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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.

06/20/2026

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1928 Still Life by Konrad Cramer. Avail.
Konrad Cramer (1888 - 1963) “Black Glass Bowl and Napkin.” 16 ½ x 14 inches, Oil on Board. Singed lower right. Titled and dated 1928 verso. Provenance: Zabriskie Gallery label verso. Dudensing Galleries stamp verso. Framed 21 1.4 x 18 ½ inches.
The Kramer is available.
BIO
A painter of abstraction including numerous still life and non-objective work, Konrad Cramer became one of America’s earliest modernist painters. He founded and directed the Woodstock, New York Art Association and the Woodstock School of Painting. In painting style, he was one of the more radical artists working there, adapting Cubism to the local landscape.
He divided his time between Woodstock and Manhattan and was highly prominent in progressive art circles. He was a close friend of Alfred Stieglitz.
Born in Wurtzburg, Germany, Cramer was early influenced by the Munich expressionists called der “Blaue Reiter, a group founded by Wassily Kandinsky. It was the avant-garde art movement of its day.
His work is held in many leading museum and important private collections nationally.

06/18/2026

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Joseph Solman 1930s Oil. Avail.
Joseph Solman (1909-2008) “Studio Interior,” 10 x 12 inches. Oil on board, c. 1930s. Initialed lower left.
The Solman painting is available.
BIO
Brought to America from Russia as a child in 1912, Solman was a prodigious draftsman and knew, in his earliest teens, that he would be an artist.
In 1929, Solman saw the inaugural show at the Museum of Modern Art featuring Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Cezanne. It changed his life - and his art.
Solman was, with Mark Rothko, the unofficial co-leader of The Ten, a group of expressionist painters who exhibited as the “Whitney Dissenters” at the Mercury Galleries in New York in 1938.
In 1964, The Times, discussing his well-known subway gouaches (done while commuting to his some-time job as a racetrack pari-mutuel clerk), called him a “Pari-Mutuel Picasso.” In 1985, on the occasion of a 50-year retrospective, The Washington Post wrote: “It appears to have dawned, at last, on many collectors that this is art that has already stood the acid test of time.”
We had the pleasure of knowing Joe and spent several afternoons at his apartment over what was then the 2nd Avenue Deli.

06/17/2026

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NYC WPA Era Watercolor. Avail.
David Fredenthal (1914-1958) “View of New York from New Jersey,” 7 x 10 inches. Watercolor on Paper, c. 1948. Signed lower right. Framed.
The Fredenthal drawing is for sale.
BIO
Fredenthal was one of America’s most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket.
As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World’s Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930’s.
After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23, and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947.

06/16/2026

NYC Central Park. 1945 Modernism. Avail.
Adolf Dehn (1895-1968) “Central Park,” 18 x 19 3/4 inches. Watercolor on paper. Signed and dated ’45 lower right. Framed: 26 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches.
The Dehn is available.
BIO
Born in Waterville, Minnesota, Adolf Dehn began creating artwork at the age of 6. For the first two decades of his student and professional life he worked almost entirely in black and white as a natural and expressive watercolorist. By 1920, after formal training as an illustrator and lithographer, he began to create ink drawings and lithographs, which he was able to sell and supported him thorugh the difficult years of the depression.
In the early 1920’s Dehn moved to Europe, and he developed his imagery for the decade, which was made up of cabaret, park scenes, burlesque and landscapes of the roaring 20’s in Europe. He returned to the Midwest during the depression and by 1936 started to work in the watercolor.
Dehn artworks are in the permanent collections of nearly 100 museums across the United States and Europe.

06/15/2026

1938 WPA. Men Working Building NYC Subway. Avail.
Cecil Bell (1906-1970) “Building the 6th Avenue Subway,” 24 x 30 inches. Tempera on board. Signed and dated ‘38 lower center.
The Bell is available.
BIO
Cecil Crowley Bell was born in 1906, in Seattle, Washington. Cecil studied printmaking at the Chicago Art Institute prior to moving to New York to study at the Art Students League with John Sloan. Most of his paintings depict famous locations around New York city.
Cecil Crosley Bell died in New York in 1970. Largely unknown during his lifetime, but a 1973 retrospective of his work at The Museum of Modern Art caused a stir.

06/14/2026

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UN Begins. 1938 Poster Design. Painting Avail.
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) “We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal”
21 x 16 inches. Tempera on board, c.1945. Estate stamp verso. 30 x 25 inches framed.
This Cain is available.
BIO
A painter, muralist, and art educator, Joseph Cain’s work was consistently infused by the color and vibrancy of his native New Orleans. Beginning at the age of sixteen, his educational journey led him first to the Art Institute of Chicago and then to the Art Students League in New York, where he was instructed by Kenneth Hayes Miller and Kimon Nicolaides. He later studied under the Abstract Expressionist Hans Hoffman.
In 1932, Cain’s entry to the First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting at the ‪Whitney Museum of American Art‬ hung in the exhibition’s entry way; other works were shown at such prestigious venues as ‪the Museum of Modern Art‬, American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, National Academy of Design, and Carnegie Institute.
While living in New York during this period, Cain was an integral member of an art collective known as “The Group,” whose participants included Milton Avery, George Biddle, Robert Gwathmey, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and other important modernists.

06/13/2026

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The Who’s Tommy. Hirschfeld Avail.
Al Hirschfeld (1903 -2003) “The Who’s Tommy,” Lithograph on heavy paper. Sight: 19 x 25 1/4 inches. Framed: 27 x 32 1/2 inches. Numbered V/L [49/100] lower left and signed lower right.
This image was published April 18, 1993 in The New York Times. The lithograph is signed by Hirschfeld and the stars of the original Broadway production. It comes from the personal collection of the Tony Award winning producer who was a producer of the Broadway production.
The TOMMY litho is available.
BIO
Al Hirschfeld’s drawings stand as one of the most innovative efforts in establishing the visual language of modern art through caricature in the 20th century.
Hirschfeld is represented in many public collections, including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, the National Portrait Gallery, and Harvard’s Theater Collection.  The winner of two Tony Awards, he was be given the ultimate Broadway accolade on what would have been his 100th birthday in June 2003 when the Martin Beck Theater was renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theater.

06/12/2026

Conductor. 1940s WPA Drawing. Avail.
Mervin M Jules (1912-1994) “Conductor.” 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches. Casein on paper, c. 1940s. Signed lower right. Framed: 13 x 15 3/4.
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.

06/11/2026

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“Guys and Doll” Signed by Hirschfeld, Nathan Lane, Faith Prince & Peter Gallagher. Avail.
Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) “Guys and Dolls,” Lithograph on heavy paper, Sight: 19 x 25 inches. Numbered V/L [33/100] lower left and signed lower right. Framed: 25 x 31 1/2 inches.
The lithograph, available for sale,
is signed by Hirschfeld, and the actors depicted: Nathan Lane, Faith Prince, Peter Gallagher and Josie deGuzman. It comes from the personal collection of Tony Award winning producer John Hart who was a producer of the Broadway revival.
Al Hirschfeld’s drawings stand as one of the most innovative efforts in establishing the visual language of modern art through caricature in the 20th century.
Hirschfeld is represented in many public collections, including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, the National Portrait Gallery, and Harvard’s Theater Collection.  The winner of two Tony Awards, he was be given the ultimate Broadway accolade on what would have been his 100th birthday in June 2003 when the Martin Beck Theater was renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theater.

06/10/2026

William Gropper. Opera Box. Avail.
William Gropper (1897 – 1977) “Opera Box,” 20 x 16 inches. Oil on board, 1957
Signed lower left.Framed 27 1/2 x 23 1/2. Provenance: ACA Gallery label verso. Original frame.
The Gropper painting is available.
Bio
Throughout his life, William Gropper used his artistic talents to protest social injustice. Born in New York City, he grew up there in poverty and left high school to work as a dishwasher and delivery boy. He eventually began a career in art and was able to study with Robert Henri and George Bellows from 1912 to 1915. He adopted their realistic painting style, and his own work expressed sympathy for common laborers and outrage at society’s ills.
In his first gallery exhibition in 1936 at ACA Galleries, Gropper’s work was so well received by critics, collectors, and artists that the following year he had two one-man exhibitions at ACA Galleries. In 1937 he had paintings purchased by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.
Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art Institute of Chicago (1935-49), Carnegie International (1937-50), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1939-48), and National Academy of Design (1945-48).
Working with the artist’s grandson, Helicline Fine Art presented a Gropper exhibition in 2022.

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