c.1950
Rob Blumberg was an accomplished artist who painted in a dizzying variety of styles, including Impressionism, Postimpressionism, Surrealism, Futurism, Expressionism and abstraction. Across these distinctive changes that took place throughout his career, his work consistently possessed a vibrant and passionate glow.
Blumberg was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1908. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City, the Art Students League of New York and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. In 1932, he moved back to New York, where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League of New York.
Blumberg moved to California in 1940. In 1950, he opened a prominent private art school in Westwood, Los Angeles. In support of a California statute that granted royalties to artists from profits on resales of their work, he co-founded the grassroots group Artists for Economic Action. As its chairman, he worked closely with state legislators to bring California to the forefront of promoting artists’ rights.
Blumberg’s most prolific period was from 1947 to 1951. Often referred to as his “psychological period,” he delved into many different modernist styles. After 1952, he favored a palette knife over a paintbrush for creating his art. He died in 2002.
Blumberg’s works are part of the permanent collections of major museums, including the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
On 1stDibs, find Ron Blumberg’s paintings, drawings and more.
Conflict
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member ...
Acrylic, Paper
Tango
By Robert McIntosh
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just discovered mixed media painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, (1916-2010.) Tango, is an original mixed media gouache o...
Mixed Media
L'Universo"
By Gastone Breddo
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil and sand on canvas by Italian artist Gastone Breddo, "L'Universo.". Born in Italy in 1915, Breddo worked throughout his life as an abstract/futurist art...
Oil
City Abstrait
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional original acrylic on paper by American artist Ron Blumberg. American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La ...
Acrylic Polymer
Speed
By Robert McIntosh
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present the following suite of just discovered, mixed media paintings, c.1957, by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010) Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific...
Abstract #1
By Robert McIntosh
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An original mid century oil on panel by American artsist Robert McItosh. "Abstract 1", is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1950, with an image dimensi...
Oil, Panel
Colorful Abstract Painting by Robert Kautz
By Robert Kautz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Kautz, Austrian Title: untitled Year: 2001 Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper, signed Size: 25.5 in. x 19.5 in. (59.69 cm x 49.53 cm)
Acrylic
Fly Away, Painting, Acrylic on Other
By Donna Bernstein
Located in Yardley, PA
This horse has the appearance of very freely flying away from anyone who might catch him! Inspired by the need in all of us to escape the world at times, and experience ourself, and ...
Acrylic
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Jerry Opper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Abstraction (Untitled), 1949, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 30 x 32 inches, presented in a new wooden strip frame Jerry Opper was an American painter, printmaker, and comm...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Charles Miesmer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Miesmer began painting in the open air during the summers in Nantucket. Using a pad of Arches paper as an easel and working out of the back of his pickup truck, the quietude and pea...
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Running the Light (Abstract painting)
By Dana Gordon
Located in London, GB
Running the Light (Abstract painting) Gouache on matte board. Unframed. This work is part of an early series made in 1998 where Gordon explored with free flowing interacting with c...
Gouache, Board
Running the Light (Abstract painting)
By Dana Gordon
Located in London, GB
Running the Light (Abstract painting) Gouache on matte board. Unframed. This work is part of an early series made in 1998 where Gordon explored with free flowing interacting with c...
Gouache, Board
