Illustration Board Paintings

Today's newly minted fine art stars are from the mid-century surrealism school and include Gertrude Abercrombie, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Carrington, who were mostly unknown five y...

Fabulous illustration depicts a costume for Mae West in Broadway production of Diamond Lil, 1951.. Gouache on illustration board, image measures 10.5 x 16.5 inches; 15 x 22 inches ...

Signed lower and upper right, "Cucaro" for Pascal Cucaro (American, 1915-2003). An icon of the Beat years in San Francisco's North Beach, Pascal Cucaro was the winner of numerous me...

On offer is a late Mid-century Modern abstraction titled “Aegean” created by S. Martin. The Aegean Sea region is rich with ancient Cycladic art, sun-bleached landscapes and deep blue...

For those over 60, it's likely that Alice and Martin Provensen influenced your childhood. We all read the classic Golden Books with Fuzzy Ki...

George Hirsch - He gets his inspiration from the prototype of neo-classic painting for this groovy 1970s brothel. This is a complex figural work with m...

Sketchy and expressive depiction of an artist painting at an easel by an unknown artist (20th Century). Dresses in a white smock, an artist works at an easel. The background is parti...

A British Children's Book Illustrator paints a charming picture of two happy boys painting a barn, surrounded by a gaggle of farm animals and a zebra. The present painting blends a s...

“Graduation Day” is emblematic of mid-century American Illustration. But the real story of this storytelling work is that it embodies the lost art of portrait painting and graphic design. Alex Ross borrows on the classical tradition and flaunts his skills as a narrative painter. In “Graduation Day”, he paints a complex composition involving at least thirteen portraits. The subjects are beautifully rendered and lit. They are set against a dark grey background and jump off the surface at the viewer. The composition is complexly designed. The future graduate in the red jacket engaging with a girl photographer is a compositional device that leads the viewer's eye to the main subject - a father congratulating his son on graduating from medical school. Creating art that relies on facial expressions and body gestures is a talent absent in contemporary art. Why? It’s very hard to do and takes years and training and practice to get it right. Despite Alex Ross's folksy subject matter, this work is a high example of naturalism and representation by an important member of the Golden Age of American Illustration. Signed lower right Born in the town of Dunfermline, Scotland, Alexander Sharpe Ross (1908-1990) moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1911. After attending Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), Ross moved to New York and joined the Charles E. Cooper Studio, where he worked among such notable illustrators as Ward Brackett, Stevan Dohanos, J. Frederick Smith...

Mid Century Impressionist Boat Docks in Oil, Signed, Framed Painterly scene of boats and boats being built at the docks in old Pacific Grove, Calif...

"Island Inn, Monhegan Island" Vintage Coastal Maine Landscape in Oil on Canvas The Island Inn on Monhegan Island Maine, a beautiful landscape by Richmond Irwin Kelsey (American, 190...

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...

Legendary illustrator Bernard Bernie Fuchs explores the creative possibilities of radical design to illustrate a narrative of an emotional state of unconnectedness. The present work ...

Gorgeous mid-century Belgian landscape by Gustav Pynaert (Belgium, 1900-1968), c.1950. This piece showcases mature trees and a flowering tree in bloom alongside the river, using loos...

My 80's Heart "Token 7" 2019, gouache, acrylic, graphite, panel, blue, wood, orange

Heads Up, Edmund Dulac depicts a strong and confident woman in art in the 1930s. The work shows Queen Thomysis witnessing a beheading. This complex figurative work was an original de...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

As an astute observer of female beauty, Mario Zamparelli showcases his portrait painting skills in this mid-century montage of four stunning young women. The closer the viewer gets...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Sedona Red Rocks, American Impressionist Oil Painting, 1993, Unframed Sweeping vertical desert landscape with a calm river in the foreground and gorgeous formations of Sedona red ro...

Fabled Illustrator Bob Peak, the heir to Norman Rockwell's American Illustration dominance, invents a new look for corporate identity. Prior to Peak, travel advertisements were stra...

At some point, the fine art/museum world will recognize how truly brilliant a trailblazing artist like Coby Whitmore is. His exploration of bold colors, flattened, simplified space, ...

Above it all, two vigorous young men stand on a mountain top. They are depicted in profile, looking out into a sublime, verdant vista of tree-lined mountains punctuated by a winding...

Mid-century Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover of a glamorous, sophisticated woman in highly stylish leopard skin gloves and a hat, striking a graphic pose. This artwork is an icon of Amer...

Stunning portrait with a killer smile by Golden Age of Illustration female Illustrator Zoë Mozert. Signed lower right. Framed under glass, silk matted and i...

Rudy Nappi (February 12, 1923 – March 13, 2015) Cooling Pie Illustration, 1976. Watercolor and pencil on illustration board measuring 6.5 x 8.5 inches. Printer notes in margins. P...

An almond-eyed brunette is depicted sitting pensively next to a window. She looks Mediterranean, perhaps Italian or Greek, and has a captivating face that one can fall in love with. ...

High-impact Art Deco Illustration of a WWII Sea Plane, viewed with today's eyes, is sleek, stunning, and campy Kitsch. The work is in surprisingly good to excellent condition for its...

Today's highly touted ultra-contemporary fine art market has crashed. Why? The artist's lack of talent, concepts, and basic technical skills was overrated and, in some cases, acutely...

The punchline on many of these 1950s cartoons fades, but the visuals more than hold up - they shine. The sleek, graphic style of painting with flat, broad areas of color shows that ...

Portrait of a Woman with Red Hair in the Style of Modigliani (Green Background) Portrait of a woman in the style of Amedeo Modigliani by an unknown artist (20th century). The woman...

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Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 22.00" x 30.00" Framed 33" x 41 1/2" Excellent condition Original use: Bookplate for Tennyson's A Dream of Fair Women A macabre and dark highly inventive large format gouache illustration painting by Harrison Fisher used as a full color book plate in the 1907 edition of "A Dream of Fair Women" by Lord Alfred Tennyson...

Mario Zamparelli served as the chief designer for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes' empire, creating his promotional images and designing many of its products. In the present...

Hand signed verso Should mat out beautifully This painting, exemplifies the type of traditional portraits the artist Ariane Beigneux was specially known for. Here, Beigneux depicts the portrait of a little boy and horse in a realistic, and seemingly idealized manner. The artist uses local colors and controlled brushstrokes to render the subject, paying close attention to details adding a special clarity to the naturalism of the portrait. it is painted on Whatman illustration board. some drawing in the margins. Ariane Beigneux American Portrait Painter and Illustrator of Childhood Ariane Beigneux (1918–2011) was an American portrait painter and illustrator best known for her tender, luminous depictions of children, developed over a professional career that spanned more than six decades. Born to French parents in Roxbury, Connecticut, in 1918, Beigneux received her formal art training at the National Academy of Design in New York, studying under Gifford Beal, Sidney Dickinson, and Ivan Olinsky, and later continued her studies at the Art Students League of New York with Jon Corbino and Jean Liberté. Institutional Lineage and the Golden Age of American Illustration Beigneux's training at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League placed her within the same institutional lineage that produced America's leading illustrators of the era, including Norman Rockwell, and her steady output of magazine cover work for Collier's and Ladies' Home Journal situates her firmly within the golden age of American editorial illustration that Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post covers helped define. Early Career and Commercial Illustration Beigneux's career began at a New York commercial art studio, where she was assigned a series of calendar paintings of children for a major insurance company — work that established the sensitive, idealized style of childhood portraiture that would define her practice. She went on to illustrate numerous magazine covers, including work for Collier's and Ladies' Home Journal, bringing her warm, naturalistic style to a broad national audience through the mid-twentieth century. Fine Art Portraiture and Peer Recognition Alongside her illustration work, Beigneux built a distinguished career as a fine art portrait painter, working in a realist tradition rooted in careful attention to local color and controlled brushwork. In 1974, Watson-Guptill Publications featured her in the book 6 Artists Paint a Portrait, alongside fellow portraitists Alfred Chadbourn, George Passantino, Charles Reid, Robert Baxter...

Medium: Oil on Illustration Board Dimensions: 30.00" x 40.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right

This strobe-like dynamic composition with bright and bold colors reflects the energetic taste of the 7 Up brand. It lies somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Peaks' use of b...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Hungarian Harvest Courtship 1920s Well executed impressionist painting of a Hungarian countryside courtship vignette by a 19th-20th century Hungarian artist Pal Szlavik. some minor s...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Motke Blum was born in Racacun, Romania in 1925. Early in his childhood, the Blum family moved to Bucharest where they settled in a house situated near a circus. The circus would be...

Benjamin Eisenstat (1915-2001). View of Trinity College, ca. 1960's. Gouache, watercolor and ink on Illustration Board, 15 x 21 inches. Signed and titled lower right. Signed, tit...

Acrylic painting on illustration board of three pink cyclamen flowers and heart-shaped leaves on a blue background by Barbara Gibson (American, 20th Century). Artwork is presented in...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

This highly innovated Bob Peak Race Track painting is a perfect synthesis of art and commerce. Designed with a radical composition where two-thirds of the picture plane is an alm...

Amazing surrealist painting by Italian artist Nuccio Fontanella (1936-2005). Ink and watercolor on cold pressed illustration board. Image measures 13 x 18 inches; 20 x 25 inches framed...

"Canyon Ponies" Wild Horses Frolic in the Snowy Wilderness of New Mexico Expressive ad action painting by New Mexico artist Connie Gardner (American, 20th C.) was an accomplished Am...

"Inundation" after Carl Fredrik Kiörrboe - Dogs During a Flood Oil on linen painting of a family of dogs in a flood by an unknown artist, unsigned, after an engraving of the painting...

Imagine a soft morning — the kind where sunlight has not yet gathered its full strength. A cat sits quietly on a balcony, poised yet relaxed, looking out toward the world beyond the ...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

The work is mostly black and white to indicate that this is a night scene. On closer inspection, you will see areas of magenta and ivory throughout The publisher's label on verso ide...

Vanderbilt Sleigh, Original holiday greeting card Christmas illustration featuring a couple carrying holiday gifts in a horse-drawn sleigh Medium: Egg Tempera on Illustration Board Signature: Unsigned Charlotte Joan Sternberg was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1920. Early on, she became interested in art, and her parents encouraged her efforts. She attended public schools in the area, as well as taking art classes at the technical school. Afterwards, she attended the Yale School of Art. Her fellow classmates included Rudolph Zallinger, who executed the dinosaur mural at the Peabody Museum in New Haven; Jean Day Zallinger, renowned book illustrator; and Edward Paier, founder of the Paier College of Art. It was there that she became interested in egg tempera, and most of her well-known artwork was done in this medium. She was one of a number of Yale artists who revived this medium.(She did not work professionally in oils, although she sometimes used gouache or watercolor.) She went on to a long career in commercial illustration. She worked extensively for J.Walter Thompson, doing advertising art for such companies as Esso (later Exxon), Textron, and Lederle pharmaceuticals. While she did a variety of subjects, she was best known for her Americana themes, particularly snow scenes of historic New England. Many of these pieces were published as Christmas cards for American Artists Group. She also taught for many years at the Paier College of Art. She also did a number of limited edition prints for Greenwich Workshop. Her art is used on such items as tapestry pillows, puzzles, and decorative flags. She was commissioned to do several portraits, including those of Gov.John Lodge...

Approximate Date: 1902 Medium: Charcoal, Watercolor and Oil on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 23.50" x 15.50", Framed 31.50" x 23.00" Bed-Time, published...

"Mono Hot Springs Cabins, Fresno Co - Calif" Forest Landscape in Oil on Board Serene depiction of two cabins in the Sierra Mountains by HW Dittmann (Dittman) (American, Born-1883 circa). A wooden...

John Hultberg (1922-2005). Girl in Window, 1960. Gouache on illustration board measures 22 x 30 inches; 29.25 x 37.5 inches framed. Chestnut wood frame with beloved edge. Excellent ...

Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Magazine story illustration, Cosmopolitan, 1930; Exhibited: Fall 2004: Brandywine River...

Harvest Time in Swiss Alps - Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape Sweeping early 20th century figurative landscape of a Swiss Alps harvest scene by Daan Donker (Dutch, early 20th...

Skillfully executed courtyard scene by H. von der Planitz (german, 19th-20th cent ). Several trees cast dramatic shadows on the dirt floor of a courtyard, next to a colonnade that fr...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...