Abigail J. Brown

1990 Seascape Painting on Plaster by Abigail J. Brown

1990

Louis Sylvia (American, 1911-1987) Untitled, 20th century Watercolor on paper Sight: 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. Signed lower right Louis Sylvia (1911-1987) was an American painter special...

Cindy Kane (American, b. 1957) Untitled, 1985 Oil on plywood Sight: 31 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. Framed: 39 3/4 x 36 x 2 in. Signed lower right: KANE Signed, titled, dated verso: Cindy Kane, Untitled, 1985 Cindy Kane (American, 1957-) grew up in Washington DC during the Vietnam War era, absorbing the period's powerful political climate. She is a self-taught artist whose multi media work is born out of a deep sense of connection to the political and environmental issues of our times. Her early work was influenced by the experience of living and working at the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park, where she had the opportunity to document Anasazi Indian pictographs in pen and ink drawings. These images would inform her work for years to come. She draws on personal narrative and experience to create her paintings of maps, birds, toys, and artifacts from nature, often collaging bits of newspaper headlines, pieces of her children's homework, and pages of sheet music beneath layers of color and imagery. In a review of her work, author and critic John Loughery wrote; "Kane leads us into a peculiar netherworld, a hard to place area that's both reassuringly ancient, and anxiously modern. This is a painter who is interested in the unconscious and the archetypal, and utilizes her own private, (but not inaccessible) vocabulary and imagery." In a submission to AskART, Diana Wilson...

Renee Gaylin Ritter (American, b. 1935) Growth, c. 1990s Mixed media on canvas 16 1/4 x 31 3/4 x 2 in. Signed lower right Bio from Renee Ritter's website: I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. I was raised with noise and rush and life all around me. My world was vivid technicolor, and no one ran faster than I did. I met and married the man of my dreams, and had the joys and exasperations of raising a family. And all of these events would have been the colors of my canvas if not for the happy opportunity of being able to spend some years in Japan. Japan is the perfect place to plunk down a New Yorker. While it races along on one level, there is this other part of Japan that forces you to hit the mental brakes until the images racing by slow down enough to actually be seen! Eastern thought is a well from which to draw the pure water that clears the mind and strengthens the soul. I've had the unbelievable pleasure of turning visions into realities, and of having those pieces of me scattered around the world. I'm thrilled that they've found so much acceptance in exhibitions, and I'm humbled at the thought that they hang on the walls of museums. But I have to say that I am most pleased when they speak so loudly to another soul that that person has to bring me home to continue our conversation for years to come. For the last 18 years, I've been a teacher, too. I have all the joys of being able to step back from what I do, and think through the principles I've recognized and the pathways I've wandered. And then to offer those insights to others to help them bring out their own mental images for the rest of us to share. AWARDS National Collage Society, "Postcard Exhibit", Merit Award, 00 National Collage Society, Kent State U, Kent, OH, Merit Award, 99 Hazel Witte...

Syril Frank (American, 1929-2021) Untitled, c. 1963 Oil on canvas 40 1/8 x 48 in. Provenance: Estate of the Artist Syril Harriet Frank was born in Brookl...

Antique American modernist Maine landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 40L x 36H.

This vivid abstract painting captures the dynamic energy of a shipyard through its layered impasto strokes and a rich, moody palette. The artwork explores the chaotic interplay of fo...

Sea Cliffs (54) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)

Seascape is a modern artwork realized by Michele Ricciuti in 1980. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on the lower margin. Signature and date on the back.