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Red Women - like Gertrude Abercrombie - Surrealist Women Artists
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Somewhat like Gertrude Abercrombie but the work is better painted, conceived, and designed - Magazine Illustration. Most likely for: Good Housek...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots - Woman Illustrator
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots by Lorraine Fox can be a joyful addition to your home. A beautiful redheaded young girl looks back at us from ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Introspective Woman / Actress on Movie Set. Mid Century Art, Female Illustrator
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for were Woman's Day, ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Pencil
Young Girl Red Dress lost in Thought, Mid Century Woman's Magazine Illustration
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox (1922–1976) was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for was Wo...
Category
1960s Feminist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Blond Pin up with Perfect Smile Tennis Racket - Women Illustrators
Located in Miami, FL
Julia (Elsie Julia Miller) Schleicher (Canadian/American, 1916-1988)
she was an important female illustrator
Woman Tennis Player
Pastel and gouache on boa...
Category
1940s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Noir Crime Drama Shooting - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
By Thornton Utz
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post Illustrator Thornton Utz captures the peak moment of action in this Noir Crime Drama, Shooting illustration on an interior page in the famed magazine in 1958 —...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Black Angel - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
This powerful and graphically composed image of a black man with white angel wings was painted in a realist style by African American artist ...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Formal Portrait of a Chinese Man in Traditional Dress
Located in Miami, FL
Dressed in traditional clothing, a handsome Chinese man is depicted as he sits resolutely with one hand on his leg and the other holding a baton. Female Artist Joyce Ballantyne...
Category
1940s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lonely Mother and Child in Embrace - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
In this interior illustration for "When the Heart Beats Young" by J.W. Riley, pioneering female illustrator Ethel Franklin Betts creates an intimate statement of mother and child in an embrace. The composition is abstract with patterns that suggest the influence of Asian art—initialed lower right. Work is framed under glass - Oil on board
Ethel Franklin Betts Bains (September 6, 1877 – October 9, 1959) was an American illustrator primarily of children's books during the golden age of American illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Betts first gained work illustrating magazines, including St. Nicholas Magazine, McClure's, and Collier's. Beginning in 1904, she was commissioned to illustrate several books, including James Whitcomb Riley's The Raggedy Man, While the Heart Beats Young, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Crystal City - Pushed Color Greens and Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This is most likely a self-portrait. We see the artist in a reflection holding a small 1950s camera while his wife in the foreground holds a large bran...
Category
1950s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Children Book Illustration - Female Illustrator - Turn of the Century
Located in Miami, FL
At a certain size, painting a small painting with precise and meticulous detail becomes an art in itself. So is the case of "Three Children" by English Childen's book illustrator Amy Millicent Sowerby...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, 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
Writer Fannie Hurst in Floral Pattern Dress Bathed in Warm Light Female Artist
By Edna Crompton
Located in Miami, FL
This portrait of Fannie Hurst may have graced
the cover of another major newsstand magazine.
Most likely, it was a non-published alternate cover for Redbook.
One of the most widely-read female authors was painted by one of the most widely-viewed female illustrators.
Edna Crompton was an in-demand and prolific for-hire female illustrator/artist for some of the most prestigious newsstand magazines of the day. She regularly did covers for the Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, Colliers and Judge to name a few. Crompton presents Fannie Hurst - the nation’s highest-paid short story writer and advocates for suffrage and race relations - as a confidently attractive young woman bathed...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Classic 1950s Husband and Wife and Gagged Parrot, Esquire Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Works by this female artst are very rare only seldom come on the market.
Juliette Kida Renault (as JKR) Esquire Magazine Illustration Original Art (H...
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
Three Rosy Cheek Children - Children Book Illustration. Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Legendary female illustrator creates a graphic and tightly designed triple portrait of her signature subjects. Kids!
Signed lower right. Unframed on heavy illustration board. Grace Drayton had a recognizable style which is a hallmark of all great artists. Instantly recognizable, a Grace Drayton subject is a stylized child with a cherubic style, often with round faces, plump bodies, rosy cheeks, and a happy disposition. Three Rosy Cheek Children is an excellent example of her best work.
Grace Drayton
Born: Grace Gebbie
October 14, 1878
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Died: January 31, 1936 (aged 58)
Cartoonist, Illustrator
Grace G. Wiederseim
Notable works
Campbell Soup Kids
Dolly Dimples
Dolly Dingle...
Category
1920s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
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
High Fashion Elegant Woman with Parasol Umbrella with Geese
By Ruth Eastman
Located in Miami, FL
Golden Age of Illustration preliminary drawing with Art Nouveau influence that was most likely for a major magazine commission. Eastman captures the elegance, style, and self-confidence associated with the upper-class American woman. The work is masterfully crafted and demonstrates a deep knowledge of academic drawing skills. The female figure is depicted in a classic pose with her scarf blowing in the wind, geese at her feet, clutching a red umbrella, and isolated against a neutral background.
Signed lower right.
Providence: The Illustrated Gallery...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
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
Acrylic, Masonite
The Vision - Surreal Black Female Portrait
Located in Miami, FL
This earlier work depicts an unexpected multicolored cone extending from the subject's eye. It represents a field of vision for a young Haitian female who gazes up. It reminds me of something Man Ray or the Dadaists did. Duval-Carrié's work is more than eye-opening.
Signed lower right
Work is framed - Framed Size - 18 x 22
Edouard Duval...
Category
1980s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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
$14,400 Sale Price
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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
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
$28,000 Sale Price
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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
Animal Kingdom, Zebra, Buffalo, Lion, Giraffe, Elephant, Monkey, Tiger, Gorilla
By Richard Hess
Located in Miami, FL
Peaceable Kingdom features more than 60 aminal portraits by famous illustrator Richard C. Hess.
Impeccably rendered and designed. Signed lower center-left. R. Hess.
His illustrati...
Category
1980s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$20,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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
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
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
$8,000 Sale Price
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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 ...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
By George Romney
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be ...
Category
1970s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait Of Elisabeth Marguerite, The Artist's Daughter
By Nicolas de Largillière
Located in Miami, FL
Nicolas de Largillierre painted Elisabeth Marguerite in oil on canvas. A larger version of this work was offered by Sotheby's for $500,000 and is now in a French Museum - Palais ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Lady Bagot - Niece to the Duke of Wellington
By Sir John Hoppner
Located in Miami, FL
The sitter is Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesly-Pole, eldest daughter of William, 4th Earl of Mornington and niece to the Duke of Wellington. This is one of Hoppner's best works. The sitt...
Category
1780s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$284,000 Sale Price
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Portrait of Mrs. Johnstone
By Sir Henry Raeburn
Located in Miami, FL
This is one of Raeburns best works from his best period that is not in a museum or private collection.
Three-quarter length portrait, seated in a white dress with a black scarf over...
Category
Early 1800s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$184,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Berlin's Mayer Reuter, Time Magazine Cover - Lucian Freud
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in Miami, FL
The Board measures 13.5 x 12.5
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Er...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Blue Collar Gritty Truck Driver with Tiger - Color field meets Social Realism
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in Miami, FL
Gritty working class truck driver with tiger painting on truck door, is rendered in a flat and quick style with rapid brushstrokes defining the trucker. The tiger is painted in a t...
Category
1950s Color-Field Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Au Bal Masque - Spanish girl at Opera
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Miami, FL
Au Bal Masque - Spanish girl at Opera - This spectacularly beautiful post-impressionist portrait t could be reminiscent of Degas.
A charming girl with a ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$43,200 Sale Price
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Portrait of Dorothy Thompson (The Wild Rose) - Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a beautiful blue-eyed girl in a pink dress holding flowers in her hand. It's based on Renaissance portraits where the subject is pushed to the foreground and i...
Category
1920s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$14,000 Sale Price
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Ethiopians Shake Hands with Europeans
By Alice and Martin Provensen
Located in Miami, FL
This deceptively naive painting was most likely done for a children's book. Upon close study, the viewer will recognize that this painting is anything but a child's effort. It's a g...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
By Haddon Hubbard Sundblom
Located in Miami, FL
This painting is as much about the artist's brilliant painting skills and technique as it is about the subject matter. Sundblom's quick bravura brush strokes seem abstract on close i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beautiful Woman, The Coy Look - French Painting
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Miami, FL
If Vogue magazine existed in the late 19th century, this sitter could be on the cover. The depth of her feminine beauty and sweetness is mesmerizing. She looks at you. You look ...
Category
1880s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$36,000 Sale Price
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Untitled, Boy Eating Watermelon
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
The work looks much better in person with snappy bright colors that form a complex abstract composition of interconnected shapes.
Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, The Work is Signed lower left - Provenance: Forum Gallery, New York - Label on verso
Swann Gallery...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hispanic Artist - Spanish Culture - Spanish Souvenir mantilla, peineta, gilet
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in Miami, FL
F. Luis Mora was the first Hispanic member of the National Academy of Design. Spanish Souvenir- mantilla, peineta, by Francis Luis Mora is a painting of beautiful Spanish women in...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother and Child - Classic Portrait
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in Miami, FL
This warm portrait looks like it could have been painted by Corot. Francis Luis Mora paints in that tradition. It's a small painting that invites the viewer to look closer. The art...
Category
1920s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Old Time Football in the 1920s - Football 1920s - Classic Football
By Walt Louderback
Located in Miami, FL
You Got to be a Football Hero to Get Along with a Beautiful Girl. Masterfully composed and dynamic illustration that show a player getting punched in the jaw. During this period, there were no face...
Category
1920s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hispanic woman with Jewels Latin Female Art Deco
By Federico Beltran Masses
Located in Miami, FL
Long-necked, elegant, slender fingers and spellbinding eyes define a quintessential Latin beauty. The painting is has a simple, architectonic composition of vertical and horizontal e...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Petite Marchande de Banane - Orientalist, North African Girl Selling Bananas
By Charles Zacharie Landelle
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful Orientalist painting - The Framed size: 47 inches x 34.5 inches. Magnificent ornate Frame
The paint surface looks like the style of William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Signed lower right.
Provenance: Gallery Label with inventory number: Size on label is in centimeters, which indicates
the painting came from a United Kingdom art gallery.
Subsequently, Robert Funk Fine Art...
Category
1880s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Miss Carolyn Edmunson
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
The art world today does not value traditional academic skills in portrait painting. If it did, this portrait would replace the childlike student-level art that is now achieving two...
Category
1930s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman in Warm Grays and Soft Ochers
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
Leon Kroll was above all an academician. To him "abstract art was merely the beginning of a picture. Structurally, "Portrait of a Young Woman recalls some of the portraits from the ...
Category
1930s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spanish Souvenir- mantilla, peineta, gilet
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in Miami, FL
Spanish Souvenir- mantilla, peineta, by Francis Luis Mora is a painting of beautiful Spanish women in traditional dress with their entourage. It's is a museum-quality work. In fact, ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Father and children in front of TV - Mid-Century
By John Philip Falter
Located in Miami, FL
John Falter arranges figures and faces in a way that rival the old masters in their compositional perfection. And he makes it look easy. The expressions are captured so the emotions of the story come alive. This Golden Age of illustration artist depicts fathers and children watching...
Category
1950s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$140,000 Sale Price
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Embracing Couple on Sailboat , Art Deco Style Romantic
By John Philip Falter
Located in Miami, FL
Love at sea. A nautical romance is captured as a handsome couple embrace.
The big splash of water at the peak moment of drama symbolizes passion and defines Falter's creativity in communicating
a romantic narrative. This is a companion piece to a romance story.
Most likely done on assignment for a major newsstand magazine.
Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Magazine Illustration circa 1940 Oil on board Signed lower right h: 28.5 x w: 30 in / h: 72.4 x w: 76.2 cm Morris Weiss collection...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eisenhower, Time magazine cover Time magazine cover, July 4, 1955 ( alternate)
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches.
A noble portrait of Ike as President is depicted against a ringing Liberty Bell. In the...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Hispanic woman with jewels Latin female Art Deco
By Federico Beltran Masses
Located in Miami, FL
Long-necked , elegant slender fingers and spellbinding eyes define a quintessential Latin beauty. The painting is has a simple, architectonic composition of vertical and horizontal e...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Asian Love Story - The Good Earth - Golden Age of Illustration
By Charles Edward Chambers
Located in Miami, FL
Magazine Story Illustration most likely for Cosmopolitan or Woman's Home Companion.
Caption: "'I will not heed these old ones,' said the maid. 'Let us flee together somewhere and ...
Category
1920s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Oil
Love Story. Mid Century Desaturated Color
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
Most likely for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Collier's Weekly, Good Housekeeping or Macall's
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Animal Kingdom, Zebra, Buffalo, Lion, Giraffe, Elephant, Monkey, Tiger, Gorilla
By Richard Hess
Located in Miami, FL
Peaceable Kingdom features more than 60 aminal portraits by famous illustrator Richard C. Hess.
Impeccably rendered and designed. Signed lower center left. R. Hess.
His illustrati...
Category
1980s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$20,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Resue the Children, Family in Horror Magazine Illustration
By Arthur Sarnoff
Located in Miami, FL
This work is remarkable for its intense dramatic lighting effects and wide-angle composition. Very few artists conceived and executed with acutely dramatic light in the arc of art hi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
