Rick Lewis

RLG6B002013

Out of Sync Mixed Media On Paper 30" x 22" I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting employing the use of i...

Offering VIII Mixed Media On Paper 30" x 22" I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting employing the use of...

For Edna Mixed Media On Paper 22" x 30" I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting employing the use of indu...

RLG7B002013 Mixed Media On Paper 47" x 35" I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting employing the use of i...

Offering III Mixed Media On Paper 30" x 22" I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting employing the use of ...

RLG40002013 Mixed Media On Paper 47" x 35" I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting employing the use of i...

American Artist 1922 – 2012 Served his country as a Sergeant in World War II, both stateside and in the Philippines. After the war, native Chicagoan Ronald Ahlström graduated from the School of the Art Institute, He became a prominent Abstract Expressionist collage assemblage maker working in a style similar to some of the New York school assemblage artists such as Robert Goodnough. Utilizing cutout letters in a concrete poetry style. He frequently exhibited his collages and paintings in the Chicago and Vicinity exhibits of the 1950s and 1960s. He worked as the curator of the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma WA during the early 1960s. He showed at Exhibition Momentum in the ’60s, and was selected for the Corcoran Biennial. Together with his colleagues and fellow-abstractionists Robert Nickle, Morris Barazani, Harry Bouras, George Kokines, and George Waite, he exhibited at McCormick Place in an independently produced survey of contemporary Chicagoans, circa 1962, under the banner 12 Chicago Artists. An adept and sensitive painter, Ahlström’s most personal work is as an abstract expressionist collage maker. Using strips of paper, sometimes weathered and beaten into rough hewn surfaces, he creates immaculately layered, lively, gestural compositions. He was the recipient of many art awards and prizes throughout his long career. His works are part of numerous private, corporate and museum collections. His work was published in many national and international art publications including Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Art. he taught art at both high school and college level. His other passions included history, literature and music. He was an accomplished base fiddle and guitar player and often played professionally in clubs during the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1958, he was awarded the William H. Bartels Prize of five hundred dollars at the Art Institute of Chicago. Education: Art Institute of Chicago University of Chicago DePaul University Exhibitions: Art Institute of Chicago Annuals, Corcoran Biennial in Washington DC, 12 Chicago Artists 50 Chicago Artists European Exhibit at the US Information Agency Collage and Construction, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Tacoma Art Museum, Washington Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle 50th Northwestern Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Chicago Invitational, University of Illinois One Man Exhibits: Rockford College, Rockford Il. Barat College, Lake Forest Il. Rodger Wilson Gallery, Chicago, Il. Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY. Joseph Faulkner, Main Street Galleries, Chicago, Il. Zriny Galleries, Chicago Il. Awards: Clyde Carr Prize, Art Institute of Chicago William H. Bartels Prize, Art Institute of Chicago James Broadus Clark Prize, Art Institute of Chicago Alumni of Art Institute Prize Singer and Sons Prize, Navy Pier, Chicago Abel Fagan Prize, Festival of Fine Arts, Lake Forest, Il. Ford Foundation Purchase Prize, Seattle, Wa. Collections: Art Institute of Chicago Barat College Tacoma Art Museum, Wa. Phibrook Art Center, Tulsa, Ok. Blue-Cross Collection, Chicago, Il. Atlantic Richfield Collection Illinois Bell Telephone Collection Container Corporation of...

Edie [2021] Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Edie is an original mixed media on paper panting by Harriet Hoult. The painting is on hig...

Porthgwidden [2021] Original Abstract Mixed Media Image size: H:76 cm x W:70 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:76 cm x W:70 cm x D:0.1cm Frame Size: H:99 cm x W:94 cm x D:3.2cm So...

The Old Forte by Harriet Hoult [2020] original Original painting Image size: H:129 cm x W:150 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:129 cm x W:150 cm x D:3cm Frame Size: H:129 cm x W...

Hidden Haze No 1 by Alison Britton-Patterson [2021] original Mixed media on deckled edge paper Image size: H:16 cm x W:16.5 cm Complete Size of Unfra...

Judith Brenner Merlot 90 x120cm. Mixed Media on Watercolour Paper Unframed mixed media, contemporary, acrylic, pigment, metal powder, contemporary collage, work on paper Size: H:120 ...