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Item Ships From: USA
Medium: Masonite
Edge
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on board. Signed and dated lower right and verso, titled verso.
36.25 x 48 in.
40.5 x 52.25 in. (framed)
Framed in contemporary silver, tiered floater frame.
Dennis Eugene Norman Burton was a Canadian modernist who was born in Lethbridge, Ontario. He attended the Ontario College of Art from 1952 to 1956, and worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as a graphic designer until 1960.
Inspired by a 1955 exhibition of the “Painters Eleven” at Toronto’s Hart House, as well as American Abstract Expressionist artists such as Robert Motherwell, Jack Tworkov, and Willem de Kooning, Burton shifted his focus toward abstraction in the mid-1950s.
Burton showed with the famed Isaacs Gallery in Toronto, becoming one of the youngest members on the gallery’s roster. A talented musician, he also played saxophone in the Artist’s Jazz Band in Toronto - a pioneering Canadian free-jazz group...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Board
"Yellow Dialogue" Abstract Oil on Board Award Winning Illustrator Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields
"Yellow Dialogue"
c.1970
Oil on masonite
Artist's wood frame 24"x2"x30"
Signed in paint lower right
Excellent Condition - Minor wear consistent with age and history.
CV
EDUCATION:
Chicago Academy Of Fine Art
San Antonio Art Institute
MAJOR FIELDS OF PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVOR:
Freelance graphic design and illustration
Instructor of painting and illustration
Landscape, figurative and abstract painting
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT: (Professor of Art)
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute
San Jose State University
AWARDS FOR ILLUSTRATION, Gold Medals:
New York Society of Illustrators
Los Angeles Society of Illustrators
San Francisco Society of Illustrators
Dallas-Fort Worth Art Director's Club
Houston Artist's Guild
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Feature articles in: American Artist, Communication Arts, Print, North Light.
Architectural design featured in: Better Homes and Gardens, American
Home, Sunset Magazine, Architectural Digest.
ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS:
Oil Companies:
Champlin Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, Continental Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company.
Industrial:
Hughes Tool Company, General Electric, United States Steel, Phelps Dodge, Sylvania Television,
Texas Gulf Sulphur, Litton Industries, Houston Lighting and Power Company, International Business Machines.
Institutional:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United
States Air Force, United States Department of the Interior,
American Petroleum Institute, New York Stock Exchange, National Broadcasting
Company, American Iron and Steel Institute, CBS Broadcasting Company,
Vanguard Recording Company, Diners Club, Stanford Research Institute,
Victoria Station, Neiman Marcus, Bank of America, Automobile Club of Southern California,
Airlines:
TWA, British West Indies Airlines, Pan American Airlines...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Abstract Geometric Composition with Biomorphic Object - Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold abstract composition by RH Barnard (American, 20th Century). The backdrop of this piece is composed of rectangular sections of brown, red, blue, and tan. In the center of the composition, there is a black object...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Acrylic
"Animal" Abstract Oil on Canvas Award Winning Illustrator Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields
"Pink Abstract"
1970's
Oil on canvas
Artist's wood frame 30"x2"x24"
Signed in paint lower right
Excellent Condition - Minor wear consistent with age and history.
CV
EDUCATION:
Chicago Academy Of Fine Art
San Antonio Art Institute
MAJOR FIELDS OF PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVOR:
Freelance graphic design and illustration
Instructor of painting and illustration
Landscape, figurative and abstract painting
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT: (Professor of Art)
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute
San Jose State University
AWARDS FOR ILLUSTRATION, Gold Medals:
New York Society of Illustrators
Los Angeles Society of Illustrators
San Francisco Society of Illustrators
Dallas-Fort Worth Art Director's Club
Houston Artist's Guild
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Feature articles in: American Artist, Communication Arts, Print, North Light.
Architectural design featured in: Better Homes and Gardens, American
Home, Sunset Magazine, Architectural Digest.
ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS:
Oil Companies:
Champlin Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, Continental Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company.
Industrial:
Hughes Tool Company, General Electric, United States Steel, Phelps Dodge, Sylvania Television,
Texas Gulf Sulphur, Litton Industries, Houston Lighting and Power Company, International Business Machines.
Institutional:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United
States Air Force, United States Department of the Interior,
American Petroleum Institute, New York Stock Exchange, National Broadcasting
Company, American Iron and Steel Institute, CBS Broadcasting Company,
Vanguard Recording Company, Diners Club, Stanford Research Institute,
Victoria Station, Neiman Marcus, Bank of America, Automobile Club of Southern California,
Airlines:
TWA, British West Indies Airlines, Pan American Airlines...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Large 1960 California "Abstract Landscape" Jack Stuck Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Stuck (1925-1993)
"Abstract Landscape"
1960
Collage oil paint, charcoal, paper and canvas laid down on masonite
48"x46" natural wood frame 51" x 49"
Si...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Charcoal, Oil, Laid Paper
Back Fence with Bird. - Mid-Century - WPA Artist
Located in Miami, FL
The Mid-Century mindset
As expected, 65 years ago.. people looked at art/painting a little differently.
Back then, many artists were concerned with depicting simple and beautiful t...
Category
1950s Modern Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Modernist Figural', California, New Mexico, Oakland Museum, SFAA, SFMA, GGIE
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Z. Kavin' for Zena Kavin (American, 1912-2003) and dated 1966.
Born in Berkeley, California, Zena Kavin studied at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and, privately, with Kravchenko in Moscow. She lived in Berkeley and in Oakland her entire life, except for four years spent in New Mexico in the late 1930s. In 1949, she married artist Jon Cornin and settled with him in Oakland. Under the peudonym Corka, the Cornins produced cartoons for the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker. Kavin worked in various media, including wood engraving, lithography and sculpture. She was a member of the San Francisco Artists Association and exhibited with them as well as at the San Francisco Museum of Art Inaugural (1935), the California–Pacific International Exposition, San Diego (1935), the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939). Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Davis Art Center, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California.
Reference:
Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, page 610; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, page 1801; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Supplement, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith...
Category
1960s Modern Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Reclining Nude
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Edwin Kosarek (b.1929). Reclining Nude, 1952. Oil on wood panel, 17 x 48 inches. Signed and dated on verso.
Edwin Kosarek
Born: 1929
Studied: The Cit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled
Located in Irvine, CA
"Untitled" by Don Totten is an abstract oil painting circa 1960 on canvas and measures 16 in x 20 in. It is in excellent condition.
Donald C. Totten (1903...
Category
1960s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Signals, Orange/Black, 1960s Abstract Geometric Oil Painting, Broadmoor Academy
Located in Denver, CO
"Signals, Orange/Black" is an oil on masonite painting by Bernard Arnest (1917-1986) from 1962. Signed by the artist in the lower center of the piece and titled verso. Presented in the original artist frame measuring 36 ½ x 27 ½ inches, image size is 36 x 27 inches. Featuring an abstract geometric design made up of orange, black, red, yellow, and green.
Orange/Black is from Arnest's Signals Series and was part of the artists solo exhibition at Kraushaar Galleries in October 1962.
About the Arist:
A Denver native, Arnest studied with Helen Perry at East High School who is accredited to having identified many of Colorado’s talented artists. At Perry’s recommendation Arnest benefited from supplemental instruction at the newly founded Kirkland School of Art and at the School of Fine Art and Design operated by Colorado artist Frank Mechau.
Following graduation from East, Arnest enrolled at the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs, where he studied with Boardman Robinson and Henry Varnum Poor.
In 1940 Arnest was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in painting which he spent in San Francisco. That same year San Francisco Museum of Art had a one-man show for Arnest, the first of many in his professional career. Other exhibitions included the Whitney Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Academy of Design, Carnegie Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
After the war he worked for two years in New York City and began a thirty-nine-year affiliation with Kraushaar Galleries who also showed the likes of George Luks, John Sloan, Maurice Prendergast...
Category
1960s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Nocturnal Train In The City Abstract Expressionism
By Tom Hamil
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, small abstract expressionist painting of train and town at night by Tom Hamil (American, b. 1928). Signed upper left corner "Hamil". Condition: Excellent. Presented in rustic wooden shadow box frame. Image size: 8"H x 6"W.
Tom Hamil, was born in New York in 1928 and raised primarily in California. After attending the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, he returned to California to begin his formal art training at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute). He completed his education at the University of Washington with a Master’s Degrees and Doctorate in Fine Arts and Education. His first solo exhibition was held in 1956. Since then, he has participated in numerous one man shows, group shows, and has been represented in galleries in the US and Mexico.
In addition to his painting, Hamil has authored and illustrated a number of books. While at the Naval Academy, he received recognition for his paintings, drawings, and illustrations. Listed among Hamil’s many awards and honors are a Ford Foundation Fellowship and an Award of Excellence from the American Graphics Society.
Currently, he lives in Zirahuen, Michoacan, Mexico and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Hamil’s statement: “I am a man...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Cityscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century abstract expressionist landscape of bridge over water cityscape, circa 1960. Illegible signature lower left ("Aioli"?). Conditi...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Landscape
By Andre Elbaz
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Andre Elbaz (b.1934). Landscape, ca. 1980 . Oil on card panel, image measures 14 x 20 inches; 18.5 x 24.5 inches framed. Signed lower right. Excellent condition.
André Elbaz (born April 26, 1934, El Jadida, Morocco) is a famous Moroccan painter and filmmaker.
Elbaz studied art and theatre in Rabat and Paris from 1950 to 1961. He started painting only at the age of 21, until which age he had been interested mainly in theatre. A few years later, he managed to combine his two passions into a new approach in art-therapy, inventing together with his wife, a psychiatrist, the Pictodrame, which brought him world recognition.
His first exhibition, which was very successful, took place in Casablanca in 1961 and earned him an appointment as Professor at the Beaux-Arts school in Casablanca. Years later, in 1976, he exhibited his paintings at the Tel-Aviv Museum.
In parallel to his career as a painter, Elbaz is also known as a filmmaker. He produced several short films in France, Canada and the United States. One of them, La nuit n'est jamais complète (The night is never complete), won a prize at the "5th Biennale de Paris in 1967" .[citation needed] Among the themes chosen for the many films he produced, there was a short one about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, as well as a series of drawings entitled Seuls (Alone), with texts written by both Elie Wiesel...
Category
1970s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Miami, FL
Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist.
Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance.
Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form." His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this painting Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist. He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color. The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black. Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows: blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Passage
Located in Irvine, CA
"Passage" by Don Totten is an abstract oil painting on masonite circa 1960 and measures 24 in x 24.5 in. There are faint spots on the upper right corner of the painting but otherwise...
Category
1960s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled
Located in Irvine, CA
"Untitled" by Don Totten is an abstract oil painting on masonite circa 1960 and measures 20 in x 16 in. The painting is in good condition.
Donald C. Totten (1903-1964) was a member...
Category
1960s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Lyric
Located in Irvine, CA
"Lyric" by Don Totten circa 1960, oil on masonite and measures 18 in x 32 in. This piece is in excellent condition.
Donald C. Totten (1903-1964) was a mem...
Category
1960s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Composition
Located in Irvine, CA
"Composition" by Don Totten is an abstract oil painting on masonite circa 1950 and measures 28 in x 32 in. The painting is in good condition.
Donald C. To...
Category
1950s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Abstract Landscape, Chestnut and Coral', Venice Biennale, Michetti Prize Winner
By Gianni Pisani
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'G. Pisani', (Italian, born 1935), titled verso 'Paesaggio con Valigia' (Landscape with Luggage) and dated 1963.
Provenance: Galleria El Centro, Naples, Italy 1963. (from original label, copied verso).
A very substantial, mid-century abstracted landscape comprising an assembled group of Fendi shopping bags in the fashion designer's signature tones of cream, bistre and scarlet, shown contrasted against a lyrical, sunset-coral background. This powerful and lyrical oil was awarded the 1963 Michetti Painting Prize.
Gianni Pisani studied at the Accademia de Bella Arti in Naples under Emilio Notte. Much of his career in the 1960s and 70s involved reinvigorating the Neapolitan art scene with assemblages, ‘object art’ and performance art, an approach that was critically described and acclaimed by poet and writer, Edoardo Sanguineti.
The recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards, including the Prize City Cesenatico (1955). Pisani exhibited widely and with success from the early 1950's including at the 8th Biennale of San Benedetto del Tronto (1969), Palazzo Dugnani (1983) and at the Non-Existent Gallery. Other solo and group exhibitions include a three-time participation in the National Quadrennial Art Shows (VIII, Rome, 1960; IX, Palazzo dei Esposizione, 1965/66; XI, Palazzo dei Congressi, 1986) and the 1995 Venice Biennale.
An ardent exponent, and influential teacher, of Modernism, Pisani taught at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan and, for many years, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, of which he was later appointed director. Gianni Pisani’s works are held in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Museum of Capodimonte, the Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina (MADRE), Museum of Contemporary Religious Art...
Category
1960s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Canvas, Oil
Abstract Portrait Painting by Peter Keil - Black & Tan
By Peter Keil
Located in Hudson, NY
A beautiful Peter Keil original painting. Keil's signature style is shown in these Picasso inspired portraits. These portraits are characteristic of Keil's work in the 1980s when the...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Board
"Quickening" Abstract Surrealist Composition 1970 Red, Black & White Large #9891
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Born in 1934, the work of Suzanne Bloomfield represents the life force which binds us all -- a universal symbol for the soul's transformation.
Bloomfield believes that painting is t...
Category
1970s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Encaustic, Oil
Cyan & Orange Seascape at Sunset by Victor Papkov
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive and colorful seascape by Vasil (Victor) Papkov (20th Century). The vivid cyan blue churning waves mirror the sky above, with a glowing orange sunset splitting the canvas o...
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1970 Large Abstract Surrealist Composition - Red Black & White - Encaustic & Oil
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
“Untitled” 1970
Abstract Surrealist Composition
Encaustic & oil paint on Masonite
60 x 48 inches
Not framed
Born in 1934, the work of Suzanne Bloomfield represents the life force wh...
Category
1970s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Encaustic, Oil
"Tucson Sunrise In July" Abstract Composition in Orange & Yellow #9893
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Born in 1934, the work of Suzanne Bloomfield represents the life force which binds us all -- a universal symbol for the soul's transformation.
Bloomfield believes that painting is t...
Category
1970s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Encaustic, Oil
Out of the Blue, Miniature Red & Blue Abstract
By Tom Hamil
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, small abstract expressionist painting of red, white and blue hues by California artist Tom Hamil (American, b. 1928). Signed upper left corner "Hamil". Condition: Excellent. Presented in rustic wooden shadow box frame. Image size: 2.75"H x 6.75"W.
Tom Hamil, was born in New York in 1928 and raised primarily in California. After attending the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, he returned to California to begin his formal art training at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute). He completed his education at the University of Washington with a Master’s Degrees and Doctorate in Fine Arts and Education. His first solo exhibition was held in 1956. Since then, he has participated in numerous one man shows, group shows, and has been represented in galleries in the US and Mexico.
In addition to his painting, Hamil has authored and illustrated a number of books. While at the Naval Academy, he received recognition for his paintings, drawings, and illustrations. Listed among Hamil’s many awards and honors are a Ford Foundation Fellowship and an Award of Excellence from the American Graphics Society.
Currently, he lives in Zirahuen, Michoacan, Mexico and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Hamil’s statement: “I am a man...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Original Leonardo Nierman Abstract Painting Oil on Masonite Framed Purple
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on masonite painting by well listed Mexican artist Leonardo Nierman.
This work comes in a unique gold frame presentation which is likely original to the piece.
Si...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'On the Shore, ' by Erekle Chinchilakashvili, Oil on Masonite Painting
By Erekle Chinchilakashvili
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 20" x 23" oil on masonite painting by Georgian artist Erekle Chinchilakashvili depicts two blue trees near a brown pathway leading to the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Genesis - he Rested, Original Abstract Resin Painting, 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Genesis - he Rested, Original Abstract Resin Painting, 2018
Artist Commentary:
My Genesis collection ends with Genesis 2 when God rested. This is my depiction.
Keywords: celestial,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Masonite, Board
Genesis - Lights in the Sky, Original Resin Painting, 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Genesis - Lights in the Sky, Original Resin Painting, 2018
Artist Commentary:
My depiction on Genesis 1:14 - adding stars and planets.
Keywords: multicolored, stars, abstract
Artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Masonite, Board
Genesis - Light from Dark, Original Abstract Resin Painting, 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Genesis - Light from Dark, Original Abstract Resin Painting, 2018
Artist Commentary:
My depiction of the verse in Genesis where light and dark wer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Board, Resin
Abstracted Neutral Portrait Painting by Peter Keil - Black & Tan
By Peter Keil
Located in Hudson, NY
A beautiful Peter Keil original painting. Keil's signature style is shown in these Picasso inspired portraits. These portraits are characteristic of Keil's work in the 1980s when the...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Board
Colorful Abstract Portrait Painting on Board- Rainbow Showers by Peter Keil
By Peter Keil
Located in Hudson, NY
This modern abstract painting by Peter Keil is on a smooth masonite board with a taupe background, black abstract portrait and showered with many colors. Here you certainly see the P...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Board
Large Scale Mid 20th Century Acrylic Painting by Vanguard Studios by Van Gaard
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large Scale Mid 20th Century Acrylic Painting by Vanguard Studios Signed Van Gaard
Classic 1950s to 1960s acrylic painting of a guitar against a colorful ab...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Ceiba Tree
By Jorge Yances
Located in Nashville, TN
Artwork Size: 24 x 16 in
"Ceiba Tree" is an oil-on-masonite painting mounted on wood panel by Colombian artist Jorge Yances. This piece is part of the ar...
Category
2010s Surrealist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Wood Panel
'Masses' by Marc Barker, Oil on Panel Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 40" x 40" oil on masonite panel by artist Marc Barker was painted in charcoal and sepia tones, and was created in an 'old world' grisaille style.
"This monochromatic abstract harkens back to my collegiate studies, and as a graduate student teaching zoology with the hours spent staring into a microscope mystified by the primordial world just out of site, a bacterial/protozoan cloud chamber...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"Crossed Arms" Mid Century Abstract Expressionist NYC Female Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Sylvia Rutkoff (1919-2011)
Sr5-1
c.1960s
“Crossed Arms”
Acrylic on Masonite
36x42 period frame
Unsigned
Collection acquired from family estate
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Genesis - Water From Water, Original Abstract Painting, 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
In Genesis, the water on Earth and in the sky were separated. This is my depiction.
Keywords: water, blue, abstract, waves, marble, water
Artist Biography:
Crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Masonite
Heavens, Original Abstract Painting, 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This is my depiction of Genesis, separating heaven from earth.
Keywords: blues, heaven, celestial, abstract, spiritual, heaven, waves, sky
Artist Biography:
Cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Masonite, Board
Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Modern Portrait, "Alida Valli" Black & White
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive and raw large-scale modernist portrait of the timeless film actress Alida Valli (Italian, 1921-2006) by contemporary Barcelona artist Mariona Mi...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Acrylic
Boathouse at Night, Modernist Two Toned Color-field Abstracted Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Boathouse at Night, Modernist Two Toned Color-field Abstracted Seascape
Nocturnal seascape by Vasil (Victor) Papkov (20th Century). At the top of the piece, the moon is obscured beh...
Category
1980s Impressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Morningside Park, New York - Cathedral of St. John the Divine
By Lucille Corcos
Located in Miami, FL
Corcos paints what appears to be the northern part Central Park from an elevated view looking northwest. The artist used a restricted palette of warm browns and grays with heavy outl...
Category
1920s Modern Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
"The Cowboy" Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Female Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Sylvia Rutkoff (1919-2011)
Sr11-1
c.1960s
“The Cowboy”
Oil impasto on Masonite
42x36 period frame
Signed on reverse in pencil
Collection acquired from family estate
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"7 Koi" Expressionist Brightly Colored Koi Underwater in Red/Yellow/Blue/Green
By Linda Holt
Located in Wellesley, MA
"7 Koi" is a complex work of koi fish swimming underwater filled with light and brilliant color painted in a lush and fluid style bordering on abstraction. Fish are in shades of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Winter Walk with Jasper, (Black Cat painting)
By Sterling Boyd Strauser
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Sterling Strauser (1907-1995). Dorothy and Jasper, Crystal Street Station, 1970. Oil on masonite panel, 11.5 x 22.25 inches. Signed and dated lower right. Very good condition with no damage or conservation. Unframed. Framing services available.
Image depicts the artist's wife, Dorothy Strauser, walking the beloved family cat, Jasper. In the background can be seen the East Stroudsburg Pa Train Depot on Crystal Street.
Provenance: Estate of the artist's Granddaughter, Princeton NJ.
Often called a romantic expressionist and American intimist, self-taught Pennsylvania artist Sterling Strauser (1907-1995) completed his first oil painting in 1922- inspired by frequent visits to the collection of American folk art at the Everhardt Museum in Scranton. Throughout the following seven decades of his career, Strauser’s artistic pursuit was based on his own intuition and determination to paint what he saw, rather than adhering to the conventional pictorial structures prescribed by prevailing styles at the time. Strauser rejected pretension, believing instead that art should work from life as it was lived. His oeuvre therefore serves as an extremely personal record of his observations and experiences from his lifetime painting in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
Beginning early in his career, Strauser took his inspiration from American regionalists and traditional realists in the Ashcan style, as well as European movements such as Fauvism and Cubism, yet he eventually developed his own fluid realism based on subject matter beloved and familiar to him- family and friends, local landscapes and floral still lifes.
Known for his distorted pictorial space, exaggerated with vivid color, heavy impasto and an intensity of emotion, Strauser was adept at altering and rearranging the details and aspects of any given form to create a new kind of beauty.
"All a painting has to do, or a piece of sculpture, or whatever, is to entertain the critical eye. You have to have a fresh seeing eye… to look at things like a child, as if looking at the world for the first time (seeing) something that somebody else doesn’t see, something you want to identify with… Painting is largely a matter of evaluation. (It) doesn’t matter how much it looks like the subject matter. It just depends on how interesting you have made it so that it pleases the critical eye."
STERLING STRAUSER, STERLING STRAUSER: A MODERNIST REVISTED, P. 23
Sterling exhibited his work extensively throughout the country and drew the attention of many notable fellow artists including Milton Avery, Louise Nevelson, David Burliuk, Chaim Gross and Red Grooms. Sterling was also extremely influential within the arts community of Pennsylvania through his discovery and promotion of self-taught American Folk artists such as Justin McCarthy, Jack Savitsky, Joseph Gatto...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original acrylic on masonite abstract painting by Nguyen (Manh Doc) Ducman. Signed and dated 1968 lower right. Condition is good. Provenance: Long Island, New York estate. Presently unframed.
Born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1934, the artist Nguyen Manh Duc Ducman came to Paris as a young man, where he exhibited his work at the Galerie René Drouin...
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1960s Post-Modern Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled Abstract Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract expressionist landscape by American artist, Morris Shulman (1912-1978). Untitled Landscape, 1958. Oil on masonite panel measures 24 x 36 inches. Signed and dated l...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Volcano Eruption - Explosive Fire Lava Flow from Hell
Located in Miami, FL
A Fiery Hell is depicted as a volcano that spews flames and lava dust into the air. According to the Peter and Harrison Ellenshaw Family Archive, this work was shown to Stanly Kubrick for a Paradise Lost, movie concept. Peter had created matte paintings for Kubrick's Spartacus in 1960 and they continued their professional friendship for years to come. Peter did some collaboration with TRON in 1982. Unfortunately, the movie concept for John Miltons, Paradise Lost, was not brought into production. An erupting volcano is also an powerful metaphor for many human conditions.
Ellenshaw (1913–2007) was a highly regarded matte painter and special-effects creator whose filmography includes Old Yeller (1957), Swiss Family Robinson...
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1980s Surrealist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Abstract, Azure and Rose', Paris, Art Students League, Carnegie Institute, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Paul England' (American, 1918-1988) and painted circa 1965.
With old label, verso, bearing title, 'Gutenburg'.
Framed in a period wh...
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1960s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled (ER49) Abstract Expressionist painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on panel measures 16 x 24 inches. Signed lower margin. Excellent condition.
Provenance: Allan Stone Pr...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Shimmering Pond in the Woods Abstract 1960
By Rose Herzog
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly textured abstract composition by Rose Herzog (American, mid-20th Century). This piece includes the use of tissue paper, fibers, and other materials to create raised, textured ...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Masonite, Mixed Media, Oil, Tissue Paper
Untitled (ER51) Abstract Expressionist painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on panel measures 16 x 24 inches. Signed lower margin. Excellent condition.
Provenance: Allan Stone Pr...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Looking Away - Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
A figurative abstract painting on masonite by San Francisco, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 1978-2016). San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionist and land...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Highland Figures, Abstract Expressionist Painting by John Kinnear c1960
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Kinnear, Canadian (1922 - 2003)
Title: Highland Figures
Medium: Acrylic on masonite, signed lower right
Date: circa 1960
Image Size: 22 x 38 ...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Instead (Colorful Gestural Geometric Abstract Painting on Panel)
By Anne Francey
Located in Hudson, NY
Colorful abstract painting with geometric details in bright hues of blue, red, green, and yellow, against a black background
"Instead", painted by Anne Francey in 2017
Mixed media on Masonite
10 x 10 x 2 inches, sides reveal raw wood
Excellent condition, signed verso
Ready to hang
Anne Francey has been working with subject matter inspired by nature for most of her artistic career. Since the pandemic, this focus has become ever more apparent as her new acrylic paintings on paper demonstrate her intuitive process of reinterpreting literal subjects like leaves, flowers, birds, or bugs into vibrant worlds of layered color. She begins by drawing from life but then allows fluctuating colors, traces of the hand, and evidence of the physical medium to be introduced as the composition evolves and finds its final imprint on the surface. The spontaneity of her process welcomes the unknown, she explains: “The things that moved me first…might have become by now just a faint whispering. But I know that a story is being told, even if I don’t understand yet all the words.”
About the artist:
Anne Francey was born in 1956 in Grandson, Switzerland. She attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (ECBA) from 1976 to 1981, where she received a diploma of Fine Arts in painting. In 1981, she moved to New York where she attended the School of Visual Arts and the graduate program of Fine Arts at Hunter College. She graduated in 1987 with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA).
EDUCATION
1983-1987 Hunter College: Master of Fine Arts, New York
EXHIBITIONS (Most recent)
2021 Le Comptoir des Motifs, Artefactory, Geneva, Switzerland, fabric design, group show
2018 Eric Laffer Gallery, Upstate Invitational, 3 person show, Schuylerville, NY
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Configurations, one person show, Troy, NY
Carrie Haddad gallery, Ebb and Flow, Hudson, NY
Saratoga Arts, Then and Now, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
2017 Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center, The Ritual of Construction, group show, Woodstock, NY
Carrie Haddad gallery, Summer, group show
Thompson Giroux gallery, En Masse, group show
Eric Laffer gallery, Winter Show, Schuylerville, NY
2016 Saratoga Arts, 30th Anniversary Invitational, Saratoga Springs, NY
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Summer Color, Hudson, NY
Laffer Gallery, 5th Annual Juried Group Show, Schuylerville, NY
2015 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Paper, group show, Hudson, NY
2014 Luminarté, Contemporary Islamic Art, group show, Dallas, TX
Spring Street Gallery, Where are you from? 3 persons show, Saratoga Spgs, NY
Albany Institute of History and Art, Mohawk Hudson Regional, group show NY
Albany International Airport, Natural Gestures, 3 persons show Albany, NY
Laffer Gallery, Winter show, Schuylerville, NY
COMMUNITY MURALS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, SYMPOSIUMS,
2021 Community Mural United Nations International school, NY “The Year that Zoomed by”
2020 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award 2020-2021 (travel postponed to 2021-2022)
2019 1001 Hands (“1001 Mains”) Concept, design and direction of a 150 sqft community ceramic mural with 600 participants, Ibn Rachiq Art Center,Tunis, Tunisia. Funded through the US Embassy and the Swiss Embassy in Tunis.
Colors of the City, Wall Ceramic and Architecture in Tunis, International symposium, Tunis/Tunisia
1997- 2018 Artist in residence at various schools for the creation of community murals
2018 Bir-el Bey...
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2010s Contemporary Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Mixed Media
Untitled (ER44) Abstract Expressionist painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on panel measures 16 x 24 inches. Signed lower margin. Excellent condition.
Provenance: Allan Stone Pr...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Cloisonné Abstract', Large Post-Impressionist Oil, Aptos, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'C. S. Sanchez' for Clyde Sanchez (American, 20th century), and painted circa 1975; additionally signed, verso, with artist location, 'Aptos, CA'.
A substantial,...
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1970s Abstract Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled (ER39) Abstract Expressionist painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on panel measures 16 x 24 inches. Signed lower margin. Excellent condition.
Provenance: Allan Stone Pr...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Monastery Bell" - Mid Century Abstracted Old Village Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted landscape of a monastery building with a bell and balcony by R. R Middlebrooks (American, 20th century). Signed "R. R. Middlebrooks" lower left. Titled "Monastery Bell...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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