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Item Ships From: Cleveland
Rockport Seascape, Shoreline, Italian American Artist Louis Bosa
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905, 1981) Rockport , 1971 Oil on Masonite Signed lower right, signed, dated and titled verso 10 x 16 inches 17 x 23 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small ...
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1970s Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

20th Century Figural Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting by Woman Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Lucile E Lundquist Blanch (American, 1895 - 1981) Abstract Oil on panel Signed lower right 10 x 8 inches 17 x 15 inches framed Painter and lithographer Lucille Linquist Blanch, born in Hawley, Minnesota in 1895, was, by her mid-thirties, already represented by a number of paintings in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. She would receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933. She studied at the Minneapolis Art Institute during World War I, 1914 to 1918, with fellow students Harry Gottlieb...
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20th Century Abstract Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mandala No. 15, Abstract Ovoid Geometrical Mid-Century Painting Cleveland School
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Mandala No. 15, 1969 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated verso 27.5 x 22 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national ar...
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1960s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled Mid Century Abstract Oil Painting New York Artist
By John Opper
Located in Beachwood, OH
John Opper (American, 1908 - 1994) Untitled, 1959 Oil on board Signed and dated lower right 14.75 in. h x 18 in. w. 20 in. h. x 24.5 in. w., as framed John Opper described the 1930s...
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1950s Abstract Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

White Stone Surrealist Painting, Late 20th Century, Cleveland Female Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Sally Lachina (American, 20th Century) White Stone, 1994 Acrylic on canvas Signed and dated lower right, signed, dated and titled verso 42 x 42 inches Sally Lachina is an American a...
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1990s Surrealist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Resin Flight
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Multicolor Butterflies, Blue Sparkle on Resin
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2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rain Garden II, Contemporary Figural Abstract Landscape, New York Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Cathy Diamond (American, 20th Century) Rain Garden II, 2023 Pigment dispersion and acrylic on paper Signed lower left, signed and dated verso 11 x 14 inches Cathy Diamond currently ...
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2010s Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Pigment

Macaws July
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Multicolored Parrot Birds (Macaws) on Branches on Multicolored Surface
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2010s Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Blue Rhapsody
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Bunnies Blue
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid-20th Century Venetian Canal Cityscape, Italian-American artist
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981) Venice Canalscape, c. 1950 Oil on board Signed lower right 11.75 x 21.75 inches 19.75 x 29.75 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small village only ...
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1950s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rhapsody Blue
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
White Blue Outline Bunny, Blue Diamond Dust
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2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Right, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
This piece has "Richter" style smears in bright paint with a muted shrapnel grid overlaying the saturated field. It's one of my favorite smaller paintings I have done. The feel is ve...
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2010s Abstract Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

20th Century Interior Still Life with Chair and Flowers pastel & oil painting
By Joseph O'Sickey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013) Interior Still Life with Chair and Flowers Pastel and oil on gre...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Oil

L. S. F. vibrant abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 L. S. F., 1980 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas signed lower right, dated and titled verso 48 x 65 inches 48.75 x 65.75 inches, framed R...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

Finsevand Norwegian Glaciers, Early 20th Century Winter Landscape, Cleveland Art
By William Eastman
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Eastman (American, 1881-1950) Finsevand Norwegian Glaciers, 1922 Oil on canvas 21 x 18 inches Exhibited: 1923 Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Born in Cleveland in 1881, Wil...
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1920s Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bighorn Sheep, 20th Century Oil Painting by Magical Surrealist, Cleveland School
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977) Bighorn Sheep Oil on paper Signed lower right 25 x 30.5 inches 30.5 x 36 inches, framed Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explored the un...
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20th Century Surrealist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio Watercolor
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 1929 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated lowe...
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1920s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Mandala No. 5, Blue Abstract Ovoid Mid-Century Painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Mandala No. 5, 1968 Acrylic on scintilla Signed on verso 29.5 x 22 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artist...
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1960s Abstract Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Continue To Marcus, 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. ...
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2010s Abstract Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Early 20th Century Landscape with Covered Bridge, Female Cleveland School Artist
By May Ames
Located in Beachwood, OH
May Lydia Ames (American, 1863-1943) Landscape with Covered Bridge Oil on canvas Signed lower left 9.75 x 8 inches 14.5 x 13 inches, framed May Ames was born in Cleveland in 1863 an...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 Untitled, c. 1984 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas signed lower right 19 x 16 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 192...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

Bison, 20th Century Oil Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
By Harvey Gregory Prusheck
Located in Beachwood, OH
Harvey Gregory Prusheck (Slovenian/American, 1887-1940) Bison Oil on board Signed lower right 9.5 x 11.5 inches 16.5 x 18 inches, framed Harvey Gregory Prusheck was a Slovenian-Amer...
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20th Century American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Studio Stove, Colorful Cubist Oil painting, Cleveland School female artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964) My Studio Stove, 1936 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right, titled verso 23.5 x 19.5 inches 29.75 x 25.5 inches, f...
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1930s Cubist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fog at Sunset, Early 20th Century Evening Mountainous Landscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
Raymond Nott (American, 1888-1948) Fog at Sunset Pastel on paper Signed lower left 18.5 x 23.5 inches 25 x 30 inches, framed Raymond Nott was an American pastelist and painter, very...
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Early 20th Century Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Pastel

20th Century Industrial Cityscape Oil painting, Cleveland School Artist
By Joseph O'Sickey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013) Industrial Cityscape Oil on paper Signed lower left 13.75 x 16.5 inches Joseph O'Sicke...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Startled Woman, 20th Century Monumental Oil Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Robert Brooks (American, 1922-1992) Portait of a Startled Woman Monumental oil on canvas Signed lower right 80 x 42 inches Born in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1922, Robert Brooks embarked on his art career by winning modeling clay as a reward for good attendance at primary school. He became known for embellishing the margins of his school books with sketches of his friends and maybe teachers. He operated his own sign making business as a teenager, which supplied little money but lots of experience. Brooks also entered every poster and drawing competition in sight. Saturday morning classes at the Swain School of Design provided him with sound instructions in the principles of art, and as a high school senior in 1941, Brooks was awarded a scholarship to Boston's Vesper George School of art in a annual state-wide competition. During this year in Boston, he specialized in design, color and the theater arts and discovered "watercolor" as his favorite medium. At the end of his year Brooks was awarded a scholarship to continue by the Vesper George School but returned to New Bedford before the second year was out in order to work in the design department of a large textile printing concern. He was called to serve his country and after basic training, casual detachments and port of embarkation, he made his own private beachhead on New Caledonia in 1943, where he served as staff artist for The South Pacific Daily News. Brooks painted sketches and watercolors of the local scene during his daytime off-duty hours and won fast acclaim for his crisp, clean paintings...
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20th Century Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

I Know I'm Paranoid by The Connor Brothers
By The Connor Brothers
Located in Cleveland, OH
I Know I'm Paranoid by The Connor Brothers
Category

2010s Modern Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Oil, Acrylic, Giclée, Screen

Aegean Temple, Dystopian Surrealist Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
By John Teyral
Located in Beachwood, OH
John Teyral (American, 1912-1999) Aegean Temple, 1966 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 25 x 34 inches John Teyral was one of Cleveland's most acclaimed artists. He exhibite...
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1960s Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Scrub and Pines, Early 20th Century Landscape, Cleveland May Show Exhibition
By William Grauer
Located in Beachwood, OH
William C. Grauer (American, 1895-1985) Scrub and Pines, 1929 Oil on canvas Signed lower right 18 x 20 inches 24.5 x 26.5 inches, framed Exhibited: Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show ...
Category

1920s Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Venetian Canal, Early 20th Century Landscape Scene, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Venetian Canal, c. 1910-11 Tempera on board Signed lower right 24 x 30 inches 30 x 36 inches, framed Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, ...
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1910s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Melrose Hutch
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
This is an original work by world famous artist Hunt Slonem.
Category

2010s Modern Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Over and Above: Kangaroo, Mid-Century Figurative acrylic painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Over and Above: Kangaroo, c. 1960s Acrylic on paper, mounted on matte board Signed lower right 14 x 5 inches 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 - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

The Wood Chopper, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) The Wood Chopper, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1917 Oil on masonite 33 x 24 inches "We were fortunate in that the two farms in Brecksville were still open to our visits. The urbanization of the township was then only beginning and we spent several summers there where I tried to capture something of the rural peace so soon to be erased from the countryside." - Wilcox Exhibited: “Water Colors and Oils by Frank N. Wilcox,” Cleveland Museum of Art, January 1937. 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...
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1910s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

In and Out, mid-century figural abstract vibrant yellow geometric painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) In and Out, 1963 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated lower right 22 x 30 inches Figural abstract vibrant yellow geometric painting. Cl...
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1960s Abstract Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Interior, large, colorful figural abstract red, orange, blue acrylic of couple
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Interior, 1976 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 50 x 59.5 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 - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas 12 x 10 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Instit...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

Transection w/ Architectural Forms, Geometrical Figurative Abstract Acrylic
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Transection with Architectural Forms, c. 1980s Acrylic and graphite on board 12 x 20 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract ...
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1980s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Graphite

Air Chamber, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Collage, Anatomy & Ovoids
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Air Chamber, 1965 Collage, graphite and gouache on paper Signed and dated upper left 30 x 22 inches Provenance: Descended through the family. 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 - Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Graphite

Untitled Black & White Abstract Painting, CoBrA Movement
Located in Beachwood, OH
Theo Wilhelm Wolvecamp (Dutch, 1925 - 1992) Untitled Oil on canvas Signed and numbered 21 verso 15.75 x 19.75 inches Theo Wilhelm Wolvecamp was a Dutch artist and member of the COBRA group...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

20th Century Seascape Sailing the Norfolk Broads in England
Located in Beachwood, OH
Charles Mayes Wigg (British, 1889-1969) Sailing the Norfolk Broads Oil on canvas Signed lower left, signed and inscribed verso 12 x 16 inches 16 x 20.5 inches, framed Charles Mayes Wigg was a British landscape artist working mostly in watercolours and as an etcher, with only occasional paintings in oils. The Norfolk coast and scenery of the Broads gave him the subjects for his work, and his etchings were mostly of boats. He exhibited regularly at the Norwich Art Circle between 1909 and 1936, at the Royal Academy in 1915 and also with the British Water-colour Society. Wigg was born in Nottingham, England on 13 January 1889. The eldest son of Mayes Wigg, a bank manager, and Agnes Wigg (formerly Sudbury), he grew up at Watton and Cromer in Norfolk and was educated at Gresham's School. In 1911, he arrived at the Norwich School of Art and later studied with Frank Spenlove-Spenlove at his Yellow Door School of Art in Beckenham, Kent. During the First World War, Wigg served with the British Army and saw active service at Gaza. In 1916, he was invalided out of the army with severe leg injuries, and was left with a disability for the rest of his life. Returning to his career as an artist and illustrator, he subsequently found life afloat easier than life on land and for many years lived and painted in a house-boat on the Norfolk Broads. He also had studios at The Thatched House, Brundall, his parents' home, and at Rose...
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Mid-20th Century Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pieces Collage, vibrant mid-century abstract. expressionist black, pink & red
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Pieces Collage, c. 1965 collage on paper 14 x 18 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 designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art. The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery. In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting. Andres described himself as a 1950’s...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Erie Shore, Large Abstract Expressionist Mid-Century Modern geometric work
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Erie Shore, c. 1975 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 50 x 72 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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1970s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Acrylic

Mid-20th Century Magical Realism, Surrealist Painting, Cleveland School Artist
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977) Untitled Oil on panel Signed lower right 30 x 18 inches 39.25 x 27.25 inches, framed Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explored the unrea...
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20th Century Surrealist Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

On the Back Porch, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Regionalist Scene
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) On the Back Porch, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1922 Watercolor on paper Monogram lower right 21.5 x 27. 5 inc...
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1920s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

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Watercolor

Mirror, abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 Mirror, 1984 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas signed lower right, dated and titled verso 12 x 12 inches Richard Andres was born in Buff...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 Untitled, c. 1980 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas 12 x 10 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of th...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

Cicada, Mid-century Figural Surrealist Cleveland School Painting, 1960s
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Medieval Heads, 1966 Acrylic on scintilla Signed and dated upper right 23.5 x 30 inches Clarence Holbrook...
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1960s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

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Watercolor

Driftwood & Fish, Mid-20th Century Magical Realism, Surrealist Cleveland Artist
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977) Driftwood and Fish Oil on panel Signed lower right 9.25 x 23.5 inches 14 x 28.25 inches, framed Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explore...
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20th Century Surrealist Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

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...
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2010s Abstract Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

The Fisherman, 20th century Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Schock (American, 1913–1976) The Fisherman, c. 1955 Oil on canvas Signed lower right 26 x 40 inches 34 x 48 inches, framed William Schock was...
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1950s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

Two Wagons, Bucks County, PA 20th Century Farm Landscape
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905–1981) Two Wagons, Bucks County, PA, 1934 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 20 x 24 inches 30 x 34 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small villag...
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1930s Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

The Sun, 20th Century Magic Realism Painting by Cleveland School Artist
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977) The Sun Oil on masonite Signed lower right, titled verso 14 x 21.5 inches 20.75 x 28.25 inches, framed Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He ...
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20th Century Surrealist Cleveland - Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

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 - Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
RICHARD ANDRES American, 1927–2013 Untitled, c. 1950 oil on canvas signed lower left 10 x 7 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Clevelan...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

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 - Paintings

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Acrylic

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 - Paintings

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Acrylic

Cathedral in Venice, large 20th century oil painting, Italian-American artist
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981) Cathedral in Venice Oil on canvas Signed lower left 60.25 x 40.25 inches 66.5 x 46.5 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small village only a few mi...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

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 - Paintings

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Oil

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