John Armstrong

Brown Abstract, Oil on Canvas Painting by John Armstrong, 1965

1965

Painting, November, Oil on Board Painting by Robert Sadler, 1957 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 48 x 61 in 121.9 x 154.9 cm Signed; titled on support bars (William) Robert Sadler produced abstract works in varying sizes with a spare poise and strong use of colour. The son of a noted racehorse trainer, Sadler was born at Falmouth House (now demolished) at the northern edge of Newmarket, Suffolk. By the age of fourteen he was drawing and painting aeroplanes, horses, houses and landscapes. After studying at Eastbourne College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he read Mechanical Engineering, in 1930 he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot. In 1942, whilst posted to the Air Ministry as Director of Plans, he attended art school in London and spent the following year in Turkey on special duties where he lectured at the Turkish Air Staff College and painted and rode race horses. At the end of the war he returned to the UK and took up the post of Station Commander at RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire. In 1947 he moved to Denmark as Air Attache to the British Embassy in Copenhagen where he attended art school and two years later, whilst Vice-President of the RAF Officers' Selection Board, set-up a studio in Stockbridge whilst attending art school in Winchester. In 1953 he moved to the USA to take up the post as representative on the NATO Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence Committee during which period he attended the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC where he first encountered the work of the American Abstract Expressionists. Returning to the UK in 1955 he moved back to Newmarket, having retired from the RAF 'to devote the rest of my life to painting.' He attended Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London, Cambridge Technical College and became a member of the Winchester Art Society and the Cambridge Society of Painters & Sculptors. His first one-man show was at Swaffham Prior, Cambridge and from then until 1963 he lived and painted in a largely abstract expressionist style influenced by the Ecole de Paris Tachisme of Poliakoff and de Stael and by the contemporary British work of Peter Lanyon, William Scott, Bryan Wynter...

Gordon House was born in 1932 in Pontardawe, South Wales. Early exposure to art on trips to the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery as a young boy inspired House towards creative endeavors and ...

Bajazet Encag'd, Oil on Canvas Painting by Jack Knox 1936-2015, circa 1965 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 122 x 153 cm 48 1/8 x 60 1/4 in Signed; with title and Artist's address verso Provenance Acquired from the below by a private collector Exhibitions Royal Scottish Academy, 1965, cat. no.219 Jack Knox was a Scottish painter and teacher. Born in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire in 1936, Knox studied at Glasgow School of Art 1953-57, with teachers such William Armour and David Donaldson, before spending a year at the Paris atelier of the French painter André L'hote. Combining what he took from this experience with the impact of seeing the first show of American Abstract Expressionists in Europe in 1959, he began a diverse career which saw constantly changing styles, from gestural abstraction to still lifes and portraits. In 1965 he was appointed lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art where he worked alongside fellow artists such as Alberto Morrocco...

Martin Bradley 1931-2023 Schematic View of a Garden, 1958 oil and fibre on canvas 60 x 37 cm 23 5/8 x 14 5/8 in signed and dated; further signed and inscribed by Artist verso Born ...

Brown and beige abstract surface 7611 is a contemporary artwork realized by Genny Puccini in 1976. Mixed colored acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the back.

Acrylic Abstract Painting, Original artwork created by Ronald Hunter. A balanced geometric composition with soft brown tones, bordered by darker lines or acrylic paint and texture...

This stunning Modernist Untitled Color Field Oil Painting in Earth Tones signed Herbert MacDonald originates from the United States, Circa 1968. Features a rectangular composition in...

Radek Smach - Original abstract acrylic painting on canvas. Mixed media. My works are part of many private collections all over the world. Ready to hang. No framing required (i...