Crayon Abstract Paintings

'Growth' is a reminder that you are allowed to ask for more, to live a bigger life, be the most authentic version of yourself during this lifetime. The Universe is full of endless ...

'Spark That Fire' is a reminder that you are allowed to ask for more, to live a bigger life, be the most authentic version of yourself during this lifetime. The Universe is full of...

Tecnica mista con acetato su tela di juta di recente realizzazione del maestro della Pittura Analitica Vincenzo Cecchini, dalla serie "Affinità Elett...

"feel the breeze carefree spirit breathing is easy atmosphere, livin' oh, how every day could feel like this, one of my faves" 'your life starts now' is a reminder that the Univ...

Exhibited: 2003 Oakland Museum of California "Fred Martin Retrospective" A native Californian, Fred Martin was born in San Francisco in 1927, and received both his BA (1949) and MA (1954) from University of California, Berkley. At the San Francisco Art Institute Martin studied with Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko and David Park...

The Guru 48 x 48 Mixed Media, acrylic, oil pastel, collage and ink on canvas. Emily Klima is a visual artist based in New York City. She earned her BFA from Boston University Collag...

‘Cordelia’ is an original abstract painting on canvas by contemporary artist Wendi Weller. Acrylic and oil pastel on framed canvas Image size: H:100 cm x ...

Tecnica mista con acetato su tela di juta di recente realizzazione del maestro della Pittura Analitica Vincenzo Cecchini, dalla serie "La Polvere del...

Exhibited: 1973 San Francisco Museum of Art 2003 Oakland Museum of California "Fred Martin Retrospective" A native Californian, Fred Martin was born...

In the weeds ink bloom #5 (Abstract painting) Charcoal & Oilstick on paper - Unframed. Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into vis...

"feel the breeze carefree spirit breathing is easy atmosphere, livin' oh, how every day could feel like this, one of my faves" 'summer feels I' is a reminder that the Universe i...

Richard Marshall Merkin (American, 1938-2009) Gladys and Half-Pint Hand signed 'Merkin' (center right), Titled, inscribed, dated, and initialed 'GLADYS BENTLEY AND FRANKIE 'HALF-PINT' JAXON 1997/R.M.' verso. Oil on canvas 37 1/2 x 72 in. (95.3 x 182.9 cm) framed 39 1/4 x 74 x 2 in. Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, a well-known gay speakeasy in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer. She headlined in the early 1930s at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She dressed in men's clothes (including a signature tailcoat and top hat), played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting with women in the audience. On the decline of the Harlem speakeasies with the repeal of Prohibition, she relocated to southern California, where she was billed as "America's Greatest Sepia Piano Player" and the "Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs". She was frequently harassed for wearing men's clothing. She tried to continue her musical career but did not achieve as much success as she had had in the past. Bentley was openly lesbian early in her career, but during the McCarthy Era she started wearing dresses and married, claiming to have been "cured" by taking female hormones. Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, born Frank Devera Jackson was an African American vaudeville singer, stage designer and comedian, popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, orphaned, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. His nickname of "Half Pint" referred to his 5'2" height. He started in show business around 1910 as a singer in Kansas City, before travelling extensively with medicine shows in Texas, and then touring the eastern seaboard. His feminine voice and outrageous manner, often as a female impersonator, established him as a crowd favorite. By 1917 he had begun working regularly in Atlantic City, New Jersey and in Chicago, often with such performers as Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, whose staging he helped design. He served slightly less than a year in the United States Army in 1918–1919 and rose to the rank of sergeant. In the late 1920s he sang with top jazz bands when they passed through Chicago, working with Bennie Moten, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard and others. He performed and recorded with the pianists Cow Cow Davenport, Tampa Red and "Georgia Tom" Dorsey, recording with the latter pair under the name of The Black Hillbillies. He also recorded with the Harlem Hamfats. In the 1930s, he was often on radio in the Chicago area, and led his own band, titled Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon and His Quarts of Joy. Jaxon appeared with Duke Ellington in a film short titled Black and Tan (1929), and with Bessie Smith in "St. Louis Blues" (1929). Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" (1931) is based both musically and lyrically on Jaxon's "Willie the Weeper" (1927). Richard Merkin, Sometimes described as Rhode Island’s most famous New York artist, Richard Merkin has led a dual life for nearly 40 years - teaching at RISD while enjoying a celebrated painting career based in New York City. He has exhibited in countless gallery and museum shows in the US and abroad and is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the RISD museum and many others. In addition to contributing drawings and paintings to The New Yorker (along with, Art Spiegelman, Saul Steinberg, Harper’s, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and several books on Erotica and Baseball, he is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a former style columnist for GQ. Merkin’s honors include a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship and the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Museums and Selected Collections : The American Federation of Arts, New York, NY Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA First city Bank, Chicago, Ill Fisk University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN Hallmark Collections, Kansas City, MO Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Maimi-Dade Junior College, Miami, FL Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Minnesota Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Pennsylvania Acadamy of the Arts, Philadelphia PA Prudential Insurance Company, Boston, Ma Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Sara Robey Foundation, New York, NY Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC State University of Brockport, Brockport, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Selected Publications : 1986-Present Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair ..1988-Present, New Yorker... 1988-Present, style column, GQ...1997, Text and Illustration for The Tijuana Bibles, published by Simon & Shuster, 1995, Illustrated book, Leagues Apart: the Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues published by Morrow. 1967 Cover of the Beatles “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” Album (Mr. Merkin appears in the back row, right of center) RISD: MFA in Painting, 1963; Professor, Department of Painting special skill: Merging his role as flaneur (connoisseur of city life) with his role as painter and social historian, Merkin retrieves lost cultural artifacts – a Turkish cigarette, a gangster, a bowler and generally “things most people don’t know about” – and reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. (ala Robert Crumb and Ben Katchor) breaking in: Perpetually on the fly from his middle-class Brooklyn background, Merkin found the perfect escape in the mid ‘60s in George Frazier, a dapper Boston columnist who inspired the emerging New York painter’s overnight reinvention of himself. The elements of structure, stability and surprise he admired in this well-dressed dandy – a cool linen suit, a splash of suspender, a polka dot scarf and pearl-handled walking stick – soon surfaced in paintings peopled by impeccable underdogs of café society along with his personal pop heroes: William Burroughs, Bobby Short and Krazy Kat...

Re A 48 X 48 painting full of layers of energy . Emily Klima is a visual artist based in New York City. She earned her BFA from Boston University Col...

This artwork is painted in the form of a classical school board with math equations. It is a part of the Science Art Collection by Anastasia Vasilyeva. Th...

In the weeds ink bloom #4 (Abstract painting) Charcoal & Oilstick on paper - Unframed. Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into vis...

In the weeds ink bloom #3 (Abstract painting) Charcoal & Oilstick on paper - Unframed. Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into viscous, impasto compositions, on supports that are themselves often thick, and even sculptural. He scratches and scrawls across his surfaces, infusing visceral emotion and energy into the work. His imagery is so layered and dimensional that even his works on paper convey a sense of texture and depth. Critics have connected Baribeau to a range of aesthetic positions, including everything from Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art to the 19th century Hudson River School, and compared him variously to the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and Willem de Kooning. In truth, Baribeau employs a distinctive aesthetic voice that is personal and instantly recognizable, despite its multiplicity. His visual world is one where primordial, organic nature collides with the geometric, manufactured world, and where certain signature visual cues, such as black and white stripes, checkerboards, dots, and flashes of neon color appear and disappear. His work is included in several institutional collections, including those of the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Morgan Stanley...

In the weeds ink bloom #1 (Abstract painting) Charcoal & Oilstick on paper - Unframed. Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into vis...

In the weeds ink bloom #4 (Abstract painting) Charcoal & Oilstick on paper - Unframed. Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into viscous, impasto compositions, on supports that are themselves often thick, and even sculptural. He scratches and scrawls across his surfaces, infusing visceral emotion and energy into the work. His imagery is so layered and dimensional that even his works on paper convey a sense of texture and depth. Critics have connected Baribeau to a range of aesthetic positions, including everything from Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art to the 19th century Hudson River School, and compared him variously to the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and Willem de Kooning. In truth, Baribeau employs a distinctive aesthetic voice that is personal and instantly recognizable, despite its multiplicity. His visual world is one where primordial, organic nature collides with the geometric, manufactured world, and where certain signature visual cues, such as black and white stripes, checkerboards, dots, and flashes of neon color appear and disappear. His work is included in several institutional collections, including those of the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Morgan Stanley...

In the weeds ink bloom #2 (Abstract painting) Charcoal & Oilstick on paper - Unframed. Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into vis...

In the weeds ink bloom #2 (Abstract painting) Charcoal & Oilstick on paper - Unframed. Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into vis...

Tecnica mista con acetato su tela di juta di recente realizzazione del maestro della Pittura Analitica Vincenzo Cecchini, dalla serie "Aurea Mediocri...

Chromatic Expression I. 2023 . Colorful, modern, abstract, mixed media painting on raw canvas with floating natural wood framed 62H x52W x 2D Discover the vibrant world of Chromatic ...

Tecnica mista con acetato su tela di recente realizzazione del maestro della Pittura Analitica Vincenzo Cecchini, dalla serie "La Polvere del Colore"...

Chromatic Expression II. Mixed Media abstract, modern, colorful and powerful painting on raw canvas with floating natural wood framed . 52H x52W x 2.5D Discover the vibrant world ...

Victoria Barr Spirit, 1974 Crayon on Paper Signed and dated lower right front Frame included Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY This bright, abstract 1970s artwork was created by Victoria Barr, daughter of the legendary developer of the Museum of Modern Art, Alfred H. Barr. There is a Fischbach Gallery label on the back of the frame. The Fischbach Gallery was, for many years, the gallery of record for the American artist Alex Katz. It is not easy finding Barr's work on the market at this time. Measurements: Framed: 23 inches x 29.5 inches x .5 inches Artwork: 23 inches x 29 inches Victoria Barr was born in New York, NY, in 1937 to the legendary MOMA curator and art historian Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and art historian Margaret Scolari Barr. Barr often traveled to Europe with her parents from the age of 14 onwards, meeting influential artists like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Marc Chagall and collectors like Peggy Guggenheim. For high school, she went to Milton Academy...

Sonic Radiance 54 X 46 Emily Klima is a visual artist based in New York City. She earned her BFA from Boston University Collage of Fine Art. Klima's creative process draws inspirati...

"Vivid gestures on Vanilla" is an abstract painting diptych by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of rhythmic brushstrokes combined with subtle tones and unique s...

Lorraine Ginsburg was an insightful and prolific artist, born in the Bronx in 1929. She passed away in 2020. She experimented extensively, playing with abstract forms or executing m...

"All The Pieces Floated Into The Sky" is a mixed media eye-catching painting by Jason Hackenwerth. The application of pigment adds intrigue and textu...

'Spark That Fire' is a reminder that you are allowed to ask for more, to live a bigger life, be the most authentic version of yourself during this lifetime. The Universe is full of...

Bird Sketches by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed pastel/watercolor on paper, unframed painting: 13 x 20 inches good condition provenance: from the...

Tecnica mista con acetato su tela di recente realizzazione del maestro della Pittura Analitica Vincenzo Cecchini, dalla serie "Scorci Bizantini". L'o...

Inside Out 36 X 48 Emily Klima is a visual artist based in New York City. She earned her BFA from Boston University Collage of Fine Art. Klima's creative process draws inspiration ...

Day Dream This is an expressive abstract painting inspired from nature, walks from the countryside & daily life. Painting is expressing strength and positivity, gives calmness with s...

(Comes framed in a deep-profile maple or black floater frame, ready to hang.) Artist's Statement: "This painting harkens back to my 'Gridish' series but with more negative space, a broader array of media and more complexity to the oval forms. I have tried to create tension between these iconic forms through the divergence of dissonant and unusual materials, colors and textures. These ovals keep reappearing in my work; they seem almost like groups of silent but sentient beings to me." “Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being either loud or decorative. " Artbeit Zeitschrift “His paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.” ArtSeen, 2018 (from a collector): "Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...

Impasse 42 X 38 Emily Klima is a visual artist based in New York City. She earned her BFA from Boston University Collage of Fine Art. Klima's creative process draws inspiration fro...

Circa 1968 abstract oil and crayon on board by artist Margo Hoff (1910-2008), estate stamped verso. Abstracted cliff scene painted in shades of red, pink...

(Comes framed in a deep-profile maple floater frame, ready to hang.) Artist's Statement: "I was working on my loose, almost graffiti-like "Rosetta" series when this painting took a turn towards formality, and instead of trying to wrench it back into the Rosetta mold I just let it go where it wanted to. Has my usual insane assortment of mediums . . . " “Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being either loud or decorative. " Artbeit Zeitschrift “His paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.” ArtSeen, 2018 (from a collector): "Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...

Two Face Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine in Acrylic on Paper Lively abstracted portrait by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). A face is divided in two parts, righ...

This artwork is painted in the form of a classical school board with math equations. It is a part of the Science Art Collection by Anastasia Vasilyeva...

Black Sun in the Red and White Sky - Acrylic on Paper Bold abstract by Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). A large black and yellow orb sits in a swirling white and yellow s...

Crossing the Sand is an original abstract painting on canvas by contemporary artist Diane Whalley. Layers of paint are applied with oil pastel, oil bar and mark making details for ad...

"Travelling Suns in The Rainforest" is a watercolor diptych uses a Bauhaus pattern showcasing the beauty of simplicity and balance in design. The watercolor medium adds a softness an...

Inspired by 'Osea Island', an idyllic haven basking serenely on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex. It is approximately 380 acres in size and is connected to the north bank of the river by a Roman causeway, covered at high water. The tranquil surroundings led me to create this painting to capture the deep moody blues and greens of the water and the orange ochres of the rugged sand dunes. I've use a painterly application with expressive linear marks in oil pastels to create movement and interest. Artwork by Luana Asiata...

Temporality and transformation, consistency, color, shape and surface were the constants of the visual language of On Hansen. Art that mimics a process of decay by exposing the impac...

Valerie Campos Blue Bedroom, 2022 Oil on linen 51 x 35 in

I'M LEAVING is an abstract painting by Peter Husband in acrylic paint, oil pastel, found newsprint and modeling paste on stretched canvas. It measures 30...

This painting was exhibited at the art exhibition in Innsbruck (Contemporary Art Fair 2019), as well as in Marbella (Excellence Art gallery), Florence (Art Expertise), and Madrid (APPA art gallery). "Remember?" is a conceptual science painting...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...

"The nostalgia of a tropical climate is the undercurrent that inspires my process. Bright and vibrant pigments live on my palette. I treat each canvas with an intuitive approach, never pre-planned. I allow each brush stroke to lead into the next, and each layer to form upon the other, playfully obscuring where lines begin and end. I aim to create harmonious frictions with bold color and contrast between hues, mixed media, shapes, and patterns that overlap, clash, and eventually resolve themselves within the composition. The imagery I create is my interpretation of our complex, multi-layered human experience in both our interconnectedness to one another and to our environment. Each painting is an invitation to engage in delightful unfamiliarity and to rejoice in the beautiful imperfections that connect our journeys." Filipino-American artist Marianne Angeli Rodriguez...

"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...

DISCONNECTED is an abstract painting by Peter Husband in acrylic paint, oil pastel, spray paint and modeling paste on stretched canvas. It measures 48 x ...

LEVEL UP is an abstract painting by Peter Husband in acrylic paint, oil pastel and modeling paste on stretched canvas. It measures 36 x 36". According to...

A Playful Disposition 3 by Magdelena Morey [2022] A Playful Disposition 3 is a cheerful, original abstract floral painting by Magdalena Morey. This co...

Oil pastel on cardboard, one of a series of three paintings under the common title "Bat and Him". The images are characterized by a similar scenery, differing only in the color of the background. Catalog Number A0142. The picture is ready to hang. Signed on the front. The painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the author. Tadeusz Zych b. 1968 in Krakow, Poland. Painter artist, photographer. He presented his works at dozens of individual painting and photographic exhibitions in Poland and abroad. From the history of painting...

Oil pastel on cardboard, one of a series of several paintings under the common title "Zychany". The paintings are characterized by attractive colors and energy flowing from them. Catalog Number A0132. Figurative image. Ready to hang. Signed on the front. The painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the author. Tadeusz Zych b. 1968 in Krakow, Poland. Painter artist, photographer. He presented his works at dozens of individual painting and photographic exhibitions in Poland and abroad. From the history of painting...

This work of art will be sent unframed - (the risk is too big if the glass breaks that the work of art will be damaged) Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa at the Art Institute. He practices painting and drawing. In the years 1988 - 2020 he organized 19 individual exhibitions. He took part in dozens of collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He is a laureate of 13 prizes and distinctions in national competitions. „In my art I like to speak quietly. The meaningful message is often only heard in a whisper. To show something strong, but subtle, without shouting, is a challenge for me and an adventure I enjoy. I believe this way can reveal the talent of the artist. I love to explore the possibilities for the medium I am using, to see how much I can take from it, to push the boundaries. Often I create a series of paintings, taking something from the last to form the next. During my 30 year career I have used many mediums including water colours and oil paints, but for the last ten years I have almost exclusively been using oil pastel...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...