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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1760s
Abstract Expressionist Figurative Female Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3240a Oil on artist board set in a vintage black wood frame
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Joven con cesta de flores
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
LLuís Muntané Muns (Mataró 1899 - Barcelona 1987).
"Joven con cesta de flores".
Firmado a mano en el ángulo inferior derecho. Y placa en marco inferior.
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Medidas: 9...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Montmartre Paris Impressionist Oil Landscape 1950's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6011 Oil on canvas the streets of Paris set in a vintage wood frame
Image size 9.5x8"
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snow White
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Golden wooden frame
Dimensions with frame : 38.8 x 46.5 x 3.2 cm
This painting presents a dramatic, spellbinding scene inspired by the classic tale of Snow White. I...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Scandinavian Pensive young Beauty by Kahzn
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5094 Scandinavian pensive young beauty oil painting set in a carved wood gilt frame
Signed Kahzn 71
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Off Limits, Book Cover
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 23.00" x 15.75"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Book Cover of Casualty by Robert Lowry (Popular Library #387)
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Knight and Girl - Painting - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Knight and Girl is an original painting realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Painting in tempera, watercolor, and China ink on paper.
Included a Passepartout: 41 x 51 cm.
...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Watercolor
Leaf People Surreal Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3004 Fantasy oil painting on board, displayed in a dark-wood frame
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French school 20th Century, Portrait of a young man in green, oil
Located in Paris, FR
French school of the 20th Century,
Portrait of a young man in green,
oil on cardboard panel, cradled on the back
53 x 40 cm
This intense portrait is particularly moving and intere...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Impressionist Mid Century Modern, Book sellers by the Seine , Paris, France
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a French mid-20th-century modern Impressionist view of book sellers along the Seine, with Notre Dame in Paris by Joseph Tretter is an opportunity...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cumbres Pass, Colorado" Chuzo Tamotzu, 1956 Intense Color, Modernist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Chuzo Tamotzu
Cumbres Pass, Colorado, 1956
Signed and dated lower left; titled on artist label on the reverse
Oil on Masonite
36 x 48 inches
Tamotzu was born in Kagoshima Prefectur...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Still Life with Candlestick and Book by Joseph Pressmane - Still life painting
Located in London, GB
Still Life with Candlestick and Book by Joseph Pressmane (1904-1967)
Oil on board
35.5 x 42 cm (14 x 16 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed and dated lower...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Champagne for the Honeymoon
Located in Miami, FL
Pruett Carter captures the quintessential look of the 1950's in this loosely rendered but charming work for Redbook. Bright, punchy colors define each object and are arranged in a simplified but complex composition of intersecting and overlapping planes of color.
The double portrait of the girl expresses a peak moment of introspection. She ponders her situation while preparing to get dressed for her special occasion. The whole scene is imbued with suspense about her future. Carter is a great academic painter. With just a few light touches of the brush, he quickly defines the form of the subject and achieves the X factor of the work. The profile and frontal view of the girl clearly are the same person. He nails her look. This is hard to do. Do not underestimate it. Sadly, there is a reason why there are very few contemporary artists can actually paint and draw without tracing photographs or resort to naive painting. It's hard to do. It's hard to be a painter. You can not fake...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ballantine Beer Ad. Mid-Century American Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Only Ballantine Ale Brews "Brewer's Gold," ad illustration appeared in the major magazines of the day. A magic moment is caught at a peak point of drama.
It's the instant of friends having fun.
A cold beer from the fridge is offered and it's is acknowledged with a head nod.
The woman in the foreground covers her giggling face reacting to a funny comment.
The decisive moment is preserved.
Sounds like a critique of an art photograph?
No, it's an illustrator.
This ingenious Infiniti "S" composition simultaneously represents the best of photography and painting.
Cartier-Bresson could have captured the precise moment.
While Nicolas Poussin could have rendered the complex figural composition.
Add to it , a painting technique and color scheme with the quick drama of a post-impressionist.
We have a great work of art by an overlooked American illustrator/artist/painter, Mike Ludlow...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Casa de lechera", 20th Century mixed media on cardboard by M. Hernández Mompó
Located in Madrid, ES
MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ MOMPÓ
Spanish, 1927 - 1992
CASA DE LECHERA
signed "H. Mompó" (upper left) & inscribed "Rotterdam 55" (upper right)
with inscrip...
Category
1950s Analytic Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Wax, Cardboard
The Gods of Voodoo
By Harold McCauley
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Unsigned
Dimensions: Sight Size 18.00" x 24.00;" Framed 28.50" x 35.50"
Cover for Fate Magazine - August 1953
The original cover painting by H.W. McCauley used for the August 1953 cover of Fate (True Stories of the Strange and Unknown), illustrating "The Gods of Voodoo" by North Hildabrand. In this offering a dancing pin...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Harvest - Dutch Farm Scene, Original Oil Painting On Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
The Harvest - Dutch Farm Scene, Original Oil Painting On Canvas
Original oil painting depicting Dutch farm workers in a vibrant gold colored field by Dutch artist Von Hassler (Nethe...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Young dancer" Dancer, Dance, baby Oil cm. 60 x 76 1955
Located in Torino, IT
Italy,Dancer,White ,Grey Little Girl ,Italian Painter
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to techni...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West )
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Bay Area Figurative Movement Portrait of a Woman in Oil on Artist's Board 1950s
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Bay Area Figurative Movement Portrait of a Woman in Oil on Artist's Board 1950s
Portrait of a woman man by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). The woman is looking directly at the viewer, with a neutral expression. She has dark hair and a slender nose, and is wearing a blue dress. A distinctive bay area figurative movement portrait by well known San Francisco artist Honora Berg.
Signed "H. Berg" in on verso.
Stamp from Miller Fine Art on verso
Acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Initialed and numbered "HB 122 " on verso
Unframed.
Board size: 24.75"H x 19"W
Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Illustration Board
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
Freight Dock
By John Rockwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Freight Dock" is an original oil on canvas by noted American artist John Rockwell, 1902-1960 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist, and also signe...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Plage de Trouville" 1953, 20th Century oil on canvas by Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
PLAGE DE TROUVILLE
signed Grau Sala (lower left)
signed again, located & dated "Grau Sala, Trouville, 1953" on the reverse
oil on canvas
15 X 24 inches (38 X 61 cm.)
framed: 24-1/2 X 33-3/4 inches (62.5 X 85.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private French Collection
Emilio Grau Sala came from a family of artists. He was born in Barcelona in 1911 and his father, a good cartoonist, had been one of the promoters of the "Salon des Humanistes" and made his exhibitions normally in the Parés Hall.
His first works were exhibited at the Salon des Independents, in the years 1930-33.
Grau Sala was essentially a Mediterranean painter, son of post-impressionism and enriched with French painting of the last fifty years.
Grau Sala lived and absorbed all the avant-garde movements that broke through in Paris, but never adhered to any. Creating your personal style. His pictorial lyricism and naturalism superimposed the evotative and sensitive quality of the image to any other concern. In 1953 Grau Sala spends his first summer in Honfleur becoming one of the most active Honflerian painters. Honfleur forms a coast triangle next to Deauville and Trouville, and in that August of 53, Grau Sala pinto is an elegant beach, which at that time met French and European high society.
His works can be found in the Museums of the Villa de Paris, L'Ile de France Museum, at the Château de Sceaux, Honfleur Museum, La Rochelle Museum, Barcelona Museum, Tossa de Mar...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cabins in the Camargue
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Cabins in the Camargue' by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). The Camargue is a vast, swampy delta near Arles, very exotic, with tall marsh grasses where pink flamingos, black bulls and white horses roam freely. This image depicts one of the gardians in a small gathering of cabanes, hat hanging cowboy-style around the back of the neck, as he approaches his horse grazing outside its modest stable. Although there are many horses that still run free in the Camargue, there are cowboys like this one — called gardians — who ride the white horses on the beaches...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Banana Plantation Guadeloupe II
Located in London, GB
'The Banana Plantation Guadeloupe II', oil on canvas, by Robert Humblot (1959). The second in a series of artworks completed in 1959 when the artist vis...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Village Cottages”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well painted oil on artist board painting by “Cappy” Amundsen who painted under many aliases, including F. H. McKay. Signed lower left F.H. McKay. Circa 1955. Condition is excellent. Recently professionally cleaned. Catalda Fine Arts copyright stamp verso. Overall very nicely framed in a period gold leaf ornate frame 15.75 by 13.75 inches in fine condition.
The sheer volume of high quality sea and coastal village themed paintings that was on view at the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum several years ago was astounding. The work was by a select group of artists such as André Picot...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lovers oil on canvas painting Paris Picasso school
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: *An Intimate Moment*
Artist: Pedro Creixams (1893-1965)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18.1 x 15 inches
Condition: Unframed
Style: Expressionist portrait with ...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hand-Painted Naked Lady Astride Cocktail Elephant on Oak Plaque
Located in Bristol, CT
Size: 24 1/2"H x 21"W
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Rajah of Sarawak - Mid-Century Mens Magazine - Pulp Adventure Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Male illustration Illustration - Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, KCB (29 April 1803[1] – 11 June 1868), was a British adventurer whose exploits in the Malay Archipelago...
Category
1950s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Theater on Broadway NYC
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6101 Abstract surreal theater on Broadway NYC Playbill
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Picture Framer
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in drawing and painting.
Zorthian went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art.
Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe.
His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
"The Picture Framer...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Paris, Flower Market', Young Mademoiselles, Gamines des Fleurs, Jeunes Filles
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Francois Gerome (French, born 1895) and accompanied with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Born in Paris in 1895, Francois Gerome is best known for paintings of young, fash...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Venetian Canal Cityscape, Italian-American artist
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981)
Venice Canalscape, c. 1950
Oil on board
Signed lower right
11.75 x 21.75 inches
19.75 x 29.75 inches, framed
Born in Codroipo, a small village only ...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flamenco
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an magnificent original oil on panel by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002)
Flamenco, is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1955, with an image dimension of 12 x 9 ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Surreal Figurative Oil Painting Clowns on flying Balloons by W.Morinet
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3910a Surreal oil on canvas set in a black frame
Two clowns on a flying balloon
Signed W.Morinet
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spring (Primrose Gathering) by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Spring (Primrose Gathering) by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101.5 x 76.4 cm (40 x 30 inches)
Signed and dated lower centre Orovida 1956
Provenance
Estate of Orovida Pis...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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, Paper
“Montmartre, Rue Norvins et Sacre-Coeur”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original oil on canvas painting of a busy street scene in Montmartre, Paris. The scene is Rue Norvins with Sacre-Coeur in the background. Signed by the artist lower left. Titled on stretcher verso. Circa 1950. Condition is very good. The painting is housed in its original frame of chestnut wood with wide gold liner. Overall framed measurements are 21.5 by 23.5 inches.
Provenance: A Osprey, Florida collector.
Krafft, Andre (Born, Paris, 1911-1986). A French twentieth century painter Andre Krafft...
Category
1950s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Figure Seated in Interior', Woman Artist, Berkeley, San Francisco Museum of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Millicent Tomkins' for Millicent Hanson Tomkins (American, 1930-2021) and dated 1959.
Millicent Tomkins began painting at a young age and, as a child, was awarde...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother and Child, 1950 - Gouache Painting with Mother and Baby Figures
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Bernard Meninsky was a painter of figures and landscapes in oils, watercolour and gouache. He was born in 1891 in Karotopin, the Ukraine, of Jewish parents; brought to England six we...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Bleu", Albert Bertalan, Original Oil, Blue, Figurative
Located in Dallas, TX
"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Bleu" is an original oil on canvas impressionistic portrait of a woman by Albert Bertalan. A red-headed lady sits with her hand pressed upon her cheek thoughtfully thinking in front of a blue background. The painting is framed with an ornate gold frame.
From the late 19th century until World War Two, Paris was the center of the art world. Artists and intellectuals from around the globe descended on Paris, drawn by the atmosphere of creative freedom established by the French Impressionists. Because of the Impressionists’ innovations the direction of art had changed forever, the times were ripe for another Renaissance. The School of Paris, as this broad-based group of artists are referred to embodied the spirit of modernism.
Albert Bertalan was born on September 21, 1899 in Jaszbereny, Hungary. He is known for painting compositions of figures in unique environments, including women by the sea, among other similar subject matters. He studied at the Nagybanyai Art School under some of the most important Hungarian artists, including Ivànyi Grünwald...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Paper
Saturday Evening Post Cover, January 31, 1953
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1953
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Dimensions: 42.00" x 32.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, January 31, 1953.
The Post d...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Violin Practice, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 24.00" x 18.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 5, 1955.
The Post ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Still Life - 1950s - Pio Semeghini - Painting - Contemporary
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated by the artist lower right. Includes a beautiful contemporary wooden gilded frame. In excellent conditions.
References:
- Catalogo della mostra di Pio Semeghini...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Boys on a Fence, Preliminary Work for Johnson & Johnson Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right
Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.75" x 12.75"
This piece was probably created as a preparatory work for a John...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Guinovart. Thoughtful Man Black and White. drawing on cardboard
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Guinovart. Thoughtful man. black and white. drawing on cardboard
Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain.
After ...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Horse - Enamel on Paper by Esperia Gava - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Horse is an original artwork realized by Italian artist Esperia Gava.
Enamel on paper
Applied on cardboard.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Very good conditions.
The artwork...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
“Cafe Pepinier, Paris
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of the Cafe Pepinier in Paris by Andre Picot. Condition is very good. Signed lower left by the artist. Titled “Cafe Pepini...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composer and Musician Tony Mottola, "Mr. Big, " Author of "Danger"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Composer and Musician Tony Mottola, `Mr. Big`, author of the `Danger` chord for the 1950 NBC-TV show of the same name. A famous musical signature where a single repeated note is interrupted by a dramatic chord or sting, the device was named after the series which first utilized it as its theme, the CBS-TV suspense anthology, `Danger` (1950-55). It was one of the directors for `Danger` - Yul...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Arabian Nights - Guard and Sitting King - Islamic Golden Age - Gustaf Tenggren
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
One Thousand and One Nights - It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights. What is notable about this work is how magnificently composed, designed, and rendered it is. Its l...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Segovie
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marie Antoinette Boullard-Deve
French, 1890-1970
Segovie
Oil on canvas
29 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 39 by 31 ½ in.
Signed lower left and titled and dated 1951 on the back
Marie was born...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Christ"
By Joachim Probst
Located in Astoria, NY
Joachim Probst (American, 1913-1980), "Christ", Impasto Oil on Canvas, 1955, signed lower right "Probst" and inscribed to verso "Probst / 1955 / CHRIST", additionally inscribed "Owne...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Stamp Collector, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas with an Element of Collage
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 27th, 1954.
The Post described, “...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Expressionist Judaica Painting "I Lit All My Candles" Hanukkah Menorah
By Hildegard Rath
Located in Surfside, FL
Hildegard Rath, (1909-1994) painter, author, teacher, and lecturer, Born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in the Black Forest region of Germany. Hildegard Rath became a painter of landscape, portraits, still lifes, and marine subjects and also a muralist. Her father was a bank president, her mother a sculptor, writer, and illustrator of children's books. At the age of 15, Miss Rath painted her first portrait in oil as a birthday present for her father and thereafter every opportunity for study was given to her.
She went to art school at the Atelier House in Stuttgart, Germany and at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Berlin. She studied with Lotte Laserstein...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Family Picnic, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 34.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover for The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, May 31, 1952.
Clymer's coverscape takes you to Massachusetts' tidelands where the frost is on the pumpkin and the red and gold areon the trees. Gloucester harbor and the inlets roundabout-- for three centuries this haven has been the homeport of renowned and valiant fisherman. They were the Captains Courageous of Rudyard Kipling, the hero’s of Longfellow's The Wreck of the Hesperus and of James B. Connolly's tales of the sea.
John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wilhelm Ohm (1905-1965), Double Portrait with Chairs, circa 1950
Located in Greding, DE
Expressive portrait of a man and a woman looking directly at the viewer as well as indicated chairs.
The execution of a series of chair paintings served Wilhelm Ohm (1905 Stettin -...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Looking Into a Neighborhood - Ginger Bread Houses - Women Illustrators
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Looking Into a Neighborhood , Dear Paul
This is an intriguingly charming work by an overlooked and brilliant mid-century female artist - illustrator, and educator. Lorraine Fox. ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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.
Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.
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