1960s Paintings

Samson Schames (German-American, 1898-1967) Untitled, 1960 Mixed media on paper Sight: 16 1/2 x 14 in. Framed: 27 1/2 z 22 1/2 x 1/2 in. Signed and dated lower right Samson Schames ...

Mid-Century "The Red Village" #50 F Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) Oil on canvas 12 x 10 inches, frame size “The savage art of Bosco bears its rudeness and its mystery. It ...

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Panama Garden, c. 1964 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 46 x 38 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...

A beautiful mid 20th century French naïf oil on board depicting figures in a snow covered town, by Jean Fous. Titled "Winter Walk" in French on the reverse. The work is signed lower...

Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977) Oil on board. Colorful woman. La Signora, Vestita Di Giallo, 1969 Hand signed upper right. signed, titled on back of panel. Dimensions: (Frame) H 38" x W 30", (Panel) H 28" x W 20" Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work is recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and Jean Jansem. This particular work is reminiscent of the work of Manolo Valdes. Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings...

“Wash Day” subject by Louisiana folk artist Clementine Hunter (1887-1988). This work is oil on board measuring 10 x 12. Frame is 10 3/4 x 12 3/4. The work is well done and a good rep...

Ángel Román Pina (XX) - farmhouse - Oil on panel Oil measures 24x24 cm. Frame measures 40x40 cm.

A mid-century modern geometric abstract painting by American artist Richard Huntington. Richard Huntington (b. 1936) is an American painter, printmaker, and writer, is Critic Emerit...

Edward Zutrau Polynesian Image, 2/1960 Signed, dated and titled on verso Oil on linen 38 1/2 x 51 inches Edward Zutrau is among the American artists who worked within the whirlwind...

Emory Ladanyi Hungarian, 1902-1986 Atonal Oil on canvas 38 ¼ by 46 in, w/ frame 39 ½ by 47 ½ in Signed lower right Born November 8, 1902 in Kecskemet, Hungary, the child of Mihaly ...

An original Gouache painting measuring 16 x 20 inches by Joseph Margulies. The painting is signed lower right. Born in Vienna, Joseph Margulies becam...

This Modern painting by Abstract Expressionist painter Stanley Bate features a textured aesthetic and a deep, colorful palette. Deep blue and red is contrasted by a brighter accents ...

Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 20H by 24L. Excellent ready to hang condition. Impressive colors and compo...

Vintage flower landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang an...

4009 Colorful bouquet of flowers on canvas

6052 Swiss vintage snow caped village landscape in an ornate wood frame Image size 11x16"

A captivating view from a town of Italy "Porto Santo Stefano". This scene is a seaport town on the west coast of Italy, in the municipality of Monte Arge...

This mesmerizing post-cubist and colorist abstract oil on board painting was designed by A. Rigollot (France, 20th Century). Colorist paintings are characterized by intense color use...

'The French Rooster', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). A Mid-Century modern depiction of the French coq, or rooster. The origin o...

A beautiful 1960's oil on canvas by Paul Lucien Dessau depicting the famous entrance to Horse Guards in central London, with mounted Guardsmen on watch and parade. The work is signe...

Striking Sierra Mountain landscape by California artist Genevieve Rogers (American, 1904 - 1984), circa 1960s. Unsigned, but acquired with a collection of her work. Unframed. Image s...

5150 French oversized Surreal oil on canvas A Man's Fantasy Framed

Cubist Still Life (49) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 12 in. x 12 in. (30.48 cm x 30.48 cm) Frame Size: 15 x 15 inches

This large painting is a ca. 1960 copy of a famous Rockwell Kent painting that was executed in Vermont in 1921. The work is oil on canvas and well represents the original image, tho...

Substantial and period painting, a Mid Century Modern portrait of a woman in an abstracted landscape by listed California artist Tarmo Pasto...

Beautiful California plein air painting of San Gabriel Mountains in autumn with iconic Sycamore tree in foreground. Circa 1960. Unsigned. Presented in vintage gilt-toned carved wood frame. Image size: 10"H x 14"W. The San Gabriel Mountains have inspired many famous plein air painters including Hanson Puthuff, Marion Kavanagh Wachtel, Maurice Braun...

6048 French oversized rosed filled boquet Set in an ornate frame. Image size 23,5x29.5"

5178 Antique American modernist trees landscape 1961 image size 16x24"

'Still Life with Pineapple', oil on panel, by Lucien Martial (circa 1960s). Like human life, fruit is perishable and ephemeral, and thus many believe th...

From the series Blue Balls, (1960-63). This series preoccupied Francis for a number of years, and as William C. Agee pointed out, are rooted in his threatened physical body. Again, t...

Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting by Alton S. Tobey (1914 - 2005). Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 48H by 36L.

Oil on canvas by Paul Collomb (1921-2010), France, 1960s. The beautiful view. Measurements : with frame: 54.5x41.2 cm - 21.5x16.2 inches, without frame: 46x33 cm - 18.1x13 inches, fo...

Indian Batik Art Textile Tapestry, 1965, depicting a man and woman sowing in the fields behind a team of oxen in mustard yellow ochre, and shades of deep purple, signed and dated ind...

This signed painting by acclaimed African-American artist David Hammons displays an early experimental use of painted material during the artist’s formative years at Otis Art Institu...

Abstract Figural and Pediments - Two Sided Art Mid century figural and architectural painting on paper. Heavy layers of paint with a dog on an abutment and two Japanese wrestlers...

Nicely painted American modernist abstract still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 14H by 18L.

Oil on canvas. Signed

Al Dickstein New York school Abstract Geometric work. Came in with small collection of his work including signed letters and a signeed card and some monogrammed pieces.. Signed with monogram and inscribed and signed verso. Showed at New York's Stable Gallery...

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

'Portrait of Future Man', oil on board, Berlin School, (circa 1960s). A thoroughly modern portrait clearly in the style of Italian Futurist, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960). Futurism co...

This Modern abstract figurative painting by Stanley Bate features abstracted figures in motion, placed in front of a geometric background with white, maroon, and blue squares tiled n...

Impressive early American modernist abstract painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 16H by 20L.

Gene Hedge Path Orange, 1969, 1969 Acrylic on canvas 66 7/8 x 61 3/8 inches Provenance Estate of the artist Gene Hedge was born (1928) and raised in rural Indiana. After military ...

Signed lower right, 'Edward Norton Ward' (American, born 1928) and painted circa 1960; additionally signed, verso, and titled 'Heavy Seas, Pt. Lobos'. A substantial evening seascape...

A commanding piece of Mid-Century abstraction, this painting composition by American artist Canthi—signed and dated 1961—exudes raw, architectural energy layered over a vivid color f...

A great hard edge abstract painting, possibly by Michiel Gloeckner. This work was purchased from Trinity Auctions. Trinity Auctions have handled many works by the artist, and some a...

Antique American abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Measuring: 40 by 49 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

Vase with Flowers Charles Cobelle French (1902–1994) Date: circa 1960 Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 cm)

Original oil on board painting by Frederick Tordoff. Signed lower right and titled verso. Overall size in gold and black nautical style frame 25 by 35 inches. Condition: good; no restoration. Frame has some old repairs. This painting depicts the second race of the 1885 America's Cup between Puritan of Boston's Eastern Yacht Club...

EMILIO GRAU SALA Spanish, 1911 - 1975 ROND-POINT DES CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES signed "Grau Sala" (lower left) signed, located and dated "GRAU SALA / PARIS 1967" (on the reverse) oil on canvas ...

Important, large & early (1963) painting by Spokane, WA artist Robert David Gilmore, titled "Metropolis". The painting depicts the interstate highway system. Artwork size: 46...

Uprising - a huge and incredibly powerful and topical painting by Jamaican master painter Barrington Watson (1931-2016). It depicts the 1865 Moran...

Snow,Wood,White,Winter LEONID VAICHLIA (St. Petersburg, 1922) Works by Leonid Vaichlia can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, United States and in the follo...

GEOMETRIC NEIGHBOURHOOD Size: 40 x 72.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A playful and brilliantly executed mid-century composition of a neighbourhood, painted in oil onto canvas ...

Hugh M. Poe (American, 1902-1973) Night Riders, 1962 Oil on artist's board Signed lower right 20 x 25 inches 26.75 x 31.75 inches, framed Condition: Craquelure throughout. There are...

5017 Vintage American morning duck hunt. Framed Signed

Antique American still life oil painting by Rudolph Colao (1927 - 2014). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 30 by 35 inches overall and 24 by 28 painting alone.

3875 Japanese gouache landscape painting on silk set in a brass metal frame See matching painting #3874

Signed lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and dated 1964. A large, mid-century oil townscape showing a view of the old town of Carmel, California, with ...

Blue and Black Abstract, Artist signed and dated 1968 Size: 31x36.5 framed 32x37.5 Born in Sloviansk, Ukraine in 1942. A graduate of Kent State University, receiving a B.S. in Art E...