20th Century Paintings

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Charles Hargens (1893 - 1997) Carversville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania artist and illustrator Charles was born in Hot Springs, South Dakota. As a young boy he loved to draw cowboys, Indians and ranch buildings. By age ten, he was “a commercial success” selling drawings of neighbors’ barns and houses for $25. When he grew older, his parents consented to enroll him at the Pennsylvania Academy (1913-20) where he studied with Daniel Garber, Hugh Breckenridge, Henry McCarter, and William Merritt Chase. At Garber’s invitation, Hargens occasionally came to visit his Lumberville studio to paint with him. A lifelong friendship resulted. In 1915, the Pennsylvania Academy awarded Hargens its Cresson Traveling Scholarship and he went to Paris to study at the Academie Julian and the Academie Colarossi. Hargens was a fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy and a member of the Society of Illustrators, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1923 awards) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1915 prize, 1917 prize, 1918 award). By the early 1920s, he began to produce illustrations for book jackets, books, magazines and advertisements. His career took off and soon his illustrations of cowboys, Indians, Western life, Revolutionary War action and boy scout themes appeared in, or adorned the covers of The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Liberty, McCall’s, Boy’s Life and Gentlemen’s Quarterly. His work also appeared on billboards and advertisements for Stetson hats and Coca-cola. It was conditioned by Hargens that all of his original art was returned to him after being published. His entire body work remained in his studio until his death in 1997; this is largely the reason his paintings have not yet commanded the high prices of his contemporary Saturday Evening Post illustrators (i.e. Rockwell, Leyendecker and N.C. Wyeth). At first he and his wife worked from their studio in Philadelphia. In 1940, they purchased a property at the intersection of Aquetong and Sawmill roads in Carversville. They commuted to Philadelphia regularly and stayed in South Dakota every summer. Eventually, he set up a studio next to his Carversville home. After moving to Carversville, Hargens began a lifelong friendship with George Sotter. Hargens’ Carversville home was the subject of many of George Sotter’s paintings long before and during the time Hargens lived there. Hargens also studied with Henry Rand...

Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Right Lady

Using brilliant compositional devices and late afternoon light, Frank McCarthy captures a man at the precise moment before death. The scene is staged wi...

Medium: Oil on Card Signature: Signed Lower Left

A charming and stylized depiction of a day at the Central Park Zoo. with World War Two uniformed visitors front and center. Sea lions put on a show in front of a packed audience. The...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine, February 1931 Depicting a Duryea Automobile Driving by a Blacksmith Shop

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Oil on canvas, 36 x 42 in. Signed, dated, and inscribed (at lower right): WILLIAM S. SCHWARTZ 1926; (on the back): “OLD COUNTRY BAZAAR” / BY / WILLIAM S. SCHWARTZ / 1926 RECORDED: C. H. Bonte, “122nd Annual opens at Pennsylvania Academy,” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 30, 1927 EXHIBITED: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1926, The Thirty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, no. 174 // The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1927, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty Second Annual Exhibition, p. 37 no. 181 // The Chicago Culture Club...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 16.00" x 24.00" Signature: Unsigned

The painting (oil on canvas, 44.5 x 35 cm; with wood frame 64 x 54,5 cm) represents a moment on deception. It's signed Maccari on the bottom left, and it's dated 1956 and titled "ins...

Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 23.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left This is the paperback cover for A Bullet For My Love by Octav...

oil on canvas

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Provenance, The Executive V.P. office of the Pennsylvania Railroad

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Du Pont Safety Calendar, 1941, June # 2270 in the Catalogue Raisonné, 2009

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Center

ITZCHAK (ISAAC) TARKAY b.1935 Subotica, Yugoslavia 1935 - 2012 (Israeli) Title: Nude IV Technique: Original Signed Oil and Acrylic Painting on board. size: 27 x 22 cm / 10.6 x 8....

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Upper Left "Dan Content 29" Story Illustration, Good Housekeeping Magazine, September 1929, pg 32-33 Biography: Daniel Content was born of Dutch parents and grew up in New York City. He attended New Eutriek High School in Brooklyn, NY. He studied under Dean Cornwell at the Pratt Institute as well as attending the Art Students League. Mr. Content worked as a freelance artist for about thirty years. He illustrated for such magazines as Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Readers Digest, and McCall's. In 1928 he illustrated the Windermere Series printing of Robin Hood. During World War II he traveled with the USO to Burma and India entertaining the service men with personal sketches. In the late 1950s he was an Art Director for Benton & Bowles in NYC. He also taught at the workshop School of Advertising Art. Mr. Content continued his sculpting and painting long after retirement. Some of his work can be found at Society of Illustrators in their permanent Museum. Exhibited: Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students South Dakota Art...

Vladimir Skryabin was an innovative painter who lived in Leningrad/St. Petersburg during the 20th century. He was classically trained as a painter and graphic artists and his painti...

Portrait Of Captain Arthur George Coningsby Capell, dated 1915 by Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950) Large 1915 English portrait of Captain Arthur Ca...

A painting by Irving Norman. "Children #2" is a macabre, social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in a dark palette by American artist Irving Norman. The artwork is signed on the ve...

Few artists in Venezuela have the fortune of the affection and the overwhelming admiration of the city that saw them born, like the one expressed by Barquisimeto and the Barquisimeta...

Signed lower right Printer's and designer's marks in margins "Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom." Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 16.00" x 20.00"

Acrylic on Paper

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left End of Track - Paperback Cover, written by Ward Weaver, Popular Library, 1951.

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right

Robert Alexander Darrah “R.A.D.” Miller (1905 - 1966) Robert Alexander Darrah Miller, called “RAD” by his friends, was born in Philadelphia. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1923 to 1927 under the tutelage of Daniel Garber. In 1928, Miller moved to Bucks County where he would meet and marry Celia Belden Marshall, daughter of Dr. George M. Marshall, who at that time owned the Phillips Mill property. Nearly a year later, in 1929, a committee headed by artist, William Lathrop, negotiated to purchase the Mill property from Dr. Marshall for the purpose of holding art exhibitions. Thus, the Phillips Mill Art Association was formed. RAD Miller was a regular exhibitor at the Phillips Mill with the traditional New Hope Impressionists. Many of the original founders of the New Hope Art Colony, set in their ways, frowned upon the concept of modernist painting. A decision was made by the Association to not include the growing group of modernist painters in the area to exhibit with them at Phillips Mill. Although clearly not a traditional impressionist, Miller was not being excluded with the others, largely because his father-in-law formerly owned the mill and was one of the Association’s board of directors. RAD was sympathetic to his fellow modernists. In 1933, he was one of the original members of the Independents, a group formed for modernist artists who chose to embark on a more non-traditional creative path. They would exhibit in tandem with the Impressionists but at different locations. Around the time of his arrival to New Hope in 1928, Miller struck up a friendship with Thomas Hart Benton, and in 1932 he worked under Benton on a mural project. RAD’s paintings...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 14.50" x 13.00;" Framed 23.75" x 21.75" The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right This illustration dates circa 1950.

Date: 1927 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, November 12, 1927 "The Cave Man or the Cave Max?"

James Lechay was a painter of figures, landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes who played a notable role in the tradition of avant-garde painting in New York and in the Midwest. An ar...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left "Spring Is Here" The Country Home Magazine Cover, March (Year Unknown).

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right and Titled on reverse Dimensions: 28.13" x 25.13" (71.45 cm x 63.83 cm) Literature: Temple Bailey, Bridal White, The American Mag...

Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Gouache on Board

Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right American Art Works Calendar Illustration

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Study for the July 7, 1917 cover of Collier's National Weekly (the title story was "Why I'd Let My Boy Go To War").

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed on the Back

Acrylic on board Board size: 20 x 30 inches Framed size: 26.25 x 36.5 inches Signed lower right

A precise and exact rendering and meticulous spacial arrangement are on full display in Lewandowski's this later work. The work looks better in person. The artwork is in pristine co...

Illustrated in "Joseph Barrett, The Prime Years 1970s - 1990s", pg. 23 Plate #026 Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Joseph Barrett (1936 – ) Joseph Bar...

Blueprints into Reality - Full-page ad for United Engineers that ran in Fortune Magazine, March 1958, and other business magazines. As Fred Taraba stated, this image is symbolic of optimism and potential. Work includes the original issue of Fortune Magazine with the ad in which United Engineers mentions Stanley Meltzoff. "Here Stanley Meltzoff dramatizes with tools and massive concrete forms...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left

Herbert Morton Stoops American (1888 - 1948) Curse of the Golden Cross Magazine illustration, 1925 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 in. Not signed Work is framed

Lamar Briggs (1935 – 2015) Abstract artist, Lamar Briggs, was born November 13, 1935 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He initially attended the University of Southern Louisiana for architec...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned Edmund F. Ward estate stamp on verso

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned Illustration celebrating important women throughout history, published in McCall's magazine, May 1959. Accompanied by a tear sheet of the p...

Signature: Signed Lower Right Illustration, 1917

Signature: Signed Lower Left Medium: Mixed Media Illustration

Signed lower right. Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.' Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint

Medium: Acrylic on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Framed 25.00" x 21.00." Saturday Evening Post Cover, December 17th, 1966

Signature: Initialed Lower Left

LEV lliitch TABENKIN b. 1952 (Russian) Title: The Trumpet Player Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on canvas size: 132 x 106 cm / 52 x 41.7 in...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned

Signed and dated 1924 upper right Simplified forms, geometricized volumes and restricted color palette characterizes this work. Zabriskie Gallery Label on verso Original period frame Kenneth Hayes Miller taught at the Art Students League from 1911 until 1951. Some of his students were: Reginald Marsh, George Bellows, George Tooker, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Patrick Henry Bruce

Date: 1921 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right Dimensions: 26.00" x 40.00" Illustration for American magazine.

Signed lower right and a double sided painting.

Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25" Signature: Signed Lower Left This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...

Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 14.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Biblical illustration