About Susan Teller Gallery
The Susan Teller Gallery operates privately, at the Mana Fine Arts facility in Jersey City, NJ. We opened in SoHo in 1988. We specialize in American paintings and works on paper of the mid-twentieth century, and feature Urban/Industrial Realism, Modernism, and Surrealism. Among the artists’ estates we represent are those for Peggy Bacon, William Baziotes, Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Sue Fuller, Michael J. Gallagher, Peter Grippe, Hugh Mesibov, Anne Ryan, Louis Schanker, Karl Schrag, Judith Shahn, Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin, Harry Sternberg, Ansei Uchima, and Lynd Ward. In ...Read More

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Featured Pieces
Herbert Ferber, (NYC Street Scene), 1936, mid-century ink drawing
By Herbert Ferber
Located in New York, NY
Herbert Ferber (Silvers--1906-1991) is recognized as one of the most original artists of the New York Abstractionist Expressionist group. His sculptures were known for their 'pierced...
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1930s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Fugi Nakamizo, New York Harbor, 1925, from the Battery, mid-century etching
Located in New York, NY
Japanese-born Fugi Nakamizo came to New York City in 1910. He studied at the Art Students League and Cooper Union. In 1934 he had a one-man show at the M...
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1920s Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Chicago Block Print Calendar, 1940, mid-century, wood engravings, scarce
By Kathleen Blackshear
Located in New York, NY
As this is a calendar for 1940, the prints were no doubt made in 1939. All images are wood engravings by members of the Chicago Society of Artists.
The outside measurements are 8 1...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Letterio Calapai, (Sky Abstraction), 1957, mid-century wood engraving
By Letterio Calapai
Located in New York, NY
Letterio Calapai is widely recognized as a major American artist of the twentieth century. He is widely respected as a printmaker, especially for engravings and wood engravings, and ...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Prints
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Woodcut
Elwood W. Bartlett, Turtle Creek (Wisconsin), about 1945, mid-century wood eng.
Located in New York, NY
Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana. Turtle Creek (named of course for its many turtles,) is in the southeastern part of the Wisconsin. It is now ...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Elwood W. Bartlett, Water's Edge (Wisconsin), about 1945, mid-century wood eng.
Located in New York, NY
Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana.
Largely self taught as a printmaker, Bartlett worked in a style that once identified as his, immediately t...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Elwood W. Bartlett, Wisconsin Farm, about 1945, mid-century wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana.
Largely self taught as a printmaker, Bartlett worked in a style that once identified as his, immediately t...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Grace Martin Taylor (Frame), (Town View), 1930, pastel, signed
Located in New York, NY
West Virginia native Grace Martin Taylor, artist for the brightly colored pastel (TownView), attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art S...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Irving Guyer, Roll Them Bones, Depression-era African-American men at craps
By Irving Guyer
Located in New York, NY
An American Depression-Era subject of African-American men playing craps by Irving Guyer.. (Craps is a game of chance that required neither skill nor strategy. The object is to predi...
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1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Adolf Dehn, The Big-Hearted Girls (The Last Veil), 1932, burlesque lithograph
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Dehn's, lithograph about burlesque, The Big Hearted Girls #2 (also known as The Last Veil), is filled with dancing girls and fabulous costumes. That central figure is a marvel!...
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1940s American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adolf Dehn, Curtain (aka Flora Dora Girls), 1932, burlesque lithograph
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Dehn's, lithograph on chine collé, Curtain or The Flora Dora Girls, is an ode to burlesque with dancing girls and fabulous costumes. It comes on the heals of a 1930 pre-code mo...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adolf Dehn, Gay Head Cliffs, 1935, mid-century lithograph, Martha's Vineyard, MA
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Gay Head Cliffs, a 1935 lithograph by Adolf Dehn (1895-1968), depicts a National Landmark in Aquinnah, Martha's Vineyard, MA. Somehow Dehn has managed to capture the very texture of ...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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