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"The Big Bad Wolf" 1930-60s, Tempera Paint on Paper
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1930-60s tempera paint on paper homage to the classic Grimm fairy tale with the caption What Big Teeth You Have! is by by California artist Forrest Hibbits (1905-1996). Hibbits ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
"Don't Cry Long" Abstracted and Distorted Self-Portrait, One Crying Eye
Located in Detroit, MI
"Don't Cry Long" can be called unusual for a portrait especially a self-portrait, but Ethelyn, in addition to painting commissioned portraits, also, frequently painted herself and sh...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Carmen Miranda American Modernism Giant Hollywood Celebrity Portrait Latinx WPA
Located in New York, NY
Carmen Miranda American Modernism Giant Hollywood Celebrity Portrait Latinx WPA. 35 ¼ x 30 inches. Oil on canvas, 1942. Signed lower right. Titled and signed on the stretcher.
Our ...
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Melle Blondie 1979 By Richard Merkin
Located in Pasadena, CA
Richard Marshall Merkin (1938 – 2009) was an American painter, illustrator and arts educator. Merkin's fascination with the 1920s and 1930s defined his art and shaped his identity a...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
1950s "Purple Head" Mid Century Oil and Pastel Portrait Original Drawing
By Donald Stacy
Located in New York, NY
Donald Stacy
"Purple Head"
c.1950s
Gouache and oil pastel on paper
13.75" x 17" unframed $950
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
*Listed price reflects custom framing selected by sel...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Portrait of a Woman, Virginia 1935
By Musier Lee Taintor
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous 1930's portrait of a seated African American woman in a red dress by Musier Lee Taintor (American, b. 1909), 1935. Signed and dated upper left corner. Image size: 30"H x 24...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Holocaust Memorial Oil Painting Judaica Rabbi Composed of Figures Artists Frame
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Maurice Newman was active/lived in Massachusetts / Lithuania. Maurice Newman is known for sculpture-abstraction, impressionist landscape painting, diorama.
Born in Lithuania, Mauric...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Judaica Rabbi Portrait Oil Painting American WPA Abstract Expressionist Artist
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1912, abstract expressionist painter Morris Shulman studied at the National Academy of Design, Art Students League and Hans Hofmann School of Art in New ...
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Board
Up at Bat, The Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 10, 1940
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Price on Request.
The Saturday Evening Post cover, August 10, 1940
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Human Condition
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "The Human Condition" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas executed in a dark palette of grays, browns, and reds by American artist Irving Norm...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait, Oil on Board, Signed and Dated, 1925, American Modernist
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Self Portrait" by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a moody and atmospheric self portrait of the artist in younger years at age 24. The 18" x 16" oil on board, fram...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Two Ladies Trying to Out-Mystify Each Other, Semi Abstract, Cubist Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Two Ladies Trying to Out-Mystify Each Other, vintage 1969, semi-abstract, cubist style oil painting, two female figures with still life. Oil on canvas, estate Stamp verso, titled an...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Man, Oil Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stanley Mitruk, American (1922 - 2006)
Title: Portrait of a Young Man
Year: 1952
Medium: Oil Painting, signed and dated verso
Size: 40 x 23 inches
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s "Study from the Spinners" American Modern Acrylic Figurative Painting
Located in New York, NY
"Study from the Spinners"
c.1950s
Acrylic on rag paper
10"x11.25" attached to silver metallic paper, unframed $425
Signed in paint lower left
*Listed price reflects custom framing se...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Adylin with Skis, Vintage 1930s Painting, Apres Ski, Cabin,
Located in Denver, CO
Adylin with Skis, Sitting Pose, vintage modernist, WPA era interior scene of a young woman with ski gear sitting on a sofa. Dated 1939 verso, colors include blue, red, white, ivory, ...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Karl Priebe Original Artwork Woman with Yellow Feather Hat and Bird
By Karl Priebe
Located in Hudson, NY
Stunning original casein on paperboard dated 1954. This is a quintessential Priebe featuring a beautiful woman and exotic bird.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Casein, Pencil, Board
Girl with Blue Face
Located in East Hampton, NY
Girl with Blue Face, 48 X 36 X 1.5 $5200
This large scale painting of a woman's face hints at Picasso.
Both technically accomplished and classically approached, the thick gestural br...
Category
2010s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1950s "Black Floor" Mid Century Bay Area Figurative Movement Gouache Painting
Located in New York, NY
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper
Black Floor
c. 1940-1950's
Gouache on Paper
15" x 18" Unframed
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect fra...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait of Kevin's playmate
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Arms Crossed in Front" American Modernist Figurative Painting CA Artist
By Jack Hooper
Located in New York, NY
Jack Hooper
"Arms Crossed in Front"
c. 1980s
Acrylic and conte crayon on rag paper
26"x39.75" unframed
Unsigned
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing...
Category
1980s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Acrylic
Post Impressionist Oil Painting Seated Girl William Meyerowitz NYC WPA Artist
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Post Impressionist oil painting
"Full Length Portrait of a Young Girl Seated"
Oil on panel
Hand signed lower right
Sight 27 x 13 inches framed to 30 1/2 x 16 inches (overall)
Will...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fine Modernist AFRICAN AMERICAN Harlequin Oil Painting Chicago Institute Artist
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is a wonderful modernist portrait oil painting of a Harlequin by the Famous African American artist Charles Sebree 1914-1985
Sebree is one of the most important emergin...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
1950s "Cubed Figures on Bench" MidCentury Figurative Gouache Original Painting
By Donald Stacy
Located in New York, NY
Donald Stacy
"Cubed Figures on Bench"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24" x 18'" unframed $950
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
*Listed price reflects custom framing selected by sel...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Portrait of Bert Lahr - Circus Performer - Modernism
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
A recent Kuhn Circus Performer sold for $312,000 at Bonhams, NY
Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depicted in his comdian's costume w...
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Colorful Portrait of Fruit Seller 1960-70s Gouache Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1960-70s gouache on paper colorful portrait is by Morris Kronfeld (1914-2011), a New York Modernist artist. He studied art, biology, & art history at Brooklyn College and receiv...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Bay Area Figurative Movement Patricia Gren Hayes
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful figurative by Patricia Gren Hayes (American, 20th Century). Signed on verso. Unframed. Size: 30"H x 40"W.
Bay Area Figurative / Bay Area Feminist Art Movement artist, Pat...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Karl Priebe Original Artwork Woman and Birds
By Karl Priebe
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed and dated upper right. Museum of Modern Art label verso. Framed.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Woman at Basin, Picasso Style Portrait of a Female Nude, American Modernist
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Woman by Basin" by Philadelphia born modernist and surrealist painter Leon Kelly, is a framed and matted portrait of a female nude.
The 22.5" x 17.75" mixed media on artist board i...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Woman with Blue Earrings" American Modernist Figurative Drawing CA Artist
By Jack Hooper
Located in New York, NY
Jack Hooper
"Woman with Blue Earrings"
1975
Conte crayon over poster paper
17.25" x19.25" framed silver frame with black sides, float mount 21.25”X 23.25
Signed and dated in conte lo...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Monoprint
Vibrant Bay Area Figurative Seated Nude 1950-60s Distemper Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1950s-60s distemper on paper painting is by Bay Area artist Alysanne McGaffey (1931-2018). Born in Seattle, McGaffey moved to San Francisco in the mid 1950s to study at SFAI wit...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
"Long Black Hair" American Modernist Figurative Drawing CA Artist
By Jack Hooper
Located in New York, NY
Jack Hooper
"Long Black Hair"
1-1973
Conte crayon over monoprint on glossy paper
22.75"x29.5" unframed
Signed and dated in conte lower right, estate stamp lower right
*Custom framing...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Monoprint
"The School Girl" 1950s Art Brut Figurative Painting NYC Female Artist
Located in New York, NY
Sylvia Rutkoff (1919-2011)
"The Schoolgirl"
c.1950s
Oil paint, sand on Masonite
36x48 wood frame
Unsigned
Collection acquired from family estate
Sylvia Weinreb Rutkoff (1919-2011)
B...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Man with Pipe
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : Man with Pipe
Materials : Oil on Canvas (Coffee House)
Date : 1960's
Dimensions : 42 x 30 in.
COA provided
In the late 1960's, Daniel Brennan had a day job loading boxcars f...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
America impressionist portrait young boy 1937 Modern Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A fantastic modern portrait of a young boy. This work is signed what appears to be Paul Sellers and dated 1937, but we have not found information on the artist.
The work dated 1936...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Caricature Portrait of a Man
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive caricature-style portrait of a man by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Signed "Michael Pauker" and dated 1976 on verso. Acquired with a collection of his work. Image si...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of Marian Virginia Schuster
By Salvador De Regil
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
1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Suzanna and the Elders
By Ben Shahn
Located in Miami, FL
The New owner must be willing to include the work in the forthcoming major exhibition of the artist's work at a major museum. This of course will increase the fame and value of the w...
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Groovy Lucille Ball, original painting for TV Guide cover
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
It's a Happening! Bob Peak "Does his own thing" in the late 1960's with the psychedelic look. Bold and graphic day-glow like colors are on full display in this "Groovy" work by one o...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Large Scale Oil Painting Elegant Woman Portrait Philadelphia Modernist Feminist
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Susan Moore
Oil and paint stick on canvas.
Vanity series. Title "Red Ruby"
Depicts an elegant woman in an aqua, green and yellow dress on a gold background. Stunning piece with exqu...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil
1950s "Head on Desk" Mid Century Figurative Painting University of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in New York, NY
Donald Stacy
"Head on Desk"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
29.25" x 21.75" unframed $950
Came from artist's estate
*Listed price reflects custom framing selected by seller. Please ex...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Portrait of a Woman Pointillist Gouache by Albert Radoczy #3
Located in Pasadena, CA
Stylized gouache in a pointillist technic of a woman (probably his wife who was his favorite subject)
This work is part of a series of 4. On a wall together, they would have a strong...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Paper, Lights, Gouache
Military Man Portrait Figurative Abstract Oil Painting American Modernist Artist
By Dean Richardson
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Oil on board, 1978. It depicts an abstracted portrait of a military man in an army uniform with medals. It is signed by the artist verso.
Dimensions: sight size-22 inches tall X 19...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Milton Avery #4"
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 Benj...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1964 "Homage to a Friend" Oil Portrait Painting Eunice Golden
Located in New York, NY
Eunice Golden
"Homage to a Friend"
Sept. 1964
Oil on panel
14"x18" panel 17"x1.25"x21" period frame
Signed in ink upper left on reverse on frame, titled and dated in ink reverse on p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Saturday Evening Post Illustration. “ The Devil’s Stronghold” Original Magazine
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Saturated Red Bay Area Figure 1950-60s Distemper Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1950s-60s distemper on paper painting is by Bay Area artist Alysanne McGaffey (1931-2018). Born in Seattle, McGaffey moved to San Francisco in the mid 1950s to study at SFAI wit...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Modernist Watercolor Painting Judaica Kiddush Levana Blessing New Moon
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Genre: Judaic prayer scene
Subject: Landscape
Medium: watercolor
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
EMANUEL ROMANO
Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984
Emanuel Glicenstein Romano was bo...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Texas Artist David Pryor Adickes John F Kennedy Bas Relief Painted Sculpture
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
David Pryor Adickes American (b. 1927)
John F. Kennedy bas-relief plaster relief sculpture in artists frame incised signature lower center. with gold stars.
Deep relief, approximatel...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paint
Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Abram Tromka was born May 1, 1896 in Poland. At the age of seven he immigrated with his family to the United States, settling in New York City. It was on the boat coming to New York ...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of St. Francis
By Tarmo Pasto
Located in Soquel, CA
Oil on canvas portrait of St. Francis by Dr. Tarmo Pasto (American, 1906-1986). Dr. Tarmo Pasto was a psychiatrist and artist, who taught psychology and art through the 1970s at Cali...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Parisian Woman" 1950s Modern Art Gouache Painting
By Donald Stacy
Located in New York, NY
Donald Stacy
"Parisian Woman"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24"x18'" unframed**$950
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
*Listed price reflects custom framing selected by seller. Ple...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Kashawn
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Kashawn" is an oil painting of a young black man, a portrait.A Contemporary man, stares directly at the viewer. Tomatoes hang from vines in the background, and reach towards the sub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Candyland
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Candyland" is a fantastic multi-figure composition from Kristy Gordon. Gordon is clearly making comments on the state of today's society; civil unrest, riots, protests, and the perc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Young Girl
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Laundry Day. Child hanging cloths in Breeze. Cover. The Household Guest
Located in Miami, FL
The Artist captures a "caught moment" of cloths blowing in the wind. It's being witnessed by an inquisitive bird, while be ducklings and a cute kitty cat accompany her.
Signed lower...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Portrait Woman and Man
Located in Pasadena, CA
Pair of pastels representing a couple. they are original pastels by an unknown artist in the thirties.
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Dora (Modernist Portrait of a Girl at the Seaside with Trees & Rocks)
Located in Denver, CO
Original signed vintage 1928 oil painting by Peppino Mangravite (1896-1978), "Dora" is a figure of a girl in a modernist landscape with rocks, trees and ocean/sea. Presented in a cu...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Trumpet Player, 1960's Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Trumpet Player
Marshall Goodman, American (1916–2003)
Date: circa 1960
Oil on Canvas
Size: 30 in. x 24 in. (76.2 cm x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 32 x 26 inches
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
