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Above It All Two Young Men on Mountain Top - Martin Luther King Issue
By Stan Galli
Located in Miami, FL
Above it all, two vigorous young men stand on a mountain top. They are depicted in profile, looking out into a sublime, verdant vista of tree-lined mountains punctuated by a winding...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Brothel, Groovy Harem with Courtesan, Concubine, Paramour, Playboy Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
George Hirsch - He gets his inspiration from the prototype of neo-classic painting for this groovy 1970s brothel. This is a complex figural work with m...
Category
1970s Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
$16,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Glamorous Female Musician Painting, Mid-Century, 17 x 12.75 in
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century illustrator Mario Zamparelli captures a tall and elegant young female composer or musician. She appears to be lost in thought with one shoe off. At her feet and on the co...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
Almond-Eyed Brunette by Window, Watercolor on Board, Circa 1960
Located in Miami, FL
An almond-eyed brunette is depicted sitting pensively next to a window. She looks Mediterranean, perhaps Italian or Greek, and has a captivating face that one can fall in love with. ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil
Love Mirror Pulp Magazine Cover Illustration Depression Era
Located in Miami, FL
Love Mirror, True Experiences magazine cover, February 1937 by Female Illustrator and Pupl Artist Georgia Warren
Oil on canvas
17 x 13 inches (43.2 x 33.0 cm)
Signed lower left: War...
Category
1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thumbkin Children
s Nursery Rhyme Hans Christian Andersen
Located in Miami, FL
English Illustrator Barbara C. Freeman depicts Thumbkin resting on the edge of the petals of a White Water-Lily. She's taking in the scenery as a yellow butterfly takes flight. It w...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Board, Pencil
Surreal Landscape with Floating People
Located in Miami, FL
Playboy Female Illustrator Shaleen Pedersen paints a surreal landscape stuffed with a plethora of faceless people, devoid of eyes, mouths, or noses. Yet, they are fully dressed in t...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Surreal Illustration - Glamorous Blond at the Piano
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
Today's newly minted fine art stars are from the mid-century surrealism school and include Gertrude Abercrombie, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Carrington, who were mostly unknown five y...
Category
1950s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Mixed Media
Voodoo Vodou Ceremony at Sea
Located in Miami, FL
Of all the Haitian Voodoo ceremony paintings, few depict the ceremony at sea. This is a rare example. Vodou ceremonies at sea often depict rituals f...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 in a patriotic three-finger salute against an American Flag. It's by the celebrat...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil
Voodoo Ceremony Outdoors with Vodou Chicken Sacrifice
By Wilson Bigaud
Located in Miami, FL
In this work, Haitian Master Wilson Bigaud focuses on fleeting moments of a Voodoo scene. He depicts the sacrifices of two chickens to the spirits. It is a gift to the divine, a w...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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 fundamentally different. The main point about the Harry Barton...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Bossou - Sacred Bull, Powerful Lwa (Spirit) Haitian Vodou
By Préfète Duffaut
Located in Miami, FL
At first glance, Préfète Duffaut's depiction of Bossou from 1954 might be mistaken for a Picasso or a Miro. The work is highly abstract, packed with symbolic meaning akin to Surrea...
Category
1950s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Flashlight by Eldridge Cleaver Black Panther - Playboy Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Nocturne illustration of 1960s Black America, depicting a short story by Eldridge Cleaver. Illustrator Marvin Hayes uses a radically graphic compositional devise by inserting the sto...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Voodoo, Vodou Ceremony - Bawon Samdi -Father of the Spirits
Located in Miami, FL
This large, breathtaking oil on canvas is one of the finest examples of the artist's work. Casimir is an overlooked and undervalued postwar master.
The painting showcases a highly co...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Night Attack. Men
s Magazine: Action, Sex and Violence
By Mort Künstler
Located in Miami, FL
Sex and violence take center stage in this mid-1960s men's magazine interior story illustration. This action-packed narrative of a G.I. close-up gun battle incorporates five peak m...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Heavy Hauler - Mid-Century Illustration - Children
s Books
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1923. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for eight years (!) at the Art Students League. Mario Cooper was among his instructors. Up...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Illustration Board
Woman Baking, Redbook Illustration, Mid - Century
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, unframed - Interior Illustration for Redbook Magazine
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Salt Gold Sunset, Saturday Evening Post Story Illustration
By Bruce Bomberger
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post sticker and editorial and production marks on verso.
This is more than just a simple semi-silhouette. It's a carefully crafted and wonderfully composed image. T...
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
VooDoo Ceremony VoDou Ritual
By Gerard Valcin
Located in Miami, FL
Gerard Valcin has a style that is instantly recognized as his own, which is quite challenging in Fine Art, where most artists' work looks like someone else's.
In the present work,...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Philomé Obin - Haitian Carnival
By Philomé Obin
Located in Miami, FL
This work is by Haiti's second-most-important artist, Philomé Obin. Hector Hyppolite stands at the top of the list and just sold a painting for almost $450,000. If art history is ...
Category
1950s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Romance Love Triangle on Fishing Boat - Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
Romance Love Triangle on Fishing Boat
his artwork appeared on pages 22-23 of the December 1957 issue of Playboy Magazine, illustrating the fiction story by Budd Schulberg titled "Bar...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Illustration Board, Pencil
Astronaut - Space Man Mid Century - Howard Hughes
Located in Miami, FL
Mario Zamparelli served as the chief designer for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes' empire, creating his promotional images and designing many of its products.
In the present...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Illustration Board, Color Pencil
Princess and Prince, Hans Christian Andersen
s Thumbelina Fairy Tales
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti paints a charming fantasy scene. It's of an extreme closeup of a tiny crowned and winged Prince and Princess They are standing upright in a dand...
Category
1950s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, 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 rendered in a charming and highly stylized manner. Unfr...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Devil Emerges from Surrealist Voodoo Drum - Sans titre (Diable)
Located in Miami, FL
An image of a horned devil with pointy claws and bat-like wings emerges from a Voodoo drum. He has with arms stretched out like a Christ figure. The drum grows out of a yellow plant-...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Pilgrims going out for the feast of St. Anne on Horseback
By Philomé Obin
Located in Miami, FL
After Hector Hyppolite, Philomé Obin may be Haiti's most significant painter.
Les pèlerins sortant à la fête de Ste. Anne
As with most Haitian painters, this work has a thin applicat...
Category
1950s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Military Man on Horseback with Haitian Flag
By Philomé Obin
Located in Miami, FL
After Hector Hyppolite, Philomé Obin may be Haiti's most significant painter. In the present work, Philomé Obin depicts a familiar Haitian street scene with colorful facades and thre...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Cute Cow Milks into Bottle. Mid Century Illustration
By George Giusti
Located in Miami, FL
George Giusti is in the Art Directors Hall of Fame. George Giusti’s graphic designs and illustrations have graced the covers of Time, Fortune, Holiday. He collaborated with Herbert ...
Category
1950s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Classic 1950s Husband and Wife and Gagged Parrot, Esquire Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Works by this female artist are scarce and rarely come to market.
Juliette Kida Renault (as JKR) Esquire Magazine Illustration Original Art (Hearst, ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
Young Girls in the Forest Sisters - Twins - Friends
By Gladys Rockmore Davis
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-Century Art Star Gladys Rockmore Davis paints a double portrait of what appears to be sisters or perhaps friends dressed in identical costumes. The work is as charming as it is i...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Deco Cherry Dancer
By Marcel Vertès
Located in Miami, FL
Cherry Dancer
Marcel Vertes
French, 1895-1961
Beautiful girl juggling cherries is a beautiful and charming idea that is deftly rendered in a quick and loose style.
Work is round
De...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
North African Prostitutes Red Light District Tunisia
Located in Miami, FL
For Playboy Magazine, German-American artist and illustrator Franz Altschuler paints a heart-pounding scene of a red-light district in Tunisia. What's immediately distinctive is how ...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Mid Century Golden Age of Illustration- Narrative Art - Norman Rockwell School
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
“Graduation Day” is emblematic of mid-century American Illustration.
But the real story of this storytelling work is that it embodies the lost art of portrait painting and graphic design.
Alex Ross borrows on the classical tradition and flaunts his skills as a narrative painter. In “Graduation Day”, he paints a complex composition involving at least thirteen portraits. The subjects are beautifully rendered and lit. They are set against a dark grey background and jump off the surface at the viewer. The composition is complexly designed. The future graduate in the red jacket engaging with a girl photographer is a compositional device that leads the viewer's eye to the main subject - a father congratulating his son on graduating from medical school. Creating art that relies on facial expressions and body gestures is a talent absent in contemporary art. Why? It’s very hard to do and takes years and training and practice to get it right. Despite Alex Ross's folksy subject matter, this work is a high example of naturalism and representation by an important member of the Golden Age of American Illustration.
Signed lower right
Born in the town of Dunfermline, Scotland, Alexander Sharpe Ross (1908-1990) moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1911. After attending Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), Ross moved to New York and joined the Charles E. Cooper Studio, where he worked among such notable illustrators as Ward Brackett, Stevan Dohanos, J. Frederick Smith...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Grotesque Nude Figures in Battle - like Hieronymus Bosch
Located in Miami, FL
Erik Thor Sandberg paints a fantastical scene that features nude, grotesque combatants engaged in a bloody battle on a surreal, pink, stage-like surface. Some of the painting's subje...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sci-Fi Mind Bending Alien Head with Scary Bulging Eyeball - Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Located in Miami, FL
Inspired by Italian Artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Illustrator Bernard D'Andrea creates a startled person in profile. Unlike Arcimboldo, D'Andrea constructs a girl's head out of people ...
Category
1970s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Illustration Board, Pencil
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
Cherry Dancer
By Marcel Vertès
Located in Miami, FL
Cherry Dancer
Marcel Vertes
French, 1895-1961
Beautiful girl juggling cherries
Work is round but is shown in a square frame and some of the artworks edge is exposed
Description: ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Twisted People. Time Magazine Cover Proposal - Like Antony Gormley
Located in Miami, FL
Boundless whimsical creativity defines this Time Magazine Cover proposal. In 1970, famed illustrator/artist Robert Grossman visualized a cover story i...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Macabre New Years Eve
Located in Miami, FL
Along with Charles Addams, Gahan Wilson is one of the most important cartoonists who deal with the Macabre. Along with his famous counterpart, he should be regarded as a conceptual a...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Pen
Surreal Dancers Magic Realism - Ballet Mirage
By Hazel Janicki
Located in Miami, FL
Dazed dancers are seen twirling languidly on primal rock formations. The rocks, eroded by the sands of time, are shown as cutaways and serve as a platform or outdoor stage for the d...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Nature Walk Magic Realism in Dreamlike Setting
By Hazel Janicki
Located in Miami, FL
A soulful young man is captured in a deep, contemplative state, detached from current external concerns, as he gazes beyond the picture plane. He is realistically rendered, but the s...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera
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
Psychological State - Family Argument - Matisse Like Illustration
By Bernie Fuchs
Located in Miami, FL
Legendary illustrator Bernard Bernie Fuchs explores the creative possibilities of radical design to illustrate a narrative of an emotional state of unconnectedness.
The present work ...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board
Mid Century Blond Beauty Make Up the Airport Customs
By Coby Whitmore
Located in Miami, FL
At some point, the fine art/museum world will recognize how truly brilliant a trailblazing artist like Coby Whitmore is.
His exploration of bold colors, flattened, simplified space, ...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil, Graphite
Blond Child in Red Dress Reading Snow White to Elf - Fairy Tale
Located in Miami, FL
Maud Tausey Fangel - Baby Painter.
In profile, we see a charming, young, ruddy-cheeked, blond girl with pig tales in a bright red-orange dress. She is reading Snow White as a sma...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
Red Corvette, Hot Car - Playboy Cartoon - Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
The cop admires the car while the viewer admires the drawing of the car.
The enduring legacy of Ben Denison may not be that he was an early cartoonist for Playboy, but for his style...
Category
1960s Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Illustration Board
Sensual Belly Dancers, Morocco
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Miami, FL
We are presenting a rare opportunity to acquire one of Leroy Neiman's best and most compelling paintings. It is a statement piece. A combination of enticing subject matter with a mon...
Category
1960s Abstract Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"The Poor Little Bridesmaid" - Female Illustrator - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
"The poor little bridesmaid ... in her pink cotton gown ... though doubtless, there never was such a pretty girl."
A kitchen scene is depicted with a young bridesmaid admiring her f...
Category
1910s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Pen, Paper
Innocent Summer Fun Children Running at the Beach
By Gladys Rockmore Davis
Located in Miami, FL
The innocence of youth is personified in this charming painting, which depicts an older sister and younger brother running on the beach amidst crashing waves. The boy looks at the vi...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Scene Depression Era New York City Post Office
By Arnold Friedman
Located in Miami, FL
This is a painting about a man who travels back into the past and engages with a different stage in his life.
Arnold Friedman worked at the New York City Post Office for four decades...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Depression Era New York City - Journey Back in Time - American Scene Painting
By Arnold Friedman
Located in Miami, FL
This is a painting about a man who travels back into the past and engages with a different stage in his life.
Arnold Friedman worked at the New York City Post Office for four decades...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Post Office Parcel Post Window - Depression Era
By Arnold Friedman
Located in Miami, FL
Arnold Friedman worked as a clerk for decades at the Station Y, the branch at 3rd Avenue and East 67th Street in New York City. This present work was done two years after his retirem...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Scottish Boy - Like Robert Henri
By Margery Austen Ryerson
Located in Miami, FL
Margery Ryerson paints a stunning portrait of a boy dressed in Scottish clothes. The paint application is quick and loose but based on a sound academic understanding of how to constr...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
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
Americana Winter Scene Ice Skaters Mid-Century- Norman Rockwell America
By Charlotte Sternberg
Located in Miami, FL
This charming rural winter scene of ice skaters fully displays Norman Rockwell's America, but it was painted by female artist Charlotte Joan Sternberg. She combines the mid-century A...
Category
1950s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Woman in a Red Dress, Mid Century Female Illustrator/ Artist, Elizabeth Taylor ?
By Gladys Rockmore Davis
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century female illustrator/artist Gladys Rockmore Davis paints a compelling portrait of a contemplative beauty who looks like Elizabeth Taylor. Frontal and lateral forces work together in this pyramidal composition. The sitter stares down at the viewer creating a frontal tension. Her hypnotic gaze is counterbalanced by the lateral movement of her crossed hands and triggers an emotional response. Gladys Rockmore Davis is both a work-for-hire illustrator and a fine artist- She was an illustrator for clients such as Upjohn, Munsingwear, Elgin Watches, and Johnson & Johnson. Davis had a show at the prestigious Midtown Gallery and Babcock Gallery in New York. She studied at the California School of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, and Art Students League. William R. French Gold Medal...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Professor or Judge
By George Benjamin Luks
Located in Miami, FL
Portrait of an Old Man circa 1900 - 1925 Oil on canvas Signed lower left h: 25 x w: 29 in / h: 63.5 x w: 73.7 cm Private Collection unframed
Category
Early 1900s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
High Contrast Tug with Club Graphic Street Violence - Untitled
By Cleon Peterson
Located in Miami, FL
Tug with Club Street Violence rendered in high contrast dayglow like red and inky black black.
Untitled, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 24-1/4 inches (91.4 x 61.6 cm)
Signed and dated ...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fauve Landscape French Market Scene by Female American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Elsie Palmer Payne was an American Female artist who, in her youth, made several trips to Europe. This French market scene is characterized by a Fau...
Category
1910s Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
