1940s Paintings

Adalie Margules Brent

Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

Tempera

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 ...

Emile Albert Gruppe

Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Paint

Emile Gruppe (American, 1896-1978), oil on canvas board, circa 1940. An absolutely amazing post impressionist painting using knifing technique which is very rare for Gruppe. The p...

Stuart Maxwell Armfield

Vintage 1940s Art Deco Paintings

Paint

A brilliant painting executed in vivid colors, this view of an African male youth holding a basket of gourds and an enormous bouquet of calla lilies, day lilies and other tropical bl...

Raymond Wendell

Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

A vivid and colorful depiction of sailors enjoying a hard-earned afternoon on the beaches of Fiji, with their ships anchored off shore in the background, this painting is a rare and ...

Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Canvas, Paint

“The Conversation“ by Andrew Lommis, American illustrator. He is inducted into society of illustrators hall of fame. Oil on canvas, beautifully framed. Signed lower left corner. Sma...

André Maire

Vintage 1940s French Paintings

Paper

Watercolor by André Maire representing a village scenery at the period of the French Indochina in the Moïs Area (actual North Vietnam). Signed 'André Maire' and dated 1949 in the ...

Paul Lauritz

Vintage 1940s American Other Paintings

Masonite

"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...

Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Ink

Particle Red Casein on paper 1948 Measures: 29”H x 23”W Framed

Vintage 1940s American Modern Paintings

Painting by Margaret Balzer Cantieni (1914-2002). Tempera on wood board. Signed in lower right corner "Balzer '46". Painting measures 1 1 x 14" with frame 16 1/2" x 19 1/2". Marga...

William Littlefield

Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

Paint

In the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, William Littlefield painted a series of mythological subjects, often featuring idealized male nude figures, and this is the largest and best example we...

Emile Albert Gruppe

Vintage 1940s American Adirondack Paintings

Paint

Another delightful large painting by the post impressionist master; Emile Albert Gruppe. The landscape take you down a snow covered road by a cool icy running stream through a New En...

Vintage 1940s French Paintings

This collage style painting displays great contrasts in color and composition and the French newspaper clippings only add to it's interest.

Diego Rivera

Vintage 1940s Mexican Paintings

The subtle yellows and soft pinks provide a stark contrast from the deep greens and neutral grays of the background, resulting in a piece that grabs your eye and brings you into it's...

Vintage 1940s Native American Prints

Full set, 24 framed full color prints by Winhold Reiss. Original envelope and folder comes with. (More photos available upon request).

Vintage 1940s French Paintings

Paint

Cubism at it's finest depicting a standing figure in an enclosed space. Simply framed in white, a nice touch to a lonely wall or accent to a larger painting.

Vintage 1940s Hungarian Paintings

Canvas

Great Hungarian painting from 20th century. Oil painting on canvas depicting a character with parrot in impressionist style of good pictorial quality. Framework of beautiful measure ...

Paul Zimmerman

Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Canvas, Oil

A wonderful oil on canvas by the noted American artist Paul Zimmerman. It is titled and dated 1948 on the back and signed in red on the left front bottom. In a strip frame. Biograph...

David Segel

Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Paper, Wood

A pair of watercolor paintings of an outdoor market on Maxwell Street in Chicago by Artist David Segel. Signed and dated '49. David Segel is an internationally acclaimed and respec...

Vintage 1940s French French Provincial Paintings

Canvas

Landscape representing Avalats near Albi ( South West of France) in 1949, Henri Gourc signed. French School dated 1949 canvas size 65 cm by 54 cm frame size 88 cm by 78 cm. Annotated...

Vintage 1940s American Machine Age Paintings

Canvas, Paint

A fascinating peep hole view of a soldiers down time at the start of the second World War. A single lantern illuminates the resting and content faces of new draftees reading and play...

Jean Poulain

Vintage 1940s African Art Deco Paintings

Paper

This striking portrait of an African lady is by Jean Poulain, a Belgian painter who lived in Congo before the decolonisation. He travelled extensively throughout Africa in the 1930s,...

Jean Poulain

Vintage 1940s African Art Deco Paintings

Paper

This striking portrait of an African lady is by Jean Poulain, a Belgian painter who lived in Congo before the decolonization. He travelled extensively throughout Africa in the 1930s,...

Vintage 1940s Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Robert Libeski born 13th of March 1892 in Aachen, Germany, 1988 Klosterneuburg. He was active in Vienna and a member of the Viennese Secession from the year 1952. Signed and dated ...

Vintage 1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Paintings

Oil on canvas painting of an interior with armchair and floral arrangements. By Danish artist Herdis Gelardi b. Aalborg 1916, d. Copenhagen 1991. Signed lower right hand corner, dime...

John Ramsey Conner

Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

Paint

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...

Lundy Siegriest

Vintage 1940s American Expressionist Paintings

Canvas, Paint

Cityscape oil on canvas by important California abstract expressionist painter Lundy Siegriest. "Monuments of War" Signed and dated 1949. Works held: Oakland Museum of California; Sa...

Montague Dawson

Vintage 1940s English Paintings

Montague J Dawson (1895-1973), ‘Valetta Harbour’, oil on board, painted in a grisaille palette with a British Hunt Class Type II destroyer in Valetta Harbour, Malta, signed ‘Montague...

Vintage 1940s Italian Paintings

Canvas

Beautiful painting circa 1940 signed in the lower right author not recognized. Subject the coast of Noli Italy realized technique oil on canvas. Excellent pictorial quality made ext...

Vintage 1940s French Paintings

Canvas

Signed, titled, brightly colored, hand-painted, oil-on--canvas still life, "Asiette Verte" by listed, museum-collected, French artist, Jules Cavailles (1901-1977). Canvas size: 20 in...

Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

An oil on canvas self-portrait by Maurice Glickman– depicting the artist in a seated position, wielding his sculptor's tools. It is titled and signed on the backside.

Zoute (Leon Salter)

Vintage 1940s American Expressionist Paintings

American abstract expressionist oil painting on masonite by Zoute - dated 1944 ( Leon Salter- North Rose, NY - 1903 - 1976 ) Image size is 27" high x 20" wide / framed as shown measu...

Vintage 1940s Decorative Art

5-2684, impressionist landscape oil painting on masonite by F. Koops set in a 3.5"; wide custom wood gilt frame Image size 19.5 x 14.5"

Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Wood

Oil on cardboard boats on the sea in 1940 with lacquered frame.

Vintage 1940s Paintings

5-2543 stunning oil painting of a black horse. Signed lower right frame. Image size 16 H x 20 W.

Vintage 1940s American Modern Paintings

Paper

Modern abstract ink and tempera painting titled "Flying Fish", created by American artist Margaret Stark in 1946. The piece is signed and dated in the upper right corner and marked o...

Vintage 1940s Belgian Expressionist Paintings

Antique framed oil painting on board by Reynaert depicts an impressionistic harbor scene at dawn with the fishing fleet just departing for the day, circa early to mid-1900s. Measur...

Richard Gabriel Chase

Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

Oil, Masonite

Beautifully stylized, as if the artist were commissioned to design a tapestry or mural, this view of three deer in a lovely tree-ringed glade, is dominated by an unusual, striking pa...

William Robert Shulgold

Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

This early to mid-20th century watercolor by William Robert Shulgold is in excellent condition in a new gold frame with a double mat. The interior dimensions of the mat measure 18 x ...

J.E. Bromberg

Vintage 1940s American American Modern Paintings

Canvas, Oil

Wonderful New York School late 1940s oil painting on canvas board. Entitled verso, "The Reading" and numbered. Signed and lower right corner, JE Bromberg '47. Expressive br...

Edward Sewall

Vintage 1940s American Modern Paintings

Oil, Wood

Painted by Portland, Oregon WPA Artist, Edward Sewall (1905-2000) is this fine, 1940s oil on canvas of very handsome man. Original owner purchased directly from the artist before his...

Nell Blaine

Vintage 1940s Paintings

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...

Harald Heiring

Vintage 1940s Danish Paintings

Canvas, Wood, Paint

Simple and beautiful winter village painting by listed Danish artist Harald Heiring (1906-1995) that was painted during the last winter of World War II. This piece while it has a sub...

Jan van Kessel the Elder

Vintage 1940s European Paintings

A very decorative painting in the style of Jan van Kessel the Elder. The "Dawn Chorus" of birdsong is a natural phenomenon in temperate climates, particularly in springtime...

Vintage 1940s German Expressionist Paintings

Canvas, Oil

An oil on board painting with a foreground of rocks and alpine flowers above a lake and mountains in the background. Signed by German artist Anton Baur. In a black and gilt frame.

Tommi Parzinger

Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Original ink drawing of still life, fruit in Chinese bowl, by Tommi Parzinger, American, 1940s (signed "Parzinger").

Vintage 1940s English Paintings

Vintage North African seaside oil on board painting. French or English. No signature.  

Glyn Morgan

Vintage 1940s British Paintings

Canvas

Glyn Morgan was born in 1926 in Pontypridd, South Wales and from 1946-1948 he studied at the Camberwell School of Art and at Cardiff School of Art. He belonged to the so-called Rhond...

Unknown

Vintage 1940s American Other Paintings

Canvas, Paint

Unsigned H.C. Meyer oil paint on canvas still life painting. Strange array of objects depicted in this circa 1940 painting: fruit, noise makers, Kindergarten primer and assorted book...

Valentino Ghiglia

Vintage 1940s Italian Paintings

Wood

Beautiful refined oil painting on wood panel measures signed at the back Valentino Ghiglia (Florence 1903-1960). The eldest son of Oscar Ghiglia began to paint as a self-taught at ho...

Louis Wolchonok

Vintage 1940s American Modern Paintings

Canvas, Oil

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...

Dorothy Dehner

Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Ink, Watercolor, Paper

Dorothy Dehner (1901-1994) was one of the most important women artists in the United States in the mid-century American abstraction movement (the MoMa in New York has more than a doz...

Vintage 1940s Italian Paintings

Linen, Wood

Painting on linen by Italian artist, Attipio Carreri. Made in Italy, circa 1940s.

Vintage 1940s Unknown Neoclassical Paintings

Wood, Paint

This is a 20th century painting of a 19th century Dutch street scene. It is framed in a very large heavy gold gilded frame. The painting is 9.50" high and 8 inches wide. The frame is...

Sheila Hendricks

Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Gesso, Wood, Paint, Oil

"Horses Running", a bold abstract impressionist oil painting with heavy impasto. By Sheila Hedricks. Oil on board. In a period handmade frame. Hendricks was a Mid-Century artist work...

Richard Clive

Vintage 1940s American American Craftsman Paintings

Canvas, Oil

Signed oil on canvas landscape painting titled "Sunny Sunday" by listed New York artist Richard Clive.

Unknown

Vintage 1940s American American Modern Paintings

Canvas, Oil

Amazing painterly rendering of Gramercy Park. The tumult of street noise is quieted by Bocek's work. Signed lower right, Geo Bocek. The medium is oil on canvas and it is framed in a ...

Umberto Montini

Vintage 1940s Italian Paintings

Canvas

Set of two paintings of the artist Umberto Montini, (1897-1978, Italy). Made in Italy, circa 1940.

Vintage 1940s Paintings

Wood, Masonite, Oil

#5-2670, Italian lakeside, oil paint on masonite, displayed in a curved wood frame. Illegible signature on lower right. Image size 5 H x 9 W.