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Milly Ristvedt
Mott Continuum - large, bright, orange, geometric abstraction, acrylic on canvas

2019

$16,500
£12,671.29
€14,521.14
CA$23,227.92
A$26,020.41
CHF 13,559.01
MX$317,395.29
NOK 172,303.86
SEK 162,470.26
DKK 108,381.83

About the Item

Spheres of burnt orange, turquoise and sapphire blue move in a lyrical and jazzy dance across a hot orange ground in this masterful canvas by Milly Ristvedt. The painting demonstrates the artist's powerful aesthetic and points to the emotional potential of color. This painting is named after David Mott, a baritone saxophonist and composer. He is well known as a solo virtuoso and he has developed many extended techniques for the baritone. A graduate of Berklee College of Music and the Yale University School of Music, he has performed with many notable musicians and ensembles including Gil Evans, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dresser, Stevie Wonder, Ray Anderson, David Lopato, Pat Labarbera, and the International Baritone Conspiracy. His composition Continuum can be heard on Youtube. Mott is an avid collector of Ristvedt’s work and they are close friends. Recently, she created a painting before a small audience in response to his live improvisation. Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) MA, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art. At 24, her work was included in the Centennial Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario and featured at the National Gallery of Canada. She was chosen for prestigious exhibitions in Winnipeg, Paris and Lausanne. By 1969, Ristvedt was painting large canvases, sharing a studio with Jack Bush and showing with the Carmen Lamanna Gallery. That same year, Barry Lord observed in Art in America that Ristvedt’s paintings were “…more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.” Over her long career, Ristvedt has had over 50 solo exhibitions. A advocate for artist's rights, Ristvedt was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. She completed an MA in Art History at Queen's University in 2011. Ristvedt's abstract, acrylic canvases are held in private, corporate and public collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and Harvard University.
  • Creator:
    Milly Ristvedt (1942, Canadian)
  • Creation Year:
    2019
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 60 in (152.4 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Bloomfield, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2914942861

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