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"New York City Skyline View from the East River, " Lionel Reiss, Jewish Artist
By Lionel Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
New York City Skyline View from the East River
Watercolor on paper
13 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Irish Sea
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irish Sea
Watercolor, 1947
Signed and dated by the artist lower right
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 x 18 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
...
Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
George Wagner, Impressionist Ink by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - George Wagner (P5.53), Year: 1947, Medium: Ink on Paper, Size: 5.5 x 4.5 in. (13.97 x 11.43 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's portra...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Portrait - Original pen drawing by Umberto Maria Casotti - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pen drawing realized by Umberto Maria Casotti in 1947.
Good condition on a yellowed cardboard.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right corner...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
"Chorus Girl"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper of a chorus or show girl by Ruth Adele Mysel. Mysel grew up in Boston and attended the New England School of Art. She was both a artist and sculptor as well as ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$275 Sale Price
35% Off
Still Life with Books, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Still Life with Books (P6.26), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 10.5 x 14 in. (26.67 x 35.56 cm), Description: Eve Neth...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Design for Décor, Ballet Set Decoration
By André Derain
Located in New York, NY
In addition to his very well-respected career as a major Fauve and Post -Impressionist, André Derain’s skill as a ballet set decorator also emerged, beginning in 1919 and continuing ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Nude with Headdress and Drape
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude with Headdress and Drape
Charcoal and colored pencil on paper, c. 1940
Signed by the artist in pencil lower left (see photo)
Painter, lithographer and woodblock printer, born at...
Category
English School 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA
Located in New York, NY
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA.
David Fredenthal (1914-1958) "View of New York from New Jersey,"7 x 10 inches. Watercolor on Paper, c. 1948. Signed lower right.
David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He was a draftsman with seemingly a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket.
As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's.
After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23, and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947.
Because of Fredenthal's prodigious drawing gifts, he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel "Tobacco Road...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Airport - Drawing by Suzanne Tourte - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
The airport is an artwork realized by Suzanne Tourte, in 1940s.
Pen on paper.
Handisgned in the lower margin and artist's stamp on the right side.
...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Untitled - Drawing by Ossip Zadkine - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a drawing realized by Ossip Zadkine (1890 - 1967), in 1946.
Mixed media on paper.
45.50 x 61.70 cm.
Signature and year lower right.
Work archived at The Zadkine Resea...
Category
Cubist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P5.69), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 18 x 24 in. (45.72 x 60.96 cm), Description: Looking out over large ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait - Original Pencil Drawing by T. Gertner - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by Tibor Gertner in 1941.
The signature of the artist and the date is present in pencil on the lower right c...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.50), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's colorful...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Masquerade" Original Watercolor
Ink Storyboard by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Pencil and watercolor on board. Hand-signed by artist w/stage instructions.
Note: We highly recommend shipping through 1stDibs for its cost effectiveness, full insurance coverage, a...
Category
Art Nouveau 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil, Board
Hopeless - China Ink and Watercolor Drawing by E. Klepper - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Hopeless is an original drawing in china ink on paper realized in 1948 by Erhard Klepper(1906-1980). hand-signed on the lower left and dated.
The state of preservation is good with ...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Italy Goes to War
By Arthur Dove
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Italy Goes to War, 1941
Watercolor
3 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches (7.9 x 18.7 cm)
Signed lower center: Dove
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Conflict, 1941 gouache by John Von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
Conflict (1941)
Gouache on paper
20" x 12"
27 ½" x 19 ¼" x 1 ½" framed
Signed "V. Wicht" lower right.
An important work from the artist's "Force" series, which were executed in hom...
Category
Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Noble Woman - Drawing by E. Klepper - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Noble Woman is an original drawing on paper realized by Erhard Klepper (1906-1980) in 1948.
Mixed media: drawing and watercolor. Hand-written notes on the higher right margin. The a...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Forest
Located in Riga, LV
Karlis Miesnieks (1887.31.I – 1977.25.X)
Studied in the studio of J. Madernieks (1910), in Petersburg society of Imperial art promotion school (1911) and he graduated class of theat...
Category
Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Etching
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Design Study, Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's coat, hat and muff, inscribed "Marshall Field & Co". Likely a an advertisement illustration study f...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Mariano Rodriguez, Gallo
Located in Miami, FL
Mariano Rodriguez
Gallo, 1941
Ink, Tempera, and watercolor on paper
13 x 10 in
Signed on the lower right.
COA by Mariano Rodriguez Foundation, Madrid.
Provenance:
Private Collectio...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Watercolor, Laid Paper
An Intimate, Finely Drawn 1940s Modern Female Nude Figure Study, "Deshabille"
Located in Chicago, IL
An Intimate, Finely Drawn 1940s Modern Female Nude Figure Study "Deshabille" by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). The drawing is ink and graphite on paper and d...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Toll of the Rocks
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and dated 'Frederick/Blakeslee/43' bottom left; also signed, inscrib
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Fashion Design, Women
s Evening Gowns, Saks Fifth Ave.
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for women's evening gowns (Saks Fifth Avenue and Tiffany & Co). Most likely an illustration design study for a ma...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Featuring Designs for Women’s Day Dresses
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's day dresses.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Pencil on paper. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Women’s Suit
Shoe Designs in Vivid Red
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant women’s suit and shoe designs in vivid reds.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Prove...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Designs for Women
s Jewelry
Accessories
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's jewelry, shoes and accessories.
Inscribed:
"Diamond pin, Black, Starr and Gorham
Bag by Lilly Daché
Glo...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Fashion Design, Women
s Dresses, Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for women's dresses (day & evening wear). Most likely a design study for a print advertisement for the famed Chic...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Self Portrait with Arms Over Head, vignette on Paul Cadmus on left
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Self Portrait with Arms Over Head, vignette on Paul Cadmus on left
Graphite drawing on thin wove paper, c. 1940's
Unsigned
Provenance: Paull Cadmus
Jon F. Anderson (1937-2018)
Condition:
Sheet size: 15 x 10 1/4 inches
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her
photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where
she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared
French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio
formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship.
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her
photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where
she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared
French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio
formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship. Together, the three formed PaJaMa (a mashup of their first names, Paul, Jared, and Margaret). Using Hoening’s Leica, they captured themselves, their artist friends,
and members of the gay community posing in artful tableaux on the beaches of Fire Island, Provincetown, and Nantucket
over the following eight years. Those captured by their camera include the photographer George Platt Lynes; Cadmus’s
sister and artist Fidelma; artist Bernard Perlin; and Monroe Wheeler, director of exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art,
among others. Though she produced few canvases, Hoening’s paintings demonstrate the influences of French and Cadmus,
particularly with her adoption of the time-intensive, traditional medium of egg tempera that they championed.
In the 1940s, the Frenches’ social circle continued to expand. They befriended the British author E.M. Forster, who stayed
with them on his first trip to New York in 1947, spending a few days with them in Provincetown, and visiting them again
in 1949. When Cadmus began a relationship with the young artist George Tooker in 1944, the trio became a foursome,
with Tooker regularly vacationing with the group and appearing in PaJaMa’s photographs...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Designs for Women
s Active Wear
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's active wear by Hattie Carnegie.
Inscription reads:
Left - White jersey slack suit
Red gaberdine jacke...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Fashion Design, Woman
s Suit, Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for women's suit. Most likely a design study for a print advertisement for the famed Chicago Department store, Ma...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
1940 American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Pushcart Tenements
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
John Dronsfield - Clown and Bird - 1940s South African ink drawing
Located in London, GB
JOHN DRONSFIELD
(1900-1951)
Clown and Bird
Signed
Black ink
Unframed, in mount only
18 by 16 cm., 7 by 6 ¼ in.
(mount size 32 by 29 cm., 12 ½ by 11 ½ in.)
John Marsden Dronsfiel...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
WILLIAM C GRAUER Men
Horses in Landscape 1940s cubist WC Cleveland School
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
William C. Grauer’s painting from the 1940s shows him working at the edge of figuration and abstraction. A few figures and several horses gather on open ground, yet the scene is buil...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Sun Dresses
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's sun dresses by Hattie Carnegie. Inscription reads:
One- Cotton gaberdine in a green afternoon dress
Two...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Fashion Design, Woman
s Dress, Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for women's dress. Inscribed "Nettie Rosenstein at Marshall Field". Most likely a design study for a print adver...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Red Gown, Evening Wear
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's formal dress, evening wear. Inscription reads: "Gold rayon and wool Bengaline dress suit for movie ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Design Study, Hat
Scarf, First Night
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for women's scarf & hat. Inscribed "First Night", which in the 1940s may refer to either New Year's Eve or an ope...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Design Study, Suit Coat
Hat
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for women's suit coat and hat.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Pencil and colored pencil on paper. Archivally...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Lounge Wear
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's lounge wear.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Provenance: Corn...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Swiss Valley
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$256 Sale Price
57% Off
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Designs for Women
s Hat, Suit and Coat
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring colorful designs for women's hat, suit, shoes & coat.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Pro...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"18 Cornelia Street" George Morrison, Ojibwe Native Artist, Modernist Work
By George Morrison
Located in New York, NY
George Morrison
18 Cornelia Street, 1944
Signed and dated "May 1944" lower left
Ink on paper
8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches
Provenance
The artist
Carl Ashby
Estate of the above
Private Collec...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"The Circus" Original Surreal Watercolor
Ink Drawing by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
The Prince
s Room
By Willy Pogany
Located in Buffalo, NY
Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children," "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children.
He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children's books and did a series of annual gift books...
Category
Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Pen, Watercolor
A Timely, 1940s WWII Era Political Cartoon Ink Drawing, "USA No Admittance"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Timely and Prescient, 1940s WWII Era Political Cartoon / Illustration Ink Drawing by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Titled "USA No Admittance". A p...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
La Maison, Normandie by Paulémile Pissarro - Drawing of a countryside house
Located in London, GB
La Maison, Normandie by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Pencil on paper
24 x 32 cm (9 ¹/₂ x 12 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile- Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certif...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.47), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Comprised of various flow...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Striking, Vintage Early 1940s Fashion Study of Women’s Hat
Gloves
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking, vintage early 1940s woman's fashion study featuring a stylish young woman seated in profile, dressed in an elegant coat, hat and gloves.
Image size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches ...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Original 1940s Abstract Pen
Ink Drawing “The Chicken” by Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
This striking original pen and ink drawing, titled “The Chicken”, was created by celebrated 20th-century American modernist Edward Marecak (1919–1993) in the 1940s. A powerful exampl...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study, Design for a Flannel Robe
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's flannel robe. Inscribed on the lower right, "Blue, purple and white flannel robe from Mandel Brothe...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Lounge Wear
Pajamas
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring a colorful design for women's lounge wear & pajamas.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Prov...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish, Early 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study Featuring Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage early 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's accessories and Elizabeth Arden cosmetics.
Artwork size: 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Archivally ma...
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Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
French Townscape Landscape Study
Located in Houston, TX
A French landscape of a town study. The work is stamped by the artist.
Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection.
Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...
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Naturalistic 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
"Nursing Mother" Ink Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
7" x 7" Ink on Paper
1944
Framed Size: 16" x 15.5"
This intimate piece depict a mother nursing her infant. This piece is part of Likan's portrayals of his wife Barb...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Das Mondgespenst / The ghost of the moon
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
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Surrealist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, "Personal Choice of Gertrude Lawrence"
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s woman's fashion study featuring an elegant, colorful design titled "Personal Choice of Gertrude Lawrence, Star of Lady in the Dark". Gertrude Lawrence, fam...
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American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
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