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Period: 1940s
THE NEW BILL
Located in Portland, ME
Gropper, Will1am (American, 1897-1977). THE NEW BILL. Lithograph, c. 1941. 11 3/4 x 16 inches (image), 14 x 19 inches (sheet).Titled and signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

1947 Original poster made by Paul Colin for the show of Katherine Dunham
Located in PARIS, FR
Original poster made by Paul Colin 🇫🇷 (1892-1985), considered one of the greatest French poster artists, to promote the show of Katherine Dunham. V...
Category

Art Deco 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Linen, Paper

Regent's Park Barrage Balloons 1940 oil painting by Lord Paul Ayshford Methuen
Located in London, GB
To see our other views of London or Second World War art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". Paul Ayshford Methuen (1886 - 1974...
Category

Realist 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Cannes et le vieux port - Post Impressionist Oil, Landscape by Marcel Dyf
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas circa 1940 by sought after French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The piece depicts people enjoying a sunny winter's day at the port ...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Brenda Forbes in "Three to Make Ready"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Brenda Forbes in her four roles for Broadway`s 1946 revue `Three to Make Ready`, starring Ray Bolger...
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1940s Art

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Original Vintage WWII Military Health Poster Bad Tooth Slow Poison Abram Games
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two military health poster - A bad tooth is slow poison Visit your Dental Officer regularly - featuring a great design by the notable British graphic designer Abram Games (Abraham Gamse; 1914-1996) depicting a black and white image of teeth with a blue glass poison bottle...
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1940s Art

Materials

Paper

Les Mamelles de Tirésias - Drawing by Erté - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Les Mamelles de Tirésias is an original modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff). Mixed colored gouache on paper. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame Provenance : - Erté personal collection. - Serge Leeman collection. Erté is in charge for the costumes and sets for Les Mamelles de Tirésias. This opera bouffe in two acts by Francis Poulenc based on a play by Guillaume Apollinaire...
Category

Art Deco 1940s Art

Materials

Gouache

Donald O'Connor (2)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Upper Right (left) Approx. Date: c. Late 1940's Caricatures by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), of Song `n Dance Star and ...
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1940s Art

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Original Vintage Travel Poster BOAC World Air Routes Western Hemisphere Design
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 ...
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1940s Art

Materials

Paper

Fantasia, Original Watercolor Concept Painting Signed by Sylvia Holland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MEDIUM: Original Watercolor Concept Painting PRODUCTION: Fantasia, 1940 SIZE: 10" x 12" SIGNATURE: Sylvia Holland FRAMING: Framing included in Pricing SKU: CCV1640 ABOUT THE ART: ...
Category

Pop Art 1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Watercolor

Snowy roofs
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard Brown wooden frame with glass pane 40 x 46.5 x 1.5 cm
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Circa 1940 Original advertising poster to promote Blackfield shoes
Located in PARIS, FR
Original poster, made in the 1940's to promote Blackfield shoes. These shoes, timeless, were sold at the time, exclusively in spring. Every elegant man wears Blackfield shoes, the m...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Frida Kahlo in the Blue House, Coyoacán, Mexico. Color Portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Frida Kahlo in the Blue House, Coyoacán, Mexico 1943 by Leo Matiz Unframed Digital Print on Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper Image size: 14 in. H x 10 in. W Sheet size 18 in. H x 14 in W Edition 1/15 Printed later by the Leo Matiz Estate All photographs are accompanied by a Leo Matiz Estate certificate of originality. Leo Matiz, one of the most important photographers in Latin America, lived in Mexico in the 1940s and was a close friend of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, whom he immortalized with his camera. The estate of Leo Matiz in collaboration with the conservators of the artist's clothes was inspired by these vibrant traditional Mexican dresses...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Color

Vaulted Bridge in French Landscape Oil on Wood Painting by Vincent Mazzocchini
Located in Atlanta, GA
Very special French landscape oil on pressed wood board painting by Vincent Mazzocchini (France, 20th Century). This interesting composition is o...
Category

Expressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Wood, Oil, Masonite

Antique American Abstract Expressionist Vintage Framed New York School Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 18L x 24H.
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Schneelanschaft / Snowy landscape
Located in Wien, 9
The artwork is signed and dated on the lower right and provided with sticker verso. The frame is a golden showpiece. Provenance: Private collection Sweden
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Restoration Day on December 31, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Golden wooden frame 46 x 38 x 3 cm
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Rhythm in Blues
Located in London, GB
signed ‘Gropper’ (lower right); with the artist's studio stamp (on the verso)
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Soviet poster from 1947, which depicts the greatness of the Soviet Navy fleet
Located in PARIS, FR
Soviet poster from 1947, which depicts the greatness of the Soviet Navy fleet. The Soviet Navy (Russian: Военно-морской флот СССР, Voyenno-morskoy flot SSSR, literally "Naval Military Forces of the USSR") represents the war navy...
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1940s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Circus Trapeze Acrobat
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an original hand signed (I believe it is also hand colored but i am not positive) Artists Proof Lithograph of a Circus scene. This depicts a trapeze artist an acrobat on the ...
Category

Post-Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Addio alle Armi - Rare Book Illustrated by Renato Guttuso - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Addio alle armi is an original modern rare book illustrated by Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1946. Original Edition. First Illustrated Edition. Published by Mond...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Offset

Fantasia, Original Concept Pastel Signed by Sylvia Holland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MEDIUM: Original Pastel Concept on Paper PRODUCTION: Fantasia, 1940 SIZE: 10" x 12.5" SIGNATURE: Sylvia Holland FRAMING: Framing included in Pricing SKU: CCV1641 ABOUT THE ART: (Sylvia Holland (1900 - 1974) Beautiful pre-production sketch by Sylvia Moberly-Holland, one of Disney's first female animators. Sylvia originally worked as an architect before gaining experience as an animator with Universal Studios...
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Pop Art 1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Graphite

Circus and the Parade
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1949 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered II/XX Publisher : La Guilde de la Gravure (Paris-Genève) Catalog : Passeron, p.130 38.00 cm. x 56.00 cm. 14.96 in. x...
Category

Abstract 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff). Mixed colored gouache on paper. Hand signed on...
Category

Art Deco 1940s Art

Materials

Gouache

Original poster made by Jack Maxwell in 1948 - Biarritz Le golf de Chiberta
Located in PARIS, FR
A splendid and historical poster made by Jack Maxwell in 1948. ⛳️ The history of this legendary golf course begins in 1924: the company "Biarritz Anglet la Forêt" became the owner o...
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1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Linen, Lithograph

Charles Locke, McCosh Walk, Princeton University
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph is signed in pencil under the image at the lower right. Just above that, in the image, are the artist's initials and the date, 1942. This well-known walkway on the P...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original Vintage Railway Poster Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada Train Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada! Stunning artwork by Peter Ewart (1918-2001) depicting a steam trai...
Category

Art Deco 1940s Art

Materials

Paper

Antique American Modernist Abstract Still Life Interior View Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract still life oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 22L x 13H. Signed.
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Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Carmicael Graphic Oil Painting
Located in Pasadena, CA
"Hope is all we have but if we believe it is enough" A statement piece and graphic painting full of emotion and color by Jae Carmichel (1925-2005) Jae Carmichael, painter, sculptor, photographer, writer, and independent filmmaker. She was the founding director of Pasadena's Pacific Asia Museum. She staged more than 200 solo exhibitions in galleries in Los Angeles, Japan, and Europe and has works included in permanent collections of the Oakland Museum of California, the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. She studied art with Francis de Erdely, Millard, Sheets, Phil...
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Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape Symbolic and surreal mid century nocturnal landscape of a lone house on a s...
Category

American Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

The Fisherman
Located in London, GB
'The Fisherman', oil on board, by Gabriel Vié (circa 1940s). This artwork depicts a solitary man fishing in a river surrounded by abundant foliage. He is p...
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1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

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 warships at sea in choppy waves with the sun shini...
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1940s Art

Materials

Paper

Virginia Tillou Signed Antique American Female Modernist Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting by Virginia Tillou (1906 - 1995). Oil canvas. Housed in a period Heydenryk frame. Image size, 12L x 18H. Sig...
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Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Set Of Six Original World War Two Food Posters - Vegetables From The Open Ground
Located in London, GB
Set of six original vintage World War Two food propaganda posters - From The Open Ground and From Store - featuring different vegetables for every season of the year with the months ...
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1940s Art

Materials

Paper

Geneva's landscape; Villa in front of the Salève by Goetz - Drawing 36x54 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
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Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Gouache

Antique American Female Impressionist Still Life Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist still life painting by Irene ( I. Stry) Stry (1899/1904 - 1963). Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size, 24L x 20H.
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Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Howard Chandler Christy Portrait of a Woman 1940, Signed, Dated and Framed
Located in Plainview, NY
This watercolor portrait was made by Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952, American)and dedicated to his long time friend Anita Shonover in 1940. The portrait is signed dated and inscr...
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1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Paint

Avro Lancaster Bomber DS689 ABC-fitted original 1943 silver gelatin photograph
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". Lancaster Bomber DS689 with Crew Original silver gelatin photograph c. 1943 21 x 16 cm Stamped to reverse ‘This Photograph has been Passed by Censor’ and ‘Copyright Aeroplane [Magazine]’ A photograph of the ground- and air-crew of DS689. The engine fitter second from left is Samuel Greisman. That the aeroplane has five operations marked on its nose suggests a date of late August or early September for the photograph. This photograph was publisehd in ‘Jews in Uniform’ by Michael Greisman, published by Aster Publishing. DS689 OW-S (identifiable from another photograph we have listed on account of the nose art...
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Realist 1940s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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...
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1940s Art

Materials

Paper

Edward Sacks, Seated Figure
Located in New York, NY
Little is known about the artist, Edward (Ed) Sacks, although this print may have been made at the Art Students League in NYC. it is a cross between, as the title suggests, a Seated ...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Salutations, Architectural Abstract Scene, Cultural and Spiritual Commentary
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Salutations" is a 12 x 16 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. The painti...
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American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"The Covered Wagon" On the Oregon Trail Prairie Schooner Horseman and Cattle
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Covered Wagon" On the Oregon Trail Prairie Schooner and Cattle Facsimile in oil or silk screen Oil print by Gilbert Ross Tonge (American, 1883 - 1970...
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American Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board, Screen

1947 Original ski poster was by Vecoux Winter Sports In France - SNCF railway
Located in PARIS, FR
Original ski poster was created by the artist Vecoux and published by the SNCF to promote winter sports tourism in France. It shows a locomotive ...
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1940s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

"Lunch Break” Fletcher Martin, Men Working, Bricklayers, WPA, American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Fletcher Martin Lunch Break, circa 1940 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 31 1/2 x 37 3/8 inches When Fletcher Martin died in 1979, the New York Times entitled his obituary “Artist o...
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American Realist 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique American Signed Abstract Expressionist Museum Size Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Arnold Aaron Friedman (1874 - 1946). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Framed.
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Abstract 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sunset over the Sea, Jan de Clerck (1891 - 1964), Oil on Unalit, Signed.
Located in brussel, BE
Pieter - Jan De Clerck (1891 - 1964) - Sunset over the Sea Realistic Impressionist painter of landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and portraits.Pupil of Frans...
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Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

1949 original poster created by the Perceval workshop for the airline Air France
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful poster created by the Perceval workshop in 1948, for the airline Air France. The Air France logo is visible on the swirling propeller in the sky.
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1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

The Band
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) Title: The Band Year: 1949 Medium: lithograph, signed in the plate Size: 19 x 29.5 inches Frame Size: 25.5 x 36 inches Printed by Baynard Pr...
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Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Walk in the Lavaux
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

1943 Broadway production of "The Voice of the Turtle"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock Signature: Signed Lower Left Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), for the long running 1943 Broadway production of `The Voice of the Turtle`, starring Peggy...
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1940s Art

Materials

Ink, Pen

Woman with Red Jacket, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - ) Title: Woman with Red Jacket (P6.52) Year: 1948 Medium: Watercolor on Paper Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm)
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Expressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Animated landscape att. to Alexandre Blanchet - Oil on canvas 23x32 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas Gilded wood frame 28,5 x 38 x 3 cm
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Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Original Vintage World War Two Poster Buy Victory Bonds WWII Soldier Sailor Navy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Buy Victory Bonds - featuring a dynamic battle scene with explosions in the background and three ...
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1940s Art

Materials

Paper

Portrait of a Lady
Located in Boston, MA
Label verso: "Portrait of a Lady / Oil / MUC / Beatrice Whitney Van Ness / unsigned / size 30h x 25w ". From the estate of the artist. Beatrice Whit...
Category

American Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

1947 Broadway Drama, "The Whole World Over"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1947 Broadway drama, `The Whole World Over`, starring Uta Hag...
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1940s Art

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Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Commencement
Located in New Orleans, LA
Caroline Durieux's image captures a lone figure in her garden in this southern plantation in Louisiana. "Plantation Garden" is a lithograph created by Durieux in 1946 in an edition of 20. It is signed in pencil. Durieux shared her feeling about this piece with these reflections. “The spectrum analysis of satire runs from the red of invective at one end to the violet of the most delicate irony at the other.” David Worcester 16, "The Art of Satire". The feeling expressed in Plantation Garden is that of a dirge with ironic overtones; it is sad, nostalgic yet satirical. The bent figure of the old lady, the ancient trees, the static moss, all seem to belong to the past; even the lady is old. For contrast, a ray of late afternoon sun lights up the only young note in the picture: perennials in the foreground. When “we are satirical and we are friendly at the same time, the consciousness of the friendship gives a regretful and tender touch to the satire, and the sting of the satire makes the friendship a trifle humble and sad.” George Santayna 255, "The Sense of Beauty". This concept of satire mixed with friendship comes closer to humor because there is less censure involved. In "Plantation Garden", the satire is tempered by a feeling of empathy. Caroline Durieux (American, 1896 – 1989) Printmaker, painter, satirist, innovator, social activist, Caroline Durieux was born in New Orleans and was already making sketches by the age of four. Her formal art training was at Newcomb College (1912-1917) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1918-1920). Carl Zigrosser of the Philadelphia Museum of Art encouraged Durieux to try lithography. While living in Mexico, she learned lithography from Emilio Amero...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Portrait of Artist's Wife with Fruit, 1945 American Modern Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Untitled (Portrait of Bessy Lyon, Artist Wife) is an oil on canvas painting by Hayes Lyon (1901-1987) from 1945. Presented in a wood frame, outer dimensions measure 35 ¼ x 29 ¼ x 1 ¾ inches. Image size is 30 x 24 inches. About the Artist: A native of Athol, Kansas, Lyon is primarily associated with Colorado. After several summer vacations at the Boulder Chautauqua and at Manitou near Colorado Springs, his family relocated in 1920 to Boulder where his father had a lumber business. Nine years later they settled in Denver where his father owned the Acme Lumber Company. To comply with his desire for his son’s financial self-reliance, Lyon graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1931 with a B.A. degree in economics. But shortly thereafter he returned to his first love – art – that ultimately became his career. His interest in the arts was nurtured by his mother, herself a talented amateur artist, and by two of his aunts who served as role models. Beginning in 1932, he pursued a five-year course of study at the Chappell School of Art in Denver which by then had become part of the University of Denver. During his time at the school he studied with John E. Thompson and Santa Fe artist, Józef Bakoś. He also met two other Santa Fe-based artists, Willard Nash and B.J.O. Nordfeldt, when they exhibited at Chappell House, then the home of the Denver Art Museum. Lyon likewise attended the Cooke-Daniels Lecture Series there on the arts in the 1930s. Following graduation with a B.F.A. degree from the University of Denver in 1937, he studied privately for about a year with Andrew Dasburg in Taos, New Mexico, that redirected his attention to the rugged Rocky Mountain landscape, which he saw with directness and painted with an economy of means. His canvas, Winter Vista, done following his study with Dasburg, received the Edward J. Yetter Memorial Prize at the 45th Annual Exhibition of the Denver Art Museum in 1939. The painting was reproduced in the September 1939 issue of the Magazine of Art (Washington, DC). That same year his painting, Mount Evans, was included as one of Colorado’s entries in the American Art Today Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. The money he received from the Yetter Prize financed his trip to Mexico City and Guadalajara in 1939 to see firsthand the frescoes of José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera and the easel paintings of David Alfaro Siqueiros. Their work was admired by many Americans who participated in the WPA-era mural projects in the United States in the 1930s and early 1940s. The economic fallout from the Great Depression affecting many American artists at the time likewise resulted in Lyon’s participation in the Colorado Art Project, part of the WPA’s national program. Under its auspices he produced three murals in 1940 about the pioneer era of Fort Lupton, Colorado, which were installed in the auditorium of the local high school. Covering 367 square feet of wall space, one of the murals – Behold the West (the largest one) – incorporates the old fort for which the town is named. Before Lyon painted the murals, the students at Fort Lupton High School researched the history of their community and contributed to their cost, facilitating the murals’ allocation to their school under the Colorado Art Project. In the early 1940s Lyon shifted his focus to two new subjects – bathers, and canyons with conifers – reflecting his ongoing search for personal artistic growth. However, his reliance on structure to create form in his paintings and works on paper alienated some of his longtime followers. Nonetheless, his painting Conifers and Canyons won recognition at the 47th Annual Exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. The watercolor version of the piece was among three hundred works in that medium selected by John Marin, Charles Burchfield and Eliot O’Hara from a national competition held by the Section of Fine Arts (Federal Works Agency) and shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in 1941. Later that year Lyon spent time in California where he saw Orozco’s Prometheus, influencing him to increase his range of originality and expression. In 1942 Lyon enlisted in the U.S. Army, spending almost three years in the Mediterranean Theater – Africa and Italy – preparing camouflage operations and scale models of proposed landing sites. He used his free time in Italy to expand his artistic vocabulary by seeing cultural masterpieces in Rome, Florence, Siena and Milan, and through his extensive contact with Giorgio de Chirico, founder of the scuola metafisica art movement, and Gino Severini, a leading member of the Futurist movement. Because of Lyon’s low army rank and pay, de Chirico did a small watercolor for him signing it, "For Mr. Lyon; G de Chirico, 1944." Lyon often visited de Chirico and his wife, Isa, at their apartment near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Following his Army discharge in 1945 fellow Kansas native, Ward Lockwood, invited him to join the Art Department at the University of Texas at Austin where he taught painting from 1946 to 1951. During this period some of Lyon’s work employed the palette of the School of Paris which he had seen while stationed in Europe, while other paintings had a certain flatness found in some of Lockwood’s work from the 1930s. From 1951 to 1953 he was affiliated with the Lower Colorado River Authority in Austin as an illustrator and editor of the employee magazine. In 1953, following time spent in Mexico, he returned to Denver, working as an illustrator at Lowry Air Force Base until retirement in 1961. During that time he did little of his own art because he also was designing and building a home in Arvada, Colorado, and re-establishing himself in the Denver art community after a decade-long absence. His painting, Autumn Aspens (1953-present location unknown) illustrates his experimentation with abstraction. In the early 1960s he began painting from memory that continued until the steadily degenerative effects of Alzheimer’s disease took their toll a decade later. He depicted scenes from his wartime European sojourn and from his early adulthood. The latter include Souvenir of Boulder (1962), a nostalgic return to his boyhood home in Boulder; and Holly Mayer and Friends, a painting of Glenn Miller and his musicians, inspired by Lyon’s first encounter with jazz in Boulder in the 1920s. His lifelong passion for vintage cars and automobile racing...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

1947 Broadway Production of J. B. Priestley's "An Inspector Calls"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock Signature: Signed Upper Right Drawing by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1947 Broadway production of JB Priestley`s `An Inspector Calls` with Patr...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Ink, Pen

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