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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$2,500
H 22 in W 28 in
Pastel Grid (Spice) - contemporary, minimalist, abstract, pastel on paper
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colourful contemporary pastel on paper in grid form is by Milly Ristvedt. The classic grid pattern becomes more than a ‘container’ for colour in the hands of master colourist M...
Paper, Pastel
$16,500
H 60 in W 60 in
Mott Composition - large, bright, blue, geometric abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This masterful canvas demonstrates Ristvedt's elegant aesthetic control and points to the emotional potential of color. Strong rounds of sun yellow, turquoise, sapphire and sienna hover over a ground of cerulean. Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) MA, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe...
Canvas, Acrylic
$55,000
H 108 in W 108 in
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
$29,000
H 114 in W 60 in
Summer Window - large, bright, colourful, yellow, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Washes of sun yellow are edged in dashes of bright colors - mauve, cerise, lime and rust -- in this monumental color-field canvas by Milly Ristvedt. "Summer Window" from 1973 was cr...
Canvas, Acrylic
$7,800
H 33.75 in W 44.75 in
Primary Sun - contemporary, minimalist, abstract, acrylic on archival paper
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary acrylic abstract painting is one of Milly Ristvedt’s earlier works. Known as a master colourist, this piece was painted in the 1970s when the Canadian artist was n...
Acrylic, Archival Paper
$34,000
H 90 in W 78 in
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
$13,000
H 48 in W 48 in
Float - elegant soft pink with yellow and maroon floating squares
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Bright rectangles float on a dust rose ground in this elegant composition by Milly Ristvedt. "Painting is my freedom 'to be' in the world, to transform what I think and feel about ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$14,000
H 66 in W 78 in
Spray - large, soft, bright, blue, pink, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Large scale, colorful abstract painting, with pink, orange and purple against a pale blue ground. Milly Ristvedt approaches color in her work with sincere consideration and expertise...
Canvas, Acrylic