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Period: 1940s
Vintage Art Deco Abstract Spot Light Aeronautical Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category

Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Cubist Portrait)
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Untitled (Cubist Portrait), 1945, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower middle, 20 x 16 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, perhaps exhibited at Murry's solo exhibition at the Los Angeles's Screen Cartoonists' Gallery, July , 1945, presented in its original frame Jerre Murry was a California modernist painter. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Murry studied at the Detroit Academy of Art and worked as an artist for the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Murry traveled to the Bahamas, where he was inspired to paint modernist scenes of island life and people. By the early 1930s, Murry had relocated to Los Angeles, where he caught the attention of Synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald Wright, State Supervisor for the Federal Art Project (FAP) in Southern California. MacDonald Wright enrolled Murry into the FAP. Murry’s Gauguin-influenced painting Sun Image was exhibited together with other FAP artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1936, and Murry was also included in the FAP exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 1937. Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles, the Chamber of Commerce Gallery in Santa Barbara, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art also showed Murry’s work during the 1930s. Murry created a murals for Los Angeles Water & Power Company, the Boise, Idaho Post Office, and Glendale Junior College. In 1939, Murry's work was exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition and the New York World's Fair. He also was included in the All California Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of art that same year. He went on to exhibit in Los Angeles at the Foundation of Western Art's Trends in Southern California Art shows in 1940 and 1941, at Raymond and Raymond Gallery in Hollywood and USC’s Elizabeth Holmes...
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American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

The Dancer
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...
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1940s Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

American School Modernist Abstract Nautical Seascape Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school signed seascape painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H.
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Cubist Abstract Signed Rare Early Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Lela "Jackie" Axline (1910-1998). Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 15"L x 19"H.
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Formations
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just discovered mixed media painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, (1916-2010.) Formations, is an original mixed media gouache on heavy artists paper, signed, da...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Antique American School Modernist Hay Barn Regionalist Farmer Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist farm landscape painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 25H by 30L.
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American School Modernist Surreal Cityscape Landscape Signed Regional Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nice modernist American school painting. Oil and watercolor and gouache on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18L x 23H.
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Conference
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to...
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1940s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Cubist Abstract Signed Rare Early Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Lela "Jackie" Axline (1910-1998). Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 16"L x 24"H.
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Modernist Abstract Nature Study Virginia Trees Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted abstract landscape by Nancy Weyl. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Les Insectes - Cubist Oil Painting by Andre Masson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed, titled and dated cubist oil on canvas by French painter Andre Masson. The work depicts colourful insects. Signature: Signed lower right and titled and dated 1946 verso Dim...
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Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Body - Maurice Rouzée - 1940s - Tempera
Located in Roma, IT
The Body is an original artwork realized by Maurice Rouzée in the 1940s. Hand-signed by the artist on the upper left margin. Good conditions. The artw...
Category

Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Rare Israeli Modernist Oil Painting Exhibited 1951 Tel Aviv Museum
By Anatol Gurevitch
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed in Hebrew lower right and bears hand written label verso from a 1950's exhibition Gurevich Anatole Anatol Gurevitch Anatol Gurewitsch (1916-2005) Per the hebrew label on the back, this was exhibited in 1951. I believe at the Tel Aviv museum of art (as per the Israel Museum (Jerusalem) website)m in a manner reminescent of Bezalel Schatz, Moshe Castel, Jean david and other Israeli artists of the New Horizons prominent in that period ts a nude crouching figure against a colorful abstract background. Israeli Painter and stage designer. Yakir of Tel Aviv. Born in Russia, Moscow in the mid-teens of the twentieth century. Studied painting in Berlin. Immigrated to Palestine from Germany in 1934. Served in the British Army (1941-1946). Known for his pantings of Jewish rabbis and other Judaica subject matter. He specialized in stage design for dance troupes: the dance troupe led by Gertrude Kraus, Inbal, the Batsheva Dance Company, the international black dancer tali bati. His first wife was the late dancer and choreographer - the girl Kesten, His son is theater director Michael Gurevich. His second wife was the actress - Rivka Gur, who gave birth to his second son, Eyal. He died at the age of 89 after a serious illness. He left behind two sons: Michael (Miki) Gurevitch and Eyal Gurevitch. He was the uncle of the artist and sculptor - Igael Tumarkin. He was a stage designer in the theaters The brothel of Hunzo from Kibbutz Givat Haim, the British military band of this type, the British army, Gertrud Kraus, the Inbal Dance Theater, the Israeli Ballet, the Batsheva Dance Company and more. He designed a stage for plays The girl and the Negro, the Threepenny Opera, a band on the Thames, the singer of the land (in the military band of 1944), the banknote to Shlomo, the tea department, Nathan the Wise, Herod and Miriam. Awards Yakir Tel Aviv Prize, on behalf of the Tel Aviv Municipality. Anatol Gurewitsch, painter and Stage designer, born 1916, Moscow. After Second World War worked as stage designer. Designed costumes for dancer Gertrud Krausz. Uncle of Igael Tumarkin, and father of the theater Director Miki Gurewitsch. Education Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, art 1936 with Frenel Frankel 1937 with Miron...
Category

Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Antique American Modernist Carved Mixed Media Fish Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and well executed modernist wall plaque by Richard Kuehne. Paint on gesso plaque. Signed. Silver leaf incorporated frame as photographed.
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Tapisserie Française Moderne by Jean Lurçat - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
La Tapisserie Française Moderne is the title of the solo exhibition of Jean Lurçat, hold at the Kunsthalle Bern, from June 25th to the first July ...
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1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal 21 x...
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American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Board

Vintage Signed American Surreal Exhibited Beach Scene "Femininity" Oil Painting
By Harry Long
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting by Harry Lane. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Exhibited. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jenne Magafan 1946 “Deserted Street” Oil on Canvas, Colorado/Woodstock Modernist
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative 1946 oil on canvas painting, titled Deserted Street, was created by Colorado/Woodstock modernist Jenne Magafan (1916–1952). The work depicts a solitary figure wanderin...
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American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Surreal Woman"
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on fiberboard painting by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower left. Circa 1945. Condition is good. Presently unframed. Framing options are av...
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Post-Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

Buffalo New York Regionalist Modern Landscape Signed Exhibited Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape painting signed "Welch '42". Oil on board, circa 1942. Signed. Image size, 16L x 14H. Housed in a modern frame.
Category

Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Figurative Painting NY Gallery Label Mystery Painting Colorful 1940
Located in Buffalo, NY
Abstract figurative painting on board. Carl Bredemier label on the reverse. Framed. Oil on board
Category

Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Ink and wash on paper. Signed and dated in ink lower right. John Sennhauser became known for his nononjective paintings in the early 1940's. Per teh Smithsonian Institute, "In 194...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Paper

Large Exhibited Modernist Surreal Nocturnal Winter Landscape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1930. Signed. Housed in period frame. Image size 45L x 32H.
Category

Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Yellow Flowers - British 1940s abstract art floral oil painting flowers
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British 1940's abstract expressionist oil painting is by noted founder member of the Borough Group artist, Miles Peter Richmond. Painted in 1947 it has another unfinished...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Evening on the Pier looking into the Tunnel - Mid Century Abstract Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Evening on the Pier, a stunning landscape by Marguerite Louis Blasingame and Frank Blasingame (American, 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and Frank were two of five artists in H...
Category

Tonalist 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Virginia Tillou Signed Antique American Female Modernist Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting by Virginia Tillou (1906 - 1995). Oil canvas. Housed in a period Heydenryk frame. Image size, 12L x 18H. Sig...
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Typewritten Correspondence by Stefano Cairoli - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
This is the typewritten correspondence between Stefano Cairoli, the historical Milanese gallerist of Galleria della Spiga e Corrente (Siena, 1897- Milan, 1972) and Beppe Guzzi, writt...
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1940s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Antique Canadian Modernist Algonquin Park Signed Exhibited Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Canadian modernist signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 12H.
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spring
Located in New York, NY
Oil on masonite Signed and dated, l.r. This painting is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. About the artist: Konrad Cramer grew up in Wurtzburg, Germany, and attended the Karlsruhe Academy. He was a member of Der Blaue Reiter...
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Ribbons of Memory, surrealist composition by D Ollard
Located in London, GB
D Ollard Ribbons of Memory Gouache and photographic collage 20 x 26 cm Signed to reverse Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell Little is known about D Ollard other than the fac...
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1940s Abstract Paintings

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Photographic Film, Gouache

Carter s Seeds, c.1940s poster design
Located in London, GB
Carter's Seeds Poster Design Gouache 49 x 32 cm Provenance: Family of A. E. Halliwell Little is known about the artist other than the fact that he studied under the celebrated art...
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Surrealist 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

S. Teresa del Bambin Gesù - A.L.S. by Alberto Gerardi - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
S. Teresa del Bambin Gesù is a Autograph Letter Signed by the Italian artist Alberto Gerardi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, April 24th 1939. One page, single-sinded. In Italian. Excellent condition. Perfectly readable, thanks to an elegant calligraphy. Touching letter addressed to the Countess and patron of arts, thanking her for her purchase proposal of a hand study drawing...
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

American School Modernist Framed Original Sunset Signed Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Geometric Fabric Design by Kenneth Hills
Located in London, GB
Kenneth Hills Geometric Fabric Design Gouache 39 x 31 cm Signed top left Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell Little is known about the artist other than the fact that he st...
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Abstract Geometric 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Antique Canadian Modernist Framed Lake Landscape Rare Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Canadian modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring 15 by 17 inches overall and 10 by 12 painting alone.
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Village - Ink Drawing by E. De Tomi - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Village is an original drawing in pen realized by Enrico De Tomi in 1947 ca, hand-signed on the lower-left of margin. In good condition. Sheet dimension :18.5 x 24 cm. The artwork...
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

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Ink

Antique Modernist Abstracted Southern School Cubist Woman Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive and a rare early work by Frederick E. Conway (1900 - 1973). Oil on board. Incredibly framed. Signed.
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Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Form, vintage poster design by M R Webb
Located in London, GB
M R Webb Abstract Form 21 x 26 cm Signed to lower right Provenance: Family of A. E. Halliwell Little is known about A Searle beyond the fact that he studied under A E Halliwell, th...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

"Birth" 1940s Surrealist Abstract Watercolor Painting, Gray Scale Female Figure
Located in Denver, CO
"Birth" is a striking semi-abstract watercolor painting created by the talented Colorado artist, Charles Ragland Bunnell, in 1943. The artwork, crafted during Bunnell's Black and Blu...
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Surrealist 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Untitled Abstract, c.1940s painting by Naish
Located in London, GB
Naish Untitled Abstract c.1940 26 x 21 cm Signed 'Naish' within the painting Little is known about the artist Naish, though the fact that Halliwell collected this painting sugges...
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1940s Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Antique American Modernist Beach Sunset Landscape Original Hampton Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. No signature found. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 20"L x 16"H.
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Gouache

Jewish Mexican Avant Garde Fiesta of Guadalupe Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Avant-Garde Subject: Abstract Mexican Landscape Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: Mexico Dimensions: Yonia Fain Oil, 1947 Although this oil painting’s subject is predom...
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Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cubist Crucifixion Scene with Bright Yellow
Located in Houston, TX
Deep tonal cubist style painting of the Crucifixion of Christ. Like traditional Crucifixion imagery, there are two figures on either side ...
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Analytic Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing. A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into obscurity---especially since he was reportedly quite prominent during his lifetime. However, a partial explanation of that omission is the fact that many of his papers and early records have been lost. He was a painter of biomorphic abstractions and did collages, which were influenced by Dadaism. Xceron was active in New York City when modernism was gaining influence. Of him during this period, it was written that his artistic role was "a vital link between what is commonly termed as the first-generation (the Stieglitz group, the Synchromists, etc.) and second-generation, the American Abstract Artists, the Transcendental Painting...
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American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Antique American School Modernist Fauvist Abstract Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted modernist abstract landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large Important Modernist Framed Original Cubist Abstract Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 42L x 24H.
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

On the corner. 1947, paper, mixed technique, 18.5x22.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity. “I am 58, and in five Years my c...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

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Paper

Vintage Mid Century Fauvist American Modernist Amusement Park Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A Painting depicting an amusement park exploding in vibrant colors. The painting is signed "William Wright" lower right. Oil on Canvas. 20 x 24. Nicely framed.
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Mid Century Modern Kitchen Still Life Original OilPainting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 14L x 8H. Signed.
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Chicken Signed Cubist Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist mixed media abstract oil painting and collage by Paul René Gauguin (1911 - 1976). Oil and mixed media on board, circa . Signed. D...
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Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Abstract Bridge Landscape Oil Painting by Will Hollingsworth
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American surreal abstract landscape painting Will Hollingsworth. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period modernist fr...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Abstract Bridge Landscape Oil Painting by Will Hollingsworth
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American surreal abstract landscape painting Will Hollingsworth. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period modernist fr...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Terry Frost Bottle and Statue oil painting abstract still life interior
Located in London, GB
Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003) Bottle and Statue Oil on board 38 x 46cm A distinctive still life featuring bottle, statue, and drapery. Terry Frost was a prominent British abstract artist. Frost is most noted for his simplistic abstract forms and unusual colour; he worked alongside the St Ives group...
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1940s Abstract Paintings

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Board, Oil

Biomorphic Forms - Early Abstract Expressionist - like Arshile Gorky
Located in Miami, FL
It's 1945. What artists were making totally abstract, non-objective paintings like this? Work characterized by organic forms and flattened picture planes, with solid bold colors dr...
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Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Found Objects, Oil

Rolph Scarlett Abstract Expressionist Painting, 1945
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Abstract expressionist gouache and watercolor on paper by noted artist Rolph Scarlett - Signed and dated lower right. Archivally matted, unframed. Image size: 11" H x 15" W. In excel...
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1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper

Shotgun Hunting Abstract with Shooting Bullseye
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and masterfully thought out the composition of rifle, gun shells, target shapes, and buck shots. Most likely done for a ad or men's magazine. Signed lower right Atherton. Housed in a rustic House of Heydenryk frame...
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Post-Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Modernist 1945 Abstract Waterfall Watercolor Landscape Painting by Eve Drewelowe
Located in Denver, CO
This striking 1945 abstract landscape watercolor by pioneering modernist artist Eve (Van Ek) Drewelowe, titled "The Champagne Cascades, Crescendos, Crashes," is a bold interpretation...
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American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

"Abstraction I, " Rolph Scarlett, gouache, modernism, American art, ca 1940-50
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Ontario, Canada, Rolph Scarlett left home at age eighteen for New York City, making that city his home for long periods during his lifetime. While beginning his career as an ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

"Abstraction, " Rolph Scarlett, ca 1947, abstract expressionism, gouache
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Ontario, Canada, Rolph Scarlett left home at age eighteen for New York City, making that city his home for long periods during his lifetime. While beginning his career as an ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

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