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Sammy Kaye for "So You Want to Lead a Band"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
On 20.00" x 15.00
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Caricature of Percy Faith
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Bob Keeshan in the Title Role in "The Captain Kangaroo Show"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Ink on Illustration Board
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Center Left
This illustration is on
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Children
s Coloring Book Cover Art - Merrill Company - Female Illustrator
By Elizabeth Voss
Located in Miami, FL
Children's Coloring Book Cover Art - Merrill Company - Female Illustrator
Board 20 x 14.75, Publisher's Stamp lr recto, publication instruction recto verso
Betty Anne Gartrell inscr...
Category
1950s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil
Sexy Blond Falls from Window - Noir Pulp Art
By Harry Barton
Located in Miami, FL
There is plenty of B-movie-like pulp illustration art out there to consider. This work, however, is
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Untitled
Located in Buffalo, NY
An unsigned mid century modern American abstract painting
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Illustration Board, Oil
$750
Mid Century Boat Docks Pacific Grove Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Painterly scene of boats and boats being built at the docks in old Pacific Grove, California by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed"WHM" lower left. Presented in a fau...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Carmel Valley Figurative Landscape -- The Roadside Grocer
By Edda Maxwell Heath
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous figurative landscape of a Carmel roadside grocer by Edda Maxwell Heath (American, 1874 - 1972). Signed and dated lower left corner. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 20"H ...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Wells Fargo Express, Gold Country -- Columbia, California
By Cecil F. Chamberlin
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming oil painting of the Wells Fargo Express Office building in the gold country town of Columbia State Historic Park in Columbia, California by Cecil F. Chamberlin (American, 18...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Mid Century Brownie Blond Girl Scout - 4th of July Salute with American Flag
By Ellen Barbara Segner
Located in Miami, FL
This poster-like mid-century illustration of Little Miss Sunbeam in her Brownie uniform depicts her
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil
"Catching A Fish, " Gouache and Watercolor, Signed
By Tom Rost
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Catching A Fish" is an original gouache and watercolor painting on illustration board. It is
Category
1950s American Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Elegant Couple Shopping in Urban Street Scene - Magenta and Orange Mid-Century
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Rockwell of post-war American Illustration, this is one of the works that paved the way for a new way of
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Happy California Prune Farmers - Female Illustrator - Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Commercial illustration depicting happy California framers for California Prunes. The work is
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Fisherman
s Wharf, Monterey
, Modernist California Artist, Crocker Art Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
success from the 1930's through the 1950's, including at the Crocker Art Museum, the Kingsley Art Club
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Graphite
Sal Mineo as Tony Russo in "The Barefoot Soldier"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
13.25" x 10.00
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Coastal Breakers
, Kennebunkport, Maine, Seascape, Baltimore Museum of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Josef M Arentz' (German-American, 1903-1969) and painted circa 1955.
Displayed in a period, carved gilt-wood and painted frame.
Frame dimensions: 24 x 30 inches ...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Sleeping In, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Richard Sargent
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of The Saturday Evening
Category
1950s Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Lucas Von Leyde - Vintage Offset Print - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Manifesto Istituto Olandese is a beautiful illustration on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed on
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Illustration Board
Spring Flowers
, Kansas, Carmel Art Association, Pratt Institute, AIC, ASL
By Charlotte Morton
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charlotte A. Morton' (American, 1885-1974) and painted circa 1955.
A sensitive study of various blossoms including geraniums, lupin and catmint.
A landscape p...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Graphite
Consort
, Modernist Equestrian Gouache, AIC, WPA artist, Benezit
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966); additionally titled verso 'Consort' and dated 1954 with inscription, 'by the one and only buk, made for Ruth'....
Category
1950s Animal Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Illustration Board
Country Auction, The New Yorker Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
March 28, 1953 Magazine Cover
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Mid Century Bay Area Figurative Original Oil Painting -- Motherhood
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
depicting a modern twist of a mother and baby by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985), circa 1950. A smiling
Category
1950s Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board, Laid Paper, Stretcher Bars
Church Interior
By Ray Quigley
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern illustration by American artist Ray Quigley depicting two men inside of a church.
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Ink
Don McNeill for "TV Club"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Steamy Romance Lovers Embrace in Bed - Mid Century Paperback
By Victor Kalin
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century Artist Victory Kalin was too good an artist for his paperback assignments. He was as much a virtuoso graphic designer as an illustrator. The present work exemplifies his ...
Category
1950s Nude Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
At the Cafe, Paris
, North Beach, San Francisco, City Lights, Vesuvio
s, Butler
By Pascal Cucaro, 1915-2003
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower and upper right, "Cucaro" for Pascal Cucaro (American, 1915-2003).
An icon of the Beat years in San Francisco's North Beach, Pascal Cucaro was the winner of numerous me...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Illustration Board
Arnolt Bristol - Blue Sports Car Mid-Century Good Life - Playboy Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
The punchline on many of these 1950s cartoons fades, but the visuals more than hold up - they shine.
The sleek, graphic style of painting with flat, broad areas of color shows that ...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Caricature for Motion Picture, "Vera Cruz, " 1954
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ink on Illustration Board
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Broadway Comedy, "Four Winds"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
On 15.00" x 20.00
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"The Purple Plain"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Caricature for "The World of Mr. Sweeney" Promo
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
8.50" x 8.75" image on
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
The Caricature of "Wagon Train"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This piece is on
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Gore Vidal
s 1957 Comedy, "A Visit to a Small Planet"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
This piece is on 15.00" x
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Dancing Dogs
, Impressionist Mid-century Circus Scene, Banjo Man, Acrobat
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An interesting, American School Mid-century tempera painting showing a view of a seated clown rehearsing his dogs for a dance routine while a bareback rider in costume observes in th...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Illustration Board
Caricature for NBC-TV Host Dan Seymour, for September 1951, "We the People"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
10.50" x 8.00" image on
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Broadway Drama, "Two for the Seesaw"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This piece is on 15.00" x
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Tennessee Ernie Ford Painting Portraits
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
T. C. Jones on Broadway in "Mask and Gown"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
On 20.00" x 13.00
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Tennessee Ernie Ford dressed as a Pilgrim
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Caricature for 1952-53 Broadcast Season of the "All-Star Revue"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Left
This piece is roughly 10.50
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"A Hole in the Head"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
On 20.00" x 15.00
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"Uncle Willie"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Caricature for Jay Jostin from "Mr. District Attorney"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Left
8.50" x 11.25" image on
Category
1950s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
1958 Broadway Comedy, "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
On 15.00" x 20.00
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Broadway Production of Paul Osborne
s "Maiden Voyage"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"The Greatest Man Alive!"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
1957 Broadway Production, "Small War on Murray Hill"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Broadway Production of "Romanoff
Juliet"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
1958 Broadway Musical Revue, "International Soiree"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"Hide and Seek"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This piece is on 15.00" x
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Caricature Cover Design of "Ray Milland, Globe-Trotting Sleuth"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Ink and Pencil on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Ink and Pencil on
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pencil
Cathy Lewis and Bob Sweeney in the Title Roles of "Fibber McGee and Molly"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This piece is on 15.00" x
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Jack Carson as Maxine in the Title Role of "The Gambler" (3)
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricatures by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
1958 NBC-TV Western, "Buckskin"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Caricatures of Bert Parks and Dan Seymour
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ink on Illustration Board
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
1954 Broadway Musical, "Goldilocks"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
On 15.00" x 20.00
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
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