20th Century Interior Paintings
Period: 20th Century
Color: Pink
Expressionist Still Life by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Red Still Life" is an interior still life by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 28.25" x 24.25" oil on board painting is framed in a new black wood frame.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Modernist Oil Painting Card Poker Player Aaron Fink Pop Art Americana
By Aaron Fink
Located in Surfside, FL
Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955)
Hand signed and dated 1986, verso.
The large canvas size measures approx: 72" x 66". This painting is part of the artist's "Images of Gambling" series, amongst his best figural work.
Aaron Fink was born in Boston in 1955. He received his MFA from Yale University and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan and Australia, and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among many others. He lives and works in the Boston area. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, the Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Figurative abstract expressionist art.
In 2002 a monograph on Fink’s work, Out of the Ordinary, was published, with text by Eleanor Heartney. In 1983 Fink met the collector John Powers, who remained a strong supporter of his work until his death in 1999. Fink’s work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hara Museum, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among many others. Fink currently divides his time between Boston and Rockport, Massachusetts.
He was included in the show The Expressive Voice: Selections from the Permanent Collection at the Danforth Museum of Art. An exhibition of Boston Expressionism, a school that embraced a distinctive blend of visionary painting, dark humor, religious mysticism, and social commentary. Historical roots of this movement can be traced to European Symbolism and German Expressionism, but artists living and working in the Boston area from the 1930’s through the 1950’s, were particularly inspired by Chaim Soutine and Max Beckmann. Artists included; Aaron Fink,
Bernard Chaet, David Aronson, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jason Berger, Karl Zerbe, Lawrence Kupferman, Michael Mazur, Sigmund Abeles and Willem de Kooning.
He was included in the show 40 Years of Printmaking: From the Center Street Studio Archives, along other great figural artists Gabor Peterdi, John Walker, Lester Johnson and Nell Blaine.
S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S
Art Institute of Chicago
Bank of America
Boston Public Library
Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten, The Netherlands
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Castelli Collection, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank
Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT
Citizens Bank, Boston
Coopers & Lybrand
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Danish House of Parliament
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Lincoln, MA
Farnsworth Museum, Maine
Fidelity Investments, Boston
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
G.E. Corporation
Goldman Sachs & Company
IBM, New York
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Library of Congress
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New York Public Library
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
United States Department of State
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Awards
Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO, 1998, 1996
National Endowment for the Arts, 1987, 1982
Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1984
American Academy in Rome, Prix de Rome – Alternate in Painting, 1979
Yale University, Ford Foundation Special Project Grant, Fall 1979
Skowhegan Scholarship Award, conferred by the Maryland Institute College of Art, Spring 1976
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective, University of Southern Maine
Color and Line: Expressive Tradition in Boston, Endicott College, Beverly, MA,
Beautiful Decay, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
MICA Then and Now, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY
Bon Appetit, Concord Art Association
Celebrating Ten Years, Galerie D’Avignon, Montreal, Canada
New England Impressions: Exploring the Woodcut, Concord Art, Concord, MA
Go Figure: The Figure in Contemporary Art – A Response to Art History,
Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
The Unique Print: Six Innovative Approaches to the Monotype, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA
Selections from Atelier Mourlot, Hankyu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1993
70’s and 80’s: Printmaking Now, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1986-1987
Skowhegan Alumni, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine,
Public and Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Miami Collectors, Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gables, FL, 1984
The American Artist as Printmaker, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1983-84
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Materials
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Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
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"After Image" Contemporary Abstract Interior
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Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Year: 1963
Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper
Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
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Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
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Red and Brown Toned Gallery with Package and Abstract Expressionist Paintings
By Karen Lastre
Located in Houston, TX
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"Patio in Peru, " an Oil on Canvas signed by Ernesto Gutierrez
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Patio in Peru" is an original oil painting on canvas signed in the lower right by Ernesto Gutierrez. It depicts an archway leading out to a patio where sunlight pours in.
10" x 8"...
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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