1950s Abstract Paintings

Berto Lardera (1911-1989). Collage, 1958. Paper, cardboard, paint. 29 x 40.5 inches; 31.5 x 42 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right. Bears origina...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed and dated 1950 lower right. Richard Peter Hoffman (1911-1977) Richard Peter Hoffman was a precisionist painter, ph...

Unidentified/Unknown Artist "Untitled (Autumnal Landscape in Ochre, Red, Green) , Abstract Landscape Oil on Canvas signed, 26.25 x 32.50, Mid 20th Century, 1957 Colors: Ochre, White...

Signed verso "F. Kastner" for Fenton Kastner (American, 1915-2008), dated 1955, and titled "Waterfront-IV". Old label verso inscribed with artist's name and title. A dynamic, mid-...

Painted by Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955, and with Di Gesu estate stamp verso. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art C...

Lively abstract painting with primary tones of yellows, reds and greens with accents of blue and black on white background, 1952. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper dis...

Presenting an original oil and sand on canvas by Italian artist Gastone Breddo, "L'Universo.". Born in Italy in 1915, Breddo worked throughout his life as an abstract/futurist art...

An original oil on canvas painting by American female painter Irene Zevon.

Thisoil painting on masonite board, "Untitled," by Modernist Stanley Bate was created circa 1950, part of his earlier body of work. The dark, heavy line work combined with bright col...

An original mixed media mid century modern painting by American female artist Irene Zevon.

A modern abstract painting by American female New York City artist Irene Zevon titled "Medusa" created in 1960. This painting was born out of Zevon's Flamenco series, but opened u...

Our gallery is proud to represent the estate of the late George Dergalis on behalf of his widow. This colorful vibrant abstract is signed and dated 1957-58. Framed by the artist in a...

A modern abstract painting by American female New York City artist Irene Zevon titled Nocturne created in 1956. This is an experimental work for Zevon. She utilized aerosol paint...

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Oil on canvas, signed lower right The painting will be framed at the same price.

A mid century modernist oil painting. No signature found. Circa 1960. Image size, 48"L x 32"H

We are proud to present the following suite of just discovered, mixed media paintings, c.1957, by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010) Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific...

Presenting a mid century mixed media painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, "Cubist Nude in Green:, an original oil and collage on panel, ...

Signed lower right "Cornin," dated "LVII" for 1957, and titled verso "Uncial." Jon Cornin first studied with Raphael Soyer at New York's Art Student's League and, subsequently, at the Grand Central School of Art. Using the pseudonym, CorKa, he and his wife, Zena Kavin produced cartoons for Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker from 1941-1952. The Cornins moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1940 and settled in Oakland. In addition to his career as a painter, Jon Cornin was also a noted teacher, respected theorist of Modernism and the author of 'Painter's Credo: Selected Notes' (Stone House Press, 1985). He exhibited widely and with success and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards. Partial List of Exhibitions: Museum of New Mexico, 1937-39; Oakland Art Gallery, 1939-45; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1938, 1940, 1945; California Watercolor...

An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...

Signed and Dated Lower Right Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984) He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the ...

Signed lower right, "Gilberg" for Robert Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and dated 1954. A substantial, mid-century gouache abstract comprising pendant geometric forms in pastel tone...

Signed and dated 1958 lower right. Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984) He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, returning to New York when he was 20. From 1913 to 1916, he enjoyed a scholarship from the Art Students League, and worked with John C. Johansen (a portraitist whose expressive style resembled that of John Singer Sargent), and Anders Zorn. He accepted a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1916, remaining there until 1921. This enabled him to travel to Europe to study Cézanne’s paintings and works of the Old Masters. He traveled to Paris, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, and Munich seeking the works of Titian, Cranach, Rembrandt, Veronese, and Holbein, which gave him new perspective. Vytlacil studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, settling there in 1921. Fellow students were Ernest Thurn and Worth Ryder, who introduced him to famous abstractionist Hans Hofmann. He worked with Hofmann from about 1922 to 1926, as a student and teaching assistant. During the summer of 1928, after returning to the United States, Vytlacil gave lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on modern European art. Soon thereafter, he became a member of the Art Students League faculty. After one year, he returned to Europe and successfully persuaded Hofmann to teach at the League as well. He spent about six years in Europe, studying the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Dufy. In 1935, he returned to New York and became a co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. He later had teaching posts at Queens College in New York; the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California; Black Mountain College in North Carolina; and the Art Students League. His paintings exhibit a clear inclination toward modernism. His still lives and interiors from the 1920s indicate an understanding of the art of Cézanne. In the 1930s, his works displayed two very different kinds of art at the same time. His cityscapes and landscapes combine Cubist-inspired spatial concerns with an expressionistic approach to line and color. Vytlacil also used old wood, metal, cork, and string in constructions, influenced by his friend and former student, Rupert Turnbull. He eventually ceased creating constructions as he considered them too limiting. The spatial challenges of painting were still his preference. During the 1940s and 1950s, his works indicated a sense of spontaneity not felt in his earlier work. He married Elizabeth Foster in Florence, Italy, in 1927 and they lived and worked in Positano, Italy for extended periods of time. Later on, they divided their time between homes in Sparkill, New York and Chilmark, Massachusetts, where Vyt, as he was affectionately called, taught at the Martha's Vineyard Art...

You are viewing an abstract expressionist painting by American female artist Harrier Holden Nash. Harriet was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived with her husband in ...

Dynamic French abstract fusing various shapes and patterns with bright and bold hues, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival ...

Huguette ARTHUR-BERTRAND Title: Kablonn - Powanu Technique: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 92 x 73 cm Date: 1959 Signed Huguette Arthur-Bertrand was the leading female membe...

Captivating acrylic abstract painting using a vast array of colors to depict an abstract human face and hand with a landscape in the background under a setting sun and souls Flying o...

Composition 1955 Oil on panel Signed and Dated 61 x 50 cm The painting is framed. This beautiful painting is representative of David Lan Bar's 1950's compositions. David...

An unsigned mid century modern American abstract painting

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Mercedes Matter (1913 - 2001) Best known as a painter of abstract still life and founder of the New York Studio School, M...

Rolph Scarlett painted and exhibited nationally over a multi decade career. Paintings by Rolph Scarlett were exhibited at the Museum of Art, at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and the University of Guelph. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum owns over sixty of Scarlett's oils, watercolors, and drawings. The Dance, is a mixed media gouache on paper, signed, c.1950. A bright, modernist depiction of musicians and dancers...

Composition 1956 Oil on panel Signed and Dated 73 x 100 cm The painting is framed. This beautiful painting is representative of David Lan Bar's 1950's compositions. Dav...

Abstract Arthur Okamura (American, 1932-2009) Signed and Dated Lower Right 36 x 42 inches 37 x 43 inches with frame Arthur Okamura was born in Long Beach, California, February 24, 1932. He was interned at the Santa Anita Race Track "Assembly Center" soon after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan, on December 1, 1941. After 6 months, he and his family were transferred to Amache Relocation Center in Colorado, where they lived for three years. After the war ended in 1945, Arthur and his family relocated to Chicago, Illinois. There he attended grammar school, high school and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was in Chicago that he got married and started off in his formative years as an artist. Arthur had always planned to be an artist and began working after school at a silkscreen poster studio when he was fifteen years old. He worked there for twelve years and became the main layout artist and stencil cutter. Upon graduating from the Art Insititute in 1945, he received the Edward L. Ryerson Foreign Travel Fellowship and went, with his wife, to Mallorca in the Balearic Islands to paint. It was in Mallorca that he first met Robert Creeley. Creeley became a close friend who offered him inspiration and influenced his work. Back again in Chicago in 1956, Arthur, his wife and his first child packed up their car and moved to San Francisco, at the suggestion of Arthur's Chicago art dealer, Charles Feingarten, who was opening a gallery in San Francisco. Subsequently, Feingarten opened other galleries in Carmel, Los Angeles and New York. For years Arthur Okamura painted and exhibited prodigiously. In 1959, now with four children, Arthur moved from San Francisco to Bolinas. He and his wife at that time divorced and have since remarried. In 1997 Arthur retired from teaching at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California, where he taught for 31 years. Education: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1950-54 Yale University Summer Art Seminar, 1954 University of Chicago, 1951, 1953, 1957 Teaching: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1957 Central YMCA College of Chicago, 1956, 1957 Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 1956, 1957 North Shore Art League, Winnetka, IL, 1957 Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA, 1958 California College of Arts & Crafts, Professor of Fine Arts, 1958, 1959, 1966-1997 San Francisco Studio of Art, Director, 1958 Saugatuck Summer Art School, Saugatuck, MI, 1959, 1962 University of Utah, Guest Lecturer, 1964, 1972 Fort Wright College, Spokane, WA, 1976 University of California, Santa Cruz Humboldt State College, 1977 Watercolor Painting in Tahiti, 1987 Watercolor Painting in Bali (Sponsored by Wilderness Journeys/Art Trek & University of California, Santa Cruz), 1989, 1991 Professor Emeritus: California College of Arts & Crafts, 1997 Exhibitions: The Art Institute of Chicago Annuals, 1951-1954 Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1954 Downtown Gallery, NY Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art University of Washington, Seattle, 1955 Ravinia Art Festival, Highland Park, IL American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago Contemporary Americans, LA County Museum Art In Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum Contemporary American Painting, Art Institute of Chicago Society of Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago West Coast Painters, American Federation of Art San Francisco Annual, San Francisco Museum Contemporary Americans, University of Nebraska Recent Acquisitions, Denver Museum Drawings of California Artists, Sponsored by U.S. Information Center, Berlin, Cologne, Germany, 1958-1959 New Talent, American Federation of Art, 1959 Dallas Museum of Art Fresh Paint, De Young Museum, San Francisco, 1958 Knoedler Gallery, NY, 1959 Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1959 Whitney Museum, NY, 1960 Sculpture and Drawing, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1961 Great by Greats, Time Life Building, NY, 1961 Whitney Annual, 1962,1963,1964 Forty Artists Under Forty, Whitney Museum, 1962 Bay Area Artists, San Francisco Museum, 1962 Recent Collections by Friends of the Whitney, Whitney Museum 1964 Ravinia Art Festival, Lake Forest, IL 1964 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1964 Pacific Heritage, LA County Museum 1965 SECA Exhibit, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1966 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 1966 Painters Behind Painters, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1967 Pittsburgh International Carnegie Institute, 1967 Takashima 1970 Exposition, Osaka/Tokyo, Japan, 1970 Bay Area Art Faculties, College of Marin, 1970 Asian Artists, Oakland Museum, 1971 Imaginary Painting from S.F. California State, University of San Jose, 1972 "A Sense of Place" Exhibit, Joslyn Nebraska Art Museum, 1973 Four from CCAC, Berkeley Art Center, 1974 Falkirk Connnunity Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, 1975 Two-Person Show with Joan Rosenbaum, Walnut Creek Art Center, 1975 "Zen Gardens", San Jose State University, 1976 Tropical Visions, St. Mary's College, 1989 Tropic Exotic, TransAmerica Pyramid, SF, 1986 "On The Trail," Claudia Chaplin Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA, 1987 "Opening Show," Bolinas Museum, 1988 "Miniature Show," Bolinas Museum, 1990 "In The Garden," Bolinas Museum, 1991 "60 Plus: Older Artists of West Marin," Bolinas Museum, 1993 Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA, 1993 "Sea Fever," Transamerica Pyramid, 1993 "Cats," Bolinas Museum, 1993 "With New Eyes," San Francisco State University, 1995 "As Seen At The Beach," Bolinas Museum, 1997 "Miniature Show," Bolinas Museum, 1997 Solo Exhibitions: Frank Ryan Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1953 La Boutique, Chicago, IL, 1953,1954 Feingarten Galleries, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, LA, 1956-1976 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1958 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1961 Calhoun Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1962 University of Utah, 1964 M. Knoedler & Company, NY, 1965 Hanson Gallery, San Francisco, 1964-1968 College of Holy Names, Oakland, 1966 Drawings, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1968 Hanson Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, 1971 Govett Brewster Gallery, New Zealand, 1971 University of Southern Idaho, 1972 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, 1972 Kent State University, Kent, OH, 1973 Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1973 Conunonweal, Bolinas, CA, 1980 Stinson Beach Art Center, 1983 Ruth Braunstein Gallery, SF, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1994 Retrospective: "Selections From a Lifetime of Art," 1995. Concurrently at the Bolinas Museum and at the Claudia Chaplin Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA "Early Paintings," Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1996 "Recent Bolinas Landscapes," Commonwealth - 20th Anniversary Celebration, Bolinas, CA, September 1996 Prizes: Religious Arts, University of Chicago, 1st Prize 1953 Contemporary American Paintings, Art Institute of Chicago, Martin Cahn Award, 1957 University of Illinois, Purchase Award 1957 79th Annual, San Francisco Museum, Schwabacher-Frey Award 1960 Whitney Museum of Art, Neysa McMein Purchase Award 1960 National Society of Arts & Letters, New York, $1,500 Purchase Award San Francisco Art Commission, Purchase Prize 1976 Public Collections: Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago Santa Barbara Museum Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of Art San Francisco Museum of Art University of Illinois Borg Warner Collection, Chicago, IL Phoenix Art Museum Illinois State Normal Container Corporation of America National Society of Arts and Letters Johnson Wax Collection Joseph Hirschhorn Collection U.S. Steel Service Institute Corcoran Museum Whitney Museum Miles Laboratory Auchenbach Foundation California Palace of the Legion of Honor California College of Arts & Crafts Kalamazoo College National Collection of Fine Arts Smithsonian Institution Illinois Bell...

This is a beautiful textured black and white oil painting by Abstract Expressionist Ruth Wall. It is signed on verso circa 1950. It measures 22"x34" and comes framed.

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker (1929 - 2021). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Antique Scottish modernist still life by David McClure (1926 - 1998). Original oil painting. Framed. Signed.

Antique Scottish modernist still life by David McClure (1926 - 1998). Original oil painting. Framed. Signed.

Antique American impressionist street scene oil painting by Anthony Springer (1928 - 1995). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size size, 21H x 17L.

Signed lower right, 'A. Ubeda' (Spanish, 1925-2007) and painted circa 1955. Provenance: The Art Center in La Jolla, San Diego (label verso). Agustin Úbeda Manchego-Levers Moreno-Rom...

Oil on canvas. Signed in oil, lower right recto, and countersigned in oil, verso.

Simonetta Jung was born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1917. Her father came from Trieste and her mother, Jeannette Duquesne, was a British subject and a member...

Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.

A vibrant modernist geo-abstract cityscape by American artist Harry Crowley (1898-1979). Crowley began as a musician, graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA, and taught advanced piano at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and the Westchester Conservatory of Music, where he was on the faculty for 25 years. He did not begin to paint until he was 43 and was completely self-taught, developing his own style of abstract expressionism. In 1948, he launched his own gallery exhibition at NY’s Salpeter Gallery, with several others to follow over the years at this same venue. His work can be found in many private collections around the world, including the collections of Harry Hemsley and sports commentator Walter Lanier “Red” Barber. Copies of his work also appeared on numerous covers of business holiday cards. This oil painting with thick impasto represents a bird’s eye view of a city grid...

Robert Motherwell Two Figures No. 12 1958 Oil on paperboard 19.1 x 24.1 cms (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 ins) RM12376 W41 Motherwell painted this work in Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer of 19...

Robert Motherwell Two Figures No.7 1958 Oil on paperboard mounted on board 18.9 x 23.9 cms (7 7/16 x 9 7/16 ins) RM14236 W36 Motherwell painted this work in Saint-Jean-de-Luz during...

Antique American modernist abstract signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 48L x 36H.

Calvert Coggeshall Untitled, 1958 Oil on Canvas 38 H. x 36 W. inches Provenance: The artist's estate Calvert Coggeshall worked as an abstract painter and interior designer primarily in Maine and New York City. From 1951 to 1978, he exhibited regularly with the Betty Parsons Gallery, and later with its successor, the Jack Tilton Gallery. Born in Whitesboro, New York, Coggeshall started his career as an interior designer, working on commissions for clients in the New York City area. He later consulted on the interior designs for Henry Dreyfuss' line of cruise/cargo ships called American Export, popular from the 1940s through the 1960s. In the 1940s, he also worked with inventor Arthur Young to design interiors for the first full-sized scale of Bell helicopter models...

Vintage exhibited abstract signed oil painting by Lionel Gilbert (1912 - 2005). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Exhibited.

Blue Stream Size: 42 x 80 cm (including frame) Oil on board An outstanding and visually striking mid century abstract oil painting by Swedish painter Hans Osswald (1919-1983), whose...

Antique American signed abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 36L x 30H.

Armando Barrios Composición XXVI , 1955 Oil on canvas 110 x 66 cm 43.3 x 25.9 in. The work is registered under No. 254, in the General Catalog (1930 - 1999) La Pintura Como Razón de Ser, edited by Armando Barrios Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela, 2005. " Armando Barrios was born in Caracas on August 21, 1920. Son of Serapio Barrios and Carmen Rodríguez de Barrios, both of Spanish origin. Since his adolescence he developed a great love for the arts, so from the age of 12 he was already studying at the School of Fine Arts and Applied Arts in Caracas. His searches in the artistic field were initially directed towards the study of the Impressionist and Cubist schools...

Oil on board, signed verso. Reynolds made numerous paintings on the theme of ‘moth barn’, in addition to a lithograph dating from 1956. Moth Barn Interior 3 (1952) is a diminutive va...

Oval Theme (1) builds outwards from a central red wedge, unfurling through larger slabs of colour towards the edge of the composition. The materiality of th...

Signed Measures 60" x 60" - however the artist meant for it to hang as a diamond (dimensions measure 86"x86")

AL HELD Untitled, 1950 - 1952 Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Signed verso

1956 Pastel on paper Image/sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 3/8 in. Signed and dated, lower left

The painting represents the artist's interpretation of the scene she observed while traveling slowly through Hiroshima by train in 1945/46 as a young woman, shortly after the bomb wa...

Jennie Haddad (1906-1996) Dallas Artist Image Size: 40.5 x 26 Frame Size: 49 x 34.5 Medium: Mixed Media on paper. "Patch Work" Biography Signed and Estate Stamp Jennie Haddad (1906-1...