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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
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Vintage Expressionist Portrait of a Man with a Bowtie Oil on Wood
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive portrait, a caricature of a man with bowtie by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Another version of th...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Antique American School Modernist Coastal Ocean Beach Abstract Rock Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist seascape beach oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Signed on verso. Image size, 24L x 18H. Framed in a period frame.
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
1990s Large Abstract Oil Painting, Earth Tones Brown, Gold, Green, Horizontal
Located in Denver, CO
This original abstract oil painting, created in 1994 by the acclaimed artist Wilma Fiori (1929-2019), captures a rich, moody composition in a large horizon...
Category
1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rail Crossing: Middletown, NY"
By Jules Halfant
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful oil on linen canvas painting, entitled "Rail Crossing: Middletown, was executed by the esteemed artist Jules Halfant (American, 1909-2001)...
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Modernist Paris School Signed Street Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French modernist Paris school cityscape street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 27 by 40 inches overall and 26 by 39 painting alone. In excellent...
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American Modernist Pop Art Bulldog Animal Portrait Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist animal portrait painting by Jerry Farnsworth. Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Signed. Image size 20L x 16H. Housed in a peri...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mexican Abstract Painting - Sublimation
By Lidoyne
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract acrylic in earthy hues of green and accented in a deep maroon by Mexican artist Lidoyne, 2010. Signed and dated lower right.
Original vintage one-of-a-kind artwork on pape...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Vintage American Mid Century Modernist Abstract Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Signed
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Signed Cubist Abstract Framed Colorful Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition 14 - Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 14 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 47...
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
$220 Sale Price
25% Off
"Selfie in Christ"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The theme of religion is an integral part of my author's paintings. This work was inspired by the painting by Rembrandt, The Removal of Christ.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series II
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series II", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inter...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,101 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Sparse Modern Expressionist Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 18L x 24H.
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Trompe L'Oeil "Old Town Chicago" Signed Van Zandt Street Scene Modern Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene painting. OIl on board. Framed. Signed "Van Zandt 50". Really finely painted and an interesting subject as well!
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Changing Everything Forever: River #7 bright colorful abstract landscape
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Changing Everything Forever: River #7
Exuberant brushwork, bright colorful abstract landscape
Acrylic, w some dirt, some grass, on canvas.
Painted at the Blackstone-Seekonk River.
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Nigeria Period, Frottage on Paper, Edition 1/1 by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amitabh Sengupta - Nigeria Period , Edition 1/1
Frottage on Paper , 30.25 x 22.25 inches , 1987
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : In Amitabh SenGupta's works TIME is depi...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Antique American Mid Century Modern Kitchen Still Life Original OilPainting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 14L x 8H. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
“Abstract Sailing, 1945”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on academy board by the Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and dated lower left, 1945. Condition: Excellent. Presently not framed.
Biography :
Russian-America...
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Exhibited Ashcan School Nocturnal New York City Brooklyn Bridge Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nocturnal view of the Brooklyn Bridge. Oil on board. Signed verso. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare Israeli Modernist Oil Painting Exhibited 1951 Tel Aviv Museum
By Anatol Gurevitch
Located in Surfside, FL
Gurevich Anatole Anatol Gurevitch Anatol Gurewitsch (1916-2005)
Per the hebrew label on the back, this was exhibited in 1951. I believe at the Tel Aviv museum of art (as per the Israel Museum (Jerusalem) website)m in a manner reminescent of Bezalel Schatz, Moshe Castel, Jean david and other Israeli artists of the New Horizons prominent in that period ts a nude crouching figure against a colorful abstract background.
Israeli Painter and stage designer. Yakir of Tel Aviv. Born in Russia, Moscow in the mid-teens of the twentieth century. Studied painting in Berlin. Immigrated to Palestine from Germany in 1934. Served in the British Army (1941-1946). Known for his pantings of Jewish rabbis and other Judaica subject matter. He specialized in stage design for dance troupes: the dance troupe led by Gertrude Kraus, Inbal, the Batsheva Dance Company, the international black dancer tali bati. His first wife was the late dancer and choreographer - the girl Kesten, His son is theater director Michael Gurevich. His second wife was the actress - Rivka Gur, who gave birth to his second son, Eyal. He died at the age of 89 after a serious illness. He left behind two sons: Michael (Miki) Gurevitch and Eyal Gurevitch. He was the uncle of the artist and sculptor - Igael Tumarkin.
He was a stage designer in the theaters
The brothel of Hunzo from Kibbutz Givat Haim, the British military band of this type, the British army, Gertrud Kraus, the Inbal Dance Theater, the Israeli Ballet, the Batsheva Dance Company and more.
He designed a stage for plays
The girl and the Negro, the Threepenny Opera, a band on the Thames, the singer of the land (in the military band of 1944), the banknote to Shlomo, the tea department, Nathan the Wise, Herod and Miriam.
Awards
Yakir Tel Aviv Prize, on behalf of the Tel Aviv Municipality.
Anatol Gurewitsch, painter and Stage designer, born 1916, Moscow. After Second World War worked as stage designer. Designed costumes for dancer Gertrud Krausz. Uncle of Igael Tumarkin, and father of the theater Director Miki Gurewitsch.
Education
Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, art
1936 with Frenel Frankel
1937 with Miron...
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Modern Green Pink Mixed Media on Canvas 48" X 36"
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas
Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand p...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink
Incredible American Modernist New York City Central Park Plaza View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive mid 1900s American school painting of Central Park. An amazing piece with hints of abstraction. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Cubist Still Life Abstract Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 24L x 18H. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
1972 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Framed Oil Painting - Ebullient
Located in Bristol, GB
EBULLIENT
Size: 41 x 45 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An energetic and richly coloured abstract composition, executed in oil and dated 1972.
With its vivid patches of rich co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Surreal Dry Dock Boat Scene Signed Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted modernist dry dock boat landscape by Karl Soderlund (Born 1962). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Mixed Media on Paper, Black, Yellow, by Indian Artist " In Stock "
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury
Untitled
Mixed Media on Paper
12 x 16 inches 30.4 x 40.6 cm
2016
( Unframed & Delivered )
Modern Indian artist Jogen Chowdhury executed Still life drawing in In...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Modernist Abstract Still Life Painting with Red-Orange Zinnias, American Art
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating oil on board painting by Paul Kauvar Smith (1893–1977) showcases a vibrant American Modernist still life featuring zinnia flowers in hues of red and orange. Set with...
Category
20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,250 Sale Price
57% Off
Horst Kalinowski Abstract Collage Assemblage Mixed Media Sculpture Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Horst Egon Kalinowski (German, 1924-2013).
Mixed media assemblage collage
Divan Ophidian.
Hand signed in marker upper right and dated 82 Bagnols-en-Foret, Titled upper left.
Additionally titled and dated on verso.
Dimensions: 30" x 24 1/4" (with frame 27" x 32 3/4") inches.
Born in 1924 in Dusseldorf, From 1945 to 1948, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. In 1949-1950, he stayed in Rome and Venice, Italy. From 1950 to 1952, in Paris, France he studied in the abstract art workshop of Jean Dewasne and Edgard Pillet...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Paint, Mixed Media, Board
Nigeria Period, Frottage on Paper, Edition 1/1 by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amitabh Sengupta - Nigeria Period , Edition 1/1
Frottage on Paper , 30.5 x 22.5 inches , 1987
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : In Amitabh SenGupta's works TIME is depict...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Inscription, Dyptich, Acrylic, Canvas, Red, Orange, Blue Indian Artist-In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amitabh Sengupta - Inscription (Dyptich)
Acrylic on Canvas, 72 x 36 inches (Unframed Size) , 2008
( Unframed & Delivered )
Style : In Amitabh Sengupta's works TIME is depicted in va...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Antique American School Abstract Cubist Flower Still Life Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well painted period cubist still life. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Golden Horizon
Located in Bristol, GB
GOLDEN HORIZON
Oil on Board
Size: 53 x 73 cm (including frame)
A serene yet energetic and beautifully textured mid-century abstract landscape composition, painted in oil onto canvas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Huge Mid 20th Century French Oil Painting Two Figures Entwined
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures Entwined
by Joel Lacroix (French mid 20th century)
signed and dated verso
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 39.5 x 32 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,698 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique European School Modernist Village Landscape Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique European modernist landscape painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Unsigned. Image size, 20.5L x 17.5H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape - San Francisco Hills in the Fog
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape - San Francisco Hills in the Fog
Beautiful mid-century modern abstract landscape evoking ...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled, Modern Abstract Oil on Canvas by Willering Epko
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Willering Epko, French (1928 - )
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 15 in. x 18 in. (38.1 cm x 45.72 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life on black table. Oil on canvas, 135x140 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life on black table. Oil on canvas, 135x140 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ortez Modernist Family Portrait – 1940s Abstracted Interior Scene with 5 Figures
Located in Denver, CO
Ortez (Modernist Family Portrait) is an abstract gouache on paper painting by Lewis Lee Tilley (1921-2005), created in 1947. The piece depicts a family of five sitting together on a ...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series IV
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series IV", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inter...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$991 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Expressionist Color Gouache Painting Mid Century Mod WPA Jewish Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Signed Indonesian Nude Woman Religous Original Framed Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage Indonesian modernist nude oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-Century Modern Orange Blue Painting Mixed Media Canvas 38x56"
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas
Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand p...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Wave Form II (Wellenform) (Triangle, Wavy, Modern, Mid-Century) (~50% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Hannes Grosse
Wave Form II (Wellenform)
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 1971
Size: 33.46 x 33.46 x 31.49 inches (85,5 x 85,5 x 80 cm)
Framed (simply wood frame) - ready to hang
COA ...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$3,998 Sale Price
48% Off
Early Mid Century Modern Abstract Painting
By Tommie Olson
Located in Houston, TX
Mid century modern abstract by artist Tommie (Thomas) Olson a student of Robert Preusser, when he was 16 and attending John Deagan High School in Houst...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Aragua, Abstract Painting, Contemporary Red Blue and Green Art, Statement Art
By Julia Craig
Located in Deddington, GB
This is an original abstract acrylic painting on canvas.
Discover new works by Julia Craig available to buy online and in our art gallery. Julia is an abstract artist whose love of c...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series III
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series III", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inte...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$881 Sale Price
20% Off
"Yellowstone" - oil on canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cafe. 2024., acrylic, paper, 25x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Cafe. 2024., acrylic, paper, 25x25 cm
Ansis Butnors (1977)
Education:
J. Rozentals Art School in Riga – 1989. – 1996.
Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department – 1996. – 2000.
...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Pastel Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Abstract, Wood, Iron, Oil & Mixed Media, Green, Black by Indian Artist"In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Untitled - 31 x 20 inches (unframed size)
Wood, Iron, Oil & Mixed Media on Board
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern I...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Iron
"Sunset with Palm Trees" Modern Blue Toned Pointillist Tropical Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Modern blue toned tropical landscape painting by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features an abstract depiction of a sunset behind palm trees using pointillism, the practice of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they visually blend together. Signed and dated in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a light wood floating frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 24 in. x W 30 in.
Artist Biography: Clark V. Fox was born in Austin, TX, in 1946. His father in the Army Air Forces, Clark spent the first five years of his life in Honolulu before the family moved to several cities throughout Texas, including Galveston, Houston, Corpus Christi, Hereford and Amarillo. In 1960 just before Clark entered high school, the family settled in Washington, D.C. Clark attended high school in Alexandria, Virginia, a period during which he had a studio with fellow classmates, David Lynch and Jack Fisk. Clark studied with Japanese art master Unichi Hiratsuka at the Japan-American Society of Washington, D.C. (1964-1965). Clark spent his first year of college at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York (1965-66) with part-time stints at Andy Warhol’s “The Factory” studio, after which he returned to D.C., where he received his BFA in 1969 from the Corcoran School of Art. He soon became involved with the Washington Color School of Painting, where he apprenticed with artist Tom Downing...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mott Street - NYC Street Scene on Bright Orange Paper, Original, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Patrick Vale
Mott Street
acrylic and ink on paper
20h x 28w in
50.80h x 71.12w cm
PKV002
Artist Patrick Vale garnered international attention in 2012 whe...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Ink
Two trees and the sun. 2002. Cardboard, oil, 100x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Laimdots Murnieks had a significant influence on the development of Latvian painting at the end of the 20th century. His work 'Holiday' conveys the f...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$8,937 Sale Price
20% Off
88 x 68 x 2 inches: "So Blue, So Happy, So Cool", Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Abstract Painting by Ted Gilien
By Ted Gilien
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ted Gilien, American (1914 - 1967)
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.l.
Size: 24 x 32 inches [60.96 x 81.28 cm]
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Face Nigeria Period Frottage on Paper Edition 1/1 by Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amitabh Sengupta - The Face Nigeria Period , Edition 1/1
Frottage on Paper , 30.5 x 22.5 inches , 1986
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : In Amitabh SenGupta's works TIME i...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Antique American Modernist Abstract Flower Still Life Outsider Art Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 16L x 11H. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
"Crescent and Cactus" Modern Abstract Colorful Desert Night Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Cubist inspired colorful desert landscape painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features an abstract cluster of purple, coral, and yellow cacti s...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Orange, Brown, Yellow, and Black Geometric Abstract Pattern Painting
By John Little
Located in Houston, TX
Modern orange, brown, yellow, and black geometric abstract composition by textile designer John Little. The work was created as a proposed design for a wallpaper and features the original color codes in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a solid black frame with a large white margin.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 35.5 in. x W 33.5 in.
Artist Biography: A painter and textile designer, John Little is best known for gestural works filled with boldly explosive color that reflect the influences of his teacher Hans Hofmann and for his involvement in the Abstract Expressionist movement in East Hampton, where he moved in the late 1940s. In East Hampton Little congregated with Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the other artists who were the leading innovators in the New York School.
John Little was born in Sanford, Alabama. He left home at the age of fourteen to become an artist, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1923. After spending a year working as a stevedore on the docks to save money, he enrolled at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and developed an interest in singing. In 1927 he moved to New York City where he continued his vocal work and studied operatic literature. He also became involved in textile design, opening his own store in 1920, called John Little Studios: Fabric and Wallpaper Design. He ran the store until 1950.
In 1933 John Little resumed his painting studies at the Art Students League in New York under the guidance of George Grosz (1893-1959). The following year he made his first visit to East Hampton, Long Island, which he would eventually call home. Later in the decade, he traveled to Paris where he became familiar with European modernism. On his return to America, he taught textile design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He hired Josephine Watkins to work for him; she later became his wife. Little's textile store and teaching job gave him a financial security that was rare during the Depression, and he never found it necessary to find employment with the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade, John Little studied with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in New York and Provincetown. Little was greatly influenced by Hofmann, particularly by his views on color theory.
In 1942 John Little joined the Navy as an aerial photographer. In the late 1940s he purchased a rundown house on Three Mile Harbor...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Abstraction"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Arthur B. Carles (1882-1952)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Arthur Carles was a painter whose work went through phases...
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Abstract Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
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Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
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If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.