Fritz Chwala Oil Painting

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"...

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...

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...

Wonderful painting by listed Russian artist Moisey "Moses" Alexandrovich Feigin and dates form 1988. The painting is featured in a hardbound book about this artist. One of the last s...

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. ...

Fritz Sollner – Shepherd SKU: QR06 cm40 x cm30 without frame cm52 x cm42 with frame oil on canvas – 1947 It is a quiet summer day and a young shepherd, after having led the herds to...

Enchanting mid century Haitian oil painting on board depicting boats and people in a bayscape executed in an unusual modern minimalist style. Signed F. Lamothe, presented in mahogany...

Beautiful impressionist oil painting signed Fritz Douzette (1878-1955) Very beautifully painted impressionistic painting, view of a port city under a blue sky. Signed lower left ...

Desensitized Fritz Proctor is an American Painter from Niagara Falls, New York. Fritz acquired his BA in Studio Art from the University of Buffalo. H...

Fritz Thomsen (1819-1891), Danish painter. Painting of forest scene near the shoreline of Hesnæs, on the Danish island of Falster, 1878. Oil on canva...

Night vision Fritz Proctor is an American painter from Niagara Falls, New York. Fritz acquired his BA in Studio Art from the University of Buffalo. Hi...