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Style: Color-Field
Virginia Site, 1959
Located in Saugatuck, MI
Kenneth Noland screenprint of "Virginia Site, 1959" printed in Belgium 2002. This is an unsigned edition. Paper dimensions are 27.5" x 27.5" and image dimensions are 19.5" x 19.5".
Category

1950s Color-Field Art

Materials

Screen

Red Barns
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn Red Barns, 1980 Color Lithograph on wove paper Hand signed, dated, and numbered 45/50 by the artist on the front Original vintage wood frame included Classic 1980 Wolf Kahn...
Category

1980s Color-Field Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jack Bush at Andre Emmerich (Exhibition invitation postmarked to McNay director)
Located in New York, NY
Jack Bush Jack Bush at Andre Emmerich, 1966 Offset lithograph exhibition poster. Postmarked to McNay Art institute director 22 1/2 × 17 3/4 inches Unframed This special mid century modern exhibition...
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1960s Color-Field Art

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Lithograph, Offset

Earthen Tantric Painting #3- tantric soak stain meditation painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Earthen Tantric Painting #3- tantric soak stain meditation painting by abstract artist Elisa Niva 30”x40” Acrylic on cotton canvas. One of the main inspirations of this soak-stain ...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Wolf Kahn's America (Hand signed and inscribed illustrated hardback monograph)
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn Wolf Kahn's America (Hand signed and inscribed), 2003 Hand signed and dedicated hardback monograph with dust jacket Boldly signed in ink with heartfelt personal dedication ...
Category

Early 2000s Color-Field Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Holi powder Tantra painting #4 - Colorful abstract tantric stain painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Holi powder Tantra painting #4 - Colorful abstract tantric stain painting, acrylic and powder on raw canvas by contemporary artist Elisa Niva 42 inches x 32 inches. One of the main...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Color Field Light Blue Gradient Painting
Located in New York, NY
Light Blue gradient, abstract color field painting, in shadow box, white frame. A color field gradient abstract acrylic painting features smooth transitions of colors, often blending from one hue to another. The painting showcases a sense of depth and movement through the variations in color, creating a visually captivating experience. The color transitions are usually seamless, without sharp contrasts or defined shapes, allowing the viewer to interpret and immerse themselves in the soothing and harmonious composition. A light blue gradient painting...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Summer solstice moon - Abstract color field stain painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
'summer solstice moon' 26"x24" acrylic and oil pigment stick on raw cotton canvas by Abstract painter Elisa Niva. This earthy and soft painting uses the soak- method created by He...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Moon Rising - Abstract stain painting acrylic on raw canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
'Moon Rising' acrylic painting by contemporary artist Elisa Niva, Acrylic on raw canvas 42 inches x 30 inches. This moon rise painting uses the soak- method created by Helen Franke...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Earthen Tantra painting #3 - Abstract tantric stain painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Earthen Tantra painting #3 - Abstract tantric stain painting 28" x30" Acrylic and oil pigment stick on raw cotton canvas by abstract artist Elisa Niva. One of the main inspiration...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

New Day - Colorful abstract landscape stain painting, acrylic on raw canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
'New Day' acrylic painting by contemporary artist Elisa Niva, Acrylic on raw canvas 34 inches x 40 inches. This bright and cheerful painting featuring unconventional colors to depi...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Earthen Tantra painting #6 - Abstract tantric stain painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
'Earthen Tantra painting #6' - Abstract tantric stain painting 31" x 31" acrylic and powder on raw cotton canvas by abstract painter Elisa Niva One of the main inspirations of this ...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Earth and Sky #2 - Abstract color field stain painting, acrylic on raw canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Earth and Sky #2 - Abstract color field stain painting, acrylic on raw canvas by Abstract painter Elisa Niva. 31 inches by 29 inches This bright and cheerful color field painting ...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Spanish Ghost
Located in Austin, TX
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso. 52.25 x 52.75 in. 54 x 54.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple hardwood floater. Provenance Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York Private Collection, Connecticut Provenance Estate of Samuel Feinstein...
Category

1980s Color-Field Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Orange Edge
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated verso. 40.25 x 34 in. 41.5 x 35.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater, with a matte white finish. Provenance The Betty Par...
Category

1960s Color-Field Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Captain Cook
Located in Austin, TX
Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated lower right, titled verso. 69 x 68.25 in. 70.5 x 70 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater. Provenance Private Collection, Hilton ...
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Midget Racer (unique Mid Century Modern Color Field Abstract Geometric drawing)
Located in New York, NY
Larry Poons Midget Racer, 1963 Colored Pencil on Graph Paper Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the lower right front Original frame with gallery label included This work has...
Category

1960s Color-Field Art

Materials

Color Pencil, Mixed Media

Untitled Target hand signed work on paper, unique Color Feld Abstract Geometric
Located in New York, NY
Kenneth Noland Untitled Target, 2001 Acrylic paint on offset lithograph Signed, dated, and dedicated along lower edge: For Howard and Susan with Love Kenneth Noland 6.10.01 Framed This original acrylic target painting on offset lithograph paper was gifted by the artist to the influential publishers, authors, and film producers Howard and Susan Kaminsky, and it bears a warm personal inscription followed by the artist's signature. Measurements: Framed: 22 x 21.75 x 1.25 inches Unframed: 19 1/2 x 19 inches Provenance: Gifted by Kenneth Noland to the distinguished publishers, authors, and film producers Howard and Susan Kaminsky. (Howard also became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations...
Category

1990s Color-Field Art

Materials

Acrylic, Lithograph, Offset, Permanent Marker

Play of Angels, unique signed watercolor & gouache color field painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
Jules Olitski Play of Angels, 2000 Watercolor and gouache on all-rag paper Signed and dated 2000 by the artist on the front Frame included (elegantly floated and framed in light wood...
Category

Early 2000s Color-Field Art

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Rag Paper, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker

Rope Dancer #2
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Color Field / AbEx
Category

20th Century Color-Field Art

Materials

Acrylic

Shooting Star 1979 Large Signed Screen Print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Shooting Star - 1979 Print - Silkscreen 36.5'' x 36.75'' Edition: Signed in pencil, dated and marked 238/250 Unframed
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Screen

from the smoke and ash - Abstract tantric stain painting, acrylic on raw canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
from the smoke and ash - Abstract tantric stain painting, acrylic on raw canvas by contemporary artist Elisa Niva33 inches x 29 inches. One of the main i...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

ephemeral vignette #03 - Colorful abstract stain painting, acrylic on raw canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
'ephemeral vignette #03' acrylic painting by contemporary artist Elisa Niva, Acrylic on raw canvas 36 inches x 44 inches. Ephemeral is a large fluid pain...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Subtle Was Rarely An Option
Located in Santa Fe, NM
"Subtle Was Rarely An Option" is a lithograph with chine-collé elements exemplifying Calvert's exploration of the "...conversations that develop between everyday objects of comfort ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Art

Materials

Lithograph

Battle of the Sexes, Mathematical Conceptual Abstraction, Science Art Collection
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork was made in the Colorfield concept with the character elements - the formulas on the painting are from mathematical game theory. In game theory, the battle of the sexes...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Primary Colors in Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Bright reds, yellows, blue and green stripes adorn a wall in lower Manhattan. Chairs of the same color scheme line the street and have an older woman with a scarf covering her face. ...
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Red Beard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joseph Solman, American (1909 - 2008) Title: The Red Beard Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 20.25 x 12 inches Frame Size: 30 x 22 inches
Category

1960s Color-Field Art

Materials

Oil

Arapahoe XII
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed, titled, dated verso. 40 x 44 in. 41.5 x 45.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a natural cherry floater. Provenance Knoedler Contemporary, New York Ludwig Sand...
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hummock
Located in Lawrence, NY
Ex collection Carolyn Dunlap Millet Exhibited: Knoedler and Co, NY; Tibor de Nagy, Houston; Berry Campbell, NY Walter Darby Bannard was a leading prop...
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Acrylic

After Smoke
Located in New York, NY
Color screenprint on Arches paper. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 22/73 in pencil by Gilliam. Printed by Lou Stovall at the Workshop, Inc., Washington,...
Category

1980s Color-Field Art

Materials

Color, Screen

Divided Lands, Signed Contemporary Blue Abstract Color Field Digital Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Divided Lands, Signed Contemporary Blue Abstract Color Field Digital Painting 30" x 30" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Archival Print on Canvas Hand-signed by the artis...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Art

Materials

Canvas, Digital, Archival Pigment

Abstract Expressionist poster (Hand signed and inscribed by Henen Frankenthaler)
Located in New York, NY
Helen Frankenthaler Frankenthaler (Hand signed and inscribed), 1988 Offset lithograph (hand signed and inscribed to renowned collectors) Hand signed and warmly inscribed in ink on the front Frame included: Museum frame with UV plexiglass included Inscribed "to Paul and Joan, love Helen Frankenthaler" (Paul and Joan Gluck were major art collectors) Measurements: Framed 42 inches vertical by 34 inches by 1.75 inches Print 34.5 inches vertical by 27 inches Helen Frankenthaler, A Brief Biography Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. She produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to grow. Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928, and raised in New York City. She attended the Dalton School, where she received her earliest art instruction from Rufino Tamayo. In 1949 she graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, where she was a student of Paul Feeley. She later studied briefly with Hans Hofmann Frankenthaler’s professional exhibition career began in 1950, when Adolph Gottlieb selected her painting Beach (1950) for inclusion in the exhibition titled Fifteen Unknowns: Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery. Her first solo exhibition was presented in 1951, at New York’s Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and that year she was also included in the landmark exhibition 9th St. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture. In 1952 Frankenthaler created Mountains and Sea, a breakthrough painting of American abstraction for which she poured thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas laid on the studio floor, working from all sides to create floating fields of translucent color. Mountains and Sea was immediately influential for the artists who formed the Color Field school of painting, notable among them Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. As early as 1959, Frankenthaler began to be a regular presence in major international exhibitions. She won first prize at the Premiere Biennale de Paris that year, and in 1966 she represented the United States in the 33rd Venice Biennale, alongside Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski. She had her first major museum exhibition in 1960, at New York’s Jewish Museum, and her second, in 1969, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, followed by an international tour. Frankenthaler experimented tirelessly throughout her long career. In addition to producing unique paintings on canvas and paper, she worked in a wide range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and especially printmaking. Hers was a significant voice in the mid-century “print renaissance” among American abstract painters, and she is particularly renowned for her woodcuts. She continued working productively through the opening years of this century. Frankenthaler’s distinguished, prolific career has been the subject of numerous monographic museum exhibitions. The Jewish Museum and Whitney Museum shows were succeeded by a major retrospective initiated by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth that traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI (1989); and those devoted to works on paper and prints organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1993), among others. Select recent important exhibitions have included Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959 (Gagosian, NY, 2013); Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2014); Giving Up One’s Mark: Helen Frankenthaler in the 1960s and 1970s (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2014–15); Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2015); As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings and No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts...
Category

1980s Color-Field Art

Materials

Offset, Ballpoint Pen, Lithograph

Green Sculpted Wall Art
Located in New York, NY
Lime Green abstract painting color field painting
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Plaster, Acrylic

Limited Edition Canvas Tote, 1977 Mixed Media: Silkscreen on Canv
Located in New York, NY
Kenneth Noland Limited Edition Canvas Tote, 1977 Mixed Media: Silkscreen on Canvas with handles and leather tag. Numbered with ink stamp 15 × 15 inches Edition 268/500 Plate signed and dated Kenneth Noland and stamp numbered from the edition of 500 Very good vintage condition with handling and creasing (see photos) This was not commercially marketed but was designed as a prototype with each one stamp numbered. Not too many are around, and very rarely found in such good condition. This work is sold unframed as shown in the first image, but for inspiration only, see a photograph of how one collector framed a different edition of this work - and it looks like a print or painting! (see last image) A true vintage collectors item.
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Screen

In Shadow 3
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1948 Artist Statement "My paintings are intuitive responses to the myriad forces that shape my life—emotions that translate into color, visual memories of forms and co...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Elegy by Jules Olitski, 2002 (abstract blue and yellow screen print)
Located in New York, NY
This 30 color screen print was created at Brand X Editions to commemorate the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York City. This print comes directly from the publisher, Lincoln Center Editions...
Category

Early 2000s Color-Field Art

Materials

Screen

Tria
Located in Lawrence, NY
Exhibited: Tibor de Nagy Poulis is a color field painter associated with the abstract expressionist school. One critic describes his work thusly: "These paintings are about mark-...
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Acrylic

Landscape for Picabia
Located in Lawrence, NY
Artist Angelo Ippolito (1922-2001) produced a body of oils on canvas, works on paper, and assemblages renowned for their lyrical color, light, and compositional rigor. His paintings ...
Category

1980s Color-Field Art

Materials

Oil

Resurrection
Located in Lawrence, NY
Artist Angelo Ippolito (1922-2001) produced a body of oils on canvas, works on paper, and assemblages renowned for their lyrical color, light, and compositional rigor. His paintings ...
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Oil

"Eleven Thirteen, (Dancing Line Series), " Elliott Thompson, Color Field Abstract
Located in New York, NY
Elliott Thompson Eleven Thirteen, (Dancing Line Series), 1972 Signed, Elliott Thompson, dated, 2/72, and inscribed, Eleven Thirteen, on verso and agai...
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Canvas, Tape, Acrylic

Southwest Landscape
Located in Lawrence, NY
Artist Angelo Ippolito (1922-2001) produced a body of oils on canvas, works on paper, and assemblages renowned for their lyrical color, light, and compositional rigor. His paintings ...
Category

1990s Color-Field Art

Materials

Oil

Homage to Barnett Newman
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on white wove paper. Signed and numbered 248/250 in pencil by Davis. Based on a series of oil paintings made by Davis, completed afte...
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Color, Screen

Untitled
Located in Columbia, MO
Acrylic on canvas
Category

1980s Color-Field Art

Materials

Acrylic

Sundance
Located in Lawrence, NY
Artist Angelo Ippolito (1922-2001) produced a body of oils on canvas, works on paper, and assemblages renowned for their lyrical color, light, and compositional rigor. His paintings ...
Category

1990s Color-Field Art

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Oil

Twilight at the River
Located in Lawrence, NY
Brodsky’s first classroom experience under Ad Reinhardt at Brooklyn College in 1961 was an extraordinary one. The students were asked to take their places in front of their easels in...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Oil

Grey, Orange, Beige Abstract Colorfield painting
Located in New York, NY
Color field abstract painting , grey blue, gold orange neutral peach, beige. Abstract Acrylic Painting Minimalism painting
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Acrylic

Mid Century Textural Color-Field Abstract in Royal Blue-Purple by Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Textural Color-Field Abstract in Royal Blue-Purple by Peter Witwer A striking mid-century textural color-field abstract in a bold color palette of royal blue-purple by San Francisco artist Peter Witwer (American, 1928-1968). This highly textured mixed media piece, c.1960's, uses a monochromatic palette that is divided into two areas of varying textural depths. The lower part of the canvas verges on sculptural, as the textured surface becomes almost three-dimensional and haunting forms emerge from the abstract purple-blue plane. Unsigned. From a collection of the artist's works. Displayed in a painted wood slate frame. Frame has been painted by the artist and is considered part of the artwork. Linen size: 26"H x 22"W. Framed size: 27"H x 23"W x 1.2"D Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Provenance: Without a will and a family that had little interest in his art, nearly all of his possessions and close to 100 paintings were turned over to SF’s Conservators Office. His friend, Albert Richard Lasker, purchased all of Peter’s possessions (including the art) and has taken care of them until this day, always sensing there was something remarkable about the collection. Wanting Peter’s work to finally be seen, Richard came to Lost Art Salon with Peter’s story after reading about the new gallery in a July, 2005 issue of the SF Chronicle. Born George Peter...
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1960s Color-Field Art

Materials

Linen, Oil, Mixed Media

Navigator
Located in Lawrence, NY
Stewart Waltzer was Kenneth Noland's studio assistant in the 1970s and 1980s, an acclaimed artist in his own right and a noted curator and art critic. His work appears rarely
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Acrylic

Color Field Flowers, Vertical Abstract Painting, Vivid Tones in Yellow and Gray
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Color Field Flowers" is an abstract painting by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of organic large forms combined with subtle tones and unique shapes that is bo...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

“Bat at Night”
Located in Austin, TX
Abstract color-blocked painting. Acrylic on sturdy canvas.
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Grusgrav", Mid Century Modern Danish Color-Field Abstract in Yellow, 36/80
Located in Soquel, CA
"Grusgrav", a wonderfully minimal yet expressive mid century modern abstract limited edition hand signed lithograph by Frede Christoffersen (Danish, 1919-1987). This 1962 color-field abstract features a subdued palette of earthy golden rod yellows and sage, the geometric areas of color divided into fractured shapes with organic and expressive texture. Grusgrav, the title of the piece, is Danish for gravel pit. Titled "Grusgrav", signed with the artist's initials "FC" and dated "62" lower right. Numbered "36/80" lower left. Signed "Frede Christoffersen" on verso. Official Org. U.M. Grafik warranty certificate stamp on verso. Displayed in a vintage painted wood frame. Image size: 11.5"H x 17"W. Another lithograph print of "Grusgrav" from the same edition, number 44/80, is included in the collection of the Fuglsang Art Museum (Fuglsang Kunstmuseum) on the island of Lolland in Denmark. Born in Borup, Denmark, outside out Copenhagen. Christoffersen spent a short period at the Copenhagen Arts and Crafts School before travelling to the Far East in 1940-41. The result was his 20 "Smaa sorte Tegninger" published in 1941. From 1942 to 1943, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, both at the graphic arts school and at the school of painting, under Aksel Jørgensen...
Category

1960s Color-Field Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Fields of Colors, Gradient Geometry in Yellow, Red and Black, Vertical Abstract
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Fields of Colors" is an abstract painting by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful combination of geometric shapes in a vivid gamut of gradient colors. Natalia Roman was born in 1984 in Girona...
Category

2010s Color-Field Art

Materials

Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache

Red Wall Lower Manhattan Street Scene - Early Color Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This image is as much about the color of the red wall and the psychedelic colors of the female's shirt street as the three figures who populate the composition. Color is a co-subject...
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

At Green Camp
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed lower left Born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927, Wolf Kahn immigrated to the United States by way of England in 1940. In 1945, he graduated from the High School of Music & Art...
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Rafina II Greece (with original Kasmin London label)
By Paul Feeley
Located in New York, NY
Paul Feeley Rafina II Greece, 1961 Watercolour on paper Hand Signed, titled and dated lower front In 1961, color field painter Paul Feeley created a series of watercolors - Rafina an...
Category

1960s Color-Field Art

Materials

Watercolor, Graphite

Kids having Fun in front East Village Yellow Wall, Street Photography in Color
Located in Miami, FL
The early 1970s was a period of reexamination of the state of photography for Mitchell Funk. He broke with the tradition of shooting gritty street photography in black and white and ...
Category

1970s Color-Field Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

"Nineteen" Thomas Downing, Purple Washington Color School Design, Shaped Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Victor Downing (1928 - 1985) Nineteen, 1968 Acrylic on canvas 35 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches Signed on the reverse Provenance: Estate of the artist Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C. Private Collection, Washington, D.C. Thomas Downing was born in Suffolk, Virginia. In 1950, after graduating from Pratt Institute in New York City, he received a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art to study in Europe. Upon returning from Europe, he settled in Washington, DC to teach at Catholic University. In 1954 Downing became a friend of Kenneth Noland, whose life drawing course he attended. From 1955 to 1956 Downing shared a studio with Howard Mehring, another artist who came to be identified with the Washington Color School. Downing had his first one-man show at the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts in 1959. That year, Downing, Mehring, and Betty Pajac founded Origio, a cooperative art gallery in Washington. In 1959 Downing first began using the small dot in his work, a motif he explored fully into the 1970s. In the early works colorful dots determined the structure of the painting in their size, position, and repetition within a grid. Often there was a sense of concentration and expansion of the composition from the center to the edge of the canvas, achieving a visual impression of expanding open space. Looking for the fusion between the grid and color, Downing eliminated overlapping dots in 1962. The dots arranged in grids seem to project from the canvas surface, giving the impression the color floats unrestricted by the square format of his paintings. Downing’s position in the Washington Color School came from his consistent approach to color. The canvas was the receptacle of color, on which Downing often worked in tonal modulations of a hue. Downing developed shaped canvases in 1966 as a structural solution to his deeper consideration of the “spatial definition” of color. After first working in a parallelogram shape, Downing next worked in chevron-shaped canvases that examined the illusionistic qualities of color. He exhibited these works in a solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in 1966-1967 and later at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York in 1967. Downing’s second series of shaped canvases titled Folds were created in 1968. In the Fold series he discovered a new effect of relief and spatial depth within a flat work that could be enhanced by color. The projections and folding in the Fold paintings suggest the paintings exist in a world without gravity. Downing exhibited in a group show at Jefferson Place Gallery in 1960 and had his first solo exhibition there in the spring of 1961. Downing had solo exhibitions in New York at Allan Stone Gallery in 1962, 1967, and 1968. He also had solo exhibition in New York at Stable Gallery in September 1963 and January 1965. In the early 1970s Downing had regular solo exhibitions at the Pyramid Galleries in DC. In the 1960s Downing was included in important museum exhibitions, including: Post Painterly Abstraction at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1964 (Clement Greenberg curated and included three of Downing’s dial paintings); The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art, 1965; Colorists, 1950-1965 at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1965; Systemic Painting at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966; and Color Field Painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1970. Thomas Downing: Recent Paintings was held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in December 1966 - January 1967. A solo exhibition of his paintings from 1962 to 1968 was held at the La Jolla Museum of Art then travelled to the Phoenix Art Museum in 1968. Downing had a solo exhibition at the Phillips Collection in 1985. Downing taught at the Corcoran School of Art and Design, Washington, DC from 1965 to 1968. There he was influential for the next generation of DC color...
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1960s Color-Field Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Composition
Located in Lawrence, NY
Provenance: Southampton, NY collector; Peter Marcelle Gallery, Southampton Raymond Parker (1922-1990) was an Abstract expressionist painter who also is associated with Color Field ...
Category

1980s Color-Field Art

Materials

Acrylic

Color-field art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Color-Field art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, purple, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mala Breuer, Mitchell Funk, Wolf Kahn, and Anne Russinof. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Color-Field art, so small editions measuring 5.5 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $350 and tops out at $295,000, while the average work sells for $5,000.

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