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Silver Composition - Silvered Bronze Sculpture by N. Franchina - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Silver Composition is an original decorative object realized by Nino Franchina in 1960.
Original sculpture realized in silvered bronze.
Bronze patinated silver sculpture.
Signed a...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,594 Sale Price
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Latin American Raúl Valdivieso Bronze Organic Abstract Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
Striking bronze organic sculpture by Latin American sculptor Raúl Valdivieso (Chilean, 1931-1993). Valdivieso is known for his reinterpretation of the ...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,925 Sale Price
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"White Construction, " 1960s Modern Abstract Wall Sculpture
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This Modern abstract piece by Stanley Bate is a wood panel sculpture that has been painted white. Three-dimensional that are reminiscent of architectural pieces are tightly stacked w...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Oil, Wood
Untitled
By Wilbert Verhelst
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "Verhelst - 64"
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Israeli Abstract Figures Art Brut Polychromed Bronze Sculpture Aharon Bezalel
Located in Surfside, FL
Aharon Bezalel (born Afghanistan 1926) Born in Afghanistan in 1926 and immigrated to Israel at an early age. As a youth was engaged as a silversmith and craftsman, and was a student of the sculptor Zev Ben-Zvi from whom he absorbed the basic concepts of classic and modernist art and interpreted, according to them, ideas based on ancient Hebrew sources.
Aharon Bezalel works and resides in Jerusalem, he taught art for many years.
“I saw myself as part of this region. I wanted to find the contact between my art and my surroundings. Those were the first years of Jean Piro’s excavations at the Beer-Sheba mound. They found there, for example, the Canaanite figurines that I especially liked and that were an element that connected me with the past and with this place.” “…a seed and sperm or male and female. These continue life. The singular, the individual alone, cannot exist; I learned this from my father who dabbled with the Kabbalah.”
(Aharon Bezalel, excerpt from an interview with David Gerstein)
“The singular in Aharon Bezalel’s work is always potentially a couple if not a threesome[…] the one is also the many: when the individual is revealed within the group he will always seek a huddling, a clinging together.
The principle of modular construction is required by this perception of unity and multiplicity, as modular construction in his work is an act of conception or defense.
Two poles of unity, potentially alone, exist in A. Bezalel’s world: From a formal, sculptural sense these are the sphere and pillar, metaphorically these are the female in the final stages of pregnancy and the solitary male individual. Sphere-seed-woman; Pillar-strand-man. The disproportional, small heads in A. Bezalel’s figures leave humankind in it’s primal physical capacity. The woman as a pregnancy or hips, the man as an aggressive or defensive force, the elongated chest serves as a phallus and weapon simultaneously.
(Gideon Ofrat)
EIN HAROD About the Museum's Holdings: Israeli art is represented by the works of Reuven Rubin, Zaritzky, Nahum Gutman...
Category
Expressionist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1960s Constructivist/Minimalist Sculpture hand signed and dated and stamp signed
Located in New York, NY
Lyman Kipp
1960s Constructivist/Minimalist Sculpture, 1968
Painted Wood
Signed twice: signed and dated 1968 in black marker on the underside also bears artist's official name and dat...
Category
Minimalist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
Maquette for Laureate (unique sculpture)
Located in New York, NY
Seymour Lipton
Maquette for Laureate, ca. 1968-1969
Nickel silver on monel metal
Unique
18 × 8 1/2 × 7 inches
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the previous owner, 1969
thence by descent
Christie's New York: Monday, June 30, 2008 [Lot 00199]
Acquired from the above Christie's sale This unique sculpture by important Abstract Expressionist sculptor Seymour Lipton is a maquette of the monumental sculpture "Laureate" - one of Lipton's most iconic and influential works located on the Riverwalk in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Laureate is a masterpiece that was commissioned by the Allen-Bradley Company in memory of Harry Lynde Bradley and as an enhancement for the newly constructed Performing Arts Center. It is located on the east bank of the Milwaukee River at 929 North Water Street. The Bradley family in Milwaukee were renowned patrons of modernist sculpture, known for their excellent taste who also founded an eponymous sculpture park. For reference only is an image of the monumental "Laureate" one of Milwaukee's most beloved public sculptures. According to the Smithsonian, which owns a different unique variation of this work, "The full-size sculpture Laureate was commissioned by the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee. In the initial drawings, Seymour Lipton combined details from the architectural plan with a wide variety of images, ranging from musical instruments to a lighthouse on the island of Tobago. He transformed the basic shapes from these sketches into a welded sculpture, which evokes a figure composed of columns, harp strings, and coiled rope. Lipton created this piece to celebrate achievement in the arts. The dramatic silhouette commands your attention, reflecting the title Laureate, which means worthy of honor and distinction. The final version of the piece is over twelve feet high and stands out against the pale, flat buildings of the arts center.,,"
Provenance
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the previous owner, 1969
thence by descent
Christie's New York: Monday, June 30, 2008 [Lot 00199]
Acquired from the above Christie's sale
About Seymour Lipton:
Born in New York City in 1903, Seymour Lipton (1903-1986) grew up in a Bronx tenement at a time when much of the borough was still farmland. These rural surroundings enabled Lipton to explore the botanical and animal forms that would later become sources for his work. Lipton’s interest in the dialogue between artistic creation and natural phenomena was nurtured by a supportive family and cultivated through numerous visits to New York’s Museum of Natural History as well as its many botanical gardens and its zoos. In the early 1920s, with the encouragement of his family, Lipton studied electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and pursued a liberal arts education at City College. Ultimately, like fellow sculptor Herbert Ferber, Lipton became a dentist, receiving his degree from Columbia University in 1927. In the late 1920s, he began to explore sculpture, creating clay portraits of family members and friends.
In addition to providing him with financial security, dentistry gave Lipton a foundation in working with metal, a material he would later use in his artwork. In the early 1930s, though, Lipton’s primary sculptural medium was wood. Lipton led a comfortable life, but he was also aware of the economic and psychological devastation the Depression had caused New York. In response, he generally worked using direct carving techniques—a form of sculpting where the artist “finds” the sculpture within the wood in the process of carving it and without the use of models and maquettes. The immediacy of this practice enabled Lipton to create a rich, emotional and visual language with which to articulate the desperation of the downtrodden and the unwavering strength of the disenfranchised. In 1935, he exhibited one such early sculpture at the John Reed Club Gallery in New York, and three years later, ACA Gallery mounted Lipton’s first solo show, which featured these social-realist-inspired wooden works. In 1940, this largely self-taught artist began teaching sculpture at the New School for Social Research, a position he held until 1965.
In the 1940s, Lipton began to devote an increasing amount of time to his art, deviating from wood and working with brass, lead, and bronze. Choosing these metals for their visual simplicity, which he believed exemplified the universal heroism of the “everyman,” Lipton could also now explore various forms of abstraction. Lipton’s turn towards increasing abstraction in the 1940s allowed him to fully develop his metaphorical style, which in turn gave him a stronger lexicon for representing the horrors of World War II and questioning the ambiguities of human experience. He began his metal work with cast bronze sculptures, but, in 1946, he started welding sheet metal and lead. Lipton preferred welding because, as direct carving did with wood, this approach allowed “a more direct contact with the metal.”[ii] From this, Lipton developed the technique he would use for the remainder of his career: “He cut sheet metal, manipulated it to the desired shapes, then joined, soldered, or welded the pieces together. Next, he brazed a metal coating to the outside to produce a uniform texture.”[iii]
In 1950, Lipton arrived at his mature style of brazing on Monel metal. He also began to draw extensively, exploring the automatism that abstract expressionist painters were boasting at the time. Like contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock, Lipton was strongly influenced by Carl Jung’s work on the unconscious mind and the regenerative forces of nature. He translated these two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional maquettes that enabled him to revise his ideas before creating the final sculpture.The forms that Lipton produced during this period were often zoomorphic, exemplifying the tension between the souls of nature and the automatism of the machine.
In the years following the 1950s, Lipton’s optimism began to rise, and the size of his work grew in proportion. The oxyacetylene torch—invented during the Second World War—allowed him to rework the surfaces of metal sculptures, thus eliminating some of the risks involved with producing large-scale finished works. In 1958, Lipton was awarded a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale and was thus internationally recognized as part of a small group of highly regarded avant-garde constructivist sculptors. In 1960, he received a prestigious Guggenheim Award, which was followed by several prominent public commissions, including his heroic Archangel, currently residing in Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall.
A number of important solo exhibitions of his work followed at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC (1964); the Milwaukee Art Center and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1969); the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond (1972); the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY (1973); the Herbert E. Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY (1973); the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) in Washington, DC (1978); and a retrospective in 1979 at The Jewish Museum in New York. In 1982 and 1984 alone, two exhibitions of his sculpture, organized respectively by the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC) and the Hillwood Art Gallery of Long Island University (Greenvale, NY), traveled extensively across museums and university galleries around the nation. In 2000, the traveling exhibition An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton was first presented by the Palmer Museum of Art of Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Most recently, in 2009, the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC mounted The Guardian and the Avant-Garde: Seymour Lipton’s Sentinel II in Context.
Since 2004, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery has been the exclusive representative of the Estate of Seymour Lipton and has presented two solo exhibitions of his work—Seymour Lipton: Abstract Expressionist Sculptor (2005) and Seymour Lipton: Metal (2008). In 2013, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presented Abstract Expressionism, In Context: Seymour Lipton, which included twelve major sculptures by the artist, along with works by Charles Alston, Norman Bluhm, Beauford Delaney, Willem de Kooning, Jay DeFeo, Michael Goldberg, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Conrad Marca-Relli, Boris Margo, Alfonso Ossorio, Richard Pousette-Dart, Milton Resnick, Charles Seliger...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Silver
"Mystery Box (Boîte mystère)" Ben Vautier, Fluxus Movement Conceptual Sculpture
By Ben Vautier
Located in New York, NY
Ben Vautier
Mystery Box (Boîte mystère), 1965
Painted wood with letterpress label
3 13/16 × 2 3/4 × 2 7/16 inches
Ben Vautier was a French artist known for his text-based paintings...
Category
Conceptual 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper
Assemblage Collage Painting/Sculpture with Pennies and Scrap Civil Rights Artist
By William R. Christopher
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled "In G-d We Trust" signed dated and titled verso. there is also a gallery label.
Mixed Media wall hanging in a pop art style. Background of pennies and then the foreground is l...
Category
American Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
The Edge V (Op Art plexiglass box wall sculpture)
By Mon Levinson
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mon Levinson (1926-2014). The Edge V, 1965. Plexiglass, acetate and paper. 24 x 24 x 3 inches. Minor scuffing on surface of plexiglass. Original gallery label affixed en verso.
Biog...
Category
Op Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Paper
$6,000 Sale Price
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The Guardian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Maxine Kim Stussy was a prolific sculptor and painter from the late 1940’s to present. Maxine led an incredibly artistic life traveling the world with her husband at the time, artist Jan Stussy, who headed the art department at UCLA for several decades. Both artists were close associates of Stanton MacDonald Wright, known as one of the greatest American modernist artists, also known as the co creator of the synchronistic movement in the teens with Marcel Duchamp.
Maxine was unrestricted by any singular medium; her sculptures took form in wood assemblage, concrete, bronze and unique nail assemblage. Large size seemed natural to her, and she often created figurative sculpture over 7 feet high. The gallery has represented the original sculpture of Maxine Kim Stussy for many years, and this is the first time we have presented any of her original works on 1st Dibs.
“The Guardian...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Fratelli Fanciullacci Elbee orange & gold ceramic pottery set
Located in East Quogue, NY
Gorgeous Vintage MCM Fratelli Fanciullacci Elbee Italian Pottery Pitcher and Platter, made in Italy in the late 1950s/60s. A beautiful example of MCM Italian ceramic design featuring...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bintou Italy 1969 Bronze Abstract Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an intense bronze abstract sculpture and it was created by the Italian artist Andrea Picini.
The artwork is hand made by the technic of the ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Gold Gilt Bronze Sculpture Brooch Art Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 4 X 3.75 inches. Box frame is 17 X 13 inches. Signed by artist verso. From the literature that I have seen I believe the edition size was limited to 10, I do not know ...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold, Bronze
Welded Brushed Steel Sculpture - geometric abstraction (Unique, signed)
By Michael Todd
Located in New York, NY
Michael Todd
Welded Brushed Steel Sculpture - geometric abstraction, 1968
Welded Brushed Steel
Hand signed and dated 1968 in marker on surface....
Category
Abstract Geometric 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Dancer by Italian Joe Dalle Ave Green Patinated Abstract Sculpture Bronze 1960
Located in Brescia, IT
This abstarct sculpture is a lost wax bronze, patinated in green color, one piece of the 3 existing. Signed by the artist.
The young artist was presented in Paris by the Gallery Sind...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare 18 Karat Gold Enamel Georges Braque Sculpture Brooch
Located in Surfside, FL
Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963)
Antiboree
Gold and Enamel Brooch, 1963
18k gold textured brooch designed by Georges Braque, a rare 18ct gold textured brooch from 1963, a bird flyi...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold, Enamel
"Make 300 Holes with Any Implement: This Is My Gift" Takako Saito, Concept Art
Located in New York, NY
Takako Saito
Make 300 Holes with Any Implement: This Is My Gift , 1965
Wood box containing wood frame with paper and stamped ink
3 3/8 × 3 3/8 × 1 1/4
Takako Saito is a Japanese ar...
Category
Conceptual 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
Mary Bauermeister, Studio Leftover Fetich, 3D mixed media sculpture Fluxus, S/N
Located in New York, NY
Mary Baumeister
Studio Leftover Fetich, 1953, 1967
Unique Mixed Media 3-D Assemblage
Ink Signed, dated, titled, annotated "Edition Original" and numbered 52/75.
Shadow box frame Incl...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood, Found Objects, Ink, Acrylic
Abstract Signed Cubist Bronze Sculpture "Cats" Chicago Bauhaus Woman Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is just for the sculpture. (the picture of the ad is for reference and is not included.)
Marie Zoe Greene-Mercier was an artist, writer and arts activist who worked in t...
Category
Cubist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Travertine, Bronze
Ron Hitchins Mid-Century Modernist Wall Sculpture
Located in London, GB
Striking Ron Hitchins wooden architectural sculpture, signed on the back by the artist. An extremely rare example of the artist working with wood.
Year: ...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
Swoosh, Large Bronze Sculpture on Wood Base by Leonardo Nierman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leonardo Nierman
Title: Untitled (Sculpture A)
Year: circa 1968
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, raised on Wood Base, signed
Size: 41.25 x 14 x 15 inches (including base)
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Lux-XI", Parisian Luminodynamic High Mirrored Stainless Steel Sculpture
By Nicolas Schöffer
Located in Detroit, MI
"Lux-XI" is an abstract and kinetic sculpture constructed out of mirrored finished stainless steel by the French-Hungarian artist Nicolas Schöffer. Th...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Modern Abstract Rhino Head Metal Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract metal rhino head metal sculpture by Mexican artist and sculptor. Signed and editioned by artist at the left side.
Artist Biography: Sergio Bustam...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
1965 Canadian Israeli Art Brutalist Abstract Welded Steel Sculpture Eli Ilan
Located in Surfside, FL
Eli Ilan (אלי אילן), 1928-1982 was an Israeli sculptor.
Abstract organic pod shape. in either steel or iron mounted on a wooden plinth.
Ilan was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He enrolled in a premedical curriculum at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and emigrated to Israel in 1948. He then studied prehistoric archaeology and physical anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1956, he returned to Canada to study sculpture at the Ontario College of Art & Design. He lived in Kibbutz Sasa from 1959 to 1963. He died in 1982 in Caesarea, Israel.
Education
1955 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, pre-historic archaeology and physical anthropology
1956 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada, sculpture under Thomas Bowie
1959 Training College, Ottawa, criminal identification techniques
1969 Art Festival, Painting & Sculpture in Israel. Ganei Hataarucha, Tel Aviv
Artists: Chana Orloff, Eli Ilan, Zvi Aldouby, Jacob El Hanani, Ludwig Blum, Aharon Bezalel, Koki Doktori, Israel Hadany, Marcel Janco, Dov Feigin, Abel Pann, Esther Peretz Arad, Reuven Rubin, Ivan Schwebel, Jakob Steinhardt, Boris Schatz, Bezalel (Lilik) Schatz, Louise Schatz...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Kusama Pumpkins (Set of 2 works)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Set of 2 Pumpkins: Yellow and Black & Red & Black Naoshima:
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin sculptures feature the universal polka...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Gene Montez Flores Brutalist Wall Mount Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Incredible Brutalist torch-cut wall mountable sculpture by artist Gene Montez Flores. Designed to hang as shown. Produced during in the early 1960s in his California studio. Has neve...
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
SMU Southern Methodist Unversity School of Arts Sculpture Mid Century Modern
Located in San Antonio, TX
SMU Architectural Bronze
Dimensions: 16.75 H x 4.75 W x 4.25 D
Medium: Bronze
"Southern Methodist University"
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Metamorphosis abstract nude 1960s sculpture by John Robert Murray McCheyne
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you ...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Modern Brutalist Metal Sculpture of an Abstract Skeletal Figure in a Locker
By Bob Fowler
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract brutalist metal sculpture by Houston artist Bob Fowler. The work features a skeletal figure welded in a box or locker. Firmly attached to a white and natural wood bas...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
1967 Pop Art, May Wilson, Surrealist Feminist Junk Assemblage Painted Sculpture
By May Wilson
Located in Surfside, FL
May Wilson (1905–1986) was an American artist and figure in the 1960s New York City avant-garde art world. A pioneer of the feminist and mail art movement, she is best known for her Surrealist junk assemblages and her "Ridiculous Portrait" photo collages.
Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, into an underprivileged family. Her father died when she was young. She was reared by her Irish Catholic mother, who sewed piecework at home. Wilson left school after the ninth grade to become a stenographer/secretary to help support her family. When she turned 20, she married a young lawyer, William S. Wilson, Jr., and give birth to her first child. She continued to work until the birth of her second child, after which she devoted her energies primarily to mothering and homemaking. In 1942, the couple had prospered enough to move to Towson, Maryland, where she began to take correspondence courses in art and art history from several schools, including the University of Chicago. In 1948, after the marriage of their daughter, the couple moved to a gentleman's farm north of Towson, where she pursued painting and gave private art lessons to neighbors. She exhibited her paintings, scenes of everyday life painted in a flat, purposefully primitive manner in local galleries and restaurants. In 1952 and 1958, she won awards for work submitted to juried exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
In 1956, her son, the writer Williams S. Wilson, gave to Ray Johnson, the founder of the New York Correspondence School, his mother's address. This began a friendship and artistic collaboration between Johnson and Wilson, which would last the remainder of her life. Wilson became an integral part of Johnson's mail art circle and was initiated into the New York avant-garde through letters and small works that she exchanged with Robert Watts, George Brecht, Ad Reinhardt, Leonard Cohen, Arman, and many others.
When her marriage dissolved, she moved to New York City in the spring of 1966, aged 61, taking up residence first in the Chelsea Hotel and then in a studio next door, where she threw legendary soirées and became known as the "Grandma Moses of the Underground". By the time she arrived, Wilson was already working with photomontage collage techniques. Encouraged by Johnson, who had sent her magazines through the mail, she scissored patterns into images of pin-up girls and muscle men until they resembled doilies or snowflakes, as Wilson called them. She decorated her hotel room and later her studio on West 23rd Street with these and other manipulated, found object images. Around this time, she also began her series of neo Dada "Ridiculous Portraits", for which she would ride the subway to Times Square, where she made exaggerated faces in photo booths. She then would cut and paste her photo-booth face onto postcards, along with Old Master reproductions, fashion shoots, and softcore Playboy magazine pornography. Long before artists such as Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa Morimura embarked on similar critical projects, Wilson's "Ridiculous Portraits" sent up the ubiquitous sexism and ageism that exists in popular and fine-art images of women.
At the age of 70, she converted a nude photograph of herself into a stamp that she pasted on envelopes. Her collages and humorous self-portraits were made as gifts and mail-art items for her friends and were not widely known until after her death. Her work was contemporaneous with the Arte Povera artists Jannis Kounellis and Michelangelo Pistoletto. She was also an innovator of junk art assemblages that incorporated real objects, such as high-heel shoes, bed sheets, sauce pans, toasters, liquor bottles, ice trays, and wrapped baby dolls. Her sculptures were inspired by Surrealist and Dada practices and are similar in spirit to Yayoi Kusama's contemporary accumulations. Wilson was the subject of a 1969 experimental documentary by Amalie R. Rothschild, "Woo Hoo? May Wilson".
Since her death, May Wilson's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and retrospectives at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York; the Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J.; the Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City; and The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Selected Exhibitions
2010 "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968", University of the Arts, Philadelphia (traveling exhibition)
2008 "1968/2008: The Culture of Collage", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, City
2008 "Ridiculous Portrait: The Art of May Wilson", Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
2008 "Woo Who? May Wilson", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City
1995 [Retrospective], The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
2001 "May Wilson: Ridiculous Portraits and Snowflakes", Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, City
2001 "Inside Out: Outside In-The Correspondence of Ray Johnson and May Wilson", Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, California
1991 "May Wilson: The New York Years", Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City
1973 "Sneakers", Kornblee Gallery, New York City
1973 "Small Works: Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art", RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
1971 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1970 "Sculpture Annual 1970", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
1965 The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1962 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
1957 Bookshop Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Public collections
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City)
The Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, Maryland)
Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, New York)
References
William S. Wilson, "May Wilson: Constructing Woman (1905-1986)", in Ann Aptaker, ed., Ridiculous Portrait: The Art of May Wilson, ed. Ann Aptaker, Morristown, N.J.: Morris Museum,
Camhi, Leslie, "Late Bloomer", Village Voice, December 18, 2001
Giles, Gretchen, "Cosmic Litterers: Artists Ray Johnson and May Wilson: Taking the Cake", "Northern California Bohemian," June 14–20, 2001
McCarthy, Gerard, "May Wilson: Homespun Rebel", Art in America, vol. 96, no. 8, September 2008, pp. 142–47
Sachs, Sid and Kalliopi Minioudaki, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968. Philadelphia: The University of the Arts, 2010, ISBN 978-0789210654
Wilson, William S. Art is a Jealous Lover: May Wilson: 1905-1986, andy warhol...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Girl Seated a la Japonaise Bronze Sculpture Morris Singer Foundry.
By Helaine Blumenfeld
Located in Surfside, FL
Girl Seated a la Japonaise, 1964, polished bronze. It was exhibited at The Chapman Gallery NYC in 1968. Cast at Morris Singer Foundry and numbered 4/6 signed with the artists monogram.
Helaine Blumenfeld OBE (born, New York 1942) is an American Sculptor working in Britain and Italy, best known as an artist who has pioneered new methods of carving in stone and for her semi-abstract marble, granite and bronze sculptures which are located around the world as Public art. Her forms are often abstractions of human forms and of elements in nature. She is widely recognized as the most significant sculptor of her generation and "the heir apparent to HenryMoore and Barbara Hepworth."
In 1973, Blumenfeld, who had recently moved to England, exhibited at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge England. These early sculptures, which were mostly cast in bronze were largely figurative work in the tradition of sculptors such as Constantin Brâncuși, Jacob Epstein, Jean Arp, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Henry Moore and of course her one time teacher Ossip Zadkine. In 1985, the Alex Rosenberg Gallery in New York showed her sculpture in dialogue with Henry Moore
In 1978, Blumenfeld's first visit to Pietrasanta in Italy marked a turning point in her work as she started carving in marble, mostly at Studio Sem, founded in the 1950s by Sem Ghelardini (1927-1997) who gained international notoriety producing the large scale works of Henry Moore, César Baldaccini, Emile Gilioli, Joan Mirò, Georges Adam and many other celebrated sculptors during the first wave of modern abstract sculpture in the 1960s.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Blumenfeld's sculpture, now less clearly figurative but still often of portraying couples and family units in multiple configurations, was exhibited at the Bonino Gallery in New York and in solo and group shows around the world. A member of the Visual Arts Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain between 1981 and 1988, Blumenfeld was elected a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1993.
Blumenfeld has created over 80 large scale sculptures in bronze, granite, marble and steel in Europe and the United States for private and public clients, including the British Petroleum headquarters in London, the Lincoln Center in New York the Cass Sculpture Foundation at Goodwood and Family (Blumenfeld) at the Henry Reuss Plaza in Milwaukee and The Lancasters at Lancaster Gate in London. At Cambridge University, her sculpture has been commissioned by Clare Hall (Flame, 2004) and Newnham College...
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cercle Haut, Large Standing sculpture by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928 - )
Title: Cercle Haut
Year: 1968/69
Medium: Unique Chrome and Steel Kinetic Sculpture
Size: 85 x 35 x 2 in. (215.9 x 88.9 x 5.08 cm)
Base: 9 ...
Category
Kinetic 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Sedilsasso
Located in Roma, IT
This artwork is a composition of three stones made by Piero Gilardi in 1969.
The Certificate of Authenticity is provided by Archivio Piero Gilardi n. 1969.01 dated 17/12/2017.
This s...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Polyurethane
Abstract Polished Chrome Sculpture by Chinni
By Peter Chinni
Located in Long Island City, NY
This chrome sculpture by Peter Chinni, from 1968, is an modern abstract expressionist work. The reflective surface of the twist adds an element of i...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Modern Surrealist Mixed Media Fly & Tree Maze Sculpture with Lucite Case
By Bob Fowler
Located in Houston, TX
Modern surrealist mixed media sculpture by Houston artist Bob Fowler. The work features a pair of metal fly and tree sculptures arranged within a white and r...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
"Untitled #2 (Tupperware)" Red, Yellow, & White Realistic Beeswax Cup Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Modern collection of realistically rendered tupperware cups made out of beeswax and pigment by California artist George Stoll. The piece features a set of...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wax, Pigment
Large Scale Freestanding Fiber Art Sculpture by Jane Knight Titled 'The Tree'
Located in Dallas, TX
This monumental abstract fiber art sculpture was created in the mid-1960s by renowned Detroit artist, Jane Knight. She is best known for her elaborate large-scale wall textile installations...
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wool
60s Kadishman Israeli sculpture in steel or aluminum Suspension
Located in Surfside, FL
Beautiful table top sculpture by renowned Israeli sculptor Menashe Kadishman. Super quality, and visually stunning. it is signed and numbered and dedicated Janet love george
Menashe Kadishman was born in Tel-Aviv in 1932. He is a Graduate of St. Martin's School of Art, University of London. From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem. In 1959, he moved to London, where he remained until 1972. He had his first one-man show there in 1965 at the Grosvenor Gallery. His sculptures of the 1960s were Minimalist in style and so designed as to appear to defy gravity. This was achieved either through careful balance and construction, as in Suspense (1966), or by using glass and metal so that the metal appeared unsupported, as in Segments (1968). In 1995, he began painting portraits of sheep. These instantly-recognizable sheep portraits...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Ohne Titel / Untiteled
By Roland Goeschl
Located in Wien, 9
The present work is a rare piece from Roland Goeschl's time at the academy. In the technique of chased copper, which was unusual for him, forms are modelled that are still strongly r...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1960s Mid Century Modern Abstract Bronze Sculpture on Wooden Base Stand - Chama
Located in Denver, CO
Mid-Century Modern Bronze Sculpture "Chama" by Eduardo Arcenio Chavez (1917-1995), circa 1966, elegantly presented on a wooden base. The sculpture measures 7 ¼ inches in height, 10 inches in width, and 3 ¼ inches in depth, showcasing Chavez’s unique style and mastery in bronze casting.
About the Artist: Eduardo Chavez...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
This sophisticated sculpture was realized from lymed French oak circa 1950. The perimeter of the piece consists of a mosaic of rectilinear blocks, while the interior rectangular pane...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Oak
$3,475
Architectural Apparition
Located in New York, NY
Émile Gilioli
Architectural Apparition
1964
Bronze
40 x 6 x 6 in, 101 x 16 x 16cm
Inscribed “Gilioli” & numbered “2/6”
Edition 2/6
Gilioli’s ...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Wrap Around Figures, " Slab Ceramic by David Barnett, images by Joseph Rozman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Wrap Around Figures" is an original slab ceramic by David Barnett. The artist created this using collagraph plates by Joseph Rozman that featured abstracted animals. The artist sign...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Tool Relief II, " Original Stoneware Cylinder Vase signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Tool Relief II" is an original sculptural stonework vase by David Barnett. It is signed and dated on the bottom.
13" H x 3.50 D
David Barnett, an artist, collector, appraiser and ...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
"Ring Around the Rosy, " Collaboration with David Barnett and Joseph Rozman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ring Around the Rosy" is a slab-built ceramic sculpture collaboration between David Barnett and Joseph Rozman. This cylindrical sculpture features geometric designs in low relief t...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Untitled by Yukihisa Isobe (1962), Wood sculpture (plaster relief on panel)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yukihisa Isobe
Untitled
Mixed media (plaster relief on panel)
Signed, dated and Inscribed “Tokio” (on the reverse)
28 x 40.5 cm
Executed in 1962
PROV...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood Panel
Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile, Ceramic, Sculpture, Design, Postwar, Mythological
Located in Geneva, CH
Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile,Ceramic,Sculpture, Design, Postwar, Mythological
Tête de faune
Unique work
circa 1968
Painted and partially glazed ceramic, square tile
15.2 x 15.2 cm
C...
Category
Post-War 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Bo Bro Bill"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Charles Searles (1937 - 2004).
Charles Searles was born in Philadelphia, PA and received his fine art educat...
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Mixed Media
Sorel Etrog "La Mer"
By Sorel Etrog
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Sorel Etrog (1933 - 2014) is arguably Canada's most famous sculptor.
His work can be found in numerous museum and private collections including the Tate, the AGO and LACMA.
His pub...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled (Suspended Willow)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Harry Bertoia. "Untitled (Suspended Willow)" is an abstract, steel and steel wire sculpture by Post War artist Harry Bertoia. The willow form is one of Harry Bertoia's...
Category
Post-War 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
$60,000 Sale Price
52% Off
'Death of a Sergeant' Milwaukee artist
Located in Milwaukee, WI
1968
3-3/4 x 7 x 6
Construction, mixed media
Joseph Rozman received his BFA (with honors in 1967) and MFA (1969) from UW-Milwaukee, and would later become a Professor at Mount Mary ...
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Glacier
Located in PARIS, FR
"The Glacier"
by Emile GILIOLI (1911-1977)
"Perlino rosato" polished marble
signed to underside "Gilioli"
and dated "61"
France
1961
height 27 cm
width 29 cm
depth 20 cm
Provenance :
World House Galleries, New York, 1962;
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1962-1966;
Donation to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington;
Christie's, sold by order of the trustees of the Hirshhorn Museum, 1994.
Biography :
Émile Gilioli (1911-1977) was a French sculptor. He was one of the leaders of French post-war abstract sculpture, alongside Brancusi and Arp. Born into a family of Italian shoemakers living in Paris, they moved to Nice after the World War I. In 1932, Émile Gilioli took lessons at the School of Decorative Arts in Nice, notably with the future artist Marie Raymond...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$38,171
"Tool Relief III, " Original Conceptual Stoneware Sculpture by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Tool Relief III" is an original conceptual sculpture by David Barnett, signed and dated on the bottom. Made of stoneware and ceramic, the cylinder contains imprints of various tools...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Mixed Media
"Tool Relief I, " Original Stoneware & Ceramic Vase signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Tool Relief I" is an original stoneware and ceramic vase by David Barnett. The artist signed and dated the piece on the bottom.
12" x 2 7/8" diameter
David Barnett, an artist, co...
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Arrow, Large Pop Art Brushed Steel Sculpture by Paul von Ringelheim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Arrow
Paul von Ringelheim, Austrian/American (1933–2003)
Date: circa 1968
Steel Sculpture
Size: 98 x 27 x 8 in. (248.92 x 68.58 x 20.32 cm)
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
'Paper Plate' Screenprint Sculpture, 1969
Located in New York, NY
This collaborative was done at the studio called "On First Studios" (meant First Avenue downtown, N.Y.C.); but the collaboration was dissolved after a sma...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Kusama Pumpkins (large plush: set of 2 works)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins (set of 2 large plush pumpkins):
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these large Kusama plush (soft) pumpkins feature the univ...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Nylon, Screen
Price Upon Request