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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
A Still Life
A Still Life

A Still Life

By Alvin Hollingsworth 1

Located in Sheffield, MA

Alvin Hollingsworth American, 1928-2000 A Still Life Oil on canvas 36 by 24 in. W/frame 42 by 30 in. Alvin was a member of the prominent Spiral group. Spiral was formed in 1963 in the New York studio of Romare Bearden. Spiral members aimed to address civil and human rights concerns and show support for the Civil Rights Movement. They did not, however, want to adhere to strict aesthetic criteria or compromise their artistic individuality. Spiral also included Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, Charles Alston, Emma Amos...

Category

1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Loaves

Loaves

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Loaves, 1937, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 16 x 26 ¼ inches, exhibited at the Seventeenth Exhibition of Artists Members, Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, IL, De...

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1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ocelote (1/3)
Ocelote (1/3)

Ocelote (1/3)

By Rocca Luis César

Located in San Francisco, CA

Rocca Luis César Ocelote, 2023, (1/3) Acrylic on canvas 24.40 x 24.40 in This original painting comes framed as shown in one of the images. Rocca Lu...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

The birth of the new Moon
The birth of the new Moon

The birth of the new Moon

By Olena Kishkurno

Located in Zofingen, AG

"The Birth of the New Moon" is a story of love, intimacy, and new beginnings. Two bodies embrace in a moment where there is no clear boundary — only warmth, reciprocity, and a quiet ...

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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Encounter
Encounter

Encounter

By Marc Zimmerman

Located in Carmel, CA

A unique approach to the figure and relationship.In the village their are many opportunities and this couple are staring each other down to see if something is there. Observers watch...

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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Stone Lion

Stone Lion

Located in London, GB

G R Neale Oil on Canvas, Signed and dated ‘1933’ lower right Image Size: 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches ( 34.3 x 24.1 cm) Hand made ebonised and gilded frame Accentuated by the works golden tones, the painting is a duality of strength and stillness. Explored through the compositions stoic stone lion; angled to gaze just out of frame; in contrast with the draped ochre curtain of the piece’s background. Reeves and Sons...

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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

what do you think
what do you think

what do you think

By Sava Harris

Located in Zofingen, AG

the ground disappears from under your feet when you lose support in the form of consciousness. you don't know whether to trust your eyes or not. it would be much easier if it weren’t...

Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Nocturnal Landscape with House on a Hill
Nocturnal Landscape with House on a Hill

Nocturnal Landscape with House on a Hill

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original watercolor signed illegibly but dates 1972.

Category

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Late Summer Pageant

Late Summer Pageant

By Susan Cohen

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the artist: Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...

Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Panel

Tulip Festival

Tulip Festival

By Susan Cohen

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the artist: Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...

Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Panel

Standing Male Nude Back View French Modernist Ink Figure Drawing
Standing Male Nude Back View French Modernist Ink Figure Drawing

Standing Male Nude Back View French Modernist Ink Figure Drawing

By Jacqueline Boisselot

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title Standing Male Nude Back View French Modernist Ink Figure Drawing Artist Jacqueline Boisselot French late 20th century Medium Black ink on artist paper unframed Size 19 x 12.75 ...

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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Felt Pen

Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Portrait Oil Painting - The Gentleman
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Portrait Oil Painting - The Gentleman

Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Portrait Oil Painting - The Gentleman

Located in Bristol, GB

THE GENTLEMAN Size: 69 x 56 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A contemplative and uniquely textured mid-century figurative portrait depicting a seated man rendered in profile, exec...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Excavation
Excavation

Excavation

By Charles Houghton Howard

Located in New York, NY

Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and apprenticed in Boston with H. H. Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus. Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major, and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39, no. 2 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist. Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time. In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...

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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Le Cube

Le Cube

By Jean Tannous

Located in Atlanta, GA

Born in Byblos lebanon, in 1946, is a contemporary plastician artist franco-canadian. Artistic journey Early days (1970-1975) Paris (1976-2001) Quebec (2002 - present) China (2011-...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Large French Contemporary Modernist Oil Painting Three Nude Abstract Figures
Large French Contemporary Modernist Oil Painting Three Nude Abstract Figures

Large French Contemporary Modernist Oil Painting Three Nude Abstract Figures

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

French Contemporary artist (unsigned) Three Modernist Nude Figures oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 32 x 25.5 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: very good condit...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Enigma" Signed Graciela Garza
"Enigma" Signed Graciela Garza

"Enigma" Signed Graciela Garza

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Dramatic oil and acrylic paint on canvas by Graciela Garza. Signed and dated on the back March 2022. She was born into a family of artists in Saltillo, ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Still Life with Dahlias
Still Life with Dahlias

Still Life with Dahlias

By Michel Henry

Located in Sheffield, MA

Michel Henry French, 1928- Still Life with Dahlias Oil on canvas 28 ¾ by 39 ½ in, w/ frame 38 ½ by 49 in Signed lower right Michel-Henry is acknowledged as an important painter in ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Innisfree Garden #1

Innisfree Garden #1

By Susan Cohen

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the artist: Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...

Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Panel

Mixed Greens #2

Mixed Greens #2

By Susan Cohen

Located in Fairfield, CT

About the artist: Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...

Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Panel

Still life flowers roses oil on canvas painting
Still life flowers roses oil on canvas painting

Still life flowers roses oil on canvas painting

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Lafuente - Flowers - Oil on canvas Spanish school signed "Lafuente". Oil measures 61x50 cm. Frameless.

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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

1951 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Figurative Portrait Framed Oil Painting - Pose
1951 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Figurative Portrait Framed Oil Painting - Pose

1951 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Figurative Portrait Framed Oil Painting - Pose

Located in Bristol, GB

POSE Size: 80.5 x 41 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A brilliantly executed modernist style figurative portrait, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1951. The composition feat...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Portrait of Virginia Cowles
Portrait of Virginia Cowles

Portrait of Virginia Cowles

By René Bouché

Located in Sheffield, MA

Rene Robert Bouche American, 1906-1963 Portrait of Virginia Cowles Oil on canvas 33 by 43 in, w/ frame 35 ½ by 45 ½ in Signed upper left Fascinated by th...

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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

1965 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Vegetables
1965 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Vegetables

1965 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Vegetables

Located in Bristol, GB

STILL LIFE WITH VEGETABLES Size: 59 x 74 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A brilliantly executed modernist style still life composition, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1965...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Coastal Seascape Oil Painting - Watching the Waves
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Coastal Seascape Oil Painting - Watching the Waves

Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Coastal Seascape Oil Painting - Watching the Waves

Located in Bristol, GB

WATCHING THE WAVES Size: 66 x 58 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas An expressive and beautifully textured mid-century seascape composition, painted in oil onto canvas. Executed i...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

American Modern Painting of New York City, South Street Seaport

American Modern Painting of New York City, South Street Seaport

Located in New York, NY

Signed lower left. Barbara Daly Baekeland (1922 - 1972) was an American socialite who was murdered by her son, Anthony in London in 1972. She was married to Brooks Baekeland who was ...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Untitled, Ink on Paper Black & White colours by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Untitled, Ink on Paper Black & White colours by Modern Artist "In Stock"

Untitled, Ink on Paper Black & White colours by Modern Artist "In Stock"

By Jatin Das

Located in Kolkata, West Bengal

Jatin Das - Untitled - 5 x 8 inches (unframed size) Ink on Paper Inclusive of shipment in a roll form. Style : The multi-faceted Jatin Das has been a part of the Indian art scene for more than four decades, with his paintings, murals and sculptures. The human body holds an endless fascination for him and he pursues his quest for dynamic figures tirelessly, using a linear structure and quick brushwork. The man-woman relationship, in particular, with all its attendant pain and joy is a constant source of inspiration to him. He believes that painting is an intensely personal experience, the results of which cannot always be shared with others. About the Artist and his work : Born : Jatin Das is one of India's most prominent painters. He was born in Mayurbhanj Orissa in 1941. Education : He has completed his education in 1962 from Sir J. J. School of Fine Arts, Mumbai. He has been also involved with art institutions, in several capacities as a teacher at the College of Art, New Delhi, and at the National School of Drama, New Delhi; as a consultant for the Handicrafts Board, and for the Folk Art Museum, Orissa, to mention a few of the positions he held. Solo exhibition : He has held many solo exhibition including : 2010-11 'Hand-held Space', Museum Gallery; Gallery Art and Soul, Mumbai, 2009 The Artists Alley Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 2009 Chelsea Arts Club, London, 1976 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi, 1975 Gallery de Sfinx, Amsterdam, 1975 Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, UK, 1975 Schloss Bellevue, Kassel, West Germany, 1975 City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK. Group exhibition : He has participated in many group exhibition including : 1982 ‘Moderene Kunst Heute’, Museum of Modern Art, Darmstad, Kunsthalle, West Germany, 1980 Contemporary Paintings in Miniature Format, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1979 All India Exhibition of Prints, Chandigarh, 1979 Asian Arts Exhibition, Fukoaka Art Museum, Japan, 1978 National Gallery of Modern Art (N.G.M.A) Collection, Warsaw, Alleppo, Damascus, Narodini Gallery V, Loden, Prague, Cultural Centre, Niavaran, Budapest. Honours and Awards : 2012 Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. 2007 Conferred the D.Litt. (Honoris Causa), Utkal University of Culture, Bhubaneswar. 2007 Seminar Management Institution, Bhubaneswar. 2007 Bharat Nirman Award. 2007 Order of the Star...

Category

Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

Rooftop Bathers (Untitled)

Rooftop Bathers (Untitled)

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Rooftop Bathers (Untitled), c. 1940s, oil on canvas, 22 x 32 inches, signed lower right Betty Waldo Parish gives us a delightful slice of life in 1940s New York, as we see a coupl...

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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jordi Curós Cadaqués Landscape Oil Painting, 20th Century
Jordi Curós Cadaqués Landscape Oil Painting, 20th Century

Jordi Curós Cadaqués Landscape Oil Painting, 20th Century

Located in Sant Celoni, ES

Jordi Curós Cadaqués Mediterranean Landscape Oil Painting, 20th Century. Oil on canvas. Signed by the artist. Artwork: 59.5 × 73 cm (23.4 × 28.7 in.). Framed: 80 × 92.5 cm (31.5 × 36...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Pastel Settlement
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Pastel Settlement

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Pastel Settlement

Located in Bristol, GB

PASTEL SETTLEMENT Size: 38 x 68.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A soothing mid-century modernist composition that reduces a landscape to its essential forms, transforming a fam...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary Abstract Unframed Painting - Blue Tiger, 2023
Contemporary Abstract Unframed Painting - Blue Tiger, 2023

Contemporary Abstract Unframed Painting - Blue Tiger, 2023

Located in Bristol, GB

BLUE TIGER Size: 50 x 40 cm (including frame) Acrylic on canvas A bold and dynamic contemporary geometric abstract painting, executed in acrylic onto canvas and dated 2023. Visuall...

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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era
Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era

Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era

By Emanuel Glicenstein Romano

Located in Surfside, FL

Genre: Modern Subject: Landscape with figure of horse, driver and wagon Medium: Oil Surface: wood Board Hand signed lower middle E.Romano EMANUEL ROMANO Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 19...

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1930s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Torso No. 3, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Acrylic Painting, Ohio artist
Torso No. 3, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Acrylic Painting, Ohio artist

Torso No. 3, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Acrylic Painting, Ohio artist

By Clarence Holbrook Carter

Located in Beachwood, OH

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torso No. 3, 1967 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated lower right 13 x 9 inches 21 x 17 inches A mid-century figural abstract painting. Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...

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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Fruits on Table Under Parasol — Arthur Van Hecke
Fruits on Table Under Parasol — Arthur Van Hecke

Fruits on Table Under Parasol — Arthur Van Hecke

Located in LE HAVRE, FR

This charming oil on canvas by Belgian artist Arthur Van Hecke (1924–2003) depicts a still life arrangement of fruits on a table set beneath a parasol, evoking the leisurely atmosphe...

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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Paint

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