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Style: Color-Field
Larry Poons, Midget Racer, unique Color Field Abstract Geometric drawing, signed
Located in New York, NY
Larry Poons Midget Racer, 1963 Colored Pencil on Graph Paper Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the lower right front Original frame with gallery label included Provenance: H...
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1960s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Color Pencil

Dexter's Choice State II, signed mixed media watercolor (unique variant), Framed
Located in New York, NY
Larry Zox Dexter's Choice, State II, ca. 1990 Mixed media, Watercolor pochoir, and Oil stick Wax, Water-Based Crayons, on heavy Arches museum watercolor rag paper with deckled edges ...
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1990s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil, Watercolor, Graphite, Monoprint

Rift Valley, sonde 7 (texture sand abstract canvas gold Earth rust red green)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
“Rift Valley, Sonde 7” is a striking mixed-media composition that harmonizes Color-field staining, impasto-relief techniques, and gestural painting to create an immersive, multilayer...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Red body - Colour field red, 100x100cm, Limited Edition of 10.
Located in London, GB
'Red body' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involves layering in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Glass, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Rift Valley, sonde 8 (texture abstract canvas bronze metallic burgundy wine red)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
“Rift Valley, Sonde 8” is a striking mixed-media composition that harmonizes Color-field staining, impasto-relief techniques, and gestural painting to create an immersive, multilayer...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Modernist Gestural Abstract Color Field Painting Woman Artist Francine Tint
Located in Surfside, FL
Francine Tint (b. 1943) Another Time Thick acrylic impasto on board, 1999, Hand signed 'Francine Tint' titled, dated Inscribed 'To Piri, Enjoy Much Love' on the reverse. 14 x 15 1/...
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1990s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer, Wood Panel

Ellen Hackl Fagan, Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue_Air Capture_2020_Color Field
Located in Darien, CT
Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue is a series of larger paintings on 8 ply museum board and large sheets of rag paper and clayboard panels that have been created since the winter of 2...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Pigment, Panel

Body in blue - Colour field blue, 100x100cm, Limited Edition of 10.
Located in London, GB
'Body in blue' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involves layerin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Glass, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Sky - Colour field blue, 100x100cm, Limited Edition of 10.
Located in London, GB
'Sky' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involves layering ink bet...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Glass, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

1960s Paul Feeley School Color Field Painting
Located in New York, NY
School of Paul Feeley Untitled, c. 1960s Oil on canvas 20 x 59 5/8 in. Signed lower right Primarily a painter, Paul Feeley (American, 1910 - 1966) favored canvases with simple geome...
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1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pink Geometric Altar Diptych, Surreal Landscape, Modern Monument Architecture
Located in Barcelona, ES
These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Handmade Paper

"Arches" Sam Gilliam, Acrylic and Glass Abstract, Washington Color School
Located in New York, NY
Sam Gilliam Arches, 2014 Signed, titled and dated lower left; signed, titled, and inscribed "to Necia" on the reverse Acrylic and glass on paper 10 1/4 x 14 inches Provenance The ar...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Glass, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Everyone Has Gone, " an Abstract Oil on Canvas signed by Deidre Schanen
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Everyone Has Gone" is an abstract oil painting on canvas by Deirdre Schanen. Working in the color-field tradition established by such artists as Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko,...
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Early 2000s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Paisaje Gris y Blanco, elegant abstract contemporary landscape, oil painting
Located in Dallas, TX
Maria Jose Concha lived for 7 years in the Chilean Patagonia, the world’s southernmost landscape, an experience, which transformed her work and becomes the focus of her expressive pa...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Target acrylic on paper geometric Color Field painting signed & inscribed Framed
Located in New York, NY
Kenneth Noland Untitled Target, 2001 Acrylic paint on offset lithograph paper Signed, dated, and dedicated along lower edge: For Howard and Susan with Love Kenneth Noland 6.10.01 Fra...
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1990s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

Large-Scale Multicolored Color Block Abstraction in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-Scale Multicolored Color Block Abstraction in Acrylic on Canvas Abstract composition by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). In this exuberant abstract composition, Hopkins orch...
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Late 20th Century Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Twelfth Night Blue, Contemporary Color Field painting
Located in New York, NY
Conceived of as one half of a diptych, together with Twelfth Night Red, the title of this painting suggest a reference to William Shakespeare’s play Twel...
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Late 20th Century Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Geometric Gems, Yellow, Purple, Pink Checker Pattern Squared Grid, Bauhaus Tiles
Located in Barcelona, ES
These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Handmade Paper

Color field modern contemporary painting canvas framed blue orange turquoise
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern contemporary color field painting by Edouard D. Louis. Titled Aqua Sunset and housed in a contemporary natural wood frame presentation Measuring 30" (h) x 24" (w) unframed.
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Early 2000s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Echoes No.2 - Colour field blue, 100x100cm, Limited Edition of 10.
Located in London, GB
'Echoes No.2 ' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involves layerin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Glass, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Cad Med
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Although he socialized with such famous abstract expressionist artists as Lee Krasner and Robert Motherwell, Doug Ohlson creates paintings that are restrained and geometric in nature...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Emily Berger_Dream of Spain_oil on wood_40 x 30 x 2in_2018._Color Field Painting
Located in Darien, CT
Emily Berger’s paintings are based on a structure of repetitive and deliberate gesture that is intuitive but carefully considered. She brushes, wipes, rubs, and scrapes, incorporatin...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Summer Window - large, bright, colourful, yellow, abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Washes of sun yellow are edged in dashes of bright colors - mauve, cerise, lime and rust -- in this monumental color-field canvas by Milly Ristvedt. "Summer Window" from 1973 was cr...
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1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled" Ray Parker, Color Field Lyrical Abstract, Blue and Magenta Painting
Located in New York, NY
Ray Parker Untitled, 1969 Signed and dated on the reverse Oil on canvas 32 x 32 inches Provenance Private Collection, New York Ray Parker was born in 1922 in South Dakota. After c...
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1960s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Eclipse
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Doorway Materials : Acrylic and sand medium on photographic advertisement board (cardboard) Date : 2018 Dimensions : 8 x 10 x...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, Graphite

Contemporary Gestural Abstraction "Boat Moon" Color Field Painting Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Boat Moon, in vivid blues a range of blue tones on Arches Paper. not framed. Signed, titled and dated verso. Francine Tint is a New York-based American abstract expressionist painter and costume designer...
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1990s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

Contemporary Abstract Colorfield Landscape in Cream & Green
Located in Soquel, CA
A striking contemporary two-toned colorfield abstract by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). A large neutral textured section in cream sits atop a wavy abstraction in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Audrey Stone, Purple Flow, 2017, Acrylic Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Observing shifting color is an ecstatic experience for the artist. She is intrigued by transitions from one color to the next and the way the eye and brain process these transitions,...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Christian Gardair Monumental Painting "Oceano Graphie", 1983
Located in Washington, DC
Exceptional and large painting by French artist Christian Gardair (French, b.1938). Painting is acrylic on polyester paper. Signed and titled "Oceano Graphie" dated 1983. Painting me...
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1980s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Synthetic Paper

Untitled Red (1979)
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on linen 1927 - 2017 Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended...
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1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil

'Vapor' by Katheryn Holt - Very Large Bright Orange Contemporary Abstract Art
Located in Carmel, CA
Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Vapor," 2022 Oil paint, Canvas, Stretcher bars The piece is signed on the back of the canvas. Katheryn Holt paints memory. Her abstract painting...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Willem de Looper
By Willem de Looper
Located in Washington, DC
Watercolor by Willem De Looper (1932-2009). Painting is signed "de Looper" and dated 76' lower right. Painting measures 20" x 8". Willem De Looper was a Washington D.C. abstract...
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1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Rift Valley, sonde IV (texture abstract painting canvas bronze Earthy organic )
Located in Quebec, Quebec
“Rift Valley, Sonde IV” is a richly textured mixed-media composition that captures the interplay between natural and abstract forms, evoking the raw beauty of nature while offering a...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

"Offshore" by Katheryn Holt - White and Blue Color-Field Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Offshore" 2021 Oil paint, Acrylic paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. "Offshore," a 48" x 48" mixed...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Untitled, 1974
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Untitled, 1974" by Claudia Sisemore, acylic on canvas, 58 x 56 inches, $7,200. Unframed. "I have a vague idea of what I am going to paint. I read that many artists are inspired by an idea before they begin their work and plan their approach and process based on that idea or muse. Others become inspired after they have begun working and watching colors, shapes and designs form. I basically belong the second group. Usually, after painting begins in a loose, free manner, I become excited by certain colors and patterns and continue from there." -Claudia Sisemore -- Caudia Sisemore says she was teaching English when artist David Chaplin (an equally popular and influential teacher) was at Weber and initially got her into landscape painting. “Then he took me to a show at the Art Barn and Lee [Deffebach] was showing there [with Don Olsen...
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1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Red Range
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of American abstraction. He played an essential role in the emergence of Color Field during the 1960s and 1970s, eventuall...
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1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Color Field (Chalk on Wet Paper)" original pastel by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this composition, Sylvia Spiczza works in the manner of color field artists like Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, presenting a gradation of colors shifting from yellow to red ...
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1960s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Pastel

Water Street (7.79)
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas 1927 - 2017 Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she...
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1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

Red 7 and Pink Z - Large-Scale Abstract Composition in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Red 7 and Pink Z - Large-Scale Abstract Composition in Acrylic on Canvas Abstract composition by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). Angular red and pink forms appear to push against...
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Late 20th Century Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Large-Scale Abstract Composition with Triangles in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-Scale Abstract Composition with Triangles in Acrylic on Canvas Abstract composition by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). Sweeping black contours carve out angular and curved ...
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Late 20th Century Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Red Black and White Stripes, Abstract Geometric Oil Painting by Warner Friedman
By Warner Friedman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Warner Friedman, American (1935 - ) Title: Red, Black and White Stripes Year: circa 1965 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed on label verso Size: 28 in. x 21 in. (71.12 cm x 53.34...
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1960s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Conference of the birds no 28 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Conference of the birds no 28 (Abstract Painting) Oil on panel. Natural and mystical processes inspire Ostovany. Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a conne...
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1990s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Panel

from the smoke and ash - Abstract tantric stain painting, acrylic on raw canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
from the smoke and ash - Abstract tantric stain painting, acrylic on raw canvas by contemporary artist Elisa Niva33 inches x 29 inches. One of the main i...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Conference of the birds no 28
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel. Natural and mystical processes inspire Ostovany. Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementary mystical traditions. He looks toward elements of Western and Eastern art, literature, spirituality, poetry and music to create an environment and a mindset conducive to his process, which is connected to Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. Conference of the Birds...
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1990s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Panel

9.77
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the, now, San Francisco A...
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1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Captain Cook
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated lower right, titled verso. 69 x 68.25 in. 70.5 x 70 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater. Provenance Private Collection, Hilton Head Island, SC Cleve Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg in New York on September 22, 1918. The family subsequently changed its surname to ‘Gray’ in 1936. He attended the Ethical Culture School in New York, and completed his college preparatory studies at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, where he won the Morse Prize for most promising art student. In 1940, Gray graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with degrees in art and archaeology. He wrote his thesis on Chinese landscape painting, which would later become an important influence on his own painterly practice. Gray joined the U.S. Army in 1942 and was deployed to the U.K., France, and Germany, where he sketched wartime destruction. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, he began informal studies with the French artists André Lhote and Jacques Villon, which continued following the conclusion of the war. Soon after, he began to exhibit his work at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris, followed shortly by his first solo exhibition at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery in New York in 1947. Before 1950, Gray would participate in group exhibitions at such venerable institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago. In the 1960s, he formed a close friendship with the first generation Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman. It was during this time that Gray experienced an artistic metamorphosis, dissolving his earlier cubist compositions in a sea of distilled color. This dramatic body of work marked the beginning of an artistic meditation that would last for over 40 years. The rigors of French modernism, the ethos of Abstract Expressionism, and the meditative restraint of Chinese and Japanese scroll painting commingle with astounding affect. The atmospheric, subdued tones of his 1960s paintings gradually gave way to bright, monochromatic fields of color, hazily washed onto the canvas in stain like swathes. Much of his work from the last three decades of his career feature striking graphic brushwork that conjures the influence of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. Beginning with his marriage in 1957 to the French author and New Yorker staff writer, Francine Du Plessix, Gray would spend the remainder of his life working out of his home base in Warren, CT, while continuously exhibiting and participating in residencies around the world. He enjoyed representation and exhibitions with some of the most influential galleries of the day, including the Betty Parsons Gallery, Staempfli Gallery, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Eva Cohon Gallery, and Berry-Hill Gallery. Cleve Gray died in Hartford, CT in 2004, at the age of 86. Gray's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and many other museums and institutional collections around the world. Source: The New York Times and Loretta Howard...
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1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

La Plonge #23
Located in Toronto, Ontario
William Perehudoff (1918-2013) is one of the most cherished and collected Canadian abstract painters. His work exemplifies how color field painting was expressed in Canada. Like some of his contemporaries, he was encouraged and guided by legendary New York critic Clement Greenberg. Perehudoff spent several summers at the University of Saskatchewan's legendary Emma Lake Artist's Workshop where he worked and studied with Jules Olitski and Kenneth Noland during the 1960s. Perehudoff is known for his simple and exuberant compositions that juxtapose and celebrate color. His series "La Plonge...
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1980s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Holi powder Tantra painting #4 - Colorful abstract tantric stain painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Holi powder Tantra painting #4 - Colorful abstract tantric stain painting, acrylic and powder on raw canvas by contemporary artist Elisa Niva 42 inche...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled, 1975
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Untitled, 1975" by Claudia Sisemore, acylic on canvas, 41.5 x 50 inches, $4,800. "I have a vague idea of what I am going to paint. I read that many artists are inspired by an idea before they begin their work and plan their approach and process based on that idea or muse. Others become inspired after they have begun working and watching colors, shapes and designs form. I basically belong the second group. Usually, after painting begins in a loose, free manner, I become excited by certain colors and patterns and continue from there." -Claudia Sisemore -- Caudia Sisemore says she was teaching English when artist David Chaplin (an equally popular and influential teacher) was at Weber and initially got her into landscape painting. “Then he took me to a show at the Art Barn and Lee [Deffebach] was showing there [with Don Olsen...
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1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mountain Series, Orange Light
Located in Greenwich, CT
Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vas...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Divided Lands, Signed Contemporary Blue Abstract Color Field Digital Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Divided Lands, Signed Contemporary Blue Abstract Color Field Digital Painting 30" x 30" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Archival Print on Canvas Hand-signed by the artis...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Digital, Archival Pigment

Yellow and black No.2 - Colour field, 100x100cm, Limited Edition of 10.
Located in London, GB
'Yellow and black. No.2' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involv...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Glass, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Color Theory #546 Red, White, Blue, Green
Located in New York, NY
A unique and impactful small "color theory" work by great American artist Carl Holty. Holty spanned one of the longest and most eventful careers on the American abstract front. Bei...
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1950s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Larry Zox, original Red, White and Blue acrylic painting, signed, dated, framed
Located in New York, NY
Larry Zox Red, White and Blue painting, 1963 Original acrylic painting on board Signed and dated upper right front; Signed, titled and dated on the back as well Unique This work was originally sold by Jill Kornblee of the legendary Kornblee Gallery, with the back of the panel bearing Kornblee's original Upper East Side address before the gallery moved to West 57th Street Frame included: Elegantly double framed. Measurements: Outer Frame 13.5 inches vertical by 13.5 horizontal by 2.5 inches Original Frame: 10 inches vertical by 9.75 inches horizontal Painting 9.25 inches vertical x 9 inches horizontal Larry Zox Biography: A PAINTER who played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s, Larry Zox is best known for his intensely and brilliantly colored geometric abstractions that question and violate symmetry.1 Zox stated in 1965: “Being contrary is the only way I can get at anything.” To Zox, this position was not necessarily arbitrary, but instead meant “responding to something in an examination of it [such as] using
a mechanical format with X number of possibilities.”2 What he sought was to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his introductory essay in the catalogue for Zox’s 1973–1974 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.3 Zox’s robust paintings reveal
a celebrated artist and master of composition who is explored and challenged the possibilities of Post-Painterly Abstraction and Minimalist pictorial conventions. Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler and Frank Stella for Tibor de Nagy, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1973–1974, the Whitney’s solo exhibition of Zox’s work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, he was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wahsington, DC, which acquired fourteen of his works.
 Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1937. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, and then studied under George Grosz at the Des Moines Art Center. In 1958, Zox moved to New York, joining the downtown art scene. His studio on 20th Street became a gathering place for artists, jazz musicians, bikers, and boxers, and he occasionally sparred with visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, a former black smithy used previously by Jackson Pollock. In his earliest works, such as Banner (1962) Zox created
collages consisting of pieces of painted paper stapled onto sheets of plywood. He then produced paintings that were illusions of collages, including both torn- and trued-edged forms, to which he added a wide range of strong hues that created ambiguous surfaces. In paintings such as For Jean (1963), he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape. He then replaced these torn and expressive edges with clean and impersonal lines that would define his work for the next decade. From 1962 to 1965, he produced his Rotation series, at first creating plywood and Plexiglas reliefs, which turned squares into dynamic polygons. He used these shapes in his paintings as well, employing white as a foil between colors to produce negative spaces that suggest that the colored shapes had only been cut out and laid down instead of painted. The New York Times in 1964 wrote of the works in show such as Rotation B (1964) and of the artist: “The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works.”4 In 1965, he began the Scissor Jack series, in which he arranged opposing triangular shapes with inverted Vs of bare canvas at their centers that threaten to split their compositions apart. In several works from this series, Zox was inspired by ancient Chinese water vessels. With a mathematical precision and a poetic license, Zox flattened the three dimensional object onto graph paper, and later translated his interpretation of the vessel’s lines onto canvas with masking tape, forming the structure of the painting. The Diamond Cut and Diamond Drill paintings...
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1960s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Fragments Of Poetry And Silence No. 39 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Fragments Of Poetry And Silence No. 39 (Abstract Painting) Oil on canvas - Unframed Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate an...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Moon Rising - Abstract stain painting acrylic on raw canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
'Moon Rising' acrylic painting by contemporary artist Elisa Niva, Acrylic on raw canvas 42 inches x 30 inches. This moon rise painting uses the soak- method created by Helen Franke...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Early Autumn - Color Field Painting, Yellow and Orange, 1967 Abstract Art
Located in New York, NY
This 1967 painting by Martin Canin, titled Early Autumn, is a prime example of the Color Field movement, blending vibrant hues into a seamless gradient of yellows, oranges, and golds...
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1960s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Arapahoe XII
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed, titled, dated verso. 40 x 44 in. 41.5 x 45.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a natura...
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1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Spanish Ghost
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso. 52.25 x 52.75 in. 54 x 54.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple hardwood floater. Provenance Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York Private Collection, Connecticut Provenance Estate of Samuel Feinstein...
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1980s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Ellen Hackl Fagan, RGB, 2011, ink, acrylic, Red abstract painting of music
Located in Darien, CT
Ellen Hackl Fagan builds connections between color and sound using installations, interactive games, and collaborative projects that combine color-and-texture saturated paintings wi...
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2010s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Panel

Color-field abstract paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Color-Field 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 blue, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mala Breuer, Anne Russinof, Martin Canin, and Daniel Brice. 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 Color-Field abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 5.5 inches across are also available. Prices for abstract paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $350 and tops out at $220,000, while the average work sells for $5,000.

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