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Style: American Modern
Period: 1940s
"Girl in Pareu"
By RAD Miller
Located in Lambertville, NJ
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...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Rescue
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks)
By Harry Lane
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, 16 x 20 inches, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coas...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
My Only Working Tool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
My Only Working Tool, 1949, oil on panel, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 12 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, exhibited at the Art News Second Annual National Amateur Co...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled (Cubist Portrait)
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Cubist Portrait), 1945, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower middle, 20 x 16 inches,...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, 1940, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, dated and titled verso: “Marcel Cailliet ’40 – S.C.” and “Marcel Cailliet Landscape”; likely exhibited at the annual juried st...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Farm in Winter)
By Julius M. Delbos
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Farm in Winter), 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 26 x 30 inches, presented in a...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Industrial Street)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Industrial Street), c. 1940s, watercolor on paper mounted on illustration board, estate...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor, Board
A Valley Streetscape at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
A Valley Streetscape at Night, 1948, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower right, 18 x 24 inch...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled (Transcendental Composition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Transcendental Composition), oil on board, 1947, oil on board, signed and dated lower r...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 ½ x 26 ½ inches, presented in a period frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: ...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Self Portrait
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Self Portrait, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, 14 ¼ x 12 1/4 inches, signed lower left, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of th...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orange Grove Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Orange Grove Landscape, 1941, gouache on illustration board, 14 inches x 18 inches (image), 22 x 26 inches (framed) signed and dated lower right, newly framed with museum glazing
...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache, Board
Riders of Pigeon Hill
By Jon Corbino
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders of Pigeon Hill, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24 x 36 inches, label verso with title, artist’s name and address; same information inscribed verso; ex-collection...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Man on a Stair" American Scene Social Realism WPA Mid 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Man on a Stair" American Scene Social Realism WPA Mid 20th Century Modern
Robert M. Cronbach (AMERICAN / NEW YORK / MISSOURI, 1908 - 2001) modernist bronze sculpture depicting a st...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Rabbit Hunters
By Roger Medearis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rabbit Hunters, egg tempera on Masonite, 12 x 9 inches, 1947, signed and dated lower left, signed, titled and dated verso “Rabbit Hunters Egg Tempera Roger Medearis 1947,” exhibited ...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Tempera, Board
Untitled (Horns and Bow)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Untitled (Horns and Bow), 1941, oil on board, signed and dated lower right, 15 x 20 1/x inches...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Blue Lake
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Blue Lake, c. 1940s, oil on masonite, signed lower right, 20 x 36 inches, label and inscriptio...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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 American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Ink, Paper
Gracie Mansion
By Isabella Banks Markell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Gracie Mansion, c. 1944, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 25 x 30 inches, presented in a ne...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Homage to Leger
By Jean Kellogg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Homage to Leger, 1941, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14 x 17 inches; inscribed ...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Biomorphic Composition)
By Dave Fox
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Untitled (Biomorphic Composition), 1948, oil on textured paper mounted on board, signed and da...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Two Figures
By Robert Chester Thomas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Two Figures, 1949, ebony wood, 24 x 7 x 5 inches, unsigned, but comes from Thomas' daughters ...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Ebony, Wood
Untitled (Cars)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Untitled (Cars), 1940, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower right, 15 x 18 1/2 inches, ...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Floral Still Life)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Untitled (Floral Still Life), ca. 1940s, watercolor on paper, signed lower left, 10 x 13 inches (i...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"At the Opera" WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre American Scene
Located in New York, NY
"At the Opera" WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre American Scene
John Winters (1904 - 1983)
"At the Opera"
17 x 14 inches
oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1943 lower r...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
*William Kienbusch (1914 – 1980)
Shooting Gallery, Sixth Avenue
Poster paint on paper, c. 1941
15 ¾ x...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Paint
Reclining Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude
Charcoal and colored chalks with white highlights on tan laid paper, c. 1948
Signed and monogrammed by the artist lower right
(see photo)
A masterpiece dr...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Chalk
'Mokihana (Hawaii)' — 1940s Polynesian Portrait
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Melville Kelly, 'Mokihana (Hawaii)', drypoint, 1946. Signed, titled, and annotated 'No 5' in pencil. A superb, finely nuanced impression, in dark brown ink, on cream wove Japan ...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Drypoint
'Taos Placita' — 1940s Southwest Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Gustave Baumann, 'Taos Placita', color woodcut, 1947, edition 125. Baumann 132. Signed, titled, and numbered '20-125' in pencil; with the artist’s Hand-in-Heart chop. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on fibrous oatmeal wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2 to 3 1/8 inches); slight rippling at the left sheet edge, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 9 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches (244 x 286 mm); sheet size 13 1/4 x 17 inches (337 x 432 mm).
Collections: New Mexico Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Wichita Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) was a renowned printmaker and a leading figure of the American color woodcut revival whose exquisite craftsmanship and vibrant imagery captured the essence of the Southwest.
"A brilliant printmaker, Baumann brought to the medium a full mastery of the craft of woodworking that he acquired from his father, a German cabinetmaker. This craftsmanship was coupled with a strong artistic training that resulted in the handsome objects we see in the exhibition today. After discovering New Mexico in 1918, Baumann began to explore in his woodblock prints of this period the light. color, and architectural forms of that landscape. His prints of this period are among the most beautiful and poetic images of the American West."
—Lewis I. Sharp, Director, Denver Art Museum
Baumann, the son of a craftsman, immigrated to the United States from Germany with his family when he was ten, settling in Chicago. From 1897 to 1904, he studied in the evenings at the Art Institute of Chicago, working in a commercial printmaking shop during the day. In 1905, he returned to Germany to attend the Kunstwerbe Schule in Munich, where he decided on a career in printmaking. He returned to Chicago in 1906 and worked for a few years as a graphic designer of labels.
Baumann made his first prints in 1909 and exhibited them at the Art Institute of Chicago the following year. In 1910, he moved to the artists’ colony in Nashville, Indiana, where he explored the creative and commercial possibilities of a career as a printmaker. In 1915, he exhibited his color woodcuts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, winning the gold medal.
Among Baumann’s ongoing commercial activities was his work for the Packard Motor Car Company from 1914 to 1920 where he produced designs, illustrations, and color woodcuts until 1923.
In 1919, Baumann’s printmaking work dominated the important exhibition of American color woodcuts at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Twenty-six of his prints were included, far more than the works of any other artist. A set of his blocks, a preparatory drawing, and seven progressive proofs complemented the exhibition. That same year, Baumann worked in New York and, over the summer, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His airy images of Cape Cod employed soft, pastel colors and occasionally showed the influence of the white-line woodcut technique.
Many of his Chicago artist friends had traveled to the southwest, and Baumann became intrigued by their paintings, souvenirs, and stories of an exotic place named Taos, New Mexico. In the summer of 1918, he spent the summer in Taos sketching and painting before visiting Santa Fe. Paul Walter, the director of the Museum of New Mexico, offered him a studio in the museum's basement. Inspired by the rugged beauty of the Southwest—the vibrant colors and dramatic landscapes of the region became a central theme in his work, influencing his artistic style and subject matter for the remainder of his career. Later in the decade, he traveled to the West Coast and made prints of California landscape.
Baumann's prints became synonymous with the Southwest, capturing the spirit of its place in America's identity with a unique sense of authenticity and reverence. His iconic images of desert vistas, pueblo villages, and indigenous cultures served as visual tributes to the region's rich cultural heritage, earning him a dedicated following among collectors and curators alike.
A true craftsman and artist, Baumann completed every step of the printmaking process himself, cutting each block, mixing the inks, and printing every impression on the handmade paper he selected. His dedication to true craftsmanship and his commitment to preserving the integrity of his artistic vision earned him widespread acclaim and recognition within the art world. About the vibrant colors he produced, Baumann stated, “A knowledge of color needs to be acquired since they don’t all behave the same way when ground or mixed...careful chemistry goes into the making of colors, with meticulous testing for permanence. While complicated formulae evolve new colors, those derived from Earth and metal bases are still the most reliable.”
In the 1930s, Baumann became interested in puppet theater. He designed and carved his own marionettes and established a little traveling company. From 1943 to 1945, the artist carved an altarpiece for the Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe. In 1952, a retrospective exhibition of his prints was mounted at the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts. Throughout his prolific career, Baumann executed nearly four hundred color woodcuts.
Baumann’s woodcuts...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Early Modern American Portrait, Pennsylvania/Massachusetts, Frank Anderson Trapp
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a very stylized and powerful portrait by the noted artist Frank Anderson Trapp. It is dated 1940, and is very much in the modern style of French painters Ferdinand Leger and...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
An ink drawing Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait of an old Jewish man. Coming over from Europe on a ship crossing. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Surrealist Still Life with Apples, Mid 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Still Life with Apples, 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated upper right
18 x 24 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of na...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
'African Idol' — 1930s American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, untitled (African Idol), serigraph, c. 1940, edition 6. Signed in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; the full sheet with margins(5/8 ...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Woman with Lowered Head
Located in Greenwich, CT
Joseph Goethe was one of our finest American modernist carvers in wood. He loved to use exotic and or beautiful woods to inspire his compositions which ranged from figurative, to an...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Mahogany
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970)
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape
11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed
Bio
In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tip of Manhattan
By Nat Lowell
Located in Chicago, IL
An etching of a view of the Manhattan skyline by artist Nat Lowell. Signed and titled in pencil, ca. 1940.
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Still Life
Located in Chicago, IL
A large and wonderful Modernist still life of a cast iron pot, squash and ladle by artist Flora Schofield. Framed to 24" x 26".
A painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schofield (Schoenfield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France.
In 1923, Schofield’s abstractions caused a split at the venerable Chicago Society of Artists. When her artwork was was accepted by the jury, the notable Impressionist painter Pauline Palmer and the notable Modernist painter Carl Hoeckner got into a row that ended-up splitting the group. The Impressionists then broke away into their own organization called the ”Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors”.
Paintings by Flora Schofield have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Salon d’Automne and Salon de Independants, Paris; the Salons of America; the Society of Independent Artists, New York; the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita; Gallery Carmine, Paris; the National Arts Club Galleries, New York; Marshall Fields Galleries...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm).
Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Ink
Mural Study
By Edgar Ewing
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful, period mural study of an interior by artist Edgar Ewing.
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Original "The 3rd Man" 1949 original first printing vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “The 3rd Man”, 1949, linen-backed vintage one-sheet movie poster "The 3rd Man". NSS: # 49/452. Excellent condition with restored original fold m...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Original "Save Waste Fats for Explosives" vintage poster 1943
Located in Spokane, WA
Original: "Save waste fats for explosives. Take them to your meat dealer" vintage poster—original World War II Acid-free, archival linen-backed, ready-to-frame.
The Original "Save...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Original "Think American" USA World War II vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: For a Country Where We Are Still Masters of Our Own Destinies, Let's Be Truly Thankful. Silk-screened patriotism. This is a poster meant to appeal to the American f...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Original "Fire Away! Buy Extra Bonds, 5th War Loan" vintage submarine poster.
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 2 Fire Away! Buy Extra Bonds. Linen backed. Color poster of two sailors on a Navy ship at sea. One sailor uses a searchlight, and the other is looking through binoculars. The sailors wear blue jackets and knitted "watch caps". A U.S. flag can be seen on the ship deck below.
"In memory, U.S.S. Dorado"--At the upper left corner of the picture.
Logo near the bottom of the poster: "5th 'V' War Loan".
Artist George Schrieber (1904-1977) designed this war bond poster after the U.S.S. Dorado, a Gato-class submarine, was sunk off the coast of Cuba by a German land mine.
Georges Schreiber (1904-1977) commemorates the sinking of the USS Dorado submarine in this 1944 War Bonds poster entitled Fire Away for the Fifth War Loan. Schreiber sailed aboard the ship in the summer of 1943 and had a personal connection to the tragedy. USS Dorado (SS-248) was a Gato-class submarine. Her keel was laid down on 27 August 1942 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut and was commissioned on 28 August 1943 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Earle Caffrey Schneider. The USS Dorado sailed for the Panama Canal for use in the East Asia war effort. The submarine was sunk off the coast of Cuba due to a minefield left by a German-Nazi U Boat. This is an Original Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction.
"U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-581636". "WFD 908-A"
USS Eldorado (AGC-11) was named after a mountain range in Nevada. The ship was designed as an amphibious force flagship, a floating command post...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Crucifixion
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Crucifixion
Engraving, etching, and ground printed in colors, 1947
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
From the second printing by Jon Clemens, master printer in the 1990's
Done while the artist was at the Iowa Print Group, MFA Program, University of Iowa .
Condition: excellent
Image/Plate size: 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H...
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1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Engraving
Porcupine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Porcupine
Engraving, 1949
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled and numbered lower left (see photo)
Created while the artist was completing the MFA in Printmaking at the Un...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Engraving
Original Cultivez des Oleagineux French mid-century vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 'La France Manque d’Huile, cultivez des Oleagineux' vintage French poster. Linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. FREE Continential USA shipping.
Transpor...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Capri, sunset
Located in Greenwich, CT
A dynamic and stunning watercolor, saturated in color and invigorated by strong brushstrokes. Albert Wein's artistic prowess in painting is a testament to his deep-seated academic tr...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Original 'Help RCA help USA, You and I Beat the Promise" vintage WWII poster
Located in Spokane, WA
‘Help RCA Help USA, Beat the Promise, You and I Beat the Promise,’ original WWII antique vintage military poster. In the foreground are two clasped hand...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Paradise Lost Collection
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This collection of drawings is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
1. Paradise Lost (But His Doom)
Crayon on paper, 17 ½ x 12 ½ inches (image), 22 x 15 inc...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Crayon, Paper
Abandoned Wharf
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Crayon on paper, 20 x 12 (image), 22 x 14 inches (sheet), Signed lower right, Matted, but not framed
Ex...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Freedom From Want - The Four Freedoms
Located in New York, NY
NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978) - The Freedom from want - [from the series THE FOUR FREEDOMS.] 1943.
40x28 1/4inches, 101 1/2x71 3/4 cm.
World War II poster
U.S. Government Printing Of...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Original Avenge December 7th vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Avenge December 7th vintage poster. Linen backed; excellent condition. Artist: Bernard Perlin. Office of War Information, Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-491978
Dramatic original World War II poster depicting a sailor with his fist raised, standing above a scene of an exploding battleship, with the words “Avenge December 7” in red across the middle of the poster. The striking image on OWI “Poster No. 15,” memorializing the events of December 7, 1941, was created by artist Bernard Perlin.
U. S. Government Printing Office. Year: 1942
As a Life Magazine war art correspondent living in Europe during the 1940s and 1950s, Perlin continued to document social change uniquely. An American painter primarily known for creating many American posters during WWII and for magic realism...
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1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
'River View' — 1940s American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'River View, color serigraph, 1942, edition 50, Ryan 159. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled, dated, and annotated '9 COLORS – 50 PRINTS' in the screen,...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal
21 x...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Original "Point Bleu Radio" vintage poster, faithful reflection of the world
Located in Spokane, WA
Original lithograph: POINT BLEU RADIO. Artist: Pierre. Baudouin (1921 - 1971). Size is 31" x 47". Archival linen backed and ready to frame.
Cleaned and restored rare original French antique...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life
By Stanley Bielecky
Located in Chicago, IL
A Cubist black & white graphite drawing of fruit by artist Illinois and Michigan artist Stanley Bielecky.
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Graphite
En Route to VT, Hotel Room
Located in Chicago, IL
A small, female nude painting, titled "En Route to VT, Hotel Room" by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
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