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Period: 1950s
Young Lovers in the Morning Embrace. Mid-Century Neo-Classical Love Song
Located in Miami, FL
This Mid-Century illustration/painting is rendered in a Neo-Classical style and showcases young lovers in a morning embrace. The man is holding a small bouquet as the woman leans int...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Tempera, Illustration Board
Untitled Owl in the Grass
By Paul Rand
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated to lower right 'Paul Rand 4.6.52.
Paul Rand said. “People who don’t have a sense of humor really have serious problems.”
Besides being a seminal force in modern desi...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic
"Leaping Sailfish" Watercolor
Located in Bristol, CT
Vintage sailfish watercolor
c1950s
Provenance: A prominent Newport, RI estate
Art Sz: 14"H x 18"W
Frame Sz: 23"H x 27"W
w/ coral mat & antique bamboo frame
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Oil Painting - The Lake, Tenerife Landscape
Located in Bristol, GB
THE LAKE
Size: 40 x 35 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A charming mid century landscape view of Tenerife, executed in oil onto canvas.
This small yet striking painting is filled with details, and encourages the viewer to look further into the distance. In the front of the painting, we see a house and beautiful flora taking space on left and right corners of the painting. As our eyes study the piece further, we can spot 2 figures facing a lake, seemingly in conversation and enjoying the nature view...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Miami Paradise" 1955 MONROE, Johnny
Located in Bristol, CT
Acrylic on board depicting two femme fatales lounging on lawn chairs by Johnny Monroe
c1955
Art Sz: 11 3/4"H x 15 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 15"H x 19"W
w/ gilt bamboo frame
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Modern Drip Abstract Composition
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Drip Abstract Composition
Canvas 36x24 with frame 42x29.5
Artist signed illegibly lower right corner, Gallery Kabutaya Japan label on revers stretcher. Mid-Century Modern drip abstr...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
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
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Trastevere Fountain
Located in Milford, NH
A nice impressionist oil on masonite city scene with a young crowd in Rome, Italy, probably the Fontana del Prigione, illegibly signed lower right, title inscribed on verso “Trastev...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Caterwaul by Orovida Pissarro - Animal painting
Located in London, GB
Caterwaul by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 24 inches)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Every Sunday, Mowbray and the boy had dinner together"
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1957
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Size: 18.70" x 27.00"
Story illustration for The Master Move by George Loveridge, published in Good Housekeeping, November 1957.
An excerpt from the story reads: “In the evening Mowbray dined at a mahogany table designed to seat ten persons. To his left, in an intricate, gilded frame, hung an oil portrait of his father — a man with a majestic, full gray beard and the same beaked nose that his son had, but with milder eyes (p. 237)…Every Sunday, Mowbray and the boy had dinner together, the two of them at the long, broad, polished table under the eyes of Peter Mowbray. Mowbray often had to fly hundreds of miles to be on time for Sunday dinner with his son, but he did not once fail to be there.” (p. 239-240)
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Blueprints into Reality - Building Construction Rebar Concrete Forms
Located in Miami, FL
Blueprints into Reality - Full-page ad for United Engineers that ran in Fortune Magazine, March 1958, and other business magazines. As Fred Taraba stated, this image is symbolic of optimism and potential.
Work includes the original issue of Fortune Magazine with the ad in which United Engineers mentions Stanley Meltzoff.
"Here Stanley Meltzoff dramatizes with tools and massive concrete forms...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sunset in the City"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Departing
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.25" x 38.5"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jumanji, Robin Williams
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 30.00" x 20.00"
Movie poster design.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Christmas Tree Love, Original holiday cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover forThe Saturday Evening Post, published December 23, 1950
A man arrives home carrying a Christmas tree only to discover that his wife has already bought one. The wo...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
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
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Yard Work, Stockton, NJ"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower right. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame.
Alexander Farnham (b.1926)
Alexander Farnham studied with Anne Steele Marsh, Van Deering Perrine, and at the Art Students League with George Bridgman...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Weekly Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of American Weekly Magazine, June 20, 1954
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Hatchet - Movie Moment of High Drama
By Amos Sewell
Located in Miami, FL
High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event.
Signed lower left
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Most likey for the Sa...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
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High Score, This Week Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Center
Contact for exact dimensions.
High Score, By Frank Bennett, This Week Magazine, September 1...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Expressway Proposal Over Norman Rockwell Town
Located in Miami, FL
Artist Richard Erdoes is as undervalued as he is overlooked.
Rarely does an artwork come on that market that combines sharp-witted originality with mind-boggling technical proficiency.
In “Mid-Century Expressway,” Erodes painstakingly draws a birds-eye view of a Norman Rockwell-like town buzzing with activity. He paints far away and close up in one image. Each block has its own charming Americana story unfolding. The closer the viewer gets to each scene, the more detail is revealed.
In black and white, the artist describes not only the architecture and infrastructure but also human activity - lot's of it.
Erodes’s congested town is humming. Overflowing trains, packed busses, zooming cars, stuffed trucks, frenzied pedestrians and even a marching band is depicted with great whit. But do not worry. Progress is coming and all will be well.
Superimposed onto this black and white clogged urban scene is a proposed new highway. It's painted in a punchy green and creates an unexpectedly distinct design.
The artwork was most likely done for Fortune Magazine or the like.
Notice he Esso Gasoline signs...
Category
Minimalist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pen
"Abstrakte Komposition I" by Hubert Berke, Abstract Composition, Dark Colors
Located in Köln, DE
Mixed media on laid paper by Hubert Brake.
"Abstrakte Komposition I", 1952
48,6 x 62 cm
signed and dated
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Laid Paper
The Parlor Organ
Located in Fort Washington, PA
signed lower left.
As you know, the pictures you have (Illustrated Gallery) were decommissioned from the New Britain Museum of American Art. Th...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Crime Scene, Original Magazine Story Illustration
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration for True magazine, presumably published February 1956.
Nighttime scene of policemen and bloodhounds investigating a murder on a cobblestone street.
Approximate Date: 1956
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 22.70" x 16.20"
Tom Lovell Biography:
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Sunday Afternoon Callers, Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 17, 1950
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed 'Hughes-' Lower Left
This work was published as the cover of the June 17, 1950 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.
Literature:
J. Cohn, ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Love at War, Lovers in a troubled moment . Handsome men and beautiful women.
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
Jon Whitcomb was know for is dipictions of Handsome men and glamous women. Most likely for a major newsstand magazine like. Cosmopolitan, McCall's and Pl...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right.
Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.'
Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dipinto post impressionista figurativo toscano del XX secolo
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
il dipinto (olio su tela 44.5 x 35 cm; with cornice in legno 64 x 54,5) è firmato Maccari in basso a sinistra e titolato "L'insidia" e datato 1956 a penna sul retro. La scena raffigu...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Head and the Heart, American Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Board
Dimensions: 10.25" x 12.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The Head and the Heart, American Magazine story illustration, September 1951
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Board
Cute Cow Milks into Bottle. Mid Century Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
George Giusti is in the Art Directors Hall of Fame. George Giusti’s graphic designs and illustrations have graced the covers of Time, Fortune, Holiday. He collaborated with Herbert ...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Ballantine Beer Ad. Mid-Century American Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Only Ballantine Ale Brews "Brewer's Gold," ad illustration appeared in the major magazines of the day. A magic moment is caught at a peak point of drama.
It's the instant of friends having fun.
A cold beer from the fridge is offered and it's is acknowledged with a head nod.
The woman in the foreground covers her giggling face reacting to a funny comment.
The decisive moment is preserved.
Sounds like a critique of an art photograph?
No, it's an illustrator.
This ingenious Infiniti "S" composition simultaneously represents the best of photography and painting.
Cartier-Bresson could have captured the precise moment.
While Nicolas Poussin could have rendered the complex figural composition.
Add to it , a painting technique and color scheme with the quick drama of a post-impressionist.
We have a great work of art by an overlooked American illustrator/artist/painter, Mike Ludlow...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
A Bullet for My Love, Paperback Cover
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This is the paperback cover for A Bullet For My Love by Octav...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Polo Match c1950s Acrylic on Canvas by Larry Golden
Located in Bristol, CT
Canvas Sz: 19 1/2"H x 15 1/4"W
Frame Sz: 22 1/2"H x 15 1/2"W
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Woman Baking, Redbook Illustration, Mid - Century
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, unframed - Interior Illustration for Redbook Magazine
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Ambrose Park
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic pastel illustration by Clair Forster c1955 depicting 'Ambrose Park', a 'big shot' from the capital
Art Sz: 14"H x 18 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 19 1/2"H x...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"The Pot Stove, the Flowers and the Pitcher"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
It Looked Bigger in the Brochure - Original Magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The illustration features a car salesman trying to talk a man into buying a very small red car whose license plate reads "Pikkolo"
This piece was featured as the cover illustration of both HÖRZU and Panorama in 1959.
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
The Glass Fortress
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
Lawrence Williams and Nell O’Day, “The Glass Fortress,” American Magazine, August 1950, illustrated, n.p.
Daniel Zimmer, Tom Lovell: Illustrator, Decatu...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Year of the Tempest
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original pulp paperback cover for The Year of the Tempest by Peter Matthiessen, published by Bantam, New York, 1957 (Bantam #A1578). This was the first paperback edition of the novel...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Simone Lienard Still Life Oil Painting Mid Century Nature Mort
Located in Dallas, TX
A Spectacular and Striking Simone Lienard (Belgium, 1912-1988), circa 1950 oil on canvas painting of ducks on the kitchen table with wine, mushrooms, apples, pottery jugs and a wine ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
'Swamp Test' American Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 27.00" x 38.00"
"Dr. Walters glanced back. Howell was whispering to Louise as though the savagery arou...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Minimalist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
The Triple Deity, 20th Century Egg Tempera
Located in London, GB
Francis Plummer
1930 - 2019
The Triple Deity
Egg Tempera on board, signed lower left
Image size: 24 x 20 inches
Gilt Framed
Plummer specialised in th...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Arthur Meltzer “Winter Farm Landscape” Watercolor
Located in Dallas, TX
Arthur Meltzer (1893 - 1989) "Winter Farm Landscape"
Image size: 12 x 21 inches
Framed: 32.5 x 23.5 inches
watercolor on paper landscape painting with F...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Bathing Group
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Bathing Group
Oil on canvas board
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
12 by 16 in. W/frame 20 by 24 i...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lookout Point, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, July 18, 1953.
The Post described, “Gently, gently now, for both side...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
High Priced Party Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of High Priced Party Girl by Bart Frame, A C...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Surrealist Landscape
Located in London, GB
JACOB EL HANANI b. 1947
1947 Casablanca (Israeli)
Title: Surrealist Landscape
Technique: Signed Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 80 x 59 cm. / 31.5 x 23.2 in.
Additional Information...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Ink
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
"Lanvin Paris Arpege/ Crescendo/ Dividend/ My Sin Perfume Advert Sign"
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 8"H x 4 7/8"W
w/ easel-back
c1950s
Hand-made by Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Watercolor
Town Square in Ecouen - Russian Ukrainian
Located in London, GB
This is an original Oil painting by Joseph Pressmane.
The work is hand signed and dated by the artist at the lower left part.
It was painted in 1957-58 in France.
The painting is furthermore titled verso.
Condition: Very good condition. Unexamined out of the frame.
Note: This lot will be shipped from Israel.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spectators Overflow, Collier's Magazine Illustration
By Henry Clarence Pitz
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Spectators Overflowed onto the Senate Floor as Webster (left) Answered South Carolina's Ailing John C. Calhoun (right center, in court), Collier's Weekly November 25, magazine story illustration, 1955
Medium: Pen, Ink Wash, and Sepia on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Henry Clarence Pitz was an outstanding performer in several fields, including illustrating for magazines and books, teaching and lecturing, writing on art...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
Sexy French Cabaret Dancers - Folies Bergere Pulp Paperback Book Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Campy and sexy illustration of two French chorus girls for the mid-century Avon paperback Les Girls.
Story of the Folies Bergere Unsigned and unframed.
George Ziel...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board
"Is Geography Distracting You From the World Series?
By Charles Kerins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover for The Catholic Boy magazine, published September 1952. Captioned on the first page of the magazine: "Is geography distracting you from ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Portrait of a Young Girl Oil Painting 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Circle of Thomas Derrick
British 1885 - 1954
Oil on panel
Image size: 21 1/2 x 14 inches (55 x 36 cm)
Hand made frame
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Benjamin 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
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Motel Mistress
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration was published twice as a paperback cover, first as Motel Mistress by Norman Bligh, Original Books, 1952, and also - under the same title - as Star Novels #763, circa 1955.
Raymond S. Pease was a painter and illustration artist, especially of outdoor sports, including polo, and of Western subjects. Born in Vermont, he grew up with horses, and remained interested in them the rest of his life. Pease attended Grand Central Art School and the National Academy of Design in New York City, and received a B.F.A. degree from the Yale University School of Art. He also studied art in Paris at the Ecoles des Beaux-Arts and Academie Julian. Pease painted portraits, still lifes, wildlife, polo scenes, a series of paintings of wild horses...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
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