Plywood Paintings

Eye catching abstract modern oil on canvas painting by Willy Zuber, Switzerland 1961. This small but very attratctive piece of art is oil painted on canvas and newly framed in a blac...

Black Joe Jackson (American, 1922 – 1997) Nikis Fortuns Acrylic painting on board Signed to the lower center Measurements: 26.25 inches wide x 19.50 inches high x 1 inch proje...

Oil on board. “Italian landscape” Signed and dated "Benaglia 1963" Italian artist Ernico Benaglia Original frame In 1969 Enrico Benaglia he showed for the first time at the Roman ga...

Figurative painting by Robert R. Bliss (1925-1981) of an idealized adolescent male model wearing a white briefs bathing suit. The painting is oil on a sheet of wood luan. The board is set within a slim frame made of oak, the lower corners of which are loose. The board and frame are similar wood tone so the effect is attractive and nearly seamless. Signed lower right and is faintly dated 1965. Provenance: purchased at Childs Gallery, Boston, MA circa 1966, thence by descent. Robert Ryel Bliss was born on October 30, 1925 in Newton, Massachusetts. He attended school at Bowdoin College, Maine, and was drafted into military service during World War II. At that time, he started to create his first figurative paintings, which were self-portraits. After his discharge, Bliss studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and with Carolyn Wyeth in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He became a protégé of Andrew Wyeth who designated Bliss as one of the most promising artist of the year in a Look magazine article on up and coming artists from November 24, 1959. Wyeth said he (Bliss) "has a chance for bigness. While he is still searching, his work shows vitality, (and) is not just sterile technique." In 1951, he became the Artist-In-Residence, teacher, and gallery director at Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts until 1963. In 1964, he settled in Hull, Massachusetts, where he befriended and studied with the artist Samuel Rose (1941-2008). In the following years, he created most of his body of work, which he sold through local galleries and gift shops. Later in life, he turned to colorful landscapes as well as psychedelic visionary paintings. Robert Bliss...

Albert Elia oil on wood 1960s Art Deco figural painting. Albert Elia oil on board. Elia was a professor at Parsons and the New School in New York during the 1960s. This painting depi...