20th Century Abstract Paintings

A beautiful and soft feminine gouache painting by French artist Jean Pierre Guiot. With a soft dark color palette of dark green, yellow, red, and blue, this piece exudes an emotional...

Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape - San Francisco Hills in the Fog Beautiful mid-century modern abstract landscape evoking ...

Lyman Kipp Original Mid Century Modern Painting on paper, 1969 Acrylic on paper painting Hand signed and dated by the artist on the front F...

Jean Maurice Lasnier (French, 1922 – 2006) VILLE SOLAIRE, OCTOBER 1971 Signed ‘LASNIER’ (lower middle) Oil on canvas 62.1/2 x 31.1/2 in. (158....

Structure XXIII is an original contemporary artwork realized by Nato Frascà in 1964. Acrylic painting on canvas. Title, signature and date on the back of...

Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.

Signed lower left, 'Stoltenberg' for Donald Hugo Stoltenberg (American, 1927-2016) and dated 1957. Titled, verso on original artist's label, 'West Side, New York'. Provenance: Mr. & ...

Abstract expressionist winter landscape of the Highlands of Scotland by this renowned British artist. Acrylic on paper, mounted behind glass in a silver frame. Picture is in excellent condition Signed lower left, inscribed and titled verso Image 16" x 11" Framed 19" x 23" Artist Biography 1954 Born Reading 1972-73 Wimbledon School of Art, London 1974-75 W.S.C.D. Worthing 1975-78 Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University 1978 Moved to Ullapool, Northwest Highlands of Scotland Collections Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow City Arts Centre, Edinburgh City...

Artist: Enrique Careaga, Paraguay (1944 - ) Title: Estructuras Espacio - Temporales Shetam 8120137 Date: October 27th, 1981 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, titled and dated ver...

This artwork titled "Tribute Serie #2" 1982 is an acrylic painting on canvas by noted American artist Robert Inman, 1927-2016. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 40 x 30 inches, framed size is 40.75 x 30.75 inches. Custom framed in a simple wood frame. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Robert Inman 1927-2016. Studied at the Chouinard Art Institute The first job started in1959 at Bob Clampett...

American School, Abstract Expressionist Composition, Oil on Canvas, gold-tone metal frame. Image: 15.75" H x 20" W; frame: 16.5" H x 20.75" W. Provenance: From a New York City Collec...

Glyn Morgan, a Welsh artist, studied at Cardiff College of Art under Ceri Richards. He was a renowned imaginative artist and friend of Cedric Morris. He was influenced by the Benton ...

Artwork measures 48" x 30" and framed 56 ¼" x 38 ¼" x 3" Provenance: John Heller Gallery, NYC, circa 1975 (label verso) The artist's daughter Corbino Galleries, Sarasota, FL (1990)...

Lyman Kipp Untitled Minimalist Painting, 1964 Ink roller on paper Hand signed and dated by Lyman Kipp on the front; inscribed on the back to Gene Baro (the distinguished critic and c...

Andy Miller (American, b. 1950), Abstract Composition, Oil on Canvas, impasto details, dark greens and browns with orange and maroon highlights and blue flashes, signed to verso with...

Intersections is an oil painting on paper with a wooden support, a wooden rod serves as a frame. This painting is part of a series of works where the human ...

Anthony Thomas Triano (American 1928-1997) Abstract 1966 Oil on Board Signed & Lower Right 30" x 15" inches unframed Submitted by Leni Robbi...

Artist: Dan Teis, American (1925 - 2002) Title: Geometric Ridge II Year: 1978 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 48 x 60 in. (121.92 x 152.4 cm) Frame Size: 49.5 x 61.5 inches

Rene Couturier lives in the Netherlands and France. Rene Couturier is known for abstract still life, figure and landscape painting. Rene' Couturier is an artist whose works displays...

Atmospheric Earthy Sunset Seascape Landscape Impasto Oil Painting by 20th Century Artist, Constance Lee Art measures 19 x 15 inches Frame measures 21 x...

India ink on paper Handsigned by the artist in pencil LCD4792

Jean Patricia Taprell Clark (British, 1930 – 1973) Mother Oil on canvasboard Signed ‘Clark’ (lower right) 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.5 cm.) Having refused the opportunity to become a me...

Wonderfully bright and psychedelic vintage graffiti-spray-can art by unknown artist, circa 1970s harkens to Haight Ashbury, San Francisco scene. Black l...

This Modern abstract oil painting on canvas by Modernist artist Stanley Bate features a geometric composition and a soft palette. The white and creme colors are complemented by earth...

Norman Carton (1908 – 1980) was an American artist and educator known for abstract expressionist art. He was born in the Ukraine region of Imperial Russia and moved to the United States in 1922 where he spent most of his adult life. A classically trained portrait and landscape artist, Carton also worked as a drafter, newspaper illustrator, muralist, theater set designer, photographer, and fabric designer and spent most of his mature life as an art educator. Carton showed in and continues to be shown in many solo and group exhibitions. His work is included in numerous museums and private collections throughout the world. Norman Carton was born in the Dnieper Ukraine territory of the Russian Empire in 1908. Escaping the turbulence of civil war massacres, he settled in Philadelphia in 1922 after years of constant flight. While attending the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, Carton worked as a newspaper artist for the Philadelphia Record from 1928 to 1930 in the company of other illustrator/artists who had founded the Ashcan School, the beginnings of modern American art. From 1930 to 1935, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Henry McCarter, who was a pupil of Toulouse-Lautrec, Puvis de Chavanne, and Thomas Eakins. Arthur Carles, especially with his sense of color, and the architect John Harbison also provided tutelage and inspiration. Following his time at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Carton studied at the Barnes Foundation from 1935 to 1936 where he was influenced by an intellectual climate led by visiting lecturers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell as well as daily access to Albert C. Barnes and his art collection. Carton was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1934 which allowed him to travel through Europe and study in Paris. There he expanded his artistic horizons with influences stemming from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Chaim Soutine, and Wassily Kandinsky. While at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Carton was also awarded the Toppan Prize for figure painting as well as the Thouron Composition Prize. He received numerous commissions as a portrait artist, social realist, sculptor, and theatrical stage designer as well as academic scholarships. During this time, Carton worked as a scenery designer at Sparks Scenic Studios, a drafter at the Philadelphia Enameling Works, and a fine art lithographer. From 1939 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project employed Carton as a muralist and easel artist. He collaborated with architect George Howe. The WPA commissioned Carton to paint major murals at the Helen Fleischer Vocational School for Girls in Philadelphia, the Officers’ Club at Camp Meade Army Base in Maryland, and in the city of Hidalgo, Mexico. Throughout the 1940s, Carton exhibited and won prizes for his semi-abstract Expressionist and Surrealist paintings. He socialized with and was inspired by Émile Gauguin and Fernand Leger. During World War II, Carton was a naval structural designer and draftsman at the Cramps...

Dimensions: 32"h, 25"w canvas; 38.5"h, 32"with frame Work is titled "Two Lillies" Elsie Stevenson (1890–1965) was an American painter and printmaker. Beulah Stevenson, (1875-1965...

Sea and Land Abstraction, 1936, oil on canvas board, 16 x 20 inches, signed and dated lower left, exhibited at the 18th Annual Paintings and Sculpture Exhibit at the Los Angeles Muse...

An abstract expressionist painting by Duayne Hatchett . Oil on canvas, circa 1990. Signed verso. Framed. Image size, 60"H x 56"L. Duayne Hatchett was a visual artist whose work included prints, paintings, sculpture, and found objects. He was born on May 12, 1925 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He enlisted in the Air Force where he trained to become a fighter pilot. After leaving the militrary he studied design at the University of Oklahoma. His highly technical military training combined a mathematical intelligence with a love for physics and a daring embrace of new experience, all of which would soon be the tools for his evolution through art. Two major influences interacted on his early development at OU. Emelio Omero, a colleague and close friend of Diego Rivera, introduced him to the revolutionary art ideas of Mexico City, while teaching him a wide range of printing techniques that would culminate in a Masters Degree in Painting in 1952. During this time he met Bruce Goff, a renowned Wright disciple, who was teaching architecture at OU and befriended Hatchett, introducing him to the most avant-garde architecture of that time. He spent his summers while at OU designing for a small sign shop, which introduced him to new materials used for building neon, plastic, and metal signs. The use of new materials and a keen sense for design would soon become invaluable building blocks for future sculpture. During this time he met and married Mary Ellen Jeffries. They would spend their lives together and raise three children, David (me), my brother Dana, and my sister Jeffri. As children, they were immersed in art from childhood and benefited greatly from this loving art and domestic environment. Hatchett was always interested in the techniques of construction, often watching different tradesmen working, understanding how materials are put together to create the manmade environment that surrounded him. While teaching printmaking at Oklahoma City University from 1951 through ‘54, he began to build sculpture employing some of the materials and techniques that he saw workers using. He was beginning to draw the attention of architects and he became interested in their work-trade processes, moving from blue prints to construction. He accepted an invitation from Alexander Hogue...

Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Image size, 20H x 30L. Signed.

Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.” To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.” Exhibited 1950 University of Illinois at Urbana "Contemporary American Painting" 1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 36" x 2". About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism. The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman. De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...

Cheryl Warrick (American, b. 1956), "Both Sides" 1998, acrylic and mixed media painting on paper, Hand signed, titled and dated verso, matted and framed. Dimensions: 13 x 12.75 ...

Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the, now, San Francisco A...

Antique American abstract expressionist painting. OIl on canvas. Framed. Finely painted with wonderful color palette. Signed. Dated Verso.

Dimensional Abstract by Jeffery Abouaf (American, b. 1949). Composed of rows of small "scenes," this piece gives the impression of a roll of film, or moments laid out next to one ano...

Cubist Still Life European School, mid 20th century oil painting on board, unframed painting: 18 x 11 inches condition: very good provenance: private collection, Cotswolds, England

Impressive early American modernist seascape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 14H by 22L.

"You Have the Right to Remain Silent" Wood Panel Original Painting and Carving Elaborate collage, painting and carved sculpture by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). In Yo...

Edward Avedisian ( 1936-2007 ) 15 X 8.5 Oil paint on wood panel This is not signed on front. It bears his name verso. Provenance: Hudson, N.Y. estate of noted Art Collector Albert B...

Cheryl Warrick (American, b. 1956), "Build a nest" 1998, Acrylic and mixed media painting on paper, Hand signed, titled and dated verso, matted and framed. (I have not opened thi...

Abstract Building - Late 20th Century Acrylic Painting by Amrik Varkalis Amrik Varkalis trained at The Manchester School of Art in the 1970's. She employs her complete understanding...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 5.5L x 7.5H.

Bold, colorful, still life oil painting of a pear. In lush, vibrant color. SUZANNE WALLACE MEARS During college she focused on painting and clay. Then it became photography and clay, then only clay, then kiln formed glass and today its kiln formed glass, painting and plasma cut steel sculpture. She also works in oil paint and encaustic. Reminiscent of the color works of Jim DIne and the fruit paintings of Tom Seghi. She never works with only one medium. She uses color and texture to create energetic, luminous, joyous works with the glass. Bright, bold color using reds, blues, oranges reflect my travels in color saturated countries such as Tibet, Nepal, China and Mexico. At random I use solid color fields as a challenge to my driving love of vibrant color. Her favorite themes are inspired by nature and antiquity. Kiln formed glass uses flat sheets of glass which are cut into shapes, layered and incorporate accessory elements of frits, copper wire and mesh, pieces of sheet copper or brass and dichroic glass fired in a kiln. EDUCATION BA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1964 Graduate School, 44 hours, double major Summer School University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 1963 Master Class, Patty Gray Instructor, tde Glass Furnace, Turkey Master Class, Richard La Londe...

Antique American impressionist coastal seascape painting. Oil on board. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a gold giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready ...

An oil painting by George Marshal Cohen from 1960. An abstract expressionist style painting with dark blue tones and bright yellow accents. Figurative representations of female legs ...

Patricia Zippin Tillamook Flight 3 of 12 1980s Mixed Media 30.75"x 23", unframed Signed in paint bottom right and signed and titled in pen on reverse Patricia Jayne Zippin (1930-201...

Initialed lower right in pencil, 'B.R.' for Barbara Rainforth (American, 20th century) and dated 1989. Additionally signed in pencil, verso, 'Barbara...

A dymanic mid century abstract expressionist painiting with geometric shapes in cool tones and two figures by Leslie Luverne Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Oil on masonite. Titled "...

Antique modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 17.5L x 13.75H. Signed.

Work on canvas

Pierre MONTHEILLET (1923-2011) Composition in green and yellow Watercolor and gouache on paper Signed lower left Dimensions of the work: 50 x 65 cm Dimensions of the frame: 60 x 80 c...

Cubist style post-impressionist landscape painting of building facades by Herbert Mears. The work is done using oil paints and this adds texture to the surface of the canvas. The wor...

"Arch Points" - Abstract Expressionist Indigo on Acrylic Resin Sculptural San Francisco abstract expressionist (American, 20th c.). Signed indistinctly lower right. Indigo dye and ...

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Jack Youngerman (1926-2020) Marking(s); notes: signed; 1972-73 Country of origin; materials: American; canvas on shaped wood frame Dimensions (H, W, D)...

Untitled is a contemporary artwork realized by Renato Livi in 1971. Mixed colored enamel on board.

Untitled 1957 Gouache 9.25 x 8.5 inches Framed: 17 x 16 inches

Radiant Relections. Abstract Non-Objective 1950s Oil Mid 20th Century American Woman Female Artist. Signed lower right. Provenance: Estate of Foy C. Casper, Norfolk, Virginia (a close personal friend of the artist and a former director of the Irene Rice-Pereira Foundation). Sothebys American art sale October 10, 2008. The canvas measures 50 x 40. The work has been restored, relined and is housed in its original frame, made by the artist's second husband, George Wellington Brown, a marine engineer from Boston. BIO Periera was an American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher who played a significant role in the development of modernism in America. She is known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and lyrical abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school. She helped found the Federal Art Project...

Antique signed Canadian fishing oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 30H.

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) The Mayor, 1979 Acrylic and collage on scintilla Signed lower right 30 x 22 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting....