1940s Paintings

A framed watercolor and gouache on paper depicting sliced watermelon on a color block background, signed Tamayo and dated 1945 as shown. The work was in keeping with the style of Rufino Tamayo and it retains a paper label from Salon de la Plastica Mexicana, listing the detail info. SPM was formed in 1949 to promote contemporary Mexican artists...

Attributed to Flora Crockett (American, 1892-1979), Untitled Abstraction. Flora Crockett is a newly discovered American abstractionist whose career spanned the middle decades of th...

Beautifully painted by Giovanni Colacicchi in rich, verdant colors, this depiction of a nude, youthful Adam figure in the midst of the Garden of Eden, accompanied by God in a hooded,...

Original Watercolor Ski Poster "Pontresina" by Herbert Leupin (Swiss: 1916 - 1999), a watercolor and gouache painting original for one of Leupin's celeb...

1756 Large oil painting of an American farmer with his dog and two horses Framed and signed

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...

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...

With a nicely carved pine frame. The canvas featuring a view of Chateau de Savinac in Bordeaux, France.

A Fabulous set of Hand Coloured Etching by Joaquim Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) of Bullfighting Nephew and follower of Segundo Matilla, Joaquín Terruella was also a disciple of Sa...

Nude Portrait of a Young Woman with a Scarf, Maurice Ehlinger, Circa 1940. We present a rare and refined work by a master portraitist of the 20th century. Details of the Artwork: ...

1940s Signed Realist WPA Banana Flower Oil Painting Offered for sale is a stunning 1940s realist WPA oil painting oil on board. The painting is signed a...

Colorful impressionistic oil on canvas painting of fishing boats in a harbor. Greens, blues and reds comprise the majority of the color pallet. Nicely framed and signed Bolus. 33" x ...

Pär Lindblad (b. 1907, d. 1981), Swedish artist. Oil on board. "Modell". Nude study. Dated 1949. The board measures: 40 x 32 cm. The frame measures: 5 cm. Signed and dated. In ve...

This captivating landscape oil painting captures the essence of nature with a logger seated in a lush green meadow. The vivid hues and intricate details bring the scene to life, invi...

Medium is oil on masonite. Our client purchased over forty years ago in NYC at auction but does not have any paperwork to detail provenance. Painting is signed and dated at lower l...

Gouache on paper fashion sketch by Ginette Roger, in new custom gilt frame. France, 1940's

Gouache on paper fashion sketch by Ginette Roger, in new custom gilt frame. France, 1940's

Gouache on paper fashion sketch by Ginette Roger, in new custom gilt frame. France, 1940's

Mid-Century Modern vintage painting animal motif fishes by Robert Libeski 1946 Vienna. An amazing painting with a motif looks like the painter was situated in the middle of a sea su...

American abstract impressionist oil painting on maisonite by Zoute' ( born Leon Salter, 1903 - 1976 / North Rose, NY ) a portrait of his beloved wife Thelma sitting on a tall back ch...

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...

Fantastic work by Bucks County artist and illustrator Charles William Hargens Jr. Hargens created over 3000 magazine covers for magazines such as ...

Mid-Century French Peonies Oil Painting Still Life. Signed A. Bonquet dated 1948. Lavender colors. 30 inches W by 24 inches H

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...

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...

Antique framed oil painting on canvas by Zollepx is a beautiful work that depicts the classic still life of a pewter pitcher filled with colorful flowers and set by an open window. P...

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...

An untitled oil painting depicting a rural road surrounded by trees. - Oil on canvas, signed lower right and dated 1940. - Unframed.

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...

"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...

Beautiful signed original painting on canvas by Charles Cobelle of Paris. Charles Cobelle was a studio assistant to Raoul Dufy prior to his own prolific career as an artist in Paris....

SATURDAY SALE Galloping Horses, airbrushed watercolor by Benjamin Jorj Harris (American, 1904-1957) for Newman Decor. Dimensions shown are for fr...

1664 Antique Equestrian oil painting of a blacksmith shop in the South Image size 17.5x23.5"

This evocative gouache portrait by Matthew William Boyhan captures a young man in a moment of deep contemplation. The artist’s use of muted yet warm colors highlights the subject's y...

Provenance from Estate of the son of Thomas Garside, who was a very closed friend of Sherriff-Scott. .  

5130 Antique oversized cubic city skyline framed oil painting Signed Boruszak Image size 19.5x23.5"

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"

3302 Hunting dog oil on canvas applied to board displayed in a wood frame Signed Geyer Image size 10.25x13.5"

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

A wonderfull painterly painting by Olivier Foss (1920-2002). A Parisian street scene with a solitary figure-a quintessence of modern existence. done with palette knife and brush the painting has a great feeling and high quality of execution. In a high quality frame with gold leaf edge. Here is a quick note about the artist, courtesy of Kodner Gallery...

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...

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...

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.

Original 1940s Pink Flamingo Watercolor Painting on Paper Signed by Shirrell Graves. The painting features its original white wood frame with a Mirrored border, this is the frame Gra...

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 Dawson’, English, 1940. Footnote: Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) was born in West London, in Chiswick in 1895, Montague Dawson was the grandson of Victorian landscape painter Henry Dawson. He studied under the seascape artist Charles Napier Hemy...

1944 original painting by Miller. unframed.

Condition: Original Vintage Condition Designer: Josef Schwarzfischer Manufacturer: Josef Schwarzfischer Materials: Gilt-wood Frame, Oil On Canvas Style: Traditional

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"

A very interesting and unusual Pfoutz Original Farm Scene Oil Painting by artist J. Earle Pfoutz. The painting is produced on artist and comes complete with what appears to be an original artist decorated/painted frame. The Pfoutz Original Farm Scene Oil Painting is signed on the front by the artist and appears to be dated 1948 on the rear. Known for his unusual subjects Pfoutz outdid himself with this effort, capturing the essence of a Lancaster County farm but with the startling twist of portraying a large turkey vulture in the foreground. Definitely unique. Overall frame Size approximately 33″ wide x 3″ deep x 26″ high J. Earle Pfoutz had a long and distinguished career as a self trained artist. More can be learned about him from reading this article produced by Gary Hawbaker at askART Earle Pfoutz Born: 1891 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania Died: 1957 Known for: Landscape, figure, still life painting An image of J Earle Pfoutz Biography from the Archives of askART J. Earle Pfoutz (John Earle Pfoutz) – (Oct 23, 1891-Nov 9, 1957) “A seventh generation descendant of a Swiss family which arrived in America early in the 17th Century, J. Earle Pfoutz was born in Lancaster, PA, son of John Bachman and Susan Allison Pfoutz. He painted houses for a living and pictures for a life. A self-taught artist, described as a primitive, he was distinctive for his vivid imagination and bold color application. He painted hundreds of Lancaster County scenes. Pfoutz traveled through the hills near his home and along the Susquehanna River in search of scenes. He began painting with a brush when he was fourteen, but added a palette knife after suffering an eye injury. He completed eighth grade in the Lancaster Public Schools and there his formal education ended. However, the Department of Public Instruction of the State of Pennsylvania thought so highly of his work as an artist that officials certified him as an art instructor and he taught for a year in the York (PA) public schools. He also was an art instructor under the program for disabled veterans, sponsored by the Veterans Administration, when he gave private instruction to veterans in their homes. In 1947, J. Earle Pfoutz finally earned national recognition as an artist. His painting, Opalescent October, was chosen by the Museum of Art of Dayton Ohio, to travel all over the country for a year with its Group Exhibition. Described as a “very colorful, calm scene, iridescent in color, sweeping in design,” the painting started on its journey around the country early in 1948. In an interview with the Sunday News (Lancaster, PA – Nov 2, 1947), Pfoutz stated that he didn’t know whether he was a “primitive” or an “impressionist.” No master taught him, no school channeled his style. “Sometimes I didn’t eat, but I always managed to paint,” he recalled. Many of his hundreds of canvases -most of them not sold, but given away to friends – found their way to other parts of the country. “I never remember the day when I did not love color,” Pfoutz said. “I was about 12 years old when I saw my first palette – a string of different colored paint paddles that graced the stores of that day. As a boy I had two great desires. One was to be able to eat all the strawberry jam I could, and the other to possess a string of those beautiful paint paddles. Well, I’ve got my fill of jelly, but I’ve never yet got my fill of beautiful colors.” In 1950, Pfoutz’s one man show of paintings made front page headlines in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: “Most of the twenty oil paintings on exhibition are landscapes, although there are several interesting figure studies. Colors again, as in all Pfoutziana are rich and full-bodied, but for the most part not as startlingly as in some of the earlier work. Most of the paintings were done during the past year, and also reveal the painter’s characteristic heavy impasto technique, in which the rich swirls of paint carry their own message. Among the figures, The Banjo Picker, and The Magician, are the most provocative. Both are character studies; the first being of a tramp musician whose drab clothing is set-off by a luminous aqua blue background. Modern in feeling and treatment is The Magician, a clown-faced wizard whose spinning ball in the air suggests the fourth dimension – space. The use of the primary colors in this picture serves to emphasize the theme effectively. A large colorful landscape, Opalescent October, depicting rolling hills against a late afternoon sky is new to Lancastrians, as it has just returned from Dayton, Ohio, where it hung in the Dayton Art Institute. Another landscape with soft dreamy colors is Fantasie D’Autumne, and one of the loveliest pictures in the show. Pennsylvania Dutch Country is another with eye appeal, and was one of the works which was hung in the Old Customs House in Philadelphia during Pennsylvania Week, and before that in a collection of Pfoutz work in the same place. In deep contrast to the sunny skies and brilliant foliage of many of the pictures, is the somewhat morbid Worry, in which the center of interest is a tremendous rat. This, the painter explains, was symbolic of 1948 in China, which was ‘The Year of The Rat’ in the Chinese calendar. Background material for the picture was furnished to Pfoutz by author Pearl Buck. Other pictures include Autumn Prelude, Miners Village, painted at Cornwall, PA; Humid Day, Saint Peters Kierch, at Middletown, PA; Lady Pfoutz, inspired by the painter’s wife; Sun Flowers, Sentimental Journey, Gyne, Luzon Woman, Old Bridge, The Cow Path. Lemures, based on Roman mythology, and Ethiopian, painted from an ebony wood carving from Kenya Province, S. Africa.” In 1953, Pfoutz was installed as President of the Lancaster County Art Association. A. Z. Kruse, New York City artist, writer and member of the faculty of the Brooklyn College and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, Manhattan, was the guest speaker. In January of 1953, thirty-five Pfoutz oils were exhibited at the Old Custom House in Philadelphia, PA under the sponsorship of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation. Several Lancaster County landscapes and covered bridges were included as well as Katy, a Pennsylvania Dutch scene. Symbolic paintings included End of the Second Day, the artist’s visualization of the second coming of Christ, and Twilight, typifying the grief of mothers of all lands for sons lost in battle. In June of 1953, a Pfoutz oil made history in Lancaster. From the Lancaster New Era: “For the first in local art history, a painting has been withdrawn from an exhibition because of objections from viewers and hostesses serving at the show. The painting, Jeune Fille, a standing nude done by Pfoutz, was one of the paintings in the annual spring exhibition of the Art Association and had become the center of the controversy. Pfoutz said he took the painting down… ‘graciously but reluctantly.’ ‘From an artistic standpoint, there is nothing offensive about the painting,’ Pfoutz said. ‘This community just wants its nudes with clothes on.’ “It is most brilliant in color, and because it is so brilliant I thought it would make a nice lively spot for the show. This is the first time I’ve had to take a picture off the walls. I substituted a seascape for it.’ Pfoutz said he felt the painting brought a lot of viewers to the show because it was so controversial. It had never been exhibited before. ‘If this had been shown in a metropolitan city,’ he commented, ‘people wouldn’t have given it a second glance. But the viewpoint here is more conservative, even though I don’t think moderns would have minded.’ He said he felt the painting was neither ‘objectionable nor pornographic,’ but had complied with the wishes of fellow members of the Art Association who telephoned him to relay the protests they had received. The art controversy was the first to arise here publicly since the showing of Amish Grandmother, an oil by William Gropper which was part of the Gimbel Pennsylvania exhibit at the Griest Building several years ago. — Numerous viewers of Amish Grandmother, [a painting showing an Amish woman holding a white goose], expressed themselves quite vocally, calling it an affront to the Plain Folk. But it stayed on exhibit throughout the length of the Gimbel show. Pfoutz expressed no rancor, implying that if Gropper could take it so could he.” After his death, there were several shows of Pfoutz’ work organized by his son J. Earle, Jr. J. Earle, Jr. also saw to it that President Eisenhower would receive an oil called The Cow’s Path. The president first saw the painting in 1950 when, as president of Columbia University, he visited Lancaster to address a student assembly at Franklin and Marshall College. After his address was over, the then Gen. Eisenhower stopped at the Fackenthal Library on the campus to view an exhibition of Pfoutz’s paintings. The Cow’s Path intrigued him. For some time, as his aides fumed to get him back on his time schedule, Eisenhower and Pfoutz talked, as artist to artist. Prior to his death, Pfoutz requested that The Cow’s Path be given to the President if he wanted it. The painting was presented to Ike at the White House in November of 1959. Mrs. Eisenhower owned a Pfoutz painting titled, In the Manor. Though house painting was his livelihood, he worked for Millersville State Teachers College (now a university) for a time during World War II, and called himself “the Chimney Sweep of MSTC.” During that period he knocked out a dizzying canvas in the surrealist style (he thought it was terrible) and got into the campus newspaper when one of the students spotted it. Earle Pfoutz was not the humble, downtrodden artist, not the Douanier Rousseau type at all. As he developed his skill and style through the years, he also fashioned a resilient confidence in himself as an artist. Whether he was building his own home (he built two) or painting one for somebody else, he never lost faith in his ultimate recognition—though he was never sure he would live to see it. Whether he was working as a rigger for a hoisting company, in the Stehli Silk Mill of Lancaster, carving Cloister-style chairs, decorating old chests, cementing bricks from the old Safe...

A painting of a garden landscape, oil on canvas signed left below 'M. Tytgat Aine'. Médard Tytgat (8 February 1871, Bruges – 11 January 1948, Brussels), a Belgian painter, lithograph...

California Coastal Landscape Painting Mystery artist Oil on board Circa 1940s 15 x 20 unframed 18.25 x 23.25 framed

Fox in the snow Author: Hans Vilz Support: Canvas Technique: Oil Period: 1940s Dimensions: 60 x 80 cm - without frame 77 x 97 cm – with frame Description: A fox, in the muffled si...

Lester Stevens born Rockport Massachusetts. Trained with Edmund Tarbull. Helped establish the Rockport Art Association with Aldro Hibbard and Harry Vincent. He taught art at Princeto...

A pair of framed Airbrushed watercolor paintings on paper by Shirrel Graves. Each painting features a male deer in the forest, gazing into the distance as the noon sun shines overhea...

Best known for his handsome, beautifully-crafted furniture designs, much in demand today, Tommi Parzinger also painted over the span of his career. His rare, early works -- such as t...

Textural Floral and Fruit Still Life Signed Leyster. Oil on Board in the style of Cezanne. Solid wooden frame. Perfect classical piece for that fine dining room or hallway entry. Ple...

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...

Offered here for your consideration is a vintage original Earl MacPherson pastel painting of a pin-up girl. Depicting a blond, smiling, nude pin-up girl dressed only with two larg...