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Item Ships From: USA
Style: American Modern
PLAY FASCINATION 2, colorful mixed media, text
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Acrylic on canvas paper, mounted on masonite with black enamel painted frame.
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1990s American Modern Mixed Media

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Enamel

Tapestry
Located in East Hampton, NY
Photograph with hand work on top ON 1/4 FOAM BOARD..PHOTO PRINTED WITH ACRYLIC & OIL PAINT MARKER work on top About the Artist: Short Biography in a Nutshell: A fun journey My f...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Tickets/ Coney Island, colorful detailed cut paper, urban New York graphic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Color Aid paper, Paint, Contemporary collage Hand cut color-aid paper Worked with Robert Indiana Philomena Marano has spent decades “penetrat[ing] th...
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Early 2000s American Modern Mixed Media

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Paint, Paper

Laundry Day. Child hanging cloths in Breeze. Cover. The Household Guest
Located in Miami, FL
The Artist captures a "caught moment" of cloths blowing in the wind. It's being witnessed by an inquisitive bird, while be ducklings and a cute kitty cat accompany her. Signed lower...
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1930s American Modern Mixed Media

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Pastel, Archival Ink, Gouache, Graphite

“Jester”
Located in Southampton, NY
Early mixed media painting composed of watercolor, gouache and oil pastel on card stock of a jester by the Canadian/American artist, Rolph Scarlett. Signed by the artist lower right ...
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1920s American Modern Mixed Media

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Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache

Lacy Grey, semi nude mixed media muted tones lace charcoal
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Charcoal, pastel lace Audrey Anastasi states: "The paper doll series was created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal an...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Charcoal, Pastel, Fabric, Archival Paper

Large Mixed Media Mod Fabric Collage Textile Painting Modernist Art Wall Hanging
Located in Surfside, FL
John Udvardy (American 1936-) Hungarian American artist. known for sculpture and painting. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture an...
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1960s American Modern Mixed Media

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Fabric, Textile, Canvas, Paint

The Chief
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title: The Chief Medium: Mixed Media Year: 2018 Signed Size: 16 x 15 x 10.25 inches Tom Binger finds it interesting that during a time in which the internet is quickly becoming the ...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

FLAT, cut paper collage urban New York street culture industrial
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"FLAT" Hand cut paper on heavy weight gessoed watercolor paper Ms. Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the first Spirit of Brooklyn poster...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Paper, Archival Paper

Luna's Tire Shop, Urban, cut paper collage, playful, industrial, tires, framed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
LUNA'S TIRE SHOP : Hand cut paper on heavy weight gessoed watercolor paper, framed in flat gray painted wood & plexi. Ms. Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Paper, Archival Paper

“Abstract Figures, 1954”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mixed media painting composed of acrylic paint, watercolor with traces of aerosol spray paint on vinyl by the Canadian/American artist, Rolph Scarlett. Signed by the artist lower right and dated 1954. Condition is very good. The artwork is housed in a contemporary matt black frame 25.5 by 21.5 inches overall. Provenance: Eric Firestone...
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1950s American Modern Mixed Media

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Acrylic, Watercolor

Flourish
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Flourish" is a cast paper bas relief by noted American artist Richard Benjamin Royce, born 1941. It is signed at the lower right ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Mixed Media

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Paper

SURREALIST LANDSCAPE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EDWARD HAGEDORN (AMERICAN 1902 – 1982) SURREAL LANDSCAPE 1931 mixed media on paper, Graphite, ink and watercolor. Unsigned. Dtaed 2/26/31, in ink lower left margin. Image 13 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches. On a large sheet 20 x 25 inches. Provenance: Hagedorn estate, Around the mid 1980's The Hagedorn estate was dispersed in Berkeley by a local dealer. This drawing was part of a group of Hagedorn works on paper that I acquired from that dispersal. Much of the balance was later acquired the Struart Denenberg Fine Art. Denenberg published a very fine book on the artist's work. EDWARD HAGEDORN: CALIFORNIA MODERNIST, RESTLESSNESS AND RESTRAINT Hardcover – January 1, 2009 Subsequently Hagedorn's works on paper have been acquired by many museums and some accompanying exhibitions. ALL OF THE COMMENTS BELOW ARE FROM THE FOLLOWING EXHIBITION EDWARD HAGEDORN (1902-1982) American Modernist A New Traveling Exhibition “VOLCANOS, WRECKS, RIOTS, & NUDES”, EDWARD HAGEDORN (1902-1982) premiere at the Danforth Museum. Framingham, MA, in March 2016. The exhibition includes 75 works of art in various mediums and is accompanied by the first monograph devoted to the artist’s work with essays by leading curators, critics, and art historians. Edward Hagedorn was a true Modernist who created a trove of powerful works on paper--drawings, watercolors, oils, and original graphics that reveal the hand of a master draftsman and the mind of an astute political observer. He rejected the general trend in early 20th century California of local landscapes and coastal views, becoming virtually the single voice of Expressionism. He conveyed the darkness and upheaval that gripped the country in the depression years between the two World Wars, 1925- 1935, more forcefully than any of his contemporaries, influenced by German art of the time, engaging in modernist styles of Expressionism and Surrealism. Hagedorn’s skeletons are ferocious yet somehow endearing; printed in deep black ink on off-white paper, they march across Lilliputian landscapes of grim disorder and destruction. Comets and volcanoes explode in fauvist colors, their other-worldly fluorescent temperas framed in black, while nude female figures, executed in exquisitely refined pen and ink, or graphite line drawings, are as economical in their means as Matisse, and can be compared with the neo-classical drawings of Picasso. Among his most lyrical works of the 1920s is a series of rhythmically abstracted watercolor and ink views of Golden Gate Park, evoking the sensual demi-geometries of Balthus, Derain , and early Mondrian. American Modernist Edward Hagedorn (1902-1982) was born in San Francisco of German descent; his mother (née Kafka) died in childbirth, and he was legally adopted and raised by his grandmother and aunt. After attendance at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts in the early 1920s, by age 22 he had a studio in the famed "100" block of Montgomery Street ("the Monkey Block,") then a haven for bohemians. In 1926, a year of tremendous importance in California artists' embrace of modern art, the Oakland Art Gallery, with the guidance and inspiration of their European representative Emmy (Galka) Scheyer, was the first museum in the United States to show the art of the "Blue Four," among the leading artists of International Modernism--Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Alexei Jawlensky...
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1930s American Modern Mixed Media

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Watercolor

'Fashion Able II', Parsons School of Design, Haute Couture, Costume
By Isaac Mizrahi
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso lower left, 'Isaac Mizrahi'. A fashion designer and creator of costume, Isaac Mizrahi attended the Parsons School of Design before becomin...
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1990s American Modern Mixed Media

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Synthetic Paper, Graphite, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Modern Artifact Barn door with figures and animals: 'Birth of Rhomulus & Rhemus'
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua travels the world performing sta...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Metal

Best Protection, architectural, iconography, text, black white,
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Acrylic, ink, glitter on canvas Dimitri operates from the idea of the “unfinished.” It informs his choice of materials and the way he handles them. It informs the imagery. The unfin...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Canvas, Glitter, Ink, Acrylic

Umbrella, Monotype with Hand Painting, Glitter, Asian American Art, Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Mixed media monotype or monoprint works with hand painting, chine colle, applied glitter. From Cheryl Pelavin Editions NYC. Helen Oji (American, born 1950) Born in Sacremento, CA. Helen Oji was highlighted in the early 1980s New York City art scene as an artist with a distinctive vision. She has exhibited her paintings, works on paper and prints including mixed media monotype or monoprint works with hand painting, chine colle, applied glitter etc. in numerous exhibitions in New York, nationally and Europe. In addition to her artwork, she collaborated with a range of performers/writers in creating set designs that were presented in New York City, London, and across the US. and in various corporate and private collections. Awards and honors include: Creative Artists Public Service Program, Ariana Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Mixed Media Grant , The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Commission, Recieved Artists Space Materials Grant, New York, NY Visiting Artist Fellowship, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA Lives and works in New York, NY Select Exhibitions 1986 Intar Gallery, New York, NY (solo) 1984 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (solo) 1982 Nelson Gallery/University of California, Davis, CA (solo) 1981 Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY (solo) 1980 Fine Arts Center/Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem , NC (solo) 1978 Soho Center for the Visual Artists, New York, NY Select Public Collections Museum of Modern Art, MoMA New York, NY The Brooklyn Museum of Art The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 Surface 9, ARENA at BD, curator, Renée Riccardo, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming Nov 22) Plus 2 pix from 122, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY 2018 Donald Alberti & Helen Oji, Estrada Fine Art 2017 The Bedroom, The Women Artist Team, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY 2013 Silhouettes, The EFA Foundation, Blackburn, 20/20, curator, Bill Carroll, New York, NY 2011 Social Photography II Exhibition, Carriage Trade, New York, NY 1998 Urban Encounters, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC 1995 Made to Order, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY Ancestors, Asian American Arts Centre & Kenkeleba House, New York, NY 1994 Robert Beauchamp, William Kent, Helen Oji, Shari Urquhart, Monique Knowlton Gallery/Kent, Kent CTThe Return Of Cadavre Exquis...
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1980s American Modern Mixed Media

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Paint, Mixed Media, Monotype, Glitter

Reefer Madness, Marajuana - Pot - Cannabis - Cover Atlantic Monthly Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Gouache, Crayon, Pencil, Film on Paper, not framed Cover Atlantic Monthly Magazine August 1994
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1990s American Modern Mixed Media

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Gouache

Umbrella, Monotype with Hand Painting, Glitter, Asian American Art, Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Mixed media monotype or monoprint works with hand painting, chine colle, applied glitter. From Cheryl Pelavin Editions NYC. Helen Oji (American, born 1950) Born in Sacremento, CA. Helen Oji was highlighted in the early 1980s New York City art scene as an artist with a distinctive vision. She has exhibited her paintings, works on paper and prints including mixed media monotype or monoprint works with hand painting, chine colle, applied glitter etc. in numerous exhibitions in New York, nationally and Europe. In addition to her artwork, she collaborated with a range of performers/writers in creating set designs that were presented in New York City, London, and across the US. and in various corporate and private collections. Awards and honors include: Creative Artists Public Service Program, Ariana Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Mixed Media Grant , The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Commission, Recieved Artists Space Materials Grant, New York, NY Visiting Artist Fellowship, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA Lives and works in New York, NY Select Exhibitions 1986 Intar Gallery, New York, NY (solo) 1984 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (solo) 1982 Nelson Gallery/University of California, Davis, CA (solo) 1981 Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY (solo) 1980 Fine Arts Center/Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem , NC (solo) 1978 Soho Center for the Visual Artists, New York, NY Select Public Collections Museum of Modern Art, MoMA New York, NY The Brooklyn Museum of Art The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 Surface 9, ARENA at BD, curator, Renée Riccardo, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming Nov 22) Plus 2 pix from 122, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY 2018 Donald Alberti & Helen Oji, Estrada Fine Art 2017 The Bedroom, The Women Artist Team, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY 2013 Silhouettes, The EFA Foundation, Blackburn, 20/20, curator, Bill Carroll, New York, NY 2011 Social Photography II Exhibition, Carriage Trade, New York, NY 1998 Urban Encounters, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC 1995 Made to Order, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY Ancestors, Asian American Arts Centre & Kenkeleba House, New York, NY 1994 Robert Beauchamp, William Kent, Helen Oji, Shari Urquhart, Monique Knowlton Gallery/Kent, Kent CTThe Return Of Cadavre Exquis...
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1980s American Modern Mixed Media

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Paint, Glitter, Mixed Media, Monotype

'Variation 5, Vol. I' — from the series '1 to 40 Variations'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Katherine S. Dreier, 'Variation 5, Vol. I' from '1 to 40 Variations', lithograph with pochoir and hand-coloring, 1934, edition 65. Stenciled signature and date, lower right. Annotate...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Mixed Media

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Watercolor, Lithograph, Stencil

Grizzly Bear: Save The Earth PEACE
By K.K.
Located in East Hampton, NY
5 Layered Stencil : Red, Green Black Political Grizzly Bear holding a Save the earth & Peace Signs Showing other Bears in Series Unique pieces This is on 90lb Paper color: Natural ...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Spray Paint

Head IV
Located in Kansas City, MO
Tom Binger "Head IV" Medium: Mixed Media Year: 2018, Signed Size: 14.5 x 10.25 x 2 inches Tom Binger finds it interesting that during a time in which the internet is quickly becomin...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Metal

American flag collage with a 19th century engraving of an eagle
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart is an artist working in Europe and America. Watercolor, ink ,acrylic and and even cold wax and oil are the many different mediums that Claude uses on his varied...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

American flag collage with colored prints of the Texas flag and original ink
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart is an artist working in Europe and America. Watercolor, ink ,acrylic and and even cold wax and oil are the many different mediums that Claude uses on his varied...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

American flag collage with a colored print of California as an Island
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart is an artist working in Europe and America. Watercolor, ink ,acrylic and and even cold wax and oil are the many different mediums that Claude uses on his varied...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

American flag collage with hand colored scene of 19th c San Francisco California
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart is an artist working in Europe and America. Watercolor, ink ,acrylic and and even cold wax and oil are the many different mediums that Claude uses on his varied...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Mixed Media Portrait Painting of a Man
Located in Houston, TX
A mixed media painting of an older man deep in thought in black and white on a yellow background circa 1990s by Theadius McCall. Signed in lower right ...
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1990s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

American flag collage with a 19th C hand colored engraving of a cow
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Howard Stuart is an artist working in Europe and America. Watercolor, ink ,acrylic and and even cold wax and oil are the many different mediums that Claude uses on his varied...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Michael Jordan Vitruvian Athlete - 48"x48"
By Klau
Located in New York, NY
Michael Jordan Vitruvian Athlete, Mixed Media, 48 x 48, 2016 Colors: White, Black, Gray Signed, numbered and dated by the artist Sold Framed "Mich...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

“J. Edgar Hoover”
Located in Southampton, NY
Unique mixed media satirical painting of J. Edgar Hoover by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Consisting of paper cutout collage and ...
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1970s American Modern Mixed Media

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Canvas, Paper, Oil

Untitled (Cadillac Automobile Show)
By Evelyn Harper
Located in New York, NY
Evelyn Harper, "Untitled: Cadillac Automobile Show" , Mixed Media on Illustration Board, 15 x 10, Mid-20th Century, 1948 Colors: Black and White A 15 x 10 Black and White Illustrat...
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1940s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Illustration Board, Pen

"Elkhorn Slough" - Cyanotype / Watercolor Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Soft watercolor accents add to the beauty of this cyanotype and watercolor titled "Elkhorn Slough" by Cheryl Trotter (American, 20th century), c.1980's....
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1980s American Modern Mixed Media

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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Photographic Paper

Navajo Thunderbird Silversmith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Navajo Thunderbird Silversmith Signed in ink, titled in pencil Dimensions: 42 1/4 x 23 inches Mixed media on paper Provenance: Acquired from the art...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Minimal Sculpture of Rabbit with message: 'I Was Here"
Located in New York, NY
Ivy Naté uses universally recognizable objects in non-traditional ways. She creates both large-scale installations and smaller works. Yet, each express Ivy’s captivation with raw hum...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Dandelion
Located in Concord, MA
NAOMI SAVAGE (1927-2005) Dandelion, c.1960 Photo-engraving with painted additions on copper 4 3/8 x 3 ½ inches (plate) Inscribed on the reverse: Naomi Savage / (BK) / 1960? Naomi Savage was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1927. From a very early age, Naomi was interested in the arts. Her mother encouraged her to pursue music, and as the niece of famous Dada and Surrealist painter, sculptor, and photographer, Man Ray, she was able to pursue her interests with much support from her family. During high school, Naomi attended a class taught by Bernice Abbott, Man Ray's assistant in the 1920’s, at the New School for Social Research. She later attended Bennington College, where she studied music and the arts. Shortly after college, she traveled to California to study and apprentice with her uncle, Man Ray. Ray was a great inspiration to the young Naomi; he encouraged her to let her imagination create her art. Savage said later in her life that her strongest inheritance enriching her artistic career came from her uncle, Man Ray. "I never forgot his insightfulness," she said. "With him you could try anything - there was nothing you were told not to do, except spill the chemicals. With Man Ray, you were free to do what your imagination conjured and that kind of encouragement was wonderful". In 1950, Naomi married painter, sculptor, and architect, David Savage. Shortly after, the couple moved to Lambertville, New Jersey, residing there for three years before moving to Princeton, New Jersey. She had her first exhibition in 1952 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and exhibited there again in 1960, 1966, and 1968. Her work can now be seen in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the International Center of Photography in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, and the Noyes Museum in Oceanville, New Jersey. Savage pioneered the use of photographic engravings for which she is best known. With a photographic engraving, the actual metal photographic plate itself is the art. It is described as a kind of topographic photograph with forms in three dimensions and with a variety of metallic surfaces and tones. Some of her most famous photographic engravings involve a series of portraits of her sister, which she manipulated in countless ways over many years. But her most famous photographic engraving (perhaps her most famous work of all) is a fifty-foot long mural she did on the side of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. Her approach to photography represents an involvement with process as medium, and an interest in art as image manipulation, a pursuit shared by contemporaries like Robert Heinecken, Betty Hahn, and Bea Nettles...
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1950s American Modern Mixed Media

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Copper

Rel 17.1
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Philip Shore uses his art to illustrate man's relationship to the environment and how the connection between nature and culture is becoming more fractured. Rel 17.1 consists of wood,...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Resin, Wood, Casein

Rel 16.2
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Philip Shore uses his art to illustrate man's relationship to the environment and how the connection between nature and culture is becoming more fractured. Spiraling Dreams is made o...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Resin, Wood, Mixed Media

Wilder
Located in Waunakee, WI
Wilder - 11x14 Dipped Mixed Media Painting on Canvas in Vintage Repurposed Solid Wood Frame My work is inspired by the beauty that I find in the ordinary and imperfect; it tells a ...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Alphonsine
Located in Missouri, MO
Robert Kushner (American, b. 1949) Alphonsine, 1983 30 x 22 inches without frame 32.75 x 25 inches with frame Titled Lower Left Signed and dated Mid Lower Right A member of the Patt...
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1980s American Modern Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Yellow Store Front, Project, 1980
Located in Missouri, MO
Yellow Store Front, Project, 1980 By. Christo (Bulgarian, 1935-2020) Signed Lower Right Titled Lower Left Unframed: 32 x 23.5 inches Framed: 32.5 x 24 inches An environmental instal...
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1980s American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Float Drawing, Venice
Located in Missouri, MO
Float Drawing, Venice By. Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941) With frame: 40.75 x 28.75 inches Without frame: 36.5 x 24.75 inches Edition: 142/150 bottom right Signed in Paint bottom ce...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Lithograph

Pickaxe (Spitzhacke) Superimposed on a Drawing of the Site by E.L. Grimm
Located in Missouri, MO
Pickaxe (Spitzhacke) Superimposed on a Drawing of the Site by E.L. Grimm, 1982 By Claes Oldenburg (Swedish, American, 1929-2022) Unframed: 26" x 20" Framed: 28.75" x 22.75" Signed and Dated Lower Right Whimsical sculpture of pop culture objects, many of them large and out-of-doors, is the signature work of Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg who became one of America's leading Pop Artists. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a diplomat, and during Claes' childhood moved his family from Stockholm to a variety of locations including Chicago where the father was general consul of Sweden and where Oldenburg spent most of his childhood. He attended the Latin School of Chicago, and then Yale University where he studied literature and art history, graduating in 1950, the same year Claes became an American citizen. Returning to Chicago, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1952 to 1954 and also worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau. He opened his own studio, and in 1953, some of his satirical drawings were included in his first group show at the Club St. Elmo, Chicago. He also painted at the Oxbow School of Painting in Michigan. In 1956, he moved to New York where he drew and painted while working as a clerk in the art libraries of Cooper-Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Selling his first artworks during this time, he earned 25 dollars for five pieces. Oldenburg became friends with numerous artists including Jim Dine, Red Grooms and Allan Kaprow, who with his "Happenings" was especially influential on Oldenburg's interest in environmental art. Another growing interest was soft sculpture, and in 1957, he created a piece later titled Sausage, a free-hanging woman's stocking stuffed with newspaper. In 1959, he had his first one-man show, held at the Judson Gallery at Washington Square. He exhibited wood and newspaper sculpture and painted papier-mache objects. Some viewers of the exhibit commented how refreshing Oldenburg's pieces were in contrast to the Abstract Expressionism, a style which much dominated the art world. During this time, he was influenced by the whimsical work of French artist, Bernard Buffet, and he experimented with materials and images of the junk-filled streets of New York. In 1960, Oldenburg created his first Pop-Art Environments and Happenings in a mock store full of plaster objects. He also did Performances with a cast of colleagues including artists Lucas Samaras, Tom Wesselman, Carolee Schneemann, Oyvind Fahlstrom and Richard Artschwager, dealer Annina Nosei, critic Barbara Rose, and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer. His first wife (1960-1970) Pat Muschinski, who sewed many of his early soft sculptures, was a constant performer in his Happenings. This brash, often humorous, approach to art was at great odds with the prevailing sensibility that, by its nature, art dealt with "profound" expressions or ideas. In December 1961, he rented a store on Manhattan's Lower East Side to house "The Store," a month-long installation he had first presented at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. This installation was stocked with sculptures roughly in the form of consumer goods. Oldenburg moved to Los Angeles in 1963 "because it was the most opposite thing to New York I could think of". That same year, he conceived AUT OBO DYS, performed in the parking lot of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in December 1963. In 1965 he turned his attention to drawings and projects for imaginary outdoor monuments. Initially these monuments took the form of small collages such as a crayon image of a fat, fuzzy teddy bear looming over the grassy fields of New York's Central Park (1965) and Lipsticks in Piccadilly Circus, London (1966). Oldenburg realized his first outdoor public monument in 1967; Placid Civic Monument took the form of a Conceptual performance/action behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with a crew of gravediggers digging a 6-by-3-foot rectangular hole in the ground. Many of Oldenburg's large-scale sculptures of mundane objects elicited public ridicule before being embraced as whimsical, insightful, and fun additions to public outdoor art. From the early 1970s Oldenburg concentrated almost exclusively on public commissions. Between 1969 and 1977 Oldenburg had been in a relationship with Hannah Wilke, feminist artist, but in 1977 he married Coosje van Bruggen, a Dutch-American writer and art historian who became collaborator with him on his artwork. He had met her in 1970, when she curated an exhibition for him at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Their first collaboration came when Oldenburg was commissioned to rework Trowel I, a 1971 sculpture of an oversize garden tool, for the grounds of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands. Oldenburg has officially signed all the work he has done since 1981 with both his own name and van Bruggen's. In 1988, the two created the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota that remains a staple of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden as well as a classic image of the city. Typewriter Eraser...
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20th Century American Modern Mixed Media

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Etching, Aquatint, Photogravure

1950s Josef Albers record cover art: set of 7 works (Albers album art)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Josef Albers Album Art complete set of 7 circa late 1950s: A set of 7 vinyl record covers (containing their records) brilliantly designed by Josef Albers between 1958 and 1960. The set contains all known record illustrations attributed to Albers and looks fantastic framed as a group. Medium: Offset lithograph on vinyl album cover. 12x12 inches (dimensions applies to each individual). All covers are in good very good overall vintage condition; minor shelf-wear; each record is included in good to very good overall vintage condition. Unsigned, from an edition of unknown. Exhibitions & Literature: Each featured & catalogued in the 2019 exhibition, ‘Sonic Albers’; David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY. Art & Vinyl (Franekel Gallery 2018). About Josef Albers: Josef Albers is best known for his seminal “Homage to the Square” series of the 1950s and '60s, which focused on the simplification of form and the interplay of shape and color. His abstract canvases employed rigid geometric compositions in order to emphasize the optical effects set off by his chosen color palettes. Albers was highly influential as a teacher, first at the Bauhaus in Germany alongside Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and later with posts at Black Mountain College, Yale, and Harvard; he taught courses in design and color theory, and counted among his students such iconic artists as Eva Hesse, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Robert Rauschenberg & Cy Twombly. Albers is often cited among the forefathers of Minimalist, Conceptual, and Op art. Related Categories: Mid century modern. Pop Art. Contemporary art. Albers squares...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Mixed Media

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Lithograph, Offset

Portrait of Victory
By Paul Pletka
Located in Missouri, MO
"Portrait of Victory" By Paul Pletka (1946- ) Image Size: 30" x 23" Framed: 42" x 36" Signed: Lower Right Paul Pletka is a neo-surrealistic painter inspired by his fascination from early childhood with Native Americans of the Southwest. His style, described as neo-surrealistic, "is both realistic and deeply spiritual, being highly sensitive to the inner thoughts of Native Americans." Paul Pletka was born in southern California in 1946 and currently resides in New Mexico. After high school, he won a scholarship to Arizona State University and then transferred to Colorado State University, but feeling disappointed in his college art training, did not paint seriously until the late 1960s. His works of art have been exhibited in one-man shows in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, New York, Kansas and Missouri continuously since 1964. Pletka's paintings are in more than 40 private and public art collections including the Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, MO; Mel Pfaelzer Collection, University of Northern Illinois, De Kalb; the Norton Gallery & School of Art, West Palm Beach...
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20th Century American Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Separated Spear Woman in Snake Headress
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media on Whatman board. Signed (at lower right): WINOLD/REISS
Category

20th Century American Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Henry Whitford
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media on Whatman board. Signed (at lower left): WINOLD/REISS
Category

20th Century American Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Unicorn with a Golden Wall
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (1918 - 2011) Title: "Unicorn with a Golden Wall" Medium: Mixed Media on Paper Dimensions: 18" x 12" (image) Markings: Signed LR Framed
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1970s American Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Untitled
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title: Untitled Medium: Mixed Media Year: 2018 Signed Size: 13.5 x 19 x 9.5 inches Tom Binger finds it interesting that during a time in which the internet is quickly becoming the p...
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2010s American Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Memories #2
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Memories #2 Year: 1981 Medium: Ink, Dye Paint and Collage, signed left Paper Size: 8.8 x 9.8 inches Frame Size: 11 x 15 inches
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1980s American Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Dye, Ink

Sunrise Coffee
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Sunrise Coffee Year: 1970 Medium: Collage and Mixed Media on Masonite, signed left and verso Size: 18 in. x 21 in. (45.72 cm x 53.34 cm) Frame Si...
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1960s American Modern Mixed Media

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Masonite

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