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Period: 1940s
Continental Giltwood Framed Oil on Board Coastal Painting ca. 1940, Signed
Located in Atlanta, GA
Continental Giltwood Framed Oil on Board Coastal Painting ca. 1940 , Signed
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
"Music", High Accomplished Painting with Multiple Nudes by Conner, 1946
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This detailed and highly-finished study by John Ramsey Conner for an allegorical painting depicts a relaxed grouping of nude figures executed in pale tones of ivory, mossy green and ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$7,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Pink Hibiscus Watercolor Painting on Paper Signed by Shirrell Graves, Framed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original 1940s Pink Hibiscus Watercolor Painting on Paper Signed by Shirrell Graves. The painting features its original white wood frame with a white mat.
Shirrell Graves is an Impr...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
$712 Sale Price
25% Off
S. C. Bjulf: Fish Mongers, Oil on Canvas
Located in København, Copenhagen
S. C. Bjulf: Fish mongers.
Oil on canvas.
Signed Bjulf.
Measures: 37 cm. x 30 cm. The frame measures 8 cm.
In perfect condition.
Category
Danish Vintage 1940s Paintings
Pär Lindblad, Sweden, Oil on Canvas, Modernist Landscape, 1940s
Located in København, Copenhagen
Pär Lindblad (1907-1981), Sweden. Oil on canvas. Modernist landscape.
Man on a bicycle along the coast. 1940s.
The canvas measures: 64 x 31 cm.
The fr...
Category
Swedish Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Marcel Vertes Poodle with Flowers Painting
Located in Water Mill, NY
Impressionistic tempera painting of a still life with dog and flowers in a vintage giltwood frame by listed artist Marcel Vertes (1895-1961.)
Category
French Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"The Sculptor at Rest" Painting by Maurice Glickman
Located in Asbury Park, NJ
An oil on canvas self-portrait by Maurice Glickman– depicting the artist in a seated position, wielding his sculptor's tools. It is titled and signed ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
"One United Nations Indivisible, " Stunning, Original Painting for UN Poster
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking example of graphic design in the 1940s, which was moving from elegant Art Deco stylization to a looser, collage-like assemblage of overlapping images, this original painti...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Painted Backdrop with Ballet Theme for Residential Theatre
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Charming and beautifully painted, this painted backdrop for theatre, perhaps for a residential space or a small professional theatre, depicts several ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Post War Red Hibiscus Airbrush Painting on Paper by Tip Freeman, Framed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original Post War Framed Paintings with red hibiscus, by Tip Freema Featuring a red floral Hibiscus against a light background in its original wood frame.
Tip Freeman...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
$356 Sale Price
25% Off
Painting by Morris Walton Leader (1877-1966)
By Morris Walton Leader
Located in Houston, TX
Morris Walton Leader (1877- 1966)
Morris Walton Leader was born in Marshall, Texas, in 1877. He died in Austin, Texas, where he had lived since he was a young boy. He studied with ...
Category
American Other Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Ingvar Engdahl, Swedish artist. Oil on board. Interior with two people. 1948
Located in København, Copenhagen
Ingvar Engdahl, Swedish artist.
Oil on board.
Interior with two people in modernist style.
In very good condition. Would benefit from a clean.
Signed and dated '48.
Dimensions: 67.0 ...
Category
Swedish Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Other
Émile François Jacques Compard, Oil on Woodwork, Abstract Composition
Located in København, Copenhagen
Émile François Jacques Compard (1900-1977), French artist. Oil on woodwork. Abstract composition. Dated 1949.
Measures: 46 x 32 cm.
In very good condition.
Signed and dated.
Ém...
Category
French Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Other
"Coca-Cola and Coffee", Original 1949 Painting, Important Industrial Design
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An astonishing and important example of Moderne-Mid Century Modern industrial design, this original watercolor rendering of a short-lived Coca-Cola/coffee vending machine was painted...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Young Woman in Blue Dress", Stunning 1940s Portrait of Blonde Female
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fresh and vibrant portrait of a young woman with glowing blond hair and a blue 1940s frock is one of the finest World War II vintage portraits we have ever offered. Her complex...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Calla Lily and Purple Hills", Social Realist Painting of Oklahoma Landscape
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking and richly-hued example of American Scene painting, this depiction of a yellow calla lily framed by undulating hills in tones of purple and red was painted by Richard Taflinger. The artist's celebration of his native Oklahoma landscape...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
1940s Signed Oil Painting of 2 Workers Sawing
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1940s oil on canvas of 2 workers sawing. Signed.
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Actaeon, " Large Art Deco-Mid Century Painting by Hollywood Figure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large and arresting, this stylized depiction of the great hunter in Greek mythology, Actaeon, resting on a slab of marble with his bow and quiver of arrows, was painted by Leon Dusso...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$7,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Elaine Plishker Auchmoody Still Life with Duck Oil on Canvas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Still life oil painting ca. 1940s depicting a 'duck' figurine amid vessels by Elaine Plishker Auchmoody (b. NYC 1910 - d. Massachusetts 1976).
Auchmoody was a highly-regarded lecture...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
"Great Dane" Framed Oil on Velvet by Lawrence Shelby
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Handsome portrait of a Great Dane by painter, Lawrence Shelby. Oil paint on rust-colored velvet canvas, framed by stained oak.
Artist-signed.
...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Velvet, Paint, Oak
Edvin Ollers, Oil on Panel, “Garden Motif" , Signed and Dated 1943
Located in Matosinhos, 13
Edvin Ollers – Oil on Panel, “Garden Motif,” Signed and Dated 1943
A beautiful and atmospheric oil on panel painting by renowned Swedish artist and designer Edvin Ollers (1888–1959)...
Category
Swedish Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Hands Off the Americas", 1942 Study by Hansen for MOMA Poster Competition
By Ejnar Hansen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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,...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$14,000 Sale Price
20% Off
1940 Floral Still Life Original Airbrushed Painting by Ted Mundorff, Pair
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This set of 2 1940s original airbrush artwork paintings of Hibiscus florals by Ted Mundorff. One is yellow and one is red. Both pieces have in their origi...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
$656 Sale Price / set
25% Off
"Creation of Man, " Important Painting of Adam in Garden of Eden by Colacicchi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully painted by Giovanni Colacicchi in rich, verdant colors, this depiction of a nude, youthful Adam figure in the midst of the Garden of Eden, accompanied by God in a hooded,...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
"Bedouin, " Striking Art Deco Painting by Stahlhut, NY World
s Fair Poster Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Striking and handsome, this depiction of a Bedouin in his traditional robe has the color and intensity one would associate with the fierce sun and heat of North Africa. The painting ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Surrealist Landscape Watercolor Signed R. E. Schwelke and Dated 1947
By R.E. Schwelke
Located in Pasadena, CA
Framed colorful surrealist watercolor, signed by artist R.E. Schwelke in 1947. Titled "Landscape #1".
Dark stained frame.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood
$220 Sale Price
47% Off
Floral Still Life on Board by Rosario Gerbino (1900-1972)
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A vibrant impressionist style oil painting on bard, artist signed Derbino '41..
Framed in original frame.
Born in Sicily, Italy, Rosario Gerbino became a landscape painter and illustrator who lived in New York City where he taught at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School. He studied at the National Academy of Design with George Maynard, Charles Hinton...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
"Yellow Swimsuit, " Ghostly Casein Painting of a Man at the Beach, in 1943
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This pale, almost ghostly painting by John Winters depicts a tall, lithe young man with a yellow swimsuit and towel on the beach along Lake Michigan in...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Médard Tytgat Painting of a Landscape with Garden
Located in Barntrup, DE
A painting of a garden landscape, oil on canvas signed left below 'M. Tytgat Aine'.
Médard Tytgat (8 February 1871, Bruges – 11 January 1948, Brussels), a Belgian painter, lithograph...
Category
Belgian Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
"Chickens" by Clifford Jones
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Clifford Edgar Jones 1915-1975 American
Chickens, 1948. Oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches unframed and 34" x 27.5" inches including the frame. Signed at lower right Clifford Jones ‘48’. ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
1940s Signed Realist WPA Banana Flower Oil Painting
Located in Miami, FL
1940s Signed Realist WPA Banana Flower Oil Painting
Offered for sale is a stunning 1940s realist WPA oil painting oil on board. The painting is signed a...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Paint
Harry Glassgold Signed Modern American Impressionist Watercolor on Paper 1949
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
An energetic and bright watercolor on paper showcasing an example of modern American Impressionism by Harry Glassgold. Signed bottom right and dated 19...
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
$210 Sale Price
40% Off
"Hawaiiana, " Extraordinary Art Deco Cubist Surreal Painting after Pearl Harbor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Saturated with the brilliant hues of earth and sea, and filled with symbols and signs of Hawaii's spectacular landscape and rich history -- including an angry Hawaiian king with his traditional feathered headdress or "mahiole" -- this watercolor was painted in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1940s WPA School Winter Scene Oil Painting by A. Stuz
Located in Miami, FL
1940s WPA School Winter Scene Oil Painting by A. Stuz
Offered for sale is a large 1940s WPA school oil painting on canvas of a playful wi...
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Wood, Paint
"New Mexico Scene, " Large and Rare Landscape with Adobe Church
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In 1943, when the Second World War still raged a continent away, Eleanor Reed painted this beautiful and haunting view of the New Mexico landscape, featuring a rosy-toned adobe churc...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$9,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Painting "Landscape" Scandinavia early XX century
Located in Chorzów, PL
Painting painted on canvas.
Dimensions:
Frame: height 74 cm / width 99 cm
Painting: height 48 cm / ser. 73 cm
Category
Scandinavian Other Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$522 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique oil painting "Ballerina" signed Pal Fried
By Pal Fried
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Stunning oil painting "Ballerina" executed by Fried Pal in the 1940s,this painting is exemplary of the pictorial style of the author,whose portraiture combines a soft naturakistic re...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
$3,037 Sale Price
20% Off
"Tropical Fish, " Brilliant Art Deco Undersea Painting, Hawaii, 1942
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Oil Painting of Ivo Patcevitch-Conde Nast Founder, Attributed to Renee Bouche
By René R. Bouché
Located in Water Mill, NY
Oil on board of Ivo Patcevitch founder of Conde Nast attributed to Renee Bouche.
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas
Unknown Artist, Dated 1946, Landscape with Skerries, Oil on Panel
Located in København, Copenhagen
Unknown artist, dated 1946.
Landscape with skerries, oil on panel.
In perfect condition.
Signed indistinctly Olga R ??, dated 46.
Measures: 33 x 24 ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Richard Albitz (German, b. 1876 - d. 1954) "Snowy Creek" painting.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Snowy Creek, creek with snow and trees
- signed lower right
- Unframed.
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Vase of Flowers" by Hobson Pittman
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Hobson Pittman (1899-1972)
Signed upper left. Oil on panel.
Provenance: Boca Raton Museum of Art
Many examples of Pittman's paintings can be found in numerous museum collections, ...
Category
American Arts and Crafts Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Whiskey Sours, " Cubist-Art Deco Painting with Bottle and Jigger
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Taking its cues from the broken planes and tilted objects of Cubist masters such as Braque and Gris, as well as the polished art of the Art Deco movement, this brilliant painting sho...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$3,150 Sale Price
25% Off
Vintage Set of 7 French Watercolor Design Renderings Wall Art by R Berthier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Set of Seven French Watercolor Design Renderings Wall Art Signed by Artist Roger Berthier Paris, Signature Lower Right Corner.
Metal Hanging Devise back of the Frame, Title o...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Hardwood, Paint, Paper
Watercolor of a French Castle by Unknown Artist
Located in Pasadena, CA
Dreamy landscape picturing a view of a castle in France.
Large original frame made of walnut.
I love the soft and delightful pastel colors that are used. The colors add emotion to...
Category
French Romantic Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Walnut
$200 Sale Price
55% Off
Still Life with Fruit
Located in London, GB
Paul Feiler (British 1918 - 2013)
Still Life with Fruit
Oil on canvas
1949
Size: 43cm high, 51cm wide - 17 ins high, 20 ins wide
Frame: 59.5cm high, 66.5cm deep - 23½ ins high, ...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$19,500
"Waiting, " Large Art Deco Painting with Cat, Porthole Window, Red
Green
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A Classic Art Deco painting with a humorous look at domestic life in 1940s America, the scene focuses on a cat waiting for its owner as she arrives home, appearing in the porthole window of the front door. The painter was Karl Gasslander...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Family w/ Rocking Horse, " Ptg. by WPA Artist De Forest Stull
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dated 1945, just before the end of World War II, this important and powerful painting by John De Forest Stull shows an embracing mother and father stand...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Carrying Water, " Striking Scene of Women in Italian Hill Town by Wachtmeister
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking and atmospheric depiction of women fetching water in jugs and urns, descending into a lovely, picturesque hill town in Italy, this painting was made in 1942 by Sophie-Loui...
Category
Swedish Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"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 Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Pair of Framed 1940s Domestic Interior Watercolor Renderings
Located in Stamford, CT
These are two stunning watercolor renderings of quintessential 1940s interiors.
One is a beautiful teal and cream living room. The other is a cha...
Category
American American Classical Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
$2,080 Sale Price / set
35% Off
"Preparing the Meal" by Sam Uhrdin
Located in Wiscasset, ME
This oil on canvas is signed and date in the upper left and measures 38" x 45.25" including the frame.
Sam Uhrdin (Swedish School, 1886-1964).
Sam Uhr...
Category
Swedish Beaux Arts Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
George Schwacha "New Jersey Bathers" Painting
By George Schwacha Jr
Located in Westport, CT
Painting title "New Jersey Bathers" circa 1949 (1908-1986) works represented in over 30 Museums. Was president of the American Artists league and past president Audubon Artists and a...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood
Carousel Oil Painting on Canvas by J. Mamez
Located in Pasadena, CA
A painting of a woman riding on a carousel horse while holding out her white handkerchief to flow in the wind.
This piece is reminiscent of a week...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Pierre Lardin French Mid-Century Painted Wall Mirror
Located in Queens, NY
French mid-century (1940s) oak framed horizontal wall mirror with reverse glass painted Neoclassic scenes. (attributed to Pierre Lardin).
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oak, Mirror
Albert Serwazi
American
, "Gertrude with Parrot", Oil on Canvas.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Albert Serwazi (American 1905-1992) "Gertrude with
Parrot". Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1944
upper right.
Measures: 24" x 31" (Image size without frame)
A painter from Philadelphia, Albert Serwazi was also a designer and illustrator. He was a student at the Pennsylvania School...
Category
North American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"500 LB Lady, " Colorful and Charming WPA-Era Carnival Scene by Lincoln
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of energy and vivid color, this atmospheric and charming scene of a small-town carnival, complete with a barker, boys with balloons, a blue tent in the foreground and a sign announcing the "500 LB Lady," was painted by E. Wilder Lincoln in the 1930s or 40s. Painters and sculptors were fascinated with circuses and carnivals...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
"Legacy, " Original Painting by Ivan Bartlett, Mid-Century Fabric Designer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In his early years, artist Ivan Bartlett was known for his WPA mural painting, such as for the Ada County courthouse in Boise, Idaho, but in the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Nude in Tropical Garden, " Brilliantly-Hued Art Deco Painting by Cenci, 1949
By Gustavo Cenci
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perfumed with the heady colors and forms of tropical flowers such poppy and hibiscus, this arresting Art Deco watercolor was painted by Gustavo Cenci, best known for his part in pain...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Grecian Nude and Broken Column, " Art Deco/Surrealist Painting by Matulka
By Jan Matulka
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This brilliant Surrealist composition, with the stylization and exaggerated plant forms of Art Deco, was painted by Jan Matulka in 1944. Both Surrealism and "Moderne" decorative arts thrived in the 1940s, and here the artist draws from both styles. Matulka was born in Prague and came to America as a young man, and trained here and in Paris, where he became exposed to Cubism. He exhibited in New York, created illustrations for New Masses which advanced the interest of American workers...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper
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