Norman Rubington was an artist whose career parallels those of the great names in mid-20th century art history, even as he stood apart in his desire not to emulate but to re-examine methods of expression in a distinctive voice. He was deliberate in his early studies, attending Yale University. After a three-year stint in the Army rendering reconnaissance maps, Rubington moved to Paris to study at Le Grand Chaumière and École des Beaux-Arts. He found a level of respect for artists in Europe that was not common in the United States, and this support encouraged Rubington to explore and challenge the established schools of Cubist and Expressionist painting. He was considered one of the most talented of the younger American artists in Paris and was selected for the Salon d'Automne in 1948, a rare distinction for an American. One French critic hailed Rubington's solo show at Galerie Huit in 1950 as an astonishing success. Rubington's art, he wrote, "was burning with a new flame." He exhibited with the best young French artists of the day Bernard Buffet, André Minaux, Roger Montane, as well as American painters Sidney Geist, Bill Rivers and Jules Olitsky. Under the guidance of the master printer Roger Lacourière, he also achieved a remarkable proficiency, using aquatint to eloquent effect and mastered the technique of soft-ground etching. Rubington won a Prix de Rome in 1951, a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship in 1954 and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1958. He was a resident at the MacDowell Colony in 1970. His approach to painting and other media had an expressionist tone grounded in representation. Rubington's range of subject matter was broad and he would focus on depicting series of like compositions through a variety of approaches. His most poignant subject was humanity on the fringe.
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Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Guitarist Figurative
By Norman Rubington
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstract expressionist painting of guitarist painted by Norman Rubington (American, 1921 - 1991) while in Rome, 1952. Signed lower left and on verso. Dated "11 - 52, Roma" ...
Canvas, Oil
$1,400
"Seated Nude, " Norman Rubington, oil on paper, Mid-Century, Hirschhorn Museum
By Norman Rubington
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1921, artist Norman Rubington studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he participated in a number of group exhibitions and his first solo show at the Salon d'Automne in 1948, which received high acclaim. Following his studies, he returned to the States and exhibited in a series of shows in Boston, New York and San Francisco. Rubington was awarded a grant from the Tiffany Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prix de Rome prize and was a fellow of the McDowell Art Colony in New Hampshire. Rubington exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, Paris, City Center, New York, Carl Siembab Gallery, Boston, Berman Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, American Academy, Rome, Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C., Art Institute of Chicago, American Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Rome Art Club, and Museo Berera, Milan. Rubington's work is held in numerous private and public collections including permanent collections of the J.H. Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, Obelisk Gallery, London, Court Gallery, Copenhagen, Grace Cathedral...
Paper, Oil
$916
H 31.89 in W 21.26 in D 0.99 in
Nude Woman - Oil Paint attr. Edgar Stoebel - Mid-20th Century
By Edgar Stoëbel
Located in Roma, IT
Nude woman is an artwork attribuited to Edgar Stoebel (1909-2001). 81 x 45 cm; no frame. Oil painting on canvas. Good conditions.
Canvas, Oil
$4,809
H 39.38 in W 59.06 in D 1.19 in
An ancient fable. 1971. Oil on canvas, 100x150 cm
By Ivars Muizulis
Located in Riga, LV
An ancient fable. 1971. Oil on canvas, 100x150 cm Ivars Muizulis (1936) 1956 – Graduated from the Liepaja Art College, Department of Sculpture 1956 – 1960 – Studied at the Art Aca...
Canvas, Oil
$750
H 19.75 in W 12.5 in
Seated Female Figure Red Trousers French Modernist Oil Painting
By Jacqueline Boisselot
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title Seated Female Figure Red Trousers French Modernist Oil Painting Artist Jacqueline Boisselot French late 20th century Medium Oil and mixed media on a...
Oil, Acrylic
$2,750
H 16 in W 20 in
Modern Nude study Matisse inspired figures in Pink and White
By Claude Howard Stuart
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart (British Contemporary) Nude I, circa 2020 Oil on board Signed lower right A striking contemporary composition by the British artist Claude Howard Stuart, depic...
Oil, Board
Everything and Always
By John Paul Jones
Located in Nottingham, GB
Incredible modern art, created from combining laser kinetics with sound to create powerful patterns.
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Meditation
By Karl Gasser
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Meditation" c.2000 is an oil painting on canvas by Italian/American artist Karl Gasser, 1948-2017. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The size...
Oil
$973
H 31.89 in W 21.26 in D 0.04 in
The Couple - Oil Paint attr. Edgar Stoebel - Mid-20th Century
By Edgar Stoëbel
Located in Roma, IT
The couple is an artwork attribuited to Edgar Stoebel (1909-2001). 81 x 54 cm; no frame. Oil painting on canvas. Good conditions!
Canvas, Oil
$1,488
H 9.45 in W 11.62 in D 0.2 in
Nude of Woman - Paint by Manlio Sarra - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Manlio Sarra (1909-1986) in the mid-20th Century. It includes a beautiful contemporary wooden frame cm. 35.5x47. Excellent condition.
Oil
$886
H 19.75 in W 25.5 in
Reclining Female Nude Pink Green Interior French Modernist Oil Painting
By Jacqueline Boisselot
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title Reclining Female Nude Pink Green Interior French Modernist Oil Painting Artist Jacqueline Boisselot French late 20th century Medium Oil on artist paper unframed Size 19.75 x 25...
Acrylic, Oil
$879
H 25.25 in W 21.75 in
Seated Female Nude Purple Pink Interior French Modernist Oil Painting
By Jacqueline Boisselot
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title Seated Female Nude Purple Pink Interior French Modernist Oil Painting Artist Jacqueline Boisselot French late 20th century Medium Oil on canvas unframed Size 25.25 x 21.75 Heig...
Oil
Greco Roman Classical Wrestlers Oil Painting
Located in Rochester, NY
Late 20th century modernist oil painting of Greco Roman wrestlers done in the classical style. By David Loeb. Oil on handmade paper. Signed on reverse and dated 1989. Loeb was born in 1953 and raised in Chappaqua, New York, David Loeb’s mother and her identical twin were painters, and he has been painting since childhood. He studied with Gillian Pederson-Krag at Cornell University; Reed Kay at Boston University; Louis Finkelstein, Wolf Kahn and Philip Guston at the Yale Summer School of Art and Music; and attended graduate school at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he studied with Robert Barnes...
Oil, Handmade Paper
$18,600
H 72 in W 52 in
Modern Abstract Female Figure Statement 1990s Portrait Painting Large Signed
By Matthew Schaefer
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Abstract Woman" is an original oil painting by Matthew Schaefer. It depicts a woman in bright shapes and lines instead of solid form and naturalism. Matthew Schaefer's painterly sty...
Canvas, Oil
Rare Judaica Synagogue Service with Shofar
By Norman Rubington
Located in Surfside, FL
It has an old French label verso and is probably from the 1940s or 1950s A native of Connecticut, Norman Rubington was a sculpture, painter, collage, printmaker, illustrator, filmmaker, and author. He studied at Yale with Josef Albers and Fernand Léger from 1939 to 1943 when he left to serve in World War II in the Army Corps of Engineers training in map-making for military intelligence. In 1946, after his service was complete, Rubington left for Paris to study at École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under the GI Bill, one of the first to use it in France. A painter of considerable prominence and commercial success, his work was regularly exhibited throughout Paris, Rome, and New York. He was a founding member with Carmen D'Avino of Galerie Huit, the first American cooperative gallery in Europe. His contemporaries while in Paris were avant-garde artists such as Braque, where Rubington frequented Braque's Parc Montsouris atelier; Constantin Brâncuși and Alberto Giacometti, part of the left bank's “La Ruche Montparnasse”; Guillaume Corneille van Beverloo, and Karel Appel founders of the Cobra and Reflex movements; as well as Jean Dubuffet. He exhibited with the best young French artists of the day--Bernard Buffet, André Minaux, Roger Montane...
Gouache
Nude by the Sea
By Norman Rubington
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1921, Norman Rubington studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he participated in a number of group exhibiti...
Oil
By the Sea
By Norman Rubington
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1921, Norman Rubington studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he participated in a number of group exhibiti...
Oil, Paper