Greek myths and stories by illustrator duo, Alice and Martin Provensen. 1950s/1960s.

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In honour of Super Bowl weekend, here are some fun Norman Rockwell football works, circa 1930s-1960s. Can you guess which one he based on a Michelangelo sculpture? Have a great weekend & Go Kansas City! 🏈☺️

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i like both styles, but also: the way maki miyano's art evolved between the 1950s and 1960s... exquisite, i shan't let this go unnoticed

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Today in Comics History: C.D. Russell’s “Pete the Tramp” first appeared on January 10, 1932. The strip enjoyed broad popularity (coming as it did during the Depression, when hobos were a cultural fixture), and the strip ran until Russell’s death in the early 1960s.

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Legendary cartoonist and illustrator Ronald Searle died 2011. He drew scores of cartoons, covers and theatrical caricatures for PUNCH in the 1950s and early 1960s. Here's a few of his covers.

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MGG New York is very pleased to present the first historical exhibition of Multiples, Inc., the art publishing company founded by Marian Goodman and a few partners in the 1960s. On view starting 12 January: https://t.co/2SCDkKhco8

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'Wooded Bank, Meifod, Montgomeryshire', John Nash, watercolour and pencil, 1960s.

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Works by (1910-1988)..English painter, etcher and poet, who married artist his second wife, in 1951..
Trevelyan was regarded as a silent driving force behind the etching revolution of the 1960s..
Tutor to David Hockney at the RCA..

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Happy Birthday to the great French artist and cartoonist André François, born André Farkas in Romania 1915. André François contributed scores of illustrations, cartoons and covers to PUNCH in the 1950s and 1960s. Here are some more!

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The Daintees - Roll On Summertime (Kitchenware Records, 1982). The picture sleeve features a Coca-Cola magazine advertisement from the 1960s.

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this attitude flares up in times of much attention around feminism / times when women's roles were changing, as they very much were in the 1960s. you also see this trope in anti-suffragette stuff, like the cruel, demanding wife who makes the husband do the housework.

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BBC NEWS - Artist Duncan Grant's erotic drawings worth £2m kept under bed.

For over 70 years the erotic drawings of British artist Duncan Grant have been shrouded in mystery.

It was believed the collection - current value of around £2m - had been destroyed in the 1960s.

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A series of Dick Tracy cartoon shorts were produced in the 1960s. Many of Tracy's rogues appear throughout. It's not re-aired due to being filled with broad ethnic/racial caricatures like police officers like Joe Jitsu & Manuel Tijuana Guadalajara Tampico "Go-Go" Gomez, Jr.

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Happy Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein emulated the look of comic book panels in part by painting exaggerated versions of Ben Day dots, a hallmark of the printing process used in the comic books of the 1950s and 1960s. https://t.co/O67U9Z0MGw

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Some of the new DUNE images we’re getting from seem inspired by John Schoenherr’s iconic art from the 1960s.

"I can envision no more perfect visual representation of my Dune world than John Schoenherr's careful and accurate illustrations." -author Frank Herbert

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Giovanni Martino 1908-1988 b. Philadelphia, one of eight artistic siblings, he painted various landscapes of industrial scenes around his home city, primarily in Manayunk. From thinly painted scenes of the mill town, he developed toward impasto laden oils during the 1960s.

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For my two cents, I'd prefer not to censor original material, but I'm fine with adapting material to modern audiences. The Tarzan of my youth, TV's Ron Ely, I think adapted the premise well for the 1960s.

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Four original vintage posters by Polish designers available now : Jozef Mroszczak, Hubert Hilscher, Henryk Tomaszewski, Lewitt-Him.1940s-1960s.

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Ethel Kremer Schwabacher was an abstract expressionist painter, represented by the Betty Parsons Gallery in the 1950s and 1960s. She was a protégé and first biographer of Arshile Gorky, and friends with many of the prominent painters of New York at that time

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