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Period: 1940s
George Platt-Lynes Vintage Photo Gravure, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Vintage photo gravure by the photographer George Platt-Lynes, circa 1940.
Wood frame with passepartout and high quality museum's glass.
In original co...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Oil On Canvas Circular Art Deco Paintings Of The Smoky Mountains
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Rare circular Art Deco scenes of the Smoky Mountains with date and details rendered behind the paintings. Beautifully hand painted in vivid hues and original circular gilt frames. Em...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
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
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Original Vintage Drink Poster 5 Million Guinness For Strength Every Day Steel
By John Gilroy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the iconic drink Guinness Irish stout beer - 5 Million Guinness for strength every day - featuring a smil...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster GPO 8 Million Telephone Calls Modernism Pat Keely Post
By Pat Keely
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster published by the General Post Office GPO - 8,000,000 telephone calls a day - featuring a great graphic design by the notable British artist Pat Keely (Patrick Cokayne Keely; 1901-1970) depicting the large numbers in deep red across the image with telephone handsets...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
1942 Qualitee Francaise Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Beautiful rare poster urging people to go to Germany and be the ambassador of French quality or "Qualite Francaise".
Featuring stunning artwork attributed to Eric Castel depicting a...
Category
German Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"Snowy Egrets and Cypress, " Large Art Deco Painting by Harcombe, Aqua and Blue
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
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Continental Giltwood Framed Oil on Board Coastal Painting ca. 1940, Signed
Located in Atlanta, GA
Continental Giltwood Framed Oil on Board Coastal Painting ca. 1940 , Signed
Category
Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
Oil Painting by Ernst Rasmussen
By Ernst Rasmussen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil painting by well listed artist Ernst Rasmussen(1912-1964) The painting is painted on canvas and dated "46". Store formerly known as ARTFUL DODGE...
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Original Vintage WWII Travel Poster Good Old Days Great Indian Peninsula Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two travel poster - Back to the Good Old Days! ...National needs come first! Travel only when you must! - issued by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIP...
Category
Indian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Transatlantique French Line Le Havre Southampton
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel poster - Cie Gle Transatlantique French Line Le Havre Southampton New York - featuring artwork by the French artist Albert Brenet (1903-2005) depicting an ocean liner sailing at sea with the stylised title text above and against the choppy white waves below. Founded in 1861 (having been established in 1855 by the brothers Emile and Issac Pereire), the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique CGT was a French shipping company known as French Line and Transat; it merged with Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
'Saraband for Dead Lovers' Original British Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British movie poster for the 1948 Ealing Studios Drama starring Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson
The film was directed by Basil ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
The Spiral Staircase / La Scala Al Chiocciola
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1946 mystery, horror film The Spiral Staircase.
This film was directed by Robert Siodmak and stared Dorothy McGuire...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet War Propaganda Poster Strengthen Combat Power USSR WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet World War Two propaganda poster - Крепите боевую мощь CCCP! / Strengthen the combat power of the USSR - featuring two illustrations divided by the bold title ...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Pierre Adrien Ekman (1904-1993), Discovery of the New World, Framed Oil Painting
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb oil painting by Pierre Adrien Ekman (1904-1993). Beautiful representation of the Discovery of the New World. Painting style with touches of the Romantic, Naif, Art Deco, surre...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
The Shop Around the Corner
Located in London, GB
Original black and white photographic production still used to send out to the press to advertise The 1940 comedy romance drama The Shop Around the Corner...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Pair of Authentic California Fruit Crate Labels Featuring Apples. Circa 1940's
Located in Incline Village, NV
Offered is a pair of original "Apple" fruit crate labels, circa 1940's, unused and professionally mounted in oak frames with white colored beveled matte.
The labels would have been...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Alfredo Strongman Circus Tour Weightlifting
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Гастроли Альфредо / Alfredo's Tour featuring a colourful illustration of Alfredo the strongman in the centre dressed in a red and yellow toga ...
Category
Uzbek Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
United States Battalion "300th Engineers by Michael Marsden
Located in Pomona, CA
United States Combat Battalion "300th Engineers". Artist Michael Marsden 1902-1994 is known for painting flowers this painting was painted during the war or veteran reunion.
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Silence Enemy Watching Paul Colin WWII
By Paul Colin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster Silence - The Enemy is Watching for your confidences / Silence, l'Ennemi guette vos confidences - Design by Paul Colin (1892-1985) features two ...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement for the 1949 Comedy, Horror Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff.
The film was directed by Char...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Vintage Photo Gravure, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Vintage photo gravure, circa 1940.
Wood frame with passepartout and high quality museum's glass.
In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a ...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
"Whiskey Sours, " Cubist-Art Deco Painting with Bottle and Jigger
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Taking its cues from the broken planes and tilted objects of Cubist masters such as Braque and Gris, as well as the polished art of the Art Deco movement, this brilliant painting sho...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Original Vintage Sport Poster USSR Cycling Championship Race Riga Soviet Latvia
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport poster for the Soviet Union Cycling Championship Race - PSRS Meistarsacikstes Ritenbrauksana - held in Riga Latvia from 2-6 July 1947 organised by the All-Unio...
Category
Latvian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Sport Skiing Poster Dartmouth Winter Carnival 1940 Ski USA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage skiing poster for the Dartmouth Winter Carnival held on 9 to 10 February 1940 featuring a great design depicting a skier in a dark blue ski suit and helmet skiing at...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet WWII Propaganda Poster Defence Of The Motherland USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet World War Two propaganda poster - For the Defence of the Motherland / На Защиту Родины - featuring a dynamic design depicting Red Army soldiers marching in li...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
'Crossfire' Original US Lobby Card
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1947 film noir directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum. This lobby card is also signed by Robert...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
"Comedy and Tragedy", Rare Pair of Copper Art Deco Sculptural Masks, Italy
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dramatic -- appropriately! -- and well crafted, this pair of copper repoussé, wall-mounted masks depict the classic faces of Comedy and Tragedy. The faces have a lovely coppery colo...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Copper
Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1868-1968). "Le Rêve". Lithography on Arches paper.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1868-1968). "Le Rêve".
Lithography on Arches paper. Approx. 1947.
Visible dimensions: 73 x 55 cm.
Total dimensions: 84 x 65 cm.
The frame measures: 6 cm.
...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Angels with Dirty Faces/Gli Angeli Con La Faccia Sporca
Located in London, GB
Original Italian movie poster for Michael Curtiz's Classic 1938 crime film staring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, the poster is designed by the wonderful Italian artist ...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Original Vintage WWII Home Front Propaganda Poster We Want You With Us War Work
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front propaganda poster - We want You with us! There's a place for everyone locally or somewhere in England Get into War Work this week - featurin...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Britain's Sea Power Savings Navy Ship WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Britain's Sea Power Maintain it with your Savings - featuring a dynamic image of Royal Navy warsh...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"Secret Beyond The Door, " Original Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1948 Film Noir directed Fritz Langs Film Noir staring Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave.
This poster is conservation linen backed and it would be sh...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Military Poster Track And Field Allied Forces Sports Council
Located in London, GB
Original vintage military sport poster - Allied Forces Sports Council presents Armed Forces European Theater Track and Field Championships Olympic Stadium Berlin Germany - starting at 2pm and held on 7 and 8 September 1946, featuring an illustration of a winged goddess and an athlete holding a laurel wreath in front of a map of Europe between red and white striped theatre stage curtains with the participating countries listed below - Belgium Czechoslovakia Denmark France Great Britain Greece Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Russia United States. Sponsored by the US Army this successful post-war meet attracted 120,000 spectators; it included an Olympic style opening ceremony and a runner carrying a flaming torch and was also broadcast by radio; it featured hurdles, various running distances, pole vault, high jump, shot put, discus, long jump...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Conflict
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still used by the studio to advertise the film. these stills were sent out to news papers. This piece shows a great image of Humphrey Bogart as architect Richard Mason...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Brighton Rock
Located in London, GB
Original black and white photographic production still used to send out to the press to advertise The 1948 Thriller Brighton Rock.
This film was directed by John Boulting and starre...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Recruitment Propaganda Poster Join The AIF Camel WWII Australia
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two recruitment propaganda poster for the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF; 1939-1947) voluntary military forces - How she'll prize your letters from overseas Join the AIF - featuring a lady's hand holding a photograph of a soldier in army uniform...
Category
Australian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"Train of Event" Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1949 Ealing Studios drama starring Valerie Hobson, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson. The film was directed by Sidney Cole, C...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
White Heat
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card number 5 for White Heat 1949. This film was directed by Raoul Walsh, and stars James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. Cagney...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Set of five Christian Berard style theatre costume gouaches, 1940s
Located in Lisboa, PT
Set of five gouaches paintings representing theatre characters in Renaissance costumes, in the style of Christian Berard. France, 1940s.
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"Bedouin, " Striking Art Deco Painting by Stahlhut, NY World's Fair Poster Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Striking and handsome, this depiction of a Bedouin in his traditional robe has the color and intensity one would associate with the fierce sun and heat of North Africa. The painting ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
1940s Hand Colored Block Print on Textile
Located in Vienna, Austria
This 1940s, colored block print on linen from Slovakia, shows a couple in love in a picturesque land scape.
The pictures is made for wall decoration and is now framed.
"I love you so much...
Category
Slovak Folk Art Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
Angels with Dirty Faces
Located in London, GB
Original US black and white photographic production still for Faces 1938.
This still was were sent out to newspapers to advertise the re-release of the film in the 1940s
The film w...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Food Propaganda Poster Wheatmeal Bread Rationing WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two food propaganda poster published by the Ministry of Food during periods of rationing - Wheatmeal bread fights fatigue and strengthens the nerves - feat...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Military Recruitment Poster Our Homeland Is Strong Netherlands
Located in London, GB
Original vintage military recruitment poster - Our Homeland is strong Report to Support Legal Authority for the Reserve Services / Ons Vaderland Sterk Meldt u bij Steun Wettig Gezag ...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Ski Poster Pontresina Resort Switzerland Leupin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport ski poster for the popular resort of Pontresina in Switzerland featuring a fun and colourful illustration by the notable Swiss poster designer Herbert Leupin (1916-1999) of a snowy tree skiing with its head as a bright smiling sun smoking a pipe and wearing a hat and sunglasses against the blue sky background with branches wearing yellow gloves...
Category
Swiss Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"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
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
"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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
"Abstract Composition" by Louis Schanker
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Tempura on heavy paper, signed and dated 1945 lower left. The piece measures 23" x 30" including the frame and presents very well overall.
Provenance:
Willard Gallery, NYC
Bradbu...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Hawaiian Airbrush Nude on Paper by Mundorff Honolulu in Bamboo Frame, 1945
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Early Mid-century WWII wartime Hawaiian airbrush artwork nude featuring young topless women on an island beach with a palm tree overhead. The airbrush was done on Paper signed by the...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Twelve O'Clock High
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High. This American war film was adapted from the 1948 novel of the same name by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, Jr. The screenpl...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Antique Original Drawing by Raul Anguiano, 1946
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Antique original drawing by Raul Anguiano dedicated to Arturo Arnaiz y Freg for the new year 1946.
José Raúl Anguiano Valadez (February 26, 1915 – January 13, 2006) was a notable Mexican painter of the 20th century, part of the “second generation” of Mexican muralists which continued the tradition of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros but experimented with it as well. Anguiano was born during the height of the Mexican Revolution...
Category
Mexican Other Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Wings For Victory More Savings More Wings WWII RAF
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Wings for Victory More Savings More Wings - featuring a military illustration of a British Royal Air Force RAF pilot with a moustache, wearing...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"The Red Shoes" Photo
Located in London, GB
Original British Studio production photos featuring Moira Shearer in the films famous dance scene. The film directed by the famous duo Michael Powell and...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
"The Pool Players" by Vincent Richard Campanella
By Vincent Campanella
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on artist board signed and dated lower right featuring pool players playing a point match in the pool hall. Great WPA feel and texture impasto. Most likely the original frame measuring 15.25" x 19.25" overall.
Born in New York in 1915, Campanella studied at the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School where the curriculum was based on the Naples Academy founded in the 1440s. He took this classical Renaissance training to the streets of New York, then-rural Astoria, Monhegan Island, and Wyoming.
As an easel artist for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s he painted and taught in Rock Springs, Wyoming. There his style became Abstract and works of Classical Abstraction were recognized in art reviews and exhibitions. He was represented by the Rehn Gallery in New York until the death of Frank Rehn in 1956. His work has been shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Institute, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran Art Gallery, Denver Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, San Diego Museum, San Francisco Museum, Seattle Museum, Toledo Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Universities of Nebraska, Tennessee and Wyoming. He was a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 1968. Retrospective shows of his work have been held at Hunter College (1995) and the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art (2007).
Campanella taught at the University of Wyoming (1940), Columbia University (1946-49), the Kansas City Art Institute (1949-52) and Park College (1952-80). Notable students include Robert Morris, Wilbur Niewald...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
"Nude and Unicorn, " High Style Art Deco Painting by Matulka, Blue & Black, 1944
By Jan Matulka
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This brilliant example of Art Deco painting by Jan Matulka shows hints of the modern take on Cubism that the artist worked out with Stuart Davis. Matulka was born in Prague and came ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
The Lost Weekend / Dias Sin Huella
Located in London, GB
Original Argentine film poster for the 1945 Drama / Film Noir The Lost Weekend.
This film was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Ray Milland, Jane Wyman ...
Category
Argentine Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"High-Stepping Horse, " Unique Art Deco Midcentury Ceramic Relief Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Demonstrating a modern take on Etruscan and other ancient sculpture, this 1941-vintage relief rondel depicts a high-stepping horse and a leafing branch,...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Ceramic
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