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Period: 1950s
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
Coed Tourists in Italy, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, August 2, 1958
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Editorial text on page 3 of the Post with this featured illustration:
"Artist Alajalov, reaching for a dictionary which once helped him through a tour of Italy’s hill towns...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
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
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
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
Tales of the Arabian Nights with Flying Carpet - Random House Gustaf Tenggren
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
Gustaf Tenggren- Attributed This masterfully designed and graphic interpretation of the Arabian Nights saga features a monumental figural profile while small figures float above on a magic carpet. Gustaf Tenggren (American 1896-1970) Attributed - We are not certain if Tenggren did this work. There is stylistic evidence to support Tenggren. It's the brilliance factor of how he assembles all the elements of the work and composes it into a cogent and readable form. This says Tenggen. As a former New York advertising agency art director, I have seen artists work in different styles. Usually this is not the case but great artist can do it. Their styles can change but the brilliance remains.
Untitled
Untitled
1957
Gouache on illustration board - Unframed
Not signed
9 x 7.25 live - 10.5 x 9.5 board
Original book illustration...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
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
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
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
Bonnie B. Paint Book Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Elizabeth Voss was a top mod-century illustrator at Merrill Company and was a
major figure in Children's Art and Children's Illustration
Signed B. Gartrell was the pseudonym Elizabet...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Lanvin Paris Arpege/ Crescendo/ Dividend/ My Sin Perfume Advert Sign"
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 8"H x 4 7/8"W
w/ easel-back
c1950s
Hand-made by Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Watercolor
"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
Portrait
By Joseph Pollet
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Description
A portrait of a stylized young man dressed in a blue coat with a ruffled white shirt in an artistic background suggest that it may be a portrait of a young actor or performer.
About the artist.
Joseph Pollet was an important member of the Woodstock Art Colony. He emigrated to NYC in 1911 from Albbruck, Germany (born in 1897) and at age 21 had a promising career as an advertising copywriter. While working, he studied painting and his landscapes were immediately successful in NYC galleries. He studied at the Art Student's League with John Sloan, Robert Henri, and Homer Boss...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,000
Stadium Party - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Stadium Party depicts at wholesome all-american tail gate party from the 1950's. Stadium Party
Circa 1950's
16 x 22
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left , Condition is excellent, Work i...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Hatchet - Movie Moment of High Drama
By Amos Sewell
Located in Miami, FL
High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event.
Signed lower left
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Most likey for the Sa...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$22,400 Sale Price
20% Off
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
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
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
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
Novelist Graham Green. Time magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Work is nicely archival matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches but not framed. Signed lower left
Published : Oct. 29, 1951 Cover, Time Magazine
Category
Photorealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Burro Alley, Paperback Cover, 1953
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
Dimensions: Sight Size 35.5" x 25.5;" Framed 39.50" x 28.75"
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of Burro Alley by Edwin...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, 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
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
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
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
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
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
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
"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
“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
Yesterday's Love, Love can Be True. The Heart can Betray
Located in Miami, FL
Classic illustration for a romanace novel from the 1950's in England. Recently these charming works have been the source of interest and even parody. Unsigned, unframed. Vale Studi...
Category
Academic 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
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
Couple
Located in PARIS, FR
Since the 1940s, the Egyptian painter Hamed Abdalla is not only a visionary pioneer of modern art for the global south and Arab countries; he is also one of the first of his generation to envision painting as political art and activism. The current display focuses on a specific time of defeat and disillusion for a whole generation of Arab artists and intellectuals, in the aftermath of the “Six Days War” led by Israel and their allies (a war title which a lot of Arab activists consider propagandist, preferring to call it “The Defeat of 1967” or simply the “June 1967 War”). This persistent ideological wound became the symbol of failed dreams for the “Arab Nation” or Arab states alliances – including the short but emblematic Egyptian-Syrian achievement of the United Arab Republic.
Another major failure, to which Abdalla will respond through the paintings on display here, is the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat program of “opening up” (Infitah) the Egyptian economy and give way to political compromise with the US and Israel – Abdalla assimilating this period to a vast state of Coma for all Arab people and territories.
In a collective statement by a group of Egyptian artists exiled in Paris (including Abdalla), published in the Egyptian local journal Al-Dustur, on 5 December 1977, one can read: “This disaster is far greater than the defeat of June 1967. Rather, it approaches the scale of the disaster that took place in 1948 (…) To destroy the Arab people’s noble three decades-long struggle against imperialism and Zionism (…) Sadat is exploiting the stifling economic crisis that Egypt is currently facing (…) We must resist this betrayal of our nation or be crushed under the wheels of global imperialism for generations to come.”
The works presented here reflect Abdalla’s transformation of the Hurrufiyyah aesthetics, to achieve his own way of “Arab Letterism”. It claims for a deeply experimental, non-decorative, politically committed and non-commercial use of the Arabic letter...
Category
Abstract 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$44,934
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
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
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
"Is Geography Distracting You From the World Series?
By Charles Kerins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover for The Catholic Boy magazine, published September 1952. Captioned on the first page of the magazine: "Is geography distracting you from ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Year of the Tempest
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original pulp paperback cover for The Year of the Tempest by Peter Matthiessen, published by Bantam, New York, 1957 (Bantam #A1578). This was the first paperback edition of the novel...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Modeling Dress, Cereal Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"End of Track, " Paperback Cover, 1951
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
End of Track - Paperback Cover, written by Ward Weaver, Popular Library, 1951.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fred C. Dobbs Paddle Steamer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration dates circa 1950.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Cover of 'Swords of Casanova'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Unsigned
Contact for exact dimensions.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tragic Ground, Paperback Cover, 1958
By James Avati
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
This illustration was published as the paperback cover for Tragic Ground by Erskine Caldwell, Signet, 1958.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, 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
A Bullet for My Love, Paperback Cover
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This is the paperback cover for A Bullet For My Love by Octav...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Backwoods Hussy, Paperback Cover
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Country Gentleman Magazine Cover
By Robert Addison
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1953
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 32.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of Nov. 1953 issue of Country Gentleman magazine...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Glamour & Grit: 1955
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 24.00" x 36.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
House of Deceit, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.75" x 14.25"
Signature: Unsigned
This illustration was published as the cover for House of Deceit by Rae Loomis, Ace S-124, 1955.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"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
Man on Floor Illustration
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Miami, FL
Man on Floor Illustration
ca. 1950–1959
Paintings, gouache on board
8 x 26.25 in. (20.3 x 66.7 cm.)
Modern
Magazine Story Illustration
Heritage, Morris Weiss CollectionSunning work w...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Midsummer Moon, 1950s
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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