Milly Ristvedt Paintings

This large contemporary abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt is one of her colourful ribbons series. In the late 1960s, Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt had fallen in love with using r...

This large-scale contemporary painting by Milly Ristvedt explores colour in abstract form. A masterful, award-winning colourist, Milly Ristvedt’s elegant abstract paintings hang on...

This contemporary abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt is expressed in geometric form. The power of pure colour and minimal form is masterfully displayed in this abstract painting by...

This contemporary abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt is expressed in geometric form. The power of pure colour and minimal form is masterfully displayed in this abstract painting by...

This contemporary abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt is expressed in geometric form. The power of pure colour and minimal form is masterfully displayed in this abstract painting by...

This colorful abstract acrylic painting is by Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt. Inspired by modernist mentors, in the 1970s Milly Ristvedt used simple formats on raw canvas to displa...

This is one of a series of colourful abstract expression paintings by Milly Ristvedt. For more than six decades, Milly Ristvedt has explored the power of colour as a visual language...

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...

This colorful contemporary abstract painting was created by Milly Ristvedt. For more than five decades Milly Ristvedt has contributed significantly to post-war abstract painting in ...

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...

Elegant form and a delightful pastel palette. This is ‘Renaissance’ , an abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt. The master colourist is playing with soft colours here—against a sky-b...

A monumental work, comprised of 66 small square panels, each painted with a single orthogonal, are installed in a precise grid: six high and ten across. The orthogonal panels are pai...

A ballet of intersecting brushed swipes in indigo, verdant green, mauve and cerise emerges from a soaked peach ground in this classic 1988 painting by Milly Ristvedt. Colour and the ...

This contemporary abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt is expressed in a bold palette that includes black and yellow. The power of pure colour and minimal form is masterfully display...

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...

This contemporary colourful abstract painting was created by Milly Ristvedt. The ‘fugitive properties of colour’ as Milly Ristvedt likes to refer to them have provided her with l...

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...

Abstract artist Milly Ristvedt uses colour as a language to express her thoughts and emotions. When the master colourist created this painting, she was reminded of tumultuous world events including concerns around climate change. The title refers to those thoughts. Clean, vertical ‘bands’ in bright orange, yellow, lime green, and black appear to express hope. A single, narrow horizontal...

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...

Spheres of lemon yellow intersect with dashes of lime and sky blue in this masterful composition by Milly Ristvedt. The square format of the canvas washed in light yellow and the restrained palette highlight the lyrical movement of form. Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) MA, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe...

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...

This contemporary abstract colourful painting is by Milly Ristvedt. Celebrated nationwide as a masterful colourist and gifted abstract artist, Milly Ristvedt’s artistic journey has...

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 ...

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...

This colorful contemporary abstract painting was created by Milly Ristvedt. Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt has been exploring the creative and emotive possibilities of color express...

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...

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...

In this bold new abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt vertical lines of colour in various widths pop against a soft, fluid burgundy canvas. As always, the colour palette—bright pink, ...

Capturing the energy and innovation of a jazz tune, this vividly coloured abstract painting is by Milly Ristvedt. Swatches of orange, violet, turquoise and black appear in a rhythmic...

Milly Ristvedt continues her exciting exploration of colour and form in this stunning new work. Hard-edged geometric shapes—rectangles and squares almost appear to be dancing around the canvas. The colour palette is bright—yellows, red, blues, purples which play off the darker, fluid burgundy/black backdrop. Art Critic Barry Lord (Art in America) declared that Ristvedt’s paintings were ‘more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.’ “Colour has been central to my explorations in painting from the beginning.” Milly Ristvedt Born in British Columbia, Ristvedt studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University) and had her first solo exhibit at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. In the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with famed Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski...

This abstract painting on paper by Milly Ritsvedt features spring-like colours. The provocative power of colour is fully evident in the vivid hues of this painting by master colouri...

Ristvedt works as comfortably in a hard-edge methodology as she does in a fluid, more gestural style. The hard-edge painting, C Major is tuned perfectly. A master at letting go and a...

Passages of butter yellow, rose and light green float on a washed spring yellow ground in this elegant abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt. Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) MA, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe...

This colourful contemporary abstract landscape painting is by Milly Ristvedt. In this dynamic new work by Milly Ritsvedt, several bold vertical bands in various widths of pure colou...

This abstract painting on paper by Milly Ritsvedt features a purple background. Milly Ristvedt says she dreams in colour. Her lifelong quest to unlock the potential of colour expres...

This colourful abstract painting on paper by Milly Ritsvedt has a green backdrop. In the 1980s, Milly Ristvedt’s artistic journey continued to embrace colour and abstract form as he...

This is one of a series of colourful abstract expression paintings by Milly Ristvedt. For more than six decades, Milly Ristvedt has explored the power of colour as a visual language...

This is one of a series of colourful abstract expression paintings by Milly Ristvedt. For more than six decades, Milly Ristvedt has explored the power of colour as a visual language...

This colourful contemporary abstract landscape painting is by Milly Ristvedt. In this dynamic new work by Milly Ritsvedt, several bold vertical bands of pure colour run the length o...

Swipes and shapes in rust orange, bubble gum pink, aqua, ultramarine and black move in an orchestrated procession across a soaked charcoal ground in this acrylic by Milly Ristvedt. This large, square acrylic canvas is a poetic narrative of space, light, texture and movement through the application of color. Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe...

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...

A flurry of washed passages in a sky blue and rose pink mixed with passages of brilliant yellow, black, turquoise and cherise with curved strands of fixed pastel. These fine lines in bright green, electric blue, pink, cherise and black create spatial tension and depth within the large picture plane. This painting from 1980 is an early example of Ristvedt's ability to create a poetic narrative of space, light, texture and movement through color. Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art. At 24, her work was included in the Centennial Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario...

This colourful abstract expressionist painting is by the award-winning artist Milly Ristvedt. The view of a triangular-shaped rock from her waterside studio inspired the colour and ...

Twelve rectangular panels, each painted alternately in solid colors or solid with tinted vertical stripes, are installed in a precise grid: two high and six across. The artist began ...

A ‘symphony’ of colour neatly framed in pale blue bordered quadrants plays against a wash of yellow in this vivid abstract by Milly Ristvedt. A master colourist, in the 1980s Ristved...

A jazz lover, modernist Milly Ristvedt pays tribute to a beloved artist in this compelling abstract painting. The colour field is dominated by a soft gray, a band of deep red at the ...

This minimalist abstract acrylic painting is by Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt. Sea Span is one of a series of paintings Milly Ristvedt produced in the 1970s that used a clean, bol...

Milly Ristvedt is making a bold proposition in this dramatic series of four large paintings designed to be displayed together. Each of the four canvases offers a stunning visual dial...

In this dynamic new work by Milly Ritsvedt, bold vertical bands of pure colour run the length of the painting. As always, Ristvedt’s choice of colours in this hard-edged piece is masterful—turquoise, deep pink, blue and bright yellow. Art Critic Barry Lord (Art in America) declared that Ristvedt’s paintings were ‘more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.’ “The paintings of the past two or three years explore questions of form, colour and process that arise out of earlier works.” Milly Ristvedt Born in British Columbia, Ristvedt studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University) and had her first solo exhibit at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. In the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with famed Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski...

Precisely painted squares and rectangles in orange, rust red, green, yellow, light green, sapphire blue, black and pink dance, overlap and swirl on a washed green-blue ground in this...

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...

A narrative of hard edged orthogonal shapes in sapphire blue, bright yellow and crimson unfolds across a background grid of washed charcoal black rectangles. The black ground is made more powerful by the size of the six foot tall canvas...

A dark, forest green square is flanked by smaller squares of indigo, red and pale yellow on a hot ground of brushed red, orange and yellow in this bold acrylic on canvas. Aptly titled "Fire" this powerful image is part of the Paradise group of paintings. The eight canvases in this group are titled after the Paradise Papers, reflecting narratives of wealth, the ways in which it is made and inequality. Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art. At 24, her work was included in the Centennial Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario...

Spheres of burnt orange, turquoise and sapphire blue move in a lyrical and jazzy dance across a hot orange ground in this masterful canvas by Milly Ristvedt. The painting demonstrate...

Precise squares and rectangles in orange, rust red, green, mauve and white dance and swirl on a washed grey-mauve ground in this acrylic by Milly Ristvedt. Color and the grid are the...

Gradient bands of washed violet turn to dust rose in this shaped canvas from 1968 by Milly Ristvedt. From the first part of her career, this powerful painting is rooted in the tenets...

A grid of painterly black and white is balanced with large squares of fiery orange and gold each in this bold canvas by Milly Ristvedt. The edges of the squares pulse back and forth ...

A lemon yellow rectangle held by a whisper white band is flanked by squares of pink, navy, blood red and white on a washed ground of pale lime. A conversation about visual and philos...

This large acrylic abstract painting is a diptych by Milly Ristvedt. The beauty of a vast prairie sky is suggested by the grand gestural brushstrokes of brilliant colour in this dip...

Brushed passages and swipes of sharp yellow, sunset orange, kelly green and sky blue, move in a ballet of color through the soaked charcoal ground of this towering acrylic painting b...