American Modern Art

A contemporary photograph of the "Top Gun" soundtrack. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro These iconic tapes have become mor...

Mid Century Modern Palm Springs Architecture.Blue vintage Porsche Car photographed in Palm Desert. Archival Inkjet Print on Cotton Paper. Mid Century Modern Architecture Design. T...

FRANCES H. GEARHART and Sisters (THE GEARHARTS) FRUIT FOR SALE c.1928 Color block print. Unsigned. This is an original block print from “Let’s Play”, an intended but unpublished children’s book done in collaboration with her sisters Edna and May in 1928. Image 8 x 7 inches. On a tissue thin laid paper. Irregular sheet 9 3/8 x 8 1/2. The entire series consisted of over 20 children's images. There were very few printed. The editions of the various children varied but likely no more than 50. This impression very well printed with good colors, Very good condition. The margins are likely as issued with the irregular edges. The margins and paper used for this series varies from one print to the next. A bit of tape remnants at top center sheet edge. A very nice example of this print. It is not unusual for impressions of this series to be unsigned, although many are signed "The Gearharts" The Provenance of this example is fascinating. It was acquired from a gentleman who knew the Gearharts as a child in the early 50's in Pasadena. It was part of a collection given to him by Frances. In his adult years he was in the military and took the collection with him as he traveled around Europe, After 81 years, based on the original prints, this book was published by the “California Book...

A contemporary photograph of 2Pacs iconic "All eyez on me" cassette tape. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro These iconic ta...

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...

"Shelter Island Evening" is a blue and green oil painting of a Northeastern American harbor. Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figurati...

Original 1960 Las Vegas Fun Map. Archival linen backed and in very good condition, ready to frame. The poster is not signed by is presumed to be done by “King”. Size: 22 5/8"...

NYC Subway Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Contemporary David Atkins (1910 – 2012) Subway Train Departure 24 x 30 inches Oil on canvas, c. 1960s Signed lower r...

Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern *William Kienbusch (1914 – 1980) Shooting Gallery, Sixth Avenue Post...

Original poster: Pulitura Pavimenti, Italian stone lithograph; size: 39" x 55"; archival linen backed in excellent condition; really fun poster. ready to frame. There is slight f...

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...

A contemporary photograph of an AC/DC - Back In Black cassette tape. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro "They encapsulate an...

GLORIA STUART (1910 – 2010) WATTS TOWERS, 1971 Oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24” x 50 ½”. Gloria Stuart, an Academy Award nominated actress was also a painter, illustrator and printmaker. She most recently portrayed Rose in the blockbuster film “Titanic”. She was a Santa Monica native. In 2013 The Los Angeles Museum of Art, LACMA exhibited a nearly identical painting looking from the south, the same size and frame. Last 5 photos show the example at LACMA. One shows theirs in a distant room with a major Thomas Hart Benton painting in the foreground A VERY IMPORTANT MULTI-LEVELED DOCUMENT OF LOS ANGELES AND HOLLYWOOD CULTURAL HSTORYi The following is from her obituary in the Los Angeles Times upon her death in September 2010 at the age of 100 Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady who earned an Academy Award nomination for her first significant role in nearly 60 years — as Old Rose, the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron’s 1997 Oscar-winning film — has died. She was 100. .......She devoted much of her time to designing and printing artists’ books (handmade, letter-press printed books in limited editions, with her own artwork and writing). Her work is in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and other museums. Stuart, a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild who later became an accomplished painter and fine printer, died Sunday night at her West Los Angeles home, said her daughter, writer Sylvia Thompson. Stuart had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago. “She also was a breast cancer survivor,” Thompson said, “but she just paid no attention to illness. She was a very strong woman and had other fish to fry.” In July the actress was honored at an “Academy Centennial Celebration With Gloria Stuart” at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. “She was a charming and beautiful leading lady in the ‘30s, and I never understood why her career didn’t go further at that time,” film historian and critic Leonard Maltin, who interviewed Stuart on stage at the event, told The Times on Monday. As for Stuart’s high-profile comeback in “Titanic”: “She was thrilled by the attention that that performance brought her and really wanted to win that Oscar. I thought she hit just the right notes in that performance. She was wry and engaging.” As a glamorous blond actress under contract to Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox in the 1930s, Stuart appeared opposite Claude Rains in James Whale’s “The Invisible Man” and with Warner Baxter in John Ford’s “The Prisoner of Shark Island.” She also appeared with Eddie Cantor in “Roman Scandals,” with Dick Powell in Busby Berkeley’s “Gold Diggers of 1935” and with James Cagney in “Here Comes the Navy.” And she played romantic leads in two Shirley Temple movies, “Poor Little Rich Girl” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” But mostly she played what Stuart later dismissed as “stupid parts with nothing to do” — “girl reporter, girl detective, girl nurse” — and “it became increasingly evident to me I wasn’t going to get to be a big star like Katharine Hepburn and Loretta Young.” After making 42 feature films between 1932 and 1939, Stuart’s latest studio contract, with 20th Century Fox, was not renewed. She appeared in only four films in the 1940s and retired from the screen in 1946. By 1974, “the blond lovely of the talkies” had become an entry in one of Richard Lamparski’s “Whatever Happened to” books. Writer-director Cameron’s $200-million “Titanic” changed that. Stuart played Rose Calvert, the 100-year-old Titanic survivor who shows up after modern-day treasure hunters searching through the wreckage of the sunken ship find a charcoal drawing of her wearing a priceless blue diamond necklace. Stuart’s performance as Old Rose frames the 1997 romantic- drama that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as lower-class artist Jack Dawson...

"The VHS" by pop Artist Destro. We all remember those iconic nights at the video store. Pop artist DESTRO once again encapsulates one of our favorite past times in a fine art con...

"Orange Clouds" is an American Modern contemporary seascape with sailboat, evening. Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figurative works w...

MINIATURE GEN X ROOM CASE STUDY -A.P.-R Transport yourself back to 1988 with this handmade room box featuring: -Working T.V. w remote playing movie clips from Ja...

"Bearsville NY" Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976) Bearsville NY 26 1/4 x 36 inches Oil on canvas Singed lower right, t...

36x24 Original museum grade exhibition prints on acid-free poster paper. This image can be hung horizontal or verticle. Embedded in this Hubble Space Telescope image of nearby and d...

Artist: Peter Milton, American (1930 - ) Title: Under Greylock Year: 1993 Medium: Intaglio Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 175 Image Size: 18.25 x 15 inches Size: 25 ...

Original Fly TWA India vintage travel poster. Artist: David Klein. Archival linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame. This poster features a...

Josef Albers Album Art complete set of 7 circa late 1950s: A set of 7 vinyl record covers (containing their records) brilliantly designed by Josef Albers between 1958 and 1960. The s...

"The VHS" by pop Artist Destro. We all remember those iconic nights at the video store. Pop artist DESTRO once again encapsulates one of our favorite past times in a fine art con...

The 8" x 10" editioned print . The image sits on that paper size estimated at 6" x 9" leaving a white border to mat over when framing. Olympics , Figurative, Sepia tone, athlete

MINIATURE GEN X ROOM CASE STUDY -001-PG-13 Transport yourself back to 1988 with this handmade room box featuring: -Working T.V. w remote playing movie clips from Back to the Future (...

A contemporary photograph of Guns N' Roses iconic "Appetite for Destruction" cassette tape. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Dest...

The WEBB imagery is of the most important imagery every taken. The finest museum quality WEBB images available. Printed on museum quality exhibition poster paper What looks much l...

"Basquiat"is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smalle...

This charming work on paper titled ‘Landscape’ (1941), created towards the end of Dove's life, is typical of his nature inspired extraction works. These works focused on Dove's emoti...

Original IL GLOBO Splendor di Metalli vintage Italian poster. Linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. Mid Century Modern. Artist: Damiani. Original Italian antique p...

Original Washington, Go By Train, Pennsylvania Railroad vintage poster. Linen backed in fine condition. B+, A- condition. A tear in the poster was restored during linen backing....

Original JAPAN, Fly by BOAC to the Caribbean. Small format. Archival linen-backed original vintage European travel poster in mint condition; ready to frame. This antique original poster...

Lou's Landing - Original Watercolor On Paper Original watercolor on paper by Ray Skelton (American 20th c.), depicting a boat harbor with numerous boats tied up, some sailing. Lou's...

"Stairs, Shelter Island" is a purple, blue, and pink landscape of stairs down to the beach. Carmody made the horizon line much higher than what would be technically "accurate" in ord...

A contemporary photograph of Guns N' Roses iconic "Appetite for Destruction" cassette tape. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Dest...

Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978) Hauling in the nets Oil on canvas Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe 30" H x 36" W A large and important classic by Gruppe of the Gloucester nautica...

Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978) Fall landscape Oil on canvas laid to canvas Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe Canvas: 40" H x 30" W Inches Framed: 48.25 x 38.25 Inches Very large ...

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s. Blue Lake, c. 1940s, oil on masonite, signed lower right, 20 x 36 inches, label and inscriptio...

"Ali" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller im...

"The VHS" by pop Artist Destro. We all remember those iconic nights at the video store. Pop artist DESTRO once again encapsulates one of our favorite past times in a fine art con...

A contemporary photograph of the "Top Gun" soundtrack. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro These iconic tapes have become mor...

"ELVIS BY ANDY WARHOL" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images. Archival photographic paper Framin...

Alice Cooper, Los Angeles, 1974, Printed Later Silver gelatin print 40 x 40 inches estate stamped and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity Terry O'Neill, Alice ...

Jungle with creative license of tangled growth and bright flowers and peaking out from the foliage is a strange hybrid of jungle cat. Playful and somewhat surreal. Jungle Creature -...

Original museum grade exhibition prints on acid-free archival luster paper. These are the highest quality NASA prints ever produced. *This print can be hung vertical or horizontal ...

The WEBB imagery is of the most important imagery every taken. The finest museum quality WEBB images avialable. Printed on archival paper using archival inks. Framing options avail...

A contemporary photograph of a NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" cassette tape. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro These ...

Frida is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller i...

R2D2 from the original Kenner release of the Star Wars toys in May of 1977 This is pre release is the first release in the much anticipated series "The Toys" These iconic figures hav...

"Hollywood Sign" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. This image is made up of 100's of smaller images of Hollywood related imagery. Archival photographic paper Framing options ava...

Original museum grade exhibition prints on acid-free archival luster paper. These are the highest quality NASA prints ever produced. Embedded in this Hubble Space Telescope image ...

"Beach Roses and the Harbor" contemporary still life with harbor and boats. Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figurative works was chose...

"Looking Out" is a contemporary seascape with a young woman in white admiring the view. Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figurative wor...

Eclectic objects, oddly juxtaposed, found in antique shops creates opportunities for the artist. This shop was directly across from my gallery so I set up my easel just out front . ...

"ELVIS BY ANDY WARHOL" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. Archival photographic paper Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images. Editio...

"Basquiat"is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smalle...

A contemporary photograph of Guns N' Roses iconic "Appetite for Destruction" cassette tape. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Dest...

This is a pop art print of the original Rocket Firing Boba Fett toy from Kenner "The Toys" by LA based Pop Artists DESTRO. These iconic figures have become more then just iconic col...

William Sommer (American, 1867-1949) Cows in a Field Watercolor on paper Signed lower left 11.5 x 15.5 inches 17.5 x 21.5 inches, framed William Sommer is seen as a key person in br...