1950s Paintings

Just discovered within an exceptional private west coast collection, we present American artist Tom Fricano, "Bird Song." This is an original acrylic on p...

Presenting an exceptional mixed media watercolor by Hungarian/American artist Jules Engel. Engel worked and exhibited extensively and gained notoriety as an exceptionally prolific...

American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League. "An imal Act", is a rare original oil painting on panel, c.1957; a period when the artist was utilizing strictly pallet knife on panel. This technique gave works of this period a true post impressionist feeling. This painting is from Ron Blumberg's, "Historical California...

American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League. "The Guitarist...

American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member ...

Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to...

Presenting an original oil on panel by American artist E. Ross Vistot. This painting was discovered within the personal collection of a prominent American artist; a gift from one ...

Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe. His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. "The Orchestra...

Presenting an original mixed media, oil and collage on panel by American artist Robert McIntosh, c.1958. A suite of 30 x 20 inches mixed media torso's has just been discovered and have now arrived at our West Hollywood gallery.