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Biblical Story illustration Art for Religious Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
1950s. Her work was for cover art for women's magazines and home magazines and religious magazines
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Gouache
H 14.75 in W 12 in D 1 in
Resue the Children, Family in Horror Magazine Illustration
By Arthur Sarnoff
Located in Miami, FL
Academy of Design. During his career Sarnoff provided illustrations for McCall's, American Weekly
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Scuba Diver Rescue, " Rare and Important Illustration Art for 1952 Magazine
By Peter Poulton
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"American Manhood" magazine, depicts a fallen scuba diver, pinned down by the wreckage of a plane or ship
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
H 24 in W 18 in D 0.13 in
"Her" American 20th century oil painting Portrait of a Woman from the 1950's
By Richard Sargent
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful portrait of a woman from the 1950's with beautiful blonde hair wearing a white colored
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
H 21.25 in W 19.25 in D 1 in
Pulp Magazine Marine Combat Scene Shoot Out in Blue Noir
Located in Miami, FL
, was an American illustrator and author noted for action and adventure illustrations.[1] McDermott
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Gouache
H 18.6 in W 20.2 in D 1 in
Glamorous Redhead Iconic Mid-Century Illustration
By Al Parker
Located in Miami, FL
- The 1950s. Al Parker is a giant in the history of American Illustration. He possesses all of the
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Alexander Cañedo, Dancing Man, Surrealistic O/C Painting, ca. 1950’s
Located in New York, NY
Mid-Century Surrealism
Alexander Cañedo
Dancing Man
Oil on Canvas
ca. 1950’s
PAINTING DIMENSIONS
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
An Illustration from "Tugboat Annie"
By Harold von Schmidt
Located in Fort Washington, PA
officer of the American Indian Defense Association; president of the Westport Artists, 1950-51; and a
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sleigh Ride, Winter, " Fletcher Martin, Woodstock, Holiday Scene Illustration
By Fletcher Martin
Located in New York, NY
illustrations of wartime London and the 1944 Allied invasion of France.
In the 1950s, with the American Scene
Category
1950s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Love Story Couple in Romantic Bliss Illustration - Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
-war American illustration.
20x20 1/2-inch board. Signed "Bowler" in lower left image. Tipped to
Category
1950s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Gouache, Graphite
H 16 in W 16 in D 1 in
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
book illustrator and graphic poster artist, who started her career during the 1950’s. She has a very
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Hungarian children's book illustrator and graphic poster artist, who started her career during the 1950’s
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Soda Fountain (New Yorker Magazine cover proposal)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
illustrations for magazines like Esquire, Life and Collier’s.
She is believed to have met Harold Ross and Rea
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
H 12 in W 9 in D 0.5 in
'Bighorn' — 1940s American Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
illustrations to American Field, the official magazine of the bird dog world, and served as president of the
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
By Charles Alston
Located in Miami, FL
Alston's illustration of African-American historian Carter G. Woodson for the Office of War Information
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Antenna Birds" New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal Mid-Century American Scene Modern
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Art Critics and Tourists, Original Watercolor Illustration for The New Yorker
By Eldon Dedini
Located in Soquel, CA
watercolor illustration for The New Yorker magazine by Monterey, California artist Eldon Dedini (American
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
'Pups in the Pit' — 1960s American Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
. McKim also contributed illustrations to American Field, the official magazine of the bird dog world, and
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Africa - Collage Painting in Orange - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
African American artist Alvin Hollingsworth created an inventive and intriguing close-up portrait
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Burlap, Wood, Oil
H 18.2 in W 24.4 in D 2 in
Abandoned (Colorado) - Oil on Canvas, American Modern Landscape Painting
By William Sanderson
Located in Denver, CO
illustrations and covers for leading American magazines such as The New Yorker, Esquire, Cue, and Harper’s. In
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 13.25 in W 16.5 in D 0.75 in
"Untitled, " 1950s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
Institute of History and Art and brought in extra income by making illustrations for magazines such as
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
other publications, and he provided illustrations and cartoons for a variety of magazines, from the left
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lunch Break” Fletcher Martin, Men Working, Bricklayers, WPA, American Scene
By Fletcher Martin
Located in New York, NY
worked as an artist-correspondent for Life Magazine and made hundreds of sketches of U.S. soldier life
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Woodstock Modern Dudensing
By Konrad Cramer
Located in New York, NY
Still Life American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Woodstock Modern Dudensing
Konrad Cramer
Category
1920s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Catching A Fish, " Gouache and Watercolor, Signed
By Tom Rost
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Catching A Fish" is an original gouache and watercolor painting on illustration board. It is
Category
1950s American Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Family at the Beach WPA Modernism American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
other publications, and he provided illustrations and cartoons for a variety of magazines, from the left
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Ink, Paper
Saturday Morning (Market, Taos Plaza, New Mexico), 1950s Figural Linocut Print
By Barbara Latham
Located in Denver, CO
1950s modernist linoleum cut print titled 'Saturday Morning (Market, Taos Plaza, New Mexico) by New
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
"Fort Worth" Vintage Delta Airlines Travel Poster by John Hardy, circa 1950s
By John Hardy (Artist)
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
advertising, hiring numerous artists for magazines and poster work. In the 1950s and 60s, Delta hired artist
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
H 30.25 in W 24 in D 0.75 in
Richard Klein, American Glassware, 2010-2024, Found and altered objects
Located in Darien, CT
, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he
Category
2010s Assemblage Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
H 15 in W 12 in D 6.5 in
Ralph Pallen Coleman (American 1892-1968) A Monumental Painting of Jesus Christ
Located in New York, NY
a century during which he illustrated stories for many magazines, and later, religious illustrations
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Science Fiction Painting with Monkey Nurse Treating Patient
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
illustration for a science fiction magazine or a book.
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Mid Century Horse in Winter Landscape
By William Ernest Smyth
Located in Soquel, CA
Ernest Smythe (American/England 1881-1950). Signed "ERNEST SMYTHE" in lower left corner. Presented in a
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
"Head Em Home", Mid Century Cowboy on Horse Western Figurative Landscape
By Stanley M. Long
Located in Soquel, CA
at Polytechnic High School. His western illustrations were featured in Sunset Magazine and the Los
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
H 29 in W 37.25 in D 1 in
“Work Day”
Located in Southampton, NY
the 1950’s. He lived in New York as well as in Anaheim, California where he has a working studio. An
Category
1980s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Peter Rabbit happened to be looking out of the dear Old Briar-patch as the young
Located in Fairlawn, OH
1950s with At Paddy the Beaver's Pond (1950), followed by the reprint The Animal World of Thornton
Category
1950s American Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Champagne for the Honeymoon
By Pruett Alexander Carter
Located in Miami, FL
Pruett Carter captures the quintessential look of the 1950's in this loosely rendered but charming
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nonconformist Removed by the State. Satyr / Pan Mythology
Located in Miami, FL
alike.
It's prudish 1950s America, where TV programs show husband and wife sleeping in separate beds
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
H 16.8 in W 13.75 in D 1 in
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Vanity Fair, for whom Dehn worked in the mid 1920’s to the 1930’s.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon
Eileen Lake
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon
The Golden Gate
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
New York Night
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Brooklyn Waterfront
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Horses Leaving the Barn
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
James Bama "the Drift on Skull Creek Pass", Limited Edition Numbered Lithograph
Located in Morristown, NJ
James Bama (American Artist, 1926-2022) "The Drift on Skull Creek Pass", offset print lithograph
Category
1990s American American Classical Decorative Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
H 25.25 in W 30.5 in D 1 in
Horsemen
By William Gropper
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Horsemen" 1935, is an original lithograph on paper by noted American
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jersey Shore III
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Liberated Village
By William Gropper
Located in San Francisco, CA
American artist William Gropper, 1897-1977. It is hans signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Baden Baden, Casino
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care.
Maybe the critics are
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Left Bank Cafe, Paris
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care.
Maybe the critics are
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Prowling Leopard
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
St. Atomic oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
By Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
.”
Exhibited
1950 University of Illinois at Urbana "Contemporary American Painting"
1964 Marion Koogler McNay
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
"Boats Amongst the Mangroves, " Watercolor & Gouache on Paper signed by Doris Lee
By Doris Lee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
in 1951.
During the 1950s until the end of the 1960s, Lee dealers were Associated American Artists
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Still Life by Harry and Wende Devlin Circa 1982
Located in West Palm Beach, US
illustrator at the end of the golden age of magazine illustration. When World War II broke out, Harry enlisted
Category
Vintage 1980s Hollywood Regency Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Untitled (Couple with Seascape)
By Peter Stevens
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
Peter Stevens (1920-2001) is an American painter, known for Illustrating magazines. He worked for
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board
Stevan Dohanos Original Watercolor, 1934 - Farmhouse and Sunflowers
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Phoenix, AZ
during the 1940s and 1950s. His work appeared frequently on its covers. Most of his illustrations
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper
En Espagne
By Victor Max Ninon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Italian magazines Lidel , Il Secolo XX, The Italian Illustration , Fantasies of Italy , The Woman
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Au Japon
By Victor Max Ninon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Boys , Mondadori, and with the Italian magazines Lidel , Il Secolo XX, The Italian Illustration
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Mod Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Bernard Segal New Hope PA Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
books that were published by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and Bible stories.
In the 1950
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ann Chernow, Trouble, Rag Paper, Etching
By Ann Chernow
Located in Darien, CT
New York, and experienced much of the New York art world of the 1950’s and l960’s. She has since
Category
2010s Feminist Portrait Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Mod Abstract Expressionist W/C Painting Bernard Segal New Hope PA Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
illustration.
In the 1920's and 30's, he lived in NYC and attended The Art Students League where he was
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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