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Style: American Modern
Original LOUIS ARMSTRONG WNEW AM 1130 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
The original WNEW AM 1130 poster features Louis Armstrong.
Blessed with America's Best, linen-backed, fine condition. Ready to frame.
Metromedia Radio broadcasts music in the trad...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
A Unique, 1930s Modern Table Top Still-Life Painting by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A unique, contemplative 1930s Modern table top still-life painting featuring a spoon, egg and an artichoke by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin. Image size: 11 1/4 x 15 1/4 inc...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Some Like it Hot Qualcuno Piace Caldo original vintage Italian movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Some Like it Hot vintage movie poster. A Qualcuno Piace Caldo". Linen-backed Italian size 39" x 55", in Good condition. Ready to frame.
The images are of the exact poster you will receive. These Italian vintage movie...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Mitchell Epstein Signed Vintage Color Photograph C Print Photo Florence Italy
Located in Surfside, FL
Mitch Epstein
Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy
1977
Hand signed and titled verso
11 X 16.25 image. Sheet: 13 x 19 3/16 in. frame is 19.5 X 24.75
Italian landscape with statue
Mitchel...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Vineyard Estate Winery Landscape with Grape Vines in Oil on Canvas-Wrapped Board
By Jeane Kluga
Located in Soquel, CA
Vineyard Estate Winery Landscape with Grape Vines in Oil on Canvas-Wrapped Board
Beautiful landscape of a vineyard estate in California wine country with grape vines in the foregrou...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Masonite, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Garden Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Charles Demuth was one of the most complex, talented, and deeply sensitive artists of the American modern period. Whether he was painting floral still lifes, industrial landscapes, or Turkish bathhouses, art was, for Demuth, fraught with personal meaning. A fixture of the vanguard art scene in New York, Demuth navigated the currents of Modernism, producing some of the most exquisite watercolors and original oil paintings in twentieth-century American art.
Demuth was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the only child of a well-to-do family. He had an awkward and introverted childhood shaped by a childhood illness, Perthes, a disease of the hip that not only left him permanently lame, but, as part of the “cure,” bedridden for two years in the care of his mother. This long period of incapacitation had a deep impact on Demuth, who came to see himself as an invalid, an outsider who was different from everyone else. It was perhaps during this period of indoor confinement that his keen interest in art developed. Several relatives on his father’s side had been amateur artists, and, following his convalescence, his mother encouraged his artistic pursuits by sending him to a local painter for instruction. The majority of his early pictures are of flowers, a subject for which Demuth maintained a lifelong passion.
Following high school, Demuth enrolled at the Drexel Institute of Art in Philadelphia, a school renowned for its commercial arts program. He advanced through the program rapidly, and, in 1905, at the encouragement of his instructors, he began taking courses at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The two leading teachers then at the Academy were William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz. Anshutz, himself a former student of Thomas Eakins, was well liked by his students, and is best known as the teacher of Robert Henri, John Sloan, and several of the other artists of the Ashcan School. Demuth, too, adopted a similar idiom, working in a controlled, realistic manner while at the Academy, where he remained until 1910.
In 1907, Demuth made his first trip to Europe, staying in Paris. He spent time on the periphery of the art scene composed of the numerous American artists there, including John Marin and Edward Steichen. He returned to Philadelphia five months later, and immediately resumed courses at the Academy. Despite his introduction to advanced modern styles in Europe, Demuth’s work of this period retains the academic style he practiced before the trip. It wasn’t until he had summered at New Hope, Pennsylvania, in 1908 and 1911, that his style began to evolve. New Hope was a prominent American Impressionist art colony whose members were largely affiliated with the Pennsylvania Academy. Demuth dropped the conservative tone of his style and adopted a freer and more colorful palette.
Although he remained based in Philadelphia, Demuth frequently went to New York during this period. Many of the same American artists of the Parisian art scene Demuth had encountered on his earlier European trip now formed the nucleus of New York’s avant-garde, which centered around Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 gallery. It wasn’t long before Demuth began to apply modernist-inspired strategies to his work. He was particularly influenced by the watercolor work of John Marin, also a former student of Anshutz, whose bold use of color in the medium Demuth freely adapted into looser washes of color.
In 1912, Demuth again left for Paris, this time studying in the Académie Moderne, Académie Colorossi, and Académie Julian. In Paris Demuth met the American modernist Marsden Hartley. Hartley, a principal figure in the expatriate art circle, acted as a mentor to Demuth, and introduced him to the wide array of modern styles currently practiced in Europe. Hartley also introduced Demuth to many of the members of the Parisian avant-garde, including Gertrude Stein. Demuth was an aspiring writer, and he spent many hours in conversation with Stein. He wrote extensively during this period, and published two works shortly after his return to America. He also developed an interest in illustrating scenes from literary texts. From 1914 to 1919, Demuth produced a series of watercolors of scenes from books such as Emile Zola’s Nana and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw.
Upon his return to America, Demuth settled in New York. In 1914, Demuth had his first one-man show at Charles Daniel’s gallery, which promoted emerging modern American artists, including Man Ray, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Stuart Davis, and Max Weber. Demuth drew closer to the artistic vanguard in New York, becoming friends with many in the Stieglitz and Daniel circles, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, Carl Van Vechten, and Edward Fiske.
New York’s cosmopolitan atmosphere and active nightlife appealed greatly to Demuth. In a sketchy style well suited to watercolor, he painted many vaudeville and circus themes, as well as nightclub, café, and bathhouse scenes. Often with Duchamp, Demuth took part in an urban subculture replete with nightclubs, bars, drugs, and sexual permissiveness, which, for a homosexual artist like himself, allowed room for previously unattainable personal expression. Demuth’s pictures of sailors, bathhouses, and circus performers embody a sensual and sexual undercurrent, expressing the artist’s sense of comfort and belonging in the bohemian subculture of New York.
Simultaneously, Demuth deepened his interest in floral pictures, painting these almost exclusively in watercolor. His style evolved from the broad color washes of his earlier pictures to more spare, flattened, and sinuous compositions, inspired by the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley and other artists of the Aesthetic Movement. Demuth’s flower watercolors are moody and atmospheric, sensuous and elegant, introspective and yet full of expressive power. Moreover they are beautiful, and are unequivocally among the finest still lifes in American art. Despite numerous subsequent artistic undertakings that led him in a variety of directions, Demuth never stopped painting flower pictures, ultimately adding fruits and other still-life objects to his repertoire.
In 1916, Demuth began to develop a style later known as Precisionism, a form of landscape painting infused with Cubism, in which space is divided into precisely drawn geometric regions of color. Demuth first began to paint the landscape in an appropriated Cubist mode while on a trip with Hartley to Bermuda. In these early landscapes, in which the curvilinear forms of trees intersect the geometrically articulated architectural forms, Demuth explored ideas that shaped the future development of modernism in America.
The full realization of Demuth’s explorations came after his return to America in 1917, when he turned his attention to industrial subjects. These works derive from a “machine aesthetic,” espoused by New York artists such as Francis Picabia, Joseph Stella, Albert Gleizes, and Duchamp, by which artists viewed machines as embodying mystical, almost religious significance as symbols of the modern world. Rather than painting the skyscrapers and bridges of New York as did most of his like-minded contemporaries, Demuth returned to his home town of Lancaster, where he painted factories and warehouses in a Precisionist idiom. The titles for these pictures are often contain literary references, which serve as clues for the viewer to aid in the decoding of the artist’s meaning.
In 1923, Demuth planned a series of abstract “poster portraits” of his friends and contemporaries in the New York art and literary scene. In these “portraits,” Demuth combined text and symbolic elements to evoke the essential nature of his sitters’ distinguishing characteristics. In this fashion, he painted portraits of such artists as Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, and Arthur Dove. His most famous poster portrait, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman and White Cat, Framed and Signed Modern Screenprint by Will Barnet
By Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Woman and White Cat
Will Barnet, American (1911–2012)
Date: 1971
Screenprint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition of 45/200
Image Size: 23.25 x 20 inches
Size: 26 x 22 in. ...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Original "Wagon Lits" pop art style serigraph travel by train poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Wagon Lits” serigraph poster by the artist Valerio Adami.
It was printed in France by GrafiCaza (Michel Caza), one of the finest serigraph companies on woven paper—in exce...
Category
1990s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
$260 Sale Price
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1950s Cubist Watercolor "Dry Dock, Burrard Shipyard, Vancouver" by Rita Duis
Located in Chicago, IL
A Colorful, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cubist watercolor, "Dry Dock, Burrard Shipyard, Vancouver" by Notable Chicago and New York Woman Artist, Rita Duis (Astley-Bell). Signed and ins...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
1950s "Figure in Shadow" Figurative Gouache Painting America Modernist
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Figure in Shadow"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24" x 18" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of Fine Art
The Art Students League
Pratt Graphic Arts Center
University of Paris 1953-54
University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55
Faculty: Art Department of the New School
Museum of Modern Art
School of Visual Arts
Stacy Studio Workshop
Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns
George Wittenborn
The New School
Print Exhibitions, Chicago
University of Oklahoma
Honolulu Museum
Monclair Museum
Wisconsin State College
Louisiana Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
View of Hotel du Cap, Eden Roc - Five Star Hotel on French Riviera Sea Views
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
View of Hotel du Cap, Eden Roc - Five Star Hotel on French Riviera Sea Views by Slim Aarons
12" x 16" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
"V...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Mid Century Modern Burgundy Calla Lilies in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Burgundy Calla Lilies in Oil on Masonite
Gorgeous still life of burgundy calla lilies by listed artist Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleif...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,680 Sale Price
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1951 Ink Drawing Still Life, Studio Interior by Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A highly finished, 1951 detailed ink drawing of a still-life and studio interior by notable Chicago Modern artist, Harold Haydon. A striking drawing completed on fine, hand-made pap...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Subway Construction
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Subway Construction, c. 1928, oil on board, 19 x 15 ¾ inches, signed upper left, artist and title verso; exhibited: 1) 12th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, The Waldorf Astoria, New York NY, from March 9 to April 1, 1928, no. 864 (original price $250) (see Death Prevailing Theme of Artists in Weird Exhibits, The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), March 8, 1928); 2) Boston Tercentenary Exhibition Fine Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Horticultural Hall, Boston MA, July, 1930, no. 108 (honorable mention - noted verso); 3) 38th Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, June, 1931 (see Alexander, Mary, The Week in Art Circles, The Cincinnati Enquirer, June 7, 1931); and 4) National Art Week Exhibition [Group Show], Montross Gallery, New York, New York, December, 1940 (see Devree, Howard, Brief Comment on Some Recently Opened Exhibitions in the Galleries, The New York Times, December 1, 1940)
About the Painting
Ernest Stock’s Subway Construction depicts the excavation of New York’s 8th Avenue line, which was the first completed section of the city-operated Independent Subway System (IND). The groundbreaking ceremony was in 1925, but the line did not open until 1932, placing Stock’s painting in the middle of the construction effort. The 8th Avenue line was primarily constructed using the “cut and cover” method in which the streets above the line were dug up, infrastructure was built from the surface level down, the resulting holes were filled, and the streets reconstructed. While many artists of the 1920s were fascinated with the upward thrust of New York’s exploding skyline as architects and developers sought to erect ever higher buildings, Stock turned his attention to the engineering marvels which were taking place below ground. In Subway Construction, Stock depicts workers removing the earth beneath the street and building scaffolding and other support structures to allow concrete to be poured. Light and shadow fall across the x-shaped grid pattern formed by the wooden beams and planks. It is no surprise that critics reviewing the painting commented on Stock’s use of an “interesting pattern” to form a painting that is “clever and well designed.”
About the Artist
Ernest Richard Stock was an award-winning painter, print maker, muralist, and commercial artist. He was born in Bristol, England and was educated at the prestigious Bristol Grammar School. During World War I, Stock joined the British Royal Air Flying Corps in Canada and served in France as a pilot where he was wounded. After the war, he immigrated to the United States and joined the firm of Mack, Jenny, and Tyler, where he further honed his architectural and decorative painting skills. During the 1920s, Stock often traveled back and forth between the US and Europe. He was twice married, including to the American author, Katherine Anne Porter. Starting in the mid-1920s, Stock began to exhibit his artwork professionally, including at London’s Beaux Arts Gallery, the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Whitney Studio and various locations in the Northeast. Critics often praised the strong design sensibility in Stock’s paintings. Stock was a commercial illustrator for a handful of published books and during World War II, he worked in the Stratford Connecticut...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Original
Ghost of Zorro
vintage 1949 movie poster US 1-sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original ‘Ghost of Zorro’ vintage movie poster. 1949. Museum archival mounted on acid-free archival linen. Original fold marks touched up but could use more touch-up on the fol...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
$840 Sale Price
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Muse (a young novice in colorful swim suit struggles thru a pool of blue)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Muse is #43 of 45. It depicts a young woman in a colorful swimsuit doing her best to swim through the blue waters of the pool. Her mouth is pursed and the bubbles flow out. I sold an impression of this image to an olympic swimming...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Art
Materials
Etching
“New York at Night”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original pastel on archival paper of New York City at night with beacon by the well known American artist, Leon Dolice. Signed lower right. Circa 1930. Condition is excellent. Beautifully gallery framed with stained mahogany wood frame. Under glass. Overall framed measurements are 21 by 30 inches. Birham Wood Galleries, East Hampton, New York provenance. Exhibited artwork. See photo gallery labels verso.
Leon Dolice was born in Vienna, Austria on August 14, 1892, the son of a machinest/welder. He went on to study art in Europe and viewing the works of the Masters. Dolice immigrated to the United States in 1920, finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects. Concentrating on etching and with the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan.
A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930s and devote some ten years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes, and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new found favor in the 1940s punctuated his career.
In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit.
Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Gordon Grant Sail Boat Lithograph "Salt Bark - Gloucester"
By Gordon Grant
Located in New York, NY
Gordon Grant (American, 1875-1962)
The Salt Bark - Gloucester, c. 1947
Lithograph
Sight: 10 x 12 1/2 in.
Framed: 15 x 19 x 3/4 in.
Signed lower right in pencil
Published in edition ...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Peace
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Peace
Woodcut printed in orange red ink on japanese paper
Signed and titled in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Created along with an illustrated book project Song of Peace, 1950-1959.
Condition: Excellent
Image: 10 1/2 x 4 7/8"
Sheet: 16 1/8 x 7";
Anton Refregier (March 20, 1905 – October 10, 1979) was a painter and muralist active in Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project commissions, and in teaching art. He was a Russian immigrant to the United States.
Among his best-known works is his mural series The History of San Francisco, located in the Rincon Center in downtown San Francisco, California. It depicts the city's history across twenty seven panels that he painted from 1940 to 1948.
Life and early career
Refregier was born in Moscow and emigrated to the United States in 1920. After working various odd jobs in New York City, he earned a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design in 1921. After finishing school, Refregier moved back to New York in 1925. To earn a living, Refregier worked for interior decorators, creating replicas of François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard paintings...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Original Concours Automobiles Classiques et Louis Vuitton original signed poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Parc de Bagatelle et Louis Vuitton 1999
Hand-signed by the artist Razzia in black marker on the left side. In plate right side.
Linen backed, ready to frame. Excellent condition.
Linen-backed Parc de Bagatelle. Concours Automobiles et Louis Vuitton. September 1999. Hand-signed by the artist in black marker in the lower left. The signature on the plate is in the lower right. This original poster is also archivally linen-backed and ready to frame.
This was the merger of Mercedes Benz and Chrysler with an automobile from each company represented. The Louis Vuitton house...
Category
1990s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Original "The Adventures of Captain Africa #3" vintage movie poster 1955
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. The Adventures of Captain Africa #3 vintage movie poster. Linen-backed and ready to frame. Original issued theater fold marks restored. A condition with excellent color. Printed in 1955. NSS: 55/3802. This is an original theatrical movie poster printed by the National Screen Service.
About: Trapper Nat Coleman and government agent Ted Arnold come upon a plot to take over an African nation. Its leader, Caliph Abdul el Hamid, has been exiled from his country and replaced by a look-alike usurper allied with an unnamed foreign power. The Caliph intends to return, but enemy agents Boris and Greg are out to stop him. Captain Africa a...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
$680 Sale Price
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Original "SAVE A LOAF A WEEK, Help Win the War" vintage World War One poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original rare poster: SAVE A LOAF A WEEK - HELP WIN THE WAR. Original WW1, 1917, U. S. Food Administration antique American poster. Artist sig...
Category
1910s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
1950s Signed New Mexico Winter Lithograph – Original Vintage Snowy Landscape Art
Located in Denver, CO
Step into the serene beauty of a New Mexico winter with this stunning 1950s signed lithograph, New Mexico Village Under Snow, by acclaimed artist Kenneth Miller Adams. This rare vint...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Swimmer - Screenprint (Olympic Games Munich 1972)
Located in Paris, IDF
Ronard Brooks KITAJ
Swimmer
Screen print
Signature printed in the plate
On heavy paper 101 x 64 cm (c. 40 x 26 inch)
Made for the Olympic Games in Munich, 1972
Excellent condition
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Trim Fit (Deconstructed Singer machine gives both steel and silk equal weight)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax deconstructs a Singer sewing machine in this mezzotint created in an edition of 75. The image gives equal weight to the steel of the machine and the silk of the fabric. It...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Original Holy Land Fly TWA Jets vintage travel poster 1960s Noah
Ark
By David Klein
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Holy Land TWA vintage travel poster. Artist David Klein. Size 25" x 40.5". Archival linen-backed authentic vintage TWA travel poster...
Category
1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
$958 Sale Price
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Minnie and Dru Montagu - Couple Poses for Photograph on Sandy Beach under Palms
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Minnie and Dru Montagu - Couple Poses for Photograph on Sandy Beach under Palms by Slim Aarons
16" x 16" print on 16" x 20" paper.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 1...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Visit Belgium original travel poster.
Located in Spokane, WA
Visit Belgium original travel poster. Linen backed. Grade A condition. Ready to frame. Very good condition. Excellent.
Printed in Belg...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
$500 Sale Price
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1950s "Pink Towel 2" Mid Century Nude Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper
Yellow
c. 1950's
Gouache on Paper
15" x 18", Unframed
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks.
From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann.
San Francisco Abstract Expression
A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency.
Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Target with Four Faces
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Created by the artist in 1979, the iconic Target with Four Faces is an intaglio print in colors on Rives paper. Hand-signed in pencil, dated, and numbered from the edition of 88, the...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Intaglio
Origiinal Boston Fly TWA Jets vintage American travel poster
By David Klein
Located in Spokane, WA
TWA (Trans World Airlines) was formed in 1924 as Transcontinental & Western Air. The airline's first route was from New York to Los Angeles, followed by multiple National routes. The airline expanded to serve Europe, the Middle East, and Asia after WWII when the company was under Howard Hughes's owner's control from 1939 until 1961. Hughes was a dominant force in expanding and promoting his company's routes. The economy was vastly improving, and travel by air for business and pleasure increased, too. Posters were a crucial element in promoting this form of travel and TWA. The airline started a decline in the 1970s, ending in a third bankruptcy that caused its acquisition by American Airlines in 2001. The airline operated in 132 destinations worldwide and had a fleet size of 190.
The Boston FLY TWA shows a three-masted schooner in the background, a large colonial drum in the center with an American Eagle...
Category
1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
$636 Sale Price
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"New York Skyline" Adelaide Lawson Gaylor, Modernist Landscape, Female Artist
Located in New York, NY
Adelaide Lawson Gaylor
New York Skyline, circa 1925
Oil on canvas
48 x 45 inches
Modernist artist Adelaide Jaffrey Lawson Gaylor was born in New York City and studied at the Art St...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ponte Neuf (The Old Bridge)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Oil on panel, 14 ½ x 18 inches unframed, 22 x 25 ½ inches framed, inscribed “painted by David McCosh Property of Edward b. Rowan” and numbered “8” verso, this work is unsigned, but guaranteed to be by David McCosh
Exhibited:
The First Exhibit of the Iowa Artist...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
A Vintage 1950s Pastel
Charcoal Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
For your hockey enthusiast! A dynamic 1950s, pastel and charcoal on paper drawing of a hockey game by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 9 x 12 inches. Matted to: 14 x 18 inches. Estate stamped on reverse. Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington and Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Union Pacific West vintage fun map railroad travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “The Union Pacific West fun map, archivally linen backed in very good condition. Ready to frame. This was initially folded, and the fold marks were ...
Category
1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
"Canals in Annecy, France" by Emma Fordyce MacRae (1887-1974) American Framed
Located in Yardley, PA
A lovely scene of the canals in Annecy, France by renowned American artist Emma Fordyce MacRae (1887-1974).
This work highlights the geometric nature of the historic architecture al...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
Audience
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Audience" 1983 is a watercolor on hand made paper by noted artist Ruth Weisberg, born 1942. It is hand signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwor...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Beautiful Pop Art Lithograph Signed
Numbered 4/18 by Diane Lachman
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful colors on this well done piece by Diane Lachman, circa 1980's , pencil signed and numbered 4/18. The piece its sold unframed very nice condition and colors.
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Paper
A Captivating 1944 Still-Life Painting of the Artist
s Studio by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A captivating 1944 oil on board, still-life painting of the artist's studio by Harold Haydon. The painting is framed in a dark brown, painted wood frame. Artwork size: 10" x 13 1...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Sally Barclay (1911-2000) was a New Jersey Artist known for her painting and activities as an art teacher.
Signed front and back.
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Crayon
$495 Sale Price
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The Bridge
Located in Santa Monica, CA
B. J. O. NORDFELDT (Bror Julius Olsson) 1878-1955)
THE BRIDGE, 1906
Color woodcut signed, dated 1906 and numbered 150 in pencil. Image 8 x 10 - small margins as issued. 4 corners tipped to acid free support board. Nordfelt is one of the most important early twentieth century American Masters of the Color woodcut. This 1906 work predates many of the other woodcut masters. Nordfeldt had a peculiar numbering system. The number is not necessarily the edition number.
Frances H. Gearhart, Blanche Lazzell, William S. Rice, Gustave Baumann, Margaret Patterson, Norma Basset Hall. Waldo Chase.
Category
Early 1900s American Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Classic Botanical Cyanotype, Handmade Using Natural Sunlight, Limited Edition
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Details:
+ Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº3
+ Year: 2023
+ Edition Size: 20
+ Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided
+ Measurements : 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.), a standard frame size
+ All cyanotype prints are made on high-quality Italian watercolor paper
WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE?
The cyanotype (a.k.a. sun-print) process is one of the oldest in the history of photography, dating back to the 1840's.
Cyanotypes were then made famous by Anna Atkins, considered the first female photographer. Inspired by nature, we feel the need to look back at a craft that is handmade, analogue, and using an all-natural light source: the sun.
Our cyanotypes are made by coating high-quality Italian watercolor paper with a light-sensitive emulsion. We then expose it in direct sunlight for several minutes using a photo negative...
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Emulsion, Watercolor, Paper, Lithograph
China Spring
— Mid-Century Floral Abstraction
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Mary Van Blarcom, 'China Spring', color serigraph, c. 1945, edition not stated but small. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled in pencil, bottom left sheet edge. A rich, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on cream laid paper; with full margins (9/16 to 1 5/16 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 10 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches; sheet size 11 15/16 x 12 5/8 inches.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Painter, printmaker, and craftsperson, Mary Van Blarcom was born in Newark, New Jersey, and studied at Wellesley College. She was a member of the National Serigraph Society where she served on the board of trustees from 1945 through 1952 and was 1st vice-president from 1949-51. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Artists Equity Association, the American Color Print Society, the New Jersey Artists Association (Director), and Artists of Today.
Van Blarcom exhibited actively throughout the 1940s at many prominent art organizations including: Montclair Art Museum, 1941-45 and 1947-51 (prize, 1948); Society of Independent Artists, 1942-44; Artists of Today, 1942-46; Elisabeth Ney Museum, 1943; Northwest Printmakers, 1944, 1946-49; Laguna Beach Art Association, 1945-47, 1949; National Association of Women Artists, 1945-50, (prize, 1946); Library of Congress, 1946-47; Museum of Modern Art Traveling Exhibition, 1945-47; Carnegie Institute, 1947; Serigraph Gallery, 1946, 1951 (solo); American Color Print Society, 1947-52; Newark Museum, 1947-48, 1951; California State Library, 1947, 1949; National Serigraph Society, 1949 (prize), 1950 (prize); University of Chile, 1950; New Jersey State Museum, 1950; Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1951; and the Main Gallery, NY, 1952.
Van Blarcom’s work is in the collections of the Newark Public Library, U.S. Library of Congress; the American Association of University Women; New York Public Library; Tel-Aviv Museum, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Princeton Print Club...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
$360 Sale Price
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Joie De Vivre, bronze figurative dance sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This joyous in the round bronze can turn on its base, making for dramatic presentation and enjoyment that is interactive. It is based on the idea of the Three Graces which is often an allegorical subject in sculpture. Wein has done a contemporary feeling interpretation of this classic theme. Piece itself measure 12 1/2 inches and sits on a 3 1/4 inch base and is attached to its base at two points and it is a revolving or rather turning base. The two points on which the toes touch and are secured are striking for how little of the bronze touches the base. It is Fourth in an edition of 13. Albert Wein...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Hollywood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hollywood, 1941, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed and dated lower right, illegible writing verso
About the Painting
From a distance, Beckwith deftly captures the spectacle of a Hollywood premiere. But we have not been invited to the party. Our view is from the shadows of a less glamorous neighborhood with a shaggy, unkept palm tree and rundown buildings in the shadows. We look down through the darkness past a packed parking lot to the bright lights of two iconic Hollywood landmarks, the Pantages Theater and the Broadway Building. Completed in 1930, the Pantages was built as an exuberant Art Deco movie palace, while the Broadway Building housed an upscale department store which catered to entertainment industry elites who were less impacted by the Great Depression than the common man, since movies had become the mainstay of popular culture entertainment during the 1930s with large numbers of Americans looking to immerse themselves in Hollywood escapism. Here, in a rare Los Angeles urban image, Beckwith combines that Hollywood fantasy with the more sobering foreground images which could have been pulled from the L.A. Noire fiction of Raymond Chandler...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
$4,500
Figure with Guitar II
By Henry Fitch Taylor
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York;
Collection of Jeptha H. Wade and Emily Vanderbilt Wade, Boston, until 2025
Exhibitions
Cleveland Museum of Art, Art for Collectors, 1971...
Category
1910s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Joseph Wolins WPA Artist Dancing, Torah Modernist Judaica Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Wolins 1915-1999
Subject: Jewish, Dancing with the Torah (New Torah, Simchat Torah)
Hand signed oil painting
In this painting, Joseph Wolins uses vibrant and complimentary co...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Horse Race Painting by Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Horse Race by noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. Artwork size: 24" x 36"; Framed size: 25" x 37". Signed "Pen" lower right and ti...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Portrait of Kathleen Curry, the Artist
s Wife" John Steuart Curry
Located in New York, NY
John Steuart Curry
Portrait of Kathleen Curry, the Artist's Wife, 1938
Signed and titled "Kathleen" lower left
Oil on canvas
55 x 34 inches
Provenance
The artist
Kathleen Curry, the...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
40x60 MODONNA "LIKE A VIRGIN" Cassette Tape Photography Pop Art Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of a MODONNA "LIKE A VIRGIN" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These iconic tapes ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Wine Country Tour Map vintage California fun map, linen-backed.
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Wine Country Tour Map, archival linen backed and ready to frame. Very fine condition, Grade A-. The fold marks were restored during the backing process. No paper loss a...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Vintage Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Samuel Gottscho Garden Flowers Photo NY
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage hand signed and stamp signed with the photographers stamp and numbered photo of trilliums.
Samuel Herman Gottscho (February 8, 1875 - January 28, 1971) was an American architectural, landscape, and nature photographer.
Samuel Gottscho was born in Brooklyn in New York City. He acquired his first camera in 1896 and took his first photograph at Coney Island. From 1896 to 1920 he photographed part-time, specializing in houses and gardens, as he particularly enjoyed nature, rural life, and landscapes.
After attending several architectural photograph exhibitions, Gottscho decided to perfect and improve his own work and sought out several architects and landscape architects. After twenty-three years as a traveling lace and fabric salesman, at an age when most people would have given up their youthful dreams, Gottscho became a professional commercial photographer at the age of 50. His son-in-law William Schleisner joined Gottscho in his business in 1935. During this time his photographs appeared in and on the covers of American Architect and Architecture, Architectural Record. His portraits and architectural photography regularly appeared in articles in the New York Times. His photographs of private homes in the New York and Connecticut suburbs often appeared in home decoration magazines. From the early 1940s to the late 1960s, he was a regular contributor to the Times of illustrated articles on wildflowers. the meticulous, adoring pictures of New York City architecture and interiors that he took at his creative peak in the late 1920's and early 30's are finding a new audience, placing him more firmly in the ranks of the great architectural photographers of his day, like Ezra Stoller, Julius Shulman and Ken and Bill Hedrich. the Museum of the City of New York, which has one of the largest archives of Gottscho's work, showed about 150 of his best city scenes in an exhibition called "The Mythic City: Photographs of New York...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Artists Sketching, California, 1940s Large Modernist Gouache Painting, Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940s American Modernist gouache on archival paper painting, "Artists Sketching (California)," captures a dynamic scene of three artists at work against a majestic mountain backdrop. With expressive brushwork and a rich color palette, the piece embodies Frederick E. Shane’s signature blend of realism and modernist abstraction. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist in the lower margin, this remarkable artwork reflects the era’s Regionalist influence and the artist’s keen eye for capturing creative moments in the natural landscape.
The painting is professionally housed in a custom archival frame, ensuring long-term preservation. Frame dimensions: 25.5 x 37.5 x 1.5 inches. Image size: 20.25 x 29.75 inches.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Frederick Shane
About the Artist: Frederick E. Shane (1906-1992)
A celebrated Missouri Regionalist painter and printmaker, Frederick E. Shane was known for his compelling genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, and portraits in a variety of media, including oil, watercolor, gouache, tempera, and lithography. While fundamentally a realist, Shane often incorporated elements of abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism, adding depth and emotion to his compositions.
During the summers of 1925-26, Shane studied under Randall Davey at the Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs, an institution founded in 1919 by philanthropists Spencer and Julie Penrose. Shane remained closely connected to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Academy’s successor, throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, participating in Artists West of the Mississippi exhibitions and forming lasting friendships with key figures like Boardman Robinson and Adolph Dehn...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache
Original "Are You 100% American, Prove It! Third Liberty Loan vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original " Are You 100% American? Prove it! Buy US government bonds. Third Liberty Loan" vintage poster.
This poster from World War I questions whether the viewer is genuinely A...
Category
1910s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original
U. S. Savings Bonds, NOw Back Your Future
vintage poster 1946
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 'U. S. SAVINGS BONDS will help you get there! NOW Back Your future. Linen-backed, excellent condition. Archival linen backed with original government-issued fold ma...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
$492 Sale Price
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Original "The 3rd Man" 1949 original first printing vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “The 3rd Man”, 1949, linen-backed vintage one-sheet movie poster "The 3rd Man". NSS: # 49/452. Excellent condition with restored original fold m...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Mid Century Modern Calla Lily in Bloom Still-Life
By Agnes Stoklosa
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Calla Lily in Bloom Still-Life in Oil on Board
Gorgeous Mid Century Modern still life of Calla Lily with orange background by Agnes Stoklosa (American, 20th Centu...
Category
1960s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Cali 180722-125 (Americana, California, Desert, Palm Trees, 40% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy
Cali 180722-125
Pigment Print
Year: 2018
Visible Size: 13 x 13 inches
Framed: 20.5 x 20.5 inches
Signed: On Label
Edition: 7
COA provided
*White frame with standard ...
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Pigment
Unfinished Problem
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unfinished Problem, by 1953, oil on canvas, signed lower right, signed and inscribed verso on stretcher “Charles Goeller/1272 Clinton Place, Elizabeth, NJ...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charming Mid-Century Modern Painting, Children in a Soda Shop by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming 1950s Mid-Century Modern painting of two children seated together in a soda shop by the notable Chicago artist, Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 15 1/2 x 21 inches; Framed ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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