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Style: American Modern
"Don't Cry Long" Abstracted and Distorted Self-Portrait, One Crying Eye
Located in Detroit, MI
"Don't Cry Long" is a self-portrait of the artist and an unusual one at that in which the artist portrays herself shedding tears. Perhaps it is an expression of some grief experienced by Ms. Woodlock, but it also admonishes her to not "Cry Long" while at the same time poking fun because of her elongated face and the one lone "long" tear tracing a pattern down her face. In addition to self-portraits, Ethelyn painted commissioned portraits. In this painting her head is cocked and her famous bangs hang down her forehead. Compare two self-portraits, “Up From Under”, and “M’Eyes" to "Don't Cry Long." The major differences are the close facial view and the brilliant blood red paint that fills the entire canvas.
This painting is included in the book, "Dreams Have Wings: An Artist's Journey into Magic and Mystery" printed in the United States, 1985. She describes "Don't Cry Long" as showing how funny looking we are, if we cry too long.
Ethelyn Woodlock...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Large 1960s Abstract, Chicago Modernist, Oil on Canvas
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Large 1960s Abstract, Chicago Modernist, Oil on Canvas
Untitled, circa 1960s
Oil on Canvas
56 3/4" x 42 1/4"
Housed in a Slat-wood frame
Overall Size: 57 1/4" x 42 5/8"
Appear...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Beach Scene Painting, Playing Ball in Surf, WPA Jewish Woman Artist
By Ruth Gikow
Located in Surfside, FL
Modernist beach scene; signed lower right; image size is 11.5 x 8.5 inches, framed it measures
Ruth Gikow (January 6, 1915 Ukraine - 1982 New York City) was an Important American J...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Standing Pensive Figurative Nude - Heavy Impasto
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Standing Pensive Figurative Nude - Heavy Impasto
Abstract expressionist figurative composition of a nude woman by California artist Harald "Harry" Dr...
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Shimmering Pond in the Woods - Surrealist Abstract 1960s
By Rose Herzog
Located in Soquel, CA
Shimmering Pond in the Woods - Surrealist Abstract 1960s
Highly textured abstract composition by Rose Herzog (American, mid-20th Century). A multicolored pond is shown in the middle...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Masonite, Mixed Media, Oil, Tissue Paper
Figurative Cubist Surrealist Abstraction Mid 20th Century American Modern Large
Located in New York, NY
Figurative Cubist Surrealist Abstraction Mid 20th Century American Modern Large
O. Louis Guglielmi (1906 - 1956)
OBSESSIVE THEME
44 x 33 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated '48 lo...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Has Sprung on the Farm - Abstracted Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Spring Has Sprung on the Farm - Abstracted Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Abstract farm with seeds sprouting in a bold abstract expressionist painting by San Francisco, California art...
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Colorful Samurai, Large-Scale Modern Figural Geometric Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful Samurai, Large-Scale Modern Figural Geometric Abstract
Colorful modern figural abstract of a samurai figure fractured into fields of color and pattern by S. Baker (Susan Ba...
Category
1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
"Untitled" Albert Heckman, 1950s Modernist Abstracted Still Life Painting
Located in New York, NY
Albert Heckman
Untitled, circa 1950
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 29 inches
Albert Heckman was born in Pennsylvania in 1893. He travelled to NYC in 1915 and divided his...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Water Journey Abstract Landscape
By Michele Zuzalek
Located in Washington, DC
20x38x2
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil
Fall Fields
By David Hayes
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
signed en verso
Throughout his sixty-year artistic career, David Hayes created sculptural forms abstracted from organic forms encountered in daily life. He first st...
Category
1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Spring Pattern
By David Hayes
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
signed en verso
Throughout his sixty-year artistic career, David Hayes created sculptural forms abstracted from organic forms encountered in daily life. He first st...
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Starred Cloud
By David Hayes
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
signed en verso
Throughout his sixty-year artistic career, David Hayes created sculptural forms abstracted from organic forms encountered in daily life. He first st...
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled
By David Hayes
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
signed en verso
Throughout his sixty-year artistic career, David Hayes created sculptural forms abstracted from organic forms encountered in daily life. He first st...
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Hillside Patterns
By David Hayes
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
signed en verso
Throughout his sixty-year artistic career, David Hayes created sculptural forms abstracted from organic forms encountered in daily life. He first st...
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Reflection No. 1
Located in East Hampton, NY
fun with Color Theory
As seen at Art on Paper 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY
12"x12" (14"x14" framed) each
These come in a white frame.
Acrylic on Paper
Artist Statement...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Soho Nights
Located in East Hampton, NY
fun with Color Theory
As seen at Art on Paper 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY
12"x12" (15"x15" framed)
These come in a white frame.
Acrylic on Paper
Artist Statement:
Pa...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Love Across Time Zones
Located in East Hampton, NY
fun with Color Theory
As seen at Art on Paper 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY
12"x12" (14"x14" framed) each
These come in a white frame.
Acrylic on Paper
Artist Statement...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
1967 American Minnesota Modernist Vertical Abstract Beach Boat Painting
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is a wonderful 1968 Henry Vranesh American oil painting
Painting Depicts a Post-war Modernist painting, a boat at sea, probably from his Alaskan series.
A student of Wi...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Oceans Apart
Located in East Hampton, NY
fun with Color Theory
As seen at Art on Paper 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY
12"x12" (14"x14" framed) each
These come in a white frame.
Acrylic on Paper
Artist Statement...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Ocean Avenue
Located in East Hampton, NY
fun with Color Theory
As seen at Art on Paper 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY
12"x12" (15"x15" framed)
These come in a white frame.
Acrylic on Paper
Artist Statement:
Pa...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Bushwick
Located in East Hampton, NY
fun with Color Theory
As seen at Art on Paper 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY
12"x12" (15"x15" framed)
These come in a white frame.
Acrylic on Paper
Artist Statement:
Pa...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Inner Bloom
Located in East Hampton, NY
fun with Color Theory
As seen at Art on Paper 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY
12"x12" (14"x14" framed) each
These come in a white frame.
Acrylic on Paper
Artist Statement...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Modernist Colorado Oil Painting Abstract Cityscape Harbor Scene Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Urban landscape of city harbor, marine scene, (North Africa?) bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Modernist Cityscape 24" x 36" sight. oil on canvas signed lower left
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre...
Category
20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape Variations No. 2 - Sardonic Interlude
By Ben Norris
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower left: "Ben Norris / 29 - XII - 50". With label verso: "Landscape Variations II - Sardonic Interlude / by Ben Norris". From the Estate of the Artist.
Exhibite...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Battle Scene, Symbolism and Abstract by American Female Modernist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Battle Scene" is a 40 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. T...
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dove Cote, Southwestern Abstract and Native American Cultural Still Life
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Dove Cote" is a 16 x 24 inches, oil on canvas, Southwestern still life painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is signed, titled, and est...
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interieur No. II
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Interieur No. II
Oil on canvas, 1937
Signed on verso (see photo)
nscribed on reverse:
Benno 1937
"Interieur" (No. II)
35 x 27 cm
9 rue Compagne Premiere
Paris 14e
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Ruth O'Hara, Lang & O'Hara, New York...
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arctic Light - Orange Sun
By Karl Zerbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arctic Light-Orange Sun
Unsigned
Gouache on Japanese fibrous paper
Series: Tundra Paintings
Exhibited: Karl Zerbe, Gouaches of the Artic
Nordness Gallery, (Madison Avenue, NY) Feb 3 through Feb 23, 1958
Cat. No. 12 (label with work, see photo...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Still Life of Fruit on Table Style of Paul Cézanne
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern Cézanne style still life with collage by Dorothy Jane (Milne) Eggen (American, 1907-1986) Her still life is a Homage to Paul Cézanne's ...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board, Newsprint
American Woman Artist Modernist Large Oil Painting Cubist Influenced Landscape
By Lena Gurr
Located in Surfside, FL
A beautiful wooded landscape scene with houses and trees.
Painted on a masonite board. hand signed lower right. with framers label verso.
Framed to 40 X 55 inches. 33 X 48 without the frame and mat.
It is not dated.
Lena Gurr (1897–1992), was an American woman artist who made paintings, prints, and drawings During the course of her career Gurr's compositions retained emotional content as they evolved from a naturalistic to a semi-abstract cubist style. Born into a Russian-Jewish Yiddish speaking immigrant family, she was the wife of Joseph Biel, also Russian-Jewish and an artist of similar genre and sensibility. Gurr used Lena Gurr as her professional name. After marrying Joseph Biel she was sometimes referred to as Lena Gurr Biel. Biel had been born in Grodno, Poland (later absorbed into Russia) and had lived in England, France, and Australia before coming to New York. An artist, he specialized in landscape paintings and silkscreen printing as well as photography. He studied art at the Russian Academy in Paris. After immigrating to the United States, he studied under George Grosz at the Arts Students League.
Gurr was born in Brooklyn and, apart from brief stays in Manhattan and in Paris, lived there her whole life. This painting bears the influence of Lyonel Feininger an influential German American artist. Gurr began studying art at a young age. In 1919 she studied painting and printmaking at the Educational Alliance Art School and between 1920 and 1922 she won a scholarship to attend the Art Students League where she took classes with John Sloan and Maurice Sterne.
In 1926 and 1928 Gurr participated in group shows at the Whitney Studio Club in Greenwich Village and in 1928 she also participated in the 12th annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists at the Waldorf Roof in New York. (Reviewing this show, Helen Appleton Read, the critic for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, said "I made three discoveries on my first visit, Thomas Nagel, Eugenie McEvoy and Lena Gurr with two figure compositions which have something of Marie Laurencin or Helene Perdriat quality of naive sophistication.") The Waldorf Roof was a set of rooms on the top floor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, one of which had glass sides and a glass roof. The rooms were used for concerts, dances, benefits, and exhibitions.From 1929 to 1931 Gurr took a leave of absence from her teaching position to travel in France with Joseph Biel, an artist whom she had met while studying at the Art Students League. They spent time in Nice and Mentone but mainly in Paris.
During the early months of 1931, while she was still abroad, her work appeared in group exhibitions held at the R. H. Macy department store and the Opportunity Gallery (opened by Gifford Beal). In 1932 she participated in three shows: a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, an annual exhibition of the New York Society of Women Artists, ( Its first president was Marguerite Zorach. Founding members included Agnes Weinrich, Anne Goldthwaite...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tsankawi, Southwestern Abstract and Native American Cultural Still Life
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Tsankawi" is a 14 x 18 inches, oil on canvas, Southwestern still life painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is estate stamped #202047 o...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tewa Vessels, Southwestern Abstract and Native American Cultural Still Life
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Tewa Vessels" is a 18 x 24 inches, oil on canvas, Southwestern still life painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is estate stamped #2020...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"So What How?" - Abstract Expressionist Earth Tone Abstract in Oil on Canvas
By John O. Thomson
Located in Soquel, CA
"So What How?" - Abstract Expressionist Earth Tone Abstract in Oil on Canvas
Expressive abstract work in earth tones by Monterey Bay artist and gallery owner John O. Thomson (Americ...
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Bandelier, Southwestern Abstract and Native American Cultural Still Life
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Bandelier" is a 12 x 16 inches, oil on canvas, Southwestern still life painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is titled and estate stamp...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Game Board, Symbolism and Abstract by American Female Modernist Peter Miller
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Game Board" is a 20 x 24 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a bright, earth-tone color palette. ...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Magic Garden, Cultural Still Life and Spiritual Commentary
Located in Doylestown, PA
"The Magic Garden" is a 35.125 x 45 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. T...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Ancients, Cultural Still Life and Spiritual Abstract
Located in Doylestown, PA
"The Ancients" is a 18.5 x 24.25 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. The ...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Story of my Life - Original SIGNED Painting on Canvas with CERTIFICATE
By Jonone
Located in Paris, IDF
Jonone (John Andrew Perello, 1963-, Called)
Story of my Life, 2016
Original acrylic paint on canvas
Signed and titled on the back
On canvas 125 x 125 cm (c. 49 x 49 in)
Presented wi...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Declaration" Large Purple and Blue Modern Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Paul Maxwell
Located in Houston, TX
Large purple and blue linear abstract expressionist painting by American artist Paul Maxwell. The work features a network of intersecting grids that is iconic of Maxwell's style. The...
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Turtle Ceremony, Symbolism and Abstract by American Female Modernist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Turtle Ceremony" is a 25 x 30 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. The wo...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cool Morning
Located in Atlanta, GA
The recent paintings of Atlanta artist David Kidd continue an evolving series of images inspired by and based upon natural forms. His paintings, in acrylic on birch panels or canvas,...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Abstract Composition with Square and Rods in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Composition with Square and Rods in Oil on Canvas
Bold abstract composition by B. Chapman (20th Century). This piece is made up of dark, rich colors, with objects assembled...
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars, Other Medium
Blue Emersion - Original Abstract Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Blue Emersion - Original Abstract Acrylic on Paper
Vibrant composition by California artist Charles "Dave" Francis (American, 1951-2018). Multicolored layers of green, purple and or...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper
The Circle - Original Abstract on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
The Circle - Original Abstract on Paper
Vibrant composition by California artist Charles "Dave" Francis (American, 1951-2018). Layers of yellow, green, blue and pink blend and overl...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Laid Paper
Coral Reef Original Abstracted Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Abstracted Composition of Coral Reef by Dave Francis
Unique and vivid abstracted composition of coral reef by California artist Charles "Dave" Francis (American, 1951-2018)...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Laid Paper
Cosmos and Tree Original Abstracted Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
The Cosmos and Tree - Original Abstracted Composition by Dave Francis
Unique and thought-provoking abstracted composition with cosmos and oak tree by California artist Charles "Dave...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper, Paper
"Stairs, Shelter Island" purple and pink landscape of stairs down to the beach
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Stairs, Shelter Island" is a purple, blue, and pink landscape of stairs down to the beach. Carmody made the horizon line much higher than what would be technically "accurate" in ord...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Shelter Island Evening" blue and green seascape of a harbor - oil painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Shelter Island Evening" is a blue and green oil painting of a Northeastern American harbor.
Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figurati...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pastel Palette Curves, Mid-Century Modern Diptych, Purple, Yellow & Blue Shapes
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Pastel Palette Curves" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. These painting, influenced by modernist artists of the 50's, 60's, ...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Watercolor
Daisy at night with Spirit and explosion
Located in Lafayette, LA
This is a small work by Francis X Pavy of a night scene. this image is a study for a "night flower "series. The image has the Spirit " pavicon" rising out of a clapboard house. to t...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night meeting
Located in Lafayette, LA
Here is a small oil study of a series of works consisting of flowers, the night sky and mystery.
About Francis X Pavy
In the vast tapestry of the art world, Art collectors are attr...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clinking Beers
Located in Lafayette, LA
Here is a small oil study of two hands holding beers in front of a field of crawfish. the painting represents the joie de vivre of the Cajun people.
About Francis X Pavy
In the vast...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Campfire Study #2
Located in Lafayette, LA
Here is a small oil study of a detail of a campfire by Francis X Pavy.
About Francis X Pavy
In the vast tapestry of the art world, Art collectors are attracted to the enigmatic and...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Donna Coca Cola with Diamonds and Les Courir de Bois
Located in Lafayette, LA
This work depicts people at the Marid Gras in South Louisiana
About Francis X Pavy
In the vast tapestry of the art world, Art collectors are attracted to the enigmatic and mesmer...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
DARK HEART
Located in Lafayette, LA
From the Artist: I was dealing with some negative feelings and reflecting on desire and passion. Burning desire and passion that wells up and drives emotions. In this work, I was not...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cindy Kane 1985 Original Painting on Plywood
By Cindy Kane
Located in New York, NY
Cindy Kane (American, b. 1957)
Untitled, 1985
Oil on plywood
Sight: 31 1/2 x 28 1/2 in.
Framed: 39 3/4 x 36 x 2 in.
Signed lower right: KANE
Signed, titled, dated verso: Cindy Kane, Untitled, 1985
Cindy Kane (American, 1957-) grew up in Washington DC during the Vietnam War era, absorbing the period's powerful political climate. She is a self-taught artist whose multi media work is born out of a deep sense of connection to the political and environmental issues of our times.
Her early work was influenced by the experience of living and working at the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park, where she had the opportunity to document Anasazi Indian pictographs in pen and ink drawings. These images would inform her work for years to come.
She draws on personal narrative and experience to create her paintings of maps, birds, toys, and artifacts from nature, often collaging bits of newspaper headlines, pieces of her children's homework, and pages of sheet music beneath layers of color and imagery.
In a review of her work, author and critic John Loughery wrote; "Kane leads us into a peculiar netherworld, a hard to place area that's both reassuringly ancient, and anxiously modern. This is a painter who is interested in the unconscious and the archetypal, and utilizes her own private, (but not inaccessible) vocabulary and imagery."
In a submission to AskART, Diana Wilson...
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Untitled (Cubist Portrait)
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Cubist Portrait), 1945, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower middle, 20 x 16 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, perhaps exhibited at Murry's solo exhibition at the Los Angeles's Screen Cartoonists' Gallery, July , 1945, presented in its original frame
Jerre Murry was a California modernist painter. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Murry studied at the Detroit Academy of Art and worked as an artist for the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Murry traveled to the Bahamas, where he was inspired to paint modernist scenes of island life and people. By the early 1930s, Murry had relocated to Los Angeles, where he caught the attention of Synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald Wright, State Supervisor for the Federal Art Project (FAP) in Southern California. MacDonald Wright enrolled Murry into the FAP. Murry’s Gauguin-influenced painting Sun Image was exhibited together with other FAP artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1936, and Murry was also included in the FAP exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 1937. Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles, the Chamber of Commerce Gallery in Santa Barbara, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art also showed Murry’s work during the 1930s. Murry created a murals for Los Angeles Water & Power Company, the Boise, Idaho Post Office, and Glendale Junior College. In 1939, Murry's work was exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition and the New York World's Fair. He also was included in the All California Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of art that same year. He went on to exhibit in Los Angeles at the Foundation of Western Art's Trends in Southern California Art shows in 1940 and 1941, at Raymond and Raymond Gallery in Hollywood and USC’s Elizabeth Holmes...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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