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Helicline Fine Art offers 20th century American and European modernist paintings, sculpture and works on paper.

We specialize in American scene, modernism, social realism, mural studies, industrial landscapes, regionalism, abstraction and more.

10/20/2026

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NYC 1930s WPA Modern Watercolor. Avail.
Max Arthur Cohn (1903 - 1998)
“New York Street Scene,” Watercolor on paper, c. 1930s. Sight: 21 x 16 inches. Signed lower right.Framed: 29 x 24 inches.
The Cohn is available and a highlight of our new online exhibition, Modernism Adored: 20th Century Art, a celebration of the revolutionary artistic movements that defined the 20th century, viewable at HeliclineFineArt.
BIO
Born in London, England, Max Cohn became an artist primarily known for scenes of New York City, rural views, and abstract figural compositions. His style has ranged from realism in the 1920s to 1940s to abstraction from the 1950s to 1990s, with some reintroduction in the later years of realism and re-working of earlier subject matter. His primary studio was in New York, where he had became a US citizen, having emigrated to America when he was age two.
From 1925 to 1927, he studied at the Art Students League in New York with John Sloan, and in 1927, he attended the Academy Colarossi in Paris. Spending most of his career in New York City, he was a Life Member of the Art Students League. He has written books on silk screen techniques. He died March 25, 1998 in New York City.

10/18/2026

Bauer. Non-Objective 1930s Geometric Abstract. Avail.
RUDOLF BAUER (1889-1953) “Untitled,” 1926. Watercolor and pastel on paper. 19 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Signed lower right. Framed: 34 x 28 inches.
The Bauer is available and a highlight of our new exhibition, Modernism Adored: 20th Century Art, viewable at HeliclineFineArt.
BIO
Rudolf Bauer remains one of the great under-appreciated, non-objective, modernism painters of the 20th Century. The artist’s career in America was established and then summarily abandoned by the Guggenheim Museum.
In 1915 Bauer began a long tenure of exhibiting, publishing and teaching in Germany. That same year he met the 25 year old Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen. They soon moved in together. Bauer shared with Rebay his dream to create a temple of Non—Objective art.
Rebay met Guggenheim in New York when she painted his portrait and looking at the art on her walls, he became enamored with subtraction. In 1930 Rebay organized a trip to Europe for the Guggenheims to meet Bauer and Kandinsky. The trip locked in Rebay’s position as art advisor to Guggenheim. Soon after, they began an affair.
Bauer, included in a group exhibition organized by Picasso and Braque at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, was warned that the situation in Berlin was deteriorating and that because of the “Degenerate Art”* exhibition mounted by the Nazi’s he should remain in Paris. The artist ignored this advice and returned to German. A few months later he was arrested by the Nazi’s who hauled him to a Berlin prison.
In 1939, traveling with a suitcase filled with cash Rebay was able to purchase Bauer’s release and deportation to the United States. Bauer arrived in New York a conquering hero of the art world.
Rebay persuaded Bauer to sign the now infamous ‘contract’ before it was translated from English to German. When he learned what he agreed to Bauer was so infuriated and so humiliated at trusting Rebay that he gave up painting.
When Guggenheim died, his widow was so infuriated with Rebay that she ordered all Bauer works to the basement.

10/16/2026

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Sybil Andrews Linocut. British. Avail
Sybil Andrews (1898 – 1992) ““The New Cable,” 1931. 12 x 16 1/2 inches. Color linocut. Signed, titled, inscribed ‘Second State’, and numbered 13/60 in pencil. Framed: 19 x 24 inches . Literature: Coppel Sa17 Illustrated on page 10 of the catalog.
The Andrews is available and a highlight of our new online exhibition, Modernism Adored: 20th Century Art, a celebration of the revolutionary artistic movements that defined the 20th century, viewable at HeliclineFineArt.
We have available several works by Sybil Andrews.
BIO
Sybil Andrews was a printmaker, painter, graphic artist and educator who was born in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England.
Her mediums were the colour linocut, etching, posters, pastels, ink, watercolour, monoprint and oil. Her subjects were human activity (at work, sports, travel, etc.), figures and architecture. Her style was Art Deco,, Futurism, Cubism and Vorticism. Her work is identified by a simple format, clean lines, distortion, vivid colours, drama and rhythm.
Her work is held by many of the world’s most distinguished museums.

10/15/2026

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Mid 20th-Century Modern Realism WPA. Avail.
Jensen (20th Century) “Union Junction,” 1941. Watercolor and gouache on paper. 17 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches. Signed dated lower right. Framed: 19 x 24 1/2 inches.
We are unable to offer a bio because we can’t identify the artist with certainty. We love the drawing.

10/14/2026

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American Scene Social Realism 1930s WPA Modern Industrial Landscape. Avail.
Karl Metzler (1909-1995). “Strike,” 26 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches. Oil and gesso on masonite, c. 1930. Signed and titled verso. Framed: 30 1/4 x 34 1/2 inches.
The Meltzer is available and a highlight of our new online exhibition, Modernism Adored: 20th Century Art, a celebration of the revolutionary artistic movements that defined the 20th century, viewable at HeliclineFineArt.
BIO
Metzler immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1916 and became a longtime resident of Baltimore, eventually studying at the Maryland Institute College of Art in the 1930s. He worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Depression.

10/12/2026

Contemporary Regionalism American Scene. Avail.
Roger Medearis (1920 – 2001) “Summer Pastoral,” Acrylic on canvas stretched over board. 27 × 40 inches. Signed and dated 1984 lower right. Framed: 33 x 46 1/2 inches. Verso: Artist’s label with signature, title, and date. Label, Vose Galleries, Boston, MA.
The Medearis is available and a highlight of our new online exhibition, Modernism Adored: 20th Century Art, a celebration of the revolutionary artistic movements that defined the 20th century, viewable at HeliclineFineArt.
BIO
Medearis was a student of Thomas Hart Benton while at the Kansas City Art Institute in the late 1930s and took up the technique of egg tempera painting, a rediscovered medium popular with Regionalists.
Benton introduced Medearis to the Associated American Artists Gallery in New York City, from which he sold a portrait of his grandmother, Godly Susan, now in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
Medearis’ artworks can be found in the collections of the Butler Institute of American Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

10/11/2026

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NYC Subway 1970s Poster-Modern. Avail
Mortimer Borne (1902-1987)
“New York City Subway,” 24 x 30 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1970s. Signed lower right. Framed: 28 x 33 1/2 inches.
The Borne is available and a highlight of our new online exhibition, Modernism Adored: 20th Century Art, a celebration of the revolutionary artistic movements that defined the 20th century, viewable at HeliclineFineArt.
BIO
Mortimer Borne was born in Poland in 1902 and emigrated to the US in 1916. He studied at the National Academy of Design, The Art Students League, The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and with Charles Webster Hawthorne, founder of the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown.
Borne himself taught at The New School for Social Research in New York City from 1945-1967. After moving to Nyack, New York, he established the Tappan Zee Art Center.
His artwork is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution, The National Gallery of Art, and The Victoria and Albert Museum, among many others.

10/09/2026

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European Art Deco Sculpture. Avail.
Catherine Fussli (20th Century) “The Two Friends,@ Metallic finished terra-cotta, c. 1920s. 20 wide x 18 1/2 deep x 15 high inches. Signed and inscribed at the base .
The sculpture is available and a highlight of our new online exhibition, Modernism Adored: 20th Century Art, a celebration of the revolutionary artistic movements that defined the 20th century, viewable at HeliclineFineArt.
Note: The lowercase letter “à” with an accent means “to” in French. This indicates that the sculpture was created either as a commission or a gift, to an individual named R. Heene.
BIO
Catherine Füssli (also listed on major art indices as Catrina Montagne-Füssli) is an elusive 20th-century artist who specialized in sculptural ceramics and fine art objects. Because she chose to stay outside the mainstream institutional gallery circuit, there are no documented public museum retrospectives or published catalogs detailing her work or personal life.

10/08/2026

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1930s Daniel Celentano WPA w/c. Avail.
Daniel Celentano (1902–1980) “Idle Hours” (Study for a larger oil). Oil on masonite, c. 1930s.
10 1/2 x 10 inches. Signed DR Celentano lower right.
Framed: 14 1/4 x 14 inches. Provenance: Janet Marqusee Fine Arts.
The Celentano is available and a highlight of our new online exhibition, Modernism Adored: 20th Century Art, a celebration of the revolutionary artistic movements that defined the 20th century, viewable at HeliclineFineArt.

BIO
Daniel Celentano at the age of 12 was Thomas Hart Benton’s first and youngest student. Celentano often focused on the Italian neighborhood of New York City where he was born and raised as the subject matter of his drawings, paintings and murals.
He enjoyed an active career, exhibiting at all the major museums as an accomplished American Scene painter during the WPA and WWII era. His first one-man show was held in 1939 at the Walker Art Galleries. At the start of WWII, Celentano went to work at the Grumman Aircraft Plant, where he executed a mural on The Story of Flight.
We have available several drawings and oils by Celentano that we adore. The artist was introduced to us decades ago by the great dealer Janet Marqusee.

10/07/2026

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1939 Modernist Cityscape. Avail.
Bertram Hartman (1882-1960) “City from the Clouds “ Watercolor on paper. Sight: 13 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches. Signed and dated 1939 lower right. Framed: 21 1/2 x 27 1/4 inches.
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The Hartman is available and a highlight of our new online exhibition, Modernism Adored: 20th Century Art, a celebration of the revolutionary artistic movements that defined the 20th century, viewable at HeliclineFineArt.
BIO
Bertram Hartman studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and at the Royal Academy in Munich and Paris. He was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists, National Society of Mural Painters, American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers; and American Water Color Society.
Hartman exhibited at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915, Carnegie Institute in 1933, Art Insitute of Chicago from 1926 to 1934, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Grand Central Palace and in South America in 1940.
His artwork is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum and Randolph-Macon College for Women. As part of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress (later Projects) Administration (W.P.A.) Hartman completed a mural for the United States Post Office in Dayton, Tennessee.

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