Milly Ristvedt
Canadian, b. 1942
Milly Ristvedt, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964, after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art.
In Toronto, during the 1960s and 1970s, Ristvedt was making and exhibiting large-scale paintings alongside a small but defined group of non-figurative painters who, like Ristvedt, had planted roots in modernism. These roots continue to run deep for Ristvedt, who completed her MA in Art History at Queen's University in 2011 with a thesis that explored color in the grid of contemporary painting.
Ristvedt's paintings are part of private and public collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Vancouver Art Gallery. She has had over 50 solo exhibitions. In 2012, Ristvedt received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for her service as an advocate for artists.
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Water, Ice + Hotspot - modern, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary colourful abstract painting is by Milly Ristvedt. Signed on verso, bottom right "Water, Ice + Hotspot © Ristvedt / 24"
Highly regarded for her intuitive, almost vi...
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2010s Abstract Milly Ristvedt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$28,000
H 82.5 in W 65.5 in
Blue Lagoon - large, colourful, modernist, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Milly Ristvedt has captured, in vivid colour, and expressive form the wonders of the ‘deep’ in this gorgeous abstract painting. Against a rich blue colour field, ethereal forms and g...
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1980s Abstract Milly Ristvedt
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Canvas, Acrylic
Real and Imagined - large, orange, blue, gestural abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Across the panels of this large diptych by Milly Ristvedt, passages of crimson, indigo, orange and burnt umber move and vibrate in a contemplative narrative. The piece is made more p...
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1980s Abstract Milly Ristvedt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Phoenix - large, colorful, contemporary, abstract, diptych, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Horizontal bars of blue, maroon, cherry red, pink, lemon yellow, burnt orange and green communicate on a soaked sand-coloured ground in the two panels that form this 9-foot square acrylic diptych painting on canvas. The rhythm of the spaces between the short lengths of colour creates a dialogue of movement that leads the eye upwards through the large picture plane. About the inspiration for the work, the artist wrote:
"This is one of the rare paintings that I saw clearly in a dream and painted almost exactly as I saw it. It relates back to the four-panel work, Lock-Up (1972), done a couple of months earlier, where I used the physical break between panels as an edge to anchor some colour bars. In Phoenix, some bars are anchored while others float within the larger ground colour."
This painting was included in the exhibition catalogue Milly Ristvedt-Handerek: Paintings of a Decade (1979).
Milly Ristvedt, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art. In Toronto, during the 1960s and 1970s, she was making and exhibiting large-scale paintings alongside a small but defined group of non-figurative painters who, like Ristvedt, had planted...
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1970s Abstract Milly Ristvedt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Judd - large, blue, green, abstract, geometric composition, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Two columns of horizontal rectangles in alternating colours of forest green and warm white frame a third, central column of warm white and sapphire blue rectangles in this 7.5 foot tall canvas...
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1990s Abstract Milly Ristvedt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Crickets, Frogs and Mephistopheles - large, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Inspired by nature’s palette and form, Milly Ristvedt continued her exploration of colour. In this lyrical abstract piece, colour continues to dominate as a rich green covers the can...
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1970s Abstract Milly Ristvedt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Colour of Light - large, yellow, purple, gestural abstract acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Milly Ristvedt approaches colour in her work with sincere consideration and expertise, her palettes contain a subtle complexity that is striking. The background of this painting is b...
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1980s Contemporary Milly Ristvedt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Nuvu Blue - modern, contemporary, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colourful abstract expressionist painting is by the award-winning artist Milly Ristvedt.
For decades, Milly Ristvedt has explored the unlimited potential and power of colour to...
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1970s Abstract Milly Ristvedt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$38,000
H 79.5 in W 91.5 in
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