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Period: Mid-20th Century
Repos dans un champs de coquelicots - Pointillist Landscape Oil by Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed pointillist oil on panel figures in landscape by French neo-impressionist painter Yvonne Canu. This stunning piece depicts a couple resting under a parasol in a field of wildf...
Category
Pointillist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Josef Albers - Homage to the Square : Park 1967, Screenprint First edition
By Josef Albers
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976)
Title: "Homage to the Square : Park 1967" From New Paintings NY First edition
Year: 1968
Medium: Screenprint
Edition Size: Unknoun, presume...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Screen
Original signed oil painting by Jules Rene Herve of Maxims Restaurant Paris
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Jules Rene Herve (1887-1981) French
TITLE: “Maxims De Paris Restaurant At Night”
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 41cm x 36cm inc frame
CONDITION: very go...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Portrait of Curled Up Kittens Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Kittens
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed
measures: 10 high by 8.25 inches wide
condition: ov...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Color Pencil
20th Century French Modernist Painting Pepper Table Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Expressionist Painting
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
gouache on artist paper, unframed
painting : 11 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection
conditio...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Gouache
Spatial Concept from Six contes de La Fontaine, Spatialism, Print, Pink
Located in Milano, IT
The work is an original photo-lithograph by Lucio Fontana, signed and numbered in pencil at lower right, accompanied by a booklet containing six full-page black-and-white offset plat...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Acrobazie" pastello 1935 cm. 19 x 25
Located in Torino, IT
Robert Falcucci (1900-1989)
Famoso illustratore di manifesti famosi i suoi manifesti di corse automobilistiche e località turistiche francesi
Quest'opera è vicina llo stile Futurista...
Category
Futurist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Crayon
1930's French Impressionist Oil Group Of Figures Gathered In Forest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on artist paper stuck on board, unframed
measures: 10 high...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
1930's French Impressionist Painting Young Girl by Boat Coastal Estuary Harbour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Coastal Harbor
by Y. Blanchon, French 1930's Impressionist
oil painting on board, unframed
painting: 15 x 17.5 inches
provenance: from a large private collection of this artists...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
1960’s French Oil Painting Exotic Summers Day Cagnes Sur Mer Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cagnes Ser mer
dated 1961
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Salvador Dali -- Tancreds Oath from Marquis de Sade, 1969
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali
Tancreds Oath from Marquis de Sade Suite, 1969
Lithograph
Edition 110/160
Hand signed lower right
Image size: 53 X 42.5 cm
Sheet size: 65 x 50 cm
Published by Shorewo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Adolph Kronengold (1900-1986) - Alaska Landscape Oil on Board, ca 1940’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Adolph Kronengold was born in New Orleans in 1900. He studied locally at Tulane, before moving on to New York and Philadelphia. There he studied at the Art Students League and the P...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Vintage 1930's French Impressionist Still Life Pink and Red Roses Bunch In Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Roses
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on artist paper, unframed
measures: 14.5 high by 12 inches wide
condition: overal...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Tobey, Golden City, Mark Tobey: Peintres d'aujourd'hui (after)
By Mark Tobey
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Mark Tobey: Peintres d'aujourd'hui, 1961. Published by Fernand Hazan, Paris; lithographic plates produced by Clichés Union, Paris; printed by Lecot printing and Daniel Jacomet, Paris, 1961. Excepted from the folio (translated from French), Three hundred, seventy-five examples of this edition, numbered from 1 to 375, and shot on the presses of Daniel Jacomet, in Paris.
MARK TOBEY (1890-1976) was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosophically from most Abstract Expressionist painters. His work was widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe and came in the wake of Picasso and Braque. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, and William Cumming, Tobey was a founder of the Northwest School. Senior in age and experience, he had a strong influence on the others; friend and mentor, Tobey shared their interest in philosophy and Eastern religions. Similar to others of the Northwest School, Tobey was mostly self-taught after early studies at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1921, Tobey founded the art department at The Cornish School in Seattle, Washington.Tobey was an incessant traveler, visiting Mexico, Europe, Palestine, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, China and Japan. After converting to the Baháʼí Faith, it became an important part of his life. Whether Tobey's all-over paintings, marked by oriental brushwork and calligraphic strokes, were an influencer on Jackson Pollock's drip paintings has been left unanswered. Born in Centerville, Wisconsin, Tobey lived in the Seattle, Washington area for most of his life before moving to Basel, Switzerland in the early 1960s with his companion, Pehr Hallsten...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage 1930's French Impressionist Still Life Roses in Glass in Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Roses
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
measures: 13 high by 16.5 inches wide
condition: ov...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Gouache
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...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
20th Century French Forest Landscape Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
Landscape of Fontainebleau
Georges Bousquet Moret (1904-1976) was, first, an engineer passionate about arts. This passion led him to devote his f...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Le Picador (II)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Medium: Original transfer lithograph
Title: Le Picador (II)
Portfolio: A Los Toros Avec Picasso
Year: 1961
Framed Size: 16 3/4" x 19 1/4"
Sheet Size: 9 1/2" x 1...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Arctic Light - Orange Sun
By Karl Zerbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arctic Light-Orange Sun
Unsigned
Gouache on Japanese fibrous paper
Series: Tundra Paintings
Exhibited: Karl Zerbe, Gouaches of the Artic
Nordness Gallery, (Madison...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Gouache
Nocturnal Train In The City Abstract Expressionism
By Tom Hamil
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, small abstract expressionist painting of train and town at night by Tom Hamil (American, b. 1928). Signed upper left corner "Hamil". Condition: Excellent. Presented in rustic wooden shadow box frame. Image size: 8"H x 6"W.
Tom Hamil, was born in New York in 1928 and raised primarily in California. After attending the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, he returned to California to begin his formal art training at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute). He completed his education at the University of Washington with a Master’s Degrees and Doctorate in Fine Arts and Education. His first solo exhibition was held in 1956. Since then, he has participated in numerous one man shows, group shows, and has been represented in galleries in the US and Mexico.
In addition to his painting, Hamil has authored and illustrated a number of books. While at the Naval Academy, he received recognition for his paintings, drawings, and illustrations. Listed among Hamil’s many awards and honors are a Ford Foundation Fellowship and an Award of Excellence from the American Graphics Society.
Currently, he lives in Zirahuen, Michoacan, Mexico and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Hamil’s statement: “I am a man...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Windmill Rural Landscape
By H. Kendall
Located in Soquel, CA
Stoic watercolor painting of a tall windmill in a rural landscape by H. Kendall . Signed "H. Kendall" lower right. Presented in a yellow mat and wood f...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Mid Century White Pine Landscape
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive botanical watercolor of a White Pine tree by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" lower left. Unframed.
Image size: 22"H x 15"W
Doris Ann Warner began ...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Vintage Landscape -- Birch Trees on the Water
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene landscape painting of a quiet pond surrounded by birch trees by California artist Doris Clement
(American, 20th Century). Signed "Doris Clement" lower right. Presented in a p...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Andy Warhol Shoes poster 1979 (1970s Andy Warhol)
By Andy Warhol
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol illustrated advertising poster New York, 1979:
1970s Andy Warhol illustrated "Lighthouse Footwear Reptile Shoes," poster (New York, 1979). An elegant & well-sized vintage Andy Warhol poster executed during the artist’s lifetime. Warhol printed signature appears lower right. Catalog Raisonne: Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Posters, 1964-1987 (entry 12; Marechal). Looks fantastic framed.
Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper. Linen backed.
30 x 45 inches (76.1 x 114.3 cm).
Well-preserved and in very good overall vintage condition with the exception of perhaps some minor signs of handling. Poster is linen backed and ready for framing.
Printed Warhol signature...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Kusama Large Plush Pumpkin (New)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Yellow & Black Pumpkin (plush):
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art piece - this large Kusama plush pumpkin features the universal polka dot patterns and bold colors fo...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Nylon
Mid 20th Century American Abstract Large. Comprised of Four Canvases Color Field
Located in New York, NY
Mid 20th Century American Abstract Large. Comprised of Four Canvases Color Field
JAMES DAUGHERTY (1887 - 1974)
"The Sun is but a Morning Star"
Acrylic on canvas, c. 1965.
Each canv...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Margaret Balzer, 1946
Located in Washington, DC
Modern abstract painting by Margaret Balzer Cantieni (1914-2002). Tempera on wood board. Signed in lower right corner "Balzer '46". Painting measures 1 1" x 14" with frame 16 1/2" x 19 1/2".
Margaret Balzer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers and William Stanley Hayter...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Portrait of a Stylish 1960's Lady, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Stylish Lady
French School, Mid 20th Century
Oil painting on canvas, framed
Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner
Frame size: 26.5 x 22 inches
Stylish ex...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Naked model
Located in Täby, SE
Unique etching in red chalk performed in 1930 in glass framed oak in mint condition
Börje Harald Holm, born May 17, 1892 in Uppsala, died October 3, 1973, was a Swedish painter and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Abstract Figurative Lithograph
By Rico Lebrun
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white figurative abstract lithograph of two naked, crouching figures by California artist "Rico Lebrun," titled "Crouching Figures" and dated 1961. Additional writing on th...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Unknown Cubist Nude Oil Painting 1962
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original cubist pointillist nude signed illegibly and dates 1962.
The artist uses sporadic texture and vibrant color to create a captivating scene.
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Slim Aarons Tennis In The Bahamas Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In The Bahamas' by Slim Aarons
It really doesn't get much more fabulous than this.
A realtively new discovery in the Archive -two fashionably dressed women in tennis outfit...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
C Print
Meditations in an Emergency /// Abstract Expressionist Female Artist Post-War NY
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992)
Title: "Meditations in an Emergency"
Portfolio: In Memory of My Feelings
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1967 (First edition)
Medium: Original Lithograph on Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper
Limited edition: 514/2,500
Printer: Crafton Graphic Company, Inc., New York, NY
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sheet size: 12" x 9"
Condition: In excellent condition
Rare
Notes:
Comes with its accompanying poetry pages. Numbered on colophon page. Comes from the 1967 "In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems" book volume by Frank O'Hara with approx. 46 unbound original lithographs by various artists. Collaboration: Edward Katz (printing). The last image of the complete book is for reference/provenance; it is not included.
This image Mitchell contributed to "In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems" by Frank O'Hara, edited by Bill Berkson, for the Museum of Modern Art. The project was published in 1967 in memory of Frank O'Hara, poet and associate curator at the museum, who died in a tragic accident in 1966. Bill Berkson (with the assistance of Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery) selected the poems and (with advice from Robert Motherwell) asked the following artists to contribute: Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Branaird, John Buton, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, and Jane Wilson...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins (set of 4 works)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins ceramic & plush (set of 4 works) : Yellow and Black, Red & White
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin sculptures & plushes feat...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Resin
Yves Klein Small IKB Venus Brooch Sculpture Jewel in International Klein Blue
By Yves Klein
Located in Paris, FR
Yves Klein, Small IKB Venus Brooch
Bronze multiple, painted with International Klein Blue (IKB).
From a model created in 1956.
Edition of 500 copies + 100...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Cologne, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Black and White
Rome - Via Appia 1954
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
1960s James Rosenquist F-111 announcement
By (after) James Rosenquist
Located in NEW YORK, NY
James Rosenquist F-111 announcement:
Vintage original folding exhibition pamphlet published on the occasion of a 1960’s exhibition in Stockholm at the Museet Moderna: September 29th-October 18th 1965. Features a reproduction of Rosenquist’s famed “F-111”. Folding out to four portions, the reverse chronicles an extensive interview (in Swedish) between Rosenquist & the museum. Rare and highly collectible.
Medium: Offset printed fold-out museum pamphlet.
Condition: Quattro fold-lines as issued; good overall vintage condition.
Dimensions: 5.5 x 11 inches (opening to 5.5 x 44 inches).
Unsigned from an edition of unknown; rare.
Rosenquist began the painting F-111 in 1964, in the middle of the Vietnam War. He positioned his main subject, the F-111 military plane, which was in development at the time, flying through fragmented images of consumer products and references to war. Through its expansive network of colliding visual motifs, F-111 addresses the connections between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.
James Rosenquist was an American Pop artist known for his monumental paintings and prints. Often appropriating commercial imagery, his montage-like works combined popular culture, surrealism, and historical painting methods. “Much of the aesthetic of my work comes from doing commercial art,” the artist once said. “I painted pieces of bread, Arrow shirts...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Joseph Steiner (1899-1977), Nude drawing, mid-20th century
Located in Greding, DE
Nude drawing by Joseph Steiner on paper in pencil and chalk. Monogrammed lower left. Gallery frame and estate stamp. Image size: 30 x 20 cm
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
L'Ange du 7e ciel - Etching - 150 copies
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali
L'Ange du 7e ciel (1960)
Heliogravure reworked with drypoint
Printed signature in the plate
On BFK Rives Vellum paper
Size 32.8 x 26.4 cm (c. 13 x 10")
References:
- ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Early 20th Century Figurative -- The Paper Boy and His Comics
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Cardboard, Canvas, Oil
James Priddey: Durham Cathedral lithograph University City
Located in London, GB
James Priddey (1916-1980) FRSA RBSA
Durham Cathedral
Lithograph
37 x 36cm
A Birmingham-based artist, educated at the Birmingham College of Art and a ...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph, Board
Provence Landscape - Large Mid 20th Century French Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large c.1960 French oil on paper laid on board cubist influenced landscape by Oleg Zinger. The work depicts a summer landscape with white build...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Laid Paper
1930's French Impressionist Figure Praying To The Sky Under Palm Tree
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
signed by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed
measures: 9.75 high by 6 inch...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
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...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Gouache, Board, Watercolor
Picasso, The Banderillas, Pablo Picasso-Linogravures (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on archival paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso: Linogravures. Published by France Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris; ...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Linocut
Marc Chagall 'Kunsthaus Hamburg' 1966-
By Marc Chagall
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 33 x 23.25 inches ( 83.82 x 59.055 cm )
Image Size: 33 x 23.25 inches ( 83.82 x 59.055 cm )
Framed: No?Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age
A...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Offset
Mid-Century "Green & Blue Nude II" Oil Pastel Drawing
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Green and Blue Nude II"
5/1963
Oil pastel on paper
8.5"x11" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Jack Meredith Hooper (August 26, ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper
1930's French Post-Impressionist Oil Harvest Workers in Golden Wheat Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Harvest Workers
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on board, unframed
measures: 11 high by ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Abstract Composition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aaron Levy was born in New York City in 1899. After retiring in 1951 from a career as president of E. Milius & Company, a textile company, Levy began a new career as a fine artist. ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
The Velvet Underground Nico recorld album (Andy Warhol record art)
By Andy Warhol
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol Banana Cover Art 1967:
The Velvet Underground & Nico: the highly sought-after, early 1967 East Coast pressing uniquely featuring a peeled banana (...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Offset
Derrière Le Miroir No. 149 (page 8, 9) /// Abstract Geometric Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015)
Title: "Untitled (page 8, 9)"
Portfolio: Derrière Le Miroir (No. 149)
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1964
Medium: Origina...
Category
Minimalist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Blizzard in Woods
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blizzard in Woods
Graphite on paper, c. 1945-1963
Unsigned
Provenance: Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
Annotated with notes for completing the drawing. Deutsch Gallery has handled Bur...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of Roby - Etching (Bloch #680)
Located in Paris, FR
Pablo PICASSO
Portrait of Roby, c. 1950
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Japan paper 33 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne Bloch #680
From the e...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
'Barques a St. Florent Corse' . Boats at Saint Florent, Corsica. Pointillism
By Yvonne Canu
Located in St. Albans, GB
Yvonne Canu
1921 – 2008
Canvas Size: 18 x 21.5 (46 x 55cm)
Outside Frame Size: 25.5 x 29" (65 x 74cm)
Yvonne Canu is currently one of the most sought after contemporary pointillis...
Category
Pointillist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Bedroom
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from five zinc plates, using tusche and crayon with splatter, printed in red, orange, green, black, and pink. On J Green paper (250 gsm)
Signed, numbered and dated '68 in ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Josef Albers vinyl record art (1950s Albers)
By Josef Albers
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Josef Albers Album Art circa late 1950s
A vinyl record cover (containing its record) brilliantly designed by Josef Albers c.1958. Looks fantastic framed.
Offset lithograph on vinyl ...
Category
Minimalist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Offset
English mid century oil painting Portrait of cute Corgi dog
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a cute Corgi.
Paintings of this breed are very rare and very collected.
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Board