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Style: Modern
Style: Impressionist
Style: Expressionist
Orientation: Vertical
Item Ships From: Continental US
Laundry Day. Child hanging cloths in Breeze. Cover. The Household Guest
By Florence E. Nosworthy
Located in Miami, FL
The Artist captures a "caught moment" of cloths blowing in the wind. It's being witnessed by an inquisitive bird, while be ducklings and a cute kitty cat accompany her.
Signed lower...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Ink, Gouache, Graphite, Paper
Mid Century Portrait of Actress Paula Laurence - Wife of Joseph Hirshhorn
By Lily Harmon
Located in Miami, FL
Quick and loose expressionist portrait of stage and screen actress Paula Laurence
Portrait of Paula Laurence (1916-2005). Oil and graphite on linen. Signed top right. Exhibited: "Lil...
Category
1950s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Giant Sadistic Laughing Devil with Hellfire and Tiny Humans
Located in Miami, FL
A sadistic laughing Devil grinning a big smile is pictured hovering over a Hellfire. He is reveling while witnessing tiny ant-like sinners engage in eternal torture, torment, and co...
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Nude Playboy Cartoon, First African American Illustrator Elmer Simms Campbell
By E. Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbell was the first and top black commercial artist in the USA for decades.
In "Grandma," we see a deeply conceptual work, with the blank canvas as the main point of the...
Category
1960s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
Harem: Sexy Nude Girl Illustration for Playboy. First Black Illustrator
By E. Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
Playboy Magazine ran this joke cartoon illustration in color on page 43 for the October 1960 edition.
Signed lower right.
The work is executed on a heavy Whatman Illustration board....
Category
1960s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil, Gouache
King Arthur's Knights Battle - Sword Fighting
Located in Miami, FL
Italian Illustrator Gianni Benvenuti depicts a sword battle in a post-cubist/expressionist style. Without regard for proper perspective, the picture is as representative as it is abs...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Beautiful Maidens Nude Women Harem, Playboy Cartoon African American Illustrator
By E. Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbel was the first major African American Illustrator. He did covers for Esquire Magazine starting in the 1930s.
He created the famous bulging-eyed Esquire Mascot “Esky.”
He also worked for The Chicagoan, Cosmopolitan, Ebony, The New Yorker, Playboy, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, Pictorial Review, and Redbook.
This work, "What do you mean your wife doesn't understand you ---- I'm your wife!" is from Cuties Daily Comic Strip, June 18, 1950
He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in 2002.
His work demonstrates a deep and masterfully understanding of drawing figures and faces in an academic but stylized style.
"My pleasure, boys. Always glad to see a delegation from the States." From the Playboy Collection...
Category
1960s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Female Illustrator, Flapper of 1800, Monochromatic
By Anna Whelan Betts
Located in Miami, FL
A "Flapper of 1800" is depicted in profile with her maid holding a hat box and cradling a little monkey. The maid is a step to the right and a step behind her. Overlapping garments v...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Dreamy Young Blond Women Pondering "Deckchair and Cat" Summer Pastel Color
Located in Miami, FL
A dreamy young blond woman holding a Bengal cat is depicted relaxing in a deckchair. She gazes upward and outward, pondering—the distinctive marbling of the cat echos the floral back...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Sexy French Cabaret Dancers - Folies Bergere Pulp Paperback Book Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Campy and sexy illustration of two French chorus girls for the mid-century Avon paperback Les Girls.
Story of the Folies Bergere Unsigned and unframed.
George Ziel...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board
"The Glorious Flight - Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot" - Children's Book
By Alice and Martin Provensen
Located in Miami, FL
Study for "The Glorious Flight - Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot"; 1983; Gouache on Illustration Board; 14.5" x 13.75"; Signed Lower Right; Unframed.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alice Rose[1] Provensen (née Twitchell; August 14, 1918[2] – April 23, 2018[3]) and Martin Provensen...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Tender Family Portrait - Mother and Child, Student of Robert Henri
By Margery Austen Ryerson
Located in Miami, FL
Rendered with an alla prima paint application and quick gestural brushstrokes, "Tender Family Portrait - Mother and Child" reflects Margery Ryerson's deep knowledge of academic training. Reyerson studied with Robert Henri at The Art Students League. This painting is aesthetically pleasing and communicates a sense of maternal tenderness from a female artist. Margery Ryerson did a book on her former teacher. Henri's philosophical and practical musings were collected by former pupil Margery Ryerson and published as The Art Spirit (1923), a book that remained in print for several decades. Signed. Lower Left
Margery Austen Ryerson (September 15, 1886 - 1989) was an American artist, painter, etcher, lithographer and watercolorist.Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Biography
Ryerson earned her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in English from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, after attending private schools in Morristown. She went on to study under Charles Hawthorne at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and with Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York.
During the years 1920 through 1940 Ryerson taught in New York settlement houses. There she got the privilege to paint and draw the children in their care. The subjects of these paintings were often the children of the underclass and immigrants. Her artistic technique and subjects gained universal recognition and appealed to many people. Miss Ryerson is most known for her portraits...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Devil: No Horns, Burning in Hell, African American Harlem Renaissance
Located in Miami, FL
In a 1971 interview with Ebony Magazine, Alvin Hollinsworth commented on his African Jesus Christ painting, "I have always felt that Christ was a Blac...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Wedding Day - Norman Rockwell Americana - Female Illustrator
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Recently, women artists have been soaring in price to millions of dollars. In many cases, many of these women were quite obscure. For example, recently acknowledged Gertrude Abercrombie, a naive surrealist artist, has recently seen her paintings rise to the area of $400K. Lorraine Fox, who is a consummate female artist/ illustrator whose work rivals any of the recently anointed female stars is still an unknown quantity. She has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and is in the collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and she is a member of the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut along with Norman Rockwell, Today she is relatively unknown and completely off the radar of the so-called art establishment. Wedding Day is a wonderful example of her mid-century, somewhat naive style. The work is signed lower right and was exhibited at the Brandywine River...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman Baking, Redbook Illustration, Mid - Century
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, unframed - Interior Illustration for Redbook Magazine
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
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
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
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
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
Golfer Swinging, Vintage 7 Up Ad "Get Real Action" in Green and Yellow - Golf
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
This strobe-like dynamic composition with bright and bold colors reflects the energetic taste of the 7 Up brand. It lies somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Peaks' use of b...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board
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...
Category
1990s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Rag Paper
Nude Dancer Burlesque Stripper with Purple Gloves - The Bump -
By Jack Levine
Located in Miami, FL
A gritty Burlesque Stripper with long purple gloves bumps and grinds with a hard-driving beat. American Social Realist artist Jack Levine paints this se...
Category
1970s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Board
Godzilla like Dinosaur Monster, SciFi, Science Fiction Cover Illustration
By Paul Wenzel
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful Godzilla like monster illustration from 1961. Wenzel was a prolific Disney Artist for decades. The work is beautifully matted and framed and lookes better in person.
Category
1960s American Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Untitled - Mysterious Figure in Black Pancho and Expressive Hands
Located in Miami, FL
Haunting yet beautiful with a simple graphic composition and monochromatic palette. The stylized and overly expressive hands are a hallmark of Kingman's style.
Hand-signed by artist...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Saturday Evening Post Cover, Evening Gown May 21st, 1938
By Neysa McMein
Located in Miami, FL
Pastel on board - Saturday Evening Post Cover, Evening Gown May 21st, 1938 - Reproduced version looks better because the Saturday Evening Post Art Director retouched the plates before printing and strengthened the colors to give it more newsstand appeal -
Signed and inscribed lower left. Housed in an inexpensive period frame
From Wiki : as an American illustrator and portrait painter who studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. She began her career as an illustrator and during World War I, she traveled across France entertaining military troops with Anita P...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of Bert Lahr as Burlesque Clown - The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Burlesque Clown Bert Lahr is dipicted in a bowler hat with a wry grin. Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is de...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Figures, Metallic Gold Ground, African American Artist - Black Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Hollingsworth intertwines faces and figures along in black and red on a metallic ground. There are 3 nude figures in total. Black Arts Movement - Dreamy study of faces and nudes floating in a gold metallic sky. In the foreground the is a what appears to be an African figure in a long blue ground with bulbous red hat and then an indication of a mountainous horizon line. The right center is an indication of a sun.
Acrylic and metallic paint on board
Signed lower right
BIOGRAPHY:
Alvin Hollingsworth...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
New York Harbor with Ferry boats and Victorian Houses - Holiday Magazine Cover
By Saul Steinberg
Located in Miami, FL
Steinberg's Holiday Magazine Cover, " The North of Jersey " is similar to his famous New Yorker Cover "View of the World from 9th Avenue”. ...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Gouache
Protest Revolt and Uprising illustration
By Daniel Maffia
Located in Miami, FL
This work is a quintessential protest statement piece depicting an angry mob brandishing powerful fits in the air in gestures of revolt
Signed lower right.
Daniel Maffia has done a ...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Portrait of a Woman lost in Thought
By Kenneth Hayes Miller
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated 1924 upper right
Simplified forms, geometricized volumes and restricted color palette characterizes this work.
Zabriskie Gallery Label on verso
Original period frame
Kenneth Hayes Miller taught at the Art Students League from 1911 until 1951. Some of his students were: Reginald Marsh, George Bellows, George Tooker, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Patrick Henry Bruce
Category
1920s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vogue USA, Fashion Illustration - Hispanic Artist
By Antonio Lopez
Located in Miami, FL
Vogue USA, Fashion Illustration. Meticulously drawn in a descriptive and yet creative way. Antonio's full mastery of his art is on full display...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Judgment
By Philip Castle
Located in Miami, FL
Thin edged metal frame
Philip Castle is an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle
He is rarely exhibited and Prince Rainier of Monaco once purc...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sea Battle - (Stories from the Edda)
By Arthur Rackham
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, "A Rackham" lower right
Sotheby's New York - The work has recently been elegantly framed with a high end frame and archivalled matted and looks wonderful in person.
Arth...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Portrait of a Charming Seated Woman Against Maroon Drapes
By Arthur Beecher Carles
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors.
Provenance: Christie's
Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
Category
1910s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Love at War, Lovers in a troubled moment . Handsome men and beautiful women.
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
Jon Whitcomb was know for is dipictions of Handsome men and glamous women. Most likely for a major newsstand magazine like. Cosmopolitan, McCall's and Pl...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor - Female Illustrator
By Carol Blanchard
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Seated Woman
By Arthur Beecher Carles
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors.
Provenance: Christie's
Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
Category
1910s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Groovy Lucille Ball, original painting for TV Guide cover
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Bob Peak's Lucille Ball, TV guide cover is a seminal work. With its stylized design and use of punchy color, this work constitutes a powerfully innovative pai...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Issac Mizrahi illustration
By Michaele Vollbracht
Located in Miami, FL
Issac Mizrahi fashion illustrationon Arches paper signed in ink lower right Circa 1990's
Image 29.5" H x 21.25"
Frame: 31.5" H x 23.75" W x 1.5" D.
Th...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
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...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Museum Quality, Nude with Pink Towel
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Miami, FL
Walkowitz creates a powerful composition with the tightly cropped nude figure pushed up-close to the viewer and occupying half of the picture plane. Smaller figures lead the eye back...
Category
1920s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Bert Lahr - Circus Performer - Modernism
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
A recent Kuhn Circus Performer sold for $312,000 at Bonhams, NY
Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depict...
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pelé Brazilian, footballer, Soccer Star, Illustration
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Bob Peak is one of the true giants of post-war American Illustration. He is a virtuoso artist, with a heightened level of skill and talent that very few living artists today possess...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
From a Balcony
By Glenn O. Coleman
Located in Miami, FL
Exhibited: New York Society of Artist
Sid Deutsch
Owings-Dewey Fine Art
It's Skyscraper City: 1918. The artist depicts a simultaneous interior and exerterior view..
Based on Cole...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Quebec City, Fauve Landscape
By William Zorach
Located in Miami, FL
Wonderful Fauve Landscape with blocky areas of punchy bold reds and yellows. This was done the same year of the Armory Show in which both William Zor...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vogue Magazine Hi Fashion Illustration (Stephen Sprouse)
By Antonio Lopez
Located in Miami, FL
Vogue Magazine Fashion Illustration (Stephen Sprouse)
Antonio's mature style is on full display with a few quick strokes of the brush he is exemplifying the epitome of style and clas...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
That's a Wrap, Playboy cartoon Illustration ,
By Dink Siegel
Located in Miami, FL
Dink Siegel (American, 1910-2003)
That's a Wrap, Playboy cartoon, August 1973
Mixed media on board
11.25 x 8.5 in.
Signed lower right
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Ponies and Puppies Trotty And Trix Coloring Book, Cover Art
Located in Miami, FL
Children's illustration of Ponies and Puppies
Signed lower left
Children’s Books Published by The Merrill Company
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Judgment
By Philip Castle
Located in Miami, FL
Thin edged metal frame
Philip Castle is an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle
He is rarely exhibited and Prince Rainier of Monaco once purc...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Good Housekeeping cover. Christmas: Child Praying
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator, Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The acc...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Bonnie B. Paint Book Cover
By Elizabeth Voss
Located in Miami, FL
Elizabeth Voss was a top mod-century illustrator at Merrill Company and was a
major figure in Children's Art and Children's Illustration
Published by Merrill Company Publishers, Co...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
