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Model DL82 Table, Alvar Aalto, Oy Huonekalu- ja Rakennustyötehdas Ab, 1950s
By Oy Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas Ab, Alvar Aalto
Located in Helsinki, Uusimaa
Maison Carré and the Finnish pavilions at the Paris (1937) and New York (1939) World's Fairs.
In 1935
Category
Vintage 1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Tables
Materials
Birch
Original Vintage World
s Fair Poster 1937 Exposition Internationale Paris France
Located in London, GB
World's Fair / Exposition Internationale held in Paris France featuring a great design in the red, white
Category
Vintage 1930s French Posters
Materials
Paper
Untitled (West Virginia fam valley and blue hills)
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago and the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City.
William C
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Original Vintage Poster Exposicao Colonial Exhibition Porto World Fair Portugal
Located in London, GB
Porto Portugal in 1934, a world fair showcasing Portugal's colonies in Africa and Asia with the exhibits
Category
Vintage 1930s Portuguese Posters
Materials
Paper
Model 91 Dining Table With Model 611 Chairs, Alvar Aalto, Artek, 1960s
By Artek, Alvar Aalto
Located in Helsinki, Uusimaa
, Villa Mairea, La Maison Carré and the Finnish pavilions at the Paris (1937) and New York (1939) World
Category
Vintage 1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Dining Room Sets
Materials
Rattan, Birch
California Coast, 1920
s
By Ejnar Hansen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
1939 World's Fair. An ardent proponent of modernist color theory, Hansen became an influential teacher
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flounder Fish Relief in Green Tones
By Nathaniel Choate
Located in Houston, TX
Choate sculpting commissions to craft a bas-relief for the Federal Building's doors at the 1939 World
Category
20th Century Naturalistic Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Lake Erie Skyline Expo Sketch Tryptic, World
s Fair, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Great Lakes Exposition (World's Fair)
Gouache on paper
Signed lower left
14.5 × 39 inches
24.5 x 48
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Original Poster By L Cappiello For The 1937 World Fair Exposition Internationale
By Leonetto Cappiello
Located in London, GB
the 1937 World's Fair / Exposition Internationale held in Paris, France. Great design in the red
Category
Vintage 1930s French Posters
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Cobalt Glass
Chrome Airplane Lamp
Located in New Orleans, LA
elegance of the Machine Age, and its form was used in a lamp commemorating the 1939 World Fair.
Category
Vintage 1930s American Table Lamps
Original Vintage Travel Poster Paris 1937 World Fair Villemot Bouissoud Art Deco
By Bernard Villemot
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for the World's Fair in Paris May-November 1937
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Posters
Materials
Paper
De Coene Freres Brutalist Ebonised Oak Sideboard, 1970
By De Coene Frères
Located in Benington, Herts
interior design of the Belgian Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City. They also produced
Category
Vintage 1970s Dutch Brutalist Sideboards
Materials
Ebony
Tiffany
Co. diamond necklace, American, circa 1920
By Tiffany
Co.
Located in London, GB
aesthetic blossomed through the Art Deco era, and they became a huge success at the 1939 World’s Fair with
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Chain Necklaces
Materials
Diamond, Platinum
Neighborhood Texaco Station
By Gerrit Sinclair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
”Spring in Wisconsin” was exhibited at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. Gerrit V. Sinclair died in
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Phenomenal Surrealist Painting by Hugo Gnam
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Artists and Craftsman held at the United States Pavillion at the 1939 World’s Fair.
Category
20th Century American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Mixed-Media Abstract Painting by Leon Wall
By Leon Wall
Located in Wiscasset, ME
also lectured on art at the New York 1939 World's Fair.
From 1941 to 1946, he served in the US Army
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
At the Arcade
By Leon Wall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1939 World's Fair.
From 1941 to 1946, he served in the US Army. In the service, he was given the
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,950
Lilian Swann Saarinen
Woman Playing Accordion
Bronze Sculpture, circa 1939
Located in Astoria, NY
‘Night’, exhibited at the World’s Fair in 1939, which depicts the panther Bagheera from Rudyard Kipling's
Category
Mid-20th Century American Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Neoclassical Gueridon Side Parquetry Tables By Andre’ Arbus For Baker, A Pair
By Baker Furniture Company, André Arbus
Located in Southampton, NJ
tables attracted a steady clientele of some of Paris’s wealthiest. Arbus exhibited at the 1939 World
Category
Mid-20th Century American Neoclassical Gueridon
Materials
Brass
Bullfighting by Oscar E. Berninghaus
By Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
Located in New Orleans, LA
Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design and the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. He is admired
Category
20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Panther striding upwards / - The powerful elegance of animalism -
Located in Berlin, DE
New York (1939) World's Fairs. Dupagne was awarded the Ordre de la Couronne in 1940 and the
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Laborers
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
York's General Motors Building, the 1939 World's Fair, the Lincoln Memorial in Redlands, California, and
Category
1910s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl with Guitar
By Michael Lenson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jersey and soon painted murals for the New Jersey Pavilion of the 1939 World’s Fair. By then, Lenson had
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Looking Out the Window, Vermont" Kyra Markham, Snowy Winter Landscape, Cat
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
Inventions at the 1939 World's Fair in New York included 40 dioramas by Markham. During World War II she
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pair of French Mahogany
Brass Mounted Cabinets in the style of Andre Arbus
By André Arbus
Located in Benington, Herts
.
André Arbus participated in the 1939 World’s Fair in the US, designing the French sections at the Expo
Category
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Cabinets
Materials
Brass
Mountain Panorama (Colorado Springs, Colorado), Vintage Watercolor Landscape
By David Fredenthal
Located in Denver, CO
Heinz Building’s Sports Pavilion at the New York World Fair in 1939. Under the Treasury Section he
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Art Deco Machine Age "Polaroid" Desk Lamp by Walter Dorwin Teague
By Polaroid Corporation, Walter Dorwin Teague
Located in New York, NY
on to design pavilions for the 1939 New York World’s Fair, as well as rail coaches, automobiles
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Monumental Waylande Gregory Iron Bird Sculpture
By Waylande Gregory
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Atoms was made for the 1939 World’s Fair. It is composed of the four elements, earth, air, fire and
Category
Vintage 1960s American Folk Art Sculptures
Loggers WPA Depression Era Modern Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism
By William L
Engle
Located in New York, NY
World's Fair Exhibition. The Cement Workers is an example of Bill's dedication to the genre of social
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Repose
By Victor Michail Arnautoff
Located in Los Angeles, CA
), 1935; GGIE, 1939; NY World's Fair, 1939. In: SFMA. Murals: Linden and College Station (TX) Post Offices
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Headless young figures in a wooded landscape with a clearing in the distance
By Witold Gordon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
World’s Fair in 1939. A series of 35 gouaches was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in February of
Category
1930s Landscape Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
"Andromeda
Perseus, " Pair of Art Deco Plaques by Derujinsky
Located in Philadelphia, PA
, and the "Europa and the Bull" fountain group created for the 1939 New York World's Fair. This pair of
Category
Vintage 1930s American Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
"Undersea, " Brilliantly-Hued Art Deco Painting by Mahoney
Located in Philadelphia, PA
World's Fair in 1939 and 1940. His surviving work includes a mural in the famed Texas Fair Park in Dallas
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Repose
By Victor Mikail Arnautoff
Located in Los Angeles, CA
), 1935; GGIE, 1939; NY World's Fair, 1939. In: SFMA. Murals: Linden and College Station (TX) Post Offices
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rag Pickers" NYC Depression Era WPA American Scene Modernism Figurative Realism
Located in New York, NY
, 1932
Midtown Gallery, 1934, 1936
Corcoran Gallery of Art
World's Fair, New York, 1939
Springfield Art
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Floating Man, " Important Art Deco Painting with Nude Male by Dunbar Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
the post office in Danvers, Massachusetts, and a series of murals for the 1939-1940 New York World
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Set of Three Lily Candle Sticks Ivar Alenius Björk for Ystad Metall Sweden 1940s
By Ystad-Metall, Ivar Ålenius Björk
Located in Basel, BS
vase, designed in 1939 for the Scandinavian Pavillon of the 1939 New York World‘s Fair.
The Lily
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Candlesticks
Materials
Brass
"Male Nude with Cocked Pelvis, " Superb 1930s Drawing by Dunbar Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
office in Danvers, Massachusetts, and a series of murals for the 1939-1940, New York World's Fair, among
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Paper
"American Indians and Spanish Explorers, " Design for Art Deco Decoration
Located in Philadelphia, PA
murals for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, a WPA mural for the post office in Danvers, Massachusetts
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Strike, " Important Mural Study by Dunbar Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
series of murals for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, and a number of private commissions.
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Thirst
By Karoly Fulop
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Philadelphia Public Library.
Fulop won an award at the New York World's Fair in 1939, the Mr. and Mrs. Irving
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$3,500
Joseph de la NÉZIÈRE (1873-1944), poster for the Colonial Exhibition, Paris
Located in Paris, FR
designed decorative panels for the ocean liner Normandie and participated in the 1939-1940 World's Fair in
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Grand Lake (Yacht Races, Colorado)
By Arnold Rönnebeck
Located in Denver, CO
American Art, New York (1938); "American Art Today, 1939," New York World's Fair, Queens, New York (1939
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eaton’s Landing
By Samuel Margolies
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
, his etchings were displayed in the New York World's Fair in 1939. That same year he left the WPA to
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Desk made of Mahogany and Walnut Designed by Carl Malmsten, Sweden, 1934
By Carl Malmsten
Located in Stockholm, SE
the New York World Fair in 1939.
Dimensions:
H: 76 cm
L: 170 cm
W: 70 cm
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Furniture
Materials
Wood, Mahogany
Job Hunters WPA Depression Era Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
.
Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"AT THE BEACH" 1934 MODERN MASTERPIECE WACO TEXAS BAYLOR UNIVERSITY CHAIRMAN
By Edmund Daniel Kinzinger
Located in San Antonio, TX
World's Fair (1939); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1939 and 1942 one-man, 1945, 1971); Golden Gate
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
The People
By Arnold Blanch
Located in Los Angeles, CA
World’s Fair, 1939-40, no. 41; (selected) literature: 1) Jena, Jeanette, Paintings of 11 Nations Annual
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
LES DANSEUSES
Located in Los Angeles, CA
the most satisfactory piece in the show. At the time of the New York Worlds Fair, in 1939, she
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Third Balcony" WPA American Scene Realism Mid 20th Century Modernism Concert
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Colorado Gold Dredge, Breckenridge, Signed Black and White Mining Lithograph
By Arnold Rönnebeck
Located in Denver, CO
American Art, New York (1938); "American Art Today, 1939," New York World's Fair, Queens, New York (1939
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Waiting for the Bus in a Blizzard- WPA American Scene 1938 NYC Modernism Realism
By Maurice Kish
Located in New York, NY
the New York World's Fair in 1939, and by 1945 had exhibited 13 times at the National Academy and won
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Brick Layers" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing Men Working
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Set of Three Ivar Alenius Björk Lily Candle Holders Ystad Metall Sweden Brass
By Ivar Ålenius Björk
Located in Basel, BS
the 1939 New York World‘s Fair.
The Lily candle sticks were originally produced by Ystad-Metall in
Category
Vintage 1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Candlesticks
Materials
Brass
Carl Malmsten Lit de Repos/ Day bed
Located in New York, NY
' In the US mainly known for 1925 Paris World Fair where he received 2 Grand Prix, 1939 New York World
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Daybeds
Ivar Ålenius Björk for Ystad Brons, Pair of Candle Holders in Patinated Brass
By Ivar Ålenius Björk, Ystad-Metall
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare pair of candlesticks model Lily
created in 1939 for the New York World's Fair
by Ivar
Category
Vintage 1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Candlesticks
Materials
Brass
Snake Charmer
By James Prendergast
Located in Los Angeles, CA
; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1938-40; Walker Gallery (LA), 1939; NY World's Fair, 1939; GGIE
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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