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Period: 1940s
Alpine Landscape Oil on Canvas by Georg Grauvogl 1940
Located in Vo', Veneto
Alpine Landscape – Georg Grauvogl
Dimension: cm 110 x 78 without frame – cm 114 x 82 with frame in antique fir wood
Tecnique: oil on canvas
Era: 1940 circa
Author: Georg Grauvogl (1...
Category
German Other Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Vintage Border Collie Dog, oil painting on mahogany board, signed H. Ed. Capel
Located in Centennial, CO
An absolutely beautiful vintage oil painting on mahogany panel of three black and white dogs, perhaps Border Collies. The painting is skillfully painted and signed by H. Ed. Capel. T...
Category
Belgian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Mahogany, Paint
1950 Albert Eugene Gallatin Signed Abstract Oil Painting on Board
By Albert Eugene Gallatin
Located in Miami, FL
1950 Albert Eugene Gallatin Signed Abstract Oil Painting on Board
Offered for sale is a nice Albert Gallatin (1882 - 1952) oil painting on board signed on verso September 1950. ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Giltwood, Masonite, Paint
"Portrait of a Young Jockey", Vivid, Superb Portrait Painting by Peter Hurd
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perhaps the finest portrait we have ever offered, this depiction of a young jockey in 1941, his complexion warm and glowing and his blue eyes echoing the color of his shirt, was pain...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Standing Model", Male Nude Painting in Blue by Åkerblom, Oil on Canvas, Sweden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Boldly painted in an expressionist palette that calls to mind the work of Edvard Munch and other Nordic painters who were in the artistic vanguard of the 20th century, this depiction...
Category
Swedish Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"On the Waterfront", Nine Sailors at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1946 Oil Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted just after the end of World War II in a style that could be called Art Deco meets Mid Century, this striking painting depicts nine sailors in their Navy uniforms, most of the...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Frieze of Nude Male Figures, " Art Deco Scene of Bathers and Workers, France
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Drenched in rich color and somehow both modern and classical, this scene of nude male figures is presented as a frieze of men along a horizontal plane -- as if they are peopling a mu...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Shore Leave, " Large Art Deco Mural with Sailors at New Orleans Brothel, 1940s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most striking and remarkable Art Deco paintings we have ever offered, this depiction of a group of 1940s sailors visiting a New Orleans brothel is full of boisterous energy and strong color, providing an amused and amusing view of Navy life during or after World War II. The sailors -- in their tight white pants and youthful swagger -- are enjoying the company of an array of brothel workers, reigned over by a madam dressed in ruby red, with two young paramours to her side. Taking it all in is a group of jeering young men in straw hats to the right, and a young gay...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$15,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Still Life with Fruit
Located in London, GB
Paul Feiler (British 1918 - 2013)
Still Life with Fruit
Oil on canvas
1949
Size: 43cm high, 51cm wide - 17 ins high, 20 ins wide
Frame: 59.5cm high, 66.5cm deep - 23½ ins high, ...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$19,500
"The Fall of Icarus", Dramatic 1940s Painting w/ Male Nude by Emlen Etting
By Emlen Etting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia artist Emlen Etting returned again and again to the theme of Icarus Falling, in part because it gave him an opportunity to depict the nude male in motion. This is the fi...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
French painting "Mountain Landscape”, Madeleine Doillon -Toulouse
By Madeley
Located in Valladolid, ES
This gorgeous work by the French artist Madeleine Doillon-Toulouse presents a mountain landscape with an expressionist aesthetic. The expressionist landscape does not faithfully rep...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
$2,154 Sale Price
29% Off
"Story of Pennsylvania", Large Art Deco Masterpiece for Finance Bldg, PA Capitol
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large and remarkable masterpiece from the heyday of Art Deco mural painting, this colorful and detailed study was made by Eugene Savage in preparation for an enormous ceiling mural...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Carlo of Hollywood Arizona Desert Midcentury Painting
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original 1950s painting of the California desert in custom frame signed by Carlo of Hollywood. Needs professional restoration, due to a small tear on the canvas. The price has been l...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood
$880 Sale Price
44% Off
Arnold Turtle Oil on Board Painting
Located in Miami, FL
A beautiful oil on board by Arnold Turtle.
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Painting by Caxing, Oil on Canvas, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, ES
Painting by Caxing, circa 1940.
Oil on canvas. Handsigned.
After the style of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and a...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Siqueiros Glass Mural Painting Unique Piece, Mexican Muralist, 6.56 F by 11.48 F
Located in Miami, FL
Mural composed of twenty plates of approximately 49 by 70 centimeters, glass with quicksilver technique (painted on the back), cast and painted silver leaves giving a set of textures...
Category
Central American Pre-Columbian Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Glass
"Pueblos", Classic WPA-Era Mural Study with Native Americans for Los Angeles, CA
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This classic example of WPA-period mural painting, executed by Verona Burkhardt for the Immigration and Naturalization Center in Los Angeles, depicts five Pueblo Indians in the foreground and a magnificent landscape of canyons and Pueblo dwellings in the background. This served as a study for one of five large canvases she delivered to California in 1941 or 1942, but the building was cordoned off due to America's entrance into World War II. Burkhardt (or Burkhard) was the daughter of two important artists and was introduced to painting and crafts at an early age. In her prime, she won seven U.S. Government mural commissions in national competitions for buildings in Wyoming, Montana, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. She settled in Grand Junction...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Framed Modernist Oil On Panel
Located in Essex, MA
Painted on artist board. Abstract still life in a arts and crafts frame.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood
Large-Scale American Folk Art Carnival Game Board, Very Graphic
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large-scale Folk Art Carnival game board, American, circa 1940s. This painted carnival game board came from Texas and combines wonderfully patinate...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Cork
Early 20th Century oil on canvas portrait of a Society Lady
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
Early 20th Century oil on canvas portrait of a Society Lady thought to be Dame Anna Neagle.
Dimensions: Framed H 175cm W 113cm Picture H 161cm W 100cm
Origin: English
Date: 1947
Category
English Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Stephen Etnier Modernist Painting of a Harpswell, Maine Seascape, Circa 1940s
Located in Peabody, MA
An early work by the American realist Stephen Morgan Etnier (1903-1984) depicting the village of Harpswell, Maine were he built his home and studio in the 1940s and lived until his d...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Large Impasto Painting of House on the Water by Lephe Kingsley Holden
Located in Redding, CT
Large Impasto Painting of House on the Water by Lephe Kingsley Holden. Signed lower right.
Lephe Kingsley Holden (1881 - 1973) was active/lived in Connecticut, New York. Lephe Holden was a painter and art teacher. She was born in Hadley, Massachusetts on May 1, 1881. She was the daughter of Elbridge Kingsley and Elizabeth (Cook) Kingsley. Elbridge Kingsley was a painter, wood engraver and illustrator for the Century Co.
Lephe was a graduate of Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Massachusetts and the Art Student's League, New York. She studied privately with Augustus V. Tack, Dwight Tryon, Guy Wiggins, George E. Browne, Hippolito Hidalgo, and Ed Carviedes. Holden taught art at Maxwell Training College, New York (1908-1912). She married Samuel M. Holden on October 1912, and they were married until his death in January 1936.
Holden also served as the Director of Art Instruction in Westport, Connecticut School System (1927-1947). Initially she was the only art teacher, but at the time of her retirement there were five assistant instructors. She exhibited with the American Watercolor Society
Education: Pratt Institute; Art Students League, NYC; With George Elmer Browne; Guy Wiggins Summer Art School, Essex, Connecticut, 1936. Membership: Key West Art and Historical Society; Key West Artists...
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Paint
"Rehabilitation", Impressive, Large Art Deco Study for Queens, NYC Courthouse
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Teeming with allegory and symbolism, this large and elaborate study by Eugene Savage for a major mural to be executed in mosaic was painted for the new Queens Supreme Courthouse -- a...
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Oil Painting, 'The Cascine Gardens', Firenze. C. Passigreli, 1940
Located in Florence, Tuscany
A charming oil painting of 'The Cascine', the gardens in Florence. The Cascine run along the river Arno and once was the destination for horse carriage rides and passeggiata. The pai...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Swiss painting Bleu“The Battle of Salamine” by Hugo Cleis, abstraction
By Hugo 'go
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind painting by the Swiss artist Hugo Cleis. Cleis began his artistic career with Swiss Expressionism, which featured social content, although in the mid-1940s his work fo...
Category
Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
"FANTASY" Oil on Canvas by Thomas Hart Benton
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in New York, NY
"FANTASY" by Thomas Hart Benton. Oil on canvas laid on wood with a gorgeous gold gilded frame. Price upon request.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Thorvald Hagedorn-Olsen. Oil on board. Modernist Danish landscape
Located in København, Copenhagen
Thorvald Hagedorn-Olsen, Danish artist.
Oil on artist's board.
Modernist Danish landscape with grazing cattle and a fjord.
Signed and dated '47.
In excellent condition.
Image size: ...
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Other
Collection of Vintage Painter's Palettes, Wall Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
Collection of Vintage Artist's Palettes, American, circa 1940s - 1960s. The largest palette measures 15.5"H x 19.5"W. The smallest measures 7.5"H x 10.5"W.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Large Painted Panel of Virgin of Guadalupe
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1940's large Mexican painted wood panel of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Measurements:
Height: 60"
Width: 36"
Depth: 2"
Category
Mexican Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Important 1944 Surrealist Oil on Canvas by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Fresh to the market, this painting was purchased directly from Erle Loran (1905-1999) in his Berkeley Hills home in the mid-1990s. Loran's surrealist work from the mid-1940s is highl...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Oil on board of New Hampshire Coastal Scene
Located in Redding, CT
Oil on board of New Hampshire Coastal Scene. Signed on back by artist James Rostron from New Hampshire. Dated 1940 Mount Cranmore North Conway, New Hampshire.
Dimensions may not be ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Paint
Signed coastal beach painting by Frank Proschwitzky Freyburg
Located in Redding, CT
Signed coastal beach painting by Frank Proschwitzky Freyburg. (1862 -1940)
Of British-German descent but lived in the United States. Please confirm dimensions prior to purchase.
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Paint
Running Horses Abstract Impressionist Oil Painting
By Sheila Hendricks
Located in Rochester, NY
"Horses Running", a bold abstract impressionist oil painting with heavy impasto. By Sheila Hedricks. Signed. Oil on board. In a per...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Paint
Painting by Robert Wood
Located in Houston, TX
Robert William Wood
(1889-1979)
Robert William Wood was an American landscape painter. He was born in England, emigrated to the United States and rose to prominence in the 1950s wi...
Category
American Other Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$9,500
Antique Oil Painting " The Old South During The Civil War" By H.D.Becker 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1663 Over sized oil painting of a couple during the civil war.
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
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
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
1940's Oil Painting - Portrait of a Child - Hubert Glansdorff - Belgium
By Hubert Glansdorff
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful oil painting by the Belgian artist Hubert Glansdorff.
It is a portrait of a young child. The child wears a kimono and looks at the viewer...
Category
Belgian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pine, Paint
Equestrian Vintage American Large Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1756 Large oil painting of an American farmer with his dog and two horses
Framed and signed
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Hardwood, Paint
Art Deco Tropical Oil Painting, Ruben Kupur
Located in Riverdale, NY
Large Rare Vintage 1940’s Artist Ruben Kupur Oil painting of Art Deco Tropical scene with herons within a scene of lush tropical orchids.
Ruben Kupur was born In the Russian Federation...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Pair of Vintage Dutch Paintings
Located in New York, NY
Pair of circa 1940's oil on canvas Adam and Eve paintings with vintage frames.
Measurements:
Height: 74.25"
Width: 32.75"
Depth: 2.25"
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
$16,000 / set
"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
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
"Of Truth or Consequences", WPA-style Oil Painting, 1940s, Deep Pink, Van Loan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Executed in gorgeous shades of deep pink, dove gray and olive, this scene of two nude women perched on folding chairs was painted by Dorothy Van Loan,...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Painting by Jordi Casacuberta Codinach, Oil on Canvas, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, ES
Painting by Jordi Casacuberta Codinach, circa 1940. Oil on canvas. Handsigned. In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautiful patina...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Pink Hibiscus Watercolor Painting on Paper Signed by Shirrell Graves, Framed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original 1940s Pink Hibiscus Watercolor Painting on Paper Signed by Shirrell Graves. The painting features its original white wood frame with a white mat.
Shirrell Graves is an Impr...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
$522 Sale Price
44% Off
"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
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Great Dane" Framed Oil on Velvet by Lawrence Shelby
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Handsome portrait of a Great Dane by painter, Lawrence Shelby. Oil paint on rust-colored velvet canvas, framed by stained oak.
Artist-signed.
...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Velvet, Paint, Oak
Huts in Landeck – European Alps - oil on canvas
Located in Vo', Veneto
Huts in Landeck – Oberinntal
Work dimensions: 30 x 40 cm
Dimensions with frame: 37 x 47 cm
Technique: oil on canvas
Period: 1942
Description:
Summer view of some huts with classic ...
Category
German Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Equestrian Antique oil Painting The Old South Blacksmith Shop 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1664 Antique Equestrian oil painting of a blacksmith shop in the South
Image size 17.5x23.5"
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Actaeon in Flight, " Large Painting of Mythological Scene w/ Male Nude, 1942
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This stunning example of Art Deco painting illustrates the dramatic moment when the hunter Actaeon, having seen the nude Diana in her bath, is meeting his death. Here Actaeon himself is fully nude, and is being transformed into a deer as he is being pursued by Diana's avengers. The classic myth...
Category
North American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique French Oversized Interior Scene Oil Painting The Dapper Frenchman 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5140 Oversized Antique French oil painting depicting a Frenchman in an interior scene
Framed
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Modernist Brass Metal Frame for Painting, Drawing or Mirror Project
By Laiton Milano
Located in Atlanta, GA
This Italian frame, in polished brass, dates from the 1940s. It will be perfect to include a painting, a drawing, a lithograph, a mirror, or any other DIY decoration. The piece's rec...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Metal, Brass
Vintage French Framed Oil Painting " The Veiled Woman" 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5183 Vintage French painting of a vailed dark haired beauty
Framed in a modernict gilt frame
Image size 19.5x 15.5"
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique Scandinavian Impressionist Oil Horse and Carriage Winter Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
2568 Antique impressionist oil painting of a horse drawn carriage on a snow covered road
Framed in a period frame
Canvas applied to board
Image size 17.5x23.5"
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Fashion Sketch by Ginette Roger, France, 1940's
Located in Austin, TX
Gouache on paper fashion sketch by Ginette Roger, in new custom gilt frame. France, 1940's
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Watercolor of Nantucket Railroad, by Doris and Richard Beer, circa 1940
By Doris Beer
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vintage Watercolor of Nantucket Railroad, by Doris and Richard Beer, circa 1940, a watercolor on paper view of the Nantucket narrow gauge "Dummy...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Two Women Lounging", Richly-Imagined Portrait of Figures in Satin & Silk, 1940s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Voluptuous in its approach to scene and palette, this sumptuous portrait of two women, lounging side by side amongst pillows and fabrics in satin and silk, was painted by Rudolph Sch...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Signed and Dated Landscape Painting, 1940
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Italian painting dated 1940. Oil on board framework depicting a woodland landscape in impressionist style with good pictorial quality. Frame in wood and plaster, adapted to the...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood
"Steering the Ship", 1941 Illustration Art with Sailor for Saturday Eve Post
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Boldly conceived and executed, this original maquette for a proposed Saturday Evening Post cover by Larry Segall depicts a sailor at the helm of a ship, his hands on the wheel and hi...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Jay Arnold Marine Painting of Kobenhavn
Located in Norwell, MA
Well executed watercolor/gouache showing the great windjammer Kobenhaven under sail. The massive four masted barque has most sails set. Matted and framed. Titled lower left “Kobenhav...
Category
North American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Large American Abstract Modernist Painting - Zoute, 1949
Located in Rochester, NY
Large American abstract modernist impressionist oil painting on masonite board in the great original artist hand painted sgraffito combed decorated wood frame by Zoute ( born Leon Sa...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Paint
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