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Beautiful work by Sam Middleton (1927-2015). The work has a frame. Not new, but perfectly presentable.
Sam Middleton was a painter, lithographer, and watercolorist. He was born in Harlem, New York, and lived in Mexico, Japan, Spain, and Sweden. He came to the Netherlands in early 1963. He lived in Amsterdam for several years, but fascinated by the landscape, he later settled in Schagen, North Holland.
Middleton is self-taught, but has taught at the Ateliers '63 Haarlem and the Royal Academy in 's-Hertogenbosch. His abstract expressionist works are influenced by classical music, jazz, and pop, as well as the Dutch landscape.
These themes recur in Middleton's collages, in which he incorporates musical scores and photographs. The collages have a well-balanced aesthetic and rhythmic balance, created by a subtly applied division of the plane, often with a transparently painted background and the addition of a wide variety of graphic elements.
Sam Middleton's work can be seen in museums worldwide. Besides the Netherlands—at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Museum Van Bommel van Dam—his work can also be seen in Australia and Israel.