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Period: 1940s
Painting by Robert Wood
Located in Houston, TX
ROBERT WILLIAM WOOD
(1889-1979)
Robert William Wood was an American landscape painter. He was born in England, emigrate...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape in Provence Watercolor Painting by Francois Pascal, circa 1940
Located in Atlanta, GA
Step into the serene charm of southern France with this captivating watercolor landscape artwork by François Pascal (France, 19th century–1948). Expertly painted on paper, this work ...
Category
Academic 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Butch Taking A Bath, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, Dog Painting
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration of a shaggy black and white dog taking a bath
Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, May 11, 1946
The Post editors described: "Artist Albe...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Sunset Over the Austrian Mountains 1940
s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5151 Antique Austrian large scale landscape oil painting
signed, framed
Image size 35.5x23.5"
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Painting by Emil John Hess Circa 1940
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Emil John HESS 1913-2003
This vibrant watercolor on canvas by acclaimed American artist Emil John Hess immerses viewers in the lively atmosphere of a bustling circus scene. Painted...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor
Modernist Mexican Artist "Porters Garden" Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Ernesto Linares
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Dimensions: 16" x 19 3/4" x 1/4"
Dimensions w/Frame: 19 1/4" x 23 1/4"
Hand signed lower right
Ernesto Linares Early Mexic...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vase of flowers oil colorful figurative painting
Located in Jerusalem, IL
oil on canvas signed by the artist.
This work will be included in “Volume IV and Additives to Volumes I, II and III” of the Catalogue Rasionne currently in preparation by Marc Ottavi...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period -
Midtown Galleries label on verso, Unframed Signed and date...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Don Quichotte
Located in Genève, GE
Oil on canvas
Category
Italian School 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"She struggled to free herself" Magazine Story illustration for the Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine story illustration for part four of “Black Jack” by Robert E. Pinkerton, published in The Saturday Evening Post, December 11, 1943, page 32.
This compelling illustration, ...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The House La maison - French Cubism Fauvism House
Located in London, GB
This oil on canvas is signed “Metzinger” in the lower right corner.
It was created between 1947 and 1950
Provenance: Tajan, Paris, Tableaux et sculptures des XIX et XX eme siecles, ...
Category
Fauvist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Flag and Capitol
By Syd Cockell
Located in Missouri, MO
This is an original oil on velvet painting created c. 1942. Syd Cockell was an accomplished American illustrator during World War II.
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life with a bunch of flowers and apples. 1940s, cardboard, oil, 90x69 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with a bunch of flowers and apples.
1940s, cardboard, oil, 90x69 cm
Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V)
Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of appl...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Flowers in vase
Located in Täby, SE
Yelva Petrea Sophie Vermehren, born February 13, 1878 in Helsingborg, died in 1980 102 years old, was a Swedish-Danish painter. She was the daughter of the wholesaler Johan Carl Emil Bock and Nanna Oline Christiane Augustinus. She married the Danish artist Sophus Vermehren in 1901 but the marriage ended in divorce. She studied at "Voss tegnskole", Wermehren's art school in Copenhagen and at Teknisk Skole in Odense as well as with Valdemar Irminger...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
1948 Mid-Century Modern Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Arches of the Sea
Located in Bristol, GB
ARCHES OF THE SEA
Size: 59 x 51 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A mid-century modern painting that features a dreamlike coastal landscape, defined by its geometric abstractions an...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled (Red Wheelbarrow), New York Harbor Scene
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited:
Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York
Caldwell Gallery, Manlius, N.Y.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Skyline and Tugboat, East River, New York City
Located in New York, NY
Samuel Grunvald excelled at watercolors and was a native New Yorker who portrayed his city as such as he depicted its skyline, architecture and particular character with love and ent...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Art Journalism - War Lessons, Illustration for Collier
s, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Marta Sawyers. Illustrator Journalist. She was sent to war-ravaged countries to “Paint the Story”.
What's unique here? This represents the work an Artist Journalist/War Correspondent...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Pastel
American Modernist Snowscene
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern 1940s American oil painting depicting a rural landscape in winter. This work comes housed in a rustic barn wood frame likely original to the piece
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Modernist Oil on Canvas Painting "The Immigrant" signed Hida Coates Altschule
Located in New York, NY
This Modernist oil on canvas painting, titled "The Immigrant" and signed by Hida Coates Altschule, is a powerful and evocative piece created in America circa 1946. Deeply reflective ...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Salad and a Bunch of Radishes-Oil on Canvas by F. De Pisis-1941
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed lower right: Pisis 41
On left, centered, the initials “V.R.”, indicating the artist’s Studio in Milan, via Rugabella.
Filippo De Pisis
was an Italian painter-poet who wa...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paysage de montagne avec chalets
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
80 x 95.5 x 6 cm
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Japanese Pagoda Woodblock Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3722 Japanese Woodblock on paper set in a vintage wood frame
Image size 9x10.5"
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Ink
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.
Category
Abstract 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Farm Landscape Chickens Grazing Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted American impressionist chicken grazing landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 9H by 11L.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Pair of 1940s Diminutive Paintings of Vermont by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Pair of 1940s "Thumb Box", oil on paper paintings depicting stone wall menders in Thetford, Vermont. Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 each. Framed size:
6 1/2" x 7 3/4" each. Estate st...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Early Mexican City Scene by Chicago Artist Francis Chapin, San Miguel de Allende
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, vibrant, early Mexican city street scene by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Depicting a quiet, picturesque view of the rooftops and cathedral...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Storm Over Victor, Colorado – 1940s WPA Era Oil Painting of Mountain Town
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by George Vander Sluis (1915-1984) titled Storm Over Victor (Colorado Mountain Town) from 1946. WPA Era Mountain Landscape wi...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Leon Dolice Chrysler Building at Night
By Leon Dolice
Located in San Francisco, CA
Leon Dolice: 1892-1960. Well listed American artist with Auction results as high as $6000 for a pastel of the Chrysler building. This is exactly what you want in a Dolice. A tonalist...
Category
Tonalist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Lower Manhattan"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed & dated 1940 lower left.
Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984)
He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the S...
Category
Abstract 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
American Painting Native American Dance Exhibition New Mexico Antelope Dancers
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil painting by American artist Rudolph Wedow. This fantastic painting depicts Antelope Dancers in San Felipe Pueblo in New Mexico.
Created...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Reclining French Woman
s Artist Mirrored Reflection
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5084 Mirror reflections of a French recling woman with artist in reflections in the mirror
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$250 Sale Price
56% Off
Spanish School (XX) Fishermen
s Beach oil on board painting seascape Spain
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Signed J. Sureda Lloveras - Fishermen's beach - Oil on board
Oil measures 33x41 cm.
Frameless.
Signed J. Sureda Lloveras.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$403 Sale Price
51% Off
"The Morning Paper"
By Elsa Warner
Located in San Francisco, CA
"The Morning Paper" 1949, a fine original tempera painting on board by listed artist Elsa Warner (1900-1988). Elsa Warner was born on June 6, 1900 in Illinois. After studying at the ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
A Vibrant, Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman in a Yellow Blouse
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman in a Yellow Blouse by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Oil on Masonite, dating circa 1945. Artwork Si...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Original Oil Painting Afterglow Cape Ann Mass Gloucester American Framed Parker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Evocative of the Gloucester School’s lyrical realism, this serene harbor scene captures the quiet poetry of coastal life. Two figures ready their small boat as the evening light turn...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bridal White
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right and Titled on reverse
Dimensions: 28.13" x 25.13" (71.45 cm x 63.83 cm)
Literature: Temple Bailey, Bridal White, The American Mag...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$35,000
Les Insectes - Cubist Oil Painting by Andre Masson
By André 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...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Impressionist Oil Painting San Martino Hills Naples Italy 1940
s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6001 San Martino Hill ,Naples Italy, a 1940's oil on canvas applied on board,displayed in a gilt wood frame.Signed by Ferrara
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
FRED DARGE 1900-1978. TEXAS LANDSCAPE "AUTUMN" 1940s DARGE FRAME
Located in San Antonio, TX
Fred Darge
(1900-1978)
Dallas
Image Size: 9 x 12
Frame Size: 17 x 20
Fred Darge Made Frame
Medium: Oil on Canvas board signed
Autum (Autumn)
Biography
Fred Darge (1900-1978)
Friedri...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude with a Bird, Eglomisé Mirrored Glass Engraved Panel Painting by Leon Masson
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare eglomisé work by Léon Masson (1911–1987). The piece was crafted in France circa 1940. This captivating mirrored glass panel painting, masterfully executed in the eglomisé tech...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Glass
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy - Comedians Traveling Road Sign
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy illustration was used as a traveling show sign for the comedy duo.
Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Central Park Bethesda Terrace
Fountain
By Riccardo Magni
Located in San Francisco, CA
Riccardo Magni: 1886-1964. Well listed artist born in Italy and studied in Paris before moving to United States in the 1930s. He has an auction result high of $6625 for a smaller por...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ruckus, Story Illustration
By Edmund Ward
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940s
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 34.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ruckus, Story Illustration
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Emile Albert Gruppe Important Fall Landscape 40x30
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978)
Fall landscape
Oil on canvas laid to canvas
Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe
Canvas: 40" H x 30" W Inches
Framed: 48.25 x 38.25 Inches
Very large ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Unique Pair Of Vintage Herbarium Displays. A Botanical Flower Press With Frame
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
A unique pair of vintage herbarium / botanical displays collected and created by S. Lindwald in June 1946 in Sweden. These botanical specimen are preserved behind glass in a new doub...
Category
Romantic 1940s Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Circus Family
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Green Forrest
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just discovered master level abstract painting, Green Forrest, by American artist Robert McIntosh (1916-2010.)
Green Forrest is an original mixed media painting on hea...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$12,500
"Flowers" by Baldo Guberti - Oil on Masonite - 37.5 x 46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Artwork sold with frame (43 x 56.5 x 3.5 cm)
Baldo Guberti was an Italian painter, engraver, and illustrator born in Ravenna in 1907 and died in Camaiore in 1974. His work is known ...
Category
Academic 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Antique English Beer Drinker Figurative Pub Interior Scene Oil Painting 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3731 Oil on canvas applied to board
Set in a wood frame
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 15 by 19 inches overall. Handsomely framed in...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flat and Chat, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
The Saturday Evening Post Magazine Cover, May 21, 1949.
The irritated tire-changer? Why, that's artist George Hughes himself. The...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Birds by Jankel Adler - Abstract painting
By Jankel Adler
Located in London, GB
Birds by Jankel Adler (1895-1949)
Oil and ciment on canvas
61.4 x 46.4 cm (24¹/₈ x 18¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Adler
Executed in 1948
Provenance
Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zürich, 1959
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
Denham Gallery, UK
Exhibitions
John Denham Gallery, Jankel Adler, June 9th - June 23rd 1996
Jankel Adler was born in Lodz, Poland and lived a life of wandering. In 1912 he moved to Belgrade where he began training as an engraver with his uncle and then went to Germany in 1914 where he lived for a time with his sister in Barmen. There he studied at the college of arts and crafts with Professor Gustav Wiethücher.
Between 1918 and 1921 he moved between Lodz and Germany until in 1922, he settled in Düsseldorf where he became a teacher at the Academy of Arts, and became acquainted with Paul Klee, who influenced his work. A painting by Adler received a gold medal at the exhibition “German art Düsseldorf” in 1928. In 1933, with the rise of Hitler’s Nazi regime, he left Germany for Paris.
With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he volunteered for the Polish army...
Category
Abstract 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Beer Advertisement
By Gil Elvgren
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This Gil Elvgren gouache painting on board was probably intended to be used as an ad for beer. The husband is returning from work with a bouquet of flowers behind his back, while his wife is waiting at the door with a bottle of beer for her husband. This painting was probably done in the late 1940's. The model in this image has the typical Elvgren look, which is very similar to Elvgren's models that he used for his pin up calendar...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Bouquet de Fleurs
Impressionist Still Life of Flowers, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Bouquet de Fleurs' Impressionist Still Life of Flowers, Signed Oil Painting
By artist, Degerna, Mid 20th Century
Signed and dated '1949' by the artist on the lower right hand corner...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$762 Sale Price
20% Off
A Stylish Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study, Design for Saks Fifth Avenue
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a women’s hat & coat for Saks Fifth Avenue.
Inscription reads: "Wolf great coat from Sak's Fifth Avenue".
Ar...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Up at Bat, The Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 10, 1940
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Price on Request.
The Saturday Evening Post cover, August 10, 1940
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Hudson River School Style - The Homestead and Grist Mill 1942
By A. Mathieu
Located in Soquel, CA
Hudson River School Style - The Homestead and Grist Mill 1942
In the Hudson River School style by A (K) Mathieu (American, 19th-20th C). Harvest time at the Homestead with a hay wago...
Category
Hudson River School 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board, Stretcher Bars
Grocery Line, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1948
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, November 13, 1948
The Post described, “Artist Stevan Dohanos felt like a baseball coach who had everything he needed excep...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Laid Paper
Modernist Equestrian
, WPA Murals, Kansas City Art Institute, PAFA, Horses
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966), dedicated lower right, 'Made for Ruth M.' and painted circa 1945. Titled verso 'Birds in Flight', additionally...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Illustration Board
$3,300 Sale Price
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