Richard Jerzy Portrait Paintings

Orientalist watercolor of a guard standing watch. He stands at the ready, attentively listening while resting his hand on his sash which holds a sheathe...

This gouache on paper executed in 1988 by Menachem Gueffen depicts a female musician holding a mandolin within an interior setting opening onto a stylized landscape. The vertical com...

A modern interpretation of the biblical story Suzanna and the Elders. Signed lower right Ink and wash on paper The Downtown Gallery Felix Landau Gallery Ernest Brown & Phillips, Ltd...

“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...

American cubist portrait painting of the American academic Michael Lerner, by the Modernist artist Michael Hurson (1941-2007). This whimsical portrait is painted in the cubist style ...

The old west depicted in a graphic and dramatic manner. Paperback Novel Cover Painting Original Art (Avon, 1963). Work has a matted image area of 12.5" ...

Joe De Mers specialized in illustrations depicting the modern mid-century American girl. He did not portray them as stereotypes, but as a diverse array of dazzling females, sweet, ch...

Most likely for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Collier's Weekly, Good Housekeeping or Macall's

Elizabeth Voss was a top mod-century illustrator at Merrill Company and was a major figure in Children's Art and Children's Illustration Signed B. Gartrell was the pseudonym Elizabet...

Political Cartoon of Ford and Kissinger, Magazine Cover Illustration for magazine. Most likely a cover Newsweek, Time Magazine or The Atlantic Magazine Signed lower right Work is ...

Watercolor and gouache on paper laid on board Magazine Illustration defined by bold graphic composition and limited color palate yielding a powerful image that jumps off the page. u...

Martin Eder was a Swedish drawing teacher, artist and ceramicist. Martin was born on the island of Gotland and spent a lot of time there, he also lived in Sala. Martin was a curious ...