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Pagoda at Nara in Winter, 1940s-1950s Japanese Woodblock Print by Koyo Omura
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Koyo Omura (Japanese, 1891 - 1983) Signed: Lower, Right Pagoda at Nara in Winter, c. 1940s
Category

Mid-20th Century More Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Herman Volz Abstract Woodblock Print
By Herman Roderick Volz 1
Located in Fulton, CA
Abstract woodblock by California Artist Herman Roderick Volz. Figure with stringed musical
Category

Mid-20th Century American Prints

Materials

Paper

Herman Volz Abstract Woodblock Print
Herman Volz Abstract Woodblock Print
H 21.75 in W 28 in D 0.001 in
Vintage Woodblock Etchings by Juan Castells Marti
Located in Pasadena, CA
Vintage woodblock etchings by Juan Castells Marti. Newly framed with linen mats.
Category

Vintage 1940s Unknown Decorative Art

Materials

Wood, Paper, Glass

Wpa Woman Laborer woodblock print
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. (possibly a Moscow, Russia
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

WPA Expressionist woodblock print. "The Worker"
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Pencil signed original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. from the 1930s
Category

1930s Portrait Prints

Materials

Woodcut

WPA Artist woodblock print "Letter from overseas"
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Pencil signed original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. from the 1930s
Category

1930s American Realist Interior Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Jewish Wedding Judaica Woodblock Print c.1930s WPA Woodcut Print Hand Signed
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
a first solo show at the Civic Club in Manhattan. During the 1940’s and 50’s, he lived in
Category

1930s American Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Jewish Shtetl Couple Judaica Woodblock c.1930s WPA Woodcut Print Hand Signed
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
a first solo show at the Civic Club in Manhattan. During the 1940’s and 50’s, he lived in
Category

1930s American Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Moscow, Russia Workers Woodblock c.1930s WPA era Woodcut Print Hand Signed
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
the Civic Club in Manhattan. During the 1940’s and 50’s, he lived in Brooklyn.In the 1940’s he had a
Category

1930s American Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Coming Home Woodblock Print c.1930's WPA Woodcut Print Hand Signed
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Manhattan. During the 1940’s and 50’s, he lived in Brooklyn.In the 1940’s he had a one-man show at the
Category

1930s American Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

The Worker Woodblock Print c.1930's WPA Woodcut Print Hand Signed
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Manhattan. During the 1940’s and 50’s, he lived in Brooklyn.In the 1940’s he had a one-man show at the
Category

1930s American Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

3 Jewish Men Judaica Woodblock Woodcut Engraving Print Chicago 1930s WPA Artist
By Todros Geller
Located in Surfside, FL
", in 1940 and subsequently the "American Jewish Artists Club" in the early 1990s. Other founding
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

'Taos Placita' — 1940s Southwest Regionalism
By Gustave Baumann
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
began to explore in his woodblock prints of this period the light. color, and architectural forms of
Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Woodcut

'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, 1940s Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
letterhead image: 'Falls Village, Connecticut September 26th, 1940'. A fine impression, on buff, wove
Category

1930s Bauhaus Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Norma Bassett Hall Serigraph, Pencil Signed, Sanctuario
By Norma Bassett Hall
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Norma Bassett Hall (1889 - 1957) Original Serigraph, created circa 1940's. Pencil titled lower
Category

Vintage 1940s Prints

Materials

Paper

'Tahitian Dancer with Drummers', California Artist, Honolulu, Mexico, San Diego
By Hal Steward Wilcox
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Hal Stuart" (American, 1892-1982) and inscribed "Tahiti". Color woodblock
Category

1940s Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

"Elizabeth Anne" Abstract Portrait Painting
By Jeanne Billfaldt
Located in Houston, TX
exhibited early in her career, in the 1940's-50's, at the Houston Museum, the Texas General, the Southern
Category

1940s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"the Chicken Vender" (or "Chicken Monger")
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Pencil signed original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. from the 1930s
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

Rare Judaica Shtetl Synagogue interior Study House
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. signed in plate with his
Category

1930s Interior Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Jewish Rabbi with Torah German Expressionist Woodcut Israeli Early Bezalel
By Jacob Steinhardt
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed in pencil, woodblock print woodcut. Jacob Steinhardt 1887-1968 Steinhardt, Jakob
Category

20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

"Shrimp"
By Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Located in Lambertville, NJ
woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next
Category

1940s American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Unique painting Concentric Squares (Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstraction)
By Josef Zenk
Located in New York, NY
purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The group received immediate critical attention. The
Category

1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Red Tulips, Paris"
By Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to
Category

1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Emanuel Sweert - Maria Merian - Daniel Rabel - Copper engraving 4 tulips plate 5
By Maria Sibylla Merian, Daniel Rabel, Emanuel Sweert
Located in EINDHOVEN, NL
engraving made by Em(m)anuel Sweert(s) and published by Daniel Rabel in Paris 1622-1633 as part of the
Category

Antique Early 18th Century Dutch Other Paintings

Materials

Paper, Paint, Parchment Paper

The Zealot
Located in San Francisco, CA
Firestone Company from the 1940's until his retirement from the company in 1969, mainly working in
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

The Zealot
The Zealot
H 18 in W 15 in D 0.65 in
Ecce Homo Plate X
By Werner Drewes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
photography to make tax maps and other political maps for cities and towns. In 1940 U.S. Army Air Corps began
Category

1920s Bauhaus Nude Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Vintage Coastal Maine Landscape "Island Inn, Monhegan Island"
By Richmond Irwin Kelsey
Located in Soquel, CA
the Santa Barbara School of the Arts in the 1930's. He was an Art Director at the Walt Disney Studios
Category

1970s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Ecce Homo VII
By Werner Drewes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
photography to make tax maps and other political maps for cities and towns. In 1940 U.S. Army Air Corps began
Category

1920s Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Large Mixed Media Collage "Pink One" Etching Latvian American Modernist Artist
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
printmaking, and in the 1940s he made many woodblock prints depicting distorted objects and figural
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Mixed Media, Etching

Large Mixed Media Collage Etching Latvian American Modernist Artist
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
printmaking, and in the 1940s he made many woodblock prints depicting distorted objects and figural
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Mixed Media, Etching

Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll. Limited Edition, Signed Book
By Alfred Wertheimer, TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
early 20th century; and created many of the powerful woodblock images that helped define the look of
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Books

Materials

Paper

Echo in Grey
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Echo in Grey Mixed media intaglio with embossing, c. 1980's Signed and numbered in pencil (see
Category

1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Mixed Media

"Bag of Fruit"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The group received
Category

20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Color, Woodcut

"Bag of Fruit"
H 11.5 in W 8.5 in
2 Lazy 2 P
Located in Phoenix, AZ
print by Lon Megargee 1883 - 1960 Featured in "Hot Irons" by Oren Arnold and John Hale, 1940 Lon
Category

1930s Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

"The Boot"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

20th Century Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

"Red Eye - Green Eye"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

"Pattern"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Pattern"
"Pattern"
H 35 in W 28 in D 3 in
"4 Leaf Clover"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

20th Century Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

"4 Leaf Clover"
"4 Leaf Clover"
H 14 in W 16 in D 1 in
"Through the Doors"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Paper

"Through the Doors"
"Through the Doors"
H 15 in W 14 in D 1 in
“Woman on the Rocks”
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Figures
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Figures
H 31 in W 25 in D 3 in
Summer in Venice
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
printmaking, and in the 1940s he made many woodblock prints depicting distorted objects and figural
Category

1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Hole in One"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

20th Century Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

"Falls"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

20th Century Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

"Falls"
"Falls"
H 15 in W 14 in D 1 in
"Sailing"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

20th Century Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

"Sailing"
"Sailing"
H 15 in W 16 in D 1 in
"Concentric Squares"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

20th Century Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

"Concentric Squares"
"Concentric Squares"
H 15 in W 14 in D 1 in
"Woman on the Couch"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
group of printmakers formed “Studio 74” for the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The
Category

20th Century Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"Woman on the Couch"
"Woman on the Couch"
H 24 in W 28 in D 2 in
"Swinging"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
the purpose of exhibiting their color woodblock prints. The group received immediate critical
Category

20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Color, Woodcut

"Swinging"
H 21 in W 18 in D 2 in
Latvian Modernist 'The Sky Hides All It's Birds' Intaglio Etching Embossing
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
handcrafted publications signaled a strong interest in printmaking, and in the 1940s he made many woodblock
Category

1970s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Etching

City Walkers, Sanguine Drawing on Canvas
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
a strong interest in printmaking, and in the 1940s he made many woodblock prints depicting distorted
Category

1980s Abstract Impressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas

Blind Man's White Collage painting
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
politics. These handcrafted publications signaled a strong interest in printmaking, and in the 1940s he
Category

20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Carved Wood German Expressionist Sculpture Jewish Woman Refugee Artist Judaica
By Miriam Sommerburg
Located in Surfside, FL
sculpture. At times, she applied her woodblock techniques to these new media—for example, by using incisions
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

'Jones Island' original woodcut engraving by Gerrit Sinclair
By Gerrit Sinclair
Located in Milwaukee, WI
immigrant settlements on the peninsula before they were evicted in the 1940s to make way for the development
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving, Woodcut

"The Kiss"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Congress in Washington D.C. Zenk moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the late 1940's and lived in Upper
Category

20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Color

"The Kiss"
"The Kiss"
H 22 in W 19 in D 2 in
"Pink Lady"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
1940's and lived in Upper Black Eddy, a town along the Delaware River, ten miles north of New Hope. He
Category

20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Color

"Pink Lady"
"Pink Lady"
H 22 in W 19 in D 2 in
"The Knockdown"
By Josef Zenk
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the late 1940's and lived in Upper Black Eddy, a town along the Delaware
Category

1940s Abstract Figurative Prints

Materials

Color, Woodcut

German Expressionist Hand Carved Colored Original Wood Pane Art Israeli Bezalel
By Jacob Steinhardt
Located in Surfside, FL
painting. signed woodblock (unique piece, not a print) by Jacob Steinhardt 1887-1968 "Reuben Offering
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Woodcut

"Untitled"
By John Little
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodblock by the American artist John Little. Signed and dated in pencil lower right, 1974. Number
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Woodcut

"Untitled"
"Untitled"
H 24 in W 29 in D 0.75 in
Large Silkscreen Abstract Latvian American Modernist Artist - Rosh Hashana
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
interest in printmaking, and in the 1940s he made many woodblock prints depicting distorted objects and
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Mixed Media

"Veronica VIII" Acrylic Collage Painting by Adja Yunkers, 1977
By Adja Yunkers
Located in New York, NY
publications signalled a strong interest in printmaking, and in the 1940s he made many woodblock prints
Category

Vintage 1970s American Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

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1940s Woodblock For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal 1940s woodblock for your home. A 1940s woodblock — often made from paper, wood and glass — can elevate any home. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer 1940s woodblock, there are earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. A 1940s woodblock is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern styles are sought with frequency. Paul Jacoulet, Dale Nichols and Edwin Scheier each produced at least one beautiful 1940s woodblock that is worth considering.

How Much is a 1940s Woodblock?

A 1940s woodblock can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $1,348, while the lowest priced sells for $399 and the highest can go for as much as $6,500.