The Commercial Art of Mid-Century America

Being the passionate I am, I decided to collect work of stylish beauty, preserving advertising and illustration art of mid-century America. Why? Because, if you’re looking for great artists, look first at the American mid-century ones.

Remember those vintage ads, Comics. See those cartoons. Yes! What a quality! This is art! So for my learning, I collected a nice link Plan59 on the web that I’d like to share with you. I Hope they’ll please you and that it will save you hours of googling If you, too, want to learn how to draw like them.

1. 7 Up: Play It Cool

2. Pepsi-Cola, 1957 | Joe de Mers (1910-1984) .

3. 1960 Chrysler New Yorker in Formal Black

4. Santa Fe Super Chief, 1948

5. Jantzen

6. This is the Life | Pete Hawley, 1946

7. March 1952 Crown Gasoline calendar | David Lockhart

8. Diamond Crystal Salt, 1960

9. Owens-Illinois, 1957

10. So light they almost fly!

11. Glass Container Manufacturers Institute, 1955

12. Corn Products Refining Co., 1946

Carbonation, artificial flavoring and high-fructose corn syrup never looked so good as in this hyper-colorful graphic from 1946

13. Bohn Aluminum & Brass, 1947

14. Santa Fe Chief, 1947

15. Calvert Distillers, 1953

16. The Joy of Good Eating, 1952

17. Bread’s better ’cause it’s fresher in Cellophane (1954)

18. National Restaurant Association, May 1957

19. Mother, I love you

20. Franco-American, 1954

21. Sharon Steel, 1960: The living is easy-est with STAINLESS STEEL

22. Martians demand “IFIC”

23. Vel and the Volcano

From 1951 and the Kitchen of the Ancients comes “Offering to the Oven-God,” a ritual that involved the sacrifice of a cow in a loaf pan and box of baking soda.

24. Apple Kids, c. 1950s

25. Antonio Escandell Oranges, c. 1940s

26. Boyhood Grapefruit, c. 1920s

27. Industry moves on Timken Roller Bearings (1946)

28. 1936 Fifth Avenue

The New York Public Library is at the top of this 1936 watercolor. From Fifth Avenue to Main Street, alloy steels have changed the driving habits of America Republic Steel, 1936

29. Brakes Like a Woman

This pop-art confection from a 1956 car brochure can be found in corner offices across the land.

30. 1955 Cadillac

Have you ever seen a more tasteful set of tailfins?

31. 1957 Cadillac

Pointed yet voluptuous was Cadillac for 1957.

32. 1958 Cadillac Series Sixty-Two convertible

33. Meet the first Futuramic Station Wagon | 1949 Oldsmobile

34. 1940 Packard Super-8 One-Sixty Touring Sedan

35. 1958 Pontiac Bonneville

36. Ronald McLeod (1897-1977)

37. 1959 Imperial LeBaron

38. 1936 Packard Twelve Town Car with body by Le Baron

39. Union Carbide and Carbon, 1943

40. Dowtherm Reverie — Dow Chemicals, 1951 | Harry Beckhoff (1901-1979)

41. Weird Tales of the Future, 1952

42. Hans Schmidt painted by Vaughan Bass in 1954

43. Lou Thesz painted by Vaughan Bass in 1954

44. Baron Leone painted by Vaughan Bass in 1954

45. The World of Union Carbide, 1960

46. Goodyear Tire & Rubber, 1949

47. The incomparable Capehart 21-inch Saratoga

48. Tide cuts grease as no soap can! 1951 Cleaner dishes . . . Ring-free pan . . .

49. Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, 1944

50. National Paint and Varnish, 1949

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