How Sure Can You Be? McCall's Magazine Illustration of Loving Couple
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross - or Alex Ross. This mid-century masterpiece is a perfect artistic statement with every formal element in perfect harmo...
Gouache
Mid Century Golden Age of Illustration- Narrative Art - Norman Rockwell School
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
“Graduation Day” is emblematic of mid-century American Illustration. But the real story of this storytelling work is that it embodies the lost art of portrait painting and graphic design. Alex Ross borrows on the classical tradition and flaunts his skills as a narrative painter. In “Graduation Day”, he paints a complex composition involving at least thirteen portraits. The subjects are beautifully rendered and lit. They are set against a dark grey background and jump off the surface at the viewer. The composition is complexly designed. The future graduate in the red jacket engaging with a girl photographer is a compositional device that leads the viewer's eye to the main subject - a father congratulating his son on graduating from medical school. Creating art that relies on facial expressions and body gestures is a talent absent in contemporary art. Why? It’s very hard to do and takes years and training and practice to get it right. Despite Alex Ross's folksy subject matter, this work is a high example of naturalism and representation by an important member of the Golden Age of American Illustration. Signed lower right Born in the town of Dunfermline, Scotland, Alexander Sharpe Ross (1908-1990) moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1911. After attending Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), Ross moved to New York and joined the Charles E. Cooper Studio, where he worked among such notable illustrators as Ward Brackett, Stevan Dohanos, J. Frederick Smith...
Gouache, Illustration Board
$9,600Sale Price|20% Off
Voyeur chair. Romantic Couple Kissing and Embracing, Mid Century Illustration
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross gives us a voyeur view of an attractive couple kissing and embracing on a couch. Sharpe's radical use of composition is on ...
Mixed Media, Oil, Gouache, Board
"The Embrace", Story Illustration for Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1951
By Alex Ross
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951 Medium: Gouache, Pen and Ink on Board Dimensions: 12.75" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left The Embrace. Story illustration for "How About Tonight?" by John D. Hess, published in Cosmopolitan magazine...
Ink, Gouache, Board, Pen
$10,500
Caught! Young Girl uses Doctors Bag to Patch Up her Doll - Alexander Sharpe Ross
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross is an artist of consummate skill and wit. This painting captures a young girl in a doctor's office without permission. A p...
Canvas, Oil
$14,000
H 32.75 in W 28.75 in D 3 in
“Portrait of a North African Man, 1872” Orientalist Portrait Black Model 19th C.
Located in Yardley, PA
“Portrait of a North African Man, 1872” by August Holmberg (1851-1911) This striking oil painting by the German painter, August Holmberg, depicts a richly detailed and intimate port...
Canvas, Paper, Oil
$6,800
H 15.5 in W 14.5 in D 16 in
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...
India Ink, Gouache, Pencil, Illustration Board
"Vasyl in a sheepskin coat"
By Svetlana Lazareva
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The portrait of a young man is painted in oil. He poses in the center of the frame, facing the viewer. He is wearing a dark blue shirt with a white collar, over which he has thrown ...
Canvas, Oil
$8,182
H 39.38 in W 27.56 in D 0.79 in
Gerberas - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Realistic Little Girl Portrait
By Kamil Lisek
Located in Hallein, AT
KAMIL LISEK (born in 1980) Studied under the guidance of prof. Maciej Świeszewski at the faculty of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. He graduated with distinction obta...
Canvas, Oil, Linen
$6,137
H 27.5 in W 22.5 in D 2 in
A Girl Sewing By A Window, Mid-19th-Century German Genre Scene, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This beautiful mid-19th-century oil painting by German artist Max Kaltenmoser (1842-1887) depicts a young woman sewing by an open window. Kaltenmoser was an academy-trained master of...
Canvas, Oil
"Di notte" olio su tela cm. 20 x 20 2025
By Luisa Albert
Located in Torino, IT
Piccola opera di Luisa Albert Firmato sul retro Affascinante ritratto uomo notturno Splendida cornice
Canvas, Oil
$675
H 12.75 in W 15 in
Mid 20thC French Modernist Interior Woman Playing Piano in Soft Pastel Colours
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Modernist Interior with Woman Playing Piano in Soft Pastel Colours by Laure Noetzlin-Azam (French, 1929–2024) Pupil of André Lhote. Medium: gouache on thin artist paper, unfra...
Gouache
$5,300
H 30.25 in W 39.875 in D 1.625 in
Robert K. White "Frame and Pause" Large Oil on Canvas Figurative Painting
By Robert Kenneth White
Located in Miami, FL
ROBERT KENNETH WHITE (b. 1950) – "FRAME AND PAUSE" Oil on Canvas ⚜ Signed on Verso ⚜ Frameless Display A CONTEMPLATIVE FIGURATIVE INTERIOR STUDY "Frame and Pause" is a quietly power...
Canvas, Oil
$3,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 18 in W 15 in
1938 Cuban Illustration Gouache Painting Carteles Magazine Andres Garcia Benitez
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original illustration by Cuban artist Andres Garcia Benitez which was used for the cover of the iconic Carteles magazine in November of 1938. ...
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
$340
H 11.75 in W 8.25 in D 1 in
20th Century French Modernist Painting Portrait of The Mona Lisa Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artist's take on the Mona Lisa Sepia ink and mixed media portrait by Bernard Labbe (French Mid-20th Century) original sepia ink, pencil, gouache, watercolor on paper image size: ...
Ink, Watercolor, Pen, Pencil
$3,750
H 24 in W 16 in
"Clatterer" (2023) By Allen Williams, Original Oil Portrait Painting
By Allen Williams
Located in Denver, CO
"Clatterer" (2023) by Allen Williams is an original oil painting on a sealed illustration board that depicts an eerie and disturbing portrait of a demon...
Oil, Board, Illustration Board
Judaica "The Rebbe'" European Hasidic Rabbi Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Realistic portrait of an older rabbi visiting and blessing a child in a European marketplace. Here the artist conveys a sense of quiet grandeur through the eyes of his subject and th...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 14 in W 17.5 in
Couples Greeting at Hotel, The Saturday Evening Post - Alexander Sharpe Ross
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross beautifully renders a romance scene in a loose and quick style. The artist captures the moment when an attractive late 1940...
Gouache