1970s Art

A substantial and vibrant American Abstract dating to circa 1975. Stamped, verso, with artist estate stamp for Aida Nelson (American, 1921-2018) and titled...

Homage to Michelangelo is an original artwork realized in 1975 by Jorge Castillo. Black and white etching. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower right left....

Grazing cows on the California Big Sur coast, a farm landscape by J.W Ford (American, 20th Century). Signed "J.W Ford" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 16"H x...

Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist, 1904-1989) Title: Le Singe et le Leopard Year: 1976 Medium: Engraving with hand color stencil Edition: Inscribed E....

Mark Sabin, American (1936 - ) - Are You Sleeping?, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 40, HC, Image Size: 16 x 20 inches, Size: 2...

Robert Freiman, deaf from birth, was born in March 1917 in New York City. He attended an oral program near his home and later transferred to the Lexington School for the Deaf when he...

Le Pigeon... is an excellent contemporary artwork realized by Renée Lubarow (b.1923) in 1978. Original colored etching on paper. Image Dimensions: 17 x 17...

Established Spanish sculptor and graphic artist whose work reflects constructivist tendencies; geometry, architectonic strength and rigor and personal expression. Between 1958 and 19...

Composition is an original colored pencils realized by Badino in 1970s. Good condition. Hand-signed by the artist and dated on the lower right corner.

Future Garden is an original screen print realized by Leo Guida in 1976. Hand signed and dated. Edition of 50. Excellent condition. Leo Guida  (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current...

Artist: Clayton J. Gorder, American (1936 - 1987) Title: Neon Bullseye Year: circa 1974 Medium: Acrylic and Airbrush on Custom Shaped Canvas, signed on label verso Size: 32.5 x 57 x ...

Hand signed, dated and titled verso Jay Milder (born 1934) is an American artist and a figurative expressionist painter of the second generation New York School. Old Testament themes such as Jacob's Ladder and Noah’s Ark, and the Jewish mystical beliefs of the Kabbalah, are recurring themes in Milder’s paintings which are presented as archetypal images that recur in the basic karma, make-up and need of human nature. Internationally exhibited, Milder is included in the collections of many national and international museums. He has been the subject of two, recent retrospectives in Brazil in 2007 at the National Museum Brasilia and, in 2006, at the Museum of Modern Art, in Rio de Janeiro. He is renowned in Sao Paulo, one of the major international centers for street and public art, as a seminal influence on graffiti artists. Jay Milder was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1934. His grandparents, who came from the Ukraine, were descendants of the Hasidic mystic, Rabbi Nachman. As he listened to family stories his interest in spiritualism and mysticism increased, and became an important influence on his philosophy of life and art. Later, when he arrived in New York, he was drawn to the Theosophical Society and the teaching of Helena Blavatsky. In 1954 Milder visited Europe where he studied painting with André L’Hote, and sculpture with Ossip Zadkine. He spent much time studying at the Louvre Museum, and at the studio of Stanley Hayter. During his Paris years the paintings of the Jewish painter Chaim Soutine, primarily influenced him. Milder returned to the United States in 1956, and he began studying painting at the Chicago Art Institute. He exhibited with the Momentum Group, an alliance of artists who were particularly dedicated to the progression of figurative art and its global origins. In 1957, Milder spent the summer in Mexico for a summer where he exhibited in Puebla. That year he received the Mexican Government’s Honor Award for artists. In the summer of 1958, Milder studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He exhibited his work at the Sun Gallery, with his contemporaries, including Mary Frank, Red Grooms, Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, Emilio Cruz and Alex Katz, among others. During this period his painting began to incorporate iconography of birds, animals, humans and animal/human hybrids. In 1958, Milder, Bob Thompson and Red Grooms, founded the City Gallery in the Chelsea section of New York City. The gallery moved downtown and became the Delancey Street Museum and an early site for ‘Happenings’,which Milder participated in. He showed his first major series called Subway Runners in 1960 at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York City. Milder began a group of smaller paintings, entitled “Messiah Series”, in the late 1960s. These were fully expressionistic earth toned pictures, and he completed around 250 paintings in the series, based on biblical themes from the Old Testament. When 40 of these paintings were shown in a traveling exhibition premiering at the Richard Green Gallery in New York City, in 1987, art critic Donald Kuspit wrote in ArtForum Magazine: “after Nolde’s biblical pictures, these are the best and most integral group of biblical pictures in the 20th century.” During the 1970s, Milder co-founded a collective group called Rhino Horn with Peter Passuntino, Peter Dean, Benny Andrews, Nicholas Sperakis, Michael Fauerbach, Ken Bowman, Leonel Gongora, and Bill Barrell. Rhino Horn continued a style promoting politically and socially driven American Figurative Expressionism, when many people in the art world and society were focused on Pop Art and Minimalism. From the 1970s to today, much of Milder's artworks have been centered around interpretations and the visual energy of the Kabbalah. Milder's art has been the subject of two retrospectives in Brazil in 2007 at the National Museum Brasilia and, in 2006, at the Museum of Modern Art, in Rio de Janeiro. In Summer of 2009 he was in Brazil where at this time he painted a commissioned mural alongside Brazilian street artist, Eduardo Kobra in Sao Paulo. Jay Milder’s paintings have undergone various stylistic changes since the 1950s. However the most common and important consistency has been his organic form of Expressionism. Biblical references have always played an important role in Milder’s work. For Milder the Kabbalah underlies all aspects of reality including not only the way a painting is conceived and executed, but also its impact on the visual environment around us. Jay Milder's work is in the permanent collection of many galleries and museums throughout the world, including The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art in Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts, The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio. He has been awarded the Mexican Government’s Honor Award for artists in 1957, a Rainbow Arts Foundation Award at Exhibition Museum, Guadalajara, Mexico in 1965, he was honored as Professor Emeritus at City College of New York in 1991, and in 1999 he was the Cultural Exchange representative between America and Brazil at Belles Artes Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jay Milder American Figurative Expressionist Painter of the Second Generation New York School Jay Milder (1934–2026) was an American figurative expressionist painter associated with the second generation of the New York School. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Milder drew on a deep well of influences — from Hasidic mysticism and the Kabbalah to the jazz clubs of North Omaha and the painterly traditions of European modernism — to forge a body of work centered on archetypal, biblically rooted imagery, most notably Jacob's Ladder and Noah's Ark. Early Training and European Influence In the early 1950s, Milder traveled to Paris to study at La Grande Chaumière and the Sorbonne, taking painting classes with André Lhote and sculpture instruction with Ossip Zadkine. There he encountered the work of Chaim Soutine, whose expressive, gestural approach to form left a lasting imprint on Milder's painterly style. He returned to the United States in 1956 and continued his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was introduced to Hans Hofmann's push/pull compositional theory — a foundational concept of Abstract Expressionism. New York School and the City Gallery In 1958, Milder co-founded the artist-run City Gallery in a shared Flatiron District loft with Red Grooms, giving early exhibition space to artists including Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine. Alongside contemporaries Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, Emilio Cruz, and Alex Katz, Milder exhibited at the influential Sun Gallery, developing a figurative vocabulary populated by birds, animals, and human/animal hybrid forms. His breakthrough "Subway Runners" series debuted at Martha Jackson Gallery in New York in 1964 — dense, impasto oil paintings depicting commuters in motion through the city's transit system. Rhino Horn and Mature Style During the 1970s, Milder co-founded the Rhino Horn collective alongside Peter Passuntino, Peter Dean, Benny Andrews, and others, furthering a commitment to figurative expressionism against the prevailing tides of Minimalism and Pop Art. Throughout his career, biblical and Kabbalistic themes remained central to his practice, which art historian George Nelson Preston described as "trance-like" in a 1976 Arts magazine profile. Museum Collections and Legacy Milder's work is held in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, among others. He was the subject of major retrospectives in Brazil, including at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro (2006) and the National Museum, Brasília (2007), and in 2009 painted a commissioned mural in São Paulo alongside Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra. He is represented by Eric Firestone Gallery, which mounted the solo exhibition Jay Milder: Broadway Nonstop, Subway Paintings from the 1950s and '60s in 2022. Milder died on May 27, 2026, at the age of 92, leaving behind a singular body of work bridging Abstract Expressionism, Jewish mysticism, and the raw energy of postwar New York City. Keywords: Jay Milder, figurative expressionism, second generation New York School, Subway Runners series, Kabbalah painting...

Dog is an original oil painting on canvas realized by Sergio Vacchi in 1977. Hand-signed and dated on the top left. Including a golden frame. Frame dimensions: 76x97 cm. Very good ...

"The Devil at the Keyboard" 1976 color lithograph artist proof. Abstract portrait of Thelonious Monk by Willem de Kooning. Hand signed de Kooning and numbered A/P in front lower righ...

Lithograph, 1970 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Edition : H.C. 3/25 Publisher : Artcurial (Paris) 76.00 cm. x 56.00 cm. 29.92 in. x 22.05 in. (paper) 62.50 cm. x 47.50 cm. 24.6...

This 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art deale...

Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson. Her birds are masterful. Although we use the word 'pencil' fo...

Frank Allen 70s painting of African-American man dressed in a white robe and top hat. Oil on canvas. 20 x 24.

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of British actor Murray Head, star of "Sunday, Bloody Sunday", 1973. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Arc...

Signed, titled and numbered by the artist, edition of 30. This Imaginary topiary and garden scene is the smallest that Houtin completed. . François Houtin was born in Craon en Maye...

Figures is a china ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1970s. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a white paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...

Daydreams by Daphne Mumford, American (1934) Date: Circa 1978 Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition of 200, AP 30 Image Size: 21.5 x 26 inches Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55....

Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Central Park, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Signed in Pencil, Size: 22 in. x 28 in. (55.88 cm x 71.12 cm), Frame Size: 32.5 x ...

© Michael Putland John Lennon John Lennon at home in the white room, Ascot, UK July 1971 John Lennon was a legendary British musician, songwriter, and peace activist, best known a...

Lino Litho BR, Planche VI Linocut and lithograph, 1970 Signed lower right in pencil (see photo) Edition: 99 (56/99) (see photo) Published by London Arts Group, Detroit Condition: Exc...

Paul Cezanne Small French Garden, 1971 Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet workshop) Unsigned Numbered / 225 On paper applied on Arches vellum 41.5 x 53.5 cm (c. 16.5 x 21 in) INFORMAT...

Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - ) Title: Jimi Hendrix, The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69 Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed and Numbered in Permanent Marker Edition: AP...

Queen Elizabeth II is a is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments...

Salvador Dali Caballero, 1968 Lithograph Hand signed lower right Numbered 53/125 Sheet size: 101 x 81 cm Printer: Christopher Erikson and Joseph Petruzelli at Sienna Stu...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of famed 1960's iconic fashion model & actress Twiggy, studio portrait 1972, signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes directly from the...

Composition is an original etching and aquatint realized by Leo Guida in 1970s. Good condition. Mounted on a white cardboard passpartout . Dated and signed. Leo Guida (1992 - 20...

Silksreen, 1970 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 63/145 70.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 27.56 in. x 19.69 in. (paper) 44.30 cm. x 44.50 cm. 17.44 in. x 17.52 in. (image) The V...

17 Contre is a colored lithograph realized by Reinhoud d'Haese in 1970. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner. Numbered on the lower-left corner (204/300). The artwor...

Emilio Trad (Argentinian, b. 1953) Untitled (Church), 1978 Oil on board 18 1/4 x 14 in. Framed: 25 3/4 x 22 1/4 in. Signed lower left: Trad Signed and date...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - A Sloth of Bears. Year: circa 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 8.5 x 13 inches, Size: 11.5 x 23 in. (29...

Paper Size: 22 x 30 inches ( 55.88 x 76.2 cm ) Image Size: 16.75 x 25.75 inches ( 42.545 x 65.405 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age Sup...

Salvador Dali Joker from Playing Cards, 1972 Lithograph Hand signed lower right in pencil Numbered 150/150 lower left in pencil Sheet size: 65.5 x 50.5 cm Publisher: Reese Palley, Ne...

Still lifeis a vintage offset print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi. Signature and date by the artist is perfectly reproduced in the plate. Image Dimensions:...

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - A Shattering Entrance upon the American Stage Drypoint etching with stencil from 1973. Editon A 55/195 on Arches paper. Dimensions of work: 65.4 x 50.4...

Oil on wooden table realized by Franco Marzilli (1934-2010) in 1970s. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition. Franco Marzilli was born in Rome in 1934. He received his first...

Silkscreen Handsigned by the artist in pencil 70.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 27.56 in. x 19.69 in. (paper) 60.00 cm. x 40.00 cm. 23.62 in. x 15.75 in. (image) The Nanas series was born i...

Artist: Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983) Title: Maravillas Con Variations Acrosticas en el Jardin de Miro Year: 1975 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Unu...

The image of joy and motion is apparent in this piece, with the use of contrasting elements that eloquently capture the viewer’s attention. Sinuous black lines surround colors of gre...

Nicolas de Staël (after) Abstract composition Stone lithograph after a painting (Printed in Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 50 x 65 cm (c. 20 x 26 ...

Gemini is a screen print on grey paper realized by Sergio Barletta in 1973. 68 x 49 cm. Good conditions! Sergio Barletta (1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator, wh...

Work on canvas

"Judy Garland" Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Judy - All Star Variety - Garland at at the Palace Sight: 15 1/2 x 12 inches...

This beautiful large vibrant animal painting is by Aubrey Williams, Guyanese artist. It is a watercolour/gouache painting of a magnificent Pelican and painted in 1974. Williams has r...

Nails on painted wooden board by unknown artist inspired by Bernard Aubertin. W/frame

Sonia Delaunay's 1972 lithograph, a product of collaboration with the renowned Mourlot atelier, stands as a vibrant testament to the artist's mastery of color and form. This striking...

"A vivid mosaic of interlocking forms and bold hues, offering a powerful glimpse into French mid-century abstraction." Pierre Coquet (1926–2021) Abstract Composition Oil on canvas, ...

'Hotel Il San Pietro' Slim Aarons Estate Edition Guests at the Hotel Il San Pietro in Positano, Italy, August 1979. In his words, he photographed 'be...

Jean Cocteau and Raymond Moretti The Symbiosis Between Fish and Aquarius Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate, handsigned by Raymond Moretti Numbered 1/79 - Very look ...

'La Concha Clientele' The swimming pool of a villa in Monte Carlo, Monaco, August 1970. Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo b...

Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Abstract Handstand, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

Bull is a Drawing in china ink drawing realized by Mario Jannaccone in the 1970s. Hand-signed. Good conditions.

This mid-1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests enjoying cocktails at the pool bar of the Tres Vidas private members club in Acapulco, Mexico...

Menorah is a lithograph on Arches paper realized by Max Ernst in 1972. Belongs to the suite "Judith". Limited edition of 500. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Godd conditions. ...

Etching on paper realized by Giovanni Omiccioli in 1974. Hand signed, dated and numbered. Edition of 80. Very good condition.

Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Mark (Merlin the Magician) Portfolio: 1972 The Twelve Apostles (Knights of the Round Table) Medium: Lithograph Year: 1972 Edition: 38/350 Frame Size: 29 ...