Mid-Century Modern Paintings

This charming mid-century modern acrylic painting depicts boats on a marina under the moonlight. This beautiful painting is ready to be displayed in any room or entryway for years to...

Pair of Mid-Century Chinese style painted gray silk panels featuring a pond scene with koi fish, lily pads, and trees. (priced as pair).          

Vintage (20th Century) large, unframed canvas oil painting of a black, white and brown beagle standing upright with a slight tilt of the head in a field of grass, with river, forest ...

Vintage (20th Century) painting capturing four figures gathering on the riverbank while buildings with classical architecture loom just across the river, surrounded by a thin brown b...

The oil on canvas is signed, L. Jesberger, lower right, has an amazing noir feel to it. The moored tugboat and Silhouette figure in the foreground are juxtaposed with the highly illu...

Vintage (20th Century) acrylic landscape painting of a road lined with birch trees that are shedding their leaves, and figures walking in the distance, captured on rectangular, unfra...

Vintage (20th Century) portrait of four stately dogs in various positions on sandstone-colored steps leading to a walkway that winds through a lush green lawn...

Vintage (20th Century) oil painting of a six-person crew rowing out to sea in a boat on rectangular, unframed canvas.

Mid-century framed oil painting on canvas by Ed Florens dated 1954 is a splendid still life which comes from a centuries-old tradition of such a genre in Europe, and has been carried...

This is an original vintage oil painting on canvass, by the well known British artist John Mackay. It depicts the Scottish singer Brenda Cochrane, and date...

Vintage (20th century) portrait of a woman wearing a blue bathing suit, seated amidst white abstract patterns representing falling and splashing water, painted on rectangular unframe...

Vintage (20th Century) unframed painting of a gladiator seated in front of a blue tent with gold fringed drapes, making a grand gesture while four others look on adoringly, on unfram...

Vintage (20th Century) unframed canvas oil painting of a white and gold vase holding an abundant arrangement of white, pink, purple and red floral...

Vintage (20th Century) genre painting depicting two figures working outdoors in front of a lake with a sailboat, and red-roofed houses and green trees beyond the water, surrounded by...

Vintage (20th Century) unframed canvas oil painting of a gladiator seated in front of a blue tent with gold fringed drapes, making a grand gesture while four others look on adoringly...

Vintage (20th Century) painting of a castle on a rocky cliff over the sea with figures seen on the beach and the castle grounds, and a sailboat ju...

Vintage (20th Century) oil painting depicting varied fowl, including chickens, chicks, pigeons and doves, pecking straw from both the ground and a bucket, on rectangular unframed can...

Vintage (20th Century) portrait of four stately dogs in various positions on sandstone-colored steps leading to a walkway that winds through a lush green lawn...

Vintage (20th Century) acrylic landscape painting of a road lined with birch trees that are shedding their leaves, and figures walking in the distance, captured on rectangular, unfra...

Vintage neoclassical-style (20th century) oil painting capturing a woman in a billowing white dress standing in a garden brimming with pink roses, with sea and sky in distant view. P...

Vintage (20th century) painting of an 18th century town square captured from above, depicting figures moving throughout, greenery and lanes in the center, and buildings far into the ...

Vintage (20th century) unframed canvas oil painting of a gladiator seated in front of a blue tent with gold fringed drapes, making a grand gesture while four others look on adoringly...

Vintage (20th Century) acrylic landscape painting of a road lined with birch trees that are shedding their leaves, and figures walking in the distance, captured on rectangular, unfra...

Vintage (20th Century) oil painting of a house atop a natural stone archway, through which shepards with a horse, dog and flock, and the sea, a...

Vintage (20th century) acrylic painting of a fruit bowl in front of a window revealing a bustling street scene with people and birds, on unframed square canvas.        

Vintage (20th century) oil painting depicting varied fowl, including chickens, chicks, pigeons and doves, pecking straw from both the ground and a bucket, on rectangular unframed can...

Vintage (20th century) portrait of a woman wearing a blue bathing suit, seated amidst white abstract patterns representing falling and splashing water, painted on rectangular unframe...

Vintage (20th Century) unframed canvas oil painting of a white and gold vase holding an abundant arrangement of white, pink, purple and red floral...

Vintage (20th Century) portrait of a brown and white basset hound captured on a path amid grasses and autumnal plants and trees, on a large rectangular unframed canvas.

Vintage (20th Century) unframed painting of a gladiator seated in front of a blue tent with gold fringed drapes, making a grand gesture while four others look on adoringly, on unfram...

Vintage (20th Century) genre painting depicting two figures working outdoors in front of a lake with a sailboat, and red-roofed houses and green trees beyond the water, surrounded by...

Vintage (20th century) painting capturing four figures gathering on the riverbank while buildings with classical architecture loom just across the river, surrounded by a thin brown b...

Vintage (20th Century) unframed canvas oil painting of a walled-off waterside village, capturing the sunlit buildings in contrast to the darker waters, and dotted with figures rowing...

For your consideration is an sensational, framed oil painting on canvas, of a European cafe scene, signed D. Demers. In excellent condition. The dimensions of the frame are 24" W x 2...

Oil painting By Victor Tempest On canvas Framed Mid/late 20th century.

A beautiful oil on canvas painting by Harriet Rosendale, ca' 1950's, depicting a farmhouse in abstracted, impressionist style. Harriet Rosendale was a well-known and well-listed Ccon...

Oil painting By Victor Tempest On Canvas Framed Dimensions are of frame Mid/late 20th Century

A painter born in Bosnia, Berber was one of the best-known graphic artists in the world. He went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. From 1992 until his death in Oc...

Oil on canvas painting by artist Peter Colby. Large oversize canvas featuring two lions resting upon a patch of green grass. The background of this piece i...

Abstract Expressionist Seascape Diptych by Vera Klement, Oil and Encaustic, 1978 This work is comprised of two panels measuring: 50.75 h x 87.5 inches...

Rare Mid-Century Modern signed 1949 cubist gouache painting of skyscrapers, rooftops and skyline of the City of New York including The Chrysler building by painter Theodore "Theo" Ha...

Ricardo Santamaria (1947-2004), acrylic and collage on canvas titled "Blue Recomposition" dated 1968. Measure: Format 93/77 cm Member of the Zaragoza Group, Ricardo Santamaria is a...

Large scale abstract expressionist painting, American, circa 1980s. Artist unknown, in the manner of Franz Kline, et al. I...

Stunning piece of abstract artwork. Very decorative and interesting midcentury original abstract composition, oil on board. Abstract Expressionism was a movement or artists that be...

Large painting for the Partners of Americas International Convention in 1980 by Texas artist Jacqui Von Honts. Jacqui Von Honts had outstanding creative tale...

Mid-Century Modern vintage landscape painting with motif Schneeberg in Lower Austria in pastel tone color blue, grey, silver, green and white with watercolor on cardboard behind glas...

Artist Benjamin Jorj Harris Birth: 1904 Death: 1957 Lived/Active New York Often known for Illustration-watercolor Features: 1940s da...

1950s Art Pink Abstract painting Oil on Canvas by Miguel Alvarez Acosta former director of the INBA and cultural ambassador to Mexico. Mexican Modernism 28.5 h x 22.5 w x 1.13 d Ori...

Mid-century acrylic on canvas abstract painting featuring geometric shapes in black and red against a cream colored background in a rectangular black painted wooden frame.

Mid 20th Century Genuine Oil Painting of a woman – Cheesecake Style Signed by Artist – Gautier Size 15” x 17.5” x 0.75” The Painting depi...

Unsigned oil and watercolor drip technique on fine art paper. Framed in simple wood frame. Photographed with Knoll chair for scale.

Artist: Rolph Scarletti (Canadian, 1889 – 1984) Object: Modernist Abstract Composition Period: Ca. 1950’s Medium: Guache on paper, framed Dimensions (unframed): Height: 9-1/3” Width: 12” Dimensions (framed): Height: 22-3/4”” Width: 25-3/4” Rolph Scarlett (Canadian, 1889 – 1984) was a consummate explorer of twentieth-century abstract painting. Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him while steadfastly aware that he was on his own path and his alone, Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist of the eras in which he lived. Exposed very early on to the work of Paul Klee through a chance meeting in Europe with the artist himself, Scarlett took up abstraction with a fervor that never diminished during his long and impressive career. To create something that had never existed before: this was Scarlett’s great cause. And that is what is most obvious when you look at Scarlett’s work—you have never seen anything quite like it. Scarlett was Canadian-born, came of age in the Midwest, and spent few important years in Hollywood, where he designed stage sets. His work from this early period echoes Klee’s use of color, his confidence in naïve, primitive forms, and his blend of abstraction and figuration. In its flat spatial qualities it prefigures the Indian Space painting of the 1940s by a decade. He moved to New York in 1933 and eventually found his first great patron at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, directed by Baroness Hilla Rebay and art patron Solomon R. Guggenheim. Guggenheim would collect over 60 works by Scarlett for his collection, more than any other artist outside of Vasily Kandinsky and Rudolf Bauer. As a frequent exhibitor and lecturer at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (MNOP), Scarlett honed his sensitive feel for bodies in space and capitalized on his trademark use of bright, vivacious colors into accomplished, perfectly harmonized geometric works. However, Scarlett soon morphed these hard-edged forms into a nuanced expressionistic abstraction which, at its best, seems to be populated by dancing forms that animate the canvases. Along this way he was advised by Rudolf Bauer, the German expatriate and one of the originators of non-objective painting in the teens. Bauer had the idea for the Museum, and Rebay, his champion, had found in Solomon Guggenheim a patron for manifesting it. When Bauer emigrated just before World War II, he wanted to meet Scarlett. The two became friends, and Bauer advised Scarlett on his work over the course of many years. Even in a 1979 interview, Scarlett began to tear up as he recalled his first meeting with Bauer, a man whose work he "worshipped," describing that, "It was a touching moment for me, I’ll tell you." Scarlett and Rebay also had a close, important relationship, one in which he bore the brunt of her sometimes condescending, if motherly, critiques and admonitions with tolerance and gratefulness. Eventually, though, he had to push back. In a letter from 1951 he writes, "I have noticed with growing amazement that during the past three years you have accepted less and less of my work—and, that same work, which you rejected has been accepted and shown in the best and largest shows all over this country." This period—the late 1940s to the early 1950s—did in fact correspond to Scarlett’s most critical success, and to a return to the fanciful forms and characters of his pre-war work. At the same time, he found his own rhythm and complexity using a drip style similar to, though denser and more opaque than, the one made famous by Jackson Pollock, who had worked for many years at the MNOP and with whom he shared common influences. In 1949 he had a very well received solo show in 1949 at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery, reviewed very favorably in The New York Times: "The impression made by these paintings is one of originality and strength." He was also included in a juried show "American Painting Today" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1950 and in the Whitney Annual of 1951. The curator for the Whitney show in fact bypassed a selection of Scarlett’s careful geometrics in favor of a new "lyrical" drip painting—one which he describes as having had "a helluva good time" making. Rebay articulated her loss of control over Scarlett very keenly in one of her last official letters to him: "So your way ended in the horrid jungle it is in now; even a Mr. Pollock’s smearage was not bad enough for you to have a try at; and betraying yourself, you betrayed art and my faith in you, and my present disgrace by my failure to foresee such an outrageous possibility—since you even paint objectively now." Yet, despite the fact that he was moving in his own direction when the change in leadership took place at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting and Rebay was forced out as director, Scarlett was hit hard. He understood this change rightly as a betrayal by the establishment. Scarlett was a unique individual and soul, and was affected personally and philosophically by the idea that the movement with which Scarlett had aligned his talents seemed to disappear overnight, and his life’s work rendered valueless. Without the Museum’s support, Scarlett decided eventually to move to the artists’ community of Shady, New York, just outside of Woodstock. He had occasional shows throughout the years, but mostly settled down to regional obscurity. He began making jewelry, which had been his first trade, and it was following a show of his jewelry in 1975 at the Jaro Gallery, that he was rediscovered by Samuel Esses, and his wife Sandy. Samuel Esses was a successful businessman and an avid collector. He always sought out that which was unusual and, like Scarlett, was ahead of his time in many ways. For example, in 1979, Sam became enthralled with the early graffiti appearing on the New York subway trains. With the sole goal of preserving these groundbreaking yet short lived works of art he was inspired to create "The Esses Studio," a painting warehouse and workshop for graffiti artists to work in a studio, collaborate, and paint on canvas. The biggest names of graffiti writing participated—Futura, Crash, Dondi, Zephyr, and Daze to name a few. The project was well received and provided critical validation at an important time for this alternative form of abstraction to be recognized by the established art world. The success of the "Esses Studio" helped fuel an alternative fire that would propel gallerists and curators to acknowledge other street artists and provide a foundation of acceptance for the early careers of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. It is not a stretch to say that what Esses saw in the graffiti art of the 1970s was very similar to what he saw in 1950s-era Scarletts—something raw, honest, and melding many twentieth century influences into one unique form. Inspired by the importance of the collection and the passion of the collector, Weinstein Gallery...

Mid-century original oil on canvas abstract painting by Patricia Sloane, circa 1960s. Sloane was an American painter, author, and professor of Fine Arts at NYC Technical College of t...

Postwar Hawaiian airbrush tropical hibiscus floral on paper in original period white wood frame. Signed by artist Hammis Measures: Art 26" x 36" ...

Anna Salvatore (1923-1978) Italy. Midcentury beauty featuring two young girls stylistically and colors of the time.

Framed in a rustic wood frame with linen mat. Signed under Alias Paul Whitney Hunter. Canvas measures: 24 inches by 30 inches.

Beautifully detailed large painting by Jac. Haan, interior architect and former manager of the furniture department of the famous Dutch department store Metz en Co...

Enrico Giussani (Italian, Gorgonzola 1938 ) "Colori di Luino" 1972 This painting is from an important Swiss Collection of Raimondo Rezzonico former President of the Locarno Film ...