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"Nude in Surreal Landscape, " Important Art Deco Painting by Radio City Artist
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by Eduard Buk Ulreich, who contributed a set of murals to Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center in New York, as well as WPA murals across the nation, this beautiful dep...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Gouache, Paper
"American Indian Dance, " Art Deco Drawing by Jean Target, 1930s
By Jean Target
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Evidence of Western Europe's fascination with Native American culture, dress and way of life for over a century, this vivid drawing uses watercolor, gouache and crayon to capture a g...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paper
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
"Under the Aqueduct, " Very Fine 1920s Trumeau from Philadelphia Estate
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This beautiful pairing of mirror and painting, framed in dark green and old gold, comes from a historic estate in the Philadelphia area. The upper painting depicts a bustling Italia...
Category
Early 20th Century American Beaux Arts Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Wood, Canvas
"Trio, " Rare and Early Oil Painting of Three Nudes in Surreal Landscape by Lear
By John B. Lear
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A contemporary of Paul Cadmus, and like him, highly focused on depicting the male figure in various settings and positions, John Lear never gained fame beyond his circle of admirers ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Pan Playing His Pipes, " Charming Mural Sketch for Liberty Music Shop, NYC
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of verdant greens and suffused with a lovely quiet spirit, this depiction of Pan resting against a tree and playing his pipes was a perfect image for the famous Liberty Music Shop in New York. This sketch for a mural at the Shop was painted by Donald Forbes, who worked for the Federal Art Project in the 1930s where he would have learned from the work of other muralists supported by federal programs. Liberty Music Shop was famous for its collection of sophisticated jazz recordings from around the world; in the 1930s it created its own label, producing a series of records for Lee Wiley, Beatrice Lillie, Mabel Mercer, Ethel Merman...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
"Sea Battle, " Very Fine Painting on Leather with Studded Leather Frame, 1920s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Clearly painted by a master hand when Tudor Revival and Mediterranean Revival homes were the rage in America, this is a remarkable example of painting on leather...
Category
20th Century American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Leather, Paint
$2,550 Sale Price
25% Off
"Nature Most Natural" Important Painting by Radio City Music Hall Artist
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sophisticated and playful at the same time, this important painting by Eduard Buk Ulreich returns to one of his favorite themes: a group of frolicking horses in the landscape, overflowing with high spirits. Ulreich came to fame as one of the muralists who decorated the lounges and public rooms of Radio City Music Hall...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Paintings
"Pacific Basin, " Art Deco Painting of Golden Gate Expo in San Francisco
By May French Worth
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully painted in tones of burnt sienna, cream and watery blue, this rare and early view of the Golden Gate Exposition was painted in 1937, just as Treasure Island was being cre...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paper, Paint
$2,080 Sale Price
20% Off
"Cubist Still Life with Violin, " Late Cubist Painting in Pink, Green and Yellow
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Finely done, this late example of American cubism depicts a violin, water jug, and bowl of fruit, using a palette of lime greens, pinks and yellows pop...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
$2,160 Sale Price
20% Off
"After, " Large Odalisque Painting with Symbolic References
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Suffused with both sensuality and alienation, this large oil painting depicts a couple in the bedroom, the female figure poised with a head of cabbage and a doll, and her lover -- ev...
Category
Late 20th Century American Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$2,625 Sale Price
25% Off
"Plowing at Sunrise, " Art Deco Paean to the Black Farmer, 1930s
By Willis Lohse
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully conceived, dramatically set and very finely painted, this gouache and ink painting by Willis R. Lohse is a paean to the hard work and nobility of the black farmer in America, hat in hand as he marvels at the beauty of the day. Full of lovely colors -- lemon yellow, cerulean and fresh green -- Lohse captures a lovely moment where the farmer pauses to look upward, amidst sprays of birch trees and expanses of rolling fields. Lohse was a German-American artist who is best known for his illustrations for fiction and fantasy books published between the 1920s and 1950s, including "The Boy Who Found the King," "Raff, the Jungle Bird...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink, Paper
"Joy and Grief, " Important Art Deco Paintings by Sager, 1952
By Adeline Sager
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by Adeline Sager in gorgeous shades of plum, reddish pink and charcoal, this pair of watercolor-and-ink paintings won the Grumbacher Award of Merit in the Premiere Florida International Art Exhibition at Florida Southern College in 1952, just as the College was completing the construction of a widely-renowned set of buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright. Clearly inspired by the Four Seasons sculptures...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Extraordinary Study for Art Deco Mural/Screen by DiTullio
By Frank Lloyd Wright
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Clearly influenced by the decorative motifs of Frank Lloyd Wright, Rennie Mackintosh and the Secessionists, this remarkable study for a set of four murals (or four panels of a foldin...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Pen, Pencil, Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
"In the Park, " Fine Watercolor by Woodstock artist, circa 1930s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly stylized, reminiscent of the work of George Bellows and other masters of the 1920s and 1930s, this watercolor presents a placid view of a riverside park...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paper
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
"Egypt and Nubia, " Highly Important Art Deco Lacquer Panel
By HPL
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A masterful example of French decorative arts at its best, this lacquer panel features the interlocking figures of Egypt and Nubia, each stylized in cl...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Paintings
Price Upon Request
"Dockside with Seagull, " Important Painting by WPA Artist Stull
By John Deforest Stull
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly painted in rich hues of cerulean, purple, deep pink and burnt siena, this abstracted view of a dockside scene was painted by John De Forest ...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Family w/ Rocking Horse, " Ptg. by WPA Artist De Forest Stull
By John Deforest Stull
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dated 1945, just before the end of World War II, this important and powerful painting by John De Forest Stull shows an embracing mother and father stand...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Nudes in Landscape, " Watercolor Painting by Solotareff
By Boris Solotareff
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rich with color and evocative of a woodland setting with nude Classical figures, this lovely watercolor painting was made by Boris Solotareff in 1928, in Paris. The artist was born ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Paysage" (Landscape) by Andre Bonnert, France, 1953
By Andre Bonnert
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A lovely landscape rich with deep greens and touches of red and orange, "Paysage" was painted in 1953 by Andre Bonnert. Bonnert's stylized take on the tree-filled scene shows his fa...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Jack Sprat Had a Cat, " Famed 1911 Nursery Rhyme Illustration
By Carle Michel Boog
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted with high good humor and a measure of slyness, this famed illustration of Jack Sprat and his cat with basket in hand, was painted in watercolor and gouache by Swedish-America...
Category
Early 20th Century American Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Slaying the Dragon, " Art Deco Watercolor Painting in Green and Coral
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Masterfully painted in tones of green and coral, this scene of an exotic knight fighting a fearsome dragon is full of energy. The dragon's snout and cresting suggests the influence ...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paper
$2,160 Sale Price
20% Off
"On the Job, " Watercolor Painting of Black Laborers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted with bravura, this image of shirtless black laborer in the passenger seat of a truck, accompanied by his coworker in a striped t-shirt, is marked by rich, saturated colors an...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Harpist, " 1930s Serigraph by Lena Gurr
By Lena Gurr
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully framed and crafted, this tightly-cropped view of a female harpist, seen through the strings of her instrument, was painted by Lena Gurr, a New York artist. Her rich pale...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
Painted Backdrop with Ballet Theme for Residential Theatre
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Charming and beautifully painted, this painted backdrop for theatre, perhaps for a residential space or a small professional theatre, depicts several ...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Paintings
"Unity, " Fine Mid Century Oil Painting by McCormick
By Jayne Mccormick
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Though stylized and abstracted, this depiction of man, woman and child by Philadelphia artist Jayne McCormick is affecting and intimate. Executed in oil on canvas, the painting is s...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Port Vendors, " Art Deco Painting of Scene in Bahia, Brazil
By Ada Peacock
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Whimsically painted by an American artist transplanted to Argentina, this depiction of two vendors selling hats, hammocks and fabric in Salvador, Brazil is full of color and energy. ...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
"Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, " Superb Art Deco Ink & Watercolor
By Maurice Greenberg
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Superbly executed in watercolor and ink, this charming and lovely depiction of Mother Goose nursery rhyme characters -- including Humpty Dumpty, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, The Three Little Pigs and Old King Cole -- was created by Maurice Greenberg...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Drawings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Pair of Art Deco Illustrations, "Slave Story" by Fred Pendexter
By Fred Pendexter
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dramatic and gripping, this pair of original paintings served as illustrations for “Slave Story” a book or magazine story. Pendexter may ha...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
"Shepherd and Nymph, " oil painting by Lee Woodward Zeigler
By Lee Woodward Zeigler
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This bucolic woodland scene is one of the most charming pieces that Lee Woodward Zeigler produced over a career that focused largely on mural painting. Z...
Category
Early 20th Century American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Painting of Nude and Seminude Figures by Sylvia Bernstein, 1939
By Sylvia Bernstein
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Fluidly and confidently painted, this vivid depiction of a group of figures surrounding a leafless tree may have been a study for a mural by Sylvia Bernstein...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
"Labor Dulcis, " Important Painting by Muralist Milton Bancroft
By Milton Bancroft
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The rich Impressionistic brushwork and bright palette of this painting makes it a vivid find. No doubt painted in preparation for a mural, the text in Latin – translated as “Work is Sweet and Conquers All” – would have been a noble sentiment for a public space at the time. The painter, Milton Bancroft...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Illustration Art by Bowermaster for New Holland Machine Co.
By Paul Bowermaster
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Reflecting a lost age of innocence, this charming watercolor painting was the basis for an advertisement by the New Holland Machine Company for its baler i...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
"World War II Reconstruction, " mural study by Henrik Mayer
By Henrik Mayer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This rare mural study, executed in gouache on paper, was painted by Henrik Mayer, who studied under Eugene Savage, taught in Indiana and Connecticut, and painted murals for the Works...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Fine, WPA-style Oil Painting, 1935, by Dorothy Van Loan
By Dorothy Van Loan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Executed in gorgeous shades of coral, dove gray and olive, this scene of two nude women perched on folding chairs was painted by Dorothy Van Loan, a c...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Deer Along the Stream, " Art Deco watercolor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully composed and expertly painted, this lovely watercolor of a stylized deer amidst lush foliage by the edge of a stream is a classic Art Deco painting. It is attributed to a New York woman...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Banjo Player, " 1950s gouache painting
By Hayton
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The strong graphic quality of this painting, along with the perfectly choreographed palette of black, gray, olive green and turquoise, suggest that Hayton was an illustrator in the 1...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
"Restraining the Horse" Gouache Painting by Collazzi
By J. Collazzi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Finely painted in gouache by J. Collazzi, who did a series of landscapes and fantasy paintings in the 1930s, this scene of two classical figures restraining a horse is classic Art De...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
