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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...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Acrylic

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

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Pastel

Ladies Dancing in the Park, Lush Green Landscape, Early 20th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Marie Martelli-Chautard (French, 1884-1982) Afternoon in the Park Oil on panel Signed lower right 47 x 31 inches 52 x 36.5 inches, framed
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Early 20th Century Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

Night-watch
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Bunnies on Black Diamond Dust
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2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Skinny Dippers, 20th Century Landscape, Swimming Family, Italian Artist
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981) Skinny Dippers Oil on board Signed lower right 15.5 x 20 inches 21.25 x 25.5 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small village only a few miles from ...
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1960s Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Walrus Oil Painting, 20th Century Magical Realism Artist, Cleveland School
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977) Walrus Oil on paper Signed lower right 29.25 x 24.5 inches 34.75 x 30 inches, framed Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explored the unrea...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

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

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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

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Oil

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

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Oil

Audrey Kiss
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Black Outline BUNNY Pink
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2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Hombre Blues
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Multicolor outline Bunny, Multicolor Ombre
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2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

Coastal Scene, 20th Century Seascape, Cleveland School Artist
By George Adomeit
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Gustav Adomeit (American, 1879-1967) Coastal Scene Oil on canvas Signed lower left 19 x 23 inches 21.5 x 25.5 inches, framed A major painter of American scene subjects, Georg...
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20th Century American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

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

Materials

Watercolor

Violet Ascension Weaver
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Black Outline / White Butterflies, Metallic Gold, Light Pink Scored
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2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Winter Water, Large Seascape of Point Lobos, Monterey, California Shore
By Ferdinand Burgdorff
Located in Beachwood, OH
Ferdinand Burgdorff (American, 1881-1975) Winter Water, c. 1930 Oil on masonite Signed lower left, titled verso 40 x 46 inches 43 x 49.25 inches, framed Written Verso: Along the Pac...
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1930s Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

Annunciation
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Black Outline, White Butterflies, Gold Scored
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2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

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

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Gouache, Graphite

Lagoon I
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Multiples Bunnies on Light Diamond Dust
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2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Amazons
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Green Birds on Branches / Yellow Scored
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2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Naranja
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Amazon Parrot Birds on Orange with Scoring
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2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Meditation on African Sculpture, mid-century figural abstract painting
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Beachwood, OH
Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993) Meditation on African Sculpture, 1957 Oil on found wood panel Signed and dated lower left 20 x 15 inches Charles Elmer Harris...
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1950s Modern 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. 1980 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas 30 x 34 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of th...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

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

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Oil

At the Stable, Landscape Scene with Horse and Jockey
By Joseph O'Sickey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013) At the Stable, 2000 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 29 x 36 inches Joseph ...
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Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

Mayan, Large 20th Century Watercolor, Viktor Schreckengost
By Viktor Schreckengost
Located in Beachwood, OH
Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906-2008) Mayan Watercolor heightened with gouache over pencil on paper Signed lower right 39 x 29 inches 45.5 x 35.5 inches, framed Registered with The Viktor Schreckengost foundation, stock no. 6891 The son of a commercial potter in Sebring, Ohio, Viktor Schreckengost learned the craft of sculpting in clay from his father. In the mid-1920s, he enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art, or CIA) to study cartoon making, but after seeing an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art he changed his focus to ceramics. Upon graduation in 1929, he studied ceramics in Vienna, Austria, where he began to build a reputation, not only for his art, but also as a jazz saxophonist. A year later, at the age of 25, he became the youngest faculty member at the CIA. In 1931, Schreckengost won the first of several awards for excellence in ceramics at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and his works were shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, and elsewhere. By the mid-1930s, Schreckengost had begun to pursue his interest in industrial design. For American Limoges...
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20th Century Art Deco Cleveland - Paintings

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Gouache, Watercolor

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

Over and Above: No. 6, Surreal Cat w/ Fish Bones, 20th Century Cleveland School
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904–2000) Over and Above: No. 6, 1963 Oil, sand & fish bones on canvas Signed and dated upper left 53 x 31 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achie...
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1960s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

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

Torre di Tiberio, Tower of Tiberius, Capri, Italy Landscape, Cleveland School
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torre di Tiberio, 1951 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 21 x 18 inches 28.5 x 26.5 inches, framed Clarence Holbrook Carter ac...
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1950s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

Flower Garden, Cape Cod, Mid-Century Cleveland School Painting
By Carl Frederick Gaertner
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carl Frederick Gaertner (American, 1898-1952) Flower Garden, Cape Cod, c. 1940s Gouache on illustration board 17.5 x 29 inches 27 x 39 inches, as framed Carl Gaertner was one of the greatest painters to emerge from the Cleveland School...
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1940s American Realist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Gouache

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

Eye of the Desert, Figural Abstract collage, Surrealist Black & Brown painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Eye of the Desert, 1965 Collage, graphite and gouache on paper Signed and dated lower right 16 x 12 inches 25 x 21 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 - Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Graphite

7 Tangled in Blue (Amazons)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Green Birds / Blue
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tournesal Portrait, 20th Century Sunflower Still Life
Located in Beachwood, OH
Barry McCuan (American, b. 1945) Tournesol Portrait Oil on canvas mounted on panel Signed lower right, signed, and titled verso 10.25 x 8.25 inches 13 x 11 inches, as framed Barry ...
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Late 20th Century Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Torso No. 3, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Acrylic Painting, Ohio artist
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torso No. 3, 1967 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated lower right 13 x 9 inches 21 x 17 inches 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 - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Double Focus II Mid-Century OpArt Abstract Geometric painting, Cleveland school
By Julian Stanczak
Located in Beachwood, OH
Julian Stanczak (American, 1928-2017) Double Focus II, 1963 acrylic on canvas signed and dated verso 33 x 40 inches Julian Stanczak (American, b. November 5, 1928) was an American ...
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1960s Op Art Cleveland - Paintings

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Acrylic

Blue Wall, mid-century abstract expressionist, geometric blue, black & pink work
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Blue Wall, c. 1959 oil on canvas signed and titled verso 42 x 60 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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1950s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

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 - Paintings

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Acrylic

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...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

Horses Prepared to Perform and Circus Truck, Contemporary American Modern
By Joseph O'Sickey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013) Horses Prepared to Perform and Circus Truck, Circus Series, 1991 Oil on canvas Signed an...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

Hunting Cissa Fishers
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Birds Yellow
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Cleveland - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Over and Above Surprise (Serpent), 1960s snake painting, Cleveland School
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Over and Above Surprise (Serpent), 1967 Casein on board Signed lower right 7.75 x 5.5 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a lev...
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1960s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

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Casein

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 - Paintings

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Oil

Frosty Dawn, Upstate New York, 20th century American modern watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Frosty Dawn, Upstate New York, c. 1916 Watercolor and gouache on board Signed lower right 21 x 30 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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1910s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

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

Mid Century Modernist Watercolor Landscape with Horse, Cleveland School
By William Sommer
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Sommer (American, 1867–1949) Spring Beauty Watercolor on paper Signed lower right 12.5 x 17 inches 18 x 22.75 inches, framed William Sommer is seen as a key person in bringi...
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Mid-20th Century 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

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 - Paintings

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Oil

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 - Paintings

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Pastel

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

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Ink, Acrylic

Transection No. 3, Ovoid Geometrical Figural Abstract Neon Acrylic Painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Transection No. 3, 1972 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated upper right 30 x 22 inches Provenance: Collection of William H. Milliken Cl...
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1970s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

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Acrylic

Horseback Riders in Sunny Landscape, 20th Century, Cleveland 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) Horseback Riders Pastel on brown paper Signed lower left 9.5 x 12.5 inches Joseph O'S...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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Pastel

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

Still Life with Apples and Skull, Figurative Oil Painting by Ohio Artist
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Still Life with Apples, 1940 Oil on canvas Signed and dated upper right 18 x 24 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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1940s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

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Oil

Hillside and Stream, early 20th century modernist Cleveland School painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964) Hillside and Stream, 1916 Gouache on paper Signed and dated lower right 22 x 18 inches 25.5 x 21.5 inches, framed A graduate of the Cleveland Schoo...
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1910s American Modern Cleveland - Paintings

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Gouache

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

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Oil

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 signed lower right 24 x 20 inches 25 x 21 inches, framed Richard Andres was born in B...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Paintings

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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

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Acrylic, Graphite

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

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Pastel, 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

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