampshire artist along with her husband, Louis Feron, this large and remarkable painting depicts a nude Jaco...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"The Return of Thomas Pickering, " Important WPA-Period Oil Painting by Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of atmosphere, rich color and drama, this fully realized oil on canvas study by Dunbar Beck was executed in preparation for his lobby painting at the US Post Office...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Male Nude with American Flag, " Monumental Painting by Broadway Designer
By Raoul Pene du Bois
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly hued and striking in composition, this painting by famed Broadway designer Raoul Pene du Bois is one of his largest works we have ever seen. Perhaps a study for one of hi...
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Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Samson and Delilah" in 1940s America, Art Deco Painting
By Joseph E. Bolden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly transposed from Biblical times to 1940s America, this vivid scene shows Samson and Delilah in a quintessentially domestic setting, complete with pink wallpaper...
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Vintage 1940s American Paintings
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Gouache, Paper
"Terrace, " Brilliant, Cubist-Expressionist Masterpiece by Virginia True, 1946
By Virginia True
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
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Vintage 1940s American Modern Paintings
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"American Gothic, " New England Scene Painting, Church in Clearing by Redka
By Eugenia Redka
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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 the Vermont woods...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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$4,400 Sale Price
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"Heading Home", Important WPA Social Realist Painting by Sternberg, 1944
By Charlotte Joan Sternberg
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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$9,200 Sale Price
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Original Painting for 1928 Packard Advertisement, Stunning Oil on Canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Masterfully painted and full of light and color, this oil painting depicting a 1928 Packard automobile, the height of Art Deco style and elegance toward the end of the Depression, is...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
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$7,800 Sale Price
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"At the Theater, " Late Art Deco Oil Painting by Kummer, 1950
By Erwin George Kummer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This stunning example of Art Deco-Mid Century American surrealism was painted by Erwin Kummer, a widely-known Chicago painter who exhibited widely in the 1940s at the Art Institute o...
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Vintage 1950s American Paintings
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Canvas
"Newark Industrial Exposition", Poster Design Celebrating the American Worker
By Gerrit Beneker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly juxtaposing the silhouette of an factory worker, with his sledgehammer, against the backdrop of an industrial landscape in beautiful hues of purple, lemon yellow and tang...
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Vintage 1910s American Art Deco Paintings
"Seated Black Man, " Rare and Fine WPA-Style Painting attributed to Walker Evans
By Walker Evans
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although Walker Evans is world-renowned for his Depression-era photographs of ordinary men and women across America, many of them taken while serving as “information specialist” in t...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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$14,000 Sale Price
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"Gathering Fruit", Vividly-Hued Art Deco Painting with Nudes by Schulte
By Antoinette Schulte
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by Antoinette Schulte, a widely-respected artist in New York, who exhibited and taught widely, this painting depicts male and female nudes sheltered by the boughs of a tree h...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Harlequin with Lute and Mask, " Brilliantly-Hued Midcentury Painting by Pamico
By Miguel Pamico
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Making liberal use of brilliant colors, dominated by grey-blue and deep pink, this painting depicts a seated harlequin/musician figure with a faint, knowing smile, contrasting with t...
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Vintage 1950s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Paintings
"Scuba Diver Rescue, " Rare and Important Illustration Art for 1952 Magazine
By Peter Poulton
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This extraordinarily rare and important painting, for the cover of the December, 1952 issue of "American Manhood" magazine, depicts a fallen scuba diver, p...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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$12,800 Sale Price
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"Laundry Day, " Rural North Carolina on a Fresh Sunny Day, World War II
By Warren Wheelock
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Fresh as a crisp fall day, this painting of a woman taking down laundry at the base of a hill dominated by her home above is a reassuring depiction of wholesome rural life in 1941, p...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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$7,600 Sale Price
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"Lion and Gazelle, " Fabulous Art Deco Mural Study in Black and Rust
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of color and movement, this detailed study for a room dominated by a monumental Art Deco mural was painted by a French artist, perhaps for an interior design firm in Bordeaux. T...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Paintings
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$2,360 Sale Price
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"Three Men in Tatters, " Surrealist Painting with Semi-Nude Figures by Lear
By John B. Lear
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Over his long career, John Lear liked to depict nude or half-nude male figures set in fantastic or exotic environments such as the circus, carnival, deserted beach, or Dali-esque set...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
"Mangbetu Coming to Market, " Large Art Deco Master Painting by Paul Travis
By Paul Travis
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In an era when fine art and natural history museums commissioned artists to travel the world to draw, paint and sculpt the native cultures they saw, Paul Travis' travels to Africa we...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
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"the Judgment of Paris, " Fabulous Art Deco Mural with Nudes by Machin
By Wilfred Machin 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A stunning example of Art Deco painting inspired by classical mythology, this piece depicts Paris, with Mercury by his side and with a golden apple in hand, deciding which of three g...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
"Bellerophon and Pegasus" Striking Art Deco Painting with Male Nude Mythological
By Bryson Burroughs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This remarkable scene depicting the moment when Bellerophon was about to lasso the flying figure of Pegasus after the creature paused for a drink below was painted in 1926 by Bryson ...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Attack of the Cobra, " Large Art Deco Painting, France, 1930s
By René Mendes-France
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Reflecting France’s fascination with Africans and Black Americans, and perhaps inspired by the Exposition Colonial Internationale held in Paris in 1931, this canvas shows an African ...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Paintings
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$10,800 Sale Price
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"Fig Leaf Removed, " Greek Male Nude, Midcentury Painting by Dusso
By Leon (Dusso) d'Usseau
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully painted and with an arresting subject, this piece -- with its male nude subject having removed his own fig leaf -- reveals the sly humor of its painter, Leon Dusso...
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Distribution" Fabulous, Large Art Deco Allegorical Mural with Male Nude
By Charles Winter
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A superb example of American allegorical painting celebrating the nation's trade and commerce, this gorgeous, high energy view of a major port, bustling with sailing ships, steam shi...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
"Kublai Khan, " Large Art Deco Painting Masterpiece with Male Nudes, 1943
By Milton Bond
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Inspired by "Kublai Khan," the famed Romantic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and one of a series painted by Milton Bond dating from the 1940s and 1950s, this depiction of a nude youth...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
"April Fool, " Original Painting for Pennsylvania Academy Dance, Orange & Yellow
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rich with color and a Maxfield Parrish-like wry humor, this original gouache painting was executed by a student with the initials JK for an annual vaudeville and dance event put on for the older students of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. The fool is shown in profile, with his hat ringed with bells and his hair cut in a Prince Valiant...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Paintings
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Paper
$2,560 Sale Price
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"Black Male Nude with Sculpture" by Mark Allen Isaacson
By Mark Allen Isaacson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This large and important portrait contrasts a modern African American male nude with two other figures in an artist's studio: a life-size pl...
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Vintage 1970s American Paintings
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Canvas
"Man in Green Sweater, " Striking Mid-Century Portrait by Zimmerman, 1950s
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the strongest Mid-Century portraits we have seen, this depiction of a young man in a vivid, emerald-green sweater was painted by Paul Zimmerman, an important artist who grew u...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Flowering Apple Tree, " Lovely American Impressionist Painting in White & Gold
By Edward Siebert
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Fresh and light, this lovely Impressionist painting of a spreading apple tree laden with blossoms, reigning over a field brilliant in tones of spring green and gold, was painted by Edward Siebert in the early 20th century. Born in the District of Columbia...
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Early 20th Century American Belle Époque Paintings
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"Bucolic Lakeside with Swans, " Metropolitan Opera Backdrop Design, 1930
By George Stimmel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Lovely and bucolic, this view of an idyllic lakeside landscape, complete with classical sculpture, a pair of swans, and brilliantly-colored flowering trees, was painted by George Stimmel for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, either as a set piece or to suggest the backdrop for an opera production in 1930. Stimmel's work was exhibited at the Knoedler Gallery in New York, but his opera paintings...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Board
"Actaeon, " Large Art Deco-Mid Century Painting by Hollywood Figure
By Leon (Dusso) d'Usseau
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large and arresting, this stylized depiction of the great hunter in Greek mythology, Actaeon, resting on a slab of marble with his bow and quiver of arrows, was painted by Leon Dusso...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Quarry Men, " Striking Art Deco-WPA Depiction of 1930s Laborers, Rockport
By Iver Rose
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The painter Iver Rose is best known for his work which brought attention to the plight of workers in Depression Era America. This painting of quarry workers in Rockport, Massachusett...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Black Figure in Yellow Room, " 1930s Portrait by Student of Thomas Hart Benton
By Trew Hocker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly conceived and executed by Trew Hocker, an important muralist who was strongly influenced by Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, this portrait of a young African American m...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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"Pila and the Lizard, " Important Unpublished Manuscript, 12 Art Deco Watercolors
By Robert Lee Eskridge
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A remarkable find, this original manuscript for an unpublished book, "Pila and the Lizard," along with cover art and a total of 12 Art Deco watercolors painted to illustrate the book...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Watercolor
"Dressing for the Ballet, " Large, Evocative Masterpiece Painting by Stull, 1953
By John Deforest Stull
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Ethereal and magical, this Mid-Century masterpiece is strongly reminiscent of the back stage scenes of ballet dancers painted by Degas, but with figures that are suggestive of Guy Pene duBois. The painter, John De Forest...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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"Nude and Unicorn, " High Style Art Deco Painting by Matulka, Blue & Black, 1944
By Jan Matulka
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This brilliant example of Art Deco painting by Jan Matulka shows hints of the modern take on Cubism that the artist worked out with Stuart Davis. Matulka was born in Prague and came ...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paper
$6,000 Sale Price
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"Grecian Nude and Broken Column, " Art Deco/Surrealist Painting by Matulka
By Jan Matulka
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This brilliant Surrealist composition, with the stylization and exaggerated plant forms of Art Deco, was painted by Jan Matulka in 1944. Both Surrealism and "Moderne" decorative arts thrived in the 1940s, and here the artist draws from both styles. Matulka was born in Prague and came to America as a young man, and trained here and in Paris, where he became exposed to Cubism. He exhibited in New York, created illustrations for New Masses which advanced the interest of American workers...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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Watercolor, Ink, Paper
"Architecture & Construction, " Allegorical Mural Study for Rhode Island Capitol
By Robert Charles Haun
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A superb example of allegorical mural painting, this circular study depicting a female figure in Grecian robes overlooking a child with a plumb line, surrounded by scenes of construc...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
"Father and Son, " Glowing Depiction of Sleeping Figures, 1930s, Czech Republic
By Svatopluk Machal
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Glowing with tenderness, love and warmth, this depiction of a sleeping father, his arm protectively embracing his baby son, was painted by Svatopluk Machal, a Czech painter, in the 1...
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