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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
1950's Colorful Wildflowers in a Copper Vase in Yellow Interior Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Wildflower Still Life signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) dated 1971 original watercolor on artist paper size: 20 x 17 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoy...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Watercolor

Poland's House in Fog
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Lois Dodd’s "Poland’s House in Fog" encapsulates the quiet poetry of the everyday, a hallmark of her celebrated approach to landscape painting. This 1990 piece invites viewers into a...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Oil

The Cavern 1950 painting by John Atherton
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed lower right: "Atherton", inscribed "John Atherton Original Tempera 7/28/50" on verso. Artwork measures 16" x 20" and framed 20" x 24" x 2 ½" About this artists: John Atherton (1900-1952) did not show an early aptitude for art; rather, his first love was nature and the activities he relished there, mainly fishing and hunting. Born in Brainerd, Minnesota in 1900, he learned to fish with his father from the age of four. Later the family moved to Spokane, Washington, and when he was old enough, Atherton worked at a variety of jobs to help support his family. One such job, in the sorting plant of a lead and silver mine, paid $4.25 a day—a good wage, though he never had time to spend his money, since he worked seven days a week. After serving in the Navy for a year during World War I, Atherton was determined to get an education. He worked as a sign painter and played the banjo in a dance band, finally accumulating enough money to enroll in the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Once there, he worked like a fiend, attending classes both during the day and at night, getting the best training available. Though he had always intended to be a fine artist, Atherton’s first jobs were for commercial art firms. In 1929, using the prize money won for a painting he entered in an art competition, Atherton and his wife moved to New York City. Though the economic situation was difficult in those years, he managed to keep going by taking commissions for magazine illustrations, and over the years he would paint more than forty covers for The Saturday Evening Post. In 1938, an artist friend suggested that he use the same flat, decorative style as his commercial work for his gallery paintings. This was a breakthrough for Atherton; soon afterwards he held a one-man show at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, and his paintings began to be collected by museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Atherton’s reputation increased to a national scale when he designed the art deco stone lithograph poster for the 1939 World’s Fair that strikingly depicted Earth and its atmospheric layers in the lap of Liberty. Atherton was highly influenced by the magic realist...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Tempera

1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Expressive Dual Seated Nude Models
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Study French School, circa 1960's chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed size: 12.5 x 19 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: private collectio...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Chalk, Pastel

"Untitled"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist, Jean Calogero. Circa 1950. Signed lower left Overall in museum quality gold leaf frame 17.5 by 15.75 inches. Condition: Good. Provenan...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Untitled"
"Untitled"
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Contemporize flowers yellow, flowers on canvas. Radiant Whirl of Blooms
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The painting size is 24"x30", oil on canvas. A lush still‑life bouquet in a deep cobalt vase, set against a luminous, swirling backdrop.
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Opening No. 51 (Modern, Hudson River Landscape Painting in Romanticist Style)
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary landscape oil painting reminiscent of Hudson River School & Romanticist painters oil on canvas 40 x 48 inches Highly romantic (yet modern) Hudson River oil landsca...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Seaside landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 66 x 78 x 4 cm
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1910s Modern Paintings

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Oil

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

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Oil

"Year of the Dragon, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This Modern abstract painting Stanley Bate features an earthy and warm palette and textured paint application. The painting is signed by artist lower right and is framed in the origi...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Silver

Modern British oil on canvas of Sunflowers on Pink by Bernard Myers
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Bernard Myers (British, 1925 – 2007) Sunflowers oil on canvas signed ‘B. Myers’ (on the reverse 19.7/8 x 23.7/8 in. (50.7 x 60.7 cm.) From the estate of Bernard Myers Bernard Myers ...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Beautiful Chaos
Located in East Hampton, NY
Distressed Abstract Painting Artist Statement: Painting has been a powerful medium for expressing my emotions. Through my art, I am able to escape, dream, hope, remain calm in the m...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Homage to the Spanish Republic 1938 oil painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
An early work by Julio De Diego embodies the deep love he had for his homeland of Spain, combined with his strong emotions against war. The peacefulness of the couple holding hands l...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Impressionist City Scene Painting in the Manner of Fernando Botero
Located in Plainview, NY
A lovely small oil on canvas painting in the style of the legendary artist Fernando Botero ( Columbian, 1932) showing people in large figures, "Boterismo...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Summer Splendor"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait - Oil Painting by Pietro Alimonti - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an artwork realized by Pietro Alimonti , 1969. Oil on Canvas. 38 x 48 cm ; 64 x 54 cm with frame. Handsigned in the lower right margin. Good conditions!
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19th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

untitled ( Civil Rights )
Located in Miami, FL
Evergood is decades ahead of his time in shouting out against racial injustice. Painted in the late 1950's KKK is an important work. For Philip Evergood (born Philip Blashki), pain...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil

"Paisaje de Mallorca" (Mallorca’s Landscape) in greens, blues, and earthy tones.
Located in Segovia, ES
Landscape of Mallorca by Spanish artist Celia Herr. Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm / 24 x 18.11 inches. Landscape of Mallorca, transports us to a natural corner of the Balearic island th...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Tender Bare Heart - Dreamlike Whimsical Figurative Watercolor Graphite Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Voyage au centre de la Terre (Jules Verne, prehistoric creatures, ~32% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Philip Verhoeven Voyage au centre de la Terre (Jules Verne, prehistoric creatures, Iceland, cave descent) Acrylic and Marker on Canvas Year: 2024 Size: 15.75 x 15.75 inches Signed an...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker

Still Life, Vibrant, Colorful Vintage Oil Painting, Lovely
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
American, 20th Century Signed R. Jones (on Verso) Still Life of Flowers, Circa 1950s - 1960s Oil on Canvas 36" x 26 1/8" Housed in a 2 1/2" Carved Frame in Gold Leaf Overall S...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

20th CENTURY FRENCH MODERNIST PAINTING - NUDE FIGURE COLORFUL INTERIOR
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Nude" by Jean Marc (French 1949-2019) gouache paint painting: 18.25 x 15 inches provenance: private collection, South of France Superb original painting by the widely exhibited Fr...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

An Innovative Mid-Century Modern Landscape by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Unique, 1960s Mid-Century Modern, European City View Watercolor by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Artwork is formatted in a trapezoid shape, an innovative compositional dev...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Untitled (Cubist Portrait)
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Untitled (Cubist Portrait), 1945, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower middle, 20 x 16 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, perhaps exhibited at Murry's solo exhibition at the Los Angeles's Screen Cartoonists' Gallery, July , 1945, presented in its original frame Jerre Murry was a California modernist painter. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Murry studied at the Detroit Academy of Art and worked as an artist for the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Murry traveled to the Bahamas, where he was inspired to paint modernist scenes of island life and people. By the early 1930s, Murry had relocated to Los Angeles, where he caught the attention of Synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald Wright, State Supervisor for the Federal Art Project (FAP) in Southern California. MacDonald Wright enrolled Murry into the FAP. Murry’s Gauguin-influenced painting Sun Image was exhibited together with other FAP artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1936, and Murry was also included in the FAP exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 1937. Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles, the Chamber of Commerce Gallery in Santa Barbara, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art also showed Murry’s work during the 1930s. Murry created a murals for Los Angeles Water & Power Company, the Boise, Idaho Post Office, and Glendale Junior College. In 1939, Murry's work was exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition and the New York World's Fair. He also was included in the All California Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of art that same year. He went on to exhibit in Los Angeles at the Foundation of Western Art's Trends in Southern California Art shows in 1940 and 1941, at Raymond and Raymond Gallery in Hollywood and USC’s Elizabeth Holmes...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Colourful Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, 'Nature Mort, Fruits et Fleurs'
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th Century oil on board still life of fruit and flowers in an interior by Bill Brown. The painting is signed and dated bottom right and titled and re...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Blue Lake
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s. Blue Lake, c. 1940s, oil on masonite, signed lower right, 20 x 36 inches, label and inscriptio...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

1973 Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Nude Oil Painting - In The Shadows
Located in Bristol, GB
IN THE SHADOWS Size: 37 x 29 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An emotive and visually captivating abstract figurative painting, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1973. Small ...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Banks of the River Seine Paris Skyline Pont Neuf Bridge, Signed French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pont Neuf, Paris French School, late 20th century signed and inscribed verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 13 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, France condition:...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Modernist Painting Portrait of Boy in Red Jumper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“Petit Garçon” Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) inscribed verso framed signed oil painting on canvas framed: 16 x 12 inches canvas: 13 x 10 inches. All the paintings we have...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lake landscape, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard White wooden frame 38.5 x 55.5 x 1.5 cm
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Allegro Barbaro Painting with Plastic Technique, Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
"Allegro Barbaro " Homage to Bela Bartok the Famous Hungarian Composer. Painting with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. Dimensions: with frame cm 150 x 150 Biography; ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

"Pueblos"
By Henry Baker
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Henry Hudson Baker (1900 - 1957) Henry Baker, an Ivy League graduate from Yale University, was born in Dunkirk, New York, in 1900. Baker was one of New Hope's important modernist painters as well as a talented musician residing in the area from 1932-1950. After graduating from Yale, Baker studied at the Art Students League in New York and upon the suggestion of his close friend, artist Ralston Crawford, he came to Merion, Pennsylvania, to study at the Barnes Foundation. While there, Baker befriended Edith Wood, a student from the Pennsylvania Academy. Miss Wood, familiar with the New Hope art colony and its charming surroundings, thought it might appeal to Baker. It did, and soon after his arrival to New Hope in 1932, Baker purchased and restored a beautiful old colonial home. Two years prior to Baker's arrival, a break had occurred between impressionist and modernist painters. His first participation with the New Hope artists...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Riders Through the Canyon, Mid-Century Western Landscape, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Riders Through the Canyon, c. 1941 Oil on board Signed lower right 24 x 32.25 inches "Also, on this second trip the significant colors of the Southwest became apparent - the prep...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Huge Contemporary Painting Abstract Mythical Figures in a Surrealist Composition
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mythical Figures signed oil on canvas, unframed dated 99' Canvas : 32 x 36 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good condition Description: This bold and co...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Bull, Mixed Media on Paper by Indian Modern Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Bull Mixed Media on Paper 30 x 20 inches, 2007 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist from Bengal. Extremely successful right f...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Important Contemporary Modernist Abstract Expressionist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive contemporary abstract expressionist painting by Stephen Heigh. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 14H x 11L.
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

View of the Gulf of Naples from Capodimonte - Oil Painting - 19th Century
By Camillo de Vito
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Gulf of Naples from Capodimonte is an oil on canvas realized by a follower of Camillo De Vito. Not signed. The Gulf of Naples, including a ...
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19th Century Modern Paintings

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Paint, Oil, Canvas

Landscape with Green Tree
Located in New York, NY
Alfred Henry Maurer has been called the First American Modern because of his role in bringing modern methods of working to the United States
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Female Figures Gossiping Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 15 x 19.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France c...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Watercolor

Colloquio senza successo -- Salvador Aulestia (1915-1994) - acrylic on canvas
Located in Milano, MI
This is a masterwork by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915 - Milano 1994). There are very few paintings such this one as for rarity than for quality. Two women on the beach who, as...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Acrylic Painting on Panel Assemblage Titled: "Leego III”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Wood Assemblage painted in Acrylic Paint and clear coat Title : Lee-go III wood cleat on back for hanging both ways Vertical or horizontal Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Unexpected Encounter, 1998
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has been exhibited extensively since 1981 and is in numerous private and public collections including the metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the University of Virginia, the University of Texas, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art. He is a Professor Emeritus from the University of North Texas where he taught painting in the College of Visual Arts and Design from 1991 to 2018. His work is represented by the Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Texas. In 2019, Jessup and his wife, Faith Scott Jessup, moved to Whidbey Island...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil

Small harbor by Ernest Voegeli - Oil on canvas 51x62 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Woman - Oil Paint - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Painting on cement panel realized in the mid-20th Century. Good condition, with minor losses.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Figure - Oil Paint - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Painting and embossing on cement panel realized in the mid-20th Century. Good condition, with minor losses.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Red Rocks, Southern Colorado, 20th-Century Landscape Painting of Rock Formations
By Herndon Davis
Located in Denver, CO
An exceptional original landscape painting by acclaimed Colorado artist Herndon Davis (1901–1962), showcasing the dramatic natural beauty of Red Rocks Park, located near Morrison, Co...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Nude Seated and Kneeling Female Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Ladies Sketch French School, circa 1960's chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed size: 18.75 x 12 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: private c...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Chalk, Pastel

Dreamy Young Blond Women Pondering "Deckchair and Cat" Summer Pastel Color
Located in Miami, FL
A dreamy young blond woman holding a Bengal cat is depicted relaxing in a deckchair. She gazes upward and outward, pondering—the distinctive marbling of the cat echos the floral back...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

"Clouds over the Sea" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 92x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Claude Sauthier was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929 and passed away in the same city in 2016. He studied at the Geneva School of Decorative Arts and initially worked as a graphi...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Charles Burk– American (1947-) Title: Doorway, old Building Year: unknown Medium: Watercolor on watercolor paper Size: 10 x 15 inches. Framed size: 19 x 23.5 inches Signatu...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Smoking a pipe and drinking wine (1893) - Henri Hebert Swiss school
Located in Geneva, CH
Henri A. Hebert was born in Geneva in the 19th century. Genre painter and son of Jules Hebert both belonging to the Swiss school. The Geneva museum prese...
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1890s Modern Paintings

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Oil

"San Sebastian" Awesome Larger Mid Century Austin Texas piece.
Located in San Antonio, TX
Kelly Fearing (1918-2011) Austin Artist Image Size: 42.25 x 30 Frame Size: 48.5 x 36.5 Medium: Oil/Gaouche "San Sebastion" Biography Kelly Fearing (1918-2011) The following information is from the artist's obituary, University of Texas Education News Prominent Artist and Art Educator Kelly Fearing Dies at 92 AUSTIN, Texas — Artist, art educator and University of Texas at Austin Professor Emeritus Kelly Fearing died on March 13 at his home in Austin, at the age of 92 due to congestive heart failure. Fearing was a professor emeritus in university's Department of Art and Art History. He taught at the university from 1947-87, and was presented the College of Fine Arts' E. William Doty Award in 2007, the college's highest honor recognizing him as an individual of distinction in his field who has demonstrated extraordinary interest in the college. "Kelly Fearing was the quintessential Renaissance man," said College of Fine Arts Associate Dean Ken Hale. "He was an artist, an author and an educator. His talent was extraordinary. He worked in almost all traditional mediums and excelled in oil painting and collage. Fearing was very well educated in all of the arts and enthusiastically passed that knowledge on to literally thousands of students. The University of Texas and the state of Texas have benefited greatly from the creativity and generosity of Kelly Fearing. His passing is a loss for us all." Born in Fordyce, Ark., Fearing was raised in Louisiana, studied art at Louisiana Tech University, earned a master's degree from Columbia University and went to Fort Worth during World War II to serve his country in a defense job. While being trained in graphic drafting for a company that was making bombers for the U.S. military, Fearing was introduced to other aspiring artists in the Fort Worth area. This group of avant-guard printmakers and artists became known as the Fort Worth Circle, and Fearing was one of its core members. Collectively, they were instrumental in introducing modernist ideas to Texas art. After teaching at Texas Wesleyan College from 1945-47, he came to The University of Texas at Austin as the Ashbel Smith Professor in Art in 1947. He retired from the university in 1987 and continued to work as a professional artist. His art has been referred to as magical realist, mystical naturalist and Romantic surrealist. As a pioneer in art education in America, Fearing founded The University of Texas Junior Art Project, the first visual arts outreach program of its kind in Texas. The program offered children of all ages and from all economic backgrounds free, university-based instruction and exposure to the arts. Kelly Fearing has been an important artist working in Texas since the 1940s. After doing his graduate work at Columbia University in New York City, Fearing established himself as a surrealist painter and print maker in Fort Worth, and then became one of the founding members of the art faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. He has had recent exhibitions at the Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas, and at the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery in Austin, Texas. Fearing lives and works in Austin, Texas. Courtesy of Flatbread Press and Gallery Added note: Kelly Fearing died of congestive heart failure in 2011 in Austin, Texas. William KELLY FEARING (1918-2011) Born in Fordyce, Arkansas, Kelly Fearing entered college as an accounting major but quickly discovered his intense interest in art. He studied art at Louisiana Tech University and later at Columbia University. He taught public school briefly before relocating to Texas to teach art at the university level in El Paso and Fort Worth before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights · 1918 Born in Fordyce, Arkansas · 1941 BA, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, Louisiana · 1941-42 Teacher, Winfield Public Schools, Louisiana · 1943-45 Guest Professor, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas · 1945-47 Instructor, Texas Wesleyan College, Fort Worth, Texas · 1950 MA, Columbia University, New York, New York · 1947-87 Professor of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Texas · 2007 Recipient, William E. Doty Award · 2009 Recipient, Texas Biennial Tribute Artist · 2011 Died in Austin, Texas Selected Prizes, Awards · Texas General/Annual: Purchase Prize 1956; Cash Prize 1945, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963; Recommended for Purchase Prize 1949, 1950 1945 Cash Prize, The Aquarist, oil 1947 Cash Prize for Dream of Jacob, oil 1949 Cash Prize and Recommended for Purchase Prize, The Red Sea, oil 1950 Recommended for Purchase Prize, Man in a Tide Pool, oil 1953 Cash Prize, Tobias and the Angel, oil 1954 Cash Prize, Landscape with Peacock, oil 1955 Cash Prize, St. John in the Wilderness, oil 1956 Purchase Prize, Yellow After the Rain, oil 1963 Cash Prize, Sleeping Philosopher in a Landscape Developing, oil · Fort Worth Local: First Prize 1945; Popular Prize 1944 1944 Popular Prize, USO Street Dance 1945 First Prize, The Kite Flyers, oil · Texas Fine Arts: Purchase Prize 1954; Cash Prize 1952, 1955 (2 works), 1956 1952 Cash Prize 1954 Purchase Prize 1955 Cash Prize for Watercolor, watercolor 1955 Cash Prize, Spring Festival 1956 Cash Prize · Other Exhibitions: Purchase Prize 1945 Texas Print Exhibition; Merit Award 1956 DD Feldman; Honorable Mention 1962 Longview National Invitational 1945 Purchase Prize, The Collector, etching, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition 1962 Honorable Mention, Longview National Invitational Selected Exhibitions · 1941 Solo, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana · 1944 24th Exhibition of the Southern States Art League, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1944 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (popular prize) · 1944 6th Texas General Exhibition 1944-1945, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas · 1945 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (purchase prize) · 1945 7th Texas General Exhibition 1945-1946, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1945 Prints of Fort Worth Artists, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas · 1945 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (1st prize) · 1946 8th Texas General Exhibition 1946-1947, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas · 1947 55 Works of Modern Art Owned in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1947 6th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1947 9th Texas General Exhibition 1947-1948, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize) · 1948 10th Texas General Exhibition 1948-1949, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1945 Prize, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1948 Watercolors by 16 Texas Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1948 University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1949 Solo, Fresno State College, Fresno, California · 1949 11th Annual Texas Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture 1949-1950, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (cash prize and recommended for purchase prize) · 1950 Texas Wildcat, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California · 1950, 1960, 1963 Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado · 1950 12th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1950-1951, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (recommended for purchase prize) · 1951 Newcomers: First Showing of a New Generation, Downtown Gallery, New York, New York · 1952 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1952 Imaginative Paintings by Kelly Fearing, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California · 1952 Young Collections 1952, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1952 Kelly Fearing, Betty McLean Gallery, Dallas, Texas · 1952 Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, New York; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) · 1952 Solo, Cotton Memorial Galleries, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas · 1952 14th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1952, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1953 University of Texas Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1953 Solo, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California · 1953 15th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1953, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize) · 1954 149th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 1954 Sacred Art, Catholic University, Washington, DC · 1954 Seventeen Years: An Exhibition of the First Prize Winners in the 17 Annual Exhibitions of Work by Fort Worth Artists Held by the Fort Worth Art Association, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue) · 1954 16th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1954, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (cash prize) · 1954 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (purchase prize) · 1954 Religious Art Today, Brown Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts · 1954-56 Artist’s Panorama Traveling Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 1955 Two Texas Artists (Kelly Fearing and Mildred Wood Dixon), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1955 Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 1955 Solo, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas · 1955 The World Around Us: 100 Years of American Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1955 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize for watercolor) · 1955 Spring Arts Festival, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1955 Young Collections 1955, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1955 17th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1955-1956, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1955, 1959, 1963 Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois · 1956 6th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Texas Tech College Museum, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; University of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater · 1956 Gulf-Caribbean Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado (catalogue) · 1956 Young Collections 1956, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1956 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1956 Merit Award, D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (1958, Dallas???) · 1956 D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1956 18th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1956-1957, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas (purchase prize) · 1957 Survey of Painting in Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, circulated by American Federation of Arts (catalogue) · 1957 22nd Annual Midyear Juried Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio · 1957 Summer Group Exhibition, Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York, New York · 1957 Young Collections 1957, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1958 Religious Art of the Western World, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1958 20th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1958-1959, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; TFAA, Laguna Gloria Gallery, Austin; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; San Angelo Art Club, San Angelo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1959 Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (catalogue) · 1959 21st Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1959-1960, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1960 Southwestern Art: A Sampling of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1961 Invitational Exhibition of Painters Born in Arkansas, Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas · 1962, 1963, 1975 Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas (honorable mention 1962) · 1963 University of Texas Art Faculty—Past and Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1963 25th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1963-1964, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1963 The Versatile Shell, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1963 59th Annual Exhibition of Western Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado · 1963, 1966 Christocentric Exhibition, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois · 1964 Solo, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas · 1964 New York World’s Fair, Texas Pavilion, New York, New York · 1964-65 The Bird in Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona and the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas · 1966 Solo, Gallery of Visual Arts, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana · 1967 Solo, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas · 1968 Texas Painting and Sculpture 1968, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1969 Solo, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas · 1971 Texas Painting and Sculpture 71, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1971–72 Texas Painting and Sculpture: The 20th Century, Pollack Galleries, Owen Arts Center, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Witte Confluence Museum, HemisFair Plaza, San Antonio; University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (catalogue) · 1974 Solo, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas · 1977 Solo, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas · 1978 U.S. Drawings, Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas · 1978 Solo, L and L Gallery, Longview, Texas · 1979 Made in Texas, Huntington Gallery, University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Texas (catalogue) · 1981 Solo, Spencer Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas, Monticello, Arkansas · 1981 Solo, Moffett Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana · 1983 Images of Texas, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, traveled to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas (catalogue) · 1984 Works from the Friends Collections, Art Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana · 1985 Solo, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas · 1986 Solo, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas · 1986 Beyond Regionalism: The Fort Worth School (1945-1955), Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas · 1992 Prints of the Fort Worth Circle, 1940-1960, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas · 1992 Kelly Fearing: The Influence of “The Fort Worth School,” 1939-1955, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas · 1995 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas · 1996 Solo, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas · 1997 Jupiter’s Loves and His Children, Georgia Art Museum, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia · 1998 Early Texas Art: A Collectors’ Exhibition, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas · 1999 Kelly Fearing: A Search for Mystical Concepts, Pascal/Robinson Galleries, Houston, Texas · 2000 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas · 2001 First Light: Local Art and the Fort Worth Public Library 1901–1961 . . . A Centennial Exhibit, Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue) · 2002 The Mystical World of Kelly Fearing: A Sixty Year Retrospective, traveling exhibition, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas; Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas (catalogue) · 2002-03 The Eyes of Texas—The Lone Star State as Seen by Her Artists, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas; Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas (catalogue) · 2005 Celebrating Early Texas Art: Treasures from Dallas-Fort Worth Private Collections, 1900-1960, Fort Worth Community Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue) · 2007 A Life of Art: 1943-Present, Lotus Asian Art...
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