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Period: Mid-20th Century
Composition - Watercolor by Piero Sbano - Mid-20th Century
By Piero Sbano
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original artwork realized in the half of 20th century by Piero Sbano.
Mixed colored watercolor.
The artwork is hand signed on the lowe...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
American Eagle Fortune Magazine Cover Illustration ( alternate )
Located in Miami, FL
Alternate cover for Fortune Magazine February, 1940. Gouache on board. 350x285 mm; 13 3/4x11 1/4. Signed "A. Petrucelli" in lower left image. Tipped t...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
1950s Abstract Oil Painting, Fertility Goddesses, Nude Figures, Pink Blue Green
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning mid-20th century abstract figurative painting titled "Fertility Goddesses" by renowned Denver modernist Edward Marecak (1919-1993) features three stylized nude female f...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
Impressionist Portrait Painting of Circus Clown 1950
Located in Rochester, NY
Bold portrait of an introspective circus clown. Rich colors. Detailed circus background. Oil on masonite. Signed Klotz. Dated 1950. Unfarmed.
american Emmett Kelly...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Child and Baby Dogs on the Beach by Nicolas-Saleem Macsoud
By Nicholas Saleem Macsoud
Located in Pasadena, CA
Nicholas Saleem Macsoud (1884-1972)
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) 5 July, 1936
B'klyn Artist's Work Featured At Pocono Show
Nicholas S. Macsoud's Work Part of Mano...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Judgment
Located in Miami, FL
Thin edged metal frame
Philip Castle is an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle
He is rarely exhibited and Prince Rainier of Monaco once purc...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Boy Waiting, Portrait of a Young Man by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Boy Waiting" is an oil on board portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon of a young man with somber expression, sitting on a chair. This work features a second environmental portrait on verso. The painting is 41.75" x 35.75" in size and is signed "Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist; Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Painting 20th Century Post Impressionist Paris Montmartre
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
HERVE Jules René (1887-1981)
Tourists in Paris Montmartre
Oil on canvas signed low right
Gault framer (Paris)
Dim canvas : 46 X 55 cm
Dim frame : 66 X 75 cm
HERVE Jules René (1887-19...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Self Portrait, " Abstract Acrylic on Masonite signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Self Portrait" is an original acrylic painting on masonite board by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece. This painting features a portrait of the artist, David Barnett, in gr...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
The Bouquet Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a woman holding a bouquet of flowers by Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower right. Unframed. From the Estate of Helen Gleiforst.
Helen...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
The Fortune Teller by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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The Fortune Teller by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₄ inches)
Signed and d...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Obelisk - Muslim Woman Hijab, Mid-Century Architectural Forms - Brazilian Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Brazilian/ American Artist William Schock paints a portrait of a Muslim woman in a Hijab gazing directly at the viewer. She is set against an obelisk and an arch in a well-balanced c...
Category
Color-Field Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Boy Eating Watermelon
Located in Miami, FL
The work looks much better in person with snappy bright colors that form a complex abstract composition of interconnected shapes.
Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, The Work is Signed lower left - Provenance: Forum Gallery, New York - Label on verso
Swann Gallery...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Journalism - War Lessons, Illustration for Collier's, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Marta Sawyers. Illustrator Journalist. She was sent to war-ravaged countries to “Paint the Story”.
What's unique here? This represents the work an Artist Journalist/War Correspondent...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Figurative painting female portrait Tuscan Macchiaioli 1930s
Located in Florence, IT
This small portrait, oil on panel 24 x 17 cm, is signed and dated in the upper right corner in openna cursive "Valentino Ghiglia 1934." It depicts a maiden with cropped hair and a so...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Self Portrait, Expressionist Figurative Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Self Portrait" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 47" x 28.5" oil on canvas portrait features Harmon at a young age of about 25 years old. ...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Figure, Male Expressionist Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Seated Figure" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 48" x 35.75" oil on board portrait is painted in energetic and bold brushstrokes, with vi...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Le Sommeil
By Jean-Pierre Alaux
Located in Miami, FL
Early Surrealist work from 1957 the heyday of Surrealism - where a young blond girl caught in a dream like state hugs a mountain that has a profile of a man's face. Work is framed in...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
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 Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boxing Ring. Boxed Knocked to Floor with 10 Count, Red and Black, Esquire Mag
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Illustration legend Bob Peak depicts a boxer that has fallen to the matt and is being given the 10-count by the referee. Peak captures that peak moment of drama and then exaggerates...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Golden Age of Illustration Beautiful Smiling Woman, Female Illustrator
By Zoë Mozert
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Illustration Board
Kennedy, John Color Portrait, Smiling Left
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Color portrait of JFK nb_118v – A rare color portrait of JFK. Image size is 22" x 22" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to orde...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
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 Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Noir Crime Drama Shooting - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
By Thornton Utz
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post Illustrator Thornton Utz captures the peak moment of action in this Noir Crime Drama, Shooting illustration on an interior page in the famed magazine in 1958 —...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Dipinto post impressionista figurativo toscano del XX secolo
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
il dipinto (olio su tela 44.5 x 35 cm; with cornice in legno 64 x 54,5) è firmato Maccari in basso a sinistra e titolato "L'insidia" e datato 1956 a penna sul retro. La scena raffigu...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Jewel"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Resue the Children, Family in Horror Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"ROMAN PASSES"
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"DAVE PARK"
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Self Portrait, 20th Century Jewish Artist Oil Painting
By Carl Felkel
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed bottom right
Image size: 13 1/2 x 17 inches (34.25 x 43 cm)
Contemporary frame
The Artist
Painter Carl Friedrich Felkel was born in 1896, in Stockerau, near Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) and was probably of Jewish descent. He initially studied under Walter Thor...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm (28 ³/₄ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated upper right Orovida 1951
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th November 1988
With John Noott, 10th June 1992
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 141 (illustrated)
Exhibition
London, Redfern Gallery, Recent Paintings: Orovida, 3rd-26th January 1952, no. 51
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Centenarian (Grandma), Impressionist Oil Painting by Harry Lane
By Harry Lane
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Harry Lane, American (1891 - 1973)
Title: Centenarian (Grandma)
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Board, signed l.l.
Size: 32 in. x 25 in. (81.28 cm x 63.5 cm)
Frame Size: 39 ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Oil Framed Painting - Portrait in Sepia
Located in Bristol, GB
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...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman Baking, Redbook Illustration, Mid - Century
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, unframed - Interior Illustration for Redbook Magazine
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Sexy French Cabaret Dancers - Folies Bergere Pulp Paperback Book Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Campy and sexy illustration of two French chorus girls for the mid-century Avon paperback Les Girls.
Story of the Folies Bergere Unsigned and unframed.
George Ziel...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board
Modern Impressionist Portrait of Woman in Interior w/ Plant
Located in New York, NY
French-Canadian artist Joseph Frances Plaskett (1918-2014) Since the 1940s had over 65 exhibitions, with works in major public, private and corporate collections, including the Nati...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Yosuke Matsoke, Time magazine cover illustration , July 7, 1941
Located in Miami, FL
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, Ernest Hamlin Baker is an excepti...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Sir Thomas J. Lipton
Located in Bristol, CT
Hand-colour lithograph c1931 of Sir Thomas J Lipton, Bart by Gordon Ross (1873-1946) aboard his yacht 'Erin'
Print Sz: 22 3/4"H x 15 1/4"W
Frame Sz: 31"H x 23"W
w/ coral mat & antique bamboo frame...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. That's easy art. Executing a portrait with a great depth of anatomy and structure takes years of academic training. In Riggs's time, there were teachers who knew how to pass on this knowledge. He studied at the Art Students League and the Académie Julian . Today, they are very few and far between. Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel - Robert Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⅝ x 28 ¾ inches)
Signed a...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blond Pin up with Perfect Smile Tennis Racket - Women Illustrators
Located in Miami, FL
Julia (Elsie Julia Miller) Schleicher (Canadian/American, 1916-1988)
she was an important female illustrator
Woman Tennis Player
Pastel and gouache on boa...
Category
Romantic Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Frank Judge Oil on Board Painting Titled "Miss St. Louis", circa 1940
Located in New York, NY
A bright portrait of a woman in pageant dress before a St. Louis skyline and riverboat.
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Uncle Sam
By Syd Cockell
Located in Missouri, MO
This is an original oil on velvet painting created c. 1942. Syd Cockell was an accomplished American illustrator during World War II.
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101 x 76 cm (39 ¾ x 29 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower left Orovida 1953
Provenance
Richard Pissarro, gifted by the ar...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Golden Age of Illustration- Narrative Art - Norman Rockwell School
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
“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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of a Girl with Donald Duck
Located in Milford, NH
A fine oil portrait of a young girl with Donald Duck and other toys by American artist John Lavallee (1896-1971). Lavalle was born in Nahant, Massachusetts and earned an A.B. Degree from Harvard University and also studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with Philip Hale and with Jean Auburtin in Paris at the Academie Julian. He painted in Boston early in his career and New York City by the late 1940s, becoming known for his landscape, portrait, street and market scene painting...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lord Cardigan, Charge of the Light Brigade, British Army Military Officer
Located in Miami, FL
This graphic composition depicts Lord Cardigan on horseback commanding an equestrian military unit with the Union Jack flag proudly displayed. The famous battle scene "Charge of the Light Brigade...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Paper
Portrait of a Young Girl Oil Painting 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Circle of Thomas Derrick
British 1885 - 1954
Oil on panel
Image size: 21 1/2 x 14 inches (55 x 36 cm)
Hand made frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Newsweek Cover , Visitor from the Kremlin, Russia - Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan
By Robert Engle
Located in Miami, FL
The work is in excellent condition and meticulously rendered in a photo-realistic style. It showcases the artist's high-level sense of design. Newsweek could hire any artist in the...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Boxer Knockout Punch - Esquire Magazine Mid- Century Sports - Action Painting
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Brilliant American Illustrator Bob Peak captures the fury and power of a punch to the face with rapid broad strokes of the brush. Combined with a somber color scheme and gestural bru...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
HUGO SCHEIBER 1873-1950
1873 - Budapest - 1950 (Hungarian)
Title: Self Portrait
Technique: Original Signed Pastel Drawing on Paper
Size: 37.7 x 30 cm. / 14.8 x 11.8 in.
Additiona...
Category
Futurist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Ethiopians Shake Hands with Europeans
Located in Miami, FL
This deceptively naive painting was most likely done for a children's book. Upon close study, the viewer will recognize that this painting is anything but a child's effort. It's a g...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Young Girl Red Dress lost in Thought, Mid Century Woman's Magazine Illustration
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox (1922–1976) was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for was Wo...
Category
Feminist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Charles Laughton, Time magazine cover Illustration, March 31, 1952
Located in Miami, FL
Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches
Signed lower left
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
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