1960s Art

Mid Century Modern, American Abstract Expressionist Painting on masonite This lively abstract painting reads like an interior and still life with lemons on a tabletop in vivid shade...

Norman Rockwell - Hand written letter with stamped postmarked envelope Hand written and hand signed letter on artist's personalized stationery with the accompanying stamped and postmarked envelope. Unique. Vintage handwritten, hand signed double-sided letter by Norman Rockwell to his printer at Color Lithographers discussing various matters concerning his prints and editions. This letter was written on the artist's personalized stationery with the accompanying postmarked envelope. True collectors' item. Historic. This letter has been elegantly floated with pocket corners to reveal all four corners, in a museum quality wood frame under double-sided UV plexiglass to reveal both the fronts, as well as the backs of the letter and the original envelope.  Measurements: Frame:  17 inches (vertical) by 10.5 inches (horizontal) by 1 inch  Letter: 8 inches (vertical) by 6 inches (horizontal)  Envelope: 4.25 inches (vertical) by 6 inches (horizontal)  This letter was addressed to Shirlee Scoma (Shirlee Neinskin Scoma - 1917-2007)) whose husband ran Color Lithographers at 225  Varick Street, now known as Hudson Square, Lower Manhattan, which was the famous printing district of the 1960s. It reads as follows: Dear Shirlee, I called Ken Stuart, former art editor of the Post, asking him my understanding of the agreement, that all covers could be made into art prints. He agreed and told me to look up the right type of agreement that I got for all my work with the Post. I found a number of them, and herewith is one.  The section called “Important” spells out the conditions.  This should help you with the difficult Mr. Buckley.  Mr. Lindsay was here today and is seeing you tomorrow. I think he is sold to have you make the prints.  Sincerely,  Norman THE CHARACTERS MENTIONED IN THE LETTER “The difficult Mr. Buckley” was Jim Buckley, the production and technical manager overseeing the lithographic plates at Color Lithographers. In commercial lithography during the 1960s, transferring an original oil painting into multi-color lithographic plates was an incredibly grueling process. Pressmen had to balance ink densities, dot gain, and color separations by hand to get a true match. Norman Rockwell also wanted to assure the printing company before they embarked on this arduous process, that, per his agreement with the Saturday Evening Post, all of their covers could be made into fine art prints - under the conditions described in more detail below.  The "Mr. Lindsay" mentioned in the letter was Donald P. "Don" Lindsay, a prominent bank executive, arts patron, and civic leader from Spokane, Washington In 1963, Don Lindsay—then the CEO of Lincoln First Federal Savings and Loan—wrote directly to Norman Rockwell asking him to create a signature, life-sized painting of a young Abraham Lincoln for the lobby of the bank's brand-new downtown headquarters. Rockwell, who loved painting Lincoln, agreed to the $4,000 commission. Rockwell completed the monumental painting, titled Lincoln the Railsplitter (also known as Young Lincoln), in 1965. Standing over seven feet tall, it became the largest canvas Rockwell ever painted Because the bank wanted to use the image heavily for promotional calendars, prints, logos, and advertisements, high-quality color reproduction was mandatory. When Rockwell notes that "Mr. Lindsay was here today... I think he is sold to have you make the prints," it means Lindsay had traveled out east to visit Rockwell at his home and studio in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. During that visit, they reviewed the final artwork, and Lindsay gave his enthusiastic approval to hire the team at Color Lithographers to handle the critical, high-end print run.  Today, the original oil painting Lindsay commissioned is a famous multi-million dollar piece housed at the Butler Institute of American Art ADDITIONAL CONTEXT/BACKGROUND At the time Norman Rockwell wrote this letter on May 22, 1965,he did not own the copyrights or reproduction rights to his Saturday Evening Post covers. Those rights belonged strictly to the Curtis Publishing Company, the publisher of the magazine, so he was not printing these lithographs independently.  Curtis Publishing fiercely protected its intellectual property. Any fine-art lithographs or prints produced during this time had to be authorized, commissioned, or legally cleared by Curtis Publishing. The project Rockwell was collaborating on with Color Lithographers was a Curtis-sanctioned reproduction print run. Rockwell was brought into the process purely to supervise the artistic quality and sign off on the color proofs, ensuring the prints matched his original oil paintings The widespread market for the hand-signed, limited-edition Norman Rockwell lithographs...

Signed lower right 'Fies S.W.A.' for Gladys Louise Bowman Fies (American, 1909-2005) and painted circa 1965. An elegant winter landscape watercolor showing a view of an old wooden b...

'Surfing Brothers' 1965 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print circa 1965: Freddie and Howard Cushing surfing with friends at Bailey's Beach (the Spouting Rock Beach Association)...

Nicely painted mid century impressionist cityscape oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011) . Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Nice view of the Empire State Building!

Syril Frank (American, 1929-2021) 1. Untitled, 1966 Mixed media collage; oil paint, paper, pen, canvas 19 5/8 x 24 in. Framed: 20 1/2 x 24 3/4 in. 2. Unt...

Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 31 by 21 inches overall and 30 by 20 painting alone.

Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature. On bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. Ref. Mourlot,...

Gorgeous midcentury painting of crystal decanter and clear glass vessels against a vivid orange backdrop by Donald Werden (American, b. 1921). Signed and...

Henry Pearson FACE, from Portfolio 9, 1964 Color lithograph with deckled edges Signed, titled, and numbered 84/100 in graphite pencil on the front; with publishers' blind stamp 17 1/2 × 22 1/10 inches Publisher Irwin Hollander, with blindstamp Hand Signed and Numbered 84/100 with Irwin Hollander (printer) Blindstamp Unframed Henry Pearson's iconic Pop Art lithograph "Face" from the mid-Sixties is in the permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art as well as other public institutions. This Classic Sixties psychedelic designed Op Art lithograph was created as part of the legendary 'Portfolio 9' in 1967 - one of the most influential eras in 20th century art. It was housed in a gray cloth-colored box with maroon paper inner panels and a large maroon "9" designed by Richard Lindner on the cover. Portfolio 9 featured nine of the most important artists of the era, representative of the three major trends: Pop Art, Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism: Roy Lichtenstein, Saul Steinberg, Richard Lindner, Robert Motherwell, Henry Pearson, Louise Nevelson, Sam Francis, Willem de Kooning- and Ellsworth Kelly. The Introduction to the portfolio was written by Una E. Johnson, Curator of Prints & Drawings, The Brooklyn Museum. Johnson wrote in 1967 for the colophon page: "The artists were selected to demonstrate the great diversity and character of lithography in the United States today... the dialogue of diverse forms and many faceted idioms that compose this graphic journal mirror the eloquence and delight the strengths and caprices of a period. Furthermore, they reflect in fine measure the creative achievements of artists attuned to their time." The lithograph offered here has superb provenance: it comes directly from 'Portfolio 9', numbered 84/100. This is the very first time since 1967 that this hand signed & numbered print will be separated from the original portfolio presentation box. According to the description of this print in the catalogue raisonne, "Organized as a celebration of Irwin Hollander's collaboration with American artists working in the medium of lithography, the Portfolio 9 is a compendium of images by nine of Hollander's artist collaborators. Henry Pearson Biography: Henry Pearson was born in Kinston, North Carolina in 1914. He studied art at the University of North Carolina where he received his B. A. and later at Yale University where he received an M. F. A. Pearson spent over eleven years in the army during and after WWII. On one tour of duty in Japan he was assigned to interpret topographical maps due to his past training in Theatrical Set Design. He returned to Japan on another tour after the war in order to immerse himself more fully in the culture. Pearson returned to the United States in 1953 and enrolled at the Art Students League in New York where he studied with Reginald Marsh. The Op-Art Movement was beginning to gain popularity and Pearson...

Ink and watercolor on paper. A charming and incisive drawing by Mino Maccari, executed in ink with light wash, depicting an intimate interior scene animated by two seated female fig...

Wonderful mid century cubist figurative of older woman with flowers and basket in style of Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963). Signature (Possibly "Louyot") and dated "1964" lower right corner. Presented in original, gilt-toned painted frame (included as-is). Image size: 36"H x 25"W An early 1900s modern art movement, Cubism focused on exploring relationships between images, perspectives and materials, and opened the door to Abstraction. Cubism began in Paris with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The term 'Cubist' was a derisive description by a critic of a geometric landscape painting done by Braque in 1908. Juan Gris, the originator of Collage, joined Picasso and Braque in 1910. Originating influences on Cubism included geometric-shaped paintings of Paul Cezanne, Post-Impressionisms’ emphasis on flat picture surfaces, and Picasso's fascination with the abstraction he perceived in African tribal masks. Aspects of Cubism were Analytical Cubism and Synthetic Cubism (see Glossary). By 1914, the Cubist movement as an organizing force officially terminated with the beginning of World War I. But its effects remain today. "Almost all later art, figurative and abstract, two and three-dimensional, random or hieratic, was conditioned in some way by these new dimensions of reality." (Phaidon) Other French artists associated with Cubism concepts were Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp and Nicholas Delauney. In America, leading Cubist painters...

Lithograph Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 3/50 66.50 cm. x 52.00 cm. 26.18 in. x 20.47 in. (paper) 64.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.2 in. x 19.69 in. (image) After the “Bl...

Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 30 prints. Reference: Catalogue Battisti n.16. Armando Buratti (Rome, 1924), is an italian artist and painter. His first exhibition was held in...

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997) Roy Lichtenstein 'Sandwich and Soda' was conceived in 1964 as part of the portfolio “Ten Works by Ten Painters.”. This work is unsigned and unnumbered p...

MICHAEL CAINE PORTRAIT 1964 MICHAEL CAINE – 1964 signed limited edition of 15 only. silver gelatin This Michael Caine Portrait by Duffy was taken in 1964, the same year that the film Zulu was released which was his first major film role and remains one of Michael’s best-known films. An image from this session was published in The Sunday Times Magazine on the 24th May 1964. Caine, pictured here at age 31, had just been awarded the lead in the 1965 hit movie The Ipcress File...

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 ...

Robert Savoie, Canadian (1939 - ) - Bois Nocturne, Year: 1964, Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed, dated, numbered and titled in pencil, Edition: 48/50, Image Size: 15 x 13.25 inch...

Morris Cox (1903-1998) A Feminity of Nudes, 1979-80 Screenprint 11.0 x 8.0 cm 25.0 x 21.0 cm Provenance: Morris Cox Archive Morris Cox (1903-1998) Was a writer, poet, printmaker, ...

H. Lawrence Hoffman (American, 1911-1977) Inhale Exhale, 1969 Monoprint Sight: 19 x 15 in. Framed: 27 1/2 x 23 1/4 x 3/4 in. Signed and dated lower right, title inscribed verso H. Lawrence Hoffman (23 October 1911 – 20 January 1977) was a commercial book jacket designer, illustrator,calligrapher and painter who worked in New York City. He illustrated book covers for over 25 publishing companies, including Alfred A Knopf, Pocket Books, Popular Library, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, The Viking Press, and Random House. Over the course of his career, he illustrated over 600 book jacket covers. Hoffman graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1934 and then completed two years of post graduate study in Commercial Art from RISD. He moved to New York City with the $200 he was awarded for winning a competition to design a coin for the 1936 300 year Rhode Island Tercentennial. He began his career as an Art Director at the A.M. Sneider Advertising Company (1938–1941) and at Immerman Art Studios (1941–?). After leaving Immerman, he worked as a free-lance artist and book illustrator for the remainder of his career. He also taught illustration and lettering at The Cooper Union (1960-1967) and was a Professor of Art at C.W. Post University (1967–1976). Hoffman began his career doing drawings for the pulp magazine, "Thrilling Mystery Magazine...

Jules CAVAILLES The Dove Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Justified EA (artist proof) On Arches vellum 38 x 25 cm (c. 15 x 10 in) Very good c...

Nicely painted mid century Asian abstract painting. Oil on board. Signed verso.

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and his wife Dorothy photographed in his Manhattan loft, 1968. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. C...

Signed lower right, 'Georges Lambert' (French, 1919-1998), titled lower center 'Landscape' and inscribed lower left, number and limitation, 'XV/LX' (15/60). Georges Lambert first st...

This vivid original 1969 concert poster was designed by Lee Conklin, one of the iconic artists of the psychedelic poster movement, for a legendary series of shows at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. Featuring Santana, The Youngbloods, and Allmen Joy, with light shows by Little Princess 109, the concerts ran May 15–18, 1969. Conklin’s surrealist vision explodes in a cascade of melting forms, vibrant color, and sun-drenched dreamscapes, encapsulating the acid rock aesthetic and the energy of the late-60s Bay Area music scene. His use of morphing hands and searing color waves evoke a hallucinatory trance that pairs perfectly with Santana’s Latin-infused psychedelia and The Youngbloods’ mellow groove. Commissioned by Bill Graham Presents, this is BG #124 in the Fillmore poster...

Beautiful poster printed in lithography created by John Hitesman and published by Festoon Appleton in Wisconsin in 1963 in an unnumbered limited edition....

Paper Size: 27.75 x 21.75 inches ( 70.485 x 55.245 cm ) Image Size: 27.75 x 21.75 inches ( 70.485 x 55.245 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling ...

An iconic image by the photographer Peter Ruck. Roger Moore, downs a Martini, July 17th, 1968. Moore had recently been awarded his second Bravo Otto award for most popular television...

Wedding Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong is a vintage photograph realized in 06/05/1960. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted in a well-b...

Portfolio Garden 1, 6 photos From Germany to Portugal, from Portugal to Italy, the artist continues his research on light and its games, this time taking nature and trees as the the...

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Esquisse pour Lane bleu Pastel and charcoal on paper from 1979. Unique work. Dimensions of work: 48 x 61 cm. Provenance: The estate of the artist, and ...

Artist: Jim Dine, American (1935 - ) and Lee Friedlander, American (1934 - ) Title: Photographs and Etchings Year: 1969 Medium: Portfolio of 16 Diptychs of Gelatin Silver Prints and ...

This photograph of Marilyn Monroe was shot by photographer, George Barris, in 1962 in Los Angeles, California. This photograph is from a ...

67.3 x 49.5 cms (26 1/2 x 19 1/2 ins) Edition of 7

Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1960s. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.

This late-1960s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests dining at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August. This is an estat...

Salvador Dalí­ Taurus from Signs of the Zodiac, 1967 Lithograph Hand signed lower right Numbered 144/250 lower left Image size: 64 x 48 cm Sheet size: 73 x 52 cm Printed by Mourlo...

Sierra Mountain Waterfall, Vintage California Landscape w. Ornate Giltwood Frame Beautiful large-scale vertical landscape of a majestic waterfall in the Sierra Mountains by Califor...

Composition is an original black and white etching realized by Giulio Turcato in 1964. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on lower left. Edition of 102 copies (16/102)...

Oil landscape showing a view of the Provencale countryside, looking across a field with a goat grazing towards a village with trees and, beyond, to rolling hills beneath a clouded bl...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1967 at the atelier Mourlot for the Hans Erni "Réflexions simples sur le corps" deluxe book portfolio. Size: 16 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches (425 x 630...

A beautiful signed and dated 1961 oil on canvas depicting the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Montmartre, Paris, by Foussa Itaya. Unusual and atmospheric depiction of the famous landmark at n...

Seaside Street View - Original Vintage Watercolor Painting in the Style of Henry Martin Gasser (1964) A charming seaside street leads to the sand with brilliant 1-point perspective,...

This lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil XLV/LXXV in Roman numerals, apart from the edition...

World Cup Victory (1966) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images Archive) England captain Bobby Moore (1941 - 1993) holds up the Jules Rimet trophy as he ...

Impressive Paris school modernist still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 36H by 29L and overall 36 by 43 inches.

Edward Zutrau Kamakura, 4/19/1963 Signed, tiled and dated on verso Oil on linen 38 1/2 x 51 inches Edward Zutrau is among the American artists who worked within the whirlwind of di...

The present work is the fifth sheet from ‘Hommage au carré’: portfolio with 12 colour screenprints, a French foreword by Michael Seuphor, French and English annotations by Josef Albe...

EDUARDO CHILLIDA 1924-2002 1924 - San Sebastián - 2002 (Spanish/Basque) Title: Place I Leku I, 1969 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching on Chiffon de Mandeure Wo...

Femme au cochon (Woman with Pig) is an artwork from the Series "Faust" (La Nuit de Walpurgis), realized in 1968/69. Etching, Drypoint, Watercolor and Roulette on Japon Paper. Hand...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Beach Landscape (P1.23), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Description: Emerging fr...

'Boats At Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc' Motorboats moored off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, 1969. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped...

Derrier le Miroir, cover, Volume 141 Original color lithograph, 1963 Unsigned and unnumbered (as issued) From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141 Published by A. Maeght, Paris Condition: E...

"Elle & Vire The Freshness of the Fields on your table!" artist: Andre Roland. Size: 56 x 76. Year: 1960. Archival linen backed in decent condition; ready...

Alexander CALDER (after) Black Shadow, 1969 Lithograph poster Made for the exhibition of Alexander Calder at Maeght Fondation in 1969 Printer : Arte Paris Editor : Maeght 70 x 49.8 ...

About this work: “Untitled (Wrestlers Series)" (1968) by Erica Rutherford (1923-2008). A bold and important work from Rutherford’s celebrated pop art period, this large 1968 canvas ...

Screen print in colors on smooth wove paper. Hand signed in ballpoint pen on lower left verso by Andy Warhol. Stamp numbered 22/250 on lower left verso (there are also 26 artist pr...

Antoni Tàpies Lithograph c. 1968 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Fr...

Untitled painting of a group of men by Antonio Rodríguez Luna (1910-1985.) This moody piece by Antonio Rodríguez Luna is an excellent example of his work from the early 1960s, which...

Roy Conn (1931–2018) 'Grater', 1968 23.5 x 41.0 cm Frame: 43.0 x 59.5 cm Painter, born in London. Trained as a structural engineer, he was mainly self-taught...