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Period: 1950s
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
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 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
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
"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
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
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
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 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
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
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
'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
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
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
"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
Modeling Dress, Cereal Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
"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
The Naked Rich, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1953
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board
Dimensions: 27.50" x 21.25"
Signature: Titled and Dated '1952' Verso
This illustration was published as the cover for The Naked R...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
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
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
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
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
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
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
Wine of Violence
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This appeared as the cover for the 1952 Popular Library paperback Wine of Violence by Ralph Ingersoll
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Group of Four: Baseball Themed Illustrations
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor, Gouache & Charcoal on Board
Date: 1950s
Dimensions: Various Sizes
Signature: Unsigned
Contact for exact dimensions.
AMERICAN ARTIST (20th Century)
Group of four...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Charcoal, Gouache, Watercolor
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
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
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
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
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
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
Salt Gold Sunset, Saturday Evening Post Story Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post sticker and editorial and production marks on verso.
This is more than just a simple semi-silhouette. It's a carefully crafted and wonderfully composed image. T...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
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
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
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
$45,060
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
Company K - Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Book cover for "Company K" by William March.
Subject matter features three army soldiers in monochrome ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Coming up Roses
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left, "Hughes"
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Framed 24.50" x 26.50"
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, June 8, 1957.
The Post described, “...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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
Dark Streets of Paris (Lucifer's Dream) Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration was the paperback cover of Dark Streets of Paris (Lucifer's Dream) by Jean Louis Curt...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
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
Guests for Christmas Dinner, 1950
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Medium: Acrylic on Gessoed Panel
Advertisement for dried fruits, 1950.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic, Panel
Coricidin Cold Tablet Advertisement
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: Late 1950s
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 16.25" x 17.50"
Signature: Unsigned
Coricidin Cold Tablet Advertisement, Schering Corporation Advertisement
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Still Life
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left 'Hassan Soliman 1957'
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
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
Spring (Primrose Gathering) by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Spring (Primrose Gathering) by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101.5 x 76.4 cm (40 x 30 inches)
Signed and dated lower centre Orovida 1956
Provenance
Estate of Orovida Pis...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
No title
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
Minimalist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Grand Mother and Grand Son Read Emotional Letter
Located in Miami, FL
Crockwell is as good as Rockwell. Many would agree with that statement including the editors of the Saturday Evening Post in which both artists were frequent contributors. In fact, ...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, Russia March 16th 1959
By Robert Engle
Located in Miami, FL
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, March 16th 1959
Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.),
Gouache on board
12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Signed Lower left
Powerful study of Russian ...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
The Lion and the Throne, The Atlantic Magazine Cover
By James Avati
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Contact for exact dimensions.
The Atlantic Magazine Cover Illustration.
November 1956, Volume 198
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Golden Egg, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1953
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 24.00" x 16.50"
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of The Golden Egg...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Cornish Bunch - Kate Nicholson Flower Still Life Oil Painting, Neutrals + White
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Kate Nicholson 1929-2019
Cornish Bunch, 1955
oil on canvas laid on board
27.9 x 22.9 cm
11 x 9 in
signed, titled and dated verso
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
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