Oil Pastel Abstract Paintings

A new painting from the Scientific Art series by artist Anastasia Vasilyeva. It's an abstract work in purple and mauve tones of deep color. Mathematical formulas and drawn lines comp...

Designs, shapes, and colors find a balance between a polite instinct and a domesticated confusion within the Cubist-inspired artworks by Tuscan artist, Federico Pinto Schmid. Partially restraining the seemingly boundless color are bold gestures Pinto Schmid creates with swift confidence. Each painting is meant to communicate a multitude of feelings and styles which can be reorganized infinitely within one's imagination. This large one-of-a-kind colorful mixed media painting on canvas measures 48 inches high by 76 inches wide. It is stretched, wired, and ready to hang. It is signed by Pinto on the front and back. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and International shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the gallery is included. Born in Tuscany and raised between Germany and Italy, Pinto Schmid is influenced by particularly German cubism...

Richard Marshall Merkin (American, 1938-2009) Gladys and Half-Pint Hand signed 'Merkin' (center right), Titled, inscribed, dated, and initialed 'GLADYS BENTLEY AND FRANKIE 'HALF-PINT' JAXON 1997/R.M.' verso. Oil on canvas 37 1/2 x 72 in. (95.3 x 182.9 cm) framed 39 1/4 x 74 x 2 in. Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, a well-known gay speakeasy in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer. She headlined in the early 1930s at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She dressed in men's clothes (including a signature tailcoat and top hat), played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting with women in the audience. On the decline of the Harlem speakeasies with the repeal of Prohibition, she relocated to southern California, where she was billed as "America's Greatest Sepia Piano Player" and the "Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs". She was frequently harassed for wearing men's clothing. She tried to continue her musical career but did not achieve as much success as she had had in the past. Bentley was openly lesbian early in her career, but during the McCarthy Era she started wearing dresses and married, claiming to have been "cured" by taking female hormones. Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, born Frank Devera Jackson was an African American vaudeville singer, stage designer and comedian, popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, orphaned, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. His nickname of "Half Pint" referred to his 5'2" height. He started in show business around 1910 as a singer in Kansas City, before travelling extensively with medicine shows in Texas, and then touring the eastern seaboard. His feminine voice and outrageous manner, often as a female impersonator, established him as a crowd favorite. By 1917 he had begun working regularly in Atlantic City, New Jersey and in Chicago, often with such performers as Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, whose staging he helped design. He served slightly less than a year in the United States Army in 1918–1919 and rose to the rank of sergeant. In the late 1920s he sang with top jazz bands when they passed through Chicago, working with Bennie Moten, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard and others. He performed and recorded with the pianists Cow Cow Davenport, Tampa Red and "Georgia Tom" Dorsey, recording with the latter pair under the name of The Black Hillbillies. He also recorded with the Harlem Hamfats. In the 1930s, he was often on radio in the Chicago area, and led his own band, titled Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon and His Quarts of Joy. Jaxon appeared with Duke Ellington in a film short titled Black and Tan (1929), and with Bessie Smith in "St. Louis Blues" (1929). Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" (1931) is based both musically and lyrically on Jaxon's "Willie the Weeper" (1927). Richard Merkin, Sometimes described as Rhode Island’s most famous New York artist, Richard Merkin has led a dual life for nearly 40 years - teaching at RISD while enjoying a celebrated painting career based in New York City. He has exhibited in countless gallery and museum shows in the US and abroad and is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the RISD museum and many others. In addition to contributing drawings and paintings to The New Yorker (along with, Art Spiegelman, Saul Steinberg, Harper’s, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and several books on Erotica and Baseball, he is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a former style columnist for GQ. Merkin’s honors include a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship and the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Museums and Selected Collections : The American Federation of Arts, New York, NY Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA First city Bank, Chicago, Ill Fisk University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN Hallmark Collections, Kansas City, MO Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Maimi-Dade Junior College, Miami, FL Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Minnesota Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Pennsylvania Acadamy of the Arts, Philadelphia PA Prudential Insurance Company, Boston, Ma Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Sara Robey Foundation, New York, NY Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC State University of Brockport, Brockport, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Selected Publications : 1986-Present Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair ..1988-Present, New Yorker... 1988-Present, style column, GQ...1997, Text and Illustration for The Tijuana Bibles, published by Simon & Shuster, 1995, Illustrated book, Leagues Apart: the Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues published by Morrow. 1967 Cover of the Beatles “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” Album (Mr. Merkin appears in the back row, right of center) RISD: MFA in Painting, 1963; Professor, Department of Painting special skill: Merging his role as flaneur (connoisseur of city life) with his role as painter and social historian, Merkin retrieves lost cultural artifacts – a Turkish cigarette, a gangster, a bowler and generally “things most people don’t know about” – and reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. (ala Robert Crumb and Ben Katchor) breaking in: Perpetually on the fly from his middle-class Brooklyn background, Merkin found the perfect escape in the mid ‘60s in George Frazier, a dapper Boston columnist who inspired the emerging New York painter’s overnight reinvention of himself. The elements of structure, stability and surprise he admired in this well-dressed dandy – a cool linen suit, a splash of suspender, a polka dot scarf and pearl-handled walking stick – soon surfaced in paintings peopled by impeccable underdogs of café society along with his personal pop heroes: William Burroughs, Bobby Short and Krazy Kat...

Waves, 2022 by a.muse is a painting on Japanese washi paper. In this colorful art on paper the artist celebrates color and rhythm through lines and stripes of orange, red, aqua, blue...

"feel the breeze carefree spirit breathing is easy atmosphere, livin' oh, how every day could feel like this, one of my faves" 'your life starts now' is a reminder that the Univ...

10 X 17 without frame. Seymour Boardman (1921–2005) was a New York abstract expressionist. Since his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1951, Boardman developed a personal vision and style of his own, following his own path of abstraction. As a painter he sought to reduce the image to its bare essence. Initially working in the freely brushed manner of Abstract Expressionism, Boardman gradually eliminated the arbitrary aspects of his work until only straight lines and two or three areas of flat, sometimes somber, tones remained. He could hardly have achieved more with less. In a career that was steady and determined, Seymour Boardman created paintings that are unique, while avoiding fashion and trends. His work stands alone because it derives from the Romantic landscape previously articulated by Milton Avery and early Mark Rothko (who was a friend) and later developed into almost hard edged painting. Seymour Boardman majored in art at City College of New York in 1938-1942. He served in the United States Air Force from 1942–1946, during which he was hospitalized for over a year due to a wound to his left shoulder, which resulted in partial paralysis of the arm and hand. After a full medical discharge from the service in 1946, he left for Paris to continue his art education at the École des Beaux-Arts, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and Atelier Fernand Léger. Boardman's work became more abstract but still based on figure and landscape. He returned to New York in 1949 and went to the Art Students League. Boardman continued to paint dark, moody paintings using a limited palette of black, white, grey, and an occasional additional color. Departed Le Havre France on the Liberte, arriving with his wife in New York on Jan. 22, 1952. In 1955, he had his first one-man show in New York at the Martha Jackson Gallery. It was favorably reviewed by Hilton Kramer, Emily Genauer, Fairfield Porter, and others. "…inscrutable, dark, mostly in blacks stained here and there with calm whitish shapes, they yet manage to suggest something inhuman and romantic…" (N.Y.Times, March 26, 1955). He began to acquire recognition in the 1950s with his paintings of griddled facets seen as if through a frosted glass, without any crisp lines, and in bright colors favoring reds. Boardman's friends included Lawrence Calcagno, Perez Celis, John Hultberg, Burt Hasen, Frank Lobdell, Richards Ruben, Robert Ryman and Nassos Daphnis. Throughout the 1960s, Boardman showed at both the Stephen Radich Gallery and the A.M. Sachs Gallery; in 1967, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum acquired a painting each. In the early 1970s Boardman had a large exhibition of paintings at the Andrew Dickson White...

This artwork is painted in the form of a classical school board with math equations. It is a part of the Science Art Collection by Anastasia Vasilyeva. Th...

‘Cordelia’ is an original abstract painting on canvas by contemporary artist Wendi Weller. Acrylic and oil pastel on framed canvas Image size: H:100 cm x ...

The Guru 48 x 48 Mixed Media, acrylic, oil pastel, collage and ink on canvas. Emily Klima is a visual artist based in New York City. She earned her BFA from Boston University Collag...

Abstract, mixed mediums on black archival paper - Original one of a kind artwork - Artist Signature on back - Certificate of Authenticity provided Beautiful abstract organic shapes a...

Chromatic Expression II. Mixed Media abstract, modern, colorful and powerful painting on raw canvas with floating natural wood framed . 52H x52W x 2.5D Discover the vibrant world ...

Sonic Radiance 54 X 46 Emily Klima is a visual artist based in New York City. She earned her BFA from Boston University Collage of Fine Art. Klima's creative process draws inspirati...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with...

Re A 48 X 48 painting full of layers of energy . Emily Klima is a visual artist based in New York City. She earned her BFA from Boston University Col...

Wave Theory is a painting from the collection "Wave Theory", was participated in the Swiss Art Expo 2021 in Zurich. It is a part of the science art collection by artist Anastasia Vasilyeva...

Inside Out 36 X 48 Emily Klima is a visual artist based in New York City. She earned her BFA from Boston University Collage of Fine Art. Klima's creative process draws inspiration ...

This painting was exhibited at the art exhibition in Innsbruck (Contemporary Art Fair 2019), as well as in Marbella (Excellence Art gallery), Florence (Art Expertise), and Madrid (APPA art gallery). "Remember?" is a conceptual science painting...

Day Dream This is an expressive abstract painting inspired from nature, walks from the countryside & daily life. Painting is expressing strength and positivity, gives calmness with s...

Impasse 42 X 38 Emily Klima is a visual artist based in New York City. She earned her BFA from Boston University Collage of Fine Art. Klima's creative process draws inspiration fro...

Abstract mixed medium painting on archival 100% cotton rag paper. Unframed - Original one of a kind artwork - Artist Signature on back - Certificate of Authenticity provided Why you ...

"Deep in the Forest" is an abstract painting diptych by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of rhythmic brushstrokes combined with subtle tones and unique shapes t...

Crossing the Sand is an original abstract painting on canvas by contemporary artist Diane Whalley. Layers of paint are applied with oil pastel, oil bar and mark making details for ad...

For Nubian Princesses, 2022 a.muse paints shapes representing figures that emerge from color and line, the ancient Nubian princesses are both humble and humbling, voluptuous and slender, co-existing harmoniously in the modern world. Acrylic, oil stick, and sand on canvas mounted to board, the painting Nubian Princesses by a.muse is 18" x 24" - signed, titled, and dated by the artist. Provenance: a.muse Studio *** Artist’s Bio: Mixed-media artist a.muse’s printmaking, collages, drawings, and paintings on paper and canvas tap into serendipity, happenstance, and lucid dreams. For the works on paper, a.muse employs acrylic, watercolor, oil sticks, sand, and organic matter. The abstract paintings on canvas integrate bright colors, found objects, patterns, shapes, and symbols. a.muse has exhibited in public and virtual spaces, including Jewell House NYC (2023), Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2022; 2020), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop up show (2019), Curate NY online group show (2013), among others. The artist lives and works in New York City. *** Available at 99Prints...

Temporality and transformation, consistency, color, shape and surface were the constants of the visual language of On Hansen. Art that mimics a process of decay by exposing the impac...

A metaphor for emotions, experiences and memories, Power Play, 2022 by a.muse is a contemporary abstract acrylic mixed-media painting․ The work is sewn wi...

"The nostalgia of a tropical climate is the undercurrent that inspires my process. Bright and vibrant pigments live on my palette. I treat each canvas with an intuitive approach, never pre-planned. I allow each brush stroke to lead into the next, and each layer to form upon the other, playfully obscuring where lines begin and end. I aim to create harmonious frictions with bold color and contrast between hues, mixed media, shapes, and patterns that overlap, clash, and eventually resolve themselves within the composition. The imagery I create is my interpretation of our complex, multi-layered human experience in both our interconnectedness to one another and to our environment. Each painting is an invitation to engage in delightful unfamiliarity and to rejoice in the beautiful imperfections that connect our journeys." Filipino-American artist Marianne Angeli Rodriguez...

LEVEL UP is an abstract painting by Peter Husband in acrylic paint, oil pastel and modeling paste on stretched canvas. It measures 36 x 36". According to...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with...

"Contemplate" 105 x 135 Acrylic and oil on canvas. This painting can be hung both horizontally or vertically, (see detailed photos) An exploration of beauty and energy, Tabing’s p...

In Summer by The Water, Higgins captures the essence of a summer landscape with a delightful blend of shapes and colors. The composition reveals a harmonious balance between flat pla...

Inspired by 'Osea Island', an idyllic haven basking serenely on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex. It is approximately 380 acres in size and is connected to the north bank of the river by a Roman causeway, covered at high water. The tranquil surroundings led me to create this painting to capture the deep moody blues and greens of the water and the orange ochres of the rugged sand dunes. I've use a painterly application with expressive linear marks in oil pastels to create movement and interest. Artwork by Luana Asiata...

"Vivid Gestures on Vanilla II" is an abstract painting diptych by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of rhythmic brushstrokes combined with subtle tones and uniqu...

DISCONNECTED is an abstract painting by Peter Husband in acrylic paint, oil pastel, spray paint and modeling paste on stretched canvas. It measures 48 x ...

Oil pastel on cardboard, one of a series of several paintings under the common title "Zychany". The paintings are characterized by attractive colors and energy flowing from them. Catalog Number A0132. Figurative image. Ready to hang. Signed on the front. The painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the author. Tadeusz Zych b. 1968 in Krakow, Poland. Painter artist, photographer. He presented his works at dozens of individual painting and photographic exhibitions in Poland and abroad. From the history of painting...

Mirrored Lakes and Streams ll [2022] Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look This painting is inspired by walking the beautiful landscape around me. How the light catches and intensifies the streams, waterfall and trees, the Elidir trail to the waterfalls pulsating with vibrancy, the feel of the sun on my face...

"Subtle Movements on Violet" is an abstract painting diptych by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of rhythmic brushstrokes combined with subtle tones and unique ...

Wallpaper design by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed pastel/watercolor on paper, unframed painting: 16 x 16 inches good condition provenance: from the artists estate, France ...

I'M LEAVING is an abstract painting by Peter Husband in acrylic paint, oil pastel, found newsprint and modeling paste on stretched canvas. It measures 30...

Oil pastel on cardboard, one of a series of three paintings under the common title "Bat and Him". The images are characterized by a similar scenery, differing only in the color of the background. Catalog Number A0142. The picture is ready to hang. Signed on the front. The painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the author. Tadeusz Zych b. 1968 in Krakow, Poland. Painter artist, photographer. He presented his works at dozens of individual painting and photographic exhibitions in Poland and abroad. From the history of painting...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art Deco shapes of the 30's, 40's and 50's. The subtle but chic color combinations will combine beautifully with both vintage and modern furniture without overtaking spaces that are carefully crafted by designers. Natalia Roman was born in 1984 in Girona, Spain. She has exhibited in galleries across Europe and her colorful, abstract paintings are part of private collections all over the world. Details: Title: Pale Blue Dots...

This artwork is painted in the form of a classical school board with math equations. It is a part of the Science Art Collection by Anastasia Vasilyeva...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special enthusiasm on astr...

Black Mirror by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed pastel/watercolor on artist paper, unframed painting: 20 x 13 inches good condition provenance: from the artists estate, Fran...

This series of paintings by Natalia Roman gathers its inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art Deco...

Abstract mixed medium painting on canvas. - Original one of a kind artwork - Artist Signature on back - Certificate of Authenticity provided Why you will love this painting and why ...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...

"Urban Forms on Pink Sorbet" is an abstract painting diptych by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of rhythmic brushstrokes combined with subtle tones and unique ...

Mosaic Drawing by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed pastel/watercolor on artist paper, unframed painting: 13 x 20 inches good condition provenance: from the artists estate, Fr...

BOARD 1 is an abstract painting by Peter Husband in acrylic paint, oil pastel and modeling paste on stretched canvas. It measures 36 x 36". The artist's ...

Contemporary abstract painting made with oil, acrylics, and oil pastels on canvas by Swedish artist Elin Kereby. Her vibrant oil and mixed media paintings ...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...

P After Blue Eyes, 2021 by a.muse is 24" x 18" x 3/16” an acrylic and oil stick painting on canvas mounted on archival board. The work is signed, t...

Balmy Days is an original abstract painting on canvas by contemporary artist Diane Whalley with oil pastel, oil bar and mark making details upon layers of acrylic paint. From times i...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art Deco shapes of the 30's, 40's and 50's. The subtle but chic color combinations will combine beautifully with both vintage and modern furniture without overtaking spaces that are carefully crafted by designers. Natalia Roman was born in 1984 in Girona, Spain. She has exhibited in galleries across Europe and her colorful, abstract paintings are part of private collections all over the world. Details: Title: Line Study...

"Earth Tones Arcs and Shapes" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. These painting, influenced by modernist artists of the 50's, ...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...

"Warm Pastel Tones Triptych" is an abstract painting diptych by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of rhythmic brushstrokes combined with subtle tones and unique ...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...