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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1990s
"Untitled, " Oil, Mixed Media on Canvas - Abstract painting, Contemporary Art
Located in Houston, TX
Thick layers of paint foster an unctuousness commonly found in Dick Wray’s work. The treatment of the medium reflects a tendency toward impulse, whimsy, and vigorous expression. I...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas

"Untitled, " Oil, Mixed Media on Canvas - Abstract painting
Located in Houston, TX
This work, although understated in comparison to other works of Wrays, reflects the abstract expressionist’s devotion to freedom of expression, both in form and color, and his intere...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas

"Untitled, " Oil, Mixed Media on Canvas - Abstract Impressionist painting
Located in Houston, TX
Encouraged by spontaneity, this work uses line and texture to invigorate the painting’s picture plane in a way that is sudden and playful. In 1958, Wray embarked on a trip to Europe...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas

Edge of Kilauea
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas.
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Next Eclipse of Green
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas.
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bang, Bang, Banjio
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Self-Inflicted
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled - Oil on Canvas by Roberto Sebastian Matta - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original oil on canvas realized by Roberto Sébastian Matta in 1996. It comes with a certificate of authenticity by Matta's son ...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Electric Tulip II
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Electric Tulip II Year: 1980 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 84 x 60 in....
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1970s Op Art Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled by Marlon Mullen
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Marlon Mullen Untitled acrylic on canvas 24" x 24" 2017 signed
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled by Marlon Mullen
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Marlon Mullen Untitled acrylic on paper 23' x 30.5" 1997 signed
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Desert with Cactus
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Marlon Mullen Desert with Cactus acrylic on paper 20" x 26" 1997 signed Born in 1963, Marlon Mullen is a painter who lives and works in Contra Costa County, California, where he h...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Clodgy - St Ives, Modern British Painting, Abstract Art - Sandra Blow (Abstract)
Located in London, GB
Clodgy - St Ives, Modern British Painting, Abstract Art - Sandra Blow (Abstract) Signed and inscribed with title and date on the canvas overlap Sandra Blow RA (1925-2006) pioneered ...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Bird Dropping
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Ore-T-Ba
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Abstrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just discovered mixed media painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, (1916-2010.) Abstrait, is an original mixed media oil and collage on panel, signed, dated 1946...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Léon Zack - Lyrical Abstract Composition - Signed Oil on Canvas
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Léon Zack Lyrical Abstract Composition Signed Oil on Canvas 50 x 61 cm Léon Zack (1892-1980) Léon Zack was a Russian émigré who became a leading exp...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Dinner in the Sky
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (Edward M. Gomez, "Futuristic Forms Frolic Under Eerie Texan Skies...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Experimentation for Chinatown
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Experimentation for Chinatown Year: 1977 Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dated l.r. Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm) ...
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1970s Conceptual Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Sky Cycle
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis, American (1920 - 1985) Title: Sky Cycle Year: 1978 Medium: Oil on Raw Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 47 x 33 in. (119.38 x 83.82 cm) Frame Size: 49 x 35 i...
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1970s Minimalist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Light Magenta Square
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Anuszkiewicz Title: Light Magenta Square Year: 1978 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 60 x 60 inches Referenced as 1978.9, pg 184 in "Anuszkiew...
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1970s Op Art Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Church, Terlingua" Abstract, Geometric Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Bold black, red, and white abstract geometric painting of Terlingua Church in the city of Terlingua, Tx near the Texas-Mexican border. Signed and dated by artist in 1971. Artist Bi...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Color Chart for Chinatown Nighttime
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Color Chart for Chinatown Nighttime Year: 1977 Medium: Acrylic on Paper , signed and dated l.r. Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2...
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1970s Conceptual Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Amithaba, Kenji Yoshida, nihonga paintings, gold silver copper leaf Japanese
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Amithaba, nihonga paintings, gold silver copper leaf cobalt Japanese Yoshida gold leaf, silver leaf oil paint on canvas. This painting was part of the one man show for Yoshida at ...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf

untitled
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yrjo Edelmann, Finnish (1941 - ) Title: Untitled Year: 1993 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 44 in. x 44 in. (111.76 cm x 111.76 cm)
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1990s Photorealist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

La Cite'
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An exceptional early cubist cityscape by one of the masters of Belgian Avant Garde painting, Jessica Rice. "La Cité", is an original oil on canvas, signed,...
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1990s Cubist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Three Waves
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core prac...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Intrusion of Blue
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core prac...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Seaworm
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core prac...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Inversion
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the d...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

A Walk in the Clouds
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the d...
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1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Perpetuum
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present for the first time in more than twenty years, the paintings of Austrian/American artist Gustav Rehberger (1910–1995). ...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Serenade
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the d...
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1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings

Musique Abstract
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the d...
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1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings

Cosmopolitan
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the d...
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1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

16 Barbras (Jewish Jackie Series)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Deborah Kass (b.1952). 16 Barbras (Jewish Jackie Series), 1992. 40 x 48 inches. Acrylic silkscreen inks on canvas. Signed, titled and dated in pencil en verso. Biography: (b. 1952, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) Deborah Kass employs the visual motifs of post-war painting to explore the intersection of politics, popular culture, art history and personal identity. Her celebrated series, The Warhol Project, from the early 1990’s refocused Andy Warhol’s eye for celebrity portraiture. Her work incorporates lyrics from Broadway musicals, movie quotations and Yiddish sayings into canonical formats like Frank Stella’s concentric squares, Ellsworth Kelly’s rainbow spectrum and Andy Warhol’s camouflage patterns. Kass’s work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Jewish Museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, among others. She is a Senior Critic in the Graduate Painting Program at Yale University. Recent solo and group exhibitions include The Pittsburgh Biennial at The Andy Warhol Museum; “The Deconstructive Impulse” at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, NY; “feel good paintings for feel bad times” and “MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times” at Paul Kasmin Gallery; and “Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism” at The Jewish Museum in New York, NY. In 2012, The Andy Warhol Museum hosted “Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After, a Mid-Career Retrospective.” Kass’s work was also featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years.” SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 “My Elvis +,” PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York 2012 “Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After, a Mid-Career Retrospective,” ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, Pittsburgh, PA 2010 “MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times,” PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York 2007 “feel good paintings for feel bad times,” PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York “Armory Show,” PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York 2001 “Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project,“ WEATHERSPOON ART GALLERY, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC 2000 “Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project,” UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA “Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project,” BLAFFER GALLERY, University of Houston, Houston, TX 1999 “Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project,” NEWCOMBE ART GALLERY, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (traveling, catalogue) 1998 ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY, New Orleans, LA 1996 “My Andy: a retrospective,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO 1995 “My Andy: a retrospective,” JOSE FREIRE FINE ART, New York “My Andy: a retrospective,” ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY, New Orleans, LA 1994 BARBARA KRAKOW GALLERY, Boston, MA 1993 “Chairman Ma,” JOSE FREIRE FINE ART, New York “Chairman Ma,” ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY, New Orleans, LA 1992 “The Jewish Jackie Series and My Elvis,” FICTION/NONFICTION, New York “The Jewish Jackie Series,” SIMON WATSON, New York 1990 SIMON WATSON GALLERY, New York 1988 SCOTT HANSON...
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1990s Pop Art Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Cubist Abstract in Green
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of th...
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1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

The Dessert
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the d...
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1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

The Broken Vase
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the day before settling in Los Angeles in the 1930’s. The artist continued his art education and began exhibiting throughout galleries in Southern California. Due to his intense fascination with the cubist avant garde movement, into cubist imagery which became the trademark style of painting for the remainder of his life. This is the first presentation of the paintings of Maurice Green since his death in 1993. “The Broken Vase...
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1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Bernard Aubertin - Tableau Clous - Nail Painting 1970
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Bernard Aubertin (1934 -.) Tableau Clous 1970 Nails and acrylic on panel, 50 × 50 cm Verso signed and dated. Bernard Aubertin associates the element fire with a glowing red. "...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Chinatown II, Oil Painting by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown II Year: circa 1978 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso Size: 43 in. x 31 in. (109.22 cm x 78.74 cm)
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1970s Pop Art Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Abstract Figure in Green
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A series of exceptional paintings and rare prints have just arrived from a private west coast private collection. American artist Hans Burkhardt, "Abstract Figure in Green", vintage...
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1970s Abstract Paintings

Red Lips
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional mixed media painting by American artist Hans Burkhardt. "Red Lips", is an original mixed media painting, signed, dated 1977, 5.75...
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1970s Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Construct
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the d...
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1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

To With Any To #1
Located in San Francisco, CA
Richard Tuttle acrylic on fir plywood
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1990s Abstract Paintings

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Plywood, Acrylic

Original Abstract Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs

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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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