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Period: 1960s
Trinity Hall, Cambridge I painting by Margaret Souttar
Located in London, GB
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Modern 1960s Paintings

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Acrylic

Signed American School Panoramic Summer Lake View Serene Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
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Impressionist 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Eclipse - American Kinetic Art - 1961
Located in London, GB
ALEXANDER CALDER 1898-1976 Lawnton, Pennsylvania 1898 - 1976 New York (American) Title: Eclipse, 1961 Technique: Signed and Dated Gouache on Wove Paper Size: 55 x 74.5 cm. / 21.7 ...
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Kinetic 1960s Paintings

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Gouache

Untitled
Located in Napoli, NA
The artwork is handsigned "Emblema 1966" on the back of the canvas by the artist.
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

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Jute, Mixed Media, Pigment

Woman with dove (To conqure hunger is to win Peace)
Located in New York, NY
year: 1968 poster was made of the painting p.130 full black & white image ( million copies) For the benefit "Freedom from Hunger" Campaign" under the auspices of Food and Agriculture Org. of the United Nations.
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Expressionist 1960s Paintings

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Oil

Jansem oil painting, kids oil painting, Children painting, Grandma painting.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The painting titled "Vielle et Enfant," executed in oil on canvas. The painting is signed by the artist in the upper right corner. The dimensions of the actual painting are 13.25 in...
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1960s Paintings

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Oil

Constellations, Modern Painting by David Smith 1963
Located in Long Island City, NY
For David Smith, America's greatest sculptor of the twentieth century, there is little difference between drawing, painting, and sculpture. He easily moved from one medium to the next and indeed one subject to the next, such that a drawing could be a unique object in its own right or a sculpture could in turn be an inspiration for a drawing. Smith was an artist of the outdoors; his work bears the mark of his surroundings. Black lines on white paper can suggest natural elements like sticks in a snow-covered field, or even less empirical and rather conceptual renderings of his sculpture imagined within the same snow-covered field. This oil on canvas painting is signed with the Greek letters "Delta Sigma...
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Minimalist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Gouache

Untitled Abstract Composition Painting with Collage
By Shanti Dave
Located in Surfside, FL
SHANTI DAVE, Untitled Composition, Mixed Media on Canvas, 21" x 25", signed upper right and dated '61, framed, 24 1/2" x 28 1/2". Perlman Gallery. Shanti Dave is an Indian painter and sculptor, considered by many as one of the major Indian artists of the twentieth century. He is a former member of the Lalit Kala Akademi and the Sahitya Kala Parishad. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1985. Dave was born on 25 September 1931 at the northern Gujarat village of Badpura as one of the four children of a rural family of modest means. He did his education in Baroda by joining the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1951 from where he completed his graduate and post graduate studies in Fine Arts. He started his career as a commercial artist doing banners and sign boards...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil

Mid Century Modern "Reflections" Oil 1950s
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern "Reflections" Oil 1950s Early morning abstract landscape with birds and reflections of a European scene by Marjorie Suits Erbesa Fresno, California artist (America...
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Abstract Impressionist 1960s Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Untitled III
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Kapeza was a Congolese artist working in Sub Saharan Africa in the mid 20th century. Kapeza had a long and troubled life of mental illness. He sta...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled II
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Kapeza was a Congolese artist working in Sub Saharan Africa in the mid 20th century. Kapeza had a long and troubled life of mental illness. He sta...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Femmes Sur La Plage, Expressionist French Oil On Canvas Beach Scene
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century French oil on canvas of two couples enjoying a day at the beach by Jef Friboulet. Signed bottom right, titled, dated and signed dedication to the rear of the canvas, presented in fine hand decorated and gilt Florentine wood frame. With his characteristic charm Friboulet has captured a scene of two couples enjoying a trip to the beach. In the foreground a couple seem to be all bundled up and under an umbrella, the figures highlighted by the contrast in colours between the vibrant red and the black. In the background another couple, again in red and black, this time one lady has her bathing costume on and the other sitting on a foldable picnic...
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Expressionist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Madonna with Child - Oil on Chipboard - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Madonna with Child is an original modern artwork realized by Artist of 20th century in 1969 Mixed colored oil on Chipboard. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Good conditi...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Walking Nude
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
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American Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Creek in Autumn
Located in Austin, TX
A brilliant landscape picturing an autumn day in the Texas Hill Country by master painter of the South West, G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones, Americ...
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American Realist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled II
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fernando de Szyszlo was a Peruvian painter and sculptor who was a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s. Untitled II Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvia...
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1960s Paintings

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Acrylic

Tick Tock
Located in New York, NY
1960 Oil on canvas 34 x 50 in. (86.4 x 127 cm) Signed and dated, verso
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Color-Field 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1960s Mid Century Modern Abstract Acrylic on Canvas Painting, Black Blue Green
Located in Denver, CO
Original acrylic on canvas painting signed by artist Angelo Di Benedetto (1913-1992) from 1964. Painting features an abstract composition depicting a large circle encompassing smaller circles in blue, green, white, and black. Signed and dated by the artist in the lower right corner of the canvas. Image size measures 50 x 49 3⁄4 inches. Framed image size measures 50 3⁄4 x 50 1⁄2 x 1 1⁄4 inches. About the Artist: Born New Jersey 1913 Died Central City, CO 1992 The son of Italian immigrants from the Salerno province in southern Italy, as a teenager Di Benedetto worked to study at the Cooper Union Art School in New York City (1930-34) from which he graduated with a certificate in freehand drawing. He won a scholarship to the Boston Museum Art School where he studied for three years, beginning in 1934. In 1937, he entered his first juried exhibition at the Montclair Museum in New Jersey, winning first prize and first honorable mention. In December 1938, the Royal Netherlands Steamship Line sent him on a two-month ethnological study trip to Haiti, his first exposure to a different environment outside the United States. In 1940, his Haitian paintings were exhibited at the Montross Gallery in New York – his first solo show. Before World War II, Di Benedetto traveled extensively around the United States doing regional paintings. During the war in 1941, Di Benedetto volunteered for a secret mission based in Eritrea, Africa before the Allied invasion. Following Africa, he served as an orientation officer and aerial photographic officer in the District of Columbia. In 1945 he was assigned to a mapping unit at Buckley Airfield in Denver where he served until his discharge in 1946. Like many other servicemen stationed at the time in Colorado, Di Benedetto chose to remain in Colorado, impressed by the state’s physical grandeur and healthful climate. He settled in the old mining town of Central City in 1947. In 1949 Di Benedetto and his wife, ceramist Lee Porzio, opened the Benpro Art School in his studio where he conducted summer art classes. In 1950, Di Benedetto teamed up with Frank Vavra...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Modern Abstract Colorful Six Figure Group Portrait Painting of Artists
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative portrait painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features a grouping of six standing and sitting figures wearing colorful clothes posing nex...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

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Oil

'After the Rain, Paris', French Impressionist Cityscape, Parisian Boulevarde
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'J. Clausen' (20th century) and painted circa 1965. A fresh and breezy, Impressionist oil showing a view of a wide, Parisian boulevard, wet from recent rain, with...
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Post-Impressionist 1960s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

JDM Harvey 'Design for Modernist Building' (1965) gouache architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
John Dean Monroe Harvey (1895-1978) A Design for a Modernist building (1965) Gouache on paper 52 x 66 cm Signed and dated ‘J D M Harvey 1965.’ Harvey is ar...
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Realist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Abstract Expressionist Summer Flowers
Located in Greenwich, CT
Among the early exponents of Abstract Expressionism, Abbott creates powerful oil paintings of spontaneous, gestural brushwork with highly creative color use. Lauded for her energy an...
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Abstract Expressionist 1960s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Landscape - 20th Century, Oil on board by Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Signed lower right. From the later 1950s, Vaughan painted landscapes without figures that verged towards complete abstraction: works in which colour is tessellated into compositions ...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Untitled
Located in Napoli, NA
The artwork is handsigned "Emblema 67" on the back of the canvas by the artist.
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Jute, Mixed Media, Pigment

Untitled
Located in Napoli, NA
The artwork is authenticated by the Emblema heirs and archived - number 2553 - at the Archivio and Museo Emblema (Terzigno - NA), Italy. The artwork is handsigned "Emblema 1969" on t...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

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Jute, Mixed Media, Pigment

Untitled
Located in Napoli, NA
The artwork is handsigned "Emblema 67" on the back of the canvas by the artist.
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Jute, Mixed Media, Pigment

"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

P1961-41
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel, 1961 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Certificate of authenticity Pastel, graphite and scratching Framed work : 57 x 72 cm Support: baryta cardboard laminated on wood pane...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

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Pastel

Oswaldo Vigas, Terricola, 1963, Oil on Canvas, 116 x 90 cm, 45.6 x 35.4 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Oswaldo Vigas Terricola, 1963 Oil on Canvas 116 x 90 cm 45.6 x 35.4 in. The painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Cat. Rais. 1963.131 Provenance: Private Collect...
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Abstract Expressionist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Red, Black and Blue Arrows - 20th Century, Oil on canvas by Terry Frost
Located in London, GB
Signed, titled and dated on verso Provenance: Waddington Galleries Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Belgrave Gallery, London Private Collection, UK (purchased from the above, 2001)
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Thistles
Located in Missouri, MO
Thistles by Louis Carl Hvasta (1913-1993) Signed and Dated Lower Right Unframed: 36" x 14" Framed: 41.5" x 22.5" Frame was hand made by the artist. A local Californian Artist, Hvas...
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American Realist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Study in Counterpoint, Large Geometric Abstract Painting by Kes Zapkus
By Kes Zapkus
Located in Long Island City, NY
Kestutis Edward Zapkus was born in Lithuania in 1938. He was predominantly influenced creatively by the Abstract Expressionist movement in Post War New York. Zapkus soon immigrated t...
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Abstract Geometric 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life on the Beach in France
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right. An exquisite painting executed during his travels, “Still Life on the Beach, France” depicts a vase of chrysanthemums perched along a sandy beach with sailboats ...
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Abstract Impressionist 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Silver Song
Located in New York, NY
CLEVE GRAY Silver Song, 1967 Acrylic on canvas with aluminum paint and bronze 101 x 80 inches Signed, titled and dated
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

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Enamel

Silver Voyage
Located in New York, NY
CLEVE GRAY Silver Voyage, 1967 Acrylic on canvas with silver enamel 79 x 80 inches Signed, titled and dated
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Pinto Lake, Mid Century Small-Scale Landscape with Lakeside Tree
By Olaf Palm
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant mid-century plein air landscape of Lake Pinto by Olaf Palm (American, 1935-2000). This small scale landscape is characterized by a brill...
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American Impressionist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite, Canvas

Open #125: Jeannie
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Open #125: Jeannie 1969 Acrylic and charcoal on canvasboard 76.2 x 50.8 cms (30 x 20 ins) RM9796 P532 The title of this painting refers to Motherwell's elder daugh...
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Abstract Expressionist 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Automatism No. 11
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Automatism No. 11 1965 Ink and oil on paper 67.3 x 61.6 cms (26 1/2 x 24 1/4 ins) Part of the Beside the Sea series, a series of oil paintings influenced by Mother...
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Abstract Expressionist 1960s Paintings

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Ink, Oil

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C 1968 Acrylic and graphite on paper 15.2 x 20.3 cms (6 x 8 ins) Robert Motherwell's Elegies series represent one of the iconic motifs of Abstract Expressionism.  Based on a 1948 ink illustration the artist executed accompanying a Harold Rosenberg poem, “A Bird for every bird,” the drawing shows the hypnotically repetitive patterning of ovoids and vertical beams.  The stark contrast of the black ink on white paper references the symbolic use of the color black by artists such as Goya, Manet and Matisse to convey death, loss, and tragedy.  Motherwell was quite affected by the turbulence of the Spanish Civil War and alludes to the Spanish republic in his Elegies. Motherwell’s plumbing the depths of poetry, history, and primordial art in the Elegies is considered a hallmark of nascent Abstract Expressionist painting in its desire to "excavate" essential imagery of mankind. Motherwell, who originally trained as a philosophy scholar and later became of the great editors of 20th century art documents, grasped very early on the crucial importance that in order to contribute meaningfully to the canon of modern art, one must create a principle of aesthetics. Through the surrealist concept of automatism, the artist finally found the creative principle that eventually governed his extraordinary artistic output and produced the Elegies, one of the most salient, immediate painterly images of 20th century abstract painting. In fact, he has alluded to the fact that each one of his Elegies begins as an automatic drawing, and certain shapes are then blocked to create the signature armature of the vertical bars and ovals. The Elegies seem to possess the power of an archetypal image, an image the mind already grasps on a subconscious level. Motherwell's play of dualities of black and white as well as other dichotomies—the geometric versus the organic, chaos versus order, death versus life—was a condition of living through a tumultuous period in American history. During an interview, he vividly recalled the 1940s as the time when society was ordered by a set of contradictions.  In Motherwell's Elegies, he not only discovered an incredibly elastic pictorial language that would communicate on multiple levels but also acknowledged these contradictions in a manner that would resonate in abstract form.  The present work served as a model for a painting, Spanish Elegy...
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Abstract Expressionist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Laid Paper, Graphite

Variation #5
By Don Olsen
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Variation #5, by Don Olsen. Oil on canvas, 64 x 86 x 1 inches (unframed, gallery wrapped canvas), $25,000 Previously owned (purchased directly from artist),...
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Hard-Edge 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Cat
By Humbert Howard
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful impressionist still life painting with fruit and a cat on a table by American artist Humbert Howard (1905-1990). Howard was born in Philadelphia and considered an important figure among contemporary African-American artists. He was educated at Howard University in Washington, D.C., the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. Howard was also art director of the Pyramid Club, a respected black cultural center in Philadelphia. As director of the club’s art exhibitions, he selected works by both black and white artists for display. By the time he retired in 1971, he had developed a loyal following of collectors and dealers in the Philadelphia area. In the eighties, he became increasingly involved with younger members of the local art scene and became a mentor to emerging black artists. Often called the “dean of Philadelphia’s black artists,” Howard hosted meetings of the local chapter of the National Conference of Black Artists in his Hamilton Street living room. Howard's paintings are part of the permanent collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center and the Philadelphia Afro-American Museum. Oil on canvas, signed and dated 69 upper left, titled inscribed on verso partial attached label “Still Life with Cat...
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American Impressionist 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Chess Players
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Born in Latvia, Kalman Aron(1924 - 2018), survived four years in camps during the Holocaust surviving in many ways due to his natural artists talent. As liberations came with the end of the war, he was able to study art at the Fine Art Academy of Vienna. Kalman Aron spent his life paintings portraits, landscapes, cityscapes as well as imagery from his impression of the war. He was widely commissioned and collected. The Chess Players...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

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Oil, Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
This stunning abstract watercolor was realized in the United States circa 1960. The work represents a fantastic hybrid between figurative and abstract painting realized in a style su...
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

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Watercolor

LA 8
Located in New York, NY
SHIRLEY GOLDFARB LA 8, 1969 Oil on canvas 10 x 8 inches signed on back "Goldfarb '69"
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Abstract Expressionist 1960s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Point Dume
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Robert McIntosh(1916-2010), was a prolific American artist that worked and exhibited throughout his life in California. In 1948, McIntosh was awarded first prize at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and again ion 1949 at the San Francisco Museum of Art. "Point Dume...
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1960s Paintings

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Oil

Blue On Blue #1 (Abstract Painting on Shaped 3 Dimensional Canvas, Circles)
Located in Denver, CO
Blue On Blue #1, original vintage 1965 abstract painting by Denver artist, Angelo Di Benedetto (1913-1992). Acrylic paint in shades of blue on shaped 3 dimensional (3D) canvas with a circular form protruding from the center of square painting. Presented in a vintage/original frame, outer dimensions measure 26 ¾ x 26 ½ x 1 ¼ inches. Image size is 26 x 26 x 3 ¼ inches. Exhibited: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting December 8, 1965 to January 30, 1966 The son of Italian immigrants from the Salerno province in southern Italy, as a teenager Di Benedetto worked as a truck driver in the mornings and a bartender in the afternoons to study at the Cooper Union Art School in New York City (1930-34) from which he graduated with a certificate in freehand drawing. He won a scholarship to the Boston Museum Art School where he studied for three years, beginning in 1934, with Russian émigré painter, Alexandre Jacovleff, a member of Mir Isskustva (World of Art) in St. Petersburg before the Russian Revolution. In 1936 he painted a religious mural for St. Michael’s Grove in Paterson, New Jersey. The following year, he entered his first juried exhibition at the Montclair Museum in New Jersey, winning first prize and first honorable mention. In December 1938, the Royal Netherlands Steamship Line sent him on a two-month ethnological study trip to Haiti, his first exposure to a different environment outside the United States. During what turned out to be an extended six-month stay, he studied and painted the life and religious customs of the island, resulting in a series of colorful, stylized paintings inspired by his immersion in the local culture. He also did scenes of Port-au-Prince and executed commissions received from prominent people in Haiti, including government officials. In 1940, his Haitian paintings were exhibited at the Montross Gallery in New York (his first solo show) and also reproduced in the January 1940 issue of Life Magazine. One of his Haitian paintings, Morning in Port-au-Prince, was owned by an American author, politician and U.S. ambassador, Clare Boothe Luce, while another image, Haiti Post Office, was acquired for the Encyclopedia Britannica Collection and later donated to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Before World War II, Di Benedetto traveled extensively around the United States in his car and trailer doing regional paintings. In 1941, he did what is considered the first authentic version of George Washington Crossing the Delaware, a contrast to the well-known painting on the same subject (1851) by German-born painter, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. During the war, Di Benedetto volunteered for a secret mission to Africa in 1941 before the Allied invasion, serving as director of camouflage, foreman of native laborers, and an interpreter while based in Eritrea. The following year he received a direct commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the First Photo Mapping Squadron, leading groups as a guide and interpreter and doing ground control. During his free time in Africa, he sketched and painted the local population and his fellow servicemen. Following Africa, he served as an orientation officer and aerial photographic officer for the 311th Photo Wing at Bolling Field, in the District of Columbia where he did a series of illustrated articles describing the natives in the different countries where the men of his organization were stationed during the war. In 1945 he was assigned to a mapping unit at Buckley Air Field in Denver where he served until his discharge in 1946. Like many other servicemen stationed at the time in Colorado, Di Benedetto chose to remain in Colorado, impressed by the state’s physical grandeur and healthful climate. After the war, he lived briefly for about a year in Rangely, a small town in northwest Colorado where he traveled and sketched. But finding it a little too remote, he settled in the old mining town of Central City in 1947, his home base for the rest of his life. He spent his first six years there transforming the old Sauder-McShane Mercantile warehouse into a giant art studio. His initial acquaintance with the town’s mining town history in 1947 resulted in a drawing, Death of a Miner, showing a male figure buried under a pile of collapsed rock in a mining tunnel. In 1949 Di Benedetto and his wife, ceramist Lee Porzio, opened the Benpro Art School in his studio where he conducted summer art classes. The following year he teamed up with a Denver-based artist, Frank Vavra, to open the Denver Art Center at 924 Broadway. He and Vavra were founding members of the 15 Colorado Artists who seceded in 1948 from the Denver Artists Guild because they were dissatisfied with the older organization’s underlying conservatism and the disdain of some of its members for modern art. Welcoming anyone wanting to learn how to draw or paint, the Denver Art Center in downtown Denver only lasted about a year. Undeterred by its lack of success, Di Benedetto continued throughout his career to give workshops, classes, and lectures on art-related topics in Denver and elsewhere. Examples of topics ranged from subjects such as “African Art,” Chappell House, Denver (1945) and “University or Artistic Thought” sponsored by the Art for World Friendship Committee (1954). He also taught locally at the Jewish Community Center, Steele Community Center, International House, Southern Colorado State College-Pueblo, and lectured at the University of Denver. Beginning in 1969 he sponsored over one hundred youths at his studio in Central City to spend a summer learning about art. He also conducted classes for serious working artists. His efforts earned him an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado in 1977. He likewise promoted contemporary Colorado artists’ work in the 1950s, heading a committee that presented one-person exhibitions in a small gallery at the Vogue Art Cinema on South Pearl Street in Denver. His interest in promoting the arts led to his participation in numerous organizations. In the 1960s he became concerned with environmental and urban art and was the president of Art for the Cities, a Denver-based nonprofit organization. He also was the chairman of and a participant in the first annual environmental art exhibit held at Denver’s American Medical Center. In 1968 Colorado Governor John Love appointed him to the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities in which he remained active until 1975. He served for two consecutive years as program coordinator for the Governor’s Conference on the Arts and Humanities. At the 1969 conference, Governor Love presented him an award for his contribution to the art and artists of Colorado. At the same time, he actively participated in the civic life of Central City. The town’s Police Magistrate (1955-56), he twice campaigned for mayor, first in 1966 and again in 1973, and ran for commissioner in 1979. He socialized with artists Ben Shahn, Herbert Bayer and Mark Rothko, as well as theatrical stars appearing at the Central City Opera House, including Helen Hayes, Mae West, and Gypsy Rose Lee. He invited them to carve their autographs on his kitchen table. Di Benedetto worked with equal facility in a variety of media: acrylic, oil paint, watercolor, charcoal, Conte crayon, graphic arts and metal (copper, iron). Up until the early 1950s, his output was dominated by representational figure work and expressionist Colorado landscapes that were not always immune from controversy. When Life Magazine included a reproduction of his Regionalist painting, Lovers in the Cornfield (1941) in its article, “Ten Years of American Art: Life Reviews the Record of a Lively, Important Decade” (November 26, 1946, issue), three counties in Massachusetts banned the publication. Just as immediately, the painting was exhibited in Denver. He said that he liked the West because the people, despite their lack of exposure to art, were individualistic and almost “anarchistic.” In the early 1950s he did woodcuts in a modernist style, including Remembrance, showing his two young daughters. Influenced by Abstract Expressionism at that time, he began considering the elimination of the image from his work. By the end of the decade, he had decided that “the circle – pure and simple was one of the most familiar symbols of mankind and that it metaphored into everything.” At the same time, he noted that “99% of the abstract painters shied away from using…[the circle]. When they didn’t, they slaughtered it, murdered it and buried it. So it became my motif.” For more than three decades he explored the circle in paint, sculpture and shaped canvas. Two examples of the last-named medium are his Red CQ and Black C-1, both from 1969. Because abstraction touched upon his deep feelings and spirituality, he felt he could make visible that part of life which “we feel but almost never see.” His fascination with the circle also relates to his belief that to affect the dialogue existing between object and maker, the artist must “create archetypal shapes [that have universal appeal], not symbols…to reflect simply the intrinsic beauty of the shape itself.” A strong advocate for public art, Di Benedetto headed Art for the Cities, Inc., which sponsored nine sculptures for Burns Park as part of the Denver Sculpture Symposium held in the Mile High City in 1968. The catalysts for the idea of the sculptures were Beverly and Bernie Rosen, who had been instrumental in the creation of the contemporary department at the Denver Art Museum. Along with Di Benedetto, the other participating sculptors were Dean Fleming, Peter Forakis, Roger Kotoske, Tony Magar, Robert Mangold, Robert Morris, Richard Van Buren and Bill Verhelst. The park project eventually served as a prototype for twenty-two states, bringing the sculpture to urban spaces. The sculptures reflected Di Benedetto’s concept of “burden-less environmental art” with no hidden meaning for the public to decipher. His goal in public art was to “create a work which, when integrated with the site, will create a tranquil oasis, a counterbalance to the modern chaotic world we experience daily.” During the 1960s and 1970s, he received other major sculpture commissions: an 80-foot-long copper wall, Jewish Community Center, Denver (1962); sculpture garden, General Rose Hospital, Denver (1964); Fountain, First National Bank of Dallas (1966); Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, Pueblo, Colorado (1969); neighborhood park sculpture, Yonkers, New York (1971); High School Park, Northglenn, Colorado (1974); ice skating rink sculpture, Pueblo (1976). Fate was not as kind to his mural which the Colorado Supreme Court justices commissioned him to paint in 1976 for the Colorado Judicial Building from a field of twenty-two candidates. With his former student, Phyllis Montrose as his principal assistant along with three others, he spent a year and a half executing the mural. Entitled Justice Through the Ages (aka Lawgivers), it depicted sixty individuals from ancient Babylon...
Category

Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Orbis - 20th Century, Abstract, Oil on canvas by Paul Feiler
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Amélie by Julien Dinou - Pastel on paper 19x28 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper Gilded wood frame with glass pane 52 x 43 x 2,5 cm
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Abstract 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

"Nightscape" Deep Blues & Black, Oil on Canvas
Located in Detroit, MI
"Nightscape" was painted in 1960 by the African-American artist, Merton Simpson. It is a mixture of deep blues and black with what may be a white moon whose reflection in the lower half of the painting literally causes the painting to glow. Simpson became the first African American to receive a prestigious five-year fellowship from the Charleston Scientific and Cultural Education fund and left South Carolina in 1949 for New York City after he finished high school. He attended New York University and Cooper Union while working in the frame shop of Herbert Benevy. Many well-known artists came to the frame shop and in time critiqued Simpson's work and developed a relationship with him. At NYU Simpson became acquainted with Hale Woodruff...
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Abstract Expressionist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Icarus Suspended" Abstract Mythical Figurative Mixed Media
Located in Detroit, MI
“Icarus Suspended” is an extraordinary painting of Ayrton's obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes. This complex piece shows a figure in flight, frozen in action, either swooping down or, perhaps, falling to earth. Named after the Greek mythological figure, Icarus, who along with his father attempted to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. Flying too close to the sun the wax melted and both fell to earth. The positioning of Ayrton's figure is reminiscent of "The Fall of Icarus" by Jacob Peter Gowy, Museo Nacional del Prado. This is part of a series of artworks on Icarus some sculptural and some three-dimensional paintings on canvas. Verso contains gallery label Matthiesen Gallery, 142 Bond St., London, England, with a signature and text in upper right corner: "To Morton Schotnick. Bought on the occasion of The Archives of American Arts Tour to London, England. October 10, 1961. Michael Ayrton...
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Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Mixed Media, Gouache, Board

Wisdom of the Orient Cat (Deluxe edition)
Located in Miami, FL
Dr. Seuss Wisdom of the Orient Cat (Deluxe edition)Serigraph on Hand-made Japanese Paper Deluxe Edition of 250 Image Size: 58" x 29" Paper Size: 62” x 31” Adapted posthumously from ...
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1960s Paintings

Materials

Handmade Paper

Mid Century Lemons & Copper Bowl Still Life
By Anton van Dalen
Located in Soquel, CA
Realistic still life of a reflective copper bowl and lemons with a spiraling peeled rind by San Francisco artist Anton Van Dalen (Dutch, b.1927). Signed with the monogram "AV" upper ...
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Realist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board, Canvas

Porteuse - Léopold Survage, modern, abstract, portrait, french, bright, surreal
Located in London, GB
Léopold Survage (1879-1968) Porteuse 1962 oil on canvas 100 x 81.3 cm signed and dated ‘Survage. 48.’ (lower right) Price: $63,000 USD (inc. 5% UK imp...
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Surrealist 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Woman in a Rowboat
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is an abstract, oil on paper laid on masonite painting executed in a lush and swirling palette primarily of greens, whites, beiges and yellow and depicting an abstracted, nude woman in a boat by Post War artist Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is a seminal work by de Kooning that has a new fluidity which relates to his next major series of Woman paintings which he began in 1964. Signed lower left, "de Kooning." Provenance: Allan Stone Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York Private Collection, Arizona Exhibition: North Hampton, Smith College Museum of Art; Cambridge, The New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willem de Kooning: a Retrospective from Public and Private Collections, April – June 1965 (Cambridge only) New York, Allan Stone Gallery, De Kooning/Cornell, February – March 1965 Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, American Paintings, September - October 1966, cat. no. 26 Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, Rosc'67:The Poetry of Vision, November – December 1967, p. 201, illustrated Detroit, J.L. Hudson, Willem de Kooning: Three Decades of Painting, March – April 1968, no. 31 (exhibition checklist) Easthampton, Gild Hall...
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Post-War 1960s Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Paper, Oil

"La Lettre"
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on heavy cardboard original painting by the French artist, Etienne Ret. Signed top left and retaining its original dark wood carved frame with white liner. Titled vers...
Category

Modern 1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
DANIEL GORSKI Untitled, 1964 Acrylic on canvas mounted on board 90 x 90 inches
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Abstract Geometric 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
DANIEL GORSKI Untitled, 1963 Acrylic on canvas (Diptych) 80 x 45 inches
Category

Abstract Geometric 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sentinel #1
Located in New York, NY
DANIEL GORSKI Sentinel #1, 1964 Acrylic on canvas 85 x 23 inches
Category

Abstract Geometric 1960s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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