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By Gordon Grant
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
was an illustrator for the Examiner. He maintained a studio in New York City at 137 East 66th Street
Category

1940s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

The Wise Ones - Three Rabbits Amongst a Broken Strand of Pearls, Original Oil
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Abstract
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
, Ontario, Canada in 1889, he left Canada at the age of 18 to go to New York City and returned to Canada
Category

1940s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Untitled (original framed watercolor on paper)
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Aventura, FL
, Canada, he worked in his uncle’s jewelry store as a teenager before moving to New York in 1908. After
Category

1940s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Untitled (original framed watercolor on paper)
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Aventura, FL
, Canada, he worked in his uncle’s jewelry store as a teenager before moving to New York in 1908. After
Category

1940s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Peace Cadet - Large Scale Portrait of Woman in Space Suit Surrounded by Bunnies
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
history, it is curious that I became a figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Untitled, female NY Ab-Ex artist, 1940s gouache and ink on paper
By Judith Rothschild
Located in New York, NY
Rothschild was born in 1921 in New York City. Drawn to the visual arts early on, she pursued formal training
Category

1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Paper

"Woodstock Landscape" Albert Heckman, WPA, Modernist, Farm, Barn, Rural Scene
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Woodstock Landscape" Albert Heckman, Modernist, Rich Green Vegetation, WPA
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Woodstock Landscape" Albert Heckman, American Modernist, Atmospheric Valley
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Woodstock Landscape" Albert Heckman, Modernist, Bright Landscape
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Woodstock Landscape" Albert Heckman, American Modernist Bright Landscape
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915
Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern Mid 20th Century
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
exhibition in November, 1937 in New York City, and in this show had small tempera panels, and a series of
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Tree in Winter" Delos Palmer Jr, Sketch of Tree 20th Century Impressionist Work
Located in New York, NY
. was born January 26, 1890 in New York City. His father was Dr. Delos Palmer, a socially prominent Park
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

East River (Unititled)
By Isabella Banks Markell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Markell was a painter, etcher, and sculptor, who is best known for her New York City scenes, such as East
Category

1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Deanna, Make-Up Artist - Portrait of a Woman w/Curly Hair Huge Hoop Earrings
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Judaica Pastel Portrait Rabbi Painting WPA Era Artist, Social Realist
By Bernard Gussow
Located in Surfside, FL
pastels and paintings of New York City’s Jewish Lower East Side life. He had two works included in the
Category

1940s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel

The Poacher
Located in Sheffield, MA
. Signed "Emptage" lower right Arthur Emptage lived and worked in New York City and later in life in
Category

Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Abstract Figures, 1954”
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Southampton, NY
); Sioux City Art Center, Iowa (1951); and Washburn Gallery, New York (1982). In addition to appearing in
Category

1950s American Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Watercolor

World War II Invades Central Park
By Cecil Crosley Bell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1930, Bell moved to New York City with his wife, Agatha Lewis, immersing himself in the city’s dynamic
Category

1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Woodstock in Winter" Cecil Chichester, Modernist Snowy Winter Landscape
By Cecil Chichester
Located in New York, NY
inches Provenance Private Collection, Rhinebeck, New York Cecil Chichester, born in New York City in
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Southern Woman Artist Grace Martin Taylor Watercolor - West Palm Beach
Located in Phoenix, AZ
classes in painting and printmaking respectively; in 1960, she went to the Art Students League in New York
Category

1940s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

"Antique Toys" Priscilla Roberts, Still Life, Realistic, Doll, Magical Realist
Located in New York, NY
Glen Ridge, New Jersey, but spent most of her youth in New York City. During a period when Roberts was
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice
Category

1940s Tribal Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper

"Cubist Landscape" Albert Heckman, American Modernism, Woodstock, Earth Tones
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915 after
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Cubist Landscape" Albert Heckman, American Modernist, Fractured Landscape
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Gracie Mansion
By Isabella Banks Markell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
frame Isabella Markell was a painter, etcher, and sculptor, who is best known for her New York City
Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rocky Cove, Mid-20th Century Landscape/Seascape by Cleveland School artist
By Carl Frederick Gaertner
Located in Beachwood, OH
Macbeth Gallery in New York City and his paintings were exhibited in shows throughout the United States
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"The Champ, 1942" Joe Louis "Brown Bomber" Boxer Portrait Ex-Museum Oil Signed
Located in Yardley, PA
. Painted shortly after Fried fled Nazi persecution and arrived in New York, this work captures a pivotal
Category

1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

"Portrait of a Young Eero Saarinen", Painted By His Father Eliel Saarinen, Oil
Located in Detroit, MI
International Airport outside Washington, D.C., the TWA Flight Center in New York City, and the Gateway Arch in
Category

Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Duo" Seymour Franks, Mid-Century, Red and Green, Abstract Composition
By Seymour Franks
Located in New York, NY
, 1916-1981, originated from New York City, where he was born in 1916. At just 16 years old, he
Category

1940s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Watercolor Painting Three Black Men
By Irene Hodes Newman
Located in Surfside, FL
based in New York City, showing paintings of birds as well as New York views. Newman also showed at the
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Rooftop Bathers (Untitled)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Waldo Parish gives us a delightful slice of life in 1940s New York, as we see a couple relaxing on the
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Desert" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Desert Landscape With Waning Moon
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
120 miles north of New York City--and fell in love with the area. In 1906, L. Birge Harrison helped
Category

1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"The Three Hebrew Lads Going into the Furnace"
By Paul Shimon
Located in Astoria, NY
, unframed. Sheet: 20" H x 16.25" W. Provenance: From a New York City Collection.
Category

1940s Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

"Pay Day" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
By Don Freeman
Located in New York, NY
Fine Arts and continued in 1928 at the Art Students League in New York City under John Sloan and Harry
Category

1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Still Life of Fruit and Flowers
By Nicolai Cikovsky
Located in Missouri, MO
the United States in 1923, exhibiting in that year in New York City at the Charles Daniels Gallery
Category

1950s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Various Studies of Figures on a Boat, Paul Cadmus Sketch on Paper
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
inches This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Remembered for his meticulous and highly
Category

1940s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Bluebonnets under Texas Sun
By Morris Walton Leader
Located in Houston, TX
independent study in New York City and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. Oil on canvas, 24” x 29.5
Category

1940s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Nude with Art Students" Classroom Nude
By Joy Carrington
Located in San Antonio, TX
three years at the Kansas City Art Institute, four years at the Arts Student League of New York and
Category

1930s Impressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Dwellings on the River -Realist American Winter Landscape
Located in Marco Island, FL
. He was a well-respected artist and teacher, was represented by the Macbeth Gallery in New York City
Category

1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

"TALCO SCHOOL" TALCO HIGH SCHOOL TEXAS
By Buck Schiwetz
Located in San Antonio, TX
& M college, College Station, Texas (1921). In1928, Schiwetz moved to New York City where he studied
Category

1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Summer in Town
Located in Los Angeles, CA
International Exhibition, and the New York World’s Fair. Richardson was honored with a solo exhibition at the M
Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Spring
By Konrad Cramer
Located in New York, NY
and folk art. Cramer taught at the Woodstock School of Painting and the Dalton School in New York City
Category

1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Figurative Cubist Surrealist Abstraction Mid 20th Century American Modern Large
By O. Louis Guglielmi
Located in New York, NY
living in New York City in Harlem's Italian slum. Guglielmi was involved in the political and artistic
Category

1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rabbit Hunters
By Roger Medearis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kende Galleries (at Gimbel Brothers) in New York in November, 1949, to a private New York City collector
Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Board

Cityscape Mid-20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Regionalism WPA
Located in New York, NY
. Born of Russian immigrant parents in New York City in 1903, Thal spent his childhood in Hadlyme
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Ocean Parkway Beach, October 2" Nathan Hoffman, Brooklyn, Impressionist
Located in New York, NY
, Coney Island and elsewhere in the environs of New York City. Many of these works are small in size
Category

1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Spring Ploughing" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist American Farmed Landscape
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
120 miles north of New York City--and fell in love with the area. In 1906, L. Birge Harrison helped
Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Manhattan from the Rooftops" Nathan Hoffman, Impressionist Cityscape Landscape
Located in New York, NY
, Coney Island and elsewhere in the environs of New York City. Many of these works are small in size
Category

1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Tree Landscape, Expressionist Oil on Panel, Signed, 1940s, Framed
Located in Stockholm, SE
shows in Skåne and participation in group exhibitions in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Bordeaux, and New York
Category

1940s Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

"Brighton Beach, August 5" Nathan Hoffman, Brooklyn, Impressionist, Sunny Day
Located in New York, NY
, Coney Island and elsewhere in the environs of New York City. Many of these works are small in size
Category

1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

The Spinning Wheel
By Gabriel Spat
Located in Sheffield, MA
France, and in 1945 he arrived in the United States, where he took up residence in New York City and
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Planting (Spring Plowing) - Watercolor Landscape Painting with Figures, c. 1939
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Private Collection, by descent from above Private Collection, Kansas Exhibition: New York, Associated
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

WWII Aircraft Factory Workers Industrial 20th Century American Scene WPA Modern
Located in New York, NY
their time between New York City and Lyme CT. With the outbreak of WWII, Frederick worked in an aircraft
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

The Pool Players
By Vincent Campanella 1
Located in Wiscasett, ME
19.25" overall. Born in New York in 1915, Campanella studied at the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School where
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Francisco Bores, Sans titre
By Francisco Bores
Located in Madrid, ES
group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the following years, he continued
Category

1940s Fauvist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

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  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 31, 2023
    The artist of the painting called "New York City" is the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. He was a part of the De Stijl art movement, which emphasized depicting objects, scenes and figures as their basic geometric shapes in simple primary colors. You can see this approach reflected in "New York City," where the architecture of the Big Apple is depicted in simple grid lines in yellow, red and blue. Find a variety of abstract art from some of the world's top galleries on 1stDibs.