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Period: 1950s
"People on Horseback" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
This piece depicts a couple on horseback followed by a man in a red military uniform. A dog runs by the group. This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sk...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Heinz Borchers "Schiessbude" Oil Paint on Board, 1951
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on hardboard, 1951, by Heinz Borchers ( 1898-1972 ), Germany. Signed and dated top right: Heinz Borchers 51. Framed.
Dimensions: 29.53 x 23.82 in ( 75 x 60,5 cm ) Provenance: es...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Mother & Children - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Piece by Muriel Archer
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Born on June 25 1911 - she died just before her 100th birthday, fond of drawing and painting from an early age, she did her first drawing when she was four years old. She later studi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"Harlequin" 1951
Located in San Antonio, TX
Chester Snowden (1900 - 1984) Houston Artist Size: 16 x 12 Frame: 23 x 19 Medium: Oil 1951
Biography
Chester Snowden (1900 - 1984) Houston Artist
Chester Snowden was born in Elgin, Texas. He attended The University of Texas in Austin and the Cooper Union in New York as well as studying at the Art Students League of New York, Grand Central Galleries Art School, also in New York and the Richard Art School in Los Angeles. His teachers included Harry Sternberg, Boardman Robinson and Walter Jack Duncan. Snowden worked as a painter and an illustrator, for decades providing art for the publications of naturalist author, Royal Dixon...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Obelisk - Muslim Woman Hijab, Mid-Century Architectural Forms - Brazilian Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Brazilian/ American Artist William Schock paints a portrait of a Muslim woman in a Hijab gazing directly at the viewer. She is set against an obelisk and an arch in a well-balanced c...
Category
Color-Field 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Woman Still Life - Pencil Figurative Still Life of Nude Lady by A. Bradbury
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Born on the 17th September 1892 in Preston, Lancashire. He specialised in painting portraits, landscapes and marines on oil, watercolour and pastel and was an accomplished etcher and...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Untitled Figure (c. 1950s)
By Adine Stix
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous oil and watercolor on paper by abstract expressionist artist Adine Stix. Beautiful shades of pink, purples, cobalt blue with s hint of orange cover the paper to create the h...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor
Glamorous Redhead Iconic Mid-Century Illustration
By Al Parker
Located in Miami, FL
Glamorous Redhead is a poster-like iconic image that sums up an era in American visual history - The 1950s. Al Parker is a giant in the history of American Illustration. He possess...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Fallen Man - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post, Story Illustration
Depicts Connecticut train station with possible drunk commuter being assisted by good samaritan
Signed lower left
Provenance: Illustration ...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration 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
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
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
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
"On Wisconsin, " Oil on Panel Portrait by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"On Wisconsin" is an original oil painting on panel by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. This painting depicts two figures and other symbols to represen...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Bathing Group
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Bathing Group
Oil on canvas board
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
12 by 16 in. W/frame 20 by 24 i...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Oil on Board Italian Signed Landscape Painting, 1950s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Refined Italian painting of the 20th century. Oil on board painting depicting a splendid coastal landscape with maritime pines overlooking a cliff that plunges into the sea. Painting...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the bath house
Located in New York, NY
David Davidovich Burliuk (Ukrainian: Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к; Russian: Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к; July 21, 1882 – January 15, 1967) was a Russian Futurist, Neo-Primitivist, book illustrator, publicist, and author associated with Russian Futurism...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Lost Shoe, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Jack Welch
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Gouache on Paper
Dimensions: 22.50" x 17.50", Framed 28.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, Sep...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Kulissenspiel" ( Backstage Game ) 1954 Oil Painting by Walter Wellenstein
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on cardboard, 1954 by Walter Wellenstein ( Dortmund 1898-1970 Berlin ). Signed and dated lower right: Wellenstein 54. Framed.
Height: 13.78 in ( 35 cm ), Width: 18.5 in ( 47 cm ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Gregorio Muñoz Montoro (1906–1978) - Técnica mixta - Interior con figuras
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado en la parte inferior por el artista
Medidas obra: 32 cm. de altura x 23 cm. de ancho
Medidas marco: 55 cm. de altura x 45 cm. de ancho
Se presenta enmarcada la obra con un...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sexy French Cabaret Dancers - Folies Bergere Pulp Paperback Book Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Campy and sexy illustration of two French chorus girls for the mid-century Avon paperback Les Girls.
Story of the Folies Bergere Unsigned and unframed.
George Ziel...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board
Reclining woman with man in background illustration
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
Most likely for a magazine like Saturday Evening Post interior editorial spread. The empty space to the right was for the art director to surprint type. The empty space acts as a com...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
"Fish" original finger painting signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This is an excellent example of one of Sylvia Spicuzza's rare 'finger paintings': not only is it remarkably large, but it also shows her mastery of the...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Die Sängerin, " Dorothea Stefula, illustration, acrylic, figurative, ca 1950-60
By Dorothea Stefula
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Dorothea Stefula was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1914 and studied at the art academy in Hamburg. Stefula illustrated numerous children's books, designed postage stamps, painted fresc...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Model in Pierre Cardin Suit on Scale in Tuilleries, 1957
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Model in Pierre Cardin Suit on Scale in Tuilleries, 1957 -- Cardin's herringbone tweed "bag" dress photographed by Mark Shaw in Paris's Tuileries Gardens for the LIFE September 1957 ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Giclée
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
French School, Impressionist style, early 20th, Signed Oil on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Title: Afternoon in Bloom
Artist: Unknown (French School, signed Z. Nasir in Persian)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 62 x 46 cm
Signed: Lower right
Date: 1950
A charming and roma...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash
By Peter Helck
Located in Miami, FL
Mid Century Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash in the street." Saturday Evening Post
Work is unframed
Category
Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Gouache
1957 Mid-Century Abstract Signed Swedish Lithograph by Esaias Thorén - Baskets
Located in Bristol, GB
BASKETS
Sheet size: 58 x 45.5 cm
Image size: 49 x 38 cm
Lithograph on paper
A mid century limited edition (164/260) coloured lithograph, signed by Esaias Thorén and dated 1957.
It ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
The Triple Deity, 20th Century Egg Tempera
Located in London, GB
Francis Plummer
1930 - 2019
The Triple Deity
Egg Tempera on board, signed lower left
Image size: 24 x 20 inches
Gilt Framed
Plummer specialised in th...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Study for "Getting up" – 1955, a preparatory drawing by Balthus (1908 -2001)
Located in PARIS, FR
In 1955, as he was residing at the Château de Chassy in the Morvan for two years, Balthus created a large painting entitled "Getting up". Balthus was inspired for this painting by t...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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
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
Warm-Toned Abstract Figurative Portrait of Boxer Jack Johnson
Located in Houston, TX
Warm-toned abstract figurative painting by an unknown artist. The painting depicts Galveston, TX boxer John Arthur Johnson in profile view. Unsigned. Unframed but framing options are...
Category
Abstract 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Happy California Prune Farmers - Female Illustrator - Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Commercial illustration depicting happy California framers for California Prunes. The work is rendered in a charming and highly stylized manner. Unfr...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
'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
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
Petite Fille - Jewish Russian Art
Located in London, GB
This work is hand signed by the artist "Kikoine" in the lower right.
This work was painted in circa 1950-1955.
Literature: Cassou, Jean, Roditi Edouard, Mann, Mendel & Yankel, Jac...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
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
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
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
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
The Well Meaning Kidnapper
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for "The Well-Meaning Kidnapper" by Logan Carrol, published in The Saturday Evening Post, February 3, 1951, page 24.
The full caption reads: "'Don't you know kidn...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, 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
Untitled Expressionist Style Figurative Abstract On Masonite
By Morris Gluckman
Located in Houston, TX
Early Morris Gluckman abstract painting of a black shadow figure holding a pink item.
Artist Biography: Morris Gluckman was born in 1894 in Kiev, Russia. He was an active artist in...
Category
Abstract 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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
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
Pajama Party
By Victor Kalin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Gouache on Board
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
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
"Two Yellow Parakeets and the Surviving Plant" Oil Painting by Pat Berger
Located in Pasadena, CA
Something is mesmerizing about the paintings of Pat Berger - a captivating force that immediately draws us in. Her work is characterized by a unique composi...
Category
Expressionist 1950s 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
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Woman Baking, Redbook Illustration, Mid - Century
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, unframed - Interior Illustration for Redbook Magazine
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
