Art by Medium: Cardboard

Clouds over the sea. 1974, cardboard, oil, 36.5x49 cm

Painter, vacation, summer, impressionism, picnic, 1950s Russia,Green

Title: Cadaqués from the Olive Grove Artist: Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 – Barcelona, 2015) Technique: Oil on canvas board Dimensions: 16,14 x 12,99 in Support: Canvas board S...

May Wilson (1905–1986) was an American artist and figure in the 1960s New York City avant-garde art world. A pioneer of the feminist and mail art movement, she is best known for her Surrealist junk assemblages and her "Ridiculous Portrait" photo collages. Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, into an underprivileged family. Her father died when she was young. She was reared by her Irish Catholic mother, who sewed piecework at home. Wilson left school after the ninth grade to become a stenographer/secretary to help support her family. When she turned 20, she married a young lawyer, William S. Wilson, Jr., and give birth to her first child. She continued to work until the birth of her second child, after which she devoted her energies primarily to mothering and homemaking. In 1942, the couple had prospered enough to move to Towson, Maryland, where she began to take correspondence courses in art and art history from several schools, including the University of Chicago. In 1948, after the marriage of their daughter, the couple moved to a gentleman's farm north of Towson, where she pursued painting and gave private art lessons to neighbors. She exhibited her paintings, scenes of everyday life painted in a flat, purposefully primitive manner in local galleries and restaurants. In 1952 and 1958, she won awards for work submitted to juried exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1956, her son, the writer Williams S. Wilson, gave to Ray Johnson, the founder of the New York Correspondence School, his mother's address. This began a friendship and artistic collaboration between Johnson and Wilson, which would last the remainder of her life. Wilson became an integral part of Johnson's mail art circle and was initiated into the New York avant-garde through letters and small works that she exchanged with Robert Watts, George Brecht, Ad Reinhardt, Leonard Cohen, Arman, and many others. When her marriage dissolved, she moved to New York City in the spring of 1966, aged 61, taking up residence first in the Chelsea Hotel and then in a studio next door, where she threw legendary soirées and became known as the "Grandma Moses of the Underground". By the time she arrived, Wilson was already working with photomontage collage techniques. Encouraged by Johnson, who had sent her magazines through the mail, she scissored patterns into images of pin-up girls and muscle men until they resembled doilies or snowflakes, as Wilson called them. She decorated her hotel room and later her studio on West 23rd Street with these and other manipulated, found object images. Around this time, she also began her series of neo Dada "Ridiculous Portraits", for which she would ride the subway to Times Square, where she made exaggerated faces in photo booths. She then would cut and paste her photo-booth face onto postcards, along with Old Master reproductions, fashion shoots, and softcore Playboy magazine pornography. Long before artists such as Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa Morimura embarked on similar critical projects, Wilson's "Ridiculous Portraits" sent up the ubiquitous sexism and ageism that exists in popular and fine-art images of women. At the age of 70, she converted a nude photograph of herself into a stamp that she pasted on envelopes. Her collages and humorous self-portraits were made as gifts and mail-art items for her friends and were not widely known until after her death. Her work was contemporaneous with the Arte Povera artists Jannis Kounellis and ‎Michelangelo Pistoletto. She was also an innovator of junk art assemblages that incorporated real objects, such as high-heel shoes, bed sheets, sauce pans, toasters, liquor bottles, ice trays, and wrapped baby dolls. Her sculptures were inspired by Surrealist and Dada practices and are similar in spirit to Yayoi Kusama's contemporary accumulations. Wilson was the subject of a 1969 experimental documentary by Amalie R. Rothschild, "Woo Hoo? May Wilson". Since her death, May Wilson's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and retrospectives at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York; the Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J.; the Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City; and The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Selected Exhibitions 2010 "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968", University of the Arts, Philadelphia (traveling exhibition) 2008 "1968/2008: The Culture of Collage", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, City 2008 "Ridiculous Portrait: The Art of May Wilson", Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey 2008 "Woo Who? May Wilson", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City 1995 [Retrospective], The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland 2001 "May Wilson: Ridiculous Portraits and Snowflakes", Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, City 2001 "Inside Out: Outside In-The Correspondence of Ray Johnson and May Wilson", Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, California 1991 "May Wilson: The New York Years", Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City 1973 "Sneakers", Kornblee Gallery, New York City 1973 "Small Works: Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art", RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island 1971 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1970 "Sculpture Annual 1970", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City 1965 The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland 1962 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 1957 Bookshop Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Public collections Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) The Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, Maryland) Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, New York) References William S. Wilson, "May Wilson: Constructing Woman (1905-1986)", in Ann Aptaker, ed., Ridiculous Portrait: The Art of May Wilson, ed. Ann Aptaker, Morristown, N.J.: Morris Museum, Camhi, Leslie, "Late Bloomer", Village Voice, December 18, 2001 Giles, Gretchen, "Cosmic Litterers: Artists Ray Johnson and May Wilson: Taking the Cake", "Northern California Bohemian," June 14–20, 2001 McCarthy, Gerard, "May Wilson: Homespun Rebel", Art in America, vol. 96, no. 8, September 2008, pp. 142–47 Sachs, Sid and Kalliopi Minioudaki, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968. Philadelphia: The University of the Arts, 2010, ISBN 978-0789210654 Wilson, William S. Art is a Jealous Lover: May Wilson: 1905-1986, andy warhol...

Still life with tulips. Cardboard, oil, 85x74 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of ...

Gorgeous landscape of artist's interpretation of Santa Cruz and what appears to be Holy Cross Roman Catholic church during late 19th Century by Esther Roebuck (American 1902-1970), p...

49.5 x 35 cm Artwork unsigned - Christo 1955 Provenance Private collection, Bulgaria This artwork hasn't been exposed for 70 years. This portrait artwork had been awarded with the ...

Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...

Abstract expressionist nude figure by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). Signed "Louis Nadalini" in the lower right corner. Signed "Louis Ernie Nadalini" on verso. Unframed. Image...

Mountain landscape with a village. 1980. Cardboard, oil. 49,5x70cm In this work artist paid attention to infinite landscape depiction of mountains in summertime. Mountains are thought to contain divine inspiration in many forms, and are the focus of pilgrimages of transcendence and spiritual elevation. Mountains surpass ordinary humanity and extend towards the heavens. They symbolize constancy and permanence and at their peak signify the state of absolute consciousness. The visual components of color, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value in this painting works together as one story of peaceful moment next to nature. The village at the foot of the mountains is depicted in light brush strokes. Information about artist: Janis Lauva...

Nel Giardino is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1988 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original drawing in beautiful colored tempera and w...

Bouquet of flowers in a vase. Oil on cardboard 70x62 cm impasto painting in earth color gamma

Windmill. Middle of 1940s, oil on cardboard, 54x65 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of applied arts (1942 – 43), in s...

Vladimir Glushenkov (1948-2009) (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator. Vladimir Glushkenkov was born in family with Russian-Poli...

Figure is an original drawing in oil on cardboard, realized by the Italian artist Antonio Camarca (Rome 1920-?). The state of preservation of the artwork is aged. With the stam on ...

Flowers and books. 1986, oil on board, 100x70 cm Jekabs Arturs Springis (1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia 1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute Secondary School 1927 – 1930 – learning a...

Scenic winter oil on board landscape of a frozen river winding through snowy countryside by Alex Mclaren (Portugal/Canadian, 1892-1959). Signed "Alex Mclaren" bottom left. Unframed. ...

Sauna in the Open Air Museum Oil on cardboard, 13x24 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in di...

Sailboat in the night. 1989. Oil on cardboard, 65x50 cm

Summer during the hay harvest Middle of the 1940s, oil on cardboard, 40,5x53 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of app...

Birches. 1957, oil on board, 45x60 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landsc...

Summer day. 1994, oil on cardboard, 45x58 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seaso...

Composition is an original artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Mario Martini in 1973. Mixed media colored painting on cardboard Hand-signed and dated on the lower r...

Still life with ceramic vase Middle of the 1940s, oil on cardboard, 60x51 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of applie...

Post Impressionist Landscape, Under the Bridge Gorgeous post-impressionistic landscape in the style of Vincent Van Gogh, circa 1990. The ...

By the river. Canvas, cardboard, oil, 55.5x70.5 cm

Abstract figure in pink by by San Francisco, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 1978-2016), (AKA, Xavier Lundt) (American, 20th Century). From a collection of hi...

Wonderfully vivid landscape of boat in Monterey Bay at sunset. Signed lower right "JSG" monogram. Unframed. Image size: 12"H x 9"W.

Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955. An elegant and powerful work by this well-exhibited and well-listed California pai...

Beautiful Big Sur stream landscape by California Plein air artist Weaver (American, 20th Century). Signed "Weaver" lower right. Unframed. ...

Village. 1975, oil on cardboard, 54.5x70 cm Konstantin Andreyev (1914-1981) - painter. He had a distinctive flair for painting and already in the 1930ies cooperated in Leningrad pu...

Three masks abstract by Novak (American, 20th Century). Presented in a white wooden frame. Signed "Novak" lower right. Image: 28.5"H x 26"W.

Summer day. Oil on cardboard, 40x50 cm Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I) His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine and G. Skil...

Arturs Nikitins (born 1936) - painter, graphic artist. 1962 – graduated from the Latvian Art Academy, Graphic Department with the diploma work “The workers of Novorosijsk” under th...

Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seasons and flowers. In 1970 the significant place...

About the bread 1987, oil on cardboard, 81x99 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of...

Ships in port. Oil on cardboard, 56,5x64,5 cm He learned at State Technique of Riga, architecture department. 1937 –Latvian academy of Art, landscape Studio of V. Purvitis, with dip...

Winter landscape. 1980. Oil on cardboard, 24x32.5 cm

Olģerts Saldavs (1907.29.VII – 1960.1.IV) - Painter, art scholar. Studied in the studio of U. Skulme, later of K. Miesnieks and L. Liberts (1926). In 1936, he graduated from the V. ...

Wind gestures. 1991. Oil on cardboard. 91,5x85 cm This depiction of trees shows artist Laimdots Murnieks as a master of nature representation. Ev...

Beautiful rustic seascape of calm waves along the rocky coast in Davenport by California artist Esposito (American, 20th Century). Signed "Esposito '59" lower right. Presented in rus...

Autumn landscape. Oil on cardboard, 39x50 cm is a landscape painter and a student of Vilhelms Purvitis. Vilhelms Purvitis one of the founders of the Latvian National School of Paint...

Figural abstract inspired by Chinese art and calligraphy featuring a large totem-like form in textured earth tones with black Chinese characters in bold, black brushstrokes by Anna Wu Weakland...

Beautiful mid century watercolor of a little store in Aptos, California by listed artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Unframed. Signed "Jon Blanchette" lower right. Location...

Gulf of the river. Oil on cardboard, 31,2x45,5 cm Albins Dzenis (1907.19. XII Riga –1998) 1935 – Graduating Latvian Art Academy, department of Decorative painting by guidance of J....

Landscape. 1937, oil on cardboard, 34x40 cm Reinhold Kasparsons (born 13/9/1889 in Cēsis, died 14/1966 in Riga), painter. Born in a craftsman's family. Studied at Nītaure school, a...

Men? is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s by Sergio Barletta. Original Photo-lithograph and collage on cardboard (total dimensions: cm 18 x 18.5). Excellent ...

"Landscape" is an original drawing in watercolor on cardboard, realized in 1942 by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). The state of preservation of the artwork is good with some ripping on l...

Haystacks on the riverbank. Cardboard, oil, 50x59.5 cm Jurgis Skulme (1928-2015) – painter, art scientist. 1954 – The graduating State Art Academy of Latvia, the monumental departm...

Sunny autumn forest edge. 1960, cardboard, oil, 36x50 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in dif...

Birch grove. Oil on cardboard. 27, 5 x 21, 3 cm

Pine trees on the seashore. 1981, cardboard, oil, 46x65 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in d...

Bridge in the Sydney. 1984, oil on cardboard, 51x61 cm

Hand Signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Passepartout included. This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil" that the Italian arti...

Spring. Oil on cardboard, 40x50 cm Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I) His first professional education was at National University at studies to...

Winter evening. Oil on canvas and cardboard, 29x23 cm

Luminosa opera con rose in giardino Nikolaj LATYSHENKO (Artjomovsk, Ucraina, 1937) MUSEI Novgorod, Museo delle Belle Arti Mosca, Collezione del Ministero della Cultura Arkhangelsk,...

Mt. Tamalpais Road California Landscape by Jesse Don Rasberry Lovely oil on artist board landscape painting of a road leading to Mt. Tamalpais by California artist Jesse Don Rasberr...