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Period: Mid-20th Century
Waldorf Astoria Art Deco Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Artist Charles Perry Weimer employs thin black horizontal lines that intersect with thin black vertical lines. The result is a triumph of design w...
Category
1930s Art Deco Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pen
Landscape Abstraction - Mid-Century - Twenty Paintings in One
Located in Miami, FL
When it comes to abstract painting, the creation date is important. At the height of Abstraction Expressionism, overlooked Academic Artist John Atherton created a wonderfully complex painting that embodies many of the characteristics of what was going on in Mid-Century American Art. The work is simultaneously abstract as it is representational. Like a Bento Box, it's divided into sections by dividers. On close inspection, each section stands on it's own as a beautiful mini-painting yet coalesces as part of the whole. From a distance, it is eye-pleasing, but as the view gets closer and closer, new structures and details gloriously reveal themselves. This is an important painting and not unlike the work of Joaquín Torres-García. It was done in the last year of the artist's life. Signed lower right. Canvas is relined. Framed size: 30 x 41.25. The work is best viewed with top gallery lights to bring out color.
Color will look different under different lighting conditions. Atherton exhibited at the famous Julien Levy Gallery in New York and his fine art is mainly associated with Magic Realism. He participated in the seminal 1943 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, American Realists and Magic Realists. The Museum of Modern Art has 4 Atherton paintings in its collection. As an Illustrator, Atherton did covers for the Saturday Evening Post, Fortune and Holiday Magazine...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Glamorous Redhead Iconic Mid-Century Illustration
By Al Parker
Located in Miami, FL
Glamorous Redhead is a poster-like iconic image that sums up an era in American visual history - The 1950s. Al Parker is a giant in the history of American Illustration. He possess...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid-Century Fashion Designs by Austrian Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-Century fashion watercolors by accomplished Austrian Female Illustrator. Fashion Gret Kalous-Scheffer (1892 Vienna - 1975 Vienna) was a daughter of the renowned Austrian painter...
Category
1950s Feminist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Children's Book Cover - Mid-Century Blond Girl - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Female Illustrator Barbara Briggs Bradley was an in-demand illustrator in the 1950s. Merrill Publishers of their famous children's books hired Barbara Briggs Bradley to d...
Category
1950s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
Horses, Chicken, Ducks, Rooster and Pigs Children's Book - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Cover illustration for mid-century children's book publisher Merril Publishers. Signed lower right. Unframed. Retta Scott or Retta Worcester was (February 23, 1916 – August 26, 1990) was an pioneering Female Illustrator / American artist. She was the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Scott worked on storyboards to develop scenes of Bambi, his mother, and the film’s hunting dogs, on which she spent weeks to develop them into “vicious, snarling, really mean beasts.” Male artists in the company were stunned who initially assumed that only a man could create drawings with such intensity and technical skill. Her sketches caught the eye of Disney, so when the film went into production, she was assigned to animate scenes of hunting dogs chasing Faline. She worked under the film's supervising director, David D. Hand,and was tutored by Disney animator Eric Larson. This was a significant coup for the young woman, since at the 1930s-era Disney studio, women were considered only for routine tasks: "Ink and paint art was a laborious part of the animation process, and was solely the domain of women..." Her promotion to animator was in part thanks to the success of herself and other women such as Bianca Majolie, Sylvia Holland, and Mary Blair as storyboard artists. Even after receiving a promotion to animator, she and her animations continued being under appreciated in the industry. Though the most recognized Walt Disney female artist is Mary Blair, it is Retta Scott who opened up the doors for women in the animation industry. She became the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator. By the spring of 1941, Scott was also considered a "specialist in animal sketches."
Scott helped produce Fantasia and Dumbo, as well as an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows that was later cancelled. She also made an appearance in The Reluctant Dragon...
Category
1950s Feminist Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Classic 1950s Husband and Wife and Gagged Parrot, Esquire Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Juliette Kida Renault (as JKR) Esquire Magazine Illustration Original Art (Hearst, c. 1950s). "He said his first word to-day". A fixture of Esquire ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
Golden Age of Illustration Beautiful Smiling Woman, Female Illustrator
By Zoë Mozert
Located in Miami, FL
Stunning portrait with a killer smile by Golden Age of Illustration female Illustrator Zoë Mozert. Signed lower right. Framed under glass, silk matted and i...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Illustration Board
Art Deco 1940s High Fashion Illustration Woman with Fan and Screen
Located in Miami, FL
French female illustrator Geneviève Thomas renders a highly stylized fashion illustration set against a seamless red background, The model is wearin...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Surprised Woman with Cactus 1920s Female Illustrator
By Susan Flint
Located in Miami, FL
The postman's delivery of a limp cactus creates a big emotional response the female recipient. Most likely an interior illustration for a newsstand magazine. Signed lower right Sus...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Pre-Raphaelite Style Painting of Mothers and Babies in WWII
Located in Miami, FL
Babies are falling from the sky and not bombs. British female artist and illustrator Noel Laura Nisbet makes a passionate twist to the reality of En...
Category
1940s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media, Tempera
Mid- Century Fashion Illustration - Neiman Marcus ?
By Marjorie Ullberg
Located in Miami, FL
1950's elegant fashion models pose depicted for a designer clothing line for a major San Francisco department store - Perhaps Neiman Marcus. Estate ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Class Struggle - Fay the Maid Dusts Henry Moore - New Yorker Magazine?
Located in Miami, FL
Mary Petty gained fame as a cover artist for The New Yorker, illustrating a fictional upper-class Manhattan family called the Peabodys. One of the main char...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Art Deco Horses in Blue - Horse Show Illustration by Female Illustrator
By Robin Artine Smith
Located in Miami, FL
Work is matted but not framed.
Painter, Designer, Illustrator born on July 18, 1903 in Warren Arkansas. Studied at the Chicago Art Institute; Northwestern University; Vienne, Austria; with Eliot O’Hara and Hubert Ropp. Member of the following organizations: Dallas Art Association; Texas Fine Arts Association; National Association of Watercolor Artists; and the Texas watercolor Society. Smith exhibited at: American Watercolor Society in 1945, 1948 and 1952; with National Assn. of Watercolor Artists in 1945, 1946, and 1948; Artists Alliance in Dallas in 1943 (awarded prize), in 1944 (awarded prize), in 1945-46 and 1948-1950, 1952-53 with prizes awarded in 1948 and 1953; the Texas General Exhibition from 1943 through 1946, 1948-49; with the Texas Watercolor Society from 1950-52 with prizes won in 1950 and 1951, 1957; with the Southern States Arts League in 1944 and 1945; Texas Fine Arts Association in 1945 and awarded prize and with the Texas Artist Group consecutively from 1945.Smith’s work is in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
Her one-man shows were in Austin, Texas in 1948; in San Antonio in 1951 and Dallas in 1951. Smith’s work is in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
Original pastel and gouache on paper by Robin Artine Smith...
Category
1930s Art Deco Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pastel
Romantic Couple In Wartime Paris on Rainy Parisian Night
Located in Miami, FL
The technique and subject matter work well together in this loosely but masterfully rendered World War 1 romantic illustration of a Soldier and a Parisian woman. Even though this wo...
Category
1930s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Biblical Story illustration Art for Religious Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Miriam Story Hurford was a prolific and major American female illustrator in the 1930s to the 1950s. Her work was for cover art for women's magazines and home magazines and religious magazines. This work depicts t the wise men being guided by the star of Bethleham to the birth of the Christ child for a Christmas magazine...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Stipple Drawing in Black and White of the First Lady of Haiti - African American
Located in Miami, FL
1942 Calendar illustration featuring the First Lady of Haiti (Madame Elie Lescot]) rendered in a precise stipple effect and celebrating African-American women which was titled "Twelve American Women." It was executed during the hight of World War II. Lois Mailou Jones...
Category
1940s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Slate Stone Collage Painting - African American Artist
By Alvin C. Hollingsworth
Located in Miami, FL
African American Artist Alvin Hollingsworth creates a mixed-media abstract painting/collage that abounds with inventiveness and creativity. Large s...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Stone, Slate
Heavy Hauler - Mid-Century Illustration - Children's Books
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1923. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for eight years (!) at the Art Students League. Mario Cooper was among his instructors. Up...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Dusk in the Garden - Greenwich Village - Moody Monochromatic - Whitney Museum
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
The setting reminds us of a Rear Window by Alfred Hickcock but Evergood did it 8 years before.
It's most likely Greenwich Village since Evergood lived there.
This is a very big and heavy to lift painting
Signed lower left
Framed 56 x 51 in a period very heavy rustic wood frame.
Exhibited Center Gallery, Bucknell University, PA, among others venus.
gallery label remnants on verso - The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annual 1949 - Label
Provenance: Naomi and Walter Rosenblum
Best Viewed with a top gallery light...
Category
1940s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Back Fence with Bird. - Mid-Century - WPA Artist
By Jenne Magafan
Located in Miami, FL
The Mid-Century mindset
As expected, 65 years ago.. people looked at art/painting a little differently.
Back then, many artists were concerned with depicting simple and beautiful t...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Boxer Knockout Punch - Esquire Magazine Mid- Century Sports - Action Painting
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Brilliant American Illustrator Bob Peak captures the fury and power of a punch to the face with rapid broad strokes of the brush. Combined with a somber color scheme and gestural bru...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Cute Cow Milks into Bottle. Mid Century Illustration
By George Giusti
Located in Miami, FL
George Giusti is in the Art Directors Hall of Fame. George Giusti’s graphic designs and illustrations have graced the covers of Time, Fortune, Holiday. He collaborated with Herbert ...
Category
1950s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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 ...
Category
1950s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Gouache, Board
The Night Journey - Drip Painting like Jackson Pollock
By Byron Browne
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Browne's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and gestural abstrac...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frolic Club IV - New York City in the 1960's - Strip Club Gritty Social Realism
By Philip Reisman
Located in Miami, FL
Philip Reisman paints the raw street life of New York City. Whether he's painting a barmaid or a street hobo, Reisman is a people painter. He studied at the Art Students League with ...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Muscular Black Male Nude Academic Life Drawing in Charcoal
By John R. Grabach
Located in Miami, FL
Charcoal on cream laid paper mounted on board. 940x590 mm; 37x23 1/4 inches. Signed in charcoal, lower right recto.
Unframed, The Paper has a slight ripple in the chest area. Four s...
Category
1950s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Board
Beautiful Blond Hair and Blue Eyed Woman - Mid Century Illustration
By Coby Whitmore
Located in Miami, FL
This brilliantly rendered female portrait by a major American post-war illustrator known for his stunningly glamorous women. Notice how all the elements of the composition work tog...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Fiberboard, Graphite
Love Story Couple in Romantic Bliss Illustration - Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome man and a beautiful woman are depicted in a rapturous pose. Their bodies are intertwined with each other and with the surrounding floral elements. This masterfully render...
Category
1950s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
Industrial Scene Acid Glove, Drafsman's Pencil and Piping - Fortune Magazine
By Stanley Meltzoff
Located in Miami, FL
Surrealist ad where a gloved human hand rises in pictorial height to the size of a chemical plant. Tension is created as Drafsman's Pencil is about to t...
Category
1960s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Times Square Theater Posters Morosco Theatre. FORTY CARATS
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022 this does not seem like a big deal. But 53 years ago in 1969 it was quit...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vagabond Vagrant - Life on the Fringe in the Bowery - The Streets of New York
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 52 years ago in 1969, it was qu...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
American Eagle Fortune Magazine Cover Illustration ( alternate )
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in Miami, FL
Alternate cover for Fortune Magazine February, 1940. Gouache on board. 350x285 mm; 13 3/4x11 1/4. Signed "A. Petrucelli" in lower left image. Tipped t...
Category
1940s Art Deco Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Boxing Scene. Vanquished Boxer in his Corner. Sports Illustrated Boxing Story
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
There are a lot of people in the art world today who dismiss illustrators are being commercial solely because the artists identified as being commercial artists and that the work was done on assignment.
Sadly these art world people have limited imagination and a restricted sense of curiosity.
This boxing illustration/painting was done for Sports Illustrated...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Wish Not to Be Disturbed for the Duration of Winter - Playboy Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
Gahan Wilson was the Master of the macabre, and most of his work is associated with Charles Addams. The beauty of a Gahan Wilson is that is a payoff pu...
Category
1960s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Color Pencil
Times Square in the 1960s - Portrait with Dancing Sign - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Even at the age of 19, street photographer Mitchell Funk forged a unique style of street color photography. It was based on formal and exacting compositions with an emphasis on stron...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Bowery Skid Row Portrait. Urban Street Art - Mid Century Green Wall
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
For generations, The Bowery was known for homeless, abandoned alcoholics. This insightful and soulful portrait from 1969 shows one of the Bowery's street residents against a green w...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ballerina, Clown and Festival Performers - like Edgar Degas
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Miami, FL
It is a work by Edgar Degas? A stunning and beautiful study of three members of a fair in an off moment. Dramatic underlighting creates a dramatic mood. Deftly rendered in the ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Landscape, Mountain with Nude Woman - Perls Gallery
By Frederick Haucke
Located in Miami, FL
A nude white woman gazes out and over a Giorgio de Chirico like surrealist landscape to an overly dramatic sunset with stylized orange rays. In the center of the composition is a cut-out of a mountain with a moat. In the extreme foreground is a silhouetted orange plane with a spiral of leaves. Along with the empty landscapes of de Chirico, it's possible that Frederick Haucke was influenced by Salvador Dalí " The Persistence of Memory" in 1931, and Dali's painting was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1934. In that painting, Dali, paints a vacant landscape doted with symbols from the unconscious. This painting by Frederick Haucke owes a debt to giants of the Surrealist movement but still, Haucke carves out his style. The shape of the nude's hair echoes the shape of the sunset. What the symbolism to the mountain is and the flower in the foreground we will leave to the viewer to speculate. It was shown at the very prestigious Pearls Gallery in New York City. Artists in the famous Perls' stable included Derain, Dufy, Rouault, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Pascin, Soutine, Chagall and Vlaminck. With a 1971 retrospective of Alexander Calder's work. This Haucke from the Perls Gallery...
Category
1940s Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Nude Show Girl Buttocks Pondered by Show Horse - Sexy Cartoon Mad Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
This sexy joke cartoon with thought balloons and some bathroom humor was done by the brilliant humorist cartoonist for Mad Magazine, Al Jaffee. The joke's...
Category
1960s Conceptual Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Yesterday's Love, Love can Be True. The Heart can Betray
Located in Miami, FL
Classic illustration for a romanace novel from the 1950's in England. Recently these charming works have been the source of interest and even parody. Unsigned, unframed. Vale Studi...
Category
1950s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Boxing Ring. Boxed Knocked to Floor with 10 Count, Red and Black, Esquire Mag
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Illustration legend Bob Peak depicts a boxer that has fallen to the matt and is being given the 10-count by the referee. Peak captures that peak moment of drama and then exaggerates...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Arabian nights The Thousand and One Nights Donkey Scheherazade, Islam
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
This is a masterfully rendered and brilliantly designed scene from the Arabian Nights. page 33 from Random House. We are not sure if this is by Gustaf Tenggren. However, there are su...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Bulldog Barks at Bull, Chicken, Goat, Horse and Donkey, Naive art
Located in Miami, FL
Alice RoseProvensen and Martin Provensen were an American couple who illustrated more than 40 children's books together, 19 of which they also wrote and edited According to Alice, "we were a true collaboration. Martin and I really were one artist. The Provensens were a runner-up for the 1982 Caldecott Medal as illustrators of A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard (who won the companion Newbery Medal). Two years later they won the Caldecott for The Glorious Flight, the story of aviator Louis...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Nude Man In Bathing Suit, Male Nude in Speedo, Gay Art, Sex appeal
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome and fit young man with an introspective gaze is depicted in a Speedo Bathing suit as he sits against a tropical lake. The work is unframed and in fair to poor condition but has soul and sex appeal to it.
Louise Schacht...
Category
1930s Naturalistic Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cat Friends Portrait, Collage on Paper - Guggenheim Museum Founder
By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen
Located in Miami, FL
A portrait of two cats is deftly assembled by trailblazing modernist Hilla Rebay.
The work is signed and titled lower left. 'Muschi et Antonio v. Rebay - Rome'. Titled to verso ‘Musc...
Category
1930s Blue Rider Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of a Woman, Paper Collage - Female Artist
By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen
Located in Miami, FL
Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Freiin Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, known as Baroness Hilla von Rebay or simply Hilla Rebay was the co-founder of the Museum...
Category
1930s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Glue
Black Wolves Attack Two People Tied Up, Children's Books Illustration
By Alice and Martin Provensen
Located in Miami, FL
Alice and Martin Provensen were an American couple who illustrated more than 40 children's books together. In 1984, the won the Caldecott for The Glorious Flight, the story of aviator Louis Blériot...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Woman on Porch Feed Her Cats at Early Morning Light , Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A milk truck is seen caressed in the golden light of early morning as a woman bends down to feed her cat. The artist depicts a precious moment as an older woman reaching down to pick...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Lord Cardigan, Charge of the Light Brigade, British Army Military Officer
Located in Miami, FL
This graphic composition depicts Lord Cardigan on horseback commanding an equestrian military unit with the Union Jack flag proudly displayed. The famous battle scene "Charge of the Light Brigade...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Paper
Show Girl with Fantasy Horse, Fashion Illustration in Blue and Black
Located in Miami, FL
This Drawing has a sketch on the reverse as well as handwritten notes, one of which reads "On loan from the Freddy Wittop's private collection." Costume designer Freddy Wittop won a Tony Award for his work on "Hello, Dolly!" and was also the recipient of a TDF Irene Sharaff...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Nude Girl, Polynesian Girl Tahiti, Annabella
By Millard Sheets
Located in Miami, FL
In some instances, a painting will look significantly much better in person than it does digitize. This is one instance. In-person, this painting will knock your socks off. It is...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Football Team Sports Action Painting Abstract Expressionism, Sports Illustrated
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Football players cloaked in oversized Browns jackets are seen from behind running off the field. Always the graphic innovator, legendary illustrator Bob Peak creates a radical composition by leaving the bottom two-thirds of the picture plane empty of detail. To convey a sense of motion, Peak uses broad strokes of paint similar to the action painters Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, who were the dominant force in the fine art world in the 1960s. Clearly, one can see a cross-over influence from Fine Art to commercial illustration as Peak strikes a balance between abstract versus figurative art. This work was done on an assignment for Sports Illustrated...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Winter Evening Fifth Avenue - New York at Night - Mid-Century.
By Ernest Fiene
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century New York City is represented as a moment in time. The artist populates his scene with isolated figures that are more shapes of people as opposed to specific individuals....
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Church - Manipulated Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This is an early example of photo manipulation. Photographer put a match to the 35mm emulsion to the burned bubble effect and then sandwiched it with colored gels in a double exposur...
Category
1960s Expressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Indian Ritual Walking on Fire, Firewalking Ceremony, Mythology and Religion
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Narrative artist Robert Riggs captures a highly-charged scene of an Indian firewalking ceremony. Firewalking is part of a religious ritual and is associated with the mystical powers...
Category
1950s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Pigment
Sexy Woman in a Swamp Storm - Pulp Magazine, Hispanic Artist, Mid Century
By Rafael DeSoto
Located in Miami, FL
Rafael Maria de Soto y Hernandez was born February 18, 1904 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It's high drama in the swamp. Woman in the Swamp is a masterfully executed example of Pulp Art and showcases Rafael DeSoto's full command of academic painting.
DeSoto did pulp covers up until the industry's demise in the 1950s for such magazines as Adventure, Argosy, Black Mask, Captain Zero, Crack Detective, Fantastic Novels, 15-Story Detective, Fifteen Western Tales, New Detective, Smashing Detective, and Walt Coburn's Western Magazine. He also painted many covers and interior story illustrations for men's adventure magazines, such as Action For Men, Adventure, Battle Cry, For Men Only...
Category
1950s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Soldier Shooting Gun with Bikini Girls, Mid-Century Mens Magazine War
By Mort Künstler
Located in Miami, FL
The artist tells a whole action-packed story in one picture. A handsome young soldier shoots his pistol at a passing bomb-dropping airplane. The close call splashes water on him and his two sexy girl...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Pencil
Children Snow Sledding in Central Park - New Yorker Cover Study
Located in Miami, FL
Hungarian/American artist/illustrator depicts a charming scene of sledding in the snow in Central Park. The work is abstract in its design as it's functional in its narrative - Unpublished New Yorker...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Fauve Portrait of Three Women in Blue Holding Red Abanicos
By Bernie Fuchs
Located in Miami, FL
Bernie Fuchs's painting "Fauve Portrait of Two Women in Blue with Red Abanicos" captures a festive scene of three Spanish women in traditional dress at...
Category
1960s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
