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Period: 1940s
Place of Origin: American
Surrealist Landscape Watercolor Signed R. E. Schwelke and Dated 1947
By R.E. Schwelke
Located in Pasadena, CA
Framed colorful surrealist watercolor, signed by artist R.E. Schwelke in 1947. Titled "Landscape #1".
Dark stained frame.
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood
Signed Oil on Canvas Landscape Painting Titled "Sunny Sunday" by Richard Olive
By Richard Clive
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mid-century landscape painting by New York artist Richard Clive, entitled "Sunny Sunday". This oil on canvas landscape painting depicts the dappled afternoon light of a forest cleari...
Category
1940s American Craftsman Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Nudes with Hats, " Surreal Painting with Male Couple and Sleeping Female, 1949
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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
Zoute, 1941
By Zoute' (Leon Salter), Karel Appel, Corneille 1
Located in Rochester, NY
Primitive modernist oil painting on homasote board of a male and female figure ( a self portrait of Leon and his wife Thelma ) by Zoute (Leon Salter 1903-1976 North Rose, NY) Brillia...
Category
1940s Other Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
Artist George Samerjan WPA Style Watercolor "Roller at Van Nuys Blvd" 1941
By George Samerjan
Located in St. Louis, MO
Artist George Samerjan's (1915-2005) WPA style watercolor titled "Roller at Van Nuys" 1941, in its original artist selected and hand painted frame, but re-fra...
Category
1940s Expressionist Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
"Running Bunny Rabbit, " Charming Book Illustration from the 1930s-1940s
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Absolutely winning and full of charm, this book illustration depicts a bunny rabbit running across the land, the hilly landscape rich with browns and greens, and the sky a perfect blue. Painted in gouache on illustration board, the Sphinx mark -- one of the brands of the Weber company -- is visible on the reverse. This would make a perfect addition to the walls of a children's room, or a collection of American illustration art.
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Dance Around Crystal Mountain, " Remarkable Art Deco Painting with Nudes, 1945
By Milton Bond
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perhaps the most remarkable of all the crystal paintings made by Milton Bond in the 1940s, this depiction of beautiful nude figures, male and female, forming a symmetrical circle aro...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
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, ...
Category
1940s Arts and Crafts Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
Impressionism Woodstock NY Artist "Chicken and Eggs" Oil on Canvas
Located in Wallkill, NY
Stunning 1940s impressionist oil on canvas by Francis Stein. Well done oil. Depicting chickens and eggs. Would fit well in a mid-century environment as well as a Country. Be sure to ...
Category
1940s Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Painting from the 1940s, Red, Blue and Yellow Color, MidCentury Art, New Frame
Located in New York, NY
Decorative painting from the 1940s. Red, blue and yellow. Children playing on a bicycle.
Framed in a beautiful gold frame with a linen liner.
Category
1940s Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"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 ...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Tony, " Superb 1940s Portrait of Male Youth by Marion Huse, Hawthorne Pupil
By Marion Huse
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Striking in conception and execution, this half-portrait of a handsome, blue-eyed young man -- his back to a mirror and his arm folded over a chair -- was painted by Marion Huse, who...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Unfinished Portrait of a Young Lady in Violet, circa 1940s
Located in Pasadena, CA
This portrait of a young, beautiful woman in a 1940s style dress features an unfinished background in varying violet hues. Her thoughtful expression and the unfinished quality make t...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
1940s American Abstract Expressionism Painting
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Cathedral City, CA
1940s American abstract expressionism painting on board in the style of Richard Poussette-Dart.
Category
1940s Expressionist Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Board
Marjorie Bishop "New York Sunset" Painting with Sand on Canvas 1940s 'Signed'
Located in New York, NY
Mixed-media painting with sand on canvas titled "New York Sunset" by Marjorie Bishop, American, 1940s (signed on front, title on sticker on back). This...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
"Redhead, " Striking 1940s Portrait of Young Man by John Menihan
By John C. Menihan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This portrait of a young man with vivid red hair, blue eyes and a ruddy complexion was painted by John C. Menihan, one of the most renowned portraitists and watercolorists of his day...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
"New Mexico Scene, " Large and Rare Landscape with Adobe Church
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In 1943, when the Second World War still raged a continent away, Eleanor Reed painted this beautiful and haunting view of the New Mexico landscape, featuring a rosy-toned adobe churc...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
Nell Blaine "Untitled" Abstract Mixed-Media on Paper in Frame, USA 1940s
By Nell Blaine
Located in New York, NY
During her first years in New York Blaine's work, which had previously been tightly realist, turned abstract, inspired by Mondrian, Leger and Jean Helion. At one time she was the you...
Category
1940s Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paper
"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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
"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...
Category
1940s Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Mid-Century Modern Cubist Artist James Koenig Buffalo NY1948 Titled 'Tangent'
By James Koenig
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Titled 'Tangent' - Buffalo artist James Koenig paintings reflected many phases of American painting Styles including scenes from The WPA period, abstrac...
Category
1940s Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Hardwood, Paint
"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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
"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...
Category
1940s Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Tropical Fish, " Brilliant Art Deco Undersea Painting, Hawaii, 1942
By Robert O. Bach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The American public was fascinated with all things exotic in the 1930s and 1940s, including aquatic and seaside themes and Art Deco hotels and residential interiors often featured pa...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Original Paul Lauritz High Sierras Nine Lake Basin Early California Oil Painting
By Paul Lauritz
Located in Tustin, CA
"High Sierras, Nine Lake Basin" painting depicts a rugged, snowy mountain scene in the Sierra Nevada mountains, with large rocks and a lake shore with pine trees in the foreground an...
Category
1940s Other Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Masonite
"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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Rollin Crampton Early Abstract Expressionist Oil on Board
By Rollin Crampton 1
Located in Sharon, CT
An early "over-all painting". Oil and graphite on 'beaver board'. This painting is illustrated in "The Art of the Artist" Arthur Zaidenberg, Crown Publishers NY 1951. Signed on back....
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
"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
1940s Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
"Hawaiiana, " Extraordinary Art Deco Cubist Surreal Painting after Pearl Harbor
By Robert O. Bach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Saturated with the brilliant hues of earth and sea, and filled with symbols and signs of Hawaii's spectacular landscape and rich history -- including an angry Hawaiian king with his traditional feathered headdress or "mahiole" -- this watercolor was painted in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Painting from the 1940s, Mid-Century Art, Golden, Blue, Chocolate & White Colors
Located in New York, NY
Decorative painting from the 1940s. Painting has a beautiful gold frame with a linen liner.
Category
1940s Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"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 ...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
Minna Citron (1896-1911). Abstract Expressionist Oil "Gazelle" 1947
By Minna Citron 1
Located in Sharon, CT
An important 14 3/8" x 13 5/8" oil on 'beaver board'. Signed upper left, and artist framed. Exhibited: 1947 Gallerie Lydia Conti, 1949 Havana (1st exhibited abstract art in Cuba) and...
Category
1940s Expressionist Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
"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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"One United Nations Indivisible, " Stunning, Original Painting for UN Poster
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking example of graphic design in the 1940s, which was moving from elegant Art Deco stylization to a looser, collage-like assemblage of overlapping images, this original painti...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
"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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage 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
1940s Vintage American 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
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
George Schwacha "New Jersey Bathers" Painting
By George Schwacha Jr
Located in Westport, CT
Painting title "New Jersey Bathers" circa 1949 (1908-1986) works represented in over 30 Museums. Was president of the American Artists league and past president Audubon Artists and a...
Category
1940s Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood
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
1940s Vintage American Paintings
"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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paint
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.
Category
1940s Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Two Female Nudes, " Mid-Century Masterpiece by Alexander Cañedo
By Alexandro De Canedo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Author of "How Cañedo Draws the Figure" and one of the acknowledged masters of the nude in the Art Deco and Mid-Century periods, Alexander Cañedo painted this remarkable scene of two female...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Naughty Girls at the Lake 1915 and 1950
Located in Ferndale, MI
Naughty girls at the lake 1915 and 1950, Signed Ornold, 1940.
Category
1940s Vintage American Paintings
Louis Wolchonok Painting "Reclining Woman"
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Cathedral City, CA
1940s oil on canvas painting of reclining woman signed by Louis Wolchonok. (American/New York 1893-1973)
Please note: Two small repairs see details pictures.
Louis Wolchonok stud...
Category
1940s Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Rolph Scarlett Abstract Expressionist Painting, 1945
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Abstract expressionist gouache and watercolor on paper
by noted artist Rolph Scarlett - Signed and dated lower right.
Archivally matted, unframed. Image size: 11" H x 15" W.
In excellent condition.
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1889, he left Canada at the age of 18 to go to New York City and returned to Canada during the years of World War I. However, by 1924 he had established New York City as his home. While he was beginning his career as an abstract painter, he was designing stage scenery for George Bernard Shaw...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Paper
Oil Painting of Ivo Patcevitch-Conde Nast Founder, Attributed to Renee Bouche
By René R. Bouché
Located in Water Mill, NY
Oil on board of Ivo Patcevitch founder of Conde Nast attributed to Renee Bouche.
Category
1940s Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas
"Table with Fruit, " Vivid Cubist Still Live in Oranges and Greens
By Helen Manchester
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliant example of American Cubism, this vividly-hued still life depicts an autumnal array of fruit, green and red grapes, lemons, figs and persimm...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American 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...
Category
1940s Expressionist Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Hardwood, Paint
"Headlock, " Art Deco Painting with Wrestling Theme by Littlefield, 1941
By William Littlefield
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Fascinated with high-energy scenes of men engaged in sporting activities, most often boxing but in this case wrestling, William Littlefield painted this pair of wrestlers in 1941, using black gouache highlighted with white on green paper. Although fairly obscure now, during his heyday Littlefield's paintings and drawings were collected by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mrs. Paul Mellon and Victor Mature, among others, and he painted a large and important portrait of Lincoln Kirstein...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Fresh New World, " 1944 Masterpiece Depicting Early Suburban Life in America
By Allan Dudley Jones
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A true masterpiece of genre painting, with its depiction of idyllic World War II-era suburban life filled with children playing and adults attending to their homes and chores, this piece was created by Allan Jones in 1944. It is a stunningly beautiful spring day, and the view is looking through an open window with a blackbird sitting on the sill, into the backyards of a half dozen tidy brick and wood houses. The homeowners are attending to their Victory Gardens...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Tempera
"Laundry Day, " Brilliant Ptg. of Rural North Carolina Life During 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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
"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 ...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid-Century Robert Broner Oil Painting with with 3 Figures
By Robert Broner
Located in New York, NY
1948 3 figure oil painting by the artist Robert Broner (1922-2010). Broner has pieces in the collections of the MOMA, Guggenheim, Metropolitian Musuem of...
Category
1940s Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Wood
"500 LB Lady, " Colorful and Charming WPA-Era Carnival Scene by Lincoln
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of energy and vivid color, this atmospheric and charming scene of a small-town carnival, complete with a barker, boys with balloons, a blue tent in the foreground and a sign announcing the "500 LB Lady," was painted by E. Wilder Lincoln in the 1930s or 40s. Painters and sculptors were fascinated with circuses and carnivals...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
"Nude in Tropical Garden, " Brilliantly-Hued Art Deco Painting by Cenci, 1949
By Gustavo Cenci
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perfumed with the heady colors and forms of tropical flowers such poppy and hibiscus, this arresting Art Deco watercolor was painted by Gustavo Cenci, best known for his part in pain...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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