1950s Paintings

Wild period abstract expressionist painting by Morris Shulman. The painting is egg tempera on Masonite measuring 32" x 22". Signed M Shulman and dated '51 at the lower right. Titled...

A beautiful signed and dated 1953 French naïf oil on canvas depicting the River Seine at the Pont Neuf, by Louis Florquin. Excellent quality and condition work by this rare artist w...

Pierre MONTHEILLET (1923-2011) Composition in green and yellow Mixed media on paper - monotype Signed and dedicated “pour mes amis Sallaz” lower right Dimensions of the work: 28.5 x ...

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...

Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches Signed lower left

An expressive and colorful modernist landscape by American artist Beverly Erschell. This energetic composition bursts with bold brushwork and a dynamic palette of yellows, pinks, blu...

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...

A luminous mid-century floral still life by noted artist Miriam Tabor. This elegant composition features soft pink blooms in a dark vase, set before a sunlit window. Tabor’s fluid br...

A beautiful mid 20th century French naïf oil on canvas wooded landscape by Charles Pincon-Maricourt. The artist is featured in Anatole Jakovsky's ''Peintres Naïfs'', which is conside...

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...

The texture of this artwork by Frederik Ottesen is mesmerizing. Seen from a distance, it invites the viewer to come closer and they are rewarded with the gorgeous encaustic surface O...

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...

SAIL BOATS & FLOWERS Size: 43 x 48 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A fantastic and confidently executed expressionist mid-century composition, painted in oil onto board. A large brown vase...

This is a Post -Wa painting with a great date of 1957. The way he has abstracted the clouds and bird forms is typical of this time frame as artists were experimenting with symbols and forms in place of representational elements. It is atmospheric and a great size for certain mantles or spots that require or want a longer and thinner format!!! A great urban apartment painting that goes well with post modern furniture...

BASKETS Sheet size: 58 x 45.5 cm Image size: 49 x 38 cm Lithograph on paper A mid century limited edition (164/260) coloured lithograph, signed by Esaias Thorén and dated 1957. It ...

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...

DIMENSION Size: 52 x 52 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A simple yet very effective abstract composition in oil, painted onto canvas. A set of bright abstract forms sit against ...

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, ...

Narrative artist Robert Riggs captures a highly-charged scene of an Indian firewalking ceremony. Firewalking is part of a religious ritual and is associated with the mystical powers...

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 ...

Signed lower right Printer's and designer's marks in margins "Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom." Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...

Portrait. On a yellow background 1950's, oil on cardboard, 49,5x35 cm Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not ...

SNOWFALL Size: 41.5 x 67 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A beautifully detailed mid century winter snow landscape composition, executed in oil onto canvas. A lone figure is depi...

Artist: B.G. Bradley, Americn XXth Title: Television Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed 'BGB' l.r. Size: 20 x 24 inches Frame: 25 x 29 inches

Jerusalem by Ludwig Blum Oil on canvas 18 x 28.7 inches / 45.7 x 73cm Signed Painted circa 1955

Signature: Signed Lower Left Framed 31.00" x 23.00" American Weekly magazine cover, October 31, 1954

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...

Charles Martignette Heritage Auctions, This is a Wonderfully rendered work with high level of detail and color saturation. Norman Rockwellesqu...

Paul Rand is remembered as one of history's greatest and most famous graphic designers. He was also a painter. The fact that Paul Rand used Naïve Art in much of his corporate identit...

PORTRAIT IN SEPIA Size: 72 x 56 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A large and striking mid century modernist portrait in oil, painted onto board. With a very distinctive dark sepia...

An original 1950's unsigned abstract. This whimsical bright work comes housed in a contemporary natural wood frame presentation which signs on the w...

American Abstract/Modernist painter Blanche Schmeidler (B 1915), depicts a view of New York City Skyline with Manhattan Bridge...painted in the 1950's with wonderful color palettes o...

Elisabeth DUJARRIC de LA RIVIÈRE (Jouy-en-Josas 1930 – Excideuil 2005) Artist's self-portrait Oil on canvas H. 171 cm; L. 70 cm Signed on the back Provenance: Private collection, Périgord Born in the heart of the Bièvre valley, a few kilometers from Versailles...

Huile sur toile. Dimensions avec cadre: 71x63 cm. Isaac Antcher est un peintre moldave né le 21 janvier 1899 à Peresecina et mort à Malakoff le 21 av...

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...

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...

Date: 1953 Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board Dimensions: 27.50" x 21.25" Signature: Titled and Dated '1952' Verso This illustration was published as the cover for The Naked R...

Original Holiday Greeting Card Christmas Illustration featuring a snowy scene with dogs chasing 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...

Back Cover illustration for the April 8, 1950 Easter edition of The War Cry, a magazine published by the Salvation Army This heartwarming image graced the back cover of the 1950 Eas...

O MARA'S MUNICIPAL TAVERN - Saturday Evening Post Illustration Supreme technical skill allows the artist to realistically capture an...

1950’s Cubist abstract arrangements of flags by Edward August Landon (1911 - 1984). Acrylic/oil on board, signed lower right Landon. Housed in the original frame. Overall with fra...

This monochromatic, black-and-white abstract painting plays a constant game between forms and shadows. For the painter, his artworks are a pure contrast between the visible and the invisible. Dark gestural lines decorate the background and contrast against a disappearing white background with subtle details of grey. Organic patterns appear in the black line work, creating an ethereal use of depth and space. The foreground contains multiple uncanny shapes feeding an overall fantasy yet gloomy atmosphere. The title of the artwork is "Phase 2...

The texture of this artwork is both subtle and engaging. Standing far away this painting invites the viewer to step forward and see up close the eye-catching texture Ottesen created....

Date: 1955 Medium: Acrylic on Board Dimensions: 30.00" x 20.00" Movie poster design.

This meticulously planned, designed, and executed work depicts an ultra-wide angle view of a rock quarry/mine. The viewer looks down at close-up-stylized rock formations and then out at a horizon line with rust-colored mine trestles. Atherton hints at perspective with a broken white line that is wider in the foreground and tapers to a hairline as it recedes to the background. The work was done in 1951 at the height of America's most important art movement: Abstract Expressionism. John Atherton absorbs its influences but retains elements of representation. Atherton was an in-demand commercial artist who worked for most blue-chip clients. It is possible that this was an editorial assignment for Fortune Magazine. At the same time, Atherton was also a fine artist and the work could be an expression of pure creative pursuits. The work looks better in person and one can look at it for hours and not get bored. Look carefully and you may discover a deeper meaning in this painting of precisely arranged rocks. Signed lower right. Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, sold to benefit the acquisitions program ____________________ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Carlton Atherton (January 7, 1900 - September 16, 1952) was an American painter and magazine illustrator, writer and designer. His works form part of numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art,[1] Whitney Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[2][3][4] Early Years He was the son of James Chester Atherton (1868-1928) and Carrie B. Martin (1871-1909). He was born in Brainerd, Minnesota.[5] His father was Canadian born. His parents relocated from Minnesota to Washington State, with his maternal grandparents whilst he was still an infant. He attended high school in Spokane, Washington. Career During his early years he never displayed an aptitude for art; rather, his first love being nature and the activities he relished there, mainly fishing and hunting. He enlisted in 1917, serving briefly in the U.S. Navy for a year during World War I. At the end of the war, determined to get an education he worked various part-time jobs, as a sign painter and playing a banjo in a dance band to pay his enrolment fee at the College of the Pacific and The California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute). Once there, he also worked in the surrounding studios developing his oil painting techniques. A first prize award of $500 at the annual exhibition of the Bohemian Club in 1929, financed his one way trip to New York City, which helped to launch his career as an artist.[6] Atherton had aspired to be a fine artist, however his first paid jobs were for commercial art firms designing advertisements for corporations such as General Motors, Shell Oil, Container Corporation of America, and Dole. However, by 1936, encouraged primarily by friends, such as Alexander Brook, an acclaimed New York realist painter, he returned to the fine arts. Atherton continued to accept numerous commissions for magazine illustrations; such as Fortune magazine, and over the years he would paint more than forty covers for The Saturday Evening Post starting with his December 1942 design, “Patient Dog.” This picture is reminiscent of his friend Norman Rockwell ‘Americana style’ and captures a poignant moment of nostalgia, where a loyal dog looks toward a wall of hunting equipment and a framed picture of his owner in military uniform. Selected One person Exhibitions Atherton accomplished his first one-man show in Manhattan in 1936. His Painting, “The Black Horse” won the $3000 fourth prize from among a pool of 14,000 entries. This painting forms part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection in New York.[7] Atherton achieved recognition in New York City and elsewhere during the 1930s. Having exhibited at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York,[8] his paintings began to be collected by museums; including the Museum of Modern Art[9] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His reputation increased with his art deco stone lithograph poster for the 1939 New York World's Fair. In 1941, his design won first place in the Museum of Modern Arts “National Defense Poster Competition”. Selected Public Collections Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, Vermont Albright-Knox Art Gallery,[10] Buffalo, NY Art Institute of Chicago,[11] Chicago Wadsworth Atheneum,[12] Hartford, CT Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art,[13] New York Whitney Museum of American Art,[14] New York Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,[15] Philadelphia De Young Museum,[16] San Francisco Smithsonian American Art Museum,[17] Washington DC Butler Institute of American Art[18] Youngstown, OH The Famous Artists School Founded in 1948 in Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A. The idea was conceived by members of the New York Society of Illustrators (SOI), but due to the Society's legal status, could not be operated by it. SOI member Albert Dorne led the initiative to set up a separate entity, and recruited the support of Norman Rockwell, who was also an SOI member. For the founding faculty, Dorne recruited Atherton, as well as accomplished artists such as Austin Briggs, Stevan Dohanos, Robert Fawcett, Peter Helck, Fred Ludekens, Al Parker, Norman Rockwell, Ben Stahl, Harold von Schmidt and Jon Whitcomb.[19] He collaborated with Jon Whitcomb with the book “How I Make a Picture: Lesson 1-9, Parts 1”.[20][21] Society of Illustrators Atherton as an active member from his arrival in New York. The society have owned many of his works. Ex-collection includes: Rocking Horse (ca. 1949) [22] Atherton, as his peers had many of his works framed by Henry Heydenryk Jr.[23] Personal On November 2, 1926, he married Polly “Maxine” Breese (1903-1997).[24][25] They had one daughter, Mary Atherton, born in 1932. Atherton's often chose industrial landscapes, however found himself spending considerable time in Westport, Connecticut, with an active artistic community, and it became home for him, and his family. He then moved to Arlington, Vermont.[26] Norman Rockwell enlisted Atherton in what was to be the only collaborative painting in his career.[27] He was part of a group of artists including a Norman Rockwell, Mead Schaeffer and George Hughes who established residences in Arlington.[28] Atherton and Mead Schaeffer were avid fly fishermen and they carefully chose the location for the group,[29] conveniently located near the legendary Battenkill River. In his free time, Atherton continued to enjoy fly-fishing.[30] He brought his artistic talent into the field of fishing,[31] when he wrote and illustrated the fishing classic, “The Fly and The Fish”.[32] He died in New Brunswick, Canada in 1952,[33] at the age of 52 in a drowning accident while fly-fishing.[34] Legacy The Western Connecticut State University holds an extensive archive on this artist.[35] His wife, Maxine also published a memoir “The Fly Fisher and the River” [36] She married Watson Wyckoff in 1960. Ancestry He is a direct descendant of James Atherton,[37][38] one of the First Settlers of New England; who arrived in Dorchester, Massachusetts in the 1630s. His direct ancestor, Benjamin Atherton was from Colonial Massachusetts...

Jean Salabet French, B. 1900 Moulin Rouge Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes. His work is comparable to those of Jules Herve, Antoi...

Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed Lower Left This piece was published as an illustration in True Magazine titled "Blondin Crossing Niagara" in 1953. Born Jean-François Grave...

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...

Aaron Berkman (1900 - 1991) “Bowling in Central Park” New York Oil on canvas 10 x 14 inches Signed and titled verso: Aaron Berkman 1950 Provenance: Private collection, USA Aaron Ber...

Unique red, green and white abstract image on canvas. White portion of the canvas is elevated from the rest of the image. Canvas is not framed. Painting is signed by the artist on th...

Something is mesmerizing about the paintings of Pat Berger - a captivating force that immediately draws us in. Her work is characterized by a unique composi...

The Mid-Century mindset As expected, 65 years ago.. people looked at art/painting a little differently. Back then, many artists were concerned with depicting simple and beautiful t...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left

Date: 1954 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 24.75" x 15.5" Signature: Signed Lower Left This illustration was published as the paperback cover of Treachery in Trieste by Charl...

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...

Watercolor on paper, signed in the lower right corner, signed verso, in decorative frame, overall 21" x 25".

Really impressive oil on canvas painting by the great modern Italian artist Umberto Carabella (Paliano, Frosinone 1912-1956). This is an intense portrait of the great football player...

Beautiful and evocative oil painting by the great French school modern artist Moya Dyring specializing in marinas. It depicts a harbor with boats probably from the French Riviera pai...

As you know, the pictures you have (Illustrated Gallery) were decommissioned from the New Britain Museum of American Art. There is no indication o...

Toits Rouges à Menton by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Oil on board 40 x 56.5 cm (15 ¾ x 21 ⅞ inches) Signed and dated lower left, Manzana Pissarro 1953 The last years of his...