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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.

09/02/2026

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1945 Outsider Art. Early Ralph Fasanella. Avail
Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997) “Victory and After,” 26 1/2 x 36 inches, gouache on paper. Signed, titled and dated 1945 lower left.
This work was painted in 1945, the year Fasanella began working as an artist. It’s a powerful WPA era work that depicts American sentiments just after WW2.
Happy 112th birthday today Mr. Fasanella.
BIO
Fasanella was a self-taught painter who created large, colorful and intricate paintings of working-class culture and American politics. A child of Italian immigrants, he spent his youth delivering ice with his father and enduring the harsh regimen of a Catholic reform school. During the Great Depression, Fasanella worked in garment factories and as a truck driver.
Fasanella acquired a social conscience from his mother. He became active in antifascist and trade union causes. His political beliefs were radicalized by the Depression and he became an organizer for various unions with whom he achieved some major organizing successes.
Fasanella’s paintings are in the Museum of American Immigration at Ellis Island, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Smithsonian. He has been the subject of several books and major retrospective exhibitions.

08/31/2026

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American Scene. Leon Kroll. Ashcan. Last chance. Our 25 works at 25% off sale ends today.
Leon Kroll (1884-1974) “A Summer Day,” 14in. x 17in. Oil on canvas board. Signed lower right. 20 1/4 in. x 23 1/4 in.

The Kroll is is available and Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale, which ends today.
BIO
Leon Kroll remained a painter of realism at a time when the American art world was moving rapidly into abstraction and other styles. He was a leading artist of his time painting lush landscapes, figures, and still life.

Kroll was born in New York City in 1884. He first studied at the Art Students League under John H. Twachtman, and in 1904 entered the National Academy School, winning the Academy’s premier award in 1908. To earn money, he worked as a janitor and did mechanical drawing.
He traveled to Paris in 1908, where he studied at the Academie Julian as a student of Jean-Paul Laurens, and exhibited at some of the major Paris exhibitions. While in Paris, he came under the influence of the Impressionists and was especially taken with the works of Paul Cezanne.
Kroll began to paint views of New York in 1918, a subject that fascinated him for the rest of his life. George Bellows, who not only became a friend but also exerted a strong influence upon Kroll’s work, was an admirer of his art.
Through Bellows, Kroll was introduced to the Eight and began exhibiting with them at the MacDowell Club. He also traveled to paint including to Rockport and Gloucester, Massachusetts; Monhegan Island in Maine; and in 1917, he joined his friends Robert Henri, and George Bellows in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
During the 1930s, he worked for the WPA on murals for the Department of Justice Building.
His work is held in many important museum collections.

08/30/2026

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Brutalist Sculpture. Outsider Art. Our 25 works at 25% off sale end tomorrow.
Brutalist Totem, Cast aluminum and brass. 35 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Unsigned, c. 2010.
The sensational sculpture is available and Included in our 25 works at 25% off. The sale ends tomorrow.

It glistens. It has exceptional presence.

08/29/2026

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WPA Industrial Landscape. Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale. Thru Mon only.

Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970)
“Boys Swimming,” 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight. Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left. 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed.
The Schmalenberg is is available and Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale through Monday, Aug 31 only
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, he had been working as an insurance sales representative for his father’s firm. After seeing the Armory Show, he was inspired to go to art school.
He enrolled at the Art Students League where he had the good fortune to have both John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller as teachers. His fellow students at that time were Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Peggy Bacon, Alexander Brook and Niles Spencer. After serving in the army, he returned to New York and began to paint independently, and in 1921, he had his first show at the Whitney Studio Club along with Joseph Stella.
He taught at the Art Students League from 1923 to 1925. Schnakenberg’s esteem and standing at the School were fully affirmed when he was elected president in 1932, and he was to remain a life long member.
Schnakenberg won numerous awards and exhibited nationally. His work may also be found at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Brooklyn Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Yale University Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.

08/28/2026

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1936 WPA Era NYC Subway. Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale.
Maurice Becker (1889-1975) “Neon Lighting,” 17 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches. Oil on masonite. Signed, dated 1936 and titled on verso.
The Becker is is available and Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale through Monday, Aug 31 only
BIO
Maurice Becker, painter, political cartoonist and social reformer, was born in 1889 either in Gorky or Niznij Novgorod, in Russia. His family came to the United States in 1892, to New York City. After high school, Becker worked in a clothing factory. He studied with Ash Can School artist Robert Henri in 1908, and exhibited in the famous 1913 Armory Show in New York City when he was only twenty-four years of age. Today, his work is held in several museum collections.

08/27/2026

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Mid-Century Bronze by Albert Wein. Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale.
Albert W. Wein (1915-1991) “Naomi,” Bronze, c. 1960s. Signed. 19 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 5 inches. Overall height with the wood base: 22 3/4 x 5 inches.
The sculpture is available and Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale through Aug 31 only
BIO Albert Wein was born in 1915 in New York City. At 12 years old, he began studying at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts, and later at the Beaux-Artes Institute of Design in New York. His teacher, Hans Hoffman, educated Wein on the modern theories of art. Wein practiced art as both a painter and a sculptor, but it was his sculpture that gained him recognition.
In the 1930’s, he worked for the WPA Wein received almost every award possible for a figurative sculptor. including the coveted Prix de Rome, “likened to the Nobel Prize,” the Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation grant, and more. He also participated in the “watershed” exhibition, “American Sculpture” in 1951 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
He was also unique as a twentieth century artist because of achieving a balance between the extremes of Classicism and Modernism. His sound foundation of academic training provided the basis for the stylized, modernistic approach that set him apart from his contemporaries.

08/26/2026

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Irene Rice Periera. Large Oil. Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale.
Irene Rice Periera (1902 - 1971) “Radiant Reflections,” 50 x 40 inches. Oil on Canvas, c. 1950s. Signed lower right.
The Pereira is available and Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale through Aug 31 only.
Perileira was an American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher who played a significant role in the development of modernism in America. She is known for her work in the geometric abstraction, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction genres, and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school.
Pereira helped found the Federal Art Project design laboratory and she painted for more than 30 years on 15th Street in New York City. There was a major retrospective of her work in 1953 at the Whitney Museum when it was located on Eighth Street. Her work is in dozens of museums. Painter Juanita Guccione was her sister.

08/25/2026

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1930s American Scene. Arnautoff. Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale.
Victor Arnautofff (1896 – 1979) “City Street,” 12 x 14 inches. Oil on board, c. 1930s. Signed lower left.
The Arnautoff is available and Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale through Aug 31 only.
BIO
Born in the Ukraine of Russia, Victor Arnautoff became one of the most influential muralists in San Francisco in the 1930s and worked for the Federal Arts Project, WPA, in the expressive, social protest-style of Diego Rivera. He was also a painter, lithographer, sculptor, and respected teacher, and the subjects of his art work ranged from portraits, still lifes, and landscapes early in his career to more socially conscious themes later.
He arrived in San Francisco in 1925, having travelled through China and Mexico. He enrolled in the California School of Fine Arts where he studied sculpture with Ralph Stackpole and painting with Edgar Walters. He returned to China for his wife and children, and returned to California via Mexico City where he studied with Rivera from 1929 to 1931.
His murals can be seen at Coit Tower, George Washington High School, and the Presidio in San Francisco and in post offices in Richmond, South San Francisco, and Pacific Grove.

08/23/2026

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1930s WPA Era Oil. Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale.
Harold Haydon (1909 – 1994) “History of the US Postal Service,” 21 x 25 inches. oil on canvas, c. 1938.
The Haydon is available and Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale through Aug 31 only.
Bio
A painter, draftsman, muralist, sculptor, art critic, important art educator and a leader in the Chicago art community, Haydon’s works were included in numerous exhibitions held at the Art Institute of Chicago, such as the “Annual Students Exhibition of the Art Institute School” (1933); the “Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity” (1930s50s); the “Annual Exhibition of American Painting” (1947); the “Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary American Art” (1947 and 1950); and the “Biennial of Prints, Drawings and Water Colors by Illinois Artists” (1964).
Haydon’s works were also featured in the exhibition “Options” shown at the Milwaukee Art Center and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1968). In 1982, a 50 year retrospective of Haydon’s works was shown at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Architecture, Art and Urban Planning Gallery. .
The painting is featured in the monograph “Harold Haydon: Binocular Vision,” published in 2007 by Corbett vs Dempsey Gallery.

08/22/2026

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Modernist Abstract Painting. Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale.
August Mosca (Italian/American, 1909 – 2002) “Abstract,” 17 x 13 inches. Oil on canvas. C . 1940s Signed lower right.
The Mosca is available and Included in our 25 works at 25% off sale through Aug 31 only.

BIO
August Mosca, an urban realist, was born in Naples, Italy in 1909. He exhibited at the American Institute of Arts & Letters, Brooklyn Museum, Butler Institute of Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Feragil Gallery, Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York Cultural Center and the Parrish Art Museum.

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