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Style: American Modern
Torso No. 1, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torso No. 1, 1967 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated upper right 15 x10 inches 24 x 20 inches, framed A mid-century figural abstract painting. Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

1972 Gestural Oil Painting Boat in Harbor Figural Abstraction Raoul Middleman
Located in Surfside, FL
Raoul Middleman (born 1935 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American painter. Middleman has been a member of the Maryland Institute College of Art faculty since 1961. American University Museum at the Katzen Center has described Middleman as a "Baltimore maestro [whose] nudes are not pretty—they are sagging, dimpled, and real. His cityscapes reveal the underbelly of post-industrial rot, his narrative paintings give contemporary life to his personal obsessions. They are intelligent, messy, and utterly masterful." From an interview with RM "I was doing abstract art. Then Roy Lichtenstein came around, and I wanted to be current. I remember Grace Hartigan said, “You’ve gotta go to New York, seize destiny by the hand.” My friend Jon Schueler took my slides up to Eleanor Ward, who had the Stable Gallery. My Pop art paintings were discovered. I moved to New York into Malcolm Morley’s old loft down on South Street. Agnes Martin was upstairs... People who interest me come from different quarters. I knew guys around Schueler, like B.H. Friedman. But I also knew the Pop world pretty well – Al Hansen, Richard Artschwager, Lichtenstein. I became friends with Raoul Hague...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

At the Market, Oil Portrait Painting by David Azuz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Azuz, Israeli/French (1942 - 2014) Title: At the Market Year: circa 1980 Medium: Oil on Paper, signed upper right Size: 25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.26 cm)
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Archival Paper

A Vibrant, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Bull Fight by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A vibrant, colorful, 1950s Mid-Century Modern painting of a bull fight by notable Chicago artist, Francis Chapin. Oil on canvas, presented in a period, dark walnut brown stained flo...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pensive With Nosegay Mid Century Modern Oil Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Pensive with nosegay - Painted in Berkeley CA. painting size 10x8 with frame 16x14x1 Jon (Corka) Cornin 1905-1992 Born in New York City on March 24, 1905, Jon Cornin studied in Ne...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

"Woman Recumbent" Sally Michel Avery, Vibrant Blue, Modernist Nude, Interior
Located in New York, NY
Sally Michel Avery Woman Recumbent, 1980 Signed, dated and titled on the reverse Oil on board 16 x 20 inches Private Collection, East Hampton Private Collection, New York (acquired ...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Poland s House in Fog" Lois Dodd, Abstracted Modernist, Blue Color, Atmospheric
Located in New York, NY
Lois Dodd Poland's House in Fog, 1990 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse Oil on aluminum 5 x 7 inches Provenance Fischbach Gallery, New York Private Collection (acquired from t...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Metal

Travel Guide. Seated male figure reading large yellow bird shaped canvas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Painted on an arch shaped canvas signed on lower left and on reverse. ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provo...
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Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Rabbi in Jerusalem
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Portrait Subject: Landscape Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: United States EMANUEL ROMANO Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984 Emanuel Glicenstein Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897. His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born. His father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland. In 1926 Emanuel and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later. Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame. In 1936 Romano was worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida. Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel. In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York. Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicentein Museum. COLLECTIONS Indianapolis Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art Boston Fine Arts Museum Fogg Museum Musée Nacional de France Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

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. ...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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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...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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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...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Frederick Shane “Twilight of History” 1947 Surrealist Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Denver, CO
"Twilight of History" is a powerful and evocative original oil painting on board by renowned American artist Frederick Shane (1906–1992), created in 1947. This deeply symbolic work e...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Picnic, Modern Figurative Oil Painting by Anton Refregier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Anton Refregier Title: Picnic Year: 1959 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed and dated l.r. Size: 24 x 44 inches (61 x 112 cm) Frame: 31.5 x 51.5 inches
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1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

George Vander Sluis Mid-Century Modern Barn Landscape Oil Stick on Paper
Located in Denver, CO
This original mid-20th-century oil stick on paper by acclaimed American modernist George Vander Sluis (1915–1984), titled Barn Side with Sliding Do...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel

"There are Two of You" Early Modern Original Foley s Ad Layout of Woman Mirror
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern original watercolor and gouache ad layout for Foley's by Houston portraitist Robert C. Joy. The work features a central reflection of a woman doing her makeup while wear...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Young Woman By a Tree, Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003) Title: Young Woman by Tree Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 24 x 28.5 inches
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painting. Realist painter-printmaker Kyra Markham...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman with Cat
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003) Title: Woman with Cat Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 31 x 20 in. (78.74 x 50.8 cm)
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Preparing the Flag, America s 1784 Golden Girl
Located in Missouri, MO
Preparing the Flag, America's 1784 Golden Girl Arthur Sarnoff (American, 1912-2000) Signed Upper Right 28 x 24 inches 31.5 x 26.5 inches with frame SEE PHOTO: **Used for the Bi-Cen...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Young Girl on a Couch, Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003) Title: Young Girl on Couch Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 26.5 x 32 inches
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Girl in a White Dress, Oil Painting on Canvas by Edith Varian Cockcroft
By Edith Varian Cockcroft
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Edith Varian Cockroft, American (1881 - 1962) Title: Girl in a White Dress Year: 1961-1962 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.(signed Cocroft) ...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ruth, American Modern Oil Painting on Canvas, Mid-20th Century, Signed
By Joseph Watson Little
Located in New York, NY
Joe Watson Little - (1915 - 1986) Had a considerable run for Hearst publications, doing covers and story arts from the 40s through the 60s. Also did PWPs (Post War Pulps) like Master...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Woman with Arms Crossed
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Arms Crossed Mixed media collage-painting on stone chip surface, mounted on fabric, mounted on wood support by the artist, 1955 Signed and dated lower center Image size: 1...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Other Medium

Self-Portrait, Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003) Title: Self-Portrait Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Dimensions: 48 x 30 in. (121.92 x 76.2 cm)
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Art Institute
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original 1942 oil on board painting by American female artist Catherine Koenig depicting the interior of the Buffalo Art Institute which was home to the legendary Charles Burchfie...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil Crayon

Clown and Nude
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003) Title: Clown and Nude Year: 1960 Medium: Oil on Board, signed and dated Size: 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 28.5 x 34 inches
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Woman in Yellow Jacket, Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003) Title: Woman in Yellow Jacket Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: ...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Child
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern abstract portrait of a child by American artist Will Barnet. The work has a letter of provenance from the artist's wife. The i...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood

Portrait of a Child
Portrait of a Child
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Girl on a Buick Painting on Metal Cut Out Sculpture Wall Hanging
Located in Surfside, FL
Seymour Chwast, B. 1931, American, 'Girl on a Buick', Painted Sheet Metal. A label on the reverse reads: "Seymour Chwast, 'Girl on a Buick', Metal Cut-Out, $2,000" Provenance: Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer. Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. Often referred to as "the left-handed designer," Chwast's unique graphic design melded social commentary and a distinctive style of illustration. Today, he continues to work and is principal at The Pushpin Group, Inc. in New York City. In 1979, he was hired by McDonald's to design on the first box for their Happy Meals. He is the font designer of Chwast Buffalo, Fofucha, Loose Caboose NF, and Weedy Beasties NF. He is a member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI). In the pantheon of American (nay, world) illustration, he stands, albeit slightly shorter and a little more rumpled, beside N.C. Wyeth, J. C. Leyendecker, and Normal Rockwell...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Metal

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Chalk on black paper 1963. (Inscribed 1963) Signed and Dated. I.Rice Pereira was an American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher who playe...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Chalk

"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Mervin M Jules (1912-1994 "The Money Lender" 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches Oil on board, c. 1940s Signed lower left F...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers 1932
Located in New York, NY
Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers. Dated and signed "32 Harry Gottlieb" lower right. Sight: 13 1/8" H x 18 1/4" W. Harry Gottlieb, painter, screenprinter, educator, and lithographer, was born in Bucharest, Rumania. He emigrated to America in 1907, and his family settled in Minneapolis. From 1915 to 1917, Gottlieb attended the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. After a short stint as an illustrator for the U.S. Navy, Gottlieb moved to New York City; he became a scenic and costume designer for Eugene O"Neill's Provincetown Theater Group. He also studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design. He was one of America's first Social Realist painters, influenced by that Robert Henri-led movement in New York City where Gottlieb settled in 1918. He was also a pioneer in screen printing, which he learned while working for the WPA. He married Eugenie Gershoy, and the couple joined the artist colony at Woodstock, New York. He lectured widely on art education. In 1923, Gottlieb settled in Woodstock, New York and in 1931, spent a a year abroad studying under a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1935, he joined the Federal Art Project...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Bathers at the Quarry 1940s American Modernist Oil Painting WPA era
By Theresa Berney Loew
Located in Surfside, FL
Swimmers and sun tanners at the local watering hole. Her birth name was Theresa Berney. At the time of her passing she was known as Theresa Loew. Birth place: Baltimore artist, blo...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Holocaust Memorial Oil Painting Judaica Rabbi Composed of Figures Artists Frame
By Maurice Newman
Located in Surfside, FL
Maurice Newman was active/lived in Massachusetts / Lithuania. Maurice Newman is known for sculpture-abstraction, impressionist landscape painting, diorama. Born in Lithuania, Mauric...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Newton’s Farm" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Hazy Autumn Landscape Painting
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard Newton’s Farm Signed lower right Oil on canvas 24 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign art...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modernist Judaica Oil Painting "Old Jew" Jewish Rabbi at Prayer
Located in Surfside, FL
An oil on board Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait in profile of an old Jew. 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. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Please exit, monoprint collage politics hand, figurative
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This monoprint transfer painting on paper bridges single printmaking and painting, with collage. The color palette is monochromatic. Thematically it is a figurative work referencing ...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Archival Paper, Monoprint

Suzanna and the Elders
Located in Miami, FL
A modern interpretation of the biblical story Suzanna and the Elders. Signed lower right Ink and wash on paper The Downtown Gallery Felix Landau Gallery Ernest Brown & Phillips, Ltd...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

"Orange Dog" American Modern oil painting of man sitting with two dogs
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Orange Dog" is an American Modern oil painting of a man sitting with two dogs. Massachusetts. Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figura...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Large Oil Painting Of Cartoony Camouflage Tank in Illustration Style
Located in Surfside, FL
Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer. Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paint, Board

Bold Graphic Illustration Pop Art Image of Large Truck, Orignal Alkyd Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Doug Fraser Graphic design illustration artist. Doug was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He attended the Alberta College of Art & Design in Calgary where he studied graphic design and illustration. After four years at ACAD he went to New York for graduate school, attaining a masters degree, MFA, from the School of Visual Arts. Without missing a beat, Doug became an award winning illustrator, (in a cartoon, bold comic book sort of style) having executed commissioned works for an array of international clients including The New York Times, the Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Wirtschafts Woche (Germany), Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Motor Trend, NHL, IBM, and Levis. His technique originally involved traditional media of oils on canvas and evolved over the years to incorporate digital aspects both exclusive and combined with paint. During the early 90's, he was approached by the ACAD(Alberta College of Art & Design in Calgary) to teach and accepted a part-time position. Doug has sat on several juries and spoken in numerous cities including New York and Los Angeles. His illustration work has been exhibited in the US, England, Japan and Canada. Memberships have included the prestigious Society of Illustrators(NY) for eighteen years, the advisory panel of ICON5, the American Illustrator Partnership (founding member status), CAPIC and the Graphic Artists Guild of New York. 2004 recipient of the Alberta College of Art & Design Board of Governors Alumni Award of Excellence. His style is similar to the graphic novel style of Art Spiegelman, Shepard Fairey, Ben Katchor or Robert Crumb in its graphic expressiveness After a long successful career as an illustrator, the desire to create works of a different nature and purpose began to surface. Building on the technical knowledge developed professionally as a visual communicator in the graphics world for 30 years, he began to experiment once again, without the burden of client and other constraints. This freedom enabled Doug to move beyond his past and develop a body of work which is more personal in subject. This new body of paintings strongly links artistic influences with personal observations. Influences affecting structure include graphic design, abstract and figurative art. A two dimensional quality is embraced and the construction becomes as important as the subject. The subject, which is somewhat banal in tone, is derived from his own first hand experience. Exploring subject that which is usually only seen in passing, but is now observed more closely. Intense visual study precedes a process of disassembling and then reconstruction. Throughout, there's an internal dialogue between the objective and the subjective. The experiential challenge of this process has Douglas tracing the edges of where the figurative meets abstraction. EDUCATION; Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Visual Communication Arts. School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, M.F.A. degree. ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS; Editorial: Boston Globe, Business Week, BUZZ, Esquire, Forbes, Globe & Mail, GQ, L.A. Times, Mademoiselle, Manhattan Inc, Mother Jones, Newsweek, New York Times, New York Woman,Omni, Penthouse, FORTUNE, TIME, Washington, Self, Sports Illustrated, Texas Monthly, Washington Post, Rolling Stone Book: David R. Godine, Houghton-Mufflin, Knopf, Macmillan, Rabbit Ears Video & Book, Simon Schuster, The Progressive, Turner Publishing (CNN), BLAB!, Telstar Comic compilation Corporate: Air Canada, Allen-Bradley [a Division of Rockwell International],Citibank, Coca-Cola, Danzas (Europe), IBM, Kingston Electronics, Kohler, Levis, Lowenbrau Beer, Concept-1 Calgary, Memorex, Oakland A's Baseball Team, National Football League, National Hockey League, Nike, Northern Telecom, Nynex NY, Pfizer, RCA, Roundtree U.K., Samsung Electronics, Sony, Suzuki Motorcycles, Tamko, USF&G [financial investment group]. Graphic Novel, Comic Book: Adhouse Press, story titles; "Electric Sheep...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Alkyd, Illustration Board

"In Foreign Parts" Eugene Higgins, Southwestern Pueblo, Modern Figurative
By Eugene Higgins
Located in New York, NY
Eugene Higgins In Foreign Parts, circa 1913 Signed lower right Watercolor on paper Sight 17 x 13 inches Born William Victor Higgins in 1884 to a Shelbyville, Indiana farm family where the only art Victor was aware of as a child was his father's love of flowers. "He loved their forms and their colors, and he tended his garden as a painter might work a canvas." At the age of nine, Victor met a young artist who traveled the Indiana countryside painting advertisements on the sides of barns. He purchased paints and brushes so the young Higgins could practice his own artwork on the inside of his father's barn. He also taught Victor about art museums and especially about the new Chicago Art Institute. This information never left the young artist, and he saved his allowance until his father allowed him at the age of fifteen to attend Chicago Art Institute. He worked a variety of jobs to finance his studies both there and at the Academy of Fine Arts. Victor Higgins traveled to New York in 1908, where he met Robert Henri, who became a significant influence by depicting every-day scenes and stressing the importance of the spirit and sense of place as important factors in painting. Higgins was also greatly affected by the New York Armory Modernism Show of Marsden Hartley in 1913. While Victor Higgins was in Chicago he met former mayor and avid collector Carter H. Harrison who was to prove instrumental in the growth of Higgins career for several years. Harrison agreed to support Higgins for four years to go to Paris and Munich and paint and study in the great museums in Europe. While at the Academie de la Grande Chaumier in Paris (1910-1914) he met Walter Ufer, who was another Chicago artist being sponsored by Carter Harrison. This meeting was not only a life-long friendship, but the beginning of a great change in the way Higgins looked at "American" art. He decided that America needed it's own authentic style rather than the 19th Century classic style he was taught in Europe. Very soon after returning to Chicago in 1914, Harrison sent him and Walter Ufer on a painting trip to Taos, New Mexico for a year in exchange for paintings. Higgins made other similar agreements and was able to support himself with his painting. This trip was a life-changing experience and introduced Higgins to the authentic America he had been looking for. In 1914 Taos was an isolated village about twelve hours from Santa Fe on an impossible dirt road. But the colorful life of the pueblo people and the natural beauty drew a collection of artists who became the Taos art colony, from which the Taos Society of Artists was founded in 1915. Victor Higgins became a permanent resident within a year of his arrival and a member of the society in 1917, exhibiting with Jane Peterson in 1925 and with Wayman Adams and Janet Scudder in 1927. The members would travel around the country introducing the Southwest scenes with great success. He remained a member until the Society's dissolution in 1927. Higgins was the youngest member of the group of seven. Other members were Joseph Henry Sharp, Bert Phillips...
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1910s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Pale Blue Wind, charcoal and collage, female portrait
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Charcoal drawing and Collage on sintra panel, blue tones, portrait, excellent gift
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2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Panel, Charcoal, Archival Paper

Ode to John Franklin
Located in Bozeman, MT
When I think of where McCauley fits into American art, as a contemporary painter, sculptor and naturalistic interpreter, I place him in the same philosophical tribe as Walton Ford, A...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

"The Humber River" George Ennis, Intense Color American Modernist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
George Ennis The Humber River Signed lower left Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Ennis studied at Washington University in St. Louis and at the Chase School. He was a member of the Fed...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary Leon Bibel (1912 - 1995) "The Audience," 52 ½ x 41 ¼ inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1963. Signed lower right. Framed. BIO Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Leon Bibel was born in San Francisco in 1913. He trained at the California School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School. In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project at Harlem Art...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

American Pastoral
Located in New York, NY
John Koch is a beloved American realist painter who depicted people in their everyday lives. Here we see a slightly different approach where he has put a painter out in a rural town...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Olympia-Lipa, Comic Figurative Painting French Style by Natalie Shiporina
Located in Zofingen, AG
I would like to write a couple of words about the Heroine of my paintings - LIPOCHKA. "I'm Lipochka, hello!" - that's how she used to introduce herself to men. By passport - Olympia....
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2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

flowers from evergood, bright figure domestic setting predominantly red painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on wood by Stephen Basso Narrative work, woman in chair in interior setting
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2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Modern Abstract Portrait of a Woman with Child and Fish
By Lynwood Kreneck
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract style painting of a woman fishing. The work is signed by the artist Lynwood Kreneck, who is known for printmaking. The painting is framed in a wooden frame with a silver trim. Dimensions Without Frame: H 40 in x W 30 in. Artist Biography: Lynwood Kreneck (born 1936) received his BFA and MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Kreneck is Professor Emeritus of Art at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, where he taught printmaking for nearly forty years. He is founding curator of the exhibition series Colorprint USA and was instrumental in the development of water-based screen print inks and methods. Kreneck is represented in numerous collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago (IL), Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA), High Museum (Atlanta, GA), Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art (Shawnee, OK), Museum of Contemporary (Knoxville, TN), Silvermine Guild Arts...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
Located in New York, NY
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion Mervin Jules (1912 – 1994) "The Tailor" 9 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches Oil on masonite, c. 1930s Signed lower ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Fodder Stacks, Bearsville" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Country Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard Fodder Stacks, Bearsville Signed lower right Oil on canvas 24 x 30 inches Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Pueblo Indians, Taos, New Mexico" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Figures
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard Pueblo Indians, Taos, New Mexico Signed lower right Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled Figurative Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Untitled red figurative abstract painting with various nude figures holding various objects by Portland, Oregon artist Brendan McKeon. The canvas is not currently framed.
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

"Untitled" Albert Heckman, 1950s Modernist Abstracted Still Life Painting
Located in New York, NY
Albert Heckman Untitled, circa 1950 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 21 1/4 x 29 inches Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915 after graduating from high school and landing a job at the Meadville Post Office. In 1917, at the age of 24, Heckman enrolled part-time in Teachers' College, Columbia University's Fine Arts Department to begin his formal art education. He worked as a freelance ceramic and textile designer and occasionally as a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the early 1920s, at the age of almost 30, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia Teachers College. He was especially impacted by his instructor at Columbia, Arthur Wesley Dow. After graduating, he was hired by the Teachers' College as a Fine Arts instructor. He stayed with Columbia Teachers' College until 1929, when he left to attend the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Isami Doi (1903-1965), who was born in Hawaii, was arguably his most impressive student at Columbia. Doi is now regarded as one of the most prominent artists hailing from Hawaii. Heckman became an active member and officer of the Keramic Society and Design Guild of New York in the 1920s as part of his early commercial art career. The Society's mission was to share knowledge and showcase textile and ceramic design exhibits. In 1922, Heckman married Florence Hardman, a concert violinist. Mrs. Heckman's concert schedule during the 1920s kept Albert and Florence Heckman apart for a significant portion of the time, but they spent what little time they had together designing and building their Woodstock, New York, summer house and grounds. A small house and an acre of surrounding land on Overlook Mountain, just behind the village of Woodstock, were purchased by Albert and Florence Heckman at the time of their marriage. Their Woodstock home, with its connections, friendships, and memories, became a central part of their lives over the years, even though they had an apartment in New York City. Heckman's main artistic focus shifted to the house on Overlook Mountain and the nearby towns and villages, Kingston, Eddyville, and Glasco. After returning from the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in 1930, Mr. Heckman joined Hunter College as an assistant professor of art. He worked there for almost thirty years, retiring in 1956. Throughout his tenure at Hunter, Mr. Heckman and his spouse spent the summers at their Woodstock residence and the winters in New York City. They were regular and well-known guests at the opera and art galleries in New York. Following his retirement in 1956, the Heckmans settled in Woodstock permanently, with occasional trips to Florida or Europe during the fall and winter. Mr. Heckman's close friends and artistic career were always connected to Woodstock or New York City. He joined the Woodstock art group early on and was greatly influenced by artists like Paul and Caroline Rohland, Emil Ganso, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Andre Ruellan, and her husband, Jack Taylor. Heckman operated a summer art school in Woodstock for several years in the 1930s with support from Columbia University, where these and other Woodstock artists gave guest lectures. The Potter's Shop in New York City hosted Mr. Heckman's first art show in December 1928. The exhibit received some positive reviews from critics. The American Institute of Graphic Arts chose the plate of "Wehlen, Saxony" as one of the "Fifty Prints of the Year in 1929." There were sixteen etchings displayed. The remaining plates depicted scenes in Saxony, Germany, while five of the plates were based on scenes in Rondout, New York. Heckman started switching from etching to black and white lithography by the early 1930s. A lifelong admirer of Heckman's artwork, Mr. Gustave von Groschwitz organized a significant exhibition of Heckman etchings and lithographs at the Ferargil Gallery in New York City in 1933. The exhibition traveled to the Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles (May 1933), the Charles Lessler Gallery in Philadelphia (May 1933), J.L. Hudson in Detroit (June 1933), and Gumps in San Francisco (July 1933). Together with his early etchings, the exhibition featured brand-new black and white lithographs depicting scenes in and around Woodstock as well as "A View from Tudor City...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1945 Portrait of Bessy Lyon by Hayes Lyon, Mid-Century American Oil Painting
By Hayes Lyon
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating 1945 oil portrait by renowned American artist Hayes Lyon beautifully depicts Bessy Lyon, the artist’s wife, in a warm and intimate composition. Rendered with soft ye...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Surrogate Family cat woman and with her extended family on sofa humorous theme
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a recent oil on linen canvas mounted on cradled wood panel signed and dated on reverse . Created earlier this year, the artist has titled it in response to the current politi...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Wood Panel

New Sun III
Located in Bozeman, MT
When I think of where McCauley fits into American art, as a contemporary painter, sculptor and naturalistic interpreter, I place him in the same philosophical tribe as Walton Ford, A...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

"Reflecting Thoughts About Remembering" - Monoprint on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Reflecting Thoughts About Remembering" - Monoprint on Paper Sepia colored monoprint of a male figure "reflecting and remembering." A nude male figure sits with his head facing down...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Laid Paper

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