Jim Hughes

Untitled Purple Acrylic on Paper

1979

Blue toned modern abstract mixed media still life painting by Texas artist Carole Myers. The work features expressive strokes of color loosely forming a v...

Modern abstract neutral toned mixed media landscape painting by Texas artist Carole Myers. The work features a collage of different textured papers combined with acrylic paints to re...

Blue, black, and white modern abstract acrylic painting by Texas artist Carole Myers. The work features expressive strokes of cool toned colors loosely forming a doorway. The piece i...

Large abstract geometric painting that incorporates a variety of colors and warm tones. Signed in the lower right corner and includes the title and date on the back. The work is bea...

Blue, red, and yellow modern abstract mixed media painting by Texas artist Carole Myers. The work features expressive strokes of color with the phrase "We...

Contemporary abstract geometric painting by artist Mark Byckowski. The work is featured in a series of paintings on a rag surface watercolor board. The work features horizontal lines...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY “Arrow Head #4” was created by Sam Gilliam, one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. The thick handmade paper is rich ...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY “Untitled #34” was created by Sam Gilliam, one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. It is dated and signed on the lower front. The thick handmade paper is rich with folds and texture and the colors lively. In addition to Acrylic paint on the surface there appears to be imbedded color in the handmade paper which has additional embossed accents. Unframed the piece measures 16 x 14. Provenance of Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan is on the verso along with the note that the Paper Surfaces in contact with this artwork are acid free. In the mid-1960s he emerged from the Washington D.C. scene with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. One profound manner was the sculpture aspect of the painting giving it a free flowing expression of pure color. In the latter half of the 1950s, Washington D.C. saw a flourishing of abstract art that emphasized the form-making capabilities of pure color. Known as The Washington Color School, the loosely affiliated group of abstract painters knew each other through various teaching experiences. The moniker has an uncertain origin but likely originated with the title of a 1965 exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, "Washington Color Painters," curated by Gerald Nordland. The show exhibited the works of Kenneth Noland, Paul Reed, Morris Louis, Howard Mehring, Thomas Downing, and Gene Davis. Additionally, Leon Berkowitz...

acrylic on paper Dion Johnson’s studio practice exists at the intersection of intention and reaction. His pared down visual vocabulary in combination with hard-edged abstraction res...

acrylic on paper Dion Johnson’s studio practice exists at the intersection of intention and reaction. His pared down visual vocabulary in combination with hard-edged abstraction res...

Contemporary abstract painting. The black and white palette and minimal composition puts emphasis on the power of simplicity and restraint. The aesthetically calm painting invites th...

Small yet commanding. This modern, minimal, black and white painting on canvas places emphasis on simplifying the composition. Paper collage adds a subtle textured element. The under...