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Period: Mid-20th Century
"Retired Ballerina" Great Mid Century Modern Portrait.
By Clarice Akin Holloway
Located in San Antonio, TX
Clarice Akin Holloway (1905-1989) Port Arthur Artist Image Size: 20 x 16 Frame Size: 28 x 24 Medium: Oil Circa 1960s "Retired Ballerina"
Biography
Clarice Akin Holloway (1905-1989)
Mrs. Richard B. Dell Holloway Port Arthur Painter, teacher. A native of Port Arthur, Holloway graduated from nearby Lamar College, Beaumont, with honors. She received instruction or criticism on various occasions from Otis Dozier, Frederic Taubes, Elliott O'hara, Henri Gasser, Ted Schuyler, Fred Samuelson, Boardman Robinson, Morris Davidson...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
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
Fedor Kascheev "Railja" Oil on Board, 1958
Located in Astoria, NY
Fedor Kascheev (Russian, b. 1934), "Railja", Oil on Board, 1958, depicting the portrait of a young girl, signed in pencil and dated to verso, with Certificate of Authenticity label f...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Abstract Self Portrait - Clowns - 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 Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Portrait of a Gentleman, Large Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
BENJAMIN KOPMAN (1887 - 1965)
Painter, Illustrator and printmaker Benjamin Kopman was born in Vitebsk, Russia and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1903. It was a cen...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yesterday's, Surrealist Horse Rider, Architectural Ruins Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
American artist Samuel Brecher (active NY, 1897-1982) Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right ‘S. Brecher’ titled "and all our yesterdays" it depicts a Horseback rider (carousel horse?) amidst architecure ruins.
Brecher was a very accomplished painter who won over forty prestigious prizes and awards during his career, and had numerous one-man exhibitions. Brecher’s works are included in many important private collections as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Museum, the Smithsonian and the Newark Museum of Art. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and is a member of the Salmugundi Club* and the National Academy of Art
Samuel Brecher was born in Boryslaw, Austria, a town near the Carpathian Mountains, now a part of Poland. His family came to New York in 1910, where Samuel graduated from Cooper Union* in 1921. He studied Art at the National Academy of Design* from 1921-1924, and continued studies under Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Brecher was represented by several well known New York City galleries in the 1940’s and 1950’s including the Kraushaar Gallery, the ACA Gallery, the Hudson Walker Gallery and the Merrill Gallery. During his career he won over forty prestigious prizes and awards and had numerous one-man shows.
Some of Brechers’s contemporary artist friends were Walt Kuhn, Reginald Marsh, Richard Haley...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Parisian Lady with Tea
Located in Sheffield, MA
Francois Gerome
French, 1895
Parisian Lady with Tea
Oil on canvas
9 by 12 in, w/ frame 15 by 18 in
Signed lower right
Francois Gerome was born in Budapest in 1895. He attended the ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
portrait de femme, '60s - oil paint, 55x33 cm.
Located in Nice, FR
Portarit of a ldy by Lucien Fontanarosa. Oil on Canvas. Fontanarosa was born in Paris in 1912 and died in paris in 1975. He was an important painter that preferered compositions with...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait in Tie, Modern Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait in Tie (48)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Board
Size: 18 in. x 14 in. (45.72 cm x 35.56 cm)
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait, Modern Oil on Board Painting by American Artist John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait (52)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Board
Size: 20 in. x 15 in. (50.8 cm x 38.1 cm)
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Self Portrait
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Robert Buhler R.A. 1916-1989, was a Swiss landscape and portrait painter born in England, lived in Chelsea and painted cityscapes and the portraits of a number famous painters, and ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Young Man, Expressionist Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Young Man" is an oil on canvas portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The painting is 26" x 36" in size, signed on the lower right. Figurative ...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Red Figure, Modern Oil Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Red Figure (11)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Canvas
Size: 30 in. x 12 in. (76.2 cm x 30.48 cm)
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait with Madonna, Abstract Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait with Madonna (25)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Board
Size: 24 in. x 20 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm)
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Provenance Bonhams
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,491 Sale Price
20% Off
Organ Grinder with Parrot Modern Judaica Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Organ grinder with parrot
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame
Country: United States
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), wh...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"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
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
Blond Child in Red Dress Reading Snow White to Elf - Fairy Tale
Located in Miami, FL
Maud Tausey Fangel - Baby Painter.
In profile, we see a charming, young, ruddy-cheeked, blond girl with pig tales in a bright red-orange dress. She is reading Snow White as a sma...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
Gypsy woman. 1959., oil on cardboard, 48x37 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Gypsy woman. 1959., oil on cardboard, 48x37 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine and...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,509 Sale Price
20% Off
Pretty Girl with Kittens
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 20.50" x 14.50"
Signature: Signed
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Watercolor Portrait of a Soldier in a Large Black Frame
Located in Pasadena, CA
In this watercolor portrait, framed in a large black frame, the viewer is captivated by the three-quarter head depiction of a middle-aged soldier. Th...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Allison Coolidge (Belmont)
Located in Boston, MA
Dated and titled on stretcher: "'37/ Mr + Mrs Chas. Coolidge/ Allison/ -Belmont".
In 1929 Molly Luce and her husband, Alan Burroughs, moved from Garden St...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Elegant woman portrait with scarf
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$13,679 Sale Price
20% Off
Ich in meinen Bildern
Located in Wien, 9
Der begnadete Zeichner Karl Anton Fleck wurde vor kurzem mit einer Personalen in der Albertina geadelt. In dieser Ausstellung fehlte allerdings etwas ganz Entscheidendes: Eines der w...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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 Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Vibrant Surreal Beach Scene
Located in Houston, TX
Wonderful surrealist oil landscape of a man standing on a beach next to a red flag signed by artist L. Calisio in the lower right corner. Hung in gold frame with a tan mat.
Dimensi...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
William Gropper (1898 - 1977)
Unemployed
20 x 16 inches
Oil on canvas, 1937
Signed lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Bio
Throughout his life, William Gropper used his artistic talents to protest social injustice. Born in New York City, he grew up there in poverty and left high school to work as a dishwasher and delivery boy. He eventually began a career in art and was able to study with Robert Henri and George Bellows from 1912 to 1915. He adopted their realistic painting style, and his own work expressed sympathy for common laborers and outrage at society's ills.
In 1919 Gropper established a reputation as a political cartoonist working for the New York Tribune. His blunt, forceful style attracted the attention of other publications, and he provided illustrations and cartoons for a variety of magazines, from the left-wing New Masses to mainstream Vanity Fair. Like many social realist artists of the 1930s, Gropper supported liberal political causes, depicting subjects such as the plight of migrant laborers and striking factory workers.
In his first gallery exhibition in 1936 at ACA Galleries, Gropper's work was so well received by critics, collectors, and artists that the following year he had two one-man exhibitions at ACA Galleries. In 1937, Gropper traveled west on a Guggenheim Fellowship and visited the Dust Bowl and the Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams, sketching studies for a series of paintings and a mural he painted for the Department of the Interior. That same year he had paintings purchased by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.
Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art Institute of Chicago (1935-49), Carnegie International (1937-50), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1939-48), and National Academy of Design (1945-48). He was a founder of the Artists Equity Association and member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
From 1940 to 1945 William Gropper was preoccupied with anti-Nazi cartoons...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Graduate. Young girl in white dress with flowers. Oil on canvas, 124x63 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Graduate. Oil on canvas, 124x63 cm
Valentina Dauksis (1905-1984) (until 1934 Valentina Andreeva) - an artist and ballerina.
She was born in the family of a Russian accountant and b...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,207 Sale Price
20% Off
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
"Boy in the Field"
Located in Astoria, NY
Eric Rebane (Russian, 1922-1999), "A Boy in the Field", Oil on Canvas, 1939, signed lower right, International Art Fund Certificate of Authenticity to verso, ebonized and giltwood fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$550 Sale Price
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Hispanic woman with jewels Latin female Art Deco
Located in Miami, FL
Long-necked , elegant slender fingers and spellbinding eyes define a quintessential Latin beauty. The painting is has a simple, architectonic composition of vertical and horizontal e...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Heights & fast sketch. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 9, 5x6 cm; 9x6cm
Located in Riga, LV
Heights & fast sketch. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 9,5x6 cm; 9x6cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Ink
$452 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a Man
Located in Astoria, NY
Sheldon Martin Bryan (American, 1916-1968), Portrait of a Man, Oil on Canvas, depicting a middle-aged man in brown suit with red tie, signed lower left, wood frame. Image: 29.5" H x ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Portrait of a Woman
By Emily Elizabeth Guthrie Smith
Located in Austin, TX
Portrait of a Woman by Emily Elizabeth Guthrie Smith
Signed upper right
30 x 24
Framed
Pastel on paper
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Parchment Paper, Pastel
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
"Naughty Children" on Canvas by Harold Stephenson, Aka Abruzzi
By Harold Stephenson
Located in Pasadena, CA
This painting features two children with big brown eyes peeking behind red-slatted shutters. The innocence on their faces contrasts with some sense of embarrassment, like if they had...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$600 Sale Price
50% Off
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
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
Art Deco Style Portrait of beautiful woman Painting
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
This beautiful work by the great American Illustrator Bob Peak has a sister work in the collection of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angles.
We feel that our work has a little more detail, complexity and dimension to it as the beautiful female figure seems to be floating in an endless sky of dreamy colors.
Portrait of beautiful woman,
Large powerfully sensual deco-esque work by America's Master of the Movie Poster. Bob Peak.
Some of the movie posters Peak has worked on. West Side Story, Rollerball, Star Trek, Superman, Excalibur, Apocalypse Now, The Spy Who Loved Me. My Fair Lady, Camelot and Enter the Dragon. Additionally, Peak illustrated 45 covers of Time Magazine and many covers for Sports Illustrated, TV Guide.
Signed lower center
Private Collection
Georges Delerue...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Masonite, Fiberboard
Madonna
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Joe Montanes – Spanish (1918-1998)
Title: Madonna
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on board
Painting size: 27.75 x 19.75 inches.
Framed size: 32.75 x 24.75 inches
Signature: Signed upper left
Condition: Very good
The painting is in very good condition. The frame is in good condition with a few tiny scratches which are barely visible upon very close inspection.
Jose Montanes studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia. In 1947, he had his first one-man show in Barcelona Recognition, scholarships, acclaim and honours quickly followed. At about this time, the French government awarded the young artist a scholarship to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$2,400
Snap Peas, Expressionist Portrait of Young Woman by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Snap Peas" is an interior portrait of a young woman working at her kitchen table, painted by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 24" x 36" oil on board painting from 1955 is signed "Harmon" in the lower left and it is framed in a new black wood frame. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
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, Paul Keene...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled - Mysterious Figure in Black Pancho and Expressive Hands
Located in Miami, FL
Haunting yet beautiful with a simple graphic composition and monochromatic palette. The stylized and overly expressive hands are a hallmark of Kingman's style.
Hand-signed by artist...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
The Death of the Minotaur - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media Abstract by G. 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 degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne, Paris. Returned to Budapest to study art at the Fine Arts Academy, then continued his studies at the Academie Julienne, Paris, where he was influenced by the post impressionist artists including Picasso, Salvadore, Dali and Chagall. His motto was “history is the inevitable conveyance of great situations by great personalities.”
He came to England due to the Hungarian uprising in 1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and commercial illustrations in 1961.
Keywords: Oil, Abstract, Mid 20th Century, mixed media, The Death of the Minotaur, mythical, wood, techin, hand, 2 headed snake...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
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
Portrait of a Japanese Woman wearing Traditional Kimono
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Portrait of a Japanese Woman wearing Traditional Kimono
Oil on wood panel signed upper right with a japanese ideogram
Signature unread
Other portrai...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Woman in Pink - Oil Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in pink is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Original oil on plywood.
Beautiful and representative work of a female figure...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait - Original Tempera on Paper - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original modern painting in tempera on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century.
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Monogrammed, illegible...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
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
Rags n Denny, 24x18", oil, framed
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Rags n Denny by Lu Haskew
Oil 24x18" image size
32x26" framed as pictured with linen matte
Portrait of the artist's son and dog in 1960's.
Shipping price includes the custom packing...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Girls in School, Expressionist Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Two Girls in School" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 36" x 40.25" oil on board portrait of two figures is painted in a vibrant color palette. The painting is framed in a new, black wood frame and signed "Harmon" on verso. There is a second portrait the artist painted on the back of the painting. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
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...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Forging a Crankshaft
Located in Marco Island, FL
This dynamic image of two men forging a crankshaft was done for the GM Waldorf Exhibition sometime between 1949 to 1961. The General Motors exhibition at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel ...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
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 Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right.
Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.'
Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Sasha"
Located in Southampton, NY
Portrait of the artist's daughter Sasha at 8 years old by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Oil on masonite on a wooden stretcher backing. Signed lower right and dated 1938. Sasha later was to become the second wife of the the writer, Saul Bellow. Condition is good with some wear to top left of painting. In original, unrestored condition. Unframed.
Nahum Tschacbasov lived in New York City for most of his adult life, arriving in the United States as a young boy in 1907. His numerous one man shows included ACA gallery, Perls Gallery and John Heller...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$3,200 Sale Price
24% Off
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
Jazz, Expressionist Portrait of Woman with Violin by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Jazz" is a figurative painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon from 1968. The 34" x 40" oil on board portrait features a young African American woman playi...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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