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Item Ships From: USA
Period: 1950s
Important and Large Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract oil painting by Ken Munowitz. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Still Life with Apples and Pitcher Original Oil on Artist's Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Still Life with Apples and Pitcher Original Oil on Artist's Board
Vibrant still life by C. (Clarence) Leslie Oursler (American, 1913-1987). Classic American impressionis...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Nature morte au bouquet d’animones Still Life Fruit & Flowers Scotch circa 1960
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Jacques Martin-Ferrières
Nature morte au bouquet d’animones (Still life with anemones, oranges, lemons, bananas and a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Scotch)
Framed Dimensions: 35 x 2...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
STILL LIFE OF A CAT, BASKET FLOWERS AND SCISSORS Nantucket Artist Reggie Levine
Located in Brookville, NY
Nantucket artist Reggie Levine, evolved from his figurative work in the 40's-50's to abstract in the 1960's and later to found object art. Interestingly I see his interest in found...
Category
American Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
White Horse Carousel, 1956 - Original Oil Painting On Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
White Horse Carousel, 1956 - Oil On Canvas
Oil painting of an empty carousel ride, a single white horse gleams in the center. Three doorways are seen to the right, with sunlight ema...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Antique American Impressionist Interior Scene Woman Reading by the Window 1956
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5020 Interior scene oil painting
Framed
Signed Laura Brown 1956
Image size 11.5x15.5"
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Figure Seated in Interior', Woman Artist, Berkeley, San Francisco Museum of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Millicent Tomkins' for Millicent Hanson Tomkins (American, 1930-2021) and dated 1959.
Millicent Tomkins began painting at a young age and, as a child, was awarde...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Autumnal Oil Still Life in Style of Post Impressionist Albert Andre
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful post impressionistic still life of autumn yellow chrysanthemums with boughs of bronze maple leaves in a vase. Painted in style of Albert Andre (French, 1869 - 1954). Circa ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
'Woman Wearing Mantilla', Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, Carmel, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Di Gesu' for Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1958.
A substantial oil a young woman, (possibly Victor's wife, the artist, Janet Ament), sho...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid-Century Modern Figural of Two Women and Child by Harold Kitner Kent State
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive Mid-Century figural painting of two women and child in pastel hues by Harold Kitner (American, 1921 - 2004).
Image, 33"H x 48"W
Walnut frame, 34"H x 49"W x 2"D
Harold Kitner was born on May 18, 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio and was the son of Isaac and Frieda Kitner. He obtained his MA from Case Western Reserve University in 1947. Kitner was a postgraduate from Cleveland Institute, Ohio University, Cleveland College, Washington and Lee University. He obtained his Doctorate from Kent State University. Exhibition: Harold Kitner - Active / Figure / Exaltation at Kent State School of Art Gallery in Kent, Ohio in 2014.
Harold Kitner taught for over 30 years at the Kent State University School of Art.
Harold Kitner began teaching art and art history at Kent State University in 1947. During his career, he served as Director and Chairman of the Fine Arts Division. Kitner played a significant role in creating the Art School’s core program, organizing the Kent State Arts Festival, and the Blossom Festival School. He also served as President of the Kent chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and was an art critic for the Akron Beacon Journal. In 1967, Kitner became Kent State University’s first Faculty Ombudsman, officially titled Dean for Faculty Counsel. He held this position until 1974. At the time of the Kent State shootings, Kitner’s position as Ombudsman meant that he was involved in many of the decisions regarding University administration in the weeks and months following the Kent State shootings. Kitner began a partial retirement in 1980, and left Kent to become the director of the Institute of the South Florida Art...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Monumental American School Modernist Indoor Plant and Cat Abstract Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Interior Scene Kitchen Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract interior scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Mid Century Art School Interior View Signed Nicely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior view oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Impressionist School Opera Scene Interior Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French impressionist opera scene oil painting. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. No signature found
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life of Flowers', Paris, Salon D'Automne, Danish Avant-Garde, 'The Four'
By Karl Larsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Karl Larsen" (Danish, 1897-1977) and painted circa 1955.
Beginning in 1917, Karl Larsen participated in numerous exhibitions in France and Denmark including the...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with Victor Di Gesu Estate stamp.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Lo...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Mid Century Pink & White Roses in Crystal Vase Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate mid century still-life of white and pink roses in crystal vase with a soft, lime green background by listed California artist Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997)...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large Signed French Impressionist Ballet Dancer Original Cafe Scene Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French impressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 40L x 30H.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Garden Roses" in a Vase Still Life by Masayoshi Himeno
Located in Soquel, CA
"Garden Roses" in a Vase Still Life by Masayoshi Himeno
Beautiful still life oil painting on canvas of a vase of multicolored Garden Roses sitting upon a table with a background in hues of green and red by Masayoshi (Masara) Himeno (Japanese/American, 19th-20th century).
A green vase is the focal point as it sits upon a table with red, pink and yellow roses in full bloom. The artist uses a oil wet brush technique similar to a watercolor artist. Masayoshi a possible San Francisco Bay area artist who emigrated to America form Japan.
Signed "M. Himeno" lower right.
Presented in a giltwood frame.
Image: 19" W x 23"H.
Frame: 26"W x 30"H.
Signed on verso, artists label, Japanese Kanji...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Trompe L"Oeil "The Wind At The Window" Nova Scotia Canada Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting by William Edward Starkweather (1879 - 1969). Oil on board. Framed. Signed lower right.
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Fisherman, 20th century Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Schock (American, 1913–1976)
The Fisherman, c. 1955
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
26 x 40 inches
34 x 48 inches, framed
William Schock was...
Category
American Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Costa Rica! Still Life with Guitar, Fruit, Wine, and Newsprint in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Costa Rica! Still Life with Guitar, Fruit, Wine, and Newsprint in Oil on Canvas
Still life in a semi-cubist style by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999). On a reddish-purple table, there is a plate with two apples, a bottle of wine, and an acoustic guitar. The guitar's headstock is shown extending from where the neck meets the body, implying a cubist interpretation of the scene. At the back of the still life arrangement, there is a (collage) newspaper with "Costa Rica!" in the headline. At the left of the composition, there is a curtain or cloth draped across part of the scene.
Signed "Irene Pattinson" on verso.
No frame.
Canvas size: 32"H x 24"W
Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999) studied at the California School of Fine Art (now The San Francisco Art Institute), San Francisco State College and The Marion Hartwell School of Design. She was President of the San Francisco Woman Artists Association 1955-56.
Provenance:The Artist, Estate of Irene Pattinson: David Carlson; Estate of Larry Miller Fine Art, Robert Azensky Fine Art
Solo Exhibitions: Lucien Labaudt Gallery 1955; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1961 (39 works)
Selected Group Exhibitions: San Francisco Art Association Annual 1948, 54, 55; San Francisco Woman Artists, 1957-1960; Oakland Art Museum Annual, 1951, 58; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1960; Richmond Art Center, 1955, 56, 57, 58; San Francisco Art Institute 1959, 60. The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, 1958, 59, 60, 62, 63; Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963;
Awards: First Place, San Francisco Woman Artists Assoc., 1957, 1959; San Francisco Art Festival 1957;Literature: San Francisco Art Institute - A catalog of the Art Ban 1962/63; San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection
Exhibitions:
1963 The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA
1963 California Palace of The Legion of Honor: Forth Winter Invitational, San Francisco, CA
1962 The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA
1961 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1960 California...
Category
American Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Newsprint, Oil, Canvas
Antique American School Signed Framed Dog Terrier Animal Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist signed dog portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Impressionist Nicely Framed Signed Pear Fruit Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French impressionist signed still life oil painting by Leon Detroy (1857/59 - 1955). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 13L x 10H.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White on White Blue, Expressionist Still Life by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"White on White Blue" is a monochromatic, interior still life by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 20" x 16" oil on canvas painting is framed and signed "B ...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique Signed Nude Woman Interior Portrait Modernist Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist nude interior portrait painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 14L x 20H.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life w Bouquet of Dahlias in Vase & Compote of Grapes on Table circa 1955
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Jacques Martin-Ferrières was born on August 6, 1893 in Saint-Paul, France. He studied under the French academic painter Frederic Cormon (1845-1924) and with his father, the notable F...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Académies Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950.
A loose study of a woman seated in a dress, resting her chin on her hand and recli...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Signed R Kelly Listed American Modernist Interior Pink Couch Abstract Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H. Great color and a nice period modern wood frame. Ready to hang.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Wheat & Fruit Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century modern oil painting of wheat and fruit by Wanda Faust (American, 20th century), c.1950. Signed lower left corner "Faust." Displayed i...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Cardboard
Antique American School Modernist Fruit Still Life Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed still life oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 12L x 9H.
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Discouraged (Idleness)
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Irving R. Wiles
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Portrait Polka Dot Suit Clown by Joan Tidwell
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Man in a Polka Dot Clown Suit - Oil on Canvas
Portrait of a man in a white and red polka dot suit by a Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2005...
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thanks to the Virgen of San Juan, Ex-Voto, Retablo, Painting on Metal, Mexico
Located in Houston, TX
This retablo was purchased by the gallery in Mexico City. I knew the family that sold the retablo to me. It is dated 1853 because the story on the retablo was passed down for generations and a relative of Lourdes painted it in her memory.
The description on the ex-voto reads:
"Thanks to the Virgen of San Juan de los Lagos that I have a new job with my new bosses. That they like my food and they don't mind what I prepare for them. "
It is in excellent condition. It is framed behind conservatorship glass. The framed size is 14" x 15". The class should only be cleaned with ammonia free cleaner.
An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or to a divinity; the term is usually restricted to Christian examples. It is given in fulfillment of a vow (hence the Latin term, short for ex voto suscepto, "from the vow made") or in gratitude or devotion. Ex-votos are placed in a church or chapel where the worshiper seeks grace or wishes to give thanks. The destinations of pilgrimages often include shrines decorated with ex-votos.
Ex-votos can take a wide variety of forms. They are not only intended for the helping figure, but also as a testimony to later visitors of the received help. As such they may include texts explaining a miracle attributed to the helper, or symbols such as a painted or modeled reproduction of a miraculously healed body part, or a directly related item such as a crutch given by a person formerly lame. There are places where a very old tradition of depositing ex-votos existed, such as Abydos in ancient Egypt.
Especially in the Latin world, there is a tradition of votive paintings...
Category
Folk Art 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Metal
Abstract expressionist, white and yellow mid-century modern geometric painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
White & Yellow, c. 1953
oil on canvas
signed lower right, signed and titled verso
30 x 20 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University.
Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school.
They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages.
At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute).
He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.”
Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Marriage Proposal (Family Gathering), " Leo Schutzman, Jewish Folk Art
Located in New York, NY
Leo Schutzman (1878 - 1962)
The Marriage Proposal, circa 1958
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Signed lower left
Leo (Kyle) Schutzman (1878-1962) developed ...
Category
Folk Art 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Voyeur chair. Romantic Couple Kissing and Embracing, Mid Century Illustration
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross gives us a voyeur view of an attractive couple kissing and embracing on a couch. Sharpe's radical use of composition is on ...
Category
Romantic 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Gouache, Board
Woman reading after Henri Matisse by Claire Ragueneau
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman reading after Henri Matisse by Claire Ragueneau
Impressionist seated woman reading a book after Henri Matisse by San Francisco artist Claire Ragueneau (American, 1901-1971).
Cl...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
Mid Century Modern Sumptuous Interior Scene Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist interior scene with a kitchen still life by Johannes Gecelli (1925 - 2011) . Oil on board. Signed and dated lower right and verso. 24 3/8 x 32 1/8. Nicely framed.
Category
Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionistoj Interior View Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life of Roses on a Tea Table', Paris, Academie de la Palette, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Naur' for Albert Naur (Danish, 1889-1973) and painted circa 1955.
A cheerful, mid-century oil showing a pair of leisure chairs wit...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Venice, Petit Pont Sur Le Rio di San Aponal, 1959" Jacques Martin Ferrières
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Beautiful and atmospheric, this painting perfectly captures the tones and colors of a steamy summer's day in Venice during a trip to that city in 1959.
"Venice, Petit Pont sur le Ri...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Nude by the Mirror" Mid-Century Modern Expressionist and Cubist Figure
By Byron Browne
Located in New York, NY
Byron Browne (1907 - 1961)
Nude by a Mirror, 1958
Oil on canvas
26 x 20 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Doyle New York, Doyle + Design, June 7, 2017, Lot 20
Born in Yonkers,...
Category
American Modern 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Still-Life with Green Drape
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic mid century still-life of a green drape with vase, by W. Gray (American, 20th Century). Dated and signed by the artist lower right, "57 W. Gray." ...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Blue Wall, mid-century abstract expressionist, geometric blue, black & pink work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Blue Wall, c. 1959
oil on canvas
signed and titled verso
42 x 60 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University.
Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school.
They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages.
At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute).
He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.”
Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art.
The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery.
In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting.
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