Color-Field Paintings

acrylic on canvas The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environment they are in. The silver deposit paintings began in 20...

oil and acrylic on linen over panel In his abstract paintings and prints, Daniel Brice explores both the physicality and the intellectual and emotional resonance of color. Based in ...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Vapor," 2022 Oil paint, Canvas, Stretcher bars The piece is signed on the back of the canvas. Katheryn Holt paints memory. Her abstract painting...

Houses of town. 1972, watercolor on paper, 55x75,5 cm Olgerts Jaunarajs (1907-2003) He was so-called legend of abstract expressionism in the Latvia...

encaustic on panel b. 1954, Reno Nevada Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) 'August Wind' 2022 Oil paint, Wood panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. From the zenith of the composition, a gentle wash of l...

from the smoke and ash - Abstract tantric stain painting, acrylic on raw canvas by contemporary artist Elisa Niva33 inches x 29 inches. One of the main i...

oil and wax on canvas 1927 - 2017 Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she...

Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated lower right, titled verso. 69 x 68.25 in. 70.5 x 70 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater. Provenance Private Collection, Hilton Head Island, SC Cleve Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg in New York on September 22, 1918. The family subsequently changed its surname to ‘Gray’ in 1936. He attended the Ethical Culture School in New York, and completed his college preparatory studies at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, where he won the Morse Prize for most promising art student. In 1940, Gray graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with degrees in art and archaeology. He wrote his thesis on Chinese landscape painting, which would later become an important influence on his own painterly practice. Gray joined the U.S. Army in 1942 and was deployed to the U.K., France, and Germany, where he sketched wartime destruction. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, he began informal studies with the French artists André Lhote and Jacques Villon, which continued following the conclusion of the war. Soon after, he began to exhibit his work at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris, followed shortly by his first solo exhibition at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery in New York in 1947. Before 1950, Gray would participate in group exhibitions at such venerable institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago. In the 1960s, he formed a close friendship with the first generation Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman. It was during this time that Gray experienced an artistic metamorphosis, dissolving his earlier cubist compositions in a sea of distilled color. This dramatic body of work marked the beginning of an artistic meditation that would last for over 40 years. The rigors of French modernism, the ethos of Abstract Expressionism, and the meditative restraint of Chinese and Japanese scroll painting commingle with astounding affect. The atmospheric, subdued tones of his 1960s paintings gradually gave way to bright, monochromatic fields of color, hazily washed onto the canvas in stain like swathes. Much of his work from the last three decades of his career feature striking graphic brushwork that conjures the influence of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. Beginning with his marriage in 1957 to the French author and New Yorker staff writer, Francine Du Plessix, Gray would spend the remainder of his life working out of his home base in Warren, CT, while continuously exhibiting and participating in residencies around the world. He enjoyed representation and exhibitions with some of the most influential galleries of the day, including the Betty Parsons Gallery, Staempfli Gallery, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Eva Cohon Gallery, and Berry-Hill Gallery. Cleve Gray died in Hartford, CT in 2004, at the age of 86. Gray's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and many other museums and institutional collections around the world. Source: The New York Times and Loretta Howard...

"Everyone Has Gone" is an abstract oil painting on canvas by Deirdre Schanen. Working in the color-field tradition established by such artists as Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko,...

Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed, titled, dated verso. 40 x 44 in. 41.5 x 45.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a natura...

Elliott Thompson Eleven Thirteen, (Dancing Line Series), 1972 Signed, Elliott Thompson, dated, 2/72, and inscribed, Eleven Thirteen, on verso and agai...

'Moon Rising' acrylic painting by contemporary artist Elisa Niva, Acrylic on raw canvas 42 inches x 30 inches. This moon rise painting uses the soak- method created by Helen Franke...

William Perehudoff (1918-2013) is one of the most cherished and collected Canadian abstract painters. His work exemplifies how color field painting was expressed in Canada. Like some of his contemporaries, he was encouraged and guided by legendary New York critic Clement Greenberg. Perehudoff spent several summers at the University of Saskatchewan's legendary Emma Lake Artist's Workshop where he worked and studied with Jules Olitski and Kenneth Noland during the 1960s. Perehudoff is known for his simple and exuberant compositions that juxtapose and celebrate color. His series "La Plonge...

oil and wax on canvas 1927 - 2017 Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she...

Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994) was a Berlin-born, American abstract painter and a key artist associated with both the New York School and the Color Field movement. Dzubas studied art i...

"Pop Rocks" is an acrylic painting from Ryan Rivadeneyra's series of imagined modernist sculptures. In this series, Rivadeneyra explores the possibilities of...

Large-Scale Multicolored Gestural Abstraction with Circle in Acrylic on Canvas Abstract composition by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). This bold abstraction explores spatial tens...

Ellen Hackl Fagan builds connections between color and sound using installations, interactive games, and collaborative projects that combine color-and-texture saturated paintings wi...

Brazilian/ American Artist William Schock paints a portrait of a Muslim woman in a Hijab gazing directly at the viewer. She is set against an obelisk and an arch in a well-balanced c...

“Old School Board” Original Painting Science Art Series Size: 50 x 60 cm Medium: Acrylic on canvas Artist Certificate included A part of the Science Art series by international art...

'Yellow and black' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involves lay...

This 1967 painting by Martin Canin, titled Early Autumn, is a prime example of the Color Field movement, blending vibrant hues into a seamless gradient of yellows, oranges, and golds...

'summer solstice moon' 26"x24" acrylic and oil pigment stick on raw cotton canvas by Abstract painter Elisa Niva. This earthy and soft painting uses the soak- method created by He...

'Yellow and black. No.3' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involv...

Larry Zox Red, White and Blue painting, 1963 Original acrylic painting on board Signed and dated upper right front; Signed, titled and dated on the back as well Unique This work was originally sold by Jill Kornblee of the legendary Kornblee Gallery, with the back of the panel bearing Kornblee's original Upper East Side address before the gallery moved to West 57th Street Frame included: Elegantly double framed. Measurements: Outer Frame 13.5 inches vertical by 13.5 horizontal by 2.5 inches Original Frame: 10 inches vertical by 9.75 inches horizontal Painting 9.25 inches vertical x 9 inches horizontal Larry Zox Biography: A PAINTER who played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s, Larry Zox is best known for his intensely and brilliantly colored geometric abstractions that question and violate symmetry.1 Zox stated in 1965: “Being contrary is the only way I can get at anything.” To Zox, this position was not necessarily arbitrary, but instead meant “responding to something in an examination of it [such as] using
a mechanical format with X number of possibilities.”2 What he sought was to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his introductory essay in the catalogue for Zox’s 1973–1974 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.3 Zox’s robust paintings reveal
a celebrated artist and master of composition who is explored and challenged the possibilities of Post-Painterly Abstraction and Minimalist pictorial conventions. Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler and Frank Stella for Tibor de Nagy, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1973–1974, the Whitney’s solo exhibition of Zox’s work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, he was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wahsington, DC, which acquired fourteen of his works.
 Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1937. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, and then studied under George Grosz at the Des Moines Art Center. In 1958, Zox moved to New York, joining the downtown art scene. His studio on 20th Street became a gathering place for artists, jazz musicians, bikers, and boxers, and he occasionally sparred with visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, a former black smithy used previously by Jackson Pollock. In his earliest works, such as Banner (1962) Zox created
collages consisting of pieces of painted paper stapled onto sheets of plywood. He then produced paintings that were illusions of collages, including both torn- and trued-edged forms, to which he added a wide range of strong hues that created ambiguous surfaces. In paintings such as For Jean (1963), he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape. He then replaced these torn and expressive edges with clean and impersonal lines that would define his work for the next decade. From 1962 to 1965, he produced his Rotation series, at first creating plywood and Plexiglas reliefs, which turned squares into dynamic polygons. He used these shapes in his paintings as well, employing white as a foil between colors to produce negative spaces that suggest that the colored shapes had only been cut out and laid down instead of painted. The New York Times in 1964 wrote of the works in show such as Rotation B (1964) and of the artist: “The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works.”4 In 1965, he began the Scissor Jack series, in which he arranged opposing triangular shapes with inverted Vs of bare canvas at their centers that threaten to split their compositions apart. In several works from this series, Zox was inspired by ancient Chinese water vessels. With a mathematical precision and a poetic license, Zox flattened the three dimensional object onto graph paper, and later translated his interpretation of the vessel’s lines onto canvas with masking tape, forming the structure of the painting. The Diamond Cut and Diamond Drill paintings...

"Yellow, blue and red-orange colors dominate the work, which has a lively and energetic character. • It is painted on a professional canvas with high quality oil paints. • The painti...

"A big river. In this painting, I sought to capture the fiery essence of autumn, blending impressionism with fine art realism to evoke the deep, transient beauty of nature. Each stro...

Observing shifting color is an ecstatic experience for the artist. She is intrigued by transitions from one color to the next and the way the eye and brain process these transitions,...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Reflection" 2024 Oil paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. "Reflection" by Katheryn Holt is a stunnin...

Exceptional and large painting by French artist Christian Gardair (French, b.1938). Painting is acrylic on polyester paper. Signed and titled "Oceano Graphie" dated 1983. Painting me...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...

'Green and blue' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involves layer...

'Echoes of the Deep' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involves l...

"National Park Yellow, red and orange colors dominate the work, which has a lively and energetic character. • It is painted on a professional canvas with high quality oil paints. • T...

Walter Darby Bannard Ammersee #2, 1975 Watercolor and acrylic painting on paper Signed, titled and dated lower recto This is a unique work Frame included: elegantly floated and frame...

Observing shifting color is an ecstatic experience for the artist. She is intrigued by transitions from one color to the next and the way the eye and brain process these transitions,...

Subtle color gradients have recently become a prominent element in Audrey Stone's new works. Observing shifting color and light in nature is an ecstatic experience for her. Simultane...

'Green and blue No.2' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involves ...

'Yellow and black. No.2' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involv...

William Perehudoff (1918-2013) is one of the most cherished and collected Canadian abstract painters. His work is a prime example of how color field painting was expressed in Canada....

'Shadow body' London, United Kingdom 2024 Limited edition of 10 Pinted on archival Hahnehmule Photo rag paper, with care and attention to detail. The process involves layering...

"Green and Yellow Falling Bottles" is a modern still life painting that captures the essence of contemporary aesthetics with a vibrant interplay of patterns and forms against a beaut...

These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...

Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue is a series of larger paintings on 8 ply museum board and large sheets of rag paper that have been created since the winter of 2016. Using domestic construction materials from her garage, extras from home improvement projects or the garden, have been captured, much like a photogram, but with paint, not silver. By blending photography and painting, Fagan finds that the patterns created with industrial, mass-produced objects around the house and garage, speak to her interest in producing paintings that link to sound. These works are portraits of the artist’s home, its history, and the materials used to build that maintain her home. Ellen Hackl Fagan builds connections between color and sound using installations, interactive games, and collaborative projects that combine color-and-texture saturated paintings with music...

Summer is Joanne Mattera’s time to work on paper. When she is fully engaged, as she has been with Riz, that time slides well into autumn. These are paintings on paper, oil and wax on...

I created this vibrant tableau with a symphony of strokes that dance across the canvas, intertwining in a tapestry of color and energy. Each stroke is a whisper of emotion, a testame...

This artwork was made in the Colorfield concept with the character elements - the formulas on the painting are from mathematical game theory. In game theory, the battle of the sexes...

"Layered Curvilinear Forms" is an abstract painting diptych by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of rhythmic brushstrokes and shapes combined with subtle tones a...

Striking abstract colorfield oil painting on wood panel by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). This uniquely textured two-toned abstract is divided into color-fields of super vivid a...

"In my creation, I've poured my soul into a vibrant dance of colors, an abstract symphony that harmonizes with nature's profound beauty. Brush strokes of oil paint create a dynamic t...

Recreation of business partners in the city park of a big city... • Linen canvas, high-quality oil paints. • Two coats of protective gloss varnish were applied to protect the painti...

"Sunny summer In crafting this artwork, I tapped into the essence of liberation, portraying the vibrant spirit of a majestic horse in motion. My strokes, rich with oil paints, marry ...

"Yellow, blue and red-orange colors dominate the work, which has a lively and energetic character. • It is painted on a professional canvas with high quality oil paints. • The painti...

Acrylic on Dura-Lar - Unframed Ramsay’s process engages a systematic, mathematical approach heavily influenced by color. She interacts with nature, documents the shifting colors of ...

Gene Hedge Untitled, circa 1970 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 18 inches Provenance Estate of the artist Gene Hedge was born (1928) and raised in rural Indiana. After military service, he...

Beryl Barr-Sharrar Untitled (Park Avenue Series), 1979 Signed and dated on the reverse Acrylic on canvas 44 x 73 1/2 inches As an undergraduate at Mount Holyoke College (Beryl McLe...

Summer is Joanne Mattera’s time to work on paper. When she is fully engaged, as she has been with Riz, that time slides well into autumn. These are paintings on paper, oil and wax on...

encaustic on panel b. 1954, Reno Nevada Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...

Acrylic on polyester film - Unframed This work is part of a series whose inspiration comes from Witch Hazel, a deciduous shrub in New York City. It blooms in January with bright yel...