1960s Paintings

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...

GEORGES ARTEMOFF "LA FEMME ASSIS A LA MANTILLE NOIRE” OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED RUSSIAN-FRENCH, DATE 1963 PROVENANCE: GALERIE MAKASSAR , PARIS 31.75 X 20 INCHES Illustrated in the c...

Woman with cigarette​, oil painting. Francois Batet was born in 1923 in Barcelona, Spain. He studied painting at the School of San Jordi (Beaux-Arts) and also at Tarrega Academy. When he lived in Madrid he studied masters like Goya and Valasquez. He then moved to Paris and studied famous French impressionistic painters. He has lived and worked in France since 1950. Batet's classic School of Paris style recalls the spirit of Paris in the 1920s and 1930's. In addition to being a master printmaker, he has illustrated over 100 books...

Like a Comet - Nocturnal Sky in Oil on Masonite Surrealistic oil painting landscape of comet by listed San Francisco, California artist Eleanor Perry (American, 1928-2014). Signed ...

Óleo sobre lienzo representando una escena marina. Firmado y fechado a mano en el año 1963. Bien enmarcado, pero tiene alguna falta. Medidas: 33 x 55 cm; 56 x 78 cm (marco).

Kunio Komatsuzaki (Japanese 1913-1992), Oil on Canvas, 1963 . In good condition . Measures 29x26

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Fish and Vessels (P2.74), Year:, Medium: Acrylic on Paper, Image Size: 7 x 10 inches, Size: 9 x 11 in. (22.86 x 27.94 cm), Description...

This original 1963 abstract painting is a stunning piece by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), a prominent Colorado Springs artist known for his contributions to mid-century modern...

A beautiful mid century modernist take on Madonna and child by Dorothy Steck Beech of Carmel, California (American, 1915-2002). Signed "D.S. Beech" lower right. Displayed in a rusti...

Painted by Dora Masters (American, 1913-2003) circa 1960. Stamped verso with certification of authenticity. Acquired from the artist's son. Dora Masters exhibited widely and with su...

Signed lower right, 'Fiedler' (20th century) and painted circa 1965. A sensitively realized study of a young boy dressed for a costume party as Arlequino and shown gazing directly t...

Signed lower right, 'Z. Kavin' for Zena Kavin (American, 1912-2003) and dated 1966. Born in Berkeley, California, Zena Kavin studied at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and, privately, with Kravchenko in Moscow. She lived in Berkeley and in Oakland her entire life, except for four years spent in New Mexico in the late 1930s. In 1949, she married artist Jon Cornin and settled with him in Oakland. Under the peudonym Corka, the Cornins produced cartoons for the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker. Kavin worked in various media, including wood engraving, lithography and sculpture. She was a member of the San Francisco Artists Association and exhibited with them as well as at the San Francisco Museum of Art Inaugural (1935), the California–Pacific International Exposition, San Diego (1935), the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939). Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Davis Art Center, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California. Reference: Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, page 610; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, page 1801; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Supplement, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil paint on board and features a warm, yellow and umber palette. The artist layers paint on the canvas, creating texture among softly blended colors in a highly abstract composition. The painting itself is 48" x 33"and measures 48.5" x 33.25" x 2" framed. It is signed by the artist in the lower right-hand corner of the painting and is framed in a very thin, off-white floater frame. It is ready to hang. Stanley Bate was born on March 26, 1903 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Bates were an established Tennessee family, in fact, Henry’s brother William Bate was the governor of Tennessee from 1883-1887 and a United States Senator from 1887-1905. Stanley studied art at the Watkins Institute in Nashville. In the 1920’s Bate moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League under Frederick Bridgman. He soon landed a job with Encyclopedia Britannica, and from 1927-1929 served as art editor. From 1929 until his death in 1972, Stanley was a self-employed artist. He taught art classes at both the Art Students League and the Albany Institute of History and Art and brought in extra income by making illustrations for magazines such as “Outdoor Life” and “Popular Science”. On January 27, 1934 Stanley married Emilie Rossel. Emilie had emigrated from Switzerland to New York in 1923. She found work as a governess to Alfred Vanderbilt and later as an executive secretary for Wall Street investment brokers Kahn, Loeb and Co. Emilie met Stanley in New York in the early 1930’s when she attended one of his art exhibitions with a friend. The couple, who had no children, lived on 34th Street in Manhattan. During this period, Bate was producing and exhibiting his art and joined several artists groups. Stanley and Emilie became part of the New York art scene, dining weekly at the Society of Illustrators Clubhouse. Stanley Bate’s time in New York was pivotal in the formation of his painting style. He lived in New York during the inception of one of the most important Modern Art movements, one that helped New York replace Paris as the center of avant-garde art. This movement, which was called the New York School...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil on canvas. The top portion of the painting is an earthy gold color, while the space beneath it is a textu...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torso No. 3, 1967 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated lower right 13 x 9 inches 21 x 17 inches A mid-century figural abstract painting. 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...

Two Portraits is a contemporary artwork realized by Dimitri Godycki Cwirko (1901-1987). Mixed colored oil on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torso No. 5, 1967 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated upper right 25 x 20 inches A mid-century figural abstract painting. Clarence Hol...

A beautiful oil on canvas which has been laid on board by the English artist David William Burley depicting a group of friends playing football in a park. Signed lower right and pres...

Portrait with Crown (24) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 23 in. x 21.5 in. (58.42 cm x 54.61 cm)

Artist: Felix Felmart, Spanish XXth Title: Clown Boy from Paris Year: 1964 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 28 x 20 in. (71.12 x 50.8 cm) Frame Size: 36 x 28 inches

An original modern American impressionist painting by Chuck Fee Wong.

Face in Prayer (10) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 22 in. x 15 in. (55.88 cm x 38.1 cm)

Figure in Shadows (19) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board, signed verso Size: 15 in. x 12 in. (38.1 cm x 30.48 cm)

Nude with Crown (23) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board, signed Size: 22 in. x 20.5 in. (55.88 cm x 52.07 cm)

Still Life with Nude (15) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas Mounted to Board Size: 15 in. x 22.5 in. (38.1 cm x 57.15 cm)

Figure with Hands Raised (17) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board (Double-Sided) Size: 18 in. x 10 in. (45.72 cm x 25.4 cm)

Man in Cloak (18) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas Size: 20 in. x 10 in. (50.8 cm x 25.4 cm)

'Mas Pres Eypalieres, Provence' French Landscape, Signed Oil Painting By French artist 'De Tigny', 20th Century, Signed by the artist on the right hand corner, signed, dated '67' and titled verso Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 18 x 24 inches Wonderful oil painting of a scenic view of a village in Provence, with an idyllic crop field in the forefront. This lovely oil painting is such a pretty impression of the French rural countryside, with hilly background and sun kissed houses with terracotta roof tiles...

Figure Study (35) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Charcoal on Board Size: 17.5 in. x 20.5 in. (44.45 cm x 52.07 cm)

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting Stanley Bate features a deep, but colorful palette. Smaller organic shapes and layers of thick blue, black, red, and yellow paint combine ...

Signed lower center with artist monogram, 'B.S.' for Benjamin Silva (Brazilian, born 1927) and dated with roman numerals, 1968; additionally signed, verso, dated and titled. A dramatic and animated oil painting of a crowd scene showing the feared, mounted police of Mexico City in action against the students in the demonstrations of October 2nd that preceded the opening of the Mexican Olympic Games...

Saturated, intimate depiction of a bedroom interior by Narcissus Robert Quagliata (Italian-American, b. 1942). Likely based on a photograph, a slightly out of focus figure can be see...

Compelling mid century landscape of Church of Christ the Scientist in Boston by Frank Blasingame (American; 1903-1967), circa 1960. This is a rare pi...

Pat Adams Extended Alike, 1969 Gouache on Paper Mounted to Canvas (Zabriskie Gallery 25th Anniversary & Contemporary Arts Center, Ohio Exhibition Labels) Signed 'Pat Adams 12.69' upper left front In vintage period frame This unique, hand signed gouache on paper, mounted to canvas by renowned artist and longtime member of the Bennington College art department and National Academician Pat Adams, bears labels verso from the following exhibitions: 'Pat Adams Paintings', The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Ohio, Dec. 7-Jan. 20th. Adams at Zabriskie '(25th Anniversary Exhibition) Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY, Dec. 5, 1978-Jan. 6, 1979, Cat. no. 41 and' Zabriskie Gallery, New York, Jan. 6-Jan 24, 1970 Measurements: Framed: 19 1/2" H x 13 1/4" W Artwork: 18" H x 11 1/2" W; Excellent condition, held in a vintage frame PAT ADAMS BIOGRAPHY: Pat Adams Biography: Pat Adams (American, b. 1928) was raised in Stockton, California, and began painting at the age of ten. She studied painting at UC Berkeley from 1945–49, where she first encountered the ideas of Hans Hofmann as she studied under his former students—Worth Ryder and Margaret Peterson O’Hagan, who had arranged for Hofmann’s migration to the States in 1932, among them. During her summers at Berkeley she pursued programs at the California College of Arts and Crafts (1945), the College of the Pacific (1946), and the Art Institute of Chicago (1948). In 1950, following her graduation from Berkeley the previous year, she attended a summer session at Brooklyn Museum Art School, remaining in the city after its completion. She received her first solo exhibition in 1954 at the Korman Gallery—later to be renamed the Zabriskie Gallery, which would continue to represent her through 2018. Her work was greatly motivated by her international travel during the 1950s: in Italy in 1951, after her first husband, painter and printmaker Vincent Longo was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, and in France in 1956, after she received her own Fulbright scholarship. In the fall of 1964 she was invited by professor Paul Feeley to teach at Bennington college, where she joined the social circle of the famous “Green Mountain Boys,” including Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski. In 1972 she married fellow Bennington professor R. Arnold Ricks, and they set off with her two sons on a four month journey through Egypt, Iran, Turkey, and all of Europe, which impacted her work significantly. She continued teaching at Bennington through 1993. Her lengthy career has also included many teaching appointments at Yale, as both a visiting professor and artist, as well as the Rhode Island School of Design, among numerous other institutions across the country. She has received notable awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy of Design, and the College Art Association. In 1995 she was awarded the Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Her work has been the subject of over fifty solo exhibitions. She lives in Bennington, Vermont. -Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Pinnacle, c. 1960s Acrylic and collage on scintilla 22 x 8 inches 23.25 x 9 inches, framed A surrealist mid-century figural abstract p...

Artist: Les Bullene Title: Flower Still Life in front of Window Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas mounted to Wood, signed Image: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 28 x 3...

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...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Green and Red Mandala, 1969 Acrylic on scintilla Signed and dated lower right 24.75 x 18 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a l...

Powerful mid century American modern painting of 3 musicians. Really well painted mystery piece. It is oil on canvas dated on back with a name of either a...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Departing from the System, 1961 Mixed media on paper Signed and dated lower right 36 x 24 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abst...

Béla Czóbel, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, R. S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1996: no. 60 and reproduced on page 95 of catalogue.

A mid-century oil of a tugboat moored in a calm harbor with a view towards a misty industrial port landscape beyond. Signed lower right, "Paula Koloday" (American, 20th century) and ...

Artist: Josep Grau-Garriga Title: Untitled Washington Action Year: 1969 Medium: Mixed Media and Collage on Paper Size: 18 x 23.5 inches

Tranquil landscape by Lylia T. Shackelford (20th Century). A calm stream flows down the center of the painting, framed on either side by lush grass and tall trees. Beyond the trees a...

Work on canvas Gray wooden flush frame Dimensions with frame 67 x 82 x 2.5 cm This captivating work presents an abstract landscape with rich, expressive textures. The dark color pale...

Gorgeous mid-century Pacific seascape of brilliant blue waves breaking on shallow rocks by Ruth Kjos Berg (American, 20th century), circa 1960s. You can feel the intense energy comin...

Gorgeous abstracted figurative of Caryatids titled "Ring Three" by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed, titled, and dated "Warner 1970" on verso. Displayed in rustic wood ...

Work on canvas

Add some life to your room with this bright & colorful Mid-Century, Abstract Expressionist painting by artist Harold Haydon. Floated in a black, wooden frame. Image size: 10" x 14...

Mid-Century "The Emigrants" #34 Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) Oil on canvas 19 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches, frame size “The savage art of Bosco bears i...

Josef Zenk Untitled Concentric Squares (Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstraction), ca. 1960 Oil on canvas painting Boldly signed by Josef Zenk on the lower right front Frame included...

Very well executed oil on canvas painting exploring light and shadows by the American artist, Judd Gallet. It explores two women in conversation next to a...

Les Fruits 2 Oil on masonite, 1967 Signed and titled lower right (see photos) Signed with the estate stamp verso: Beni Kosh Collection #254 (see photo) Condition: Good Board size: 7 ...

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: X-Ray Series (with Lily) Year: 1964 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 44 x 36 inches Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, verso Notes: Lowell...

Initialed lower right, 'E.B.S.' for E.B.Stetson (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965; additionally signed, verso, 'E. B. Stetson'. A substantial, mid-century American Sch...

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...

Roger Lersy, French (1920 - 2004) Oil on canvas Signed, R. Lersy, dated 1961 lower right Measuring 35 X 31 Matted and framed. sight 26 X 21.5 Roger Lersy was born in Paris, France 1920, in the rough neighborhood surrounding Place Pigalle. His youth was marked by extreme poverty. Lersy studied art and music at the École des Arts Apppliqués. He was a painter, lithographer and musician-composer He belongs to the École de Paris and was a member in the movement of the Young Painting. By 1946, when he first exhibited in Paris, Lersy became one of the founders of the School of Paris’ New Graphic School. Lersy received the Prix des Amateurs d’Art in 1953, the Shell Prize in 1954 and the Grand Prize of the City of Marseilles in 1953. Lersy could be defined as a Baroque expressionist. For Bernard Dorival, Roger Lersy is along with Gabriel Dauchot, Jean Commère and Raymond Guerrier among "the most noted champions of this expressionism which is part of the continuation of Bernard Buffet's miserabilism". Famous works: New Year's Eve , Aubusson tapestry of the Manufacture des Gobelins , Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations , One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza , New York . Venice , bridges , watercolor, 1963 (theme of the Roger Lersy exhibition, Chicago). The poppy , original lithograph, Imprimerie Bellini, 1978, collection of the Cabinet des estampes , BNF . Still life at the pedestal table , oil on canvas, Jonzac town hall. Lohengrin , oil on canvas, Versailles Administrative Court of Appeal. Portrait of the painter Tony Agostini , drawing. Series Eiffel Tower. Stained glass: Saint-Laurent Church, Longlaville ( Meurthe-et-Moselle ), 29 stained glass windows. Musical works: Stained glasses for clarinet , saxophone, cello and percussion , creation in the church of Longlaville, 1972. Three pieces for two waves Martenot : 1. Scum of dream, 2. Scare and jubilation. Malicious connivance, sheet music Editions A. Leduc, Paris, 1979. Work for trumpet and piano , published by Éditions G. Billaudot, Paris, 1984. Five pieces for piano , scores published by G. Billaudot, Paris, 1989. Five preludes for piano and alto saxophone , scores at Éditions Combre, premiere at Flâneries musicales de Reims , 1993. In memory of Chagall , piece for flute and percussion , recording of Duo Hyksos (Henri Tournier, flute and Michel Gastaud, percussion) in 1995. Preface in black and yellow for horn and piano , score at Éditions Combre, Arc-en-ciel collection, 2000. Soundtracks: Diatomées Note 4 , 19 , film by Jean Painlevé...

Scared is an original painting realized by Sergio Barletta. Applied on passepartout: 65 x 50 cm. Hand-signed on the lower left. In very good conditions, except for small ripping a...

Oil Painting by Lucien Chenu "The Lily Pond" 1913 - 2004. French landscape painter born in Vendee, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Paris. Member of several art association...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with gouache on paper. It features a dark palette, with dark charcoal black tones contrasted by yellow and red accents throughout, and large brush strokes. The painting itself is 16" x 54" and measures 17" x 56" x 2" framed. The paper is mounted on board, framed in a black frame under glass. It is not signed by the artist, but has been authenticated by his estate, and is stamped with the estate seal on the back of the painting, and on the back of the frame. It is ready to hang. Stanley Bate was born on March 26, 1903 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Bates were an established Tennessee family, in fact, Henry’s brother William Bate was the governor of Tennessee from 1883-1887 and a United States Senator from 1887-1905. Stanley studied art at the Watkins Institute in Nashville. In the 1920’s Bate moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League under Frederick Bridgman. He soon landed a job with Encyclopedia Britannica, and from 1927-1929 served as art editor. From 1929 until his death in 1972, Stanley was a self-employed artist. He taught art classes at both the Art Students League and the Albany Institute of History and Art and brought in extra income by making illustrations for magazines such as “Outdoor Life” and “Popular Science”. On January 27, 1934 Stanley married Emilie Rossel. Emilie had emigrated from Switzerland to New York in 1923. She found work as a governess to Alfred Vanderbilt and later as an executive secretary for Wall Street investment brokers Kahn, Loeb and Co. Emilie met Stanley in New York in the early 1930’s when she attended one of his art exhibitions with a friend. The couple, who had no children, lived on 34th Street in Manhattan. During this period, Bate was producing and exhibiting his art and joined several artists groups. Stanley and Emilie became part of the New York art scene, dining weekly at the Society of Illustrators Clubhouse. Stanley Bate’s time in New York was pivotal in the formation of his painting style. He lived in New York during the inception of one of the most important Modern Art movements, one that helped New York replace Paris as the center of avant-garde art. This movement, which was called the New York School of artists, was later known as Abstract Expressionism. It was comprised of a loosely associated group of vanguard artists working in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. The New York School was not defined by a specific style, but instead reflected a fusion of European Modernism and American social relevancy that was depicted in many individual styles. Influences of Surrealism, Cubism, and Modernism can be found in their work, along with an interest in experimenting with non-traditional materials and methods. American art was in the forefront of international avant-garde for the first time. Stanley Bate was undoubtedly exposed to the varied styles and techniques that were emerging during the formative years of the New York School. Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell were formulating their versions of color field paintings. Joseph Cornell was experimenting with assemblages, collage and the use of different types of textured paints. Jackson Pollock was adhering objects such as buttons and coins into his early works, while Louise Nevelson was using found objects. Helen Frankenthaler added sand to her early paintings. The New York School artists were undermining traditional fine art by using mixed media and non-traditional methods. Stanley Bate absorbed these varied influences and soon his early realistic landscapes and still-lifes were replaced with something entirely new. The influence of Cubism, notably the flat shallow space of the picture plane, is obvious in many of Bate’s paintings. Surrealism is evident in Bate’s use of subjects from myth, primitive art and antiquity, along with the Automatism-like line work in his more linear images. The unfettered experimentation of the New York School is everywhere in Stanley Bate’s work. We see nods to color field, collage, the mixing of textures into paint, mixed media, the inclusion of found objects and thick, luscious impasto. Bate was prolific and experimented in various media including oil, watercolor, lithography, silk screen, wood cut, drawing, collage, ceramics and sculpture. Bate is considered a true Modernist. His work is largely abstract, but sometimes figures and buildings are discernable. He frequently mixed paint, sand and glue together to achieve a textured surface, and then scraped and scratched through this layer to expose some of the underpainting below. His sculpture, which is often whimsical, also reflects the non-traditional methods of the New York School. Bate pioneered the use of enamel and copper in his work. The sculptures are not carved or modeled as was done in the past, but instead are built using mixed media and new materials. In addition to the New York School influence, many of Bate’s works exhibit a strong connection to the Spanish school, especially the work of Antonio Tapies and Modesto Cuixart. These artists were both part of an avant-garde group known as Art Informel, the Spanish equivalent of Abstract Expressionism. These artists likewise worked in mixed media and introduced objects and texture into their work. Many of Bate’s subjects and titles relate to Spanish locations and words. It is likely that Stanley spent time in Spain and found inspiration there. By the early 1940s, Stanley and Emilie had started spending weekends in a barn they purchased in Craryville, New York, a few hours north of Manhattan. The barn had no electricity or plumbing, but when the Bates eventually decided to leave New York and live full time in Craryville, they remodeled the barn, putting a gallery downstairs and a studio and living quarters upstairs. Although the Bates moved out of New York City, Stanley remained part of the New York art scene, exhibiting in New York and elsewhere throughout the 50s and 60s. During his lifetime he was represented by the New York galleries Knoedler and Company, Kennedy Galleries, Rose Fried Gallery and Key Gallery, along with Tyringham Gallery located in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Craryville was Stanley’s home until his death on August 21, 1972. Emilie died 1984...