Expressionist Oil Painting by New York Artist Arnold Weber, D. 1970

Abstract oil (24" x 20") by Norman Gorbaty (b. 1932), circa late 1950s. Gorbaty was a young artist in his 1920s when his work was included in a 1954 show of American printmakers at t...

A dynamic and large scale abstract expressionist canvas signed Moses, dated 1975.

Modernist abstract painting circa 1960s by Worcester, Mass, born artist Phillip Callahan, (1918-1991). Callahan was a student at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the es...

Mid-century abstract expressionist oil on canvas by the noted Massachusetts artist Martha Moore (1907-1982). Moore was perhaps best known for her much rep...

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...

This original painting was done by the well known Canadian-American Rolph Scarlett, dating to approximately 1950 and done in his Non-Objective Modern style. This abstract painting is...

Mexican modern mid 20th century abstract art style of Pedro Coronel Colorful Oil on Canvas painting signed Gustavo. Unable to read last name of artist. ...

A nice brownish hued abstract painting by the noted artist Arnold Weber (1931-2010). The abstract is in a strip frame which has marks scratches and some minor losses. It is signed an...