1950s Paintings
Period: 1950s
Color: Gray
Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash
By Peter Helck
Located in Miami, FL
Mid Century Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash in the street." Saturday Evening Post
Work is framed
Category
Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Gouache
Oil Painting "Elefantenherde" ( Elephant Flock ) by Rudolf Schulz-Borek, 1954
By Rudolph Schulz-Borek
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on canvas, 1954 by Rudolf Schulz-Borek ( (1887 - 1983), Germany. Study for "Gefährlicher Wind". On the back inscribed. Framed.
Dimensions: 10.04 x 17.91 in ( 25,5 x 45,5 cm )
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Mexican Interior Scene Scene with Figures and Fish" Expressionistic Style
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the Mid Century by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wond...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Three Masks, Mid Century Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Three masks abstract by Novak (American, 20th Century). Presented in a white wooden frame. Signed "Novak" lower right. Image: 28.5"H x 26"W.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Landscape
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Our gallery is proud to represent the estate of the late George Dergalis on behalf of his widow. This colorful vibrant abstract is signed and dated 1957-58. Framed by the artist in a...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, Halloween Edition
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 25.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid-Century Still-Life
Located in Houston, TX
Bold mid-century still-life painting with plates and cups by French artist Chantal Jouvin, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Rafael Durancamps - Sitges hall town square, Spain, oil canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 74x101 cm.
Rafael Durancamps i Folguera (Sabadell, March 29, 1891 [1] - Barcelona, January 4 [2], 1979) was a Spanish painter.
He learned...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
Mid Century Apple Abstracted Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning mid century textile abstract mixed media painting of apples by Anna Ballarian (American, 1911-2010). Signed " Anna Ballarian" lower ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Stone
'Rochester, New York', National Academy of Design, Rockport Art Association, Oil
By Milton W. Holm
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Milton W. Holm' (American, 1903-1999) and painted circa 1960.
This notable American Impressionist was a long-time member of the Rochester Art Club and served as president of the Genesee Group of Painters. The Genesseeans sought to capture the Spirit of Place in their rendering of regional landscapes, and were dedicated to resisting the incursions of European modernism. Holm later became involved with the Rationalists, who he helped to organize in 1939, also in Rochester, and whose artistic goal was "orderly creation and craftsmanship plus individuality." He remained a central figure in the Rochester art colony and served as president of the Rochester Art Club between 1957 and 1959. Holm exhibited nationally with success including at the National Academy of Design...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Monterey Pier', California Modernist, Woman Artist, Santa Cruz Art League
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "Muriel Backman" for Muriel Durgin Backman and dated 1955.
An elegant, Cubist-derived, mid-century view of the old Fisherman's Wha...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
'Golden Gate, San Francisco', Bay Area Woman Modernist, Crocker Art Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Muriel Backman" for Muriel Durgin Backman (American, 1902-1996) and titled verso "The Cool Gray City".
An elegant mid-century view of the San Francisco skyline a...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Mid Century Yosemite Landscape -- Young Lake Below Ragged Peak
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful landscape of Ragged Peak and Lower Young Lake in Yosemite National Park by Anna Ballarian (American, 1911-2010). Signed "Anna Ballarian" lower right. Unframed. Image size, ...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Stan Reszka Oil Paint on Canvas "A View over Istanbul", 1951
By Stan Reszka
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil paint on canvas in the style of french pointilism, 1951. By Stan Reszka ( 1924 Poland - died in Paris ). Signed lower right. Framed.
Measurements: Height: 23.62 in ( 60 cm ), Wi...
Category
Pointillist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
At the Airport
Located in Miami, FL
Before there was Photorealism, there was Austin Briggs.
Done in 1951, this work has all the hallmarks of the 1970's fine art movement and more.
Briggs is using photographs as a refer...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Apres le Bain
By Rafaello Busoni
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rafaello Busoni, American (1900 - 1962)
Title: Apres le Bain
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Boat Dock, Oil Painting by Eugene Stevens
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eugene Stevens, American (1882 - 1959)
Title: Boat Dock
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.l.
Size: 14 x 18 in. (35.56 x 45.72 cm)
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Oil Landscape - City Park
Located in Houston, TX
Eye catching mid-century oil on paper landscape of vibrant city park, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a go...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
"Old Store, Copperopolis California" - Mid-Century Village Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
"Old Store, Copperopolis California", a 1950s landscape by Cecil F. Chamberlin (American, 1899 -1963). Signed "C. F. Chamberlin" lower left. Unframed. Image, 24"H x 30"W.
Cecil F. Chamberlin was born in Santa Rosa, CA on May 5, 1899. Chamberlin was educated at Stanford University and then studied art at the CSFA. He then taught art in San Francisco for many years. During the later part of his life he lived down the coast in Santa Cruz where he operated an art gallery, lectured, and had many students. He was a nephew of artist Winnie Chamberlin...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Terraced Landscape", Abstract, Pastel Colored Landscape Painting
By Dan Wingren
Located in Houston, TX
Pastel-colored abstract landscape with an archetypal structure and trees. Framed in a wooden frame. Has the artist signature on the bottom right-hand corner of the work. Artist title...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Fort Bragg Lumber Mill', Woman Artist, California Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "M. Backman" for Muriel Durgin Backman. Titled verso "Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg- Mendocino, Ca" and painted circa 1955.
A moody, mid-c...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper, Watercolor
Red and White Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting by Nicolas Ionesco, 1958
By Nicolas Ionesco
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nicolas Ionesco, Romanian (1919 - )
Title: Untitled
Year: 1956
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. and verso
Size: 23.5 x 28.5 inches (59.7 x 72.4 cm)
Frame: 24.75 x...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tropez, Signed 1950's Gouache Painting by Alexandre Sacha Garbell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexandre Sacha Garbell, French (1903 - 1970)
Title: Tropez
Year: circa 1958
Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed
Image Size: 6 x 9.5 inches
Frame Size: 14.5 x 18 inches
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Still Life with a Bouquet of Dahlias in a Vase & Compote of Grapes on a Table
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Jacques Martin-Ferrières was born on August 6, 1893 in Saint-Paul, France. He studied under the French academic painter Frederic Cormon (1845-1924) and with his father, the notable F...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled (Autumnal Landscape in Ochre, Red, Green)
Located in New York, NY
Unidentified/Unknown Artist "Untitled (Autumnal Landscape in Ochre, Red, Green) , Abstract Landscape Oil on Canvas signed, 26.25 x 32.50, Mid 20th Century, 1957
Colors: Ochre, White...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Forms in Blue & Gray', Bay Area Abstraction, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Gilberg" for Robert Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and dated 1954.
A substantial, mid-century gouache abstract comprising pendant geometric forms in pastel tone...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Coffee Break, Saturday Evening Post cover
By Benjamin Prins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 29.00" x 26.00;" Framed 38.50" x 35.00"
Framed under glass.
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Po...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Collage - Still Life
By Marion Huse
Located in Storrs, CT
Brilliantly-colored collage with various texts and butterfly prints. Oil on canvas measures 20 x 24, presented in a modern frame with white linen liner; frame measures 26 5/8 x 30 5/...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
On the Great Lakes
Located in Long Island City, NY
A watercolor painting by Clarence Holbrook Carter from 1953. 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: On the Great Lakes...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Composition 1954
By Irene Zevon
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media mid century modern painting by American female artist Irene Zevon.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Group of Four: Baseball Themed Illustrations
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor, Gouache & Charcoal on Board
Date: 1950s
Dimensions: Various Sizes
Signature: Unsigned
Contact for exact dimensions.
AMERICAN ARTIST (20th Century)
Group of four...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Charcoal, Gouache, Watercolor
The Lost Shoe, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Jack Welch
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Gouache on Paper
Dimensions: 22.50" x 17.50", Framed 28.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, Sep...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Urban Canal
Located in Houston, TX
Mid-century French gouache painting of urban canal scene by artist Boeme, signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Seeking a Future
Located in Concord, MA
PHILIP EVERGOOD (1901-1973)
Seeking a Future, 1952
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated at lower left: Philip Evergood / 52
Heydenryk frame
PROVENANCE
Alfredo Valent...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Alton Pickens
Located in Concord, MA
ALTON PICKENS (1917-1991)
Untitled, 1955
Oil on canvas
44 ¼ x 33 ½ inches
Signed and dated at lower left: PICKENS / 55
Partial label on the verso: ACA Galleries, New York, New Y...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Buffalo, NY
An unsigned mid century modern American abstract painting
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Illustration Board, Oil
French Abstract - Poignant Patterns
Located in Houston, TX
Dynamic French abstract fusing various shapes and patterns with bright and bold hues, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Vintage French Abstract - Departure of the Souls
Located in Houston, TX
Captivating acrylic abstract painting using a vast array of colors to depict an abstract human face and hand with a landscape in the background under a setting sun and souls Flying o...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
French Painting - Marble Torso
Located in Houston, TX
Acrylic painting of a marble female statue by French artist C. Carlinet, circa 1950. An open book and green folded fabric can be seen in the foreg...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Unframed Figurative Oil Painting - Nude by Lavender
Located in Bristol, GB
NUDE BY LAVENDER
Size: 40.5 x 33.5 cm
Oil on board
A gentle and emotive mid-century vintage oil portrait, executed in oil onto board and dated 1943-1946 on reverse.
A standing nude...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Barrels in a Yard - 20th Century, Oil on canvas by Prunella Clough
Located in London, GB
Provenance:
Leicester Galleries, London, 1956
Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Legend in December - 20th Century, Watercolour on paper by Alan Reynolds
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated Reynolds 55 lower left. Also signed, dated and titled in pencil verso.
Reynolds’ intense study of nature led him to create sketchbooks filled with botanical studies, pressed leaves, grasses, seedpods and feathers – forms upon which he based abstract landscapes during the first, figurative stage of his career. Among the most significant sequence of paintings derived from these studies was ‘The Four Seasons’, showing landscape transformed across the cycle of the year.
Legend in December (1955) relates to this series, showing a winter landscape in which the moon hangs low over the horizon. Bushes cast pallid shadows, and whitened seed heads appear like fireworks against the sky. On the roof of a chapel, haloed, is a cross mirrored...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Nothing but Ashes
By Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi
Located in Greenville, DE
The painting represents the artist's interpretation of the scene she observed while traveling slowly through Hiroshima by train in 1945/46 as a young woman, shortly after the bomb wa...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Horse Carrousel Abstract Nocturn Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist carrousel oil painting by Robert Edwin Maxwell (Born 1929). Oil on board, circa 1955. Signed. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 24"L x 18"H.
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Equine Carthorse Portrait
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cart Horse "Gamin" aged 3
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed and inscribed lower right
watercolour, graphite and gouache painting on stiff artist's paper, unframed
Image: 12 x 9.25 ...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Snow and Gray Sky with Rusty
Located in Missouri, MO
Cecil Crosley Bell
"Snow and Gray Sky with Rusty" c. 1950
Oil on Panel
Signed Lower Right
*Original Kraushaar Galleries, New York Label on Verso
** There is another landscape painti...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Blind Peanut Vendor
Located in Missouri, MO
Cecil C. Bell
"The Blind Peanut Vendor" 1958
Oil on Panel
Signed; Titled & Dated Verso
Panel Size: approx. 14 x 18 inches
Framed Size: approx 21.25 x 25.25 inches
Cecil Bell was b...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mid Century Roman Landscape - Vista Sull Altra Riva
By Samuel Bak
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful abstracted mid century Rome landscape titled "Vista Sull Altra Riva" (On the other bank) by artist Samuel Bak (Polish, b. 1933), 1959. Painted...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Frank O'Hara and Stevie Rivers
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City
Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of California, Berkeley. After moving to New York City in the early 1950s, he became friends with Fairfield Porter and Frank O’Hara...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Girl with Cock, Oil Painting by Reginald Wilson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Reginald Wilson, American (1909 - 1993)
Title: Girl with Cock
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 60.96 cm)
Frame: 33.5 x 28 inch...
Category
Cubist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean Park Bench
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting qn exceptional oil on panel by American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002)
Ocean Park bench, is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1957, painted ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vin et Pommes, Oil Painting by Laurent Salinas circa 1952
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, Egyptian/French (1913 - 2010)
Title: Vin et Pommes
Year: circa 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed u.r.
Size: 18 x 15 in. (45.72 x 38.1 cm)
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life of Fruit and Flowers
Located in Missouri, MO
This is a beautiful impressionist still life by the great Russian artist, Nicolai Cikovsky.
Canvas Size: 20 x 30 inches
Framed Size: approx 24.5 x 34.5
Signed Lower Right
Landscape and figure painter Nicolai S. Cikovsky, 1894-1984, was born in Russia, where he studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New England Coastal View by Clifford Thurber
By Clifford W. Thurber
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressionist coastal seascape by Clifford W Thurber. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed lower right, Clifford W. Thurber. Displayed in a wood frame. Image size, 16"L x 12"H, overa...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cubist Abstract Figurative Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Figurative painting in a cubist style with blue and green hues.
Artist Biography: Chester Snowden graduated from University of Texas at Austin. He was born in Elgin, Texas and died ...
Category
Cubist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Rainstorm
By David Foster Pratt
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original gouache, watercolor and graphite painting on paper by American artist David Foster Pratt.
This work was begun by the artist in 1951 and completed in 1993, adding to ...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Paper, Watercolor
'Still Life with Wicker Basket', Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Victor 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 befo...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
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