1960s Paintings

An original watercolor painting by American artist Wes Olmsted depicting an abstract landscape view.

Surrealistic oil painting landscape of comet by listed San Francisco, California artist Eleanor Perry (American, 1928-2014). Signed "Eleanor Perry" and dated "1968" on verso. Unfram...

Sunil Das - Early Horses VIII - 18.5 x 29 inches (unframed size) Charcoal on Paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmoder...

Signed lower right and dated & titled verso. Enrico Donati, a surrealist and abstract expressionist painter, was born in Milan, Italy in 1909 and died in Manhattan on April 25, 2008. He was known for his association with the surrealist movement of the 1940's, but his artwork continued to transform itself through the many trends that have occurred during his long career. In Italy he attended the Universita degli Studi in Pavia where he studied economics. In 1934, he moved to the United States settling in New York where he studied at the New School for Social Research and the Art Students' League. Considered the surviving dean of the Surrealist Movement and a member of the New York School, Donati painted with Ernst, Matta and Tanguy in the thirties and forties, and in particular with Andre Breton, regarded by many to be the grand master of Surrealism. He helped organize the Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme in Paris in 1947 where he exhibited three of his pieces. The Surrealists were known to avoid presenting or representing reality, and put the emphasis on invention and creativity by uncovering the poetic aspect of life with its kaleidoscopic multidimensional images, using reality only to enhance imagination. Donati survived the decline of Surrealism in the late 1940's by adapting his style to current art trends as he worked with new materials and textures throughout the 1950's. One trend with which he became involved was Abstract Expressionism, which originated in the 1940s, and became popular in the 1950s. It was a movement in which artists typically applied paint, rapidly and with force, to large canvases, in an effort to show feelings and emotions. Paint might be applied with large brushes, sometimes dripping or even throwing it onto canvas. Abstract Expressionist work is characterized by a strong dependence on what appears to be accident and chance, although it is actually highly planned. Donati held a retrospective at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1961 and went on to exhibit at the Betty Parsons Gallery with other forerunners of American Abstract Expressionism: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Jackson Pollock. It was at this time that Donati created some of his most inventive and extraordinary work, some of which was featured in a survey exhibition at the Alter & Gil Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, in January 2000. He has held many teaching positions and has been an active lecturer, while continuing to add to his artistic repertoire. From 1960 to 1962 he was a Visiting Lecturer at Yale University, and from 1962 to 1972 a Member of the Yale University Council for the Arts and Architecture. He has had seventy-five one-man shows, among them an exhibit of new paintings at the Maxwell Davidson Gallery (57th St., New York) in the fall of 1997. Donati's work is held in collections throughout the world, and his work has appeared in over 300 articles and publications, two hard cover books...

Artist: Stanley Sobossek, American (1918 - 1996) Title: City Street Year: circa 1965 Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed Size: 43 x 34 inches [109 x 86 cm]

Clarice Akin Holloway (1905-1989) Port Arthur Artist Image Size: 20 x 16 Frame Size: 28 x 24 Medium: Oil Circa 1960s "Retired Ballerina" Biography Clarice Akin Holloway (1905-1989) Mrs. Richard B. Dell Holloway Port Arthur Painter, teacher. A native of Port Arthur, Holloway graduated from nearby Lamar College, Beaumont, with honors. She received instruction or criticism on various occasions from Otis Dozier, Frederic Taubes, Elliott O'hara, Henri Gasser, Ted Schuyler, Fred Samuelson, Boardman Robinson, Morris Davidson...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984) He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, returning to New York when he was 20. From 1913 to 1916, he enjoyed a scholarship from the Art Students League, and worked with John C. Johansen (a portraitist whose expressive style resembled that of John Singer Sargent), and Anders Zorn. He accepted a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1916, remaining there until 1921. This enabled him to travel to Europe to study Cézanne’s paintings and works of the Old Masters. He traveled to Paris, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, and Munich seeking the works of Titian, Cranach, Rembrandt, Veronese, and Holbein, which gave him new perspective. Vytlacil studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, settling there in 1921. Fellow students were Ernest Thurn and Worth Ryder, who introduced him to famous abstractionist Hans Hofmann. He worked with Hofmann from about 1922 to 1926, as a student and teaching assistant. During the summer of 1928, after returning to the United States, Vytlacil gave lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on modern European art. Soon thereafter, he became a member of the Art Students League faculty. After one year, he returned to Europe and successfully persuaded Hofmann to teach at the League as well. He spent about six years in Europe, studying the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Dufy. In 1935, he returned to New York and became a co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. He later had teaching posts at Queens College in New York; the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California; Black Mountain College in North Carolina; and the Art Students League. His paintings exhibit a clear inclination toward modernism. His still lives and interiors from the 1920s indicate an understanding of the art of Cézanne. In the 1930s, his works displayed two very different kinds of art at the same time. His cityscapes and landscapes combine Cubist-inspired spatial concerns with an expressionistic approach to line and color. Vytlacil also used old wood, metal, cork, and string in constructions, influenced by his friend and former student, Rupert Turnbull. He eventually ceased creating constructions as he considered them too limiting. The spatial challenges of painting were still his preference. During the 1940s and 1950s, his works indicated a sense of spontaneity not felt in his earlier work. He married Elizabeth Foster in Florence, Italy, in 1927 and they lived and worked in Positano, Italy for extended periods of time. Later on, they divided their time between homes in Sparkill, New York and Chilmark, Massachusetts, where Vyt, as he was affectionately called, taught at the Martha's Vineyard Art...

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1969 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his bold still life paintings, with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout. Art measures 21.75 x 18 inches Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City. Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.” By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett...

"Red" is an original acrylic stain painting by Faith Taylor-Lund. The artist stained the canvas she was working on with a blood-red acrylic paint. 66" x ...

A dreamlike landscape by Winifred Lucy Shaffer (American, 20th Century). Signed lower right; signed and titled on verso. Displayed in wood and giltwood frame. Image, 22"H x 24"L. W...

Sunil Das - Horse I - 11 x 9 inches (unframed size) Pastel on Sand Paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist paint...

Signed lower left, 'Helen Hafer' (American, 1913-2003) and with artist label verso. This listed California artist, Hafer studied at the Chouinard Institute in Los Angeles, and privately with Harry Emerson Lewis. A member of the Palm Springs Art Association, Desert Art Center in Palm Springs, Whittier Art Association, Orange County Art Association and the Laguna Beach Art...

Large scale and dramatic, ""Langostina, an abstract painting by Harold Black (American, 1913–1993). Signed lower right and on verso. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 40”H x 22”W. ...

James Douthitt Wilson (1903-1973) Fort Worth, Dallas, San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 30.5 x 36.5 Medium: Oil on Masonite Please view my 1stdibs store front for other Great Vintage Texas Paintings...

An original modern impressionist painting by American artist Chuck Fee Wong depicting the Willis Avenue Bridge on the Harlem River.

French painting of modern figure in satirical pose by artist Raymond Bailly, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sl...

Sunil Das - Horse - 11 x 9 inches (unframed size) Pastel on Sand paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist painter...

An original modern American impressionist painting by Chuck Fee Wong.

Biography Velox Ward (Born 1901) Texas Artist Velox Ward "Clean Up Time" East Texas (Born 1901) Texas Artist Size: 8 x 10 Frame: 10 x 12 Medium: Oil "...

Boyer Gonzales Jr. (1909-1987) Austin Artist Image Size: 18 x 24 Frame Size: 19 x 25 Medium: Oil 1960 "Landscape Fragment II" Biography Boyer Gonzales Jr. (1909-1987) Boyer Gonzales Jr, a noted painter and teacher in Texas was born in Galveston, Texas and raised in family homes in both Galveston and Woodstock, New York. He attended Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania and in 1931 graduated with a degree in architecture from the University on Virginia. During the summers while at the university he studied with his father in Woodstock. After graduation he returned to Woodstock and studied under Henry Lee...

Wonderful mid century landscape titled "Late Afternoon in Novato" by Ted Lewy (American, 1912-1963). Presented in a rustic wooden frame. Signed "Ted Lewy" and dated "1962" lower righ...

Artist: Willering Epko, French (1928 - ) Title: Untitled Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 15 in. x 18 in. (38.1 cm x 45.72 cm)

Open door by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Doris first achieved recognition as an Abstract Expressionist painter, primarily known for stone carving as well as abstract fema...

Energetic abstract expressionist watercolor painting of large black and orange splatters done by Norman Bluhm in 1962. Signed and dated in lower left corner. Hung in a black and gold...

Landscape, Woodstock, NY 1963. Archived No. D153, 16"X12.5"; 41x32 cm.; oil on canvas. Signed lower right . Rarely does one discover a worthy artist who works alone and unheralded....

Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - ) Title: Blue Dress Year: circa 1962 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.l. Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 38 x 32 inches

EMILIO GRAU SALA Spanish, 1911 - 1975 LE PETIT DÉJEUNER DANS LE JARDIN signed Grau Sala (lower left) oil on canvas 25-3/4 X 32 inches (65.5 X 81 cm....

An original abstract expressionist painting created in 1962 by American artist James Koenig. This work will be featured in our exhibition "Draw Near" which will run from March 11...

Peaceful landscape depicting the calm waters of a coastal slough with partly cloudy blue sky by Mildred Vejtasa Fenner (American, 1911-2005). Signed "M. Fenner" lower right. Presented in a rustic painted period wood frame with linen liner. Image, 22"H x 28"W. Mildred Vejtasa Fenner was born in 1911, in Adam, N.D. She was the eldest of six children. When she was 5, the family moved to Circle, N.D. Following high school in Circle, she attended Eastern Montana State Normal School in Billings, and became an elementary school teacher. In 1937, she married Wayne Fenner, a mining engineer. They had three sons. She taught at Cardwell, MT until the family moved to California in 1952. They lived in Watsonville, Calif., and she taught at Salsipuedes Elementary School and Moss Landing...

Colorful cubist acrylic painting street scene by French artist Adelmann, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size...

Original oil on heavy cardboard painting by the well know Fench artist, Etienne Ret. Signed top right. In excellent condition with original dark wood carved frame and white painted...

Young girl holding her dog up to grab her hat on a tree branch. Cover for the March 1962 issue of the Calling All Girls magazine

A luminous portrait by Gustav Likan (Yugoslavia, 1912 - 1998), masterfully rendered in pastel on paper. The piece features a young girl engrossed in crea...

Born in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersbourg, Russia) in 1937, Catherine Zoubtchenko lives in France since 1945. She was a student of the painter André Lanskoy, with whom she later share...

Still life painting by Marvin Smith of a country window sill looking out onto a horse stable. The painting has various tools like a shovel stilling on the sill with a jug and corn ha...

Still life painting by French artist Madeleine Scali (1911-2000), circa 1960. Original one-of-a-kind vintage work of art on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border and fi...

Signed, lower right Provenance: R. S. Johnson Fine Art Private collection, Chicago

Dickson Reeder (1912 - 1970) Fort Worth Artist Image Size: 10 x 15 Frame Size: 17 x 22 Medium: Oil on Board Mid Century Modern Biography Dickson Reeder (1912 - 1970) Edward Dickson Reeder began his art education under Sallie Blyth Mummert and Sallie Gillespie before attending the Art Students' League in New York. He later traveled to Europe and studied with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. Dickson Reeder and his wife, Flora Blanc, established and directed the Reeder School of Theater and Design in Fort Worth (1946-1958). Please view my 1stdibs store front for other Great Vintage Texas Paintings...

Estate stamp, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1968. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...

Abstract expressionist tribal painting of a nude female done in bold, vibrant colors by artist Gustave Alhadeff in 1962 with acrylic paint. Signed in upper right corner. Artist Biography: Born in the Belgian Congo in 1940, Gustave Alhadeff won his first award at the annual art show in Elisabethville, at age 13. His formal art education began with Mr. Marcel Pire (Prix de Rome). He continued his studies at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, with Mr. Van Nesche in Cape Town, South Africa from 1956 to 1957. He was awarded a scholarship from the Art Academy to continue his studies with Mr.Creytens at the "Institute National Superieur des Beaux Arts" in Anvers, Belgium. The following year he entered the class of Mr. Leon Devos...

Oil on canvas original painting by the Soviet born artist, Oleg Vukolov. Done in 1960. Signed and dated top left. In good unrestored condition. Vukolov’s paintings are in the Ludwig...

Freeman Baldridge's depiction of a shrine at a sandy beach and lake. Oil on canvas measures 20 x 16; frame dimensions measure 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2...

Signed lower left: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "U Street Capriccio/ Jacob Kainen 1967/ 24x30".

Artist: Carlos Irizarry, Puerto Rican/American (1938 - ) Title: John and Caroline Kennedy Year: 1965 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. Size...

An original mid-century modern abstract expressionist painting by American artist Toma Yovanovich. Toma Yovanovich (1931-2016) Yovanovich was a painter/printmaker whose work is i...

Vivid oil painting of blooming white magnolias with a colorful gradient background by Ann McKee (American, 20th Century), 1962. Signed and dated lower right "A. McKee, W. Monroe 1962." Unframed. Some age toning. Image, 28"H x 24"W. Ann McKee a West Monroe, Louisiana artist.

Artist: Carlos Irizarry, Puerto Rican/American (1938 - ) Title: Portrait Year: 1963 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 36 x 24 inches Frame: 44 x 31.5 inches

Mid Century Continental School impressionist still life oil on paper of a bouquet of Chrysanthemums by an unknown artist. Ilegibly signed "Juan xxxx". Presented in a gilwood frame. ...

Bold French still life painting of small African mask on warm brown and blue background by artist Raymond Bailly, circa 1965. Original artwork on p...

Architectural landscape painting by Anthony V. Martin of a white house with a lovely green velvet mat and a gold frame. Artist Biography: Anthony V. Martin grew up in east Texas. H...

Oil on canvas, signed on the back.

Date: 1964 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 20.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Hello Dolly & Others

Bold abstract painting by French artist, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. Archival plastic sleeve ...

An original mid century modern abstract expressionist painting by American artist Toma Yovanovich. Toma Yovanovich (1931-2016) was a painter/printmaker whose work is in collect...

A substantial abstract oil comprising curvilinear and geometric rectangular shapes in shades of red, coral, and ebony overlaid on a scumbled ground of ivory, ochre, and steel-gray. ...

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1962 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful repre...

Artist: John Uht, American (1924 - 2010) Title: Four Figures Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on canvas, signed l.l. Size: 40 in. x 30 in. (101.6 cm x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 46.5 x 36.5 in...

Acrylic and graphite on paper 77.5 x 55.9 cms (30 1/2 x 22 ins)