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Period: 1940s
Returnable Items Only
Midcentury Reynold Weidenaar National Cathedral Washington DC Etching
Located in Dayton, OH
Midcentury 1940s etching of the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. (1943) pencil signed by Reynold Weidenaar.
Reynold Henry Weidenaar
(American, 1915-1985)
National Cathedral, Washington D.C., 1943
etching
signed and titled in pencil lower margin, signed in plate
edition of 25
“The following is from Fred W McCraw, art writer and artist. McCraw served during Weidenaar's last years as a consultant to the artist. Then, for several years after that, he also assisted the artist's family in managing Weidenaar's estate:
Reynold Weidenaar was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on 11/17/1915, and died there on 4/23/1985. He lived most of his life in west Michigan, with brief residencies away in Wisconsin, Kansas City, Missouri and in old Mexico...
Category
American Classical Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Ski Travel Poster Mont Dore Auvergne Snowman France Skiing Art
By Jean Even
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster for Le Mont Dore Auvergne in France featuring a fun design by Jean Even (1910-1986) depicting a skier wearing a racing bib skiing down a slope at s...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Gotsch Friedrich Karl '1900-1984' Painting, Still Life 1945
Located in Handewitt, DE
Friedrich Karl GOTSCH (1900-1984), very well-known and renowned german painter of the golden era of expressionism, impressionism and „Neue Sachlichkeit“.
Friend of many world-famous artists of the time. His extraordinary works can be found in many exhibitions and collections around the world.
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Oil / Gouache on cardboard from 1945. New professional framed.
Monogrammed „F...
Category
German Expressionist Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Double Indemnity
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1944 Film Noir double Indemnity.
This film starred Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck.
The film was directed by Billy Wilder.
This lobby card is co...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
French Faience Oyster Plate Moustiers Style, circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
French Faience rustic oyster plate Moustiers style, circa 1940.
Painting of birds and flowers.
Category
French Rustic Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Faience
Modernist Brass Frame for Painting, Drawing or Mirror, 1940s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This French 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. Its rectangular sh...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Metal, Brass
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Help Britain Finish The Job WWII Warships
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Help Britain Finish the Job! - featuring dynamic artwork depicting a warship at sea crashing through waves towards the viewer and s...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
House of Fear
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1945 Film Noir Mystery House of Fear.
This film starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
The film was directed by Roy William Neill.
This lobby card is conservation framed with UV plexiglass in an Obeche wood frame with card mounts and UV plexiglass. The Size given is before framing. The piece would be shipped boxed...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Early Signed Jack Lord Oil Painting / Tile / Wood Frame, USA, c. 1940's
Located in Deland, FL
This exceptional signed oil painting by John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920 - January 21, 1998) is perfect for collectors. Better known by his sta...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Original Vintage Poster Austrian Alpine Club Osterreichischer Alpenverein Skiing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster for the Austrian Alpine Club / Osterreichischer Alpenverein featuring a skier carrying skis over his shoulder with snowy mountain peaks behind him, the stylis...
Category
Austrian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Piet Hein, Wall Plate, Royal Copenhagen
Located in MAASTRICHT, LI
Product description:
Piet Hein was a polymath from Copenhagen, he was a mathmatician, poet, designer, writer and inventor. During the second world war he joined the resistance in D...
Category
Danish Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Faience
Mid-Century French Faience Oyster Plate Quimper
Located in Austin, TX
Mid-century French Faience oyster plate signed Quimper.
Category
French Rustic Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Ceramic
1942 Frances Gifford Hollywood Portrait Print by George Hurrell, Framed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
1942 Hollywood Portrait artwork print of actress Frances Gifford by George Hurrell in its original white wood Framed.
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Vintage Persian Kerman Oriental Rug, Room Size, with a Central Medallion
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Persian Kerman oriental carpet, size 12'0" H x 8'10" W, circa 1940.
This vintage hand-knotted Persian rug features a stri...
Category
Persian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
Paul Wightman Williams, Petite Midcentury Abstracted Mixed Media on Paper, 1944
Located in Norwalk, CT
Paul Wightman Williams, American (20th century).
Gouache, ink, and pastel or charcoal on paper. Signed "WW" and dated "44". Unframed.
This diminutive figural painting features an i...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
1940's Oil Painting on Canvas of Rural Scene
Located in Houston, TX
1940's Oil Painting on Canvas of Rural Scene.
Rural scene oil painting on canvas in a gilt wooden frame.
Category
Unknown Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Original Vintage Travel Poster Air France World Map Postal Network Reseau Aerian
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Air France map poster - Air France Reseau Aerian Postal / Air France Postal Network - featuring a colourful planisphere design showing t...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Majolica Palissy Portuguese Lobster Wall Platter, circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
Large Majolica Palissy Portuguese lobster platter, circa 1940.
Decorated with mussels and shells,
Signed Caldas da Rainha.
12.5 inches Diameter.
Category
Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Go West
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for the American comedy Go West directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx.
Thi...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Fukuura Beach Japan Scenic Coast View Island Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting Fukuura beach in Japan featuring great scenic artwork depicting people enjoying sunbathing on a large sandy beach and swimming in the bay wit...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Millard Sheets Signed Original Drawing Wartime Boats in Stormy Seas Harbor, 1942
By Millard Sheets
Located in Studio City, CA
Wonderful and darkly intriguing original artwork by renowned American Modernist artist and California artist benefactor Millard Sheets (1907-1989) featuring wartime boats caught in stormy seas. Very evocative and certainly quite relevant to the time it was created taken in the context of the war.
The work is hand pencil signed and dated (1942) by Sheets on the mat just below the artwork.
Provenance: Property from the estate of Millard Sheets.
Would be a great addition to any collectors of his work or Mid-Century Modern artist or an eye-catching stand-alone accent artwork in about any setting.
Sheets many awards include:
Watson F. Blair Purchase Prize, Chicago Art Institute (1938)
Philadelphia Watercolor Club Prize (1939)
Dana Watercolor Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of fine Arts (1943)
Drawing Prize, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1946)
Gold Brush Award, Artists Guild of Chicago, Award of the Year (1951)
Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (1964)
His works can be found in numerous permanent collections, public settings, and international museums including:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Scripps College, CA
The White House (Washington, DC)
The San Diego Museum
The Los Angeles Public Library...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
1948 Duke University Kappa Sig Sigma Signed Fraternity Pledge Hazing Paddle
Located in Dayton, OH
Mid 20th century Kappa Sigma fraternity wooden pledge hazing paddle, fully painted on the front in burgundy, green and white, with applied fraternity logo, taped handle and surname of original owner, (Jack) Gibson. Reverse is signed with the names of pledges.
Made at Duke University...
Category
Folk Art Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Hardwood, Paint
Vase of Flowers with Fruit Oil Painting, Fitger Hermann
Located in Albignasego, IT
Fitger Hermann - Vase of Flowers with Fruit
Measures: 32cm x 44cm - frame excluded
50cm x 62cm - with antique fir frame
oil on canvas applied to cardboard - 1946
20th cen...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Tsuchiya Koitsu Japanese Woodblock Print Sunset at Tomonotsu, Inland Sea, 1940
Located in Studio City, CA
A very beautiful, serene and relatively rare woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Tsuchiya Koitsu titled "Sunset at Tomonotsu, Inland Sea" was made...
Category
Japanese Showa Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster BOAC World Air Routes Western Hemisphere Design
By E.O. Seymour
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for BOAC World Air Routes Western Hemisphere featuring a pictorial map with colourful illustrations of people in national dress, places of ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Stewartry Of Kirkcudbright Scotland Railways Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Railways poster - The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright Scotland - featuring a peaceful scenic view by Charles Oppenheimer (1875-1961) of the Solway Riviera coastal...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Guide The Fighter Planes Army Air Force Recruitment
Located in London, GB
Original vintage world war two recruitment poster - Guide the fighter planes Join the Army Air Forces Ground Observer Corps Volunteer at your local Civilian D...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Propaganda Poster Victory Farm Volunteer US Crop Corps WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front propaganda poster - Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps See Your Principal - featuring a photomontage design of people working on a field with horse drawn machinery and loading food into wooden barrels, an image of a young lady and man...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Midcentury Art Panel of Antique Glass Bottle Remnants
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Midcentury art panel made from scraps of antique glass bottles scavenged from the infamous renovation of Amsterdam's Muntplein Square. A dynamic p...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Concrete
Original Vintage WWII Poster War Savings Are Warships Norman Wilkinson Navy Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front poster issued to encourage people to buy war savings bonds and help win the war. Dramatic artwork by the notable British artist and illustra...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Framed Print of Saint Peter by Unknown Artist, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Framed print of Saint Peter with the keys to heaven.
By unknown artist, circa 1940.
In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautif...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Art Deco Drawing Representing Nude Woman by Van Doren 'Raymond' Belgium 1941
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This drawing is representing a nude woman. The frame is in a brown color, and the drawing is done on a white support.
It has made circa 1940. Art Deco Period.
by VAN DOREN (Raymond...
Category
Belgian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, 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
Large Antique Chinese Fan Painted Entirely by Hand 1940 China Ducks Flower
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Large Antique Chinese fan Painted Entirely by Hand 1940 China Ducks Flower.
Category
Chinese Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Poster War Savings Are Warships Norman Wilkinson WWII Navy Sea
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front poster issued to encourage people to buy war savings bonds and help win the war. Dramatic artwork by the notable British artist and illustra...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Artifacts Exhibition Otsu Shiga Japan Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster advertising the Eighth Local Artefacts Exhibition in Otsu City (Shiga Prefecture Japan) featuring a leafy green tree in front of a traditional old style Japan...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Careless Talk Costs Lives No Harm Hitler Fougasse
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster by the notable British cartoonist and illustrator Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird; 1887-1965), from the popular iconic Careless Talk...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Besos perdidos 1945 Argentine Film PosterERT
Located in New York, NY
Original 1945 Argentine poster for the film Besos perdidos (Lost Kisses) directed by Mario Soffici with Alberto Bello / Roberto Bordoni / Jose Castro....
Category
Argentine Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Train Driver Soviet Railway USSR
By V. Elkin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - I will be a train driver! / ???? ??????????! Great artwork of a young train driver in uniform operating the controls with a view towards m...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Dutch Midcentury Unsigned Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dutch 1940s unsigned abstract oil painting. Tempestuous and energetic, with a painterly quality related to Chagall and Der Blaue Reiter. A wonderful e...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Karl Blossfeldt Black White Flower Photogravure Botanic Photography, 1942
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Karl Blossfeldt Photogravure from the edition of the book 'Wunder in der Natur' in 1942.
Photography number 43.
In original condition, w...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Italian Inlaid Wood(Marquetry) Neapolitan Terrace View Wall Panel
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
2-315 Italian wall panel with various wood inlay depicting a Neapolitan terrace with a view of mount Vesuvius.
Category
Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Boxwood
Vintage Brass Wall Sculpture Of Naked Woman, Circa 1940
Located in Zohor, SK
Beautiful and elegant wall art sculpture in brass. Produced probably in Czechoslovakia circa 1940s. The art work portraits a nude woman. Unknown autho...
Category
Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Brass, Copper
Pirate 1948 Argentine Film Poster
Located in New York, NY
Original 1948 Argentine poster for the film The Pirate directed by Vincente Minnelli with Judy Garland / Gene Kelly / Walter Slezak / Gladys Cooper. V...
Category
Argentine 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
Framed Color Print of Saint and Child, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Framed print of Saint and Child.
By unknown artist, circa 1940.
In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a ...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Japan Trade Expo Yokohama Tokyo Bay Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Japan Trade Expo / 日本貿易博覽會 on 15 March 1949 at Nogeyama Park Yokohama City featuring a view over the city with a train running along a rai...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Set of Six 1940s Disney Print Plates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Steel printmaking plates from various Disney pictures. Beautiful trace remnants of original ink gives these plates a painterly appeal. Fabulous displayed as a collection or individua...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Steel
Original Vintage Recruitment Poster Product Design Japan Foreign Export Industry
Located in London, GB
Original vintage recruitment poster featuring artwork of funnels and a crane moving a wooden crate labelled Made in Japan against a green background...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
19th Century Portrait of a Woman Painted in Oil on Canvas with Frame
Located in Marbella, ES
19th Century portrait of a woman painted in oil on canvas with the frame dated in 1940
Measurements with frame: 69 x 69 x 3 cm.
Category
Spanish Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Passive Defence WWII Shelter Bombs France
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Abri Defense Passive Explosifs / Explosives Passive Defence Shelter - featuring a dynamic design ...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Framed Print of Saint Anthony by Unknown Artist, circa 1940 Preci
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Framed print of Saint Anthony.
By unknown artist, circa 1940.
In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautiful patina.
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Stormy Weather 1944 Swedish Stolpe Film Poster
Located in New York, NY
Original 1944 Swedish stolpe poster for the first Swedish theatrical release of the film Stormy Weather directed by Andrew L. Stone with Lena Horne / Bill Robinson / Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra / Katherine Dunham...
Category
Swedish Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Karl Blossfeldt Black White Flower Photogravure Botanic Photography, 1942
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Karl Blossfeldt Photogravure from the edition of the book 'Wunder in der Natur' in 1942.
Photography number 30. 'Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. Gemeine Wucherblume, große Maßliebe, Mar...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Build Prosperity Save Now WWII Savings
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - To Build for Prosperity ... Save Now - featuring an old church building in ruins with scaffolding...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Piet Hein, Wall Plate, Royal Copenhagen
Located in MAASTRICHT, LI
Product description:
Piet Hein was a polymath from Copenhagen, he was a mathmatician, poet, designer, writer and inventor. During the second world war he joined the resistance in D...
Category
Danish Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Faience
A Royal Affair 1949 Japanese B3 Film Poster
Located in New York, NY
Original 1949 Japanese B3 poster for the film A Royal Affair (Le roi) directed by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon with Maurice Chevalier / Annie Ducaux / Sophie Desmarets. Very Good condition,...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
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