Oil Abstract Paintings

Rolling hills near Banbury by Georgie Dowling [2021] original and hand signed by the artist Oil paint on canvas Image size: H:40 cm x W:50 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm...

A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's newest series, Tulips. This piece depicts a gestural red Tulip on a silver background with thick use of paint. It is housed in a wonderful ...

Sveta Hessler (Russian, born 1973) "Gold Rush" 2024 Oil Paint, Glue, Gold Leaf, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher bars The artist signed the back of the painting. "Gold Rush" by Sveta ...

Francis Biard (mid 20th century) titled verso signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 22 x 26.5 inches canvas: 21 x 25 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very goo...

Lee Jaffe, American (1950 - ) - Benedict Arnold at The Battle of Saratoga, Year: 1983, Medium: Gold Leaf, Tar, Turkey Feathers, and Oil on Canvas, not signed, Size: 136 x 144 in....

Hunt Slonem "Banded Signet" Multicolor Diamond Dust Bunny A single bunny gestured in different colors of Diamond Dust in an antique frame Unframed: 10 x 8 inches Framed: 15.5 x 13.5...

A painting dedicated to the wide open expanse of time stretching out before me like a magic carpet. I battled cancer in 2024. I wept and wept. I believed this world didn’t want me an...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate features a vibrant and unique palette. Made with oil paint on canvas, the painting is modeled after the famed painting by ...

This abstract expressionist oil landscape painting, titled "Canet Beach 0.2," by French artist Natalya Mougenot, captures the essence of movement and color in a dynamic coastal scene...

Antique American exhibited oil painting by Grace McFarren. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 29 by 49 inches overall and 26 by 46 painting alone.

Signed, dated, and titled to verso. Born in Havana, Cuba, in the late 70s during a well-documented time of religious and political oppression, abstract expressionist artist Mirtha ...

Abstract oil painting on canvas by the french painter François Jousselin. Not framed. Signed and dated 1954 François Jousselin, né à Laval le 27 octobre 1926 ...

Artist: Voskan Galstian Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2024 Style: Abstract Art, Title: Making Peace Size: 48" x 71" x 1....

'Portrait of Future Man', oil on board, Berlin School, (circa 1960s). A thoroughly modern portrait clearly in the style of Italian Futurist, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960). Futurism co...

Sylvia Rutkoff (1919-2011) Sr5-1 c.1960s “Crossed Arms” Acrylic on Masonite 36x42 period frame Unsigned Collection acquired from family estate

"Rain on water" is an ethereal and dreamy atmospheric abstract landscape depicting water and the sea. It has a beautiful textured surface and layers and layers of soft color, with mo...

Silent Chronicles: An Ode to Immobile Memory Triptych – Oil on canvas (3 panels) With "Silent Chronicles", Sophie Dumont invites us into a world where minimalist aesthetics meet the ...

Modern abstract landscape painting by Houston, TX artist Margaret Nobler. The work features a boat floating near an oceanside dock with the sun setting...

The Avenue of Trees French Expressionist School, signed front and back Dated 1974 oil on canvas, framed framed: 37 x 44 inches canvas: 32 x 39 inches private collection, France the p...

Cubist Portrait of a Musician Marcel Seignobos (1892-1972) signed oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 22 x 15 inches Provenance: private collection, Cote d'Azur, France Condition: very...

Antique American modernist abstract painting. Watercolor, and pastel on paper. Framed. Signed. Image size, 6.5H by 10L

Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013) Still Life Oil and graphite on paper Signed lower left 12.25 x 1...

Vintage abstract beach scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to han...

"Aura pure" is a soft, pink, pastel abstract painting. An ethereal, light-filled, sublime expression. It has a palette of many colors, including rose, lime green, celestial blue, bri...

An impressionistic portrayal of Japanese Koi fish jubilantly depicted with movement and enthusiasm. In a burst of motion, the fish joyfully swim in the clear light blue waters, as th...

Vintage American abstract geometric signed oil painting by Paul Kelpe (1902 - 1985) . Oil on board. Vibrant color and confident composition. Framed. Artist Bio: A German arti...

Manuel Soto-Muñoz (1913-2000), Puerto Rican born American painter. Recipient award of merit Florida Southern College, 1958; prize Art Students League New York, 1950; 1st prize Salón ...

Christina Gschwantner combines contrasting art movements such as Art Informel and Minimal Art. She succeeds in depicting and creating her very own view of the world. A world that, ...

Budd Hopkins (1931-2011). Abstract, 1968. Oil on canvas, 30 x 52 inches; 31 x 53 inches framed. Signed and dated lower margin. Provenance: Timothy Collins (1940-2017), Palo Alto, CA...

Gordon Hunt Just Swim Original Seaside Painting Oil Paint on Canvas Canvas Size: 30 cm x 30 cm x 4 cm Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a ...

Title: Impressionist French Harbour Scene with Lighthouse and Fishing Boats at Piriac By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 10.5 x 7.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframe...

Antique American modernist landscape pastel painting. Pastel on board. Framed in plexi box.

Katherine Bello Title: 21 Oil on canvas Year: 2021 Dimensions: 40"x30"x1.5" Signed by hand Canvas on stretcher frame - ready to hang COA provided ---------------------------------- Katherine Bello's aim as an artist is to capture a sense of place, a moment of time, or a feeling - to evoke a sense of wonder. Bello loves paint and paint brushes; bold, gestural mark-making and the interplay of color. She is influenced by light and landscape, poetry, history and science. Formerly educated in Chemical Engineering and Interior Design, Bello is drawn to the process of creating Something out of Nothing. Abstract, abstract art, contemporary art, Contemporary Fine Art, Fine Art, Painting, acrylic, Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko, Kandinsky, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Amy...

Renowned artist Hunt Slonem's "Loyola Ascension" is a 30x25 metallic silver scored oil painting on wood board of contemporary abstract butterflies in white and gold. Signed to verso....

Blue landscape Original oil painting on canvas Single piece Accompanied by certificate of authenticity 92 x 65 cm 2024 Marilina Marchica was born in Agrigento, where she works and ...

Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L.

Oil on canvas on board.

Original oil and acrylic painting on canvas titled “Sandscape 2” by the well known American artist, Syd Solomon. Signed Syd Solomon lower left. Signed and dated Syd Solomon 1972 and inscribed as titled on the reverse. 22 × 30 inches. Overall very good to excellent condition. No notable issues detected during inspection. No signs of restoration under UV inspection. The painting is in its original wood with silver reveal floating frame. Overall framed measurements are 24.25 by 32.25 inches. Provenance: A private collector. Syd Solomon was born near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1917. He began painting in high school in Wilkes-Barre, where he was also a star football player. After high school, he worked in advertising and took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the war effort and was assigned to the First Camouflage Battalion, the 924th Engineer Aviation Regiment of the US Army. He used his artistic skills to create camouflage instruction manuals utilized throughout the Army. He married Ann Francine Cohen in late 1941. Soon thereafter, in early 1942, the couple moved to Fort Ord in California where he was sent to camouflage the coast to protect it from possible aerial bombings. Sent overseas in 1943, Solomon did aerial reconnaissance over Holland. Solomon was sent to Normandy early in the invasion where his camouflage designs provided protective concealment for the transport of supplies for men who had broken through the enemy line. Solomon was considered one of the best camoufleurs in the Army, receiving among other commendations, five bronze stars. Solomon often remarked that his camouflage experience during World War II influenced his ideas about abstract art. At the end of the War, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Because Solomon suffered frostbite during the Battle of the Bulge, he could not live in cold climates, so he and Annie chose to settle in Sarasota, Florida, after the War. Sarasota was home to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and soon Solomon became friends with Arthur Everett “Chick” Austin, Jr., the museum’s first Director. In the late 1940s, Solomon experimented with new synthetic media, the precursors to acrylic paints provided to him by chemist Guy Pascal, who was developing them. Victor D’Amico, the first Director of Education for the Museum of Modern Art, recognized Solomon as the first artist to use acrylic paint. His early experimentation with this medium as well as other media put him at the forefront of technical innovations in his generation. He was also one of the first artists to use aerosol sprays and combined them with resists, an innovation influenced by his camouflage experience. Solomon’s work began to be acknowledged nationally in 1952. He was included in American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From 1952–1962, Solomon’s work was discovered by the cognoscenti of the art world, including the Museum of Modern Art Curators, Dorothy C. Miller and Peter Selz, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Director, John I. H. Baur. He had his first solo show in New York at the Associated American Artists Gallery in 1955 with “Chick” Austin, Jr. writing the essay for the exhibition. In the summer of 1955, the Solomons visited East Hampton, New York, for the first time at the invitation of fellow artist David Budd. There, Solomon met and befriended many of the artists of the New York School, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, James Brooks, Alfonso Ossorio, and Conrad Marca-Relli. By 1959, and for the next thirty-five years, the Solomons split the year between Sarasota (in the winter and spring) and the Hamptons (in the summer and fall). In 1959, Solomon began showing regularly in New York City at the Saidenberg Gallery with collector Joseph Hirshhorn buying three paintings from Solomon’s first show. At the same time, his works entered the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut, among others. Solomon also began showing at Signa Gallery in East Hampton and at the James David Gallery in Miami run by the renowned art dealer, Dorothy Blau. In 1961, the Guggenheim Museum’s H. H. Arnason bestowed to him the Silvermine Award at the 13th New England Annual. Additionally, Thomas Hess of ARTnews magazine chose Solomon as one of the ten outstanding painters of the year. At the suggestion of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the Museum of Modern Art’s Director, the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota began its contemporary collection by purchasing Solomon’s painting, Silent World, 1961. Solomon became influential in the Hamptons and in Florida during the 1960s. In late 1964, he created the Institute of Fine Art at the New College in Sarasota. He is credited with bringing many nationally known artists to Florida to teach, including Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, James Brooks, and Conrad Marca-Relli. Later Jimmy Ernst, John Chamberlain, James Rosenquist, and Robert Rauschenberg settled near Solomon in Florida. In East Hampton, the Solomon home was the epicenter of artists and writers who spent time in the Hamptons, including Alfred Leslie, Jim Dine, Ibram Lassaw, Saul Bellow, Barney Rosset, Arthur Kopit, and Harold Rosenberg. In 1970, Solomon, along with architect Gene Leedy, one of the founders of the Sarasota School of Architecture, built an award-winning precast concrete and glass house and studio on the Gulf of Mexico near Midnight Pass in Sarasota. Because of its siting, it functioned much like Monet’s home in Giverny, France. Open to the sky, sea, and shore with inside and outside studios, Solomon was able to fully solicit all the environmental forces that influenced his work. His friend, the art critic Harold Rosenberg, said Solomon’s best work was produced in the period he lived on the beach. During 1974 and 1975, a retrospective exhibition of Solomon’s work was held at the New York Cultural Center and traveled to the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota. Writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. conducted an important interview with Solomon for the exhibition catalogue. The artist was close to many writers, including Harold Rosenberg, Joy Williams, John D. McDonald, Budd Schulberg, Elia Kazan, Betty Friedan...

Antique American modernist abstract signed oil painting by Anne Sharp. Oil on canvas. Signed.

Vintage American modernist portrait of iconic artist Peter Max. Signed. Framed. Original oil on canvas.

Danny McCaw's (US based) "RAdiance" is an original, handmade oil painting with impasto brushstrokes that depicts an ambiguous figure of white and grey sitting in an interior of grey ...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) signed, inscribed verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 18 x 22 inches condition: overall ver...

Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil and encaustic on canvas, circa 1980. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period frame. Imag...

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Antique American school seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, 30L x 24H.

Abstract oil painting on canvas with pastel palette with red and green “Day of the Swans”, painted by Ragellah Rourke in 2021 48 x 36 inches, oil on canvas Sides are cleanly painted so additional framing is optional Wire backing for easy hanging Artist signature located on the back This contemporary, abstract painting was created by Hudson Valley based artist, Ragellah Rourke in 2021. Her most recent body of work focuses on relationships between color and space. Elements of symbolism, reminiscent of Gustav Klimt, decorate the composition with abstract markings and calligraphic gestural brushwork. Warm yellow and red tones with hints of green radiate upwards into a background of white, recalling the awaking the nature during the beginning of spring. There is wire installed on the back for easy hanging. The painting’s sides are cleanly painted so additional framing is optional. Artist Statement: My paintings are very textural and built up slowly over long periods of time. The surface holds the memory of the painting’s development, all the time looking for clues for what will come next. I look for connections between the forms that develop. They are never something that I logically calculate, but rather a long string of chances, thoughts, and guesses. The appearance and meaning develop throughout the progression of the painting. It is a continuous search for resolution, balance and mystery within the painting. Artist CV: 1963 Born Albany, NY 1998 BA Painting, The University at Albany, State University of New York Residing: East Berne, NY SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2012 Carrie Haddad Gallery...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Darkness Descends" Abstract Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4.5 height x 6 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings ...

'Radiant Abstraction' by Richard Bowman, 1962. Kinetogenics, Art Institute of Chicago, SFMoMA, San Francisco Museum of Art, São Paulo Biennial ---- Signed lower left, 'R. Bowman' for Richard Irving Bowman (American, 1918-2001), titled, 'Kg. 55' (Kinetogenics 55) and dated February 1962. Additionally titled, on stretcher bar verso, 'Kg 55'. Accompanied by a first edition copy of 'Richard Bowman: Radiant Abstractions', by Patricia Watts and Stefanie De Winter, published 2018. Richard Bowman's work is featured in the July/August 2024 issue of Architectural Digest, in an article titled, 'Inside a 1920s LA Respite, Re-envisioned by Jamie Bush. Richard Bowman was awarded a scholarship to study at the Art Institute of Chicago and received his Bachelor's degree in 1942. He subsequently attended the University of Iowa, receiving his Master's degree in 1945. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, Bowman exhibited internationally with success and was the recipient of numerous gold medals, prizes and juried awards. With the Kinetogenics Series, which he began in 1956, Bowman explored the intersection of color and light using contemporary advances in light theory and fluorescence technology. "For this series, he started using fluorescent enamel alkyd paint, which, Bowman stated, emitted an actual, measurable energy from the canvas. He combines his early concept of elemental radiants with the gestures of a mature Abstract Expressionist. Incorporating bold fluorescent strokes of orange, yellow and blue, which are activated by the ultraviolet in daylight, Bowman's new abstractions represented a synthesis of the physical and sensorial transmissions of energy. The combination of the artist's interests in nuclear physics, atoms, and dynamism with these vibrant colors reflected Bowman's increasing confidence as an unconventional artist working in an unconventional medium." (Richard Bowman: Radiant Abstractions, p. 13) "The 'kinetogenic' series which Bowman has been painting recently, are whorls of pure energy in colors from the violet edges of the spectrum in vibrant relationship to the vivid primaries of the center. These paintings have much less sense of place or landscape than Bowman paintings we have seen before. The “Environs” group accompanying the energy pictures in this exhibition, are, on the other hand, specific about place: are of flower beds and branches of trees, painted with the same brilliant color intensity. This use of vibrant colors gives an all-over electric, textural effect in contrast to the after-image jump which obtains when the vibrants are painted flat and geometric. This textural mosaic effect is close to the vision of heat and passionate rhythm which was central to pre-Columbian art, and is still present in the Mexican arts and crafts, which were one of Bowman’s formative sources. It is interesting to note that several of the painters who have influenced many others to experiment with vibrancy and glow in color, found their own impetus in this direction while painting in Mexico. Bowman was one of the painters who was working with fluorescents when the general tendency was to paint with muck. One feels that using color thus leads the artist, as it did his pre-Columbian esthetic ancestors, in the direction where the ecstatic becomes mystic." (courtesy: Artforum, April 1964) Thomas Albright writes of the artist, "Visiting Mexico on a traveling fellowship in the early 1940s, [Bowman] met Gordon Onslow-Ford, with whom he renewed a friendship after moving to San Mateo County in the early 1950s. His paintings, although gestural and abstract, were close in spirit to those of the Dynaton artists than to the mainstream of Abstract Expressionism. They constituted an intensely lyrical and metaphorical abstract Impressionism inspired by Bonnard and an intimacy with the natural environment. Bowman was also influenced by jazz improvisation and the jazz poetry of Kenneth Patchen, a close friend" (p. 263) EDUCATION Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, 1944 University of Iowa, MFA, 1949 AWARDS 1942 Edward L. Ryerson Foreign Traveling Fellowship, Art Institute of Chicago (Mexico) 1945 William M. R. French Memorial Gold Medal, Art Institute of Chicago 1952 Modern Painting Prize, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1972 Gift of Time Grant, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1945 The Pinacotheca Gallery (Rose Fried Gallery) New York 1946 Milwaukee Art Institute, Wisconsin 1949 Swetzoff Gallery, Boston 1949 Bern Porter Gallery, Sausalito, CA 1950 Kinetic ... A commentary on the relationship of SCIENCE and ART. Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1956 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1957-1977 (every 18 months) Rose Rabow Galleries, San Francisco 1961 Richard Bowman: Paintings and Reflections.1943-1961. San Francisco Museum of Art 1970 Richard Bowman: Paintings from 1966-1970. San Francisco Museum of Art 1972 Richard Bowman: Paintings, 1943-1972. Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico. Traveled to the Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1972; and Sacred Heart Convent Gallery, Menlo Park, 1972 1986 Richard Bowman: Forty Years of Abstract Painting. Harcourts Modern Gallery, San Francisco 2000 Rock and Sun: Richard Bowman's Pioneer Abstractions of the 1940s. Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco 2019 Radiant Abstractions, Curated by Patricia Watts. the Landing Gallery, Los Angeles TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 1945 Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Richard Bowman and Russell Woeltz. Art Institute of Chicago. 1947 Joan Mitchell and Richard Bowman: Oil Paintings. Harry and Della Burpee Art Gallery, Rockford, Illinois. Traveled to University of Illinois. Sponsored by Rockford Art Association. 1959 Gordon Onslow Ford and Richard Bowman. San Francisco Museum of Art 1990 Independent Abstraction: A Survey of Paintings by Richard Bowman and Emerson Woelffer. Harcourts Modern & Contemporary Art, San Francisco. SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1943 Ras-Martin Gallery, Mexico City 1945 56th Annual American Exhibition of Oil Paintings. Art Institute of Chicago 1945 Art of This Century Gallery, New York 1947–48 Abstract and Surrealist American Art: Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture. Art Institute of Chicago. Curators: Daniel Catton Rich, Frederick A. Sweet, and Katherine Kuh. Catalogue. 1948 Fourth Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art. State University of Iowa, Iowa City. Organized by Lester D. Longman. Included Milton Avery, Max Beckmann, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Hans Hofmann, and others. Brochure. 1948 Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, Omaha, NE 1949 2nd Biennial Exhibition of Paintings and Prints. Walker Art Center, juried show, Minneapolis, 1949. Brooklyn Museum. 1951 [Group exhibition of University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, artists.] Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Included William McCloy, Robert Gadbois, John Kacere, and other instructors from the School or Art, University of Manitoba. 1952 Sixty-ninth Annual Spring Show. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Bowman awarded Modern Painting Prize. 1953 Annual Exhibition of Canadian Painting. The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Included John Kacere, William McCloy, Roland Wise, and Takao Tanabe. 1953 Winnipeg Group. Vancouver Art Gallery. Included William McCloy, John Kacere, Cecil Richards, Roland Wise. 1953–54 São Paulo Biennial of Modern Art, Second edition. Canadian section. Traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, and the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. Catalogue. 1954 [Group exhibition of Winnipeg artists.] Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Included Oscar Cah n, William McCloy, and Cecil Richards. 1954 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1958 Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles 1959 Rabow Galleries, San Francisco. Included Julius Wasserstein, Gordon Onslow Ford, and Fred Reichman. June 18, 1960 David Cole Gallery, Inverness, CA. Included Ruth Awasa, John Baxter, Nankoku Hidai, Onslow Ford, Fritz Rauh, David Simpson, and Jean Varda. 1961 Paintings from the Pacific: Japan, America, Australia, & New Zealand. Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand. Catalogue. 1961–62. Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture. Fine Arts Gallery, Carnegie Institute. 1962 50 California Artists. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art, with assistance of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; and Des Moines Art Center, IA. Catalogue. February 1966 Contrasts. San Francisco Art Institute. Included Hassel Smith, Gordon Onslow Ford, and Ruth Asawa. October 1967 Arleigh Gallery, San Francisco. Included Lee Mullican, Fred Reichman, Amalia Schulthess, and John Baxter. 1975 Gallery 865, San Francisco 1976 Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 1978 Creation. Galerie Schreiner, Basel, Switzerland. Included Joan Mir , Fritz Rauh, John Anderson, Ruth Asawa, J.B. Blunk, Roberto Matta, Lee Mullican, Gordon Onslow Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, Fritz Rauh, Yves Tanguy, and others. Accompanying book by Onslow Ford. 1984 A Personal Selection/Collection. David Cole Gallery, Inverness, CA. Forty-eight artists including Richard Diebenkorn, Claire Falkenstein, Richard Faralla, Sam Francis, Arthur Holman, Frank Lobdell, Ed Moses, Gordon Onslow Ford, Fritz Rauh, David Simpson, Amalia Schulthess, Jean Varda, Jack Wright, J.B. Blunk. 1987 Visions of Inner Space: Gestural Painting in Modern American Art. Wight Gallery, UCLA. Fifteen artists including Sam Francis, Morris Graves, John Anderson, Lee Mullican, Gordon Onslow Ford, Mark Tobey, and Ed Moses. Co-curated by Merle Schipper and Lee Mullican. Catalogue. Traveled to National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India, 1988 1997 Through the Light: An Exploration into Consciousness. Arts and Consciousness Gallery, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, California. Curated by Farbiba Bogzaran. Catalogue. 1998 Lee Mullican Memorial Exhibtion. Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles. 2007 The Rose Rabow Galleries Retrospective: 1959-1977. The 8 Gallery, San Franicsco. 2008 Landscapes of Consciousness: A Circle of Artists at the Beginning of Lucid Art. Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco. Included Gordon Onslow Ford, Fritz Rauh, John Anderson, and Jack Wright. Catalogue. 2016 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, the Landing Gallery, Palm Springs, CA 2018 Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo. Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA. Catalogue. 2019 FOG Design+Art. the Landing Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2020 FOG Design+Art. the Landing Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2022 FOG Design+Art. the Landing Gallery, San Francisco, CA MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan Oakland Museum of California San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia BOOKS AND CATALOGUES 1947 Rich, Daniel Catton. Abstract and Surrealist American Art: Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago. 1948 Fourth Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Iowa City: State University of Iowa. 1956 Porter, Bern. Kinetic: A commentary on the relation of Science and Art in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Richard Bowman. Palo Alto: Stanford University Art Gallery. 1986 Kim Eagles-Smith, ed. Richard Bowman: Forty Years of Abstract Painting. San Francisco: Harold Parker in association with Harcourts Modern Gallery, Inc. 1961 Culler, George D. Richard Bowman, Paintings and Reflections, 1943-1901. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art. 1962 Culler, George D. 50 California Artists. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. 1972 Nordland, Gerald. Richard Bowman, Paintings, 1943-1972, Roswell, NM: Roswell Museum and Art Center. 1978 Onslow Ford, Gordon. Creation. Basel: Galerie Schreiner. 1987 Schipper, Merle. Visions of Inner Space: Gestural Painting in Modern American Art. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA. With introduction by Lee Mullican. 1997 Bogzaran, Fariba. Through the Light: An Exploration into Consciousness. San Francisco: Dream Creations. 2008 Bogzaran, Fariba. Landscapes of Consciousness: A Circle of Artists at the Beginning of Lucid Art. San Francisco: Weinstein Gallery. 2018 Bogzaran, Fariba, ed. Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo: 1949-1969. Inverness, CA: Lucid Art Foundation. ARTICLES AND REVIEWS [Review of Solo Exhibition at The Pinacotheca Gallery.] Art News. March 1945. “Joan Mitchell, Richard Bowman Open TwoMan Show Tomorrow at Art Association Meeting.” Rockford Morning Star (IL). January 1947. Robert Ayre. [Review of Exhibition, Montreal Mu-seum of Fine Arts.] Montreal Daily Star. 1951. Ben Metcalfe. "Varsity Art Shock —A Morbid Hoax?" Winnipeg Tribune, December 3, 1951. Beverly Wright. "Richard Bowman, abstract painter, has one-man show at Stanford Gallery." Palo Alto Times. February 17, 1956. "Atomic Art Show at Stanford." San Francisco Chronicle. February, 19, 1956. "P.A. Artist Portrays Energy in Oils." San Jose Mercury News. July 25, 1958. Neita Crain Farmer. "A Solitary Voice: Richard Bowman's Paintings Say Something, In A New Way." Palo Alto Times. May 30, 1959. Barbara Bladen. "Dick Bowman's Paintings Show Atomic Awareness," San Mateo Times. July 18, 1959. Arthur Bloomfield. "Two Top Painters at San Francisco Museum." San Francisco Call Bulletin. July 31, 1959. Alfred Frankenstein. "Slow and Fast Sculpture and Kinetogenics." San Francisco Chronicle. May 24, 1959. "Paintings on Display: Bowman and Onslow Ford Show." San Francisco Weekly. July 1959. Herman Wong. "Bowman's Art Seen At Show, Artist Builds Studio Near Hillside House." Red-wood City Tribune, September 15, 1960. Dean Wallace. "Four Bring Their Art to Perfec-tion." San Francisco Chronicle. September 30, 1960. Dean Wallace. "A Painter Looks at the Atom." San Francisco Chronicle. May 29, 1961. Alfred Frankenstein. [Review of retrospective at San Francisco Museum of Art.] San Francisco Chronicle. November 12, 1961. "International Art." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday Magazine. October 29, 1961. "Pacific Paintings Show Common Character-istics." The Press (Auckland, New Zealand). August 5, 1961. Naomi Baker. "San Francisco's Art Is Viewed." San Diego Evening Tribune. January 26, 1962. John Canaday. "Visitors From the West." New York Times. October 28, 1962. Arthur Bloomfield. "Lost in a World They Were Never Made For." San Francisco News-Call Bulletin. August 3, 1963. Arthur Bloomfield. "Bowman Paints His Own Path." San Francisco News-Call Bulletin. February 11, 1964. "The Rockford Fifty States of Art Exhibition." Palo Alto Times. October 5, 1965. Alfred Frankenstein. "Bowman's Radiant Ab-stract Art." San Francisco Chronicle. November 12, 1965. Thomas Albright. "A Kind of Non-Art Show: Brilliant Work by Bowman." San Francisco Chronicle, February 14, 1970. Paul Emerson, "Menlo Gallery Shows Bow-man Art: Major Retrospective Show." Palo Alto Times. October 6, 1972. Arthur Bloomfield. "A Luxuriant Impact to Bowman Paintings." San Francisco Examiner. November 20, 1972. Thomas Albright. "Two Artists Views of Na-ture." San Francisco Chronicle. October 9, 1974. Arthur Bloomfield. "All But the Kitchen Sink." San Francisco Examiner. September 24, 1974. Thomas Albright. "Realism Moves In." San Francisco Chronicle. Thursday, September 4, 1975. Suzanne Muchnic. "Inspired Visions of Inner Worlds at UCLA." Los Angeles Times. January 10, 1988. Reference: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 1, page 404; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 2, page 701; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980, Thomas Albright, University of California Press, 1985, page 263; A Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, Paul Cummings, St. Martin’s Press: New York 1966, page 66-67; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Supplement, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith: New York 1948 Edition, R.R. Bowker Company 1940, page 31; Richard Bowman: Radiant Abstractions, essays by Patricia Watts and Stefanie De Winter, published by Watts...

The Grand Canal, Venice French artist, mid 20th century oil on board, unframed board: 16.5 x 10.75 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: good condition For more ...

Large gilt framed abstract modernist landscape of Jerusalem. Framed it measures 33.25 X 41.25 inches. Canvas measures 28 x 36 inches. Bold Blue sky. Avraham Binder was born in 1906 in Vilnius (or Vilna), now part of Lithuania. He began painting at an early age and completed the prescribed studies in painting at the academy of arts in his native city. Upon graduation, at the commencement exhibition of works submitted by the graduates, he was awarded a prize in recognition of his talents. Artistic talent had deep roots in the Binder family. Avraham's father and grandfather were both artistically inclined, as was his sister Zila Binder and daughter Yael. In fact, he came from a long line of master artistic bookbinders, hence the family surname. The Binder family emigrated to Palestine in 1920. There, his father established a bookbinding workshop in Tel-Aviv while Avraham pursued painting. Binder has not identified with any particular modern school nor narrow artistic doctrine. He struggles to verbally explain his personal conception. Instead, he derives inspiration from emotions, resulting in a great variety of artistic treatments. Particularly memorable are his urban landscapes with their predominance of blues and aquamarines, composed of a profusion of squares and rectangles, crowding one another and covering nearly the entire canvas. The angular shapes are interspersed with radiant dots of red, gold and yellow, like the lights of the big city. Those squares and rectangles reflect, perhaps, impressions of a childhood spent among books which were scattered about the home and workshop of his father, the bookbinder. These shapes, no doubt, had their influence upon the artist whose first youthful impressions were – books. Traces of these shapes are discernible in Binder’s work to this day, in the angularity of splashes of color which, no longer crowded together, are now well separated to create an airy spaciousness. Not only the splashes of color – the inventing space, too – creates figurative effects in the artist’s treatment. Avraham Binder is not a “cerebral” painter. Neither identified with any particular modern school, nor preaching any narrow artistic doctrine, he is an emotional artist: his inspiration, derived from the heart, leads him on to the most varied range of treatments in his artistic work. In vain might one try to persuade him to define his personal conception of painting. He is not one to indulge in verbal explanation. But his sheer artistic skill, his virtuosity with the paint brush, did impel him to experiment widely with the artistic techniques of the modern age. And his exceptional talent stood him in good stead in all this experimentation. Binders large-scale urban landscapes are not mere constructs to represent our present-day architecture with its pervasive angularity. Made up as they are of color, Binder’s unique color composition qualifies these canvases to be ranked among the foremost artistic works in Israeli painting. They are uniquely Binder, very different from what we see in the work of his contemporaries. Here and there, Binder also introduces the human element into these paintings. He lives and breathes the atmosphere of his surroundings, deeply experiencing the sea and the shore of Tel-Aviv that confront him day after day, and which he has transferred to his canvases, as metaphors in paint, throughout the life. More recently, he has created a new series of shore-and-seascapes, in tones ranging from brown to blue. ochre, violet and pale yellow – marvelous views of the sea and of figures enlivening its shore. In yet another series, featuring nearly the same range of hues, he lets us view, through his eyes, the Carmel Market in Tel-Aviv, or the city’s coffee houses with their crowds of people, heads bunched together as if in search of human closeness, with the windows looking in upon them. He has also done large paintings of Jerusalem – not the Jerusalem of gloom and holiness, but a Jerusalem in contrast to the flat topography of Tel-Aviv; it is this different topography which here provides the challenge for him as a painter. And the colors – the colors are bright, full of light, an inner illumination which seems to emanate from the artist himself, rather than from the sun beating down from above. So many great artists have built their life’s work upon watercolors. Binder’s watercolors are in no way inferior in their artistic worth to many of those, what with their spontaneity, their translucent quality, their color combinations, and the artist’s ability to say so much with an economy of brush strokes. We have here a painter who, until the end of his life, was still in his full creative powers, and who continued to add to his impressive storehouse of artistic works. Hundreds of his paintings grace the homes of collectors in Israel and throughout the world, or hang in his private collection; they include Israel landscapes and, most importantly, cityscapes; an exquisite series of wild flowers; many portrait paintings; experimental wood sculptures; murals painted on wood panels; reliefs…, etc. All these are testimony to an artist who refuses to rest on his laurels, who forever reaches out to try his hand at new challenges, strikes out in novel directions, discovers innovative techniques, and experiments in all the dimensions of the plastic arts. On the Israel Museum website they have listed an exhibition of his Artists in Israel for the Defense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv 1967 Artists: Avraham Binder, Motke Blum, (Mordechai) Samuel Bak, Yosl Bergner, Nahum Gilboa, Jean David, Marcel Janco, Lea Nikel, Jacob Pins, Esther Peretz Arad, Dani Karavan, Reuven Rubin, Zvi Raphaely, Yossi Stern...

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