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Period: 1940s
"Abstract Composition" by Louis Schanker
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Tempura on heavy paper, signed and dated 1945 lower left. The piece measures 23" x 30" including the frame and presents very well overall.
Provenance:
Willard Gallery, NYC
Bradbu...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint
Millard Sheets Signed Original Drawing Wartime Boats in Stormy Seas Harbor, 1942
By Millard Sheets
Located in Studio City, CA
Wonderful and darkly intriguing original artwork by renowned American Modernist artist and California artist benefactor Millard Sheets (1907-1989) featuring wartime boats caught in stormy seas. Very evocative and certainly quite relevant to the time it was created taken in the context of the war.
The work is hand pencil signed and dated (1942) by Sheets on the mat just below the artwork.
Provenance: Property from the estate of Millard Sheets.
Would be a great addition to any collectors of his work or Mid-Century Modern artist or an eye-catching stand-alone accent artwork in about any setting.
Sheets many awards include:
Watson F. Blair Purchase Prize, Chicago Art Institute (1938)
Philadelphia Watercolor Club Prize (1939)
Dana Watercolor Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of fine Arts (1943)
Drawing Prize, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1946)
Gold Brush Award, Artists Guild of Chicago, Award of the Year (1951)
Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (1964)
His works can be found in numerous permanent collections, public settings, and international museums including:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Scripps College, CA
The White House (Washington, DC)
The San Diego Museum
The Los Angeles Public Library...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Henry Moore Modernist Prints
By Henry Moore
Located in Atlanta, GA
Henry Moore prints, from the limited edition folio entitled "The Drawings of Henry Moore", published by Curt Valentin, New York, 1946. They have been professionally matted and framed...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
$550 / item
Painted Door Art
Located in Hudson, NY
Painted door art
came out of an art school in France in the 1940s. They were used as painting surfaces. Two available.
Category
French Vintage 1940s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint
$15,000
Polychrome Screen print "Romanesque" by Josef Zenk
By Joseph Zenk
Located in Montreal, QC
Polychrome Screen print "Romanesque" by Josef Zenk Signed, titled and numbered to lower edge ‘Romanesque 1/24 Zenk’. This work is number 1 from the edition of 24. Zenk studied for th...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Picasso by Gertrude Stein
Located in valatie, NY
Picasso by Gertrude Stein. B.T. Batsford, LTD, London, 1948. 3rd Ed hardcover no dust jacket. With 64 illustrations in color and B&W. The famous writer ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Restored 1949 Rattan Framed Square Crane Bark Cloth Fabric Sample by Spectrum
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This framed crane barkcloth fabric sample, produced by the Spectrum company around 1949, served as a showcase of mid-century design aesthetics. Displayed in rattan showrooms across t...
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Materials
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Picasso/Madoura - Taureau dans l’arène
By Pablo Picasso, Madoura
Located in PAU, FR
Pablo Picasso/ MadouraTaureau dans l'arène
1948 (Ramié 80).
Plat rectangulaire en terre de faïence blanche. Tampons "Madoura plein feu" "CR" et "Edition Picasso" Edition à 450 exempl...
Category
French Modern Vintage 1940s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ceramic, Acrylic
"Samson and Delilah" in 1940s America, Art Deco Painting
By Joseph E. Bolden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly transposed from Biblical times to 1940s America, this vivid scene shows Samson and Delilah in a quintessentially domestic setting, complete with pink wallpaper...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Contemporary Art
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Mid Century Modern Female Figural Painting Robert Libeski 1946 Mixed Media
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Deco mixed media painting by Robert Libeski with a female figural motif, 1946 in a neutral and timeless color palette.
A decorative and figural painting in golden color tones sho...
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Signed 1946 Louis Stettner Subway New York Photograph, 15.5x15.9
By Louis Stettner
Located in Hudson, NY
Louis Stettner, Subway New York, 1946, printed circa 1990. This image is illustrated the book " Traveling Light". It was published to celebrate a major...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1940s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$4,875 Sale Price
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Set of 7 Mounted and Framed Norman Rockwell Prints A charming set of 7
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Set of 7 Mounted and Framed Norman Rockwell Prints
A charming set of 7, reflecting American every day culture from the The Saturday Evening Post Magazine
The prints re framed 9” x ...
Category
American Classical Vintage 1940s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
American Frohse Anatomical Chart
Located in Otley, GB
A superb vintage American Frohse anatomical chart on canvas. The medical chart is dated 1947 & supplied by Adam Rouilly & Co Ltd London. The an...
Category
European Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Contemporary Art
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$1,427 Sale Price
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