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Item Ships From: USA
Period: 1980s
Untitled (1983) - Colorfield Composition - Blue, Red, Black, White & Yellow
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Provenance: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY Signed & Dated verso
Category

Abstract Geometric 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled II" Original Oil on Canvas (Part of Set) Signed and Dated by Artist
Located in Clinton Township, MI
"Untitled Abstract II" is an Original Oil on Canvas by G. CURTIS. The piece is part of a set. It measures 49.5 x 37.5 x 1 inches with frame. It is signed and dated by the artist. The...
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1980s Paintings

Materials

Oil

'Roller Skaters at Sunset', Post Impressionist Figural, Florida State Capitol
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed 'Seidel' for Richard Seidel (American, born 1949) and painted circa 1975. Born in Ohio, Richard Seidel has exhibited widely and with success including throughout Florida (St....
Category

Modern 1980s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Native American Children, Oil on Canvas Signed
Located in Pasadena, CA
Roberta De La Vega, Three Sisters and a Kittie Cat, Oil on Canvas, signed and dated 1981 Originally framed Excellent condition of use Roberta De La Vega (...
Category

Contemporary 1980s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sepia Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Sepia Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting in in sepia-toned brush strokes and deep red and bright yellow accents with contrasting black a...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

"George Washington Series" Pointillist Figurative Colorful President Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Modern colorful portrait of George Washington by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features an intricate depiction of the former president using pointill...
Category

Modern 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Changing Seasons" - Red Over Blue Tribute to Mark Rothko in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Changing Seasons" - Red Over Blue Tribute to Mark Rothko in Acrylic on Paper A bright abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Draw...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Elvis
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Elvis, is a one-of-a-kind, fine art piece by renowned Brazilian artist, Romero Britto. Britto combines a unique use of mixed media and rich, vibrant colors such as, greens, pink, re...
Category

Pop Art 1980s Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Newsprint

Red Tent Abstract Expressionist - Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Red Tent Abstract Expressionist - Acrylic on Paper Abstract in bold colors on a stark black background, by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). A deep...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Jonathan Winters Screenprint on Canvas Painting Umbrellas Hollywood Star Pop Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Overall 21 X 27 image is 17.25 X 23.5 This is a mixed media print on canvas by beloved comedian and artist Jonathan Winters. This one depicts a surrealist bird with umbrellas Artist: Jonathan Winters Medium: Mixed media print on canvas; hand embellished Signature: Signed by the artist in gold paint pen, lower right from A/P edition of 25 signed in gold paint pen; original plates have been destroyed Condition: Excellent Jonathan Harshman Winters III (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American comedian, actor, author, and artist. Beginning in 1960, Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label. He also had records released every decade for over 50 years, receiving 11 Grammy nominations, including eight for Best Comedy Album, during his career. From these nominations, he won the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for his contribution to an adaptation of The Little Prince in 1975 and the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for Crank(y) Calls in 1996. With a career spanning more than six decades, Winters also appeared in hundreds of television shows and films, including eccentric characters on The Steve Allen Show, The Garry Moore Show, The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters (1972–74), Mork & Mindy, Hee Haw, and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. He also voiced Grandpa Smurf on The Smurfs TV series from 1986 to the show's conclusion in 1989. Over twenty years later, Winters was introduced to a new generation through voicing Papa Smurf in The Smurfs (2011) and The Smurfs 2 (2013). Winters died nine days after recording his dialogue for The Smurfs 2; the film was dedicated in his memory. In 1991, Winters won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for playing Gunny Davis in the short-lived sitcom Davis Rules. 1999 saw Winters become the 2nd recipient of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2002, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance as Q.T. Marlens on Life with Bonnie. Winters was presented with a Pioneer TV Land Award by Robin Williams in 2008. Winters also spent time painting and presenting his artwork, including Surrealist silkscreens and sketches, in many gallery shows. He authored several books. His book of short stories, titled Winters' Tales (1988), made the bestseller lists. Winters was born in Dayton, Ohio, to Alice Kilgore Rodgers, who later became a radio personality, and her husband Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an insurance agent who later became an investment broker. He was a descendant of Valentine Winters, founder of the Winters National Bank in Dayton, Ohio (now part of JPMorgan Chase). Of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry. Winters had described his father as an alcoholic who had trouble holding a job. His grandfather, a frustrated comedian, owned the Winters National Bank, which failed as the family's fortunes collapsed during the Great Depression. During his senior year at Springfield High School, Winters quit school to join the U.S. Marine Corps at age 17 and served two and a half years in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Upon his return, he attended Kenyon College. He later studied cartooning at Dayton Art Institute. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Winters acted in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), had a weekly CBS show called The Jonathan Winters Show from 1967 to 1969, and appeared in Viva Max! (1970).[3] Additionally, he was a regular (along with Woody Allen and Jo Anne Worley) on the Saturday morning children's television program, Hot Dog in the early 1970s. Winters received eleven Grammy nominations during his career, including eight for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album; he won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for Crank(y) Calls in 1996. In 1999, he was awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, becoming the second recipient. In 2004, Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time ranked Winters as the #18 greatest stand-up comedian. Winters lived near Santa Barbara, California, and was often seen browsing or "hamming" for the crowd at the antique and gun shows on the Ventura County fairgrounds. He often entertained the tellers and other employees whenever he visited his local bank to make a deposit or withdrawal. Additionally, he spent his time painting and attended many gallery showings, even presenting his art in one-man shows. With his round, rubber-faced mastery of impressions (including ones of John Wayne, Cary Grant, Groucho Marx, James Cagney, and others) and improvisational comedy, Winters became a staple of late-night television with a career spanning more than six decades. He named James Thurber...
Category

Pop Art 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Screen

Chaco
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chaco Canvas, fabric, pigment and collage elements, 1985-1995 Signed lower left corner in red paint Title and signed in pencil on the verso on the top of the stretcher Condition: Excellent Canvas size: 18 x 18 inches Provenance: Estate of the Artist By descent Chaco is a Native American culture of Ancestral Puebloan peoples, thriving in New Mexico between 850 CE and 1250 CE. Some of the motifs in this work was inspired by Chaco Canyon wall art. This mixed media work was created after the artist moved from New York to Santa Fe in 1985. It combines many Southwestern and Native American motifs. This is one of a small group of similar works combing collage and mixed media. (See photo of native pictographs) that inspired this work. Virginia Dehn From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia Dehn Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections. Life Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered. Early career Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut. Virginia and Adolf Dehn The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work. The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India. Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies. Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
Category

Abstract 1980s Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Gigantic George" Modern Blue Toned Pointillist Figurative President Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Modern blue toned portrait of George Washington by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features an intricate depiction of the former president using pointi...
Category

Modern 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Red Shoe Dancer" George McNeil
Located in Newport Beach, CA
"Red Shoe Dancer"- A vibrant, signed and dated, oil-on-canvas painting by listed, New York City based American artist, George Mc Neil (1908-1995). He has earned awards and fellowship...
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1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic and Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract composition by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). A bold black character tak...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Pastel

Baseball, Baseball TV Guide Cover, Spring 1984
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist Framed under acrylic. Signed on the reverse.
Category

1980s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Snowview of Baldwin (Kansas), 1980s Snow Landscape Oil Painting, Blue Gray White
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on canvas painting titled 'Snowview of Baldwin (Kansas)' painted in 1989 by Robert N. Sudlow (1920-2010) from 1989. Snowy landscape scene painted in shades of gray, brown, white,...
Category

American Impressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blue desert
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. A beautiful, abstracted view of a blue desert with mountains in the background. 20x2...
Category

Impressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

'Study of a Moor', Post-Impressionist Figural Oil, Othello, Moroccan, Tunisian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
American school, Signed indistinctly lower right and dated 1988. A bravura, psychologically-penetrating oil study of a man, shown wearing a turban and contrasted against a scumbled ...
Category

Post-Impressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Masonite

Untitled 1980s pastel colored signed abstract mixed media painting on board
Located in New York, NY
Will Cotton Untitled abstraction, ca. 1989 Mixed media painting on board Signed by the artist on lower right front Elegant recessed hand made frame Included with artist's original plexiglass bearing his markings on it Stunning, rare early signed abstract work on board by renowned artist Will Cotton in delicious candy-like pastel colors. Floated and framed in a white wood shadow box frame with the artist's original painted plexiglass. Measurements: Framed: 26 x 20 x 2.75 inches Artwork: 23.5 x 17 inches More about Will Cotton Will Cotton (born 1965 in Melrose, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) is an American painter whose work primarily features landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by human subjects. Will Cotton lives and works in New York City. Cotton’s works from the 1990s depicted pop icons sourced from contemporary advertisements such as the Nestlé Nesquik bunny. Cotton described his early works in a 2008 interview, saying “My initial impulse to make these paintings really came out of an awareness of the commercial consumer landscape that we live in. Every day we’re bombarded with hundreds, if not thousands of messages designed specifically to incite desire within us.” In 1996, Cotton began to develop an iconography in which the landscape itself became an object of desire. The paintings often feature scenery made up entirely of pastries, candy and melting ice cream. He creates elaborate maquettes of these settings from real baked goods made in his Manhattan studio as a visual source for the final works. Since about 2002, nude or nearly nude pinup...
Category

Abstract 1980s Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board

"Andrea" Portrait Painting: Oil on Canvas, Figurative, Nude
Located in New York, NY
"Andrea" Oil on Canvas Painting This painting is unique, signed on verso, and includes a certificate of authenticity. Grace Graupe-Pillard has concentrated on portraiture since her ...
Category

Contemporary 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Enormous, 1985, Abstract Oil Painting
By Dominique Dehais
Located in Newport Beach, CA
A grand-scale, signed and dated, hand-painted, expressive oil-on-canvas painting by listed French artist, Dominique Dehais (b. 1950). The vivid composition in cobalt, white, gray and...
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1980s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Yellow Beach With Beautiful Women Large Painting
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Yellow Beach With Three Beautiful Women (Playa Amarillo) Artist signed and title, floater frame with gold and beige wood. Ethereal oil on canvas figural pai...
Category

Realist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Israeli Pop Art Large Vintage Antique Auto Pink Oil Painting Americana
By Joshua Griffit
Located in Surfside, FL
1951 Born in Tel Aviv, Israel Since graduating from the Fine Art Academy in Florence, Italy and his return to Israel, Griffit presents a fascinating and unique journey from etchings...
Category

Pop Art 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

VEDRA IBIZA No.2 Large Abstract Expressionist Color Field Acrylic Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
size is without frame. This is being sold with no glass Bright, vivid, large Abstract Expressionist color field painting. Similar in manner t the colorful abstract works of Paul Jenk...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

Worm Dreaming @ Mt. Wedge LARGE Aboriginal Papunya Australian Female Artist 1988
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs The Holmes à Court Collection, Perth Austral Gallery, Saint Louis, MO; acquired in 1996; Richard Kelton Collection, Santa Monica; Exhibi...
Category

Abstract 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic Polymer

Dawn Greeting.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Acrylic on canvas signed lower right. About artist: Born in Connecticut in 1921, Marootian grew up in New Haven, CT, and later became a resident of Pasadena in the 1940s. She earne...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Exodus 12 - African American Artist - colorful abstract red orange purple pink
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
For four decades, G. (Gloucester) Caliman Coxe was considered the dean of African-American artists in Louisville, Kentucky, an art scene in the 1950s and '60s that included Sam Gilliam, Bob Thompson, and Kenneth Victor Young...
Category

Abstract 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Coll Bardolet 78 Bolero Baile Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting. Spanish painter maximum representative of the art of Mallorca at the end of the 20th century. Costumbrista work. With d...
Category

Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Horse Canyon
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The painting is in excellent condition and the painting size is 36"x36" without framing. . it is acrylic on canvas and signed lower right. Artist Bio. Dorothy Marootian (1921-2015)...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Young Woman Walking On The Beach Large Painting
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Young Woman Walking On The Beach Large Painting Artist signed and titled. Artist signed, dated and titled, floater white-gold frame. Ethereal oil on canvas...
Category

Realist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

“RBY” 1980 Large Very colorful abstract yellow red blue green white oil/canvas
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Signed, titled and dated verso 1980 (11–’80) Provenance: Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida 1985; Private Collection, Palm Springs, CA Exhibitions: M. Kno...
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Abstract 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sequential Chroma #4 1980 Red Blue Violet Purple Geometric OP ART - Amazing!
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
A classic beauty by Op Art artist, Julian Stanczak. Signed, dated and titled on verso Original frame by the artist Provenance: Private Collection, Cleveland, Ohio; Acquired directly ...
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Op Art 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pears (from Holly Solomon Gallery. Readers Digest Associ Art Collection) Unique
Located in New York, NY
Robert Kushner Pears, 1985 Acrylic & Collage on Paper; Framed with Holly Solomon Gallery Label & Reader's Digest Art Collection Label Signed and titled by the artist on the front Thi...
Category

Contemporary 1980s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Mixed Media

Artists in the Spotlight
Located in New York, NY
Tom Holland Artists in the Spotlight: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), 1985 Acrylic and mixed media on paper Signed and dated 1985 on ...
Category

Contemporary 1980s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Mixed Media

Abstract Expressionist Portrait in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Portrait in in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstracted portrait painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Although this piec...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Landscape, original signed oil on canvas painting Sable-Castelli Gallery, unique
Located in New York, NY
Lynton Wells Landscape, 1984 Oil on Canvas (with original Sable Castelli Label back of frame) Hand signed, titled, dated 1984 with artist's copyright symb...
Category

Abstract 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Primary Colors Abstract Expressionist - Mixed Media on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Primary Colors Abstract Expressionist - Mixed Media on Paper Abstract in bold primary colors on a stark black background with salt texturing technique executed along the bottom, by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). This artwork is on "Arches France...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Paper, Acrylic

Red, White, and Purple - Abstract Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Red, White, and Purple - Abstract Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Recurri...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

"Spring 1945", Galina Pshenitsina, Post-War, Figurative, 38x31, Impressionist
Located in Dallas, TX
Galina Vasilevna Pshenitsina was born in 1940 in the town of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). She began her studies at the Art School named after Johanson in St. Petersburg. In 1959, she...
Category

Post-War 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Kiss - Abstract Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
The Kiss - Abstract Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Figurative Abstract o...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Humberto da Silva Fernandes(1937-2005) Clipper Ship Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Framingham, MA
This is an amazing original oil painting on canvas of the famous Brazilian-American painter, Humberto da Silva Fernandes (1937-2005) depicting a Ship at the pier, a Harbor dock scene, seascape. Humberto da Silva Fernandes (1937-2005) was a Brazilian artist known for his maritime-themed paintings. He was born on March 20, 1937, in the city of Niterói, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fernandes started his artistic career in the 1950s, working as a sign painter...
Category

Impressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Listed American Female Folk Art Layered Constructed Sculptural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Sculptural folk art piece by listed artist Sharon Yavis. This work is constructed by applying layers of wood to create an almost three dimensional effect ...
Category

Folk Art 1980s Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

'Horses', Carmel Art Association, Laguna Beach, CSFA, SWA, PAFA, CPLH, De Young
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dooley' for Helen Bertha Dooley (American, 1907-1994); additionally signed, verso, titled 'Troika' and dated 1980. Helen Dooley was...
Category

Modern 1980s Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Canvas, Oil

A Quiet Landscape After Antanas Žmuidzinavičius
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous quiet landscape of a river with lush trees on the banks and a village in the distance. Signed and dated lower right "Е НОВИКОВ '80." (E. Novikov) In the style of or after (a copy of) a painting by the Lithuanian art...
Category

Realist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Marina Large Pink Oil Painting With Woman and Sail Boats
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Marina large pink oil painting with woman and sail boats. Artist signed, dated and titled, floater frame. Ethereal oil on canvas figural painting, titled Playa Amarillo (Yellow Beach...
Category

Realist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Woman Artist Alice Makara Minimal Abstract Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract painting by Alice Makara. Oil on canvas, circa 1980. Signed on back. Unframed. Image size, 40"L x 36"H.
Category

Abstract 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Papaya & Mexican Pitcher, " Oil on Canvas Still Life signed by Warren Brandt
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Papaya & Mexican Pitcher" is an original signed oil painting by Warren Brandt. Brandt, an American painter originally influenced by Abstract Expressionism, became a "child of Matiss...
Category

Contemporary 1980s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

One More Time (Black Devil) Outsider Art Painting, Drawing
By Peter Dean
Located in Surfside, FL
Dean was born in 1934 of Jewish parents in a Berlin, Germany, that was falling prey to the Nazis. The family immigrated to New York City in 1938, and Dean was raised in the refugee community in Inwood. Dean's first show (ironically, in retrospect) was given him by the USIA in Brazil. In 1959, he returned to New York to work six months on, six months off in soil engineering and made art in the interims. He tried, and failed, to get into a Tenth Street Gallery. Studying painting at night with Andre Girard at City College pushed him over the edge, and in 1969 he committed himself to painting full time. Artists who impressed him in the '60s were Robert Beauchamp, Lester Johnson, Jan Muller...
Category

Expressionist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Croton Falls
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Croton Falls, 1987 Acrylic on Paper on Board Signed, titled and dated by the artist on the back Frame Included Thelma Appel is a renowned abstract and representational p...
Category

Realist 1980s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board, Paper

Gladiolas, Impressionist Oil Painting by George Gach
Located in Long Island City, NY
An impressionist still life painting of gladiolas flowers in a shallow vase by Hungarian artist George Gach. Gladiolas George Gách, Hungarian (1909–1996)...
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1980s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Phantom - Red, Yellow, Black, Green, White, Blue, Magenta & Ochre - 10 Feet Tall
By Craig Kauffman
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
A wonderful, museum caliber painting by Craig Kauffman. Initialed "CK" and dated "82" in the lower right corner. PROVENANCE: Asher Faure Gallery Luther Vandross Luther Vandross Estate Private Collection, New York Private Collection, San Diego, CA EXHIBITED: Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California, CRAIG KAUFFMAN: NEW PAINTINGS April 23 through May 21,1983 CATALOGUE: Craig Kauffman Estate Archive Number CR No: P.1982.2 The following is from The New York Times, May 15, 2010, By Douglas Martin Craig Kauffman, who in the 1960s helped put Los Angeles on the art map with audacious experiments in molding industrial plastic to create ethereal wall-mounted sculptures — some resembling giant pieces of jelly candy — died Sunday in Angeles City in the Philippines. He was 78. The cause was complications of pneumonia following a recent stroke, said Frank Lloyd, his friend and dealer. Mr. Kauffman was eminent in an eclectic group of artists who reveled in the light, space and energy of postwar Southern California to forge new Minimalist, often glossy artistic approaches. Richard Armstrong, director of the Guggenheim Museum said that these Californians, sometimes called the Cool School — along with Chicago Imagists and Washington, D.C., painters called the Color School — were counterpoints to the Abstract Expressionists who ruled New York. "California was never ashamed of being a new society," Mr. Armstrong said in an interview on Thursday, "it all fit together nicely." Los Angeles was then ascending to the status of a metropolis, with a growing number of major-league sports teams, fresh industries and a surging population. There were new quarters for public galleries and the burgeoning of commercial ones. At the center of the action was the Ferus Gallery, which staged the first solo exhibition of Andy's Warhol's pop art and the first American retrospective of Marcel Duchamp. Mr. Kauffman was a featured artist at the gallery's inaugural exhibition in 1957, "Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye." Peter Plagens, in his book Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970, (1974, 1999), wrote, "'Culture' meant 'art' and 'art' implied 'new,' and 'new,' as everybody was informed, meant California — particularly Los Angeles." The artists who seized this historic opportunity included Billy Al Bengston, Ken Price and Robert Irwin, among others. In an interview on Wednesday, Arne Glimcher, founder and chairman of Pace Gallery, which had Mr. Kauffman's first New York show in 1967, called the California scene in the late '50s and early '60s "a pressure cooker of ideas." Referring to artistic styles, he said, "It was California perfection against New York messiness." Mr. Kauffman's early paintings were critical in defining this new style. Mr. Plagens called them "the first evidence of a Los Angeles sensibility." Mr. Kauffman's later work blazed splashier trails, as he experimented with the effects of light on works that were painterly yet three-dimensional. "The true power of what he did was his incorporation and then redirection of light inside sculpture," said Mr. Armstrong, who was the curator of a show of Mr. Kauffman's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1987. "Many of them glowed," he said. "Others were translucent. Even the supposedly opaque had a noteworthy shimmering quality to them." What Mr. Kauffman made reflected a wide range of inspirations. In a 2008 video interview in conjunction with a show at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena California, he said that the famed lingerie store Frederick's of Hollywood provided artistic nurture. With a smile, he confessed to a "shoe fetish" that had influenced some of his art. Robert Craig Kauffman was born on March 31, 1932, in Los Angeles. He started painting regularly at age 7 and went to theUniversity of Southern California to study architecture in 1950. But art soon won out over architecture, and he transferred to the University of California Los Angeles, to study painting. He earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees there. A breakthrough came in the early 1960s when he experimented with painting on glass, but found it too fragile. He then painted on flat acrylic plastic. His next inspiration came from the plastic packaging increasingly used to wrap merchandise. He sought out craftsmen at commercial factories to learn the technique, Time magazine reported in 1968. The results were several series of three-dimensional wall hangings. Some were inspired by large plastic fruit clusters on the wall of a doughnut shop he frequented in Los Angeles. These lozenge-shaped reliefs were sometimes called "bubbles." Barbara Rose, in a catalog essay for an exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in 1967, wrote, "Shaping the brittle sheet plastic into a series of voluptuous curves, Kauffman achieves a kind of abstract eroticism that is purely visual." Mr. Kauffman's work was shown in countless exhibitions and many one-man shows. It has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. In 2006, one of Mr. Kauffman's reliefs fell from a wall of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, where it was part of an exhibition titled "Los Angeles: Birth of an Art Capital, 1955-1985." It shattered. After storms of publicity, the Pompidou provided technical help and money to make a new version. Mr. Kauffman was married several times. He is survived by his daughters from his marriage to Dana Kauffman, from whom he was separated: Wilhelmina, Vida Rose and Georgia Kauffman. When they started in the 1960s, Mr. Kauffman and his artistic compatriots did not foresee a legacy, much less earning an income, Larry Bell, a prominent artist in the group, said in an interview on Wednesday. "The troops sort of banded together to be our own audience," he said. "Every once in a while, we'd sell...
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Abstract 1980s Paintings

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Silk, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Large 80s Vibrant Dynamic Drawing/Painting Memphis Milano Era
Located in Surfside, FL
it is currently unframed and will be sold thus. Similar in style to the 80s work of Elizabeth Murray. A bright, colorful expressive piece signed (labels are not included as it is un...
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85 New Wave 1980s Paintings

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Conté, Charcoal, Gouache, Rag Paper, Graphite

1980s Large Format Abstract Oil Painting by Mark Travis, Blue Black Purple
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage 1980s original abstract painting by Denver, Colorado artist, Mark Travis. Large format artwork painted with oil on masonite board. Abstract compos...
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Abstract 1980s Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

'Large Abstract', Exhibited at Tokyo Museum Of Fine Arts, Japanese Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Nagai" for Ikuko K. Nagai (Japanese-American, born 1932) and painted circa 1980. Previously with: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco paper dimensions: 33.5 x 45 inch...
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Abstract 1980s Paintings

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Gold Leaf, Silver

4-Seasons: Fall
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ronald Slowinski 4-Seasons: Fall Watercolor, paper Year: circa 1987 Size: 46x94x2.25in Framed in an acrylic box COA provided Comes with original papers and photographic slide Ref.: 9...
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Modern 1980s Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

New Synthesis #34
Located in Austin, TX
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, titled, and estate stamped on verso. 50.25 x 31 in. 51.25 x 32 in. (framed) Custom framed in maple. Provenance Estate of Jack Roth Born in Brockway, Pennsylvania, Jack Roth was at various times a painter, poet, photographer, and mathematician. He enrolled at Pennsylvania State University in 1943 to study chemistry, but like many of his fellow Abstract Expressionists, his matriculation was interrupted World War II, where he served in both the Army and Air Force. Discharged from the service in 1948, Roth moved to Big Sur, California and married his first wife, Colleen Bleier, with whom he had two daughters. A year later, the young family settled in San Francisco, where Jack enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts. It was here that he studied painting under Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, and Elmer Bischoff. The Roth family left the Bay Area to return to Pennsylvania, where Jack completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry in 1951. In pursuit of his seemingly discordant academic interests, Roth moved yet again, this time to Iowa where he received a Master of Fine Arts at Iowa State University in 1953. Seeking gainful employment, Roth moved to New York, settling in the lower East Side where he began looking for a teaching job and working as a reviewer for Arts Digest magazine. Now divorced, in 1954 Roth married the artist Rachel Chester whom he had met in Iowa. He continued to paint and work odd jobs, some of which were as a hotel night clerk and an orderly at Beekman Downtown Hospital. That year, he unsuccessfully applied for the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in the field of photography. However, Roth’s professional prospects greatly improved when his work was selected by James Johnson Sweeney, Director of the Guggenheim Museum of Art for the traveling exhibition Younger American Painters, alongside giants such as William Baziotes, Richard Diebenkorn, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis, and others. One of the first major debuts of the Abstract Expressionist movement to be shown at an American museum, the exhibit traveled to the prominent museums across the country. In 1956 he began graduate work in mathematics at New York University. Opting to dive back into academia, Roth began graduate coursework in mathematics at New York University in 1956. He enrolled at Duke University in 1958, receiving his PhD in mathematics in 1962. Roth continued to create art throughout the pendency of his graduate studies and in 1963, legendary Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) curators Dorothy Miller and William Lieberman recommended Roth as the new talent graphic artist for Art in America. Concurrently, MoMA purchased several works from Roth for the museum’s permanent collection. During this period of artistic achievement, Roth continued to teach - first, at the University of South Florida in Tampa, before moving back north to Montclair, New Jersey, where he was hired as the chairman of the Mathematics department at Upsala College. In 1971 he accepted a dual appointment at Ramapo College, teaching both mathematics and advanced painting. After he received tenure and his finances were secure, his artistic production thrived as he received the first Thomases Award for contributions at the school, which came with the use of a large studio space. This allowed him to work with larger canvases and become what he saw as an Abstract Expressionist Color Field painter. In 1978, the acclaimed gallery Knoedler & Co. in New York began representation of Roth’s work. Other artists represented by the gallery at this time included Alexander Calder, Adolf Gottlieb...
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Abstract Geometric 1980s Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

September To Remember II Large Abstract Painting
By Sergio Moyano
Located in Delray Beach, FL
September To Remember II Artist signed and titled. Large bright and vibrant abstract expressionist. Sergio was born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1934. He studied at National School of Fine Arts, the National Academy, and the Superior School of Art in Buenos Aires. In the late 1950's he began to collaborate with a group of contemporary Argentinean artist interested in Op art. The group moved to Paris and Sergio was able to rejoin them with students support from the French government. Aware of the creative differences amongst the group, in 1960, he moved To Munich where he received a grant from the German government to study etching in the House der Kunst. In 1962 he returned to Paris continuing to create paintings, etchings and woodblocks. A lifetime of spiritual and cultural influences is reflected in Moyano's work, which in turn mirrors...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Terres Rouges
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed, dated, and titled verso. 59 x 62.75 in. 60.75 x 64.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a matte white hardwood floater, with gilded metallic front. Roger Mühl was born on December 20, 1929 in Strausbourg, France, where he attended the National School of Decorative Arts. He spent most of his life living and working in Provence, while regularly exhibiting in London, Paris, Geneva, Tokyo, and New York. Mühl is best known for his brightly colored, heavily textured landscape renderings of the south of France. His bucolic paintings...
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Abstract 1980s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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