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Period: 1950s
Mid Century Sea Rocks Carmel Landscape
By Homer Levinson
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning mid century landscape of Carmel, California titled "Sea Rocks" by Homer Francis Levinson (American, 1894-1975), circa 1940's. Impasto brushwork adds extra depth and interest...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Apple Blossom Tree Park - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Oil by Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999) Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

Mid Century Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes (Still Life w. Mangoes) by Dosamantes
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes (Still Life w. Mangoes) by Francisco Dosamantes Substantial and brilliant modernist still-life painting mangoes by Francisco Dosamantes (Mexico, 1911-1986) Exhibition label on verso (circa 1957), "Salon De Plasticas Mexicana - Instituto Nacional De Bellas Artes - Francisco Dosamantes, Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes." Image 24"H x 31.5"W. "Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. Since its founding in 1949, the Hall of Plastic Mexican SPM, has accommodated the most representative work of the national art. Throughout its existence they have been part of hundreds of painters, sculptors, engravers, designers, ceramists and photographers of all tendencies and generations. Jut names: Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Gerardo Murillo "Dr. Atl" Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Dosamantes, Jorge González Camarena, Leopoldo Mendez...
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American Modern 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Untitled" Calvert Coggeshall, Abstract Expressionism, Black, Grey, and White
Located in New York, NY
Calvert Coggeshall Untitled, 1958 Oil on Canvas 38 H. x 36 W. inches Provenance: The artist's estate Calvert Coggeshall worked as an abstract painter and interior designer primarily in Maine and New York City. From 1951 to 1978, he exhibited regularly with the Betty Parsons Gallery, and later with its successor, the Jack Tilton Gallery. Born in Whitesboro, New York, Coggeshall started his career as an interior designer, working on commissions for clients in the New York City area. He later consulted on the interior designs for Henry Dreyfuss' line of cruise/cargo ships called American Export, popular from the 1940s through the 1960s. In the 1940s, he also worked with inventor Arthur Young to design interiors for the first full-sized scale of Bell helicopter models...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pillar of Zen #124, unique signed gouache painting Andre Zarre Gallery, 1959
Located in New York, NY
Charmion von Wiegand Pillar of Zen #124, 1959 Gouache on paper painting Hand signed, titled and dated on the front Unique Provenance: Andre Zarre Gallery, with label verso (Estate of renowned gallerist Andre Zarre, ne Andre Sowulewski) Measurements: Framed 26.5 inches vertical by 25.5 horizontal by 2 inches Artwork: 21 inches vertical by 22 inches horizontal Mid century modern, geometric, spiritual abstraction, mystical The Estate of the celebrated artist Charmion Von Wiegand has been represented exclusively by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery since 1998. From March 3 to August 13, 2023, Charmion Von Wiegand was the subject of an acclaimed retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and she has received major attention in the price, including a June, 2023 ArtNews feature entitled, "Who Was Charmion von Wiegand and Why Is She Important?". Her work was also featured in a solo presentation by Rosenfeld Gallery at the New York Art Show held at the Park Avenue Armory, which also received critical acclaim. Artists Biography - courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Known for her vibrant, geometric paintings that originate a deeply personal language of spiritual enlightenment expressed through a constructivist mode of abstraction, Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983) was born in Chicago but spent much of her childhood traveling. The daughter of a journalist for Hearst, von Wiegand eventually settled in New York in 1915 to attend Barnard College and Columbia University, where she took classes at the School of Journalism while nurturing a growing interest in art history. In 1925, von Wiegand realized that she wanted to be an artist and set up a studio in Greenwich Village, teaching herself how to paint while pursuing a career as a journalist. In 1929, she secured a position in Moscow as a foreign correspondent for Hearst, the only woman at the desk at the time. In 1932, von Wiegand returned to New York and married Russian émigré Joseph Freeman, who co-founded and edited the leftist journal New Masses. Von Wiegand began writing art criticism for New Masses as well as for other publications, including New Theatre, ARTnews, and Arts Magazine. When the Abstract American Artists (AAA) held their inaugural exhibition, von Wiegand reviewed it. An early champion of abstract art, von Wiegand became close friends with AAA founder Carl Holty. In 1941, Holty introduced von Wiegand to Piet Mondrian, who would have a profound impact on her art. Fascinated by Mondrian’s artistic philosophy, von Wiegand played a key role in the introduction of his work to American audiences, translating many of the Dutch artist’s writings into English and assisting in the composition of his influential article “Toward the True Vision of Reality” (1941). Through her friendship with Mondrian, von Wiegand re-kindled her interest in Theosophy (a religion established in the late 19th century that combines aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, occultism, and esotericism) and embarked on an extended study of neoplasticism. In her artwork, she incorporated Mondrian’s iconic grid but rejected the constraints of pure neoplasticism and embraced a wide range of influences including surrealism and German expressionism. In 1942, von Wiegand became a member of the AAA, exhibiting regularly with the group and eventually serving as its president from 1951 to 1953. In the late 1940s, sculptor and fellow AAA member Ibram Lassaw gave her a translation of The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life, which inspired von Wiegand to immerse herself in a study of Buddhist art. She began incorporating Buddhist motifs such as stupas and mandalas into her paintings, and her spiritual practice steadily intensified throughout the 1950s. In 1953, her husband gifted her a copy of the Taoist I Ching Book of Changes, a guide for divining meaning from randomly derived numbers arranged in a hexagram—a form the artist readily incorporated into her painting. Von Wiegand’s study of Theosophy also intensified over these years, bolstered by her increased access to the religion’s primary sources composed by the religion’s founders and their successors at the New York Theosophical Society’s library. Von Wiegand’s search for the sacred and transcendent ultimately led her to Tibetan Buddhism and, in 1967, von Wiegand met Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, a Gelugpa monk who had recently arrived in New York, who would mentor her spiritual study in the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism until her death. Her travels in the 1960s and 1970s took her to Tibet and India, where she had an audience with the Dalai Lama, who was living in exile in Dharamsala. Many works from these decades incorporate symbols and schematics drawn from Theosophical prismatic color charts, Chinese astrology and tantric yoga. In 1978, she was the subject of a PBS documentary titled The Circle of Charmion von Wiegand, which was scored by Philip Glass. In 1980, von Wiegand was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1982, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach (FL) organized her first retrospective exhibition. She died the following year in New York, bequeathing her estate to Khyongla Rato and the Tibet Center of New York. In 1998, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery became the sole representative of her estate and has presented her work in four solo and multiple group exhibitions. Recent notable exhibitions that have included her work are The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 2009) and Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America (Newark Museum, NJ, 2010). In March 2023, the Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland) opened the first comprehensive museum retrospective of von Wiegand’s work in Europe. Von Wiegand’s work is represented in numerous museum collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy (Andover, MA); Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY); Arithmeum, University of Bonn (Germany); Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama); Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; Brooklyn Museum (NY); Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA); The Cleveland Museum of Art (OH); Indianapolis Museum of Art (IN); Fondazione Marguerite Arp (Locarno, Switzerland); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); Newark Museum of Art (New Jersey); Seattle Art Museum (WA); Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN); Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY); Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); and Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT). More about gallerist Andre Zarre A tribute in the New Criterion: Dispatch August 11, 2020 Andre Zarre, 1942–2020 by Dana Gordon On the late New York gallery pioneer. Art should never be aggressively explained; art should be felt. —Andre Zarre, 1977 Often, in the starlit New York cultural mecca, a longtime important figure fades away through the penumbra and dies without notice. Such was the fate of Andre Zarre, the contemporary art dealer, who passed away a few weeks ago. Andy, as he wanted friends to call him, opened his eponymous gallery in 1974 just off Madison Avenue on Sixty-ninth Street. He soon moved it to the omphalos of the art world in that era, 41 East Fifty-seventh Street, the Fuller Building. Over the years he moved to SoHo and then to Chelsea, as fashion and real estate prices pushed the art souk hither and thither. To understand his importance, all you need do is take a look at a list of artists who had solo shows at the Andre Zarre Gallery. This includes such names, from an early generation, as Sonia Delaunay, Nassos Daphnis, Sari Dienes, and Perle Fine. Among a subsequent generation are Pat Lipsky, Jay Milder, Thornton Willis, and Kes Zapkus.1 And this list does not include the many knowns and unknowns who were in his lively group shows. Zarre had a real “eye” and was a champion of abstract art from the moment he founded his gallery—even among the gathering storms of conceptual and political art, which he eschewed. He showed a good deal of figurative art as well. His galleries were always spacious and unpretentious, oriented simply to show the art. In the words of Dee Shapiro, who showed with the Zarre gallery many times, “He had a photographic memory and knew a lot about art and was always interested in the artist’s life.” Reliable biographical information on Zarre is scarce, but he said of his background that he was born in Poland in 1942 and that his parents were a diplomat and a socialite. He left home for the United States at the age of fifteen. During his decades as an art dealer in New York, Zarre did not appear to accumulate wealth, though he acquired a collection and lived on Park Avenue. “He was not personally aggressive in that way. People had to come to him,” Dee Shapiro said. He was honest in his financial dealings with artists, which not all art dealers are. For a long time while running the gallery he had a second job as a supervisor in an airline office and he kept little to no additional staff in the gallery. He supported a brother who remained in Poland. Among artists, Zarre was known to be quite ornery. After my show at his gallery in 1997, I refused to enter it for seventeen years. Then I ran into him in Chelsea and he offered me another show, an opportunity I gladly accepted, but he remained just as disagreeable. He showed the work of many women, probably more than any other gallery, save those devoted to showing only women. Collectors, curators, and writers found him mostly friendly. As Peter Reginato put it, Zarre was a “strange guy but I liked him. I think he was a dealer who was more interested in the art than in making money, but somehow he lasted forty-plus years.” Zarre is not known to have kept extensive or extant records of his gallery’s long history, though these may emerge in time. Scouring the Internet, one may compile a partial list of more than eighty artists who had solo shows at the Andre Zarre Gallery:Nancy Azara, Ellen Banks, Mary Barnes, Tony Bechara, Juan Bernal, Stephanie Bernheim, Randy Bloom, Elena Borstein, Michael Boyd, Fritz Bultman, Ed Buonagurio, Yoan Capote, Sonia Delaunay, Nassos Daphnis, Cathy Diamond, Sari Dienes, Joseph Dolinsky, Beata Drozd, Ronnie Elliot, William Fares, Perle Fine, Lynne Frehm, Ben Georgia, Mikel Glass, Dana Gordon, Juanita Guccione, Fred Gutzeit, Don Hazlitt, Amy Hill, Clinton Hill, Monroe Hodder, Budd Hopkins, Arlan Huang, Richard Hunt, Rhia Hurt, Buffie Johnson, Alexander Kaletski, Robert Kaupelis...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Blue and Orange Abstract Expressionist
By Sandro von Lorsch
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Expressionist Abstract Composition With Orange and Blue Colors Canvas size 24"x32" gold leaf frame 27"x35", signed lower right corner. Sandro von Lorsch German painter born 1921-19...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Saint Medard
Located in Riga, LV
Spanish artist Juan Bayon Salado (1913-1995).
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1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Colorful 1950s Standing Male Bather in South of France by Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A vibrant 1950s Modern watercolor of a standing male bather in red orange tones by notable French artist Andre Delfau. Painted in the south of France along the Cote d' azure (...
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American Modern 1950s Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Large Signed Exhibited Abstract Expressionist Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 41.5L x 31.5H.
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modern American Still Life Oil Painting Flowers Pitcher Mid Century Female
Located in Buffalo, NY
A mid-century modern oil painting by listed female artist Helen L. Roberts. This painting depicts an interior scene with a vase of beautiful flowers and decorative pitcher. Housed ...
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American Modern 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“River Rapids, Venezuela”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original river rapids landscape by the Venezuelan artist, Tomas L. Golding. Oil on canvas laid down on board. Signed lower left by the artist Circa 1955. Condi...
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Post-Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Standing Nude
Located in Soquel, CA
Bay Area Expressionist Standing Nude Standing nude woman by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Bold depiction of a nude woman with dark hair. The model is rendered in dark greys, w...
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American Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paper

1955 View of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A small, vibrant 1950s Mid-Century Modern mountain landscape painting depicting Aspen, Colorado by famed Chicago artist Harold Haydon. Titled "View NW fr...
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Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

1950’s French Expressionist Signed Oil Still Life Lemons Oranges on Table
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French expressionist artist, 1955 signed oil painting on canvas, framed dated 55' framed: 22 x 29 inches canvas: 15 x 22 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: ove...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil

Autumn Trees - Mid Century Landscape
By Sarah S. Hartung
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful autumn landscape with river reflecting the blue sky by Sarah S. Hartung (American, 20th Century). Signed "Sarah S. Hartung" lower right. Giltwood frame. Image, 21.25"H x ...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

On the Path
Located in London, GB
'On the Path', pastel and ink on art paper, by Suzanne Tourte (circa 1950s). Executed with a lively palette of colour, this is a surprisingly sophisticated modern work of art which belies its rather naive style. Flowered fields, green grassy patches, a curved path and blue skies all figure in this engaging landscape with two figures. Newly framed and glazed in anti-reflective glass, this work is in good overall condition. Signed: 'S X Tourte' in the lower right hand. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying the listing. Upon request, a video may be provided. About the Artist: Suzanne Tourte (1904-1979) was a French painter, engraver, medalist, fresco artist, lithographer and illustrator. She was also an excellent vocalist. She studied at the school of Beaux-Arts in Reims while continuing her musical studies at the Conservatoire de la Ville. She chose painting as a profession and returned to Paris to continue her studies. She was friends with artists Yves Brayer and Robert Humblot...
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Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Ink

"Untitled" Taro Yamamoto, New York School, Gestural, Thick Impasto Composition
Located in New York, NY
Taro Yamamoto Untitled, 1954 Signed lower right; signed and dated on the reverse Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Taro Yamamoto was involved in the Abstract Expressionist movement in N...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Clearing the Snow, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, February 6, 1960 Caption: "The Cover: Artist John Clymer takes you to the summit of Washington state's Snoqualimie Pass, where they seem to have had a few snow flurries lately. Up there the moist westerly winds bump against sky-reaching peaks of the Cascade Range, with the result that the winds spill their contents before whistling dryly on down across the eastern slopes. Thus residents of places like Seattle living in a relatively balmy clime beside the Pacific's mild Japan current, can drive in an hour or two up to where skiing material is sometimes twenty feet thick if it's an inch. Indeed, when seasons overlap, a downlander might conceivably pick a rose and go skiing with it in his buttonhole. All of which, thanks to highway crews who blow off the blizzards, is a very felicitous geographic arrangement." John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art...
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Other Art Style 1950s Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Dynamic Colorful, Abstract Expressionist Painting, Dated 1957 by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic & colorful, Abstract Expressionist Painting in Reds, Blues & Yellows by Artist Harold Haydon, Dated 1957. Framed in a dark, wood cube frame. Image size: 12" x 16". Fra...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Horseman in Summer, Marie Lucie Nessi, Woman Post Impressionist, Oil paint, 1950
Located in New York, NY
Marie-Lucie Nessi Valtat Horseman in Summer, ca. 1950 Oil on canvas mounted on board 10 2/3 x 13 3/4 in l 27 x 35 cm Frame size: 12 2/3 x 15 3/4 in. l 32 x 40 cm Marie-Lucie Nessi V...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950 s Mid Century modern oil portrait of a nude woman laying on a bed
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted 1950's mid-century modern English portrait of a nude woman laying on a bed. The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during the 1950s-1960s Oils on artists ...
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Abstract Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Panel

English School Mid 20th Century Oil Painting: Pekingese Dog
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Oil Painting: A Pekingese "Lovely Maid of Kyratown" by Dorothy Alexandra Johnson (1902-1988) signed lower right oil painting on canvas, unstretched 5.0 x 7.0 inches A delightful ...
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Roger Halbique, Oil on Canvas, Still Life with Roses, 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Roger Charles Halbique (1900-1977), France, 1950s. Still Life With Roses. With frame: 85x98 cm - without frame: 60x73cm. 20F format. Signed lower left "R. Halbique"....
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist framed oil painting. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 13L x 12H.
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life of Tulips , Post-Impressionist, Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen
By Poul Nielsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Still Life of Tulips' by Poul Nielsen, 1954. Post-Impressionist, Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen ---- Signed lower left with monogram 'P/N' for Poul Nielsen (Danish, 1920-1998) an...
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Modern 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Portal View-Sailboats in Harbour", 20th C. Oil on Masonite by Ism. de la Serna
Located in Madrid, ES
ISMAEL GONZÁLEZ DE LA SERNA Spanish, 1898 - 1968 "PORTAL VIEW - SAILBOATS IN HARBOUR" unsigned oil on masonite 25-1/4 x 22-1/2 inches (64 x...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Mid Century Bay Area Figurative Original Oil Painting -- Motherhood
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Bay Area Figurative of Mother and Baby in Oil Paint on Laid Paper Original oil painting depicting a modern twist of a mother and baby by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985), ...
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Post-War 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Illustration Board, Laid Paper, Stretcher Bars

Abstract Boat Composition - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Antique American School Signed Framed Modernist "Massage" Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American signed interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Signed. Framed. Image size, 14L x 11H.
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Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

California School - Desert Ranch Road Landscape Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
California School - Ranch Road Landscape Oil on Canvas Imapsto oil painting of the California landscape by an unknown California artist working in the style of Sam Hyde Harris, anna Althea Hills...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Masonite, Oil

Harriet Nash, Gouache on board, Abstract Painting, Circa 1950, Green and Black
Located in Buffalo, NY
A mid-century gouache on board painting by American female artist Harriet Holden Nash depicting an abstract Matisse like floral composition in shades of green and black. The board i...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Vintage Tropical Pineapple and Oranges Still Life Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3294 Pineapple Still Life, vintage acrylic on board displayed in a wood frame,signed by Savino. Image size 9.5 H x 7.5 W
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1950s Paintings

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Acrylic

Portrait of an Exceptional Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
It’s the eyes you notice first, almost photographically rendered in this portrait, and very reminiscent of a certain film star whose first name was Paul. There’s a rock-solid steadin...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Idealistic Fall Texas Landscape
By Dollie Nabinger
Located in Houston, TX
Pastel colored landscape of Texas in the fall. Signed by the artist in the bottom left hand corner. Framed in an elegant gold frame. Artist Biography: Landscape artist Dollie Spidle Nabinger was born in Commerce, Texas, raised in Victoria, Texas. Even as a young girl Dollie wanted to be an artist. Her parents supported her from the very start, enrolling her in a Catholic school. Her father personally stretched her first canvases. Dollie credited that loving support for her eventual success as an artist. When Dollie was 13, her talent was already evident. J.F. McCan, a well-known Victoria artist, accepted her as his apprentice. She studied with him for seven years. Next she was off to the Art Students' League in New York for two years' instruction; later, in San Antonio, she studied with Jose Arpa and Harry Anthony DeYoung. In 1955 she spent a summer at the Academie Julian in Paris, France. Dollie was married to Jack E. Nabinger, who handmade and carved many of her frames. They retired in Fredericksburg Texas...
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Realist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bouquet of flowers
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 64 x 55 x 5.5 cm
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1950s Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Autumnal Oil Painting with Heavy Impasto
Located in Soquel, CA
On An Autumn Day - Original Impasto Oil Painting Original oil landscape painting depicting a small wood sided cabin surrounded by trees of green and orange. A focal point of a brig...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Illustration Board, Laid Paper

Elegant Couple Shopping in Urban Street Scene - Magenta and Orange Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
Bob Peak may be the heir to Norman Rockwell in portraying the American Scene. Yet Peak's graphic representations depart from Rockwell's tight academic style. In the present work from...
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1950s Paintings

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Gouache, Illustration Board

Antique American Framed Modernist Abstract Coastal Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, read...
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Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage Mid Century Cubist Nocturnal Moody Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

White Landscape, Abstract Expressionist Collage by Keith Morrow Martin 1959
Located in Long Island City, NY
An abstract collage on wood by Kenneth Morrow Martin, American (1911-1983). Exhibited: 1st Knoxville Art Center National Exhibtion, 1961 White Landscape by Keith Morrow Martin...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Masonite, Varnish, Magazine Paper

Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed and dated verso. 62.25 x 56.25 in. 64 x 58 in. (framed) Custom framed in a natural cherry wood floater. Provenance Washburn Gallery, New York Behnke Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot, CT Born in 1908 in Chicago, John Opper moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1916. In high school, he began studying art and attending classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art. After graduation, he enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art), only to withdraw after a year and move to Chicago, where he took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. He eventually returned to Cleveland, enrolling at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve), receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1931. The Depression has taken hold during this period, so Opper found work by teaching metalworking and sketching classes at the Karamu Settlement House, the oldest African American theater in the United States. In 1933, Opper traveled to Gloucester, Massachusetts, eventually connecting with the artist Hans Hofmann, who was teaching at the school run by Ernest Thurn. Hofmann encouraged Opper to work “in a more modern vein and start finding what it’s all about.” Heeding this advice, Opper relocated to New York, co-founding a mail-order club of American and British prints for dissemination to schools and museums. By the mid-1930s, he joined the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Easel Division, and also began attending the 57th Street school that Hans Hofmann had established after leaving the Art Students League. Looking back at his time at the school, Opper felt that beyond Hofmann’s teaching, most advantageous was his contact with fellow artists, including Byron Browne, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, and George McNeil. At the time, he also met Giorgio Cavallon and the sculptor Wilfrid Zogbaum. In 1936, Opper became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, along with Balcomb and Gertrude Greene. The organization was formed to provide an opportunity for artists to show abstract works at a time when such opportunities were scarce. This led to his first solo show in 1937 at the Artists’ Gallery in New York. During his summer in Gloucester in 1933, Opper came to know Milton Avery. Painting in Avery’s informal studio in New York City the following winter, he became acquainted with Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko. Opper participated in a couple of shows during the 1930s of the American Artists Congress Against War and Fascism, whose president was Stuart Davis. About the same period, Opper joined the Artists’ Union and served as the business manager of its publication, Art Front. During World War II, Opper worked for a ship design company creating drawings for piping systems used in PT boats...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Charming Naivist Painting Depicting a Horse
Located in Stockholm, SE
This charming naivist painting by Swedish artist Olof (Olle) Casimir Ågren (1874–1962) depicts a horse standing gracefully beside a tree. Executed with bold, textured brushstrokes an...
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Naturalistic 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Bay Area Figurative Movement Portrait of a Woman in Oil on Artist s Board 1950s
Located in Soquel, CA
Bay Area Figurative Movement Portrait of a Woman in Oil on Artist's Board 1950s Portrait of a woman man by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). The woman is looking directly at the viewer, with a neutral expression. She has dark hair and a slender nose, and is wearing a blue dress. A distinctive bay area figurative movement portrait by well known San Francisco artist Honora Berg. Signed "H. Berg" in on verso. Stamp from Miller Fine Art on verso Acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Initialed and numbered "HB 122 " on verso Unframed. Board size: 24.75"H x 19"W Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961. Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Illustration Board

Abstract in Coral and Jade , Large Mid-century American Biomorphic Abstraction
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-century American Abstract oil comprising biomorphic and dimensional forms in shades of coral, jade and straw, shown gathered around a central, rectangular element ...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Charming 1950s Modernist Portrait, Young Girl in Red Scarf by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming 1950s Modernist Portrait, "Girl in Red Scarf", by Noted Chicago Artist Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A colorful, intimate and gem-like work, the painting is accompanied...
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1950s Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Blue Eyed Girl , PAFA, Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania Artist, Trompe L Oeil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center right, in the 53 stub, 'Childers' for Robert Childers (American, 1924-1984) and dated 1954. Robert Childers first served in the U.S. Navy for six years after graduatin...
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1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman with Book , Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, California, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "Di Gesu" for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988), with estate stamp, verso, and painted circa 1955. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attend...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Foam Board

Daffodils in Lake Landscape - British 50 s Post Impressionist art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British Post Impressionist landscape oil painting is by artist Peter Field. Painted circa 1955 on canvas, the composition is of daffodils in front of a lake with trees re...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil

" PATCH WORK " LATE 1950s ABSTRACT STUDENT OF HANS HOFFMAN MID CENTURY MODERN
By Jennie Haddad
Located in San Antonio, TX
Jennie Haddad (1906-1996) Dallas Artist Image Size: 40.5 x 26 Frame Size: 49 x 34.5 Medium: Mixed Media on paper. "Patch Work" Biography Signed and Estate Stamp Jennie Haddad (1906-1...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Oil on Canvas Painting Southern California Los Angeles Country Scene Windmill
Located in Portland, OR
A very good & large oil on canvas painting by California artist Ben Abril (1923-1995), Southern California, Los Angeles circa 1950. The artist a California native documented the city...
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1950s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Mid Century Yosemite Mountain Peak Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century landscape of upper Young Lake and Ragged Peak in Yosemite National Park by Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). The artist uses textural impasto in a pa...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

The Seine in Winter , School of Paris, Tonalist, Snowy French Landscape, Mood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'The Seine in Winter' by Charles Gordon Harris. School of Paris, Tonalist, Snowy French Landscape, Mood ---- Signed lower right, 'Charles Harris', for Charles Gordon Harris (America...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Fiberboard

Boats by the river Oil on cardboard, 47.5x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Boats by the river Oil on cardboard, 47.5x80 cm The main focus of the artwork is a fauvistic stylized landscape featuring boats by the river. The artist's intention is to convey the landscape in bold and vivid earth tones, characteristic of the fauvist style. Biruta Baumane...
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Fauvist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Paris Street Scene
Located in Stamford, CT
Jean Salabet, Impressionism, Paris Street Scene, Oil on Canvas, France, 1954 An oil painting of a Parisian street scene by Spanish-born Juan Bayon Salado, who went by the pseudonym ...
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil

River Running Through the Canyon - Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Canyon landscape by California artist Kathleen Jack (American, 1896-1988). A bright blue river winds from the foreground through a jagged canyon. The ...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Charming 1950s Painting "Oak Bluffs, Mass." Martha s Vineyard by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming vintage 1950s painting of Martha's Vineyard, "Oak Bluffs, Mass." by notable Chicago artist Francis Chapin. A bustling view of the picturesque lighthouse and Soldiers Mem...
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American Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Antique American Framed Original East Hampton Beach Marsh Signed Pastel Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist pastel painting. Pastel on paper. Framed. Signed.
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Reclining Nude , Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with Victor Di Gesu Estate stamp. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Lo...
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1950s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Dorothy Dehner, Mid Century Modern signed abstract sculptural drawing, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Dorothy Dehner Untitled Mid Century Modern abstract sculptural drawing, 1955 Marker and graphite on paper Signed and dated by Dorothy Dehner in black felt tip pen on the front Frame ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Graphite

"Untitled, 57-10" Stephen Pace, Dynamic, Vibrant Orange, Abstract Expressionism
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Pace Untitled, 57-10, 1957 Signed and dated lower right Oil on canvas 47 x 38 inches Born in Charleston, Missouri, Stephen Pace grew up in Indiana, where his parents operat...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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