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Period: 1930s
Vintage Abstract Composition, Oil Painting by James Edward Jones
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage abstract expressionist painting by James Edward Jones. Oil on board, circa 1980. Signed on verso. Displayed in a per...
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Abstract 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Art Deco Movie Set 20th Century American Modernism Hollywood WPA Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Movie Set 20th Century American Modernism Hollywood WPA Social Realism Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981) Art Deco Movie Set, Probably MGM Studios, 1937 17 x 27 inches Gouache on illustration Board Signed Art Ross, ‘37 lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist. BIO Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure. In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935. He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2. It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war. Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959. He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job. Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955. They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross. He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...
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Art Deco 1930s Paintings

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Gouache, Board

"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern William Gropper (1898 - 1977) Unemployed 20 x 16 inches Oil on canvas, 1937 Signed lower right Provenance: E...
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American Realist 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Paysage du Nord de la France " Bretagne, Oil cm. 100 x 50 Offer Free Shipping
Located in Torino, IT
Sailboat,Sea,France,Port,Boat ,Landscape ,Britain , Atlantic Ocean, Blu , Grey . Label on the back Galleria Pirra Torino This work is more than 50 year...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board, Watercolor

Rubenesque nude woman . full figure Nude Regionalism - "Hilda Nellis"
Located in Miami, FL
Plump or fleshy and voluptuous nude... you can describe it as you see it. Signed, titled and dated lower left: John Steuart Curry / 1934 "Hilda Nellis", John Steuart Curry is best ...
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American Realist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Lively Geneva street
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
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Modern 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil
Located in New York, NY
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil. Signed lower left. Not much is known about Marco de Marco, but just look at...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape with Distant Town - Antique French Impressionist Impasto Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful signed and dated 1933 French impressionist oil on panel depicting a landscape with distant town. The work is superbly painted with swirling impasto brushstrokes. Presente...
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Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Les poissons
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Georges MANZANA-PISSARRO (1871-1961) Les poissons, 1935 Oil on panel Size : 31 x 38 cm Signed and dated 1935 lower left Title and signed on reserve Provenance : Private collection,...
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Art Deco 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Coney Island Fire Eaters American Scene Modernism WPA Social Realism Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
Coney Island Fire Eaters American Scene Modernism WPA Social Realism Mid-Century Frederick "Fritz" Frey Rockwell (1917-1977) Coney Island Fire Eaters 25 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas Si...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hudson River School Landscape with a portrait of a Boy and Dog Original Pastel
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a young boy and his dog in oil pastel on paper on linen by Maurice B. Rosenbaum (American, 1868-1942) An American portrait painter form New York. Notable paintings includ...
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1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Pastel, Linen, Stretcher Bars

Important Antique STUYVESANT Square NY O/C by Provincetown / Maine Mark Baum
Located in Exton, PA
Outsider art painting by well-listed Mark Baum. Baum was born in Poland in 1903 and came to NYC in 1919. He painted in water colors initially, and switched primarily to oils around 1...
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Outsider Art 1930s Paintings

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Oil

“The Potato Peelers”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a man and a woman intently peeling potatoes at a table. No visible signature. Old gallery label in German verso that is dated 1934 Condition is go...
Category

Academic 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large view f Treignac in Corrèze - France
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Robert DESSALES-QUENTIN (Brantôme 1885 - 1958) Large view of Treignac - Corrèze Oil on wood H. 82.5 cm; L. 123 cm Signed lower right Provenance: Private collection, Périgueux Rober...
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French School 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Homme en barque by Paulémile Pissarro - Landscape painting
Located in London, GB
Homme en barque by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972) Oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower left, Paulémile Pissarro Executed circa 1932 This work is accompan...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Untitled (New England Landscape)" Modernist New England Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Kyōhei Inukai Untitled (New England Landscape), circa 1930 Signed Lower Right: Inukai Oil on canvas 32 x 40.5 inches Kyōhei Inukai (Earle Goodenow) lived in New York in the 1930s a...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rochs on the sea at Ploumanac'h in Côtes d'Armor Brittany - France
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Léon Pierre FÉLIX (Périgueux 1869 - 1940) The coast at Ploumanac'h - Bretagne Oil on canvas H. 46 cm; L. 55 cm Signed lower left, dated 1901 Provenance: Private collection, Burgundy...
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French School 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Danish landscape with heather
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Hugo PETERSEN (1876 – 1962) Danish landscape with heather Oil on canvas H. 71 cm; L. 110 cm Signed lower right
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Cubist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Art Deco Portrait with Elegant Model and Swans. Dated 1931.
Located in Firenze, IT
1931 English Painting: Art Deco Portrait with Elegant Model and Swans in the Background. The portrait is signed and dated (19)31., the signature is only partially readable. Techni...
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Art Deco 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hayley Lever's CARICATURES--4 original portraits
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Hayley Lever was an Australian born artist who lived much of his life, as well as died, in Mt.Vernon, New York. His work as a painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher strongly embra...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Tabletop Still Life, Modernist Still Life with Food, Flowers, and Wine
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Tabletop Still Life" by Philadelphia born modernist and surrealist painter Leon Kelly, is a framed painting of a set dinner table with food, flowers, and wine. The 36" x 44" oil on ...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Timeless and Classic Nude Girl at Pool - Academic Artist
Located in Miami, FL
This painting of a classic nude at a pool, "Hilda at the Pool," is both a portrait and a landscape. Leon Kroll rejected Modernism to triumph in the beauty of Classicism. During his l...
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Academic 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Henri-Georges Bréard, Self-Portrait, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early to mid-20th-century self-portrait by Henri-Georges Bréard (1873-c.1939) depicts the artist deep in thought. He’s holding a pipe. Henri-Georges Bréard was an accomplished ...
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1930s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Billie Waters - Still Life, October - Early 20th Century British oil on paper
By Billie Waters
Located in London, GB
BILLIE WATERS (1896-1979) Still Life - October Signed l.r.: Billie Waters; signed and inscribed with title and the artist’s address on a label on the b...
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Realist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Douarnenez" France Oil cm. 20 x 14 1930
Located in Torino, IT
Sea, France, Brittany France, Impressionist, 20th, 1930, Gray, Blue, Celestial Henry Maurice CAHOURS (Paris, 1889 – Vence, 1974) He was born in Paris but spent his childhood and ...
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Impressionist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Scuola di Barbizon Dipinto Olio su Tela di Emile Bouneau Paesaggio
Located in Pistoia, IT
Dipinto della scuola francese di Barbizon, paesaggio di foresta, olio su tela firmato Émile Bouneau e intitolato "La Forêt De Fontainebleau". Firmato in basso a sinistra. Sul telai...
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Barbizon School 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Walk in the Forest - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Gustave Cariot
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on board figures in landscape by French post impressionist painter Gustave Cariot. The piece is set in Wiesbaden, Germany depicts a breathtaking view of the Rive...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Fauvist Oil on Board ca 1930 by Richard H Bassett
Located in Exton, PA
Exquisite and brilliantly colored oil painting on canvass laid to board by Richard Horace Bassett (1900-1995). This is a Fauvist rendition of lands...
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Fauvist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil

View from a Parisian Window, Oil on canvas, 1937, framed, 27 x 23 ins, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Jules Cavailles French, 1901-1977 View from a Parisian window 1937 Oil on canvas 24 ½ x 20 ¾ inches (62 x 53 cm) Framed: 27 x 23 inches (86 x 76 cm) Signed lower right and verso: J...
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Impressionist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil

New England Town Scene Oil Painting by listed artist Emile Gruppe (1896-1978)
Located in Baltimore, MD
Emile Albert Gruppe was a very well known Cape Ann, Massachusetts painter who founded his own Gruppe Summer School in 1942. He was born in Rochester, NY in 1896 and studied at the A...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

“Standing Nude”
Located in Warren, NJ
Measurements Overall: 19 1/2 by 17 1/2 inches Sight: 10 3/4 by 8 1/4 inches Weight Condition paper with slight mat burn, slightly toned and with some light creasing including a hor...
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1930s Paintings

Materials

Crayon

Nature Morte - French Cubist Still Life Oil Painting by Jean Metzinger
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed still life oil on canvas circa 1936 by French cubist painter Jean Metzinger. The work depicts two peaches, a knife, four sugar cubes, a glass of red wine, a small red notebook...
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Cubist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

2-sided Antique Impressionist Oil on Board by Richard H Bassett
Located in Exton, PA
Exquisite and brilliantly colored oil painting on board by Richard Horace Bassett (1900-1995). This impressionist rendition of landscape was probably executed circa 1930, or earlier,...
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Abstract Impressionist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil

From a Balcony, French Quarter, New Orleans
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Wayman Elbridge Adams (1883-1959). From a Balcony, New Orleans, French Quarter, ca.1930. Oil on masonite panel, 12 x 16 inches; 17.5 x 21.5 inches framed. Excellent condition. ...
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1930s Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Post Impressionist View to the Sea, Corsica in a 'Cezanne' Landscape.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A post impressionist Paris School landscape, possibly of Corsica, by Belgian Artist Charles Kvapil. The painting is signed and dated bottom left. Presented in fine carved and gilt Mo...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Vintage Landscape Oil Painting, post-impressionist country path painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Vintage country road landscape oil painting on wood by French artist, Albert Regagnon, it's from the 1930's and signed in the lower left corner. A wom...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Alfred Broge, Coastal View With Boats
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Alfred Broge (1870-1955) depicts a gently-lit coastal view with boats. It’s a beautiful work with the setting sun, low in the sk...
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Naturalistic 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Harvest, Landscape and Figures by Female American Realist Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Harvest" is a 30 x 40 inches landscape with farm workers by female, American Realist painter, Molly Luce. The painting is signed Molly Luce in the lower ri...
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American Realist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lily
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Green wooden frame 63.5 x 49 x 3 cm
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1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil

No Trespassing, Autumn Landscape and Hunters by Female American Realist Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"No Trespassing" is a 24 x 30 inches, New Hampshire autumn scene of two hunters walking with their dog through the woods. Painted by female, American Realist painter, Molly Luce...
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American Realist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Petite Rivière Vezillon by Georges Manzana Pissarro - River scene painting
Located in London, GB
La Petite Rivière Vezillon by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Oil on board 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 ¹/₈ inches) Signed lower left, manzana. Pissarro Executed circa 1935 This work is...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

WPA Scene American Modernism 20th Century Workers Strike Realism Industrial
Located in New York, NY
WPA Scene American Modernism 20th Century Workers Strike Realism Industrial "Pawns" 16 x 20 inches,. Oil on board, c. 1930’s. Signed lower left. Stowell Sherman...
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American Modern 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Large Vintage Still Life oil painting of flowers in a vase by Constantin Font
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Large still life oil painting by French artist, Constantin Font signed in the lower left. This very attractive oil on canvas hails from the 1930's. A composition that is perfecti...
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French School 1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Cave Drama" Abstract Surrealism, Surrealist landscape, Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Boris Margo Cave Drama, 1938 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 22 x 30 inches Best known as a painter of surrealist imagery, Boris Margo was born in Wolotschisk, Ukraine, i...
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Abstract 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Poster design - Bugatti - Romantic Figurative Oil by Mariano Alonso Perez
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative oil on canvas by Spanish romantic painter Mariano Alfonso Perez. The piece is a post design for the launch of the Bugatti Aerolithe...
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Romantic 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Central London - Early 20th Century Impressionist Oil on Canvas by Gwen Collins
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Gwendolyn Collins was a wealthy painter who did most of work between 1922 - 1933. She lived in a Mount Street in Mayfair and did not join any art groups or societies. When her st...
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Impressionist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Seine - 1930's French Impressionist Oil on Canvas Paris River City Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very beautiful signed and dated 1936 impressionist oil on canvas by Lelia Caetani depicting the river Seine in Paris. The artist is very interesting - please see biography below - she was an Italian...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jozef Popczyk Cubist Art Deco Painting Still Life
Located in Oakland, CA
Jozef Popczyk Cubist Art Deco Painting Still Life oil on poster board. Joseph Popczyk is a Polish artist known for his vivid palette and love of Cubism, and in this case, the chevrons and wavy patterns of Art Deco can also be detected. Like many of his contemporaries in Eastern Europe, the artist was born in Poland and gravitated toward Paris in the 1910s. He loved to depict the flash and jazz of club life in Paris, always with stamina and energy. This still life has outstanding elements: drinking glasses...
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Art Deco 1930s Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paint

Antique American Impressionist Opera Scene Signed Elegant Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American impressionist oil painting by Richard W. Baldwin (1920 - 2012). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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Impressionist 1930s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Female Bather (Nude Women)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ann Brockman (1895–1943) was an American artist who achieved success as a figurative painter following a successful career as an illustrator. Born in California, she spent her childhood in the American Far West and, upon marrying the artist William C. McNulty, relocated to Manhattan at the age of 18 in 1914. She took classes at the Art Students League where her teachers included two realist artists of the Ashcan School, George Luks and John Sloan. Her career as an illustrator began in 1919 with cover art for four issues of a fiction monthly called Live Stories. She continued providing cover art and illustrations for popular magazines and books until 1930 when she transitioned from illustrator to professional artist. From that year until her death in 1943, she took part regularly in group and solo exhibitions, receiving a growing amount of critical recognition and praise. In 1939 she told an interviewer that making money as an illustrator was so easy that it "almost spoiled [her] chances of ever being an artist."[1] In reviewing a solo exhibition of her work in 1939, the artist and critic A.Z Kruse wrote: "She paints and composes with a thorough understanding of form and without the slightest hesitancy about anatomical structure. Add to this a magnificent sense of proportion, and impeccable feeling for color and an unmistakable knowledge of what it takes to balance the elements of good pictorial composition and you have a typical Ann Brockman canvas."[2] Early life and training Brockman was born in Northern California in 1895 and spent much of her youth in nearby Oregon, Washington, and Utah.[1][3] She met the artist William C. McNulty in Seattle where he was employed as an editorial cartoonist. They married in March 1914 and promptly moved to Manhattan where he worked as a freelance illustrator.[4][5] At the time of their marriage, Brockman was 18 years old.[6] Over the next few years, her career generally followed that path that her husband had previously taken. His art training had been at the Art Students League beginning in 1908; she began her training there after moving to New York in 1914.[1] After an early career as an editorial cartoonist, he freelanced as a magazine and book illustrator beginning in 1914; she began her career as a magazine and book illustrator in 1919.[7] He embarked on a teaching career in the early 1930s and not long after, she began giving art instruction.[8][9] While they both adhered to the realist tradition in art, their usual subjects were different. His prominently depicted urban cityscapes in the social realist whereas hers generally focused on rural landscapes. He was best known for his etchings and she for her oils and watercolors.[8][10] Brockman returned to the Art Students League in 1926 to take individual instruction for a month at a time from George Luks and John Sloan.[1] Despite their help, one critic said McNulty's "sympathetic encouragement and guidance" was more important to her development as a professional artist.[11] Career in art In the course of her career as illustrator, Brockman would sometimes paint portraits of celebrities before drawing them, as for example in 1923 when she painted the French actress Andrée Lafayette who had traveled to New York to play title role in a film called Trilby.[12] She would also sometimes accept commissions to make portrait paintings and in 1929 painted two Scottish terriers on one such commission.[13] During this time, she also produced landscapes. In 1924 she displayed a New England village street scene painting in the Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings in the J. Wanamaker Gallery of Modern Decorative Art.[14] Available sources show no further exhibitions until in 1930 a critic for the Boston Globe described one of her portraits as "well done" in a review of a Rockport Art Association exhibition held that summer.[15] Between 1931 and her death in 1943, Brockman participated in over thirty group exhibitions and five solos.[note 1] Her paintings appeared in shows of the artists' associations to which she belonged, including the Rockport Art Association, Salons of America, Society of Independent Artists, and National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[17][19]Between 1932 and 1935, her paintings appeared frequently in New York's Macbeth Gallery.[20][23][25][27] She won an award for a painting she showed at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1940.[41] In 1942, the Whitney Museum bought one of the paintings she showed in its Biennial of that year.[10] Critical praise for her work steadily increased during the decade that ended with her untimely death in 1943. In 1932, her painting called "The Camera Man" was called "a clever piece of illustration."[21] Three years later, a painting called "Small Town" gave a critic "the impression of freshness, honesty, and skill".[29] In 1938, a critic described her "Folly Cove" as "masterful" and said "Pigeon Hill Picnic" was "sustained by excellence of execution".[48] At that time, Howard Devree of the New York Times saw "evidence of gathering powers" in her work and wrote "she imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Three years later, a Times critic reported Brockman had "set herself a new high" in the watercolors she presented,[52] and another critic said the gallery where she was showing had not "for some time" shown "so outstanding a solo exhibitor as Ann Brockman."[2] Shortly before her death, a critic for Art News maintained that she was "one of America's most talented women painters".[46] After she had died, a critic said Brockman's paintings "displayed real power", adding that she was "highly rated among the nation's professional artists" and was known to give "aid and encouragement, always with a smile," both artists and to her students.[10] in reviewing the memorial exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries held in 1945, reviewers wrote about the strength and vibrancy of her personality, the quality of her painting ("every bit as good, possibly better than people had thought"),[53] called her "one of the best of our twentieth century women painters", and credited "her sense of the vividness of life" as a contributor to "the unusual breadth that is so characteristic of her work.[11] One noted that her work was "widely recognized throughout the country" and could be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[54] Writing in the Times, Devree wrote, "even those who had followed the steady growth of this artist for more than a decade, each successive show being at once an evidence of new achievement and an augury of still better work to come, may well be surprised at the combined impact of the selected paintings in the present showing,"[55] and writing in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A.Z Kruse said she had made "extraorginary accomplishments", painted with "inordinate distinction" showing a "lyrical majesty," and possessed "a keen esthetic sense which did not deviate from truth."[54] Artistic style (1) Ann Brockman, undated drawing, black chalk on paper, 18 x 22 inches (2) Ann Brockman, High School Picnic, about 1935, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 44 1/4 inches (3) Ann Brockman, untitled landscape, about 1943, watercolor and pencil on paper, 15 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches (4) Ann Brockman, North Coast, undated watercolor, 21 1/2 x 30 inches (5) Ann Brockman, On the Beach, 1942, watercolor on paper, 16 1/2 x 20 inches (6) Ann Brockman, Lot's Wife, 1942, oil on canvas, 46 x 35 inches (7) Ann Brockman, New York Harbor, 1934, watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches (8) Ann Brockman, Youth, 1942, oil on board, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches Brockman was a figurative painter whose main subjects were rural landscapes and small-town and coastal scenes. She worked in oils and watercolors, becoming better known for the latter late in her career. Most of her paintings were relatively small. Although she made figure pieces infrequently, the nudes and circus and Biblical scenes she painted were seen to be among her best works. In 1938, Howard Devree wrote: "Her gray-day marines and coast scenes are familiar to gallery goers and are favorites with her fellow artists. Her figure pieces have attained a sculptural quality without losing warmth or taking on stiffness. One spirited circus incident of equestriennes about to enter the big tent compares not unfavorably with many of the similar pictures by a long line of painters who have been fascinated by the theme. She imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Similarly, a critic for Art Digest wrote that year: "Fluently and virilely painted, [her] canvases suggest a close affinity between nature and humans. The artist takes her subjects out in the open where they may picnic or bathe with space and air about them. A fast tempo is felt in the compositions of restless horses and nimble entertainers busily alert for the coming performance. Miss Brockman is also interested in portraying frightened groups of people, hurrying to safety or standing half-clad in the lowering storm light."[56] Her palette ranged from vivid colors in bright sunlight to somber ones in the overcast skies of stormy weather. Of the former, one critic spoke of the rich colors and "sun-drenched rocks" of her coastal scenes and another of her "summery landscapes of coves and picnics."[11][50] Of the latter, Howard Devree said she "painted so many moody Maine coast vignettes of lowering skies and uneasy seas that artists have been heard to refer to an effect as 'an Ann Brockman day'".[57] Brockman's handling of Biblical subjects can be seen in the oil called "Lot's Wife", shown above, Image No. 6. Her watercolor called "On the Beach" and her oil portrait called "Youth" may both indicate the "sculptural quality" that Devree said was typical of her figure pieces (Image No. 8, above). An example of Brockman's bright palette in a typical summer theme is the oil painting called "High School Picnic" shown above, Image No. 2. Next to it is a painting, an untitled landscape of about 1943 whose medium, watercolor on paper, shows off the sunny palette she often used (Image No. 3). Among the darkest of her works was an untitled 1942 drawing she made in black chalk (shown above, Image No. 1). In a book called Drawings by American Artists (1947), the artist and art editor Norman Kent noted that this study influenced her painting through its use of "forms" that were "elastic" and suggested "color". He said its "massing of dark and light" created "a definite mood" that was "impressionistic" and had "the strength of a man's work".[58] Brockman's undated watercolor called "North Coast" (shown above, Image No. 4) is an example of the paintings to which Kent referred. Illustrator (9) Ann Brockman, cover, March 12, 1917, Every Week magazine (10) Illustration of an article, "The Taking of a Salient" by Henry Russell...
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American Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Early 20th Century Pebble Beach Landscape Pastel
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautifully vivid early 20th century Pebble Beach, Carmel landscape. Signed illegibly lower right. Condition: Good. Presented in vintage frame with new mat. Image size: 7"H x 10"W.
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American Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Jozef Popczyk Cubist Art Deco Painting Music Group
Located in Oakland, CA
Jozef Popczyk Cubist Art Deco Painting Music Group oil on canvas. Joseph Popczyk Polish artist known for his vivid palette and love of Cubism, and in ...
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Art Deco 1930s Paintings

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Wood, Paint

Monumental WPA Gloucester School Oil Mural New England Lobstermen, Hunters
Located in Exton, PA
Dramatic, monumental oil painting laid to Masonite by George Matthews Harding (1882-1959). Painter, illustrator and muralist, Harding was born in Philadelphia. He studied at the Pyle...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Still life with fruits, Signed oil painting
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Still life with fruits Signed lower left Oil on cardboard In good condition 15.8 x 21.5 cm Framed : 25 x 31.5 cm (a hole as visible on the photographs ...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Landscape from Brittany near Douarnenez
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Marie RÉOL (Massiac 1880 – Douarnenez 1963) Seaside in Douarnenez ? Oil on canvas H. 54 cm; L. 65 cm Signed lower left Provenance : Private collection, Périgord Born in the heart of Cantal, Marie Réol left to study Fine Arts in Paris, where she met Louis-Marie Désiré-Lucas. This Breton master will become “his” master. Going from teacher, to friend, then husband whose stylistic influence will be felt throughout Marie Réol's career. The couple is divided between Douarnenez where Désiré-Lucas has a large residence, Espalion where they have a house overlooking the Lot and the Vieux Pont, as well as in Paris. Obviously, through his friendship with the Périgord Lucien de Maleville...
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French School 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1940 WPA School EXHIBITED Painting SPRING FLOOD by Morris Shulman
Located in Exton, PA
Fine WPA period painting by Morris Shulman. The painting is oil on canvass measuring 24" x 30". Signed M Shulman and dated '40 at the lower right. Titled verso "Spring Flood." Shul...
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Modern 1930s Paintings

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Oil

Old Boats in Provence Oil on Canvas Painting by Felix Eugene Bellenot
Located in Atlanta, GA
This superb oil on canvas painting was created by Felix Eugene Bellenot (1892 - 1963). This vibrant and passionate composition represents the port of Sainte Maxime...
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Barbizon School 1930s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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