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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
Monochrome Memory 12

Monochrome Memory 12

By Carl Linstrum

Located in Atlanta, GA

Carl Linstrum's "Other Side" series of paintings speak to disappearing ecosystems in a time of increasing climate crises, while celebrating the sheer beauty of nature through richly ...

Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Window 369 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Red and Yellow Dual Tone Artwork
The Window 369 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Red and Yellow Dual Tone Artwork

The Window 369 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Red and Yellow Dual Tone Artwork

By Ricky Hunt

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Abstract Seascape Oil Painting - Where Light Rests
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Abstract Seascape Oil Painting - Where Light Rests

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Abstract Seascape Oil Painting - Where Light Rests

Located in Bristol, GB

WHERE LIGHT SETTLES Size: 59.5 x 48 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A minimalist and elegant mid-century abstracted composition that distils the essence of a tranquil seascape in...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Interior Architectural Framed Original Oil Painting
Vintage American Modernist Interior Architectural Framed Original Oil Painting

Vintage American Modernist Interior Architectural Framed Original Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 14 by 11 inches overall, and 12 by 8.75 painting alone. Unsigned. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Cattle grazing in an extensive landscape
Cattle grazing in an extensive landscape

Cattle grazing in an extensive landscape

Located in Stoke, Hampshire

Tom Coates (1941-2023) Cattle grazing in an extensive landscape Oil on canvas Signed with initials lower left Canvas Size - 20 x 24 in Framed Size - 29 x 33 in Tom Coates (1941–2023...

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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sunspot 134 - Modern Resin Minimalist Red and White Dual Tone Abstract Artwork
Sunspot 134 - Modern Resin Minimalist Red and White Dual Tone Abstract Artwork

Sunspot 134 - Modern Resin Minimalist Red and White Dual Tone Abstract Artwork

By Ricky Hunt

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

A mare and foal shading under the trees
A mare and foal shading under the trees

A mare and foal shading under the trees

By Arthur Spooner

Located in Stoke, Hampshire

Arthur Spooner (1873-1962) A mare and foal shading under the trees Signed lower right Oil on canvas board Painting size - 14 1/8 x 18 1/2 in Framed size - Arthur Spooner (1873–1962...

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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bold Shaped Flowers
Bold Shaped Flowers

Bold Shaped Flowers

Located in Zofingen, AG

Acrylic on canvas Size: 80 x 100 x 2 cm Signed by the artist with certificate of authenticity Artwork arrives in perfect condition while keeping shipping costs affordable. Bring a burst of joy to your space with this Matisse-inspired mixed media painting, featuring a colorful oversized heart filled with playful doodles—stars, hearts, butterflies, smiley faces—and surrounded by a vibrant floral background in bold reds, pinks, yellows, and greens. The hand-drawn white lines on the petals add texture and charm to this joyful and uplifting piece. This original acrylic and paper collage merges modern abstract design with expressive creativity. It’s the perfect statement piece for anyone who loves whimsical, colorful, and emotionally vibrant artwork. Matisse style art, abstract heart painting, paper collage art...

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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Paphos, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
"Paphos, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting

"Paphos, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting

By Stanley Bate

Located in Westport, CT

This textured, Modern Abstract Expressionist painting Stanley Bate features a neutral palette with both warm and cool undertones. Muted blues and reds seem to be incorporated into a ...

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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

View of  Riva degli Schiavoni - Oil Painting - Late 18th century
View of  Riva degli Schiavoni - Oil Painting - Late 18th century

View of Riva degli Schiavoni - Oil Painting - Late 18th century

By Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto)

Located in Roma, IT

View of Riva degli Schiavoni is an original old master artwork realized in the late 18th century by a follower of the School of the italian painter Canaletto. Oil on canvas. An imp...

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Late 18th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Wiggle Room 41 - Abstract Modern Resin Minimalist Earth Tone Mixed Media Artwork
Wiggle Room 41 - Abstract Modern Resin Minimalist Earth Tone Mixed Media Artwork

Wiggle Room 41 - Abstract Modern Resin Minimalist Earth Tone Mixed Media Artwork

By Ricky Hunt

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Alfred Sisquella - “Pressecs i Roses” Still Life - Oil on Canvas
Alfred Sisquella - “Pressecs i Roses” Still Life - Oil on Canvas

Alfred Sisquella - “Pressecs i Roses” Still Life - Oil on Canvas

Located in Sant Celoni, ES

Alfred Sisquella - “Pressecs i Roses” - Oil on Canvas - 65 x 54 cm Oil on canvas. Signed by the artist in the lower left. Artwork: 65 × 54 cm (25.6 × 21.3 in.). Framed: 86 × 74.5 cm...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Window 379 - Contemporary Shiny Resin Minimalist Brown Yellow Tone Artwork
The Window 379 - Contemporary Shiny Resin Minimalist Brown Yellow Tone Artwork

The Window 379 - Contemporary Shiny Resin Minimalist Brown Yellow Tone Artwork

By Ricky Hunt

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

"Metropolitan Abstraction" Signed Mid Century Cubist Architectural Abstraction
"Metropolitan Abstraction" Signed Mid Century Cubist Architectural Abstraction

"Metropolitan Abstraction" Signed Mid Century Cubist Architectural Abstraction

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American abstract cubist street scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 31 by 42 inches overall, and 25 by 36 painting alone. In excellent original con...

Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Ben Avram, Israeli Bezalel School Old City Jerusalem Israel Landscape Painting
Ben Avram, Israeli Bezalel School Old City Jerusalem Israel Landscape Painting

Ben Avram, Israeli Bezalel School Old City Jerusalem Israel Landscape Painting

By Edward Ben Avram

Located in Surfside, FL

Edward Ben Avram Hand signed lower right Jerusalem Israeli Old City walls landscape cityscape. Home of the Har Habayit, The Western Wall, Temple mount. Size includes frame 23 X 28, paper is 14 X 20 inches Edward Ben Avram (born 1941) is an Indian - Israeli artist who was born in Bombay, India and immigrated to Israel as a teenager. He graduated from the Bezalel School of Art and Design in 1965 and continues to call Jerusalem his home. Most of Ben Avraham oil painting and watercolors portrays Israeli cities, particularly the old city of Jerusalem with its architecture and orientalist domes and arches, religious festivals, and Bible stories. He paints in creamy sensual tones incorporating symbols such as doves, a menorah, and Shabbat candles. With his penchant for filigreed designs and bright colors, Edouard Ben Avram betrays some influences of his Indian boyhood. But the subjects that he paints so gracefully with a touch of Oriental lyricism are scenes of Jerusalem, his home for over 20 years. Exhibitions 1964 Group exhibitions in the United States and Canada 1977 Safrai Gallery, Jerusalem (a prestigious gallery that shows Abel Pann, Mordecai Ardon, Samuel Bak, Abraham Binder...

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1980s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Two Oil Paintings of A Figure In Greenery and A Country House Mounted In Frame
Two Oil Paintings of A Figure In Greenery and A Country House Mounted In Frame

Two Oil Paintings of A Figure In Greenery and A Country House Mounted In Frame

By Irina Hale

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Greenery and Country House singed initials by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil paintings on artist paper mounted in a frame Glass covering overall framed: 16.5 x 12.5 inches Top pa...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Century Modern Original Abstract Figurative Oil Painting -Presence in Shadow
Mid Century Modern Original Abstract Figurative Oil Painting -Presence in Shadow

Mid Century Modern Original Abstract Figurative Oil Painting -Presence in Shadow

Located in Bristol, GB

PRESENCE IN SHADOW Size: 60.5 x 52.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A compelling and emotive mid-century abstract figurative composition that presents a solitary seated figure r...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Monumental American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Original NYC Oil Painting
Monumental American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Original NYC Oil Painting

Monumental American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Original NYC Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Measuring: 40 by 49 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

Category

1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rene Genis, Modernist oil still life of a Jug and bell peppers on a table
Rene Genis, Modernist oil still life of a Jug and bell peppers on a table

Rene Genis, Modernist oil still life of a Jug and bell peppers on a table

By René Genis

Located in Harkstead, GB

A really striking and stylish large still life by this Modernist master. René Genis (1922-2004) Pot Bland et poivrons Signed and further signed to reverse and inscribed with the tit...

Category

20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Subway Construction
Subway Construction

Subway Construction

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This painting is part of our exhibition American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Subway Construction, c. 1928, oil on board, 19 x 15 ¾ inches, signed upper left, artist and title verso; exhibited: 1) 12th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, The Waldorf Astoria, New York NY, from March 9 to April 1, 1928, no. 864 (original price $250) (see Death Prevailing Theme of Artists in Weird Exhibits, The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), March 8, 1928); 2) Boston Tercentenary Exhibition Fine Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Horticultural Hall, Boston MA, July, 1930, no. 108 (honorable mention - noted verso); 3) 38th Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, June, 1931 (see Alexander, Mary, The Week in Art Circles, The Cincinnati Enquirer, June 7, 1931); and 4) National Art Week Exhibition [Group Show], Montross Gallery, New York, New York, December, 1940 (see Devree, Howard, Brief Comment on Some Recently Opened Exhibitions in the Galleries, The New York Times, December 1, 1940) About the Painting Ernest Stock’s Subway Construction depicts the excavation of New York’s 8th Avenue line, which was the first completed section of the city-operated Independent Subway System (IND). The groundbreaking ceremony was in 1925, but the line did not open until 1932, placing Stock’s painting in the middle of the construction effort. The 8th Avenue line was primarily constructed using the “cut and cover” method in which the streets above the line were dug up, infrastructure was built from the surface level down, the resulting holes were filled, and the streets reconstructed. While many artists of the 1920s were fascinated with the upward thrust of New York’s exploding skyline as architects and developers sought to erect ever higher buildings, Stock turned his attention to the engineering marvels which were taking place below ground. In Subway Construction, Stock depicts workers removing the earth beneath the street and building scaffolding and other support structures to allow concrete to be poured. Light and shadow fall across the x-shaped grid pattern formed by the wooden beams and planks. It is no surprise that critics reviewing the painting commented on Stock’s use of an “interesting pattern” to form a painting that is “clever and well designed.” About the Artist Ernest Richard Stock was an award-winning painter, print maker, muralist, and commercial artist. He was born in Bristol, England and was educated at the prestigious Bristol Grammar School. During World War I, Stock joined the British Royal Air Flying Corps in Canada and served in France as a pilot where he was wounded. After the war, he immigrated to the United States and joined the firm of Mack, Jenny, and Tyler, where he further honed his architectural and decorative painting skills. During the 1920s, Stock often traveled back and forth between the US and Europe. He was twice married, including to the American author, Katherine Anne Porter. Starting in the mid-1920s, Stock began to exhibit his artwork professionally, including at London’s Beaux Arts Gallery, the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Whitney Studio and various locations in the Northeast. Critics often praised the strong design sensibility in Stock’s paintings. Stock was a commercial illustrator for a handful of published books and during World War II, he worked in the Stratford Connecticut...

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1920s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Colorful Woman with Floral Face
Colorful Woman with Floral Face

Colorful Woman with Floral Face

Located in Zofingen, AG

Acrylic painting on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 29 × 42 × 0,1 cm It is original painting on 160gsm acid-free paper The artwork is titled and signed on the front and also come...

Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Balance
Balance

Balance

By Svitlana Van Rossum

Located in Zofingen, AG

Balance from the series The Daily The image of this woman can be perceived as a metaphor for everyday life. It reflects the balance we try to maintain each day — between what pressu...

Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Red and Orange Cottages In Woodland Landscape British Modernist Pastel Sketch
Red and Orange Cottages In Woodland Landscape British Modernist Pastel Sketch

Red and Orange Cottages In Woodland Landscape British Modernist Pastel Sketch

By Irina Hale

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Pastel Landscape by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) pastel on brown artist tracing paper , unframed painting: 3.75 x 4.5 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condition: ve...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Olive Groves Under Moonlight Garden Fencing British Modernist Oil Painting
Olive Groves Under Moonlight Garden Fencing British Modernist Oil Painting

Olive Groves Under Moonlight Garden Fencing British Modernist Oil Painting

By Irina Hale

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Moonlight by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on card stuck on artist paper, unframed size: 8.25 x 10.5 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condition: very g...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Charcoal Still Life with Bottles Vessels and Drapery French Modernist Drawing
Charcoal Still Life with Bottles Vessels and Drapery French Modernist Drawing

Charcoal Still Life with Bottles Vessels and Drapery French Modernist Drawing

By Jacqueline Boisselot

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title Charcoal Still Life with Bottles Vessels and Drapery French Modernist Drawing Artist Jacqueline Boisselot French late 20th century Medium Charcoal on textured artist paper unfr...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Charcoal

San Francisco Waterfront “July 30, 2014”, attributed to S.K. Farnsworth
San Francisco Waterfront “July 30, 2014”, attributed to S.K. Farnsworth

San Francisco Waterfront “July 30, 2014”, attributed to S.K. Farnsworth

Located in San Francisco, CA

This vibrant landscape is a plein air drawing executed primarily in oil pastels with colored pencils on paper or board. The composition depicts a waterfront view of San Francisco's h...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Ink, Color Pencil

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