Dexter Brown (English, b.1942).

Very Nice, Old, Painting of Industrial Landscape Scene signed Duff, 1942 couple small repairs as seen on canvas back small "puncture" along the left side of the painting small "crea...

Original gouache on paper by French artist Pierre Dmitrenko. Abstract style signed and dated 1942 lower right. Nice condition with slight wear. Image size is 19.13" W x 13.32" H, Ove...

The American public was fascinated with all things exotic in the 1930s and 1940s, including aquatic and seaside themes and Art Deco hotels and residential interiors often featured pa...

José Sámano Torres (Mexican, B. 1942). Jose Torress has created remarkable work that blends the creative styles of cubism with the colorful abstrac...

Signed lower right. A festive composition of figures in a restaurant and bar enjoying a Fado performance with the female dancers in red gowns. The artist is known for photo-real renderings and often depicts restaurant and bar life. 30 x 42 1/2" in a fine black and gilt J. Pocker frame 36...

This stunning example of Art Deco painting illustrates the dramatic moment when the hunter Actaeon, having seen the nude Diana in her bath, is meeting his death. Here Actaeon himself is fully nude, and is being transformed into a deer as he is being pursued by Diana's avengers. The classic myth...

A striking example of WPA mural art, this study for one of the murals proposed for the new Queens Supreme Courthouse -- a 1930s Works Progress Administration project in Queens, New York -- was painted by Eugene Savage. Like many paintings from the period, the study is teeming with allegory and symbolism, surmounted at the top by the figure of Justice with a long sword, spurning businesspeople at her feet who offer gifts and favors. Savage is best known for a spectacular set of murals illustrating the history and lore of Hawaii commissioned by Matson Shipping Line for the S.S. Lurline, executed in the 1940s but not installed until the 1950s. The artist also painted other series of murals and paintings, include an enormous mural...

A finely executed mid-20th century still life oil painting on canvas, signed and dated lower right by an unidentified hand and dated 1942. The composition centers around a richly d...

Rare and important, this vivid study was painted by Ejnar Hansen for a poster competition sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York entitled "Hands Off the Americas" in 1942,...

Lovely oil on canvas by the French artist, Louis-Auguste-Paul Magne de la Croix (1875-1942) depicting a parade of thoroughbred horses before a race, led by their jockeys with lovely ...