Steven Sles City Landscape Oil on Linen Painting, 1957

Early Steven Sles oil on linen painting circa 1955. Due to his Cerebral Palsy, Sles used his mouth to paint his works and studied under Hans Hoffman. This work mixes thick texture an...

Textured oil on linen painting by Steven Sles, circa early 1960s. Sles was handicapped and used his mouth to paint. He studied under Hans Hoffman. This ex...

Steven Sles studied under Hans Hofmann and went on to have an illustrious career as a painter and poet. He had cerebral palsy and shook so much that he taught himself how to paint wi...

Steven Sles studied under Hans Hofmann and went on to have an illustrious career as a painter. Sles had cerebral palsy and taught himself how to paint with his mouth. This early wor...

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...

Rick Tubbax Flemish Landscape Oil on Linen, Belgium, 1950s. Beautiful and well painted landscape, oil on linen, by Belgian artist Rick Tubbax. Thick and fiercely painted with lots o...

This 160 cm by 160 cm mixed-media large-scale painting is a piece by Jewish-Mexican painter, Alex Lazard. Lazard plays with the material load that he uses in this piece. Using asp...

Lester Stevens born Rockport Massachusetts. Trained with Edmund Tarbull. Helped establish the Rockport Art Association with Aldro Hibbard and Harry Vincent. He taught art at Princeto...