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Period: Mid-20th Century
20th Century French Modernist Painting Pepper Table Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Expressionist Painting
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
gouache on artist paper, unframed
painting : 11 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection
conditio...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century French Illustration Sketch Of Tigers In Tropical Wallpaper Design
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of a Black Man - Mid 20th Century French Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very interesting 1960's French oil on canvas portrait of a black man wearing a hat. The work is superbly painted and in very good original condition. Indistinctly signed lower righ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage 1930's French Impressionist Still Life Flower Bunch In Blue Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting
signed by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on board, unframed
measures: 13.5 high by 10.5 inch...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
1950s French Signed Oil Painting Shabby Chic Vintage Flowers in Vase Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage Still Life Flowers in Vase
French artist, mid 20th century
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 25.5 x 20 inches
provenance: priva...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Magritte, Les Claires-Voies d'un Jeune Regard Embaument la Fête d'un Vie (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph in Colours on Vélin d'Arches paper. Edition: 350, plus proofs. Signed in the plate by the artist; hand signed in pencil by the printer, Fernand Mo...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Composition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aaron Levy was born in New York City in 1899. After retiring in 1951 from a career as president of E. Milius & Company, a textile company, Levy began a new career as a fine artist. ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Composition (Mourlot, Paris)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Alfred Manessier
Composition
1964
Original Color Lithograph on Velin d'Arches
Size: 10x7.375in
Edition: 2,000
Signed in the Stone
Annotated verso
Publisher: Mourlot, Paris
Printer: M...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Vellum, Lithograph
Slim Aarons 'Verbier View' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier View' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
Slim Aaron...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
C Print
"Rainy Day, New York City" Modernist Urban Cityscape Mid-Century Street Scene
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1982 - 1960)
Rainy Day, New York City, circa 1940
Oil on canvasboard
20 x 16 inches
Signed on the reverse
Provenance:
Private Collection, Massachusetts
Private Collecti...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Bedroom
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from five zinc plates, using tusche and crayon with splatter, printed in red, orange, green, black, and pink. On J Green paper (250 gsm)
Signed, numbered and dated '68 in ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
I-S #1 /// Abstract Geometric Sewell Sillman Screenprint Purple Pink Modern Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sewell Sillman (American, 1924-1992)
Title: "I-S #1"
*Signed and dated by Sillman in pencil lower right
Year: 1968
Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded heavy white wove ...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Screen
Slim Aarons Tennis In The Bahamas Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In The Bahamas' by Slim Aarons
It really doesn't get much more fabulous than this.
A realtively new discovery in the Archive -two fashionably dressed women in tennis outfit...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
C Print
Abstract Expressionist With Orange and Blue Colors
By Sandro von Lorsch
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Expressionist Abstract Composition With Orange and Blue Colors
Canvas size 24"x32" gold leaf frame 27"x35", signed lower right corner.
Sandro von Lorsch German painter born 1921-19...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Alice in Wonderland Original Concept Painting: Alice and White Rabbit
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MEDIUM: Original Concept Painting
IMAGE SIZE: 9.75" x 9"
PRODUCTION: Alice in Wonderland
YEAR: 1951
SKU: CCV2373
Price includes deluxe framing.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Blair was a conce...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Paint
Beauty and the Beast
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lambda
"A View of Notre-Dame" Post-Impressionist Oil Painting Parisian Street Scene
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist Andre Franchet. He was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His work is...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Degas - Vintage Poster - Offset Print - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Degas - Poster is an original poster print.
The artwork was realized on the occasion of the artist's exhibition In Paris in 1960.
Good conditions except for being aged and some fol...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Offset
Salvador Dalí, Composition (Michler/Löpsinger 1600; Field 69-3), Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on Fabriano hand-made, rag, cream laid paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Michler/Löpsinger 1600; Field 69-3....
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Woman and Child
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Woman and Child
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
24 by 30 in. W/frame 32 by 38 in.
John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters.
At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions.
A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century.
John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934).
Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.)
During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution.
John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career.
This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady - Large South Eastern European Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful mid 20th century Southeastern European oil on canvas portrait of a lady wearing a white headdress.
This intriguing work is expertly painted with thick impasto paintwork which has been built up across the surface.
Indistinctly signed lower right and presented in a reverse profile frame.
We think that this work was painted by an artist working in Southeastern Europe, most likely Greece or Macedonia.
Artist: Southeastern European School...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Audrey Hepburn with a Dove 1966 Signed Limited Edition Framed Print
Located in London, GB
A contemplative Audrey Hepburn with a dove perched on her shoulder, 1966.
TITLE: Hepburn with a Dove 1966
PHOTO: Terry O’Neill
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION (LAST AVAILBLE COPY OF THIS SIZ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Matisse, Couverture, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned, as issued. Good condition; double spine centerfolds, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéra...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape with a willow. 1964, oil on cardboard, 48x67 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A. Zviedris was a member of the Latvian Artists’ Union since 1945 and had more than 50 solo exhibitions in Latvia. He travelled extensively by yacht around Scandinavia and Western Eu...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
'Evening Dress' Limited Edition silver gelatin V&A Portfolio
By John French
Located in London, GB
'Evening Dress' Limited Edition V&A Portfolio
silver gelatin fibre print.
Jean Shrimpton modelling a dress, John French (1907-66), England, 1961
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dante purifié - Engraving - 150 copies
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali
Dante purifié (1960)
Heliogravure reworked with drypoint
Signature printed in the plate
On BFK Rives Vellum paper
Size 32.8 x 26.4 cm (c. 13 x 10")
References:
- Fie...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
1979 Original Poster by Villemot - Chaussures Bally - French Fashion
Located in PARIS, FR
This famous and very rare poster was created by Bernard Villemot, the most painter of French poster artists, in 1964 for the famous Bally company.
As is often the case, this work by...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Derrière Le Miroir No. 149 (page 8, 9) /// Abstract Geometric Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015)
Title: "Untitled (page 8, 9)"
Portfolio: Derrière Le Miroir (No. 149)
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1964
Medium: Origina...
Category
Minimalist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Margaret Balzer, 1946
Located in Washington, DC
Modern abstract painting by Margaret Balzer Cantieni (1914-2002). Tempera on wood board. Signed in lower right corner "Balzer '46". Painting measures 1 1" x 14" with frame 16 1/2" x 19 1/2".
Margaret Balzer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers and William Stanley Hayter...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Galerie Maeght /// Abstract Geometric Ellsworth Kelly Minimalism Modern Paris
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015)
Title: "Galerie Maeght"
Year: 1958
Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: ...
Category
Minimalist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Abstract, Indigo and Ivory', Large SF Bay Area Modernist oil, Legion of Honor
By Fenton Kastner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso "F. Kastner" for Fenton Kastner (American, 1915-2008), dated 1955, and titled "Waterfront-IV".
Old label verso inscribed with artist's name and title.
A dynamic, mid-...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
House In The Green - Original Acrylic On Paper
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
House In The Green - Original Acrylic On Paper
Original acrylic painting depicting a white house in the woods surrounded by greenery by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Two white ...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Nude woman original oil on canvas painting
By Francesc Serra Castellet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Francesc Serra Castellet (1912-1976) - Female nude - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 73x54 cm.
Frameless.
Biography:
Francesc Serra Castellet. Barcelona 1912 - Tossa de Mar (Girona)...
Category
Feminist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American School Mid Century Modern Abstract Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Jean Shrimpton In Evening Dress' Limited Edition silver gelatin V&A Portfolio
By John French
Located in London, GB
'Jean Shrimpton In Evening Dress' Limited Edition V&A Portfolio
silver gelatin fibre print.
Jean Shrimpton modelling a dress, John French (1907-66), England, 1961
© Victoria and Alb...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
V&A - John French - Soft Helmets - Limited Edition
By John French
Located in London, GB
V&A - John French - Soft Helmets - Limited Edition
Pattie Boyd and Celia Hammond modelling feathered capsule hats, John French (1907-66), London, 1960s
© Victoria and Albert Museum,...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Black and White
Antique American Impressionist New York Summer Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
By Kamil Kubik
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011). Oil on board. Housed in a nice period impressionist frame. Signed.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fauvist View of A French River and Mountain Landscape, The Verdon, Provence.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid century, pastel on card, Fauvist landscape by Marguerite Allar. Signed bottom left, annotated and titled to the back board and presented in plain wood frame.
A colourful view ...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pastel, Board
The Fall of Icarus
Located in London, GB
Gouache on paper, signed (lower left) and titled (lower right), 68cm x 88cm, (88cm x 108cm framed). The work is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
A realist pain...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Antique American Impressionist New York Summer Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
By Kamil Kubik
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011). Oil on board. Housed in a nice period impressionist frame. Signed.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition - Original Drawing by Madeleine Scali - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an Original Watercolour realized by Madeleine Scali.
The beautiful artwork is in very good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (30x24 cm).
Hand-signed ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for "Giant"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the film "Giant" for her role as character Leslie Bene...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Female Portrait - Drawing by Bruno Cassinari - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Female Portrait is a modern artwork realized by Bruno Cassinari in 1970s.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Includes frame
Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink
Standing Female Nude
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude
Ink on paper
Signed by the artist with his initials lower left "AB"
Related to numerous drawings of the same model illustrated in: Elliott and Wooden, Aaron Bohr...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Ink
Landscape with Houses - Painting by Gino Marzani - mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with houses is a modern artwork realized by Gino Marzani in the mid-20th century.
Mixed colored oil painting
Hand signed by the artist on the back.
Includes frame
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Chest (1968) Sculpture by Allen Jones
By Allen Jones
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Allen Jones
(1937)
Chest (1968)
Sculpture. Silkscreen print on fiberglass published by Xartcollection
14 3/5 × 10 1/5 × 4 7/10 in
37 × 26 × 12 cm
An iconic example of Jones's early w...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Fiberglass
The Barker
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Barker
Etching, 1931
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edition)
Numbered in pencil lower left
Blind stamp of the Whitney Museum (WM) lower right
From: Reginald Marsh, Thirty Etc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
Watercolor, 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left in pencil (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Cond...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Frida at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel by Lucienne Bloch, 1931, Gelatin Silver Print
Located in Dallas, TX
Frida at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel by Lucienne Bloch is a black and white portrait of Mexican Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo sitting in a chair under her self portrait hanging on the ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Blue Lace Oversized Geometric Abstract
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5075 Oil and Mixed media geometric on blue backround
Rapped canvas no frame required
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
India Ink, Oil
WPA "New Americana" Exceptional Antique 1941 WPA Exhibited Carnegie Painting
Located in Exton, PA
Monumental, important WPA painting by Percy Albee. The painting is oil canvass measuring 36" x 48". Titled verso "New Americana", this WPA painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Inst...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Stylish 1960's Lady, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Stylish Lady
French School, Mid 20th Century
Oil painting on canvas, framed
Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner
Frame size: 26.5 x 22 inches
Stylish ex...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Alexander Calder lithograph derrière le miroir (1960s Calder prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder Lithograph c. 1967 from Derrière le miroir:
Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches.
Very good overall vintage condition; well-preseved.
Unsigned from an edition of u...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
'View of San Francisco Bay', Bay Area Abstraction, Jack London, Modernist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'J.e.t.' for Jessie E. Thomason (American, 20th Century) and dated 1956. Exhibited: Jack London Art Festival, 1956.
Displayed in the original and period, paint...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pablo Picasso - Venus et l’Amour voleur de miel – hand-signed lithograph - 1960
Located in Varese, IT
Color lithograph on Arches paper , edited in 1960
Limited edition of 300 not numbered copies
Hand signed by Pablo Picasso in red crayon in the lower right margin ,
with lithographed text on verso
Image size: 64.1 cm x 50.2 cm ( 25 1/4 in x 19 3/4 in )
paper size: : 76.2 x 57.5 cm ( 30 in x 22 5/8 in )
Framed size: 96 x 80,5 cm
excellent conditions with strong deep colors
Editions Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Printed by Mourlot, Paris
Publications / Catalogue Raisonnée :
This print is fully documented and referenced in the official Catalogue Raisonnée
- Orozco no. 234 (illustrated) No 73 pag 57
A copy of publication of the reference catalogue
Framed to museum standards in a handmade frame ,
the background is made ph neutral for proper preservation of the work over the years , to avoid oxidation.
We offer professional packaging and tracked shipping with DHL Express courier ,
( shipping time: 24 hours for European countries and 4 to 6 days for America and other non-eu countries...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Radiant Abstraction', Kinetogenics, Psychedelic, AIC, SFMoMA, SFMA
By Richard Irving Bowman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'R. Bowman' for Richard Irving Bowman (American, 1918-2001), titled, 'Kg. 55' (Kinetogenics 55) and dated February 1962. Additionally titled, on stretcher bar verso, 'Kg 55'.
Accompanied by a first edition copy of 'Richard Bowman: Radiant Abstractions', by Patricia Watts and Stefanie De Winter, published 2018.
Richard Bowman received a scholarship to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, from which he received his Bachelor's degree in 1942. He subsequently attended the University of Iowa, receiving his Master's degree in 1945. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, Bowman exhibited internationally with success and was the recipient of numerous gold medals, prizes and juried awards.
With the Kinetogenics Series, which he began in 1956, Bowman explored the intersection of color and light using contemporary advances in light theory and fluorescence technology. "For this series, he started using fluorescent enamel alkyd paint, which, Bowman stated, emitted an actual, measurable energy from the canvas. He combines his early concept of elemental radiants with the gestures of a mature Abstract Expressionist. Incorporating bold fluorescent strokes of orange, yellow and blue, which are activated by the ultraviolet in daylight, Bowman's new abstractions represented a synthesis of the physical and sensorial transmissions of energy. The combination of the artist's interests in nuclear physics, atoms, and dynamism with these vibrant colors reflected Bowman's increasing confidence as an unconventional artist working in an unconventional medium." (Richard Bowman: Radiant Abstractions, p. 13)
"The 'kinetogenic' series which Bowman has been painting recently, are whorls of pure energy in colors from the violet edges of the spectrum in vibrant relationship to the vivid primaries of the center. These paintings have much less sense of place or landscape than Bowman paintings we have seen before. The “Environs” group accompanying the energy pictures in this exhibition, are, on the other hand, specific about place: are of flower beds and branches of trees, painted with the same brilliant color intensity. This use of vibrant colors gives an all-over electric, textural effect in contrast to the after-image jump which obtains when the vibrants are painted flat and geometric. This textural mosaic effect is close to the vision of heat and passionate rhythm which was central to pre-Columbian art, and is still present in the Mexican arts and crafts, which were one of Bowman’s formative sources. It is interesting to note that several of the painters who have influenced many others to experiment with vibrancy and glow in color, found their own impetus in this direction while painting in Mexico. Bowman was one of the painters who was working with fluorescents when the general tendency was to paint with muck. One feels that using color thus leads the artist, as it did his pre-Columbian esthetic ancestors, in the direction where the ecstatic becomes mystic." (courtesy of Artforum, April 1964)
Thomas Albright also writes of the artist, "Visiting Mexico on a traveling fellowship in the early 1940s, [Bowman] met Gordon Onslow-Ford, with whom he renewed a friendship after moving to San Mateo County in the early 1950s. His paintings, although gestural and abstract, were close in spirit to those of the Dynaton artists than to the mainstream of Abstract Expressionism. They constituted an intensely lyrical and metaphorical abstract Impressionism inspired by Bonnard and an intimacy with the natural environment. Bowman was also influenced by jazz improvisation and the jazz poetry of Kenneth Patchen, a close friend" (p. 263)
Solo Exhibitions:
Pinacotecha Gallery (Rose Fried Gallery), NY, 1945
Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, WI, 1946
Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, MA, 1949
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 1950, 1956
Rose Rabow Gallery, 1959–1977
San Francisco Museum of Art, CA, 1961, 1970
Roswell Museum of Art, NM, 1972
Harcourts Gallery, 1986
Steven Wolf Fine Arts, 2001
The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
Two Person Exhibitions:
Art Institute of Chicago (with Russsel Woeltz), 1945
University of Illinois (with Joan Mitchell), 1947
San Francisco Museum of Art (with Gordon Onslow-Ford), 1959
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Art Institute of Chicago, 1945
Toronto Gallery of Art, 1953
São Paulo Biennial, 1953
Montreal Museum of Art, 1954
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1961
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1961, 1963
Gallery Scheiner, Basel, Switzerland, 1978
Reference:
Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 1, page 404; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 2, page 701; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980, Thomas Albright, University of California Press, 1985, page 263; A Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, Paul Cummings, St. Martin’s Press: New York 1966, page 66-67; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Supplement, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith: New York 1948 Edition, R.R. Bowker Company 1940, page 31; Richard Bowman: Radiant Abstractions, essays by Patricia Watts and Stefanie De Winter, published by Watts...
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Slim Aarons 'Apres Ski' 1963 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
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Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x ...
Category
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Materials
C Print, Color
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Located in Roma, IT
Hyena is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century.
Pencil on ivory-colored paper
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft express...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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