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Marché Cluny - Market at Cap-Haitien - Haitian Street Art
Located in Miami, FL
A bustling street scene of everyday life in front of the famed Marché in Cap-Haïtien is rendered in Sénèque This is a relatively early work by Obin's signature brightly colored and flat naive style.
Signed lower right.
Provenance: Galerie Issa - Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - Owned by Issa El Saieh of later named El Saieh Gallery
Sénèque Obin...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Many Rivers to Cross, Paperback Book Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover illustration for the book Many Rivers to Cross by Steve Frazee (Fawcett Gold Medal #935, October 1959) - (#S1371, December 1963)
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"As the summer wore on..." - Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The illustration features an older woman shooting a water gun into a little boy's face as two other little boys lay in the grass beside them.
Story illustration for "Adios, Miss Em" by J.H. Giles, published in McCalls, February 1958
The full caption reads: "As the summer wore on, she became accustomed to all their whimsical pretend games and learned to take part in them."
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Child-like Art - Child with Bull Horns in Boat with a Fish
By Paul Rand
Located in Miami, FL
Paul Rand is remembered as one of history's greatest and most famous graphic designers. He was also a painter. The fact that Paul Rand used Naïve Art in much of his corporate identit...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
BEYLA (ORIGINAL GOUCHE)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique, one of a kind original gouache on paper from Harper's Bazar series. Hand signed lower front by Erte; titled top front with studio catalog number on verso.
Sheet size 10.7...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$2,962 Sale Price
25% Off
Steamy Romance Lovers Embrace in Bed - Mid Century Paperback
By Victor Kalin
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century Artist Victory Kalin was too good an artist for his paperback assignments. He was as much a virtuoso graphic designer as an illustrator. The present work exemplifies his ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Gouache, Ink
Toits Rouges à Menton by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
Toits Rouges à Menton by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Oil on board
40 x 56.5 cm (15 ¾ x 21 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower left, Manzana Pissarro 1953
The last years of his...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Mid-Century Children's Party Scene . Red and Orange, Native American
Located in Miami, FL
Broad areas of bold, flat red, magenta, and pink characterize this mid-century painting by Barbara Warren Ebersole ( Barbara Tate Ebersole ). It depicts a block party festooned with balloons and a street organ grinder with a smartly dressed performing monkey. The overall look of a lot mid-century art inspires many of today's most celebrated contemporary artists. Signed and dated upper left. Oil on Masonite. Barbara Warren Ebersole was a painter and an author. She may have been of Native American...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Voyeur chair. Romantic Couple Kissing and Embracing, Mid Century Illustration
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross gives us a voyeur view of an attractive couple kissing and embracing on a couch. Sharpe's radical use of composition is on ...
Category
Romantic 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Gouache, Board
Indian sacrificial ceremony - Aztec Human Sacrifice
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
The sacrificial ceremony, Freemans The Collection of Philip Desind Signed Three times Riggs l.r. A powerful account of moments a tribe member is cut open and the heart is handed over to a young brave,
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. That's easy. To execute a portrait with a great depth of anatomy and structure takes years of academic training. In Riggs's time there were teachers who knew how to pass on this knowledge. He studied at the Art Students League and the Académie Julian . Today, they are very few and far between. - Robert Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Television, Oil Painting by B.G. Bradley
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: B.G. Bradley, Americn XXth
Title: Television
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed 'BGB' l.r.
Size: 20 x 24 inches
Frame: 25 x 29 inches
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Philip Evergood, Little Rock, Oil on Canvas, 1955 - "Civil Rights."
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The 11 Gauge Shotgun - Saturday Evening Post illustration
By Amos Sewell
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post interior illustration
Signed lower right
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Lovely Outing, " Story Illustration, Ladies Home Journal, 1950
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Story Illustration: Couple Lounging, the admiring new hat. "Geordie" Ladies Home Journal,...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Woman with Arms Crossed
By Byron Browne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Arms Crossed
Mixed media collage-painting on stone chip surface, mounted on fabric, mounted on wood support by the artist, 1955
Signed and dated lower center
Image size: 1...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Other Medium
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm
Provenance Bonhams
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Along the fence. Plywood, oil, 14x14 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Along the fence. Plywood, oil, 14x14 cm
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Plywood
$456 Sale Price
20% Off
Eisenhower, Time magazine cover Time magazine cover, July 4, 1955 ( alternate)
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches.
A noble portrait of Ike as President is depicted against a ringing Liberty Bell. In the...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Sunday Afternoon Callers, Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 17, 1950
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed 'Hughes-' Lower Left
This work was published as the cover of the June 17, 1950 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.
Literature:
J. Cohn, ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Dressing Table, 20th Century British Oil
Located in London, GB
Charles McCall
1907 - 1989
The Dressing Table
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1951
Image size: 30 x 25 inches
Gilt frame
Charles McCall was born in Edinb...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait. On a yellow background 1950's, oil on cardboard, 49.5x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. On a yellow background
1950's, oil on cardboard, 49,5x35 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Nature morte - Huile sur toile, 50x38 cm.
By Isaac Antcher
Located in Nice, FR
Huile sur toile. Dimensions avec cadre: 71x63 cm.
Isaac Antcher est un peintre moldave né le 21 janvier 1899 à Peresecina et mort à Malakoff le 21 av...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jerusalem by Ludwig Blum, landscape painting, figurative art
By Ludwig Blum
Located in London, GB
Jerusalem by Ludwig Blum
Oil on canvas
18 x 28.7 inches / 45.7 x 73cm
Signed
Painted circa 1955
Category
Naturalistic 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1950’s CubisM abstract Flag Arrangements
Located in New York, NY
1950’s Cubist abstract arrangements of flags by Edward August Landon (1911 - 1984). Acrylic/oil on board, signed lower right Landon. Housed in the original frame. Overall with fra...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
High Priced Party Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of High Priced Party Girl by Bart Frame, A C...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting - The Priests
Located in Bristol, GB
THE PRIESTS
Size: 60 x 48 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A brilliantly painted mid century figurative portrait of 2 priests, exec...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Indiscretions of a French Model, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1953
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Dimensions: 15.00" x 12.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This illustration was published as the cover for Indiscretions of a French Model by Ba...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"I thought you didn't go anywhere..." - Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The illustration shows a woman sitting in a chair next to a man lying on a sofa. The scene of the couple's living room is shown from above
Published as an illustration for Steve McN...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Christmas Tree Love, Original holiday cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover forThe Saturday Evening Post, published December 23, 1950
A man arrives home carrying a Christmas tree only to discover that his wife has already bought one. The wo...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
The Head and the Heart, American Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Board
Dimensions: 10.25" x 12.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The Head and the Heart, American Magazine story illustration, September 1951
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Board
'Swamp Test' American Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 27.00" x 38.00"
"Dr. Walters glanced back. Howell was whispering to Louise as though the savagery arou...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in a Red Dress, Mid Century Female Illustrator/ Artist, Elizabeth Taylor ?
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century female illustrator/artist Gladys Rockmore Davis paints a compelling portrait of a contemplative beauty who looks like Elizabeth Taylor. Frontal and lateral forces work together in this pyramidal composition. The sitter stares down at the viewer creating a frontal tension. Her hypnotic gaze is counterbalanced by the lateral movement of her crossed hands and triggers an emotional response. Gladys Rockmore Davis is both a work-for-hire illustrator and a fine artist- She was an illustrator for clients such as Upjohn, Munsingwear, Elgin Watches, and Johnson & Johnson. Davis had a show at the prestigious Midtown Gallery and Babcock Gallery in New York. She studied at the California School of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, and Art Students League. William R. French Gold Medal...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting - The Children
Located in Bristol, GB
THE CHILDREN
Size: 36.5 x 66 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A richly textured and endearing mid century modernist style figurative portrait, painted in oil onto board.
Rendered ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Hollywood & Headlines: 1954
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1954
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 20.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The events of 1954.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Caterwaul by Orovida Pissarro - Animal painting
Located in London, GB
Caterwaul by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 24 inches)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blondin Crossing Niagara
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This piece was published as an illustration in True Magazine titled "Blondin Crossing Niagara" in 1953. Born Jean-François Grave...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Figurative Oil Painting - Off to School
Located in Bristol, GB
OFF TO SCHOOL
Oil on canvas
Size: 32 x 25.5 cm (including frame)
A lovely and endearing miniature oil on canvas depicting a scene of a pedestrian walkway on a fine summer’s day.
A ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Masonite, Oil
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
Horses, Chicken, Ducks, Rooster and Pigs Children's Book - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Cover illustration for mid-century children's book publisher Merril Publishers. Signed lower right. Unframed. Retta Scott or Retta Worcester was (February 23, 1916 – August 26, 1990) was an pioneering Female Illustrator / American artist. She was the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Scott worked on storyboards to develop scenes of Bambi, his mother, and the film’s hunting dogs, on which she spent weeks to develop them into “vicious, snarling, really mean beasts.” Male artists in the company were stunned who initially assumed that only a man could create drawings with such intensity and technical skill. Her sketches caught the eye of Disney, so when the film went into production, she was assigned to animate scenes of hunting dogs chasing Faline. She worked under the film's supervising director, David D. Hand,and was tutored by Disney animator Eric Larson. This was a significant coup for the young woman, since at the 1930s-era Disney studio, women were considered only for routine tasks: "Ink and paint art was a laborious part of the animation process, and was solely the domain of women..." Her promotion to animator was in part thanks to the success of herself and other women such as Bianca Majolie, Sylvia Holland, and Mary Blair as storyboard artists. Even after receiving a promotion to animator, she and her animations continued being under appreciated in the industry. Though the most recognized Walt Disney female artist is Mary Blair, it is Retta Scott who opened up the doors for women in the animation industry. She became the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator. By the spring of 1941, Scott was also considered a "specialist in animal sketches."
Scott helped produce Fantasia and Dumbo, as well as an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows that was later cancelled. She also made an appearance in The Reluctant Dragon...
Category
Feminist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Love Story Couple in Romantic Bliss Illustration - Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome man and a beautiful woman are depicted in a rapturous pose. Their bodies are intertwined with each other and with the surrounding floral elements. This masterfully render...
Category
Romantic 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
$14,400 Sale Price
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"The Red Barn Players Summer Theater" - American Weekly Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Couple putting on theatrical make-up for summer theatre
Cover of American Weekly Magazine, June 20, 1954
Dimensions: 19.75 x 16.00 in.
Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Paper
Signa...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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
PAUL MAAS Les Vacances 1958 Family at the Beach Large Expressionist Oil Painting
By Paul Maas
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Provenance:
Collection of the Artist
Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Warner, Washington, Connecticut
Collection of the Washington Art Association, Inc.
Private Collection, California...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Men Hunting, Goodyear Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original advertisement for Goodyear Super-Cushion Tires, circa 1950
The image shows three men drinking coffee at a hunting camp in an autumn landscape.
Frank C. Bensing was born in Chicago, Illinois, and received his art training there at the Art Institute. Among his teachers were DeForrest Schook, Wellington Reynolds, Charles Schroeder and Walter Biggs...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots - Woman Illustrator
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots by Lorraine Fox can be a joyful addition to your home. A beautiful redheaded young girl looks back at us from ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Easter back cover for The War Cry, a magazine published by the Salvation Army
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Back Cover illustration for the April 8, 1950 Easter edition of The War Cry, a magazine published by the Salvation Army
This heartwarming image graced the back cover of the 1950 Eas...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Now and Then - Original Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This piece was illustrated on the cover of four magazines:
the May 28, 1957 issue of the Familie Journal, the May 1957 issue of Allers, the August 10, 1957 issue of
HÖRZU, and the October 25, 1958 issue of Panorama.
This illustration featuring two little girls side-by-side, both on the telephone, shows how much has changed between 1907 and 1957.
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm (28 ³/₄ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated upper right Orovida 1951
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th November 1988
With John Noott, 10th June 1992
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 141 (illustrated)
Exhibition
London, Redfern Gallery, Recent Paintings: Orovida, 3rd-26th January 1952, no. 51
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$18,500 Sale Price
22% Off
The Fortune Teller by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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The Fortune Teller by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₄ inches)
Signed and d...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Crime Scene, Original Magazine Story Illustration
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration for True magazine, presumably published February 1956.
Nighttime scene of policemen and bloodhounds investigating a murder on a cobblestone street.
Approximate Date: 1956
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 22.70" x 16.20"
Tom Lovell Biography:
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Benjamin Franklin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 42.00" x 37.00"
PRICE ON REQUEST-
This image was used in magazine advertisements and promotion...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101 x 76 cm (39 ¾ x 29 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower left Orovida 1953
Provenance
Richard Pissarro, gifted by the ar...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
Minimalist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Sexy Woman in a Swamp Storm - Pulp Magazine, Hispanic Artist, Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Rafael Maria de Soto y Hernandez was born February 18, 1904 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It's high drama in the swamp. Woman in the Swamp is a masterfully executed example of Pulp Art and showcases Rafael DeSoto's full command of academic painting.
DeSoto did pulp covers up until the industry's demise in the 1950s for such magazines as Adventure, Argosy, Black Mask, Captain Zero, Crack Detective, Fantastic Novels, 15-Story Detective, Fifteen Western Tales, New Detective, Smashing Detective, and Walt Coburn's Western Magazine. He also painted many covers and interior story illustrations for men's adventure magazines, such as Action For Men, Adventure, Battle Cry, For Men Only...
Category
Academic 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Princess and Prince, Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina Fairy Tales
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti paints a charming fantasy scene. It's of an extreme closeup of a tiny crowned and winged Prince and Princess They are standing upright in a dand...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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Old Hollywood Art
Old Master Painting Nymph
Otto Aguiar On Sale
Outsider Art Angel
Painter Roche
Painting 1643
Painting By Webster
Pal Molnar
Palestine 1940