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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1960s
Do Bee Book of Manners
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Grosset & Dunlap, Illustration, Art Seiden was a top children's book illustrator in the 1950' - 1060's Work comes in two parts that are butted together by the artist
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
Dawn, Dawn, Dawn, Ticonderoga pencil advertisement
By Harvey Dunn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Twice and Dated Lower Left: Harvey / Dunn 1932
Harvey Dunn's Dawn, Dawn, Dawn is a truly exceptional illustration that captures a key moment of American History. In the present work, Dunn skillfully depicts colonial soldiers...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1921
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Dimensions: 26.00" x 40.00"
Illustration for American magazine.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
In The Cathedral
By E.M. Jackson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration for "In The Cathedral" by Achmed Abdullah published in Cosmopolitan, May 1938, pages 24-25.
The magazine descri...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
New Years Baby, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1932
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 18.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
A New Year's themed cover painting by Leslie Thrasher for the January 9, 1932 edition of L...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Four Men Conversing, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, September 24, 1927
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Who's the Fairest?
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Vogue magazine cover 3/15/13
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Rescue
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Milton Avery #6"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benjamin sustained an active career for over seven decades. D...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Lighthouse Keeper, Brant Point
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left ‘Stevan Dohanos’
Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Laid Down on Masonite
The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 26th, 1954...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board
"Two Women"
By James Lechay
Located in Lambertville, NJ
James Lechay was a painter of figures, landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes who played a notable role in the tradition of avant-garde painting in New York and in the Midwest. An ar...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine, February 1931 Depicting a Duryea Automobile Driving by a Blacksmith Shop
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Nude Woman with 2 Men"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 25.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Fawcett book cover.
Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover il...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl Peeling Apple, Johnson & Johnson Advertisement, 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right
Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.50" x 12.00"
Johnson & Johnson reproduced the present work as an advertisemen...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Fred C. Dobbs Paddle Steamer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration dates circa 1950.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
(Untitled)
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1958
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.20" x 33.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration for Good Housekeeping magazine, December 1958. Image of woman and two sailors leaving house at Christmas time.
Exhibited: The Triumph of Winter, National Arts Club, New York, December 16, 2013- January 5, 2014
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sword and Scalpel, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Board
Dimensions: 40.00" x 25.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Frank G. Slaughter 'Sword and Scalpel" Book Cover
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mother with Child by Candlelight
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Illustration, 1917
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Spring is Here" The Country Home Magazine Cover, March (Year Unknown)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
"Spring Is Here" The Country Home Magazine Cover, March (Year Unknown).
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Pajama Party
By Victor Kalin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Gouache on Board
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
"End of Track, " Paperback Cover, 1951
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
End of Track - Paperback Cover, written by Ward Weaver, Popular Library, 1951.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Interior Scene
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Medium: Mixed Media Illustration
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Smoke Shop
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 14.50" x 13.00;" Framed 23.75" x 21.75"
The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine illustration, December 1906
Literature: This illustration appeared in O. Henry's shor...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Judgment
Located in Miami, FL
Thin edged metal frame
Philip Castle is an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle
He is rarely exhibited and Prince Rainier of Monaco once pu...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bridal White
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right and Titled on reverse
Dimensions: 28.13" x 25.13" (71.45 cm x 63.83 cm)
Literature: Temple Bailey, Bridal White, The American Mag...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Lion and the Throne, The Atlantic Magazine Cover
By James Avati
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Contact for exact dimensions.
The Atlantic Magazine Cover Illustration.
November 1956, Volume 198
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Cotillion, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed and Dated Lower Left
The Saturday Evening Post cover, May 23, 1936
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1960s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Dizzy Dean, The Pride of St Louis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Dizzy Dean, The Pride of St Louis
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"The Cave Man, " Liberty Magazine Cover, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, November 12, 1927 "The Cave Man or the Cave Max?"
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sur le Bosphone, On the Bosphorus, Orientalist Beautiful Girl in Boat
Located in Miami, FL
The key to this painting's charm is that the subject is a beautiful young woman who is showing her face. She lounges comfortably in a carpeted boat with a lute by her side, running...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Backwoods Hussy, Paperback Cover
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Boy in Striped Sweater Sits on a Tree Branch, Advertisement, Cream of Wheat, 1929
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Advertisement, Cream of Wheat, 1929.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Shore Leave, Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Center
August 8, 1931 Saturday Evening Post Cover
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right.
Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.'
Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Depicting a Woman in Blue Lingerie with Her Arms in a Dress Overhead
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Board with Collage
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Mixed Media
Tribesmen with Headdresses - Photo Realism
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Touring Car in Reverse
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moby Dick Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration appeared in Herman Melville's novel, Moby Dick, John C Winston, 1931.
Signed & Dated Lower Center
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Film Noir Curse of the Golden Cross Magazine - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Herbert Morton Stoops
American (1888 - 1948)
Curse of the Golden Cross
Magazine illustration, 1925
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 in.
Not signed
Work is framed
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Falconer, interior Argosy magazine story illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Unsigned
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed M. Maccari Post Impressionist Figurative Painting dated 1956 oil canvas
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (oil on canvas, 44.5 x 35 cm; with wood frame 64 x 54,5 cm) represents a moment on deception.
It's signed Maccari on the bottom left, and it's dated 1956 and titled "ins...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Charity Bazaar
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Date: 1930s
Probable magazine cover, 1930-1935.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Interior setting with people standing around.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Irish Liberty
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
The present work is a study for the cover of the March 18, 1922 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Turf and Sport Digest
By Randall Shaull
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover for Turf and Sport Digest, probably late 1930s
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Study for World War I Soldier Collier's Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Study for the July 7, 1917 cover of Collier's National Weekly (the title story was "Why I'd Let My Boy Go To War").
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Lay the Mountains Low" Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 20.50" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
"Lay the Mountains Low" Book Cover, by Terry C. Johnston
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
The Old Couple
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 21.00" x 28.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Book cover, The Old Couple.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid, Paperback Cover
By Dean Morrissey
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1991
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 36.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
DEAN MORRISSEY (American, 20th Century) The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Thief, Biblical Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 14.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Biblical illustration
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Wallpaper Blouse, Saturday Evevning Post Cover, October 1941
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post magazine cover, October 25, 1941
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Dancing Couple at the Ball, Theatre Magazine Cover
By Clara Peck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache watercolor painting on artist board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Size: 18" x 14"
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Watercolor
Women on a Rainy Day, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1939
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor & Acrylic on Board
Signature: Signed
May 20, 1939 Saturday Evening Post Cover
John LaGatta - Women on a Rainy Day Painting Original Art (c. 1940). LaGatta's work...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Acrylic, Board
The Insurance Salesman
By Arthur Herschel Lidov
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 15.00" x 15.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Figurative Paintings for Sale
Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
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