Morris Shulman

Untitled, Anemone Pool Abstraction

c. 1955

Gouache on paper Jo Aarons Gallery Label en verso Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than ...

Unsigned, Gifted the artist Charles Cajori by the artist. Accompanied by COA. Mercedes Matter was destined for a life in art. She was the daughter of Mercedes de Cordoba, a former model for Edward Steichen and other members of the Photo-Secession, and Arthur B. Carles, an important early modernist American painter who studied the art of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse in Paris in the 1910s. This early and persistent exposure to modern art led Matter herself to begin painting at the age of six. In the early 1930s, she studied with the artist Hans Hofmann, like nearly every important American abstract painter of the next generation. This German-born painter is of course famous for teaching the concepts of abstract painting that would define the New York School: the “push-pull” approach to composition and the focus on the picture plane. During the Depression, Matter worked for the Works Progress Administration alongside Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and Lee Krasner. The project she and de Kooning collaborated on was directed by Fernand Léger, for whom she served as a translator. In the early 1950s, Mercedes was among the first female members of the Club, an organization of downtown artists that held frequent discussion evenings; she was also a regular at the Cedar Tavern. For Mercedes, “The Club was marvelous. It brought together in one place, at one time, the greatest diversity of artists—as nothing had done before or has since. . . . The end of that marvelous time came when American art became big business...

Ink on artist board Signed and dated upper right Note: dimension listed on back are incorrect; we have included the correct dimensioins Artist Angelo Ippolito (1922-2001) produced ...

Gouache on paper signed en verso Throughout his sixty-year artistic career, David Hayes created sculptural forms abstracted from organic forms encountered in daily life. He first st...

Watercolor on paper Painted while studying at the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, Werner Drewes was one of the first a...

Casein on masonite Like many of his compatriots of the time, Shulman transitioned from representation to abstraction in the post-WWII period as he studied with Hans Hoffman. Yet, his work, whether or abstraction or representation, was inspired by a keen sense of place--in this case, Monhegan Island, Maine, where he returned year-after-year to paint. Many of his works were inspired by the tidal pool and eddies he studied on the island's shore. His work can be found in the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum, the Carnegie Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum, Bates College in Lewiston, Me, Vassar College...

Schist 5 (Abstract painting) Casein on paper - Unframed Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand. For h...

Schist 9 (Abstract painting) Casein on paper - Unframed Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand. For h...

Framed (Abstract painting) Casein on Arches paper. Unframed. Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand. ...

Framed (Abstract painting) Casein on Arches paper. Unframed. Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand. ...

Schist 5 (Abstract painting) Casein on paper - Unframed Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand. For h...

Casein on paper - Unframed Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand. For her, everything begins with col...