Mod-Realist, Modernism, Regionalist (Urban)

George Milo (1909-1984) American

Medium: Oil on Board
Image Size: 42” x 30”
Frame Size: 50” x 38”
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Price: $9500

Biography/Statement

George Milo Vescia b. 19 Dec 1909 New York, d. 19 Aug 1984 Los Angeles.

Known professionally as George Milo, he was a painter, set designer, set decorator, and art director whose extensive television and film credits span the decades from the 1940s through the 1970s, and include a long and illustrious association with director Alfred Hitchcock.

Milo worked on Hitchcock’s most acclaimed films, serving as the set decorator for The Birds (1963), Psycho (1960), Marnie (1964), and set designer for Torn Curtain (1966).

He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category of Best Art Direction for his work on the films Psycho (1960), Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), and That Touch of Mink (1962).

Biography from Kelley Gallery – Pasadena

Artist Profile Page: Milo, George / Categories: Mod-Realist, Modernism, Regionalist (Urban)

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Cubism, Modernism

Jan Matulka (1890-1972) American, European

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 20” x 24”
Frame Size: 28” x 32”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jan Matulka became a leading modernist working with Stuart Davis to find a new type of Cubism based on distortion of forms.  The totality of his work ranged from traditional to abstract, reflecting the changes in the art world of 20th century America.

In 1907, he came to the Bronx, New York where he had a poverty-ridden childhood with a mother who tried to raise a family by herself.  From 1908 to 1917, he studied at the National Academy of Design, and in 1917, received the first Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship with which he traveled and painted in the Southwest and Florida.  His work from this period showed a turning towards a more abstract style, replacing his earlier realism.

In 1919, he first went to Paris and then returned in 1927 on a scholarship from the National Academy.  In Paris, he was exposed to Cubism, and his painting after that seemed always to carry that influence.  He had his first one-man exhibit in New York City in 1925, and by 1930, he and Davis were experimenting with their version of Cubism.

Concurrently for New Masses, a communist magazine, he did satiric illustrations expressing his sympathy for the working classes, and from 1929 to 1931, he taught at the Art Students League where he inspired emerging modernists such as David Smith, Dorothy Dehner, and I Rice Pereira.  In the late 1930s, he became a WPA mural artist. He continued to paint until he died in New York City in 1972.

Source: Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art

Artist Profile Page: Matulka, Jan / Categories: Cubism, Modernism

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Modernism, Regionalist (Urban)

(A Mediterranean Village) European

A Mediterranean Village, Likely a view in Cyprus, Southern Italy, or perhaps Malta. Painted circa 1910.

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 37” x 35”
Frame Size: 45” x 43”
Signature: Signed in Cyrillic lower left
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

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Artist Profile Page: A Mediterranean Village / Categories: Modernism, Regionalist (Urban)

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Figurative, Modernism, Portrait

Eda Sterchi (1885-1969) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 40”
Frame Size: 40” x 50”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $12500

Biography/Statement

Born in Olney, Illinois, Eda Sterchi was a landscape and genre painter who worked in the Midwest, Southwest, Europe, and Tunisia. She was a highly independent woman who was the first among her peers to cut her hair in a bob, the first to get divorced, and the first to smoke cigarettes. Her painting was influenced by European modernism, and many of them had large, abstract fields of color.

She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and with Lucien Simon in Paris. Her work met with early success, and in 1913 she began exhibiting at the American Artists Club and the International Artists Union in Paris. In the United States, she exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute from 1915 to 1920 and had a one-woman show there in 1929.

In Tunisia, she attended the Institute de Carthage and there she received official recognition from that government for the quality of her art work. She divided her time between that country and Chicago.

In 1910, Sterchi first visited Taos, New Mexico, and from then exhibited paintings of New Mexico, especially at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1938 and 1939, and from 1940 to 1962, she lived and painted in Phoenix, Arizona during the winters. She was a member of the Institute de Carthage, Chicago Art Club and Chicago Society of Artists

Artist Profile Page: Sterchi, Eda / Categories: Figurative, Modernism, Portrait

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