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Period: 1950s
Antique American School Abstract Expressionist New York City Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstracted River Canyon Landscape in Oil on Canvas
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted River Canyon Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Dramatic landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Three large cliffs tower over a river, creating a massive canyon. The landscape is represented in colors reminiscent of fauvism - greens, yellows, and magentas.
Signed "Honora Berg" at the bottom edge.
Acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Initialed and numbered "HB 103" on verso
Unframed.
This piece is on canvas that has been stretched over cardstock by the artist.
Board size: 20.5"H x 25.75"W
Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard, Canvas
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Without Beginning Without End, Two-Sided Cubist Painting by William Littlefield
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Littlefield, American (1902 - 1969)
Title: Still Life and Abstract
Year: 1950 & 1954
Medium: Double-Sided Oil on Masonite, signed and dated both sides
Size: 22 x 28 i...
Category
American Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage American School Modernist Old Lyme Connecticut New England Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist New England barn oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Signed illegibly. Image size, 24L x 20H. Framed in a period f...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in oil on Heavy Cardstock
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in Oil on Heavy Cardstock
Bold oil landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Trees with pink and white blooms line the bank of a river. The river is shown in streaks of pink, green, and yellow, reflecting the surrounding landscape. At the far edge of the river, bright green mountains sharply rise from the bank.
Acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Stamp from the Larry Miller Fine Art on verso.
Unframed.
Board size: 14.75"H x 22"W
Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Antique American Modernist New England Maine Coastal Seascape Beach Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting of coastal New England. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,820 Sale Price
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Multicolor Abstract Cubist Oil Painting with Monogram Signature MJ
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stylish abstract cubist oil on board painting with a monogram signature "M.J." is from a German artist (20th Century).
The colorful painting features a stylized abstract composi...
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Vineyard Fishing Boat"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
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 ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Composition
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Large Oil Painting
By Adele Becker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker. Framed. Oil on canvas.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,121 Sale Price
25% Off
Dorothy Dehner, Mid Century Modern signed abstract sculptural drawing, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Dorothy Dehner
Untitled Mid Century Modern abstract sculptural drawing, 1955
Marker and graphite on paper
Signed and dated by Dorothy Dehner in black felt tip pen on the front
Frame ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Graphite
'Consort', Modernist Equestrian Gouache, AIC, WPA artist, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966); additionally titled verso 'Consort' and dated 1954 with inscription, 'by the one and only buk, made for Ruth'....
Category
Art Deco 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Tempera
Incredible Mid Century Abstract Artist Interior Studio View Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century modernist interior view. So well painted with great color and bold expressive strokes. Signed illegibly. Housed in a period modernist frame. Oil ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,400 Sale Price
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Large Signed Exhibited Abstract Expressionist Original Framed Oil Painting
By Adele Becker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 41.5L x 31.5H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
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Meditation on African Sculpture, mid-century figural abstract painting
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Beachwood, OH
Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993)
Meditation on African Sculpture, 1957
Oil on found wood panel
Signed and dated lower left
20 x 15 inches
Charles Elmer Harris...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-Century Paleolithic Hunt Scene
By Nan Street Fowler
Located in Soquel, CA
A wonderful mid-century interpretation of prehistoric, Paleolithic cave paintings; done in reddish earth tones and rich in visual texture by Sausalito, California artist Nan Street F...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,160 Sale Price
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Antique American School Signed Framed Modernist "Massage" Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American signed interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Signed. Framed. Image size, 14L x 11H.
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$236 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Signed Exhibited Abstract Expressionist Original Framed Oil Painting
By Adele Becker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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Collage, 1958
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Cardboard
$16,000
Guinovart. 15 painting cardboard
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Guinovart.
Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain.
After studying at the School of the Lonja and the Promotion ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique American Abstract Cubist Mid Century Framed Composition Signed Geist
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist abstract composition signed Geist. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed lower right. Displayed in a wood frame. Image size, 7"L x 10"H, overall 15"L x 17"H.
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Fauvist Oil on Paper Honora Berg Berkeley 1959
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Fauvist Oil on Paper Honora Berg Berkeley 1959
San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist painting by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985).A brilliant fauvist example of the melting pot of colors Honora Berg creates. Splashes of red over hues of blue with bright canary yellow swirls and patches.
Estate stamp on verso "Estate of Honora Berg - Miller Fine Art"
Unframed. 30"H x 22"W.
Larry Miller 1958-2003, Larry was a specialist in bay area abstract artists and purchased numerous bay area artists estates. He purchased the entirety of the Honora Berg Estate and we purchased many of those works directly form Larry.
Honora Berg, an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist, studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-20th Century abstract geometric oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Untitled, c. 1950
Oil on paper
Signed lower right
12.5 x 19 inc...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Abstract Cubist Mid Century Framed Composition Signed Geist
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist abstract composition signed Geist. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed lower right. Displayed in a wood frame. Excellent ready to hang condition.
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Thelo #5" Diana Kurz, circa 1959 Gestural Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Thelo #5, circa 1959
Oil on canvas
22 x 20 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to Englan...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Monumental NYC Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract expressionist oil painting. No signature found.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1960s Bay Area Landscape Blue Mountains
Located in Arp, TX
Thelma Corbin Moody
Blue Mountains
c. 1960's
Gouache on Arches Paper
19 1/4" x 24 3/4", Unframed
Unsigned
Lovely, mid century gouache painting, b...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Abstract Composition - Yugoslavian French Abstract
Located in London, GB
ZORA STAACK 1910-2001
(Yugoslavian/Active in France)
Title: Abstract Composition, 1958
Technique: Original Signed and Dated Oil Painting on Canvas
size:...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Grey Landscape - 1950s - Piero Sadun - Painting - Contemporary
By Piero Sadun
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed on the rear, in excellent conditions.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape Element Dec '59 - Scottish Abstract Expressionist art oil painting
By William Gear
Located in London, GB
This stunning Scottish Abstract Expressionist oil painting is by noted Scottish artist William Gear. It was painted in 1959, just after Gear moved to Eastbourne. While contemporaries...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$13,138 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Framed Original East Hampton Beach Marsh Signed Pastel Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist pastel painting. Pastel on paper. Framed. Signed.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Vintage American School New York Modernist Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage abstract original oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Framed Original Vintage Abstract Nude Woman Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American exhibited cubist nude portrait oil painting. Oil and casein on board. Framed. Signed. Exhibition label verso.
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
'Abstract, Indigo and Ivory', Large SF Bay Area Modernist oil, Legion of Honor
By Fenton Kastner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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-...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Idol 2 - Scottish 1959 Abstract Expressionist art oil painting
By William Gear
Located in London, GB
This superb Abstract Expressionist Scottish oil painting is by noted artist William Gear. It was painted in 1959 and is entitled Red Idol 2. This abstract com...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$16,422 Sale Price
20% Off
Vendimia - Grape Harvest
Located in Berlin, MD
Georges Dayez (French, 1907-1991). “Vendimia” Vintage / Grape Harvest / Wine Harvest , Oil on paper, 20”x 26 1/3, framed 27 1/4 x 33 1/4.
Dayez was a...
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Board
Vintage American Impressionist Modernist New York City Brooklyn Bridge Painting
By Kamil Kubik
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist New York City oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Label from Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011).
Category
Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,871 Sale Price
25% Off
Large Polish French Paris Scene Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Moulin Rouge
By Abram Krol
Located in Surfside, FL
Wonderful scene of the Moulin Rouge cabaret nightclub at Place Pigalle in Paris. Painted in wonderful moody blue and red colors.
Size includes frame.
Abram Abraham Krol was born Jan...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Collage - Still Life
By Marion Huse
Located in Storrs, CT
Brilliantly-colored collage with various texts and butterfly prints. Oil on canvas measures 20 x 24, presented in a modern frame with white linen liner; frame measures 26 5/8 x 30 5/...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Cubist Framed Mid Century Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Composition in Pink and Black in Acrylic on Cardboard
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Composition in Pink and Black in Acrylic on Cardboard
Dynamic abstract in black and pink by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). This piece is composed of multiple layers, with bright, bold colors at the bottom, building to black on top. Pink, magenta, yellow, and orange shine through a net of black.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Estate stamp on verso "Estate of Honora Berg - Miller Fine Art"
Numbered "246" on verso
Unframed.
Art size: 21.25"H x 14"W
Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Acrylic
Black Red Figure no. 2 - Scottish 1957 Abstract Expressionist art oil painting
By William Gear
Located in London, GB
This superb Abstract Expressionist Scottish oil painting is by noted artist William Gear. It was painted in 1957 and is entitled Black/Red Figure no. 2. This abstract composition is ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$13,138 Sale Price
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"Composition with Figure, " Irene Rice Pereira
Located in New York, NY
Irene Rice Pereira
Composition with Figure, 1951
Inscribed, signed and dated Salford/Pereira 2/51 (lr); inscribed I Rice Pereira/2669 Great Clowes St/Sa...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Casein
Vintage Female Modernist Abstract Nature Painting Albright Knox Provenance
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting by Jane Lapey. Oil on canvas. Exhibition label verso. Framed. Image size, 28L x 22H.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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Mid Century Modernist NYC Cubist Abstract Large Framed Exhibited Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract cubist composition "Terra Firma Theme 10" by Augustus Goertz (Born 1948) . Oil on canvas, circa 1958. Housed in a period gi...
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Surreal Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on paper. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$521 Sale Price
25% Off
Red Idol - British 50's art abstract oil painting - Modernist COBRA - provenance
By William Gear
Located in London, GB
An original oil on canvas by the noted Scottish artist William Gear. A fabulous painting. One of his best and a seminal work which dates to 1959.
Provenance. Douglas Foulis Art Galle...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$35,035 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Large Great Color Abstract Modernist Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Unsgned. Image size 36L x 60H.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
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The Yellow and Black Square (1959), [SF58-133], Abstract Painting by Sam Francis
By Sam Francis
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Sam FRANCIS (1923-1994)
THE YELLOW AND WHITE SQUARE
Signed, titled and dated 1959 on the reverse
Watercolor on paper
11 by 10 in. (27.9 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1959
This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF58-133 in consideration for the
forthcoming Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Unique Works on Paper.
PROVENANCE
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Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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Antique American Impressionist Palm Beach Florida Cityscape Signed Oil Painting
By Kamil Kubik
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist street scene oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011) . Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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1970s Abstract Figurative Oil Painting – Modernist City Scene With Couple
Located in Denver, CO
Artist: George Cecil Carter (1908–1993)
Medium: Oil on board
Size: Image: 16 ⅞ x 9 ⅞ in Framed: 20 ⅝ x 13 ½ x 1 ⅞ in
Style: Mid-Century Modern, Abstract Figurative
This striking 1950s oil painting by celebrated Colorado abstract expressionist George Cecil Carter presents a modernist portrayal of a couple, believed to depict Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe. Rendered in bold brushstrokes and a rich color palette, the piece showcases Carter’s unique ability to merge abstraction with figurative expression, creating a sense of movement and emotion.
Housed in a custom frame, this original mid-century artwork is a must-have for collectors of modernist and abstract figurative art.
Provenance:
From a private collection in Denver, Colorado.
About the Artist – George Cecil Carter
Born in Oklahoma in 1908, Carter became a leading figure in Colorado’s abstract expressionist movement, working alongside artists like Al Wynne, Mary Chenoweth...
Category
American Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract in Yellow Green & Red - British 1955 abstract art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British 1950's abstract oil on board painting is by noted Slade School trained contemporary artist Leo Davy. Davy was born in Yorkshire but settled in Cornwall in 1968 an...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$8,758 Sale Price
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Antique American School Framed Modernist Nocturnal Cityscape Urban Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 11.5H.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
By the Dawn's Early Light, mid-century abstract black, red, yellow oil painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Charles Green Shaw (American, 1892-1974)
By the Dawn's Early Light, 1955
Oil on masonite
Signed lower left, dated and titled verso
35.5 x 23.75 inches
38 x 26.25 inches, framed
Provenance: The estate of the artist to Charles H. Carpenter
Charles Green Shaw, born into a wealthy New York family, began painting when he was in his mid-thirties. A 1914 graduate of Yale, Shaw also completed a year of architectural studies at Columbia University. During the 1920s Shaw enjoyed a successful career as a freelance writer for The New Yorker, Smart Set and Vanity Fair, chronicling the life of the theater and café society. In addition to penning insightful articles, Shaw was a poet, novelist and journalist. In 1927 he began to take a serious interest in art and attended Thomas Hart Benton's class at the Art Students League briefly in New York. He also studied privately with George Luks, who became a good friend. Once he had dedicated himself to non-traditional painting, Shaw's writing ability made him a potent defender of abstract art.
After initial study with Benton and Luks, Shaw continued his artistic education in Paris by visiting numerous museums and galleries. From 1930 to 1932 Shaw's paintings evolved from a style imitative of Cubism to one directly inspired by it, though simplified and more purely geometric. Returning to the United States in 1933, Shaw began a series of abstracted cityscapes of skyscrapers he called Manhattan Motifs which evolved into his most famous works, the shaped canvases he called Plastic Polygons.
The 1930s were productive years for Shaw. He showed his paintings in numerous group exhibitions, both in New York and abroad, and was also given several one-man exhibitions. Shaw had his first one-man exhibition at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery in New York in 1934, which included 25 Manhattan Motif paintings and 8 abstract works. In the spring of 1935 Shaw was introduced to Albert Gallatin and George L.K. Morris. Gallatin was so impressed with Shaw's work, he broke a policy against solo exhibitions at his museum, the Gallery of Living Art, and offered Shaw an exhibition there. In the summer of 1935 Shaw traveled to Paris with Gallatin and Morris who provided introductions to many great painters. Shaw regularly spent time with John Ferren and Jean Hélion. The following year Gallatin organized an exhibition called Five Contemporary American Concretionists at the Reinhardt Gallery that included Shaw, Ferren, and Morris, Alexander Calder, and Charles Biederman...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Autumn Trees Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid mid century landscape of autumn trees blurring into colorful abstraction by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 10" H X 8" W.
G...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$880 Sale Price
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John Hatch American Cubist Landscape Oil Painting Massachusetts Seascape 1952
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on board painting by American modernist John W. Hatch. This incredible cubist landscape was created in 1952. Estate stamped and dated on the reverse. Titled, "Nahant Rocks, Lynn, MA " with a partial exhibition label on the reverse.
The painting comes housed in a black wood frame presentation.
John Woodsum Hatch
1919-1998
During his fifty-year career as an artist, John Woodsum Hatch explored the people, the landscape, and the seascape around him. From his extensive travels to his years in New Hampshire, he developed a body of work that captures a sense of place. Through watercolor, ink and sand, he depicted the grandeur of the White Mountains. The crisp light and distinct topography of the Isles of Shoals and Great Bay Estuary are precisely and clearly documented in acrylic and tempera paintings. His ability to convey the sheer scale and longevity of the mountains and sea, and by comparison the fleeting nature of human life, conveys in a not-so-subtle way that the natural environment is to be revered and preserved.
Hatch took his first teaching job at the University of New Hampshire in 1949, the same year he graduated from Yale University. He never left. A former student, Sam Cady, described his contributions: “He was a wonderful mix of jokester and sage. A teacher who obviously loved people, loved teaching, and had a great gift for it.” After retiring in 1985, he was made an honorary Professor Emeritus at UNH.
Hatch contributed to New Hampshire's cultural life in three areas: his teaching, his art, and his community service. His effectiveness in these three areas can be traced his commitment to give something of himself to help others. Many artists teach by necessity and resent it as a drain on their creative energies but Hatch found his greatest fulfillment from a combination of teaching, making art, and being deeply involved with his community as an art historian and as an environmentalist.
Hatch’s work can be seen in numerous public collections, including: the Addison Gallery of American Art; DeCordova Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; State of New Hampshire's Living Treasures Collection, and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. John Woodsum Hatch, New Hampshire's 1997 Living Treasure Award recipient, died on August 6, 1998, at the age of 78.
Hatch was a draftsman, an artist and a muralist. His works can be found in public and private collections throughout the region. He exhibited at the New Hampshire Art...
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Female Artist Abstract Expressionist Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist abstract painting by Elsie Orfuss (Born 1913). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Nicely framed.
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Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Géométries - Tempera on Paper by Ph. Ferrando - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Géométries is an original oil drawing on watermarked paper, realized by the French artist Ph. Ferrando.
Signed and dated "4.12. 53" in black ink on the lower right margin.
In very...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
$395 Sale Price
25% Off
Vintage Surreal Modernist Nude Erotic Macabre Skeleton Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage and usual American school painting. Oil on board.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
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The early-20th-century Swedish abstractionist took artistic cues from spiritualist writings and occult practices. Now, 21st-century creators are taking cues from her.
Get to Know the Artists Who Led the Op Art Movement
In the 1960s and '70s, the hypnotic creations of Op artists went mainstream and influenced the look of pop culture.
Dorothy Hood’s Boundless Abstractions Are Back with a Fierceness
Works from the impressive oeuvre of the largely unknown Texas native are now on view at Houston's McClain Gallery.
French Artist Marie Raymond Was So Much More Than Yves Klein’s Mom
Seminal works from the mid-20th-century painter's lyrical abstract oeuvre are now on view at Paris's Diane de Polignac Gallery.
For Oliver Lee Jackson, Painting Is a Fierce and Sacred Matter
The artist and activist is the subject of a new show at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art.