Jon Rowland

Summer Shower

2021

‘Gertrude’ is an original abstract painting on board by contemporary artist Wendi Weller. Oil pastel mark making details are added to many layers of acryl...

A Ripe Landscape #2, A Ripe Landscape #5 and A Ripe Landscape #6 triptych by Jon Rowland Overall size cm : H59 x W79 A Ripe Landscape #2 . Spring in the south west of the UK. This...

Sian McGill St.Nons Original Abstract Landscape Painting Acrylic Paint on Board Board Size: H 51cm x W 67cm x D 0.5cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indic...

Janet Keith The Birds are Singing Again Original Abstract Expressionist Landscape Painting Acrylic on board.
 Image Size: H76 cm x W101 cm x D 0.30 cm Sold Unframed Please note that ...

Part of This #9 by Christine Evans [2021] original acrylic on board Image size: H:12 cm x W:12 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:12 cm x W:12 cm x ...

The steep hill [2021] original Acrylic on artists canvas board Image size: H:40 cm x W:30 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:30 cm x D:0.2cm Sold Unframed Please not...

Here for your consideration is a great example of the artwork of the well known American artist, Syd Solomon. Signed top left. Titled and dated verso 1978. The painting is oil and acrylic paint on mounted synthetic canvas. Condition is excellent. Overall framed measurements are 44.75 by 24.5 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector. SYD SOLOMON BIOGRAPHY American 1917-2004 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...

This artwork was inspired by a famous quote by French poet Charles Baudelaire: "It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish.” ABOUT THE ARTIST - Massimo Damico...

Richly textured abstract composition by California artist Devon Brockopp-Hammer (American, b. 1986). Large bold swatches of white and yellow float against a blur background. Surround...

One of The Hampton's most popular and sort after urban Pop artists whose work is collected by Elton John, Rod Stewart, and Alice Cooper among others. He has been call the "Rock and Roll Painter" and "Painter of the Stars of Rock" by the media. This is an early abstract Illusion painting on board from 1979 by Ceravolo. He was one of the artists, along with James Havard, Michael Gallagher, George Green, Joe Doyle and Jack Lembeck that were creating the Abstract Illusion movement in the the 1970's. This painting from 1979...

Mid-Century Abstract Expressionist oil and acrylic on board by French artist Marcelle Tournié, signed bottom right. Presented in period gold frame. A fine example of mid-century abs...

Le Comte “The Count” - This artwork depicts the 19th century poet, Lucien Ducasse, also known as Comte de Lautremont. After being enthralled by the literary work “Le chants de Maldoror” in one night, the artist dreamt of the poets face and was compelled to bring it to life on canvas. The portrait has a classic setting as “Mezzo Busto”, or half bust, and exudes timeless sophistication through the bold use of color and dense oils, creating a three-dimensional effect and giving immense life to the character. ABOUT THE ARTIST - Massimo Damico...