Illustration Board Portrait Paintings

Nude study by Andy Smith (American, 20th Century). A woman is seated, slightly leaning to the left of the composition. The background fades from a rusty red to a dark blue, changing ...

"Maria" Portrait of a Girl New Hope Pennsylvania Artist Edna Gass "Enfant" portrait of a child by New Hope Artist Edna Gass (American, 1904–1993). This portrait is one of rare Monoty...

"Clatterer" (2023) by Allen Williams is an original oil painting on a sealed illustration board that depicts an eerie and disturbing portrait of a demon...

An original illustration by Cuban artist Andres Garcia Benitez which was used for the cover of the iconic Carteles magazine in November of 1938. ...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Moreno Torricelli - Juventus Football Legend, UEFA Champions League 1995-96 - Determination Technique: Charcoal on paper, Signed and dated '96 Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 ...

Political Cartoon of Ford and Kissinger, Magazine Cover Illustration for magazine. Most likely a cover Newsweek, Time Magazine or The Atlantic Magazine Work is unframed. Colors are...

Portrait of a Woman in the Style of Modigliani in Acrylic (Blue Background) Portrait of a woman in the style of Amedeo Modigliani by an unknown artist (20th century). The woman has ...

Portrait of a Woman in the Style of Modigliani in Acrylic (Red Background) Portrait of a woman in the style of Amedeo Modigliani by an unknown artist (20th century). The woman has d...

Bay Area Figurative Movement Portrait of a Woman in Oil on Artist's Board 1950s Portrait of a woman man by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). The woman is looking directly at the viewer, with a neutral expression. She has dark hair and a slender nose, and is wearing a blue dress. A distinctive bay area figurative movement portrait by well known San Francisco artist Honora Berg. Signed "H. Berg" in on verso. Stamp from Miller Fine Art on verso Acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Initialed and numbered "HB 122 " on verso Unframed. Board size: 24.75"H x 19"W Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961. Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...

Sex and violence take center stage in this mid-1960s men's magazine interior story illustration. This action-packed narrative of a G.I. close-up gun battle incorporates five peak m...

Portrait of a Native American Elder in oil on Artist's Board Stately portrait of an elderly man by Hoyt Yeatman II (Jr) (American, 1926-2019). Shown against a dark background, the man is wearing a blue tunic, red headband...

When a husband catches his wife with another man, it's no joke, except if it's a Gilbert Bundy mid-century cartoon for Esquire Magazine. Caption: "You'd better introduce us – I disl...

One of the hallmarks of great art is recognizing the artist's style instantly. This is the case with Richard Erdoes. His highly stylized comic figures are expressive and communicate the story delightfully and joyfully. Even though this work is rendered in flat, minimalistic two colors, the inventive shape relationships and positive and negative areas convey a very high level of artistic skill. The present work was done on assignment for the prestigious Standard Oil ( Exxon's predecessor ) corporation's company magazine, The Lamp. Although not a newstand magazine, The Lamp had the highest editional and artistic content. Work is unsigned and unframed. Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author. Early life Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian...

Mario Zamparelli served as the chief designer for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes' empire, creating his promotional images and designing many of its products. In the present...

A complex story is portrayed in one picture. American Glamour Illustrator Jon Whitcomb interprets a Mid-Century Cosmopolitan story about a beautiful blond actress who, on set, appea...

Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Signed (as Emmett Kaye) lower right it was Mort Kunstler's pseudonym, unframed , Gouache on illustration board

An almond-eyed brunette is depicted sitting pensively next to a window. She looks Mediterranean, perhaps Italian or Greek, and has a captivating face that one can fall in love with. ...

Today's newly minted fine art stars are from the mid-century surrealism school and include Gertrude Abercrombie, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Carrington, who were mostly unknown five y...

“Graduation Day” is emblematic of mid-century American Illustration. But the real story of this storytelling work is that it embodies the lost art of portrait painting and graphic design. Alex Ross borrows on the classical tradition and flaunts his skills as a narrative painter. In “Graduation Day”, he paints a complex composition involving at least thirteen portraits. The subjects are beautifully rendered and lit. They are set against a dark grey background and jump off the surface at the viewer. The composition is complexly designed. The future graduate in the red jacket engaging with a girl photographer is a compositional device that leads the viewer's eye to the main subject - a father congratulating his son on graduating from medical school. Creating art that relies on facial expressions and body gestures is a talent absent in contemporary art. Why? It’s very hard to do and takes years and training and practice to get it right. Despite Alex Ross's folksy subject matter, this work is a high example of naturalism and representation by an important member of the Golden Age of American Illustration. Signed lower right Born in the town of Dunfermline, Scotland, Alexander Sharpe Ross (1908-1990) moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1911. After attending Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), Ross moved to New York and joined the Charles E. Cooper Studio, where he worked among such notable illustrators as Ward Brackett, Stevan Dohanos, J. Frederick Smith...

Inspired by Italian Artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Illustrator Bernard D'Andrea creates a startled person in profile. Unlike Arcimboldo, D'Andrea constructs a girl's head out of people ...

Fabled Illustrator Bob Peak, the heir to Norman Rockwell's American Illustration dominance, invents a new look for corporate identity. Prior to Peak, travel advertisements were stra...

At some point, the fine art/museum world will recognize how truly brilliant a trailblazing artist like Coby Whitmore is. His exploration of bold colors, flattened, simplified space, ...

The punchline on many of these 1950s cartoons fades, but the visuals more than hold up - they shine. The sleek, graphic style of painting with flat, broad areas of color shows that ...

Boundless whimsical creativity defines this Time Magazine Cover proposal. In 1970, famed illustrator/artist Robert Grossman visualized a cover story i...

The old west depicted in a graphic and dramatic manner. Paperback Novel Cover Painting Original Art (Avon, 1963). Work has a matted image area of 12.5" ...

Children's Coloring Book Cover Art - Merrill Company - Female Illustrator Board 20 x 14.75, Publisher's Stamp lr recto, publication instruction recto verso Betty Anne Gartrell inscr...

Signed lower right, unframed - Interior Illustration for Redbook Magazine

Legendary children's book author and illustrator Richard Scarry depicts a congenial interaction between Danny the Beaver and the Skunk. The painting was directed at a toddler audien...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Original illustration was done by Renna for the novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne, published in 1963. What makes this work special is how brilliantly the subj...

Expressionistic Portrait of a Man in Red - Original Oil Painting Airy 1970s close up portrait of a man (Art Danner) by listed artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). The image ...

Signed lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and dated 1971; additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'Leslie'. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di G...

Gorgeous pointillist egg tempera portrait of young blonde girl by Robert Joseph Collins (American, 1922-2011), 1947. Signed "Collins" and dated "'47." U...

Basket Weaver with his Baskets for the Market 1950s figurative oil Expressive and detail portrait of a weaver and his baskets, heading to market by California impressionist nna Oley...

Portrait of a Woman with Red Hair in the Style of Modigliani (Green Background) Portrait of a woman in the style of Amedeo Modigliani by an unknown artist (20th century). The woman...

1996: Gianluca Peruzzi - Juventus Goalkeeper, Champion of the UEFA Champions League Technique: Charcoal on paper, Signed and dated '96 Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albiss...

Robert Azensky is pleased to offer a signed vintage original oil portrait of a woman "I see you" Compelling mid century modern portrait of a woman with expression that gets a wide v...

1996: Angelo Peruzzi - Juventus Goalkeeper in the Net, Champion of the UEFA Champions League Technique: Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '96 Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 19...

Two Ballerinas - Acrylic and Ink on Cardstock Colorful portrait of two ballerinas by Jassen Marek (20th Century). Two ballerinas are shown in white, green, and blue. They are bendin...

Heads Up, Edmund Dulac depicts a strong and confident woman in art in the 1930s. The work shows Queen Thomysis witnessing a beheading. This complex figurative work was an original de...

For those who appreciate good academic painting and drawing, study Pearl Frush. She gets it right. In the present work, Frush paints a perfect face. Not just anatomically, but also i...

This poster-like mid-century illustration of Little Miss Sunbeam in her Brownie uniform depicts her in a patriotic three-finger salute against an American Flag. It's by the celebrat...

Allan Kass (American, 1917-2005) Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe advertisement, 1954 Gouache on board 18 x 20-1/4 inches (45.7 x 51.4 cm) Not signed The Bob and Diane Yaspan Collection T...

Faintly signed lower right, 'D. Mayernik' for David Mayernik (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. A period, Post-Impressionist style study of a woman in a turban looking...

In 1962, the fine art and museum worlds were absorbed by the later stages of Abstract Expressionism, the introduction of Hard Edge Abstraction, and the rise of Pop Art. Realism was ...

There is plenty of B-movie-like pulp illustration art out there to consider. This work, however, is fundamentally different. The main point about the Harry Barton...

Today's highly touted ultra-contemporary fine art market has crashed. Why? The artist's lack of talent, concepts, and basic technical skills was overrated and, in some cases, acutely...

The present masterpiece is a one-of-a-kind work that embodies the quintessential archetype of a glamorous woman typical of the 50s. With a simple palette of red and flesh colors, artist Coby Whitmore defines the noir portrait. Be cautious, the seductive Femme Fatale Kim Novak...

Romance Love Triangle on Fishing Boat his artwork appeared on pages 22-23 of the December 1957 issue of Playboy Magazine, illustrating the fiction story by Budd Schulberg titled "Bar...

Lorraine Fox was a pioneering female Illustrator/artist who championed a unique style immediately identified as hers. This work, in two parts, was most likely for a newsstand woman's...

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...

A high-impact graphic of a whimsical Lion sporting a bowler hat is depicted for a cover for Holiday Magazine, April 1958. The issue was about England, and the editors finally ran a ...

The work is mostly black and white to indicate that this is a night scene. On closer inspection, you will see areas of magenta and ivory throughout The publisher's label on verso ide...

This work is remarkable for its intense dramatic lighting effects and wide-angle composition. Very few artists conceived and executed with acutely dramatic light in the arc of art hi...

Signed lower right. Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.' Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint

Stunning portrait with a killer smile by Golden Age of Illustration female Illustrator Zoë Mozert. Signed lower right. Framed under glass, silk matted and i...

Trailblazing Gay Female illustrator of the Golden Age, Ida Waugh, paints a powerful narrative of a young woman coming to the aid of another who, due to an accident, is lying prostrate in an unpaved road. The reason why the work is in black and white is because this was assignment art for a book or magazine and color printing was not yet available for mass publications Signed lower left. Framed under glass, Ida Waugh (October 24, 1846 – January 25, 1919) was an American illustrator of children's literature who often collaborated with her lifelong companion, Amy Ella Blanchard. Personal life Ida Waugh was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 24, 1846, the daughter of painter Samuel B. Waugh and his first wife, Sarah Mendenhall, therefore she was half-sister of painter Frederick Judd Waugh. Her step-mother was Mary Eliza Young Waugh, a miniaturist. She attended Académie Julian and Académie Delécluse in Paris, studying with Georges Callot, Paul-Louis Delance, and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.In 1868 she attended the first "Ladies Life Class" at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; in the same class there were Emily Sartain and Catherine Ann Drinker. Career Ida Waugh collaborated with her partner Amy Ella Blanchard in publishing children's books, Waugh as illustrator and Blanchard as writer. Waugh also published books on her own Other than a children's book illustrator, Waugh was an award-winning painter. In 1869 she exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts two works, "The Bargain" and a portrait bust of Carl Gaertner. Her self-portrait and another painting, "Little Cosette" (1870), are in the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, both donated by Mrs. John S. Haug in 1961.They were part of the exhibition "Women and Biography" in 2014, including: Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, Edith Emerson, Anne Minich, Catherine Mulligan, Mitzi Melnicoff, Alice Kent Stoddard, Aubrey Levinthal, Martha Armstrong...

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