Large Modern Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas

Painted in the USA around the 1970s, this painting features warm tones of deep green and pale white and yellow on a backdrop of warm white and light teal. An pleasant combination of ...

A vintage wall sculpture created by a Philadelphia artist in 1950s. It features copper panel construction with a silver lacquer finish. Very goo...

Painted in the USA around the 1970s, this painting features great color tones of burnt orange, pale orange, off-white, and grey on a backdrop of pale dark blue and white. Painted in ...

A very large and super cool, 1960s, oil on canvas abstract painting signed by Lee Reynolds. Colors are white, gray, brown, black and yellow. 49" tall x 61" wide, with the original po...

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...

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...

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

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...