"Seated Black Male Nude, " Art Deco Watercolor by Brown County Painter

Strikingly and vividly painted in watery tones of blue, green, tan and rose, this watercolor painting by Jean Paul Slusser depicts three nude male bathers...

An extraordinary example of Art Deco painting with allegorical meaning -- like so many murals painted in the 1920s and 1930s -- this large work by William L'Engle depicts five nude male figures laboring in the field, symbolizing life in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A Black male figure in the foreground is planting crops, while two other figures in the distance are pulling a rope, perhaps alluding to fishing boats tied up at the dock, while another nude seems to be sinking into sleep beneath a pier -- all with the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the background. L'Engle called this "The Five Josephs," perhaps referring to Joseph of Arimathea and other figures in the New Testament. William L'Engle was a towering figure in the Provincetown art colony, and was extremely well connected with America's artistic elite, starting with his trip to Europe as a young man with Waldo Pierce and George Biddle. Over time, William and his life Lucy became close to a wide range of important figures in painting, theater and the arts, including Charles Hawthorne, Eugene O'Neill, Gerrit Beneker, John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, William and Marguerite Zorach, Edna St. Vincent-Millay, Charles Demuth, Childe Hassam, George Biddle, Edwin Dickinson...

Painted in an era when African or African American figures were increasingly featured in painting and sculpture, both in America and Europe, this sensuous depiction of a black male figure by Rowena Meeks Abdy...

This unusual presentation of Mercury, the Greek god of speed and communications, was painted by François-Louis Schmied, one of France's two leading artists specializing in high-end b...

Gilt framed oil painting portrait of man in brown suit and red tie.

A beautiful painting representing an exotic half-nude woman, dressed in a colourful (possibly straw) skirt, with a similar headpiece and choker. The canvas and the back side are full...

Art Deco Nude by John Montroue, signed in lower right corner and reverse reads - "Grace" Air brush technique by John Montroue, 8/70. Dramatic silhouette of a female nude, cubist/mode...

Male nude oil on canvas by New Hope School modernist Faye Swengel Badura (1904-1991). 23.75"Wide x 37.5"High Gilt WoodFramed, Canvas is 19.25"Wide x 33.5...