Edward MarecakPods, Mid Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting, Brown Green, Cream, Tan
About the Item
- Creator:Edward Marecak (1919 - 1993)
- Dimensions:Height: 34.75 in (88.27 cm)Width: 34.75 in (88.27 cm)Depth: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:very good to excellent vintage condition.
- Gallery Location:Denver, CO
- Reference Number:
Edward Marecak
Edward Marecak was an American painter who was born in 1919. Growing up in the farming community of Brunswick, Ohio, he showed early artistic promise, hired by the National Youth Administration to document historic barns. In 1946, Marecak came to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center for a year and after a semester interlude at Cranbrook returned to study lithography with Lawrence Barrett. There he also met his future wife and sometime collaborator, ceramicist Theresa Madonna Fortin. Given the opportunity to teach a summer course at the University of Colorado, he decided to obtain a teaching certificate at the University of Denver and subsequently embarked on his 25-year career in the Denver Public School system. Rather than pursue fame, Edward Marecak directed his zeal toward fostering younger generations in the principles of art as well as his simple philosophies. Moreover, his teaching salary allowed him to ply his prodigious talent at whatever he pleased, instead of bending to the dictates of trends and sales. Having inherited his faith in education from his Slovakian immigrant parents, Marecak could add the shaping of lives to his mastery of art forms, including lithographs, monoprints, drawings, hooked rugs, ceramics, paintings, wood sculptures, stained-glass windows and jewelry. While exhibiting in his lifetime, he was, in his wife’s words, “his own greatest collector”, but shows and his popularity at the Kirkland Museum have positioned Marecak posthumously among Colorado’s pre-eminent modernists. As a child, Marecak was enthralled by the Carpathian tales of magic and supernatural beings told by his grandmother. As with other artists with roots in Eastern Europe, his artistic turn to folk tradition would free him from learned practices of perspective and modeling in favor of flat patterns within patterns and brilliant, throbbing color. While others ventured further into abstraction, Marecak stylized figurative elements into crowded compositions that appeared like a mosaic or stained glass. As he matured, he could declare, “I am still very much a Byzantine designer and my joy with what color can do grows all the time”. The traceries of strong outlines and bold shapes provide compartments for vibrant colors, contrasts and rough textures that can scarcely be contained. The Kirkland Museum staged a retrospective of Edward and Donna Marecak in 2007.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Denver, CO
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 7 days of delivery.
- Signals, Orange/Black, 1960s Abstract Geometric Oil Painting, Broadmoor AcademyLocated in Denver, CO"Signals, Orange/Black" is an oil on masonite painting by Bernard Arnest (1917-1986) from 1962. Signed by the artist in the lower center of the piece and titled verso. Presented in the original artist frame measuring 36 ½ x 27 ½ inches, image size is 36 x 27 inches. Featuring an abstract geometric design made up of orange, black, red, yellow, and green. Orange/Black is from Arnest's Signals Series and was part of the artists solo exhibition at Kraushaar Galleries in October 1962. About the Arist: A Denver native, Arnest studied with Helen Perry at East High School who is accredited to having identified many of Colorado’s talented artists. At Perry’s recommendation Arnest benefited from supplemental instruction at the newly founded Kirkland School of Art and at the School of Fine Art and Design operated by Colorado artist Frank Mechau. Following graduation from East, Arnest enrolled at the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs, where he studied with Boardman Robinson and Henry Varnum Poor. In 1940 Arnest was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in painting which he spent in San Francisco. That same year San Francisco Museum of Art had a one-man show for Arnest, the first of many in his professional career. Other exhibitions included the Whitney Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Academy of Design, Carnegie Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. After the war he worked for two years in New York City and began a thirty-nine-year affiliation with Kraushaar Galleries who also showed the likes of George Luks, John Sloan, Maurice Prendergast...Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsMasonite, Oil
- 1950s Framed Abstract Still Life Oil Painting, Blue Green Black Orange WhiteLocated in Denver, COUntitled (Fruit, Leaves, Spotted Cloth) oil on canvas painting signed by Bernard Arnest (1917-1986) from 1959. Abstracted still life featuring fruit and leaves on a purple/grey background. Presented in a custom frame measuring 43 x 36 ¾ inches, image size measures 40 x 34 inches. Expedited and International shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: A Denver native, Arnest studied with Helen Perry at East High School who is accredited to having identified many of Colorado’s talented artists. At Perry’s recommendation Arnest benefited from supplemental instruction at the newly founded Kirkland School of Art and at the School of Fine Art and Design operated by Colorado artist Frank Mechau. Following graduation from East, Arnest enrolled at the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs, where he studied with Boardman Robinson and Henry Varnum Poor. In 1940 Arnest was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in painting which he spent in San Francisco. That same year San Francisco Museum of Art had a one-man show for Arnest, the first of many in his professional career. Other exhibitions included the Whitney Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Academy of Design, Carnegie Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. After the war he worked for two years in New York City and began a thirty-nine-year affiliation with Kraushaar Galleries who also showed the likes of George Luks, John Sloan, Maurice...Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Abstract Oil Painting with a Bird Motif by Edward Chavez, Black Pink Red BlueBy Edward ChavezLocated in Denver, COOil on canvas abstract painting with a bird motif signed by artist Edward (Eduardo) Arcenio Chavez (1917-1995) circa 1980. Painted in red, blue, purple, orange, and black. Presented in a vintage frame measuring 30 ½ x 28 ½ inches, image size is 29 ¼ x 27 inches. About the Artist: Born 1917 Died 1995 Born in Wagonmound, New Mexico, Eduardo Chavez...Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Dawn of the Tigris, Mid Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting, Blue Red WhiteLocated in Denver, CO"Dawn of the Tigris" is an oil on canvas abstract painting by Gwendolyn Dufill Meux (1893-1973). Image measures 48 x 36 inches, presented in a custom frame measuring 49 ½ x 37 ½ inches. Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Gwendolyn Meux Painting is in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. About the Artist: Born 1893 Died 1973 The daughter of Arthur Mews, Deputy Secretary of Newfoundland from 1898 to 1935, and Mabel Mews, she attended the Mount Ladies’ College, now Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, on a four-year Canadian government scholarship. While an instructor at the college from 1920 to 1922 she showed in the Spring Exhibition of the Art Association of Montreal in 1920 and the following year in its Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition. In the United States, she studied with Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and with Kimon Nicholaides (author of The Natural Way to Draw) at the Art Students League in New York. In 1922-1925 Meux was an assistant professor of fine arts at the University of Oklahoma at Norman during which time she studied with Santa Fe artists Józef Bakoś and Frank Applegate in the summer of 1923. The following year she attended the University Camp summer painting workshop in Boulder, Colorado, where she met A. Gayle Waldrop, then an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Colorado (CU). In 1925 they were married in an outdoor wedding at the University Camp to which guests received invitations on aspen bark which she had beautifully lettered. Thereafter the university hired her as an art instructor, and she spent the balance of her life in Boulder. Meux quickly became involved in the Boulder art scene. She was a charter member and later one-time president of the Boulder Artists Guild. Established in 1926 by the Art Association of Boulder, the CU Art Department and local artists, the Guild was limited to active artists. It included most of the city’s professional artists before disbanding half a century later. The Art Association of Boulder was founded in 1923 by Jean Sherwood who relocated from Chicago to teach at the Boulder Chautauqua and helped convince Dean Fred B.R. Hellems at CU to set up the first art gallery on campus in the 1920s. The Association, lasting until 1939 and reconstituted in 1958, was open to individuals interested in promoting the arts through lecture programs, art classes, and exhibits. In 1931 Meux joined fellow CU Fine Arts faculty members Muriel Sibell Wolle, Frances Hoar (Trucksess), Frederick Clement Trucksess and Virginia True in The Prospectors, a Regionalist art collaborative stressing a strong sense of place and community. They formed the group in connection with a traveling exhibition of their work assembled for display at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, University of Kansas and the John Herron Institute (now the Indianapolis Museum of Art). Regional modernists influenced by the Western landscape, The Prospectors’ manifesto "claimed inspiration from the natural beauty of the mountains and plains of Boulder, as well as the ghosts of Indians, mountain men, and pioneers." Attempting to gain critical recognition for themselves and for Boulder, The Prospectors aggressively promoted their work through 1942, exhibiting at universities, museums, and galleries in twenty-four states and participating in various shows throughout the country such as the Prairie Watercolor Painters annuals in Kansas. In addition to The Prospectors, Meux was a long-time member of the Fortnightly Club of Boulder. The oldest women’s literary club in Colorado, the group was organized in 1884 by Mary Rippon, a "founding mother" of CU and its first female professor. Meeting to share information on a variety of topics, the Fortnightly Club limits its membership to thirty-five and is a mixture of "town and gown" – community members and women associated with CU. Meux was also active for many years in the University Faculty Women’s Club, serving as its president in 1941. She likewise belonged to the then-local chapter of the Artists Equity Association in Boulder. Its president in 1969, she became an honorary member in 1973. Inspired by the Colorado landscape, she worked in a variety of media: oil painting, watercolor, ink, crayon, lithography, and dry brush. An oil from the 1940s, White Church, Ward, depicts the central hillside portion of the former mining settlement founded eighty years earlier during the nineteenth-century Colorado Gold Rush. However, by the time she painted Ward the town was largely deserted with only 10-20 year-round residents. She constructed the scene with the modernists’ technique of juxtaposed angles, distorted shapes, and position. Of the structures highlighted with bright colors. For some resident Colorado artists of Meux’s generation, the state’s old mining towns offered an alternative to the overworked cowboy-and-Indian subject matter of the previous generation. Easily accessible and visible vestiges of Western mining history, those semi-ghost towns also provided a welcome break from the nineteenth-century panoramic landscape tradition. In a watercolor from the 1940s entitled Clean Up, Meux used a similarly strong palette to depict a genre scene. Probably based on her participation in a winter outing, it shows a group of hikers or skiers entering a mountain cabin to shake off the snow from their clothes. The subject stylistically belongs to American Regionalism that became ascendant during the Depression era in the 1930s and early 1940s, focusing on subjects close to home. Her Colorado work exemplifies the opinion of American modernist artist Albert Bloch, the only American artist to be affiliated with Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of early twentieth-century European modernists. "Her work," he wrote, "is marked by a vigorous and direct manner, the color is joyous and vibrant…[possessing] a keen sense of humor, and sometimes a biting irony." She also did portraits of some of her colleagues, including Muriel Sibell Wolle. She enjoyed hiking, climbing, cross-country skiing and camping as an active member of the Front Rangers, the Boulder chapter of the Colorado Mountain Club. She wrote and illustrated articles for its publication, Trail and Timberline, and for the Christian Science Monitor. Around 1940 she did an artistic rendering of the recreational opportunities in Boulder area of Colorado entitled, Mountain Playground of the University of Colorado: A Fantastical Map...Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- 1970s American Modern Black and White Abstract Oil Painting, Edward ChavezBy Edward ChavezLocated in Denver, COAbstract black and white oil on canvas painting signed by Edward (Eduardo) Arcenio Chavez (1917-1995) from circa 1975. Composition in black, gray, and white. Image size is 24 x 48 inches, framed dimensions are 25 ½ x 49 ½ inches. Painting is in good condition - please contact for a detailed condition report. About the Artist: Born 1917 Died 1995 Born in Wagonmound, New Mexico, Eduardo Chavez was an illustrator, muralist, genre and landscape painter, sculptor, and lithographer. He studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Boardman Robinson, Frank Mechau, Arnold Blanch, and Peppino Mangravite. Before serving in the army during WWII, Chavez painted many murals in the west. When he was demobilized from the army after WWII, he went to live in Woodstock, New York with his wife, artist Jenne Magafan. A new artistic climate developed in Woodstock after WWII. There was an influx of artists from the West and Midwest in Woodstock. Some of these artists were Bruce Currie, Fletcher Martin, Edward Millman, Mitchell Siporin...Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Nude Side View, Abstract Figurative Oil Painting of a Female Figure, Pink BlueBy Martin SaldanaLocated in Denver, COAbstract figurative nude portrait of a female surrounded by birds and floral arrangements, oil on board by Martin Saldana (1874-1965) titled 'Nude Side View'. Presented in a custom frame measuring 28 ¾ x 21 inches; image size is 20 ¾ x 13 ¾ inches. Painting is in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. About the Artist: Born Mexico 1874 Died 1965 Born in 1874, Saldaña grew up at Rancho Neuvo in Mexico. In 1950, at the age of 76, he began attending children's art classes at the Denver Art Museum. For the next fitfteen years, Saldaña Imaginatively documented whimsical memories from his childhood in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, portraying ranch life, landscapes, and his great love of animals. The prolific artist painted every day, completing a new piece about every three days and amassing an impressive body of work for the former cook at the Denver landmark, the Brown Palace...Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
MaterialsOil, Board
- An Amber MareLocated in Barcelona, ESOil painting on canvas.Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsOil
- Horse ParadiseLocated in Barcelona, ESOil painting on canvas.Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsOil
- The White Line, triptych- Yesterday, Today, TomorrowLocated in Barcelona, ESOil painting on canvas.Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsOil
- Composition N 32. Oil on Canvas. 59 X 78 Inch. 2021.Located in Brooklyn, NYArt pieces of Giorgi Vepkhvadze are Abstract expressionism for modern interior designs for Residential and Commercial spaces. Well suited for New York Apartments and Houses. Artist g...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Transitions and Thresholds No. 1Located in Columbia, MOMeyer studied art at University of Central Missouri, Indiana State University and received her degree in painting and drawing from Columbia College. She has had the privilege of havi...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsWax, Oil, Archival Paper
- Untitled 01 [Remains of the Remains 01] - Contemporary, Black, White, AbstractBy Zsolt BerszánLocated in Berlin, DEUntitled 01 [Remains of the Remains 01], 2018 oil on canvas 78 47/64 H x 59 1/16 W in 200 H x 150 W cm The large-sized paintings, signed by Zsolt Berszán...Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil