20th Century Figurative Paintings
Period: 20th Century
Color: Brown
Gouache on Board Painting Titled "Barbecue Stand", by Aaron Bohrod, circa 1935
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod, 1907-1992
Barbecue Stand, circa 1935
Gouache on board
Signed Lower left: “Aaron Bohrod”
Inscribed and signed on verso
Bohrod-1
Provenance:
Private estate, Rhode Island...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Detente
By Edmund Ward
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
Category
Tonalist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Muhammed Ali
By Edmund Ward
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
Category
Tonalist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman and Tiger
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by artist lower left.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Cover
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil
The Charming Ghost
Located in London, GB
Ink and watercolour
Image size: 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (9.5 x 14.5 cm)
Contemporary frame
Provenance
Private family collection
This painting was created in the early 1900's when the Decadent Movement...
Category
Aesthetic Movement 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Gaukler Familie mit Instrumenten (Family of Jesters with Instruments)
Located in Washington, DC
German Modernist
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Louis Cabié (1853-1939) - The river at Les Eyzies in summer - Dordogne
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Louis-Alexandre CABIE
(Dol-de-Bretagne 1853 - Bordeaux 1939)
The Vézère at Les Eyzies in summer
Oil on panel
H. 19.5 cm; L. 28.5 cm
Signed lower right, dated 1900. Located on the back.
Provenance: Private collection, Versailles
Louis Cabié...
Category
French School 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Horse with Swimmers at Beach
By William Theophilus Brown
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by William Theophilus Brown. "Horse with Swimmers at Beach" is a Post-War figurative painting, acrylic on canvas in a palette of greens and purples by American artist Will...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Young Woman
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Sergei Besedin was born in the village of Ruska near the Ukrainian city of Lozovaya. He was born into a working class family who were staunch communists. Besedin, shortly after the R...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mask
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Mask" is a Post-War painting, acrylic, earth, and oil on canvas by Bay Area Figurative artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed and dated in the ...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Robin Hood
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Initialed Lower Left
Cover Illustration for American Boy Magazine, May 1934. Includes copy of the magazine.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sports Portrait of Athletic Partially Nude Boy with Rapid Brushstrokes
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Figuration and abstraction meet in this energized quick portrait of an athletic boy with headband and resting on a bench, Most likely done for a magazine like Sports Illustrated - Si...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite, Mixed Media
Ritratto di Camillo Mastrocinque
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Robert Carroll was born in 1934 and was predominantly inspired by the 1950s growing up. Abstract Expressionism prevailed in the 1950s as a primary method of painting, and explored id...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Golden to the Winds” by Achmed Abdullah, Good Housekeeping
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Upper Left "Dan Content 29"
Story Illustration, Good Housekeeping Magazine, September 1929, pg 32-33
Biography:
Daniel Content was born of Dutch parents and grew up in New York City. He attended New Eutriek High School in Brooklyn, NY. He studied under Dean Cornwell at the Pratt Institute as well as attending the Art Students League. Mr. Content worked as a freelance artist for about thirty years. He illustrated for such magazines as Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Readers Digest, and McCall's. In 1928 he illustrated the Windermere Series printing of Robin Hood. During World War II he traveled with the USO to Burma and India entertaining the service men with personal sketches. In the late 1950s he was an Art Director for Benton & Bowles in NYC. He also taught at the workshop School of Advertising Art. Mr. Content continued his sculpting and painting long after retirement. Some of his work can be found at Society of Illustrators in their permanent Museum.
Exhibited:
Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students
South Dakota Art...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Crossed Wires
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
American Magazine story interior illustration
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
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
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Blood of the Rich
By Ron Lesser
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 10.75" x 12.75"
Warner Books
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Nude Dancer Burlesque Stripper with Purple Gloves - The Bump -
By Jack Levine
Located in Miami, FL
A gritty Burlesque Stripper with long purple gloves bumps and grinds with a hard-driving beat. American Social Realist artist Jack Levine paints this se...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Board
Ballentine Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Redhead in Profile
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully rendered in Krolls signature academic style. Unframed - Signed lower right, unframed
Category
Academic 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Hobo & Three Clowns at Poker
By Hal Crecy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Hobo & 3 clowns at poker
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In The Cathedral
By E.M. Jackson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration for "In The Cathedral" by Achmed Abdullah published in Cosmopolitan, May 1938, pages 24-25.
The magazine descri...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Rescue
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine, February 1931 Depicting a Duryea Automobile Driving by a Blacksmith Shop
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
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 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl Peeling Apple, Johnson & Johnson Advertisement, 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right
Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.50" x 12.00"
Johnson & Johnson reproduced the present work as an advertisemen...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"Spring is Here" The Country Home Magazine Cover, March (Year Unknown)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
"Spring Is Here" The Country Home Magazine Cover, March (Year Unknown).
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, 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
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Smoke Shop
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 14.50" x 13.00;" Framed 23.75" x 21.75"
The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Judgment
Located in Miami, FL
Thin edged metal frame
Philip Castle is an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle
He is rarely exhibited and Prince Rainier of Monaco once pu...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine illustration, December 1906
Literature: This illustration appeared in O. Henry's shor...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Bridal White
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right and Titled on reverse
Dimensions: 28.13" x 25.13" (71.45 cm x 63.83 cm)
Literature: Temple Bailey, Bridal White, The American Mag...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Two Women"
By James Lechay
Located in Lambertville, NJ
James Lechay was a painter of figures, landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes who played a notable role in the tradition of avant-garde painting in New York and in the Midwest. An ar...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Touring Car in Reverse
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Charity Bazaar
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Date: 1930s
Probable magazine cover, 1930-1935.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Thief, Biblical Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 14.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Biblical illustration
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Insurance Salesman
By Arthur Herschel Lidov
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 15.00" x 15.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1900 Young Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lovers
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed on the Back
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1931
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, October 17, 1931
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl with Bloomers, Good Housekeeping Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Gold Paint on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 19.00" x 16.00" Oval, Framed 24.00" x 21.00"
April. 1920 Good Houseke...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Paint
Thanksgiving, Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 15.50" x 15.00", Framed 23.00" x 22.00"
signed Jessie Willcox Smith (lower right); signed Jessie Willcox Smith and titl...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Child in Prayer Cover of Good Housekeeping Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The accompl...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Mixed Media
"Mortmain" by Arthur Train, Book Illustration, 1918
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Story of Shipwreck, Rotarian Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: May 31, 1934
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 22.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of Rotarian Magazine, September 1934.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Family Gathering, Beer Belongs Advertisment
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Beer Belongs advertisement.
The illustrations of Douglas Crockwell were often simply signed “Douglass” to avoid confusion with the signature of Norman Rockwell, particularly since their work was being published on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post during the same period. Necessary too, because Crockwell also worked very realistically, and like Rockwell, was particularly good with children.
Their backgrounds, however, were entirely different. Crockwell was born in Chicago, Ohio, and took his degree in Science at Washington University, followed by study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago and the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. He received his first commission for a cover for The Saturday Evening Post in 1933, and this was followed by many more, as well as work for other periodicals and a long list of national advertisers.
During the ‘thirties, he also completed Post Office murals in Vermont, New York State and Mississippi, and began to work on experimental animated films. The films, and inventing a “pan-stereo” viewing...
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Doctor Looking into Childs Mouth, Study for SEP Cover, 1930
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Study for the November 22, 1930 cover illustration of The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ben 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
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Study for 'Christmas Peek, ' Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Canvas Laid Down on Board
Study for the December 23rd, 1939 issue The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board, Pencil
The Country Gentleman Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Sight Size 28.00" x 24.00", Framed 34" x 30"
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Cover Illustration for the February 16, 1924 issue of The Country Gentleman...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Movie Poster Illustration for "American Pop"
Located in Miami, FL
McLean's consummate skill as a portrait artist, graphic designer and master of composition is on full display in the complex narrative work. This work contains 41 portraits including those of Bette Midler, Jimi Hendrix, and Benny Goodman...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Katrina Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Painting
Signature: Unsigned
Contact for dimensions.
Katrina, By Jeramie Price. Publisher is Pocket Books, Inc. (1956). Comes with book.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
George Washington Marine Procession New York Presidential Inauguration, Life Mag
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
"The Great Man Comes to Take His Oath" Life Magazine Spread, July 4th, 1960, This epic narrative depicts the celebration of George Washington's inauguration, en route to Federal Hall...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Secret Project, Magazine Story Illustration
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.25" x 13.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine Story Illustration
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Seated Nude
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
An oil on board painting by Belgian Modernist painter Emiel Creado.
Framed - 60 x 38 Inches
Unframed - 53 x 31 Inches
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
