Modern Mixed Media
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Period: 1940s
Family at the Beach WPA Modernism American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Family at the Beach WPA Modernism American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
William Gropper (1898 - 1977)
"Family at the Beach"
27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Mixed media on paper, c. ...
Category
1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Ink, Paper
Proscenium - Mixed Media by Alexander Schawinsky - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
Proscenium is a modern artwork realized by Alexander Schawinsky in 1944.
Gaufrage techinique.
Includes frame.
Hand signed, dated and numbered on the lower margin.
Edition of 61/99
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Bird Man - Mixed Media by Alexander Schawinsky - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
Bird Man is an original modern artwork realized by Alexander Schawinsky in 1943.
Gaufrage techinique.
Includes frame.
Hand signed, dated and numbered on the lower margin.
Edition...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Windmill on the Plains, 1940s Watercolor and Ink Mixed Media Modernist Painting
Located in Denver, CO
'Windmill on the Plains' is watercolor and ink on paper painting by Jenne Magafan. Depicting a large windmill on a 1940s Colorado farm scene with sheds and a fencing in the backgroun...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Madame et Monsieur - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Madame et Monsieur is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Mixed media on paper. On the lower margin is present a pencil inscription.
Good Conditions...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Small Amphora - Original Mixed Media by Gabriel Fourmaintraux - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Small Amphora is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the XX Century by the French artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux (Desvres, 188...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
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Mixed Media
"Young Boy"
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well done charcoal and wash portrait of a young boy done circa 1945. Signed and dedicated lower middle. Condition is good. Linen gallery mat with thin...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern
By Louis Stone
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern.mixed media. 21 x 16 (sight). Housed in a hand carved frame.
Louis King Stone ...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Gouache, Board
Cavalier con Cavaliere
Located in ZEIST, UT
Marino Marini- Cavalier con Cavaliere
Ink, watercolor, Gouache on paper
Signed and dated ‘Marino 1947’ in pencil
Paper size: 49.8 x 34.7 cm
Provenance:
– Dominion Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
– Estate of Elizabeth M. Yates, Buffalo, New York
Framed in a handmade wooden frame...
Category
1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Small Amphora - Original Mixed Media by Gabriel Fourmaintraux - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Chinoiserie is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the XX Century by the French artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux (Desvres, 1886 ...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
'New to the World', Hans Hoffmann, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran, Parson School, ASL
By Frances Pratt
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, in graphite, 'Frances Pratt' (American, 1913-2003) and dated 1947.
Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Frances Pratt moved to New York City where she studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Woman (1930-33), and, subsequently, at the Arts Students League (1933-35). She then met her first husband, Christopher Ritter, with whom she opened Laurel Gallery in Greenwich Village and printed the Laurel Folios.
Frances Pratt taught drawing and painting at the Ballard School from 1942 into the early 1950's. She also taught mixed media and watercolor techniques at the Parsons...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Gilded Chinese Vase - Mixed Media by G. Fourmaintraux - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Gilded Chinese Vase is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the XX Century by the French artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux (Desvre...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
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Mixed Media
'Noah's Ark', Argentina Outsider artist, Buenos Aires Modern Art Museum
By Liber Fridman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A stunningly original mixed-media collage showing an Ark containing various life-forms and a dove resting in the waves. Fridman has used oil paint, papyrus and pre-columbian textiles...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Textile, Canvas, Acrylic
Chinese Vase with Nightingale - Mixed Media by G. Fourmaintraux - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Chinese Vase with Nightingale is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the XX Century by the French artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled (Cadillac Automobile Show)
By Evelyn Harper
Located in New York, NY
Evelyn Harper, "Untitled: Cadillac Automobile Show" , Mixed Media on Illustration Board, 15 x 10, Mid-20th Century, 1948
Colors: Black and White
A 15 x 10 Black and White Illustrat...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Illustration Board, Pen
"Flow, " Rudolf Von Huhn, modern mid-century mixed media abstract, 1946
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in San Francisco, California in 1884, painter and printmaker Rudolf Von Huhn studied and earned a degree in engineering in Germany and didn’t devo...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Le Secret Eternal
Located in London, GB
Collage with Picasso etching 'Soneto Funebre' from Vingt Poemes and book spine of Keats poetry
Titled verso 'Le Secret Eternal'
Stamped 'Estate of Erwin Blu...
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1940s Modern Mixed Media
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Mixed Media
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Paper size: 6.75"H x 6.75"W
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Provenance: The Artist, Estate of Irene Pattinson: David Carlson; Estate of Larry Miller Fine Art, Robert Azensky Fine Art.
Solo Exhibitions: Lucien Labaudt Gallery 1955; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1961 (39 works).
Selected Group Exhibitions: San Francisco Art Association Annual 1948, 54, 55; San Francisco Woman Artists, 1957-1960; Oakland Art Museum Annual, 1951, 58; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1960; Richmond Art Center, 1955, 56, 57, 58; San Francisco Art Institute 1959, 60. The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, 1958, 59, 60, 62, 63; Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Awards: First Place, San Francisco Woman Artists Assoc., 1957, 1959; San Francisco Art Festival 1957;Literature: San Francisco Art Institute - A catalog of the Art Ban 1962/63; San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection
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