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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.

05/30/2026

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Stuart Davis 1911 Ashcan Drawing. Avail.
Stuart Davis (1892 – 1964) “Backyards,” 9 x 10 1/4. Watercolor on paper. Signed and dated 1911 lower left.
This is one of three 1911 Stuart Davis drawings we have available. All three are pictured together on the same page in the Catalogue Raisonne.
BIO
One art historian described Davis’ career as a “near classical demonstration of the process by which American painting of the twentieth century came of age.”
Davis moved from journalistic illustration. Ashcan, Social Realism, Expressionism, to Cubism, ultimately becoming one of America’s leading abstractionists. Strongly influenced by Fernand Leger and the New York Armory Show of 1913, he developed his own unique style of Cubism, which also incorporated Realism.
He studied with John Sloan and Robert Henri from 1910 to 1913. In the 1930s,he taught at the Art Students League and he also did murals for the WPA.
Get this: Stuart Davis lived in the Des Artistes building on West 67th Street. A
friend and client lived there now.
When he saw this drawing he mentioned that this drawing is the exact view from his kitchen window. 

05/29/2026

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1930s WPA. Daniel Celentano Still Life. Avail.
Daniel Celentano (1902-1980) “Still Life,” 14 1/8 x 10 1/2. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left and on stretcher. Framed 20 1/2 x 16 1/2.
The Celentano is available.
BIO
Daniel Celentano at the age of twelve 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.
The artist was introduced to us by the great dealer Janet Marqusee.

05/28/2026

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1931 WPA Era American. Woman Artist. Avail.
Dorothy Eaton (1893-1968) “New York City Cafe Scene,” 20 x 29 inches. Oil on cavas. Signed lower right. 1931. Framed: 25 x 32 inches.
BIO
Dorothy Eaton was born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1893. She studied at Smith College, Columbia University, and at the Art Students League in New York City with Kenneth Hayes Miller.
The artist was a member of the Society of Independent Artists and the National Association of Women Artists. She was included in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC and the National Academy of Design in New York City.

05/27/2026

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Cubist Abstract Mid-Century Cityscape. Avail.
Charence Holbrook Carter (1904 – 2000) “City Shadows,” 11 x 4 12 inches. Gouache on paper. Signed upper left. C. 1950. Provenance: Gary Snyder Fine Art, label verso. Frame by Heydenryk, 20 x 24 inches.
The drawing is for sale.
BIO
Clarence Carter was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and began painting at an early age. He studied at the Cleveland School of Art from 1923 to 1927, and as a result of patronage from local arts supporter William Millikin, Carter was able to travel to Europe. While in Italy, Carter felicitously met and was encouraged in his studies by Hans Hoffman.
Back in the United States, Carter taught at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1929 to 1937. He was also Director of the Federal Art Project for Northeastern Ohio, and taught at the Carnegie Institute.
His work from the 1930s can be considered part of American Scene painting, and he was much concerned with the complex realities of American rural life.

There is a rich emotional quality to Carter’s work, and he once said “For me no great art has ever existed without some mystery and some awe.

05/25/2026

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1935 WPA Era Post Office Oils. Avail.
Three Arnold Friedman post office paintings are offered here: Dispatch, Cancellation Table and Swing Room. All are the same size and provenance.
Arnold Friedman (1874-1946)
11 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches
Oil on Wood Panel, 1935
Signed, dated, and inscribed
“New York P.O. STA. Y” lower left
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, label verso
Framed:: 15 1/4 x 30 inches
Friedman worked for the U.S. Postal Service for over forty years. He was a clerk at Station Y, the branch at 3rd Avenue and East 67th Street in New York City.
These paintings were executed two years after his retirement. They capture urban life during the Great Depression.
BIO
Arnold Friedman is considered an extremely gifted and original American modern painter by scholars and art historians today. He came to the profession of a painter rather late in life and did not devote himself to his art on a full time basis until 1933, at the age of 59.
Friedman was born to Hungarian Jewish parents in Corona, Queens, where he worked as a post office clerk for some forty years, painting on evenings and weekends. Under the auspices of the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration, Friedman painted murals around the country.
He began his career in 1905 under the tutelage of Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League in New York.
In 1909 Friedman took a six-month leave of absence from his job at the Post Office to study art in Paris. During this time, he was exposed to the virtues of Impressionism. He was most influenced by the Pointillism of Pisarro, and reflected his admiration of other Impressionists and Post-Impressionists was reflected in his own art after his return to New York.
Friedman’s oeuvre appears to have been limited to approximately 300 works. He is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Newark Museum, and Detroit Institute of Art.

05/24/2026

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The 2026 American Art Fair may have ended but much of the artwork in our booth is available online at HeliclineFineAt.com.
We exhibited 1930s/40s WPA Era Modern, Social Realism and American Scene works by: Thomas Hart Benton, Cecil Bell, Jo Cain, Max Arthur Cohn, Konrad Cramer, Stuart Davis, Ralph Fasanella, Ernest Fiene, Seymour Fogel, Arnold Friedman, Roger Medearis, Eugene Savage, Joseph Solman, Louis Stone, William Zorach, and others.
Do your walls need some love?

05/23/2026

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Chess Players. 1940s WPA Oil. Avail.
Mervin Jules (1912 – 1994) “Chess Players,” 8 x 10 inches. Oil on board, c. 1940. Signed lower right.
The Jules is available.
BIO
The son of a men’s haberdasher, Mervin Jules was encouraged by his parents to pursue a musical career. By the time he graduated from Baltimore City College in 1930, he was determined to paint and teach art. After completing a four-year course at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts, he enrolled at the Art Students League in New York City where he studied under Thomas Hart Benton.
He received his first one-man exhibition in New York City at the age of twenty-five. His career as painter, print maker, illustrator and art teacher spanned more than five decades.
Jules’ work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and many others.

05/22/2026

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Fortune Mag Cover Original 1935 Painting. Avail.
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) “Jewelry,” Fortune cover published, December 1935. 13 3/4 X 11 inches (sight). Framed 19 1/2 X 16 3/4 inches. Gouache on board. Signed Lower left.
This painting is available.
BIO
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 28 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
Antonio won several important design awards, painting a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal for the Franklin Mint for the State of New Jersey.

05/20/2026

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1940s American Abstract. Louis Stone. Avail.
Louis Stone (1902-1984), “Abstract,” 21 x 16 inches. Gouache on board, c. 1940. Signed lower right. Framed.
The Stone is available.
BIO
An abstract painter, Louis Stone settled in Lambertville, New Jersey from 1935. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and at the Pennsylvania Academy. He was also a student at the Art Students League and in Munich with Hans Hofmann.
From 1927 to 1933, he traveled with his wife in Europe and for a period rented Cezanne’s studio. In France, he became friends with Marsden Hartley. Stone was on the WPA mural project.

05/19/2026

“May Day” 1934 Social Realism. Available & featured at NYC’s American Art Fair. Today is the final day.
Mortimer Borne (1902-1987) “May Day,’ 32 x 25 inches, Oil on canvas, 1934. Signed lower right. Framed: 40 x 32 1/2 inches
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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.

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