1970's Fred Terna Modern Abstract Artwork

1970S bronze wall decoration mounted on smoked lucite panel

Abstract charcoal drawing by Miriam Kubach, American, circa 1960s. Similar to works by Louise Bourgeois from the same era. It is executed on paper and has been professionally framed ...

Excellent example of a large oil on canvas abstraction by Fred Hocks from 1957. This painting was included in the 1976 retrospective at the Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego which later became the San Diego Museum of Art. No painter embodies San Diego’s early avant-garde more than Fred (Ferdinand) Hocks, a German-born painter who began visiting San Diego in the late 1920s after studies at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco and the Art Students League in New York. Fellow painter Dan Dickey credited Hocks in 1947 with “opening up pathways for future, more enlightened generations (of artists),” and predicted that Fred Hocks would be “esteemed a master.” During the post-war years Hocks was assistant director of the San Diego School of Arts and Crafts, a private art school in La Jolla, and was instrumental in keeping affordable artist’s studios in Spanish Village. Along with modern architect Lloyd Ruocco, Fred Hocks co-founded the dynamic Allied Artists Council with Belle Baranceanu, Everett Gee Jackson, Dan Dickey and John Olsen. The well-travelled Hocks exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Paris, Mallorca and Guadalajara, had several one-person shows at the Art Center La Jolla/La Jolla Museum of Art and at the Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA). The San Diego Museum of Art held a major retrospective of his painting in 1976, just a few years before his death. He brought a continental element to the local art scene and is described in Bruce Kamerling’s 100 Years of Art in San Diego as “one of the most adventurous local artists…an intelligent and articulate defender of modern tendencies in art.” Local arts and architecture writer James Britton called Fred Hocks “the dean of the San Diego moderns...

Selection of Modern Artwork, circa 1920s-1960s. Perfect to start or add to your gallery wall. All are priced at $375 each. They are: Top row, left to right, 1) Paul Cezanne etching entitled "Portrait of Painter Guillauman with William Hanging" measures 10.5" H x 8.5" W. 2) Portrait of a big eyed...

Vibrant vintage print in bold greens in a graphic almost silhouette-like style. Gives Milton Avery vibes with a nod to pop art and Scandinavian...

Art; Artwork; Painting; Steel; E. Hennekens; Signed; Expressionist; Abstract and colorful painting on steel that dates back from the '70s. We have more artworks by E. Hennekens avai...

A black and white abstract painting, New York, 2015. The unsigned artwork/painting is on a wood canvas which can be positioned or hung by any of its sides giving the piece four diffe...

Informal abstract modernist painting signed by German artist Walter Wohlschlegel (1907-1999). Painted circa 1970s, this piece is untitled and is painted on hardboard. Here Wohlschleg...

Vintage Medium Size Mid Century Modern Woven Textile Framed Abstract / Folk Wall Art. Circa 1970s Features a handwoven abstract geometric pattern in a e...

Contemporary Indonesian sliced and pieced textured paper in abstract undulating design. Mounted in plexiglass box.