Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 8

Peter Helck
Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash

1955

$32,000
£24,524.13
€28,186.17
CA$44,945.57
A$50,302.39
CHF 26,331.50
MX$611,082.82
NOK 334,343.17
SEK 315,509.89
DKK 210,318.45

About the Item

Mid Century Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash in the street." Saturday Evening Post Work is unframed
  • Creator:
    Peter Helck (1893 - 1988, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1955
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Miami, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38531810563

More From This Seller

View All
Soldier Shooting Gun with Bikini Girls, Mid-Century Mens Magazine War
By Mort Künstler
Located in Miami, FL
The artist tells a whole action-packed story in one picture. A handsome young soldier shoots his pistol at a passing bomb-dropping airplane. The close call splashes water on him and his two sexy girl...
Category

1960s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board, Pencil

Film Noir. Pulp Mystery That police officer knows you. Saturday Evening Post
By Paul Rabut
Located in Miami, FL
Film noir crime drama painted in a single frame. In narrative art, telling a story in a single image is harder than doing it in episodes. "'That police officer...
Category

1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Noir Crime Drama Shooting - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
By Thornton Utz
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post Illustrator Thornton Utz captures the peak moment of action in this Noir Crime Drama, Shooting illustration on an interior page in the famed magazine in 1958 —...
Category

1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Resue the Children, Family in Horror Magazine Illustration
By Arthur Sarnoff
Located in Miami, FL
This work is remarkable for its intense dramatic lighting effects and wide-angle composition. Very few artists conceived and executed with acutely dramatic light in the arc of art hi...
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
By Bruce Bomberger
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category

1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
By Bruce Bomberger
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category

1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

You May Also Like

"There's Two Kinds of Heroes" Story Illustration, Saturday Evening Post
By Peter Helck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Paper Dimensions: 19.50" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right "There's Two Kinds of Heroes," by Maurice Beam and illustrated by Peter Helck for the Saturday Eve...
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Wrong Turn
By Peter Helck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed lower Right
Category

20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

FLIGHT American Futurism Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Oil Painting Realism
By Daniel Ralph Celentano
Located in New York, NY
FLIGHT American Futurism Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Oil Painting Realism Daniel Celentano (1902-1980) "Flight," 26 x 26 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1940s. Signed lower right. Ori...
Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cosmopolitan Magazine Illustration
By Peter Helck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Unsigned Illustration for Cosmopolitan Magazine, July 10, 1926
Category

1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Flat and Chat, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By George Hughes
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left The Saturday Evening Post Magazine Cover, May 21, 1949. The irritated tire-changer? Why, that's artist George Hughes himself. The...
Category

1940s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

No Passing, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1954 Medium: Gouache on Paperboard Signature: Signed Lower Left Size: 26 1/8 x 20 in. Saturday Evening Post, October 9, 1954, cover illustration. Exhibited: Norman Rockwell Museum...
Category

1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache, Board