Art by Medium: Masonite

American Outsider Folk Art Painting "The Wall-Flower" by Gussie Smith Roth C.1965 Original oil on masonite Masonite dimensions 28" wide x...

The Summer House, 1941, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower right, signed, titled, and dated verso, 16 x 20 ¼ inches Constance Coleman Richardson was a well-regarded Detroit-bas...

Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...

Artist: Wally Ames, American (1942 - ) Title: The Old Sawmill at Westminster, Vermont Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r. and verso Size: 20 x 24 inches

Fredric Karoly (1898-1987). Etude, 1950. Oil on masonite panel measures 18 x 24 inches. Unframed. Signed, titled, dated on reverse. Good condition with minor paint loss at edges. Biography: An abstract painter, Karoly was born in Hungary and studied painting in Paris, architectural eingineering in Berlin, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1926. He began a successful career as a fashion and fabric designer. In 1948 he was working as a fashion director for Simplicity Patters, when he had a solo exhibition of of his oil paintings, wire montages, dry-pen drawings and abstract photography. Solo Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery (Alexandre Iolas) New York 1948; Gallery Mai. Paris 1949; New Gallery (Eugene Thaw) New York 1950; Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1951; Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Florida 1959; Loft Gallery, New York City, 1966.Group Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery, New York 1947; Salon des Realities Nouvelles, Paris 1949-1953; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Annual) 1951-1953, 1963; Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1951; International Independent Exhibition, Tokyo, 1951; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1959; The Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1960; Stuttman Gallery, New York, 1960; The Art Institute of Chicago (Annual), 1960; International Watercolor Exhibition, Brookyln Museum, 1961; Westchester Art Museum, White Plains, NY, 1963; Whitney Museum, Annual, NY 1963; Cleveland Art Festival, Park Synagogue, Cleveland, 1963; Whitney Museum, Sculpture Annual, NY, 1964.Works in Institutional Collections: Museu de Arte, San Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York University, New York; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Finch College, NY; Barnard College, NY; Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL. Awards: National Council Arts Awards, 1968. Frederic Karoly died on December 15, 1987 at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Manhattan, where he had made his home for many years. Fredric Karoly was born in Budapest in 1893. According to Karoly’s own vitae, his exhibition history began in New York in 1947, when at the age of 54 he took part in a four-person group show at Hugo Gallery. His involvement with visual art however was apparently life long. In a brief introduction to his solo show at Galerie Mai in Paris in June of 1949, Jen Luc de Rudder, reports that Karoly began painting at the age of 12 in Budapest. After several years of studying, then working in London, Paris and Berlin, Karoly emigrated to the United States in 1925 or 1926 (he probably first came to the US on a work visa in 1925). In New York, Karoly worked in women’s fashion as a designer. In 1948 Karoly worked in a manner than was clearly influenced by the work of such European surrealists as Max Ernst, creating spiked automatic bi-chromatic paintings. His style progressed into a progressively more biomorphic vein, similar to explorations by Theodore Stamos, Daphnis, Milton Avery and Mark Rothko around the same period. He was supported with patronage during this period by Mrs. Mimi Baliff, who apparently supported the “Industrial Design Workshop” that she helped open to feature Karoly’s designs in 1948. By the early 1950’s (1951) Karoly started experimenting with the drip and splatter process as well. Drip paintings dominated his process until the late 50’s-early 60’s, when linear compositional elements began to reemerge. By the late 50’s multi-layered drip grid motifs asserted a masque of spatial organization over looser washed fields and splatters of paint that Karoly worked off of. This development was consistent with concurrent explorations into the grid by artist Agnes Martin and others. By the mid-50’s Karoly’s style began another transition into a more surface concerned “Color Field” style of painting. There are elements still reminding one of Abstract Expressionist concerns as such painters as Clifford Still. But the works that began to emerge from Karoly’s studio in 1958 presaged the Morris Lewis fan motifs and Friedl Dzubas’s epic and romantic color spewing expanses of canvas. In 1959 Karoly began experiments using washes of turpentine diluted oil paint directly onto raw linen, and all of these subsequently suffered the consequences of oil oxidation and acidity upon the surfaces. However, many of Karoly’s washes in color field happily occurred on lightly prepared primed canvas surfaces as well. By 1960 Karoly began reintroducing imagistic references to his visual content. There were also various references to Japanese and Zen influences. He experimented with a variety of processes that included mixed media and marbleized surfaces achieved by the intermixture of oil and water mediums. A calligraphic element also enter Karoly’s work in the early 60’s. Then in 1961 glued and assembled objects begin to show up in Karoly’s work in earnest. The influence of early POP artists, particularly Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, become apparent. From 1961-63, a series of the assemblage works transition from canvas to the sculptural to pieces obviously intended for full scale installation. Many of these pieces were among the most fragile of his works primarily due to their reliance upon the of gluing of objects such as plastic or paper cups on flexible surfaces of stretched linen or canvas. In the mid-60’s Karoly apparently produced a number of photo-silk screened series of Picasso, De Kooning and other significant artists of his generation. These were executed in a style somewhere between Rauschenberg’s and Roy Lichtenstein’s, primarily because of their reliance upon half tones and Ben-Day dot effects. Then Karoly began a series of paintings conflating his drip and grid styles with super imposed and painted over string. In the late 60’s Karoly embarked upon a series of multi-paneled stretched linen constructions often with slits and fiber optic back-lit elements that were prescient of the work of Dan Flavin and others. It was this body of work that was shown at Hofstra University’s Emily Lowe Gallery, and it was these works that suffered perhaps the most irreparable damage from a steam/water infiltration in a space where they were being stored. The late professional start that Karoly had into the art world was balanced by his long life span and early immersion into the design issues of modernism as it emerged in turn of the century Europe and later evolved in America. He was clearly an artist who subscribed to the ethos of the new in abstraction and was obviously impressionable and in some instances prescient with regard to various trends in abstraction. Several noteworthy and influential collectors and institutions during his 40 years of professional engagement acquired his work. The Whitney Museum of American Art had and may still own a large Karoly canvas from 1960, but this is doubtful as the artist failed to list it on the vitae he filed with MoMA in 1965. His work was recognized and honored by the Whitney with its inclusion in four of their annual survey shows (1951,1953, 1963 and 1964). The artist’s surrealist influenced paintings from 1948-1950 were the focus of a solo exhibition held of his work by the Museo de Art in Sao Paulo and eight years later a ten year survey of his work was the focus of a solo show at the Miami Museum of Modern art. The Sao Paulo Museum in Brazil, and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina each acquired Karoly paintings for their collections in the 1950’s. One of Karoly’s surrealist pieces was apparently purchased by Christian Zervos, Picasso’s designated chronicler, who apparently also wrote a piece on Karoly in Cahiers D’Art in 1949. A 60’s piece of Karoly art that is in the New York University’s permanent collection is included in the MoMA Library’s catalog...

Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - ) Title: Rabbi with Torah Year: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r. Size: 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 45 x 31 in...

H. Wilson Smith (1901-1981) California Artist $3000 Oil on masonite in the original frame. Painting measures 26 3/4"h x 20 1/2"w. Frame: 27 3/8"h x 21 1/8"w. Titled on the verso ...

Complete title: "L'energia trasforma le cose. Omaggio a Ravi Shankar" Translated title: "Energy transforms things. Tribute to Ravi Shankar" Acrylic paint on masonite. Width: 30 c...

Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - ) Title: Red Vase Year: circa 1962 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r. Size: 47 x 20 inches Frame Size: 53 x 24 inches

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...

Alexandre de Spengler (1893–1973) was a Swiss painter and engraver active in Geneva and Paris. He is known for his land and seascapes, as well as...

This painting by Joan Nelson depicts a sepia-toned scene placed behind the walls of a dark brown building. Potentially depicting a rooftop or a balcony, a way further into the buildi...

Ernest William Christmas (Australian, 1863-1918) Signed: E.W. Christmas, ‘98, (lower, right) “ Coolibah Tree by a Billabong at Sunset “, 1898 Oil on canvas laid on masonite 36 1/...

Alexander Liberman (1912-1999): Svet III Mixed media on board, 1984, signed 'Alexander Liberman' and dated at bottom= Hand signed, titled and dat...

Al Parker was one of America's greatest and most inventive illustrators. He did work for magazines such as: Chatelaine, Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion. ...

An early work by Julio De Diego embodies the deep love he had for his homeland of Spain, combined with his strong emotions against war. The peacefulness of the couple holding hands l...

Artist: Warren Wolf, American (1924 - 2003) Title: Yashal & 'Aniyah #2 Year: 1996 Medium: Oil and Marble Dust on Shaped Masonite, signed, titled and dated verso Size: 32 in. x 34 in....

Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) "Elysian Gardens" 2012 Oil paint, Canvas, Masonite, Stretcher bars The artist signed the back of the painting. "Elysian Gardens" by Steven H....

"A Winter Stream - Virginia" Signed 1960 Oil Landscape in Oil on Masonite Peaceful winter landscape of a calm stream winding through a snowy forest by Lorenz Griffith (American, 188...

Artist: De Es Schwertberger (Dieter), Austrian (1942 - ) Title Stepping In Year: circa 1980 Medium: Oil on Masonite Size: 55 x 76 inches

Mid-Century Modern oil painting, 1940s cityscape, "Bedford at Lafayette, Brooklyn". Oil on masonite. Signed King Rich. In vintage modernist frame...

John Moulton (from Montana) had a cult following in his later years, his paintings were admired for their warmth, simplicity, and "down to earth" style; portraying rural settings and...

oil on masonite panel

Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on panel measures 16 x 24 inches. Signed lower margin. Excellent condition. Provenance: Allan Stone Pr...

Bold portrait of an introspective circus clown. Rich colors. Detailed circus background. Oil on masonite. Signed Klotz. Dated 1950. Unfarmed. period sculpted artist sculpture Egyptian gold collection collector american large carved paris rome new york salon important provenance historical fine not signed. museum original unique rare american Emmett Kelly...

André Debono is a contemporary French abstract painter based in Nîmes. Deeply influenced by the radical deconstruction of the Supports/Surfaces movement—particularly the legacy of Cl...

André Debono is a contemporary French abstract painter based in Nîmes. Deeply influenced by the radical deconstruction of the Supports/Surfaces movement—particularly the legacy of Cl...

André Debono is a contemporary French abstract painter based in Nîmes. Deeply influenced by the radical deconstruction of the Supports/Surfaces movement—particularly the legacy of Cl...

André Debono is a contemporary French abstract painter based in Nîmes. Deeply influenced by the radical deconstruction of the Supports/Surfaces movement—particularly the legacy of Cl...

André Debono is a contemporary French abstract painter based in Nîmes. Deeply influenced by the radical deconstruction of the Supports/Surfaces movement—particularly the legacy of Cl...

André Debono is a contemporary French abstract painter based in Nîmes. Deeply influenced by the radical deconstruction of the Supports/Surfaces movement—particularly the legacy of Cl...

André Debono is a contemporary French abstract painter based in Nîmes. Deeply influenced by the radical deconstruction of the Supports/Surfaces movement—particularly the legacy of Cl...

André Debono is a contemporary French abstract painter based in Nîmes. Deeply influenced by the radical deconstruction of the Supports/Surfaces movement—particularly the legacy of Cl...

De Es Schwertberger's captivating oil painting features several hands supporting each other while the topmost hand holds a small clutch of eggs. Artist: De Es Schwertberger (Dieter...

Chuzo Tamotzu Cumbres Pass, Colorado, 1956 Signed and dated lower left; titled on artist label on the reverse Oil on Masonite 36 x 48 inches Tamotzu was born in Kagoshima Prefectur...

Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - ) Title: Black Hair, Purple Girl Year: circa 1962 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r. Size: 24 x 20 in. (60.96 x 50.8 cm) Frame Size: 33 x...

In this work, Haitian Master Wilson Bigaud focuses on fleeting moments of a Voodoo scene. He depicts the sacrifices of two chickens to the spirits. It is a gift to the divine, a w...

Artist: Warren Wolf, American (1924 - 2003) Title: Zebuwl 2 Year: 1990 Medium: Oil and Marble Dust on Shaped Masonite, signed, titled and dated verso Size: 34 in. x 31 in. (86.36 cm...

1940s American modern abstract painting by Virginia Banks. Virginia Banks (1920 – 1985) was a well-known Northwest artist based in Seattle. She was born in Norwood, Massachusetts, a...

Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - ) Title: Rabbi holding Torah Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r. Size: 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)

Exhibited: 2003 Oakland Museum of California "Fred Martin Retrospective" A native Californian, Fred Martin was born in San Francisco in 1927, and received both his BA (1949) and MA (1954) from University of California, Berkley. At the San Francisco Art Institute Martin studied with Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko and David Park...

Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Another wonderful painting by Charles Ford that shows the great lighting and shadows of New ...

Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Another outstanding painting by Charles Ford that focuses on the High Line in New York City ...

"Self Portrait" is an original acrylic painting on masonite board by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece. This painting features a portrait of the artist, David Barnett, in gr...

"Lady Looking at Brian (Her Grandson)" Mixed media collage, assemblage, gestural painting on masonite. Hand Signed in ink and titled verso. It does not appear to be dated. I am estimating it is from the 1980's. It has some Postmodern elements and similarities to Transavanguardia is the Italian version of Neo-expressionism. Francie Bishop Good (American, 1949-) Francie Bishop Good was raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She currently lives and works in South Florida and New York City. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Bishop Good is twice recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, and the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. She completed her Graduate Studies at Maine Media College, Rockport, Maine, International Center of Photography, New York, New York, Master of Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, B.F.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, William Allen High School, studies under James Musselman Her museum solo shows include the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, and the Hilliard Museum, Lafayette, LA. Bishop Good's work has been shown at David Castillo Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL. Griffin Museum of Photography, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, and AMbrosino Gallery. Recent museum acquisitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL and the NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Selected Group and Invitational Exhibitions NSU Art Museum, Remember to React: 60 Years of Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL Frost Art Museum, Connectivity: Selections from the Collection of the Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL Dual Roles, curated by Laura Marsh, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood FL David Castillo Gallery, gallery artists, in terms of collage, Miami Beach, FL Multidisciplinary, curated by Dimensions Variable, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cornell Museum, Artistically Speaking, Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL. People and Places, Photographs from the Collection, summer 2015 Frost Museum, FIU Miami FL, 25 Inches, The Faces of the Permanent Collection Locust Projects, Smash and Grab, November Annie Wharton Fine Art, Los Angeles group show, summer Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale ,The Art of Caring summer Women to Women, collaboration with Samantha Salzinger, Bakehouse Fredric Snitzer Gallery Boy oh Boy, Summer Show Miami A.I.R. Gallery, The Man I Wish I Was, curator Kharis Kennedy Photo Miami with Nina Arias, Miami, FL December Alva Gallery, New London, Ct Being Good: Women's Moral Values Art Basel with Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL 51st Venice Biennale, Italy Poles Apart / Poles Together, International Artists' Museum, White Box Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, FOCUS ON: New Photography, National Museum of Women in the Arts, FL Transitory Patterns Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL Optic Nerve Selected Collections Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Ct. Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL Frost Museum of Art, Miami Florida Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida Sagamore Hotel Collection, Miami Beach, Florida Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Refco Collection, Chicago, Illinois Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania New World Symphony Residence, Miami, Florida Art in Public Places, Broward County, Florida Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida William Gates III (Bill Gates) Monica and Richard Segal Saks Fifth Avenue Asides from being an exceptional artist she is also a passionate collector. Photographs by Cindy Sherman and the late Ana Mendieta, collages by Kara Walker, a watercolor by Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernandez, Carrie Mae Weems, Nan Goldin, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Mickalene Thomas, and Kara Walker. are among 100 works by leading contemporary artists donated by philanthropists David Horvitz...

Early Morris Gluckman abstract painting of a black shadow figure holding a pink item. Artist Biography: Morris Gluckman was born in 1894 in Kiev, Russia. He was an active artist in...

Primary Hughes' "Presque Isle (Day 62) June 23" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an ocean landscape of waves coalescing around a rock...

Robin Hextrum's "Chestnut" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a brown quarter horse in profile with blue and grey Rococo patterns in the background.

Cordray Simmons Ringling Brothers Barns, circa 1930 Signed lower right Oil on Masonite 24 x 30 inches Cordray Simmons was born July 10, 1888 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Christened ...

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Original frame which measures 43" x 22" x 1.5" Signed lower right "B. W. Smith" Signed, titled and listing original price verso in pencil on label 'Beatrice Wose Smith/"Reflections ...

"Room Interior" is an original acrylic painting on masonite by David Barnett. The artist used bright, non-mimetic colors to create an abstracted interior scene. Artist signed piece o...

Translated title: "Now I see you" Acrylic on masonite.

Bay Area Abstract Geometric Painting with Red Circle by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). This abstract composition features bold brushstrokes and highly contrasting colors. A lar...

Acrylic Paint on Masonite.

Italian painting from the second half of the 20th century. Artwork oil on masonite depicting a view with small houses in the green of good pictorial quality. Painting adorned with an...

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.