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Period: 1950s
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
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting - Enigma
Located in Bristol, GB
ENGIMA
Size: 49 x 57 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
An emotive and skillfully executed mid-century abstract figurative composition, painted in oil onto canvas.
The piece featur...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Vanderbilt Sleigh, Original holiday greeting card Christmas illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Vanderbilt Sleigh, Original holiday greeting card Christmas illustration featuring a couple carrying holiday gifts in a horse-drawn sleigh
Medium: Egg Tempera on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
Charlotte Joan Sternberg was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1920. Early on, she became interested in art, and her parents encouraged her efforts. She attended public schools in the area, as well as taking art classes at the technical school. Afterwards, she attended the Yale School of Art. Her fellow classmates included Rudolph Zallinger, who executed the dinosaur mural at the Peabody Museum in New Haven; Jean Day Zallinger, renowned book illustrator; and Edward Paier, founder of the Paier College of Art. It was there that she became interested in egg tempera, and most of her well-known artwork was done in this medium. She was one of a number of Yale artists who revived this medium.(She did not work professionally in oils, although she sometimes used gouache or watercolor.)
She went on to a long career in commercial illustration. She worked extensively for J.Walter Thompson, doing advertising art for such companies as Esso (later Exxon), Textron, and Lederle pharmaceuticals. While she did a variety of subjects, she was best known for her Americana themes, particularly snow scenes of historic New England. Many of these pieces were published as Christmas cards for American Artists Group. She also taught for many years at the Paier College of Art.
She also did a number of limited edition prints for Greenwich Workshop. Her art is used on such items as tapestry pillows, puzzles, and decorative flags. She was commissioned to do several portraits, including those of Gov.John Lodge...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Illustration Board
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
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
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
"The Embrace", Story Illustration for Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1951
By Alex Ross
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Gouache, Pen and Ink on Board
Dimensions: 12.75" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
The Embrace. Story illustration for "How About Tonight?" by John D. Hess, published in Cosmopolitan magazine...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board, Pen
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
Minimalist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
The King's Mistress
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
This illustration was published as the cover of The King's Mistress by Jean Plaidy, 1952.
Framed under glass to an overall size of 24.2...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mans' Ruin c1950s Watercolor
Located in Bristol, CT
c1950s
Watercolor depicting six naughty, scantily-clad vixens representing Mans' Ruin
Art Sz: 10"H x 12 7/8"W
Frame Sz: 15 1/4"H x 18"W
w/ gilt bamboo frame
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
Gina Lollobrigida
By T. J. Kuck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: circa 1950
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 27.75" x 19.75"
Signature: Signed "T. Kuck" Lower Right
"Gina Lollobrigida." Portrait of the I...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
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
Film Noir. Pulp Mystery That police officer knows you. Saturday Evening Post
By Paul Rabut
Located in Miami, FL
Film noir crime drama painted in a single frame. In narrative art, telling a story in a single image is harder than doing it in episodes. "'That police officer...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"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
Analytic Cubist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Wax, Cardboard
Voodoo Devils Take the Sick - The Fight of Good vs Evil - Vodou
Located in Miami, FL
Devils depicted. Artist Wilson Bigaud paints a graphic narrative of mid-century life in Haiti without modern medicine. A man is dying yet there is no doctor present. In the struggle...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"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
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Paper
Ride the Red Earth, Book Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: 1958
Medium: Gouache on Tempera on Board
Dimensions: 17.00" x 15.50"
Signature: Signed and Inscribed Lower Right
This illustration was published as the dust jacket for the h...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Board
People Lawn Bowling in Central Park New York City 1950 oil/canvas NYC blue green
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Aaron Berkman (1900 - 1991)
“Bowling in Central Park” New York
Oil on canvas
10 x 14 inches
Signed and titled verso: Aaron Berkman 1950
Provenance:
Private collection, USA
Aaron Ber...
Category
American Modern 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
The Night Club Mystery
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Not Signed
The Night Club Mystery, The Sexton Blake Library #284 cover, March 1953
This illustration appeared on the c...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Cover Illustration for 'The Skin'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
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
After a Day on the Slopes, Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Following World War II, the United States Brewers Foundation (USBF) wanted beer to be seen in a more positive light, as an integral part of the American...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, 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
Indian Ritual Walking on Fire, Firewalking Ceremony, Mythology and Religion
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Narrative artist Robert Riggs captures a highly-charged scene of an Indian firewalking ceremony. Firewalking is part of a religious ritual and is associated with the mystical powers...
Category
Academic 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Pigment
Hurry Dad - Original Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A panicked little boy looks at his watch in alarm as his father tries to fix the broken television while the mother and daughter look on.
HÖRZU, May 16, 1959, cover illustration.
Panorama, November 14, 1959, cover illustration.
Familie Journal, February 9, 1960, cover illustration.
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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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
The Social Hour
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Probable Redbook Magazine interior illustration, circa 1950
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
“He pulled Francie through the crowd” Frantic Frontier illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Frantic Frontier” by Mosser Mauger for The American Magazine, published February 1956, pages 32-33.
The “Frantic Frontier” story, promoted with the tagline "...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, 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
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
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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
Charles Laughton, Time magazine cover Illustration, March 31, 1952
Located in Miami, FL
Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches
Signed lower left
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
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
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
Trastevere Fountain
Located in Milford, NH
A nice impressionist oil on masonite city scene with a young crowd in Rome, Italy, probably the Fontana del Prigione, illegibly signed lower right, title inscribed on verso “Trastev...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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
Heavy Hauler - Mid-Century Illustration - Children's Books
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1923. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for eight years (!) at the Art Students League. Mario Cooper was among his instructors. Up...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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
Kite Catcher
By Robert Hilbert
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Framed 31.00" x 23.00"
American Weekly magazine cover, October 31, 1954
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
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
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
O MARA'S MUNICIPAL TAVERN - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
O MARA'S MUNICIPAL TAVERN - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Supreme technical skill allows the artist to realistically capture an...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Dinner with Friends
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1950s
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Unsigned
Color study featured in Step By Step Graphics, 1950's.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Noir Crime Drama Shooting - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
By Thornton Utz
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post Illustrator Thornton Utz captures the peak moment of action in this Noir Crime Drama, Shooting illustration on an interior page in the famed magazine in 1958 —...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, 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
Marie-Lize, in front of the Vanity Mirror with Flowers
Located in London, GB
FRANCOIS GALL 1912-1987
Kolozsvar 1912 - 1987 Paris (Hungarian/French)
Title: Marie-Lize, in front of the Vanity Mirror with Flowers / Marie-Lize Devant la Coiffeuse Fleurie, ca ...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dipinto post impressionista figurativo toscano del XX secolo
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
il dipinto (olio su tela 44.5 x 35 cm; with cornice in legno 64 x 54,5) è firmato Maccari in basso a sinistra e titolato "L'insidia" e datato 1956 a penna sul retro. La scena raffigu...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Departing
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.25" x 38.5"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Jumanji, Robin Williams
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 30.00" x 20.00"
Movie poster design.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
It Looked Bigger in the Brochure - Original Magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The illustration features a car salesman trying to talk a man into buying a very small red car whose license plate reads "Pikkolo"
This piece was featured as the cover illustration of both HÖRZU and Panorama in 1959.
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
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
Cute Cow Milks into Bottle. Mid Century Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
George Giusti is in the Art Directors Hall of Fame. George Giusti’s graphic designs and illustrations have graced the covers of Time, Fortune, Holiday. He collaborated with Herbert ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
High Score, This Week Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Center
Contact for exact dimensions.
High Score, By Frank Bennett, This Week Magazine, September 1...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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