Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 4

David Brown
“A Thin Wash of Morning Rain”

2013

About the Item

Encaustic painting is an ancient art form and was practiced by artists as far back as the 5th century B.C. The word encaustic comes from Greek and means “to burn in”, which refers to the process of fusing the paint. The technique uses heated wax to which coloured pigments are added. The molten wax is applied to a firm surface–usually prepared wood, paper, or canvas. Encaustic has a long history, but it is as versatile as any 20th-century medium. Brushes are used to apply and shape the wax before it cools, then it can be polished to a high gloss, it can be modelled, sculpted, textured, and combined with collage materials. The wax cools immediately, so that there is no drying time, yet it can always be reworked. Encaustic paintings do not have to be varnished or protected by glass. "A Thin Wash of Morning Rain," gets its name and inspiration from a book Brown was reading at the time, "The Cat's Table," by Michael Ondaatje.
  • Creator:
    David Brown (Canadian)
  • Creation Year:
    2013
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Toronto, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2620212800262
More From This SellerView All
  • "Sounds of Silence"
    Located in Toronto, ON
    Encaustic painting is an ancient art form and was practiced by artists as far back as the 5th century B.C. The word encaustic comes from Greek and means “to burn in”, which refers to...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Encaustic

  • "Correspondance"
    Located in Toronto, ON
    Jeremy Hoffeld's work plays with ambiguity, and subverts the notion that one must choose between "abstraction and figuration, the new and the borrowed or even clichéd, the bright and the muddy, the natural/primordial and the synthetic/modern." For Hoffeld, "paintings, both abstract and figurative, have always been linked with music and literature. He aims to infuse his paintings with...improvisation, spontaneity, and energy." Hoffeld has had several solo shows since 2006 at galleries in New York including John Davis Gallery, Varga Gallery, Sky-Tree Gallery and Art Center, and the Catskills Gallery, as well as Galerie Hugo Cassel in Berlin and the Emily Harding Gallery...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Acrylic

  • "Rising"
    Located in Toronto, ON
    Jeremy Hoffeld's work plays with ambiguity, and subverts the notion that one must choose between "abstraction and figuration, the new and the borrowed or even clichéd, the bright and the muddy, the natural/primordial and the synthetic/modern." For Hoffeld, "paintings, both abstract and figurative, have always been linked with music and literature. He aims to infuse his paintings with...improvisation, spontaneity, and energy." Hoffeld has had several solo shows since 2006 at galleries in New York including John Davis Gallery, Varga Gallery, Sky-Tree Gallery and Art Center, and the Catskills Gallery, as well as Galerie Hugo Cassel in Berlin and the Emily Harding Gallery...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Acrylic

  • "Suddenly I See"
    Located in Toronto, ON
    Jeremy Hoffeld's work plays with ambiguity, and subverts the notion that one must choose between "abstraction and figuration, the new and the borrowed or even clichéd, the bright and the muddy, the natural/primordial and the synthetic/modern." For Hoffeld, "paintings, both abstract and figurative, have always been linked with music and literature. He aims to infuse his paintings with...improvisation, spontaneity, and energy." Hoffeld has had several solo shows since 2006 at galleries in New York including John Davis Gallery, Varga Gallery, Sky-Tree Gallery and Art Center, and the Catskills Gallery, as well as Galerie Hugo Cassel in Berlin and the Emily Harding Gallery...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic, Canvas

  • "Doubletrance"
    Located in Toronto, ON
    Jeremy Hoffeld's work plays with ambiguity, and subverts the notion that one must choose between "abstraction and figuration, the new and the borrowed or even clichéd, the bright and the muddy, the natural/primordial and the synthetic/modern." For Hoffeld, "paintings, both abstract and figurative, have always been linked with music and literature. He aims to infuse his paintings with...improvisation, spontaneity, and energy." Hoffeld has had several solo shows since 2006 at galleries in New York including John Davis Gallery, Varga Gallery, Sky-Tree Gallery and Art Center, and the Catskills Gallery, as well as Galerie Hugo Cassel in Berlin and the Emily Harding Gallery...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic, Canvas

  • "Road Too Long"
    Located in Toronto, ON
    Jeremy Hoffeld's work plays with ambiguity, and subverts the notion that one must choose between "abstraction and figuration, the new and the borrowed or even clichéd, the bright and the muddy, the natural/primordial and the synthetic/modern." For Hoffeld, "paintings, both abstract and figurative, have always been linked with music and literature. He aims to infuse his paintings with...improvisation, spontaneity, and energy." Hoffeld has had several solo shows since 2006 at galleries in New York including John Davis Gallery, Varga Gallery, Sky-Tree Gallery and Art Center, and the Catskills Gallery, as well as Galerie Hugo Cassel in Berlin and the Emily Harding Gallery...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Acrylic

You May Also Like
  • "White Box Blue Lines" 1980s Encaustic Abstract Painting CCAC Artist
    By Patricia Zippin
    Located in Arp, TX
    Patricia Zippin White Box Blue Lines 1980s Mixed Media 30.75"x 22.5", unframed *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks.
    Category

    1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Encaustic, Acrylic, Pencil

  • Free More (with original Zabriskie Gallery & Reader's Digest Collection labels)
    By Pat Adams
    Located in New York, NY
    Pat Adams Free More, 1989 Acrylic and encaustic with varnish on paper laid down on canvas Hand signed and dated on the upper left front Original artist's frame included This is a unique work An exquisite encaustic and acrylic painting by renowned painter and longtime Bennington College art teacher Pat Adams is hand signed and dated on the upper left recto Measurements: frame: 15.5 x 17.7 x 1 inches canvas: 14 x 15.75 inches Provenance: Reader's Digest Association Corporate Collection with label and inventory # Zabriskie Gallery, New York labels on the back Christie's Pat Adams Biography: Pat Adams (American, b. 1928) was raised in Stockton, California, and began painting at the age of ten. She studied painting at UC Berkeley from 1945–49, where she first encountered the ideas of Hans Hofmann as she studied under his former students—Worth Ryder and Margaret Peterson O’Hagan, who had arranged for Hofmann’s migration to the States in 1932, among them. During her summers at Berkeley she pursued programs at the California College of Arts and Crafts (1945), the College of the Pacific (1946), and the Art Institute of Chicago (1948). In 1950, following her graduation from Berkeley the previous year, she attended a summer session at Brooklyn Museum Art School, remaining in the city after its completion. She received her first solo exhibition in 1954 at the Korman Gallery—later to be renamed the Zabriskie Gallery, which would continue to represent her through 2018. Her work was greatly motivated by her international travel during the 1950s: in Italy in 1951, after her first husband, painter and printmaker Vincent Longo was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, and in France in 1956, after she received her own Fulbright scholarship. In the fall of 1964 she was invited by professor Paul Feeley to teach at Bennington college, where she joined the social circle of the famous “Green Mountain Boys,” including Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski. In 1972 she married fellow Bennington professor R. Arnold Ricks, and they set off with her two sons on a four month journey through Egypt, Iran, Turkey, and all of Europe, which impacted her work significantly. She continued teaching at Bennington through 1993. Her lengthy career has also included many teaching appointments at Yale, as both a visiting professor and artist, as well as the Rhode Island School of Design, among numerous other institutions across the country. She has received notable awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy of Design, and the College Art Association. In 1995 she was awarded the Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Her work has been the subject of over fifty solo exhibitions. She lives in Bennington, Vermont. -Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery
    Category

    1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Encaustic, Acrylic, Varnish

  • From One Lonely Cloud
    Located in Clayton, MO
    In From One Lonely Cloud color, line, shape, and texture collide with handwritten romantic fragments of prose on Kozuke ivory paper. This one-of-a-kind, unmounted encaustic monotype ...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Wax Crayon, Graphite, Color Pencil, Pen, Rice Paper, Archival Paper, Enc...

  • That Whistles In The Wind
    Located in Clayton, MO
    In That Whistles With The Wind color, line, shape, and texture collide with handwritten romantic fragments of prose on Kozuke ivory paper. This one-of-a-kind, unmounted encaustic mon...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Wax Crayon, India Ink, Encaustic, Color Pencil, Graphite

  • The Dream Returns
    Located in Clayton, MO
    In The Dream Returns color, line, shape, and texture collide with handwritten romantic fragments of prose on Kozuke ivory paper. This one-of-a-kind, unmounted encaustic monotype illu...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Wax Crayon, India Ink, Encaustic, Graphite

  • Very Few To Love
    Located in Clayton, MO
    In Very Few To Love color, line, shape, and texture collide with handwritten romantic fragments of prose on Kozuke ivory paper. This one-of-a-kind, unmounted encaustic monotype illum...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Wax Crayon, India Ink, Encaustic, Color Pencil, Graphite

Recently Viewed

View All