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Modern Figurative Surrealist Watercolor Painting, Drawing 'Prince of Innocence'
By Gary Hansmann
Located in Surfside, FL
Angelic boy with a devil figure.
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.
Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.
His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA)
University of San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy
Centre de Arte Moderna
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France
Gordon Gilkey Collection
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or.
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
Israeli Large Vibrant Surrealist Flowers Oil Painting
By Milia Laufer
Located in Surfside, FL
Milia Laufer, born Romania. From 1951 lived and worked in Safed. Together with her husband opened one of the earliest galleries in Israel, in Tiberias. Worked in watercolors and oils...
Category
1950s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Castro Abstract Expressionist 1960s Latin American Oil Painting Collage
Located in Surfside, FL
'La Multitud Sodomita Rodea la Casa de Lot'
Titled and signed in Spanish. it refers to the biblical story of Lot with the Sodomites. It is a very well executed piece signed Castro an...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Guatemalan Latin American Oil Painting Modernist Porch Scene
By Rolando Aguilar
Located in Surfside, FL
Rolando Aguilar was born in the year 1957. He studied at the Municipal School of Plastic Arts of Quetzaltenango. He has presented personal exhibitions and participated in more than 50 collective exhibitions in Quito, Ecuador, Taiwan, Norway, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Canada. He was director of the Regional School of Art "Humberto Garavito", of Quetzaltenango. He has won Gold and Bronze glyphs at the Art Paiz Biennial (1980, 1982 and 1984) and two awards at the Arturo Martínez Contest.
Efrain Recinos...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Polish Judaica Portrait of Hasidic Rabbi with Tallit Synagogue Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Realistic portrait of an old Jewish shtetl type pulpit rabbi by a Polish artist. Here the artist conveys a sense of quiet grandeur through the eyes of his subject and the way it's rendered. Part of a distinguished European lineage of Jewish genre...
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Holocaust Memorial Oil Painting Judaica Rabbi Composed of Figures Artists Frame
By Maurice Newman
Located in Surfside, FL
Maurice Newman was active/lived in Massachusetts / Lithuania. Maurice Newman is known for sculpture-abstraction, impressionist landscape painting, diorama.
Born in Lithuania, Mauric...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Judaica Oil Painting 1945 Palestine Old Jewish Man Polish Israeli Artist
By Ozer Shabat
Located in Surfside, FL
Ozer Shabat 1978-1901
Ozer Shabbat was an Israeli painter, a resident of Haifa. Belonged to the Palestine Expressionist group of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Shabbat was born in Wolbrom, Poland. At the end of the First World War he went to Holland for agricultural training in the framework of the HeChalutz movement, prior to his immigration to Palestine. In 1920 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and joined the Hulda group. Later he joined the Merhavia group and there he began painting. Because of his desire to study drawing, he left the group and moved to Jerusalem. In 1921, he wrote articles in the newspaper "HaSadeh" on the subject of agriculture and Dutch cheese.
Ozer Shabath won the first prize in a competition for the design of the Dutch Consulate's Garden in Jerusalem, enabling him to travel to Paris in 1923 to study painting. Until 1925 he studied painting at the Grande Chaumiere Academy in Paris. This year he returned to Eretz Israel and settled in Haifa, where he lived until his death.
In 1928 he participated for the first time in an exhibition of Eretz Israel artists at the Tower of David. Since then he has participated in all the general exhibitions of Israeli artists. In 1934, together with painters Menachem Shemi, Avraham Mohar, Zvi Meirovitch and others, he founded the Haifa Artists' Group. In 1935-36 he toured Europe and visited Italy, France and England. During his visit, he maintained contacts with artists from the Jewish school of Paris.
He has exhibited in several solo exhibitions, represented Israel in exhibitions in Europe and participated in international exhibitions in New York, Johannesburg and Zurich. In 1958 he represented Israel in the Venice Biennale. In 1960, Shabat, together with Elchanan Halpern he represented the Israeli Painters Association at the International Congress of Plastic Arts held in Vienna, Austria . In the 40s and 50s he focused on landscape pictures. However, despite the focus on the Israeli landscape, the approach is universal in the framework of the post-Impressionist painting school. In the 1960s, his approach changed and he turned more to abstraction. The abstract direction gradually evolved. The point of departure of the abstract approach is the architectural landscape, but this view loses its real character and becomes only imaginary: the buildings lose their real character and turn into exclusive geometric areas that are usually set against a dark background. Over time, architecture captured the lion's share of his paintings. Cities like Safed, Jaffa and Jerusalem are the subject of many pictures.
He taught painting and art at the schools of the kibbutzim in Ramat Yochanan and Kfar Yehoshua, in high schools in Haifa and in the IDF and Gordon seminars.
His paintings were purchased and are in the permanent collection of the Bezalel National Museum (now the Israel Museum), Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa Maritime Museum, Acre Municipal Museum.
Select Solo exhibitions
1936 - Nadler Gallery, Haifa.
1943 - The Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
1952 - Artists House, Haifa.
1953 - Bezalel House, Jerusalem.
1955 - Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland.
1955 - The Writers' Club, Haifa.
1959 - Artists House, Haifa.
1960 - Museum of Modern Art, Haifa.
1962 - Museum of Modern Art, Haifa.
1963 - Gallery 220, Tel Aviv.
1968 - The Municipal Museum of Beit Emanuel, Ramat Gan.
1979 - Memorial exhibition marking the first anniversary...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Synagogue Interior Jerusalem French Judaica Oil Painting Israeli Bezalel School
By Jacques Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Post Impressionist
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: France
Dimensions: 24" x 20"
Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled to Palestine to study fine arts at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. In 1917 he joined the British Royal Fuesiliers under the leadership of General Allenby to liberate Palestine from the Turks. After the first World War he settled in Paris, where he continued his studies at Académie Julian and Academie Colarossi. He then emigrated to the United States in 1922 and continued his art studies at the National Academy of Design. He supported himself by designing jewelry. In 1925 he returned to Paris and studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumier et Colarossi. During the Depression he worked for the WPA. From 1928 he took part in the Paris Salons: Autumn and the Tuileries. His works are expressionistic variations in the type of the Ecole de Paris. As a protégé of both Chaim Soutine and Renoir, hints of their style can be observed in much of his own work. Zucker’s style, that may have been influenced from the art of artists such as Marc Chagall, took pride in being an “internationalist”, standing the art of painting in its highest expression is universal no matter where the canvas was created. People who respond to quality in art will understand the beauty and meaning, in their own land or in a foreign land, this was his main idea behind his artworks that was exhibited in numerous solo show in leading galleries and museums in New York, Paris, Tel Aviv, and other art centers. Claude Roger-Marx of Figaro Litteraire, dean of French art critics, write a comprehensive study of Zucker’s illustrated with 135 color and black and white plates. He traveled widely, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Israel. From then on Zucker lived alternately in New York and Paris, maintaining homes in both places, and spent considerable time painting in Mexico, Portugal, Greece, and Israel. Zucker's post-impressionist works including town and landscapes, still-lives, and portraits, are part of an array of permanent installments in numerous museums and private collections in Tel Aviv, including the Joseph Hirschorn collection in Washington, D. C., the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and the Bezalel Art Museum in Jerusalem. In 1947 he settled in Arcueil near Paris. Zucker died in 1981 in New York.
The School of Paris, Ecole de Paris, was not a single art movement or institution, but refers to the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century. Between 1900 and 1940 the city drew artists from all over the world and became a centre for artistic activity. School of Paris was used to describe this loose community, particularly of non-French artists, centered in the cafes, salons and shared workspaces and galleries of Montparnasse. Before World War I, a group of expatriates in Paris created art in the styles of Post-Impressionism, Cubism and Fauvism. The group included artists like Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani and Piet Mondrian. Associated French artists included Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes.
The term "School of Paris" was used in 1925 by André Warnod to refer to the many foreign-born artists who had migrated to Paris. The term soon gained currency, often as a derogatory label by critics who saw the foreign artists—many of whom were Jewish—as a threat to the purity of French art. Art critic Louis Vauxcelles, noted for coining the terms "Fauvism" and "Cubism", Waldemar George, himself a French Jew, in 1931 lamented that the School of Paris name "allows any artist to pretend he is French. it refers to French tradition but instead annihilates it.
The artists working in Paris between World War I and World War II experimented with various styles including Cubism, Orphism, Surrealism and Dada. Foreign and French artists working in Paris included Jean Arp, Joan Miro, Constantin Brancusi, Raoul Dufy, Tsuguharu Foujita, artists from Belarus like Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, and Jacques Lipchitz, the Polish artist Marek Szwarc and others such as Russian-born prince Alexis Arapoff.
A significant subset, the Jewish artists, came to be known as the Jewish School of Paris or the School of Montparnasse. The core members were almost all Jews, and the resentment expressed toward them by French critics in the 1930s was unquestionably fueled by anti-Semitism. Jewish members of the group included Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Chaim Soutine, Adolphe Féder, Chagall, Moïse Kisling, Maxa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dance of the In laws Wedding Scene Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Jewish Wedding Mechutanim
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame
Country: United States
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Old City Jerusalem Landscape Russian Israeli Judaica Oil Painting
By Marina Grigoryan
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Realism
Subject: Portrait
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: Israel
Dimensions: 31.5x23.5
Marina Grigoryan (Armenian/Russian/Israeli) was born in 1963 in Dushanbe, Russia.
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Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polish French Fauvist Judaica Oil Painting Rabbi at Prayer
By Frederick B. Serger
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Impressionist
Subject: People
Medium: Oil
Surface: Panel
Frederick Serger (given name Frederick Bedrick Sinaberger) was born in 1889 to a family of Jewish manufacturers in the village of Ivancice near Brno Moravia, a province of Czechoslovakia. Showing artistic talent at a young age, he attended art schools in Brno, Vienna, and Munich. During World War I, Serger joined the Austrian Army...
Category
1940s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Abstract landscape of Jerusalem Israeli Oil Painting Judaica
By Avraham Binder
Located in Surfside, FL
Avraham Binder was born in 1906 in Vilnius (or Vilna), now part of Lithuania. He began painting at an early age and completed the prescribed studies in painting at the academy of art...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Judaica Oil Painting Samuel Grodensky Hasidic Rabbi, Children in Jerusalem
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Grodensky (1894-1974)
"Hassidim"
Hand signed and dated "Grodensky '62" u.l.,
Titled verso in pencil on stretcher
31" x 27" canvas , 35 1/2" x 31 1/2" framed.
Large Fauvist Expressionist Jewish Family Oil Painting
This is done in an Expressionist style in Fauvist colors. Influenced by the Judaic artists of the early Israeli...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Color California Abstract Expressionist Copolymer Vinyl Painting Ron Davis
By Ronald Davis
Located in Surfside, FL
Ronald Davis (American, b. 1937)
Pitch, 1983
cel-vinyl copolymer on canvas
Hand signed verso and further inscribed with title, date, size and PTG 751
67 x 110 1/2in. Framed 69 x 112in.
Bears remnants of old gallery label to reverse.
Ronald Ron Davis (born 1937) is an American painter whose work is associated with geometric abstraction, abstract illusionism, lyrical abstraction, hard-edge painting, shaped canvas painting, color field painting, and 3D computer graphics. He is a veteran of nearly seventy solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions.
Born in Santa Monica, California, he was raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In 1955–56 he attended the University of Wyoming. In 1959 at the age of 22 he became interested in painting. In 1960–64 he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Abstract expressionism, the prevailing artistic movement of the time, would have an influence on many of his future works. In 1962 he was a Yale-Norfolk Summer School Grantee. In 1963 his paintings became hard-edged, geometric and optical in style, and by 1964 his works were shown in important museums and galleries. He lived and worked in Los Angeles, 1965–71, and in Malibu, California, 1972–90. Since 1991 he has lived and worked in Arroyo Hondo on the outskirts of Taos, New Mexico.
Ronald Davis from the earliest days of his career had a significant impact on contemporary abstract painting of the mid-1960s. According to art critic Michael Fried: Ron Davis is a young California artist whose new paintings, recently shown at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, are among the most significant produced anywhere during the past few years, and place him, along with Frank Stella and Walter Darby Bannard, at the forefront of his generation.
He had his first one-person exhibition at the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles in 1965.
Barbara Rose wrote an in depth essay about Davis' paintings of the 1960s in the catalogue accompanying an exhibition of his Dodecagon Series in 1989 in Los Angeles. Among other observations she wrote:
Davis saw a way to use Marcel Duchamp's perspective studies and transparent plane in The Large Glass for pictorial purposes. Instead of glass, he used fiberglass to create a surface that was equally transparent and detached from any illusion of reality. Because his colored pigments are mixed into a fluid resin and harden quickly, multiple layers of color may be applied without becoming muddy. his is essentially an inversion of Old Master layering and glazing except that color is applied behind rather than on top of the surface. Alone among his contemporaries, Davis was equally concerned with traditional problems of painting: space, scale, detail, color relationships and illusions as he was with the California emphasis on hi-tech craft and industrial materials. His work has some connection to the Light and Space art movement related to op art and minimalism. He was a contemporary of Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Ron Cooper...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer
Judaica Meditative Rabbi at Prayer in Nature, Large Landscape Oil Painting
By Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Jewish Elder , Judaic Prayer
Surface: Board
Country: United States
signed lower left
Donald Roy Purdy is an American painter whose work evolved through a rang...
Category
20th Century Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Abstract Procession Jewish Wedding Chuppah Oil Painting Modernist Judaica
By Sabina Teichman
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
Sabina Teichman: (1905-1983) Studied at Columbia Univ. (BA, MA), also with Charles J. Martin and Arthur J. Young.
Exhibits include WMAA, Art USA, 1958, PAAM, Butler Institute Amer. Art, Audubon Artists Ann., Womens Westchester Center.
Sabina Teichman's paintings have a touch of fauvist vitality and responsiveness and color. Her Lyrical Paintings convey the great joy of life which is hers. the joy is so profound that it cannot be obtained in traditional art forms and so it has become necessary for Sabina to create new forms to express the euphoria. As the dynamic colors emerge from her luxuriously coated brush, she surrenders to a newly realized adventure in abstract expressionism. A boldness belies he femininity which yields an exciting style and a joyful freshness. Sabina Teichman illuminates the canvas with strokes of color that affect the very soul of the viewer , for she feels that color inspires the inner being of man. Her response to color elation.
Dynamic colors emerge from the luxuriously coated brush of this artist, surrendering to her newly realized adventure in abstract impressionism. A boldness belies her femininity which yields an exciting style and a joyful freshness. Sabina Teichman illuminates the canvas with strokes of color that affect the very soul of the viewer, for she knows as did Goethe, that color inspires the inner being of man.
Sabina Teichman's own response to color is elation. Widely known as a figurative painter, one reviews her earlier style only to find that all shapes lived within the surrounding of abstract settings which now dominate her most recent paintings.
The Vatican Museum's collection of contemporary art has acquired Sabina Teichman's painting The Prophet given in response to an expressed desire of a representative of Pope Paul VI, who said that, to the best of his knowledge, it was the first painting by a living American to become part of the Vatican. Member of Audubon Artists, Provincetown Art Association
Argent Galleries, New York, 1947.
Salpeter Gallery, New York, 1949, 1952, 1954. Shore Galleries, Boston, 1955.
A C A Gallery, New York, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1969. A C A Gallery, Rome, 1965.
Orpheus...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polish French Ecole de Paris Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Clown Juggler
By Abram Krol
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Abraham Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland.
Abram Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the Universit...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Oil Painting Modernist Impressionist Candy Man Toy Chest
By Moshe Chauski
Located in Surfside, FL
Moshe Chauski (b. 1935)
Born in Lithuania, Chauski studied at the Vilna Art Academy.
Post-graduate studies, Warsaw He received the first prize for young artists in 1953.
He immi...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ahola 13 Oil on Canvas Geometric Painting New York School Abstract Expressionist
By Paul Brach
Located in Surfside, FL
Paul Brach (American, 1924-2007). "Ahola #13". Oil on canvas. Ex. David and Marion Porter estate. Inscribed on the reverse "Ahola #13 1992, Paul Brach for David - 80 more." This painting was given to Paul's good friend David Porter on his 80th birthday. The East Hampton, NY artist David Porter (1912-2005), was a personal friend of the artist. Included is an exhibition catalogue of Paul Brach paintings. In good condition. Painting measures 23 1/2" x 23 1/2" without the frame. Minimalism, Monochrome Painting in shades of purple...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pre World War II Austrian Judaica Oil Painting Hasidic Rabbi Portrait
By Rudolf Klinsbogl Klingsberg
Located in Surfside, FL
Rudolf KLINGSBÖGL Austrian Viennese painter and teacher. Chassidic rebbe with Shtreimel.
Klingsbogl was active in Vienna and is known for his typical portraits and paintings of interiors - workshops, pubs and cellars. His style is very distinctive. rare to find good jewish work that survived the holocaust as so much of it was destroyed.
Other works by Rudolf Klingsbogl (sometimes known as Klingsberg}: Rabbis Studying Around a Table, The Huntsman, The Pet Bird, Blacksmith Interior Scene, Three Men with Chat and Drink, The Sailors, The Old Drinker, Debating the News, Sunday Afternoon, Man Looking at Pocket Watch. Game of Cards in a Tavern, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a Child, Franz Schubert at the Piano, Johann Strauss (The Younger).
Realistic portrait of an older rabbi visiting and blessing a child in a European marketplace...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Oil Painting Social Realist Kids and Cat in Red Wagon WPA Style
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on artist's board, 20th century, signed Paul Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures a group of tenement children of mixe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Modernist Oil Painting Still Life Tableaux with Lobster, Pineapple and Clock
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on artist's board, 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures a still life table top kitchen scene. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Oil Painting by Well Known Cartoonist and Illustrator Upper East Side, Manhattan
By Sandy Huffaker
Located in Surfside, FL
An Upper East Side of Manhattan New York city scene of bald guy reading newspaper on bench with East River and tugboat in background.
The 1970s were the “glory days,” Huffaker says, for himself and a stable of talented illustrators whose work routinely found itself on the covers of the nation’s premier newsmagazines and in the pages of The New York Times. For the better part of that decade, Huffaker was among an elite breed of commercial artists—his hero and fellow Southerner Jack Davis, the legendary Mad Magazine illustrator, among them—working during a remarkable period when art directors routinely turned to illustration to give comic relief to the country’s deeply serious and dark problems. From civil rights and the women’s movement to Vietnam and Watergate, the gas crisis and inflation to the rise of Jimmy Carter, Huffaker mined a deep well of material ripe for his brand of visual wit and caustic satire. He sent his portfolio to children's book illustrator Maurice Sendak, the legendary “Where The Wild Things Are” illustrator to gauge his prospects, and when Sendak replied, “C’mon up, you’ll do all right,”
SELECT HONORS:
2 Page-One Awards (from the New York Newspaper Guild), for work in Fortune Magazine and Sports Illustrated.
Nominated 3 times for Cartoonist-of-the-Year by the National Cartoonists Society (illustration category).
Desi Award of Excellence (Graphic Design Magazine).
20 Award of Merit citations from the Society of Illustrators.
One-man show, Society of Illustrators.
Illustrators 22 - annual national exhibition for the Society of Illustrators.
SELECT MAGAZINE COVERS
Time Magazine (6),
Sports Illustrated (2),
Business Week (12),
Forbes,
Saturday Review,
New York Times Sunday Magazine,
The New Republic,
Family Weekly,
Madison Avenue,
New York Daily News Sunday Magazine (2),
Junior Scholastic,
ACLU,
The Nation , and more
EDUCATION BA, University of Alabama. Attended Pratt Graphic Center and The Art Students League, New York City.
BOOKS WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED The Dispensible Man (M. Evans and Co.) and The Bald Book (M. Evans and Co.) BOOKS ILLUSTRATED White Is (Grove Press), The Begatting of a President (Ballantine Books), The Biggest Sneeze (Harper-Collins), H. Phillip Birdsong's ESP (Young Scott Books), Kids Letters to President Reagan (M. Evans), The Worlds Greatest Left-Handers (M. Evans), Does My Room Come Alive at Night (HarperCollins), The Man With Big Ears (HarperCollins), Jake Snake's Race (HarperCollins), and more
POLITICAL CARTOONING Political cartoonist at The News and Obsever in Raleigh, NC and syndicated during the early 70's. Today, syndicated in 750 publications 3-times a week with Cagle Cartoons.
FINE ART SHOWS Allied Artists of America, Salmagundi Club, Phillips Mill Annual (honorable mention), New Hope Shad Festival (grand Prize), Hunter Museum in Chattanooga ( one -man career retrospective), Santa Fe public library (one--man), Rosenfeld Gallery (Philadelphia), Potter...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Watercolor Painting Judaica Kiddush Levana Blessing New Moon
By Emanuel Glicenstein Romano
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaic prayer scene
Subject: Landscape
Medium: watercolor
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
EMANUEL ROMANO
Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984
Emanuel Glicenstein Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897.
His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born his father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland.
In 1926 Emanuel and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later.
Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic anti Jewish discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame.
In 1936 Romano was worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida.
Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel.
In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York.
Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicentein Museum.
COLLECTIONS
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston Fine Arts Museum
Fogg Museum
Musée Nacional de France
Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Rabbi in Jerusalem
By Emanuel Glicenstein Romano
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Portrait
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
EMANUEL ROMANO
Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984
Emanuel Glicenstein Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897.
His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born. His father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland.
In 1926 Emanuel and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later.
Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame.
In 1936 Romano was worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida.
Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel.
In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York.
Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicentein Museum.
COLLECTIONS
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston Fine Arts Museum
Fogg Museum
Musée Nacional de France
Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Israeli KIbbutz Artist Toddler, Swim Tube Pointilist Oil Painting Bezalel School
By Arie Kaplun
Located in Surfside, FL
Belarusian born Israeli artist. lived in germany studied at the Bezalel School.
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is Israel's national school of art. Established in 1906 by Jewish...
Category
20th Century Pointillist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Kibbutz Artist Judaica Shul Torah Ark Surrealist Gouache Painting
By Leo Roth
Located in Surfside, FL
Leo Roth (1914–2002), also known as Lior Roth, was an Israeli painter, born in 1914 in Austria-Hungary. (later Poland)
In 1920, Roth moved to Germany and, in 1933, immigrated to Palestine. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and completed frescoes in Italy and France in the 1950s. Roth first settled in Tel Aviv, then moved to Kvutzat Kinneret, then finally to Kibbutz Afikim where he remained until his death. He served as Director of the Art Academy of the Kibbutzim. In 1959, he was awarded the Jordan Valley Prize for Painting. Roth exhibited in the United States, Israel, Mexico, Spain, Holland, Sweden, and Denmark. He died in 2002.
Education:
1930 School of Art, Duisberg-Hamborn, Germany, under Josef Doppelfeld
Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany
1951 Fresco and mural painting, Ecole nationale superiere des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1951 fresco in Italy
Teaching:
Director of Art Academy of the Kibbutzim
Roth's work was influenced by Cubism and bears much in common with the work of compatriot painter Naftali Bezem. His colourful canvases contain biblical imagery and references to early Israeli pioneer culture.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Home, Montefiore Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
2000 Retrospective, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
1997 Oil paintings, Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
1993 Solo Exhibition, Beit Yad Lebanim, Tiberias
1983 Oil paintings, ''Bet-Emanuel'', Ramat Gan
1980 Wilfrid Israel Museum, Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea
1977 Tiroche Gallery, Old Jaffa
1976 Hatzrif Art Gallery, Be'er Sheva
1957 Oil paintings, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1950 Katz Gallery, Tel AvivSelected exhibitions
2000: Chaim Atar Art Museum, Ein Harod, Israel: The Works of Leo Roth: An Exhibition
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Revelations, Jerusalem Print Workshop
2013 Group Exhibition, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 The First Decade: Hegemony and Plurality, Ein Harod Art Museum
2000 Group...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Israeli Modernist Watercolor Painting Safed Synagogue Interior Bezalel School
By Mordechai Avniel
Located in Surfside, FL
Watercolor painting of Shul interior in Tzfas, Safed Israel.
MORDECHAI AVNIEL
Minsk, Belarus, b. 1900, d. 1989
Mordecai Dickstein (later Avniel) was born in 1900 in Minsk, present-day Belarus. He studied fine arts in Yekaterinburg, Russia (1913–19) and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1923). Avniel immigrated to Palestine in 1921 where he first worked as a pioneer in citrus plantations near Petah Tikva. In 1923, at the urging of Boris Schatz, he went to Jerusalem to further his art studies at Bezalel. He later taught painting and sculpture at the school, and served a term as director of the Small Sculpture Section of the Sculpture Department (1924–28). From 1935 on, Avniel lived in Haifa. Avniel was also a lawyer and a founding partner of the Haifa firm Avniel, Salomon & Company.
Avniel regularly showed his work in group exhibitions of the Painters and Sculptors' Association of Israel. He was awarded the Herman Struck Prize (1952), Tenth Anniversary Prize for Watercolours, Ramat Gan (1958), Histadrut Prize (1961), and First Prize Haifa Municipality (1977). He represented Israel at the 1958 Venice Biennale and the 1962 International Art Seminar at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Avniel was a member of the Artists' Colony in Safed and maintained a studio on Mount Carmel.
Mordechai Avniel is best known for his deft and singular landscape work.
His works are held in numerous museums and collections both in Israel and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA. Avniel's manipulations of light and colour share much with those of compatriot artists Shimshon Holzman and Joseph Kossonogi.
Education
1913-19 Art School of Katrinburg, Russia
1923 Bezalel School of Art, Jerusalem
Selected exhibitions:
2004: Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel, University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa (online catalogue)
1965: Mordechai Avniel Retrospective, Haifa Municipality Museum of Modern Art, Haifa
1964: Galerie Synthèse, Paris
1962: New York University, New York
1961: Rina Gallery of Modern Art, Jerusalem
The Autumn Exhibition Rina Gallery, Jerusalem
Artists: Dedi Ben Shaul...
Category
20th Century Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jerusalem Old City Cityscape Israeli Modernist Oil Painting Signed in Hebrew
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed Nathanson. Could be the famous artist Avraham Naton (Natanson) I am not certain. it is a very lovely Modernist Israeli landscape.
Avraham Naton (Natanson), Israeli, born in Bessarabia, 1906-1959. Avraham Naton was born in Rani, Bessarabia to a large secular family. In 1935, after Art studies in Romania, he immigrated to the Land of Israel and settled, first, in Givat Haim and later in Ramat Gan. From the 1940s he worked as an Art teacher in Ramat Gan and Givataim. In 1948 he worked as an illustrator at BaMahane Newspaper. He was one of the Founders of New Horizon Group. Between 1952-1959 he was a member of the Milo Club and served as the club secretary.
Education
1930-33 Art Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Teaching
1940's Ramat Gan and Givataim
Awards And Prizes
Jerusalem Prize for Painting and Sculpture
1942 Dizengoff Prize
1953 Milo Club Prize
New Horizons, The Ofakim Hadashim art movement began with a group of artists who mounted an exhibition in Tel Aviv's Habima national theater in December 1942, under the name "The Group of Eight". The group evolved into a coherent artistic movement only after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Members of the school included Arie Aroch, Zvi Meirovitch, Avraham Naton (Natanson), Avigdor Stematsky and Yehezkel Streichman. The work of sculptor Dov Feigin also appeared in the catalog of the 1942 exhibition, though it was not displayed. In February 1947 five of the original members of the group joined Joseph Zaritsky...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Expressionist Judaica Painting "I Lit All My Candles" Hanukkah Menorah
By Hildegard Rath
Located in Surfside, FL
Hildegard Rath, (1909-1994) painter, author, teacher, and lecturer, Born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in the Black Forest region of Germany. Hildegard Rath became a painter of landscape, portraits, still lifes, and marine subjects and also a muralist. Her father was a bank president, her mother a sculptor, writer, and illustrator of children's books. At the age of 15, Miss Rath painted her first portrait in oil as a birthday present for her father and thereafter every opportunity for study was given to her.
She went to art school at the Atelier House in Stuttgart, Germany and at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Berlin. She studied with Lotte Laserstein...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting "The Rabbi" Sensitive Judaica Portrait by Italian American master
By Roberto Lupetti
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Milan, Italy Lupetti studied at the Royal Academy in Rome where he received classical training and was apprenticed to the school of restoration at the Vatican. At the age of fourteen he was accepted to attend Brera Liceo Artistico, one of the most prestigious art academies in Italy, graduating at age eighteen and then went on to win honors from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rome eventually receiving the degree of Professor of Fine Arts. In Milan, he helped restore the famed La Scala Opera House, and in Rome he earned the right to help in the restoration of the Masters' Works in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. Following service in WWII, Roberto came to America sponsored by the famous conductor Arturo Toscanini. A painting he did of the maestro was purchased by the San Francisco Art Commission. He moved to San Francisco where he taught at the Art Institute.
As well as decorating churches throughout the U.S., he also painted portraits of such celebrities as Ingrid Bergman, Barbara Stanwyck, and General George Marshall. Roberto Lupetti earned five degrees at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Roberto was married to fellow artist Lynn Lupetti...
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Judaica Old Jewish Woman Sewing Expressionist Oil Painting
By Adolf Adler
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolf Adler 1917 - 1996
Adolf Adi Adler was born in Romania in 1917. Attended the Art College of Kluj Romania in 1950. (in Satu Mare, original home city of the Satmar Hasidic group). In 1963, Adler was chief among a group of well known artists who immigrated to Israel. He was awarded the Nordau prize in 1978. He works have been auctioned at Sloan's Auction House in Maryland and Karrenbauer Auction House in Germany and today are represented in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. In 1984, a retrospective of his work was held in Rishon Le Zion. He died in 1996.
Awards and Prizes
1993 Mordecai Ish-Shalom Prize, Artists House, Jerusalem, for a Special Contribution to Art
Artists in Israel for the Defense
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv 1967
Artists: Aviva Uri...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mixed Media Sculptural Painting "Unicorn" Chicago Jewish Modernist
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Mixed Media
Surface: Board
Dimensions: 28.75 X 24 (size includes frame.
signed with initials and bearing a label verso.
Reminiscent of the Ar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Jewish Klezmer Musicians, Israeli Judaica Impasto Palette Knife Oil Painting
By Raoul Raymond
Located in Surfside, FL
Raoul Raymond was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1948 and he immigrated to Israel two years later.
In Israel, Mr. Raymond grew fond of the artist's palette, and at an early age, was...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Judaica Polish Israeli Folk Art Biblical Modernist Oil Painting
By Pinchas Shaar
Located in Surfside, FL
This painting is iconic of Pichas Shaar's aesthetic, and stylistic influences. A ceramic mosaicist and sculptor as well as a painter, Shaars strong decorative sense was evident in his colorful canvas, with their frequent rectilinear geometry, depicting stylized figures, often mythological or biblical subjects.
Pinchas Shaar (born Szwarc, later Shaar) was born in Lodz, Poland in 1923. already at a young age he drew small graffiti and characters of fairy tales. at sixteeen he met the Polish painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, a disciple of the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, who encouraged Pinchas’ artistic education. Strzeminski encouraged Pinchas' artistic education and introduced him to the works of such painters as Picasso, Leger, Matisse, and Mondrian. Pinchas had his first exhibition in 1938 and also completed photomontages for a poetry book by Moshe Broderson that was published in 1939. Then, in September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. On February 1940 the Jews of Lodz had to move to a ghetto and perform forced labor. The artist experienced the horrors of war and the Nazi holocaust concentration camps. Pinchas worked in a prefabricated furniture factory. However, after his artistic abilities were discovered, he became a draftsman. He also designed decorations for the ghetto's theater. In 1944 the Germans liquidated the Lodz ghetto...
Category
1960s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
German Israeli Oil Painting Jerusalem Panorama of Old City Walls
By Arye Leo Peysack
Located in Surfside, FL
German-Israeli artist ARYE LEO PEYSACK (1894-1972). Peysack was born in 1894 and trained in Germany. He immigrated to Palestine in the early 1920s, traveled extensively around the co...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Neo Expressionist "Wild Horses" Modernist Oil Painting
By Robert Beauchamp
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed lower left.
Robert Beauchamp (1923 – March 1995) was an American figurative painter and arts educator. Beauchamp's paintings and drawings are known for depicting dramatic creatures and figures with expressionistic colors. His work was described in the New York Times as being "both frightening and amusing,". He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a student of Hans Hofmann.
Robert Beauchamp was born in Denver, Colorado in 1923. He had three brothers and three sisters, and the children were orphaned by both parents by the time Beauchamp was three. The family grew up impoverished due to the Great Depression, living in a community house with other families. As a child he dabbled in art but it wasn't until high school that he began taking art classes. When not creating art he also played sports; football and basketball, and enjoyed chemistry and geology.
He was told he was good at drawing, and replaced study hall classes with art classes, receiving instruction and inspiration from a Welsh teacher named R. Idris Thomas. While in high school Beauchamp would go, every Monday, to the public library and a local museum where he would read books about art; specifically French painting, as assigned by Thomas. Beauchamp absorbed the tenets of European Modernism and American Abstract Expressionism—with which he eventually broke. While abstraction, with its focus on color and form, underlies his compositions, he filled canvas and paper with psychologically acute portraits of himself and others, nudes, animals, and objects of all kinds. Beauchamp would spend upwards of four hours a day in the art room and eventually won the Carter Memorial Prize, which provided a scholarship to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. At Colorado Springs he studied under Boardman Robinson, painting landscapes in nature.
Beauchamp eventually joined the Navy and then returned to Colorado Springs to continue his studies. Traveling the world as an Armed Guard, he spent a year and a half at sea and the rest of the three years in San Francisco. Seeking to make money, and to follow his love for a girl, Beauchamp decided to attend Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1947–1948. There he studied pottery, believing one could "make more money selling pots than you could selling paintings." He described his experience at Cranbrook as intimidating and claustrophobic, and eventually switched to sculpture before switching to painting.
Beauchamp moved to New York City in the early 1950s and was involved in the Tenth Street galleries, which provided outlets for more experimental artists and the second generation of abstract expressionists. Despite his involvement with 10th Street and friendships with abstract artists, abstract art never interested in him. He showed at numerous galleries in New York and Provincetown, socializing with gallery owners, artists and collectors. His first exhibition was at the Tanager Gallery in New York, he also showed during the 1950s at the Hansa Gallery. In New York and Provincetown he studied under Hans Hofmann Eventually he felt that abstract expressionism became dull and stalemated.
During the 1960s he showed at the Green Gallery. C. 1960 he was awarded a Fulbright Award allowing him to travel to La Romola, Italy. He traveled frequently to cities such as Rome and worked constantly. Beauchamp returned to the states and lived in Provincetown at Walter Gutman's house, who awarded Beauchamp a grant. That year he met his future wife, Nadine Valenti, whom he married in 1967. Beauchamp taught at a variety of schools during his lifetime including Brooklyn College, School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York during the last fifteen years of his life.
Beauchamp described his drawings as painterly, seeking the spontaneity in an image. He would develop a drawing then a painting, and vice versa. His heavily impastoed paintings, often described as sculptures themselves, came from the pouring of paint from a can, with little planning and constant evolution in the medium upon the canvas. He preferred little planning to his creations, believing that an artists work would become stale and repetitive with constant planning.
He also created large scale works, at times 70 inches long. Beauchamp had little intention of ever selling his large works, preferring to create them due to the slow and intense experience he received from the process. The large drawings he created on the floor, and the smaller works were created on a table. Paintings were created on either the floor or wall and he described his painting process as "splattering", "pushing the paint around," and sponging.
Animals often appear in his paintings, despite a dislike for domestic animals outside of his artistic creations. He called the characters in his paintings as Beauchamps. Some Beauchamps hold meaning, with Beauchamp rarely sharing the meaning behind the symbols and characters. He made up the creatures himself, seeking to emphasize the character of each.
In 2006 the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Visual & Performing Arts hosted an exhibition of Beauchamp's pieces from the 1960s, curators stated that Beauchamp's work: "effortlessly blends innovative style elements with narrative, descriptive images. One senses equal enjoyment in the manipulation of, and interaction with, color and paint, and the often sudden and unexpected presence of a wasp or a lump of sugar."
included in the important exhibit "Twelve New York Painters." New York: David Findlay Jr. Fine Art with Mary Abbott, Alcopley, Robert Beauchamp, Byron Browne, Charles Cajori, Jim Forsberg, Carl Heidenreich, Angelo Ippolito, Emily Mason, Robert Natkin, Robert Richenburg and Nina Tryggvadottir...
Category
20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
American Neo Expressionist "Wild Horses" Modernist Oil Painting
By Robert Beauchamp
Located in Surfside, FL
Robert Beauchamp (1923 – March 1995) was an American figurative painter and arts educator. Beauchamp's paintings and drawings are known for depicting dramatic creatures and figures with expressionistic colors. His work was described in the New York Times as being "both frightening and amusing,". He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a student of Hans Hofmann.
Robert Beauchamp was born in Denver, Colorado in 1923. He had three brothers and three sisters, and the children were orphaned by both parents by the time Beauchamp was three. The family grew up impoverished due to the Great Depression, living in a community house with other families. As a child he dabbled in art but it wasn't until high school that he began taking art classes. When not creating art he also played sports; football and basketball, and enjoyed chemistry and geology.
He was told he was good at drawing, and replaced study hall classes with art classes, receiving instruction and inspiration from a Welsh teacher named R. Idris Thomas. While in high school Beauchamp would go, every Monday, to the public library and a local museum where he would read books about art; specifically French painting, as assigned by Thomas. Beauchamp absorbed the tenets of European Modernism and American Abstract Expressionism—with which he eventually broke. While abstraction, with its focus on color and form, underlies his compositions, he filled canvas and paper with psychologically acute portraits of himself and others, nudes, animals, and objects of all kinds. Beauchamp would spend upwards of four hours a day in the art room and eventually won the Carter Memorial Prize, which provided a scholarship to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. At Colorado Springs he studied under Boardman Robinson, painting landscapes in nature.
Beauchamp eventually joined the Navy and then returned to Colorado Springs to continue his studies. Traveling the world as an Armed Guard, he spent a year and a half at sea and the rest of the three years in San Francisco. Seeking to make money, and to follow his love for a girl, Beauchamp decided to attend Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1947–1948. There he studied pottery, believing one could "make more money selling pots than you could selling paintings." He described his experience at Cranbrook as intimidating and claustrophobic, and eventually switched to sculpture before switching to painting.
Beauchamp moved to New York City in the early 1950s and was involved in the Tenth Street galleries, which provided outlets for more experimental artists and the second generation of abstract expressionists. Despite his involvement with 10th Street and friendships with abstract artists, abstract art never interested in him. He showed at numerous galleries in New York and Provincetown, socializing with gallery owners, artists and collectors. His first exhibition was at the Tanager Gallery in New York, he also showed during the 1950s at the Hansa Gallery. In New York and Provincetown he studied under Hans Hofmann Eventually he felt that abstract expressionism became dull and stalemated.
During the 1960s he showed at the Green Gallery. C. 1960 he was awarded a Fulbright Award allowing him to travel to La Romola, Italy. He traveled frequently to cities such as Rome and worked constantly. Beauchamp returned to the states and lived in Provincetown at Walter Gutman's house, who awarded Beauchamp a grant. That year he met his future wife, Nadine Valenti, whom he married in 1967. Beauchamp taught at a variety of schools during his lifetime including Brooklyn College, School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York during the last fifteen years of his life.
Beauchamp described his drawings as painterly, seeking the spontaneity in an image. He would develop a drawing then a painting, and vice versa. His heavily impastoed paintings, often described as sculptures themselves, came from the pouring of paint from a can, with little planning and constant evolution in the medium upon the canvas. He preferred little planning to his creations, believing that an artists work would become stale and repetitive with constant planning.
He also created large scale works, at times 70 inches long. Beauchamp had little intention of ever selling his large works, preferring to create them due to the slow and intense experience he received from the process. The large drawings he created on the floor, and the smaller works were created on a table. Paintings were created on either the floor or wall and he described his painting process as "splattering", "pushing the paint around," and sponging.
Animals often appear in his paintings, despite a dislike for domestic animals outside of his artistic creations. He called the characters in his paintings as Beauchamps. Some Beauchamps hold meaning, with Beauchamp rarely sharing the meaning behind the symbols and characters. He made up the creatures himself, seeking to emphasize the character of each.
In 2006 the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Visual & Performing Arts hosted an exhibition of Beauchamp's pieces from the 1960s, curators stated that Beauchamp's work: "effortlessly blends innovative style elements with narrative, descriptive images. One senses equal enjoyment in the manipulation of, and interaction with, color and paint, and the often sudden and unexpected presence of a wasp or a lump of sugar."
included in the important exhibit "Twelve New York Painters." New York: David Findlay Jr. Fine Art with Mary Abbott, Alcopley, Robert Beauchamp, Byron Browne, Charles Cajori, Jim Forsberg, Carl Heidenreich, Angelo Ippolito, Emily Mason, Robert Natkin, Robert Richenburg and Nina Tryggvadottir...
Category
20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Judaica "The Rebbe'" European Hasidic Rabbi Portrait Oil Painting
By Charles Hannaford
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed with monogrammed initials and has his name written on verso.
Realistic portrait of an older rabbi.
CHARLES E. HANNAFORD, English; 1863-1955, Hannaford was a British waterco...
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Judaica "The Rebbe'" European Hasidic Rabbi Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Realistic portrait of an older rabbi visiting and blessing a child in a European marketplace. Here the artist conveys a sense of quiet grandeur th...
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lithuanian French Ecole de Paris Judaica Oil Painting Refugee Family
By Jacques Koslowsky
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist Realistic portrait of a Jewish refugee family World War II era by Lithuanian French Jewish artist. Here the artist conveys a sense of quiet grandeur through the eyes of...
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Jerusalem Landscape Judaica Oil on Canvas Russian Israeli Artist Balaklav
By Leonid Balaklav
Located in Surfside, FL
Judaic Jerusalem scene oil on canvas, signed l.r. with artist's Hebrew name, Dated
Painting measures framed 45 x 21.
Leonid Balaklav was born in 1956 in Beltze, Moldavia, USSR. Graduated from the Art school in Kiev (1971-1973), and from the Art Institute in Odessa (1974). Repatriated to Israel in 1990. Teacher of painting. Lives and works in Jerusalem. The works by Leonid Balaklav are exhibited in museums, galleries and private collections in Israel and worldwide.
Awards:
1987: Gold Medal at the International Film Festival, Tokyo
1995: Jerusalem Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Jerusalem
2002: The Israel Museum & Israel Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist
Solo Exhibitions:
1978: Scientists' House, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR
1988: The Jewish Center, Moscow, USSR
1989: Central Artists' House, Kishinev, Moldavia, USSR
1991: "Immigrant Artists", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1993: "Cypresses", Artists' House, Jerusalem
1994: "From There to Here", Ein Harod Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
1997: "Drawings '93-'97", Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
1997: "New Works", Artists' House, Jerusalem
1998: "Landscape and Still-Life", Artspace, Jerusalem
2000: "Portrait", Artspace, Jerusalem
2002-2003: "The Face of the Light", Ein Harod Museum, Ashdod Museum, Rehovot Museum, Mane-Katz Museum, Haifa, Bat Yam Museum (an exhibition of the Forum of Israeli Art Museums)
Group Exhibitions:
1977-1986: Participated in ten group exhibitions in Moldavia, USSR
1990: "Immigrants '90", The Zionist Organization of America House, Tel Aviv
1990: "Immigrant Artists", Artists' House, Jerusalem
1990: "Russian Avantgarde...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wild Flowers Vibrant Colorful Modernist Oil Painting
By John Wenger
Located in Surfside, FL
John Wenger (1887-1976) celebrated easel painter and stage set designer whose
career included 25 solo shows in the USA, Canada, and Europe. He created set designs for such plays as "Ile", "Petrushka", "Funny Face", and Rhapsody In Blue". John Wenger's art is included in many museums in and out of the USA.
John Wenger was born on June 16, 1887 in Elizabethgrad, Russia. Wenger was born an artist, and at the age of three was painting (playing) with brushes and paint while his father, a local artist who painted scenery for the traveling theater, worked on drop scenes. His mother disapproved of this and tried to keep her son from playing with these "toys."
When John Wenger was several years older, he attended Gihnazia, which is equivalent to high school but on a college level. Throughout his education Wenger excelled in visual arts. The staff at the Gihnazia school encouraged him to apply to the Imperial Art Academy of Odessa for a scholarship. At the age of thirteen, John Wenger became a student at the academy. For Wenger, this was his first time away from home and he found it to be difficult for several months.
When he came to America in 1903, John earned his living by designing ladies costumes and jewelry at his uncles store in Newark, New Jersey. He then resumed his art studies at Cooper Union and The National Academy of Design.
While in New York, Wenger found an interest in how music and theater connected to art. He rebelled against the heavy sets and hard lines of stage scenery...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Two for Francis" Mixed Media Figural Abstract Oil Painting
By Marianne Kolb
Located in Surfside, FL
Marianne Kolb (born 1958 in Bern) is a self-taught Swiss painter currently living in the United States. She is known for her emotionally-charged figurative paintings that address the human condition. Kolb paints directly onto canvas with her hands, placing her figures in isolation on a monochromatic...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Varnish, Oil, Board
WPA Period "Coastal Village" American Modernist Realism Oil Painting Lev Landau
By Samuel David Lev-Landau
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed and titled with Yiddish inscription verso.
9 X 12 inches board size. beng sold unframed.
Painter, New York, N.Y. Samuel David Lev-Landau was born in Warsaw, Poland and emigr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Folk Art Mexican Girl with Watermelon Oil Painting on Burlap
By Jose Maria de Servin
Located in Surfside, FL
The sweetness that characterizes the work of Mexican painter Jose Maria de Servin (1917-83) is a melancholy and placid one. While he worked in the most modern of styles, he adapted i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Modernist Judaica Oil Painting "Old Jew" Jewish Rabbi at Prayer
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
An oil on board Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait in profile of an old Jew. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Abstract Vibrant Oil Painting Japanese American Artist Denver Colorado
By Homare Ikeda
Located in Surfside, FL
Ikeda was born on Yoron Island, off the coast of Japan, in 1953, and moved to United States in the late 1970s. In the '80s he came to Boulder to study at the University of Colorado, ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peruvian Expressionist Oil Painting Miguel Aybar Modernist Latin American Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Dimensions: (Frame) H 28.5" x W 35.5" (Painting) H 22" x W 30"
Miguel Ángel Aybar Llauca, an artist specializing in expressionist painting, was born in Huancavelica and lives in the city of Ica where he began drawing from a very young age, drawing from its beautiful valleys and customs. In 1970 he began his studies in Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at the Regional School of Ica. He is a graduate of the National Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts of Peru (1971-1976) with honorable mention, forming the promotion "Juan Manuel Ugarte Eléspuru".
"Iqueño Expressionism" is the title of the exhibition that will be available to the public from May 25 to June 13 in the "Paracas" Room of the "Adolfo Bermúdez Jenkins" Regional Museum of Ica. Av. Ayabaca block 8°.
Miguel Angel Aybar is a painter who characterizes expressionism in Ica without a doubt. His songs speak of longing, and secret friendships with the hurango, the palm tree of Huacachina or the silent and still sand of Ica. His work is primarily characterized by color. The contrasts between the intense dark contrasted with the radiance of reds, oranges, yellows or greens, achieve a positive effect on the observer. Its warm tones reach high levels like an Ica sun at noon. However, among those quasi Servulian colors , Andean prints maintain their presence. Hats, ponchos or skirts hidden from a root bound by blood or memories.
The perfect textures of his works give him the seal, the personality that characterizes a curdled and experienced Aybar who no longer needs to dialogue with the brush; they just flow, hand and brush. When entering the exhibition hall, you do not need to read the signature, he is an Aybar. There is no room for confusion. Although there are not a few artists from Ica who use these boiling tones, and I translate it as a tribute to that Sérvulo that touches you in the depths of your being, if you are an artist and you live in Ica, you want to be possessed by the ghost of the disturbing Sérvulo Gutiérrez turned legend. Servulus still catches the spectator being absorbed, as if observing a volcano, fearing that it might erupt, but with an inexplicable delight that he stops you next to him and captures you.
However, Aybar no longer needs Servulo's shadow, he has gained an important space in the artistic world of Ica. He is an artist and a close friend of poets and musicians. Painter recognized by the Ica society and deserving of all the medals and recognitions by the different institutions. He not only paints with mastery, as Alberto Dávila predicted, when he said that his maturity would give him the position that corresponds to him. He now sings in public to the delight of his closest friends. Ica recognizes him as a son and has given him the place that corresponds to this remarkable painter whom I congratulate.
DATA ABOUT THE ARTIST
Miguel Angel Aybar Yauca, was born in 1952 in Huancavelica. He has lived in Ica since he was very young; he began his art studies at the Ica Regional School of Fine Arts. He later moved to Lima to study at the National Autonomous School of Fine Arts of Peru from where he graduated in 1976.
His teacher Alberto Dávila described him as: a restless, imaginative young man with a sober and dramatic color. His forms acquire poise and great eloquence . Aybar also had the painter Carlos Aitor Castillo...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1947 Expressionist Oil Painting Flute Player Musician Boris Deutsch WPA Artist
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
Boris Deutsch (American Lithuanian Russian, 1892-1978)
"The Flute Player," 1947
Oil paint on canvas,
Hand signed and dated upper left,
Provenance: gallery label (Pasadena Art Museu...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Orange Squares on Yellow "Spain" Stencilled Letters Mod Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Mid century modern colorful abstract with stencilled letters and number.
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Surrealist Trompe L'oeil Apples OIl Painting
By Lucien Mathelin
Located in Surfside, FL
size uncludes frame.
Lucien Mathelin, born in 1905 in Binche, A province of Hainaut, in Wallonia, Belgium, and died in 1981 in Paris. French painter. His work was influenced by surrealism andtinged with irony.
Lucien Mathelin was born in a family of artists and has benefited from artistic training since childhood. He made his first oil on canvas at the age of 15 in 1920. In 1924, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne which he became a member. He did not study plastic arts, but traveled to Morocco (1925-1926) and Greece (1933-1934), where he enriched his palette. In 1937, Mathelin worked for a while for Raoul Dufy to realize the gigantic painting...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chassidic Rabbi with Shtreimel, Rare Judaica Oil Painting Signed in Hebrew
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Judaica Art. Jewish genre scene. In the tradition of Moritz Oppenheim, Isidor Kauffman and Maurycy Gottlieb and later of Tully Filmus, Zalman Kle...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Preacher Rabbi "Der Maggid" Judaica Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Hasidic Rabbi preaching in Synagogue
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame
Country: United States
The imagery of Maurice Kish (189...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Israeli Oil Painting Modernist Impressionist Painting Farmer with Sack
By Moshe Chauski
Located in Surfside, FL
Moshe Chauski (b. 1935)
Born in Lithuania, Chauski studied at the Vilna Art Academy.
Post-graduate studies, Warsaw He received the first prize for young artists in 1953.
He immi...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Jerusalem Tower of David, Sabra, Israeli British Modernist Impasto Oil Painting
By Ruth Thomas
Located in Surfside, FL
Early modernist Israeli Judaica painting, by British mid-century artist. Israel Old City of Jerusalem scene.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Modernist Israeli Judaica Mixed Media Painting Rabbis Walking In Jerusalem
By Moshe Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Moshe Katz (Romanian Israeli), 1937- an Israeli citizen, studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, as well as at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
Although not an exponent of one dominating technique of painting, Moshe has been fascinated in recent months with the textures and expressions he is able to obtain with the pallette knife.
Picasso, Cezanne and Gaugin are his idols, and the power of Mexican art has a deep fascination for him. With elements of Folk Art combined with a sophisticated technique.
He enjoys working in clay but finds painting in oil his greatest outlet for the stories he has to tell through his pictures. In addition to an outstanding collection of books featuring the works of the great masters, his shelves are lined with texts about hypnosis. Studying about the art of hypnotizing provides him with a mental exercise far removed from his highly developed art of expressing himself on canvas. He has exhibited with the Painters and Sculptors Association in Israel, Haifa and the North along with artists: Yaacov Agam, Sela (Blaustein), Emanuel Pinhassi, Pasternak, Anna, Chaltiel, Joseph Schwartz, Nira Shemer, Aviva, Fadel, Mohamed Bishara, Sana, Menashe Kadishman, Menashe Shalhevet, Yitzchak Frumin, Moshe Rosen, Maureen
Moshe was born March 2, 1937 in Bucherest, Romania with his parents, he fled from the Nazis and after stops in many countries, reached Israel. His paintings have been displayed by Arts International...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
River Walk, American Modernist Oil Painting Landscape with River and Boats
By Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Impressionist
Subject: marine landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
Dimensions: 20X24
Donald Roy Purdy is an American painter whose work evolved through...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Gestural Abstract Expressionist Textured Oil Painting
By Rene Couturier
Located in Surfside, FL
Rene Couturier lives in the Netherlands and France. Rene Couturier is known for abstract still life, figure and landscape painting.
Rene' Couturier is an artist whose works displays...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Op Art 1971 Kinetic Oil Painting Pop Art Artist
By Josef Levi
Located in Surfside, FL
Josef Alan Levi (1938) is an American artist whose works range over a number of different styles, but which are unified by certain themes consistently present among them. Josef Levi began his artistic career in the 1960s and early '70s, producing highly abstract and very modernist pieces: these employing exotic materials such as light fixtures and metallic parts. By 1975, Levy had transitioned to painting and drawing still lifes. At first these were, traditionally, of mundane subjects. Later, he would depict images from art history, including figures originally created by the Old Masters. Around 1980, he made another important shift, this time toward creating highly precise, though subtly altered reproductions of pairs of female faces which were originally produced by other artists. It is perhaps this work for which he is most well known. Since around 2000, Josef Levi has changed the style of his work yet again: now he works entirely with computers, using digital techniques to abstract greatly from art history, and also from other sources.
Levi's works of art in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the National Gallery of Art, and the Albright-Knox Museum, among many others. Levi's art has been featured on the cover of Harper's Magazine twice, once in June 1987, and once in May 1997.
Josef Levi received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 from the University of Connecticut, where he majored in fine arts and minored in literature. From 1959 to 1960, he served to a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and from 1960 through 1967 he was in the U.S. Army Reserves.
In 1966, he received the Purchase Award from the University of Illinois in 1966, and he was featured in New Talent U.S.A. by Art in America. He was an artist in residence at Appalachian State University in 1969, taught at Farleigh Dickenson University in 1971 and was a visiting professor of art at Pennsylvania State University in 1977. From 1975 to 2007, Levi resided in New York City. He now lives in an apartment in Rome, where he is able to paint with natural light as he was unable in New York.
From 1959 to 1960, Josef took some courses of Howard McParlin Davis and Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University which initiated him into the techniques of reproducing the works of the Old Masters. His first works, created in the 1960s, were wood and stone sculptures of women. His first mature works were abstract pieces, constructed of electric lights and steel.
In 1970, Levi's materials included fluorescent light bulbs, Rust-Oleum and perforated metal in addition to paint and canvas.
By 1980, Josef Levi's art had transformed into a very specific form: a combination of reproductions of female faces which were originally depicted by other artists. The faces which he reproduces may be derived from either portraits or from small portions of much larger works; they are taken from paintings of the Old Masters, Japanese ukiyo-e, and 20th-century art. Artists from whom he has borrowed include: Vermeer, Rembrandt, Piero della Francesca, Botero, Matisse, Utamaro, Correggio, Da Vinci, Picasso, Chuck Close, Max Beckmann, Pisanello, Lichtenstein. The creation of these works is informed by Levi's knowledge and study of art history.
Josef Levi's paintings from this period are drawn, then painted on fine linen canvas on wooden stretchers. The canvas is coated with twenty-five layers of gesso in order to produce a smooth surface on which to work. The drawing phase takes at least one month. Levi seals the drawing with acrylic varnish, and then he may apply layers of transparent acrylic in order to approximate the look of old paintings. After the last paint is applied, another layer of acrylic varnish is sprayed on to protect the work.
Most of the figures in his contemporary pieces are not paired with any others.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, NY
ALBRIGHT- KNOX GALLERY, BUFFALO, NY
ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, RIDGEFIELD, CT
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, DC
BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART, BROOKLYN, NY
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY, WASHINGTON, DC
CORCORAN GALLERY, WASHINGTON, DC
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME ART...
Category
1970s Op Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil