Robert Sadler was born in Newmarket, Suffolk, the son of a racehorse trainer. By the age of fourteen, he was drawing and painting airplanes, horses, houses and landscapes. After studying at Eastbourne College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he joined the Royal Air Force in 1930 as a pilot from Cambridge University Air Squadron. In 1942, whilst posted to the Air Ministry as ‘Director of Plans’, he attended art school in London and spent the following year in Turkey on special duties, where he lectured at the Turkish Air Staff College and painted and rode racehorses. At the end of the war, Sadler returned to the United Kingdom and took up the post of Station Commander at RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire. In 1947, he moved to Denmark as Air Attaché to the British Embassy in Copenhagen, where he attended art school and two years later, whilst Vice-President of the RAF Officers’ Selection Board, set-up a studio in Stockbridge whilst attending art school in Winchester. In 1953, Sadler moved to the USA to take up the post as a representative on the NATO Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence Committee, during which period he attended the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., where he first encountered the work of the American Abstract Expressionists. Returning to the UK in 1955, he moved back to Newmarket, having retired from the RAF to devote the rest of his life to painting. Sadler attended Heatherley’s School of Fine Art in London, Cambridge Technical College and became a member of the Winchester Art Society and the Cambridge Society of Painters & Sculptors. Sadler’s first one-man show was at Swaffham Prior, Cambridge and from then until 1963, he lived and painted in a largely abstract expressionist style influenced by the École de Paris (Tachisme) of Poliakoff and de Stael and by the contemporary British work of Peter Lanyon, William Scott, Paul Feiler, Bryan Wynter and Adrian Heath. In 1964, Sadler moved to Aldeburgh, Suffolk and built a new Studio at 39 The Terrace, where he lived till his death in August 2001. Sadler hung an Annual Studio Exhibition almost every year between 1965 and 2001 and since his death, Sadler’s works have been exhibited at various galleries throughout Suffolk. In 2007, a group of twelve of Sadler’s paintings was chosen to furnish the set for the Cornwall based TV series, ‘Echo Beach’. In his foreword to the catalog of Bryan Wynter’s one-man show at the Hayward Gallery in 1976, Alan Bowness wrote, "For a short period – say from 1955–65 – British artists believed they were as good as anyone and objectively speaking, I think this was true – certainly one saw the emergence of a remarkable plethora of new talent and a quantity of good painting and sculpture unmatched before or since." Robert Sadler and the work he created during this decade, perfectly illustrate Bowness’s point and fully deserve to be seen in that same light.
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Souvenir 1958 - British fifties abstract art oil painting Suffolk artist
By Robert Sadler
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British abstract expressionist oil painting is by noted Suffolk British artist Robert Sadler. Painted as oil on board it was painted in 1958 and is entitled Souvenir 1958...
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Seaport 1 1957 - British Abstract art oil painting Suffolk artist
By Robert Sadler
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British abstract expressionist oil painting is by noted Suffolk British artist Robert Sadler. Painted as oil on board it was painted in 1957 and is entitled Seaport 1 on ...
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1960 abstract oil painting by British artist Robert Sadler, in greys
By Robert Sadler
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A striking abstract landscape painting by ex RAF pilot / artist Robert Sadler The details of the painting are as follows: Robert Sadler (British, 1909 – 2001) ...
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1967 abstract oil painting of a hilltop by British artist Robert Sadler
By Robert Sadler
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A striking abstract landscape painting by ex RAF pilot / artist Robert Sadler The details of the painting are as follows: Robert Sadler (British, 1909 – 2001) ...
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Mid 20th Century abstract landscape by British artist Robert Sadler
By Robert Sadler
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Robert Sadler (British, 1909 – 2001) Rural abstract 1962 Oil on board Signed ‘Sadler’ (lower right) 12.3/4 x 30.3/8 in. (32.3 x 77.3 cm.) Robert Sadler was born 1909 in Newmarket, S...
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H 13 in W 13 in D 1.19 in
Stinchcombe Hill, Rupert Aker, Landscape Painting, Textured Art, Oil Painting
By Rupert Aker
Located in Deddington, GB
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H 12.41 in W 9.65 in D 1.97 in
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By Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Lambertville, NJ
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H 25.6 in W 21.26 in D 0.79 in
"Once Verdant" (flora, abstract, roses, blush, pink, green, dye, antique linen)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
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Linen, Dye, Oil
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H 25 in W 32 in D 2 in
Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Expressionist Beach Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage abstract beach scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to han...
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$795
H 23 in W 30 in D 1 in
Vintage Green and Sepia Surrealist Cityscape Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American abstract cityscape by Dorothy Dixon. Framed. Measuring: 23 by 30 inches overall. Signed on verso. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
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$1,800
H 32.5 in W 24.5 in
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Located in Surfside, FL
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H 14.97 in W 25.2 in
Landscape - XXI century, Contemporary Oil & Acrylic Painting, Abstraction
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
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H 18 in W 35 in D 2 in
A Compelling 1960s Mid-Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting, "October Landscape"
Located in Chicago, IL
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H 32 in W 38 in
Florida Oil Painting African American Woman Art Annie Nobles Miller Indian River
Located in Surfside, FL
"Annie Nobles Miller" Abstract Florida landscape oil on board painting Hand signed lower left Inscribed on verso St. Lucie County. Measures: Board 24"H x 30"W; Framed - 32"H x 38"W. Annie Miller was a member of the Indian River School of Painting, which was not a formal school but was a group of mostly African-American Florida working class people who wanted to paint. Following is the explanation of that school and its participants. Indian River School is a name applied to Floridian artists in the 1950's and 1960's. They were heavily influenced by nature. Most of the artists in this movement were African American. Their work is characterized by quick strokes and eschews traditional methods of paintings. The main influence for the group was a man named A.E. Backus, a Bohemian white man who mentored the group of young black artists. The group used to congregate in his studio and learnt to paint from 'Beanie' (as he was called) as a way out of their lower class labour jobs. Their work was powerful, dramatic yet captured the serenity and beauty of the Florida Although the exact count of artists mentored by A.E. Backus remains unknown, experts estimate it to be around 20 individuals, many of whom he supported through college. Albert Ernest "Beanie" Backus (1906–1990) was famous for his vivid, naturalist Florida landscapes capturing a fast-vanishing Florida wild lands. Backus would come to be seen as the seminal Florida landscape painter, and others who followed would emulate him. Primarily of the Indian River and Everglades areas of Florida. Backus was a Native Floridian artist of great importance recreating scenes of Florida's sky, rivers, ocean, back country, unpredictable weather, clouds, and birds. Born in Fort Pierce, FL to a family of talented boat designers and builders. His "Uncle" Reg Goodwin helped Backus as a young painter go to the Parsons School of Fine Art in New York in 1924. He was referred to as “Florida’s painter laureate,” and the “Dean of Florida’s landscape painters.”In addition to his influence on the Florida Highwaymen painters (Alfred Hair...
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H 24 in W 54 in D 1.5 in
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By Alex K. Mason
Located in Versailles, KY
Three colorful oil paintings on finished boards and ready to hang by Alex K. Mason. Lush foliage, vivid sky, bees circling flowers "Joy Bomb Tripytch" is painted in vivid pinks, blu...
Oil, Board
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H 29 in W 35 in D 2 in
Nicely Framed Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring 29 by 35 inches overall and 23 by 29 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Handso...
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H 12.38 in W 30 in D 1 in
20th Century abstract landscape painting by British artist Robert Sadler
By Robert Sadler
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A striking mid 20th Century British abstract painting of a landscape by British born Royal Air Force pilot Robert Sadler. The details of the work are as follows: Robert Sadler (Bri...
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