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Period: 1960s
Vintage American Modernist Interior Architectural Framed Original Oil Painting
Vintage American Modernist Interior Architectural Framed Original Oil Painting

Vintage American Modernist Interior Architectural Framed Original Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 14 by 11 inches overall, and 12 by 8.75 painting alone. Unsigned. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

Category

Modern 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Original MCM NYC School Oil Painting
Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Original MCM NYC School Oil Painting

Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Original MCM NYC School Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 29 by 13 inches overall, and 27.5 by 11 painting alone. Unsigned. Excellent condition, ready to hang and en...

Category

Modern 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Red Geraniums and Yellow Curtain Original Paul Schmitt California Impressionist
Red Geraniums and Yellow Curtain Original Paul Schmitt California Impressionist

Red Geraniums and Yellow Curtain Original Paul Schmitt California Impressionist

Located in Soquel, CA

Red Geraniums and Yellow Curtain Original Paul Schmitt California Impressionist Geraniums in an interior setting with a yellow curtain or drape behind by Paul A. Schmitt (American, 18983-1983). Oakland, California artist. Size 23.5"H x 16.5"W Signed lower left "Paul A. Schmitt" Exhibition label on verso, "Alameda Art Association, Paul A. Schmitt Oil Still Life No 10" Painter, watercolorist, illustrator and teacher, Paul Schmitt was born in Philadelphia, in 1893 and moved to San Francisco in 1898 where he lived until the 1906 earthquake took his family home. He then moved to the Fruitvale district of Oakland. He died of natural causes at the age of 90 in San Leandro, California. Paul Schmitt studied under Perham Wilhelm Nahl, at the California College of Arts and Crafts. He also learned various crafts, woodworking and carving skills from his father, Herman Schmitt, a German wood carver working in San Francisco. Herman's works are still found in various San Francisco public buildings including the city hall chambers and the garden court of the Palace Hotel. Schmitt joined twelve other local San Francisco artists to form the group called "The Thirteen Watercolorists", a group that eventually evolved into the Society of Western Artists. Their early members included Alfred Owles, Will Cameron, Maurice Logan, Maynard Dixon and many others. Paul worked with engineers and architects doing models of many projects. He was versatile in that he also did illustrations for various publications and advertisers. He fathered thirteen children. In the late 1930's he decided to accept a teaching position in the local adult schools where he retired in his eighties. Paul was very fond of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and yearly took his large family there on camping /sketching trips. He did a series of oils of the California missions. He also traveled extensively on sketching trips including Mexico where he did a series of Mexican churches...

Category

American Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 25 by 19 inches overall. Handsomely fr...

Category

Abstract Expressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Large Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Expressionist Signed Painting
Large Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Expressionist Signed Painting

Large Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Expressionist Signed Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Large vintage American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Handsomely framed. Excellent condition, ready to hang and ...

Category

Abstract Expressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

'Still Life with Conch Shell', Large Mid-Century American Post Impressionist Oil
'Still Life with Conch Shell', Large Mid-Century American Post Impressionist Oil

'Still Life with Conch Shell', Large Mid-Century American Post Impressionist Oil

By Callanan

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

A substantial, Post-Impressionist oil still-life showing a view of various objects including fruit, a glass bottle and a sea-shell assembled on a draped table-top. A dynamic and vibr...

Category

Post-Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Signed American School Cat Portrait Framed Original Oil Painting
Vintage Signed American School Cat Portrait Framed Original Oil Painting

Vintage Signed American School Cat Portrait Framed Original Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 21 by 17 inches overall, and 20 by 16 painting alone. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

Category

Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Interior Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Interior Still Life Framed Oil Painting

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Interior Still Life Framed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 25 by 31 inches overall. Handsomely framed. Ex...

Category

Modern 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vintage French Impressionist Signed Oil White Flowers Vase Original Grey Frame
Vintage French Impressionist Signed Oil White Flowers Vase Original Grey Frame

Vintage French Impressionist Signed Oil White Flowers Vase Original Grey Frame

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Flowers in the Windowsill French artist, signed oil painting on board, framed dated 1960 framed: 21.5 x 25 inches board: 18 x 22 inches provenance: private collection, France condit...

Category

Post-Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid-Century Modern Extra-Large Red Abstract Oil Painting By Kai Lindemann
Mid-Century Modern Extra-Large Red Abstract Oil Painting By Kai Lindemann

Mid-Century Modern Extra-Large Red Abstract Oil Painting By Kai Lindemann

Located in Frederiksberg C, DK

An extra-large red abstract composition that invigorates the bystander with its powerful red and black color play. This oil painting is an exquisite example of a mid-century modern a...

Category

Post-War 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid-Century Black Eyed Susan Floral Still Life
Mid-Century Black Eyed Susan Floral Still Life

Mid-Century Black Eyed Susan Floral Still Life

Located in Soquel, CA

Large scale mid-century floral still-life of black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia) by listed El Paso, Texas artist Lois Coleman Denton (American, 1897-1980). Signed "Lois Denton...

Category

American Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

L'Atelier Venard en Hiver - Abstract Interior and Landscape Oil by Claude Venard
L'Atelier Venard en Hiver - Abstract Interior and Landscape Oil by Claude Venard

L'Atelier Venard en Hiver - Abstract Interior and Landscape Oil by Claude Venard

By Claude Venard

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed oil on canvas interior overlooking a landscape by French abstract painter Claude Venard. The piece depicts an interior scene with a table in the foreground. Amongst the items ...

Category

Abstract 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Still Life with Decanter by Philadelphia Artist Larry Day, 1962
Still Life with Decanter by Philadelphia Artist Larry Day, 1962

Still Life with Decanter by Philadelphia Artist Larry Day, 1962

Located in Philadelphia, PA

Larry Day (American, 1921-1998) Still Life with Decanter Oil on canvas, 33 3/4 x 41 3/ 4 inches FRAMED: 41 x 49 inches (approx.) Signed at lower right: “Day” Exhibition label on str...

Category

Realist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Woman in Black Dress Pulp Art Portrait/Couple Dancing Figurative, 2 sided
Woman in Black Dress Pulp Art Portrait/Couple Dancing Figurative, 2 sided

Woman in Black Dress Pulp Art Portrait/Couple Dancing Figurative, 2 sided

Located in Soquel, CA

Wonderful two-sided mid century pulp art figurative painting of a woman at party in black evening gown and formal gloves, and on verso couple dancing by unkno...

Category

American Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic, Cardboard

American Modernist New York School Interior Scene Framed Portrait Painting
American Modernist New York School Interior Scene Framed Portrait Painting

American Modernist New York School Interior Scene Framed Portrait Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American modernist interior scene painting. Oil and mixed media on paper. No signature found. Framed. Measuring: 19 by 17 inches overall, and 14.5 by 13 painting alone. Exc...

Category

Modern 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Shore V, large colorful red, black & blue mid-century abstract expressionist
Shore V, large colorful red, black & blue mid-century abstract expressionist

Shore V, large colorful red, black & blue mid-century abstract expressionist

By Richard Andres

Located in Beachwood, OH

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Shore V, c. 1964 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 54 x 44 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 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Girl Studying, Oil on Canvas, Post-Impressionist, Circa 1960, Unframed
Girl Studying, Oil on Canvas, Post-Impressionist, Circa 1960, Unframed

Girl Studying, Oil on Canvas, Post-Impressionist, Circa 1960, Unframed

By Francesc Serra Castellet

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Francesc Serra Castellet (1912-1976) - Girl - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 73x60 cm. Frameless. Biography: Francesc Serra Castellet. Barcelona 1912 - Tossa de Mar (Girona) 1976. ...

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Post-Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid-Century Modernist Multi-Color Bouquet Still Life Oil on Masonite
Mid-Century Modernist Multi-Color Bouquet Still Life Oil on Masonite

Mid-Century Modernist Multi-Color Bouquet Still Life Oil on Masonite

By Virginia Rogers

Located in Soquel, CA

Mid-Century Modernist Multi-Color Bouquet Still Life Vivid and fun mid century modern still-life of vase of flowers by California artist Virginia Sevier Rogers (American, 1917-2015). A CAL Berkeley...

Category

Abstract Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

"Window" Oil cm. 134 x 126, 1968
"Window" Oil cm. 134 x 126, 1968

"Window" Oil cm. 134 x 126, 1968

By Maya KOPITZEVA

Located in Torino, IT

Open window to the city in spring, light, roofs, City, Interior MAYA KOPITZEVA (Gagra, Georgia, 1924 - 2005) Signature in the bottom right corner. Maya kopitzeva’s works have bee...

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Post-Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Naval Occurrence, orange, blue & green mid-century, abstract geometrical work
Naval Occurrence, orange, blue & green mid-century, abstract geometrical work

Naval Occurrence, orange, blue & green mid-century, abstract geometrical work

By Richard Andres

Located in Beachwood, OH

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Naval Occurrence, c. 1963 oil on canvas signed and titled verso 24 x 32 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. Andres described himself as a 1950’s...

Category

Abstract Geometric 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Laundry" Post-Impressionism French Oil Painting Interior Scene Figure on Board
"Laundry" Post-Impressionism French Oil Painting Interior Scene Figure on Board

"Laundry" Post-Impressionism French Oil Painting Interior Scene Figure on Board

By Jacques Zucker

Located in New York, NY

This painting depicts a whimsical portrait of a young lady washing her laundry in front of a house. This piece was most likely executed in the 1930's, as the colors are darker than Z...

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Post-Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Mid Century Autumn Chrysanthemums in Vase Still Life
Mid Century Autumn Chrysanthemums in Vase Still Life

Mid Century Autumn Chrysanthemums in Vase Still Life

Located in Soquel, CA

Wonderful mid-century still life oil painting of Chrysanthemums in vase. Against a yellow background, white, orange, and yellow chrysanthemums sit in a red vase. The arrangement is r...

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American Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Emilio Grau Sala, SCÈNE FAMILLIALLE
Emilio Grau Sala, SCÈNE FAMILLIALLE

Emilio Grau Sala, SCÈNE FAMILLIALLE

By Emilio Grau Sala

Located in Madrid, ES

EMILIO GRAU SALA Spanish, 1911 - 1975 SCÈNE FAMILLIALLE signed "Grau Sala" (lower right) signed, titled, located and dated "GRAU SALA / SCÈNE FALLIALLE / PARIS 1969" (on the reverse)...

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Post-Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large Modernist Colorful Atelier French Expressionist Oil Painting Tony Agostini
Large Modernist Colorful Atelier French Expressionist Oil Painting Tony Agostini

Large Modernist Colorful Atelier French Expressionist Oil Painting Tony Agostini

By Tony Agostini

Located in Surfside, FL

Tony Agostini (French, 1916 - 1990) Large oil painting on canvas depicting a still life scene with flowers on a canvas and easel titled "L'Atelier". Hand signed to lower right and ...

Category

Abstract Expressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Summer Hats Fauvist Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Vintage American Modernist Summer Hats Fauvist Still Life Framed Oil Painting

Vintage American Modernist Summer Hats Fauvist Still Life Framed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage fauvist hat still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 27 by 33 inches overall, and 26 by 32 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Handsomely fr...

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Fauvist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Joy flows away
Joy flows away

Joy flows away

By André Lanskoy

Located in PARIS, FR

Famous french painter of XXth century, born in Moscow in 1902 and died in Paris in 1976. The Count André Lanskoy works are exhibited in the world's greatest museums like : National ...

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French School 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Landscape. 1966, paper, gouache, 49. 5 x 45. 5 cm
Landscape. 1966, paper, gouache, 49. 5 x 45. 5 cm

Landscape. 1966, paper, gouache, 49. 5 x 45. 5 cm

Located in Riga, LV

Landscape. 1966, paper, gouache, 49. 5 x 45. 5 cm Gunars Klava (1933 – 1989) Gunars Klava was born in 1933 in Priekule. 1953 - graduated from J. Rosenthal Art School 1964 - began t...

Category

Abstract Expressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Pieces Collage, vibrant mid-century abstract expressionist black, pink & red
Pieces Collage, vibrant mid-century abstract expressionist black, pink & red

Pieces Collage, vibrant mid-century abstract expressionist black, pink & red

By Richard Andres

Located in Beachwood, OH

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Pieces Collage, c. 1965 collage on paper 14 x 18 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. Andres described himself as a 1950’s...

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Abstract Geometric 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)

By Ian Hornak

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condition: Go...

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Impressionist 1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Dodo and a fish
Dodo and a fish

Dodo and a fish

Located in PARIS, FR

Francisco Chico da Silva was born in 1910 in Alto Tejo, Brazil. He started his career in 1935 in the city of Fortaleza. The artist grew up with north B...

Category

1960s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil