Ruth Unterman "Friends" Signed 1957 Oil Painting Art

Landscape painting oil on canvas Signed Pulliam This painting measures: 30 wide x 1 deep x 30 inches high This painting is in Good Vintage Condition with missing glass and mino...

Signed sailboat seascape mid century oil painting on canvas This piece measures: 37.5 wide x 1.5 deep x 25.5 inches high Excellent vintage condition We take our photos in a ...

Landscape tree painting oil on canvas signed Pulliam This painting measures: 30 wide x 1 deep x 30 inches high This painting is in great vintage ...

Bruce Myers Mid Century Signed Original Oil on Canvas Painting This painting measures: 30.5 wide x .75 deep x 15.5 inches high This painting is in Good Vintage Condition. We take ...

Both sober and dense lyricism characterize this oil painting by artist Ruth Selwitz, punctuated by a rich palette of colors that converse with each other, resting silently but overla...

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...

Painting by Swedish artist Tore Nyberg. Oil on canvas made in 1957. Signed and dated. Good condition with sign of age related wear. Tore Nyberg, 1911-1993, was a Swedish artist. B...

This evocative oil on board painting by Roger Hayward, an esteemed mid-century Californian artist known for his architectural prowess, portrays the impos...