Masonite Abstract Paintings

Introducing a beautiful acrylic painting on masonite by the Danish artist, Anette Holmberg. Anette Holmberg (1969-) is a visual artist from Denmark (Scandinavia) with a master's de...

"Lovender" - 1979, Abstract Expressionist Oil on Masonite 1979 Original abstract expressionist painting by John O. Thomson (American, b. 1941). Purples, pinks and yellows make up this unique abstracted piece. Signed, titled and dated "J. Thomson" lower right, "Lovender, 1979" on verso. Presented in original painted wood frame. Frame: 29"H x 23"L. Image: 28"H x 22"L. John O. Thomson is a Bay Area artist. Thompson lived between Santa Cruz, California and Mexico, while working with several of California's designers and art galleries. Thomson studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he was awarded the Bachelor of Arts Degree, Master of Arts Degree, and California Teaching Credentials at Chico State University. He received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from the University of Guanajuato in Mexico and went on to teach at many institutes. Thomson has exhibited in many galleries and shows throughout the world including: The Galleria Design Center in San Francisco, The Institute Allende Masters Show, Art Center of Saratoga, The Triton Museum of Santa Clara, The Northern California Art...

Ben Wilson Concert, ca. 1989 Oil on masonite board (Hand Signed by the artist; also bears the Estate Stamp) Boldly signed front and back, titled and dated on the back by Ben Wilson and also stamped on the back by the estate of Ben Wilson 42 × 48 inches Unframed This stunning painting is done by the second generation Abstract Expressionist artist Ben Wilson - one of the youngest artists to be given a show at prestigious ACA Gallery in 1940. This work "Concert" - depicting instruments, in a light, lyrically abstract painting. Exquisite colors and subtle imagery. In 2017, he was the subject of a retrospective at the George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University from September 6 to November 4 and it was accompanied by a catalogue. About Ben Wilson: Ben Wilson was born in Philadelphia in 1913 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Kiev and settled in New York City. He was educated in Manhattan public schools and graduated from City College in 1935. To gain exposure to a wider range of styles, he also studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Educational Alliance. Admired by critics throughout his long career, Wilson was singled out as a “discovery” by the New York Times art critic Edward Alden Jewel even before his first one-man show at the Galerie Neuf in 1946. His paintings of the ’30s and ’40s were expressionistically rendered, often Biblical parables, filled with what he called “the grief of the intolerable” and reflecting an acute awareness of the agony of the time, from the Holocaust to the Spanish Civil War. A WPA artist who identified strongly with the plight of the Jews in Europe, he relentlessly explored themes of war, torment, and futility in his early decades of painting. When times changed and social pressures subsided, Wilson’s mood lifted. He spent 1952-54 in Paris working at the Academie Julien. During the ’50s his involvement with specific imagery persisted but became more psychological and mythic in orientation. Influenced by Cubism, he created a vocabulary of interlocking shapes and bold, sweeping gestures that served as a transition between his early figurative expressionism and his later abstract constructivist concerns. Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.” By 1960, influenced by the Russian Constructivists, Mondrian, and Abstract Expressionism, Wilson turned to abstraction. Reexamining the basic elements of painting, he evolved his own personal vocabulary and structure, fusing the cerebral and the emotive. He became increasingly experimental, using house paint, sand, and other unorthodox materials in paintings that he worked from all directions, dripping, spraying, stenciling, and collaging. He employed elements of disjunction, repetitions of geometric motifs, linear networks, and complex overlays to create the transparent, multi-layer development of space that characterizes his later paintings. A consummate draftsman, Wilson filled notebook after notebook with drawings that he amplified in his paintings. Eschewing popular movements, Wilson was always one to pursue a personal aesthetic. Despite more than 30 one-man shows and 50 years of teaching, he increasingly withdrew from the gallery scene but continued to paint daily until his death at age 88 in 2001 in Blairstown, New Jersey, where he and his sculptor wife Evelyn Wilson...

Tropical Fantasy Floral - Still Life Flowers Painting by Marc Zimmerman Oil on board Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, whether deep mysterious jungle or delightfully whimsic...

Artist: Paul Van Hoeydonck – Belgian (1925 - ) Title: Planete Year: 1961 Medium: Mixed media Size: 48 x 48 inches. Signature: Signed, dated, titled on the reverse Condition: Good This mid century work by Paul Van Hoeydonck is a direct and strong composition, like so many of Van Hoeydonck’s Planete works. It measures 48” x 48” and is a mixed media composition. It is a composition on masonite or a similar material. There is flat black and gloss black paint. Perhaps the gloss is lacquer. The surface is highly textured. The black areas have small finish nails, lying flat, attached to the surface. The other areas have sand or some other particulate in the paint. It is signed, titled and dated on the reverse. The date looks like “1961” but it could be “1969.” Please see pictures. Stylistically, this work looks very much like his work from 1961-1962. The piece is in good condition. There is a faint scratch in the upper left and some very small chips on the edges. Please see pictures. There also might be very, very light surface dirt throughout. Please refer to the artist's website as well as Whitford Gallery for extensive biographies of the artist. Public collections include Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Rome Israel Museum, Jerusalem Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp Museum of Modern Art, New York Stedelijk Museum, Ostende Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York PAUL VAN HOEYDONCK BIOGRAPHY 1925 Born in Antwerp, Belgium 1945-51 Graduated in History of Art and Archaeology in Antwerp, Belgium. 1952 First solo-exhibition, figurative paintings, Gallery Buyle, Antwerp, Belgium. (OMS) Figurative paintings, Gallery Unicum, Bruges, Belgium.(OMS) Figurative paintings, Au Cheval de Verre, Brussels, Belgium.(OMS) 1953 One-man show figurative paintings, Gallery Unicum, Bruges, Belgium. "Open Air Party", Driekoningen Castle, Beernem, Belgium.(GE) "Salon Quadriennal de Belgique" Liège, Belgium.(GE) 1954 Creates Coloured Geometrical Abstract paintings Gilbert Swimberge and Paul Van Hoeydonck, Galerie Théâtre du Poche, Brussels, Belgium.(GE) "Zomersalon Salon d'été" Gallery Unicum, Bruges, Belgium.(GE) "Salon quadriennal des Beaux-Arts" Ghent, Belgium.(GE) 1955 Gallery Dutilleul, Brussels, Belgium.(OMS) 1956 Co-founder of art group “FORMES” "Lauréats du prix Jeune Peinture Belge", Palais du Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium.(GE) Diamond among the works 'distinguished by the jury' "La peintres du groupe Formes" Cercle Jean Jaurès, Salle de l'Académie de musique, Morlanwelz.(GE) "Défense du petit format", Gallery Saint-LaurentBrussels, Belgium.(GE) Gallery Saint Laurent, Brussels, Belgium.(OMS) 1957 Created first monochrome collages. "Salon national du meuble social moderne" Museum voor Sierkunst, Ghent, Belgium.(GE) "Lauréats du Prix Jeune Peinture" Société Royale des Beaux-Arts, Verviers, Belgium.(GE) Gallery le rouge et le noir, Charleroi, Belgium.(GE) "Groupes" Gallery Accent, Antwerp, Belgium.(GE) "Défense du petit format" Gallery Saint Laurent, Brussels, Belgium.(GE) "Summer Exhibition" Gallery Accent, Antwerp, Belgium.(GE) "Paul Van Hoeydonck" Gallery Saint Laurent, Brussels, Belgium.(OMS) "Peintres belges inspirés par l'Espagne" Gallery Giroux, Brussels, Belgium.(GE) 1958 Creates first monochrome light works with the introduction of small plexiglass structures. "Paul Van Hoeydonck" Gallery Accent, Antwerp, Belgium.(OMS) "Oeuvres graphiques" Gallery Saint-Laurent, Brussels Exhibition G58 with Georges Van Tongerloo at Castle Middelheim Museum, Antwerp Belgium.(GE) Co-founder of the G58 Hessenhuis group in Antwerp. Opening Exhibition G58, Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium.(GE) Participation at the World Exhibition Brussels, Belgium.(GE) "Groupe Art Abstrait" Gallery Hella Neblung, Düsseldorf, Germany.(GE) 1959 Begins showing in exhibitions concerned with monochrome painting and “Zerogroup” "Vision in Motion/Motion in Vision" first international exhibition in G58, Antwerp, Belgium.(GE) "Lauréats du Prix Jeune Peinture Belge1958" Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium.(GE) "Oeuvres d'art acquises par l'Etat en 1958", Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium.(GE) 1960 3th group exhibition G58 Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium.(GE) 1961 Introduction of the “Boites A Monocles” as a reaction to the criticism concerning the light works G58 Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium.(OMS) First important one-man show, Brussels, Palace of Fine Arts Iris Clert Gallery, Paris, France.(OMS° Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchases a light work First trip to New York,USA, private show introduced by Harry Torczyner 1962 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, USA Created first Spacescapes and White Planets (Planetscapes) “Zero 3” exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany.(OMS) 1963 Exhibits his first environment “Space Control Station” at the Forum exhibition Ghent, Belgium Participates in the Tokyo Biennale, Japan.(GE) "Contemporary painting in Belgium" St-Louis, Denver, L.A., San Francisco, USA (GE) 1964 Creation of a new race “The Mutants” Participation Documenta III, Kassel, Germany.(GE) The Hague, Vienna, Berlin, Otterlo, Bern and Brussels Pierre Restany “baptises” him “archaeologist of the future” Gallery Iris Clert, Paris, France.(OMS) Participated Floating Biennale Iris Clert, Canale Grande, Venice, Italy.(GE) Article in Times Magazine. Participated Iris Clert in Berlin, Germany.(GE) "Nieuw Realisme-Pop Art " City Museum Den Hague, Netherlands.(GE) 1965 Joins the Waddell Gallery, New York, where he presents several one-man shows Svensk-Franska Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.(OMS) Gallery Theelen, Essen, Germany.(OMS) Gallery Waddell Gallery, New York, USA.(OMS) "Pop-Art/Nouveau Réalisme" PSK/Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium. (GE) Biënnale Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium. (GE) "Flemish Art" Gallery Arditti, Paris, France.(GE) "Belgian Drawings since Permeke", Lima, Peru.(GE) "45 years Belgian Art" Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.(GE) "Collection Graindorge" Copenhague, Denmark.(GE) "Sculptures from al directions" Worldhouse Gallery, New York, USA.(GE) "White on White" Lincoln, USA.(GE) "Pop, pop, whence pop" Heckster Museum, Huntington, New York, USA.(GE) "Nouvelles Recherches Flamandes" Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium.(GE) "Flemish Art, Svensk Handelsbanken, Stockholm, Sweden.(GE) "Art for collectors" Rhode Island, USA.(GE) 1966 joins the Gallery Bonnier, Lausanne, Geneva and Stockholm Gallery Kirkhaar, Amsterdam, Netherlands.(OMS) Gallery der Spiegel, Köln, Germany.(OMS) Gallery Cogéime, Brussels, Belgium.(OMS) Stadtisches Museum Schloss Moirsbach, Leverkusen, Germany.(GE) "Weis auf Weis" Kunsthalle Bern, Suisse.(GE) "Premio Marzotto" Valdagno, Italy (GE) "L'Espace dans l'Art" Museum of Modern Art, Brussels, Belgium.(GE) Triënale of the Suthern Netherlands, Belgium/Netherlands. 1967 Produces CYBS (Cybernetics) Starts using elements from sawn-up car fenders Waddell Gallery, New York, USA.(OMS) Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium.(OMS) Gallery Foncke, Ghent, Belgium.(OMS) "45 years of Belgium Contemporary Art" National Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.(GE) "45 years of Belgium Contemporary Art" Salles d'état Dalles, Buckarest, Romania.(GE) "New Flemish School" City Gallery, Zürich, Suisse. (GE) "Actual Belgium Drawings" Madrid, Sevilla, Barcelona, Spain. (GE) "Collection Stuyvesant" Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium. (GE) "Superlund" curator Pierre RestanyKunsthall Lund, Sweden. (GE) "Hommage to Bosch, De Moriaan, 's Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.(GE) "Science Fiction", kunsthalle, Bern, Suisse.(GE) 1968 First contact with NASA Gallery Kirkhaar, Amsterdam, Netherlands.(OMS) Gallery Bonhier, Lausanne, Suisse.(OMS) Belgium Haus, Köln, Germany.(OMS) International Monetary Fund, Washington, USA.(OMS) One-man show Gallery Müller, Stuttgart, Germany. "Contrasts 1947-1967, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.(GE) "Science Fiction" Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France.(GE) "Science Fiction" Kunstverein, Düsseldorf,Germany.(GE) "40 ans d'Art Vivant" Hommage à Robert Giron, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Belgium. (GE) "L'eglise ouverte à l'Art Contemporain" La Biënnale, Centre Notre-Dame, Argenteuil, France.(GE) "Triënale" Hallen Brugge, Belgium.(GE) "The obsessive image 1960-1968", Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK.(GE) "Im Reiche des Phantastischen" Kunstverein, Recklinghausen, Germany.(GE) "Destruction Art" at Finch College, New York, USA "Art Vivant" at Vence, France. "Three blind mice" Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. "Three blind mice" Saint-Peter Monnastry, Ghent Lignano Biënale in Italy, Proclaimed as the official laureate. "Contact 68 Kelkheim" Pfarzencentrum Kelkheim, Germany. "Belgium Art" Archeological Museum Teheran, Iran. 1969 Contemporary Art Museum Chicago, USA.(OMS) Contemporary Art Museum Houston, USA.(OMS) Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany.(OMS) Gallery Withofs, Brussels, Belgium.(OMS) Gallery Waddell, New York, USA.(OMS) "Painting and sculpture today" Museum of Art Indianapolis, USA.(GE) "Belgium Art" Museum Bagdad, Iraq.(GE) "Belgium Art" Museum Beirout, Libannon.(GE) "Exposition Internationale de gravure" Museum of Modern Art, Ljubjana, Yugoslavia.(GE) "10 Belgische Maler" Gallery 66 Hofheim, Germany.(GE) "Space Art" Technical High School, Eindhoven, Netherlands.(GE) Gallery Foncke Ghent, Belgium.(OMS) "Apollo Mission of the Moon" National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA.(OMS) "The Jaques Kaplan collection" Finch College Museum New York, USA.(GE) 1970 The Apollo 15 Crew officially placed the statue “Fallen Astronaut” on the moon.(OMS) Creation of the first Astro's Palacio National de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Mexico.(OMS) One-man show Gallery Foncke Bruges and Ghent, Belgium. "Belgian Art 1960-1970" Kunstverein Köln, Germany.(GE) Gallery Bonnier, Genève, Suisse.(OMS) Gallery Engelberts Genève, Suisse.(OMS) "Jeu de blancs" Gallery Withofs, Brussels, Belgium.(GE) Gallery Rive Gauche, Brussels, Belgium.(OMS) "Jewels by Belgian Artists" Belgian Pavillon Osaka, Japan.(GE) "Itirénaires 'blancs' " Musée d'Art Moderne St-Ett-ienne, France.(GE) "Zeitgenossen" Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany. "Second annual internal moonwalk festival" Cape Kennedy, USA. 1971 Gallery Waddell, New York, USA.(OMS) "Die Puppe" Aspekte zum Bild der Frau, Berlin/Leverkusen/Frankfurt, Germany.(GE) "Travelling Exhibition" Playboy Art...

"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 ...

A beautiful abstraction from the 1970's by an American artist working in California but with ties to Hawaii. He melds collage with paint and creates a surface which is exquisite, la...

"Lady Looking at Brian (Her Grandson)" Mixed media collage, assemblage, gestural painting on masonite. Hand Signed in ink and titled verso. It does not appear to be dated. I am estimating it is from the 1980's. It has some Postmodern elements and similarities to Transavanguardia is the Italian version of Neo-expressionism. Francie Bishop Good (American, 1949-) Francie Bishop Good was raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She currently lives and works in South Florida and New York City. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Bishop Good is twice recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, and the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. She completed her Graduate Studies at Maine Media College, Rockport, Maine, International Center of Photography, New York, New York, Master of Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, B.F.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, William Allen High School, studies under James Musselman Her museum solo shows include the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, and the Hilliard Museum, Lafayette, LA. Bishop Good's work has been shown at David Castillo Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL. Griffin Museum of Photography, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, and AMbrosino Gallery. Recent museum acquisitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL and the NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Selected Group and Invitational Exhibitions NSU Art Museum, Remember to React: 60 Years of Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL Frost Art Museum, Connectivity: Selections from the Collection of the Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL Dual Roles, curated by Laura Marsh, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood FL David Castillo Gallery, gallery artists, in terms of collage, Miami Beach, FL Multidisciplinary, curated by Dimensions Variable, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cornell Museum, Artistically Speaking, Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL. People and Places, Photographs from the Collection, summer 2015 Frost Museum, FIU Miami FL, 25 Inches, The Faces of the Permanent Collection Locust Projects, Smash and Grab, November Annie Wharton Fine Art, Los Angeles group show, summer Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale ,The Art of Caring summer Women to Women, collaboration with Samantha Salzinger, Bakehouse Fredric Snitzer Gallery Boy oh Boy, Summer Show Miami A.I.R. Gallery, The Man I Wish I Was, curator Kharis Kennedy Photo Miami with Nina Arias, Miami, FL December Alva Gallery, New London, Ct Being Good: Women's Moral Values Art Basel with Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL 51st Venice Biennale, Italy Poles Apart / Poles Together, International Artists' Museum, White Box Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, FOCUS ON: New Photography, National Museum of Women in the Arts, FL Transitory Patterns Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL Optic Nerve Selected Collections Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Ct. Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL Frost Museum of Art, Miami Florida Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida Sagamore Hotel Collection, Miami Beach, Florida Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Refco Collection, Chicago, Illinois Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania New World Symphony Residence, Miami, Florida Art in Public Places, Broward County, Florida Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida William Gates III (Bill Gates) Monica and Richard Segal Saks Fifth Avenue Asides from being an exceptional artist she is also a passionate collector. Photographs by Cindy Sherman and the late Ana Mendieta, collages by Kara Walker, a watercolor by Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernandez, Carrie Mae Weems, Nan Goldin, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Mickalene Thomas, and Kara Walker. are among 100 works by leading contemporary artists donated by philanthropists David Horvitz...

Sylvia Rutkoff (1919-2011) "Traffic" c.1950s Oil, sand, grout, gesso on masonite 48"x36" wood period frame Signed on reverse in pencil Collection acquired from family estate Sylvia ...

A dynamic, abstract expressionist painting by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, Californ...

Moody figurative abstract expressionist painting of a Victorian couple with an angel by artist David Rosen (American, 1912-2004), c. 1970. Signed "Rosen" lower right. Unframed. Image size: 30.25"H x 26.38"W. Born in 1912, Rosen grew up in Toronto, Canada before pursuing arts in the United States. Upon arriving, Rosen settled in New York City and attended the Cooper Union Art school in 1930. While participating in the Federal Arts Project, he worked for the program's mural department until 1941. He also worked with an artist collective, Siqueiros Art Workshop. There, Rosen met fellow FAP artist Jackson Pollack, and together, with artist Phillip Guston, they experimented with new painting techniques and mediums. Art movements are often reactions to the popular styles that precede them, and Abstract Expressionism applied a new and exciting method to Modern Art. Gradually, artists began to break away from an overly-studied, academic approach to painting and liberated their technique. During these workshops, Rosen was introduced to Pollack's groundbreaking "drip painting" before it changed the art world. As America became involved in World War II, the Federal Arts Project wound down, officially ending in 1942. Around this time, Rosen enlisted as a Merchant Seaman with the U.S Merchant Marines. During this time, he traveled to North Africa and Italy before concluding his service and moving to California where, in 1945, he devoted his full attention to building an art career. Within a couple of years, he landed a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1947, and his first one-man show, which opened to rave reviews, was held at Hollywood's Contemporary Art Gallery. The exhibition’s success led to mural commissions from Palm Springs' Hotel del Tahquitz, and he scored more solo shows at West Hollywood's Chabot Gallery. The early 1950s brought a surge of recognition for Rosen's career, and while his work was certainly still influenced by Abstract Expression, his painting style included elements of Surrealism, Figurative Art, and Cubism. Like his colleague Jackson Pollack, Rosen produced work inspired by drip painting; however, rather than splattering, his drips were the natural flow marks from painting freely without regard for "mistakes." Throughout Rosen's long career, he would acquire techniques from vastly different art styles which made for a varied, eclectic catalog of work. Rosen continued to build his California art career and settled at a Laguna Beach art colony in 1958. There, he entered his work in the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts and was the first painter to contribute Abstract Art to the event. Rosen would participate in the festival for the next fifteen years. A year after his move, in 1959, Rosen opened his first studio gallery and began a 12-year collaboration with the Laguna Playhouse. For the next two decades, Rosen participated in 17 art exhibitions and 20 solo shows, and received considerable critical praise. Rosen's themes were as varied as his evolving painting style, and one of his themes focused on classic characters like Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rosen's close-up portraits of historical and literary figures, illustrated by the piece To Be or Not to Be: Soliloquy From Hamlet, capture the essence of the characters while remaining loose with the painting and even adding a slight cartoon feel. His ongoing Hamlet series, as a complete collection, makes an impact with the diversity of technique. Unlike the loose style of some of his works, the painting Madaam... that he is mad is true is influenced by the structure of Cubism, the flat dimensions of Byzantine Art, and his utilization of mixed media. After Rosen's death in 2004, the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts sponsored an exhibition of his Hamlet paintings at the Wells Fargo Building gallery. Throughout Rosen's career, he amassed a great deal of critical, industry, and public praise for his work. His beloved town of Laguna Beach bestowed numerous awards that include the Laguna Beach Annual Art Gallery Award and Orange County's Annual Exhibit Award. Rosen's work flourished in California, and he received recognition from the San Diego County Fair, Los Angeles' Miracle Mile...

"Mr. Mute Mops Mouths Silent" - Whimsical Figurative in Acrylic on Masonite Bright figurative composition with a mime by Frances Mann (American, 20th Century). The figure in this pi...

Stunning abstract with Native American symbols using earth tones and 3D aspect for increased depth and texture by listed artist Duane Armstrong (American, b. 1938). 1966. Signed and ...

A dreamy 1983 Abstract Geometric painting by Institute of Design artist Eugene Dana. Artwork size: 45". x31". Framed size: 46" x 32". Provenance: Estate of the artist. Born in M...

A dreamy, pale blue 1994 Abstract Geometric Painting depicting the Tempest, titled "The Tempest Scenes from the Mask: The Naiads" by Institute of Design artist Eugene Dana. Artwor...

Women and a Tiger Cub - Pop Art in Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas Pop art by George "Milo" Buck (American, b. 1952). In the center of the composition a woman is running to the left. ...

Emotive abstract in warm colors by Anna Ballarian (American, 1918-2010), playing with deep contextualized Magenta and Ochre and blurred collage blocks to an extraordinary Kinetic aff...

This modern abstract painting by Peter Keil is on a smooth masonite board with a painted grey background, black abstract portrait with many colors. Here you certainly see the Picasso...

Detailed abstract acrylic painting of a microcosmic underwater realm by an unknown San Francisco Bay area artist (American, 20th Century). Signed indistinctly lower right side. Unfra...

A dynamic, abstract expressionist image by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed "Les Anderson" lower r...

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...

A textural, earth tone abstract landscape evocative of rolling hillsides in brown and white neutrals by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Unframed. Image, 24"H x...

Artist: Shmuel Brand, German/Israeli (1921 - ) Title: Untitled Year: 1980 Medium: Oil with Mixed Media on Masonite, signed l.l Size: 39.5 x 27.5 in. (100.33 x 69.85 cm)

"She's Watching" Mixed media collage, assemblage, gestural painting on masonite. Hand Signed in ink and titled verso. It does not appear to be dated. I am estimating it is from the 1980's. It has some Postmodern elements and similarities to Transavanguardia is the Italian version of Neo-expressionism. Francie Bishop Good (American, 1949-) Francie Bishop Good was raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She currently lives and works in South Florida and New York City. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Bishop Good is twice recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, and the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. She completed her Graduate Studies at Maine Media College, Rockport, Maine, International Center of Photography, New York, New York, Master of Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, B.F.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, William Allen High School, studies under James Musselman Her museum solo shows include the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, and the Hilliard Museum, Lafayette, LA. Bishop Good's work has been shown at David Castillo Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL. Griffin Museum of Photography, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, and AMbrosino Gallery. Recent museum acquisitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL and the NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Selected Group and Invitational Exhibitions NSU Art Museum, Remember to React: 60 Years of Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL Frost Art Museum, Connectivity: Selections from the Collection of the Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL Dual Roles, curated by Laura Marsh, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood FL David Castillo Gallery, gallery artists, in terms of collage, Miami Beach, FL Multidisciplinary, curated by Dimensions Variable, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cornell Museum, Artistically Speaking, Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL. People and Places, Photographs from the Collection, summer 2015 Frost Museum, FIU Miami FL, 25 Inches, The Faces of the Permanent Collection Locust Projects, Smash and Grab, November Annie Wharton Fine Art, Los Angeles group show, summer Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale ,The Art of Caring summer Women to Women, collaboration with Samantha Salzinger, Bakehouse Fredric Snitzer Gallery Boy oh Boy, Summer Show Miami A.I.R. Gallery, The Man I Wish I Was, curator Kharis Kennedy Photo Miami with Nina Arias, Miami, FL December Alva Gallery, New London, Ct Being Good: Women's Moral Values Art Basel with Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL 51st Venice Biennale, Italy Poles Apart / Poles Together, International Artists' Museum, White Box Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, FOCUS ON: New Photography, National Museum of Women in the Arts, FL Transitory Patterns Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL Optic Nerve Selected Collections Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Ct. Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL Frost Museum of Art, Miami Florida Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida Sagamore Hotel Collection, Miami Beach, Florida Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Refco Collection, Chicago, Illinois Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania New World Symphony Residence, Miami, Florida Art in Public Places, Broward County, Florida Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida William Gates III (Bill Gates) Monica and Richard Segal Saks Fifth Avenue Asides from being an exceptional artist she is also a passionate collector. Photographs by Cindy Sherman and the late feminist artist Ana Mendieta, collages by Kara Walker, a watercolor by Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernandez, Carrie Mae Weems, Nan Goldin, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Mickalene Thomas, and Kara Walker. are among 100 works by leading contemporary artists donated by philanthropists David Horvitz...

This early work by Jacob El Hanani was done in 1970. It is mixed media on masonite. It is hand signed in Hebrew and English in the bottom right. The piece comes framed in a black woo...

Artist: Warren Wolf, American (1924 - 2003) Title: Zebuwl 2 Year: 1990 Medium: Oil and Marble Dust on Shaped Masonite, signed, titled and dated verso Size: 34 in. x 31 in. (86.36 cm...

Translated title: "Pink tree". Oil paint on masonite.

Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on panel measures 16 x 24 inches. Signed lower margin. Excellent condition. Provenance: Allan Stone Pr...

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...

Sewell Sillman Red, circa 1958 Acrylic on masonite 18 x 36 inches Upon attending Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, Sewell Sillman’s life was arguably altered for...

Artist: Ted Gilien, American (1914 - 1967) Title: Untitled Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.l. Size: 24 x 32 inches [60.96 x 81.28 cm]

Acrylic paint on masonite.

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...

"Forever & Ever" is an abstract oil on masonite by artist Alayna Rose. A mix of warm reds, oranges and pinks blend together with bright pops of green. Text reads FOREVER AND EVER, t...

Oil paint transferred onto a Masonite board. Mainly yellow tones with decorative foliage. Framed in a white frame with a white matte. Artist Biography: Melanie Millar isa painter living and working in Houston, Texas. She has exhibited her work in one-person shows, group-shows and juried competitions nationally. Her work is in private and corporate collections, as well as in the collection of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston. She grew up in New Jersey but later moved to Houston, Texas. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Texas. In 1999, she completed an MFA in painting and drawing at the University of North Texas, Denton Texas...

H. Wilson Smith (1901-1981) California Artist $3000 Oil on masonite in the original frame. Painting measures 26 3/4"h x 20 1/2"w. Frame: 27 3/8"h x 21 1/8"w. Titled on the verso ...

Botanical Abstract, Vintage 1970s Modern Floral This vivid oil painting of flowers on a bright sunny day is a fresh modernist take on the botanical still-life. California artist El...

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Mixed Media on Masonite

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Translated title: "Now I see you". Acrylic on masonite.

Translated title: "Skull". Acrylic on masonite. It features a wooden frame, which is painted and decorated with gold leaves.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Translated title: "Now I see you" Acrylic on masonite.

This painting is a perfect example of lyrical abstraction and a choice painting out of the best period of Vlerick's career. Ineffable, 1962 Oil on Masonite board 91,5 x 61,5 cm (without frame) 93 x 63 cm (framed) Signed and dated Top Right ‘P. Vlerick 1962’ with title, signature place and date at the back: Ineffable P. Vlerick Afsnee 1962 Pierre Vlerick’s work shows some resemblance to Willem de Kooning’s. While the Dutch American was famed for the wild manner in which he treated his canvas, Pierre Vlerick showed some more restraint, but making a painting was in any case a slow process of stopping and starting and revising. His exploration is meant to result in a correct proportion of colour fields and streaks, often applied layer upon layer. All his colors have a luminous intensity. It was mainly Bonnard’s colorful work that inspired Vlerick to compose his own singular range of colors of slightly tingling yellows, greens, oranges and bits of blue here and there. Abstraction is emphasized by his use of color. Colors not associated with objects from daily life often dominate the composition: purple, for instance. This is the basis for his continuing abstraction, ending up as color fields combined with organic elements depicted with the vaguest of contours. Though both artists create a very metropolitan, say even worldly art, their work evokes nature. De Kooning has been called a master of ‘abstract landscape’. The structure of Vlerick’s works, too, is very vegetable and organic. No wonder he referred to his paintings as his ‘gardens’. Neither artist allowed his garden to remain empty: de Kooning created a female figure looking like a cross between a floozy and the mother goddess. Vlerick imagined a woman who is enjoying her body. Vlerick’s approach to abstract art is the same as de Kooning’s; they refuse to paint in a figurative manner, yet at the same time do not wish to renounce referring to reality. De Kooning once put it very accurately during an interview when he conceded that painting the human figure any longer was absurd(in the post-war period), but also stated that it would be even more absurd not to do it. The only way out of this ambiguous dilemma is the deconstruction of the human figure. Not in order to reject it, but to show it in all its fragility. Pierre Vlerick’s exceptional artistic talents were already recognized while he was studying at the Ghent Academy (1940-1944) whereupon graduating he received a gold medal. In 1947-1948 Vlerick enrolls at the “la Grande Chaumière Academy”, a Parisian private academy which attracts lots of foreign artists thanks to the reputation of its most important teachers such as Maurice Denis (1870-1943). Denis was one of the founding fathers of “the Nabis” and is also considered to be the godfather of abstract art by many artists and art critics. Maurice Denis is famous for his quote: "Remember that a painting, before it is any kind of representation, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors in a certain collected order." At La Grande Chaumière, Vlerick is challenged to develop a pictorial language of his own. Vlerick develops a way to translate the observed reality into visions of color and form, which can be situated somewhere on the axis between the figurative and the abstract. Reality is decomposed and reconstructed into a complete new representation. After a trip to Spain in 1955 the painter evolves towards the use of brighter colors. At the Brussels World Exhibition of 1958 (Expo 58) Vlerick is for the first time confronted with real works of 17 American artists (William Baziotes, James Brooks, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Theodoros Stamos, Clyfford Still, Bradley Walker...

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic on masonite.

Suzanne Bloomfield’s 1969 painting, After the Storm, is a striking blend of oil and encaustic that immerses viewers in a world of renewal and transformation. Deep reds, earthy brown...

Mixed Media on Masonite

Mixed Media on Masonite

Acrylic on Masonite