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Period: 1940s
At the Festival in Venice - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1946 ca
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1946 ca.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Torre Annunziata, Italy - Mid Century Marine Seascape with Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous watercolor depiction of the Liberty Class Dry Cargo Ship "Charles Scribner" docked in Torre Annunziata, Italy, with a portrait of a man in pencil in the upper left corner, by Giovanni Gallo...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Blizzard in Woods
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blizzard in Woods
Graphite on paper, c. 1945-1963
Unsigned
Provenance: Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
Annotated with notes for completing the drawing. Deutsch Gallery has handled Bur...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Autumn Forest - Mid Century Abstracted Fauvist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century fauvist watercolor landscape with lush, vivid trees and distant houses by Emily Shotwell Goeller-Wood (American, 1887-1965). Presented in a rustic giltwood frame...
Category
Fauvist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, Renowned 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
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII
Located in New York, NY
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII. 18 x 24 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1940s. Signed lower right.
BIO
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Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Second Theme" 1949 Abstract Mid 20th Century Geometric Non-Objective Hard Edge
Located in New York, NY
"Second Theme" 1949 Abstract Mid 20th Century Geometric Non-Objective Hard Edge
Burgoyne A. Diller (American, 1906-1965) "Second Theme" 1949. Pencil and crayon on paper. Signed and dated 'D. 49' (lower right). Image: 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York. David K. Anderson Grandchildren's Trust.
BURGOYNE DILLER (1906-1965) Recognized as the first American painter to embrace the tenets of Neo-Plasticism, Burgoyne Diller made an important contribution to the development of non-objective art in the United States. Working in a hard-edged geometric style, he produced paintings, drawings, and collages that paved the way for the development of American Minimalism during the 1960s and 70s.
Born in New York City in 1906, Diller began painting and drawing as a teenager growing up in Battle Creek, Michigan. Later, while attending Michigan State University in East Lansing on an athletic scholarship, he made weekend visits to the Art Institute of Chicago, where he familiarized himself with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. He was especially drawn to the landscapes and still lives of Paul Cézanne, who modeled color to create structure and volume.
In 1929, Diller moved to Manhattan and enrolled at the Art Students League, where his teachers included such progressive-minded painters as Jan Matulka, Hans Hofmann, and George Grosz. Hofmann's concept of the "push-pull" effect of form and color exerted a strong influence on his early work, as did his growing familiarity with Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, German Expressionism, and other vanguard European styles. Diller had the opportunity to see some of this work firsthand, but he also kept abreast of developments abroad by reading journals such as Cahiers d'Art.
Diller completed his studies at the League in 1933, the year he had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Gallery in New York. It was around this time that his paintings began to show the influence of the reductive, pared-down geometric compositions of the Dutch Constructivist Piet Mondrian and the equally restrained compositions of Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitsky...
Category
Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
An Intimate, 1940s Modern Portrait Drawing of a Young Woman by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
An Intimate, 1940s Modern Portrait Drawing of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A finely drawn, introspective portrait in pastel and charcoal o...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
The Carousel - China Ink Drawing by Renzo Vespignani - 1949
Located in Roma, IT
The Carousel is an original Modern Artwork realized in 1949 by the Italian artist Renzo Vespignani (Rome, 1924 - Rome, 2001).
Original black ink and pen on ivory paper.
Hand-sign...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Iris Numerata
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Eduard Houbolt (Hof van Delft, 1885 – The Hague, 1954)
Iris Numerata
Signed, dated and inscribed “Eduard Houbolt / fecit. ad vivum / 10. Juni. 1947 / IRIS N...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P6.40), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 16 x 11 in. (40.64 x 27.94 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's waterc...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Striking 1940s Fashion Study of a Women’s Hat
Coat, Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking, vintage early 1940s fashion study featuring a stylish young woman dressed in an elegantly designed hat and coat, most likely a study for a print advertisement illustratio...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Maine, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Maine (P6.41), Year: 1947, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 19 in. (38.1 x 48.26 cm), Description: Looking out over a group of...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Expressionist Watercolor Landscape Painting Jewish Modernist
By Jennings Tofel
Located in Surfside, FL
signed and bears the artist's studio label verso.
Genre: Impressionist
Subject: Landscape
Medium: watercolor
Surface: paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: 11.5 X15.5
Jennings (...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Pair of Paintings Notre Dame Paris River Seine
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Two Views of Notre Dame Cathedral
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
both signed lower right
two watercolour and gouache paintings on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet: each measure 9....
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Trees in front of the Swiss Mountains
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$256 Sale Price
57% Off
Stonehenge - Mid 20th Century Modern British Landscape Charcoal Drawing
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful charcoal drawing on paper depicting Stonehenge, by modern British artist Vivian Bewick.
Excellent quality study if the mysterious Bronze Age landmark. Inscribed with dat...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Ecole de Paris, Mid 20th Century, Two Landmark Paintings
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Pont Alexandre III and Place de la Concorde
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right on Place de la Concorde, the other is unsigned
watercolour and gouache painting on a...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$1,365 Sale Price
20% Off
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P4.5), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 12.5 x 15.5 in. (31.75 x 39.37 cm), Description: Lining the beaches o...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P6.38), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 12 x 18 in. (30.48 x 45.72 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's portra...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Clothing
Accessories
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's clothing, shoes and accessories.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Striking 1940s Cubist Still Life Drawing by Modern Artist Stanley Bielecky
By Stanley Bielecky
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking 1940s Modern cubist still life drawing by Notable Chicago and Michigan artist Stanley Bielecky. Image size: 4 x 5 inches. Archivally matted to 13 1/4 x 16 inches. Estate stamped and numbered 58, lower left.
Stanley Bielecky was an Indiana artist who painted the American Scene, from the industrial factories and workers around East Chicago to the pastoral settings of Mackinac Island...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Lions - Original Pencil on Paper by Willy Lorenz - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Lions is an original drawing in pencil Willy Lorenz in 1947.
Hand-signed on the lower left and dated.
The State of preservation is very good except for ...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.48), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Set on a deep red surface...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Woodcutter - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
China ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition except for some halos in the top and bottom corners.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study, Cover Design for Hattie Carnegie
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s woman's fashion study featuring an elegant graphic design for a portfolio cover for ladies resort clothes by Hattie Carnegie .
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 in...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil, Watercolor
Ceri Richards - Lyre Bird (Design for cover of Poetry London), 1943 mixed media
Located in New York, NY
Ceri Richards
Lyre Bird (Design for the cover of Poetry London), 1943
Ink, gouache and pastel on paper
Bears original Jonathan Clark
Co. label on the back of the frame
Unique
F...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Gouache, Mixed Media
Portrait - Pencil Drawing on Paper by A. Vangelli - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Portrait is an original artwork realized by Antonio Vangelli in 1940s.
Original pencil drawing on paper.
The painting is glued to a cardboard.
Hand-signed on the lower r...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P6.4), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 18 x 23 in. (45.72 x 58.42 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's view of...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Geneva countryside
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Good condition
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$256 Sale Price
57% Off
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Charming Still-Life Painting of a Ceramic Pitcher by Notable Artist Andre Delfau
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A diminutive and charming still life painting of an antique French porcelain pitcher by notable artist Andre Delfau.
Artwork size: 9 1/2 ...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Small decorative sailboat
Located in Genève, GE
Work on watercolor paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
48 x 57 x 2.7 cm
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
beggars spanish modernism colored pencils
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Beggars - Colored pencils
Measurements drawing 21x31cm.
Frame measures 39x48 cm.
Damaged paper at bottom.
Anti-reflective glass.
Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and critic, and of Antonia Sala y Gil, his sister Regina Opisso, was also a writer. He comes from an enlightened family full of artists. His paternal grandfather was Josep Opisso y Roig, journalist and director of the Diari de Tarragona, father of the also writers Antonia Opisso y Viña and Antoni Opisso y Viña. His maternal great-grandfather was the painter Pere Pau Montaña, his maternal grandfather the fabulist Felipe Jacinto Sala and his maternal uncle, the painter Emilio Sala y Francés. His nephew was Arturo Llorens y Opisso, a writer better known under his pseudonym Arturo Llopis.
Although he was born in Tarragona, his family moved to Barcelona when Opisso was only two years old. In modernist Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, Opisso worked as an assistant to Antonio Gaudí in the works of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona since 1892. He was linked to the group Els Quatre Gats, along with Ramón Casas...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
$1,894 Sale Price
55% Off
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century: Wartime Figures
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: A Wartime Study of Figures Relaxing in Springtime
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
Unsigned
watercolour, graphite and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet: 12.25 x 9...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
$431 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Amaryllis Blossom Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed watercolor of an amaryllis blossom by Joe Yeager (American, early-mid 20th Century). Signed "Joe Yeager" in pen under one of the petals. Pre...
Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
$527 Sale Price
20% Off
"Recumbent Lion" by Jean Pages
By Jean Pagès
Located in Bristol, CT
Watercolour of a recumbent lion w/ sapphire eyes by the artist, Jean Pages (1903-1976) signed (LR) who illustrated for Vogue magazine in the 1930s-1940...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Edward Laning, Joe Jones Asleep
By Edward Laning
Located in New York, NY
This is a World War II drawing of the Missouri artist Joe Jones (1909-1963) by the New York artist Edward Laning (1906-1981). A typed note reads “Drawn in th...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Landscape with Trees - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with Trees is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in 1935 in Marac. Pencil Drawing, hand signed on the lower margin left and dated "Marac 1935" on the lef...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Untitled" Perle Fine, Female Abstract Expressionist, Gray and Black Forms
By Perle Fine
Located in New York, NY
Perle Fine
Untitled, circa 1945
Estate stamped and numbered "#632" on the reverse
Gouache and pencil on Kraft paper
12 x 20 inches
Provenance
The artist
Estate of the artist
Thomas McCormick Gallery...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pencil
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
Watercolor, 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left in pencil (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Cond...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.49), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Set against a washed back...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Striking, Vintage Early 1940s Fashion Study, Woman with a Suit, Hat
Purse
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking, vintage early 1940s fashion study featuring a stylish young woman elegantly wearing a hat, suit and purse.
Image size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 1...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Female Figures - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Female Figures is an original artwork, pastel, gouache on paper. Is not signed and dated but we can attribute the period early 20th Century.
Two female figures under an intimate vi...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paste, Gouache
Untitled Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction
Graphite on paper. c. 1946
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Inherited by his neighbor/caregiver
Condition: Staining at corners
...
Category
Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Art Deco Polo Players Study by Wheeler Williams
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1944 (Polo Players)
Pencil on paper
15 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1944
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$2,842 Sale Price
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Mid Century Country House Landscape
By Rene Weaver
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid watercolor of a country house and grove of trees in a rural landscape of rolling green hills, with farm animals in the distance, by California artist Rene Weaver (American, 189...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,116 Sale Price
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Sleeping Woman - Original Charcoal Drawing by Serge Fontinsky - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Woman is a black and white charcoal drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in the half of the 20th Century.
Good conditions but top left of sheet missing.
Hand-s...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P5.52), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15.5 x 21 in. (39.37 x 53.34 cm), Description: Moored along the wate...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape With Blooming Trees
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Landscape with Blooming Trees
Paul-Emile Pissarro 1884-1972 French
Paper size 9.5x12.5 under glass framed 12x16x1 signed, very good condition. The backi...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P5.54), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 18 x 20 in. (45.72 x 50.8 cm), Description: This view of Rockport, M...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Edgar Britton 1946 Watercolor, Colorado Mountain Landscape, American Modernist
Located in Denver, CO
This exquisite original watercolor by American artist Edgar Britton (1901–1982) captures the serene beauty of a Colorado mountain landscape. Painted in 1946, the composition features...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Girton College, Cambridge, watercolour by Joy Fox
Located in London, GB
Joy Fox (née Hollings)
Girton College
Watercolour
24 x 17 cm
Signed to bottom right.
Little is known about Joy Fox. It seems that she studied at Girton College, Cambridge between 1939 and 1942. This charming watercolour depicting the main gate at the college featured in Douglas de Lacey...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
"Radio City Rockette"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper of a Radio City Music Hall Rockette done in the late 1940's or early 1950's. Ruth Adele Mysel grew up in Boston and attended the New Eng...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$275 Sale Price
35% Off
Two Preparatory Drawings by Wheeler Williams
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1931
Pencil on paper
8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
Each signed: Wheeler Williams, 1931
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Showgirl"
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed watercolor on paper by Ruth Adele Mysel of a beautiful showgirl. Signed lower right. Circa 1940 to 1950. Ruth Adele Mysel was raised in Boston and attended the Ne...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$275 Sale Price
35% Off
20th century Belgium, Black and White Abstract pencil drawing, Etude
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing.
Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...
Category
Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Young Love: Walking to School, Four Seasons Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustrated for the 1949 Four Seasons Calendar, published by Brown and Bigelow.
A young girl holds a freshly-picked bouquet of flowers as she strolls alongside a boy who carries he...
Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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