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Period: 1940s
The Bouquet Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a woman holding a bouquet of flowers by Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower right. Unframed. From the Estate of Helen Gleiforst.
Helen...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Elsa Reading a Letter
Located in New York, NY
A marvelous and affecting depiction of "Elsa" the artist's wife at the kitchen table with an object not yet decided in her hand. It could be a coffee cup, a glass or a letter that t...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude. African American Woman exhibited piece 1942 University of Iowa exhibited
By Coreen Mary Spellman
Located in San Antonio, TX
Coreen Mary Spellman (1905 - 1978) Dallas Artist Image Size: 20 x 14 Frame Size: 25 x 19 Medium: Oil
Bio:
Exhibited in the Ninth Annual Student Art show at the State University of Iowa
Coreen Spellman
Biography
Coreen Mary Spellman (1905 - 1978)
Coreen Mary Spellman was a fine-art
teacher as well as a painter, designer, illustrator, lithographer and
muralist. Many of her paintings depicted human-made structures and
industrial landscapes in a style combining realism, precisionism and
abstraction. Often the central subject such as in "Railroad Signal" was
the only suggestion of humanity against a backdrop of stark Texas
landscape.
Of her painting these isolated subjects she said: "I
enjoy taking some rather obscure or unimportant subject or theme and
making something fine and important out of it . . . It always gives me
great pleasure to discover something which has been passed over as being
inadequate material". (Trenton 199)
Spellman was born in Forney,
Texas in 1905. At an early age she moved to Dallas, Texas and studied
under Vivian Aunspaugh before attending the College of Industrial Arts
(Texas Woman's University). She received a Master of Arts degree from
Columbia University and a Masters Degree from the University of Iowa,
Iowa City in 1942.
In addition, Spellman received a Carnegie
Scholarship for study at Harvard University, followed by studies with
Kenneth Hayes Miller, Vaclav Vytlacil, and Charles Wheeler...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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.
Category
Cubist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Yellow and Blue-Toned Realistic Impressionist Portrait of a Boy
Located in Houston, TX
Yellow and blue-toned abstract impressionist portrait of a boy by Danish artist Hans Christian Bärenholdt. Signed by the artist at the bottom right. Hung in a gold carved frame.
Dim...
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
, Girl in a Gingham Dress, 1940
s, Folk Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A sensitively painted portrait of the artist's daughter, Nancy, aged two and a half, shown wearing a floral-striped, jade green gingham dress.
Signed lower right, 'Martha Tracy Fre...
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Grandma and Grand Daughter in an Interior - British 40
s Portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This lovely British interior portrait oil painting is by noted British artist Anthony Devas. Painted circa 1940 the painting is of a seated grandmother and grand daughter in a lovely...
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
American Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clemence Dane Attribution
Located in San Francisco, CA
Attributed to WiniFred CleMence Ashton Dane: 1888-1965. She was a British novelist, playwright, and artist. She has auction prices over $2,900. This incredible portrait seems to be ...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Overflight over the city. 1947, paper, mixed media, 23x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Overflight over the city. 1947, paper, mixed media, 23x20 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his arti...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$899 Sale Price
20% Off
20th century oil painting self portrait male subject glasses pipe signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Self Portrait" is an original oil painting on masonite board by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts the artist holding a pipe in front of a...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Portrait of Grace
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Portrait of Grace, 1944
Oil on canvas, 23 x 20 inches (58.4 x 50.8 cm)
Framed dimensions 31 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches
Signed and dated lower left: Joseph Stella / 1944 Signed on verso: Jos...
Category
American Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man with a beard
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Black and gold wooden frame
77.5 x 56.5 x 3.5 cm
Illegible signature
"Valley landscape at the foot of the mountains"
On the back of the work
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,899
1940s Impressionist Oil Painting – Three Bathing Female Figures, Original Art
Located in Denver, CO
Step into a world of serenity and natural beauty with "Three Bathers," a captivating vintage 1940s oil painting on board by renowned Colorado artist Morgan Wagner. This exquisite art...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Formal Portrait of a Chinese Man in Traditional Dress
Located in Miami, FL
Dressed in traditional clothing, a handsome Chinese man is depicted as he sits resolutely with one hand on his leg and the other holding a baton. Female Artist Joyce Ballantyne...
Category
Academic 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1946 Antique German American Abstract Expressionist Jesus Christ oil Painting
By Joachim Probst
Located in New York, NY
Joachim Probst
(1913-1980)
signed and dated verso 1946
oil on canvas
original frame
Joachim Probst was an American German Abstract painter
Here we have a an image of Christ done i...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Rough Seas”
Located in Southampton, NY
Early original oil on canvas painting of sailboats in stormy seas by the American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Artist signed lower right and dated 1945. Condition is very good. Prese...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,760 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
Category
American Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,550 Sale Price
51% Off
Striking 1940s portrait painting of a distinguished gentleman
Located in Colfax, CA
This is a striking portrait painting of a gentleman, possibly a self portrait by the artist Dunbar Dyson Beck.
Beck was a painter, muralist, teacher, interior designer and educator. ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boy with Molotov Cocktail, Soviet troops on Hungarian Revolution
Located in Miami, FL
This work sells itself. Just look at it, and an elaborate explanation is not required. There is virtually no one alive who can paint a picture like Crockwell.
Crockwell offers the viewer a complex and inventive composition by showing two wonderful portraits in the foreground and, beyond a broken wall...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Harlequin with Nude - Original Tempera on Paper by Maurice Rouzée - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Harlequin with Nude is an original painting realized by Maurice Rouzée in the 1940s. Tempera on paper; good conditions, except for some small folds on the lower right corner and a sm...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Pre-Raphaelite Style Painting of Mothers and Babies in WWII
Located in Miami, FL
Babies are falling from the sky and not bombs. British female artist and illustrator Noel Laura Nisbet makes a passionate twist to the reality of En...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media, Tempera
Mid Century Golden Age of Illustration- Narrative Art - Norman Rockwell School
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
“Graduation Day” is emblematic of mid-century American Illustration.
But the real story of this storytelling work is that it embodies the lost art of portrait painting and graphic design.
Alex Ross borrows on the classical tradition and flaunts his skills as a narrative painter. In “Graduation Day”, he paints a complex composition involving at least thirteen portraits. The subjects are beautifully rendered and lit. They are set against a dark grey background and jump off the surface at the viewer. The composition is complexly designed. The future graduate in the red jacket engaging with a girl photographer is a compositional device that leads the viewer's eye to the main subject - a father congratulating his son on graduating from medical school. Creating art that relies on facial expressions and body gestures is a talent absent in contemporary art. Why? It’s very hard to do and takes years and training and practice to get it right. Despite Alex Ross's folksy subject matter, this work is a high example of naturalism and representation by an important member of the Golden Age of American Illustration.
Signed lower right
Born in the town of Dunfermline, Scotland, Alexander Sharpe Ross (1908-1990) moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1911. After attending Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), Ross moved to New York and joined the Charles E. Cooper Studio, where he worked among such notable illustrators as Ward Brackett, Stevan Dohanos, J. Frederick Smith...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Portrait of Bert Lahr as Burlesque Clown - The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Burlesque Clown Bert Lahr is dipicted in a bowler hat with a wry grin. Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is de...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Giant Sadistic Laughing Devil with Hellfire and Tiny Humans
Located in Miami, FL
A sadistic laughing Devil grinning a big smile is pictured hovering over a Hellfire. He is reveling while witnessing tiny ant-like sinners engage in eternal torture, torment, and co...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Uncle Sam
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Molly Le Bas
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Edward Le Bas 1904-1966, was an English painter and art collector. He was born in London to a wealthy family his father was a steel magnate, Edward had 2 sisters, twins, Molly and Gw...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young girl Redhead Holding her father
s hand
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. That's easy art. Executing a portrait with a great depth of anatomy and structure takes years of academic training. In Riggs's time, there were teachers who knew how to pass on this knowledge. He studied at the Art Students League and the Académie Julian . Today, they are very few and far between. Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel - Robert Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
An Irish Rogue
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed and dated '44 lower right
Image size: 15 x 19 inches (38 x 48.25 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
This portrait of an unknown man certainly captures the personality of the chosen sitter. With hat tilted to the side, eyebrow lifted and a half smile of the man's face, one gets the impression that he is finding the whole process of having his portrait painted rather amusing.
Still in Ireland at this time, the sitter is likely to have been a friend of the artist, from Belfast.
In 1944 there was a group exhibition in Belfast held at the textile business of William Ewart & Sons on Bedford Street. Here Smith showed his works alongside the artists Colin Middleton...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Blond Pin up with Perfect Smile Tennis Racket - Women Illustrators
Located in Miami, FL
Julia (Elsie Julia Miller) Schleicher (Canadian/American, 1916-1988)
she was an important female illustrator
Woman Tennis Player
Pastel and gouache on boa...
Category
Romantic 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Manuel Avila Camacho, Time magazine cover, - Journalist Portraiture
Located in Miami, FL
Journalist Portraiture. Gouache on board
Signed Lower Right matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches. Archivally Matted Not Framed
He illustrated more than 300 covers for Time magazine a...
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Muchacha
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Eagle Fortune Magazine Cover Illustration ( alternate )
Located in Miami, FL
Alternate cover for Fortune Magazine February, 1940. Gouache on board. 350x285 mm; 13 3/4x11 1/4. Signed "A. Petrucelli" in lower left image. Tipped t...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⅝ x 28 ¾ inches)
Signed a...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman Receiving Box of Chocolates at the Post Office, Liberty Magazine
By Richard Fayerweather Babcock
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 29.00" x 23.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine cover: Liberty Magazine (Canada), February 24, 1940;
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Time magazine cover, April 6, 1946
Located in Miami, FL
This work is meticulously and brilliantly rendered to capture not only the likeness of the sitter but spirit as well. The image is pushed to the forefront of the composition and s...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Portrait of the Artist
s Wife, 1945
Located in London, GB
CONSTANTIN Andreevic TERECHKOVITCH 1902-1978
(Russian)
Title: Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 1945
Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on canvas
size: 33 x 24 cm / 13 x 9.5 ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Lady with White Linen Hat"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Gershon Benjamin (1899 – 1985).
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and urban scene...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses - Gay Artist
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
"Riggs openly identified as gay to his friends in the Philadelphia art community, but did not disclose his orientation to his employers." - Woodmere Art Museum
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Mid-Century Americana "Good House Keeping Magazine", 1948
Located in Miami, FL
When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine" illustration
Surreal depiction of a young mid-century girls social life Good House Keeping Magazi...
Category
Academic 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Young girl Redhead Holding her father
s hand Illustration
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. ...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Yosuke Matsoke, Time magazine cover illustration , July 7, 1941
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Ernest Hamlin Baker is an excepti...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Theresa Thompson"
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 Benj...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Cosmopoilitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Paula"
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 Benj...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Frank Judge Oil on Board Painting Titled "Miss St. Louis", circa 1940
Located in New York, NY
A bright portrait of a woman in pageant dress before a St. Louis skyline and riverboat.
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Tribesmen with Headdresses - Photo Realism
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Contrast of Lights - Portrait of Elica Balla - Oil on Panel by G. Balla - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on Board realized by Balla as portrait of his second daughter Elica.
A beautiful, top quality portrait among the most beautiful of his figurative painting.
It includes an original contemporary wooden frame designed and colored by Balla himself (he used to often produce himself the frames for his works).
Signed on top left "BALLA" in capital letters.
Giacomo Balla
(Turin, 1871 - Rome, 1958)
Giacomo Balla was born in Turin in 1871. Since he was a young boy, when he begins to attend the Albertina Academy, he dedicates his studies to the violin and painting. His first artistic accomplishment dates back to 1894, a self-portrait.
In 1895 Balla moves to Rome with his mother and then in 1900 he moves to Paris for several months. His early years as a painter indicate an interest in the divisionist paintings of Pellizza da Volpedo...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Self Portrait - The Red Shirt
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
American artist Ron Blumberg.
Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League.
Painted just after the artist returned from New York, c.1945, "The Red Shirt...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Dody in the Afternoon
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Noted German Expressionist artist Fritz Schwaderer, was classically schooled in fine art in Germany in the early-mid 1920’s. Schwaderera...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
The Princess
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil on canvas by American artist Alexander Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld was classically trained in Poland before settling in Los An...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
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