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Portrait of Boy and Guitar Original oil by Angeli - Italy circa 1960
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Boy and Guitar Original oil by Angeli - Italy circa 1960
Classical portrait of a young boy ad his guitar by Angeli, an unknown Italian painter (Italy, 20th Century). Roc...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Outdoor Figure Study, Oil Painting by William J. Schultz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William J. Schultz, American (1919 - 2005)
Title: Outdoor Figure Study
Year: 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 40 x 25 inches (101.5 x 6...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a little girl with a ball of thread. Oil on cardboard, 46x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait of a little girl with a ball of thread. Oil on cardboard, 46x40 cm
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
'Woman in Blue', Danish Royal Academy, Brooklyn Museum, Kolding
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'A.S.' for Anton Schroder (Danish, 1893-1965) and dated 1953.
A substantial, modernist oil painting of a young woman, shown seated and gazing to her left with ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The model
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood
72 x 56 x 6 cm
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Portrait of a Ballerina - Hand Painted Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming hand painted photograph, portrait of a young ballerina as Tinker Bell by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Circa 1957.
Signed "Studio d'Art Los Altos...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper
Portrait of Augustus John
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Augustus Edwin John O.M. R.A. 1878-1961, was a Welsh born painter, draughtsman and etcher. He was the most important artist of his generation, his sister Gwen John was also an accom...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Modernist Black Woman Artist New Orleans Family Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist southern school painting. A family portrait on a New Orleans porch. Beautiful detail in the wrought iron. Brilliant color palette here. Signed verso. ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self-portrait. Oil on cardboard, 37x29 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Olģerts Saldavs (1907.29.VII – 1960.1.IV) - Painter, art scholar.
Studied in the studio of U. Skulme, later of K. Miesnieks and L. Liberts (1926). In 1936, he graduated from the V. ...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Portrait of Woman in Red Hat - American 50s art Post Impressionist oil painting
By David L Swasey
Located in London, GB
This captivating post-Impressionist portrait is by American artist David L Swasey circa 1953. The painting depicts a seated woman, turning to look at the artist with stunning blue ey...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower - French School
Located in London, GB
Portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, oil on board, signed Girardet, French School (circa 1950s). A compelling vintage oil portrait of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the most influ...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid-Century Children's Party Scene . Red and Orange, Native American
Located in Miami, FL
Broad areas of bold, flat red, magenta, and pink characterize this mid-century painting by Barbara Warren Ebersole ( Barbara Tate Ebersole ). It depicts a block party festooned with balloons and a street organ grinder with a smartly dressed performing monkey. The overall look of a lot mid-century art inspires many of today's most celebrated contemporary artists. Signed and dated upper left. Oil on Masonite. Barbara Warren Ebersole was a painter and an author. She may have been of Native American...
Category
American Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Portrait of a Girl in Bonnet
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century portrait of a girl in bonnet by listed artist Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst (American,1903-1997), circa 1950. Unframed. Signed "Gleiforst" lower left corner. Image size: 20"H...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Portrait of a Woman, " Leon Kroll, Mid-Century American Realism
By Leon Kroll
Located in New York, NY
Leon Kroll (1884 - 1974)
Portrait of a Woman, circa 1950
Oil on canvas
20 3/4 x 17 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection, North Caroli...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Portrait of the Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century self-portrait by California artist Myrtle Cureton (American, 1909-2000). Signed "Myrtle Cureton" lower left. Artist's Santa Cruz Art League ...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Lady in Red Portrait - British Post Impressionist 50s oil painting female artist
Located in London, GB
A super circa 1955 British portrait oil painting in tones of red. A very evocative period portrait of a woman painted by British listed female artist Constance Anne Parker. A highly...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Man, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman
Title: Portrait of a Man
Year: Circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 11.5 x 8.5 inches
Frame: 14 x 11 inches
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with Scarf - Christo 1955 Oil on Cardboard
Located in Sofia, BG
49.5 x 35 cm
Artwork unsigned - Christo 1955
Provenance
Private collection, Bulgaria
This artwork hasn't been exposed for 70 years.
This portrait artwork had been awarded with the ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Figure de Notier" framed, signed oil on canvas painting by artist Max Papart
By Max Papart
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Figure de Notier" oil on canvas painting of a human figure by Max Papart. Signed Max Papart on front. Signed and titled "Max Papart Figure de Notier" on back. Additional markings o...
Category
Abstract 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Janet Seated', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Di Gesu", for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988); further signed and titled verso, and bearing original exhibition label.
A substantial figural oil showing Victor di Gesu's wife, the artist Janet Ament, with a white shawl over her knees and seated cross-legged in front of a large ficus. A major work by this notable California Fauve...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Love Story. Mid Century Desaturated Color
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
Most likely for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Collier's Weekly, Good Housekeeping or Macall's
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Mid Century Portrait of Actress Paula Laurence - Wife of Joseph Hirshhorn
By Lily Harmon
Located in Miami, FL
Quick and loose expressionist portrait of stage and screen actress Paula Laurence
Portrait of Paula Laurence (1916-2005). Oil and graphite on linen. Signed top right. Exhibited: "Lil...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Lovely American Post Impressionist Oil Painting - A Young Girl Pouring Tea, 1956
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is not your typical child’s portrait. Young Ellen Warfield is steadily pouring tea or coffee in a proper manner that certainly conforms to societal expectations of the 1950’s.
...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seductive Femme Fatale Kim Novak Look-a-like Illustration in Red
Located in Miami, FL
A simple palette of red and flesh colors defines this noir portrait by Coby Whitmore, Seductive Femme Fatale Kim Novak Look-a-like Illustration in Red
It's a...
Category
Pop Art 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Sam Uhrdin, The Twilight View
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This beautiful mid-20th-century oil painting by Swedish artist Sam Uhrdin (1886-1964) depicts a woman playing the guitar in a gently lit room at twilight.
Bathed in a warm radiance ...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Girl, Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas by Lajos Rezes Molnar
By Lajos Rezes Molnar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lajos Rezes Molnar, Hungarian (1896 - 1989)
Title: Portrait of a Girl
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 20 in...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rabbi Reading, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi F
Year: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 10 x 7.5 inches
Frame Size: 17.5 x 15 inches
Category
Post-War 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At work. 1950, oil on cardboard, 49x69 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At work. 1950, oil on cardboard, 49x69 cm
Socrealist artworks, women are sorting sprats
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National Uni...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Portrait of a Man, Modern Oil Painting by Emmanuel Mane-Katz
By Emmanuel Mane-Katz
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Emmanuel Mane-Katz circa 1950. An expressionist style portrait of a man with a forlorn expression in dark gray and red tones.
Art...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Portrait. On a yellow background 1950's, oil on cardboard, 49.5x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
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 ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Rabbi and Student, Modern Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Rabbi and Student
Year: 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 16 x 11 inches
Frame Size: 25 x 20 inches
Category
Post-War 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
BMW Isetta, Messerschmitt Cars Autobahn - Humorous Mid-Century Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil
Suzanne Eisendieck "Chapeau Printanier. La Parisienne" Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on canvas, circa 1950, by Suzanne Eisendieck ( 1906-1998 ) Signed lower left: SUZANNE EISENDIECK
Dimensions: 22.04 x 17.51 in ( 56 x 44,5 cm ). Framed: 26.37 x 21.45 in ( 67 cm x...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Harlequin and his dog", 20th Century oil on cardbard by Ismael de la Serna
Located in Madrid, ES
ISMAEL GONZÁLEZ DE LA SERNA
Spanish, 1898 - 1968
HARLEQUIN AND HIS DOG
Signed and dated I. de la Serna, 1955
Oil on cardboard
42 X 27-1/2 i...
Category
Symbolist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Woman in a Red Dress, Mid Century Female Illustrator/ Artist, Elizabeth Taylor ?
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century female illustrator/artist Gladys Rockmore Davis paints a compelling portrait of a contemplative beauty who looks like Elizabeth Taylor. Frontal and lateral forces work together in this pyramidal composition. The sitter stares down at the viewer creating a frontal tension. Her hypnotic gaze is counterbalanced by the lateral movement of her crossed hands and triggers an emotional response. Gladys Rockmore Davis is both a work-for-hire illustrator and a fine artist- She was an illustrator for clients such as Upjohn, Munsingwear, Elgin Watches, and Johnson & Johnson. Davis had a show at the prestigious Midtown Gallery and Babcock Gallery in New York. She studied at the California School of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, and Art Students League. William R. French Gold Medal...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Tempera, Illustration Board
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a Black nude woman seated on a chair
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted 1950's mid-century modern English portrait of a black nude woman seated on a chair.
The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during the 1950s-1960s
Oils on ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Father and children in front of TV - Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
John Falter arranges figures and faces in a way that rival the old masters in their compositional perfection. And he makes it look easy. The expressions are captured so the emotions of the story come alive. This Golden Age of illustration artist depicts fathers and children watching...
Category
Academic 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Crystal City - Pushed Color Greens and Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This is most likely a self-portrait. We see the artist in a reflection holding a small 1950s camera while his wife in the foreground holds a large bran...
Category
Fauvist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Child-like Art - Child with Bull Horns in Boat with a Fish
By Paul Rand
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait of the artist's mother
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Elisabeth DUJARRIC de LA RIVIÈRE
(Jouy-en-Josas 1930 – Excideuil 2005)
Portrait of the artist's mother
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...
Category
Cubist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady in Purple - British 50's Impressionist oil painting portrait female artist
Located in London, GB
A vibrant portrait oil painting by female artist Pauline Glass who was educated on the continent at the Academy Julien and who exhibited throughout her career. This stunning oil is a...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Voodoo Devils Take the Sick - The Fight of Good vs Evil - Vodou
Located in Miami, FL
Devils depicted. Artist Wilson Bigaud paints a graphic narrative of mid-century life in Haiti without modern medicine. A man is dying yet there is no doctor present. In the struggle...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
At the Cafe
Located in Houston, TX
Francois Gall 1912-1987 French artist.
BENEZIT LISTED. GALL WAS THE RECIPIENT OF THE MEDAILLE d'ORE At the Paris Salon of 1947.
10 ½ x 18 oil on canvas, signed lower right. This ca...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antoni Vila Arrufat (1894 - 1989) - Joven durmiendo - Oleo sobre tela - 1959
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado en la parte inferior por el autor y fechado del año 1959
En la parte trasera, va nuevamente firmado y fechado del año 1959
Estado de conservación aceptable
Se presenta enm...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Portrait Oil Painting - Paul
Located in Bristol, GB
PAUL
Size: 58.5 x 53 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A striking and expressive mid-century portrait painting, executed in oil onto canvas.
The composition depicts a male figure ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Ink Portrait - The Farmhand
Located in Houston, TX
Ink portrait of a weathered farmhand by Jean Baptiste Grancher, circa 1954. Initialed and artist's stamp lower right.
Original artwork on paper display...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This painting is as much about the artist's brilliant painting skills and technique as it is about the subject matter. Sundblom's quick bravura brush strokes seem abstract on close i...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cubist Purple Nude, Contemporary Oil Painting by Female Artist Miriam Bromberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cubist Purple Nude
Miriam Bromberg
Oil on Canvas
Size: 40 x 28 in. (101.6 x 71.12 cm)
Category
Cubist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting - The Children
Located in Bristol, GB
THE CHILDREN
Size: 36.5 x 66 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A richly textured and endearing mid century modernist style figurative portrait, painted in oil onto board.
Rendered ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
New Hat, Expressionist Portrait of Woman by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"New Hat" is a figurative, interior portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon from 195. The 20" x 16" oil on board portrait features a young African...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm
Elegant woman portrait with scarf
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Cosmopolitan Illustration Surreal Family Narrative
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Editor and Typist - Mid Century Women's Magazine Illustration Naive art
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
French school 20th Century, Portrait of a young man in green, oil
Located in Paris, FR
French school of the 20th Century,
Portrait of a young man in green,
oil on cardboard panel, cradled on the back
53 x 40 cm
This intense portrait is particularly moving and intere...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Champagne for the Honeymoon
Located in Miami, FL
Pruett Carter captures the quintessential look of the 1950's in this loosely rendered but charming work for Redbook. Bright, punchy colors define each object and are arranged in a simplified but complex composition of intersecting and overlapping planes of color.
The double portrait of the girl expresses a peak moment of introspection. She ponders her situation while preparing to get dressed for her special occasion. The whole scene is imbued with suspense about her future. Carter is a great academic painter. With just a few light touches of the brush, he quickly defines the form of the subject and achieves the X factor of the work. The profile and frontal view of the girl clearly are the same person. He nails her look. This is hard to do. Do not underestimate it. Sadly, there is a reason why there are very few contemporary artists can actually paint and draw without tracing photographs or resort to naive painting. It's hard to do. It's hard to be a painter. You can not fake...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eminent Women, Illustration for McCall's Magazine, May 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration celebrating important women throughout history, published in McCall's magazine, May 1959.
This large canvas by Stanley Meltzoff presents a compelling tribute to influen...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West )
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Casein
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