William Fett Sirrealist Abstract Landscape Oil Painting

Mid 20th century oil on board landscape painting by William Thon, titled "Olive Trees," No. 850. Shows an abstract expressionist forestscape with black trunked trees with green and white leaves over a golden forest floor. Signed lower right corner. Rustic wood frame with red stained recessed bevel and white linen mat. Labels on reverse from Midtown Galleries (New York, New York), Frost Gully Gallery (Portland, Maine). Exhibited at The Ogunquit Museum of American Art (Ogunquit, Maine) - "Creative Lives" July 1 - September 30, 1996. "William Thon (1906-2000) was an American artist noted for highly abstracted landscape paintings. He debuted as a professional artist in 1939 at the Corcoran Gallery Biennial* exhibition. He was born in New York City in 1906, and spent his childhood summers camping on Staten Island. He also developed a great love of travel, and in 1933 made an eight-month voyage to the Cocos Islands in the Pacific. He joined the Navy during World War II, and shortly after the war won the Prix de Rome*, a fellowship in Rome to the American Academy,* which he later served as trustee. Recognition for him continued with his participation in the 1942 "Artists for Victory" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art*, and in 1944, Midtown Galleries in New York held his first one-person show. This gallery then continued to be his representative throughout his career. He had subsequent solo exhibitions at Smith College Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum and Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine. He earned an honorary Doctor of Arts from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1957, and was a member of The American Academy* and Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as the National Academy of Design*. In 1947, the year-long study at the American Academy proved highly influential on his career, especially with him beginning to paint as much with watercolor as oil. Returning to America, he submitted a watercolor into the 1949 exhibition of the National Academy of Design, and that year was voted into Academy membership. From thereon, he exhibited frequently at the Academy and won prizes including the Benjamin Altman Prize* in 1951, 1954, 1961, 1967 and 1969. In 1951, Thon received a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also taught painting at Ohio University, and painted aspects of the Apollo Space...

A large oil on canvass depicting an stylized, almost abstracted to the basic organic forms, landscape. Beautiful harmonic colors with an interesting poetic design. Signed illegibly a...

William Morehouse [1929-1993] was a Bay Area painter who was renowned for his work in both Abstract Expressionism, as well as plein air landscapes, mostly done in a style known as Ab...

William McCloy, borned in China and moved to US in 1926 and started his studies in Iowa in 1930.This is a nice modern style landscape also he is known by abstractions and commissione...

Mid 20th century oil on board landscape painting by William Thon titled "Mountain Town, Calabria," No. 841. Shows a sweeping abstract expressionist landscape featuring the white stucco buildings of a town perched on the green and gold hills of Calabria, Italy, with a backdrop of blue mountains melding with the sky. Signed lower right corner. Label on reverse from Midtown Galleries (New York, New York). Rustic wood frame with red stained recessed bevel and white linen mat. "William Thon (1906-2000) was an American artist noted for highly abstracted landscape paintings. He debuted as a professional artist in 1939 at the Corcoran Gallery Biennial* exhibition. He was born in New York City in 1906, and spent his childhood summers camping on Staten Island. He also developed a great love of travel, and in 1933 made an eight-month voyage to the Cocos Islands in the Pacific. He joined the Navy during World War II, and shortly after the war won the Prix de Rome*, a fellowship in Rome to the American Academy,* which he later served as trustee. Recognition for him continued with his participation in the 1942 "Artists for Victory" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art*, and in 1944, Midtown Galleries in New York held his first one-person show. This gallery then continued to be his representative throughout his career. He had subsequent solo exhibitions at Smith College Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum and Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine. He earned an honorary Doctor of Arts from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1957, and was a member of The American Academy* and Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as the National Academy of Design*. In 1947, the year-long study at the American Academy proved highly influential on his career, especially with him beginning to paint as much with watercolor as oil. Returning to America, he submitted a watercolor into the 1949 exhibition of the National Academy of Design, and that year was voted into Academy membership. From thereon, he exhibited frequently at the Academy and won prizes including the Benjamin Altman Prize* in 1951, 1954, 1961, 1967 and 1969. In 1951, Thon received a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also taught painting at Ohio University, and painted aspects of the Apollo Space Program...

"""Javelin"" by William Metcalf, 1986 William Metcalf (Born 1945) is active/lives in California. William Metcalf is known for Abstract paintings, three-dimensional. "