American Modern Art

Beach Through Screen, Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15, This one is marked proof. (these are on Kodak professi...

Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970) Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight Oil on Canvas Signed lower left 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed Bio In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...

Floating Lily, Photo, The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15, This one is marked proof. (these are on Kodak professional p...

Deep Fog, Photo, The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15, This one is marked proof. (these are on Kodak professional paper ...

Snipes Vessel, Ceramic vase Photo, The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15, This one is marked proof. (these are on Kodak p...

Otto Kuhler, 'Cargo Carriers', etching and drypoint, c. 1932, edition 10, Kennedy 44. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression with rich burr and selectively wiped overall plate tone, in dark brown ink, on Arches cream laid paper; wide margins (2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Original Kennedy Galleries mat and label. Scarce. "On my trips up and down N.Y. harbor on the Weehawken Ferry, the late evening sun playing on the side of the big liners has always intrigued me... The liner shown I believe to be the Vaterland of the North German Lloyd...

Paper Size: 23 x 28.75 inches Edition Size Unknown Near Mint, very light signs of handling Original Serigraph poster designed for an in-store advertising campaign printed in 1982. ...

The little window, Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak professional paper not Polaroid 20X24)...

A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...

Mid summer memory, Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15, This one is marked proof. (these are on Kodak professiona...

Mid summer memory, Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15, This one is marked proof. (these are on Kodak professiona...

An extremely rare and lovely hand signed etching by American Maurice Sterne, dating from the turn of the century when the artist was working in Paris. Maurice Sterne, born in 1877 ...

This is a recently completed oil painting created for valentines day. It is painted on linen canvas mounted on a cradled wood panel. Framing suggested but not required. It is signed...

Original. The Adventures of Captain Africa #3 vintage movie poster. Linen-backed and ready to frame. Original issued theater fold marks restored. A condition with excellent color. Printed in 1955. NSS: 55/3802. This is an original theatrical movie poster printed by the National Screen Service. About: Trapper Nat Coleman and government agent Ted Arnold come upon a plot to take over an African nation. Its leader, Caliph Abdul el Hamid, has been exiled from his country and replaced by a look-alike usurper allied with an unnamed foreign power. The Caliph intends to return, but enemy agents Boris and Greg are out to stop him. Captain Africa a...

Woman in Robe, Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak professional paper not Polaroid 20X24) Moo...

Trees Over the Vineyard Watercolor on heavy paper, c. 1930 Signed with the estate stamp verso (see photo) Sheet size: 16 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches Condition: Excellent Illustrated: Marbell...

Fresh Dill (Herb) Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak professional paper not Polaroid 20X24) ...

Original KING of the CONGO vintage movie poster, US 1-sheet. (The Mighty THUNDA). 1952 Chap. US 1 sheet. Chapter 1 "Mission of Menace". Linen-backed one-sheet film poster. NSS: ...

Dart machine oil can in garage. The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak pro...

Leon Bibel, 'Abstract Boats', color serigraph, 1938, edition 12. Signed, dated, and numbered ' /12' in pencil. A fine, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; t...

Original linen backed one sheet "The Savage Guns". Nss: 62/298. Archivally linen backed with the original issued fold marks restored. Great color, no paper loss, Excellent condition. As close to mint as you will find. Because the original fold marks were restored, it can only be listed as good. Condition: A. The gunfighter and the spitfire meet and love in a wild wind-lashed land where the law ends ... And the one they thought was afraid surprised them the day the banditos came!. Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Starring: Richard Basehart; Don Taylor, Alex Nicol, Pacquita Rico. In Metrocolor and Metroscope. Western movie poster...

Leon Bibel, 'Food Not Cannon', etching, 1937, edition 12 (an early state, probably unique). Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 2 1/8 ...

Last light nasturtiums, Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak professional paper not Polaroid 2...

A large and wonderful Modernist still life of a cast iron pot, squash and ladle by artist Flora Schofield. Framed to 24" x 26". A painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schofield (Schoenfield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France. In 1923, Schofield’s abstractions caused a split at the venerable Chicago Society of Artists. When her artwork was was accepted by the jury, the notable Impressionist painter Pauline Palmer and the notable Modernist painter Carl Hoeckner got into a row that ended-up splitting the group. The Impressionists then broke away into their own organization called the ”Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors”. Paintings by Flora Schofield have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Salon d’Automne and Salon de Independants, Paris; the Salons of America; the Society of Independent Artists, New York; the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita; Gallery Carmine, Paris; the National Arts Club Galleries, New York; Marshall Fields Galleries...

Scepter'd Isle English Rose Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak pro...

Mario Larrinaga was born in Baja California in 1895 and moved with his brother to Los Angeles in 1909. He had no formal training in art, but had natural talent that was noticed by local movie studios. He was hired by Universal Studios as a designer, art director and creator of background scenes. He produced some of the background effects for King Kong in 1933. After a career in set design and illustration he focused on painting for pleasure in California, Mexico and Hawaii. He belonged to local art clubs and exhibited his works often. This stylized modernist work was likely created around 1960. It is oil on wood panel and of a horizontal format, 18” x 36”. It portrays a procession of seemingly Hawaiian natives...

Grey Afternoon, rainy day at the beach house. Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak professiona...

Swiss Chard, Charlotte, The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 Moody photos of a summer vacation house at the beach. Pe...

Eugenie Gershoy (January 1, 1901 – May 8, 1986) was an American sculptor and watercolorist. Eugenie Gershoy was born in Krivoy Rog, Russia (Krivoi Rog, Ukraine) and emigrated to New York City in the United States as a child in 1903. Considered somewhat of a child prodigy, Gershoy was copying Old Master drawings at the age of 5. Her interest and talent in art was encouraged from a very young age. Aided by scholarships, she studied at the Art Students League under Alexander Stirling Calder, Leo Lentelli, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Boardman Robinson. Around this time, she created a group of portrait figurines of her fellow artists, including Arnold Blanch, Lucile Blanch, Raphael Soyer, William Zorach, Concetta Scaravaglione, and Emil Ganso, which were exhibited as a group at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At age 17, she was awarded the Saint-Gaudens Medal for fine draughtsmanship. Early in her career she became an active member of the Woodstock art colony. In Woodstock she experimented by sculpting in the profusion of indigenous materials that she found. Working with fieldstone, oak and chestnut, Gershoy created works based on classic formulae. As she became more interested in the dynamism of everyday life, she found that these materials and her idiom were too restrictive. By the time Gershoy came to Woodstock in 1921 her own individual artistic style was already evident in her sculptures. Eugenie Gershoy worked in stone, bronze, terracotta, plaster and papier-mache. Gershoy’s sculptures were mainly figurative in nature and many of her artist peers such as Carl Walters, Raphael and Moses Soyer, William Zorach and Lucille Blanch, became her subjects. Eugenie Gershoy’s works on paper should not be overlooked. She was the winner of the Gaudens Medal for Fine Draughtsmanship at the tender age of 17. Gershoy married Jewish Romanian-born artist Harry Gottlieb. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the pair kept a studio in Woodstock, New York. There, Gershoy was influenced by sculptor John Flanagan, who lived and worked nearby. From 1936 to 1939, Gershoy worked for the WPA Federal Art Project. She collaborated with Max Spivak on murals for the children's recreation room of the Queens Borough Public Library in Astoria, New York. She developed a mixture of wheat paste, plaster, and egg tempera, which she used in polychrome papier-mâché sculptures; she was the only New York sculptor to work in polychrome at this time. She also designed cement and mosaic sculptures of animals and figures to be placed in New York City playgrounds. Alongside others employed by the FAP, she participated in a sit-down strike in Washington, DC, to advocate for better pay and improved working conditions for the projects' artists. Gershoy's first solo exhibition was held at the Robinson Gallery in New York in 1940. She moved to San Francisco in 1942, and began teaching ceramics at the California School of Fine Arts in 1946. In 1950, she studied at the artists' colony at Yaddo. Gershoy traveled extensively throughout her life. She visited England and France in the early 1930s, and worked in Paris in 1951. She traveled to Mexico and Guatemala in the late 1940s, and also toured Africa, India, and the Orient in 1955. In 1977, Gershoy dedicated a sculpture to Audrey McMahon, who was actively involved in the creation of the Federal Art Project and served as its regional director in New York, in recognition of the work McMahon provided struggling artists in the 1930s. Gershoy's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her papers are held at Syracuse University Grant Arnold introduced her to lithography in 1930 and Gershoy depicted many scenes of Woodstock artists and their daily activities through this medium. From 1942 to 1966 Gershoy lived and painted in San Francisco where she taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. She traveled extensively, filling sketchbooks with scenes of Mexico, France, Spain, Africa and India. During her later years Eugenie Gershoy returned to New York City and concentrated on numerous well received exhibitions. Her last exhibition in at Sid Deutsch Gallery included many of the sculptures that were later exhibited in the Fletcher Gallery. John Russell, former chief critic of fine arts for the New York Times, writes about the 1986 Sid Deutsch exhibition: “As Eugenie Gershoy won the Saint-Gaudens Medal for fine draftsmanship as long ago as 1914 and since 1967 has had 15 papier-mache portrait figures suspended from the ceiling of the lobby of the Hotel Chelsea, she must be ranked as a veteran of the New York scene. Her present exhibition includes not only the high-spirited papier-mache sculptures for which she is best known but a group of small portraits of artists, mostly dating from the 30’s, that is strongly evocative.” Eugenie Gershoy is an artist to take note of for several reasons. She was a woman who received great awards and recognition during a time when most female artists were struggling to hold their own against their male counterparts. As a young girl she won a scholarship to the Arts Student League where she met Hannah Small...

The symbol of American Capitalism is cloaked in the symbol of American Freedom. A monumental American Flag drapes the shiny facade of the New York Stock Exchange. Bright light illu...

Original Type 59. Grand Prix Bugatti. Linen-backed, horizontal format, fine condition. Small format. This is an original small format type 59. Grand Prix Bugatti sports car print ...

Red Dahlia, Flower, Floral Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak professional paper not Polaroi...

The latest and final release in Australian photographer Tom Blachford’s long-running project, Midnight Modern, will be exhibited for the first time at TOTH Gallery in New York. Loos...

Vintage hand signed and stamp signed with the photographers stamp and numbered photo of Moccasin Flower. Samuel Herman Gottscho (February 8, 1875 - January 28, 1971) was an American architectural, landscape, and nature photographer. Samuel Gottscho was born in Brooklyn in New York City. He acquired his first camera in 1896 and took his first photograph at Coney Island. From 1896 to 1920 he photographed part-time, specializing in houses and gardens, as he particularly enjoyed nature, rural life, and landscapes. After attending several architectural photograph exhibitions, Gottscho decided to perfect and improve his own work and sought out several architects and landscape architects. After twenty-three years as a traveling lace and fabric salesman, at an age when most people would have given up their youthful dreams, Gottscho became a professional commercial photographer at the age of 50. His son-in-law William Schleisner joined Gottscho in his business in 1935. During this time his photographs appeared in and on the covers of American Architect and Architecture, Architectural Record. His portraits and architectural photography regularly appeared in articles in the New York Times. His photographs of private homes in the New York and Connecticut suburbs often appeared in home decoration magazines. From the early 1940s to the late 1960s, he was a regular contributor to the Times of illustrated articles on wildflowers. the meticulous, adoring pictures of New York City architecture and interiors that he took at his creative peak in the late 1920's and early 30's are finding a new audience, placing him more firmly in the ranks of the great architectural photographers of his day, like Ezra Stoller, Julius Shulman and Ken and Bill Hedrich. the Museum of the City of New York, which has one of the largest archives of Gottscho's work, showed about 150 of his best city scenes in an exhibition called "The Mythic City: Photographs of New York...

Vintage hand signed and stamp signed with the photographers stamp and numbered photo of trilliums. Samuel Herman Gottscho (February 8, 1875 - January 28, 1971) was an American architectural, landscape, and nature photographer. Samuel Gottscho was born in Brooklyn in New York City. He acquired his first camera in 1896 and took his first photograph at Coney Island. From 1896 to 1920 he photographed part-time, specializing in houses and gardens, as he particularly enjoyed nature, rural life, and landscapes. After attending several architectural photograph exhibitions, Gottscho decided to perfect and improve his own work and sought out several architects and landscape architects. After twenty-three years as a traveling lace and fabric salesman, at an age when most people would have given up their youthful dreams, Gottscho became a professional commercial photographer at the age of 50. His son-in-law William Schleisner joined Gottscho in his business in 1935. During this time his photographs appeared in and on the covers of American Architect and Architecture, Architectural Record. His portraits and architectural photography regularly appeared in articles in the New York Times. His photographs of private homes in the New York and Connecticut suburbs often appeared in home decoration magazines. From the early 1940s to the late 1960s, he was a regular contributor to the Times of illustrated articles on wildflowers. the meticulous, adoring pictures of New York City architecture and interiors that he took at his creative peak in the late 1920's and early 30's are finding a new audience, placing him more firmly in the ranks of the great architectural photographers of his day, like Ezra Stoller, Julius Shulman and Ken and Bill Hedrich. the Museum of the City of New York, which has one of the largest archives of Gottscho's work, showed about 150 of his best city scenes in an exhibition called "The Mythic City: Photographs of New York...

Rare original vintage poster for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. This version has the Constellation flying in the sky behind an old sailing schooner. Great ...

Conundrum, Flowers, Floral Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak professional paper not Polaroi...

This is a unique mixed media edition of 50. on handmade paper with fabric, gold and other elements. Raised and educated in New York, Pat Hammerman is an ...

Innsbruck '76 original Olympics posters. Tirol Austria 1976. Winter Games. Original Olympic poster. Linen-backed. Published by Organizat...

A Bientot, closeup of flower. The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak Moody photos of a summer vacatio...

Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964) Villa Giardino Charcoal on paper Signed and titled verso 17.75 x 12.5 inches A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art in 1912, Clara Deike was pa...

Sunset in the Red Room, The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island) Moody photos of a summer vacation house at the beach. Peter C. Jones is a fine art photographer, docum...

Checkered Alliums, The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 Moody photos of a summer vacation house at the beach. Peter C...

Chita Rivera BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Costume Drawing Tony Awards Miles White (1915 – 2000) ChITA RIVERA in BYE BYE BIRDIE 11 x 8 inches M...

Enter the whimsical world of famed children's book illustrators husband and wife team Alice and Martin Provensen. On top of a heavy tree trunk sits a...

Original “The 3rd Man”, 1949, linen-backed vintage one-sheet movie poster "The 3rd Man". NSS: # 49/452. Excellent condition with restored original fold m...

Distressed Abstract Painting Artist Statement: Painting has been a powerful medium for expressing my emotions. Through my art, I am able to escape, dream, hope, remain calm in the m...

Original SHALAKO vintage movie poster, 1sheet, 1968 great art of Sean Connery as Shalako, sexy Brigitte Bardot! This collectible poster, printed in 1968 to promote the theatrical re...

Paper Size: 23 x 28.75 inches Edition Size Unknown Near Mint, very light signs of handling Original Serigraph poster designed for an in-store advertising campaign printed in 1982. ...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Ovoid, 1992 Acrylic on canvas Signed and dated lower right 7.75 x 7.75 inches 9 x 9 inches, framed Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a...

Vintage hand signed and stamp signed with the photographer's stamp and numbered photo of starflower. Samuel Herman Gottscho (February 8, 1875 - January 28, 1971) was an American arch...

A colorful, period mural study of an interior by artist Edgar Ewing.

American Bison Original exhibition poster printed on acid-free archival paper Dimensions: 24" x 36"

An elegant oil on canvas landscape painting featuring a lake view in a paradisiac environment. The painting is finely framed in custom giltwood frame. A wonderful addition to any liv...

A colorful Mid-Century still-life painting by Wisconsin artist William C. Buxton. William Buxton was born in Appleton, WI in 1935. He studied art at the Layton School in Milwaukee,...

Paper Size: 23 x 28.75 inches Edition Size Unknown Near Mint, very light signs of handling Original Serigraph poster designed for an in-store advertising campaign printed in 1982. ...

Honeymoon Machine, original 1 sheet U. S. theater poster; acid-free archival linen backed; this poster is ready to frame. Very fine condition with original theater-issued fold mark...

Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm). Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...