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Style: American Modern
Persephone
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Persephone Oil on canvas, 1952 Signed lower left (see photo) Titled reverse "Persephone" Signed "V. 52" Exhibited: Columbus Gallery of the Arts label "71/30 Bt. 2", see label Condi...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

"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...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Untitled (Biomorphic Composition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s. Untitled (Biomorphic Composition), 1948, oil on textured paper mounted on board, signed and da...
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1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Homage to Leger
By Jean Kellogg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s. Homage to Leger, 1941, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14 x 17 inches; inscribed ...
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1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, 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,...
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1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Untitled Abstract in Yellow and Blue by Female, American Modernist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Untitled - Yellow and Blue" is a 46 x 34.25 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. This abstract work is painted in a vibra...
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1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dreamcatcher, Native American Cultural Still Life and Spiritual Commentary
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Dreamcatcher" is a 28 x 42 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. The work ...
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1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tonal Lillies - Landscape Painting - American Modern Art By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Sepia and black base color with off white and yellow flowers makes a high contrast statement. The florals have a fluid flowing design. Perfect for a minimalist decor. Tonal Lillies ...
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2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Harvest, Abstract and Contemporary Wildlife Painting by Female Modernist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Harvest" is a 30 x 25 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant reds and orange, and estate s...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Spring, Abstract Landscape and Spiritual Query
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Spring" is a 38 x 50 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. The work is sig...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Orbs, Spiritual and Abstract Landscape
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Orbs" is a 38 x 50 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is estate stamped 202141 on verso. The painting has been...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Feathers, Mystical and Spiritual Commentary by Female Modernist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Feathers" is a 30 x 40 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. The work is s...
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1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Moon Glow by Robert Terry
Located in Brookville, NY
Born 1955 in Broken Bow, Nebraska. Lives and works in New York. AWARDS
 National Endowment for the Arts, Major Grant Robert Terry was best noted in his depictions of romantic moons...
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1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Tools, Symbolism and Abstract by American Female Modernist Peter Miller
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Tools" 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 earth-tone color palette. The work is e...
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1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dance Wands, Modernist Southwestern Still Life and Cultural Commentary
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Dance Wands" is a 36 x 24 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette, signed and...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco by Garrett Price (American, 1896-1979). Signed "Garrett" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 11.75"H x 15.25"W. G...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Red Floral - Oil Paint By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Right as red, this painting is delicious with color. And that accent of the blue/green leaf is just the perfect accent. Red Floral - Oil Paint By Marc Zimmerman This masterpiece is...
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2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Conjuring Spirits (Jungle Drums)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Dynamic jungle drummer scene by unknown NYC American artist. Oil on canvas measuring 20 x 26 inches. Signed "T 42" in ink on verso. Anco stretchers and Grumbacher NYC store stamp con...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Burning Through
Located in East Hampton, NY
Distressed Abstract Painting Artist Statement: Painting has been a powerful medium for expressing my emotions. Through my art, I am able to escape, dream, hope, remain calm in the m...
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2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Christopher Street (abstract Greenwich Village cityscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). Christopher Street, 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15.5 x 20 inches. Window in matting measures 15 x 19 inches. Framed measurement: 23 x 30 inched. Bears fragment of original label affixed on verso. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet. Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC Exhibited: The American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition. From the facade of The Waverly at Christopher is depicted One Christopher Street, the 16-story Art Deco residential building erected in 1931. It is not a casual coincidence that the structure appears in this cityscape: 1 Christopher Street is the subject. The original intention of this project was to transform the neighborhood, bring a bit of affluence and make a bid to rival the Upper West Side. Margules, a sensitive aesthete, understood how a massive piece of architecture such as One changes a neighborhood. Sound, scale and focal points are forever altered. A pedestrian's sense of depth and distance becomes pronounced. All of these factors contribute to the intent behind this image. Tall buildings disrupt the human scale, change the skyline and carve up space. In this piece, negative space conforms to the man-made geometries. Clouds become gems fixed in settings. De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium" Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village. Early Life De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website. At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers. As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later. In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno). Artistic career In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting. Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe. Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter. In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa. Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that: the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment. Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow." It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day. In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel. Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings. While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends." Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York. With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting. In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works. In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation. "The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit] Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond. To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness." He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller. Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance. The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation. The writer and television personality Alexander King said I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean. King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets." Margules was such a memorable New York personality that comic book writer Alvin Schwartz imagined him at the Sixth Avenue Cafeteria in a risible yet poignant debate with Clark Kent about whether Superman had the ability to stop Hitler. Margules' entrenchment in the Greenwich Village milieu can be seen in a photograph from Fred McDarrah's "Beat Generation Album" of a January 13, 1961 writers' and poets' meeting to discuss "The Funeral of the Beat Generation", in Robert Cordier [fr]'s railroad flat at 85 Christopher Street. Among the people in the same photograph are Shel Silverstein...
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1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Watercolor, Rag Paper

Ovoid, geometrical figural surrealist acrylic painting, Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Ovoid, 1992 Acrylic on canvas Signed and dated lower right 7.75 x 7.75 inches 9 x 9 inches, framed Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a...
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1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Beautiful Chaos
Located in East Hampton, NY
Distressed Abstract Painting Artist Statement: Painting has been a powerful medium for expressing my emotions. Through my art, I am able to escape, dream, hope, remain calm in the m...
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2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

1970's Mixed media Composition
Located in Greenwich, CT
Acrylic and collage on Cardboard by John Urbain titled “Waverly Consort” dimensions : 20” X 15” Framed Signed and dated 1979 Exhibited several times Provenance : from the estate of...
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1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Mixed Media Modernist Painting Collage Nantucket Whirligig Americana Folk Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad (American, b. 1953). Graphite, pastel, and paper collage painting "Still Life with Quilt and Nantucket Whirligig" depicting a mixed media still life collage ...
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1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Graphite

Mixed Media Modernist Painting Collage Nantucket Whirligig Americana Folk Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad (American, b. 1953). Graphite, pastel, and paper collage painting "Nantucket Still Life with Whirligig and Hydrangea" depicting a mixed media still life colla...
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1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Graphite

Girl with Blue Face
Located in East Hampton, NY
Girl with Blue Face, 48 X 36 X 1.5 This large scale painting of a woman's face hints at Picasso. Both technically accomplished and classically approached, the thick gestural brushstrokes add a fragmented & tactile character to the canvas. The cool palette makes it easy to live with and makes it perfect for any room. This comes stretched and ready to hang. Message me for shipping quote About the artist: James Koskinas, born in Terre Haute...
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2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Ahead of the Game - 14"x 16" oil on canvas painting
Located in Lafayette, LA
This is an original oral painting by Francis X Pavy. Oil on canvas, 1996, 14" x 16" signed on the reverse. The painting depicts, two silhouettes of guitar shapes with a male and a fe...
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1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

MIDNIGHT SECOND SUMMER
Located in Lafayette, LA
This is an original oil painting by Francis X Pavy. 20 by 26. 2016 Oil paint on canvas mounted on wood, signed on the obverse. About Francis X Pavy In the vast tapestry of the ar...
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2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Southern California Abstract Landscape Painting - Katharyn Truesdell 70s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Katharyn Gwendoln Truesdell - (American; 1909-1996) This colorful painting depicts a Southern California valley, likely near Sun City, over the mountains from Los Angeles and San Di...
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1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal 21 x...
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1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Egg Tempera, Board

"A Piece of Heaven" Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Illustrator Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 "A Piece of Heaven" 1994 Oil on canvas 48"x48" artist framed Signed lower right William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 He was born in san Francisco, in 1931, Bill moved to Texas, where he grew up. Moved to New York in 1940 and later joined the Naval Air Corps at the age of 18. He served as an Aviation Cadet in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945. At the end of WWII, Bill returned to Texas. At 21, Bill re-focused his energy and enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Art as an Illustration major. What followed was a whirlwind of success, great friendships and a sense of belonging he had never before experienced. Art was his calling and the art-world could not have been less prepared for the likes of Bill Shields. He took them by storm, first Houston, then San Francisco, followed by New York in the late 60's. For 35 years, Bill produced some of the country's best illustrations: fresh, playful, loose and innovative. His illustrations were coveted by such clients as Bantam Books, Time Life, MacMillan Publishing Co., and were awarded numerous gold medals by the Societies of Illustrators in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the Houston Artists Guild. Later, following inspirational trips to Mexico and France, Bill shifted his attention to the self-directed world of fine art. After years of sculpting, making assemblages, painting nudes and landscapes, he settled on the exploration of large abstract oil paintings. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Connecticut and New York. CV EDUCATION: Chicago Academy Of Fine Art San Antonio Art Institute MAJOR FIELDS OF PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVOR: Freelance graphic design and illustration Instructor of painting and illustration Landscape, figurative and abstract painting ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT: (Professor of Art) California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Art Institute San Jose State University AWARDS FOR ILLUSTRATION, Gold Medals: New York Society of Illustrators Los Angeles Society of Illustrators San Francisco Society of Illustrators Dallas-Fort Worth Art Director's Club Houston Artist's Guild BIBLIOGRAPHY: Feature articles in: American Artist, Communication Arts, Print, North Light. Architectural design featured in: Better Homes and Gardens, American Home, Sunset Magazine, Architectural Digest. ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS: Oil Companies: Champlin Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, Continental Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, Humble Oil...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

R. Hoag “Large Cat Peering Out Window”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Oil on canvas 1979 Large cat peering out window Framed 45.25x55.5 Unframed 36x47
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1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Street (Untitled)
By Hananiah Harari
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Abstract Street (Untitled), 1939, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 12 x 32 inches; provenance includes a private collection in Venice, California; presented in what is likely the artist's original handmade frame About the Painting The present work is the culmination of a series of mainly horizontal urban abstractions Harari completed between 1937 and 1939. Deeply influenced by Stuart Davis, Harari’s New York streetscapes began with clearly recognizable objects and landmarks as in Into New York (1937 - Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art), New York Harbor (1937), Up and Downtown (1938), and his other mural proposals for the Nurses Home on Welfare Island (1937) and the Williamsburg Housing Project (1938). At the end of the series, Harari’s vistas became increasingly abstract with broad planes of color representing buildings and streets, the slightest cross-hatching forming a bridge or elevated train track and the vague suggestion of a streetlight looping in the right center of the composition. Figures, birds, and a street vendor’s cart are reduced to pictograms scratched into the surface of the canvas. Abstract Street (Untitled) is among Harari’s most spare works of the 1930s and 1940s and calls to mind the seemingly childlike, but deeply sophisticated works of Paul Klee from the 1920s. It serves as an excellent reminder of why Harari was heralded as one of the earliest members of the American Abstract Artists. About the Artist Hananiah Harari was an artistic polyglot who was equally at home working in styles as diverse as Cubism, Constructivism, Expressionism, Hard Edged Abstraction and trompe l’oeil Realism. A native of Rochester, New York, Harari initially studied as a child at the Memorial Art Gallery in his hometown and later as a scholarship student at the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. In 1932, Harari left for Paris where he befriended Nahum Tschacbasov, Benjamin Benno and John Graham and studied at the ateliers of Lhote, Leger and Gromaire. He also studied fresco painting at the Ecole de Fresque. By 1933, Harari had completed enough work and gained a sufficient reputation to have a solo exhibition at the American Club in Paris. The following year, Harari and his childhood friend and fellow artist Herzl Emanuel traveled to Palestine, where the artists worked hard in the orchards and fields of Kibbutz Deganiah, but produced little art. After returning to New York, Harari married Emanuel’s sister, Freda, and set out on the development of what noted scholar Gail Stavitsky has called an “original synthesis of the old and new." Harari became an early member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA), an organization formed to give modernists exhibition opportunities. Harari was also a member of the socially conscious Artist’s Union and the American Artist’s Congress. From 1936 through 1942, Harari worked on the Federal Art Project and assisted Marion Greenwood on a project as part of the Mural Division, but to his disappointment did not lead his own project. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Harari completed a series of paired paintings with the same subject matter depicted in a Cubist manner and in trompe l’oeil Realism. Harari was acclaimed by Clement Greenberg and six of the artist’s works were selected for the Museum of Modern Art’s important 1943 exhibition American Realists and Magic Realists. During World War II, Harari served in the US Army Air Corps. Following the war, Harari continued to produce fine art while also producing commercial art. During the McCarthy Era, Harari’s progressive politics and leftist leaning art...
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1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Abstract Procession Jewish Wedding Chuppah Oil Painting Modernist Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Abstract Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States Sabina Teichman: (1905-1983) Studied at Columbia Univ. (BA, MA), also with Charles J. Martin and A...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950s "Group Meeting" Mid Century Figurative Gouache University of Paris
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Group Meeting" c.1950s Gouache paint on paper 24" x 18'" unframed Unsigned Came from artist's estate Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey Studied: Newark School of Fin...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Night Garden, mid-century figural surrealist acrylic painting, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Night Garden, 1972 Acrylic on scintilla Signed and dated lower right 21.5 x 21.5 inches 24.25 x 24.25 inches, framed Clarence Holbroo...
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1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Central City, Colorado, 1950s Modernist Cityscape Oil Painting with Buildings
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on canvas modernist city scape painted circa 1950 by Paul K Smith (1893-1977) titled Central City, Colorado. Portrays a city scene of historic buildin...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

interior painting of a flower in the style of minimalism "red Gerbera"
Located in Sempach, LU
interior painting with a flower in the minimalist style "Red Gerbera" The painting is perfect for the most sophisticated interior.
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2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Reclining Figures
Located in Dallas, TX
Born in 1933, Otis Huband declared his intention to be an artist at age 6. He earned his BFA and MFA at Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William & Mary, now Virginia...
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2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

R.E.M. - Murmur (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Rock and Roll, Pop, Legendary)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith R.E.M. - Murmur Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2022 Size: 21x20in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1633 --------------------------------------- "Of...
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2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Board, Mixed Media

20th C. Figurative Abstract Painting Cleveland School African American Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993) Untitled Oil on canvas board Estate stamped #611 verso 24 x 18 inches Charles Elmer Harris was born in 1917 in Cleveland, Oh...
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20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Mandala No. 15, Abstract Ovoid Geometrical Mid-Century Painting Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Mandala No. 15, 1969 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated verso 27.5 x 22 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national ar...
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1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Two Ladies Trying to Out-Mystify Each Other, Semi Abstract Figural Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
'Two Ladies Trying to Out-Mystify Each Other', Original 1969 semi-abstract cubist style oil painting portraying two female figures with still life. Figural abstraction, oil paint on ...
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1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

American School, Abstract Untitled
Located in New Orleans, LA
American School, Artist Unknown
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Early 20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Untitled Diptych by Suzanne Law. Paintings Framed
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled Diptych, painting by Suzanne Law. Framed Overall size: Image size: 12.6 in. H x 34.2 in W Frame size: 18.1 in. H x 44.8 in W x 1 in D Individual size: Image size: 12.6 in. ...
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1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

Transection w/ Architectural Forms, Geometrical Figurative Abstract Acrylic
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Transection with Architectural Forms, c. 1980s Acrylic and graphite on board 12 x 20 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract ...
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1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Graphite

Double Ovoids, Mid-Century Blue & Black Figurative Abstract Ovoids
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Double Ovoids with Blue and Black, 1960s Acrylic on scintilla 15.25 x 12.25 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting....
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1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Maze, 20th Century Geometric Figurative Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Maze, 1982 Acrylic on cardboard Signed and dated upper right 7 x 9.5 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting. Clar...
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1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Johnny Hodges - The Big Sound (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Rock and Roll, Pop)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith Johnny Hodges - The Big Sound Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2016 Size: 21x20in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 91-0194 ----------------------------------...
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2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board

Waiting for the band
Located in THOMERY, FR
This painting is from the serie 'Rollers & Skate". It is done with acrylic paint alla prima on a cotton canvas. The painting is inspired by the Californian skate and rollerblading c...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic

1990 Untitled Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Illustrator Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 Untitled 1990 Oil on canvas 60"x48" artist framed Signed lower right William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 He was born in san Franc...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled Abstract Landscape Oil Pastel Painting Figurative Abstraction
Located in Surfside, FL
John Evans (American, b. 1945), Untitled oilstick on paper, signed in pencil lower center, gallery label (Allan Stone Gallery, New York) affixed verso, sheet: sight size is 22"h x 3...
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1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel

Central City, Colorado, 1950s Semi-Abstract Cityscape Gouache Painting, Red Blue
Located in Denver, CO
'Central City, Colorado' by Leonard Silverstein is an original gouache on paper from 1954. Hand signed, titled, and dated by the artist in the lower right...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

1950s "Curled Up Cubist" MidCentury Figurative Gouache University of Paris
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Curled Up Cubist c.1950s Gouache on paper 24" x 18" unframed Unsigned Came from artist's estate Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey Studied: Newark School of Fine Art The Art Students League Pratt Graphic Arts Center University of Paris 1953-54 University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55 Faculty: Art Department of the New School Museum of Modern Art School of Visual Arts Stacy Studio Workshop Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns George Wittenborn The New School Print Exhibitions, Chicago University of Oklahoma Honolulu Museum Monclair Museum Wisconsin State College Louisiana Art Commission Philadelphia...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Original California Figurative Abstract Still Life Ink Drawing Joyce Treiman
By Joyce Treiman
Located in Surfside, FL
Joyce Treiman Ink on paper, framed under glass; signed in pencil lower right; Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches; 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches frame. Joyce Wahl Treiman was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher. Her work ranged from "the impishly perverse and humorously paradoxical to the brilliant and profound." She was known as an excellent draftsperson throughout her career. She made several trips to Europe to study the old masters, and the human figure is central in her work. In her later paintings she is known to have inserted self-portraits. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and then studied at the State University of Iowa (today the University of Iowa) under the influential painter Philip Guston. During World War II she worked as a commercial artist but resigned when she began to have success with exhibitions of her work in Chicago and New York. In 1945 she married Kenneth Treiman, and son Donald, now an Architect, was born in 1950. The Treimans, along with Rene and Rose Wahl, moved to Los Angeles in 1960. She was in an exhibit of Tamarind prints...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

India Ink, Paper

1990s Brown, Gold, Green Abstract Oil Painting, Large Format Horizontal Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Original abstract oil painting signed by Wilma Fiori (1929-2019) painted in 1994. Signed and dated by the artist on verso. Large format horizontal abstract...
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1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Over Isfahan by Fred Martin
Located in Hudson, NY
In the summer of 1970, I had been using acrylic for four years and had yet to find a way to develop color like a composer might orchestrate a symphony from a piano score. (The symphonic was then my visual ideal.) After the 106th acrylic of “majestic” size, I got real about scale—smaller—and switched to colored sticks of soft pastel so I could hold a rainbow in my hand. I kept on with the streaming lines of the big acrylic paintings, but I filled the spaces between with the soft pastels. –Fred Martin...
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1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Pastel, Acrylic

Sybil (The Prophetess), 1970s Abstract Figurative Oil Painting, Pink Blue Red
Located in Denver, CO
Semi-Abstract figurative oil on burlap painting titled 'Sybil (The Prophetess)' by Edward Marecak (1919-1993) painted in 1976. Signed and dated by the artist in the lower right corne...
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1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Burlap, Oil

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