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Period: 1940s
Large Antique Chinese Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Large impressive antique Chinese landscape painting, signed and framed under glass. Mixed media on paper, watercolor, ink and gouache.
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
$1,015 Sale Price
65% Off
Impressionism Woodstock NY Artist "Chicken and Eggs" Oil on Canvas
Located in Newfoundland, PA
Stunning 1940s impressionist oil on canvas by Francis Stein. Well done oil. Depicting chickens and eggs. Would fit well in a mid-century environment as well as a Country. Be sure to ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Large American Abstract Modernist Painting - Zoute, 1949
Located in Rochester, NY
Large American abstract modernist impressionist oil painting on masonite board in the great original artist hand painted sgraffito combed decorated wood frame by Zoute ( born Leon Sa...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Paint
Vase of Flowers with Fruit Oil Painting, Fitger Hermann
Located in Vo
, Veneto
Fitger Hermann - Vase of Flowers with Fruit
Measures: 32cm x 44cm - frame excluded
50cm x 62cm - with antique fir frame
oil on canvas applied to cardboard - 1946
20th cen...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"FANTASY" Oil on Canvas by Thomas Hart Benton
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in New York, NY
"FANTASY" by Thomas Hart Benton. Oil on canvas laid on wood with a gorgeous gold gilded frame. Price upon request.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
"Pueblos", Classic WPA-Era Mural Study with Native Americans for Los Angeles, CA
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This classic example of WPA-period mural painting, executed by Verona Burkhardt for the Immigration and Naturalization Center in Los Angeles, depicts five Pueblo Indians in the foreground and a magnificent landscape of canyons and Pueblo dwellings in the background. This served as a study for one of five large canvases she delivered to California in 1941 or 1942, but the building was cordoned off due to America's entrance into World War II. Burkhardt (or Burkhard) was the daughter of two important artists and was introduced to painting and crafts at an early age. In her prime, she won seven U.S. Government mural commissions in national competitions for buildings in Wyoming, Montana, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. She settled in Grand Junction...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Industrial Landscape Painting, signed Duff, 1942
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Giant", Original Painting in Cobalt
Red for Crate Label, California, 1940s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly executed in tones of cobalt and red to catch the eye, this original painting was made for a proposed crate label advertising Giant lettuce in the 1940s. At a time when C...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Dancing Angel", Classic 1940s Tempera Painting with Nude Male Figure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Reminiscent of the work of Jared French in its material (tempera), its color palette and its approach to the male figure, this lovely depiction of two dancing angels, one in the fore...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$2,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Franco Ruggiero (1910-1996), Mother Hen, 1940
s
Located in New York, NY
Franco Ruggiero (1910-1996), Mother Hen, 1940's. Vintage Italian farmhouse painting of hen in original gold frame with label on reverse from exhibition in Milan in 1945. Italy circa ...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
Stephen Etnier Modernist Painting of a Harpswell, Maine Seascape, Circa 1940s
Located in Peabody, MA
An early work by the American realist Stephen Morgan Etnier (1903-1984) depicting the village of Harpswell, Maine were he built his home and studio in the 1940s and lived until his d...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Textural Floral and Fruit Still Life Signed Leyster
By Paul Cézanne
Located in Redding, CT
Textural Floral and Fruit Still Life Signed Leyster. Oil on Board in the style of Cezanne. Solid wooden frame. Perfect classical piece for that fine dining room or hallway entry. Ple...
Category
Unknown Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Paint
Original Earl MacPherson Pastel Painting of a Pin-Up Girl with Balloons, 1940s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Offered here for your consideration is a vintage original Earl MacPherson pastel painting of a pin-up girl.
Depicting a blond, smiling, nude pin-up girl dressed only with two larg...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Collection of Vintage Painter
s Palettes, Wall Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
Collection of Vintage Artist's Palettes, American, circa 1940s - 1960s. The largest palette measures 15.5"H x 19.5"W. The smallest measures 7.5"H x 10.5"W.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Jane Peterson Autograph with Magazine Article
Located in valatie, NY
Jane Peterson Autograph with Magazine Article. July 1943 Americana Illustrated volume XXXVII, number 3. This was a publication of "The American Historical Company," New York City. Wi...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Antique Framed Oil Painting on Canvas by Jan Van Genesen (1887-1945)
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique Framed Oil Painting on Canvas by Jan Van Genesen (1887-1945) depicts a scene found throughout Europe's countryside, with a rutted dirt road winding through a forest with occa...
Category
Belgian Post-Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
The painting "Forest landscape" ref. August Jacobsen, oil on canvas.
Located in Chorzów, PL
The painting "Forest landscape" ref. August Jacobsen, oil on canvas.
dimensions 47cm x 61cm
Category
Scandinavian Other Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$474 Sale Price
20% Off
Pink Flamingo Watercolor Painting on Paper Signed by Shirrell Graves, Framed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original 1940s Pink Flamingo Watercolor Painting on Paper Signed by Shirrell Graves. The painting features its original white wood frame with a Mirrored border, this is the frame Gra...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Wood, Paint, Paper
$1,012 Sale Price
25% Off
Brilliant Art Brut Painting, Zoute 1941
Located in Rochester, NY
Primitive modernist oil painting on homasote board of a male and female figure ( a self portrait of Leon and his wife Thelma ) by self taught artist Zoute ( Leon Salter 1903-1976 Nor...
Category
American Other Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Portuguese 1944 Watercolor Sunday Morning Mass
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Portuguese 1944 Watercolor Sunday Morning Mass.
Category
Portuguese Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood
$637 Sale Price
20% Off
1940
s Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Nashville, TN
This captivating landscape oil painting captures the essence of nature with a logger seated in a lush green meadow. The vivid hues and intricate details bring the scene to life, invi...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Harold Cohn Stillness in the Nude Signed Modernist Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A modernist figurative oil painting on canvas titled “Stillness in the Nude” by Harold Cohn. Signed and dated 1941 on the lower right as well as verso. This evocative painting by Har...
Category
North American Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Signed French Neoclassical Framed and Glass Cover Painting Resting Nude Woman 40
Located in Miami, FL
Signed French framed painting resting nude woman from the 1940.
Traditionally those paintings were hung above the bed in a master bedroom in France.
...
Category
French French Provincial Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Wood
Decorative painting of French alp by Decarli
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Decorative painting by Decarli of French alp
Category
French Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Restored Post-War Hawaiian Bird and Botanical Airbrush Painting, Framed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Billy Seay Airbrushed Parrot Lovers artwork (original airbrushed over a print) for the Turner Company, circa 1948, in the original white painted frame. This a great example of the post-WWII Hawaiian and tropical art/decorating boom. Great for vintage Art Deco dwellings and rattan-inspired rooms. The print is new old stock and has never been displayed until now.
Bill Seay (1922-2012) started his working life as Billy Seay, a child actor, in the late silents and early talkies (“Kid Millions” with Eddie Cantor, “Topaze” with John Barrymore, and “The Unknown” with Lon Chaney and the young Joan Crawford, are the most noted of these films), then followed in his father’s footsteps as an artist, joining the designer Sacha Brastoff in his studio from 1952 to 1959, remaining a life-long friend and co...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
$937 Sale Price
25% Off
Oil On Board " Concarneau" By Eduard Richard
Located in Essex, MA
Depicting a port scene at Concarneau France. The artist lived 1883-1955. Signed lower right. Giltwood frame.
Category
French Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
"Rearing Horses, " High Style Pair of Art Deco, Mixed-Media Pieces by Von Liski
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This extraordinary pair of Art Deco pieces, each depicting a pair of horses, one with its head up and one down, was executed in ink, colored pencil and gouache by Robert Reinhardt Von Liski, a Prussian-American artist. Von Liski worked in Chicago as a commercial artist in advertising agencies and elsewhere, and did work for RCA Victor and Arrow Shirts...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Pan Playing His Pipes, " Charming Mural Sketch for Liberty Music Shop, NYC
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of verdant greens and suffused with a lovely quiet spirit, this depiction of Pan resting against a tree and playing his pipes was a perfect image for the famous Liberty Music Shop in New York. This sketch for a mural at the Shop was painted by Donald Forbes, who worked for the Federal Art Project in the 1930s where he would have learned from the work of other muralists supported by federal programs. Liberty Music Shop was famous for its collection of sophisticated jazz recordings from around the world; in the 1930s it created its own label, producing a series of records for Lee Wiley, Beatrice Lillie, Mabel Mercer, Ethel Merman...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Postwar Hawaiian Airbrush Tropical Hibiscus Floral in White Wood Frame, Signed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Postwar Hawaiian airbrush tropical hibiscus floral on paper in original period white wood frame.
Signed by artist Hammis
Measures: Art 26" x 36"
...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Couple with Apples", Swedish Copy of British Masterwork by Bernard Walker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Charming and lovely, this quiet depiction of two young lovers sitting under a tree in 1942, while World War II was being waged not far away, was painted by G. Lundgren in Sweden and is a close copy of "Amity" by Bernard Fleetwood Walker, owned by the Walker Art gallery in Liverpool, England. The original is well known and was painted in 1933. The young blond female figure is shown with a basket of apples at her side, in a pale blue dress...
Category
Swedish Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$2,800 Sale Price
56% Off
"Fresh New World, " 1944 Masterpiece Depicting Early Suburban Life in America
By Allan Dudley Jones
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A true masterpiece of genre painting, with its depiction of idyllic World War II-era suburban life filled with children playing and adults attending to their homes and chores, this piece was created by Allan Jones in 1944. It is a stunningly beautiful spring day, and the view is looking through an open window with a blackbird sitting on the sill, into the backyards of a half dozen tidy brick and wood houses. The homeowners are attending to their Victory Gardens...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Night Skaters, " Large Genre Painting of Ice Skating in 1940s Chicago
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted with great verve and energy, this depiction of a circle of ice skaters circumnavigating a rink in Chicago -- perhaps the Lincoln Park Zoo rink -- was made in 1943 by John Win...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$7,840 Sale Price
20% Off
Large-Scale American Folk Art Carnival Game Board, Very Graphic
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large-scale Folk Art Carnival game board, American, circa 1940s. This painted carnival game board came from Texas and combines wonderfully patinate...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Cork
"Adam in Eden, " Monumental Depiction of Paradise in Wartime
By Wilfred Peter Glud
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A remarkable statement of hope and resilience, this vivid and colorful depiction of a nude Adam seated amidst a profusion of flora and fauna was painted in the midst of World War II ...
Category
Danish Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$15,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Fredlin Tor Otto Sweden Oil Painting Animals Frog and Bird Forest Pond
Located in Munich, DE
A frog is sitting on a stone by a pond and is being observed by a small brownish black bird sitting on a tree stump looking down on the frog across the water.
According to Vollmer's dictionary of visual artists Tor Otto Fredlin...
Category
Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oak
Pos war Hawaiian Airbrush Casablanca Lily on Paper Framed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original 1940s Mid-century vibrant Hawaiian Casablanca Lily airbrush on paper in original glass plate frame with a tropical-themed matte. This artwork captures the exotic beauty of C...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
$131 Sale Price
25% Off
Blackfeet Indians Prints by Weinhold Reis
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Set of ten Weinhold Reis colored lithographs of the Blackfeet; period frames - Scalping Woman; Wife of Night Shoots; Lazy Boy; Blackfeet Medicine Man; Long Ti...
Category
Native American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Other
Maj Hemberg, Swedish artist. Oil on board. Abstract composition.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Maj Hemberg, Swedish artist.
Oil on board. Abstract composition. Painted with thick brushstrokes.
”Bombning av Dresden” - ("Bombing of Dresden").
1945-1952.
Signed on the back.
In ex...
Category
Swedish Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Other
"State Fair Scene with Horses
Merry-Go-Round", American Scene Painting, 1947
By Edmund Brucker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large and dynamic, this 1947-vintage painting depicts a shirtless man handling a high-spirited Percheron horse that won a blue ribbon at the Indiana st...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Billy Seay Airbrush Cockatoo and Hibiscus Hawaiian Art for Turner
By Bill Seay
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Billy Seay airbrushed parrot lovers (original airbrushed over a print) for the Turner Company, circa 1948, in the original white painted frame. A great exam...
Category
North American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Colette Gueden Signed Watercolor Painting circa 1948-1949
Located in Encino, CA
Colette Gueden (1905-2000).
"Leaves and fruits."
Extremely rare signed watercolor on paper. Collette Gueden was a very famous and popular French artist and designer in the 1950s....
Category
French Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Colette Gueden Signed Watercolor Painting, circa 1948-1949
Located in Encino, CA
Colette Gueden (1905-2000).
"Leaves and fruits."
Extremely rare signed watercolor on paper. Collette Gueden was a very famous and popular French artist and designer in the 1950s....
Category
French Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This oil on canvas portrays a bearded man, rendered in thick, expressive strokes that capture the raw emotion and character of the subject. The vibrant, swirling colors add depth and...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
$975
Hawaiian Cockatoos Acrylic on Canvas Tropical Paining by Alfonso Castricone
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original acrylic on canvas Hawaiian painting by Alfonso Castricone, titled Cockatoos in Avocado Tree, features vibrant cockatoos perched in an avocad...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$1,106 Sale Price
25% Off
French 1940s Pastel Drawing of a Woman, Original French Framing
Located in Stamford, CT
French 1940s signed and numbered lithograph of a pastel drawing of a woman Original French framing.
Category
French Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
$1,680 Sale Price
20% Off
Framed Mexican Watercolor on Paper Attributed to Rufino Tamayo
Located in Atlanta, GA
A framed watercolor and gouache on paper depicting sliced watermelon on a color block background, signed Tamayo and dated 1945 as shown. The work was in keeping with the style of Rufino Tamayo and it retains a paper label from Salon de la Plastica Mexicana, listing the detail info. SPM was formed in 1949 to promote contemporary Mexican artists...
Category
Mexican Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Heading Home", Important WPA Social Realist Painting by Sternberg, 1944
By Charlotte Joan Sternberg
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A cross between Grant Wood and Paul Cadmus, this remarkable American regional scene painting depicts a young man in a white t-shirt walking a group of cows down a country lane with p...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$9,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Antico dipinto ad olio "Paesaggio di Montagna con torrente" di Lazlo Neogrady
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Laszlo Neogrady nacque a Budapest, in Ungheria, nel 1896. Era il figlio dell'artista Anatal Neogrady, e studiò pittura all'Accademia Ungherese di Belle Arti ...
Category
Hungarian Other Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
"Nude Swimmers and Octopus, " Study for Art Deco Mural in Black, Pink and Blue
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Highly sophisticated and striking in conception and execution, this study for an Art Deco bathroom mural depicts -- appropriately -- male and female nud...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Post Impressionist Village Landscape Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Charming post-impressionist village nestled between forest and lake scene (ca. 1940s, Western Europe).
Appealing colors incorporated to evoke the verdant landscape.
Unsigned.
Measure...
Category
European Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antico Dipinto a Olio Art Deco "Danzatrice" Firmato Szantho Maria, Ungheria 1940
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Stupendo dipinto eseguito da Szantho Maria negli anni 40,le sue opere sono realistiche e ricche di dettagli e si ispirano all'edonismo dei nudi di Karoly lotz coniugato alla vivacita...
Category
Hungarian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
"Lady on Ottoman" Wood Framed Pinup Painting by Wilma Raffaelli, 1948.
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original watercolor artwork on paper, featuring a young dressed-up woman on an ottoman with a riding crop in her hand titled "Lady on Ottoman" by Wilma Raffaelli, 1948.
This paintin...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
$2,400 Sale Price
25% Off
"Home Front Fox Hole, " Vivid Depiction of American Life During World War II
By Joseph E. Bolden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Pulsating with life and color, this depiction of a crowded mom-and-pop store in wartime America, filled with a sailor in full regalia, homemakers and children, grandmothers and worki...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
"Two Female Nudes, " Mid-Century, Finely Detailed Masterpiece, Alexander Cañedo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Author of "How Cañedo Draws the Figure" and one of the acknowledged masters of the nude in the Art Deco and Mid-Century periods, Alexander Cañedo painted this remarkable scene of two female...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Painting "Winter landscape", Scandinavia, 1940s.
Located in Chorzów, PL
The picture is painted with oil paints on canvas.
Dimensions:
Frame: height 82 cm / width 109 cm
Image: height 71 cm / width 96 cm
Category
Scandinavian Other Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$332 Sale Price
20% Off
French Oil on Canvas Yellow blue Still llife ROGER CHAPELAIN-MIDY signed
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind painting by ROGER CHAPELAIN-MIDY (Paris, 1904-1992).
"Still life" , Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner.
Size: 97 x 76 cm; 122 x 105 cm (framed)
R. Chapelai...
Category
French Beaux Arts Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
$5,420 Sale Price
20% Off
Post War Hawaiian Airbrush Zebra in Original Frame w/ large Mat, Pair
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original Post-War Hawaiian Airbrush zebra in original period white painted wood frame with large mat border, Pair.
Art: 21" X 26"
Frame: 25.25" X 28.25"
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Nude and Unicorn, " High Style Art Deco Painting by Matulka, Blue
Black, 1944
By Jan Matulka
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This brilliant example of Art Deco painting by Jan Matulka shows hints of the modern take on Cubism that the artist worked out with Stuart Davis. Matulka was born in Prague and came ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"African Youth with Gourds and Flowers, " English Art Deco Painting, 1946
By Stuart Maxwell Armfield
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliant painting executed in vivid colors, this view of an African male youth holding a basket of gourds and an enormous bouquet of calla lilies, day lilies and other tropical bl...
Category
Great Britain (UK) Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"The Meeting" Modern Oil Painting by Ron Childers
Located in Pasadena, CA
Ron Childer's "The Meeting" is an oil painting on thick paper . The painting offers a highly graphic work, borrowing some influences from cubism and semi-...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
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