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Period: 1940s
Color: Gray
1940's Cubist Art Painting of New York City Skyline by Artist Theodore Hancock
By Theodore Hancock
Located in St. Louis, MO
Rare Mid-Century Modern signed 1949 cubist gouache painting of skyscrapers, rooftops and skyline of the City of New York including The Chrysler building by painter Theodore "Theo" Ha...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
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Paper
American Modernist Acrylic On Board Painting By Zoute’ C.1948
Located in Bernville, PA
Beautiful American modernist abstract acrylic painting on board in a beautiful new silver wood frame By Zoute’. Bold graphic imagery and vibrant colors. Signed lower right corner Z...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
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Acrylic
Large Colorful Mid 20th Century Oil Painting - Still Life of Greenhouse Flowers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large oil painting, signed and dated lower right: "CK Nelson 1945."
Image Size: 32.5" X 22.5"
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1940s American Modern Vintage Paintings
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Paint
Still Life of Flowers, Oil on Canvas, García-ochoa Ibáñez, Luis, 1949
Located in Madrid, ES
Still life of flowers. Oil on canvas. GARCÍA-OCHOA IBÁÑEZ, Luis (San Sebastián, 1920-Madrid, 2019). 1949.
Signed and dated towards the lower left corner. Label on the back.
Still life that shows a round table covered...
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1940s Spanish Other Vintage Paintings
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Other
Jacques Villon Style Cubist Still Life
Located in Sharon, CT
A beautiful unsigned oil on canvas in the School of Paris Cubist style of Jacques Villon. (on the back of the stretcher is lettered in pencil- Jonah Konig...
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1940s French Modern Vintage Paintings
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Paint
Paintings by 19th C & Contemporary American Artists, the Collection Samuel Shaw
Located in valatie, NY
Paintings by 19th century and Contemporary American Artists, from the Collection of The Late Samuel T. Shaw, NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Nov. 21, 1945. Softcover, 89 pp. 15 b&w plate...
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1940s American Vintage Paintings
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Paper
Property of Mrs Dorothy Draper Hamlen, Important Early American Miniatures
Located in valatie, NY
Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York , “An Important Collection of Early American Miniatures and Silver. Property of Mrs Dorothy Draper Hamlen Removed from Her Home in Wayland, Mass...
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1940s American Vintage Paintings
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Paper
"Lady on Ottoman". Wood Framed Pinup Painting by Wilma Raffaelli, 1948.
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original watercolor artwork pint on paper featuring a young dressed-up woman on an ottoman with a riding crop in her hand titled "Lady on Ottoman" by Wilma Raffaelli, 1948. This pain...
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1940s American Vintage Paintings
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Paper
Painting of Woman by Miller
Located in Dallas, TX
1944 original painting by Miller.
unframed.
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1940s Vintage Paintings
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Paint
Painting by Unknown Artist, Oil on Canvas, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Painting by unknown artist, circa 1940.
Oil on canvas. Handsigned. Ilegible signature.
In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beau...
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1940s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
20th Century Oil Painting on Canvas Italian Artist, City of Milan Porta Ticinese
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Beautiful oil painting on canvas 1940s. Signed Cremona italian artist. Wonderful view of the city of Milan area Porta Ticinese. Excellent pictorial quality clearly influenced by post...
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1940s Italian Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
"The Pool Players" by Vincent Richard Campanella
By Vincent Campanella
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on artist board signed and dated lower right featuring pool players playing a point match in the pool hall. Great WPA feel and texture impasto. Most likely the original frame measuring 15.25" x 19.25" overall.
Born in New York in 1915, Campanella studied at the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School where the curriculum was based on the Naples Academy founded in the 1440s. He took this classical Renaissance training to the streets of New York, then-rural Astoria, Monhegan Island, and Wyoming.
As an easel artist for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s he painted and taught in Rock Springs, Wyoming. There his style became Abstract and works of Classical Abstraction were recognized in art reviews and exhibitions. He was represented by the Rehn Gallery in New York until the death of Frank Rehn in 1956. His work has been shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Institute, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran Art Gallery, Denver Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, San Diego Museum, San Francisco Museum, Seattle Museum, Toledo Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Universities of Nebraska, Tennessee and Wyoming. He was a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 1968. Retrospective shows of his work have been held at Hunter College (1995) and the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art (2007).
Campanella taught at the University of Wyoming (1940), Columbia University (1946-49), the Kansas City Art Institute (1949-52) and Park College (1952-80). Notable students include Robert Morris, Wilbur Niewald...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
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Albert Serwazi 'American', "Gertrude with Parrot", Oil on Canvas.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Albert Serwazi (American 1905-1992) "Gertrude with
Parrot". Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1944
upper right.
Measures: 24" x 31" (Image size without frame)
A painter from Philadelphia, Albert Serwazi was also a designer and illustrator. He was a student at the Pennsylvania School...
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1940s North American Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
Post Impressionist Village Landscape Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Charming post-impressionist village nestled between forest and lake scene (ca. 1940s, Western Europe).
Appealing colors incorporated to evoke the verdant landscape.
Unsigned.
Measure...
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1940s European Vintage Paintings
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Pär Lindblad, Sweden, Oil on Canvas, Modernist Landscape, 1940s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Pär Lindblad (1907-1981), Sweden. Oil on canvas. Modernist landscape.
Man on a bicycle along the coast. 1940s.
The canvas measures: 64 x 31 cm.
The fr...
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1940s Swedish Modern Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
"Couple with Apples", Swedish Copy of British Masterwork
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Charming and lovely, this quiet depiction of two young lovers sitting under a tree in 1942, while World War II was being waged not far away, was painted by G. Lundgren in Sweden and is a close copy of "Amity" by Bernard Fleetwood Walker, owned by the Walker Art gallery in Liverpool, England. The original is well known and was painted in 1933. The young blond female figure is shown with a basket of apples at her side, in a pale blue dress...
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1940s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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Hilly Landscape Nature Painting Italian Oil on Canvas 1930
Located in Albignasego, IT
Hilly landscape
Measures:
50 cm x 45 cm
65 cm x 60 cm framed
19.7 in x 17.7 in
25.6 in x 23.6 in framed
Oil painting on board.
Dense, material painting that gives stru...
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1940s Italian Vintage Paintings
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Other
Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Moody scene of the River Thames by 20th-century English artist Gordon Bennett. Oil painting on board. A proud but contemplative piece, the palette of sm...
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1940s English Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
Landscape by Leonard Maurer, 1949
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
An elegant and fine abstract painting by Leonard Maurer, signed and dated 1949, titled "Summer Landscape", in original painted frame. Leonard Maurer (19...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
Painting "Road to a Seaside Town"
Located in Chorzów, PL
Dimensions:
Frame: height 66 cm / width 76 cm
The painting: height 54 cm / width 64 cm.
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1940s Danish Other Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
Japanese Screen Painting, Cat & Pumpkin Patch. Showa Era, 1940s
Located in Kyoto, JP
Chuichi Konno (1915-2006)
Cat and Pumpkin Patch
Showa period, 1940s.
Folding screen in two-panels. Painted on paper with mineral pigments and gofun.
Sign: Chuichi
Sea...
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1940s Japanese Showa Vintage Paintings
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Paper, Wood
"Whiskey Sours, " Cubist-Art Deco Painting with Bottle and Jigger
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Taking its cues from the broken planes and tilted objects of Cubist masters such as Braque and Gris, as well as the polished art of the Art Deco movement, this brilliant painting sho...
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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Paint
Postwar Hawaiian Airbrush Tropical Hibiscus Floral in White Wood Frame, Signed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Postwar Hawaiian airbrush tropical hibiscus floral on paper in original period white wood frame.
Signed by artist Hammis
Measures: Art 26" x 36"
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
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Paper
"Nudes Stepping Forth, " Large Theatrical Sketch by Raoul Pene du Bois
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This very large and energetic sketch, depicting several nude figures stepping forward through a circular opening, was painted by Raoul Pene du Bois, probably as a preparatory piece f...
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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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Gouache
"The Fields, " Magical View of Moroccan Landscape with Male Nude by Jacques Azéma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Suffused with the soft, rich colors that Jacques Azéma was known for, this view of a Moroccan landscape ("Les Champs" in French) includes a seated male y...
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1940s Moroccan Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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Paint
Painting of an Appeasing Nude by Adam Sherriff Scott
By Adam Sherriff Scott 1
Located in Montreal, QC
Adam Sherriff Scott was born in Perth, Scotland and began his art education in 1903 at the Edinburgh School of Art. He was awarded the Allen-Fraser Scholarship to continue his studies for four years at the Allen-Fraser institute, which was a finishing school for talented young artists, and studied under George Harcourt A.R.A. After this, he continued his studies at the Slade School under Henry Tonks as well as at the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery. In 1912, he moved to Canada. He worked for an American who commissioned him to paint large scenes of the Canadian West to sell to real estate agents. Scott moved to Montreal in 1915 He became a member of the Beaver Hall...
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1940s Canadian Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
"Nudes with Hats, " Surreal Painting with Male Couple and Sleeping Female, 1949
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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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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"Adolescent Parallels, " Midcentury Mural Design with Male Youths, 1949
By George Frederick Hinchcliff
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A remarkable vision of brotherly utopia, with a hint of homoeroticism, this beautiful study was painted by British artist George Frederick Hinchcliff in preparation for a proposed mu...
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1940s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
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Paint
"Vase of Flowers" by Hobson Pittman
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Hobson Pittman (1899-1972)
Signed upper left. Oil on panel.
Provenance: Boca Raton Museum of Art
Many examples of Pittman's paintings can be found in numerous museum collections, ...
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1940s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Paintings
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Paint
Watercolor of a Semi Nude Woman by Adam Sherriff Scott
By Adam Sherriff Scott 1
Located in Montreal, QC
Provenance from Estate of the son of Thomas Garside, who was a very closed friend of Sherriff-Scott.
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1940s Canadian Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
"Adam in Eden, " Monumental Depiction of Paradise in Wartime
By Wilfred Peter Glud
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A remarkable statement of hope and resilience, this vivid and colorful depiction of a nude Adam seated amidst a profusion of flora and fauna was painted in the midst of World War II ...
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1940s Danish Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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Paint
1940s Abstract French Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Abstract Cubist oil painting on canvas from 1940s France. Moody and dynamic, the image depicts the beginnings of a town. A smoky gray sky gives the scene an industrial feeling, while...
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1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
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Paint
Unknown Artist, Dated 1946, Landscape with Skerries, Oil on Panel
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Unknown artist, dated 1946.
Landscape with skerries, oil on panel.
In perfect condition.
Signed indistinctly Olga R ??, dated 46.
Measures: 33 x 24 ...
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1940s Vintage Paintings
"Walking the Cows" Important 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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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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Paint
Mid Century Modern Artist James Koenig 1948 Buffalo NY Titled 'Net Work'
By James Koenig
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Titled ‘Net Work’ buffalo artist James Koenig paintings reflected many phases of American painting styles including scenes from the WPA period, abstract...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
"Snowy Egrets and Cypress, " Large Art Deco Painting by Harcombe
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly capturing the exotic and beautiful landscape of the cypress swamps of South Florida, this painting of a pair of snowy egrets is a superb example of Art Deco scene painting. The turquoise hue of the water and the cerulean of the sky contrast with the smooth limbs of the cypress tree and the white and purple-greys of the birds. This painting was made by Renee Harcombe...
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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
"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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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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Paint
"Home Front Fox Hole, " Vivid Depiction of American Life During World War II
By Joseph E. Bolden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Pulsating with life and color, this depiction of a crowded mom-and-pop store in wartime America, filled with a sailor in full regalia, homemakers and children, grandmothers and worki...
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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
"Actaeon, " Large Art Deco-Mid Century Painting by Hollywood Figure
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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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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Paint
"Family w/ Rocking Horse, " Ptg. by WPA Artist De Forest 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...
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1940s American Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
20th Century Expressionism Oil on Canvas by Alphonse Vermeir
Located in Casteren, NL
20th century oil on canvas painted and signed by the Belgium artist Alphonse Vermeir (1905-1994.)
Depicting a Belgium townview.
Originates Belgium, dating, circa 1940.
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1940s Belgian Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
"Dockside with Seagull, " Important Painting by WPA Artist 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 ...
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1940s American Vintage Paintings
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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...
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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Western Oil Painting by Ruth Wilcox
By Ruth Wilcox
Located in Water Mill, NY
Western still life oil painting by listed artist Ruth Wilcox-Soho Location.
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1940s American Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
"Legacy, " Original Painting by Ivan Bartlett, Mid-Century Fabric Designer
By Ivan Bartlett
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In his early years, artist Ivan Bartlett was known for his WPA mural painting, such as for the Ada County courthouse in Boise, Idaho, but in the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for ...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
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Gouache
"Laundry Day, " Brilliant Ptg. of Rural North Carolina Life During World War II
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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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
"Scandinavian Seascape, " Painting
Located in New York, NY
Another piece of every man's Nordic heritage: a fisherman and his wife, earning their living on the sea. Masts capture the gusts, propelling the pair forward on their journey, nets a...
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1940s Swedish Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
Naughty Girls at the Lake 1915 and 1950
Located in Ferndale, MI
Naughty girls at the lake 1915 and 1950, Signed Ornold, 1940.
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1940s American Vintage Paintings
Mid Century Modern Cubist Artist James Koenig 1948 Titled, Cool Canopy
By James Koenig
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Titled Cool Canopy - Buffalo artist James Koenig paintings reflected many phases of American painting styles including scenes from the WPA period, abstr...
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1940s American Expressionist Vintage Paintings
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Canvas, Hardwood, Paint
"Nude and Unicorn, " Brilliant and Important Art Deco Painting by Matulka, 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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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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Watercolor, Ink, Paper, Gouache
Signed Oil Painting of Amsterdam
Located in Stamford, CT
1940s oil painting of Amsterdam's red light district.
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1940s Dutch Vintage Paintings
"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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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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Watercolor, Ink, Paper
Women Bathing - France, 1945
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Classically inspired painting of an idyllic setting. In the foreground, two women lounge around a basin, one bathing and one reclining as a Russian Wolfhound looks on. Behind them is...
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1940s French Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
Oil Painting by Anton Otto Fischer
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Water Mill, NY
Oil on Canvas of Winter Scene by Anton Otto Fischer in a Carved Wood Frame
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1940s American Vintage Paintings
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Canvas
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