"17 NVB 12" Oil on Canvas by Richards Ruben

View Similar Items

Oil on Canvas by Luziano

17th Century Roman Landscape Painting Oil on Canvas by Bloemen

Oil on Canvas by Evelyne Luez.

Art Deco Tropical Oil Painting, Ruben Kupur

Gathering of Manna, Oil on Canvas, 17th Century

17th Century Spanish Oil on Canvas Depicting a Queen

17th Century Still Life Oil Painting On Canvas

17th Century Oil Painting On Canvas Depicting Agonizing

Oil on Canvas Signed V. Madec ? Dated on the Back 12.2.77

Oil Painting on Canvas by Sharon Ross

Oil on Canvas by Zhi Hwing

Landscape by River, Oil on Canvas

Want more images or videos?

Request additional images or videos from the seller

1 of 9

"17 NVB 12" Oil on Canvas by Richards Ruben

About the Item

This dramatic abstract oil on canvas by Richards Ruben was deaccessioned from LACMA's permanent collection. The canvas features unusual beveled edges, and is signed and titled on the back of the canvas, along with LACMA's gallery tag. From LACMA's artist bio: During the 1950s Richards Ruben was a major exponent of abstract expressionism in California. After serving in the army during World War II, he studied in Los Angeles at Chouinard Art Institute, in Santa Monica with RICHARD HAINES, and in Pittsburgh with Samuel Rosenberg (1896-1972). Ruben began teaching in 1948, first in Pennsylvania and from the 1950s in Southern California, at Chouinard, 1954-61, the University of California, Los Angeles, 1958-62, and other institutions. After moving to New York in the early 1960s, he taught at the Cooper Union, Columbia University, and New York University. Solo exhibitions of Ruben’s work have been organized in California by the Oakland Art Museum, 1957, and the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1970, and by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1974 and 1976. He has received many awards, including a Tiffany grant and fellowships from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, the Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ruben’s first mature paintings of the 1950s, often derived from landscape and twisting body forms, exhibit a muscularity of shape and a sensuosity of paint as well as an interest in calligraphic line. In the next decade Ruben began to incorporate symmetry and eventually a geometric order into his art and became increasingly concerned with the interrelationship of pure paint and perception; by the 1970s his paintings consisted of lightly colored, highly impastoed surfaces into which linear configurations were etched.

Creator:
Richards Ruben (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 71 in (180.34 cm)Width: 56 in (142.24 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Canvas
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1960-1969
Date of Manufacture:
1962
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. This painting has been professionally cleaned and varnished .
Seller Location:
Palm Desert, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: 14101079772328