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Item Ships From: Florida
House-Cat-Mouse /// Contemporary Landscape Spooky Girl Countryside Moon Farm Art
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "House-Cat-Mouse"
Series: Americana
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2021
Medium: O...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Antique 1932 Signed Oil Painting on canvas – Elegant Interior scene, framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This richly detailed oil painting captures a stately interior with remarkable charm and craftsmanship. Executed in 1932 and signed (lower right) “D. Rommo” (presumably), the composit...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique 19th Century Landscape Oil Painting on canvas – Sunset over Pond, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This evocative antique oil painting on canvas captures a tranquil rural scene bathed in the soft glow of a setting sun. A group of wind-swept trees stands along a peaceful pond, with...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled Abstract Expressionist painting
By Willem de Kooning
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful and sophisticated abstract expressionist painting. Clearly a pupil or influenced by the work of de Kooning.
Oil on linen canvas, ca. 1950's.
Measuring 16 x 20 inches; 2...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
New England Winter
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Gordon Ham (20th century)
New England Winter, ca. 1940.
Oil on unstretched canvas panel, 14 x 17 inches.
Measuring 17 x 20 inches framed.
Signed lower right.
Vertical cracking ...
Category
1940s Abstract Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Dutch Style Winter Landscape Oil Painting – Signed Martin – Canvas
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This original vintage oil painting on canvas is a beautiful example of Dutch-style winter landscape art, inspired by the Dutch Golden Age and the 19th-century Romantic revival.
Sign...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
1894 Nicholas Briganti (1861-1944) Antique oil painting cityscape Italy Sorrento
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a phenomenal original antique huge oil painting on board, depicting Sorrento, Italy featuring the Hotel Tasso overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
Signed and dated in ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Den of Thieves /// Contemporary Text Political Painting Washington D.C. Capitol
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Den of Thieves"
Series: Statement
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso
Year: 2023
Medium: Or...
Category
2010s Street Art Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Thomas Kinkade "The Garden of Prayer II" on S/N Canvas 24" x 30" Limited Edition
By Thomas Kinkade
Located in Palm Coast, FL
The Garden of Prayer II is the most popular Thomas Kinkade series. This 24” x 30” edition size is limited in Standard Numbered to 4950 Impressions on canvas. This Painting is #4691/4...
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Coastal Landscape Oil Painting, Seascape with Rocks and Sunset, Framed, Signed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Original Framed Seascape Oil Painting – Crashing Waves at Sunset
This beautifully framed seascape oil painting captures a dramatic ocean scene at sunset, where powerful waves crash ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Oil Painting Clipper Ship at Sea Nautical Maritime Seascape Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This original oil painting on canvas beautifully captures the power and elegance of a tall sailing ship navigating the open ocean. The vessel's crisp white sails billow dramatically ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Catskill Mountains from Germantown NY
By Thomas Cole
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Gorgeous panoramic sunset landscape by unknown artist, ca. 1850. Oil on canvas measuring 20 x 34 inches.
Depicted are the Catskill Mountains facing west from somewhere in Dutchess County NY...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thomas Kinkade Paris, Eiffel Tower 18" x 27" Framed S/N #98/2750 Canvas Painting
By Thomas Kinkade
Located in Palm Coast, FL
A City of Lights II is a popular Thomas Kinkade's series. This large painting titled "Paris, Eiffel Tower, 27” x 18” edition size is limited in Standard Numbered to 2750 S/N on c...
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Caroline Burnett Large Paris Street Scene Oil Painting Triumphal Arch, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This large oil painting on canvas beautifully captures a lively Parisian boulevard scene centered around the Arc de Triomphe. Executed in rich impasto using a palette knife, the artw...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Table top bottles still life painting
By Giorgio Morandi
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful Italian Still Life painting by unknown artist in the style of Giorgio Morandi.
Oil on panel, measuring 16 1/8 x 22 inches. ca. 1960s
Artist board and fixtures are Italian.
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Whimsical Naive Mediterranean Seaside Interior Folk Art Oil Painting Fanch Ledan
By Fanch (Francois Ledan)
Located in Surfside, FL
Francois "Fanch" Ledan (Born 1949) French American artist
Oil on Canvas.
Hand signed and dated
2002
Dimensions: overall Size: 25 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. Sight Size: 15 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.
D...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique oil painting on canvas, Landscape, Cows, Signed, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an antique original oil painting on canvas depicting a serene and tranquil scene - the cows gathered around a watering hole with some of them drinking or cooling off in the ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original 19th century Antique Oil painting on canvas, seascape, Signed, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original signed antique oil painting on canvas depicting a moody seascape with turbulent waves crashing against a rugged shoreline beneath an overcast sky. The distant ho...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
It's Good Business! /// Contemporary Street Art Text War Political Painting
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "It's Good Business!"
Series: Statement
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso
Year: 2023
Mediu...
Category
2010s Street Art Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Art Deco Portrait of a Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Laura M. GREENWOOD (1897-1951).
Portrait of Woman in Winter Coat
Oil on canvas, 18 x 24.5 inches.
Signed lower left. Excellent condition. Would beneifit from a cleaning. Origina...
Category
1930s Art Deco Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Duino Elegies
By Richard Mann
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Richard Mann (1940-1990). Duino Elegies, 1981. Mixed media on rag paper, consisting of 10 sheets, corresponding to the 10 elegies, each measuring 14.5 x 23 inches.
Please request additional images depicting alternate formats or videos.
Biography:
Playwright, poet and visual artist, Rev. Richard Mann was born and educated in Melbourne Australia. At the height of America's counter-cultural revolution, Mann moved to New York City where he lived and worked in Harlem.
He was influenced by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and calligraphy at the time of his arrival.
Beginning in the mid-1970's, the extreme living conditions of Harlem and demands of his religious calling provided subject matter for his painting. Urban decay and ubiquitous public graffiti provide inspiration for compositions that include highly stylized writing.
By the late 1970's many works incorporate writing exclusively, with areas of layered, obscured and illegible words, very much like repeatedly tagged walls.
Education:
Studied painting with Maurice Cantlon, Melbourne, Australia 1961-62.
Liberal Arts Studies, Christ the King...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
Nude in Venice - original large oil painting Paula Craioveanu 55x40in
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Nude in Venice" - original large art by Paula Craioveanu
Original, large, unique painting, oil on canvas, 55x40in / 140x102cm. Shipped rolled in a tube.
Check 1stDibs code FREESHIP...
Category
2010s Expressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Paris Street Scene Original Oil Painting on Canvas 33"x21" Unframed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is an original oil painting on canvas, depicting a charming Parisian street scene.
The artwork is unsigned and comes unframed.
Condition: The painting shows signs of age...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Floral Still Life with Shell
By Edgar Levy
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Edgar Levy (1912-1975). Floral Still Life with Shell, ca. 1955. Oil on canvas measuring 28 x 36 inches. Unframed. Signed with artist monogram lower left.
Edgar Levy is remembered ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique 19 century Original Oil painting on board, Landscape, Amazing Frame
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This antique painting on board depicts a tranquil and atmospheric landscape, bathed in the soft glow of dawn or dusk. The composition is rich in depth, with towering trees framing a ...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Handsome Beatnik
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mary Kiisel Greenwood (b.1924)
Studied: PAFA
Exhibited: Gross McCLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia
Portrait of a Beatnik, ca. 1955-60.
Oil on canvas measuring 12 x 16 inches.
Some w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Oil painting on canvas, seascape, Sailing Ships, T. Orcelli, framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original vintage oil painting on canvas depicting Sailing Ship in the stormy sea.
Presented in a nice wood frame. Frame has some scuffs and scratches. Painting overall is...
Category
2010s Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Listed Artist Hewett JACKSON 1914-2007, seascape Original oil painting on canvas
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a large original oil painting on canvas depicting a sailing ship breaking through the waves leaving a white trace behind, signed by Listed Artist Hewett R. JACKSON ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cubist East River industial scene
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). East River, 1966. 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Excellent condition.
Born in N...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Large Abstract Painting on Canvas "Vanilla Ice Cream", Signed Serg Graff, COA
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is a large unique original acrylic painting on canvas in an fantasy abstract style by Serg Graff Titled "Vanilla Ice Cream". This piece has a wonderful gentle pastel color spect...
Category
2010s Abstract Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Original Oil Painting on Canvas Sailing Ship Seascape Signed & Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Huge Original Maritime Acrylic Painting – Tall Ship at Sea
Signed Framed Dynamic Seascape Artwork
This huge and stunning original acrylic painting on canvas captures a majestic ta...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Post-Impressionist Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful Post-Impressionist landscape painted in Bloomsbury Group era period and style. Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches; 22 x 28 inches framed. Unsigned.
Some areas of paint loss as...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
France Provence Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful ca. 1940 French landscape painting. Oil on canvas measuring 18 x 25 inches. Unframed. Unsigned. Some minor flaking in sky and dirt. Otherwise good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dutch-Style Village Scene Original Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed Framed Art
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This original vintage oil painting on canvas is a striking example of Dutch-style village genre painting. The composition captures a charming European village scene with red-roofed h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Original Oil Painting on Board, Seascape, Signed, Gold Frame
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is an original oil painting on board depicting a majestic tall ship sailing across a vibrant, churning sea. The ship, with its towering masts and fully unfurled white sai...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
TARKAY, ITZCHAK "LAKE CAFE" 2000, ORIGINAL ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36X48
By Itzchak Tarkay
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: TARKAY, ITZCHAK
Title: LAKE CAFE
Year: 2000-2010
Size: 36 X 48 INCHES
Medium: ORIGINAL ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
Edition: ORIGINAL 1/1
Description: Hand signed by the artist.
The art...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Original oil painting on canvas, cityscape, Paris, unsigned, framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This vibrant impressionist-style cityscape captures a bustling Parisian street scene, likely from the late 19th or early 20th century. Tall, historic buildings with warmly glowing sh...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mr. Jack Frost (Abstract Expressionist Mid-century painting)
By Wesley Lea
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Wesley Lea (1914-1981).
Mr. Jack Frost, 1956.
Oil on canvas, 10 x 14 inches. Unframed.
Signed and dated lower left. Titled on verso.
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Ruz Golden Black Big Dejame - original abstract acrylic canvas painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Dejame - original abstract acrylic canvas painting. framed
, Rafael (Barcelona 1956)
While contemplating the painting of Ruz, we are inclined to talk about real ‘psychodrama’, in t...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Princess /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Painting Grace Kelly Abstract Colorful
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Princess"
Series: Eclecticism
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2024
Medium: Origi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
House in Snow (Winter Landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Nicholas Maravell.
House in Snow, 1989.
Ink and watercolor on paper, 10.5 x 13.75 inches; 18 x 21.25 inches framed.
Signed with artist monogram lower right. Gallery label affixe...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Florida - Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Huerta (Thrauco painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Carlos Ortuzar (Chilean, 1932-1985). Estaban Milla es Salvado de las Garras del Huecupor su Companero Lorenzo Huerta, ca. 1964.
Oil on paper mounted to cradled masonite panel, 22 x 28.75 inches.
Titled lower edge. Unsigned.
Some loss of paint on the highest areas of protrusion. Corners show heavy wear will loss of paper ground.
Provenance: Doyle Auctions; Couturier Gallery, Stamford CT.
Carlos Ortúzar Worthington was born on March 17, 1935 in Santiago, Chile.
He studied theater, law and philosophy. He entered the School of Fine Arts of the University of Chile in 1956, where he had as teachers Gustavo Carrasco, Marta Colvin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
NUDE with RED GLASS 3 round canvases 20 in each
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Nude with Red Glass", acrylic on canvas, 3x20in
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Surrealist Oil Painting Magical Realism Lionel Kalish Italian Home Fantasy Scene
Located in Surfside, FL
Lionel Kalish (American B.1931)
"A Villa on the Sea",
c. 1980
Oil on canvas
Hand signed lower right L.Kalish
Bark Frameworks Inc. N.Y. label verso
16" x 24"
Lionel Kalish born...
Category
1980s Surrealist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life (Cubist painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Abraham P. Hankins (1904-1963).
Tabletop Still Life , 1950.
Oil on canvas, 24 x 33 inches.
Signed with artist monogram center right. Signed and dated in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ruz Green Grey Abstract Acrylic Painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Interior Landscapes - Abstract Acrylic on paper Painting. . FRAME
While contemplating the painting of Ruz, we are inclined to talk about real ‘psychodrama’, in the same sense that ...
Category
2010s Abstract Florida - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Large Original Painting On Canvas, Listed Artist Antonio De Vity (1901-1993)
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a beautiful large oil on canvas painting by the Famous Italian Artist Antonio De Vity (1901-1993) depicting a Paris street view.
Signed lower right corner De Vity. Wi...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique 19th C. Oval Oil Portrait of a Lady in Lace Collar Original Painting
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a beautiful original antique oil painting on canvas, dating to the mid-to-late 19th century, featuring a refined female portrait.
This classic Victorian-style portrai...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Oil painting on canvas, seascape, Sailing Ship, signed M.Downing
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original oil painting on canvas, depicting Sailing Ship on the High Seas. Beautifully done, great blue colors.
Framed measuring 31.5 "x 25.5" & painting measures 24 "x 1...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1930's. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, panel measures 19 x 15 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...
Category
1930s Realist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
Large Signed Original Oil Painting on Canvas Seascape, Sailing Ship, framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This painting features a grand tall ship navigating through a turbulent sea, with its sails fully unfurled, capturing the wind as it cuts through the choppy waters. The ship is paint...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Listed Italian Artist Renato Longanesi Large oil painting on canvas Clipper ship
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an amazing vintage original oil painting on canvas depicting Clipper ships in the stormy ocean by Listed Italian Artist Renato Longanesi (b.19...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two male Nudes. Painting.Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Two Nudes, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza
One of a kind
Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted on board
Image size: 40.5 H in. x 55.5 in. W
Mounted on acid-free board: 41 H x 56 in. W
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil, Oil Pastel
Life Magazine Art Deco Showgirls Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Showgirls Cartoon for Life Magazine, 1934. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, matting window measures 16.5 x 13 inches; sheet measures 19 x 15 inches; Matting panel measures 20 x 23 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition with discoloration and toning in margins. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...
Category
1930s Art Deco Florida - Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
“The Black Crater”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on masonite painting of the Black Crater in the state of Oregon by the American artist Marcel K. Sessler. Signed and dated lower right, 1955. Condition is excellent....
Category
1950s American Modern Florida - Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Original Modern Contemporary painting on canvas, Abstract, Fantasy style, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale Original Abstract Acrylic Painting on canvas in a fantasy abstract style. A unique technique, very colorful. An unusual combination of colors, a flow from sharp to soft s...
Category
2010s Abstract Florida - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Soda Fountain (New Yorker Magazine cover proposal)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). The Soda Fountain, ca. 1950s. Watercolor and ink on paper, 9 x 12 inches; 13 x 16 inches framed. Signed lower right. Exc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Florida - Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Art Deco Couple Portrait
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful Art Deco illustration by unknown artist.
Ink and gouache on faux wood grain illustration board.
Image field measuring 14 x 18 inches on a 17 x 21 inch illustration panel...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Florida - Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
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The Vibrant Beauty of Orphist Art Supersedes Its Perplexing Name
This kaleidoscopic early-modern art style has long deserved another look. Now, the Guggenheim museum is doing just that.
The 50 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold
Curious about the most expensive paintings in the world? Discover the stories behind these masterpieces as well as the staggering prices they fetched.
Ludwig Bemelmans Captures the Thrilling Sight of Coney Island at Night
The ‘Madeline’ creator and Carlyle Hotel legend was in a New York state of mind in the 1940s when he produced this exuberant and rare oil painting.