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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...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

How About a Little More Coffee, New Yorker Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
Interpretation 1: An utterly exhausted man collapses face-first into a diner's countertop. His face and the countertop become one. Seemingly oblivious to the acute nature of the man's condition, the night server gleefully offers him coffee instead of more appropriate help. Interpretation 2: The night server/psycho killer pours unsuspecting customer poisoned coffee and then taunts his lifeless body in a victorious tone. Like Charles Addams...
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1990s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Art Deco Flapper Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Original Vintage 1920's Ink and Watercolor Fashion Illustration by listed New England artist Harriette (Nutting) Cooper (1901 - 2002). The illustration depicts a lovely young flappe...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

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...
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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...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pencil, Gouache

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...
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1940s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pencil

Art Nouveau Illustration Women and Children in the Woods
Located in Miami, FL
Complex Art Nouveau patterns intertwined with gracefull figures define this work by American Artist and illustrator, teacher and lecturer Mildred Bailey Carpenter. Signed in cartouc...
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1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Board, Paper, Gouache

Redheaded Model Purple Fashion Illustration for Women's Wear Daily
Located in Miami, FL
Redheaded model wearing Traina Sport by Kay Unger and Jesper Nyeboe. Illustration published on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, February 25, 1971. Gouache o...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

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

Woman at Wall
By George Tooker
Located in Miami, FL
This is an intensely personal and iconic image that is instantly recognizable as a George Tooker. Framed under glass. Hinged to backing board along the upper edge. Mild toning to the sheet. Small 1/4 inch abrasion to the extreme left edge of the sheet, not visible in current framing. Framed Dimensions 21.5 X 17.5 Inches -The artwork will look slightly different under different light conditions. In the former collection of Art Paul, who with Hugh Hefner created Playboy. Peter B...
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1970s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pencil

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 ...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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

Board, Paper, Charcoal

My Husbands Former Girl Friends - First Black Illustrator/ Cartoonist
By E. Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
Cuties Cartoon Strip - E. Simms Campbell My Husband Former Girl Friends - First Black Illustrator/ Cartoonist,
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1940s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Board

Native American Indian Portrait in Pen and Ink
By Murray Tinkelman
Located in Miami, FL
Stunning use of cross-hatching. Close up this is an abstract drawing. Ink on Strathmore Bristol Board - Perfect Condition and looks better in person. Elegantly matted but not framed
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1970s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen

Fly Over New York City Illustration - Optimism - Empire State Building
Located in Miami, FL
If people don't swat you . . . then something else happens." Illustration for Blechman's popular book Franklin the Fly (Mankato, MN: Creative Editions, 2007). Watercolor, pen and ink...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Ink, Pen

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

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

Gouache, Ink

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

Portrait of a Woman, Paper Collage
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

African Children Suffer Famine and Despair in Hot Colors - Africa is Bleeding
By Victor Olson
Located in Miami, FL
An intense and powerful study of five undernourished and perhaps starving African children partly superimposed and partly integrated into the silhouette of the African continent...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite, Watercolor

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...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Watercolor

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...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

Ants Marched into Woods that Surrounded their Underground Home - Children's Book
Located in Miami, FL
From the famous illustrator who brought the world "The Polar Express" and "JUMANJI". They Marched into the Woods that Surrounded their Underground Home, Two Bad Ants, interior book illustration, 1988 is a highly detailed and meticulously rendered work that is as descriptive as it is abstract. Signed and dated lower right. This was illustrated on pages 8-9 in Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Board, Acrylic

Debonair Man Cuts his Mustache in Front of Mirror
By Ludwig Bemelmans, 1898-1962
Located in Miami, FL
Welcome to the wonderfully delightful mind of Ludwig Bemelmans. With a few quick lines, Bemelmans captures the essence of a subject. In this work, the artist portrays a distinguished...
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1950s Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Ink

Sexy Gag Cartoon E. Simms Campbell first African American Cartoonist - Black Art
By E. Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
Elmer Simms Campbell was a brilliant illustrator and cartoon artist and was also the first African American cartoonist to be nationally syndicated in major newsstand magazines such a...
Category

1940s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Board, Casein

Black Male Nude Sitting, Academic Charcoal Nude Figure Drawing Life Class
By John R. Grabach
Located in Miami, FL
This is a masterfully observed and rendered black make nude by an academician and fine artist. John R. Grabach has a long and distinguished career depicting gritty, social realism works depicting the urban working-class. His fundamental skills come as a result of his studying at the Art Students League with Frank V. DuMond, and George Bridgman. This work "black male nude...
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1950s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Paper

Searching the Car - Desaturated Colors Muted Warm Yellows and Grey
By Harry Beckhoff
Located in Miami, FL
This Harry Beckhoff illustration is masterfully rendered and intricately designed in line and wash. It's as abstract as it's representational with its graphic style, clean lines, and flat patterning. Every element in the composition works in harmony without a line out of place. The flat and abstract nature of the work rivals that of the great modernist painters of the 1930s. Perhaps this was done for a major newsstand magazine like Collier's. Although he studied with Dean Cornwell and Harvey Dunn, he didn't pursue the style of painterly brushstrokes and impastos. Instead, he defined his forms with flat shapes, whose internal forms are defined by thin lines. The emphasis is more on silhouette and line than it is on texture and lighting. Beckhoff also described his work as having been influenced by illustrators like Pierre Brissaud...
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1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Illustration Board

Saudi Arabia King Faisal Time Magazine Cover - Man of The Year Study
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Master portrait artist and illustration legend Bob Peak captures the likeness, dignity and essence of Saudi Arabia's King Faisal for Time Magazine Cover ...
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1970s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper

Metropolitan Fantasy - City at Night with Pulsing Lights
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in Miami, FL
Yvonne Jacquette uses pastel on a heavy rag paper to depict an ariel city scene at night with pulsing lights. There is a heavy texture to the paper and the surface is rich and vibra...
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1990s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Rag Paper

Fairy in the Pussy Willows with Baby and Spider Web Fantasy Children's Book
Located in Miami, FL
This work is presented more as a concept piece since it's condition is destresed. Illustrator Hazel Frazee was a Female Illustrator in the first quarter of the 20th century for child...
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1920s Art Nouveau Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Watercolor

Mystical Indian Tribes of Arizona and Mexico with Head of Vulture
By Murray Tinkelman
Located in Miami, FL
This work was done on the assignment and illustrate myths and culture of a book on the Pima and Papago Indian tribes of southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Tinkelman's vision of t...
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1970s Abstract Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen

Summertime - Martha's Vineyard - Sunset Golden Sky and Red Lighthouse
By Millard Sheets
Located in Miami, FL
Summertime in Martha's Vineyard is drenched in saturated yellows and reds. People in the foreground look out to the sea. Two people on horseback are masterfully rendered in a loose ...
Category

1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Board, Pencil

Middle Eastern Man with Turban and Blue Cloak in Profile against Yellow
By Joseph Stella
Located in Miami, FL
Portrait in primary blues and yellow of perhaps a Persian man. He is in profile set against a decorative yellow background with floral elements. The work...
Category

1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil

Art Lovers and Art Critics Analyzing Obscene Painting. Cartoon
By Richard Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Cartoonist Richard Taylor was trained in academic art. He frequently comments on abstract art which was the new and radical thing at the time. "Curtis sees so much more in these thi...
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1940s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Board

Artist Painting Nude Women in Artist Studio - Perhaps Playboy Cartoon
By Richard Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
"Harry has no interest in mundane pleasures." Enter the mind of a mid-century American/ Canadian Artist. The theme of Artist and Model has been used for centuries but Richard Taylor ( R. Taylor ) clearly has his own humorous style. The Taylor girl is easily recognizable with oversized heavy-lidded oval eyes and curvaceous body shapes. Taylor is in the Charles Addams...
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1970s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pen

Cubist Male Nude
By Mercedes Matter
Located in Miami, FL
This powerful Cubist male nude is rendered in long uninterrupted bold black strokes that draw our gaze like a magnet. Mercedes Matter was a female ar...
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1930s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Paper

Surrealist Nude Female Figure
By Federico Castellon
Located in Miami, FL
This is an important work that is loaded with Surrealist iconographies. The shape of her hands is echoed in the shape of her hair. Tiny man and woman figures...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite, Archival Paper

Bauhaus . Untitled (French Barque under Staysail)
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Miami, FL
Bauhaus Iconic work by the master or Cubism and Expressionism Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, Los Angeles Bonhams, Exhibited: Moller Fine Art, "Precision ...
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Portrait of an African
By Ivan Chermayeff
Located in Miami, FL
Mixed media on paper, 1990, signed 'Ivan Chermayeff' and dated lower right, titled lower left. 30 x 22 in. (sheet), 36 x 28 in. (frame). Provenance:The artist, Art Planning Consult...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Water Sports - Coney Island Nude Swimmers and Nude Bathers
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Miami, FL
Presented in a good broad craved and antiqued giltwood frame in the Spanish Baroque style. Each corner boldly carved with a stylized anthemion mantled by foliate scrolls. Signed and ...
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1940s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, India Ink

African with Brian's Note
By Ivan Chermayeff
Located in Miami, FL
Mixed media on paper, 1990, signed 'Ivan Chermayeff' and dated lower right, titled lower left. 30 x 22 in. (sheet), 36 x 28 in. (frame). Provenance:The artist, Art Planning Consult...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

New York Street Movement and Figure - Architecture
By John Marin
Located in Miami, FL
This work by John Marin depicts an image of lower Manhattan which was Marin's more iconic subject matter. The work has a stellar provenance as well. Provenance: Kennedy Galleries Richard York Gallery ACA Galleries...
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1920s American Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Crayon

Birds at a waterhole, Heron, Flamingos, Swans, Egrets- San Diego Zoo
By Jessie Arms Botke
Located in Miami, FL
The iconic subject matter from Botke's oeuvre often features birds, particularly white peacocks, geese, egrets, and cockatoos. Women artists are on fire and very much in demand today...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Boat Scene
By Fairfield Porter
Located in Miami, FL
Watercolor on heavy paper work is unframed Signed by artist in pencil, lower right verso. Property from the estate of Anne E. C. Porter, with the estate stamp, verso. ...
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1950s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

"Julius Caesar" original art for Penguin book cover
By Milton Glaser
Located in Miami, FL
An uncanny and unexpected pose characterizes this work as Julius Ceasar warily looks over his shoulder and blood-stained toga. Signed lower right "M. Gl...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Paper, Watercolor

Pool Shadows
By Millard Sheets
Located in Miami, FL
Signed M. Sheets lower left, Sheets is a masterful craftsman rooted in sound academic training but displays a loose post-impressionist style that does homage to Gaugain. Best viewed...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Watercolor

Black Power Fist, Thumbs Up, Peace Sign - Hand Signals
By Murray Tinkelman
Located in Miami, FL
Murray Tinkelman builds his works out of tiny meticulously placed cross hatchings that are organized into horizontal and diagonal structures. Most are done with a ruler and some fre...
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1970s Pointillist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen

Connecticut Hills
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Miami, FL
This later work by Lyonel Feininger approaches almost full abstraction. It was executed in 1950 at a crucial moment in American art history. Abstract Expressionism and non-representational art were in full gear and taking the world by storm. Yet Feininger who was associated with the German expressionist groups: Die Brücke...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

India Ink, Watercolor

Central Park Zoo with Sea Lions and Animals
By Constantin Alajalov
Located in Miami, FL
A charming and stylized depiction of a day at the Central Park Zoo. with World War Two uniformed visitors front and center. Sea lions put on a show in front of a packed audience. The...
Category

1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Water Sports - Nude Swimmers and Bathers at Coney Island
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Miami, FL
Historically, academic artists have always featured the central figures in their composition in a prominent light with the background figures being darker. In water sports...
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1940s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, India Ink

Sea Battle - (Stories from the Edda)
By Arthur Rackham
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, "A Rackham" lower right Sotheby's New York Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration Rackham...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Swimmers and Divers - Women Illustrators
By Barbara Nessim
Located in Miami, FL
Barbara Nessim is an artist/ illustrator who has contributed to Harper's  Bazaar, Esquire, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time, Ms among others. She ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Ink

Heads in Profile- Women Illustrators
By Barbara Nessim
Located in Miami, FL
Barbara Nessim is an artist/ illustrator who has contributed to Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time, Ms among others. Sign...
Category

1990s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Ink

Summertime - Martha's Vineyard - Sunset Golden Sky and Red Lighthouse
By Millard Sheets
Located in Miami, FL
Summertime in Martha's Vineyard is drenched in saturated yellow and reds. People in the foreground look out to the sea. Two people on horseback are masterfully rendered in a loose b...
Category

1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Board, Pencil

Pondering being Naked - Sexy Girl taking off Bikini - Female Cartoonist
Located in Miami, FL
This work clearly has homosexual overtones which in the mid-'40s was as daring as showing nudity. I am not sure if this was the artist's intention but the salesgirl and the model look identical and she signs it twice Shermond. Added to this is a strobe light effect where the model's image is partly replicated giving the impression of 2 figures. She's lost in thought pondering the notion of removing the bows and seeing the consequences. Meanwhile, the sales girls ( perhaps her alta ego - perhaps an admirer ) eggs her on. Caption: "You can always remove the bows if you think they're too fussy." Cover cartoon for unknown publication - Signed "Shermund" twice in the lower right image, dated on verso, and captioned in graphite in the lower margin. Original Matte and not framed - Barbara Shermund...
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1940s Feminist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Graphite

The Mohammedan World - Holiday Magazine Cover (unpublished)
Located in Miami, FL
Rudolph de Harak was a graphic and environmental designer and art director for Seventeen Magazine and teacher at Cooper Unio Yale and Parsons School o...
Category

1960s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media

Materials

Tape, Laid Paper

The Cub Book of Trucks. Title Page
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was a children's book illustrator in New York City. Seiden was a members of The Society of Illustrators
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Permanent Marker, Pen, Graphite

Grand Mother and Son Read the Letter
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Most likely done for the Saturday Evening Post or a major newstand magazine like that Signed upper left Framed
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Mixed Media

Fisherman and Family on Boat
By Walt Louderback
Located in Miami, FL
Walt Lauderback like Dean Cornwell represents the pinnacle of the Golden Age of American Illustration. Based on the signature, this watercolor of a family with dog on boat appears ...
Category

1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

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