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Period: 1970s
Modern Man, Expressionist Portrait in Red, White, and Blue
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Modern Man" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 40" x 36" oil on canvas portrait features a young African American man posing casually and s...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of the Old Tripoli - Oil on Board - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Old Tripoli is an original contempory artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Claudio Martinenghi in 1972.
Oil painting on Board.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower rig...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bay Area Figurative Movement Seated Nude
Located in Soquel, CA
Tranquil figurative portrait of a seated nude woman with brown hair and brown eyes by an unknown San Francisco bay area artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Unframed.
Category
Realist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Act. 1979. Oil on cardboard, 96x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Act. 1979. Oil on cardboard, 96x70 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine and G. Skilt...
Category
Realist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Three Women, Oil Painting by Lucio Ranucci 1971
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - )
Title: Three Women
Year: 1971
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated upper left
Size: 25 x 37 in. (63.5 x 93.98 cm)
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'For Love of Life' original ceramic plaque by Estherly Allen
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This small plaque is an intimate and exciting example of the ceramic work of Estherly Allen. She was a student of George McNeil, an important Abstract Expressionist, and this Express...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Pablo's View (Medellin): 1970's Colombian Landscape Painting on Canvas
Located in Hudson, NY
1970's landscape painting on canvas of a view in Medellin, Colombia
Calming atmospheric yellow, blue, and green palette
Made in 1979 by Bill Sullivan
oil on canvas, unframed
24 x 40 inches
signed, lower right
This modern landscape painting was made by Hudson Valley based artist, Bill Sullivan, in 1979. Interested in the style of the Hudson River School painters such as Frederic Church and Thomas Cole, Sullivan sought to adapt traditional landscapes with a modern lens. During the 1970's and 80's, Sullivan traveled in the footsteps of Frederic Church, capturing the same scenes the late artist made famous 100 years prior. Here Sullivan paints a picturesque scene overlooking a mountain range in Medellin, Colombia. Titled 'Pablo's View', Sullivan perhaps envisioned Pablo Escobar...
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Slow Days, Fast Company, 1978
By Charles Moll
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of 'Slow Days, Fast Company' written by Eve Babitz, 1978
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Procession With Elephant
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Procession with elephant, expressionist style oil painting, signed and dated.
George Russin was born in New York, he attended the High School of Music and Art to pursue both fields o...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Lovers in a Doorway', American Folk Art, Outsider artist, Figural painting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'J.P.' and painted circa 1975; additionally titled 'The Lovers' verso and initialed.
A humorous and breezy view of various figures interacting on a sidewalk.
Category
Outsider Art 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
1970s Feminist San Francisco Abstract Expressionist Figurative (Two Sided)
By Audrey E. Gabrielson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid and evocative feminist abstract expressionist figurative painting of woman and the many facets of her life, represented by multiple female figures engaged in various activities throughout the chaotic and colorful abstract expressionist canvas, by Audrey E. Gabrielson (American, 1932-2018), 1976. Verso has an abstract portrait with signature. Unframed. Image size: 29.75"H x 31.50"W
Audrey Gabrielson was an artist, poetess, sculptor, whom lived in San Francisco. She was born in Canada in 1932 and drew, colored, modeled in clay when very young. She studied at Reed College, Portland, studying with famous West Coast artist, Louis Bunce. in San Francisco she painted with artists Cucaro, Alexander E. Anderson, and Raymond Howell. She had shown in North Beach, Modesto, Gualuala Hotel, Sausalito, Abbey Party Rents (S.F.) and many more. She had ongoing exhibits at Alberta Art, Red Deer and Uglies, Lacombe. Her art was collected by national and international collectors such as authors C.Y. Lee (“Flower Drum Song”), Alfred Coppel (“34 East”); musical promoter, Ilka Pardinas, FLY, Los Angeles. Additionally, she worked in bronze, studying under S.F. sculptor C.B. Johnson. Her art was influenced and inspired by German Expressionists, Van Gogh, Lautrec, Picasso, Klimpt, Schiele, Tamayo, Conners, Park – and many more.
Obituary:
Born in Alberta, Canada, Audrey passed away at her home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood, surrounded by loved ones. Gabrielson was an artist, poet, sculptor, photographer, muse and an integral part of the San Francisco art scene of the late 1950s to late 1970s. She was a friend and contemporary of artists such as Benny Bufano...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite
Woman/Doors - Acrylic on Canvas by J. Carruana -
Located in Roma, IT
Original acrylic on canvas.
Hand signed and dated lower right: "Carruana 77". From the series: "Palmas I".
Dimensions with white frame: 136 x 101 cm
Jorge Carruana was a Cuban painter...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Figure Holding Flowers, Oil Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Juan Garcia Ripolles, Spanish (1932 - )
Title: Red Figure with Flowers
Year: 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 21.5 x 18 in. (54.61 x 45.72 cm)
Frame Size: 23 x 19.5 i...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait - 1970s - François Chapuis - Pastel - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original artwork realized by François Chapuis in the 1970s. Pastel on paper; on the lower right corner, the artist wrote his initials i...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Declaration, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman, Romanian/Israeli (1923 - 1977)
Title: Declaration
Year: Circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower left
Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 38...
Category
American Modern 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Green Virgin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hattakitkosol Somchai, Thai (1934 - 2000)
Title: Green Virgin
Year: 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 27.5 x 31.5 in. (69.85 x 80.01 cm)
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Modernist Portrait of St. Francis
By Tarmo Pasto
Located in Soquel, CA
Modernist Portrait of St. Francis
Compelling modernist oil on canvas portrait of St. Francis by Dr. Tarmo Pasto (American, 1906-1986). Presented in a taupe painted wood frame. Signed "Tarmo Pasto" bottom right, and titled "St. Francis" bottom center. Image size, 25.5"H x19.5"L.
Dr. Pasto was a long-time contributor to the California art scene, as well as an art teacher and psychologist to many successful artists. He also authored a book on art, "The Space-Frame Experience in Art", published in 1964. He, however, was mainly known to the world for introducing the works of one of his patients, Martin Ramirez...
Category
American Modern 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled Negro Troops by Antonio Romano
By Antonio Romano
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Antonio Romano (Italian/American, 1953-2017)
Mixed Media Painting
Size: 21'' x 17'', 53 x 43 cm (board);
26'' x 22'', 66 x 56 cm (frame).
A very rare piece of Romano's artwork.
Outs...
Category
Outsider Art 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
"African Village" San Antonio Texas Black Folk Artist Johnny Banks
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
Johnny Banks
(1912-1988)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 14 x 22
Frame Size: 21 x 29
Medium: mixed media
Dated 1981
"African Village"
Biography
Johnny Banks (1912-1988)
In my opinion one of the greatest Texas folk artists of all time.
The following information was compiled and submitted by Stephanie Reeves:
John Willard Banks, San Antonio, Texas, African American Folk Artist John
Willard Banks, black self-taught artist, the son of Charlie and Cora
Lee (McIntyre) Banks, was born on November 7, 1912, near Seguin, Texas.
At the age of five his parents took him to San Antonio, where he
attended Holy Redeemer School until the age of nine, when his parents
were divorced and John returned to his grandparents' farm near Seguin.
From childhood Banks's favorite pastime was drawing pictures on his Big
Chief tablet. He later recalled, "As a kid I used to lie flat on my
stomach, drawing and drawing. . . . My mother had to kick me off the
floor to sweep."
While helping out on his grandparents' farm,
Banks completed the tenth grade before striking out on his own. His
favorite activities during his youth were singing in a gospel quartet
and playing baseball. In his adult years he worked in oilfields and
cotton fields, drove a truck, and tended a San Antonio service station.
During World War II he joined the army; he held the rank of sergeant
and was stationed in the Philippines. After the war he returned to San
Antonio, where he worked as a custodian at Kelly Air Force Base, at Fort
Sam Houston, and at a local television station. Banks married Edna Mae
Mitchell in 1928, and they had five children. The marriage ended in
divorce around 1960. In 1963 he married Earlie Smith.
His
art career began in 1978 while he was recuperating from an illness for
which he had been hospitalized. Banks's wife admired her husband's
drawings and secretly took several of them to a San Antonio laundromat.
There she hung the drawings on the wall, offering them for sale at the
price of fourteen dollars. They were purchased and taken to a gallery
for framing. Quite by chance, a San Antonio physician and collector of
works of art by black artists...
Category
Folk Art 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Crayon
Les Femmes de Marche
By Didier Grandt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Didier Grandt, French (1934 - )
Title: Les Femmes de Marche
Year: 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated
Size: 31 x 16 inches
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Femmes Au Bar, Oil Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003)
Title: Femmes Au Bar
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm)
Category
Modern 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
True Confessions
By Charles Moll
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of 'True Confessions' Written by Dunne John Gregory
True Confessions, first published in 1977, is widely regarded as a classic American novel. Set in Los Angeles in 1948 and based on the notorious, never-solved Black Dahlia murder case, the story plumbs the depths of guilt and corruption — in the L.A.P.D., the Catholic Church, the construction industry, and in the relationships among them. Like the film Chinatown, which came to the screen three years before the novel, True Confessions illuminates the dark underside of Los Angeles at a time when corruption ran rampant and seemingly without shame. The book’s stature as a classic is underlined in an introduction by the brilliant novelist and screenwriter George Pelecanos, who writes of the author, “with True Confessions, he achieved what most novelists can only hope for. He left behind a work of art.”
Indeed. True Confessions works on many levels: as a crime novel, as humor (the story is often laugh-out-loud funny), as an example of masterful writing style, as an emblematic tale of a great American city, and as a novel that explores the human condition with sensitivity and deep understanding.
True Confessions revolves around the often testy relationship between two Irish-American brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy. Tom is a lieutenant in the L.A.P.D., a clever detective with a past history of corruption. Tom’s brother, Des, is a Catholic priest risen to the rank of Monsignor and the role of fixer and hatchet man for the aging Cardinal, whom he hopes to succeed. The two brothers come into conflict over their clashing agendas for a corrupt construction mogul who is one of the city’s richest and most powerful men. They have drastically different ideas about how to deal with the man.
The author writes with compassion. For example, describing bystanders in a poor neighborhood, he writes, “They weren’t bad people. Just too-little, too-late people. Has-beens, never-weres, never-will-bes.” The novel is rife with unsympathetic characters, but none of them can be viewed as evil.
The story opens and closes in the 1970s, when Tom and Des are old men, reviewing the wreckage of their careers. In between, two plots intertwine: Tom’s investigation of the shocking murder of a young woman, and Des’s attempts to strengthen the Church while scheming to position himself as the successor to the Cardinal.
The late novelist and screenwriter John Gregory Dunne — he died in 2003 at the age of 71 — came naturally to writing. He was the younger brother of the writer Dominick Dunne...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
A Good Day's Walk - Cumberland, England
By Michael Matthews
Located in Soquel, CA
Romantic English landscape titled "A good day's walk" of Cumberland England by Michael Matthews (British, b. 1933). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "Michael Matthews" lower rig...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Signpost
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
Graham Dean
1977
Signpost
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 78 x 50 inches
The painting depicts a time before electronic travel boards, when train times were chalked on blackboards. The...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Vintage Surrealist Composition - Precious Stones Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed surrealist composition evoking tribal, abstracted carved stone-like shapes fitting together like a three dimensional sphere shaped puzzle, floating in a sky blue space by Clayton Anderson (American b. 1943). Textured plaster border around the edge of the piece. Signed "Clayton Anderson" along the upper left edge and on verso. Presented in a deep maple box frame.
Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked with Ben Kimihira, Walter...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Oil, Wood Panel
"Village in the snow" Snow, white, landscape, Christmas cm. 33 x 46 1974
Located in Torino, IT
snow, winter landscape, house in the woods,russian art
Boris Lavrenko (Rostov, 1920 – St. Petersburg, 2001)
Works by Boris Lavrenko can be found in various private collections in ...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Crazy Sundays F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, Cover Illustration, 1975
By Charles Moll
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of 'Crazy Sundays F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood' written by Aaron Latham
Published by ...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Parco (Park)
By Antonio Gravina
Located in Storrs, CT
A large Impressionist-style colorful painting of a park with fountain. Oil on canvas measures 36 x 24; frame dimensions measure 44 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 1 1/2. Artist's signature, lower lef...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
PORTRAIT OF ANHALT PORTRAIOT
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"PORTRAIT OF ANHALT PORTRAIOT"
FILM MAKER
OIL ON PAPER
C.1970
17.5 X 22.5 INCHES
Morton Dimondstein
1920-2000
At the age of seventeen Morton Dimondstein enrolled in ...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Rag Paper
Time and Again
By Charles Moll
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of 'Time and Again' by Jack Finney
Time and Again is told in the first person by Simon Morley, a 28-year-old artist wor...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Camel - Oil on Cardboard by Lillo Bartoloni - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Camel is an original oil painting on cardboard, realized in 1974 by the Italian artist Lillo Bartoloni.
Hand-signed in black China ink on the lower right margin.
A beautiful profil...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Safari Hunt for the Man Eating Tiger" San Antonio Texas Black Folk Artist
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
Johnny Banks
(1912-1988)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 14 x 22
Frame Size: 21 x 29
Medium: mixed media
"The Safari Hunt for the Man Eating Tiger"
Biography
Johnny Banks (1912-1988)
In my opinion one of the greatest Texas folk artists of all time.
The following information was compiled and submitted by Stephanie Reeves:
John Willard Banks, San Antonio, Texas, African American Folk Artist John
Willard Banks, black self-taught artist, the son of Charlie and Cora
Lee (McIntyre) Banks, was born on November 7, 1912, near Seguin, Texas.
At the age of five his parents took him to San Antonio, where he
attended Holy Redeemer School until the age of nine, when his parents
were divorced and John returned to his grandparents' farm near Seguin.
From childhood Banks's favorite pastime was drawing pictures on his Big
Chief tablet. He later recalled, "As a kid I used to lie flat on my
stomach, drawing and drawing. . . . My mother had to kick me off the
floor to sweep."
While helping out on his grandparents' farm,
Banks completed the tenth grade before striking out on his own. His
favorite activities during his youth were singing in a gospel quartet
and playing baseball. In his adult years he worked in oilfields and
cotton fields, drove a truck, and tended a San Antonio service station.
During World War II he joined the army; he held the rank of sergeant
and was stationed in the Philippines. After the war he returned to San
Antonio, where he worked as a custodian at Kelly Air Force Base, at Fort
Sam Houston, and at a local television station. Banks married Edna Mae
Mitchell in 1928, and they had five children. The marriage ended in
divorce around 1960. In 1963 he married Earlie Smith.
His
art career began in 1978 while he was recuperating from an illness for
which he had been hospitalized. Banks's wife admired her husband's
drawings and secretly took several of them to a San Antonio laundromat.
There she hung the drawings on the wall, offering them for sale at the
price of fourteen dollars. They were purchased and taken to a gallery
for framing. Quite by chance, a San Antonio physician and collector of
works of art by black artists...
Category
Folk Art 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Crayon
Refugee from England ( Memories), 20th Century Contemporary Acrylic
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
Graham Dean
1975
Refugee from England ( Memories)
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 47 x 41 inches
Provenance
Nicholas Treadwell Gallery
This painting was reproduced internationally, ...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Boy with Fish, Oil Painting on Board by Thomas Kerry
Located in Long Island City, NY
Boy with Fish
Thomas Kerry, British/American
Date: circa 1970
Oil on Board, signed and dedicated verso
Size: 24 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 29 x 25 inches
Category
American Realist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Portrait Abstract Original Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American school abstract painting. Oil on board circa 1990.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
"Beach Walk" Red Figurative Hippy Painting
By Erik Sprohge
Located in Houston, TX
Red toned scene with figures lined up walking down the beach. The painting was done of hippies from the 1970's. It is framed in a wooden frame. It is signed by the artist and titled....
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Impressionist Coastal Fisherman Landscape
By William Hoey
Located in Houston, TX
Gouache painting by William Hoey featuring a small fisherman walking to the coast. Circa 1970s.
Dimensions of painting without frame: H 6.5 in. x W 8.5 in. x D .25 in.
Artist Biogr...
Category
American Realist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Japan Japanese Garden by French naive outsider folk art primitive artist, 1975
Located in Norwich, GB
A perfect painting for lovers of Japan and those of primitive/naive outside art.
It is a work by an internatoanlly noted extraordinary artist with an extraordinary life.
Maurice LOIRAND (1922-2008) is born into a working class family in Brittany, near the Atlantic coast coast in France. He starts working as a skilled labourer in the shipyards aged 15.
Aged 20, when the Nazis start to occupy the country, he joins the Resistance movement, where he meets and befriends thinkers, painters and poets. He is thus introduced to an artistic and intellectual universe far removed from the world of his origins.
Loirand finds himself drawn to art, and soon dedicates all his free time to learn how to paint. Completely self taught, he soon begins to exhibit his pictures alongside high level artists. He moves to Paris in the 1950s, and - although still working as a technician - paints all night.
He finally becomes a full time artist in 1968. International travel and a multitude of exhibitions follow. He exhibits in Brazil, Argentina, and with Jean Tiroche Gallery in New York, among others. His work is now shown alongside works by Leger, Matisse and Picasso. The Collector's Guild New York Ltd commissions Maurice Loirand for several works of lithographic art.
Loirand discovers Japan in the early 1970s, and decides to stay for 18 years.
He marries Kazué SHIMOTORI, a Japanese poet...
Category
Outsider Art 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled - Original Oil on Board - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original contempory artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Claudio Martinenghi in the second half of the XX Century.
Oil painting on board.
Hand-signed ...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dreams of Greatness
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Reproduced for the 1976 Summer Olympics, held in Montreal, Canada. It depicts a young boy dreaming of running on the U.S. Olympic ...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Shadow
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The Shado, from 1970s, 17 x 14 inches, acrylic on paper, signed lower middle. Unframed. Complimentary custom framing will be done upon customer request.
Harry Bertschmann was born i...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
How Tall I Am! - Original Tempera on Paper by Renato Rascel - 1970s
By Renato Rascel
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 35 x 45 cm.
Quanto sono alto! (How Tall I am!) is a beautiful original tempera painting on paper, realized around 1970's by the Italian versatile artist and comic ...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Abstract Expressionist Multicolor Nude Figure
By Tom Hamil
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid abstract expressionist painting of a colorful nude female figure by the artist Tom Hamil (American, b. 1928). Signed on verso "Tom Hamil". Circa 1970's. Unframed. Image size: 14"H x 8"W.
Tom Hamil, was born in New York in 1928 and raised primarily in California. After attending the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, he returned to California to begin his formal art training at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute). He completed his education at the University of Washington with a Master’s Degrees and Doctorate in Fine Arts and Education. His first solo exhibition was held in 1956. Since then, he has participated in numerous one man shows, group shows, and has been represented in galleries in the US and Mexico.
In addition to his painting, Hamil has authored and illustrated a number of books. While at the Naval Academy, he received recognition for his paintings, drawings, and illustrations. Listed among Hamil’s many awards and honors are a Ford Foundation Fellowship and an Award of Excellence from the American Graphics Society.
Currently, he lives in Zirahuen, Michoacan, Mexico and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Hamil’s statement: “I am a man...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Pink Flower Blossoms
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Florence Hasenflug, American (1914 - 2010)
Title: Pink Flower Blossoms
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. and verso
Size: 44 x 66 in. (111.76 x 167.64 cm)
Fr...
Category
American Realist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the well. 1979, oil on cardboard, 65x49 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woman at the well. 1979, oil on board, 65x49 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine an...
Category
Realist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Chinese Women In An Interior Fanning
Located in New York, NY
Jen (Zhen) Peng (B 1928) is a famous self taught Chinese/American artist. Original large oil on canvas depicting a Chinese women in an interior fanning herself.
Overall 42 x 36 in...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Turn of the Century Portrait of an Upper Class Couple in Red Tones
Located in Houston, TX
Red toned turn of the century portrait painting of an upper class couple. The painting is framed in a wooden frame with a thin white matte. It is signed by the artist in the lower ri...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed 'Darden' Lower Left
Sight Size 17.25" x 34.25," Framed 21.125" x 38.125"
llustration from a story in Black Sports Magazine, circa 1975.
A dynamic image showing the Hall of Famer stealing a base from Chicago Cubs...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Nature Woman Nude Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstracted nude, a watercolor painting by California artist Virginia Hughins (Virginia Brubaker DeWolf), (American, 1923-2004). Singed "V. Hughins" lower right. Unframed. I...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Large Colorado Modernist Oil Painting Wharf Street Plein Air New Orleans Street
By Joellyn Duesberry
Located in Surfside, FL
Joellyn T Duesberry
Wall on Wharf Street, #513, New Orleans, LA
1976. Oil on linen
Dimensions: (Frame) H 50.5" x W 66.5". sight size 50 x 66"
Joellyn Toler Duesberry (1944 – 2016) was a plein air landscape artist who worked in oils.
She said that her paintings echo the work of John Marin and Milton Avery. Of her art, Duesberry said, "I am not interested in a realist painting, I am not interested in an abstract painting. I am interested in the tension."
Joellyn Duesberry was born on June 30, 1944 in Richmond, Virginia. Growing up in rural Virginia instilled in her a love for the land. She said, "All my life I think I've unconsciously tried to recreate the place where bliss or terror first came to me. Both emotions seemed so strong that I had to locate them outside of myself, in the land. This goes back to a childhood habit of living in rural Virginia and seeking woods and creeks and lakes for solitary refuge; places where I could sketch and paint." She decided to start painting at age ten after being given a pair of red tennis shoes and walking on the beach, inspired by the colorful juxtaposition of sand, shadow, and shoe. Soon thereafter she decided that "Women artists existed and she needed to be among them."
She received a BA with Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, in art history and painting, from Smith College in 1966. In that year she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. While at Smith, she "honed her skills by making countless copies of masterworks." She took her master's degree at New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Despite her degrees, she is considered to be a self-taught artist.
Joellyn Duesberry was a plein air painter, who began "her canvases outdoors on an easel and finished] them in the studio, frequently making monotypes in between."
She moved to Denver in 1985, and embraced the Colorado landscape in her art. In that year she received an Individual Painting Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to work with Richard Diebenkorn.
In 1997, Duesberry won the Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize from the National Academy of Design. While she had a World Views residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) from 1998-1999, Duesberry painted city studies in studio space in some vacant offices of the World Trade Center's North Tower. She says that, because of her connection to the World Trade Center, the tone of her painting saddened after 9/11.
In 2005, a PBS documentary was made of Joellyn Duesberry's life, work, and creative process titled Joellyn Duesberry: Dialogue with the Artist.
Her works are held by institutions such as Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smith College Museum of Art.
Publications
1998: A Covenant of Seasons: Monotypes by Joellyn T. Duesberry, Poetry by Pattiann Rogers,
2011: Elevated Perspective: The Paintings of Joellyn Duesberry,
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Elevated Perspective: The Paintings of Joellyn Duesberry, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Joellyn Duesberry: A Passion for the Land, Leslie Levy Fine Art, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ
Joellyn Duesberry: A Passion for Western Land, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
Joellyn Duesberry Monotypes: Hidden Treasures, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
Joellyn Duesberry: Solace on Safari, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT.
Recent Monotypes, James Graham & Sons, Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Joellyn Duesberry: Monotypes, Lizan-Tops Gallery, Easthampton, NY
The Garden Paintings, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Joellyn Duesberry: Paintings, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
Joellyn Duesberry, Graham Modern, Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Joellyn Duesberry: Paintings and Monotypes, Carol Siple Gallery, Denver, CO
Joellyn Duesberry, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Significant Women Artists, Curtis Arts & Humanities Center, Greenwood Village, CO
Finding Abstraction, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO
Rocks on Paper, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Landscape Show, Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
Defining the West: 200 Years of American Imagery, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Roots, Landing Gallery, Rockland, ME
Annual Professional Painters’ Exhibition, The Century Association, New York, NY
Glory of Landscapes, Pelham Art Centre, New York, NY
Salon du Musee, Featured Artist, Salon d Arts at Gallery 1261, Denver, CO
Small Works, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO
The Urban Myth, Vision of the City, Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
The Art of Printmaking, paying homage to Open Press,Archer Concept Group,Denver,CO
Twenty Years: Paintings: Joellyn Duesberry, Bunny Harvey, and Gretchen Dow Simpson. Sculpture: Gilbert Franklin...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
The Lovers "Play Misty For Me", Black & White Figurative Abstract, Film Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful modernist abstract figurative expressionist painting in black and white of two figures, lovers (for the film Play Misty For Me), 1971 by California artist Don Heitkotter...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
UNTITLED
Located in Aventura, FL
Contained metal mercury in immersion liquid kinetic sculpture. Rotates freely on a central pivot mounted to the wall, this work can be turned, allowing the mercury to shift and flow ...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Steel
Portrait of a Rancher "Pete"
By Patience Hilda Street
Located in Soquel, CA
Oil portrait of a rancher with cowboy hat, by Patience Street (née Lloyd) (English, 1905-2010). Signed by the artist in the lower left corner. There are multiple notes on the frame o...
Category
American Realist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
That's a Wrap, Playboy cartoon Illustration ,
By Dink Siegel
Located in Miami, FL
Dink Siegel (American, 1910-2003)
That's a Wrap, Playboy cartoon, August 1973
Mixed media on board
11.25 x 8.5 in.
Signed lower right
Category
American Modern 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Daddy Playing in the Mud" San Antonio Texas Black Folk Artist Johnny Banks
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
Johnny Banks
(1912-1988)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 13.75 x 20
Frame Size: 20 x 27
Medium: Pen, Pencil, Crayon, Marker
"Daddy Playing in the Mud"
Biography
Johnny Banks (1912-1988)
In my opinion one of the greatest Texas folk artists of all time.
The following information was compiled and submitted by Stephanie Reeves:
John Willard Banks, San Antonio, Texas, African American Folk Artist John
Willard Banks, black self-taught artist, the son of Charlie and Cora
Lee (McIntyre) Banks, was born on November 7, 1912, near Seguin, Texas.
At the age of five his parents took him to San Antonio, where he
attended Holy Redeemer School until the age of nine, when his parents
were divorced and John returned to his grandparents' farm near Seguin.
From childhood Banks's favorite pastime was drawing pictures on his Big
Chief tablet. He later recalled, "As a kid I used to lie flat on my
stomach, drawing and drawing. . . . My mother had to kick me off the
floor to sweep."
While helping out on his grandparents' farm,
Banks completed the tenth grade before striking out on his own. His
favorite activities during his youth were singing in a gospel quartet
and playing baseball. In his adult years he worked in oilfields and
cotton fields, drove a truck, and tended a San Antonio service station.
During World War II he joined the army; he held the rank of sergeant
and was stationed in the Philippines. After the war he returned to San
Antonio, where he worked as a custodian at Kelly Air Force Base, at Fort
Sam Houston, and at a local television station. Banks married Edna Mae
Mitchell in 1928, and they had five children. The marriage ended in
divorce around 1960. In 1963 he married Earlie Smith.
His
art career began in 1978 while he was recuperating from an illness for
which he had been hospitalized. Banks's wife admired her husband's
drawings and secretly took several of them to a San Antonio laundromat.
There she hung the drawings on the wall, offering them for sale at the
price of fourteen dollars. They were purchased and taken to a gallery
for framing. Quite by chance, a San Antonio physician and collector of
works of art by black artists...
Category
Folk Art 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Crayon
Three Women, Oil Painting by Juan Garcia Ripolles
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Juan Garcia Ripolles, Spanish (1932 - )
Title: Three Women
Year: 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 23.75 in. x 29 in. (60.33 cm x 73.66 cm)
Frame Size: 26.25 x 31...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Girl in Green
By Béla Czóbel
Located in Chicago, IL
In a letter written to Czóbel after he had become quite ill in 1975, famous Portuguese painter Vieira da Silva writes:
“My very dear Czóbel, We em...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Greenhouse in Bloom
Located in Dallas, TX
The greenhouse became a favorite subject of Donald Vogel's in the 1980's. As Vogel reflected in the 1998 catalogue published for his traveling retrospective exhibition, "The greenhou...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil