1960s Paintings

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

"Two Girls in School" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 36" x 40.25" oil on board portrait of two figures is painted in a vibrant color palette. The painting is framed in a new, black wood frame and signed "Harmon" on verso. There is a second portrait the artist painted on the back of the painting. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel. Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists...

Robert Mus Untitled 2 Mixed media on Isorel 1965/1966 119 x 90 cms Certificate from the artist's daughter 2300 euros

James Douthitt Wilson (1903-1973) Fort Worth, Dallas, San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 30.5 x 36.5 Medium: Oil on Masonite Please view my 1stdibs store front for other Great Vintage Texas Paintings...

James Suzuki Untitled, circa 1960 Signed lower right "Suzuki" Acrylic on canvas 66 1/4 x 80 inches Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey James Hiroshi Suzuki...

Antonio Diaz Cortes, a Mexican artist influenced by Pablo Picasso and Rufino Tamayo, employs the Cubist idiom to create a portrait with elements of pattern in Brazilian Girl of 1969....

Indra Dugar - Untitled - 10.5 x 8 inches (unframed size) 16 x 18.5 inches ( framed size ) This is a two sided work, Recto & Verso. Ink on paper. Inclusive of shipment in framed fo...

Arthur Pinajian (1914-1999) Woodstock NY, Overlook Mountain, archived no. 4206, 12x16 inches, oil on canvas. THE PINAJIAN DISCOVERY: AN ARTIST’S LIFE REVEALED At one time destined ...

"Red Still Life" is an interior still life by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 28.25" x 24.25" oil on board painting is framed in a new black wood frame. Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American...

Serene beach house scene from Galveston, Texas painted by Martin. Intricate detail framed in a vintage frame that is in great condition. Signature in...

Senkichiro Nasaka (1923-2014) WORK Mixed media on paper 34 x 22 cm (13.4 x 8.7 in) not considering the frame Executed in 1962 The present work is one of the few paintings pre-dating Senkichiro Nasaka’s affiliation to the Gutai Group. The particular choice of means and technique, inspired by Senkichiro Nasaka’s mastery of both Japanese and Western painting, conveys the semblance of geological accretions, and clearly adheres to Jiro Yoshihara’s motto: “create what has never been done before” About the Artist: Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1923, in 1942 Senkichiro Nasaka entered the Kyoto City Painting University. where he was a contemporary of Kazuo Shiraga. In 1960s he made a career switch from Japanese traditional painting to Western style oil painting, creating works under the influence of the informel style. In 1965 Nasaka presented his work to the 15th Gutai Art...

This sophisiticated oil on canvas work was realized by the esteemed Bay Area artist Tom Holland circa 1961, and boasts a prestigious provenance from the Stanford Museum of Art. Combining elements of futurism, Art Brut and Art Naif, with inspiration from his Bay Area contemporaries (such as Richard Diebenkorn), Holland has achieved both critical and commercial success over the last five plus decades of his career. He is currently represented by galleries in Dallas, Santa Fe and San Francisco and his prints are exhibited by Crown Point Press in San Francisco and Cirrus Editions in Los Angeles. This piece represents an exceptional example of his early practice. It offers a wealth of organic and geometric forms in coffee and chocolate brown, rendered in thick impasto, with cobalt blue peaking out from beneath. There are two orbital forms in the lower half of the canvas painted in a burnt umber hue. With its sophisticated palette and painterly aesthetic, this piece would be a winning acquisition for any avid collector of first-rate Mid Century Modern fine art...

Boyer Gonzales Jr. (1909-1987) Austin Artist Image Size: 18 x 24 Frame Size: 19 x 25 Medium: Oil 1960 "Landscape Fragment II" Biography Boyer Gonzales Jr. (1909-1987) Boyer Gonzales Jr, a noted painter and teacher in Texas was born in Galveston, Texas and raised in family homes in both Galveston and Woodstock, New York. He attended Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania and in 1931 graduated with a degree in architecture from the University on Virginia. During the summers while at the university he studied with his father in Woodstock. After graduation he returned to Woodstock and studied under Henry Lee...

Memories of Italy. 1965 Oil on canvas, 42x75,5 cm

Handel Organ Concerto Opus 4 No.6 B Flat Major - III Allegro Watercolor and mixed pigments on paper, c. 1960's Signed and titled recto (see photos) Condition: Excellent Image: 19 3/4...

Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 46 x 54 x 8 cm This artwork features a vibrant, textured composition that immediately catches the eye with its bold use of colors and shapes. We d...

Der begnadete Zeichner Karl Anton Fleck wurde vor kurzem mit einer Personalen in der Albertina geadelt. In dieser Ausstellung fehlte allerdings etwas ganz Entscheidendes: Eines der w...

Brilliant American Illustrator Bob Peak captures the fury and power of a punch to the face with rapid broad strokes of the brush. Combined with a somber color scheme and gestural bru...

Robert Mus Untitled 6 Oil on Isorel / stretcher 1965/1966 60 x 90 cms Artist's certificate 1300 euros

The artist invents and then captures a moment of a peak drama with soldiers being shot and bombs exploding. It's beautifully rendered in Künstler signature style showcasing his deep ...

Gouache, watercolor and crayon on paper. Signed in white gouache, lower right recto by Dobashi.

Vibrant, large, signed and dated, oil-on-canvas painting by listed American artist, Erle Loran (1905-1999). Among Loran's many exhibitions were in 1924 at the Minnesota State Fair; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, 1933; the Rockefeller Center, 1935; Oakland Art Gallery, 1936-1946; the San Francisco Art Museum annuals from 1936; the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1945; California Watercolor Society, 1947, among many others. His works can be seen at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Museum, the University of Minnesota...

Hermann Schütte (1893 Osnabrück - 1973 Hamburg), White Mask on Violet Ground. Enameled copper plate on wooden base, 37 x 29.5 cm, monogrammed and dated "S[chütte] [19]62" in the lowe...

Born in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersbourg, Russia) in 1937, Catherine Zoubtchenko lives in France since 1945. She was a student of the painter André Lanskoy, with whom she later share...

Gray toned abstract watercolor painting on paper titled "Militair." Back side of the paper has another painting depicting red, yellow, green, and blue abstract shapes with figurative...

Fusain on paper, signed lower right.

Abstract expressionist tribal painting of a nude female done in bold, vibrant colors by artist Gustave Alhadeff in 1962 with acrylic paint. Signed in upper right corner. Artist Biography: Born in the Belgian Congo in 1940, Gustave Alhadeff won his first award at the annual art show in Elisabethville, at age 13. His formal art education began with Mr. Marcel Pire (Prix de Rome). He continued his studies at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, with Mr. Van Nesche in Cape Town, South Africa from 1956 to 1957. He was awarded a scholarship from the Art Academy to continue his studies with Mr.Creytens at the "Institute National Superieur des Beaux Arts" in Anvers, Belgium. The following year he entered the class of Mr. Leon Devos...

Work on canvas Brown wooden baguette frame 66.5 x 79.5 x 3.5 cm

Abstraction is a beautiful and colored oil on canvas realized by the artist Aldo Moriconi in 1967. Hand signed and dated lower margin. 100 x 100 cm. Very good condition.

Fusain on paper, signed lower right

Exceptional abstract sill life painting by Stephen Thomas Rascoe 1924 - 2008. Stephen Rascoe is a classically trained Texas artist whose works can be found in countless museums and p...

Youth. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to pu...

Portrait (52) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 20 in. x 15 in. (50.8 cm x 38.1 cm)

Suburb. 1963, watercolor on paper, 27x38 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, l...

Running. 1967. Double-sided, cardboard, tempera, 37.5x39 cm Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translato...

Signed & dated Verso. 1965 Paul Reed in 1970. He favored “staining” untreated canvas. Paul Reed, the last surviving member of the Washington Color School, who explored the complexities of color and form in vibrant bio-morphic and hard-edge abstract paintings, died on Sept. 26 at his home in Phoenix. He was 96. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Jean Reed Roberts. Mr. Reed acquired his public identity as an artist when he was included, along with Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Thomas Downing and Howard Mehring, in “The Washington Color Painters,” a landmark traveling exhibition that began at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in 1965. All of the other painters had been shown, the year before, in “Post-Painterly Abstraction,” a 31-artist exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art organized by the critic Clement Greenberg in an effort to write a new chapter in the historic march of abstract art. Like his fellow Washington artists, Mr. Reed rejected the hot, gestural approach of Abstract Expressionism and explored color and abstract forms in a cooler mode. Working with diluted acrylic paint, in discrete series that methodically explored formal issues, he created luminous fields of color by letting the paint bleed into, or stain, untreated canvas. “I have a saying: Pollock dripped, Frankenthaler poured,” he told The Washington Post in 2011, referring to the artist Helen Frankenthaler. “Morris Louis poured. Howard Mehring sprinkled. I blot.” In his first stained series, “Mandala,” color radiated from a circular central image. The nearly 100 paintings in his “Disk” series, which he called “a matrix for exploiting color,” consisted of a central circle and two triangles positioned at the corners of the canvas. Over the next decade he moved to hard-edge geometric zigzags and stripes in the vertical “Upstart” series, color grids and shaped canvases that allowed for more complex experiments in form and color relations. He also made welded steel sculptures and, in the “Quad” series of the 1980s, collaged photographs. “Reed was, in a sense, the ‘little master’ of that first batch of Washington colorists,” the critic Benjamin Forgey wrote in The Washington Post in 1997. “He was a latecomer — he didn’t turn seriously to painting until he was in his mid-30s — but he never considered becoming anything other than an abstract painter. And when he was ready to show, in his early 40s, he was a very good abstract painter indeed.” Mr. Reed gave himself a more modest assessment in an interview with NPR last year. “I’m sort of low man on the totem pole of that group of six,” he said. Paul Allen...

Original mixed media in gray and black by well-known Phoenix, Arizona black artist Eugene Grigsby, Jr. Created 1963. Signed lower left. Framed beautifully and in excellent condition. Painting measures 23"h x 17 3/4"w. Frame measures 29 1/2"h x 24"w. This item is a preparatory work for the oil painting by Grigsby also titled “The Family.” Art professor, fine artist, and high school art teacher, Jefferson Eugene Grigsby, Jr. (1918-2013) in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1933, Grigsby attended Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Within a year, Grigsby transferred to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he first met his long time mentor, Hale Woodruff. Grigsby graduated from Morehouse College in 1938, with B.A. degree and because of Woodruff, he was equipped with extensive artistic experience that he would retain throughout his life. Grigsby went on to obtain his M.A. degree in art (1940) from Ohio State University and his Ph.D. degree from New York University (1963). In 1942, Grigsby volunteered to serve in World War II and became a master sergeant of the 573rd Ordinance Ammunition Company under U.S. Army General George Patton...

Abstract Mountains (59) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)

Red Figure (11) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas Size: 30 in. x 12 in. (76.2 cm x 30.48 cm)

Man with Bird (21) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 25 in. x 20 in. (63.5 cm x 50.8 cm)

Religious Scene with Sword (27) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: 1965 Oil on Board Size: 15 in. x 31 in. (38.1 cm x 78.74 cm)

Portrait with Madonna (25) 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)

"Hunting Scene II," a lithograph by American artist Ynez Johnston created in 1964, is part of a series published by the International Graphic Arts Society (IGAS) in September 1965. L...

"Boy Waiting" is an oil on board portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon of a young man with somber expression, sitting on a chair. This work features a second environmental portrait on verso. The painting is 41.75" x 35.75" in size and is signed "Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel. Provenance: Estate of the Artist; Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke...

Larry Zox Jean Jean, 1964 Signed, dated, and titled on the stretcher Liquitex on canvas 58 x 62 inches Provenance: Solomon & Co., New York Private Collection, NJ Estate of the above, 2023 Committed to abstraction throughout his career, Larry Zox played a central role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s. His work of the time, consisting of brilliantly colored geometric shapes in dynamic juxtapositions, demonstrated that hard-edge painting was neither cold nor formalistic. He reused certain motifs, but he did so less to explore their aspects than to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his essay for Zox’s solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973. By the 1970s, Zox was using a freer, more emotive method, while maintaining the autonomy of color, which increasingly became more important to him than structure in his late years. Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s, when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler for the Gallery of Modern Art, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Guggenheim Museum. In 1973, the Whitney’s solo exhibition of Zox’s work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, Zox was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum, which owns fourteen of his works. Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University. While studying at the Des Moines Art Center, he was mentored by George Grosz, who despite his own figurative approach encouraged Zox’s forays into abstraction. In 1958, Zox moved to New York, joining the downtown art scene. His studio on 20th Street became a gathering place for artists, jazz musicians, bikers, and boxers. He occasionally sparred with the visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, where he painted and fished including using a helicopter to spot fish. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Zox’s works were collages consisting of painted pieces of paper stapled onto sheets of plywood. He then produced paintings that were illusions of collages, including both torn- and trued-edged forms, to which he added a wide range of intense hues that created ambiguous surfaces. Next, he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape. From 1962 to 1965, he produced his Rotation Series, at first creating plywood and Plexiglas reliefs, which turned squares into dynamic polygons. He used these shapes in his paintings as well, employing white as a foil between colors to produce negative spaces that suggest that the colored shapes had only been cut out and laid down instead of painted. The New York Times noted in 1964: “The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works.” In 1965, he began the Scissors Jack...

Dickson Reeder (1912 - 1970) Fort Worth Artist Image Size: 10 x 15 Frame Size: 17 x 22 Medium: Oil on Board Mid Century Modern Biography Dickson Reeder (1912 - 1970) Edward Dickson Reeder began his art education under Sallie Blyth Mummert and Sallie Gillespie before attending the Art Students' League in New York. He later traveled to Europe and studied with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. Dickson Reeder and his wife, Flora Blanc, established and directed the Reeder School of Theater and Design in Fort Worth (1946-1958). Please view my 1stdibs store front for other Great Vintage Texas Paintings...

Gene Hedge Inside Blue, 1966 Acrylic on canvas 61 1/4 x 43 3/4 inches (P124) Gene Hedge was born (1928) and raised in rural Indiana. After military service, he briefly attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. There he encountered the writing of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and the following year (1949) went to study at the Institute of Design in Chicago. He received a B.S. degree in Visual Design from the Institute of Design (1953), and he also took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago and began working in collage. During this period, the influence of Eugene Dana...

Green hue landscape scene of figures tubing in a river. It appears to be either the Guadalupe River or the Dry Frio River both located in West Texas. The painting is framed in a gold...

Oil painting on masonite by the french Art Deco and modernist painter Jean Burkhalter. This artist is well-known to be one of the founders of the UAM ("Union des Artistes Modernes" i.e. Union of Modern Artists) with Pierre Chareau, Sonia Delaunay, Jean Fouquet, Eileen Gray, Hélène Henry, Francis Jourdain, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Gustave Miklos...

Fasnacht, an oil painting by Hans Burkhardt, was gifted by the artist to his daughter. It focuses on the traditional Swiss carnival celebration prior to the beginning of Lent. Abou...

Unique red and black abstract painting reminiscent of Rorschach inkblot tests by unknown artist set in a custom-made black frame from the 1960's...

Wonderful surrealist oil landscape of a man standing on a beach next to a red flag signed by artist L. Calisio in the lower right corner. Hung in gold frame with a tan mat. Dimensi...

Abstract acrylic painting of two childlike graffiti figures drawn on a brick wall against a bright blue sky by artist J. P. Smith in 1969. Signed and ...

Hoehn, George (American, 1935 - ?) UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Gouache on heavy wove paper, 1969. Signed and dated, lower right. Tondo, 3 1/4 inches diameter, (image), 15 x 11 inches (shee...

Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne, Paris. Returned to Budapest to study art at the Fine Arts Academy, then continued his studies at the Academie Julienne, Paris, where he was influenced by the post impressionist artists including Picasso, Salvadore, Dali and Chagall. His motto was “history is the inevitable conveyance of great situations by great personalities.” He came to England due to the Hungarian uprising in 1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and commercial illustrations in 1961. Keywords: Oil, Abstract, Mid 20th Century, mixed media, The Death of the Minotaur, mythical, wood, techin, hand, 2 headed snake...

Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New England Arts Club and the Royal Instit...

Painter, born 1911, Poland. Education: Academy, Berlin, with Karl Hoffe, 1929-34 Paris

"Expressionist Abstract #4" is a 46 x 62 inches oil on board work by Philadelphia artist Morris Lewis Blackman. The painting is signed in the artist's monogram "MLB" and dated 1964-6...

Robert Mus Untitled 7 Oil and hessian on canvas / stretcher 1968 Signed and dated lower right 60 x 90 cms 1400 euros

Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...