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Period: 1960s
" Bosco" Olio cm. 67 x 64 1966
Located in Torino, IT
Bosco autunnale
Marroni ,verde,Betulle
Maya KOPITZEVA (Gagra, Georgia 1924 – San Pietroburgo 2005)
Maya Kuzminichna Kopitzeva nasce nel 1924 in Georgia, ma già l’anno successivo la ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Woman with Colorful Vest Mixed Media 1960's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3626 Mixed media on paper applied to board set in vintage frame
Image size 9.5x7.5"
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Artist's Apartment Mid-Century Fauvist Interior Scene Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
The Artist's Apartment Mid-Century Fauvist Interior Scene Original Oil on Canvas
Vibrant interior scene by Santa Cruz California artist Frances Rinaldo (American, b. 1943). A bright...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Paris - Post Impressionist Landscape Painting - Antoine Blanchard
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed post impressionist figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1960 by French painter Antoine Blanchard. The work depicts a bustling scene at Place de la Republique - a square in...
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Post-Impressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Impressionistic Landscape Oil Painting with Children Circa 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3065 Impressionist Landscape, a 1940's Autumnal scene , oil on canvas displayed in a wood frame.Illegible signature lower right.Image size 13.5 H x 19 w
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Impressionist Portrait oil Painting " Pensive Young Girl" 1960
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3706 Figurative Oil on stretched canvas
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Parisian Female Portrait Oil Painting by Vanzina
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-2714 Impressionist woman portrait,oil on canvas displayed in a black wood frame, signed lower left by Vanzina. Image size 19.50 H x 15.50 W
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Portrait Southern Black Country Girl
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5057 Vintage American portrait of a southern country gil
Set in a painted wood frame under glass
Image size 13x10.5"
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Father and son oil on canvas painting surrealist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ramón Llovet (1917-1987) - Father and son - Oil on canvas
Canvas measures 50x61 cm.
Frame measures 56x67 cm.
Ramon Llovet Miserol (Barcelona, August 7, 1917 - Barcelona, August ...
Category
Symbolist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Old town on the Bay in Baja Mexico Original Oil painting on Linen by Palavicini
Located in Soquel, CA
Old town on the Bay in Baja Mexico Original Oil painting on Linen by Palavicini
Old Village in Baja Mexico by unknown Mexico artist Palavicini. (Mexico 20...
Category
Impressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Vintage American Colorful Kitschy Realist Painting Women at the Beach with Boat
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American colorful kitschy realist painting of women at the beach with a boat by well listed artist Phillip R. Perkins. Framed, oil on board.
Born in a small town in Illinois...
Category
Realist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Cubist Oil Painting of Woman with Flowers in Style of Jacques Villon
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century cubist figurative of older woman with flowers and basket in style of Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963). Signature (Possibly "Louyot") and dated "1964" lower right corner. Presented in original, gilt-toned painted frame (included as-is). Image size: 36"H x 25"W
An early 1900s modern art movement, Cubism focused on exploring relationships between images, perspectives and materials, and opened the door to Abstraction. Cubism began in Paris with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The term 'Cubist' was a derisive description by a critic of a geometric landscape painting done by Braque in 1908. Juan Gris, the originator of Collage, joined Picasso and Braque in 1910. Originating influences on Cubism included geometric-shaped paintings of Paul Cezanne, Post-Impressionisms’ emphasis on flat picture surfaces, and Picasso's fascination with the abstraction he perceived in African tribal masks. Aspects of Cubism were Analytical Cubism and Synthetic Cubism (see Glossary). By 1914, the Cubist movement as an organizing force officially terminated with the beginning of World War I. But its effects remain today. "Almost all later art, figurative and abstract, two and three-dimensional, random or hieratic, was conditioned in some way by these new dimensions of reality." (Phaidon) Other French artists associated with Cubism concepts were Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp and Nicholas Delauney. In America, leading Cubist painters...
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Cubist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Figurative Oil Painting - All Together
Located in Bristol, GB
ALL TOGETHER
Size: 55 x 64.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A richly textured mid-century abstract figurative painting, executed in oil onto canvas.
Simple yet effective in it...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Military Figure Portrait Oil Painting Iran Impressionist Expressive Bold Signed
By Cyrus Afsary
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Portrait of a Soldier from Tehran" is an original oil painting by Cyrus Afsary. The artist signed the painting in the lower right. This piece depicts an Iranian man with a white head scarf, a Keffiyeh.
Artwork Size: 27 1/2" x 19 3/4"
Frame Size: 34 1/4" x 26 1/4"
Artist Bio:
Cyrus Afsary studied art under the strict discipline of the Russian Realist style of painting, graduating with two degrees. He has won numerous awards, including the Best of Show at the C M Russell show of Original Western Art and the Exceptional Merit Award from the National Arts Club at the 1986 Pastel society of America show. He has also received gold and silver medals from the National Academy of Western Art and was the first recipient of the coveted Lougheed Memorial Award. Cyrus won the Painting Award for “ mystical Transformation” at the Buffalo Bill Art Show in 2006 and also shared in the choice award. In 2007 he was awarded the Best of Show at the Eiteljorg Museum and in 2009 at the Charles Russell Museum he received the staff choice award, for “Entrance to Shrine” and in 2010 the Williams Award for Collectors’ reserve at the Gilcrease Museum. Oklahoma.
Cyrus is an artist /member of the Cowboy Hall of Fame. He participates annually in the Prix de West invitational, and the Masters of the American West Exhibition at the Autry Museum in CA. The Eitejorg Museum in Indianapolis, IN and also the Buffalo Bill show in Cody Wyoming. Cyrus was featured in the 2002 Gilcrease Museum Rendezvous in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is also a member of the Northwest Rendezvous Group.
Cyrus and his work appear in numerous publications, including American Artist, Art of The West, South West Art...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage French Impressionist Paris Book sellers Notre Dame 1965
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3944 Vintage acrylic on artist board
Set in a period frame
Image size 19.5x15.5"
Signed
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Hong Kong Junks Mid-Century Impressionist in the Style of Charles Bertie Hall
Located in Soquel, CA
Hong Kong Junks Mid-Century Impressionist in the Style of Charles Bertie Hall
TPeter Wong (Chinese/American, 20th C.) From Taiwan, Province of China....
Category
Impressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
1960s Gloria Dudfield Bay Area Figurative Orange, Yellow Gray Pastel and Paint
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield (1922-2015)
Untitled
c.1960s
Mixed media: gouache, pastel and encaustic on newsprint
11"x15.5" unframed
Unsigned
Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield
July 12, 1922 – May 27, 20...
Category
Abstract 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Encaustic, Gouache
Paul Collomb, Paris, Eiffel Tower, Invalides, The Beautiful View, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Paul Collomb (1921-2010), France, 1960s. The beautiful view. Measurements : with frame: 54.5x41.2 cm - 21.5x16.2 inches, without frame: 46x33 cm - 18.1x13 inches, fo...
Category
Expressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Figurative Oil Painting, Fabian Lundqvist - Blue Ballerinas
Located in Bristol, GB
BLUE BALLERINAS
Size: 55 x 47 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An outstanding mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedish artist Fab...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sophie
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sophie is an expressive and highly individualistic Post Impressionist work reminiscent of Chaim Soutine. Cottavoz isn known and celebrated for using incredibly thick paint that is a...
Category
Abstract 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Torah Scholar, Shimshon Holzman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Shimshon Holzman (1907-1986)
Title: Torah Scholar
Year: 1962
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Size: 13.75 x 19.75 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed...
Category
Academic 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Figurative Nude Portrait Oil Painting - Unnoticed
Located in Bristol, GB
UNNOTICED
Size: 68 x 48 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An expressive mid-century nude figurative portrait, executed in oil onto canvas.
A standing nude figure, with their back...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Flamenco Dancer', Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, Grand Palais, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Partial signature, lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with Certification of Authenticity
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Ge...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Untitled (W-1351-S)
Located in New York, NY
Nicolas Carone
Untitled (W-1351-S), 1965
Oil and pencil on board
26 x 40 inches
Category
Abstract 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Board, Oil
The Breakfast Room
Located in Greenwich, CT
A great early date for this artist where he was coming out of the origins of expressionist and fauve works of art. A unique composition depicting a woman setting out a table laden w...
Category
Expressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Couple
By Peter Keil
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Peter Keil
Title: Couple
Size: 21 1/2 × 25 1/2 Inches (Framed: 24 1/2 × 28 1/2 Inches)
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Edition: Original
Year: 1969
Notes: Hand Signed and Da...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
High Drama Adventure Scene - Italian Illustrator Mid-Century Jules Verne
Located in Miami, FL
Original illustration was done by Renna for the novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne, published in 1963. What makes this work special is how brilliantly the subj...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Tempera
Mid-Century Modern Expressive Street Scene Framed Oil Painting - Crossing Paths
Located in Bristol, GB
CROSSING PATHS
Oil on Board
Size: 60.5 x 52 cm (including frame)
A lively and expressive mid-century modernist style narrative street scene composition, executed in oil onto board.
...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Mid-Century Modernist Street Scene Framed Oil Painting - Priests in Greece
Located in Bristol, GB
PRIESTS IN GREECE
Oil on Canvas
Size: 85 x 75 cm (including frame)
A large and striking mid-century modernist painting, executed in o...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tempête à Honfleur
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Lyne SEYBEL (1919-2009)
Tempête à Honfleur
Oil on canvas
Size: 65 x 92 cm
Signed lower left.
In perfect state of conservation.
With beautiful frame
Provenance: Family of the artist...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Reclining \Nude
Located in St. Albans, GB
Rene Caty
French Impressionist
Exhibited at the Medici Society, London
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated Rene Caty 1962 bottom right.
23.5 x 27.75" (60 x 70cm)
32 x 36.25" (82 x 92cm)
Perhaps Rene Caty's finest work of art with loose brush strokes and wonderful highlights depicting a beautiful red headed girl...
Category
Impressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vieux Montmartre
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Lyne SEYBEL (1919-2009)
Vieux Montmartre
Oil on canvas
Size: 61 x 50 cm
Signed lower left
In perfect state of conservation.
Without frame
Provenance: Family of the artist
Painting...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower Vendor
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Framed size 41.5 x 52 inches.
This painting was exhibited at the Salon Indépendants in 1964, label on verso,
Louis-André Margantin was a student at the École Nationale des Arts Déc...
Category
Cubist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Journey to the Center of the Earth Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
20th Century Italian Illustrator Gianna Renna depicts a emotionally-charged scene of three men on a raft descending into a fiery abyss. His conception and execution of Jules Verne's ...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Self Portrait (American Post-War, Impressionist, Suite - FREE U.S. Shipping)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Alex Tschernjawski
Self Portrait
Oil on Canvas
1960s
Size: 38x26x0.5in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1827
*Condition: Good vintage condi...
Category
Post-War 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid-Century Modern Expressive Figurative Framed Oil Painting - Basket Carriers
Located in Bristol, GB
BASKET CARRIERS
Oil on Canvas
Size: 74 x 43.5 cm (including frame)
A wonderful mid century modernist composition, painted in oil onto canvas.
Two figures with baskets on their head...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
F Brown Mid-century painting of colorful figure
Located in San Francisco, CA
F Brown Mid-century painting of colorful figure
'69
Oil on canvas
8 x 10 unframed, 9.25 x 11.25 framed
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A woman. 1962. Oil on canvas, 80x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A woman. 1962. Oil on canvas, 80x60 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always ...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Figurative Oil Painting - Assemble 1969
Located in Bristol, GB
ASSEMBLE
Size: 35 x 56.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A very well-executed and emotive figurative composition, painted in oil onto canvas and dated 1969 on reverse.
The paint...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Don Quixote - Nobleman on Horse with Sheep - Action Painting
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti depicts a dramatic scene from the epic Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. With unrivaled skill, Benvenuti captures a peak moment of drama when...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Pencil
Antoni Costa Woman. original figurative Academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD.
He was ...
Category
Academic 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Vessels by Yosl Bergner - Still life painting, 1965
By Yosl Bergner
Located in London, GB
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Vessels by Yosl Bergner (1920-2017)
Oil on canvas
65 x 81.4 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 32 inches)
Signed and dated upper left
Execute...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Grand Palais, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped verso with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1965.
A bold, Post-Impressionist figural oil of a young woman, shown seated on a bench wi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Cat and Mouse by Orovida Pissarro - Animal painting
Located in London, GB
Cat and Mouse by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 ⅛ inches)
Signed and dated lower centre Orovida 1948, altered by the artist in 1966
Provenance
Royal ...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring - Oil on Canvas by Cesco Magnolato - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Spring is an artwork realized by Cesco Magnolato in 1967.
Oil on Canvas.
73 x 92 cm; No frame 48 x 68 cm.
Hand signed in bottom right and signed and dated on rear.
Very good c...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antoni COSTA Man original Figurative Academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
man. original figurative academician drawing painting. framed
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD.
H...
Category
Expressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
"Girl with Guitar" Robert Gwathmey, Music, Southern Social Commentary, Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Robert Gwathmey
Girl with Guitar, 1965
Signed upper right
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Provenance:
The artist
ACA Galleries, New York
Mr. Moses Asch, New York
Terry Dintenfass Galle...
Category
American Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Act. Double sided. cardboard, oil, 71x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Act. Double sided. cardboard, oil, 71x45 cm
Category
Impressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Giselle Shaha Colorful Mid-Century Figurative Abstract 1969
Located in San Francisco, CA
Giselle Shaha Colorful Mid-Century Figurative Abstract 1969
California artist
oil on canvas
30 x 40 unframed, 31 x 41 framed
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Henri-André Martin, Les Baux de Provence, Oil on Canvas, 1961
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Henri-André Martin (1918-2004), France, ca.1980s. Les Baux de Provence. With frame: 71x98 cm - 28x38.6 inches. Without frame: 65x92cm - 25.6x36.2 inches. 30P format. Signed lower right "Henri A Martin" (see photo). Located and dated 1961 on the back (see photo). Can be matched to make a pair with another painting by Henri-André Martin that we offer on 1stdibs whose title is "Henri-André Martin Olive Tree Field in the Alpilles, Provence, Oil on Canvas".
Born in Lyon in 1918, the child and the adolescent Henri-André Martin spent his youth in Saint-Étienne, his father, Edme Martin, first installed as a practicing doctor in Lyon, having been appointed doctor of the anti-tuberculosis dispensaries of the Loire.
During his first years of studying medicine in Lyon, he nevertheless enrolled in the Beaux-Arts. Appointed hospital intern upon his return from captivity in 1942, he ended his medical career as director of the otolaryngology university clinic at Édouard-Herriot hospital. But painting was his passion.
Painting was for Henri-André Martin the way of expressing his feelings. By nature very reserved and of an extreme modesty that many took for coldness, it was what allowed him to express his strong artistic sensitivity and, his pictorial periods are as many reflects of his anxieties, of his hopes, of his joys. At every period of his life, wherever he goes and whenever he has a moment, he paints gouaches, often of small size, but sometimes of larger size. He also paints beaches that have been compared to those of Boudin. Their invoice shows, however, that this figure is only appearance and that in fact, these beaches made of water, sky and sand, readily dispense with the motif, the work of the material seeming to have more importance. as the subject. Despite the fact that until the 1970s he painted "on the ground", his canvases remain far removed from the anecdote. Often harsh like the landscapes of Provence, the Parisian walls which express concern, or the railways, the switch tracks which suggest, in ocher and black, all the embarrassment of choice. We find the same nostalgic gravity in the canvases of the carcasses of boats which, as his friend Louis Pons later wrote, "seem to die of immobility" or in the canvases of Venice, or the landscapes of Eygalières.
In the following years, his painting became simpler, more synthetic, such as these landscapes with tortured almond trees, black and gnarled olive trees, plane trees standing out against the ocher sky of the dawn of Provence, in winter. These are also the canvases of Hamburg in the dough becomes heavier, the colors darken, marking all the gravity of the port landscapes. Workshop work gradually takes precedence over motif painting.
The pivotal period coincides with that of his work on the olive tree, during which he leads the realization of the "Trunks", a collection of six lithographic plates, of the book L'olivier comprising many lithographs and serigraphs, but also texts. poetic and numerous paintings. He then became passionate about everything related to the olive tree (literature, painting, traditions, history), but also to the tree itself, its thousand-year-old history, its poetry, its symbols, but also its culture, its size. oil production...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pulp Magazine Marine Combat Scene Shoot Out in Blue Noir
Located in Miami, FL
What makes this work important?
It's not that it's a commissioned artwork for a men's 60s pulp adventure magazine depicting the instant a soldier is shot. The big point of the painting is how brilliantly the formal elements are thought out, designed, and executed. John McDermott tells a story using a complex figural composition in an unexpected wide-angle vision. The work is as abstract as it is representation. His use of light is significant because it creates a high-contrast two-color style that bears the mark of its creator. This is a work done by a master artist/illustrator without peers compared to artists living today. If the contemporary art world gave awards for draftsmanship, painting technique, and graphic design .... John McDermott would win the highest accolades.
Initialed lower left - unframed
John McDermott (August 30, 1919 – April 20, 1977), also known under the pen names J.M. Ryan and Mariner, was an American illustrator and author noted for action and adventure illustrations.[1] McDermott worked as an in-between and effects animator for Walt Disney Studios and as a US Marine combat artist,before establishing himself as a cover illustrator for 1950s paperbacks and pulp magazines such as Argosy, American Weekly, and Outdoor Life. Under his J.M. Ryan pen name, he wrote the novels The Rat Factory (1971), a derogatory satire of Walt Disney and the Disney studio; Brooks Wilson Ltd (1967), on which the 1970 film Loving was based; and Mother's Day (1969) about Ma Barker. Under his own name, he novelized director-writer Bo Widerberg's screenplay for the 1971 film Joe Hill, which would be his final published book.
Early life
John Richard McDermott was born 30 August 1919 in Pueblo, Colorado, the younger of two sons of Henry McDermott, an oil broker. McDermott was a young child when his father committed suicide.[4] The family eventually moved to Los Angeles where McDermott's mother, Hazel, worked in a beauty parlor. He graduated from Hollywood High School in 1936. Although he had had no formal art education, he took a job as an artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Career
Disney
At Disney, McDermott worked as an in-betweener and effects animator on Brave Little Tailor, Pinocchio, The Reluctant Dragon and Fantasia. His experiences while working at Disney, particularly during the time of the 1941 Disney animators' strike, would later become the basis for his 1969 satirical novel The Rat Factory. McDermott left Disney to fight with US forces during World War II.
US Marines
McDermott World War II sketch titled "Buddy is Wounded"
On September 29, 1942, McDermott enlisted with the US Marine Corps. He served as a "pistol and palette" combat artist assigned to the map-making section. As a sergeant with the III Amphibious Corps, McDermott was involved in battles in the South Pacific theater of war, documenting the Guam, Okinawa and the Guadalcanal Campaigns. McDermott considered his wartime years to be his art education.
"In the Marines, as a combat artist, I traveled with the troops and for three years got all the drawing opportunity anyone could want. My work changed enormously during this time and I’m sure it was due to constant drawing, every single day, from life, just putting down what I saw around me. In a few instances it was a dangerous kind of scholarship."
According to the Marine Corps history journal Fortitudine, McDermott was so prolific that his contemporary style pen-and-ink sketches became easily recognizable to both Marines, from published work in Leatherneck Magazine, and civilians, from glossy copies supplied by the Marine Corps to the nation's press.His wartime art appears in World War II history books and is displayed at the Pentagon and the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
Illustration
Following the end of World War II, McDermott moved from California to New York City to work as a freelance illustrator. McDermott made his reputation drawing modern action, war and adventure scenes. His work adorned the covers and inside story pages of popular pulp magazines of the 1950s such as Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book, Outdoor Life and American Weekly.
McDermott's illustrations appeared on numerous covers of 1950s paperback novels published by Dell, Fawcett Gold Medal, Bantam Mystery and others. His action graphics were geared toward thriller and detective genres, such as Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm books Murderers' Row and The Betrayers. He also created covers for science fiction comic titles such as Voyage to the Deep[citation needed] and horror-themed paperbacks such as the classic 1955 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers...
Category
American Realist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Gouache
Three Figures - Black and White Illustration in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Three Figures - Black and White Illustration in Ink on Paper
Bold illustration of three people by an unknown artist (20th Century). The figures are depicted in a tight cluster, as i...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Paper
P Clment 1968 Partially Nude Figure Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
P Clment 1968 Partially Nude Figure Oil Painting
Oil on canvas
32 x 36 unframed
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Nude Figurative Oil Painting - Helene 1961
Located in Bristol, GB
HELENE
Size: 55.5 x 38.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A brilliant modernist-style figurative painting of a nude, executed in oil and dated 1961.
The composition captures a st...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Men on Wooden Bench With Large Pot, Oil Painting, 1964
Located in San Francisco, CA
Men on Wooden Bench With Large Pot, Oil Painting
1964
16 x 20 unframed, 18 x 22.5 framed
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Abstracted Studio Interior
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kur...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
African House
Located in Metairie, LA
Clementine Hunter, African House
This is an excellent example of Hunter’s work, featuring the iconic African House. Three figures are present in the work, a boy, a girl, and an elde...
Category
Folk Art 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Board, Oil, Canvas
Mid-Century Figurative Oil Painting, Fabian Lundqvist - Modernist Ballerinas
Located in Bristol, GB
MODERNIST BALLERINAS
Size: 59.5 x 51 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An outstanding mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedish ar...
Category
Modern 1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas