1960s Paintings

An unusual painting by Lee Reynolds, "Horses" ca' 1960's. Oil on canvas, orignal frame, Southwestern in feeling.

Hedi Rothschild Kandel Israeli Artist (1912-2003) Portrait of Young Man Wonderful expressionist portrait. Hedi Kandel (born Rothschild) studied art in Nurenberg and medicine in Er...

A stunning oil painting on a canvas by the French artist Louis Cane, dated 1983. The painting is 130 x 104 cm and is namned "Picknick in the green". It is in excellent condition and ...

This Spanish still life oil painting captures a scene of a large bouquet of purple and blue lilacs in a brown stained terracotta vase. He is lying on a fabric, the bouquet is very h...

The Complete Work of Raphael, (1483-1520). Published in New York, Reynal & Company in association with William Morrow and Company, 1969. Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first na...

Unsigned painting by unknown artist. Made in Spain, circa 1960. Acrylic on canvas. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful...

Abstract painting by Jerry Pinsler, 1965 (American, 1928-1996) Oil on a found door. New walnut frame. Signed and dated. Absolutely stunning in real li...

A large scale vintage abstract on canvas by the noted California artist Robert Lawson, circa 1960s.

A mural sized (12 foot) allegorical diptych from a Western Massachusetts estate. According to the family, the artist attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School and received his MFA fro...

A colorful shaped op-art canvas, ca. 1960s, in the manner of Frank Stella, Al Loving, Paul Reed, etc.

Large Mid Century Modern Landscape Oil Painting Signed by Lee Reynolds. Circa 1960s Features a textured hand-painted Bohemian Landscape in earthy tones, framed with the original brus...

Executed by an American artist living in Venice, this depiction of two long distance runners, exhausted and gasping for breath at the end of the race, is a superb example of Mid Cent...

Large (5' 9" x 4' 2") 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 o...

An unusual, decorative painting by Lee Reynolds for Vanguard Studios, ca' 1960's. Floral Asian style with a real mid Century flair.

Unframed large bold, dramatic and expressive color field oil painting on canvas by Leonard Buzz Wallace. Circa 1958-65. Purchased straight from the Estate of Leonard Buzz Wallace, We...

Signed acrylic on canvas by Belgian artist Annette Robyns, working in a hard-edge geometric style rooted in 1960's and 1970's Pop Art. The composition divides across a sage green: st...

A gesticulative abstract expressionist painting on canvas, ca. 1960s, that once hung in the collection of the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles,

Abstract and expressive Collage by Tad Miyashita. Signed lower right with artists label/address on back. Collage itself 12"x12". Framed: 24 5/8" x 24 5/8...

Colorful view of Chicago from across Lake Michigan by James Sherman. Mid-sixties interpretation. Frame included in the size.

Fantastic abstract expressionist action painting. Painterly precision of layers and color. Circa 1960. Illegible signature in the lower right corner. Good overall condition with min...

Oil on Canvas Citscape in shades of Blue. Painting is from the 1960's and in nice shape. Signed Man?

60x48 Original Mid Century oil painting by Ceil Stein circa 1960s Engaging abstract expressionist piece with bold colors and nice texture Signed lower right and verso 60 inch width...

A large stunning painting from the legendary Amazonian artist Moacir Andrade "A Lenda Do Pacu" (The legend of the Pacu) Acrylic on canvas depicting a central Pacu which is a lar...

Elizabeth "Motley" Montgomery ( 1902-1993 ) a much celebrated English artist painter fashion designer scenic painter and two time Tony award winner. She received international acclai...

Artwork by Enrico Baj, Italian artist, framed silkscreen print on tiled plastic Stunning framed serigraphy of Enrico Bay Enrico Baj (31 October 1924 – 16 June 2003)[1] was an Itali...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

Sujarit Hirankul (Thai, 1946–1982) Siam (Thailand): Painted in 1969, this expressive oil on canvas by Sujarit Hirankul presents a vivid view of Siam (Thailand) through a lively rive...

Unknown Scandinavian artist. Oil on canvas. Abstract composition. 1960s. The canvas measures: 80 x 60 cm. The frame measures: 6 cm. In excellen...

A vintage abstract painting, ca. 1960s, by Stefan Lökós (1913-1994). Lökós was a Hungarian postwar artist who founded the important Studio School and Gallery in Woodstock, NY in 1954...

Willard Lindh (1918-2007), Sweden. Oil on canvas. Modernist landscape, 1960s. The canvas measures: 65.5 x 51 cm. The frame measures: 0.6 cm. In excell...

Sara Skolnik's 'Flight of Fancy' oil paint on canvas is a visual symphony of line and color. Her use of five true primary colors ( Francois d'Aguilon's yellow, red, blue, white and b...

A large 4’x6’ monochromatic abstraction in acrylic by the prominent American artist Alton Tobey (1915-2005). His New York Times obituary described him as “a muralist, portraitist and...

Sture Wickström (1921-1993) , Swedish artist. Oil on canvas. Modernist landscape. Title: "Spring". From the 1960s. Signed on the front and back. In perfect condition. Canvas dimensi...

Very large - six foot by four foot - 1960s era canvas by the American artist Charles Arcier (1914-1995). This vibrantly stylized painting perfectly captures the cool vibes and smoot...

An authentic kinetic painting, Post-Modernist, Abstract Geometric, Op-Art, composition of interlocking geometric lines in gradients of blue, white, gray and black, with a very effect...

Johann Berthelsen (1883-1972) was an American Impressionist painter, as well as having a career as a professional singer and voice teacher. Essentially self-taught as an artist, he ...

Roger MUHL (1929–2008) Title: Neige, December 1960 Oil on canvas depicting an abstract winter landscape, Neige (Snow), painted in December 1960. Signed lower right. Provenance: Pr...

Franco Cardinali created this abstract painting in 1968. The artist added different layers to the painting, creating a sense of depth through its colours and a variety of tactile te...

Abstract Modern Framed Oil Painting On Canvas. Offered is a dramatic mid-century abstract oil painting (51 inches x 53 inches) on canvas with the original simple black frame. This s...

Åke Wilhelm Andersson (1922-1988), listed Swedish artist. Oil on board. "Summer bouquet". 1960s. The board measures: 36 x 31 cm. The frame measure...

Pär Ivar Jogstad (1906-1980), Sweden. Oil on canvas. Abstract composition. Dated 1969. The canvas measures: 79 x 79 cm. The frame measures: 5.5 cm. In excellent condition. Signed...

- Signed by Knud Michel - For hang on the wall.

Original Mid Century Modern Abstract Painting, unsigned, artist unknown, probably American, circa 1960s. It measures an impressive 28“w x 22.25“h and retains its original gilt frame.

Modernist abstract painting on canvas circa 1960s. Notated on stretcher: “Shozo No. 2”.

Gösta Fougstedt (1906-1975), Sweden. Oil on canvas. Modernist composition. Dated 1965. The canvas measures: 81 x 54 cm. The frame measures: 0.5 cm. In excellent condition. Signed.

Stunning colors on this midcentury painting. Total measurement is 23 in W x 13 in x 1-5/8 in deep. Dated 1/1/1960, E Byard. Painting measurements listed below. The frame is original....

An original oil on canvas painting by Anen, ca' 1960's. Done in a charming, expressive stile the painting is very cheerful and very 1960's.

A handsome and sophisticated mixed media on canvas by American artist John Rigsby. Found in a original state of preservation. His works are few and far between. The following biography was submitted by John David Rigsby, Jr., son of the artist. The author is Lisa Rigsby Peterson, daughter of the artist, and owner of the copyright of the biography. John David Rigsby was born on October 10, 1934, the seventh child of an Alabama Depression-era sharecropper's son. He and his family moved frequently, from one one-room structure to another, often with no running water, no plumbing, no heat but the stove. His father was killed in a car accident when Rigsby was just 9 years old. Life for the remaining eight family members proved tumultuous and difficult -- food wasn't plentiful, nor money. The family moved from place to place, following work -- Rigsby attended 30 different schools before graduating from high school. Despite living in poverty, Rigsby demonstrated academic and artistic aptitude at a young age. Two oil paintings on covers ripped off of old books that he painted when he was eight years old show the promise of an imaginative and gifted eye. Rigsby was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1953. As he later wrote, "When basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, was over, I was told to go out and find a job. Jasper Johns was painting visual aids for the 28th Regimental Headquarters. He suggested the Band Training Unit." Rigsby played the clarinet in that unit, and after 2 years of service, he enrolled at the University of Alabama on the G.I. Bill to study art. After just two years, he left school and followed his mentor (and one of the greatest and longest-lasting influences on his art), Japanese artist and U of A art instructor Tatsu Heima, to New York City. Heima introduced him to Isamu Noguchi and suggested that Rigsby work as Noguchi's assistant. Instead, Rigsby chose a job as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, since "the notion of seeing all of that art appealed more to me than the boring task of studio assistant." The opportunity was a rich one for Rigsby. He had a chance to study the masters, and cited Rembrandt with his simplicity and elegance as another of the most important influences on his work. In the years between 1957 and 1963, when Rigsby eventually earned his BFA in sculpture, the artist traveled back and forth between New York and Tuscaloosa, alternating study with forays into the fertile New York art scene. Rigsby exhibited some of his early sculpture work in 1958 at a small New York gallery, which was also exhibiting the work of Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Theodore Stamos. Shortly thereafter, searching for an educational venue closer to New York City, Rigsby visited New Haven, Connecticut, and spent an afternoon speaking with Josef Albers at Yale. Albers agreed to accept Rigsby into the Yale program on the condition that he take freshman drawing all over again. A brilliant opportunity, but, in Rigsby's words, "When it was time to register, I was hitchhiking back to Alabama, looking for food and shelter." Rigsby had his first one-man show at the University of Alabama in 1959. A visiting critic from New York, J.F. Goosen, reviewed the show and wrote "here is a talent which produces art because that is the thing for a gifted person to do. In his effortless ease of conception and execution, he has already achieved a goal that eludes many artists for a lifetime." Finally, in 1963, Rigsby received his degree in sculpture, dissolved a short-lived marriage, visited his family, packed up his car and headed permanently for New York. That year, his work was included in a group show at the Delgado Museum in New Orleans - which led to a one-man exhibit at the Delgado in 1964. During 1964, Rigsby took drawing classes at Columbia University, and worked at the General Post Office at night. He met his future wife, Linda Palmieri, and married. In 1965, his daughter Lisa was born, followed in 1966 by the birth of his son, John David Jr. In 1966, Rigsby had a successful one-man show at the Pietrantonio Gallery in New York. Shortly thereafter, he and the family moved to Tunis, Tunisia at the suggestion of a colleague, who urged him to "come paint by the light of Klee." Rigsby worked for the United States Information Agency as a teacher, and he spent the next year and a half painting over ninety paintings inspired by the smells, light, and Phoenician and Roman art surrounding him. He also executed a number of character and landscape drawings, capturing the Tunisian way of life. During his time in Tunisia, Rigsby's work was shown there in two major exhibits. Upon the family's return to the U.S. in 1968, Rigsby once again exhibited at the Pietrantonio Gallery. Later that year, Rigsby enrolled in Southern Connecticut State College's Urban Studies program, earning a master's degree in 1970. During his time at SCSU, Rigsby worked as the city of Bridgeport's Curator of Exhibits, driving a mobile art gallery from schools to neighborhood fairs and housing projects. After completing his degree, Rigsby had an exhibit at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia. This exhibit caught the attention of a member of the search committee looking to hire an artist for a newly-developed program in neighboring South Carolina. In 1970, Rigsby was selected as the first Artist-in-Residence in the state of South Carolina for the National Endowment for the Arts Artists in Schools program. His work with the newly-integrated students at Beaufort (SC) High School over the term of his residency precluded substantial work on his own art. He did, however, set up a studio in downtown Beaufort, and was able to create a modest number of paintings, which were included in exhibits at the Columbia Museum in South Carolina in 1971 and Yale University in 1973. At the end of his residency in 1974, Rigsby was named the National Visual Arts Coordinator of the Artists in Schools program for the NEA, a post he held for two years. In this position, Rigsby traveled the country, reviewing grant applications, meeting with state leaders in government, education and the arts to promote program concepts and explore local opportunities. The message he repeated over and over again echoed that of one of the other major influences on Rigsby as an artist - Ruth Asawa Lanier, whose words taught him that all of the work that the artist does is the artist's work, not simply the paintings he creates. In his capacity as National Coordinator, as well as many times in the future, Rigsby stressed that artists function in the same way as any other person in society, and deserved the same respect and place for their work as did all other professions. After two years traveling the country, Rigsby was ready for a change, saying "for the first time in my adult life, there was not a body of paintings to show for the years put into my work." In 1976, a summer retreat to the mountain community of Central City, Colorado, led to a permanent relocation. Eventually settling in the small town of Evergreen, Rigsby followed his own advice about artists becoming actively involved in their communities, and he established the Evergreen Visual Arts Center. The Center provided working space for artists, classes for adults and children, and, most importantly, a place for Rigsby to create his own work. Buoyed by the opportunity to concentrate once again on his art, and inspired by his new surroundings, Rigsby entered an extremely prolific period in his career. In 1977, he organized a traveling exhibition of his paintings, which showed at the Kimball Arts Center in Utah, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Arvada Center in Colorado. 1978 brought more exhibits, notably in Aspen and Denver, as Rigsby's work continued. He took an extended trip to visit his mentor, Tatsu Heima, in Japan, where he climbed Mt. Fuji, followed by travels to Tehran, Delhi, and several European countries. He chronicled his impressions from his travels in a small collection of paintings upon his return to the U.S. - the beginning of a practice which would continue through the rest of his life. In 1979, Rigsby's marriage failed, and at the same time he lost the lease to his Evergreen studio to redevelopment plans. In response to the personal chaos around him, Rigsby began a series of what he called "hard-nosed process paintings," the watercolor paintings of dots which marked his work from this period. The paintings gained him an NEA Individual Artist grant in 1980, as well as a Yaddo fellowship in 1981. The polka dot paintings were followed by a series of cupcake-like images, again examining space and color. During the early 1980s, Rigsby lived in a suite of old dentists' offices in a rundown part of Denver, with a studio in an area that reminded him of the Bowery in New York. In 1984, Rigsby founded the Progreso Gallery in the building where he lived, using the space both to show his own work and also to mount shows of the work of many Colorado artists. The gallery also served as a focal point for Denver's local arts community, hosting weekly discussion groups and classes. In 1984, Rigsby traveled to the Baja Peninsula and then in 1985 to Yugoslavia. After each sojourn, Rigsby returned to create vibrant and explosive paintings based on his experiences, showing them at his Progreso gallery and another alternative gallery in Denver, the Edge Gallery. The economic recession of the mid-eighties hit the art market and Rigsby hard, however, and although he continued to create new works of art, major exhibitions were difficult to come by. In 1987, Rigsby decided to leave Denver and spent six months in Barcelona, Spain. It was an electrifying trip for him. Rigsby wrote of that time: "The streets alone are a visual feast, and the additions of museums from Saarinen, Picasso and Miro to 12th century icons produced artistic indigestion. My paintings are always about the way things look and feel. Barcelona was a time machine extending those sensory and emotional concerns back to the Middle Ages. I felt the need to reduce my work to essential elements of color, scale, drawing and format. The [resulting] color studies speak eloquently for themselves, and in doing so, redefine all of the work I've done in the past 35 years of painting." Rigsby completed over a hundred paintings while in Barcelona - color studies, street portraits of the characters he encountered on a daily basis, and a number of dark landscape paintings. He found time to run with the bulls in Pamplona, and began writing stories about his adventures that were later published. Upon his return to Denver in 1988, Rigsby continued to explore the alter egos of the color studies - he concentrated on a series of dark paintings, all prominently featuring back. He commented about these black paintings that he " decided it was time to explore the perception of the eye and physical space as defined by low -light conditions…I find these paintings elegant, joyous and light-filled, with no feeling of heaviness at all." In mid-1988, Rigsby moved permanently to Houston, Texas, where he would spend the last five years of his life. Once in Houston, Rigsby made a discovery that would serve as the inspiration and material for some of the last works of his career. In 1989, he discovered a salvage yard filled with scrap rubber, and he began working on black rubber sculptures, as well as paintings with rubber elements incorporated. He made strong connections in the Houston alternative arts scene, and became a regular contributor and art critic for a local weekly newspaper, The Public News. From 1989 through 1992, he exhibited his sculptures and paintings at Houston's Brent Gallery, Fountainhead Gallery, and Blaffer Gallery. He also produced an installation of his rubber sculptures on the roof of the Diverse Works Gallery in Houston. 1992 also marked Rigsby's return to Denver when he exhibited his sculptures at the Payton-Rule Gallery in Denver, leading to an Absolut Rigsby commission by Carillon Importers. The 1990s were a tremendous struggle for Rigsby, with financial crises compounded by physical trauma (he accidentally sawed off the top joint of the index finger of his left hand while working in his studio). Although his work was being shown, it wasn't selling, and the tremendous financial pressure he felt weighed heavily upon him. He spent an increasing proportion of his time going to flea markets and garage sales, rehabilitating and repairing the things he bought there, and then re-selling them simply to raise enough money to keep a roof over his head. He had little time to paint or sculpt, the things in life that had always, no matter what the circumstances, brought him joy. Rigsby's final works were a series of intricate paintings and drawings on used books that he purchased at the flea market. Most of these drawings, which he referred to as sculptural form drawings, were executed on page after page of science texts, music books, and a Korean bible and fill hundreds of pages. Additionally, Rigsby created an exquisite book he titled 28 de los Angeles, in which his twenty-eight simple and elegant drawings of angels resonated with the influence of Rembrandt he had so admired in his early days. In a sense, Rigsby's final works, art created on used books which were the only materials he could afford, brought his work and life full circle from his childhood days. Rigsby's life, though begun and ended in adversity, was nonetheless illuminated and enriched by the irresistible impulse he had to create art and beauty. John David Rigsby was killed in a one-car accident in Colorado in August, 1993. Biography from the Archives of askART Following is a review by Michael Paglia of the artist's July 2004 retrospective at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. It was submitted by John Rigsby, Jr., son of the artist. There's a magnificent retrospective at Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art devoted to the work of the late John David Rigsby, who was a major powerhouse in Colorado's art scene. "Dots, Blobs and Angels" surveys more than forty years' worth of the remarkable artist's paintings and sculptures. The year 1993 was strange, and by that I mean terrible. Many of the city's galleries closed because of bad economic times, and then the artists started dying. In a matter of a few months, Denver lost three significant artists: Rigsby, experimental photographer Wes Kennedy...

A striking Cubist French painting, dated 1968, that embodies the dynamic energy of postwar European abstraction. The composition is dominated by bold geometric forms, intersecting li...

Abstract figurative painting, oil on fiberboard, signed Zeitner, dated 1963.

This surrealist work by listed French artist Jean Pierre Clement depicts a female portrait of a woman with a geometric blue headdress and one expos...

A large, Mid-Century Modern abstract painting featuring beautiful brown, yellow, and beige hues in varying intensities. This piece has a dark brown wood frame with a gold trim. Sign...

Leo Russell Painting on Canvas. Abstract Painting dated 1962 with an original simple wood frame. Nice colors and composition. Russell was born in Chicago but made his home in the ...

Mid-20th century Modernist artwork birds abstract watercolor on paper Saul Steinlauf. Signed Steinlauf Steinlauf was active in southern California ...

1960s oil on canvas abstract painting signed 'Reynolds'. This large scale artwork features a bright white ground with vivid yellow, orange, red and pink textured palette knife detail. See the obituary for Lee Reynolds Burr...

Unknown Swedish artist. Oil on canvas. Modernist landscape. Dated 1963. The canvas measures: 67 x 38 cm. The frame measures: 5.5 cm. Signed. ...

Oil by Vidal Jimenez, Spain, 1960. Pop art.

Early Steven Sles oil on linen painting circa 1964. Sles was a mouth painter with very limited use of his hands. He was also a student of Hans Hoffman. This example has a wonderful l...

Striking mid-century abstract oil painting attributed to K. Braught, dating to the 1960s. This dynamic composition features richly layered pigments in vibrant tangerine orange, golde...

Engraving showing Napoleon on the deck of his ship preparing to surrender. His officers stand nearby. Under the image reads "From the painting by the late Sir W Q Orchardson R.A.". M...