{"product_id":"d1255","title":"Cool-Toned Still Life \u003cbr\u003e1968 Oil \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e#D1255","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/lostartsalon.com\/collections\/leigh-hyams\"\u003eLeigh Hyams\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 1968 oil on canvas is by the artist Leigh Hyams (1926-2013). Leigh Hyams, aka Martha Mae Nickerson, Martha Bolling, and Martha Hyams, was an acclaimed painter and teacher whose career spanned several decades and continents. Based in San Francisco from 1974 to 2000, she later made her home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she continued to paint and teach until her passing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1957, Art in America recognized Hyams as one of the nation’s outstanding “New Talents,” alongside future luminaries such as Joan Mitchell, David Park, and Morris Louis. Nearly a decade later, in 1966, she studied with Larry Rivers, Conrad Marca-Relli, and Philip Guston—serving as Guston’s assistant—at the Fine Arts Institute of New College. Hyams’ figurative works reflect the expressive vitality of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, echoing the influence of artists such as Richard Diebenkorn. Her abstract interpretations of natural and cultural forms reveal affinities with the lyrical sensitivity of Georgia O’Keeffe and the spiritual abstraction of Mark Tobey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting in 1996, the eminent art historian Peter Selz (UC Berkeley) observed: “Hyams has created landscape paintings that are unique fusions of acute observation and imaginative fantasy. Her paintings, visionary statements about nature’s creative and destructive forces, are contemporary realizations of the romantic tradition of the Sublime.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLost Art Salon is honored to have collaborated with Leigh’s daughter, Gina, to reintroduce these monumental and exuberant works to the public.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote: Early paintings may bear signatures using her given name (Martha) or surnames from her family (Nickerson) and first marriage (Bolling).\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1968\u003cbr\u003eOil on Canvas Mounted to Wood\u003cbr\u003e27\"x14\" framed, 24\"x11\" unframed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSigned on the lower right corner. Mounted to archival mat board, the piece is Framed in a contemporary frame with a silver finish and a rounded reverse beveled edge using archival spacers behind conservation clear glass. Excellent vintage condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leigh Hyams (1926-2013)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50704168845529,"sku":"D1255","price":975.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2419\/6295\/files\/D1255_1.jpg?v=1792023719","url":"https:\/\/lostartsalon.com\/products\/d1255","provider":"Lost Art Salon","version":"1.0","type":"link"}