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Period: 1940s
Divertimento I (Picasso)
By Conger A. Metcalf
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Divertimento I (Picasso) Graphite, color wash and oil paint on coated glossy paper, c. 1940 Signed C. Metcalf lower left (see photo) Inscribed Matisse, Picasso, C. Metcalf lower left...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Ex-Libris Giorgio Balbi - Woodcut Print - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris. Dr. Giorgio Balbi is an artwork realized by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1944. Etching on paper. Hand-signed on the lower right margin. Limited edition...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Woodcut

You Can't Afford to Miss Either Original Vintage WWII Poster by Sawyers 1942
Located in Boca Raton, FL
In America during WWII, every resource was poured into the war effort. With over 12 million Americans - 11% of the total population - serving in the armed forces, everything from foo...
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1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original "Strong in the Strength of the Lord" vintage World War II poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Original World War II poster: Strong in the Strength of the Lord (L) Note that this is the large version of this poster. Acid-free archival linen-backed original WWII, U. S. Government printed vintage poster. A factory worker and a soldier all played a key part in the U.S. war effort. Published by the War Information Office in an attempt to foster greater cooperation between some different segments of society. AMERICANS SUFFER WHEN CARLESS TALK KILLS! Original 1943 U.S. Government (military propaganda) poster. Archival linen backed in A- - B+ condition, ready to frame. Note that WW2 U. S. Government posters were folded prior to being distributed. This is not considered a defect. The fold marks were restored during linen backing. Tiny chips along the bottom border. This poster promoted cooperation among various segments of American society- a woman, a soldier, and a factory worker. It is a mixture of crusading, religious, and industrial symbolism. The text quotes Henry Wallace, then Vice-President. Artist: Martin, David Stone...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Offset

Degas, Famille Cardinal, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 8 x 6.25 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the vo...
Category

Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Engraving

"Le jardin devant l'atelier" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original Edouard Vuillard lithograph). Printed on Renage wove paper in 1948 by the atelier Mourlot and published in an edition of 2500. The image size i...
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1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Degas, Trois Femmes de dos, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.25 x 8.25 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the...
Category

Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Engraving

"Shrimp"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 - 1955) Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Degas, Le Coucher, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.75 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the ...
Category

Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Engraving

Degas, Les Femmes, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 4.75 x 6.5 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the ...
Category

Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Engraving

Degas, Le Bain, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 9.125 x 12.25 inches; image size: 4.5 x 9 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the vol...
Category

Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Engraving

Paul Brown Original Pencil Drawing For The 1946 Scribner's Book "Fur Or Feather"
Located in Bristol, CT
Belle, Being The Younger, Usually Got There First And, Grabbing The Bird... Original pencil drawing for the 1946 Charles Scribner's Sons book "Fur Or Feather Days With Dog And Gun" ...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Picasso, Composition, Carnet de dessins de Picasso, Cahiers d’Art (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 16.54 x 11.81 inches Inscription: Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the album, Carnet de dessins de...
Category

Cubist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Carnet de dessins de Picasso, Cahiers d’Art (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 16.54 x 11.81 inches Inscription: Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the album, Carnet de dessins de...
Category

Cubist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Sutton Place, New York
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Printed later in the artist's career.
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Picasso, Composition, Carnet de dessins de Picasso, Cahiers d’Art (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 16.54 x 11.81 inches Inscription: Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the album, Carnet de dessins de...
Category

Cubist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Muriel Finley
Located in London, GB
Muriel Finley, one of the ‘Goldwyn Girls’ in Hollywood who starred with Danny Kaye in ‘The Kid from Brooklyn’. Original Publication: Picture Post – 4232 – I...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

A bouquet of stocks
Located in OPOLE, PL
Oil on canvas Dimensions: 41 x 33 cm signed, dated and described: 'Kisling Sanary 1948' On a painting loom auction stickers Accompanied by certificate by Marc Ottavi from April 4,...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Subjective Farm Landscape abstract oil painting by Ralph Rosenborg
Located in Hudson, NY
Subjective Farm Landscape 1940 Oil on canvas, 24" x 30" 37.5" x 31" x 2" framed - frame is original to this artwork Signed recto lower right: "rosenborg 40" & arrow box cypher. Signe...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original TELEVISION J. DELAITRE vintage mid-century-modern French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original J. Delaitre Early Television Poster “who is ahead of progress" – A Rare Vintage Gem. Archival linen backed in A- condition, ready to frame. There was a center horizont...
Category

Art Deco 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mining for National Savings, original vintage poster by Charles Beardsworth
Located in London, GB
Charles Benjamin Beardsworth Mining for National Savings -- Back your efforts with national savings for future prosperity Lithograph 75 x 50 cm This poster was a British propagand...
Category

Realist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Drying Off
Located in London, GB
Charcoal, sanguine and white chalk on paper, initialled ‘F.B.’ (lower right), 48cm x 38cm (69cm x 57cm framed). British painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and designer, the son of a Welsh architect who specialized in church furnishings...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Chalk, Charcoal

Convoy Your Country To Victory, WW2 propaganda poster by Rowland Hilder
Located in London, GB
Rowland Hilder Convoy Your Country To Victory Lithograph 75 x 51 cm This poster was a British propaganda piece issued during World War II by the National Savings Committee. It was ...
Category

Realist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Les Deux Nus, Modern Lithograph by Andre Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Les Deux Nus, Year: 1949, Medium: Lithograph on wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 20/20, Image Size: 14 x 11 inches, Size: 19 ...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

'Psychopathic Ward' — Socially-Conscious Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Riggs, 'Psychopathic Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 60, Bassham 78. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A ...
Category

Realist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original 'Be Sure of Your Backstop' vintage N. R. A., 1946 Gun Safety poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Be Sure of Your Backstop” vintage National Rifle Association of America vintage poster. Printed in 1946 on a thick cardboard stock. Gppd condition with slight wear and...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

WE’RE OVER THR MOUNTAIN (Wir sind überm Berg)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893 – 1980) WE’RE OVER THR MOUNTAIN (Wir sind überm Berg) (A68, D2718) Lithograph over tinted ground, signed in pencil and in monogram in the stone. Image, 14 ½ x 19 1/4. Large full sheet with watermark and deckle edge, 24 ½ x 19 ¼. In very good condition. The A. Paul Weber Museum was inaugurated in Ratzeburg in 1973. Andreas Paul Weber died on 9 November 1980. This important German lithographer, draughtsman and painter bequeathed a comprehensive œuvre, in which critical satirical works figure prominently. THE WEBER MUSEUM HAS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND A BIOGRAPHY The following is a biography taken from the prominent German auction house KETTERER /KUNST: Andreas Paul Weber attended secondary modern school in Arnstadt between 1903 and 1910 before briefly attending the School for the Decorative and Applied Arts in Erfurt. In 1908 Weber joined the 'Jungwandervogel', a movement which sought to develop a new, modern lifestyle based on walking and living close to nature. At the same time Andreas Paul Weber began experimenting with lithography and worked as a commercial artist. When the first world war broke out, Weber served as a railway engineer on the Eastern Front, where he worked for the army as a draughtsman from 1916. After the war Andreas Paul Weber illustrated numerous books, including Till Eulenspiegel, Reineke Fuchs and the critical contemporary work Der Zeitgenosse by Hjalmar Kutzleb, which were Weber's first successes. In 1925 Weber founded the 'Clan-Presse' ['Clan Press'], where he and his son Christian printed...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Picasso, étude pour la céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (Orozco 105) (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype and lithograph on vélin gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on vélin paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 11.25 x 15 inches Catalogue ...
Category

Cubist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Homage to Renoir - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Raoul Dufy Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965. Printed signature Dimensions: ...
Category

Fauvist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Walking the Tightrope, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left This work was featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 11, 1949 The Post described the cover as follows: "Having found the setting he wanted for his circus-theme cover painting - on the Brotherton farm near Westport, Connecticut- Stevan Dohanos began rigging up a beam for the farm boy...
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1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Picasso, étude pour la céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (Orozco 105) (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype and lithograph on vélin gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on vélin paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 11.25 x 15 inches Catalogue ...
Category

Cubist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Cessy by Jean Debaud - Oil on wood 39x46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
French painter of the twentieth century. Work on wood Brown wooden frame 51 x 58 x 4 cm
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Art Deco Glamorous woman in Purple Evening Dress - Golden Age of Hollywood
Located in Miami, FL
Framed Size 28.5 x 21 Jaro Fabry was a brilliant illustrator with a defined style of his own. There is not a brushstroke out of place in his works that appear loosely rendered. He is best known for his depiction of Golden Age of Hollywood...
Category

Art Deco 1940s Art

Materials

Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Weegee "Distortion: Stripes"
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Innovative, provocative, inimitable - these are just a few of the words to describe America's boldest photographer. Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee (1899-1968) was a ground-breaking, successful (and notorious) photojournalist. His images shot on the streets of New York City are iconic and influential. In the 1930s he became the first New York City press photographer to obtain permission to install a police radio in his car. This allowed him to follow the city's first responders and to document their duties; responding to fire, crime, debauchery and of course, murder. By the early 1940s Weegee was experiencing fatigue with crime reportage. Ironically, this was also the point when he finally began experiencing professional validation and acclaim, to the point of being a minor celebrity. Notably in 1941 he was included in The MoMA's seminal "50 Photographs by 50 Photographers" (curated by Edward Steichen). The museum would also acquire five Weegee photographs...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

French Watercolor - Tropical Village
Located in Houston, TX
Bright and airy watercolor of a figure in a small tropical village by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displaye...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Harlequin Lady and Her Owl - Color Drawing by Amalia Schulthess
Located in Pasadena, CA
Everything about Amalia Schulthess's work is wonderfully delicate. Our gallery usually features abstract works by this artist. We're very gifted to have this rare figurative and sign...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Color Pencil

Study of General Douglas MacArthur
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Final version eventually becoming part of nationally known "Leyendecker MacArthur Series" by Timken Roller Bearing Company. Unsigned. Bottom border features a pair cat sketches.
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Picasso, Four Ballet Dancers, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings, 1946. Published by Pantheon Books, Inc., New York; rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Italy Goes to War
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance An American Place, New York; World House Galleries, New York, 1953; Private collection, New York; Betty Krulik Fine Art, 2007; Avery Galleries until present Exhibitions An American Place, New York, Exhibition of New Arthur G. Dove Paintings...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Matisse, Série L, var. 19 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Rocking Horse Children's Room
Located in Miami, FL
Eye-pleasing example of understated and muted colors. Gouache on masonite Ex-collection the Society of Illustrators Meticulously rendered in a post-cubist manner in subtle earth ton...
Category

Abstract Geometric 1940s Art

Materials

Gouache

Rocky landscape
Located in Genève, GE
This captivating work is a remarkable canvas depicting a serene landscape, where nature is the main protagonist. The painting depicts a majestic view of a mountain range reflected in...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Siamese Cats by Orovida Pissarro - Animal etching
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED Siamese Cats by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Etching 10 x 7.5 cm (4 x 3 inches) Artist biography Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, wa...
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1940s Art

Materials

Etching

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 stamp verso (signed by Peter Corbridge, the artist’s son); 14 x 21 inches; unframed Edgar Corbridge was a Massachusetts-based precisionist painter who mainly worked in watercolor. In 1916, three years after immigrating from England, Corbridge completed a course of study in sign painting at the Fall River, Massachusetts Technical High School and obtained an apprenticeship with the Armour Sign Shop. Throughout his career, Corbridge was mainly self-taught as a fine artist. In 1918, Corbridge received his first recognition as an artist for his entry in a Fall River Women’s Club poster competition. During much of his professional life, Corbridge worked as a self-employed window trimmer and operator of the Corbridge Display Service, supplemented by income from the occasional sale of his paintings. Corbridge gleaned the subjects for his works in and around his home in Fall River, Massachusetts, as well as Provincetown. In the 1940s, Corbridge began to exhibit frequently, including at the annual exhibitions at the Jordan Marsh Company...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Watercolor, Board

Rodeo (Cowgirl)
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 60 Signed and numbered in pencil on print verso. Harold “Doc” Edgerton was born in 1903, in Fremont, Nebraska. During his summers as a teenager, he worked in his uncle’s ...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

On Their Way- PA Railroad Advertisement
By Herbert Bohnert
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1942 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 36.00" x 48.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Image of soldiers on a troop train.
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Matisse, Série D, var. 9 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Matisse, Série P, var. 2 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

A Real Happy New Year, Amoco Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Monogram Lower Left Sight Size 20.00" x 45.00", Framed 26.00" x 51.00" This piece was used for at least two separate Amoco advertisements. "A Real Happy New...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Matisse, Série O, var. 18 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Les Voiles by Léopold Survage - Abstract watercolour, Landscape, Modern
Located in London, GB
Les Voiles by Léopold Survage (1987-1968) Watercolour on paper 23 x 38 cm (9 x 15 inches) Monogrammed, stamped and dated lower right Executed in 1945 Provenance Private collection, ...
Category

Surrealist 1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

'Equus Uirumpu' — Mid-century American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Houston McConnell, 'Equus Uirumpu' (The Man's Horse), color serigraph, c. 1945, edition not stated but small. Signed and titled in pencil. Initialed in the image, lower right. ...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Screen

China Cove, Point Lobos Carmel California
Located in Carmel, CA
Gelatin silver print on paper, a later printing by Cole Weston With the Edward Weston stamp verso, signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil by Cole Weston verso: PL40-K-4 Comes ...
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1940s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Portrait of William James, 1949 Oil on Board by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait of William James (39) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: 1949 Oil on Board Size: 16 in. x 12 in. (40.64 cm x 30.48 cm)
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

The Great Bird - American Surrealism - Mid-Century - Yale
Located in Miami, FL
Frederick Haucke creates his own brand of surrealism in the 1941 stunner that was with the famous Perls gallery. The painting is signed lower right Signed and dated verso Verso with Perls Gallery, New York label. work is in original framed Provenance: Millicent Rogers...
Category

Surrealist 1940s Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Composition with dominos
Located in Paris, FR
Stencil, 1947 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Edition : 23/30 H.C. + 300 Publisher : Guy Spitzer, Paris Printer : Guy Spitzer, Paris Catalog : [Saphire n°E20 p.290-291] 88.00 cm....
Category

Abstract 1940s Art

Materials

Stencil

Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period - Midtown Galleries label on verso, Unframed Signed and date...
Category

Art Deco 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

French Illustration Aviation Poster Project Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velum paper by French artist C. Villars (France - 20th Century). The poster project features a ...
Category

Post-War 1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

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