Color-Field Paintings

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...

Emily Berger’s paintings are based on a structure of repetitive and deliberate gesture that is intuitive but carefully considered. She brushes, wipes, rubs, and scrapes, incorporatin...

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...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Purple Noon" 2022 Oil paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. At the uppermost layer, a delicate dance ...

Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of American abstraction. He played an essential role in the emergence of Color Field during the 1960s and 1970s, eventuall...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Aqua" 2022 Oil Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Katheryn Holt paints memory. H...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) Oil Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Katheryn Holt paints memory. Her abstract ...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Dewey Weber Revisited" 2023 Oil paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the painting. Artist Statement: We ...

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...

Artist: Jay Rosenblum, American (1933 - 1989) Title: Untitled XVI Year: circa 1977 Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed in pencil Paper Size: 40 x 26 in. (101.6 x 66.04 cm)

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...

oil on linen 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 attended...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Water to Sand" 2022 Oil Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Katheryn Holt paints ...

“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...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Westerly" 2022 Oil paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artis...

Apple in 13 colors (Abstract painting) Acrylic on Dura-Lar - Unframed Ramsay’s process engages a systematic, mathematical approach heavily influenced by color. She interacts with n...

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...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Rust" 2023 Oil paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. "Rust" by Katheryn Holt is an 18" x 18" mixed me...

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...

Divided Lands, Signed Contemporary Blue Abstract Color Field Digital Painting 30" x 30" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Archival Print on Canvas Hand-signed by the artis...

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...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Distance" 2022 Oil Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Katheryn Holt paints memor...

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...

Bermuda Triangle, in vivid metallic tones, gold and bronze, on Arches Paper. framed. Signed, titled and dated verso. Size includes frame. This is an abstract work and can be hung eit...

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...

Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso. 52.25 x 52.75 in. 54 x 54.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple hardwood floater. Provenance Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York Private Collection, Connecticut Provenance Estate of Samuel Feinstein...

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...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Storm Surge III" 2022 Oil Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Katheryn Holt pain...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Greener Pastures" 2022 Oil paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Katheryn Holt pain...

acrylic on canvas 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 attended the, ...

Holi powder Tantra painting #4 - Colorful abstract tantric stain painting, acrylic and powder on raw canvas by contemporary artist Elisa Niva 42 inche...

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...

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

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 attended the, now, San Francisco A...

acrylic 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 att...

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...

Boat Moon, in vivid blues a range of blue tones on Arches Paper. not framed. Signed, titled and dated verso. Francine Tint is a New York-based American abstract expressionist painter and costume designer...

In this composition, Sylvia Spiczza works in the manner of color field artists like Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, presenting a gradation of colors shifting from yellow to red ...

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...

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 attended the, now, San Francisco A...

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 ...

oil on paper image size: 20.5 x 29.5 inches Daniel Brice’s paintings are composed using a minimal rectilinear language, divided into planes of color implying vast spatial landscape...

'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...

Color Field / AbEx

Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vas...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Summer Rain" 2022 Oil Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Katheryn Holt paints me...

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...

Conceived of as one half of a diptych, together with Twelfth Night Red, the title of this painting suggest a reference to William Shakespeare’s play Twel...

Although he socialized with such famous abstract expressionist artists as Lee Krasner and Robert Motherwell, Doug Ohlson creates paintings that are restrained and geometric in nature...

'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...

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...

Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated verso. 40.25 x 34 in. 41.5 x 35.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater, with a matte white finish. Provenance The Betty Parsons Gallery, New York Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Thomas Phelps Stokes...

"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,...

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...

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Rivers End" 2022 Oil Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. 'River's End' by Katheryn Holt is an intri...

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

American, b. 1948 Artist Statement: My paintings are intuitive responses to the myriad forces that shape my life—emotions that translate into color, visual memories of forms and col...

"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...