2003 Ben Pritchard Brooklyn New York Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panels

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...

Original Ken Joaquin abstract oil painting. Listed artist. Beautiful frame colors. Painting is of a car and is on board. Overall measurements framed: 25.5"...

Nude portrait oil on canvas by Hungarian/American artist Pal Fried. Excellent overall condition in period frame with a light vertical scratch line running along the lower middle as s...

Beautiful abstract oil painting by California Listed Artist Robert Kaess, and dates from 1971. The painting is on masonite board and is of the ocean and cliffs. Probably from Norther...

Outstanding landscape impressionist oil painting by California listed artist Jeanette Le Grue. The painting is of a beach trail with a city in the background. Possible Santa Barbara?...

Great original mixed media abstract oil painting by listed female artist Mil Lubroth and dates from the 1960's. Wonderful design and comes in its original silver painted wood frame. ...

"Love" is part of a larger series or oil paintings on wood panel created by Erich J Davis between 2003-2004. The artist typically uses available materials for his works as in this p...

A very colorful oil on canvas painting by French painter Emanuelle Forq, a graduate from Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Professionally framed. Measures: 2" D x 38 1/2" W x...

Mid-Century Modern oil painting, 1940s cityscape, "Bedford at Lafayette, Brooklyn". Oil on masonite. Signed King Rich. In vintage modernist frame.

Exceptional oil painting of of street view of the old city in Jerusalem. Edward Philips, Ben Avram (born 1941) is an artist who was born in Bombay, India ...

E.B. Savage, New Jersey / New York city street scene, oil on canvas painting signed and dated 1953. Housed in an attractive cove molded frame. Image: 17.75"H x 25.75"W.

Italian male nude oil painting on wood panel, circa 1930. Stunning and unusual framed Italian male nude oil painting on a wood panel. This Italian A...