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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
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Naturalistic Western Landscape with Wagon and Cow Skull
Located in Houston, TX
Warm tonal landscape western painting with a cow skull in the immediate foreground and a wagon in the midground. The painting is signed by the artist Lem Pa...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

"Floating" Mid Century Modern Fort Worth Texas Artist
By Dickson Reeder
Located in San Antonio, TX
Dickson Reeder (1912 - 1970) Fort Worth Artist Image Size: 10 x 15 Frame Size: 17 x 22 Medium: Oil on Board Mid Century Modern Biography Dickson Reeder (1912 - 1970) Edward Dickson Reeder began his art education under Sallie Blyth Mummert and Sallie Gillespie before attending the Art Students' League in New York. He later traveled to Europe and studied with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. Dickson Reeder and his wife, Flora Blanc, established and directed the Reeder School of Theater and Design in Fort Worth (1946-1958). Please view my 1stdibs store front for other Great Vintage Texas Paintings...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Large Modernist Oil Painting Bridge over the Water Landscape
By Saul Schary
Located in Surfside, FL
Saul Schary was born in 1904 in Newark, New Jersey. Painter, Printmaker, Illustrator. He lived and worked in New York City and New Milford, Connecticut. Schary studied at the Art St...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of an Israeli Boy
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Classic Subject: Portrait Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States Dimensions: 21.25" x 18.25" Dimensions w/Frame: 28.75" x 25.75" Bacia Gordon (1904-1977) came to the United States from Poland and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. She traveled widely the United States, Mexico, Europe, and Israel. She was a member of, and has exhibited with Artists Equity, Jewish Arts Club, the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, The Chicago Art Institute, and in Migdal Ashkalon, Israel. She was also a member of the Chicago Society of Artists. Her work is represented in many private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Paul, Rockford, Milwaukee, and Chicago. Mrs. Gordon spent much time in Israel in the 1950s and 1960s, and most of the works in this web site reflect her stay there. The New York art critic, Alfred Werner, has said: “I find Mrs. Gordon’s freedom of paint aesthetically rewarding. She blends the reporter’s task of objectively recording appearance with the poet’s privilege of imprinting subjective reaction upon exterior reality... Here is the talent that often omits details, to let the spectator fill in, that prefers an allegorical hint to a straight tale, and that translates the strangeness of Maabaroth and Kibbutzim into terms of universally acceptable humanity” An Israeli critic has written of Mrs. Gordon : “The Jewish Daughter, born in Lithuania and reared in the United States, was stirred by the miracle of the Ingathering of the Exiles. The men, women and children she pictures thrill and pulsate with life because of her warm and loving brush.” "My first encounter with Israel in 1955 was inspiring and productive. It was a birds-eye view of the land and the people – the kibbutz, the village, the settlement, the Maabora, the Huleh project, Lachish at its inception, dedicated Israelis, new immigrants and the military of all ranks. I lived among people of many lands sketching and painting. I felt a great urgency to record and interpret. Working at an accelerated pace – line and color merged as I endeavored to express the universal qualities in these people. It was a tremendously stimulating experience and resulted in rechanneling my creative energy. I sketched and I wandered. I sketched in the Uval Gad where pipes are made to carry water to the Negev. I wandered among the bewildered white-robed bearded men of Morocco in Lachish… and among the older Yemenite settlements in Migdal Ashkalon. In Tiberias I saw people dressed in all garbs, the orthodox mantles of the polish ghetto and the oriental robes...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Precarious, Nude dark colors female nude figure on top of tilting pillows
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early work by the artist depicting a Nude posing atop a totem. ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking ...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial "Cellar with Horseshoe"
Located in New York, NY
"Cellar with Horseshoe" WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial Joseph Solman (1909-2008) "Cellar with Horseshoe," 16 x 20 inches, oil on canvas circa 1938, initial...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Organ Grinder with Parrot Modern Judaica Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Organ grinder with parrot Medium: Oil Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame Country: United States The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), wh...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Modernist Rabbi at Study Judaica Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaica Subject: Religious Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: United States Dimensions: 17.5" x 21.75" Dimensions w/Frame: 24" x 28" Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and Judaic poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Early Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting WPA Jewish Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Blue Waterlily
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Born in Italy, Joseph Stella immigrated to New York City at the age of nineteen and went on to become one of America’s foremost modernist painters. He remained deeply loyal to his It...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Pipeline
Located in Long Island City, NY
A watercolor painting by Clarence Holbrook Carter from 1955. Carter's modernist style utilizes strong structural lines and architectural aesthetics to form almost surreal-like scenes...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

"A Young Women in the Landscape - Fall River, Mass.", 1964 by Sergio Fergola
By Sergio Fergola
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sergio Fergola, Italian (1936 - 1994) Title: A Young Women in the Landscape - Fall River, Mass. Year: 1964 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 36 x 26 in. (91.44 x 66.04...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Modernist Architecture, Cantilever Pool House, 2016 Oil on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Oil on Canvas 124.5 x 132.1 cm 49 x 52 in. (AB109) Andy Burgess is known for his renditions of modernist and mid-century architecture, panoramic cityscape paintings, and elaborate m...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modernist Painting, "Biomorphic Codes"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind acrylic and mixed media painting on wood panel by San Diego artist, Peter Geise. It is unframed. Its dimensions are 16"x 16". A certificate of authenticity wi...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Because of Patricia My True Inspiration
By Jack Amaroso
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Because of Patricia My True Inspiration Size: 60x72 framed 61x73 Amoroso's diverse and prolific career as an artist began when he was the youngest student ever to be accepted in a Massachusetts accredited art school (he was fifteen years old). At age twenty-seven his position as an artist of importance was secured when he was nominated as "Outstanding New Talent in the U.S.A." by Art in America magazine. In 1964 Amoroso's work was designated "Best Overall" at the New York World's Fair. In 1977 he received a special invitation to The I.B.C. Royal Conference, a communal gathering of artists throughout the world marking the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The importance of Amoroso's work has been internationally recognized by such notables as "Who's Who in American Art," 1959, 1973, "Who's Who in the South & Southwest," 1973, The National Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, The British Museum, and the Cambridge University Library. Amoroso is one of the founding directors of the Artist Equity of America in Florida. His work has been collected by numerous celebrities, politicians, collectors & museums. He has been commissioned for murals in many prominent public spaces, including the Coconut Grove Playhouse and the HMS Queen Elizabeth II. Painting a mural for the qe2 At work on the QE II...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Magnificent ca. 1931 Precisionist Still Life Painting of Squash by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A vibrant Precisionist still-life painting of a pitcher and squash by artist notable artist Harold Haydon, dating from ca. 1931. Artwork size: 15" x 18". Framed size: 21" x 24". ...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board, Canvas

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Acrylic Polymer, Wood

Middle Age Aint That Bad. (Retiree Reading a Book)
Located in Surfside, FL
DAVID ROSEN Toronto, Canada, b. 1912, d. 2004 Painter David Rosen emerged onto the art scene while the country was wrought with unimaginable economic turmoil. Like most other Americans, the Great Depression pummeled artists financially, leaving them destitute and unable to find even conventional labor work. However, in the midst of such devastation, the government implemented arts projects which strove to achieve employment for these artists. The program arose during a memorable era for art and funded the careers of several renowned artists, including Jackson Pollack, Arshile Gorky, and Lee Krasner before they found success. In 1936, Rosen himself joined the program and quickly accompanied his contemporaries in building the next movement of modern art, Abstract Expressionism. Born in 1912, Rosen grew up in Toronto, Canada before pursuing arts in the United States. Upon arriving, Rosen settled in New York City and attended the Cooper Union Art school in 1930. While participating in the Federal Arts Project, he worked for the program's mural department until 1941. As well, he worked with an artist collective, Siqueiros Art Workshop. There, Rosen met fellow FAP artist Jackson Pollack, and together, with artist Phillip Guston, they experimented with new painting techniques and mediums. Art movements are often reactions to the popular styles that precede them, and Abstract Expressionism applied a new and exciting method to Modern Art. Gradually, artists began to break away from an overly-studied, academic approach to painting and liberated their technique. During these workshops, Rosen was introduced to Pollack's groundbreaking "drip painting" before it changed the art world. As America became involved in World War II, the Federal Arts Project wound down, officially ending in 1942. Around this time, Rosen enlisted as a Merchant Seaman with the U.S Merchant Marines. During this time, he traveled to North Africa and Italy before concluding his service and moving to California where, in 1945, he devoted his full attention to building an art career. Within a couple of years, he landed a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1947, and his first one-man show, which opened to rave reviews, was held at Hollywood's Contemporary Art Gallery. The exhibition’s success led to mural commissions from Palm Springs' Hotel del Tahquitz, and he scored more solo shows at West Hollywood's Chabot Gallery. The early 1950s brought a surge of recognition for Rosen's career, and while his work was certainly still influenced by Abstract Expression, his painting style included elements of Surrealism, Figurative Art, and Cubism. Like his colleague Jackson Pollack, Rosen produced work inspired by drip painting; however, rather than splattering, his drips were the natural flow marks from painting freely without regard for "mistakes." Throughout Rosen's long career, he would acquire techniques from vastly different art styles which made for a varied, eclectic catalog of work. Rosen continued to build his California art career and settled at a Laguna Beach art colony in 1958. There, he entered his work in the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts and was the first painter to contribute Abstract Art to the event. Rosen would participate in the festival for the next fifteen years. A year after his move, in 1959, Rosen opened his first studio gallery and began a 12-year collaboration with the Laguna Playhouse. For the next two decades, Rosen participated in 17 art exhibitions and 20 solo shows, and received considerable critical praise. Rosen's themes were as varied as his evolving painting style, and one of his themes focused on classic characters like Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rosen's close-up portraits of historical and literary figures, illustrated by the piece To Be or Not to Be: Soliloquy From Hamlet, capture the essence of the characters while remaining loose with the painting and even adding a slight cartoon feel. His ongoing Hamlet series, as a complete collection, makes an impact with the diversity of technique. Unlike the loose style of some of his works, the painting Madaam... that he is mad is true is influenced by the structure of Cubism, the flat dimensions of Byzantine Art, and his utilization of mixed media. After Rosen's death in 2004, the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts sponsored an exhibition of his Hamlet paintings at the Wells Fargo Building gallery. Throughout Rosen's career, he amassed a great deal of critical, industry, and public praise for his work. His beloved town of Laguna Beach bestowed numerous awards that include the Laguna Beach Annual Art Gallery Award and Orange County's Annual Exhibit Award. Rosen's work flourished in California, and he received recognition from the San Diego County Fair, Los Angeles' Miracle Mile...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

British Modernist Portrait of Chaim Weizmann President of Israel Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Alfred Aaron Wolmark (1877 – 1961) was a painter and decorative artist. He was a Post Impressionist and a pioneer of the New Movement in Art. He was born Aaron Wolmark into a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland who were amongst the many subsequently fleeing the pogroms of Eastern Europe. The family moved to Devon when he was six before moving to Spitalfields, East London, there along with many other Jewish immigrant émigré families. He became a British citizen in 1894. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited there from 1901-1936. (1895-8 (1st Silver Medallist for Drawing). There he took the name Alfred Wolmark, by which he is known. Returning briefly to Poland in 1903, he painted works based his Jewish identity and faith, refraining from depicting the persecution and anti-Semitism his family witnessed on the continent and idealising the peaceful and contemplative elements of his religion. His first one-man exhibition was held at the Bruton Galleries in 1905. In July 1911, after an artistic epiphany on honeymoon in Concarneau, Brittany, he became influenced by modern French painting, his colour palette and style became post impressionist, and Wolmark jettisoned his early methods in favour of the pioneering 'colourist' path that he followed for the next two decades of his working life. He was a British fauvist and pitched his tonal divisions to a higher key than any of his contemporaries. Wolmark kept to traditional genre, and transformed his subjects through the use of flattened forms, built up with a heavy impasto. His daring use of bright colour on some paintings such as "An Arrangement: Group of Nudes" demonstrate a skillset akin to Andy Warhol and earned him the title of ‘The Colour King’. the early colourist, Alfred Wolmark, the so-called father of the ‘Whitechapel Boys’. This group includes painters David Bomberg, Mark Gertler and Jacob Kramer, as well as (by association) the sculptor Jacob Epstein, First World War poet-painter, Isaac Rosenberg, and the only ‘Whitechapel Girl’ Clare Winsten...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Small Dark Grey Abstract Expressionist Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Small dark grey abstract expressionist painting of a figure's face by Dick Wray. The painting is currently unframed. Artist Biography: Dick Wray, a native Houstonian, born in Heigh...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Duo with a Flute, Judaica Klezmer Musicians Modernist American Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Ervin B. Nussbaum was born in Columbus, Ohio on November 11, 1914. His father, Marger, had arrived as part of the great Russian Diaspora of the time, when many Jewish families settle...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Pastel Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Oil

In the Garden of Ebeneezer Goode - Los Angeles Hillside in Mid-Century Colors
Located in Chicago, IL
Pat garnered international attention in 2012 when a time-lapse video showing the painstaking production of his Manhattan skyline drawing, Empire State of Pen (2012), went viral. Since then, he has become something of a cityscape specialist, producing large-scale works such as Colossus (2015) and a range of new pieces created for clients such as MGM Park in Las Vegas and Gensler Architects. Pat has recently collaborated on a book with Björn Ulvaeus from ABBA, making drawings in response to stories about his life and has just worked with legendary Podcaster, Roman Mars (99% Invisible) on his first book, which was a New York Times Bestseller. Pat has also established a creative relationship with the Iconic British fashion designer, Sir Paul Smith, painting a mural for him in NYC and will be working with him on multiple London projects in 2024. Other past clients have included Apple, Tiffany's and Co, BMW, Ian Happ (Chicago Cubs), RIBA, IDEO, BMW, Pentagram, Washington Post, NIKE, Adidas and British Airways. Patrick...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Gesso, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Modernist Still Life, Jewish Polish Artist
By Regina Mundlak
Located in Surfside, FL
Regina Mundlak was born in a village near Lomza (NE Poland), into a poor Jewish family. In 1901 she went to Berlin to find work, together with her mother and sister, a highly talented violinist. Her extraordinary talent rapidly brought her to the attention of the Jewish artistic milieu. Her work so impressed Max Liebermann (1847–1935) that he decided to finance her education. However, even with his help, she had difficulty in making a living. Efraim Moses Lilien (1874–1925), who did not conceal his fascination with her talent, tried to help by publishing an open letter in Ost und West in 1902, appealing for support for her, but because of financial problems she finally had to give up her studies and return to her homeland. At the age of fifteen she was already very skilled in drawing. At first she primarily created realistic portrait studies. The works she published in 1902 showed her rare power of observation. Her pen-and-ink drawings were also greatly admired. As her subjects she most often chose characteristic Jewish types from Eastern Europe. She exhibited her works in Warsaw at the (Society for Promotion of Fine Arts) in 1902 and in 1903 and at the Aleksander Krywult Salon in 1903. In 1906, once again in Berlin, she exhibited her works at the Cassirer Salon. A review of this exhibition by Hermann Struck appeared in Ost und West. Like Lilien before him, he too wrote about her “phenomenal talent.” On the occasion of her exhibition, some of her drawings were reproduced in Ost und West. The development of her creative abilities in the years between Lilien’s letter and Struck’s review is noticeable. Drawings published in 1901 were portraits; compared to later works they evidence a skilful but still somewhat uncertain hand. The works created a few years later were characterized by a stronger and surer line. These works are also more developed: while the subject of her works remained the same, she now extended her interest in portraiture to the shape of the entire human body, presenting the figures in more elaborate environments. Looking at the reproductions, one might conclude that she was interested in nothing but Jewish life in the Diaspora. There is a propensity to show the faces of older people...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Another Day Under, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Another Day Under" is part of a series, called "Beginnings", that is 30 x 40", acrylic on canvas. The series focuses on new and renewed beginnings. This could be new life, a new day...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Antique American Impressionist Ashcan School Junk Collector Cityscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape painting titled "The Junk Collector" by Clarence E. Van Duzer (1920 - 2009). Oil on board, circa 193...
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Autumn Wind, Large American Modernist Oil Painting Woman with Flowers
By Doris Turner
Located in Surfside, FL
Nice American Modernist Oil Painting. with old label verso. not dated but estimating it to the 70s. Not sure which Doris turner this is...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Hungarian Gilt Oil Painting on Board Modern Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
From a collection by a long time Miami Beach art dealer on the old Lincoln Rd. This is a piece he brought back from hungary. from a collection of good Hungarian artists and Illustrat...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Persephone
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Persephone Oil on canvas, 1952 Signed lower left (see photo) Titled reverse "Persephone" Signed "V. 52" Exhibited: Columbus Gallery of the Arts label "71/30 Bt. 2", see label Condition: two very small flakes of missing paint Canvas size: 20 1/8 x 16" Frame size: 20 7/8 x 16 3/4" Provenance: Estate of the artist Dehn Heirs An important painting by the artist. Virginia Dehn From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia Dehn (1922-2005) 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...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

African American Mother and Child by Peggy Dodds Circa 1940's
Located in Rochester, NY
Fashionably dressed African American mother and child by Peggy Dodds (1900-1987). Large oil on canvas. Circa 1940's. Unframed. please, contact ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Mixed Media Sculptural Painting "Unicorn" Chicago Jewish Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media Surface: Board Dimensions: 28.75 X 24 (size includes frame. signed with initials and bearing a label verso. Reminiscent of the Ar...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media

Modernist Painting, "Modernist Agenda"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind acrylic and mixed media painting on wood panel by San Diego artist, Peter Geise. It is unframed. Its dimensions are 11"x 14". A certificate of authenticity will follow its delivery. Unwired and requires hardware if you wish to hang. Peter J. Geise’s work non-objective and semi-abstract art-making practice began at the age of 12 and is informed by modern art of the 20th century. Major artists...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Morningside Park, Old New York - Cathedral of St. John the Divine
By Lucille Corcos
Located in Miami, FL
Corcos paints what appears to be the northern part Central Park from an elevated view looking northwest. The artist used a restricted palette of warm browns and grays with heavy outl...
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Masonite, Oil

1940s Modernist Trees Watercolor Painting, Framed Vertical Earth Tone Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating Modernist watercolor painting of a serene forest scene by Richard Sorby (1911-2001) beautifully captures the essence of nature through a minimalist and expressive lens. Painted in the 1940s, the piece features stylized trees in bold, dark hues of green, blue, and black, complemented by earthy tones of brown, orange, and white. The watercolor on paper is signed by the artist in the lower right corner and beautifully framed with archival materials. The outer dimensions of the piece measure 26 ½ x 18 ½ x 1 inches, with the image size itself being 22 ¾ x 14 ¾ inches. About the Artist: Richard Sorby, a Colorado-based artist, was renowned for his distinctive modernist style, blending abstraction with representational themes. Sorby earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in 1937 and went on to study under influential mentors, including Vance Kirkland and William Joseph Eastman...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Modernist Abstract Cast Paper Sculpture Textile Collage Wall Hanging
Located in Surfside, FL
Hea-Sook Yoo, artist, internationally renowned female artist, has her paintings hanging inresidences, businesses and art galleries on three continents over three decades.Ms. Yoo is c...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Fabric, Mixed Media

Gustav Likan Girl with Crayons 1962
Located in Austin, TX
A luminous portrait by Gustav Likan (Yugoslavia, 1912 - 1998), masterfully rendered in pastel on paper. The piece features a young girl engrossed in crea...
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Pastel

Daisy Bouquet, Oil Painting by Lloyd Lozes Goff
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lloyd Lozes Goff, American (1918 - 1982) Title: Daisy Bouquet Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Image Size: 23 x 17.5 inches Size: 25 in. x 3...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Stuffed
Located in Atlanta, GA
My paintings accentuate colour and pattern. Lately, I have introduced representation by means of flowers in vases, most recently including them within interior spaces. I am intereste...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Dainty
Located in Atlanta, GA
My paintings accentuate colour and pattern. Lately, I have introduced representation by means of flowers in vases, most recently including them within interior spaces. I am intereste...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

polygon in space #25 - large geometric bright color wall sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Zin Helena Song was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1983 and completed her undergraduate studies there at the Kook Min University before traveling to New York, where she earned her MFA...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Lulav and Etrog Benediction, Judaica Oil Painting, Early 20th Century
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Seeberger (Sieberger) was a known artist and post-card designer who lived in Paris and was active around 1900-1940. He was arrested for being a Jew when the Germans occupied Paris in the 1940s. He was brought into a concentration camp...
Category

20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Painting, "Nordic Woods "
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind acrylic and mixed media painting on wood panel by San Diego artist, Peter Geise. It is unframed. Its dimensions are 12"x12"x.75"" A...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

The Boulevardier
Located in Atlanta, GA
Scott French has over 30 years of painting experience. His work focuses on figures, landscapes, and recently, cocktails. Known for his painterly and expressive style, French uses ric...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Prophet, Modernist Judaica Oil Painting Biblical Jewish Rabbi at Prayer
Located in Surfside, FL
An oil on board Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. The work depicts a standing prophet with white robes raising his arms towards heaven. The work is signed "Ben-Zion" in the bottom right corner. The work is signed and dated "4/14/59" on verso. Provenance: Ex. Sotheby's Parke Bernet Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet...
Category

1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mountain Night
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media (Watercolor and india ink) on paper depicting a mountain range at night.
Category

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

Bateaux, Beach Scene Modern Oil Painting by Alvaro Guillot
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alvaro Guillot, Uruguayan/American (1931 - 2010) Title: Bateaux Year: 1963 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 24 x 30 inches Frame: 31 x 37 inches
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract #410
By Denis Phillips
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Abstract #410, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches. Excerpts from DENIS PHILLIPS written by Jane Connell “I’ve never really known a time in my life,” Denis Phillips muses, “when one ...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Tonic with Gin
Located in Atlanta, GA
Scott French has over 30 years of painting experience. His work focuses on figures, landscapes, and recently, cocktails. Known for his painterly and expressive style, French uses ric...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large Vintage Painting Titled: “Goodbye Arnie”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large Vintage Airbrush Painting Titled: “Goodbye Arnie” Wayne A. Timm MFA In the 1960's, Wayne Timm rubbed elbows with the likes of Warhol, L...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract Landscape 1954 American Modernist from Paul Rosenberg Gallery
By Raymond Mintz
Located in Surfside, FL
Label verso from Paul Rosenberg Gallery. (this was 600$ in 1954!) 18 X 26 without frame. 19 X 27.75 with frame Raymond was born in Clifton, New Jersey, in 1925, of German descent. ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Mario Toppi, "Trio, " Fresco on Board, circa 1960
Located in Long Island City, NY
This piece was created by Italian artist Mario Toppi circa 1960. Toppi worked primarily in fresco, creating works that pay material homage to Italy's long artistic history, yet remai...
Category

1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Plaster, Paint, Board

Red roofs, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
TITLE - Red roofs SIZE - 36 X 36 In inches This painting shows the view of some rooftops of houses in Paris. I love the architecture and old building and the colors are just s...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Art Week 22 X 17 inches Gouache on board, c. 19...
Category

1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

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

Antique Signed Swiss Modern Mountain Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage Swiss impressionist painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Framed. Signed. Image size, 10L x 16H.
Category

1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dance of the In laws Wedding Scene Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Jewish Wedding Mechutanim Medium: Oil Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame Country: United States The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whe...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rabbi holding the Torah, Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - ) Title: Rabbi 3 Year: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r. Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 38 x 31 inches
Category

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Abstraction
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing a modern abstract painting by Robert Blair. Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He is best k...
Category

1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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