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Mid-Century Modern Swedish "Introspection" Vintage Portrait Oil Painting, Framed

1950s

GATHERED BY THE PIANO Size: 32 x 41 cm (including frame) Oil on board An intimate and lively mid-century semi-abstract composition that captures a dynamic group scene, painted in oi...

Singing by the Fire Oil on Board Size: 31 x 36 cm (including frame) A fun and joyful composition of an interior home setting, executed in oil onto board and dated 1982. This charming narrative painting features an array of details for us to explore, from the patterns of the rugs and walls, to the curtains and objects on the walls and the tiled stove with a fire. A family of adults and young children are sat by a table laid out with drinks. They appear to have a song book...

INTERIOR WITH PAINTING Size: 57 x 45 cm (including frame) Oil on board An expressive and uplifting mid-century modernist painting that showcases a richly decorated interior scene, e...

INTROSPECTIVE MAN Size: 63.5 x 73 cm (including frame) Oil on board A large mid century modernist figurative composition in oil, painted onto board. This painting is an expressive,...

"Resting" is an interior portrait of a young man resting on a sofa. This work was painted by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 24" x 32" oil on board painti...

"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...

"La Recontre" is an original oil on board painting by Jean-Claude Gaugy. The painting is a contemporary portrait of a couple looking at each other seductively on a four-piece master ...

"Pattern Skirt" is an oil on board interior portrait of a young woman sitting, painted by Philadelphia born Expressionist artist Bernard Harmon. The painting is 39 1/2" x 36" in size...