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mid-century modern

For sale is an original painting by Erle Loran, titled Light Operator. Signed and dated in the lower right corner,with an Oakland, California exhibit label on verso.

Light Operator

Artist: Erle Loran

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Erle Loran, Exhibited, fine art, industrial age, machine age, mid-century modern
Added to Gallery: May 24, 2018

Dating to the 1950s, this Mid-Century Modern original advertising illustration features a young, stylish, and well-to-do couple looking at travel posters and pondering their next destination. The African masks and tribal Zuni Fetish Doll on the mantle as well as the hanging modernist abstract art let the consumer know that this couple is sophisticated and well-traveled. A […]

Where To?

Artist: Richard Preyer

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, advertising, Cunningham & Walsh Advertising Company, Golden Age, mid-century modern, original illustration art, Richard Preyer
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2017

The WPA artist and art deco designer Vladimir Yoffe created this smart and modern machine age commercial illustration as advertising for Pan Am World Airways. The imagery shows a dizzying map of the earth highlighted by the routes the early commercial airline offered. Today, the  Russian/American artist is best remembered for his work for the New Deal […]

World Airways

Artist: Vladimir Yoffe

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, advertising, art deco, aviation, Golden Age, machine age, mid-century modern, modernist, New Deal Federal Arts Project, Pan Am Airlines, poster design, Russian Artist, Vladimir Yoffe, World Airways, WPA
Added to Gallery: March 2, 2016

  A spectacular, large format, science fiction painting by Dean Ellis which was first used as the paperback cover for the 1970 Corgi published compilation of science fiction writing, SF-5 New Writings in Science Fiction, one of a series of 30 British science fiction anthologies released from 1964 to 1977 under the successive editorships of […]

SF-5

Artist: Dean Ellis

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Dean Ellis, mid-century modern, nude, paperback, Ray Bradbury, sci-fi, science fiction
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

 

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