Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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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(Biography provided by OENO Gallery)
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Artist: Milly Ristvedt
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 Paintings
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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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C Major - green, blue, yellow, hard-edged, geometric abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
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...
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2010s Hard-Edge Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Always There - Yellow, blue, green and cream lyrical and light acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
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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...
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2010s Contemporary Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Black - large, yellow, green, blue, geometric abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
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...
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Early 2000s Abstract Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
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...
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1970s Color-Field Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
A Deep Breath - large, soft, green, grey, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Lime green washes bleed into soft yellow, pink, grey, and baby blue in this wet-in-wet painting by Milly Ristvedt.
Action Painting, a term coined by the art critic Harold Rosenberg...
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2010s Abstract Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Pearl - large, soft, bright, peach, pink, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
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 ...
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2010s Contemporary Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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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 Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Grey Grid - small, bright, colourful, geometric abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
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...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Green Grid Play - bright, colourful, geometric abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
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...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Yellow Grid Play - orange, grey, green, geometric abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Precise squares in orange, rust red, green, grey, maroon and white dance, overlap and swirl on a washed canary yellow ground in this intimate canvas by Milly Ristvedt. Color and the grid are the focus of Ristvedt's paintings that through one's lens of experience will reveal a narrative.
"Painting is my freedom 'to be' in the world, to transform what I think and feel about life, to express the essence of things that matter. Colour is the magical sensation and substance, the 'philosopher's stone,' that for me represents hope in a time of great challenge for us all." Milly Ristvedt
Early in her career in Toronto in the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski and Frank Stella. Ristvedt's work can be found in major public collections including the Art Gallery...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
In Other Worlds - pink, navy blue and turquoise abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Milly Ristvedt explores the emotional potential of color and form -- spheres of turquoise and sapphire blue float in a sea of vibrant mauve. A band of light pink divides...
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2010s Contemporary Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Mott Continuum - large, bright, orange, geometric abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
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...
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2010s Contemporary Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Twelve Panels, Thirty-Six Colors - colourful pairs of painted acrylic panels
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
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 ...
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2010s Contemporary Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Acrylic, Wood Panel
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...
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2010s Contemporary Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Rising Water (Paradise Paintings) - large, abstract, series, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A ballet of colorful squares and rectangles float on a wash of turquoise streaked through with mauve. A conversation about visual balance emerges from this bold acrylic painting titl...
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2010s Abstract Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Living Things - large, bright, colourful, yellow, abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Drops of violet balance the movement of luminous yellow orbs in this elegant chartreuse composition by Milly Ristvedt.
"Color is the magical sensation and substance, the 'philosopher's stone,' that for me represents hope in a time of great challenge for us all." Milly Ristvedt
Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) MA, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe...
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2010s Contemporary Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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Act of Silence - grids of black, white, orange, red, abstract, acrylic on canvas
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Located in Bloomfield, ON
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 ...
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1990s Abstract Milly Ristvedt Paintings
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