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Period: 1940s
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks)
By Harry Lane
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, 16 x 20 inches, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coas...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Subjective Farm Landscape abstract oil painting by Ralph Rosenborg
Located in Hudson, NY
Subjective Farm Landscape
1940
Oil on canvas, 24" x 30"
37.5" x 31" x 2" framed - frame is original to this artwork
Signed recto lower right: "rosenborg 40" & arrow box cypher. Signe...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Early Evening Stroll"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Harry Leith-Ross (1886 - 1973).
The son of an English father and a Dutch mother, Harry Leith-Ross was born in the British Colony of Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean a thousand miles off the southeast coast of Africa. His first formal art instruction began in England under Stanhope Forbes, followed by studies with Jean Paul Laurens at the Academie Julian in Paris. Leith-Ross came to the United States to enroll at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1910, and then to Woodstock, in 1913. It was in Woodstock at the Art Students League, under the tutelage of Birge Harrison and John F. Carlson, that Leith-Ross would receive the training that most influenced his career as an artist.
There he formed a lifelong friendship with fellow artist, John Folinsbee. The two artists shared a studio during this time and participated in several joint exhibitions exclusively featuring their work, including an exhibit at the Louis...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Newspaper Mogul Tours Printing Plant
By Benton Clark
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by artist
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Night Journey - Drip Painting like Jackson Pollock
By Byron Browne
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Brown's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Here Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and abstraction. ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Wave, 1948
Located in London, GB
JEAN MIROSLAW PESKE 1870-1949
Ukraine 1870-1949 France (Ukrainian/Russian/French)
Title: La Vague / The Wave, circa 1948
Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on canvas laid on board.
This work was painted circa 1948.
size:33 x 41 cm / 13 x 16.1 in
Additional Information: This is an original painting by Jean Peske...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shotgun Hunting Abstract with Shooting Bullseye
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and masterfully thought out the composition of rifle, gun shells, target shapes, and buck shots. Most likely done for a ad or men's magazine.
Signed lower right Atherton. Housed in a rustic House of Heydenryk frame...
Category
Post-Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Tuck's Point, Massachusetts
Located in Washington, DC
American Impressionist
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cardboard
The First Flag Raising
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Du Pont Safety Calendar, 1941, June
# 2270 in the Catalogue Raisonné, 2009
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Porter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Provenance, The Executive V.P. office of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Central Park Zoo with Sea Lions and Animals
Located in Miami, FL
A charming and stylized depiction of a day at the Central Park Zoo. with World War Two uniformed visitors front and center. Sea lions put on a show in front of a packed audience. The...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Tempera
"Girl in Pareu"
By RAD Miller
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Robert Alexander Darrah “R.A.D.” Miller (1905 - 1966)
Robert Alexander Darrah Miller, called “RAD” by his friends, was born in Philadelphia. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1923 to 1927 under the tutelage of Daniel Garber. In 1928, Miller moved to Bucks County where he would meet and marry Celia Belden Marshall, daughter of Dr. George M. Marshall, who at that time owned the Phillips Mill property.
Nearly a year later, in 1929, a committee headed by artist, William Lathrop, negotiated to purchase the Mill property from Dr. Marshall for the purpose of holding art exhibitions. Thus, the Phillips Mill Art Association was formed. RAD Miller was a regular exhibitor at the Phillips Mill with the traditional New Hope Impressionists. Many of the original founders of the New Hope Art Colony, set in their ways, frowned upon the concept of modernist painting. A decision was made by the Association to not include the growing group of modernist painters in the area to exhibit with them at Phillips Mill. Although clearly not a traditional impressionist, Miller was not being excluded with the others, largely because his father-in-law formerly owned the mill and was one of the Association’s board of directors. RAD was sympathetic to his fellow modernists. In 1933, he was one of the original members of the Independents, a group formed for modernist artists who chose to embark on a more non-traditional creative path. They would exhibit in tandem with the Impressionists but at different locations.
Around the time of his arrival to New Hope in 1928, Miller struck up a friendship with Thomas Hart Benton, and in 1932 he worked under Benton on a mural project. RAD’s paintings...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bridal White
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right and Titled on reverse
Dimensions: 28.13" x 25.13" (71.45 cm x 63.83 cm)
Literature: Temple Bailey, Bridal White, The American Mag...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Glamorous Nude with Red Coat emerging from Curtain, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Fabry's captures the hight of elegance in his loose style. Conte crayon, watercolor on watercolor paper Signed lower right Private collection Other works by this artist:
ca. 1940 - ...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor
Woman from Behind
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This painting was reproduced on page 151 of John La Gatta-An Artist's Life by Jill Bossert, Madison ...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wallpaper Blouse, Saturday Evevning Post Cover, October 1941
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post magazine cover, October 25, 1941
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Ballentine Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man on Ladder in Library
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00"
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Advertisement for Gulf Oil, 1944.
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Secret Project, Magazine Story Illustration
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.25" x 13.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine Story Illustration
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Catch the Turkey, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of Liberty Magazine, November 23, 1940
Little boy trying to catch a turkey.
Magazine Included
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand Illustration
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. ...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Prospector firing Rifle ( Happiness is a Warm Gun ) Gay Art
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
Robert Riggs was a gay man. Being gay in American during the 1940's time was something not to flaunt in public. Rigg's had to communicate his underlying feelings in more symbolic ways.
Throughout Riggs oeuvre, one sees continuous references to strong hunked out manly men and vulnerable boys. It is a core element of is iconography and is described in a powerful graphic style.
In “Prospector firing Rifle” is a Dick Pic. Riggs is clearly making a sexual statement about the moment of climax. The long, straight rifle explodes and is captured at the peak moment of climax. Meanwhile, the bag two bags of gold clearly resemble the other part of the male anatomy. Riggs was a thoughtful and meticulous visual thinker and nothing in any of Riggs’s compositions were haphazardly placed. In tribute to the artist’s suppressed feelings, I have given this work a second title “Happiness is a Warm Gun...
Category
Academic 1940s Paintings
Materials
Tempera
The Rescue
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Passenger Train
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 16.00" x 33.75"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Exhibitions: Exhibited at International Galleries Contemporary American Illustration, May 1...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Nude Girl, Polynesian Girl Tahiti, Annabella
Located in Miami, FL
In some instances, a painting will look significantly much better in person than it does digitize. This is one instance. In-person, this painting will knock your socks off. It is...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Schneelanschaft / Snowy landscape
Located in Wien, 9
The artwork is signed and dated on the lower right and provided with sticker verso. The frame is a golden showpiece.
Provenance: Private collection Sweden
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chestnut Street's New Theatre
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed lower right.
James R. Bingham was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. During World War II, he put in a stint animating Army Air Force films and received an appointment as a Naval officer attached to the Office of Research and Invention.
Following the war, the heroics and adventure in his life was confined to the usual subject matter of his illustrations, such as a long series of pictures for Erle Stanley Gardner’s “Perry Mason...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
At Home Wedding
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1941
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 45.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Illustration for Look magazine & Calendar Illustration
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"From the Studio, Manhattan"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache, Board
Flowers and Arches
By Helen Lundeberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flowers and Arches, 1943, oil on board, initialed and dated lower left, 4 x 7 1/8 inches, presented in an older, but likely not original frame
This work is part of our exhibition A...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Bay Area Abstract Expressionist - Blue Hydrangeas by Honora Berg
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Blue Hydrangeas in Acrylic on Paper
Vining Blue Hydrangeas by San Francisco's artist Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985), 1946. The vertica...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Untitled (Farm in Winter)
By Julius M. Delbos
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Farm in Winter), 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 26 x 30 inches, presented in a...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orange Grove Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Orange Grove Landscape, 1941, gouache on illustration board, 14 inches x 18 inches (image), 22 x 26 inches (framed) signed and dated lower right, newly framed with museum glazing
...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, 1940, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, dated and titled verso: “Marcel Cailliet ’40 – S.C.” and “Marcel Cailliet Landscape”; likely exhibited at the annual juried st...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Cubist Portrait)
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Cubist Portrait), 1945, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower middle, 20 x 16 inches,...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
The Old World
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Old World, by 1943, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 43 ½ x 30 ½ inches, artist’s name and title inscribed verso; exhibited 1) Romantic Painting in America, Museum of Modern Art, N...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Army Poker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Army Poker, c. 1943, probably tempera on board, signed upper right, 16 x 20 inches, inscribed ver...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Oil, Board
My Only Working Tool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
My Only Working Tool, 1949, oil on panel, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 12 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, exhibited at the Art News Second Annual National Amateur Co...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Key Sketch for 60 Foot Movie Announcement on “Safety First"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Key Sketch for 60 Foot Movie Announcement on “Safety First,” 1948, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14.5 x 12.5 inches, titled in pencil verso; presented in a newer frame...
Category
Abstract 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Valley Streetscape at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
A Valley Streetscape at Night, 1948, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower right, 18 x 24 inch...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled (Transcendental Composition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Transcendental Composition), oil on board, 1947, oil on board, signed and dated lower r...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 ½ x 26 ½ inches, presented in a period frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Self Portrait
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Self Portrait, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, 14 ¼ x 12 1/4 inches, signed lower left, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of th...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Riders of Pigeon Hill
By Jon Corbino
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders of Pigeon Hill, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24 x 36 inches, label verso with title, artist’s name and address; same information inscribed verso; ex-collection...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Virgin Mary tempera painting religious altarpiece
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Vila i Rufas (1924-2011) - Virgin Mary 1948 - Egg tempera
Painted on gold metallic surface.
Painting measurements 40x32 cm.
Frame measurements 53x45 cm.
Inactive xylophagous ga...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Sea Shells – Blue & Gold
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sea Shells – Blue & Gold, c. 1940s, watercolor on paper, signed upper left, 15 x 19 ¼ inches (image); title and artist’s name and address inscribed verso, presented in a newer glazed...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Modernist Three-Panel Screen)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Modernist Three-Panel Screen), 1948, mixed media on paperboard mounted into a three-section screen, 58 x 45 inches, signed and dated on each panel upper right
This work i...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
By Carlos Lopez
Located in New York, NY
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
Carlos Lopez (1910-1953)
"Bounty" WPA Mural Study for Michigan Post Office
19 ½ x 22 ½ inches
Oil on B...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Silk Mills in New Hope, Pennsylvania Impressionist Regional Landscape
Located in Doylestown, PA
"The Silk Mills in New Hope" is an Impressionist, Regional landscape by Pennsylvania painter John Pierce Barnes. Classic in its vibrant colors and highly energetic brush strokes, this 25" x 25" oil on canvas is framed in a 22k gold reproduction frame and the painting is estate stamped on the stretcher and canvas on verso.
John Pierce Barnes was born in Philadelphia in 1893. He graduated from high school in the Germantown area of Philadelphia and served in the U.S. Navy during the First World War. After his discharge from the Navy, John began his training at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Design, now the University of the Arts. Barnes then studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1921-1925. He exhibited watercolors and pastels in the Annual Philadelphia Water Color and Miniature Exhibitions of 1921 and 1922. John Pierce Barnes studied with Daniel Garber, and also Henry Hugh Breckenridge and Arthur B. Carles at the PAFA. He was awarded Cresson Travel Scholarships in 1923 and 1924. These awards enabled him to study in France, Belgium and Holland. John Pierce Barnes experimented in several styles, but is best known for his oil paintings of landscapes and portraits rendered in the Impressionist style. Some of his work was painted in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, some in Europe, but mostly in eastern Pennsylvania. Up until the time of his death in 1954, Mr. Barnes was employed by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Victor Design Division in Camden, New Jersey. He is credited with designing a past RCA logo...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Georges Louis Claude (1879-1963) A bouquet of blue flowers 1940, oil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Louis Claude (1879-1963)
A bouquet of blue flowers
signed with the initials GLC and dated "II 40" in the lower right
oil on paper
62 x 47 cm
In good condition traces of pins...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Located in New York, NY
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Arnold Ronnebeck (1885 - 1947)
Two Seas and a Moon
30 x 22 1/2 inches
Oil on Canvas, c. 1943
Signed u...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the fair
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Queen , 1947, by French Transgender Artist JM Poulain
Located in Paris, FR
By French famous Transgender artist, Michel Marie Poulain (Born Paris December 5, 1906. Died 1991) this rare oil on canvas it represents the Queen and he...
Category
Feminist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Forest Landscape Oil painting Signed
Located in Sempach, LU
Landscape of Fontainebleau
Georges Bousquet Moret (1904-1976) was, first, an engineer passionate about arts. This passion led him to devote his f...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rabbit Hunters
By Roger Medearis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rabbit Hunters, egg tempera on Masonite, 12 x 9 inches, 1947, signed and dated lower left, signed, titled and dated verso “Rabbit Hunters Egg Tempera Roger Medearis 1947,” exhibited ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Puigdengolas. Pine tree. COSTA DE MALLORCA, 1942. Original Painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Josep Puigdengolas Barrella (Barcelona (1906 - 1987), was a Spanish landscape painter of the 20th century.
The Marqués de Lozoya said of Puigdengolas that ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Adolph Kronengold (1900-1986) - Alaska Landscape Oil on Board, ca 1940’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Adolph Kronengold was born in New Orleans in 1900. He studied locally at Tulane, before moving on to New York and Philadelphia. There he studied at the Art Students League and the P...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
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