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Period: 1950s
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Blue Wall, mid-century abstract expressionist, geometric blue, black & pink work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Blue Wall, c. 1959
oil on canvas
signed and titled verso
42 x 60 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University.
Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school.
They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages.
At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute).
He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.”
Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art.
The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery.
In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting.
Andres described himself as a 1950’s...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Nude by the Mirror" Mid-Century Modern Expressionist and Cubist Figure
By Byron Browne
Located in New York, NY
Byron Browne (1907 - 1961)
Nude by a Mirror, 1958
Oil on canvas
26 x 20 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Doyle New York, Doyle + Design, June 7, 2017, Lot 20
Born in Yonkers,...
Category
American Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Still Life, Rust and Jade', American School Spring Flowers Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'S. L. Kramer' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1960.
A mid-century, oil still-life showing a bouquet of spring flowers informally arranged in a glass ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Still-Life with Green Drape
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic mid century still-life of a green drape with vase, by W. Gray (American, 20th Century). Dated and signed by the artist lower right, "57 W. Gray." ...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Garden Harvest, Mid Century Vegetable Bounty Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous American Impressionist still life oil painting of a basket of vibrant vegetables with a white curtain background by Monterey, California artist Genevieve Rogers (American, 1...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Original Old Hollywood Portrait -- Peter Lorre with Yellow Scarf
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful old Hollywood portrait of a middle aged Peter Lorre (1904-1964) by Charles Kingham (American, 1895-1984), circa 1955. Unsigned. Acquired with oth...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Mid Century Jewish Expressionist Oil Painting Floral Vibrant Colorful Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Gestural impasto painting of flowers in a vase.
23.5" x 17.5" sight size , 22" x 28" framed
hand signed lower right.
Born in 1899, Belle Golinko is a listed Jewish mid...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Interiors
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on board
In American art circles in the second decade of the twentieth century, Cramer was an early emissary of European modernism. Born in Wurzburg, Germany, in 1888, Cramer...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Casein
Geometric Abstraction Oil Painting on Masonite by Juliette Steele, Framed
By Juliette Steele
Located in Encino, CA
Untitled Geometric Abstraction, an original oil on masonite by Juliette Steele, is a piece for the true collector. Steele's use of color and patterns immediately captivates the viewe...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Artist's Studio, Painting by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg, American (1922 - 2005)
Title: Untitled - Artist's Studio
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Acrylic on Board, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 29.5 in. (60.96 x 74.93 cm)
Frame: 2...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Still Life of Tulips', Post-Impressionist, Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen
By Poul Nielsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left with monogram 'P/N' for Poul Nielsen (Danish, 1920-1998) and dated 1954.
A vibrant and light-filled still-life by this well-listed Danish Modernist and disciple o...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pears and Grapes large Modernist mid century Still Life Interior painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A large and elegant still life with grapes and pears on a table which also features a pristine white bowl and a candle stick. Painted with simplicity, clarity of structure, and restrained emotion, this is a superb modernist work by Jean Chauffrey (1911-) dating from
circa 1950.
At the time, Chauffrey had a contract with mythical Paris art dealers...
Category
French School 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Southwest Still Life -- Hopi Relics
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century still-life of authentic Hopi Indian relics including terracotta pottery, an ear of corn, and colorful moccasins on a traditional patt...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Potter, Expressionist Portrait of a Young Man by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"The Potter" is an interior portrait of a young man working on a vase at his potter's wheel by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 24.25" x 14" oil on cardboard painting is signed "Harmon" in the lower left and it is framed in a new black wood frame. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke, Paul Keene...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Mid Century Lilies and Teapot Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid-century still life of a vase of white lilies next to a green teapot and lemon by listed California artist Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 19...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Snap Peas, Expressionist Portrait of Young Woman by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Snap Peas" is an interior portrait of a young woman working at her kitchen table, painted by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 24" x 36" oil on board painting from 1955 is signed "Harmon" in the lower left and it is framed in a new black wood frame. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke, Paul Keene...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Mid-Century Floral Still Life with Yellow and White Irises Carmel California
By Alvira Powell
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-Century Floral Still Life with Yellow and White Irises
Gorgeous mid-century floral still life of a bouquet of Irises painted in 1959, by Pacific Grove and Santa Cruz, Californi...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
French Modern Still Life
By J. Pomié
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful oil on hardboard from the middle of the 20th century representing a still life with all the symbolic elements which are a modern transposition on the theme of vanities.
The...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
New Hat, Expressionist Portrait of Woman by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"New Hat" is a figurative, interior portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon from 195. The 20" x 16" oil on board portrait features a young African...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Doggy Buffet, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1957
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 23.50" x 20.75", Framed 29.50" x 26.50"
Original cover illustration for The Saturday E...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Board, Oil
Mid Century Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes (Still Life w. Mangoes) by Dosamantes
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes (Still Life w. Mangoes) by Francisco Dosamantes
Substantial and brilliant modernist still-life painting mangoes by Francisco Dosamantes (Mexico, 1911-1986) Exhibition label on verso (circa 1957), "Salon De Plasticas Mexicana - Instituto Nacional De Bellas Artes - Francisco Dosamantes, Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes." Image 24"H x 31.5"W.
"Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. Since its founding in 1949, the Hall of Plastic Mexican SPM, has accommodated the most representative work of the national art. Throughout its existence they have been part of hundreds of painters, sculptors, engravers, designers, ceramists and photographers of all tendencies and generations. Jut names: Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Gerardo Murillo "Dr. Atl" Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Dosamantes, Jorge González Camarena, Leopoldo Mendez...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large Surrealist Abstract, Yellow, Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Large Surrealist Abstract, Yellow, Original Oil Painting
By French artist, Sophie Danielle Rubinstain 1922-2018
The painting is stamped with the artis...
Category
Abstract 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Man, Expressionist Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Young Man" is an oil on canvas portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The painting is 26" x 36" in size, signed on the lower right. Figurative ...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art Shipping and Receiving, Photorealist Oil Painting on Board by Harry Lane
By Harry Lane
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Harry Lane
Title: Art Shipping and Receiving
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Board, signed lower right
Size: 30 in. x 24 in. (76.2 cm x 60.96 cm)
...
Category
American Realist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Ventian Courtyard
By Enid Smiley
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas by listed New York female artist Enid Smiley.
Category
American Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Stamp Collector, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas with an Element of Collage
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 27th, 1954.
The Post described, “...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Harlequin and his dog", 20th Century oil on cardbard by Ismael de la Serna
Located in Madrid, ES
ISMAEL GONZÁLEZ DE LA SERNA
Spanish, 1898 - 1968
HARLEQUIN AND HIS DOG
Signed and dated I. de la Serna, 1955
Oil on cardboard
42 X 27-1/2 i...
Category
Symbolist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Colorado Woman Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modernist Still Life, Fruit
By Ruth Todd
Located in Surfside, FL
Ruth Todd (1909-2006, American Woman Artist) one of Colorado’s most prominent avant-garde artists and played a significant role in Colorado’s art history. Known for painting and collage.
Still life with lemon and banana on kitchen table.
Ruth Thomas Todd was born in 1909 in Sanford, North Carolina. She arrived in New York City in the 1930s where she began her career as a fashion model supporting herself as she attended classes at the Art Students League. For reasons of health she moved to Colorado Springs to treat her condition. During her recuperation she started to draw and studied under famous American abstract painter Robert Motherwell, who was teaching at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at the time. By the 1950s, her career as an abstract expressionist painter was blooming. She was one of Colorado’s most visible and avant-garde artists. Ruth married Littleton Todd, a poet and a woodworker. In 1953, Todd traveled to Europe (Paris, France) to study art and to paint. Littleton Todd opened a design studio in Denver where he manufactured and sold modern furniture. She would incorporate sawdust and other found materials from the workshop imbued with oil paint into her abstract work to create unique topographies and patterns. She showed at numerous Gilpin County Art Exhibitions, the Denver Art Museum, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Women’s College, the University of Colorado, Boulder, the Colorado State Fair, and the Jewish Community Center. Among the Colorado Modernists that she exhibited with were Vance Kirkland, Frank Vavra...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Messy Room, Neat Boys: Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, October 22, 1955.
The Post described, “Mother is making rapid progress...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Back to School, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1959
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 27.00" x 23.75;" Framed 34.50" x 37.50"
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, September 12, 1959.
...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Home Improvement, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, December 5, 1953
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Parent- Teacher Conference, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 26.00" x 24.00", Framed 32.00" x 20.00"
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, December 12, 1959.
T...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Oars
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
American Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"The Dangerous Year (The Sunken Garden), " Cover Illustration, 1956
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Lower Right, with Title and Registration Marks in Chalk
"Tom pleaded, 'Does one misstep have to ruin our marriage?'" Cover illustration for...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
House Key, 1956 Watercolor by Clarence Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
A watercolor painting by Clarence Holbrook Carter from 1956. Carter's modernist style utilizes strong structural lines and architectural aesthetics to form almost surreal-like scenes. Signed on lower right corner, framed in elegant silver wooden frame.
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 1998)
Title: House Key...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sombre Gentlemen, Mid 20th C. Male Portrait, Original Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sombre Gentlemen, Male Portrait, Original Impressionist Oil Painting
British School, Mid 20th Century
Oil painting on board, unframed
Board size: 18 x 24 inches
Incredibly stylish p...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Boy, Titled "Boy", Original Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Boy, Titled "Boy", Original Impressionist Oil Painting
By the British artist, JM Green, Mid 20th Century
Signed and titled 'Boy' verso
Oil painting on board, unfr...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
English Interior Still-life of Teapot, table and chair, fruit and flowers 1950s
By Jack Griffin
Located in Woodbury, CT
An interesting and colourful classic 1950s English Interior. Jack Griffin was an English painter of interiors, landscapes and riverside scenes. He mostly painted in England, but was ...
Category
Post-War 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Figurative Nativity Scene w Hummel Figurines, Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Located in Soquel, CA
Nativity scene on an architrave of a cathedral, done in the style of Hummel figurines by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" in t...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Floral Centerpiece Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming, warm still life of a vase bursting with flowers on a table with a dish of apples, a carafe of wine, and a small picture frame next to an antique pink chair...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
'Still Life of Green and Black Grapes', Tokyo School of Fine Arts, Academy Award
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right in Kanji 'Sanzo' for Wada Sanzō 和田三造 (Japanese, 1883-1967) and dated 'Year 34' of the Showa Era, 1959 in the Gregorian calendar.
Artist, teacher and costume designer, Sanzo Wada worked during a turbulent time in avant-garde Japanese art and cinema. A multi-talented artist who gained early fame as a Western-style oil painter, his career spanned the late Meiji-era through the mid-twentieth century. In addition to numerous prizes and medals for his painting, he received the 1955 Academy Award for costume design for his work in the movie Gates of Hell. He also received awards for his pioneering work on color theory, which he researched and published in the 1920s and is still in use today.
Sanzo Wada graduated from the Western-style painting division of Tokyo School of Fine Arts. Studied in Europe 1907-1915; traveled to India and Burma. He was appointed a member of the Imperial Arts Academy in 1927 and taught at Tokyo School of Fine Arts from 1927.
According to Shinagawa Kiyoomi, editor-in-chief of the book of paintings in print "Dia Nihon Gyorui Gashuu" by Ohno Bakufu...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Small Orange Room in Italy - Original oil painting - Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Toffoli (1907-1999)
Small Orange Room in Italy
Original oil painting on panel
Signed bottom right
On canvas 41 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 inch)
Presented in a golden wood frame 62 x ...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Kitchen Still Life
By Frances Robbins
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful earth-toned mid century kitchen still life by Frances Robbins (American, 20th Century). Signed "Frances Robbins" and dated 1958 lower rig...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Happy New Year!", The Progressive Farmer Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1958
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 25.00" x 22.00"
The Progressive Farmer magazine cover, January 1958
Exhibited:
Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students
South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota
May 5, 2015 - September 13, 2015
Norman Rockwell Museum...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sanford Beresofsky's Bathroom
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul von Ringelheim, Austrian/American (1933 - 2003)
Title: Sanford Beresofsky's Bathroom
Year: 1958
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated
Size: 44 x...
Category
American Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Vase
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern surreal oil painting on linen depicting a vase with one yellow flower and a mysterious almost figural black design. This midcentury work is unsigned and comes housed in a pe...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Interior with sculpture" cm. 25 x 44 1954
Located in Torino, IT
Interior with African statue, cubist guitar,Gray, black, taupe
Giulio DA MILANO (Nizza, 1895 - Torino, 1990)
Giulio Da Milano was a Giacomo Grosso's di...
Category
Cubist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Still Life on a Table', Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) estate stamp, verso, and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the C...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Still Life with Songbird', American Modernist, Blue Interior
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-century oil still-life comprising various items arranged on a platter set on a table beside a red bird in a cage. Unsigned and painted circa 1950.
The anonymous h...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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 Interior Paintings
Materials
Gouache
California Post-Impressionist 'Woman Seated', Louvre, LACMA, Académie Chaumière
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Di Gesu estate stamp verso and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Chouinard Art School before movi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
'Woman Sleeping', Early Paris Post Impressionist Oil, Salon d’Automne, Fauve
By Jais Nielsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Jais' for Jais Nielsen (Danish, 1885-1961) and dated "51".
Born in Denmark, Jais Nielsen initially studied at Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler under Kristian Zahrtma...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Vintage French Gouache - Paris Cabaret
By A.M. Rémy
Located in Houston, TX
Excellent gouache of the interior of a Parisian cabaret filled with vivid, feminine furnishings and decor by AM. Rémy, circa 1950. Unsigned.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Dining Room
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Size: 18.70" x 27.00"
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll on a...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Das graue Zimmer" ( Gray Room ) Oil Painting 1955 by Walter Wellenstein
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on hardboard, 1955 by Walter Wellenstein ( Dortmund 1898-1970 Berlin ). Signed and dated lover right: Wellenstein 55. Framed.
Height: 31.1 in ( 79 cm ), Width: 40.94 in ( 104 cm ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Walter Wellenstein Oil Painting "Bodenraum" ( Floor Space ) 1953
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on hard board, 1953 by Walter Wellenstein ( Dortmund 1898-1970 Berlin ), Signed and dated lower right: Wellenstein 53. Framed.
Height: 33.46 in ( 85 cm ), Width: 41.34 in ( 105 ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Vintage French Gouache - Room of Whimsy
Located in Houston, TX
Poetically inspired piece of a small top floor room in Paris filled with paintings, birds and and a lively scarecrow made of clothing, 1950. Signed lower right, artist unknown.
Orig...
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Antique American School Modernist Signed Interior Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Very finely painted interior scene.
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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