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Medium: Graphite
Dark Star
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Birch, Graphite, Oil
Earth Flare, Before I Close My Eyes
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite, Oil
Surrounded by Night, Nature's Abundance
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite, Oil
Contemporary, sentimental painting of a Shit Tzu with graphite drawings
Located in Charleston, US
"Shih Tzu" a sentimental dog painting by Robert Zakanitch a founder of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970's believes in painting subjects of beauty with delicate patterns as well as animals. This Shih Tzu dog charms along with Zakanitch's graphite drawings depicting the dog in different positions. Zakanitch was an original exhibitor at Holly Solomon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Magic - Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Beth Shields is a distinguished abstract artist whose work has captivated collectors and audiences worldwide. Based in Santa Cruz, California, Beth has de...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite, Wax
Interval
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite
"Fence Jumper", oil painting, figurative, boy, flight, field, outside, summer
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Fence Jumper" is an oil painting with chalk and graphite on wood panel, and measures 16" high by 12" wide. It is finished with a clear resin across the surface, lending the artwork a particular warmth and liquidity that is rare and lovely to behold. Typical of the artist, the painting is a mystery despite its apparent simplicity – a boy, a young lad leaps over the fence, seen here mid-flight. It's clearly important to the boy. His focus and sense of achievement ring out. Drawn lines and painterly brushstrokes render the scene, but also note the toned wood coming through as color and texture. All of it held, as if in time, by the resin layer acting as a lens to both transmit this picture and admit light to the picture. A true artifact.
From Will Hudson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Resin, Chalk, Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
"Refuge", Contemporary, Bird, Black, Red, Acrylic, Oil, Graphite, Painting, 2009
Located in Franklin, MA
Anne Sargent Walker’s “Refuge” is a 16 x 16 inch mixed media painting in oil, acrylic, graphite and birchbark in dramatic tones of red, orange, soft black and green. Hands of birchb...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Birch, Graphite
Alga Aligata No. 4- seaweed kelp oceanic abstracted work on paper
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mixed-media: Sumi Ink, graphite, metallic pigment and acrylic on Moulin de Larroque paper, made by hand in a mill in France. The mixed media work is inspired by seaweed / kelp at a E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Metal, Gold Leaf
China Cat
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Graphite, Oil
Bring to Light
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He has had solo exhibitions at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Graphite, Oil
Persian Rose
Located in Burlingame, CA
Inspired by Taoist teachings and meditations, 'Persian Rose' feels alive with its concentration on a single, pure color. Matuszewski creates meditative and harmonious color field pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Interior (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Interior (Abstract painting)
Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed.
McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Woman in Red Hat, Mixed Media on Paper by Erik Freyman
By Erik Freyman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In this collage by Erik Freyman a beautiful woman is seen with a black backdrop and a striking red hat.
Woman in Red Hat
Erik Freyman, Russian (1932–...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Utterance (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Utterance (Abstract painting)
Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed.
McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Passion Wave, Original painting, Abstract art, Mixed media, Colourful
By Jon Rowland
Located in Deddington, GB
This painting and 'Release' are pure abstracts, demonstrating the effects of different attitudes. Passion Waves reflects anticipation, liveliness, and happiness. It's a very active p...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
Holding Thought (Abstract Painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Holding Thought (Abstract drawing)
Oil and graphite on canvas. Unframed.
McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underl...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
"Arcs, " Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract oil painting by Christine Averill-Green features a unique, contrasting palette of pink, blue, violet and grey. The artist layers organi...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
1950s Denver Skyline Painting – Graphite & Watercolor Colorado Cityscape Art
Located in Denver, CO
A captivating midcentury cityscape titled "Denver Skyline", this original 1950s watercolor and graphite painting offers a rare industrial-era view of lower downtown Denver, Colorado....
Category
1950s American Impressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Dream Project #4, acrylic, spray paint, graphite, mixed media on canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A California-based Gen X Street Artist with uncommon discipline and work ethos in his practice, Ricky Sencion aka "Little Ricky" has been studying, developing, archiving, formulating...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Graphite
"Sea Glass/Ocean Mist, " Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting is what the artist refers to as, "a contemplation of the power and peace of the ocean." Colors of purple, sandy beige, sky blue and complementary orange are ad...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Costa
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite
Abstract Physical Graffiti Painting by Joseph Conrad-Ferm, Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Physical Graffiti by Joseph Conrad-Ferm, 2022
Acrylic, spray paint, oil crayon, graphite, color pencil, paint marker on Canvas
W 60" x H 72" x D 1.5"
Mixed media abstract painting ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Color Pencil, Graphite
Shift 3 (Abstract Painting)
By Holly Miller
Located in London, GB
Shift 3 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed
The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connectin...
Category
2010s Minimalist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Acrylic, Graphite
Got You - textural blue, grey, beige and white oil painting with birds on a wire
By Lisa Lala
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Lala is well known for her palette knife oil paintings of Birds on a Wire. She explores the larger, intangible questions of our existence simply depicting birds quietly resting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Center Stage
Located in New York, NY
Oil and graphite on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, 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...
Category
1990s American Modern Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Graphite
Dream Project #3, acrylic, spray paint, graphite, mixed media on canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A California-based Gen X Street Artist with uncommon discipline and work ethos in his practice, Ricky Sencion aka "Little Ricky" has been studying, developing, archiving, formulating...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Graphite
The Birth of Time - Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Beth Shields is a distinguished abstract artist whose work has captivated collectors and audiences worldwide. Based in Santa Cruz, California, Beth has de...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Graphite
Antoni Costa Woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
woman. original figurative academician drawing painting.. frame
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD....
Category
1950s Academic Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Cry Me a River (a fleuve)
Located in Columbia, MO
Cry Me a River (a fleuve)
2017 cca.
Acrylic, graphite, pen, gesso and gel medium on paper
22 x 30 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Harbor 8, abstract painting on canvas, layered with bright colors and blue tones
By Liz Barber
Located in Dallas, TX
“Harbor 8” — Oil, Acrylic, and Ink on Canvas, 48 x 60 inches
"Harbor 8" is a brightly colored abstract painting with richly layered blue tones...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
$8,400 Sale Price
20% Off
“Void (BDSM)” Contemporary Black Textured Impasto Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Black textured impasto painting by contemporary artist Paul Wiener. The work features a thick layer of intensely pigmented paint in which the viewer can ea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
All the Matters
Located in Denver, CO
Jason Craighead (b.1971) is an abstract artist based in Raleigh, North Carolina. In his mixed-media works, drawing, painting, and writing fuse seamlessly together His surprising com...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Oil, Graphite
Summer Sorbet (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Summer Sorbet (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, oil pastel and graphite on canvas — Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Time travel (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Time travel (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, oil bar and graphite on canvas - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
This artwork will be shipped rolled i...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Soothe 1 (Abstract Painting)
By Holly Miller
Located in London, GB
Soothe 1 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed
The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecti...
Category
2010s Minimalist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Acrylic, Graphite
Prospectus 1
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, Unframed.
Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as graphite, charcoal, paint on traditional...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Maria : Graphite and oil painting on board
Located in New York, NY
Artwork by New York artist Gail Postal.
Graphite, and Oil Paint.
Postal has had two major influences on her work – old hand tinted black and white Japanese photographs and Eastern ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Graphite
Mixed Media Collage, Graphite, Oil Painting Abstract Expressionist Henry Mandell
Located in Surfside, FL
Henry Mandell was born in New York City where he continues to live and work. He also maintains a studio is in the Pacific Northwest, with production facilities in New York City. Trai...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Graphite
Reclining Expressionist Nude Female Figure with Yellow, Blue, and Magenta
Located in Soquel, CA
Brightly colored expressionist nude figurative painting of a reclining nude female with bold yellow, blue, and magenta accents by Linda Goodman (American...
Category
1970s Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
$1,202 Sale Price
35% Off
"A Vision at Sea", acrylic painting, storm, water, dream, poetry,
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"A Vision at Sea" is an acrylic painting with graphite on wood measuring 22" high by 28" wide. It is a fraught moment for man and dog in the boat – they may be the Vision of the title but they are also struck by a vision they alone can see. Note the antlers at the front of the boat, the harsh and ragged shoreline, oars in the water – arguably in the tradition of storm-tossed poets at sea, fighting the Fates as much as the power of Nature.
Press Release 2018: "Williams acknowledges a large range of influences on his vision: the moral lessons embodied in the works of 17th century engraver Jacques Lagniet, the darkling phantasms and tragic reportage of Goya’s Caprichos and Disasters of War, and the personal mythologizing of the late paintings of Philip Guston. Such works echo throughout Williams social surrealist re-visioning." – George Del Barrio, Vanderbilt Republic, Brooklyn NY
Dale Williams...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Graphite
Ellen Hackl Fagan, Molecules of Music, 2014, Enamel, Acrylic, Clay Board
Located in Darien, CT
Ellen Hackl Fagan creates works of art focused on building a visual language. Molecules of Music is a large acrylic painting based on crowd sourced input of viewers pairing sounds from the Do Re Mi musical scale to colors. 260 people submitted their opinions on color to sound matches.
Language is a recurring theme in Fagan's work, ranging from interactive, ColorSoundGrammar works to painting, sculpture, lost languages...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Untitled 12 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 12 (Abstract painting)
Graphite on paper - Unframed.
Matthew Langley's technique in creating the artworks come from building and extending as well as reducing and minimizing...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Ellen Hackl Fagan, Primer, 2001, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic Paint, Graphite
Located in Darien, CT
Ellen Hackl Fagan creates works of art focused on building a visual language. Primer is a large acrylic on canvas painting that was painted during the attacks on NYC on 9/11. She used the alphabet as a metaphor, as a way towards communicating anew with one another.
The alphabet is a recurring theme in Fagan's work, ranging from interactive, ColorSoundGrammar works to painting, sculpture, lost languages...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Surrealist Mixed Media Portrait, "'Prince' The Guide" by Christopher Polentz
Located in San Diego, CA
A 16” x 16” x 2” Surrealist Mixed Media Portrait Painting executed on Wood Panel with Acrylic and Graphite by artist Christopher Polentz. A certificate of authenticity will accompany...
Category
2010s Surrealist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Approaching Calm, Original painting, Abstract art, Mixed media, Colourful
By Jon Rowland
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a gestural painting that reflects an emotional response to world conditions. Sitting in a bothy thinking about things not usually considered, I found myself in the zone of ab...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
Rick Lewis, Did You See the Moon Tonight? - Painting 2019
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Did You See the Moon Tonight?
Oil, graphite, litho ink, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Graphite, Pigment, Paper, Ink
Yvette Cohen, Swimming On Air #16, 2017, Canvas, Wood, Graphite, Acrylic Paint
By Yvette Cohen
Located in Darien, CT
Yvette Cohen makes art that transforms space.
Her oil paintings of geometric masses of color on shaped canvas look sculptural, but mount flat on the wall. Paintings become objects ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic, Graphite
Diane Englander, Red and Buff on Orange 4, 2017, Mixed Media
Located in Darien, CT
A native New Yorker, Diane had an earlier career including 17 years as a management consultant to local nonprofits concerned with poverty or disenfranchisement; work in NYC governmen...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Cardboard, Graphite
My black greyhound (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
My black greyhound (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, oil pastel and charcoal on canvas
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
This...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Domina - Pink, blue & yellow striped abstract painting
Located in East Quogue, NY
Pink multicolor striped abstract painting by Mark Zimmermann - Acrylic and graphite on canvas in artist frame. Signed on back by the artist.
Mark Zimmermann's work is based on the fusion of meditative fields, architectonic structures and an organic gestural line that is one-part intentional and one-part accidental. Zimmermann clearly demonstrates his deftness of hand though labored bands of color, building and editing one band upon other, until the editing process renders compositions that combine both hard-edge and action-painting abstraction.
In discussing this work, the editor and writer, Larry Qualls noted,“...a majestic landscape narrative... they illuminate the nature of painting itself. In a sense what these paintings do is bring a synthesis of the conceptual and the realistic; it is as if there is the conflux of two grand traditions: the purely abstract and the purely objective.”
Mark Zimmermann has exhibited his paintings across the United States and abroad. His work is held in private and public collections such as JW Marriott Essex House...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Recollection 7 (Stony Creek), pastel, abstract, texture
Located in New York, NY
Based in the New Haven, CT area, Barbara Marks creates sumptuous, multicolored paintings. Her canvases are small in scale, compared to the mid-century abstractionist traditions they ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Rick Lewis, Mirror to the Sun III, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mirror to the Sun III
Oil, graphite, litho ink, spray paint, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primaril...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Graphite, Pigment
"Landscape #3", oil painting on cradled wood, resin finish, black wood frame
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Landscape #3 is an oil painting on cradled wood panel with chalk and graphite, and measures 24" high by 18" wide by 2" deep. It is finished with a clear resin across the surface, lending Landscape #3 a particular warmth and liquidity that is lovely to behold. It is framed in a black wood shadowbox frame.
Will’s new landscapes are inspired by the shorelines of Lake Erie and the farmland of Norfolk County, Ontario. His true project – to explore and capture sudden bursts of cloud light, a disintegrating horizon, the ephemeral nature of shifting shores and lands.
From Will Hudson: “From one day to the next it seemed nothing was the same. There was no permanence to a particular view or setting. That’s what I painted.”
Recognized for seductive, enigmatic works in oil on wood panel, Will's picture surfaces are fascinating – he favors oil paint with chalk and graphite – and often allows the wood grain to emerge as a natural texture. He finishes each painting with a clear resin that operates as a lens. Admitting light and transmitting light, lending a palpable warmth and liquidity to the experience.
Will Hudson is a formally trained architect originally from the UK, now practicing in Toronto, Canada. With an eclectic career in the art world, Will has shown and performed chalk street painting and murals in across North America and Europe. His installations have been exhibited at Nuit Blanche in Toronto in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2014. His paintings were featured in a solo show, "Things You Think You've Seen" at Artists' Network Gallery in 2018. His most recent solo exhibitions were here at Gagné Contemporary...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Resin, Pastel, Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
Rick Lewis, Mirror to the Sun, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mirror to the Sun
Oil, graphite, litho ink, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium o...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
"Cronus View from the Cave" David Hare, Abstract Surrealist Composition
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Cronus View from the Cave, 1971
Graphite, Ink wash, Paper Collage on Paper on Board
25 x 33 inches
“Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.”
Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp.
In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career.
After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt.
As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen.
In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941.
World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors.
At the suggestion of Jacqueline Lamba...
Category
1970s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Yvette Cohen, Swimming On Air #12, 2017, Wood, Canvas, Acrylic Paint, Graphite
By Yvette Cohen
Located in Darien, CT
Yvette Cohen makes art that transforms space.
Her oil paintings of geometric masses of color on shaped canvas look sculptural, but mount flat on the wall. Paintings become objects ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic, Graphite
Uniform Movement
Located in Columbia, MO
Marie Gardeski grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and currently lives i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Monochromatic Series – Nr 2 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Monochromatic Series – Nr 2 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, charcoal, graphite and oil pastel on (off-white) canvas - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
This artwork will be sh...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
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With a solo show at the Denver Art Museum and a commission from the Met, the Cree Canadian painter has become an international sensation.
Yale’s Trove of British Art Is Back on View in a Refreshed Louis Kahn Building
After a two-year closure, they Yale Center for British Art opens its doors again, with all sorts of changes to its building and programming.
At 89, Artist Lucio Pozzi Is Reaching New Career Heights
The Italian-American’s 2020 abstract painting “The Hoe” personifies his “art of not knowing.”
The 1stDibs Guide to Types of Abstract Art
Get to know the key movements and artists who have influenced visual culture for more than a century.
With a Show at MoMA, Marlon Mullen Paints Pictures That Are beyond Words
The nonspeaking California artist is having a moment, with vivacious paintings that play on art-magazine covers as well as more mysterious abstractions.
The Vibrant Beauty of Orphist Art Supersedes Its Perplexing Name
This kaleidoscopic early-modern art style has long deserved another look. Now, the Guggenheim museum is doing just that.
The 50 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold
Curious about the most expensive paintings in the world? Discover the stories behind these masterpieces as well as the staggering prices they fetched.