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Period: 1950s
Modeling Dress, Cereal Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, 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
The Naked Rich, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Country Gentleman Magazine Cover
By Robert Addison
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1953
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 32.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of Nov. 1953 issue of Country Gentleman magazine...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Chasing the Sleigh, Original Holiday Greeting Card Christmas Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Illustration Board
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"End of Track, " Paperback Cover, 1951
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
End of Track - Paperback Cover, written by Ward Weaver, Popular Library, 1951.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Suit Fitting, Post Cereal Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Upper Left by Artist
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Tragic Ground, Paperback Cover, 1958
By James Avati
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
This illustration was published as the paperback cover for Tragic Ground by Erskine Caldwell, Signet, 1958.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Backwoods Hussy, Paperback Cover
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled, Wine Bottle and Bird outside of a Bird Cage in Moody Brown
By Paul Rand
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated to lower edge 'Paul Rand 11.52'. Collection of the artist - Mounted along upper eduge to matboard, Unframed.
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Novelist Graham Green. Time magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Work is nicely archival matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches but not framed. Signed lower left
Published : Oct. 29, 1951 Cover, Time Magazine
Category
Photorealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Enroll For Service
Located in Miami, FL
Enroll For Service,
American Junior Red Cross, poster illustration, 1951
Gouache on board
22 x 14 1/2 in.
Not signed
From the Collection of the American Red Cross...
Category
De Stijl 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Gina Lollobrigida
By T. J. Kuck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: circa 1950
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 27.75" x 19.75"
Signature: Signed "T. Kuck" Lower Right
"Gina Lollobrigida." Portrait of the I...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"The Embrace", Story Illustration for Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1951
By Alex Ross
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Gouache, Pen and Ink on Board
Dimensions: 12.75" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
The Embrace. Story illustration for "How About Tonight?" by John D. Hess, published in Cosmopolitan magazine...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board, Pen
Children's Book Cover - Mid-Century Blond Girl - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Female Illustrator Barbara Briggs Bradley was an in-demand illustrator in the 1950s. Merrill Publishers of their famous children's books hired Barbara Briggs Bradley to d...
Category
Academic 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
Man on Floor Illustration
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Miami, FL
Man on Floor Illustration
ca. 1950–1959
Paintings, gouache on board
8 x 26.25 in. (20.3 x 66.7 cm.)
Modern
Magazine Story Illustration
Heritage, Morris Weiss CollectionSunning work w...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of Mythological Figure
Located in Miami, FL
Works on Paper, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper
Robert L. B. Tobin Foundation San Antonio, Texas
initialed in cartouche bottom center
Category
Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"The White Boat"
By Rex Ashlock
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed verso
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Rex Ashlock (1918 – 1999)
Born in Spokane, Washington in 1918 Rex Ashlock was known for his abstract, figurat...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Garden Scene with red trees - Women Illustrators
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Most likely for a Magazine like Redbook, Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal or Woman's day
Lorraine Fox is Hall of Fame member of the Society of Illustrators
She...
Category
Symbolist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Yesterday's Love, Love can Be True. The Heart can Betray
Located in Miami, FL
Classic illustration for a romanace novel from the 1950's in England. Recently these charming works have been the source of interest and even parody. Unsigned, unframed. Vale Studi...
Category
Academic 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Wine of Violence
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This appeared as the cover for the 1952 Popular Library paperback Wine of Violence by Ralph Ingersoll
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Dressing Table, 20th Century British Oil
Located in London, GB
Charles McCall
1907 - 1989
The Dressing Table
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1951
Image size: 30 x 25 inches
Gilt frame
Charles McCall was born in Edinb...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fred C. Dobbs Paddle Steamer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration dates circa 1950.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shade Tree
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache, Tempera and Pencil on Paperboard
Signature: Signed 'Dick Sargent' (Lower Left)
Sight Size 23.00" x 21.88", Framed 29.00" x 28.00"
Cover of the April 12th, 1958 issu...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Board, Pencil
$149,000
Tales of the Arabian Nights with Flying Carpet - Random House Gustaf Tenggren
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
Gustaf Tenggren- Attributed This masterfully designed and graphic interpretation of the Arabian Nights saga features a monumental figural profile while small figures float above on a magic carpet. Gustaf Tenggren (American 1896-1970) Attributed - We are not certain if Tenggren did this work. There is stylistic evidence to support Tenggren. It's the brilliance factor of how he assembles all the elements of the work and composes it into a cogent and readable form. This says Tenggen. As a former New York advertising agency art director, I have seen artists work in different styles. Usually this is not the case but great artist can do it. Their styles can change but the brilliance remains.
Untitled
Untitled
1957
Gouache on illustration board - Unframed
Not signed
9 x 7.25 live - 10.5 x 9.5 board
Original book illustration...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Quarrelling Gulls - Flock of Birds
Located in Miami, FL
This beautiful semi-abstract harbor scene of a flock of birds is rendered in Martin's signature style
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$14,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Blondin Crossing Niagara
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Cover of 'Swords of Casanova'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Unsigned
Contact for exact dimensions.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Glamour & Grit: 1955
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 24.00" x 36.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Looking Into a Neighborhood - Ginger Bread Houses - Women Illustrators
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Looking Into a Neighborhood , Dear Paul
This is an intriguingly charming work by an overlooked and brilliant mid-century female artist - illustrator, and educator. Lorraine Fox. ...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Memoirs Of Casanova, Paperback Cover
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover for The Memoirs of Casanova (Bantam books #FB-415, 1957): A New Edition of the French Translation by Lowell Blair
Memoirs of Casanova, Paperback Cover, 1957
Tom Lovell ha...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
House of Deceit, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.75" x 14.25"
Signature: Unsigned
This illustration was published as the cover for House of Deceit by Rae Loomis, Ace S-124, 1955.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Calling for the Mail
Located in Fort Washington, PA
As you know, the pictures you have (Illustrated Gallery) were decommissioned from the New Britain Museum of American Art. There is no indication o...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Salt Gold Sunset, Saturday Evening Post Story Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post sticker and editorial and production marks on verso.
This is more than just a simple semi-silhouette. It's a carefully crafted and wonderfully composed image. T...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots - Woman Illustrator
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots by Lorraine Fox can be a joyful addition to your home. A beautiful redheaded young girl looks back at us from ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Couple
Located in PARIS, FR
Since the 1940s, the Egyptian painter Hamed Abdalla is not only a visionary pioneer of modern art for the global south and Arab countries; he is also one of the first of his generation to envision painting as political art and activism. The current display focuses on a specific time of defeat and disillusion for a whole generation of Arab artists and intellectuals, in the aftermath of the “Six Days War” led by Israel and their allies (a war title which a lot of Arab activists consider propagandist, preferring to call it “The Defeat of 1967” or simply the “June 1967 War”). This persistent ideological wound became the symbol of failed dreams for the “Arab Nation” or Arab states alliances – including the short but emblematic Egyptian-Syrian achievement of the United Arab Republic.
Another major failure, to which Abdalla will respond through the paintings on display here, is the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat program of “opening up” (Infitah) the Egyptian economy and give way to political compromise with the US and Israel – Abdalla assimilating this period to a vast state of Coma for all Arab people and territories.
In a collective statement by a group of Egyptian artists exiled in Paris (including Abdalla), published in the Egyptian local journal Al-Dustur, on 5 December 1977, one can read: “This disaster is far greater than the defeat of June 1967. Rather, it approaches the scale of the disaster that took place in 1948 (…) To destroy the Arab people’s noble three decades-long struggle against imperialism and Zionism (…) Sadat is exploiting the stifling economic crisis that Egypt is currently facing (…) We must resist this betrayal of our nation or be crushed under the wheels of global imperialism for generations to come.”
The works presented here reflect Abdalla’s transformation of the Hurrufiyyah aesthetics, to achieve his own way of “Arab Letterism”. It claims for a deeply experimental, non-decorative, politically committed and non-commercial use of the Arabic letter...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$45,090
The Indiscretions of a French Model, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1953
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Dimensions: 15.00" x 12.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This illustration was published as the cover for Indiscretions of a French Model by Ba...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Ponies and Puppies Trotty And Trix Coloring Book, Cover Art
Located in Miami, FL
Children's illustration of Ponies and Puppies
Signed lower left
Children’s Books Published by The Merrill Company
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$2,700 Sale Price
20% Off
Grand Mother and Grand Son Read Emotional Letter
Located in Miami, FL
Crockwell is as good as Rockwell. Many would agree with that statement including the editors of the Saturday Evening Post in which both artists were frequent contributors. In fact, ...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Company K - Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Book cover for "Company K" by William March.
Subject matter features three army soldiers in monochrome ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Coming up Roses
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left, "Hughes"
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Framed 24.50" x 26.50"
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, June 8, 1957.
The Post described, “...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Curaçao, Travel Advertisement
By C.G. Evers
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: circa 1957
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 25.50" x 17.75"
Signature: Signed Left
Original illustration for a poster for the Grace Line Travel c...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Chateauneuf
Located in London, GB
ABRAM ADOLPHE MILICH 1884-1964
Tyszowce, Poland 1884-1964 Paris (Polish)
Title: Chateauneuf, 1957
Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on canvas
size: 65.5 x 81 cm / 25.8 x 31...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Midsummer Moon, 1950s
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Wilhelm Ohm (1905-1965), Double Portrait with Chairs, circa 1950
Located in Greding, DE
Expressive portrait of a man and a woman looking directly at the viewer as well as indicated chairs.
The execution of a series of chair paintings served Wilhelm Ohm (1905 Stettin -...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Gambler's Girl
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration was published as the paperback cover for Gambler's Girl by Kermit Welles, Original Novels 704, 1951.
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Night Club Mystery
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Not Signed
The Night Club Mystery, The Sexton Blake Library #284 cover, March 1953
This illustration appeared on the c...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Dark Streets of Paris (Lucifer's Dream) Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration was the paperback cover of Dark Streets of Paris (Lucifer's Dream) by Jean Louis Curt...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pajama Party
By Victor Kalin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Gouache on Board
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Guests for Christmas Dinner, 1950
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Medium: Acrylic on Gessoed Panel
Advertisement for dried fruits, 1950.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic, Panel
Party Seen Through Beer Glass
By Gilbert Riswald
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Center
Advertisement for Budweiser Beer, 1956. Party seen through a beer glass.
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Coricidin Cold Tablet Advertisement
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: Late 1950s
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 16.25" x 17.50"
Signature: Unsigned
Coricidin Cold Tablet Advertisement, Schering Corporation Advertisement
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
The Men She Knew
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration was published as the paperback cover for The Men She Knew by Norman Bligh, Venus Books No. 130/Star Guidance, 1951.
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left 'Hassan Soliman 1957'
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Two Yellow Parakeets and the Surviving Plant" Oil Painting by Pat Berger
Located in Pasadena, CA
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...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
1957 Mid-Century Abstract Signed Swedish Lithograph by Esaias Thorén - Baskets
Located in Bristol, GB
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 ...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
"Keys Made While You Wait"
Located in Bristol, CT
Colourful original advert artwork in pastel lettering
Board Sz: 7"H x 12"W
Frame Sz: 11"H x 16W
w/ coral mat & gilt bamboo frame
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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