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Item Ships From: USA
Medium: Oil
Untitled
By Tom Goldenberg
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas (diptych). Signed and dated verso. 68.25 x 32.25 in. 69.75 x 33.5. (framed) Custom framed in a maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish. Provenance Watson...
Category

1980s Post-War Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Ways Away, Contemporary Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This painting uses cool earth colors and a combination of oil and wax to create a landscape focusing on brushwork, color and form. Like many of the artists paintings the landscape co...
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. 41.75 x 61 in. 44 x 63 in. (framed) Custom framed in a hardwood floater with a matte white finish. Provenance Estate of the artist Eri...
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Face in the Sea
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Face in the Sea" is an oil on canvas painting by Dorothy Hood, made in the 1970s. The artwork size is 70 x 60 inches. For Hood, the sea and the infinite expanse of the cosmos a...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is an oil on canvas painting made by Dorothy Hood in the 1980s. The artwork size is 70 x 60 inches. Hood often acknowledged that Arshile Gorky, Edvard Munch, Henri Matiss...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

No.6
Located in Bantam, CT
Steven Miller trained at Parsons School of Design, Miller derives inspiration from electron microscope images that reveal the invisible building blocks of natural world. His pursuit ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Down Comes the Sky
Located in San Diego, CA
"Down Comes the Sky" in "Urban Peace" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswax m...
Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wax, Encaustic, Oil

Four & Six, No. 1 painting by Naohiko Inukai
Located in Hudson, NY
Strong vertical and horizontal elements woven into a repeating pattern, Naohiko Inukai's painting Four & Six, No. 1 offers a calming rhythmic symmetry. ...
Category

1960s Hard-Edge Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Barbie World
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1986 Adam Umbach was born in Chicago, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After being inspired from an early age by the modern masters collection at th...
Category

2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Enamel

"Deep River Turnaround"
Located in Bantam, CT
Emilia Dubicki's paintings evoke the infinite: duration, expanse and change knowing no limits. The artist based in New Haven Connecticut says " I like to combine the feelings, struc...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fragmented Abstract 413
Located in Sausalito, CA
This large scale abstract is a power expression of Moody's signature wet on wet squeegee method. Having trained under Gerhard Richter at the Stadle Institute, it has taken a lifetim...
Category

2010s Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Love in the NY City
Located in New York, NY
2017, Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Play #6 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
This series focuses on the idea of play and the emotions involved in the act of playing. We often forget the importance of relaxing the mind, of letting go of our troubles, of being ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Republic of Haut Bay II
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Danielle Eubank is a painter who is exploring the relationship between abstraction and realism. Based on the oceans of the world, her abstract oil paintings are modern and emotive. ...
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Listen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This piece is part of the Amrta Gold Series. These pieces are incredibly unique and cannot be replicated. The are multilayered mixed media abstracts all with 24k gold leaf on top. Th...
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Orange and White
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Shingo Francis grew up in Los Angeles, immersed in the intense light and vast ocean vistas of life in southern California. Like many LA artists, Francis be...
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Parkside Place
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Suzie Buchholz is a Bay Area-based abstract painter with a playful yet rebellious approach to the tradition of Abstract Expressionism. Her process is highly physical,driven by an ins...
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Henri
Located in New York, NY
2021, Acrylic & oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Oil

Human Centipede
Located in New York, NY
2022, Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Play Drawing #8 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Play Drawing #8 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Painting This series focuses on the idea of play and the emotions involved in the act of playing. We often forget the importance o...
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Oil

Cosmic transformation
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Momen is the creator of the Metaphor: The Tree of Utah, an 87-foot (27 m) sculpture resembling a tree in the Bonneville Salt Flats off of Interstate 80. He financed the project himse...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Curious Sound
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Lyrical abstraction in black
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tracery
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Suzie Buchholz is a Bay Area-based abstract painter with a playful yet rebellious approach to the tradition of Abstract Expressionism. Her process is highly physical,driven by an ins...
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

The source
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Momen is the creator of the Metaphor: The Tree of Utah, an 87-foot (27 m) sculpture resembling a tree in the Bonneville Salt Flats off of Interstate 80. He financed the project himse...
Category

1990s Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Self-Portrait as Mad Queen
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spill (Laocoön)
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bolmes
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso. 46.5 x 36 in. 47.5 x 37 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple floater. Charles Strong, who was born in Greeley, Colorado on Christmas Day in 1938, was one of the youngest artists of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism. He was a colleague of vanguard artists such as Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Jack Jefferson...
Category

1960s Post-War Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

#22-13 - Contemporary Abstract Floral
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Annette Davidek
Category

2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Birch, Oil, Panel

ET Pollination
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Momen is the creator of the Metaphor: The Tree of Utah, an 87-foot (27 m) sculpture resembling a tree in the Bonneville Salt Flats off of Interstate 80. He financed the project himself and built it from 1982 to 1986, afterwards donating the sculpture to the state of Utah. Known For remaining true to the initiation he received early in his career into the modernist paradigm that still informs his distinctive style to the present day. Momen is the most long-lived exponent of early twentieth century Geometric abstraction movement. bauhaus, futurism art...
Category

20th Century Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pyromaniac's Pyre mixed media work by Mary Spencer Nay
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed and dated "Mary Spencer Nay '74" lower left. Titled "Pyromaniac's Pyre" verso. Exhibited: 1976-1977 "Mary Spencer Nay: Recent and Retrospective Works". J.B. Speed Art Museum...
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1970s Modern Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Rubber, Wood, Oil

No Title
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media on canvas 78.79 x 86.60 in unstretched
Category

2010s Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Red Twist
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
In her paintings, Christine Hayman concerns herself with space. She is interested in how forms are energized by the space around them, especially when incorporated into paintings wit...
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas by Korean artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Je Kon park 92". Born in South...
Category

Late 20th Century Post-War Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

#22-14 - Abstract Floral Painting with Vivid Color
Located in New York, NY
Annette Davidek creates paintings that look like gorgeous biomes full of naturalistic forms, enticing viewers to enter a domain that is as familiar as it is strange. Variously sugges...
Category

2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Birch, Oil, Panel

The Occasion
Located in Chicago, IL
Inspired by occasions that are either joyful or morbid. Occasions that are unwanted and irrevocable. Occasions that are planned or unplanned. Unexpected occasions. Signature: Signed...
Category

2010s Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wax, Oil

Moma
Located in New York, NY
Untitled 2017 Oil on canvas Unstretched Luciana Levinton de-contextualizes architectural elements, sketches facades, delineates floor pla...
Category

2010s Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Solitary Point in the Universe
Located in Nashville, TN
From Gallatin, TN, I forged a deep connection with visual art at an early age. I have always drawn and created. I continued my passion throughout my schooling. In college, at Sewan...
Category

2010s Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Night Journey - Drip Painting like Jackson Pollock
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Brown's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Here Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and abstraction. ...
Category

1940s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Anatomic Theatre: The World: North'
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Stefan Umærus Stefan Umærus has initiated, created and exhibited cross-cultural art projects since 1985, with one-man gallery and museum exhibitions in ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Estructura Rosa y Verde #2
Located in New York, NY
39.40 x 59 unstretched Oil on canvas Rebeca Mendoza plays with simultaneity, superimposition, and ambiguity in her work as she goes through the stages of oil painting. The artist se...
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mask
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Mask" is a Post-War painting, acrylic, earth, and oil on canvas by Bay Area Figurative artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed and dated in the ...
Category

Late 20th Century Post-War Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Evening Symphony
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category

2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Siren
Located in Nashville, TN
Alison Underwood's work evokes various emotions of desires as her artwork proves to display the ideas of temptation and anticipation. These profound feelings are demonstrated in the ...
Category

2010s Surrealist Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Oil Crayon

Life and Roots
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. ""Life and Roots"" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in greens by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, ""Jae Kon Park, 92"". Born in South Korea, Park Jae Kon...
Category

Late 20th Century Post-War Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fandango, c. 1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Born in Philadelphia, Ben Wilson was a New York abstract expressionist painter. His work was exhibited frequently from the mid-thirties through sixties, and less frequently but consi...
Category

1980s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Boat)
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category

20th Century Modern Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Before / After (diptych)
Located in Nashville, TN
Alison Underwood's work evokes various emotions of desires as her artwork proves to display the ideas of temptation and anticipation. These profound feelings are demonstrated in the ...
Category

2010s Surrealist Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Oil Crayon

"Orb"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Verso Rex Ashlock (1918 - 1999) Born in Spokane, WA on Aug. 23, 1918. Ashlock moved to San Francisco in 1937 and was a copy boy for Associated Press while studying at the C...
Category

1960s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
By Christian Rosa
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract oil on canvas by Brazilian contemporary artist Christian Rosa. This large format, untitled oil is executed in bright yellow, black, red and blue in a subdued, neutral pal...
Category

2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Paisaje de los dioses del Sol/Landscapes of the Sun Gods XI
Located in White Plains, NY
This piece is part of a beautiful collection which includes twenty oil paintings, with silver/gold leaf on canvas. The astonishing light that this world-renowned artist has captured ...
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Silver

Chelleneshin 37
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yari Ostovany is an American abstract artist of Iranian origins. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Reno. He is currently based in New York City. His ...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Night Pilgrim
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yari Ostovany is an American abstract artist of Iranian origins. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Reno. He is currently based in New York City. His ...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

In the middle of the road
Located in Houston, TX
Dana Frankfort In the middle of the road, 2017 oil on canvas over panel 48 x 48 x 1.75 inches For over two decades, Dana Frankfort has explored the vexing periphery between language and sight by painting words. Rather than laying claim to the paintings, controlling their semiotic pulse, her words serve as the formal armature; they prop up, ventilate, and allow the many layers of paint to breathe. Imperatives, allusions, evocations—the words dissolve into a palimpsest of obscured serifs and stems, into color and form. The title of the work is a phrase from a poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s “In the Middle of Road.” Here it is, translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Bishop...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

Untitled (After Lygia Clark)
Located in New York, NY
35.40 x 82.30 in Oil on canvas Unstretched
Category

2010s Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled (Sesc Pompeia)
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas 62 x 62 in Unstretched Luciana Levinton de-contextualizes architectural elements, sketches facades, delineates floor plan...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Explorer
Located in New York, NY
Abstract, oil on canvas. Subtle hues. Framed in natural wood. 2 inch deep. About the Artist: Nella was born, raised and educated in Italy in a family with a long heritage o...
Category

2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Labyrinth XXXI
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Painting. Geometric style. Oils on canvas. About the Artist: I work in a style I call Geometric Surrealism, abstracting physical ...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Line Color Form Number 1
By Albert Manchak
Located in New York, NY
Line, Color, Form Number 1, 1959, by Albert Manchak (b. 1925) Oil on canvas 35 ½ x 35 ½ inches unframed 37 x 37 inches framed Signed on bottom right Lab...
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

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