1960s Mixed Media

An abstract expressionist glazed pottery plaque by British-Japanese artist Takashi Suzuki. There is minimal information about the artist, and unfortunately, there is a more contempo...

This mixed media collage presents a dynamic composition built from layered cutouts of skydiving and parachuting imagery. Photographic fragments of figures in freefall, parachutes in ...

Project for a Decorative Panel is a beautiful mixed media, original drawings in blue-colored, coupe-papier, applied on cardboard, realized in 1969 by the artist Esy A. Belluzzi, Hand...

Sitting Woman Irene Rice Pereira, American (1902-1971) circa 1966 Watercolor, acrylic, pencil and pastel on rice paper, signed in watercolor 24 x 18.75 in. (60.96 x 47.63 cm)

The Sewn Seed Irene Rice Pereira, American (1902-1971) circa 1966 Watercolor and Acrylic on rice paper, signed in pencil, titled in sharpie 23.5 x 18.5 in. (59.69 x 46.99 cm)

"Mystic Ladders" is an original mid-20th century abstract painting by noted Denver modernist Edward Marecak (1919–1993), a pivotal figure in Colorado’s postwar art movement. Executed...

Pair of Safari Armchairs with beech wood frame and leather upholstery. 1960s. Dimensions: Width: cm 56 Depth: cm. 60 Height: cm 90 Seat height: cm. 37 Condition Report: Armchairs in...

Diana Kurz Small Green Pale, circa 1960-61 Collage and mixed media on board 12 1/2 x 10 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's fa...

This striking Abstract Expressionist sixties composition is by Danish artist Erling Andersen. Painted in 1969 it is a mixed media composition on canvas...

Paper and Adhesive collage by Wayne Timm. Image and mat opening measures 11 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. In the 1960's, Wayne Timm rubbed elbows with the likes of Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauchen...

Artist: Josep Grau-Garriga Title: Untitled Washington Action Year: 1969 Medium: Mixed Media and Collage on Paper Size: 18 x 23.5 inches

This refined oil painting was realized by Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel- the three time Tony Award winning American actor, comedian, and singer- who was equally talented as a painter in ...

Judith Yellin Ginat is one of the most prominent artists working in Israel today. She was born in Jerusalem and is a fifth generation Israeli. Her work has a naive, folk art quality...

Untitled (Seascape at night) Tissue paper collage on Fabriano wove paper, 1964 Signed in ink lower left Annotated 42 in pencil on verso Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet size: 10 x 13 7/8 inches Part of a suite of collages created during the artist's sabatical leave from teaching, spent in Florence, Italy, studying at the Accademia D'Arte Firenze in 1963-1964. Ray H. French: The Evolution of an Artistic Innovator Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H. French was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on May 16, 1919. Terre Haute was a cultural wasteland before the opening of the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in 1942. Thus, with a father as a coal miner and carpenter, art remained a luxury for Ray. Nevertheless, local art teachers Mabel Mikel Williams and Nola E. Williams helped to foster his creativity and unshakable drive to create things of beauty. After high school, Ray attended the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. His studies there were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, during which he developed surveillance photographs for the Army Air Force. After the war, Ray transferred to the University of Iowa on the G.I. Bill, where he received both his BFA and MFA degrees. The University of Iowa during the 1940s was a cultural mecca with many major art historians and artists. While in Iowa, Ray played an important role in this culture by becoming a founding member of the Iowa Print Group under Mauricio Lasansky. Following his graduation in 1948, Ray experienced firsthand the rapid rise in creative printmaking in America. By 1949, he had exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art Center, and MOMA New York. Ray’s early style of printmaking is characterized by pure line engraving on copper plates, a technique suited perfectly to his study of the beauty of animals. This charming and whimsical subject ran counter to the concurrent trends of Lasansky’s horrors of war and Hayter’s non-objectivity, but was equally effective in capturing the public’s attention. Walruses was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum, exhibited at MOMA New York and received the Arthur D. Allen Memorial Purchase Prize for its “skillful and economic use of line.” Shortly thereafter, Ray’s treatment of animals developed further into larger format mixed intaglio prints utilizing hard ground, soft ground, etching, and engraving, as exemplified in The Swan. By the late 1950s, Ray’s style evolved into organic non-objectivity, in which he incorporated personal autobiographical vignettes and symbolism. His work during this time was further characterized by a departure from the traditional squared compositional format to his cutting and rounding of the plate to accentuate organic shapes. Ray’s 1959 Enchantment remains particularly illustrative of his use of etching and soft ground intaglio. Enchantment was successfully exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art for the 12th National Print Exhibition of The American Federation of the Arts and received the Pennell Purchase Prize from the Library of Congress in 1960. In the 1960s, Ray also started to focus on blind embossing, which he had first experimented with at the University of Iowa. He was extremely prolific and successful with this medium, selling hundreds of prints in small editions of 10 through the Associated American Artist Gallery in New York. In 1966, Ray built upon his mastery of embossing and began developing a shadow box presentation called a graphic construction that combined color, blind embossing, and multi-layered cutouts to revel intaglio compositions. Noted curator William Lieberman purchased Ray’s masterpiece graphic construction, Moon Rays...

Act Paper, mixed media, 29x19 cm This work presents a colorful and stylized representation of a woman's figure engaged in an act or performance, capturing the movement, emotion, an...

Ivan Chermayeff born London, United Kingdom, 1932 Chermayeff was one of the greatest American graphic designers, the son of the Russian born, British architect Serge Chermayeff. Ivan...

Gorgeous aquatint in reds and oranges by Piero Dorazio (Italian 1927-2005). This aquatint is on heavy "Umbria" Fabriano paper. It is signed and dated 1964 in the lower margin in penc...

William Horace Littlefield: 1902-1969. Well listed American Modernist. He studied under Hans Hoffman and is known for these abstract mixed medium paintings. He has auction result high over $14000. This fabulous piece has vivid pink and blue colors . It is monogramed and dated on front, and signed and titled and dated on back. Painting measures approximately 14 1/2 inches high by 11 1/4 wide The frame measures 20 1/2 inches high by 16 1/2 wide. Sorry about the flash, but that was the best pics I...

Paper and Adhesive collage by Wayne Timm. Image measures 16 x 18 Framed in a closed corner steel custom frame In the 1960's, Wayne Timm rubbed elbows with the likes of Warhol, Lich...

Titled "In G-d We Trust" signed dated and titled verso. there is also a gallery label. Mixed Media wall hanging in a pop art style. Background of pennies and then the foreground is l...

"Picador" 1966 Experimental Surrealist Composition Intriguing mixed-media piece by prominent California artist Morris Broderson (b. 1928 d. 2011.) A picador sits upon his horse, hol...

The cop admires the car while the viewer admires the drawing of the car. The enduring legacy of Ben Denison may not be that he was an early cartoonist for Playboy, but for his style...

May Wilson (1905–1986) was an American artist and figure in the 1960s New York City avant-garde art world. A pioneer of the feminist and mail art movement, she is best known for her Surrealist junk assemblages and her "Ridiculous Portrait" photo collages. Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, into an underprivileged family. Her father died when she was young. She was reared by her Irish Catholic mother, who sewed piecework at home. Wilson left school after the ninth grade to become a stenographer/secretary to help support her family. When she turned 20, she married a young lawyer, William S. Wilson, Jr., and give birth to her first child. She continued to work until the birth of her second child, after which she devoted her energies primarily to mothering and homemaking. In 1942, the couple had prospered enough to move to Towson, Maryland, where she began to take correspondence courses in art and art history from several schools, including the University of Chicago. In 1948, after the marriage of their daughter, the couple moved to a gentleman's farm north of Towson, where she pursued painting and gave private art lessons to neighbors. She exhibited her paintings, scenes of everyday life painted in a flat, purposefully primitive manner in local galleries and restaurants. In 1952 and 1958, she won awards for work submitted to juried exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1956, her son, the writer Williams S. Wilson, gave to Ray Johnson, the founder of the New York Correspondence School, his mother's address. This began a friendship and artistic collaboration between Johnson and Wilson, which would last the remainder of her life. Wilson became an integral part of Johnson's mail art circle and was initiated into the New York avant-garde through letters and small works that she exchanged with Robert Watts, George Brecht, Ad Reinhardt, Leonard Cohen, Arman, and many others. When her marriage dissolved, she moved to New York City in the spring of 1966, aged 61, taking up residence first in the Chelsea Hotel and then in a studio next door, where she threw legendary soirées and became known as the "Grandma Moses of the Underground". By the time she arrived, Wilson was already working with photomontage collage techniques. Encouraged by Johnson, who had sent her magazines through the mail, she scissored patterns into images of pin-up girls and muscle men until they resembled doilies or snowflakes, as Wilson called them. She decorated her hotel room and later her studio on West 23rd Street with these and other manipulated, found object images. Around this time, she also began her series of neo Dada "Ridiculous Portraits", for which she would ride the subway to Times Square, where she made exaggerated faces in photo booths. She then would cut and paste her photo-booth face onto postcards, along with Old Master reproductions, fashion shoots, and softcore Playboy magazine pornography. Long before artists such as Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa Morimura embarked on similar critical projects, Wilson's "Ridiculous Portraits" sent up the ubiquitous sexism and ageism that exists in popular and fine-art images of women. At the age of 70, she converted a nude photograph of herself into a stamp that she pasted on envelopes. Her collages and humorous self-portraits were made as gifts and mail-art items for her friends and were not widely known until after her death. Her work was contemporaneous with the Arte Povera artists Jannis Kounellis and ‎Michelangelo Pistoletto. She was also an innovator of junk art assemblages that incorporated real objects, such as high-heel shoes, bed sheets, sauce pans, toasters, liquor bottles, ice trays, and wrapped baby dolls. Her sculptures were inspired by Surrealist and Dada practices and are similar in spirit to Yayoi Kusama's contemporary accumulations. Wilson was the subject of a 1969 experimental documentary by Amalie R. Rothschild, "Woo Hoo? May Wilson". Since her death, May Wilson's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and retrospectives at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York; the Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J.; the Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City; and The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Selected Exhibitions 2010 "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968", University of the Arts, Philadelphia (traveling exhibition) 2008 "1968/2008: The Culture of Collage", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, City 2008 "Ridiculous Portrait: The Art of May Wilson", Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey 2008 "Woo Who? May Wilson", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City 1995 [Retrospective], The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland 2001 "May Wilson: Ridiculous Portraits and Snowflakes", Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, City 2001 "Inside Out: Outside In-The Correspondence of Ray Johnson and May Wilson", Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, California 1991 "May Wilson: The New York Years", Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City 1973 "Sneakers", Kornblee Gallery, New York City 1973 "Small Works: Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art", RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island 1971 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1970 "Sculpture Annual 1970", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City 1965 The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland 1962 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 1957 Bookshop Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Public collections Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) The Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, Maryland) Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, New York) References William S. Wilson, "May Wilson: Constructing Woman (1905-1986)", in Ann Aptaker, ed., Ridiculous Portrait: The Art of May Wilson, ed. Ann Aptaker, Morristown, N.J.: Morris Museum, Camhi, Leslie, "Late Bloomer", Village Voice, December 18, 2001 Giles, Gretchen, "Cosmic Litterers: Artists Ray Johnson and May Wilson: Taking the Cake", "Northern California Bohemian," June 14–20, 2001 McCarthy, Gerard, "May Wilson: Homespun Rebel", Art in America, vol. 96, no. 8, September 2008, pp. 142–47 Sachs, Sid and Kalliopi Minioudaki, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968. Philadelphia: The University of the Arts, 2010, ISBN 978-0789210654 Wilson, William S. Art is a Jealous Lover: May Wilson: 1905-1986, andy warhol...

Ragtime Piano Collage, 1969 Signed and dated '69 lower right Address stamp verso Provenance: Acquired from the artist Joseph M. Erdelac, friend and patron of the artist Stephen Longs...

Label from Obelisk Gallery verso. Henry C. Pearson (October 8, 1914 – December 3, 2006) was an American abstract and modernist painter. Pearson was born in Kinston, North Carolina, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1938, and studied theatrical design at Yale University. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Second World War, designing maps for the Okinawa campaign, and then re-enlisted to serve in the US occupation of Japan, where he was influenced by Japanese art and theatre forms. Henry Pearson is perhaps best known for a mildly optical manner of painting, featuring a mutable labyrinth of undulating parallel lines, which somewhat inadvertently linked him to the Op Art movement of the 1960s. Although included in the Museum of Modern Art's landmark exhibition The Responsive Eye in 1965, his work displays an intuitive rhythm and poetic elegance that falls well outside of the calculated, often hard-edged quality normally associated with the Op group of artists. Pearson came late to the visual arts. His first career, in theatre design, was cut short by the Second World War. He entered the U.S. Army in 1942, and at war's end requested duty in occupied Japan, where a prolonged contact with Japanese culture nurtured a passion for painting. Upon his discharge from the army, in 1953, he enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied with, among others, Reginald Marsh and Will Barnet. Inspired by Malevich, he turned to rectilinear abstraction, and employed it as the dominant means of expression in his painting between 1954 and 1961. As early as 1959, however, sensing an incipient decadence in his geometric canvases...

Title Unreadable " _______ _______ No. 102" Mixed media Signed and dated lower right Manuscript notes on black paper backing Condition: Excellent Image size: 6 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches Bo...

Frost Flowers is an original circa 1965 mixed media drawing by celebrated Denver-based artist Edward Marecak. Executed in pastel and ink on paper, thi...

Margaret Putnam (1913-1989) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 5.5 x 4 and 5 x 4 Frame Size: 17.5 x 9.75 Medium: Batik Unsigned from her Estate "The Girls" Biography Margaret Putnam (19...

BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis. Miles White (1915 – 2000) BYE BYE BIRDIE 11 x 8 inches Mixed Media on...

Diana Kurz June Watercolor and pastels on board 17 x 23 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to Engl...

Artist: Josep Grau-Garriga, Spanish (1929 - 2011) Title: Nivea and Insects Year: circa 1966 Medium: Acrylic and Collage on Paper Size: 23.5 x 18 in. (59.69 x 45.72 cm)

Dark gray and blue-toned abstract expressionist painting by Louisiana artist William Lee Moreland (William L. Moreland). The piece is framed behind gl...

Seascape at Sunset Collage with tissue paper and gold foil on Fabriano paper, 1964 Signed and dated in ink, lower right (see photo) Provenance: Estate of the artist Martha A. French...

Artist: Josep Grau-Garriga, Spanish (1929 - 2011) Title: Un Home del Dia Year: 1969 Medium: Mixed Media and Collage on Paper, signed and dated l.r. Size: 29 in. x 22 in. (73.66 cm x ...

Joe Tilson - No DNA From the portfolio “The Software Chart Questionnaire” Screen printing on aluminum Printed by Sergio Tosi In publisher's paper envelope 50 x 39.5cm 1968 Signed and...

From the visual collaborative series between Bernie Taupin CBE and Terry O'Neill CBE, titled 'Two Sides of the 60s; Limited Edition of 199 Hand Signed by Bernie Taupin

Untitled (Tuscan Landscape) Tissue paper collage on Fabriano support Signed and dated lower right in ink Provenance: Estate of the artist Martha A. French Trust Created while the art...

Artist: Josep Grau-Garriga, Spanish (1929 - 2011) Title: Forma Sobre Forma Year: 1968 Medium: Mixed Media and Collage on Paper, Signed Verso Size: 25.5 x 17.5 in. (64.77 x 44.45 cm)

Rem Raymond Coninckx was born on 28th March in Couvin (Belgium) 1904 and died in Dinan 1974. He was a painter, draftsman, engraver and also created metallic panels and mosaics. Cont...

Paper and Adhesive collage by Wayne Timm. Image or mat opening measures 11.75x 16 in. In the 1960's, Wayne Timm rubbed elbows with the likes of Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauchenburg an...

Discover the striking beauty of “Metamorphosis,” an original abstract painting by celebrated mid-century artist Pawel Kontny (also known as Paul Kontny). Created in the late 1960s to...

Diana Kurz Transparencies Mixed media on board 16 x 12 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to Engla...

hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969 limited edition of 145 copies water-colored , numbered in lower left corner ea ( artist proof ) si...

Paper and Adhesive collage by Wayne Timm. Image measures 13 x 17 In the 1960's, Wayne Timm rubbed elbows with the likes of Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauchenburg and many others, in the ...

Abstract figurative tapestry of a woman carrying a harvest basket on her head by French outsider artist Cecile d’Apres Coraif. This work is a fantastic example of the collage fabric ...

La grande incognita (The great unknown) Collage elements with paint, paint and paper foil, 1964 1964 Created while the artist was studying at the Accademia d'Arte, Florence Signed an...

From the visual collaborative series between Bernie Taupin CBE and Terry O'Neill CBE, titled 'Two Sides of the 60s; Limited Edition of 199 Hand Signed by Bernie Taupin

This sculpture, in the form of a silver electroplated egg with a white porcelain holder, represents esteemed Swiss artist Herbert Distel's most iconic form. He created a 22-ton egg d...

Zvi Gali, painter, born 1921, Haifa. 1962 works exhibited at Venice Biennale after his death, and showed at MoMA. Lived in Motza, near Jerusalem. Education Italy, painting, fresco, ...

Genre: Avant-Garde Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media, Collage Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions: 14" x 19" Dimensions w/Frame: 19.25" x 25.5" About Nama: In his s...

Colored paper collage, c. 1960 Signed lower right. Provenance: Estate of the artist Distinguished Private Collection, Indianapolis, Indiana Sight dimension...

Douglass Morse Howell was born in 1906 in New York City. Howell stumbled into papermaking while seeking better paper for his own wood engravings in the 1930s. He set up his first pap...

LeRoy Neiman Original Mixed media on paper; including tempera, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and conte' crayon Dated 1966 8 1/2″ x 16 1/4″ viewab...

Modern surrealist mixed media sculpture by Houston artist Bob Fowler. The work features a pair of metal fly and tree sculptures arranged within a white and r...

Wood mixed media work glued onto a white background. Purple, teal and red color tones. Artist signature in the bottom right corner. Artist Biography: Charles Pebworth is known for ...

Untitled Large Seascape Mixed Media Ink and gouache wash on paper laid on board about 1970s, Artist signed lower right corner. Lim Ha Shan, was born in Seoul, Korea in 1945. The na...

Vintage Paper and Adhesive collage by Wayne Timm. (Mat opening) or Image measures 11 3/4 x 12.5 in. In the 1960's, Wayne Timm rubbed elbows with the likes of Warhol, Lichtenstein, ...

Pat Adams Extended Alike, 1969 Gouache on Paper Mounted to Canvas (Zabriskie Gallery 25th Anniversary & Contemporary Arts Center, Ohio Exhibition Labels) Signed 'Pat Adams 12.69' upper left front In vintage period frame This unique, hand signed gouache on paper, mounted to canvas by renowned artist and longtime member of the Bennington College art department and National Academician Pat Adams, bears labels verso from the following exhibitions: 'Pat Adams Paintings', The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Ohio, Dec. 7-Jan. 20th. Adams at Zabriskie '(25th Anniversary Exhibition) Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY, Dec. 5, 1978-Jan. 6, 1979, Cat. no. 41 and' Zabriskie Gallery, New York, Jan. 6-Jan 24, 1970 Measurements: Framed: 19 1/2" H x 13 1/4" W Artwork: 18" H x 11 1/2" W; Excellent condition, held in a vintage frame PAT ADAMS BIOGRAPHY: Pat Adams Biography: Pat Adams (American, b. 1928) was raised in Stockton, California, and began painting at the age of ten. She studied painting at UC Berkeley from 1945–49, where she first encountered the ideas of Hans Hofmann as she studied under his former students—Worth Ryder and Margaret Peterson O’Hagan, who had arranged for Hofmann’s migration to the States in 1932, among them. During her summers at Berkeley she pursued programs at the California College of Arts and Crafts (1945), the College of the Pacific (1946), and the Art Institute of Chicago (1948). In 1950, following her graduation from Berkeley the previous year, she attended a summer session at Brooklyn Museum Art School, remaining in the city after its completion. She received her first solo exhibition in 1954 at the Korman Gallery—later to be renamed the Zabriskie Gallery, which would continue to represent her through 2018. Her work was greatly motivated by her international travel during the 1950s: in Italy in 1951, after her first husband, painter and printmaker Vincent Longo was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, and in France in 1956, after she received her own Fulbright scholarship. In the fall of 1964 she was invited by professor Paul Feeley to teach at Bennington college, where she joined the social circle of the famous “Green Mountain Boys,” including Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski. In 1972 she married fellow Bennington professor R. Arnold Ricks, and they set off with her two sons on a four month journey through Egypt, Iran, Turkey, and all of Europe, which impacted her work significantly. She continued teaching at Bennington through 1993. Her lengthy career has also included many teaching appointments at Yale, as both a visiting professor and artist, as well as the Rhode Island School of Design, among numerous other institutions across the country. She has received notable awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy of Design, and the College Art Association. In 1995 she was awarded the Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Her work has been the subject of over fifty solo exhibitions. She lives in Bennington, Vermont. -Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery

From the visual collaborative series between Bernie Taupin CBE and Terry O'Neill CBE, titled 'Two Sides of the 60s; Limited Edition of 199 Hand Signed by Bernie Taupin

Paper and Adhesive collage by Wayne Timm. Image or mat opening measures 11 x 13 in. In the 1960's, Wayne Timm rubbed elbows with the likes of Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauchenburg and ...