Color-Field Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Vivian Springford Untitled (Rice Paper Mounting), 1963-65 Signed lower left Ink, watercolor and acrylic on rice paper laid to canvas 27 1/4 x 53 3/8 inches A contributor to Abstrac...

Wolf Kahn Blau-Grün (Blue-Green), 2000 Pastel painting on paper Signed on the lower left front Frame included: elegantly framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglas...

Charles Hinman Red Orionids, 2003 Signed and dated lower right Watercolor on paper 12 x 12 inches Charles Hinman’s paintings are explorations into the boundaries of abstraction through elaborate three-dimensional wood structures created with mathematical precision. Challenging his abstract expressionist predecessors, Hinman spearheaded the development of 1960s and 70s Abstract Minimal art by utilizing hard-edged canvases to move painting from a two-dimensional illusory space to a three-dimensional real space. What set Hinman apart from other contemporaries was his use of color, light, and time as his paintings reflect their hue onto the surrounding surface across varying levels of light. This juxtaposition places Hinman’s work at the intersection of the ideas explored by artists Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, Al Loving, Dan Flavin, and James Turrell. The New American Abstraction 1950-1970, Claudine Humblet states about Hinman's work: "From the very beginning of Hinman's adventure of construction […] the aim of the first structures was to address the challenge of inertia and the force of gravity, sometimes connected with the interpretation of the aesthetics of "primary structures" (structures by Donald Judd, Soll LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Robert Smithson were included alongside shaped works by Hinman, Insley and Sven Lukin in Art In Process. The Visual Development of a Structure, organized by the Finch...

Jules Olitski (1922-1977) is one of the most collected and accomplished artists associated with the color-field movement, if not 20th-century American abstraction. Created in the m...

Morris Louis (1912 - 1962) Untitled (D356), 1950-53 Pen and ink, pencil and colored pencil on paper 14 x 17 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist Dian...

Hashtag (Abstract painting) Oil on paper- Unframed Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between...

Original work on paper by Washington Color School artist Gene Davis (1920-1985). Signed bottom left and dedicated to "Patti". Work has been archival framed. Unframed the work measur...

Sam Gilliam (b. 1933) is one of America’s most prominent and innovative abstract painters. Initially associated with the color-field painters in Washington DC, Gilliam has had a len...

Untitled ("Composition") Watercolor and crayon on paper Signed and dated 59 by the artist 23"H 17"W (work) Very good condition Untitled ("Composition") Watercolor and crayon on...

"I use shape, line and color to express an underlying feeling within each piece, finding expression through the use of geometric forms, variety in surface textures, color combination...

Signed and dated lower right Provenance: Collection of Jan Cowles