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Period: 1960s
Color composition
Located in Genève, GE
Canvas mounted on wood Golden wooden frame 89 x 73 x 5 cm
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Crowded Houses
Located in Sheffield, MA
Cesar Buenaventura y Espinosa Filipino, 1922-1983 Crowded Houses Oil on canvas 23 ¾ by 35 ¾ in, w/ frame 30 ¼ by 41 ¾ in Signed lower right and dated 1966 No one knows the exact sc...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Release
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Blue Swans and Butterfly, c. 1960 - Colourful Gouache Painting of Animals
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Scottie Wilson, born Louis Freeman was a Scottish, Jewish, outsider artist known particularly for his highly detailed style. Starting his artistic career at the age of 44, his work w...
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1960s Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Fisherman at Dusk
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Oskar D'Amico (1923-2003). Fisherman at Dusk, c.1960. Oil on linen canvas, 16 x 30 inches; 18 x 32 inches (frame). Signed lower right. Excellent condition with no damage or conservation. Biography: Oskar Maria D'Amico (February 22, 1923 – May 3, 2003) was an active Italian artist in Rome, Naples, Lanciano, Cisterna, Milan, Gallarate, Torino, Zagabria, Paris, Toulouse, Melun, Carenac, Maubeuge, Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Budapest, Győr, Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Morelia, Toronto, New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Denver, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Socorro, between 1943 and 2003. He is considered a Nomad artist because of his ability to work in various styles. He had three major periods in his artistic life: Figurative, Materic and Geometric. [1]He also was an outstanding art director for more than 75 epic movies. D'Amico had a very outgoing personality. He was a non-conformist, which was reflected in his work throughout his life. D'Amico was born in CastelFrentano, Italy, a small village in Abruzzo. At a young age, he felt he had to leave and dive into the big world. After being a seminarist with the Salesiani during World War II, he left Naples, where he studied architecture, and began a great adventure in Rome. He specialized at the time in decorating nightclubs and bars, and invented a special type of double ceiling to hide the lights. D'Amico, who was self-taught as a teenager in drawing and painting, burst onto the filmmaking scene in Rome when an art director asked him to do a perspective of a set design. Soon other moviemakers were calling him.[2] D'Amico was an art director on 75 films including two by Orson Welles. D’Amico was able to create a real marble floor in the set of the palace of the King Saul, in "David and Goliath" directed by Orson Welles. Art directors previously painted a simulated marble on top of concrete due to the cost of the real thing. D'Amico became an associate of Jadran Films in ex-Yugoslavia, which specialized in Roman and Egyptian constructions. While an art director, he never stopped painting. His faceless clowns, reflecting the people who had no identity after World War II, were a big success. In the early 1960s, D'Amico moved with his family to Toronto, Canada, another place he felt was too small. He left for Philadelphia and New York City, which affected his work. He turned his focus to abstract, and for more than a decade created abstract Expressionist paintings "on the plane of all matter" that he called "Materic". The Materic style, which he invented, was done in several media and could not be changed once on the canvas. The paintings were very well received. D’Amico sold more than 400 in Philadelphia and New York City. Unfortunately he had to stop doing the Materics because the colors he used were harmful to his liver. In the mid 1970s, he returned to his architectural roots and developed a new vision for Abstract Constructivism using just acrylic colors. Presented in Paris by his French Art dealer, Francoise Tournier, at the Grand Palais de Paris, and in Mexico City, D'Amico's interpretation of the "New Geometry" was widely admired. In 1983, when he presented the work at the Bodley Gallery, people whispered that he had the potential to be the new Picasso because of his eclecticism and the Nomad nature of his styles. In 1987, D'Amico abandoned the gypsy life and settled in New Mexico. Albuquerque was the perfect place to dedicate himself 100 percent to his work.[3] There were no distractions and a good climate that reminded him of his beloved Cuernavaca in Mexico. Staying in close contact with his French art dealer Tournier, D’Amico had several shows in Denver at the Helen Karsh Gallery and in Albuquerque at the Black Swan and Café Galleries. At least once a year, D’Amico went to Europe to immerse himself in the antique world and visit museums and galleries. In 1992, visiting Tournier at the Castle of Saint Cirq Lapopie, he met the man who founded the MADI movement in 1940, Carmelo Arden Quin...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Camacunta, Oil Painting on Canvas by Eduardo Arranz-Bravo
Located in Long Island City, NY
La Camacunta Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Spanish (1941) Date: 1966 Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 29.5 x 24.5 in. (74.93 x 62.23 cm) Frame Size: 30.5 x 25.5 inches
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1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

#263, mid century French Abstract
Located in Greenwich, CT
An incredible presence and painted thickly, this is an early work by French Abstractionist Francois Aubrun. It is framed in a white contemporary float...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Gift Of The Two Lines Small Oil Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
The Gift Of The Two Lines Born on March 21, 1906, in Moscow, she arrived as an emigrant to Paris at the age of 15, bearing in her young experience, the weight of the most transformi...
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Folk Art 1960s Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Sierra Mountains in Autumn - Landscape in Oil on Oval Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Sierra Mountains in Autumn - Landscape in Oil on Oval Canvas Gorgeous mid-century autumnal landscape of Sierra mountains by W.R. Rolls (American, 20th Century). Rendered in luscious...
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Photorealist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Óleo sobre tela - Bodegón firmado y titulado
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado por el artista en la parte inferior En la parte trasera, va nuevamente firmado y titulado Se presenta enmarcada la obra Buen estado de conservación el de la obra Medidas ...
Category

Contemporary 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Rock
Located in Storrs, CT
Freeman Baldridge's landscape painting, "Portrait of a Rock." The painting featured a rock on the slope of a hillside covered in wildflowers; the eye...
Category

Realist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Rock
Portrait of a Rock
$1,200 Sale Price
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Antoni Costa Woman original figurative drawing painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
woman. original figurative academician drawing painting. FRAMED Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965 It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD...
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Realist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Carbon Pencil

Mid Century Abstracted Sierra Mountains Mixed Media Landscape on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century modern abstracted landscape of Sierra Mountains by Bay Area artist Barbara Farnham Dornbusch (American, b. 1929), circa 1960. Signed lower right. Presented in v...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

India Ink, Wax, Watercolor, Laid Paper

Aegean Temple, Dystopian Surrealist Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
John Teyral (American, 1912-1999) Aegean Temple, 1966 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 25 x 34 inches John Teyral was one of Cleveland's most acclaimed artists. He exhibite...
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1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Epesses, Switzerland" by Monique Monod - Pencil and watercolor
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper Silver wood frame with glass pane 36 x 46 x 1,5 cm
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Academic 1960s Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

"Forms" Black, Green, Red, and Orange Abstract Geometric Painting
Located in Houston, TX
This painting is a great example of David Adickes' early work that embodies the abstract geometric style. Most likely originally sold at DuBose Gallery in Houston, Texas. Circa 1960s...
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Abstract Geometric 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dancer, Figurative Abstract Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dancer (26) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 24 in. x 20 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm)
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Mutual Admiration" Flower Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting Monterey Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mutual Admiration" Flower Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting Monterey Artist Mid-Century Modern painting of a little blonde girl in a white apron adoring her flowers by Monterey Artist Rose Marie (Smith) Ansel, (American, 1921-2012) Rose Marie was born and lived in the Monterey area all her life. She volunteered in various city government associations and founded the Parade of Nations in 1970 which celebrated the many ethnic cultures on the Monterey Peninsula...
Category

American Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

Prophet, Abstract Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Prophet (31) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on board Size: 22 in. x 25 in. (55.88 cm x 63.5 cm)
Category

Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

French Watercolour Breton School Mid 20th Century Fishing Fleet
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Breton Fishing Fleet by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) signed lower right and dated watercolour painting, with gouache and some graphite on artist's paper, unframed measurement of framea...
Category

Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite

Bridge in Bruges - Mid 20th Century Belgian Naif Naive Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1960's Belgian naif oil on canvas board depicting a bridge, probably in Bruges, with figures and buildings. The work is very pleasingly painted in the naif style and in...
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1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Twentieth Century Still Life Oil painting of Fruits and a Wine Carafe
Located in ludlow, GB
Mid Twentieth Century Still Life Oil painting of Fruits and a Wine Carafe on a table with a neutral background. Another highly detailed and exceptionally well painted Still Life by ...
Category

Realist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Survivors, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This Modern painting by Abstract Expressionist Stanley Bate was made with oil on canvas circa 1960. It features a cool blue and grey palette along the perimeter, with warmer muted gr...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pink and Red Abstraction
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original abstract expressionist oil painting by American modern artist James Koenig. This work is currently on view at the Draw Near exhibition at Benjaman Gallery.
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1965. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and...
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Post-Impressionist 1960s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Over and Above: Kangaroo, Mid-Century Figurative acrylic painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Over and Above: Kangaroo, c. 1960s Acrylic on paper, mounted on matte board Signed lower right 14 x 5 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
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American Modern 1960s Paintings

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Acrylic

Carnival by Stéphanie Guerzoni - Oil on cardboard
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas board Brown wooden frame with glass pane 66,5 x 56,5 x 3 cm
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Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vesegnin and the Lion, Ain
Located in Geneva, CH
Swiss painter Sculptor, painter and ceramist. Landscape. Wall painting and drawing Work on canvas without frame
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Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mandala No. 5, Blue Abstract Ovoid Mid-Century Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Mandala No. 5, 1968 Acrylic on scintilla Signed on verso 29.5 x 22 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artist...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Early Horses III, Drawing, Brown, Conte on Paper by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Early Horses III - 31 x 20.5 inches (unframed size) Conte on Paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Conté

Cityscape on Water I, Signed Abstract Oil Painting by Miriam 'Midge' Karr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cityscape on Water II by Miriam 'Midge' Karr, American Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas, signed verso Size: 24 x 20 in. (60.96 x 50.8 cm) Frame Size: 32 x 27.5 inches
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cityscape on Water II, Signed Abstract Oil Painting by Miriam 'Midge' Karr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cityscape on Water II by Miriam 'Midge' Karr, American Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas, signed verso Size: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.56 cm) Frame Size: 15 x 19 inches
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still Life by Window, Cubist Oil Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Still Life by Window (14) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)
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Cubist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Untitled, 62-11" Stephen Pace, Blues and Greens, Cool Tones, Abstract Painting
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Pace Untitled, 62-11, 1962 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 50 x 64 inches Born in Charleston, Missouri, Stephen Pace grew up in Indiana, where his parents operate...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"R.O. #6" Diana Kurz, 1960s Reds and Greens Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz R.O. #6 Oil on canvas 70 x 50 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England and then to...
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Abstract Expressionist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Red smoke by Jean François Chomel - Oil on wood
Located in Geneva, CH
Swiss painter Sculptor, painter and ceramist. Landscape. Wall painting and drawing Work on wood
Category

Realist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract Expressionist 1960s Assemblage Collage Painting
By Francis Jennings
Located in Surfside, FL
Heavily ttextured, layered collaged painting. signed lower right and with a label from American Friends of th Tel Aviv Art Museum verso along with an original label. reminiscent of t...
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1960s Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Selwyn College, Cambridge I painting by Margaret Souttar
Located in London, GB
To see our other views of Oxford and Cambridge, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the view you want. Margaret Souttar (1914 – 1987) Selwyn College...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Shrine: A High Place
Located in Storrs, CT
Freeman Baldridge's depiction of a shrine at a sandy beach and lake. Oil on canvas measures 20 x 16; frame dimensions measure 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2...
Category

Surrealist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

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

Materials

Oil

Portrait in Tie, Oil on Board Painting by American Artist John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait in Tie (47) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 16 in. x 12 in. (40.64 cm x 30.48 cm)
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American Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Girl in White
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist: Daniel Brennan Title: Girl in White Materials : Oil on Canvas Date : 1960's Dimensions : 46 1/2 x 32 in. COA provided In the late 1960's, Danie...
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Expressionist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Oil

Girl in White
$1,998 Sale Price
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"Summer at the Lake" - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By Grace B. Olson
Located in Soquel, CA
"Summer at the Lake" - Mid Century Figurative Landscape Mid-century figurative landscape painting of people enjoying the summertime by Santa Cruz, ...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Untitled
Located in Vancouver, CA
Ron Stonier (1933-2001) was a dedicated Vancouver artist celebrated for his exploration of abstract painting, influenced by his mentors Gordon Smith and Jack Shadbolt, as well as by ...
Category

Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Board

"Resting Amazon" Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil paint on canvas and features a warm muted pink rectangular shape at the center of the composition, with a...
Category

Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boy on Carousel, Watercolor by Lucio Ranucci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - ) Title: Boy on Carousel Year: 1969 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed and dated u.l. Image Size: 20 x 12 inches Size: 27 x 20 in. (68.58 x 50...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

'Abstract, Citron & Scarlet', American Abstraction, Pittsburgh, Freeman Center
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'Barr' for Charles Barr (American, 1929-2019); additionally inscribed and painted circa 1965. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2019: CHARLES "CHUCK" BARR Age 89, of Highland Park, graduated from human life on August 11. Although no headlines marked the event, he was a great man. People ranging from fellow Pittsburghers to New York art collectors have known Chuck as a wonderful self-taught artist and creative jazz musician. But above all, everyone touched by his joy knew him as a carrier of the Great Spirit. Ten minutes with Chuck could do more than make your day. It could open your heart to the boundless possibilities that life offers, if only we live from love. Chuck was raised in a working-class musical family in Beechview. Leaving home as a teenager to play tenor sax in a Chicago nightclub alongside brother, Tommy, a pianist, he burned out on the late-night routine. He then spent years trying to fit into so-called normal society, working various jobs in places from Yokohama (with the U.S. Army) to Philadelphia. Around 1969, Chuck returned to Pittsburgh to rediscover his calling and became a local legend. A Post-Gazette article dubbed him the city's "rambling minstrel" for his sax and flute recitals in public. College-trained artists marveled at the dynamic, visually musical paintings...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Still Life with Covered Sugar Pot', New York, Salmagundi Club, Mystic Arts
By Richard Stalter
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Stalter' for Richard Stalter (American, born 1934) and painted circa 1965. A lyrical oil still-life showing a variety of ceramic objects including a floral decorated, tin-glazed earthenware sugar-pot set on an aqua-glaze earthenware plate and a lilac-glazed, small bowl set...
Category

American Impressionist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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

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Acrylic

Glide - large, purple, pink, hues, striped, abstract, acrylic on shaped canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Gradient bands of washed violet turn to dust rose in this shaped canvas from 1968 by Milly Ristvedt. From the first part of her career, this powerful painting is rooted in the tenets...
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Color-Field 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

City. 1969. Oil on canvas. 50x38 cm
Located in Riga, LV
City. 1969. Oil on canvas. 50x38 cm Henri Klebah (b. 1928.24.X Riga - 1998.) – painter. 1946 – 1949 – studied at Secondary Art school of J. Rozentals 1946 – 1949 – Latvian State Un...
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Realist 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Portrait of a Young Lady" Post-Impressionism French Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a whimsical portrait of a young lady posing with an alluring look in a colorful blouse. The bright colors and quick brush strokes are what makes this painting s...
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Post-Impressionist 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Purple and Blue Underwater Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed abstract acrylic painting of a microcosmic underwater realm by an unknown San Francisco Bay area artist (American, 20th Century). Signed indistinctly lower right side. Unfra...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

In and Out, mid-century figural abstract vibrant yellow geometric painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) In and Out, 1963 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated lower right 22 x 30 inches Figural abstract vibrant yellow geometric painting. Cl...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

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Acrylic

Seated Figure in Cloak, Cubist Oil on Board by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Seated Figure in Cloak (62) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 19 in. x 22 in. (48.26 cm x 55.88 cm)
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Cubist 1960s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique Spanish School Surrealist Modernist Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Spanish school modernist surreal portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring 18 by 24 inches overall and 15 by 21 painting alone.
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Surrealist 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Naturalistic Galveston Beach House Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Serene beach house scene from Galveston, Texas painted by Martin. Intricate detail framed in a vintage frame that is in great condition. Signature in...
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Naturalistic 1960s Paintings

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Egg Tempera

Air Chamber, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Collage, Anatomy & Ovoids
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Air Chamber, 1965 Collage, graphite and gouache on paper Signed and dated upper left 30 x 22 inches Provenance: Descended through the family. Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
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American Modern 1960s Paintings

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Gouache, Graphite

'Abstract in Red', Brasil, São Paulo Bienniale, MoMA Resende, New York, Chicago
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed twice, verso, 'Carmélio' and 'Carmélio Cruz' for Carmélio' Rodrigues Cruz (Brazilian, born 1924) and dated 1966. Carmélio Rodrigues Cruz first studied art with the Brazilian painter, Jacinto de Souza (1935-1940). In 1944, he was invited to participate in the Sociedade Cearense de Artes Plásticas (SCAP), alongside other Latin American Modernists including Antonio Bandeira...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait in Striped Shirt, Modern Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait in Striped Shirt (46) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 12 in. x 10 in. (30.48 cm x 25.4 cm)
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American Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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