1950s Decorative Art

This blue-green ceramic wall cross, handcrafted in Europe by a Studio Pottery artist, blends modernist aesthetics and traditional iconography. The cross features a wide body with sho...

This ceramic wall cross is a distinguished piece of mid-century modern religious art, meticulously handcrafted by European studio pottery artists. The era, known for its clean lines ...

This ceramic wall cross, hand-painted in textured greens and ocher beige, features a depiction of Christ in painted white. The angular portrayal of Christ, rendered in straight terra...

This wall cross is a representative work of mid-century European studio pottery, showcasing the era's distinctive approach to religious motifs. Handmade by studio artists, the cross ...

This handmade ceramic wall cross, crafted in Europe during the midcentury period, exemplifies the Brutalist aesthetic. Adorned with concentric circles relief in glossy brown and ligh...

This ceramic cross exemplifies the innovative spirit of mid-century European studio pottery, marrying traditional religious symbolism with a distinctly...

Created by the Seventh-Day Adventists church in 1951 for their October 27th, 1951 Temperance Day "Weapons and Warfare" Campaign against alcohol consumption in the United States. The ...

Product: Large Polished Metal Decorative Mask Product Description: Material: Polished metal Style: Decorative mask Era: 1950s Dimensions: 63 x 40 x 15 cm (height x width x depth) F...

This vibrant mid-century modern ceramic cross is a striking example of the period's avant-garde approach to traditional symbols. Handmade by European studio pottery artists, this pie...

Set of three perfectly crafted intarsia pictures from the 1950s to 60s. Various wood veneers on chipboard, the surfaces are oiled. Very nice stylized depiction of birds. A typical m...

French Majolica fish platter signed Vallauris Circa 1950.

This is a Japanese Haori jacket for men made in 1950s (Showa era) and made with silk. It is reversible. Inside of this haori, the design is small fans. ...

Rare Oyster Plate signed Robert Picault. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris. After the war he spent a short ...

Swedish Modern Tilgmans Ceramic Wall Platter with Swans, 1958 Stunning handmade ceramic piece by Swedish Tilgmans Keramik. Fully glazed hanging wall decoration depicting two elegant...

Stunning Mid-Century modernist enamel on copper artwork by George F. Welch (1926 - 2003). Large square enameled plaque wall-mounted and framed. Abstract and Brutalist design with Heb...

Hand Tooled Decorative Folk Art Wall Charger, Iran 1950s

French Majolica fish platter Vallauris Circa 1950.

- made of hard paper - good, original condition. SABENA is an acronym for The Societe Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Arienne, or Belgian Corporation for Air Navigatio...

1950's wall plaques made of colorfully enameled cast metal in form of stylized wine bottles. Various configurations possible as some are singles while others are doubles and triples...

Set of five German Engraved and parcel Gilt Mirror Panels, Each engraved mirrored panel portrays a different character with hand painting and gilt detailing.

French Faience Quimper Leaf Dish Circa 1950.

Gigi Caldanzano MGA, Albisola Italy, 1950-1960 Set of 6 ceramic plates Polychrome scenes painted in large fire Excellent condition Signature of artist "Caldanzano" and MGA kiln on...

Mid-Century Octogonal Blue & White Plate signed La Roue Vallauris. 7.8 inches diameter.

Large Mid-Century Octogonal Blue & White Plate signed La Roue Vallauris. 9.8 inches diameter.

1956 Xaviar Amiana Dancers & Drummers painting. Oil on board. As found wood frame. Purchased directly from the artist in 1956 in Port Au Prince, Haiti b...

Rudolph Weisenborn (1879-1974) Colorful abstract painting in heavy impasto oil on canvas by renowned Chicago artist Rudolph Weisenborn. Signed on bottom right front Wesisenborn '57. In original wood frame. BORN: October 30, 1879[1] Chicago DIED: March 15, 1974 Chicago MARRIED: 1922 Alfreda “Fritzi” Gordon[2] of St. Joseph, MO TRAINING 1898 University of North Dakota 1905-1907 Students School of Art, Denver, Henry Reed[3] 1907-1910 Jean Mannheim School of Art, Denver ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT[4] c.1910 Commercial illustration, Denver c.1910 Portrait sketches, Denver Post 1913 Window designer for Marshall Field and Company 1922 Illustrated for The Wave c.1930s Diorama, Fight Against Soil Erosion, Tennessee Valley Authority[5] 1931 Lecture, The Abstract in Painting, Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago 1933 Mural Machine Movement[6], Pavilion No. 4, General Exhibits Building, A Century of Progress World’s Fair, Chicago[7] 1934-1939 Federal Art Project, easel and mural division[8] 1936 Mural, Contemporary Chicago, Louis Nettelhorst Elementary School, Chicago[9] 1937 Mural, Richard Crane Technical High School, Chicago: Electricians; Boilermakers Pipe Fitters, and Architects and Steelworkers[10] TEACHING 1922 Chicago Hull House[11] 1920-1937,[12] 1939[13] Chicago Academy of Fine Arts 1935-1964 Weisenborn School of Modern Art [privately], Chicago[14] RESIDENCES 1879-1888 Chicago 1888-1905 North Dakota 1893 Wisconsin 1894 Minnesota and Oklahoma 1905-1910 Colorado 1910-1913 Cripple Creek, CO c.1913[15]-c.1960 Chicago;[16] 1940s-1960s Santa Fe, New Mexico (summers)[17] c.1960-1974 Oak Park, Illinois TRAVEL c.1930s Cape Cod, Massachusetts 1950 Provincetown, Massachusetts[18] MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts (advisory board 1926) American Abstract Artists[19] Artists’ Equity Association, Midwest (president 1952) Artists’ League of the Midwest (charter member 1947)[20] Artists’ Union, Chicago Chapter (executive committee/founder)[21] Cor Ardens (vice president, 1921-1922; treasurer 1922-1923) Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists (founder, president 1922-1926)[22] Chicago Society of Artists (board 1926-1927) Independent Society of Artists, Chicago Introspectives, Chicago[23] Neo-Arlimusc (founder, president 1926-1928)[24] Palette & Chisel Club Society of Independent Artists HONORS 1928 Honorable Mention architectural subject, Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual[25] 1931 Third Honorable Mention, Ninety and Nine Artists[26] 1941 Prize, Laura Davidson Sears Academy of Fine Arts, Elgin, Contemporary American Art 1957 William H. Tuthill Prize, Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity JURIES SERVED Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity 1923 Chicago Society of Artists annual 1924 Covenant Club under auspices of American Jewish Artists Club, First Annual Exhibition by Jewish Artists of Chicago and Vicinity 1936[27] Jewish Education Building, Chicago under auspices of American Jewish Artists Club, Annual Exhibition by Jewish Artists of Chicago and Vicinity 1955, 1956[28] Sears Academy of Fine Arts annual, Elgin, Illinois 1941 South Side Swedish Club, Chicago Artists of Swedish Descent GROUP EXHIBITIONS All-Illinois Society of Fine Art annual 1926, 1927 American Abstract Artists, annuals 1938-on American Art Congress 1937 Art Institute of Chicago, A Half Century of American Art 1939 Art Institute of Chicago, Abstract and Surrealist American Art 1947 Art Institute of Chicago, Abstractions By Eight Artists 1942 Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual 1928, 1929, 1939, 1941-1943, 1945, 1947 Art Institute of Chicago, American Watercolors 1923, 1925,[29] 1931, 1934, 1942-1944, 1946, 1949 Art Institute of Chicago, Federal Art Project 1938[30] Art Institute of Chicago, Room of Chicago Art 1945 Art Institute of Chicago, Society For Contemporary American Art 1953 Art Institute of Chicago, Work by 17 Chicago Artists, [work from the W.P.A.] 1936[31] Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity 1918, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1933, 1934, 1943, 1948, 1949 Artists Equity Association, Chicago 1950, 1951 Artists League of the Midwest 1947, c.1950 Associated American Artists Galleries, Chicago 1950 Association of American Artists, Chicago, Artists-Teachers 1950 Cedar Rapids Art Association 1921[32] Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists 1922-1926,[33] 1928[34]-1931,[35] 1932, 1934, 1938, 1941, 1957[36] Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists directors at Moulin Rouge café, Chicago 1926 Cor Ardens, Arts Club of Chicago 1922 Elizabeth Nelson Galleries, Chicago, Chicago Artists 1950 European Art Tour, under auspices of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter of Chicago 1924[37] Evansville, IN 1922[38] Findlay Gallery, Chicago, Best Paintings by Chicago Modernists 1933[39] Findlay Galleries, Chicago, Frank Holland...

Wonderful asymmetrical shaped crystal vase A great piece of sculpture as well as functional. Good size, perfect condition. Makers mark on the base. Not clear but it is prob...

Roger Capron (1922-2006) Roger Capron studied at Art appliqués of Paris from 1938 to 1943 before teaching drawing in the same establishment from 1945. In 1946, he settled in Vallauri...

Anonymous oil painting on abstract canvas, circa 1950.

Midcentury round dish with handle by Robert Picault Vallauris. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris. After the...

SUPERB ! MID-CENTURY MODERN ABSTRACT HANDCRAFTED TILE MOSAIC DIMENSIONS: Approx. 26" by 14" Dated 1953 This magnificent mosaic wall art work is...

A beautiful hand painted and thickly glazed decorative wall tile by an unknown artist, influenced by the works of Pablo Picasso. The wall plaque is decorated with a dove in differen...

Mid-Century Majolica Palissy Lobster Platter Vallauris. Mussels.shells,seaweeds. Diameter / 9.8 nches.

Large Majolica wall platter Vallauris, circa 1950. A large crab in high relief on the center surrounded by seaweeds, one fish, shells and a slice of lemon.

Mid-Century round dish with handle by Robert Picault Vallauris. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris. After th...

1950's Stitched Leather Baromètre By Jacques Adnet Great condition Don't if it walk

Mid-Century Set of 6 flowers dessert plates by Robert Picault Vallauris. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris....

Green Majolica leaf plate Circa 1950.

Rare Oyster Plate signed Robert Picault. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris. After the war he spent a short ...

Italian mid-century modern red graphic Ceat advertising sign, 1950s Rectangular aluminum sign or billboard. It features an advertising graphic from "Ceat", a well-known tire brand, w...

American intra-war artist and illustrator Porter Woodruff (1894-1959). Arabian Horse scene, oil and gold leaf on board with chalky gouache. Signed Woodruff on lower right of painting. Signature somewhat obscured by frame. His Art Deco-influenced paintings are highly decorative and appealing, the compositions complex and well-thought out. The gold leaf background is decorative and elegant. His are rare Modernist paintings by an artist who found himself at the very heart of design, fashion and celebrity life in the early part of the century. Label at back for Pitt & Scott Ltd London - well known for its expertise in handling antiques, works of art and fragile artefacts. Dimensions: 11.5"h x 15.5"w (sight) 12.5"h x 17.5"w (frame) Porter Woodruff, was an illustrator artist and contributor to Vogue Magazine and Home & Garden (including covers for both). He was one of five artists stationed in Paris in 1923 for Vogue. Woodruff spent considerable time in Tunisia, North Africa, residing with his romantic partner, Romanian socialite George Sebastian. Sebastian owned a lavish, coastal property in then-trendy Hammamet, near Tunis on the Mediterranean. Sebastian fell in love with the simple beauty of the quiet fishing port of Hammamet and was the first of the international set of the times to build his villa there. He started a trend that has never ceased. Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have claimed Dar Sebastian to be ”the most beautiful house I have ever seen”. American and European intelligentsia and upper-crust were attracted to the area between the wars. The artists Cocteau, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paul Klee, Andre Gide, the Sitwells, and Cecil Beaton enjoyed visiting, partying, and undertaking what someone once described as indulging the opportunity to do 'some rather elaborate sinning'. Other visitors included Art Deco designer Jean-Michel Frank, Wallis Simpson, Somerset Maugham, and Greta Garbo, among others. The onset of war disrupted this scene and it never truly regained its former glory. Dar Sebastian was requisitioned by the 'Desert Fox', German General, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel...

Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950. High relief of 2 fishs, seaweeds, shells, crab, oyster. Nautical style. 10 inches diameter  

A beautiful, vintage alabaster handmade plate, framed with glass and gilt wood. Measuring 11.75" wide, 1.63" deep and 10" high. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 4 1/...

1950’s Very Large Original Sign Letter C – One Meter High 1950’s Very Large Original Sign Letter C – One Meter High. Made from galvanised sheet metal w...

Robert Bushong "Bobby" 1922-1995 Silkscreen on Linen. Beautiful Colors! In very nice condition! Owners had professionally cleaned about 15 years ago...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin...

Rare set of 8 Majolica oysters plates and platter signed Marcel Guillot, circa 1950. Very rare color. platter 16.5 inches , 8 plates 9.5 inches diameter.

Decorative hand-decorated vintage modern ceramic wall plate or centerpiece, designed by Italian artist Giovanni De Simone and produced by his workshop, note the worn manufacturer's ...

Large French Majolica cicada wall pocket signed Sicard from Provence. Measures: Height / 10 inches.

1950’s Very Large Original Sign Letter P – One Meter High. 1950’s Very Large Original Sign Letter P – One Meter High. Made from galvanised sheet metal with the original faded paint. ...

Large Majolica Oyster Platter Vallauris circa 1950. 14.5 inches diameter.

Handmade 3D copper and brass relief mural of a ship, 1950s. The image rises about 2cm, is proportionally perfect and is very decorative.

1950’s Very Large Original Sign Letter L – One Meter High. 1950’s Very Large Original Sign Letter L – One Meter High. Made from galvanised sheet metal with the original faded paint. ...

Majolica Palissy crab Wall platter at Vallauris, France, ca.1950. Measures: Diameter: 11.4" (29cm), Depth: 2.7"(7cm).

Viking Forsberg, 1958 Colorful woodcut The work is signed by the artist, titled and dated (pencil) Working dimensions 50/77 Work without a frame Viking Forsberg (1910 - 1994) was a ...

1950’s Very Large Original Sign Letter E – One Meter High 1950’s Very Large Original Sign Letter E – One Meter High. Made from galvanised sheet metal with the original faded paint. W...

Museum sand etched glass wall plate by Jean Picart Le Doux, France, 1950s . Polychrome decoration of fishes, starfishes, Neptune's trident and net deeply etched from stencil on a thi...

Mid-Century Modern Hand-Forged Artist Copper Nude, 1950s