1972 Original MARGARET DE LOO Impressionist New Orleans Oil Painting on Board. Signed Bottom Right Hand Corner. OVERALL IN GREAT CONDITION! Size of Painting (20 Inches Height x 16 Inches Width)

Fabulous vintage mid-century modern cubist style painting of a gorgeous hatted figure standing in boat, being rowed gently down the stream. Acrylic on canvas on masonite board. Signed in lower left margin. Original frame.

Eugene P. Nowlen was born in 1899 and died September 27, 1977. He studied and graduated from MIT, Boston, in Architecture. He also studied with Sueo Serisawa, Paul Darrow, Hans Burkhardt, and Leonard Edmondson. Active exhibition program, several one-man exhibits. Source from Laguna Beach Art Association cat. 1978.

Genre: Modern
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
Dimensions: 26″ x 26″ x 3/4″
Dimensions w/Frame: 26 1/2″ x 26 3/4″

Jay Milder (born 1934) is an American artist and a figurative expressionist painter of the second generation New York School. Old Testament themes such as Jacob’s Ladder and Noah’s Ark, and the Jewish mystical beliefs of the Kabbalah, are recurring themes in Milder’s paintings which are presented as archetypal images that recur in the basic karma, make-up and need of human nature. Internationally exhibited, Milder is included in the collections of many national and international museums.

He has been the subject of two, recent retrospectives in Brazil in 2007 at the National Museum Brasilia and, in 2006, at the Museum of Modern Art, in Rio de Janeiro. He is renowned in Sao Paulo, one of the major international centers for street and public art, as a seminal influence on graffiti artists. Jay Milder was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1934. His grandparents, who came from the Ukraine, were descendants of the Hasidic mystic, Rabbi Nachman. As he listened to family stories his interest in spiritualism and mysticism increased, and became an important influence on his philosophy of life and art. Later, when he arrived in New York, he was drawn to the Theosophical Society and the teaching of Helena Blavatsky.

In 1954 Milder visited Europe where he studied painting with André L’Hote, and sculpture with Ossip Zadkine. He spent much time studying at the Louvre Museum, and at the studio of Stanley Hayter. During his Paris years the paintings of the Jewish painter Chaim Soutine, primarily influenced him. Milder returned to the United States in 1956, and he began studying painting at the Chicago Art Institute. He exhibited with the Momentum Group, an alliance of artists who were particularly dedicated to the progression of figurative art and its global origins.

In 1957, Milder spent the summer in Mexico for a summer where he exhibited in Puebla. That year he received the Mexican Government’s Honor Award for artists.

In the summer of 1958, Milder studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He exhibited his work at the Sun Gallery, with his contemporaries, including Mary Frank, Red Grooms, Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, Emilio Cruz and Alex Katz, among others. During this period his painting began to incorporate iconography of birds, animals, humans and animal/human hybrids. In 1958, Milder, Bob Thompson and Red Grooms, founded the City Gallery in the Chelsea section of New York City. The gallery moved downtown and became the Delancey Street Museum and an early site for ‘Happenings’,which Milder participated in.

He showed his first major series called Subway Runners in 1960 at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York City. Milder began a group of smaller paintings, entitled “Messiah Series”, in the late 1960s. These were fully expressionistic earth toned pictures, and he completed around 250 paintings in the series, based on biblical themes from the Old Testament. When 40 of these paintings were shown in a traveling exhibition premiering at the Richard Green Gallery in New York City, in 1987, art critic Donald Kuspit wrote in ArtForum Magazine: “after Nolde’s biblical pictures, these are the best and most integral group of biblical pictures in the 20th century.”

During the 1970s, Milder co-founded a collective group called Rhino Horn with Peter Passuntino, Peter Dean, Benny Andrews, Nicholas Sperakis, Michael Fauerbach, Ken Bowman, Leonel Gongora, and Bill Barrell. Rhino Horn continued a style promoting politically and socially driven American Figurative Expressionism, when many people in the art world and society were focused on Pop Art and Minimalism.

From the 1970s to today, much of Milder’s artworks have been centered around interpretations and the visual energy of the Kabbalah. Milder’s art has been the subject of two retrospectives in Brazil in 2007 at the National Museum Brasilia and, in 2006, at the Museum of Modern Art, in Rio de Janeiro. In Summer of 2009 he was in Brazil where at this time he painted a commissioned mural alongside Brazilian street artist, Eduardo Kobra in Sao Paulo.

Jay Milder’s paintings have undergone various stylistic changes since the 1950s. However the most common and important consistency has been his organic form of Expressionism. Biblical references have always played an important role in Milder’s work. For Milder the Kabbalah underlies all aspects of reality including not only the way a painting is conceived and executed, but also its impact on the visual environment around us.

Jay Milder’s work is in the permanent collection of many galleries and museums throughout the world, including The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art in Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts, The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio.

He has been awarded the Mexican Government’s Honor Award for artists in 1957, a Rainbow Arts Foundation Award at Exhibition Museum, Guadalajara, Mexico in 1965, he was honored as Professor Emeritus at City College of New York in 1991, and in 1999 he was the Cultural Exchange representative between America and Brazil at Belles Artes Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Fabulous Mid-20th century abstract figure bronze sculpture on a painted solid wood base. Artist signed, in very good vintage condition.

Beautiful abstract alabaster marble sculpture of a bird on a wood, 1980s. Artist signed.

Abstract acrylic painting on newspaper by New York abstract expressionist painter Richard Snyder (1951-2021). Signed lower left, the sheet is from a 2006 edition of the Village Voice.

The banana plantation guadeloupe’, oil on canvas, by robert humblot (1959). In 1959, when the artist visited french guadeloupe, he painted several colourful pieces depicting workers on the island which were later used in the maison nicolas annual fine wine catalogue (see ‘provenance’ below). In this particular painting, the dark, lush green of the plantation discharges the colourful parade of workers towards the sunlight and the artist’s palette. The central figure in the work – a beautiful young lady who looks directly at the artist (and the viewer). She glides across the plantation with the elegant poise of a ballerina, her graceful pink overgarment too beautiful for such laborious pirouettes. This artwork is in good overall condition and has been newly framed with a french-style linen slip. The artist signed the work in the lower right: ‘humblot’. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying this listing. Provenance : from the nicolas family collection. Louis nicolas founded maison nicolas in 1822 and has the distinction of being the first wine retailer in france. As a celebration of 100 years in business, maison nicolas created an advertising campaign using a logo for their company. A frail deliveryman with a moustache and wide eyes loaded with bottles in each hand was the maison nicolas logo. Between 1922 and 1975, some of the most famous french illustrators competed to reinvent this character. Maison nicolas’ owners commissioned artists to illustrate the annual catalogues providing a synergy between wine and art. Because of the fine art used in the content of their annual catalogues, they are highly collected and valuable. In 1960 robert humblot painted several works “under the sign of the french west indies” for the annual luxury catalog or list of the great wines of the nicolas house. This original work was printed on page 6 of the 1960 catalogue. About the artist : robert humblot (1907-1962) was born in fontenay-sous-bois , france. He began by studying natural sciences, which he left at the age of 23 to enter the académie de peinture la grande-chaumière , but then was accepted at the ecole des beaux-arts in paris. Under the impetus of the art critic, henri héraut, in 1935 he joined forces with several other artists to found the movement called forces nouvelles which advocated a return to drawing and the return to the professional tradition which advocated a deep connection with nature. His painting has the peculiarity of being tinged with humour. Through his nudes, landscapes, still lifes and portraits, humblot wanted to convey his ideas of what the world should be. Humblot’s paintings started to sell in the 1950s and continue selling to this day. He visited the west indies in 1959 which provides allows us to date this painting from that era. His artworks appear in museums throughout europe and from time to time are available for bidding at the major continental auction houses. Dimensions with frame : h 37.2 cm / 14.6″ w 31.5 cm / 12.4″ dimensions without frame : h 25 cm / 9.8″ w 19.5 cm / 7.7″

Dusk on schoelcher lagoon martinique’, oil on canvas, by robert humblot (1959). The third in a series of artworks completed in 1959 when the artist visited the french antilles. He painted several colourful pieces depicting life on the islands which were later used in the maison nicolas annual fine wine catalogue (see ‘provenance’ below) . In this particular painting, palm trees tower over a man who has just moved his small boat at the end of the day from the lagoon to the sandy terrain. Immediately behind him is a variety of lush tropical greenery and a darkened blue sky over mountainous elevations surrounding a nearby port town. This artwork is in good overall condition and has been newly framed with a french-style linen slip. The artist signed the work in the lower right: ‘humblot’. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying this listing. Provenance : from the nicolas family collection. Louis nicolas founded maison nicolas in 1822 and has the distinction of being the first wine retailer in france. As a celebration of 100 years in business, maison nicolas created an advertising campaign using a logo for their company. A frail deliveryman with a moustache and wide eyes loaded with bottles in each hand was the maison nicolas logo. Between 1922 and 1975, some of the most famous french illustrators competed to reinvent this character. Maison nicolas’ owners commissioned artists to illustrate the annual catalogues providing a synergy between wine and art. Because of the fine art used in the content of their annual catalogues, they are highly collected and valuable. In 1960 robert humblot painted several works “under the sign of the french west indies” for the annual luxury catalog or list of the great wines of the nicolas house. This original work was printed on page 15 of the 1960 catalogue. About the artist : robert humblot (1907-1962) was born in fontenay-sous-bois , france. He began by studying natural sciences, which he left at the age of 23 to enter the académie de peinture la grande-chaumière , but then was accepted at the ecole des beaux-arts in paris. Under the impetus of the art critic, henri héraut, in 1935 he joined forces with several other artists to found the movement called forces nouvelles which advocated a return to drawing and the return to the professional tradition which advocated a deep connection with nature. His painting has the peculiarity of being tinged with humour. Through his nudes, landscapes, still lifes and portraits, humblot wanted to convey his ideas of what the world should be. He visited the west indies in 1959 which provides allows us to date this painting from that era. Humblot’s paintings started to sell in the 1950s and continue selling to this day. His artworks appear in museums throughout europe and from time to time are available for bidding at the major continental auction houses. Dimensions with frame : h 37.5 cm / 14.8″ w 32 cm / 12.6″ dimensions without frame : h 25.5 cm / 10″ w 19.5 cm / 7.7″

Modernist abstract watercolor and gouache on paper 63 x 51 cm. Signed at the bottom right with initials and dated ’54. Including frame 93 x 89 cm. Auctioned by Christies. Hussem lived in Paris from 1918 to 1936, where he met Piet Mondriaan and Pablo Picasso, among others. In addition to the latter, Vincent van Gogh also influenced his style. After the Second World War, his works became abstract.

Here is a wonderful and graphic print made by artist, James Pollock in 1980. You can see that he has signed the art piece in pencil. The print is custom framed in a coordinating black frame with silver trim.

You may read all about James’ amazing life and contributions. He notably was named Artist of the Year by the South Dakota Cowboy and Western Heritage Hall of Fame (now known as South Dakota Hall of Fame) in 1980, the first year the award was given.