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Ablaze, Ovoid Faces Looking Through Geometrical Windows
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Ablaze, 1973-79 Acrylic and collage on scintilla Signed and dated lower left 30 x 22 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract...
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1970s American Modern Cleveland

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Acrylic

The Happy Couple, Mid Century Surrealist Fantasy Landscape by Ohio artist
By Mary Spain
Located in Beachwood, OH
Mary Spain (American, 1934-1983) The Happy Couple Oil on canvas Signed middle right, signed and titled verso 22 x 26 inches Set in a realm of fantasy, Mary Spain’s work exhibits oddly distorted figures in a child-like manner with an underlying sense of absurdity. Through her toylike and primitive style, Spain created surrealistic dramas that puzzle and entrance the viewer. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Mary Spain studied art at Syracuse University and moved to Ohio in the 1960s to teach art at Chagrin Falls...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Cleveland

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Oil

Women's Corner, Along the Cuyahoga River, Early 20th Century Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Women's Corner, Along the Cuyahoga River, c. 1916 Watercolor and graphite on paper 21 x 29 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery. In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College. Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country." Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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1910s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Watercolor, Graphite

Vegetable Still Life No. 2, Contemporary watercolor by Ohio trompe l'oeil artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Mauersberger (American, 20th Century) Veg 2, 2004 Watercolor on paper 9 x 12 inches 13 x 16 inches, framed George Mauersberger completed th...
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Early 2000s Photorealist Cleveland

Materials

Watercolor

Two Owls, 20th Century Purple & Green Owls
By Joseph O'Sickey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013) Two Owls Oil on board 15 x 10.5 inches Joseph O'Sickey, born in...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Abstract expressionist, white and yellow mid-century modern geometric painting
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) White & Yellow, c. 1953 oil on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 30 x 20 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Torso No. 5, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Acrylic Painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torso No. 5, 1967 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated upper right 25 x 20 inches A mid-century figural abstract painting. Clarence Hol...
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1960s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Cliffs near Paramé, France, vibrant seascape & landscape watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Cliffs near Paramé, France, c. 1926-7 Watercolor on paper Signed lower right 11 x 14.5 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters". In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art...
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1920s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Watercolor

Ovoid, geometrical figural surrealist acrylic painting, Cleveland School artist
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Ovoid, 1992 Acrylic on canvas Signed and dated lower right 7.75 x 7.75 inches 9 x 9 inches, framed Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a...
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1990s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Pink Ascension Now
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
This is an original work by world famous artist Hunt Slonem.
Category

2010s Modern Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Turkeys in the Trees, Early 20th Century Farm Landscape Watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Turkey in the Trees, c. 1922 Watercolor on paper Signed lower right 22 x 29 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a mast...
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1920s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Watercolor

Strong Tea, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Matthew Dibble
Located in Yardley, PA
My paintings do have a story to tell although it does not lie in each piece but in the process of abstract expressionism. As an artist I think about scale, unity and color. I'm not t...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Garden, Abstract Expressionist Mid-Century Modern geometric work
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Garden, 1972 acrylic on canvas signed, dated and titled verso 59.5 x 50 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Entr'acte - Mid-Century Ovoids in Theatre - Geometrical Abstract Pastel
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Entr'acte, 1977 Pastel on board Signed and dated lower right 8 x 10 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting. Clare...
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1970s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Pastel

Gowge, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
The paintings worked on within this period (end of 2020 to the spring of 2021) return to my "paint is more" technique which I can best describe as not starting with a particular visi...
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2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Double Ovoids, Mid-Century Blue & Black Figurative Abstract Ovoids
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Double Ovoids with Blue and Black, 1960s Acrylic on scintilla 15.25 x 12.25 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting....
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1960s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Panama Garden, Mid-century abstract expressionist modern work
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Panama Garden, c. 1964 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 46 x 38 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Golden, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Rich primary colors combine to make and abstract Buddha. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Han...
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2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Seeing Egg, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic painting, Figural Abstract
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Seeing Egg, c. 1960s Acrylic on textured paper 30 x 22 inches 38.5 x 30.5 inches, framed A surrealist mid-century figural abstract pai...
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1960s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Magic Garden, vibrant mid-century abstract expressionist colorful geometric work
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Magic Garden, c. 1962 oil on canvas signed lower left, signed and titled verso 50 x 42 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 19...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland

Materials

Oil

City Scape, Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Green & Brown Structures
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) City Scape, 1978 Acrylic on scintilla Signed and dated lower right 30 x 22 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting....
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1970s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Departing from the System, Mid-Century Geometrical Abstract Mixed Media
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Departing from the System, 1961 Mixed media on paper Signed and dated lower right 36 x 24 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abst...
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1960s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Mixed Media

Shore V, large colorful red, black & blue mid-century abstract expressionist
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Shore V, c. 1964 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 54 x 44 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

The Gold Coast, Mid-Century Pastel Pink & Green Painting of Ovoid, Miami
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) The Gold Coast, 1979 Collage and acrylic on scintilla Signed and dated lower right 22 x 30 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a...
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1970s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Torso No. 1, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Acrylic Painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torso No. 1, 1967 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated upper right 15 x10 inches 24 x 20 inches, framed A mid-century figural abstract painting. Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
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1960s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Camp, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Brown and rust collide with red to create a warm composition. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready t...
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2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Vetriculus, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic painting, Figural Abstract work on paper
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Vetriculus, c. 1970s Acrylic on paper 4.5 x 3.5 inches 11 x 10 inches, framed A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting. Cl...
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1970s American Modern Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Expanding Mandala, Black and Orange Abstract Oval Mid-Century Painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Expanding Mandala, c. 1970s Acrylic on scintilla 23 x 30 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success...
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1970s Abstract Cleveland

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Acrylic

Refract Midwest, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Deep blue floats above a dry brush color field composition. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to...
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2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Man with Feather in His Cap 20thc Figural Abstract Cleveland School Woman Artist
By Mary Spain
Located in Beachwood, OH
Mary Spain (American, 1934-1983) Man with Feather in His Cap Mixed media Signed lower right, signed and titled verso 11.5 x 7.75 inches 19.25 x 15.25 inches, framed Set in a realm o...
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Late 20th Century Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Montalvo #15, Marvin Jones Figural Abstract painting, Cleveland Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Marvin Jones (American, 1940-2005) Montalvo #15 Oil on panel board Signed verso 29.25 x 20.25 inches Marvin Jones was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, bo...
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Late 20th Century Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Corner Store Candy, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
A petite painting that reminds me of growing up in the late 1980's. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: ...
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2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Big Spin, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Lava, Sky, Electric, rinse, and repeat. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed:...
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2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Early 20th Century of Two Nude Women in Paris, Cleveland School Artist
By John Teyral
Located in Beachwood, OH
John Teyral (American, 1912-1999) Nudes, Paris, 1938 Watercolor on paper Signed, dated and titled lower right 20 x 13 inches 29.5 x 22.5 inches, framed John Teyral was one of Clev...
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1930s Cleveland

Materials

Watercolor

Fresh Tour, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Matthew Dibble
Located in Yardley, PA
"My paintings do have a story to tell although it does not lie in each piece but in the process of abstract expressionism. As an artist I think about scale, unity and color. I'm not ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Pitter Splatter, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Layers and layers of paint lay base to geometric patterns giving up primitive heart. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed b...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Unconscious Knowledge, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Inaccessible to the conscious mind behavior and emotions acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. :: Painting ::...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Solid White Gold Akoya Pearl Drop Earring Studs
By Wesley Kloss Fine Jewelry
Located in Cleveland, OH
The Vis Viva Drop Earring is an evolving modern statement. Akoya pearls are the heart of these earrings, offering lustrous opalescent reflections in the light. Meaning “Living Force”...
Category

2010s American Contemporary Cleveland

Materials

Cultured Pearl, 14k Gold

Flophouse, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Matthew Dibble
Located in Yardley, PA
My paintings do have a story to tell although it does not lie in each piece but in the process of abstract expressionism. As an artist I think about scale, unity and color. I'm not...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Zones, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Abstract landscape. Bright Primaries and hard contrast bring together a unique composition. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity s...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Amazons
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Green Birds on Branches / Yellow Scored
Category

2010s Contemporary Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Lipstick by Guy Boudro
Located in Cleveland, OH
Lipstick by Guy Boudro
Category

2010s Pop Art Cleveland

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Mellow - Diptych (Two Paintings), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Deep blue contrasting muted yellow in this two painting composition. Hang separate or together. Two 11"x14" paintings. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official c...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Dueling Franz - Diptych (Two Paintings), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
I have recently been studying the artist Franz Kline and produced this art to get closer to his process. Two black and white paintings can hang separate or together. :: Painting :: A...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Armored Mind, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Matthew Dibble
Located in Yardley, PA
My paintings do have a story to tell although it does not lie in each piece but in the process of abstract expressionism. As an artist I think about scale, unity and color. I'm not t...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Indigo River Diptych (Two Paintings), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Flowing indigo ink and white dry brushing. Two unique matching contemporary paintings. Each piece 11x14. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Key To The City, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Inspired by the masters of expressionism, this painting filled by the ghosts of Pollock, Mitchell, and Johns. I listened mostly to The Pixies while working and had thoughts of the early the Philidelphia graffiti days. This piece will add style and pop to any home, apartment or suave restaurant. Obsessed with art and photography from the age of five, Robert Musser received a scholarship to Youngstown State University in 1993 from the Ohio Arts Council where he majored in Graphic Design and Marketing. While at YSU, he began to paint under the tutelage of Al Bright, Susan Russo, and Phil Chan...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Young Seated Woman in Pink Dress & Bouquet of Flowers yellow red blue green rose
By Luigi Corbellini
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Lovely painting - Unframed
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Cleveland

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Decimated to Nil, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Joey Thate
Located in Yardley, PA
Planet Breaking Belief. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signatur...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Watermark, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Ink and acrylic swirls in symmetrical composition with curricular motions. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the art...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Mute Fraction - Diptych (Two Paintings), Mixed Media on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Gray on paper adds scaffolding for flowing actions. Two 11"x14" paintings. :: Mixed Media :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the a...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Mixed Media

Grey Moons - Diptych (Two Paintings), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Two grey moons float above a textured sky. Two 11"x14" paintings. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Rea...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Vegetable Still Life No. 10 Contemporary watercolor by Ohio trompe l'oeil artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Mauersberger (American, 20th Century) Veg 10, 2004 Watercolor on paper 9 x 12 inches 13 x 16 inches, framed George Mauersberger completed t...
Category

Early 2000s Photorealist Cleveland

Materials

Watercolor

Pink Construction 1, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Bright, yet grungy, messy, yet complex. Mixing inspiration from artists such as Basquiat, Richter, and Pollock. Finding order in the mess and exploring the boundaries of the medium. ...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Converted Classic, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Matthew Dibble
Located in Yardley, PA
“My paintings do have a story to tell although it does not lie in each piece but in the process of abstract expressionism. As an artist I think about scale, unity and color. I’m ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Oil

Sea Lines, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Yellow/orange and teal. Shape reduction and texture in a striking composition. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the ...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

The Bluest Spring on the High Hill, Mixed Media on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Monotone blue collage with simple paper shapes and distressed dry brush acrylic. :: Mixed Media :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Mixed Media

Rustic Pink Pansies - Diptych (Two Paintings), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Two 10"x10" paintings. Abstract study of pink pansies in planter. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Rea...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Snow Day - Diptych (Two Paintings), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Two 8"x10" paintings. Textured grey backgrounds float an interesting white scraped structure. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticit...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

Pink Camper 2, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Bright, yet grungy, messy, yet complex. Mixing inspiration from artists such as Basquiat, Richter, and Pollock. Finding order in the mess and exploring the boundaries of the medium. ...
Category

2010s Abstract Cleveland

Materials

Acrylic

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