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Period: 1950s
Head with Plant
Located in New York, NY
Lester Johnson "Head with Plant" 1959 oil on paper. Early figurative expressionist painting on paper. Nicely framed.
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Mid Century Carmel Valley Figurative Landscape -- The Roadside Grocer
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous figurative landscape of a Carmel roadside grocer by Edda Maxwell Heath (American, 1874 - 1972). Signed and dated lower left corner. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 20"H ...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lookout Point, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, July 18, 1953.
The Post described, “Gently, gently now, for both side...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This painting is as much about the artist's brilliant painting skills and technique as it is about the subject matter. Sundblom's quick bravura brush strokes seem abstract on close i...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winter Evening Fifth Avenue - New York at Night
By Ernest Fiene
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Fiene depicts Fifth Avenue looking down from 57th Street with an unobstructed view of the Empire State Building. The absence of newer glass and steel architecture gives the painting the charm of old New York. The artist captures a dark, moody blue sky as light bounces back from the clouds. This contrasts with the somewhat haunting yellow glow given to pedestrians and street traffic. The people have somewhat of a zombie quality akin to George Tooker. Best viewed with a top and direct gallery light...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eavesdropping on Grownups, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, December 2, 1950
The Post described, “One night Art Editor Stuart was having a party. His three boys came downstairs four times and were conducted back up by their mother. The next time they came down, Papa Stuart waxed excited, firmly conveyed them aloft himself, and they did not show up again. Stuart was warmly congratulated on his success as a father. When the party broke up, the youngest lad was found asleep on the stairs. Stuart claims that the older ones never did come down again, but this was probably because they merely went to sleep in their beds from natural causes. George Hugehes has painted some other people’s offspring, to get over the idea that children all over America are eager to improve their minds by listening to sophisticated conversation.”
(The Saturday Evening Post, December 2, 1950, p. 3)
Exhibited:
Norman Rockwell Museum...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Modern abstract cityscape, unique oil painting, signed twice, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Norman Carton
Mid Century Modern Cityscape, ca. 1951
Oil on canvas painting (signed twice)
Signed twice: hand signed on the front and also signed on the back
Unique
Frame included:
T...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mona Lisa
By Pal Fried
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pal Fried,
Hungarian/American, 1893-1976
Mona Lisa
Oil on canvas
30 by 24 in.W/frame 38 by 32 in.
Signed lower left
Pal was born in Budapest and studied at the Hungarian Academie ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
"Untitled"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by Jean Calogero. Circa 1950. Signed lower right. Condition: Good. Overall in museum quality gold leaf frame 17.5 by 15.75 inches. Provenance: Manhattan Co...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Animal painting by Orovida Camille Pissarro titled 'Exercising Ponies'
Located in London, GB
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Exercising Ponies by Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101.5 x 76 cm (40 x 30 inches)
Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1954
Provenance
Estate of Orovida Pissarro
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
Sotheby's London, 12th October 1988
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. 161 (illustrated)
Exhibitions
London, Bowmore Gallery, Women in Art 1850-1989, 2nd-11th November 1989
Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Art, Camille Pissarro and his Descendants, January-April 2000, no.123
This work was included in the above important museum exhibition and a catalogue of the Fort Lauderdale museum show will be included with this painting.
Biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, the only child of Lucien and Esther Pissarro, was the first woman in the Pissarro family to become a professional artist and the first Pissarro of her generation to take up painting. Born in Epping, England, in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London, where she was a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style from her father and, after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913, she renounced formal art schooling.
Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment, she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed an unusual style that combined elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which, for the Pissarro family, was a way of life, and her simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and use simply Orovida as a nom de peintre, reflected a desire for independence and distance from the family legacy, of which she nevertheless remained proud.
Orovida's most distinctive works are her paintings from the 1920s...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
“A Date for the Baby Sitter” Magazine story illustration for Good Housekeeping
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “A Date for the Baby Sitter” by Eileen Herbert Jordan for Good Housekeeping, published December 1958, illustrated pages 58-59
The full caption reads: “Thus Peggy went forth—sailed might be the better word—escorted by part of the Navy.” The snowy scene features a woman and two sailors leaving the house at Christmas time.
Exhibited: The Triumph of Winter, National Arts Club, New York, December 16, 2013- January 5, 2014
Date: 1958
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.20" x 33.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Elegant woman portrait with scarf
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dancing Class, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1952
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, May 10, 1952.
The Post describe...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Irish Oil on Panel Painting "Fisherman Roundstone" Connemara Galway Circa 1950
Located in Portland, OR
An important Irish oil painting by George F Campbell (1917-1979), titled "Fishermen Roundstone", circa 1950.
The painting depicts two fishermen on their boat with nets and crab pots at the Roundstone harbor Connemara, with a row of whitewashed cottages to the background, the painting is signed "Campbell" lower right. Condition is very good, the painting was professionally cleaned and conserved in 1983, by Lucas Conservation Laboratory. Housed in the original wooden frame.
An important painting by one of Ireland's most significant 20th century artists.
Provenance; acquired directly from the artist thence by family descent. A C.O.A will be provided with this work.
Biography
Irish artist George Campbell began painting during the blitz of Belfast while working in an aircraft factory. He painted in Connemara, London and most frequently, Spain, where he lived for twenty five years. A founder member of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Campbell was a member of the RHA, and won, among other awards, the Douglas Hyde Gold Medal in 1966 and the Oireachtas Prize for Landscape in 1969. Campbell’s paintings are represented in Irish public and private collections.
Campbell was born in Arklow, County Wicklow, the son of the respected artist Gretta Bowen (1880-1981) & Matthew Campbell (1866-1925). He attended boarding school in Dublin (Masonic Orphan Boys’ School at Clonskeagh) before moving to Belfast to live with his widowed mother and family.
Campbell was working in an aircraft factory at the time of the Belfast Blitz, and began to paint, taking the bomb-damage as his subject. He was one of the founders of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943. In the same year along with his brother Arthur (1909-1994) he published a sixteen-page book entitled Ulster in Black and White, that included drawings from the two brothers and their close contemporaries Maurice Wilks...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Impressionist mid 20th century still life of flowers in a vase, with poppies
Located in Woodbury, CT
Impressionist mid-century still life of flowers in a vase, with poppies.
This is an oil on canvas and is framed in a vintage English frame.
The artist was also a restorer and maybe more famous as running a studio of forgers in London, as well as being a respected painter.
His most famous pupil was Eric Hebborn...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Figurative Oil Painting - The Ensemble
Located in Bristol, GB
THE ENSEMBLE
Size: 29 x 37 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A small yet very striking mid century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
The artist has used the exp...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Nude - Oil Paint by Giuseppe Torelli - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Seated Nude is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Torelli in 1950s.
Oil on cardboard.
64x48 cm with frame.
Handsigned in the lower right margin.
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Whatever my other shortcomings..." - Illustration for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Published as an illustration for John F. Wallace’s short story “Love Wasn’t Enough,” in the June 22, 1957 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The illustration features a man kissing the loved hand of a fashionably dressed woman standing on a city street.
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Futurist Vision - Mid-Century New York Skyline - Industrial Progress
Located in Miami, FL
Rarely do you come across a work of art that is vastly different than just about anything you see. This work is undeniably brilliant and a sheer pleasure to behold. Alexander Leydenfrost...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Graphite, Charcoal
Folk Singer oil painting by Byron Browne
By Byron Browne
Located in Hudson, NY
Lovely oil painting by Byron Browne. Measures 18" x 14" and framed 24" x 20" x 1 3/4".
Signed "Byron Browne" lower left.
Inscribed on canvas verso: Byron Browne / 1958 / – Folk Singer– / 18 x 14 / N.Y.C.
About this artists: Through an oeuvre displaying the re-envisioning of figural subjects and the formation of an abstract expressionist style, Byron Browne stands out among the American abstractionists of his generation. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1907, the artist was a bright talent at the National Academy of Design in his teens. From 1924 to 1928 Browne studied at the Academy under notable artists Robert Aitkin, Charles Courtney Curran, Charles Hawthorne, Alice Murphy...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Editor and Typist - Mid Century Women's Magazine Illustration Naive art
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox was a pioneering female Illustrator/artist who championed a unique style immediately identified as hers. This work, in two parts, was most likely for a newsstand woman's...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Mid-Century Cosmopolitan Illustration Surreal Family Narrative
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
A complex story is portrayed in one picture.
American Glamour Illustrator Jon Whitcomb interprets a Mid-Century Cosmopolitan story about a beautiful blond actress who, on set, appea...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Stadium Party
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
French school 20th Century, Portrait of a young man in green, oil
Located in Paris, FR
French school of the 20th Century,
Portrait of a young man in green,
oil on cardboard panel, cradled on the back
53 x 40 cm
This intense portrait is particularly moving and intere...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Knight in Distress - Original Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A fashionable woman gazes into a mirror and fixes her hair as a young man stares at the bill in shock after a lavish meal at a restaurant.
Illustrated on the cover of the February 21, 1959 edition of Panorama as well as HÖRZU, 1958, cover illustration.
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Mixed Media
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
Resume Safe Speed, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1959
By Thornton Utz
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, May 30, 1959.
The Post described, “It is so refreshing to get away from...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cabins in the Camargue
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Cabins in the Camargue' by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). The Camargue is a vast, swampy delta near Arles, very exotic, with tall marsh grasses where pink flamingos, black bulls and white horses roam freely. This image depicts one of the gardians in a small gathering of cabanes, hat hanging cowboy-style around the back of the neck, as he approaches his horse grazing outside its modest stable. Although there are many horses that still run free in the Camargue, there are cowboys like this one — called gardians — who ride the white horses on the beaches...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Oil Painting, Framed Street Scene - Pedestrians
Located in Bristol, GB
PEDESTRIANS
Size: 35 x 30 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A small yet very impactful modernist street scene composition, executed in oil onto board.
This composition presents a b...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Abstract Expressionist Figurative Female Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3240a Oil on artist board set in a vintage black wood frame
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Young musicians oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Musicians
Artist: Bernat Sanjuán i Tarré (Barcelona, 1915 – Deià, Mallorca, 1979)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36.2 x 25.6 in
Support: Canvas
Framing: Unframed
Period:...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
"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
"Portal View-Sailboats in Harbour", 20th C. Oil on Masonite by Ism. de la Serna
Located in Madrid, ES
ISMAEL GONZÁLEZ DE LA SERNA
Spanish, 1898 - 1968
"PORTAL VIEW - SAILBOATS IN HARBOUR"
unsigned
oil on masonite
25-1/4 x 22-1/2 inches (64 x...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Leaf People Surreal Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3004 Fantasy oil painting on board, displayed in a dark-wood frame
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
MADELEINE (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
"Plage de Trouville" 1953, 20th Century oil on canvas by Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
PLAGE DE TROUVILLE
signed Grau Sala (lower left)
signed again, located & dated "Grau Sala, Trouville, 1953" on the reverse
oil on canvas
15 X 24 inches (38 X 61 cm.)
framed: 24-1/2 X 33-3/4 inches (62.5 X 85.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private French Collection
Emilio Grau Sala came from a family of artists. He was born in Barcelona in 1911 and his father, a good cartoonist, had been one of the promoters of the "Salon des Humanistes" and made his exhibitions normally in the Parés Hall.
His first works were exhibited at the Salon des Independents, in the years 1930-33.
Grau Sala was essentially a Mediterranean painter, son of post-impressionism and enriched with French painting of the last fifty years.
Grau Sala lived and absorbed all the avant-garde movements that broke through in Paris, but never adhered to any. Creating your personal style. His pictorial lyricism and naturalism superimposed the evotative and sensitive quality of the image to any other concern. In 1953 Grau Sala spends his first summer in Honfleur becoming one of the most active Honflerian painters. Honfleur forms a coast triangle next to Deauville and Trouville, and in that August of 53, Grau Sala pinto is an elegant beach, which at that time met French and European high society.
His works can be found in the Museums of the Villa de Paris, L'Ile de France Museum, at the Château de Sceaux, Honfleur Museum, La Rochelle Museum, Barcelona Museum, Tossa de Mar...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West )
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
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
Paysans devant le village - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Marcel Dyf
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas figures in landscape circa 1950 by French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The work depicts workers tending to a field beside a rural village.
Signature:
...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Scandinavian Pensive young Beauty by Kahzn
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5094 Scandinavian pensive young beauty oil painting set in a carved wood gilt frame
Signed Kahzn 71
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tricking Trick-or-Treaters, Halloween Cover for The Saturday Evening Post
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 25.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original Halloween cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, November, 3, 1951. A ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figures Running - Early Abstract Expressionism like Willem de Kooning
Located in Miami, FL
Salvatore Grippi was my art professor at Ithaca college from 1970- 1971
Who was doing paintings like this in 1950? Jackson Pollack, Willem De Kooning and Salvatore Grippi, and a few...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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
'Paris, Flower Market', Young Mademoiselles, Gamines des Fleurs, Jeunes Filles
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Francois Gerome (French, born 1895) and accompanied with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Born in Paris in 1895, Francois Gerome is best known for paintings of young, fash...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shooting Gallery, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
The Saturday Evening Post cover, September 12, 1953
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Still Life w/ Flowers, Bust & Parisian Scene, American Impressionist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Abel Warshawsky (American, 1883-1962)
Still Life
Oil on canvas
Signed upper right
32 x 25.5 inches
Provenance: From the Alexander Warshawsky Estate
Impressionist painter A.G. Wars...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"In The Street", Gregori Goncharov, Russian Impressionism, Original, 53x81 in.
By Gregori Goncharov
Located in Dallas, TX
"In the Street" by Gregori Goncharov is an original French impressionist painting measuring 53x81 in. in a gold ornate frame. In this painting Gregori Goncharov displays his talent in chiaroscuro as light floods from the home stead illuminating a fun outdoor party in the blue night.
Grigori Andreevich Goncharov was born in Rossosch, Voronezh Region in 1913. His works are an excellent example of Russian Impressionism...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lighthouse Keeper, Brant Point
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left ‘Stevan Dohanos’
Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Laid Down on Masonite
The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 26th, 1954...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Vendimia - Grape Harvest
Located in Berlin, MD
Georges Dayez (French, 1907-1991). “Vendimia” Vintage / Grape Harvest / Wine Harvest , Oil on paper, 20”x 26 1/3, framed 27 1/4 x 33 1/4.
Dayez was a...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Board
