Modern Paintings
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Color: Brown
Portraits
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Oil Pastel
Parade
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original egg tempera painting by American female artist Catherine Koenig.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
"Two Women"
By James Lechay
Located in Lambertville, NJ
James Lechay was a painter of figures, landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes who played a notable role in the tradition of avant-garde painting in New York and in the Midwest. An ar...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Kuppenheimer Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A Kuppenheimer ad study and was published in Step By Step Graphics, January/February 1987 in the article “Learning From Masters of the Past” by Walt and Roger Reed
Medium: Oil on Ca...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Modern Portrait of a Woman
By Tarmo Pasto
Located in Soquel, CA
Substantial and period painting, a Mid Century Modern portrait of a woman in an abstracted landscape by listed California artist Tarmo Pasto...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Rescue
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Builders at the Kolkhoz
Located in New York, NY
Born in Ukraine in 1897, Ryback lived in Moscow in 1919 and 1920 and worked closely with the artists of the Russian avant-garde, in particular with El Lissitsky...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
In the bath house
Located in New York, NY
David Davidovich Burliuk (Ukrainian: Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к; Russian: Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к; July 21, 1882 – January 15, 1967) was a Russian Futurist, Neo-Primitivist, book illustrator, publicist, and author associated with Russian Futurism...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Prickly Pears and Pomegranates
Located in Concord, MA
KONRAD CRAMER (1888-1963)
Prickly Pears and Pomegranates, 1929
Oil on board
19 ¾ x 23 ¾ inches
Signed and dated at lower right: KONRAD CRAMER / 1929
...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Little House Lambertville, Public Sale"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower middle. Artist designed frame.
Joseph Barrett (b. 1936)
Joseph Barrett was born in Midland, North Carolina, in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Route 1, Bridgewater Conn.
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Panel
Size: 20.00" x 40.00"
This illustration "Route 1, Bridgewater Conn." by American artist John Ford Clymer (1907-1989) was used in magazine advertisements.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
L.A. Zoo
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- From Robertson's Artist Statement, "Growing up on the plains of west Texas, I understood the notion of wide, open spaces. The tablet...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Trapezium origami #6 - Bright Blue Grey and Orange Sculptural Painting on Wood
Located in New York, NY
mixed media on wood, acrylic paint
15.5" x 6" x 7"
2015
In this piece, Zin Helena Song uses the colors of a shockingly bright summer day in the city. An neon orange, often seen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Wood
One of The Thieves Was Saved
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
"One of The Thieves Was Saved" from Waiting for Godot by Samuel Becket
An original watercolor painting by Westley "Wes" Olmsted. This work is currently featured in the exhibition ...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
“Family”
By Hazel Finck
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right 1930
Biography Hazel Finck
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Hazel Finck studied art with Guy Wiggins and Sigismund Ivanowski, a Russi...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Nude
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
An oil on board painting by Belgian Modernist painter Emiel Creado.
Framed - 60 x 38 Inches
Unframed - 53 x 31 Inches
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Trapezium origami #7 - Bright Purple Pink and Grey Sculptural Painting on Wood
Located in New York, NY
mixed media on wood, acrylic paint
12" x 6.5" x 6"
2015
In this piece, Zin Helena Song creates a trapezoidal prism made of wood, and paints neon colors on top of it. This shape...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Wood
Trapezium origami #3 - Bright Pink Grey and Purple Sculptural Painting on Wood
Located in New York, NY
mixed media on wood, acrylic paint
25" x 11" 8"
2015
In this piece, Zin Helena song uses a vertical panel, evoking the shape of an urban building. Her strips of paint ride verti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Wood
Lilac Body: Mixed media painting on paper by Angela Lyle
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Subtle portrait from this accomplished English artist.
Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early career was predominantly spent designing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Abstraction"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Arthur B. Carles (1882-1952)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Arthur Carles was a painter whose work went through phases...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Profiles”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on masonite painting by Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top right and dated 1952. Condition is good. Presently unframed. Provenance: Estate of the artist Nahum Tschacbasov.
Biograph...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Vintage Modernist Signed Exhibited Fauvist Landscape Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
5 blue ovals
By Turi Simeti
Located in Roma, RM
Turi Simeti (Alcamo 1929 - Milan 2021), 5 blue ovals (1998)
Acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 cm signed and dated '98 on the back.
The work appears to be archived at the Turi Simeti Archives.
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic
Untitled (Horns and Bow)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Untitled (Horns and Bow), 1941, oil on board, signed and dated lower right, 15 x 20 1/x inches...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Fallen Comrades/Interlude
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Fallen Comrades/Interlude, 1949, oil on masonite, signed lower left, 35 x 56 inches; Gallery Z la...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Arthur Kill
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 15 ¾ x 24 inches, Signed and titled verso on stretcher
Exhibited:
[Solo Exhibition] Cha...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Church in Trees
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 13 x 9 inches, Signed lower left
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Shelf
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil on canvas, 18 x 20 inches, Signed lower right
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Exhibited:
1) (likel...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century Portrait of Elderly Man with Beard Wearing Old Hat, oil paint
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Man with Hat
by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes below oil on board, unframed
board: 15 x 11.5 inches
provenance: the artists estate, south of France
condition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Landscape Framed Oil Painting - Calm Shore
Located in Bristol, GB
CALM SHORE
Size: 55.5 x 63 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A beautiful and expressive composition of a coastline, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1960.
The painting captur...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a Wire Haired Jack Russell terrier
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a Wire Haired Jack Russell terrier.
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last half of the ...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'Apples on a Peacock Tablecloth', Royal Academy, São Paulo & Venice Biennales
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Agger' for Knud Agger (Danish, 1895-1973) and painted circa 1940.
Born in Holstebro, Denmark, Knud Agger was exposed at a young age to theories of art and paint...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Harlem Renaissance Era Black Figure Dancing Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Peonies - Gouache Painting by Anna Gasteiger - Early 20th Century
By Anna Gasteiger
Located in Roma, IT
Red peonies is an artwork realized by Anna Gasteiger (Lubecca 1878 - Monaco 1954)
Gouache, cm. 59 x 48. Early 20th Century.
Hand signed in the lower right.
Lacquered frame.
Anna ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
'Study of a Young Woman', Kunstgewerbe Schule, LACMA, Carnegie, UCLA, Biltmore
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Boris Deutsch' (American, 1892-1978) an painted circa 1965.
A substantial, tonalist oil portrait of a young blonde woman in a red dress contrasted against a taupe background.
Born Lithuania, Deutsch began drawing at the age of five and remained a self-taught artist except for brief periods of study at the Bloom Academy of Art in Riga and at the Kunstgewerbe Schule in Berlin. He immigrated to Seattle, WA in 1916 and, in 1919, settled in Los Angeles. He was soon supporting himself with commercial art and also became a successful movie set designer in Hollywood. During the late 1930s, Deutsch undertook numerous murals for the WPA including for the Hot Springs (NM) Post Office, the Reedley (CA) Post Office, and 11 murals for the Los Angeles Terminal Annex Post Office. A committed modernist, he specialized in genre and figural works and, during the last ten years of his life, experimented with a variety of graphic styles including monotypes. Over the course of a long career, Boris Deutsch exhibited widely and with success including at LACMA, 1926, 1929, 1941; USC, 1926; Calif. Art Club, 1929; Mills College (Oakland), 1929; Zeitlin Gallery (LA), 1929; Seattle Museum, 1930; San Diego FA Society, 1930; Denver Museum, 1931; CPLH, 1931; Portland (OR) Museum, 1931; Dallas Museum, 1932; Oakland Art Gallery, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1940; Stockton Museum, 1940; UCLA, 1942; Biltmore Salon (LA), 1945; California Watercolor Society, 1945; Scripps College, 1946. In: LACMA; MM; Orange Co. (CA) Museum; Carnegie Institute; NMAA; CPLH; and Mills College.
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
American Art Annual 1931-33; Who's Who in American Art 1936-62; Los Angeles Painters...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Other Medium, Oil, Masonite
Zarafshan River, Russian Modern Landscape
Located in Austin, TX
By Yuri Ivanovich Zorkin
10" x 13.5" Oil on Board
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
5 Balls (Oil on Primed Paper)
By Monika Teal
Located in Kansas City, MO
Monika Teal
5 Balls
Oil on Primed Paper
Year: 2022
Size: 28x32in
Signed
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1385
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Monika Teal works from the insight that art is a form o...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Woman with glass and sunset
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Don't Mess With Tess #2" Red and Green Abstract Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Green and red-toned modern abstract figurative painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes.
The piece carries an interesting story of a character named Tess. She was out one eveni...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Radiant Child
By Flore
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flore
Radiant Child, 2022
50 x 90 inches
Acrylic on canvas
This piece is unique
Signed by the artist
Custom framed
Currently on display at Art Angels Los Angeles
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
1950s "Ms. Y" Mid Century Figurative Painting University of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Ms.Y"
c. 1950s
Gouache and oil pastel on paper
14" x 17" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey
S...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Oil Pastel
Gamcheon Village at Sunset
Located in New York, NY
In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly changing world. Inspired by her upbringing in a small neighborhood in Korea and her experiences with Habitat for Humanity, she seeks to immortalize disappearing places by creating works of art that connect and preserve memories.
Her three-dimensional compositions are created using newspaper...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Newsprint, Color Pencil
The City View from Brooklyn
Located in New York, NY
In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly changing world. Inspired by her upbringing in a small neighborhood in Korea and her experiences with Habitat for Humanity, she seeks to immortalize disappearing places by creating works of art that connect and preserve memories.
Her three-dimensional compositions are created using newspaper...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Newsprint, Color Pencil, Plexiglass, Paper
Tuscan Landscape - Original Oil Paint by Ottone Rosai - 1933
By Ottone Rosai
Located in Roma, IT
Tuscan Landscape is an original, outstanding painting realized by the italian artist Ottone Rosai in 1933.
Oil on cardboard.
It depicts the Tuscan Countryside, one of the favourite...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape - 20th Century, Oil on board by Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Signed lower right.
From the later 1950s, Vaughan painted landscapes without figures that verged towards complete abstraction: works in which colour is tessellated into compositions ...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Butteri in the Maremma - Oil Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Butteri in the Maremma is an original modern artwork realized in the early 20th Century.
Mixed colored oil painting on board.
Hand signed by the artist on the lower right margin V....
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Familly in a Square - Original Oil on Canvas, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henri EVENEPOEL (1872-1899)
Familly in a Square, c. 1895
Oil on Canvas
Signed bottom left
On canvas 51 x 37 cm (c. 20 x 15 in)
In a golden wood frame 68 x 54 cm (c. 27 x 21 in)
Rar...
Category
1890s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Liquor Saleswoman - made in brown, beige, wine-colored, claret
By Igor Fomin
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
The hero at this painting is a human. His eyes are a lenses that artist using. At all time they are together, a man and a woman. Duality of differences, two views, different accents,...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
No. 628 (Tabletop Still Life)
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
DESCRIPTION
19 3/4 x 38 1/2 inches (sight size)
21 ½ x 41 inches (framed)
Signed lower right
Titled on stretcher verso
PROVENANCE
Private collection, New York
This item is located...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life - Original Oil on Canvas by F. Carena - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original Oil on Canvas realized by Felice Carena in 1952.
Hand signed and dated. Very good condition.
Felice Carena
Turin 1879 - Venice 1966
He studies with Giaco...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cottonwood Tree (Near Abiquiu), New Mexico
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Georgia O'Keeffe . "Cottonwood Tree (Near Abiquiu), New Mexico" is a modern art oil on canvas by American female artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O’Keeffe was among the most influential figures in Modernism, best known for her large-format paintings of natural forms, especially flowers and bones, and for her depictions of New York City skyscrapers and architectural and landscape forms unique to northern New Mexico.
Provenance:
An American Place, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Max Ascoli, New York, 1944
Descended in family
Harold Diamond, New York, c. 1975
Gerald Peters...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life - Original Oil on Canvas by Arturo Tosi - 1936
By Arturo Tosi
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a beautiful original oil on Canvas realized by Arturo Tosi in 1936.
Signed lower right "A. Tosi".
Includes a beautiful coeval wooden frame cm...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Playing Possum
By Roger Weik
Located in Missouri, MO
Artist Statement
Since Roger Weik was early in college in the 70's, he has always held an affinity for thickness and texture. There was something very organic about his work, a sens...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Emulsion, Polymer
Abstract Horizontal
Located in Missouri, MO
Ken Anderson (20th century) was active/lived in United States. Ken Anderson is known for Abstract hanging sculpture.
*See included images and video
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Mixed Media, Oil, Handmade Paper
Alan Latter, Fashionable Buttons, Trompe l'ceil still life
Located in Harkstead, GB
Alan Latter (born 1961)
Pink Buttons, a Trompe l'oeil
Signed and dated ‘2021’ verso
Oil on board
11¾ x 15¾ inches
17¾ x 22 inches
Born in Islington in 1961, Alan Latter's work is influenced by Bloomsbury Group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and Fauvists Henri Matisse and Jean Puy...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
New Painter's Farm: Contemporary Landscape Painting of a Red & White Barn
Located in Hudson, NY
Minimal, modern landscape of an architectural white and red barn on a country farm
oil on birch panel, 18 x 24 inches
Ready to hang as is, no frame required, edges of the panel are ...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Eva Gabor" Female Portrait, Golden Colors, Movie Star
By Artis Lane
Located in Detroit, MI
This portrait from the seminal artist Artis Lane is one of the many unique portraits she has painted of notable people she has known in her long and illustrious career. The subject is Eva Gabor...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Baby Jane Holzer" Female Portrait, Golden & Green Colors, Celebrity, Intimate
By Artis Lane
Located in Detroit, MI
This portrait from the seminal artist Artis Lane is one of the many unique portraits she has painted of notable people she has known in her long and illustrious career. The subject is "Baby Jane" Holzer, a member of Andy Warhol superstars and an art collector and film producer in her own right. She appeared in several Andry Warhol...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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