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Painting measures 24x20
Description: Artist: Alvena Vajda Seckar (American, 19162012) Unit of Sale: Single Piece Signed: Yes (Signed & Dated "Seckar 64" in lower right) Year of Production: 1964 Material: Oil on [Board / Canvas - Fill in based on your piece] Style: Modernism, Expressionism, Mid-Century Modern Technique: Heavy Impasto / Palette Knife Subject: Coastal Landscape, Suspension Bridge, Riverscape, Infrastructure This atmospheric cityscape features expressive brushwork and a muted palette of blue-gray, green, and cream tones. A distinctive piece for collectors of New York City art, bridge paintings, harbor scenes, and vintage-style landscapes. Details: Subject: New York City bridge and harbor scene Possible location: George Washington Bridge, Hudson River Painting dimensions: 24 inches wide 20 inches high Frame: Unframed in the photographs provided Condition: Pre-owned; please review photographs for details The painting is being sold as pictured. Artist attribution, date, and exact location have not been independently verified. Please examine all photographs carefully before purchasing.
Up for sale is a powerful, authentic mid-century modern oil landscape painting by listed American modernist artist, author, and activist Alvena Vajda Seckar (1916–2012). [1]
Dated 1964, this piece captures a dramatic coastal or river landscape beneath a heavy, churning sky. In the background stretches an atmospheric suspension bridge, rendered in Seckar’s signature industrial style. The work features a stunning, thick impasto technique with heavy palette-knife applications that give the water, sky, and rocky foreground immense texture and movement.
Significance of the Year (1964):
1964 represents a critical milestone and career transition period for Seckar. This was the exact year she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, making paintings from this mid-60s window highly personal, rare, and deeply meaningful touchstones of her active field-painting era.
