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Period: 1950s
Navy Framed Mud Cloth or Kuba Cloth in Floating Acrylic Frame Gold Standoffs
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Navy blue Kuba cloth or Mud cloth framed in acrylic with gold standoffs. Beautiful dark navy blue mud-cloth sandwiched between two pieces of custom acrylic. Four holes on the four co...
Category
Nigerian Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Cotton, Acrylic, Lucite
Alvin M. Cohen Original Oil on Panel
Located in Baltimore, MD
From the Estate Of American Artist Alvin M. Cohen
Painted in Paris, titled, a full collection from this estate is also available for sale.
The physical components of an oil pa...
Category
French Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Mid-20th Century Wool Baknough ‘Woman's head covering’ Berber People, Libya
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Mid-20th century Wool Baknough (Woman's head covering) Berber People, Libya
This wool baknough is most likely from Libya, although similar pieces have b...
Category
Libyan Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Art Deco Image B. Renkowski
Located in Kraków, Małopolska
Art deco image from 1960 B. Renkowski
Highly recommended item will be perfect complementation of the rooms in not only Classic style, but also Art Deco and modern.
Category
Unknown Art Deco Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Oak Splint Sphere
Located in Chicago, IL
A wildly sculptural sphere made from oak splints used for making baskets. Acquired from a woman who made baskets, the splints have been woven into a sphere, possibly for storage purp...
Category
American Rustic Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Oak
Picture Hunting Mieczysław Krzyżak (1914-1984)
Located in Kraków, Małopolska
We present picture hunting of the famous polish painter Mieczyslaw Krzyzak (1914-1984).
Highly recommended item will be perfect complementation o...
Category
Unknown Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Taurus in Ceramic by Knud Kyhn, 1950
By Knud Kyhn
Located in Brussels, BE
Taurus in ceramic by Knud Kyhn, 1950.
Category
Danish Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Rare Glass Pedestrian Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fantastic glass pedestrian street crossing sign. Great coloring. Excellent condition. Illuminates beautifully in sunlight.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Vintage Carnival Midway Wood Ring Toss Game
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Great vintage carnival midway ring toss game. Perfect wall art. Wood with original park paint surface. These appear to be one of a kind carnie made pieces fo...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
1959 California Highway 'Signal Ahead' Sign with Reflectors
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rare 'Signal Ahead' yellow sign from a California Highway. Letters are made of reflectors. Stamped 'State of California' on the back with the date, 1959. Almost 4 feet wide. Extremel...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Steel
Life-Sized 1950s Metal School Girl Speed Limit Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning metal sign of a school girl letting you know the speed limit in the school zone. 48" tall. Double sided. Great coloring, with grey, light blues an...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Steel
Vintage Djebel Amour Saharan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare weaving attributed to the Djebel Amour tribe, located in Algeria close to the border with eastern Morocco along the Saharan Atlas. Although the tri...
Category
Algerian Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Folk Art Seesaw with Original Paint
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Children's seesaw (circa 1950, USA) in painted oak with lovely, natural patina. Although, impractical for intended use, given the wear and age, this remains a charming, decorative it...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Vintage Carnival Toss Game
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cool piece of Carnival ephemera. Two hand-painted, wooden blocks with cut-out. Three bean bags. Interesting object and game. Great vintage condition.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Vintage Rare Scandinavian Craft Geometric Trivets by Kaija Aarikka
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Large 11 1/4 x 6 in.
Medium 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.
Small 5 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.
An ingenious and unusual wooden and metal wire rod trivet from the Finnish designer Kaija Aarikka. The Aarikka design house is over 50 years old, started in 1954 by Kaija Aarikka who, as a textile design student, was unable to find suitably attractive buttons for a suit she had created for a final assignment. She decided to carve her own - and was surprised that her five buttons turned out to be the star of the day. That same year she and her husband founded their company, called Aarikka Oy, and opened their first sales outlet in Helsinki. In the ensuing years the company has focused on creating unique decorative and household designs showcasing local Finnish materials - which entails quite a bit of birch wood. The wooden circles are echoed by the circular wire loops at the end of each row of rings. The construction allows it to be slightly flexible but quite sturdy, while the open loops allow air to circulate under the pot. The wires can be rotated. The Aarikka Finland...
Category
Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Steel
Vintage Carnival Midway Wood Ring Toss Game
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Great vintage carnival midway ring toss game. Perfect wall art. Wood with original park paint surface. These appear to be one of a kind carny made pieces for...
Category
Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Vintage Moroccan Modernist Wool Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Many French carpet designers of the mid-20th century were commissioning their weavings in Morocco, which at the time was a French colony, in that they could obtain beautiful pile car...
Category
Moroccan Art Deco Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Anonymous Abstract X Geometric Painted Board
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bold geometric abstract board found in Texas. We have a collection of these boards from an anonymous artist. Painted on recycled cupboard doors, table tops, stool tops and bread boards. Very dynamic when hung in collections.
This door appears to have been painted on an old cupboard...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Blue Eyed Couple with Eye Glasses, Photo-Realistic 20th Century Oil Painting
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This representational double portrait of a couple is signed with initials "MN" in the lower left corner, by an unidentified artist.
It is a flat, washed out image, perhaps painted by...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Oak
Abstract Lion Painting
Located in New York, NY
Fabulous French abstract lion painting found at an antique fair in the South of France. Great color palette of blues, greens and oranges creating this s...
Category
French Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Moroccan Vintage Beni Ouarain Rug North Africa
Located in North Hollywood, CA
1950s authentic Moroccan vintage Berber rug from the Beni Ouarain tribes. Lush white and black organic wool rug with geometrical lozenges designs.
From the Middle Atlas Mountains, circa 1950s, North Africa.
Dark black abstract designs in lozenges on a natural cream field lush wool.
Very interesting modernist mid-20th century handwoven one of a kind carpet. Cod be used both sides.
We only sell one of a kind authentic vintage rugs...
Category
Moroccan Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Anonymous Abstract Geometric Painted Board
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bold geometric abstract board found in Texas. We have a collection of these boards from an anonymous artist. Painted on recycled cupboard doors, table tops, stool tops and bread boar...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Folk Art Metal & Wire Rooster Chair
Located in Hanover, MA
It is impossible not to smile when sitting on the back of this vintage metal craft rooster. Constructed of scrolled metal wire loops it is strong ...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Steel
Magnavox Television Factory TV Sign, circa 1950s
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Incredible giant TV sign that graced the circa 1950s . Magnavox TV factory in Utah. Just under 11 feet tall. Mounted on original heavy iron pole. Original whit...
Category
American Steampunk Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Iron, Sheet Metal
Pair Italian Sculptures Commedia dell'arte
Located in New York, NY
Rare, Fun and Whimsical is this pair of Commedia dell'arte metal sculptures from Italy circa 1950's. To the eye, these are quite unique and commanding in presence. One is a masked gu...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Midcentury Painting Hot Dog Stand by Stern
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mid Century painting of man at hot dog stand. Thought to be near central park NYC in the 50's. Oil on canvas board. Signed in lower right corner STERN '5...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Porcelain Handicapped Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage porcelain handicapped sign. Great colors. Newly framed and floating in a shadow box. Great vintage condition.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
Anonymous Abstract Geometric Painted Board
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bold geometric abstract board found in Texas. We have a collection of these boards from an anonymous artist. Painted on recycled cupboard doors, table tops, stool tops and bread boar...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Painting Entitled "Damask" by Boris Stoky
Located in Dallas, TX
Vintage oil painting with bright color and rich texture. Realist work depicting a Moroccan street market. Beautiful light and shadow. Painting image is 23.5" x 19.5".
Category
French Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Paint
Vintage Judaica Moroccan Berber Carpet with Stars of David
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Berber carpet from the Rehamna area, located in the plains near Marrakesh, distinguished by an orange background decorated uniquely by two vertical arrangements of conjoined diamond placed at the extreme sides of the field. What is quite unusual is the presence of three stars of David embellishing the center of the field, indicating that the carpet was possibly woven for a Moroccan Jewish...
Category
Moroccan Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
1950s American Studio Craft Iron Triangle Dinner Bell
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Hand-forged dinner triangle, delicate swan head, in the manner of Early Russel Wright designed Iron Works, very reminiscent of the deer andirons.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Signed Snap Wyatt Sideshow Banner
By Snap Wyatt
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Fantastic "Plenty For Two" sideshow banner painted by Snap Wyatt. Great manageable size.
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Folky Mid-Century "Automium" Model Lamp
Located in New York, NY
This interesting lamp was home made by a person who visited the 1958 Worlds fair in Brussels. After being so impressed by the signature structure "The Automium" (see tear sheet attac...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Brass
American Flag Quilt
Located in Darnestown, MD
Patriotic quilts were often made at the time a state was admitted to the Union. It seems highly probable that this 49 star quilt was made to commemorate the ad...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Moroccan Authentic Tribal Kilim Rug North Africa
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan Zemmour rugs are flat woven by the Berber women leaving near Khemisset, Zaiane and Azrou.This flat weaves, Kilim rugs are often used a wall coveri...
Category
Moroccan Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Vintage Colorful Striped Tunisian Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A colorful Tunisian Kilim decorated by a repeat pattern of horizontal stripes arranged in clusters of different width and palette. A very happy piece ce...
Category
Tunisian Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Central Anatolian Kilim Rug with Stripes
Located in Milan, IT
An unusual flat-weave from the Karapinar region in central Anatolia decorated by vertical stripes in the tones of ivory, grey, camel, yellow and black.
Category
Turkish Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
1950s Vintage Moroccan Black Zemmour Kilim Runner Rug
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Moroccan nomadic Tuareg rug, black camel hair with wo and cotton embroidered geometrical modernist designs.Those rugs are light for easy fding and travel for the Nomadic peop...
Category
Moroccan Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Vintage Swedish Mid-Century Physics Educational Diagram
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vintage Swedish Mid-Century Physics instructional educational diagram, chart or poster.
Highly collectible ephemera from 1950's Sweden.
Category
Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Iron Perpetual Motion Folk Art Texas Zoo
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This black and white painted iron perpetual motion object was said to have been used to market the zebra exhibition at the San Antonio Zoo. The zebras...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Vintage Fencing Mask
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage fencing mask with black trim.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Fabric
A. Merello 20th Century Oil on Board Italian Signed Painting Still Life, 1950
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Oil on board painting depicting Autumn Delights, still life with pots and mushrooms of good pictorial quality. Finely carved, chiseled and...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Swedish Painter Hanna Bundin 1950s
Located in Oxford, GB
This Swedish painting by a recognised artist Hanna Bundin still life / modernist.
About the Artist
Hanna Brundin (1914- 2000) was a Swedish artist .
B...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Bernard Buffet, the Rascasse 1950, Mixed Technique on Paper Mounted
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999),
The Rascasse 1950,
mixed technique on paper mounted on canvas (50 cm x 65 cm),
signed upper right "Bernard Buffet 1950", France.
from Galerei Drouant ...
Category
French Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Paint
Female Bust Wire Art Sculpture
Located in Springfield, OR
Most certainly a one of a kind piece. A bent wire sculpture depicting a woman's head. Judging from the agr I would put this in the 1950s. Just a really fun piece of folk art to liven...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Wire
Vintage French Ceramic Bottle
Located in High Point, NC
A glazed ceramic bottle, depicting a hunter standing on top of a pointer dog. Made in France between 1950 and 1960, a wealth of charming detail lends verisimilitude to the absurd sce...
Category
French Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage 1950s Persian Yalameh Rug, Leopard, Brown and Cream, 3' x 5'
Located in New York, NY
In vibrant shades of green, brown, red and cream wool, this vintage Persian Yalameh carpet is hand-knotted and belongs to the Orley Shabahang World Mar...
Category
Persian Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Ceramic Stoneware Plague by Ake Holm of a Brutalist Geometric Nude Couple
By Ake Holm
Located in London, GB
A ceramic stoneware plague by leading Swedish ceramicist Ake Holm of a Brutalist geometric nude couple entwined. Finished in a stoneware glaze and signed in the bottom left hand corn...
Category
Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Eugene Deutch Signed Mid-Century Modern Glazed Ceramic Folded Bowl Dish, 1951
Located in Studio City, CA
Wonderful work my well-known Hungarian born, Midwest potter Eugene Deutch.
This magnificently glazed folded bowl or dish features a colorful pattern in th...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Vallauris Midcentury Ceramic Pottery Tray Dish in the Manner of Picasso, 1954
By Vallauris
Located in Studio City, CA
An exquisitely made, wonderfully decorated, large, unique ceramic tray made in Vallauris, France during the peak of Vallauris studio ceramics. During this time (1954), many famous artist including Picasso, Marc Chagall, Roger Capron, Charles Voltz...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Saxbo Glazed Jar with Lid and Plated Spoon by Danish Designer Eva Stæhr Nielsen
Located in Studio City, CA
Fantastic lidded porcelain jar with a beautiful deep, dark cobalt hare's fur glaze by famed Danish designer/ceramist Eva Stæhr Nielsen. This piece features her iconic dripped bluish,...
Category
Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
"Reverie" Statue of Garden, Limestone, Folk Art, circa 1950
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
"Reverie" statue of garden, limestone, folk ar"Reverie" statue of garden, limestone, Folk Art, circa 1950.t circa 1950,
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Limestone
Rose Cabat Signed Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Pottery Vase Vessel, circa 1950s
By Rose Cabat
Located in Studio City, CA
A fantastic, quite unique and rare early work by famed American studio potter Rose Cabat who became well known for her ceramic "feelies" and use of innovative glazes. These formative...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Pair of Vintage Fencing Masks
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unique set of old fencing masks. Cool display piece. Good vintage condition.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Fabric
Selection of 1950s NYC Bus Signs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Vintage NYC Bus or Subway Signs, American, circa 1950's. They are metal signs and have been framed in clean lined black wooden gallery frames. They are priced at $550 each.
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Carnival Mirror
Located in Seattle, WA
Carnival panel with great crusty mirror.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paint
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