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Style: American Realist
Period: 1950s
The Hatchet - Movie Moment of High Drama
By Amos Sewell
Located in Miami, FL
High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event.
Signed lower left
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Most likey for the Sa...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pastel Bust Of A Naked Young Woman Signed by Fried Pal American artist
By Pal Fried
Located in Gavere, BE
"Pastel Bust Of A Naked Young Woman Signed Fried Pal"
Pál Fried (June 16, 1893 in Hungary - March 6, 1976 in New York)
was a Hungarian artist known for his erotic paintings of dance...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Pastel
"Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas
Stately portrait of a boy by William Robert Shulgold (Russian-American, 1897-1989). The subject is looking o...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Monuments: Sunrise, 1950s Southwestern Desert Landscape Oil Painting, 24 x 30 in
Located in Denver, CO
'Monuments: Sunrise', original vintage 1950s oil painting of a southwestern desert landscape in early morning with rock formations, trees and brush with brilliant sky with clouds by ...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, 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
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
The World We Live In
Coral Reef
...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Underwater Whale
Life Illustration published, c. November 7, 1953
1...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1955 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1953 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
The World We Live In
Birds of Paradise
Life Magazine Illustration ...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
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
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New Harbor, Maine
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Atmospheric mid-century painting of Mid-coast Maine. Oil on artist panel, signed in the lower right and. dated and inscribed on the reverse.
Parker Gamage (1882-1960)
A New Harbor, Maine resident for most of his life, Gamage was a student of Charles Woodbury. His known paintings are Impressionist in nature and include the scenery of New Harbor, Monhegan, and Pemaquid Point on the Maine Coast...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rock Creek, Mid-century Ohio Landscape Painting, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carl Frederick Gaertner (American, 1898-1952)
Rock Creek, 1950
Gouache on artist board
Signed and dated 1950 lower right/inscribed verso
14 x 19.5 inches
20...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Mid Century Portrait of Wine Enologist Claude Wolf
Located in Soquel, CA
Wine Enologist Claude Wolf - Mid Century Portrait
A stately mid-century portrait of Claude Wolf (1904-1973), a vintner Enologist by Abel George Warshawsky...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Berlin's Mayer Reuter, Time Magazine Cover - Lucian Freud
Located in Miami, FL
The Board measures 13.5 x 12.5
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, Er...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Indian sacrificial ceremony - Aztec Human Sacrifice
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
The sacrificial ceremony, Freemans The Collection of Philip Desind Signed Three times Riggs l.r. A powerful account of moments a tribe member is cut open and the heart is handed over to a young brave,
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. To execute 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. - Robert Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Desert Gold, 1950s Framed Southwestern Landscape with Saguaro Cactus & Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage Southwestern Landscape Oil Painting with Mountains/Mesas, Saguaro Cactus and Trees in fall foliage and Brush in Autumn Colo...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Saturday Evening Post cover, August 29, 1959.
Located in Miami, FL
This work was painted in 1958 ( per the label from Illustration House. It was published in 1959. This is very common in the publishing world where a world of art is commissioned t...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Late Summer, Oil Painting by Harry Lane
By Harry Lane
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Harry Lane, American (1891 - 1973)
Title: Late Summer
Medium: Oil on Board, signed
Size: 16.5 in. x 12.5 in. (41.91 cm x 31.75 cm)
Frame Size: 20 x 16 inches
Category
1950s American Realist 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
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper
The 11 Gauge Shotgun - Saturday Evening Post illustration
By Amos Sewell
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post interior illustration
Signed lower right
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Grand Mother and Grand Son Read Emotional Letter
Located in Miami, FL
Crockwell is as good as Rockwell. Many would agree with that statement including the editors of the Saturday Evening Post in which both artists were frequent contributors. In fact, ...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Art Shipping and Receiving, Photorealist Oil Painting on Board by Harry Lane
By Harry Lane
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Harry Lane
Title: Art Shipping and Receiving
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Board, signed lower right
Size: 30 in. x 24 in. (76.2 cm x 60.96 cm)
...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Film Noir. Pulp Mystery That police officer knows you. Saturday Evening Post
By Paul Rabut
Located in Miami, FL
Film noir crime drama painted in a single frame. In narrative art, telling a story in a single image is harder than doing it in episodes. "'That police officer...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Grizzly Adams, Grizzly bear attacks Frontiersman
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait of a man and bear this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graf...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
Vermont Barns - Neutral Monochromatic Study in Grays
By John Koch
Located in Miami, FL
Understated town-scape in grays and muted blues. It's a painting that looks better as you get closer to it.
Koch brings the same serene intimacy to an outdoor scene as his interiors....
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Fallen Man ,
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post, Story Illustration
Depicts Connecticut train station with possible drunk commuter being assisted by good samaritan
Signed lower left
Provenance: Illustration ...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Philip Evergood, Little Rock, Oil on Canvas, 1955 - "Civil Rights."
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man on Floor Illustration
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Miami, FL
Man on Floor Illustration
ca. 1950–1959
Paintings, gouache on board
8 x 26.25 in. (20.3 x 66.7 cm.)
Modern
Magazine Story Illustration
Heritage, Morris Weiss CollectionSunning work w...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Casein
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Cowboy on Horseback in the Rain
By Bob Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Oil on Board painting for American Weekly Magazine November 15, 1953. The decisive moment of a Cowboy and Horse is captured. As a determined team, t...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
O MARA'S MUNICIPAL TAVERN - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
O MARA'S MUNICIPAL TAVERN - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Supreme technical skill allows the artist to realistically capture an...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Androscoggin River Falls, study for The Manufacturers National Bank of Lewiston-
Located in Miami, FL
If there ever were a perfect work in the canon of art history, this masterpiece study by Dean Cornwell would be it. Every line has meaning and not a line out of place, as Cornwell d...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Painting S America Map Published 1956 Illustration Animals Planet Globe
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting S America Map Published 1956 Illustration Animals Planet Globe
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
The Wonders of Life on Earth
Earth South...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Roses
Located in Missouri, MO
Roses by Louis Carl Hvasta (1913-1993)
Signed and Dated Lower Left
Unframed: 30" x 11"
Framed: 36" x 18"
Frame was hand made by the artist.
A local Californian Artist, Hvasta is lar...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mary Vincent and the Convict, Good Housekeeping Illustration - Mid Century
By Al Parker
Located in Miami, FL
Al Parker was one of America's greatest and most inventive illustrators. He did work for magazines such as: Chatelaine, Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion. ...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Gouache, Pencil
American Original Illustration for Woman's Day Magazine January 1952
Located in New York, NY
This piece was completed and published on the cover of "Woman's Day" magazine January 1952. A little boy eats a chocholate bar in the back seat of a car from the times. A glimpse of...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
1950s American Original Illustration of Little Girl Window Shopping in Toy Store
Located in New York, NY
This piece was completed in the 1950's by famous American Artist Richard Sargent. A colorful and vibrant depiction of a little girl with wide happy eyes in love with a standing doll in a toy store window. Other toys are depicted in the window; a typical scene that captures the essance of a little girl from this time. This piece is signed on verso reading "C35 Painted by Dick Sargent" and underneath signed in script Richard Thomas Sargent...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard, Pencil
1950s Original Illustration of Man at Breakfast Table "Post" Advertisement
Located in New York, NY
This piece was completed and published in "This Week Magazine" May 4, 1958 for an advetisment with "Post." The slogan reads in the magazine above the illustration:
"Any Cereal my family leaves is first choise with me...as long as it's in Post-Tens"
A vibrant depiction of a man from the 1950's with a bright yellow back ground seated...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
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