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Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Landscape Houses Pastel Painting - Sky Blue

1960s

MARKET SQUARE Size: 37 x 42 cm (including frame) Oil onto paper laid to board A richly coloured mid century modernist figure scene, painted in oil onto paper laid on board, by the ...

HOUSE AT DUSK Size: 37 x 53 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A moody and atmospheric semi-abstract mid-century landscape composition, painted in oil onto board. A solitary house ...

ITALIAN VALLEY Size: 38 x 49 cm (including frame) Oil on board A beautifully textured and expressive modernist style landscape composition, painted in oil onto canvas and dated 1967...

THE WORKING FARM Size: 48 x 56.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A brilliantly executed mid century modernist landscape composition of a farm, painted in oil onto board. Executed...

CYPRUS VALLEY Size: 39.5 x 43.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas board A wonderfully painted mid-century modernist style landscape painting of Cyprus, executed in oil onto canvas ...

COASTAL BREEZE Size: 37 x 45.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A very pleasant and atmospheric mid-century expressive coastal landscape composition, executed in oil onto board. T...

Les Andelys in the Seine Valley France Landscape Pastel Art. A fine example of the beautiful work of British 20th Century Artist, Lionel Aggett (1938-2009). Signed front and rear, fr...

"Couple on Bench at the Beach" is an original pastel drawing on paperboard by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. This drawing depicts two figures sitting on a bench in front of a body of water. The artist used mostly pastel colors for this piece. 6 7/8" x 9 7/8" art 18 1/2" x 21 3/8" frame Francesco J. Spicuzza, born in Sicily on July 23, 1883, came to America at the age of 8. He supported himself as a fruit peddler until a newspaperman gave him $4 a week to go to school. He attended classes at the Milwaukee Art Students League, where he studied under Alexander Mueller. There he learned to paint in the then-fashionable "Munich School" technique, with detailed realism in heavy browns and grayed-out hues. Spicuzza completed eight grades in four years, and then in 1911, three businessmen advanced him enough money to allow him to study in New York under artist and teacher John Carlson. It was during this time that Spicuzza changed his style of painting, developing an impressionistic use of color, form and atmospheric renditions. After a period of grinding poverty, one of Spicuzza's pictures won a major New York competition. It was the first of 60 wins, both in the U.S. and Paris. He became a fashionable painter, and many of the leading collections have his work. Spicuzza's typical works were beach scenes, still life, landscapes and portraits done in pastels, oils, ink, charcoal and watercolors. Much of his work traced the history of Milwaukee in the early 1900s. He was probably best known for his scenes of women and children splashing in the waves...

Early 1960s work on paper of a group of trees at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England, by Alban Atkins. Signed bottom left, titled and dated to the reverse. There is also a collection or accession number to the backboard. Atkins has captured the sculptural nature of the tree trunks as they have grown in the landscape giving the work a feeling of living, writhing things as well as an abstract feel in the composition. Atkins was one of the group of important artists chosen and commissioned by Sir Kenneth Clark...

Travel notes 2007. Paper, pastel, 22x26 cm The focal point of the artwork is a colorful cityscape, reflecting the artist's impressions and experiences of a particular place during ...

Venice 2007. Paper, pastel, 17x25 cm This work captures the essence of Venice, showcasing its beauty and cultural significance. The use of pastels brings a softness and vibrancy to...

Travel notes 2007. Paper, pastel, 19x23 cm The focal point of the artwork is a colorful cityscape, reflecting the artist's impressions and experiences of a particular place during ...