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Style: American Modern
Untitled
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial "Cellar with Horseshoe"
Located in New York, NY
"Cellar with Horseshoe" WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial
Joseph Solman (1909-2008) "Cellar with Horseshoe," 16 x 20 inches, oil on canvas
circa 1938, initial...
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liberty Rides the Goose, Semi Abstract, Lady Liberty, Yellow Red White Blue
Located in Denver, CO
Original painting by 20th century Denver modernist, Edward Marecak (1919-1993). "Liberty Rides the Goose" is a semi-abstract depiction of Lady Liberty wearing Red, white and blue wi...
Category
20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Geometric Trapeze Artists by Hilda Arp
By Hilda Arp
Located in Soquel, CA
Fanciful mid-century modern abstract of trapeze artists by Brooklyn artist Hilda Dora Pape Arp (b. 1909). This 1962 highly abstracted depiction of trape...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Carl Holty Abstract Oil Painting "Riviera" in Primary Colors
Located in Detroit, MI
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"Riviera" is an exquisite painting of American Modern - primary colors actively composed in energetic movement and structure on the painted surface. These colors formulate the painting, play both for and against each other and create a lively surface with hints of either an architectural structure or freeway. This painting hints to future Modernists such as Richard Diebenkorn "Driveway" and David Hockney "Garrowby." Unframed the piece measures 18 x 24.
"Riviera" is signed on lower left. On verso is Provenance of over 70 years, 3 galleries in New York and one in Detroit, Michigan: Andrew Crispo Gallery, Sid Deutsch Gallery and Linda Hyman Gallery in New York and Collected Detroit Gallery in Detroit, Michigan.
Abstractionist Carl Robert Holty was known for his biomorphic abstract forms as well as the geometric abstractions he painted with his vibrant color palette. Born in Frieburg, Germany his family immigrated to the United States settling in Wisconsin. In 1919, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago, and shortly thereafter attended the Parsons School of Design. He spent a short time at the National Academy of Design and studied with Francis Coates Jones...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Backstage, Ambassador" Broadway Theatre NYC Mid-century Modern Modernist Cubist
By Sam Norkin
Located in New York, NY
"Backstage, Ambassador" Broadway Theatre NYC Mid-century Modern Modernist CubistSigned lower left, titled on the stretcher.
Norkin was a Brooklyn, Ne...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Mid-Manhattan II
By John Marin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study for Mid-Manhattan II
Oil and graphite on paper, mounted to board, 1932
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Sight size: 8 1/2 x 7 inches
One of a series of studies for th...
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Surf at Newport
Located in Storrs, CT
The Surf at Newport (Rhode Island). c. 1906. Oil on canvas. 17 x 24 (framed 26 x 34). Lined; extensive craquelure; otherwise fine condition. Housed in an exceptional Louis XV (reviva...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Shrimp"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right
Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 - 1955)
Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Story of my Life - Original painting on canvas, Signed with CERTIFICATE
By Jonone
Located in Paris, FR
Jonone
Story of my Life, 2010
Original acrylic paint on canvas
Signed and titled on the back
On canvas 125 x 125 cm (c. 49 x 49 in)
Presented with a black wood frame 130 x 130 cm (c...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Modern Abstract Painting by Ted Gilien
By Ted Gilien
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ted Gilien, American (1914 - 1967)
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.l.
Size: 24 x 32 inches [60.96 x 81.28 cm]
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Modernist Abstract Bull
By Dick Crispo
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique modernist depiction of an abstracted bull by California artist Dick Crispo (American, b.1945), 1981. The earthtoned animal is outlined in bold strokes of black, and is rendered in an interesting fractured geometric style evocative of cubism's handling of perspective.
Signed and dated lower left "D. Crispo '81", and on label on verso.
Presented in a dark copper metal frame.
Image size; 22.5"H x 28.75"L.
An award winning artist, Crispo has studied at the Carmel Art Institute under John Cunningham and Sam Colburn...
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Untitled
By James Koenig
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas painting by American artist James Koenig created in 1944.
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Landscape
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor painting by American artist Wes Olmsted depicting an abstract landscape view.
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Double Sided Painting (Still Life and Abstract) by William Littlefield 1950-1954
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Littlefield, American (1902 - 1969)
Title: Still Life and Abstract
Year: 1950 & 1954
Medium: Double-Sided Oil on Masonite, signed and dated both sides
Size: 22 x 28 i...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled
Located in Buffalo, NY
An unsigned mid century modern American abstract painting
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Illustration Board, Oil
Waterfall (Woodstock, New York)
Located in Concord, MA
GRACE HILL TURNBULL (1880-1976)
Waterfall (Woodstock, New York), c. 1925
Oil on canvas
14 x 20 inches
Unsigned
PROVENANCE
The Maryland Historical Society
The work of pai...
Category
1920s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man With Moon - Figurative Abstract
By J Gold
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling abstract figurative oil painting in bold, primary colors of a man and the moon by J. Gold (American, 20th Century). Signed "J. Gold" lower right. Presented in a Maple woo...
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Space Travel
Located in Concord, MA
PHILIP PERKINS (1907-1970)
Space Travel, 1945
Oil on canvas
10 x 8 ¼ inches
Dated on canvas verso: 1945
Titled on stretcher bar: Space Travel
Unsigned
Philip Perkins was bor...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Annette Cords, Crosstalk, 2013, Tapestry
Located in Darien, CT
Jacquard weaving is at once simple and complex. The language used to set up weave
structures is straightforward and binary: the warp is either up or down. With the
Jacquard loom, h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tapestry
Mid Century Modern Portrait of a Woman
By Tarmo Pasto
Located in Soquel, CA
Substantial and period painting, a Mid Century Modern portrait of a woman in an abstracted landscape by listed California artist Tarmo Pasto...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstraction
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing a modern abstract painting by Robert Blair.
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He is best k...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dynamic Symmetry" Abstract Bill Shields Chicago Academy of Fine Art
Located in Arp, TX
William Shields Jr., 1925-2010
"Dynamic Symmetry"
1991
Oil on canvas
48"x48" artist framed
Signed in pencil lower right
"Dynamic Symmetry" by William ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Yours Truly
By Arthur Dove
Located in New York, NY
Yours Truly is a work of 1927, a fertile year for Dove, capped by a solo exhibit at Stieglitz’s “The Intimate Gallery,” which included this picture. From 1924 through 1930, Dove produced a notable series of collages, interspersed with drawings, pastels, and oil paintings on a variety of supports. In 1927, the same year that Dove painted Yours Truly, he found inspiration in American popular music, often referring in his titles to works by George Gershwin and Irving Berlin. Yours Truly was the title of a Broadway musical that opened at the Shubert Theater on January 25, 1927. Gene Buck, the producer, had collaborated with Raymond Hubbell, the composer, on the Ziegfield Follies shows of 1923, 1924, and 1925. The production, which contained the title song, “Yours Truly,” ran for 127 performances, closing on May 14, 1927. Given the context of Dove paintings...
Category
1920s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Abstract
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 29 x 22 inches, Signed on frame verso “Painted by Charles L. Goeller”
Exhibited:
(Perh...
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Rock and Roll)
By Kerry Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
Mixed Media on Crescent board
Year: 2018
Size: 21x20in
Signed, dated by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1632
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Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board
Framed Mid-Century Modern Abstract Watercolor Painting, Blue, Black, Grey, White
Located in Denver, CO
Original American Modernist watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard by William Bertrum Sharp (1924-1984). An abstract composition of blue, grey, yellow, pink, and orange. Presented ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard, Archival Paper
Amish Farmscape #3
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amish Farmscape #3, 1984, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, signed and dated lower right; signed, dated, and titled verso
About the Painting
Amish Farmscape #3 is part of a multi-painting series of barns completed in the early 1980s for an exhibition at New York’s prestigious Sid Deutsch Gallery. Lewandowski painted this work at an important point in his career. It was the first major project undertaken by Lewandowski after his retirement from serving as the Chairman of Winthrop University’s Art Department, the last academic position he held after teaching for nearly thirty years. Lewandowski had been inspired to work on the series by a visit to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Like his friend and mentor, Charles Sheeler, Lewandowski had always been fascinated by vernacular architecture and the Amish barns of Pennsylvania brought back memories of rural scenes Lewandowski had painted in the Midwest much earlier in his career. Amish Farmscape #3 is a strong example of Lewandowski’s late precisionist work. The complexity of the composition and Lewandowski’s technical acumen are on full display. Being relieved of the burdens of teaching and administering a university art department likely allowed Lewandowski greater freedom and most importantly more time to complete the Amish Farmscape series. Although Lewandowski’s brand of precisionism changed throughout the years, he never deviated from the core tenets of the Immaculate School artists. In this work, we see simplified and flattened forms, the use of ray-lines to define light and space, the elimination of extraneous details, a polished almost machine-like finish, and the complete lack of visible brushstrokes, all hallmarks of the precisionist painters. Lewandowski was the last of the 20th century precisionists and in Amish Farmscape #3, we see just how successfully he continued to work in this style until his death in 1998.
About the Artist
Edmund Lewandowski was among the best of the second-generation precisionist painters. He was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and studied at the Layton School of Art with Garrett Sinclair. Lewandowski achieved early success when in 1936 two of his watercolors were shown at the Phillips Collection as part of a Federal Art Project exhibition. Then, in 1937, his work was first exhibited at Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery which represented Lewandowski into the 1950s. Under Halpert’s guidance, Lewandowski continued to explore watercolor as his main medium during the 1930s and 1940s, since the gallery already represented Charles Sheeler, who worked primarily in oils. Sheeler became Lewandowski’s major influence as the primary leader of the ill-defined, but very recognizable Immaculate School artists, which included other Downtown Gallery painters, Niles Spencer, George Ault, and Ralston Crawford, as well as Charles Demuth and Preston Dickinson, both of whom died at a young age and had been represented by the Charles Daniel Gallery. Sheeler is credited with giving Lewandowski technical advice on how to make his paintings more precise and tightly rendered and by all accounts, Sheeler was a fan of Lewandowski’s work. Through the Downtown Gallery, Lewandowski’s paintings were accepted into major national and international exhibitions and purchased by significant museums and collectors. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Nelson Rockefeller acquired works by Lewandowski. He was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s important 1943 exhibition, American Realists and Magic Realists as well as juried exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Lewandowski also completed commissions for magazines during the 1940s and 1950s, including several covers for Fortune. Throughout his career, Lewandowski explored urban and rural architecture, industry, machinery, and nautical themes. Looking back on his career, Lewandowski wrote, “My overwhelming desire as an artist through the years has been to record the beauty of man-made objects and energy of American industry on canvas. For as far back as I can recall, the cityscapes, farms and depictions of industrial power and technological efficiency has had a great attraction for me. I try to treat these observations with personal honesty and distill these impressions to a visual order.” Lewandowski is credited with extending precisionism to the Midwest and successfully continuing the style into the 1990s, three decades after Sheeler’s death and six decades after Demuth’s passing. Late in his career, Lewandowski enjoyed a resurgence of popularity as he was represented during the 1980s by New York’s Sid Deutsch and Allison Galleries...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
#26-1983
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on stretcher): Stanley Twardowicz
Stanley Twardowicz (1917–2008), a one-time orphan, Golden Gloves boxer, professional baseball player and auto worker, emerged from a hardsc...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Falling Man, Black on White Background
Located in Missouri, MO
Falling Man, Black on White Background by Ernest Tino Trova. 52.5" x 52.5"
Known for his Falling Man series in abstract figural sculpture, he created ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Playing Possum
By Roger Weik
Located in Missouri, MO
Artist Statement
Since Roger Weik was early in college in the 70's, he has always held an affinity for thickness and texture. There was something very organic about his work, a sens...
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Emulsion, Polymer
Abstract Horizontal
Located in Missouri, MO
Ken Anderson (20th century) was active/lived in United States. Ken Anderson is known for Abstract hanging sculpture.
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Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Mixed Media, Oil, Handmade Paper
Untitled from the Westwood Paintings
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
Untitled (The Westwood Paintings)
1989
Acrylic on canvas
61 x 71.1 cms (24 x 28 ins)
WT9778
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Tan Suit IV: Abstract Figurative Painting of Man in Beige Suit by William Clutz
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern abstracted figurative painting of a man walking in a beige suit
“Tan Suit IV” painted by William Clutz in 1987
30 x 20 inches in a natural wood floater...
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maelstrom
By Edith Stone Philips
Located in Missouri, MO
Edith Stone Philips (American 1900-1988)
"Maelstrom" 1965
Oil on Canvas
30 x 40 inches
Signed and Dated Lower Left
EDITH STONE PHILIPS, 88
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - Sunday, Oc...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Abstract
Located in Missouri, MO
Ernest Tino Trova
"Figurative Abstract" 1965
Oil on Canvas
approx 17 x 12.5 inches
Signed and Dated Lower Right
Known for his Falling Man series in abstract figural sculpture, he cr...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stencil Painting "Tide Pool" American WPA Abstract Expressionist Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract Expressionist Stencil Painting Signed and dated in ink.
Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1912, abstract expressionist painter Morris Shulman studied at the National Academy of D...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Brith at Red
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Eyrie
By Jacob Kainen
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "J. Kainen/ Eyrie- Dec 1949".
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Modern abstract paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic American Modern abstract paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, blue, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Annette Cords, David Hayes, Louisa Chase, and Valton Tyler. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large American Modern abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 5.5 inches across are also available.
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