Abstract Paintings

Mixed media on wood. It features a frame painted by the artist.

Acrylic on canvas.

Translated title: "Figure with shapes and fan" Mixed media on canvas.

Acrylic on canvas.

Acrylic on canvas with a wooden frame.

Translated title: "Heavenward". Acrylic on canvas panel.

Translated title: "Nocturnal Heavenward". Acrylic on canvas panel.

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

Acrylic on canvas.

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

Acrylic on a wood panel.

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

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic on canvas.

Acrylic on canvas with a wooden frame.

"Translated title": "Composition with character". Acrylic on board.

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

Translated title: "The tree of life" Acrylic on canvas.

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

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

Translated title: "Tree". Acrylic on canvas. The artist sells the handmade, original and one-of-a-kind piece, but he reserves the right to duplicate it in multiples or digital prin...

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Translated title: "He sees you". Acrylic on canvas.

Translated title: "Minotaur" Acrylic on canvas.

Acrylic on wood.

Acrylic on canvas.

Translated title: "Enrico's journey" Collage, ink on canvas and paper.

Translated title: "How many things I've seen..." Mixed media on canvas. The dimensions refer to the painting with the frame.

Acrylic on masonite.

Acrylic on masonite

Acrylic on canvas panel.

Translated title: "Couple of lovers of different ethnicities" Acrylic on canvas.

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

Translated title: "Untold" Digital print on canvas with painted parts. It is one-of-a-kind.

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

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Translated title: "Still having life to look for" Acrylic on canvas.

Translated title: "Now I see you". Enamel on canvas panel.

Original oil paint and acrylic paint on canvas by the well known American artist, Syd Solomon. Signed bottom middle. Titled and dated verso, 1977/1978. The location for the painting is Midnight Pass near where the artist once lived in Sarasota, Florida. Condition is excellent. The painting is housed in its original gallery frame with silver edge. Overall framed measurements are 51 by 38 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector. American, 1917-2004 SYD SOLOMON BIOGRAPHY: Written by Dr. Lisa Peters/Berry Campbell Gallery “Here, in simple English, is what Syd Solomon does: He meditates. He connects his hand and paintbrush to the deeper, quieter, more mysterious parts of his mind- and he paints pictures of what he sees and feels down there.” --Kurt Vonnegut Jr. from Palm Sunday, 1981 Syd Solomon was born near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1917. He began painting in high school in Wilkes-Barre, where he was also a star football player. After high school, he worked in advertising and took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the war effort and was assigned to the First Camouflage Battalion, the 924th Engineer Aviation Regiment of the US Army. He used his artistic skills to create camouflage instruction manuals utilized throughout the Army. He married Ann Francine Cohen in late 1941. Soon thereafter, in early 1942, the couple moved to Fort Ord in California where he was sent to camouflage the coast to protect it from possible aerial bombings. Sent overseas in 1943, Solomon did aerial reconnaissance over Holland. Solomon was sent to Normandy early in the invasion where his camouflage designs provided protective concealment for the transport of supplies for men who had broken through the enemy line. Solomon was considered one of the best camoufleurs in the Army, receiving among other commendations, five bronze stars. Solomon often remarked that his camouflage experience during World War II influenced his ideas about abstract art. At the end of the War, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Because Solomon suffered frostbite during the Battle of the Bulge, he could not live in cold climates, so he and Annie chose to settle in Sarasota, Florida, after the War. Sarasota was home to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and soon Solomon became friends with Arthur Everett “Chick” Austin, Jr., the museum’s first Director. In the late 1940s, Solomon experimented with new synthetic media, the precursors to acrylic paints provided to him by chemist Guy Pascal, who was developing them. Victor D’Amico, the first Director of Education for the Museum of Modern Art, recognized Solomon as the first artist to use acrylic paint. His early experimentation with this medium as well as other media put him at the forefront of technical innovations in his generation. He was also one of the first artists to use aerosol sprays and combined them with resists, an innovation influenced by his camouflage experience. Solomon’s work began to be acknowledged nationally in 1952. He was included in American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From 1952–1962, Solomon’s work was discovered by the cognoscenti of the art world, including the Museum of Modern Art Curators, Dorothy C. Miller and Peter Selz, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Director, John I. H. Baur. He had his first solo show in New York at the Associated American Artists Gallery in 1955 with “Chick” Austin, Jr. writing the essay for the exhibition. In the summer of 1955, the Solomons visited East Hampton, New York, for the first time at the invitation of fellow artist David Budd...

Translated title: "Macaque". Acrylic on canvas.

Acrylic on canvas.

"Come un insetto al sole sulla cima di un albero" Translated title: "Like an insect in the sun on top of a tree". Acrylic on canvas.

Translated title: "Absence is a silent strength that flies" Enamel on canvas.

Translated title: "Untitled (Compass)" Acrylic and pencil on sand and canvas.

Translated title: "Coming into the world among flowers" Acrylic on wood.

Translated title: "Believing it was just for the sake of peace, I went back to the places I loved" This is a wonderful and colorful painting by Enzio Wenk, Italy, 2010. Ac...