Vera Simons

MIxed Media Collage Assemblage Abstract Painting Pioneering Female Aviator

1985

This is an Abstract Expressionist torn and folded paper painted collage. The paper is metallicized through some process. they are very luminous and beautiful. it is mounted on heav...

This is an Abstract Expressionist torn and folded paper painted collage. The paper is metallised through some process. they are very luminous and beautiful. it is mounted on heavy ...

American Artist 1922 – 2012 Served his country as a Sergeant in World War II, both stateside and in the Philippines. After the war, native Chicagoan Ronald Ahlström graduated from the School of the Art Institute, He became a prominent Abstract Expressionist collage assemblage maker working in a style similar to some of the New York school assemblage artists such as Robert Goodnough. Utilizing cutout letters in a concrete poetry style. He frequently exhibited his collages and paintings in the Chicago and Vicinity exhibits of the 1950s and 1960s. He worked as the curator of the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma WA during the early 1960s. He showed at Exhibition Momentum in the ’60s, and was selected for the Corcoran Biennial. Together with his colleagues and fellow-abstractionists Robert Nickle, Morris Barazani, Harry Bouras, George Kokines, and George Waite, he exhibited at McCormick Place in an independently produced survey of contemporary Chicagoans, circa 1962, under the banner 12 Chicago Artists. An adept and sensitive painter, Ahlström’s most personal work is as an abstract expressionist collage maker. Using strips of paper, sometimes weathered and beaten into rough hewn surfaces, he creates immaculately layered, lively, gestural compositions. He was the recipient of many art awards and prizes throughout his long career. His works are part of numerous private, corporate and museum collections. His work was published in many national and international art publications including Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Art. he taught art at both high school and college level. His other passions included history, literature and music. He was an accomplished base fiddle and guitar player and often played professionally in clubs during the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1958, he was awarded the William H. Bartels Prize of five hundred dollars at the Art Institute of Chicago. Education: Art Institute of Chicago University of Chicago DePaul University Exhibitions: Art Institute of Chicago Annuals, Corcoran Biennial in Washington DC, 12 Chicago Artists 50 Chicago Artists European Exhibit at the US Information Agency Collage and Construction, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Tacoma Art Museum, Washington Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle 50th Northwestern Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Chicago Invitational, University of Illinois One Man Exhibits: Rockford College, Rockford Il. Barat College, Lake Forest Il. Rodger Wilson Gallery, Chicago, Il. Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY. Joseph Faulkner, Main Street Galleries, Chicago, Il. Zriny Galleries, Chicago Il. Awards: Clyde Carr Prize, Art Institute of Chicago William H. Bartels Prize, Art Institute of Chicago James Broadus Clark Prize, Art Institute of Chicago Alumni of Art Institute Prize Singer and Sons Prize, Navy Pier, Chicago Abel Fagan Prize, Festival of Fine Arts, Lake Forest, Il. Ford Foundation Purchase Prize, Seattle, Wa. Collections: Art Institute of Chicago Barat College Tacoma Art Museum, Wa. Phibrook Art Center, Tulsa, Ok. Blue-Cross Collection, Chicago, Il. Atlantic Richfield Collection Illinois Bell Telephone Collection Container Corporation of...

Sandy Kinnee is known for paper making, printmaking and collage. This has the artists stamp verso and is signed, titled and dated verso. Sandy Kinnee lives and works in Colorado Springs, CO. Kinnee was born on March, 30, 1947 in Port Huron, MI. He received his BFA from the University of Michigan in 1969 and MFA from Wayne State University in 1976. Kinnee has taught at Colorado College, the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. Sandy Kinnee was awarded a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant. His work bears some surface similarities to Sam Francis and Alan Shields works. This has the feel of the Pattern and Decoration art movement. His print works are represented in numerous public and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, Swissair, Zurich, CH Suchard Chocolate, Walt Disney World (Michael Graves designed Hotel, at), Westinghouse Art Collection, General Mills Art Collection. Select Solo Exhibitions 2019 Buell Theatre, Denver, CO 2019 McNichol’s Building, Denver, CO 2019 William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO 2017 Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado Springs, CO 2002 Visual Arts Gallery, Central Arizona College, Coolidge, AZ 1999 Art Selection, Zurich, Switzerland Select Group Exhibitions 2015 “Director’s Favorites: 1999–2015”, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT. 2008 “The Imbedded Image – Current Work In Hand Papermaking”, St. Louis, MO. 1999 Art Multiple, Dusseldorf, Germany 1999 SAGA/FICA Edition, Paris, France 1996 Kunstmessig, Olso, Norway 1994 Dresden Art Fair, Dresden, Germany 1993 Dusseldorf, Germany 1992 “Four Americans” Art Selection, Zurich, Switzerland 1990 Alumni Exhibition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1989 Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL 1984 “Watercolors”, Cunningham Memorial Art Gallery, Bakersfield, CA 1984 “Paper Transformed: A National Exhibition of Paper Art”, Terre Haute, IN 1984 “Paperworks”, Academy of Art College Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983 “Fan and Kimono”, Kauffman Galleries, Houston, TX 1980 “In Celebration of Prints”, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA 1980 “Selected Prints”, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, NJ 1980 “Ten Western Printmakers”, a Traveling Exhibition, organized by WSAF 1980 “Its Pure Paper”, Lake Placid School of Art, Lake Placid, NY 1980 “Fire and Water”, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY 1979 “Fans”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1978 “Paper as Medium”, traveling exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian Institution 1977 “Works on Handmade Paper”, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC 1977 “Paper Art”, Land Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 1976 “Works...

Sandy Kinnee is known for paper making, printmaking and collage. This has the artists stamp verso. Sandy Kinnee lives and works in Colorado Springs, CO. Kinnee was born on March, 30, 1947 in Port Huron, MI. He received his BFA from the University of Michigan in 1969 and MFA from Wayne State University in 1976. Kinnee has taught at Colorado College, the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. Sandy Kinnee was awarded a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant. His work bears some surface similarities to Sam Francis and Alan Shields works. This has the feel of the Pattern and Decoration art movement. His print works are represented in numerous public and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, Swissair, Zurich, CH Suchard Chocolate, Walt Disney World (Michael Graves designed Hotel, at), Westinghouse Art Collection, General Mills Art Collection. Select Solo Exhibitions 2019 Buell Theatre, Denver, CO 2019 McNichol’s Building, Denver, CO 2019 William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO 2017 Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado Springs, CO 2002 Visual Arts Gallery, Central Arizona College, Coolidge, AZ 1999 Art Selection, Zurich, Switzerland Select Group Exhibitions 2015 “Director’s Favorites: 1999–2015”, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT. 2008 “The Imbedded Image – Current Work In Hand Papermaking”, St. Louis, MO. 1999 Art Multiple, Dusseldorf, Germany 1999 SAGA/FICA Edition, Paris, France 1996 Kunstmessig, Olso, Norway 1994 Dresden Art Fair, Dresden, Germany 1993 Dusseldorf, Germany 1992 “Four Americans” Art Selection, Zurich, Switzerland 1990 Alumni Exhibition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1989 Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL 1984 “Watercolors”, Cunningham Memorial Art Gallery, Bakersfield, CA 1984 “Paper Transformed: A National Exhibition of Paper Art”, Terre Haute, IN 1984 “Paperworks”, Academy of Art College Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983 “Fan and Kimono”, Kauffman Galleries, Houston, TX 1980 “In Celebration of Prints”, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA 1980 “Selected Prints”, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, NJ 1980 “Ten Western Printmakers”, a Traveling Exhibition, organized by WSAF 1980 “Its Pure Paper”, Lake Placid School of Art, Lake Placid, NY 1980 “Fire and Water”, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY 1979 “Fans”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1978 “Paper as Medium”, traveling exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian Institution 1977 “Works on Handmade Paper”, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC 1977 “Paper Art”, Land Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 1976 “Works...

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 w...

This vibrant artwork by late Houston artist Dick Wray is an abstract oil painting in the style of abstract expressionism. Thick layers of paint foster a remarkable tactility commonly...

This vibrant artwork by late Houston artist Dick Wray is an abstract oil painting in the style of abstract expressionism. Thick layers of paint foster a remarkable tactility commonly...

This abstract oil painting by late Houston artist Dick Wray expresses a striking kinetic energy. Thick layers of paint foster a remarkable tactility commonly found in Dick Wray’s art...

This abstract oil painting by late Houston artist Dick Wray exhibits a striking kinetic energy. Thick layers of paint foster a remarkable tactility commonly found in Dick Wray’s artw...

This vibrant artwork by late Houston artist Dick Wray is an abstract oil painting in the style of abstract expressionism. Thick layers of paint foster a remarkable tactility commonly...

This vibrant artwork by late Houston artist Dick Wray is an abstract oil painting in the style of abstract expressionism. Thick layers of paint foster a remarkable tactility commonly...