Harry Bertschmann

Large Harry Bertschmann Swiss American Abstract Expressionist Outsider Painting

Wang Ming "Enter the World of Infinity" Acrylic paint on Japon paper mounted on canvas Dimensions: H: 39 inches: W: 25 inches WANG MING WANG Artist Ming Wang, born November 4, 1921, died peacefully on Sunday, June 26, 2016 in Bethesda. Ming Wang was born in Tianjin, China and was a pilot in Chinese Nationalist Air Force during WWII. Artist Wang Ming's journey began in the 1940s. As he worked as an air traffic controller in Taiwan, he became interested in the beauty of the sky. He was a young man then, having fled from Japanese-occupied China in 1939 at age 18. He came to the US for further military training where he met his first wife, the late Suen Chin. In 1949, Wang went Taiwan to escape the Communist takeover of China. He rejoined his wife and young son in Washington DC in 1951. To support a growing family, Wang founded the National Art and Frame shop in Washington DC. He studied art independently and developed his unique artistic style melding modern art with traditional Chinese calligraphy. His paintings, done with a mixture of inks and acrylics on fine paper, are a happy marriage of traditional Chinese disciplines with Western art as it has been handled by Joan Miro and Paul Klee. His works are minimalist and abstract, marked with good design and extremely sensitive use of color. The influence of 1950s American art and abstract expressionism is also clear in his work, and he exhibited with such Washington Color School luminaries as Kenneth Noland and Gene Davis in the 1960s. He later taught calligraphy at George Washington University. Years before the Hubble Telescope began broadcasting images of rainbow clouds and blood red stars, Ming used art to convey what he imagined space to be. His work captured the attention of James Dean, the National Air and Space Museum's first art collector, who purchased two of his pieces. In the 1960's and 1970's, Wang was represented by the Franz Bader Gallery in Washington DC. 1980: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York American Drawing in Black & White: 1970-1980, by curator Gene Baro. “The visitors are invited to enjoy the rich variety of marks and means used in attacking subjects that range from meticulous representational rendering to extemporaneous gesture.” Included among many other artists, were Anni Albers, Jasper Johns, Willem De Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Jack Tworkov, Robert Motherwell and Andy Warhol. 1982: The Washington Post, by Jo Ann Lewis “His show at the Marvin Center at George Washington University, where he teaches calligraphy, should help clarify the unique nature of his art . ... ‘Independent Reality,’ in which dramatic curves dance across an opened scroll, taking on a life of their own-in any language. The show is filled with the artist’s very special of visual poetry.” He was included in the exhibition American Drawing in Black & White: 1970-1980, by curator Gene Baro at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. Included among many other artists, were Anni Albers, Jasper Johns, Willem De Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Jack Tworkov, Robert Motherwell and Andy Warhol. Wang Ming was also included in the show Asian Traditions/Modern Expressions Asian American Artists and Abstraction, 1945 – 1970 at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick. The senior curator Jeffrey Wechsler reviewed each artist for this traveling group exhibition, including C. C. Wang, Chen chi, Kenzo Okada...

Size includes Mat. Without its 8" X 4". Card pictured after painting not included. Dongkuk Ahn (1937-2013), better known as Don Ahn, was a South Korean artist and t'ai chi master who resided in New York City. Don Ahn (Ahn Dong Kuk) was born in Seoul, Korea. He studied at Seoul University (BFA), graduate student at Miami University, Oxford Ohio 1962, Pratt Institute (MFA), and New York University (Ph. D, Art History). Don Ahn was a pioneer of Korean art in America. In the 1950s he was the first Korean artist to move permanently to the US and receive recognition here, beginning with the 1952 exhibition of his work at the Kilbride Bradley Gallery in Minneapolis, the very first exhibition of Korean contemporary art in America. He belongs to the generation of Korean Abstract artists that include Kim Whan-Ki, Park Se-Bo, Lee Ufan, Chung Sang-Hwa, Yun Hyong-Keun and Ha Chong-Hyun. He was also a student of the T'ai Chi grandmaster Cheng Man-ch'ing in New York City. Ahn's work is greatly influenced by nature, specifically the cycles of nature as in Zen and other Eastern philosophies. Ascribing to the Eastern belief that nature is central to everything that exists, Ahn paints natural forms and environments, which he abstracts into brushstrokes, drips, and splatters. Titles of his paintings reference trees, wind, and water, and include Broken Branch in the Rain, Old Zen Tree, and Wind, Rain, & Ocean. His swirls and drips portray the rapid, random, and untamed effects of natural forces. Another influence or concept in Ahn's work is the dragon, a good and powerful figure from Korean and Chinese mythology, whose movements and forms Ahn suggests in whimsical ribbon-like marks and trails of paint. In Korean folk tales, dragons show goodwill to humans by sending clouds and rain, and they tend to live in lakes, rivers, and oceans. Paying tribute to this Folkloric legacy, Ahn's paintings bear titles such as Brown Dragon and Yellow Dragon, as well as titles using names of underwater creatures and habitats, like Phantasy in the Deep Sea. Ahn's ink and acrylic paintings on canvas are reminiscent of Chinese Zen Calligraphy and paintings, with their quick brushstrokes and elegant compositions. Composed of swipes and spatters that course across the pictorial field, these works blend Eastern brush painting with Abstract Expressionist "action painting." Ahn has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, including the solo shows Dragons & Oceans at Ewha Gallery, Seoul, South Korea in 2007, and Zen & Void at Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY in 2004. His work is in private and public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Dayton Art Museum, Ohio, and the Evansville Museum, Indiana. Awards and honors include First Prize (in painting) from the Dayton Art Museum Ohio Regional Art Annual in 1963, the Pratt Graduate Fellowship in 1963, First Prize (in etching) from East Coast Printmaker's Annual in 1964, and the McDowell Artist Fellowship in 1964. Selected solo exhibitions 2014 Don Ahn: Spirit, BBCN Bank, New York, NY 2014 Don Ahn (1937-2013), Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Paintings From 1968 Through 2005, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Dragons & Oceans, Ewha Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 2004 Zen & Vold, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY 1975 Lotus Gallery, New York, NY 1972 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, NY 1972 Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY 1971 Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY 1971 Dalhousie Gallery, Nova Scotia, Canada 1969 Downey Museum, Los Angeles, CA 1965 Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN 1963 Dayton Art Museum, Dayton, OH 1952 Kilbride Bradley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 1950 Korean Do-Su-Kwan Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Selected group exhibitions 2013 Coloring Time, Korean Cultural Service, New York, NY 2013 Friends, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Friends, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada 2011 Art Chicago, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada 2002 Eastern Essence, Gary Snyder Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Abstract Expressionism, Gary Snyder Gallery, New York, NY 1999 Pleiades Gallery, Seoul University Alumni show, New York, NY 1999 Korean New York Art Society Show, Jersey City, NJ 1999 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Fukuoka, Japan 1999 Artist of the Third Millennium, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Kaohsiung Museum Of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 1997 Chicago Institute Of Art, Chicago, IL 1997 Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University 1997 Asian Tradition & Modern Expression: 1945 - 1970, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University 1976 Lotus Gallery, New York 1972 Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY 1971 US National Print Biennial, Museum Of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 1969 Cooper Union, faculty show, New York, NY 1968 6th Invitational International Print Biennial, Museum Of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 1967 International Print Biennial, Grenchen, Switzerland 1967 Audubon, National Annual, New York, NY 1966 Society of American Graphic Artists, National Annual, New York, NY 1966 Ball State College, National, Drawing and Sculpture, Muncie, IN 1966 Traveling U.S. Print Show, Pratt Graphic Arts Center, New York, NY 1965 Traveling U.S. Print Show, Pratt Graphic Arts Center, New York, NY 1964 New York, Institute of Technology, faculty show New York, NY 1964 Evansville Museum, Indiana 1964 East Coast Printmakers, Village Art Center, New York, NY 1963 Ohio Regional Art Show, Dayton Art Institute, OH 1963 Drawing and Prints from the collection of J.Johnson, Cincinnati Museum of Art, OH 1962 Seattle...

Wyona Diskin, American (1915 - 1991) Elephant Acrylic on canvas mixed with collage cut out paper, foam, Signed. Measurements: H 60 x W 50 x D 1.0 inches Wyona Diskin, an American p...

Riprap 2 (Abstract Drawing) Colour pencil and acrylic on paper. Unframed. This fluid abstract work on paper is intuitively made with a coloured pencil and acrylic. The intersectin...