R. E. Smith 1960 Abstract Oil on Canvas

Vintage festive abstract oil on canvas with a simple lathe frame bu Barbara Tuch.

Midcentury abstract oil painting on canvas. Colorful Mid-Century Modern abstract impasto oil painting on canvas. This stunning square ...

Oil painting is composed of vibrant orange tones mingled with neutral brown and grey tones. Verso is titled and signed illegibly. Canvas measures approximate 20 inches squared in height and width. Signed original artwork, abstract Modernist art...

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...

A very colorful oil on canvas painting by French painter Alain Boyer. Professionally framed. Alain Boyer is a self-taught French painter, established at the Maison des Artistes s...

Midcentury Texas Abstract Oil on Canvas by Gary Minkert. Gorgeous abstract oil on canvas by Gary Minkert titled "Paths In Space", circa 1959. J.Gary Minkert, "MINK," (10 June 1910-22 July 1969) was a Texas artist, sign painter...

Intriguing abstract painting by acclaim Russian artist Alexander gore, oil Painting on canvas and is frame in shadow box with glass for protection. Signed and dated by the artist. Ce...

An Enigmatic Abstract Oil Painting. This captivating abstract oil on canvas painting, attributed to the Barcelona artist C. Azuelos, invites the viewer on a journey of interpretati...

'Celebration of Colour' finished in 2020, reflects the contrasting nature of colour in spring. Using a spatula rather than a paint brush Wittig layers the paint creating surface tens...

Abstract painting by Antonio Ferri.