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Style: Abstract
Medium: Pencil
Emotional Color Change 34 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Emotional Color Change 34 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas — Unframed.
Kyong Lee's series combines colour and language to visually represent the external environment. The proce...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
"The New York" by Rehfeld - Mixed Media Abstract Expressionist in Blue and Red
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954)
"The New York" 2002
Oil Paint, Pencil, Newsprint, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
In this stu...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Newsprint, Pencil, Stretcher Bars
Between Heaven and Earth: Untitled #1 acrylic, graphite, oil pastels on canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Stephanie Visser, a native of southwestern Michigan, was educated at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids Michigan. She continued her education in fine arts and painting...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Rick Lewis, Camael, Painting 1997
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Camael
Oil, graphite, sand, dry pigment on paper, laid canvas
47" x 35"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of p...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
Blue Damask - 16”x16”, Abstract Painting, Textured Pattern, Blue, White
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This highly detailed artwork seamlessly blends acrylic, pencil and colour pencil in a freeform style, maintaining a delicate balance between expressiveness and refinement. The distre...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, 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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Pattern Seeker- blue white black abstract geometric painting
By Hadley Radt
Located in New York, NY
Hadley Radt’s abstract geometric paintings explore the connection between systems in our environment and how they relate to her own impulse to construct order. The structures she dev...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Yearning
Located in Burlingame, CA
Minimalistic 'Yearning' glows with pink, peach, blue and green and is inspired by Taoist teachings and meditations, with a focus on color, rhythm and flow. Matuszewski creates medita...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
Skin Care- pastel color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
'Frequency Bloom' – Bold Graffiti Abstract with Nordic Spring Energy
Located in Lahti, FI
A bold, playful explosion of green, pink, and black, "FREQUENCY BLOOM" is an abstract graffiti-style statement piece that channels the electric moment of finding your inner rhythm—th...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Color Pencil
Monochrome acrylic painting of 3 figures by British artist Roland Jarvis
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Roland Jarvis (British, 1926 – 2016)
Good guys
Pencil and acrylic on canvas
34.1/4 x 51.3/4 in. (86.8 x 131.8 cm.)
Provenance: Family of the artist
Roland Ja...
Category
20th Century Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil
Lux on the 5th (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Lux on the 5th (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, charcoal and graphite on paper - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Adrienn Krahl’s paintings express a profound sense of drama ...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic, Graphite
Jackson 4
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Graphite and colored pencil on two layers of plastic paper. Unframed.
Thaw Series is a new series of drawings where the artist continues her work touchin...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Color Pencil, Graphite
More Than Grey (Abstract 17) - 48"x36", Grey And Pink Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Layers of paint build up this soft grey palette where emphasis is placed on minimal composition. From a distance, the painting explores colour fields and geometric abstraction. Upon ...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Pencil
Rick Lewis, Mirror to the Sun V, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mirror to the Sun V
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
Untitled
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kader Boly is known for painting pastoral and communal scenes from his life as a nomadic herder in the Fulani tribe, on the plains of West Africa. Kader’s w...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Paintings
Materials
Clay, Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil
$10,998
Finding bliss (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Finding bliss (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, Spray Paint, Pastel, Fabric, Pencil on un-streched canvas - Unframed.
The edges are painted off white. Sealed with a protective high qual...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Pastel, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Pencil
Face It
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic and graphite on gessoboard
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic, Board, Graphite
Right Turn on the Railroad Track - Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Right Turn on the Railroad Track - Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media on Paper
Abstract in bold blue and red on a soft black background , by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century).
Signed and dated at the bottom left corner, "R. de Silva 86." Image shown above is enhanced in Photoshop to make signature more visible.
Paper size: 30"H x 22"W
From a collection of Ricardo de Silva's work and memorabilia. DeSilva was a gallery owner, first in Santa Barbara in the 1960's and 70's, then in San Jose in the 1980's. He was dedicated to promoting the work of talented upcoming artists, including Kogyo and Hasui Kiyochika, Robert Frame, Jim Stuckenberg, Alice Robertson Carr, Deborah Eve...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil
Chroma Riff (Mariner I) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Chroma Riff (Mariner I) (Abstract painting)
Colour pencil, acrylic paint, modelling paste, and oil paint on paper— Unframed.
Although the initial inspiration for a painting might co...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paste, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Rick Lewis, Mirror to the Sun II, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mirror to the Sun II
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 primarily...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Graphite, Pigment
Rick Lewis, Untitled (Blue), Painting 2025
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled (Blue)
Oil, graphite, litho ink, spray paint, dry pigment on paper
40" x 30"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in t...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Graphite, Pigment
Rick Lewis, Mirror to the Sun IV, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mirror to the Sun IV
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 primarily...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Graphite, Pigment, Spray Paint
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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Calendar Collage
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Artist: George Dannatt
Title: Cancelled Calendar Collage
Reference no: 1079
Date: 1992
Medium: Collage on paper & card
Image: 13 7/8 x 8” 35.0 x 20.2 cm
Frame: 18 5/8 x 12 ½” 47.4 x...
Category
1990s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Pencil
$500 Sale Price
20% Off
She Could Barely See
Located in Bozeman, MT
John Hitchcock uses the print medium with its long history of social and political commentary to explore relationships of community, land, and cu...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Screen
Emotional color chart 150 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Emotional color chart 150 (Abstract painting)
Pencil and acrylic on Fabriano-pittura paper - Unframed.
"This series, started in 2016 conveys a color and emotional language and is i...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Fresh- colorful bright color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, 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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Yvette Cohen, Swimming On Air #15, 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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic, Graphite
Hold-Ing (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Hold-Ing (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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Warren St 18 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Warren St 18 (Abstract Drawing)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano is a Philippines-born French-American abstract artist wh...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Emotional Color Chart 198 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Emotional Color Chart 198 (Abstract painting)
Pencil and Acrylic on Fabriano-Pittura paper — Unframed.
This series, started in 2016 conveys a color and emotional language and is ins...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Figures in the Red
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Artist: George Dannatt
Title: Figures in Red
Reference no: 1203
Date: 1995
Medium: Collage & inks on salvaged paper
Image: 10 1/8 x 7 3/4” 25.6 x 19.8 cm
Frame: 15 1/8 x 12 3/8” 38.5...
Category
1990s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Pencil
$500 Sale Price
20% Off
Recollection 44 (Mt. San Angelo), pink and brown abstract landscape painting
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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Warren St 8 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Warren St 8 (Abstract Painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work fr...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Ilot 12 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Ilot 12 (Abstract painting)
Collage, watercolor paper, acrylic and color pencil — Unframed
Marie de Lignerolles is an artist, designer, illustrat...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Estuary 1 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Estuary 1 (Abstract Drawing)
Graphite and acrylic on linen - Unframed
This fluid abstract painting is intuitively made with a loaded brush graphite and acrylic on linen.
The inter...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Graphite
Recollection 68 (Stony Creek), pastel, abstract, mixed media, geometric
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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
In My Head - In My Room, 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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Paper, Pastel, Ink, Graphite
Spring- earth tone blue color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Party- colorful bright color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, 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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, 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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic, Graphite
Time Space Zone #1 - contemporary, geometric abstract, pencil, acrylic on paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This series of contemporary black acrylic and pencil on paper was created by Yvonne Lammerich. The masterful Canadian artist has spent decades exploring the nature of the human condi...
Category
1990s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Time Space Zone #3 - contemporary, geometric abstract, pencil, acrylic on paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This series of contemporary black acrylic and pencil on paper was created by Yvonne Lammerich. The masterful Canadian artist has spent decades exploring the nature of the human condi...
Category
1990s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pencil
Time Space Zone #4 - contemporary, geometric abstract, pencil, acrylic on paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This series of contemporary black acrylic and pencil on paper was created by Yvonne Lammerich. The masterful Canadian artist has spent decades exploring the nature of the human condi...
Category
1990s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pencil
Recollection 108 (Auvillar), landscape, texture, bright, purple, pink, trees
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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Estuary 1
Located in London, GB
Graphite and acrylic on linen - Unframed
This fluid abstract painting is intuitively made with a loaded brush graphite and acrylic on linen.
The intersecting multi-layered forms cr...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Graphite
Mostly cloudy 27°
By Holly Miller
Located in London, GB
Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed.
The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a tra...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Acrylic, Graphite
Deals- colorful circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Songs in the Sky 2
Located in Bozeman, MT
John Hitchcock uses the print medium with its long history of social and political commentary to explore relationships of community, land, and cu...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Screen
'do it now' abstract expressionist, Scandinavian artwork
Located in Lahti, FI
"feel the breeze
carefree spirit
breathing is easy
atmosphere, livin'
oh, how every day
could feel like this,
one of my faves"
'do it now' is a reminder that the Universe is ful...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
Untitled (Figures)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kader Boly is known for painting pastoral and communal scenes from his life as a nomadic herder in the Fulani tribe, on the plains of West Africa. Kader’s work is set apart using han...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Paintings
Materials
Clay, Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil
Cielo de Platón 3. Painting From the series Plato’s Heaven
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The theory of Heaven is a novelty that Plato introduced to philosophy. Inspired by this concept, the artist proposes a series of works where I imagine and recreate possible worlds on...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Graphite
Approach (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Approach (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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Cielo de Platón Set of 4 drawings. Painting From the series Plato’s Heaven
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The theory of Heaven is a novelty that Plato introduced to philosophy. Inspired by this concept, the artist proposes a series of works where I imagine and recreate possible worlds on...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Graphite
"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 Pencil Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
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