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Ritratto di nudo femminile matita su carta firmato e datato
By Guido Peyron
Located in Florence, IT
Figura femminile nuda con i capelli lunghi sciolti, seduta frontale, con accanto un vaso di fiori (matita su carta, 31 x 22 cm) firmato e datato a penna "G. Peyron 1947" .
Guido Peyr...
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Other Art Style 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Graphite on paper, 1945-1951
Signed lower right in pencil "Bisttram" (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9.63 x 7 .5 inches
EMIL BISTTRAM (189...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Original 1944 Pencil Drawing From Hi, Guy! The Cinderella Horse By Paul Brown 17
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W
1944
Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown
*Book sold separately*
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
My Best Girl
By Jules Erbit
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Board
Dimensions: 26.50" x 18.50"
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Date: 1949
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Pastel
A Colorful, 1947 Modern Surrealist Abstract WC by Hananiah Harari, "Wings"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, Colorful 1940s Modern Surrealist Abstraction by Notable New York Avant Garde Artist, Hannah Harari (Am. 1912-2000). Titled "Wings", the artwork is watercolor, mixed medi...
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Surrealist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Crayon, Watercolor
Standing Girl
, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Musée d
Art Moderne de Troyes
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Michonze' for Gregoire Michonze, also known as Gregoire Michonznic (Russian-French, 1902-1982) and dated 1945.
Grégoire Michonze (Michonznic) was born into a Je...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for a Woman
s Hat and Coat
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's hat and coat.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Provenance:...
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American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study for Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's hat by Maria Guy, Likely an illustration study for a print advertisement for the famed Chicago dep...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Hats, Lily Daché
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring a colorful design for a women's hat by Lilly Daché.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Water...
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American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Hat
Shoes, Hattie Carnegie
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring colorful designs for women's suits, hats & shoes by Hattie Carnegie.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 1...
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American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for Women
s Hats
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring colorful designs for women's hats.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Watercolor and pencil ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
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 white ermine wrap. Likely an illustration study for a print advertisement for the famed Chicago dep...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Fashion Study, Design for a Women
s Dress, Lucien Lelong
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's jacket dress; Lucien Lelong ”Indiscrete”.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted t...
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American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Design Study, Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's evening wear by Lilly Daché, Likely an illustration study for a print advertisement for the famed Chic...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Study for
Willie Gillis USO
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1942
Medium: Charcoal, Pencil and Collage on Paper
Dimensions: 33.00" x 26.25"
Signature: Inscribed and Signed
In 1941, Norman Rockwell created his first cover image of Willie...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Nude Study, Diana 1948
By Carlo Tagliabue
Located in Soquel, CA
1948 Nude Study of woman's back with sanquine and charcoal. Titled "Diana" by Carlo Taliabue (Italian/American). Signed and dated lower right corner. Titled upper right corner. Image...
Category
Post-War 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
$1,180 Sale Price
20% Off
Study for the Spring (preparatory to the Four Seasons) by René-Marie Castaing
Located in PARIS, FR
René-Paris Castaing, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1924, left a large body of work, both sacred and secular. Many churches in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in South-West France still bear witness to the diversity of his talent. In 1942, he began a major decoration project for the Château de Diusse, in the north-east of the county, including an allegory of the four seasons. The vigorous pastel we are presenting here is a study for Spring, depicted as Flore undressing. This commission was a veritable swan song for the artist, who died a year later at the age of 47.
1. René-Marie Castaing, the great inter-war painter in Pau
René-Marie Castaing was born in Pau on December 16th 1896. His father, Joseph Castaing, was also a painter: he was the official portraitist of Pau's high society, which was particularly cosmopolitan at the end of the century, when many rich foreigners spent the winter in Pau, taking advantage of the mild weather to enjoy an outdoor lifestyle punctuated by hunting, horse ridings and golf.
René-Marie Castaing was admitted to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in April 1920 and entered the studio of Paul-Albert Laurens (1870-1934). In 1924, he was awarded the First Grand Prix de Rome for Painting, which earned him a stay at the Villa Médicis for more than three years. He then returned to Pau in 1928, where he lived until his death.
Castaing's work is marked by the academic tradition, in which drawing plays as important a role as painting. Although his drawings are often sketches that help to set up large painted compositions, they stand as independent artworks in which the artist fully expresses the vivacity of his talent.
Castaing was a fervent Christian and religious painting played an essential part in his work, as shown by the decorations he created for the churches of Bizanos, Borce, Bidache and Salies-de-Béarn. The painter also created several secular decorations, such as that for the dining room of the Villa Saint-Basil's in Pau in 1935, and the Hunting at the Albret’s time commissioned in 1940 by the Prefecture of Pau. The décor created in 1942-1943 for the Château de Diusse, a mansion located north-east of Pau, was his last large-scale décor, as the painter died shortly after its completion on December 8th 1943.
2. Description of the drawing
Our pastel depicts an eminently secular theme: Spring is embodied by Flore, crouching on the ground with one knee touching the ground. She reveals her ample bosom by removing her shirt, her arms raised above her shoulders to undress.
Given Castaing's classical training at the Beaux-Arts and the influence of ancient statuary...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century, Back Streets of Paris
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris, France
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
Signed and double sided
Watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Measures: Sheet 12.5 x 15.5 inches
Nicely executed s...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Water Sports - Nude Swimmers and Bathers at Coney Island
Located in Miami, FL
Historically, academic artists have always featured the central figures in their composition in a prominent light with the background figures being darker. In water sports...
Category
Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
1940
s California Hills Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Substantial and period mid-century modern American Scene watercolor of the Oakland, California countryside by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), 1944. Signed lower right "Earl Loran...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
The Wait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
“Misty Morning Gloucester”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor of a misty morning on the Gloucester docks by the well known American artist, John Cuthbert Hare. Signed by the artist lower right. Circa 1940. Condition is ex...
Category
Academic 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,120 Sale Price
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French Illustration Aviation Poster Project Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a rare, original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velin paper by French artist C. Villars (France, 20th Century). The poster project feature...
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Post-War 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Vintage French Watercolor Landscape - Village of Bruyères, France
By M. Kessler
Located in Houston, TX
Featuring a vast country field dotted by cottages, this vintage French watercolor depicts the farming town of Bruyères, France by M. Kesseler, 1945. Bruyères, located in northeastern...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A 1946, Charcoal on Paper drawing of Three Nudes by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1946, charcoal on paper drawing of three nudes by Artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 13 3/4" x 9 3/4". Archivally matted to 18" x 14". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Haro...
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American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Marital Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Savinio - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Marital portrait is a modern artwork realized by Alberto Savinio in 1948.
Pencil on paper.
Hand signed by the artist and dedicated to Raffaele Carrieri.
Certificate of authenticity by Ruggero Savinio...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Tonita Peña (born 1893 in San Ildefonso, died 1949 in Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico) was born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with watercolor. She was a well-known and influential Native American artist and art teacher of the early 1920s and 1930s.
Tonita Peña was born on May 10, 1893, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Ascensión Vigil Peña and Natividad Peña of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. When she was 12, her mother and younger sister died, as a result of complications due to the flu. Her father was unable to care for her and she was taken to Cochití Pueblo and was brought up by her aunt Martina Vigil Montoya, a prominent Cochití Pueblo potter. Peña attended St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe.
Edgar Lee Hewett, an anthropologist involved in supervising the nearby Frijoles Canyon excavations (now Bandelier National Monument) was instrumental in developing the careers of several San Ildefonso “self-taught” artists including Tonita Peña. Hewett purchased Peña's paintings for the Museum of New Mexico and supplied her with quality paint and paper. Peña began gaining more notoriety by the end of the 1910s selling an increasing amount of her work to collectors and the La Fonda Hotel. Much of this early work was done of Pueblo cultural subject matter, in a style inspired by historic Native American works, however, her use of an artist's easel and Western painting mediums gained her acceptance among her European-American contemporaries in the art world. At the age of 25, she exhibited her work at museums and galleries in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque area.
In the early 1920s, Tonita did not know how much her painting sold for at the Museum of New Mexico, so she wrote letters to the administrators because a local farmer was worried that she got paid too little.
In the 1930s Peña was an instructor at the Santa Fe Indian School and at the Albuquerque Indian School and the only woman painter of the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, which included such noted artists as Alfonso Roybal, Julian Martinez, Abel Sánchez (Oqwa Pi), Crecencio Martinez, and Encarnación Peña. As children, these artists attended San Ildefonso day school which was part of the institution of the Dawes Act of 1887, designed to indoctrinate and assimilate Native American children into mainstream American society.
In 1931, Tonita Peña exhibited at the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts which was presented at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice Biennial. That year is the only time Native American artists have shown in the official United States pavilion at that biennial, and Tonita Peña's paintings were part of that exhibition.[1 Her painting Basket Dance, that had shown in the Venice Biennial was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for $225. This was the highest price paid up to this time for a Pueblo painting...
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Tribal 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Pedro, Pineapple Seller
, WPA, California, Orozco, Rivera, MMA, GGIE, ASL, NY
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Sottosanti' for Angelo Anthony Sottosanti (American, 1917-2004); additionally signed, verso, titled, 'Pedro of Tehuan Tepee, Mexico' and painted circa 1940.
...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Original Mid-Century Red Farmhouse Watercolor Landscape Painting
By Thelma Fike Rodehorst
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Mid-Century Red Farmhouse Watercolor Landscape Painting
Beautiful mid-century 1940's watercolor of a bucolic farmhouse scene - sunset, undul...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Portrait of Denis Diderot - Drawing - 1949
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil and watercolor drawing realized by a french artist in 1949.
Titled in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Watercolor
Seascape, Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Painting on Paper by Arnold Hoffmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Arnold Hoffmann, Sr., Russian (1886 - 1966) - Seascape, Year: 1949, Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dateed in pencil lower right, Image Size: 10.25 x 19 inches, Size: 14.25 ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Watercolour Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Roses
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
White Roses in a Glass Stem Vase
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower left
watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed
sheet: 13.5 x 9.75 inches
Very pretty still life pa...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$382 Sale Price
20% Off
Eve and the Serpent - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Tempera on paper realized by Maccari in 1940 ca.
Hand signed.
Some foxing, otherwise very good condition.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude Study Black and Blue Pencil Drawing by Russian School Pavlovitch Chem
By Alexandre Pavlovitch Chemetoff
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite carbon and blue pencil drawing on paper is a masterful nude study by Russian-French artist Alexandre Pavlovitch Chemetoff—also known as Chemetov or Chem. With an econo...
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Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Carbon Pencil
Snowy roofs
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
40 x 46.5 x 1.5 cm
This work depicts a snowy village with remarkable precision, capturing the essence of a serene winter. The roo...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
A Stunning, 1940s Modern Charcoal Portrait Drawing of a Young Woman
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning, 1940s Finely Rendered Modern Charcoal Portrait Drawing of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994).
Artwork size: 15 x 11 inches, unfram...
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American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Nero
s Temple On The Nile
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Sight Size 20.50" x 27.00;" Framed 30.25" x 35.00"
Framed and matted under glass in antique gold painted art deco...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
The Cyclists - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1940.
Hand signed lower left.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Oxen and Mule Drawn Wagon on the Trail Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Oxen and Mule Drawn Wagon on the Trail, 1949
Oil on board
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 30 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...
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American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early Queenstown
, New Zealand Plein Air, Queen Elizabeth II Collection
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'D. Badcock' for Douglas Badcock (New Zealander, 1922-2009) and painted circa 1948.
Preferring to paint en plein-air, Douglas earned a reputation as one of New Ze...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Aviation Illustration Poster Study Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
Original Post-War Airline Illustration by C. Villars (France, 20th Century) — Gouache on Arches Velin Paper.
This rare, original Post-war illustration drawing was hand-painted with g...
Category
Post-War 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Landscape - Original Watercolor on Paper by Jean Delpech - 1946
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
"Les Lignes Austères" is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
The state of preservation of the artwork is very g...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Gouache Drawing Aviation Airline Study by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
Post-War Airline Illustration by C. Villars (France, 20th Century) — Gouache on Arches Velin Paper.
This rare, original post-war gouache illustration was hand-painted by French artis...
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Post-War 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$600 Sale Price
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A Quirky, Mid-Century Modern Cartoon Ink Drawing, "Women
s Committee Meeting"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Quirky, Humorous 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cartoon Illustration Ink Drawing Depicting a Women's Committee Meeting by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994).
Artwor...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Snow in Forest, Mid-Century Winter Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Snow in the Forest, 1945
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
19 x 23.75 inches
24 x 29 inches, framed
Clarence Holbrook C...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Paradise Lost Collection
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This collection of drawings is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
1. Paradise Lost (But His Doom)
Crayon on paper, 17 ½ x 12 ½ inches (image), 22 x 15 inc...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Self-Portrait with Black Hat
— Mid-Century American Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Philipp, 'Self-Portrait with Black Hat', ink and color pastel, c. 1945. Signed in ink, lower right. A fine, spontaneous drawing, on heavy, buff wove paper; the artist's tack holes in the top and bottom left sheet corners, minor rippling in the bottom sheet edge; otherwise in good condition. Image size 16 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches; sheet size 19 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Provenance: Art Students League, from the artist’s personal portfolio.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Philipp (1895–1981) was a celebrated American Post-Impressionist painter known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits. Noted art critic Henry McBride named Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. Philipp was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League, New York, for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, a National Academician, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. His composition and painting style has been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir.
In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer to paint portraits of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie stars. The same year, Walter Wanger, producer of ‘The Long Voyage Home’, directed by John Ford and based on plays by Eugene O'Neill, contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, head of the Associated American Artists gallery in Manhattan, to bring nine well-known artists to the set and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character. The artists included Robert Philipp, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ernest Fiene, George Schreiber, Luis...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink
Untitled
By Hans Hofmann
Located in New York, NY
Color crayons and ink on white wove paper. Initialed and dated "VI . 24 . 43" in ink, lower right recto, and annotated and dated in ink, verso.
This work is registered in the record...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Ink
$20,000
San Gabriel Mountain Landscape in Black and White - Graphite Pencil on Paper
By Ralph Holmes
Located in Soquel, CA
San Gabriel Mountain Landscape in Black and White - Graphite Pencil on Paper
Detailed mountain landscape by Ralph Holmes (American, 1876-1963).
Signed lower right corner "Ralph Hol...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Admired"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Children on Beach, Modern Watercolor on Paper by Pearl Finkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pearl Finkel - Children on Beach, Year: 1945, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated lower right, Size: 12 x 16 in. (30.48 x 40.64 cm), Frame Size: 20 x 23.5 inches
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Shipwreck of Attualismo - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Chia ink and watercolor drawing on paper realized by Maccari in 1940s.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
It depicts Giovanni Gentile in the middle of the sea, while his philosophi...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Tuilerie, study
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
62.6 x 67.7 x 1.5 cm
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon
Standing Nude
, Whitney Museum of Art, Bohemian Club, Oakland Museum, Art Deco
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Willard Cox' (American, 1902-1974) and painted circa 1935.
Board dimensions: 18.75 x 12.5 inches.
An elegant, Art Deco period figural watercolor showing a young ...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
“Nassau Harbor, Bahamas”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache on archival paper by the American artist, Martin Louis Lindsay. Signed, titled and dated top right. Done in 1944. Condi...
Category
Academic 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
$1,440 Sale Price
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1941 Watercolor of Chicago
s Old Town, Titled "Wells
Eugenie" by Albert Rudin
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful 1941 watercolor of Chicago's Old Town neighborhood that features an old car, titled "Wells & Eugenie" by Albert Rudin. Image size: 11 1/2" x 15 1/2". Framed size: 18"...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Painter - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1945 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1945 ca.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Masks
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian artist Miette Braive(1916-2000), was classically trained in Belgium, before moving to Paris to pursue her art career as first a student and then a contemporary of the famed F...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Regionalist Landscape
, California Watercolor Society, GGIE, Chouinard
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M. Cailliet' and dated 1940; additionally inscribed verso, 'Marcel Emile Cailliet, Los Angeles'.
A softly-painted, Regionalist landscape showing a woman standin...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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