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Period: 1950s
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
Jones Beach
Located in Bristol, CT
Original artwork depicting the Jones Beach tower surrounded by 18 frollicking unbathers commissioned by the United German American Societies of Nassau Co, ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
PAUL MAAS Les Vacances 1958 Family at the Beach Large Expressionist Oil Painting
By Paul Maas
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Provenance:
Collection of the Artist
Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Warner, Washington, Connecticut
Collection of the Washington Art Association, Inc.
Private Collection, California...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bonnie B. Paint Book Cover
By Elizabeth Voss
Located in Miami, FL
Elizabeth Voss was a top mod-century illustrator at Merrill Company and was a
major figure in Children's Art and Children's Illustration
Published by Merrill Company Publishers, Co...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
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
"Black on Black No. 3"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964)
Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
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
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
The Tuba Next Door, Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1952
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Love Story Couple in Romantic Bliss Illustration - Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome man and a beautiful woman are depicted in a rapturous pose. Their bodies are intertwined with each other and with the surrounding floral elements. This masterfully render...
Category
Romantic 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
Suit Fitting, Post Cereal Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Upper Left by Artist
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
SALVADOR DE REGIL 1954 Portrait of Marian Virginia Schuster - Surrealist Artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Marian Schuster was 19 years old in 1954 and attended City College San Francisco where she studied Art.
In the old school, Victorian, San Francisco, moneyed household that she was r...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"City"
By Rex Ashlock
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed on 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, figu...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
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
Mans' Ruin c1950s Watercolor
Located in Bristol, CT
c1950s
Watercolor depicting six naughty, scantily-clad vixens representing Mans' Ruin
Art Sz: 10"H x 12 7/8"W
Frame Sz: 15 1/4"H x 18"W in gilt bamboo frame
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Heavy Hauler - Mid-Century Illustration - Children's Books
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1923. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for eight years (!) at the Art Students League. Mario Cooper was among his instructors. Up...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
When Couples Meet, Ballantine Beer advertisement, 1953
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Center Right: John Clymer
Ballantine Beer advertisement, 1953
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
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
Princess and Prince, Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina Fairy Tales
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti paints a charming fantasy scene. It's of an extreme closeup of a tiny crowned and winged Prince and Princess They are standing upright in a dand...
Category
Surrealist 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
Encaustic Abstract Untitled Painting 002 by Frederik Ottesen
Located in Hudson, NY
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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic
Blue Collar Gritty Truck Driver with Tiger - Color field meets Social Realism
Located in Miami, FL
Gritty working class truck driver with tiger painting on truck door, is rendered in a flat and quick style with rapid brushstrokes defining the trucker. The tiger is painted in a t...
Category
Color-Field 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Composition - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
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
Classic 1950s Husband and Wife and Gagged Parrot, Esquire Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Juliette Kida Renault (as JKR) Esquire Magazine Illustration Original Art (Hearst, c. 1950s). "He said his first word to-day". A fixture of Esquire ...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
Caught! Young Girl uses Doctors Bag to Patch Up her Doll - Alexander Sharpe Ross
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross is an artist of consummate skill and wit. This painting captures a young girl in a doctor's office without permission. A p...
Category
Realist 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
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
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
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
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
Cover of 'Swords of Casanova'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Unsigned
Contact for exact dimensions.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
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
Audrey Hepburn and William Holden on Set of Sabrina, Hand on Arm, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, c13_23 -- Audrey Hepburn and William Holden on the set of Sabrina. Photographed in 1953. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints a...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Giclée
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
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
Boy Blowing his Trumpet at a Birthday Dinner
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Submitted as a Saturday Evening Post Cover
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
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
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
Reality & Reverie: 1951
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 24.00" x 36.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, 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
Berlin's Mayer Reuter, Time Magazine Cover - Lucian Freud
Located in Miami, FL
The Board measures 13.5 x 12.5
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Er...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"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
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
The King's Mistress
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
This illustration was published as the cover of The King's Mistress by Jean Plaidy, 1952.
Framed under glass to an overall size of 24.2...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
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
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
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
Long John Silver
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
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