Martin Ries 1950's

Martin Ries
1950's

After college Ries experienced a dramatic development in his art as he began a series of Sacred Landscapes, dealing with death and the demise of civilizations. In 1955 he sold many of these early paintings to live and exhibit in Spain for a year. Visited Guernica. He had a work in a drawing exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Published "The Elusive Goya" in New Republic magazine. Fellowship to Yaddo Art Colony.

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Sacred Landscape
1950 approximately 18 x 24
Collection of : Dr. Jack Greenbaum, N.Y.

Tiresias, Hydra-Form and Holyman

1950, 20x15, egg tempera on board.

Mystic Landscape

1950, 8-1/2x11, ink on paper.
Whereabouts unknown.

Sacred Landscape with Hydra-Forms
1951, 14 1/2 x 36, egg tempera on board.

Sacred Landscape, I

1950-52, 25 x 20, egg tempera on board.

Drawing: Sacred Landscape
1958, 3 x 5, ink on paper.
Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Gannett Ries

Medieval Halberd

1958, 42 x 35, egg tempera on masonite,
Corcoran Museum and Art Gallery
Washington DC

Sacred Landscape III

1953, 12 x 25, egg tempera on upsonboard.

King in State

1957, 7-1/2x5-1/2, ink on paper.

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