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Medium: Paper
Test Pattern 2 (Grey Study)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider how behavioural responses to color and form stim...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
Pixel Study 2 - yellow gray abstract figurative painting and photo of a women
Located in New York, NY
Michael Azgour is an artist and educator whose work addresses the impact of digital imagery on contemporary culture. His paintings combine evocative, expressive representation with g...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper
Untitled (ID 1278)
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and oil on paper - Unframed
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intu...
Category
2010s Minimalist Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic
Untitled 2011
Located in London, GB
Oil on paper - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intuition. Her ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Modern Light Blue, Brown, and Black Geometric Abstract Circle Pattern Painting
By John Little
Located in Houston, TX
Modern light blue, brown, and black geometric abstract circle pattern painting by textile designer John Little. The work was created as a proposed design for a wallpaper and features the original color codes in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a solid black frame with a large white margin.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 32.75 in. x W 35.63 in.
Artist Biography: A painter and textile designer, John Little is best known for gestural works filled with boldly explosive color that reflect the influences of his teacher Hans Hofmann and for his involvement in the Abstract Expressionist movement in East Hampton, where he moved in the late 1940s. In East Hampton Little congregated with Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the other artists who were the leading innovators in the New York School.
John Little was born in Sanford, Alabama. He left home at the age of fourteen to become an artist, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1923. After spending a year working as a stevedore on the docks to save money, he enrolled at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and developed an interest in singing. In 1927 he moved to New York City where he continued his vocal work and studied operatic literature. He also became involved in textile design, opening his own store in 1920, called John Little Studios: Fabric and Wallpaper Design. He ran the store until 1950.
In 1933 John Little resumed his painting studies at the Art Students League in New York under the guidance of George Grosz (1893-1959). The following year he made his first visit to East Hampton, Long Island, which he would eventually call home. Later in the decade, he traveled to Paris where he became familiar with European modernism. On his return to America, he taught textile design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He hired Josephine Watkins to work for him; she later became his wife. Little's textile store and teaching job gave him a financial security that was rare during the Depression, and he never found it necessary to find employment with the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade, John Little studied with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in New York and Provincetown. Little was greatly influenced by Hofmann, particularly by his views on color theory.
In 1942 John Little joined the Navy as an aerial photographer. In the late 1940s he purchased a rundown house on Three Mile Harbor...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Eleanor Campbell, As Night Falls, Original Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Eleanor Campbell
As Night Falls
Contemporary Landscape Painting
Multimedia on Paper
Framed Size: H 32cm x W 42.5cm
Image Size: H 20cm x W 29cm
Frame Depth: 2.5cm
Sold Framed in a pale blonde Wood Frame with Glass and Ivory Mount
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
As Night Falls by Eleanor Campbell is an original abstract landscape inspired by an evenig stroll that took longer than expected! White can be quite luminous as night falls and the sillhouettes of hedges and buildings come and go in the shadows
Eleanor Campbell, artist, is available for sale online and in our art gallery at Wychwood Art. Eleanor Campbell trained for 4 years in fine art at the Glasgow School of Art, where she achieved a B.A. During her foundation course she also studied textiles, ceramics, bookbinding and photography, she decided to follow graphic design as a profession upon graduating. This role eventually lead her to London where she became Creative Director within the design field, focussing on branding / packaging design, she ran a large design studio of 30 designers. She became a member of The Chartered Society of Designers. After 10 years in London she moved to the Cotswolds to set up her design business Campbell Aylin Design, working with large blue chip, mainly food and drink companies and their branding design and development. She also instigated a premium food and drink market ‘The Cotswold Table...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled (ID 1289)
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper - Unframed
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intuition. He...
Category
2010s Minimalist Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Still Life 12-14-2019, 2019 Watercolor, mica, oil emulsion, and pigment on paper
By Ray Kass
Located in New York, NY
The latest from Ray Kass' series of abstracted red "still lifes:" a departure from his large-scale compositions, this latest trio of paintings saturate their more compressed planes. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Watercolor, Panel, Rag Paper, Pigment, Mica
$3,680 Sale Price
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Pastel Geometric 4 - Blue Yellow Abstract Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Category
2010s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Untitled (Study for Līnea)
Located in Washington, DC
Poured beeswax work by Mary Early from her "Study for Līnea" series.
"The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available."
Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries.
Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record.
In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space.
Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007).
Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon, Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
Flux, neutral beige-colored mixed media collage, abstract
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic, ink, and collage on Yupo mounted on museum board. Framed.
Barbara Strasen creates imagery plumbed from the depths of a fertile imagination and a trove of rich memories, in combination with signs, symbols and pictures inspired by advertising, TV, film, signage, billboards, magazines, medical texts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board
"Superposition 06" stylish blue and teal textured abstract pigment work on paper
Located in Dallas, TX
Emma's artwork is inspired by the Parisian luxury world of fashion, textures and colour. This beautifully layered blue and teal tone artwork titled "Superposition 06" works well on i...
Category
2010s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pigment
Houses of town. 1972, watercolor on paper, 55x75, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Houses of town. 1972, watercolor on paper, 55x75,5 cm
Olgerts Jaunarajs (1907-2003)
He was so-called legend of abstract expressionism in the Latvia...
Category
1970s Color-Field Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$729 Sale Price
35% Off
'Amused' by Masri - Vibrant Colorful Mixed Media Portrait Painting on Paper
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri (Lebanese-Italian, 1965)
'Amused' 2023
Oil paint, Acrylic paint, Mixed Media, Paper
The painting is signed on the bottom right of the painting and on the back.
'Amused' by Mas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Emotional color chart 098
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Pencil and acrylic on Fabriano-pittura paper - Unframed.
This series, started in 2016 conveys a color and emotional language and is inspired by the series Color as Adjective, a seri...
Category
2010s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Maggie LaPorte Banks, Flooded with Cobalt Blue, Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Maggie LaPorte Banks.
Flooded with cobalt blue.
Acrylic and collage on canvas.
Canvas Size: H. 40 cm. x D. 40 cm x W. 2 cm .
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
'Untitled' by Steven H. Rehfeld - Blue Series - Contemporary Mixed Media
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, 1954)
'Untitled' - Blue Series, 2013
Oil paint, newsprint, gesso, wax, mixed media, canvas, stretcher bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Gesso, Newsprint, Stretcher Bars
Beauty & Wonder
By John Wood
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Beauty & Wonder, by John Wood, 40 x 40 inches, mixed media on paper mounted on panel. Bare wood edges.
John Wood’s beautiful abstract imagery is the culmination of a lifetime of wor...
Category
2010s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Graffiti Rose - Contemporary Abstract Geometric Street Art Painting
Located in New York, NY
David Fredrik Moussallem’s mixed-media abstract paintings tell different “stories from the streets” and respond to urban landscape.
Extensive travels all around the world have triggered a fascination for global subcultures and urban street life...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Wood Panel
Abstract Geometric Oil Monotype Painting 1966 Chelsea Hotel
By Rene Shapshak
Located in Surfside, FL
21.5x17 with mat , 14.5x10.75 without mat.
Noted artist and sculptor, Dr. Rene Shapshak was born in Paris, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (that produced such giants as Claude Monet and Pierre Renoir), London, Bruxelles, emigrated to South Africa in 1932 or 1934, lived in Johannesburg (47 Saunders Street, Yeoville - where he held art classes for many years), executed numerous commissions, was committee member of the Transvaal Art Society, Johannesburg, 1937; left for the USA in 1954, his wife Eugenie and sons Leon, Maurice and Paul followed in August, 1955, the family staying for years at the famous Chelsea Hotel, with an atelier nearby at 219 7th Ave cor. 23rd St, New York NY. He showed there in a number of exhibits and was a denizen of the hotel along with many other famous artists. The Hotel has collected and displayed the work of many visual artists including Jackson Pollack, Larry Rivers, Christo, John Sloan, Arman, Francisco Clemente, Ralph Gibson, Rene Shapshak, Robert Mapplethorpe, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Robert Crumb, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Willem De Koonig, and Henri Cartier- Bresson.
Dr. Shapshak had become a world-renowned artist and sculptor, bringing his artistic and cultural contributions to many countries. His art is represented in Buckingham Palace, in the Rothschild, Schiff and Schonegevel Collections in England and Athens, Greece and in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. He did sculptures of Mahatma Ghandi and John Cecil Rhodes...
Category
1960s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Jules Perahim Surrealism Oil Painting on Paper Romanian French Surrealist Figure
Located in Surfside, FL
Jules Perahim (Born: 1914; Bucharest, Romania - Died: 2008; Paris, France)
Oil painting on paper depicting a figure with abstract multicolor design. (thi...
Category
1960s Surrealist Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Spanish Contemporary Art by Mercedes Aparicio - Au Fond De L’océan
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Handmade Paper
$3,920 Sale Price
20% Off
"Portico I" Sonia Gechtoff, Shades of Blue Abstract Composition on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff
Portico I, 1979
Signed, dated, and inscribed
Acrylic and pencil on paper
40 x 40 inches
Sonia Gechtoff was born in Philadelphia to Ethel "Etya" and Leonid Gechtoff. ...
Category
1970s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
$11,200 Sale Price
20% Off
'Interplay' by Steven H. Rehfeld - White, Blue, Red, and Yellow Abstract Artwork
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954)
"Interplay" 2003
Oil Paint, Pencil, Paper, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
"Interplay" by Ste...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Paper, Pencil, Stretcher Bars
Original Vibrant Vintage Abstract Monotype Print – Pink, Grey, Yellow on Paper
Located in Denver, CO
This striking abstract monotype painting, created by 20th-century Colorado artist Wilma Fiori (1929-2019), showcases her exceptional mastery of color and form. The artwork features v...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Monotype
CHEF'S HAT - Intricate Collage Wall Hanging Sculpture w/ Thick Painted Paper
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"I welcome the continual emergence of change, evolution, and the inevitable challenges that
form a large part of a working artist’s life."
With CHEF'S HAT, a recent and evolving work, I am moving into more dimensionality and space.
My intention is to push patterned and embellished surfaces on paper from its naturally flat
surface into a more structural and spatial plane. This involves making sculptural pieces from
paper and experimenting with new construction methods using strips and lengths of paper
over-lapped and fastened together, shaped into objects with physical presence. I feel I am
migrating from the flat surface into the third dimension. I envision the paper constructions
as a landscape to be wandered in and out of, through and around, a space that invites all
and sundry to enter on their own terms. I hold firmly to the belief that my work exhibits a
playfulness that belies a more serious assessment of our social world. I am interested in how
something that is initially perceived as frivolous and celebratory can constitute a reaction
against and resistance to the shadowy world of misfortune, hard luck, and weariness.
Born in 1959, Lanie Gannon was predominantly inspired by the 1970s. Conceptualism is often perceived as a reaction to Minimalism, and the leading art movement of the 1970s, challenging the boundaries of art with its revolutionary features. The movements that succeeded were all representative of a strong desire to evolve and strengthen the art world, in response to the tensions of the previous 1960s. Process art branched...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Foam Board
Hawk 3, Seascape Print, Coastal Art, Ocean Art, Blue and White Art, Beach House
Located in Deddington, GB
Hawk 3 by Rod Nelson is a limited edition seascape print. The scene depicts the glinting of sunlight on a turquoise blue sea.
Rod Nelson is a printmaker who...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
SHORES OF LETHE - Acrylic, Oil, Mesh screen and paper abstract light painting
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting is part of a series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee. Hartman creates an image on paper then stretches a silkscreen on top of the image to create the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Mesh
Alert
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is an unframed original painting on paper. Rocky Hawkins was born in 1950 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in small towns near the Cascades Mountains. His interest in the myst...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Big Soup - Original Green Figurative Pop Art Painting by Gary John Framed
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gary John's pop-street artworks have a whimsical, yet exciting and bold quality inspired by classic cartoon and comic book characters. Blending pop sensibilities with a roughened fau...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
Left of Center, purple and green abstract watercolor painting on archival paper
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Fellerson’s paintings provoke an interplay and tension between line, shape, and color. With no preconceived idea in mind, she begins by dripping, scrapping, and gouging acrylic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Abstract Landscape
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor painting by American artist Wes Olmsted depicting an abstract landscape view.
Category
1960s American Modern Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Green Bricks, abstract geometric painting, grid
Located in New York, NY
Gouache and graphite on handmade paper. 18 x 12 inches unframed, 23.25 x 17.25 inches framed.
Artist Statement:
“As an artist, I find endless possibilities overwhelming and use self-imposed boundaries to focus my work. This often includes some combination of: a literal grid or graphite border, employment of barbecue skewers or wooden chopsticks in lieu of paintbrushes for mark making, use of a monochromatic or limited color palette, and a reliance on shape and pattern to tell a story. Limiting the elements at play adds a measure of gravity to each decision, and every detail about the paper, the viscosity of the paint, micro variations in hues, and even the sharpness of the point on a skewer matters.
I’ve found that the more restrictions I put in place when I paint, the freer my work has become, allowing a tension to form between the organic and prescribed. Rather than sketch before starting a new piece, I spend time with the paper and begin to visualize possibilities. From there, I can expand the work incrementally. Whether I’m working in an adapted form of pointillism, playing with opacity and hue, or building patterns through repeating shape, the work evolves in its own time. It is an intentionally open process of discovery that seeks to uncover the greatest potential of the basest elements we have at our disposal”. - Kate Snow
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Untitled, 1970 (SF68-44)
By Sam Francis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled (SF68-44) from 1970 is an acrylic painting on paper with an image size of 41 x 27.5 inches, signed and dated 'Sam Francis 1970' verso, and framed in a custom, closed-corner,...
Category
20th Century Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Park Blossom 1
Located in Deddington, GB
Park Blossom I by Natalie Bird [2021]
original
Mixed media
Image size: H:20 cm x W:20 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:37 cm x W:37 cm x D:3cm
Frame Size: H:36 cm x W:36 cm x D:...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
A Potted Succulent and a Rhizome - Original Vibrant Abstract Botanical Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Krisanne Souter weaves together elements of nature and ancient feminine archetypes, such as the Mother and the Mystic. Botanical themes, playful elements, and unexpected surprises ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil
"Untitled" 2025 tinted polymer on disband panel
Located in New York, NY
Susan English
2025
tinted polymer on disband panel
34 x 84 in.
(eng287)
Category
2010s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Polymer
Turquoise blue Surface 2022 - Geometric Abstract
Located in New York, NY
This hand painted piece by Lucchetta is part of the op art series where he is able to catch movement with his unique technique.
It comes framed in a white wooden frame. Measurements...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard
Leigh Glover, Starling Murmuration IV, Abstract Animal Art, Bright Nature Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Starling Murmuration, IV by Leigh Glover [2022]
original
Acrylic on paper
Image size: H:56.5 cm x W:76.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:56.5 cm x W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
City 14. 1964, paper, monotype, 47x62 cm
Located in Riga, LV
City 14. 1964, monotype, 47x62 cm
Soikans Nikolay, pseudonym Niklo de Martell (till 1953.)
1926. 9 IX Ludza – 1980. 21 II Lester, Great Britain – graphic artist.
He was born at ...
Category
1960s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Monotype
$859 Sale Price
20% Off
"Cronus Dining" David Hare, Yellow & White Mythological Surrealist Composition
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Cronus Dining, 1968
Graphite, acrylic, paper collage on board
44 x 34 inches
“Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.”
Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp.
In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career.
After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt.
As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen.
In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941.
World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors.
At the suggestion of Jacqueline Lamba...
Category
1960s Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Graphite
Starling Murmuration, VI, Leigh Glover, Original Painting, Acrylic painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Starling Murmuration, VI (6), Leigh Glover [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic on paper
Image size: H:56.5 cm x W:76.5 cm
Complete Size...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Fishing Boat in Storm
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
Tape residue marks on back.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Joshua Town - Colorful Abstract Urban Still Life Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C Bernhardsson's original artworks are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Born in Sweden, Bernhardsson travels the world photographing and sketching houses ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Abstract Composition XVII, Painting by Jenik Cook
By Jenik Cook
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jenik Cook, American (1940 - )
Title: Untitled XVII
Year: 2010
Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 22 in. x 28 in. (55.88 cm x 71.12 cm)
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Paper Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Rannock pools, Scotland Mixed Media Painting by Nicola Wiehahn, 2019
Located in Deddington, GB
Rannock pools, Scotland by Nicola Wiehahn [2019]
Coming back home from Scotland, after rain suddenly the evening was still and light reflected in the water. Mainly blues and golds.
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Original
Mixed media on heavy water colour paper
Image size: H:72 cm x W:84 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:72 cm x W:84 cm x D:2cm
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All my life I have painted just about anything. After graduating from Camberwell College of Art I was commissioned to paint murals for an architectural firm and started doing illustrating, model making and scenery painting for advertising agencies with clients such as Ford, Glenlivet and the London Stock Exchange. At the same time I was painting from my own studio and was commissioned to make several dinner services for yacht designer Jon Bannenberg...
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Located in Surfside, FL
Richard Smith, British (1931-2016)
Untitled (Abstract Composition) (1976)
Gouache, crayon, charcoal and metal staples on Arches paper
Hand signed lower center
sheet: 22 x 22 inches
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Located in Riga, LV
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Soikans Nikolay, pseudonym Niklo de Martell (till 1953.)
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By Karl Larsson
Located in Phoenix, AZ
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Original watercolor, circa 1920s-1930s
In excellent condition. Archivally Matted - not framed.
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Located in Deddington, GB
Rosie Phipps
Purple Cotswolds
Original Landscape Painting
Water Colour Paint, Gouache and Pastel on Paper
Image Size: H 10cm x W 25cm
Mounted Size: H 18.5cm x W 34.5cm
Framed Size: H...
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Porthgwidden [2021]
Original
Abstract
Mixed Media
Image size: H:76 cm x W:70 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:76 cm x W:70 cm x D:0.1cm
Frame Size: H:99 cm x W:94 cm x D:3.2cm
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