Reginald K. Gee

"Untitled, " Oil Pastel Drawing on Pink Paper by Reginald K. Gee

c. 1985

"Ulsto" is an original oil pastel drawing on grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This piece features abstract color fields but also depicts an ab...

"Baghdad Rain" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts some abstracted figures in a dream-like...

"Freelance" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts an artist walking through an abstracted wo...

"The Plan Begins" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right and dated it on the back. It features two abstracted ...

"Okalikolo" is an original oil pastel drawing by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the left margin. This piece features an amalgamation of various abstract figures and ...

"Hand, Face with Space" is an original oil pastel by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the right edge and on the back. It features an abstracted face and hand as well a...

Watercolor, oil pastel, charcoal, ink, salt and Black 3.0 on watercolor paper, 22.25" high x 29.75" wide Pink, red, peach, orange, purple, black Framing available COA available upon...

Overflowing with imaginative symbolism, Rafael Melendez's Neo-conceptualist work on paper, Foot Head Smoking, 2022, captivates avant-garde enthusiasts seeking a distinctive approach ...

Imbued with a darkly humorous iconography, Rafael Melendez's Neo-conceptualist creations captivate the contemporary art scene. Mouth Smoking (2022) epitomizes the audacious, influent...

Anthony Thomas Triano (1928–1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, illustrator and teacher. His works feature natural forms, especially the human form, and tend towar...

Street art style figurative abstract of blue face by Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century). Signed "Kelvin Curry" lower right. Unframed. Ima...

Mercedes Carles Matter (1913 - 2001) Untitled, circa 1937 Pastel on paper 16 x 13 1/2 inches Estate stamped on the reverse Provenance: Estate of the artist Spanierman Gallery, New York Private Collection, Pennsylvania circa 2013 Private Collection, New York, 2021 Mercedes Matter was born in New York in 1913. Her father, the American modernist Arthur B. Carles, had studied with Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen. Ms. Matter grew up in Philadelphia, New York and Europe. She began painting under her father's supervision at age 6, and studied art at Bennett College in Millbrook, N.Y., and then in New York City with Maurice Sterne, Alexander Archipenko and Hans Hofmann. In the late 1930's, she was an original member of the American Abstract Artists organization and worked for the federal Works Progress Administration, assisting Fernand Léger on his mural for the French Line passenger ship company. Léger introduced her to Herbert Matter, the Swiss graphic designer and photographer, whom she married in 1939. The Matters were active in the emerging New York art scene and also traveled frequently to Europe. Their closest friends included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Alexander Calder and Willem de Kooning. They were also close to Alberto Giacometti, who was an important artistic role model for Mrs. Matter and a frequent photographic subject for her husband. Beginning in 1953, Mrs. Matter taught at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts), Pratt Institute and New York University. Based on her teaching experiences she wrote an article for Art News in 1963 titled ''What's Wrong with U.S. Art Schools?'' In it, she lamented the phasing out of the extended studio classes required to initiate ''that painfully slow education of the senses,'' which she considered an artist's life work. The article prompted a group of Pratt students to ask her to form a school based on her ideas, which led, in 1964, to the founding of the New York Studio School. Originally in a loft on Broadway, the school gained almost immediate support from the Kaplan Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation. It granted no degrees, had only studio classes and emphasized drawing from life. Its teachers, chosen by the students, included the artists Guston, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Charles Cajori, Louis Finkelstein...