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Period: 1980s
Main Coastal Landscape
Main Coastal Landscape

Main Coastal Landscape

Located in Douglas Manor, NY

6165 Maine costal landscape Set in a brack frame with gold trime Image size 13.5x10.5" Signed on verso

Category

1980s Art

Materials

Acrylic

Large Scale Ballet Painting, Oil on Canvas, Impressionist, 1980s
Large Scale Ballet Painting, Oil on Canvas, Impressionist, 1980s

Large Scale Ballet Painting, Oil on Canvas, Impressionist, 1980s

Located in Douglas Manor, NY

5-1476 Ballet Painting, large scale of oil on canvas of classical dancers, signed by Sari lower right Displayed in a wood frame with metal trim.Marks on the frame

Category

Impressionist 1980s Art

Materials

Oil

“Twin Bronze Orcas”
“Twin Bronze Orcas”

“Twin Bronze Orcas”

Located in Southampton, NY

Original beautiful large bronze sculpture of a pair of orcas in action by the husband and wife artist team, Mary and Jacques Regat. Signed on the base and dated 1988. This piece is ...

Category

Contemporary 1980s Art

Materials

Marble, Bronze

"Lagoon" from Jazz

"Lagoon" from Jazz

By (after) Henri Matisse

Located in Henderson, NV

This lithograph (after the 1947 pochoir) is from the 1983 edition, published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art. The original 1947 edition of Matisse "Jazz" is now so rare it is...

Category

1980s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Royal Curtain, Gene Davis
Royal Curtain, Gene Davis

Royal Curtain, Gene Davis

By Gene Davis

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Gene Davis (1920-1985) Title: Royal Curtain Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Edition: 41/250, plus proofs Size: 30 x 21.5 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Sig...

Category

Abstract Geometric 1980s Art

Materials

Screen

Hotel By The Sea
Hotel By The Sea

Hotel By The Sea

By David Hockney

Located in London, GB

1989 Xerox copy of facsimile drawing in 16 parts, with original cover sheet 87 x 143.5 cm (94.2 by 151.1 cm framed) From an unknown edition size of unique, individually printed sheet...

Category

Contemporary 1980s Art

Materials

Paper

Keith Haring Pop Shop Tokyo 1988 (stickers)
Keith Haring Pop Shop Tokyo 1988 (stickers)

Keith Haring Pop Shop Tokyo 1988 (stickers)

By Keith Haring

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Keith Haring Pop Shop Tokyo 1988: Rare vintage original 1980s large-sized Keith Haring Tokyo Pop Shop sticker sheet, that is well-suited for framing. Designed by Haring in conjunctio...

Category

Pop Art 1980s Art

Materials

Paper, Offset

Apocalypse 6
Apocalypse 6

Apocalypse 6

By Keith Haring

Located in Hollywood, FL

Artist: Keith Haring Title: Apocalypse 6 Size: 38 × 38 in 96.5 × 96.5 cm Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board Edition: WP (Working Proof) of 90 Year: 1988 Notes: Ha...

Category

Pop Art 1980s Art

Materials

Screen

Three Lovely Kozo Inoue Pastel Prints, 1980s
Three Lovely Kozo Inoue Pastel Prints, 1980s

Three Lovely Kozo Inoue Pastel Prints, 1980s

By Kozo Inoue

Located in New York, NY

Kozo Inoue (Japanese, 1937-2017) Untitled, 1980 Lithograph Sight: 22 x 31 in. (Each) Framed: 34 x 42 1/2 x 1 in. (Each) Signed and dated 1980 lower right Inscribed lower left Kozo Inoue was a contemporary Japanese printmaker. Born in Osaka, he graduated from the Department of Art History at Keio University in 1960. During life, he worked during the winter months in the Izu Peninsula and Dordogne or Paris in the summer. He is known for his surrealistic silkscreen prints. His prints can be found in the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, Royal Library of Belgium, Modern Museum of Art Osaka and the Spencer Museum of Art, to name just a few. (Bio sourced from Ronin Gallery)

Category

Modern 1980s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Denny Dent Reverse Hendrix Large 69” Original Painting
Denny Dent Reverse Hendrix Large 69” Original Painting

Denny Dent Reverse Hendrix Large 69” Original Painting

By Denny Dent

Located in Minneapolis, MN

Artist: Denny Dent Title: Reverse Hendrix Medium: Original Oil Painting on Paper Paper Size: 69" x 51" Frame Size: 73" x 55" Inscription: Denny Dent hand-print, front upper left Year...

Category

1980s Art

Materials

Oil, Paper

Chicano Abstract Expressionist Portrait -- The Red Headed Woman, Signed
Chicano Abstract Expressionist Portrait -- The Red Headed Woman, Signed

Chicano Abstract Expressionist Portrait -- The Red Headed Woman, Signed

By Ricardo de Silva

Located in Soquel, CA

Abstract Expressionist Portrait -- The Red Headed Woman by Chicano Artist Ricardo de Silva This striking abstract expressionist portrait is by Latino artist Ricardo (Richard) de Sil...

Category

Abstract Expressionist 1980s Art

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic, Gouache, Rice Paper

TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE Signed Lithograph, Figurative Collage Night Sky
TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE Signed Lithograph, Figurative Collage Night Sky

TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE Signed Lithograph, Figurative Collage Night Sky

By Romare Bearden

Located in Union City, NJ

TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE is a hand drawn, limited edition color lithograph by the renowned American artist Romare Bearden, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper, 100% acid free. TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE is a multicolored collage landscape portraying a mysterious, jigsaw-shaped starry night sky in shades of deep blue, hues of bright green, golden yellow, and touches of red. In the foreground of TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE two human figures stand face to face exchanging stars beneath a celestial blue sky showered with twinkling lights. Bearden created this image bearing in mind the importance of advancement through education. This very unique Romare Bearden lithograph...

Category

Contemporary 1980s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Madonna Bathroom #1

Madonna Bathroom #1

By Richard Corman

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Artist: Richard Corman Year: 1983 Title: Madonna Bathroom #1 Edition Details: 12-color archival pigment print on 100% cotton fine art paper, signed and numbered in the margins by ...

Category

1980s Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Vintage Realist Landscape with Horse and Sheep Framed Oil Painting
Vintage Realist Landscape with Horse and Sheep Framed Oil Painting

Vintage Realist Landscape with Horse and Sheep Framed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American school realist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 23 by 28 inches overall. Handsomely framed in ...

Category

Realist 1980s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Expressionist Original Gouache on paper Collage style of de Kooning
Abstract Expressionist Original Gouache on paper Collage style of de Kooning

Abstract Expressionist Original Gouache on paper Collage style of de Kooning

Located in Soquel, CA

Abstract Expressionist Original Gouache on paper and Collage Abstract Gouache and Paper Collage by Harold Winer (American, 1913-2006). Image 30"H x 40"W Slat with white paint .25" ...

Category

Post-War 1980s Art

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board, Laid Paper

Paris, rue des Solitaires, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Paris, rue des Solitaires, oil painting by Pierre Coquet

Paris, rue des Solitaires, oil painting by Pierre Coquet

Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR

Paris, rue des Solitaires, oil painting by Pierre Coquet Reference number F489 The painting is framed with a natural oak floated frame. 65 x 50 cm (70 x 55 cm frame included) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is laid on a board and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the low right Paris is one of Pierre most important subjects. Pierre's Paris is always depicted in a grey atmosphere. Buildings are stylized but the city is recognizable with its typical grey galvanised steel and orange terracota chimneys. The composition here is a little atypical, as there is a certain symmetry between the top and bottom of the painting. You could almost turn it upside down, there's a kind of mirror effect. The support for the painting is a cardboard box salvaged from the art school where he taught (Corvisart-Paris). The students used it to protect their tables. Pierre kept them and painted on them, and we can see little drawings or annotations made by students who had fun scribbling on them. Provenance : Workshop of the artist (stamped and numbered on the back) About Pierre : Pierre Coquet (1926-2021) is a French painter who was born in Limas near Lyon, France. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon in 1942 and followed the teaching of Antoine Chartres, Henri Vielly and René Chancrin...

Category

French School 1980s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Figure Sur Rouge (Figure on Red) /// Contemporary French Painting Minimalism Art
Figure Sur Rouge (Figure on Red) /// Contemporary French Painting Minimalism Art

Figure Sur Rouge (Figure on Red) /// Contemporary French Painting Minimalism Art

By Pierre Marie Brisson

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: Pierre Marie Brisson (French, 1955-) Title: "Figure Sur Rouge (Figure on Red)" *Signed by Brisson lower right. It is also signed and dated on verso Year: 1983 Medium: Origina...

Category

Abstract Expressionist 1980s Art

Materials

Paint, Oil, Handmade Paper, Rag Paper, Mixed Media

THE DANCE Signed Lithograph, Couple Dancing, Checkerboard Floor, Deco Style
THE DANCE Signed Lithograph, Couple Dancing, Checkerboard Floor, Deco Style

THE DANCE Signed Lithograph, Couple Dancing, Checkerboard Floor, Deco Style

By Robin Morris

Located in Union City, NJ

THE DANCE by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. THE DANCE is a modern and sleek Art Deco style portrait portraying a couple dancing close together. The male figure dressed in a deep blue suit, red bow tie and slick black hairstyle leads his dance partner - a woman with wavy long blonde hair wearing a form fitting red dress, their forms contrasting against the cool gray blue interior wall and black and white checkerboard floor...

Category

Art Deco 1980s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Window Wall
Window Wall

Window Wall

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Piet Bekaert was a Flemish Artist born in 1939. He attended both the Royal Academy in Ghent and the Academy Julien in Paris. It was in his Parisian years that he spent long days cont...

Category

Post-Impressionist 1980s Art

Materials

Oil

Jane Goldman Contemporary Floral Luminous Color Etching Flowers Chinese Geishas
Jane Goldman Contemporary Floral Luminous Color Etching Flowers Chinese Geishas

Jane Goldman Contemporary Floral Luminous Color Etching Flowers Chinese Geishas

Located in Surfside, FL

Hand signed and dated intaglio etching in color. 1982 Corner Reflections #2 Jane E. Goldman was born in Dallas, Texas in 1951 and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin. She is known for her high color floral and nature design painting, printmaking and teaching. Goldman's media include watercolor, oil painting, silkscreen, intaglio print, lithograph, relief, screenprint,. aquatint etching and terrazzo. "Lyrical realism," based on a combination of free association and direct observation, best describes her style. Goldman’s luminous prints reveals the artist’s muse in a graphically novel way. Her work pays homage to 19th-century naturalist and artist John James Audubon. Goldman’s sun-dappled still life compositions, sprays of cut flowers in glass vases and lush flora growing in natural environments frame each setting and cast shadows across opened books that display images from Audubon’s Birds of America. Jane Goldman...

Category

Contemporary 1980s Art

Materials

Color, Etching

1983 Abstract Geometric Oil and Gouache Painting Study for Alma Robert Kelly
1983 Abstract Geometric Oil and Gouache Painting Study for Alma Robert Kelly

1983 Abstract Geometric Oil and Gouache Painting Study for Alma Robert Kelly

By Robert Kelly

Located in Surfside, FL

Robert Kelly (American, 1956-) Abstract Mixed Media on paper Study for Alma 1983 Pencil titled Hand signed lower right Dimensions: Frame: 26 X 19 Image: 24 X 17.5 Robert Kelly (born 1956) is an American artist. He is based in New York City. Kelly was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and studied at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (B.A. 1978). His paintings have been acquired by public and private collections in Europe and the United States, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Smith College Art Museum, Northampton MA; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutger’s University, NJ; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery; The Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA; The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL; and the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX. Kelly has traveled throughout the United States, Europe, North Africa, the Near East, and Nepal. His work often incorporates unusual materials from his journeys, among them vintage posters and printed antique paper, obscured and layered in saturated pigments on a canvas faintly scored with irregular grids. Kelly’s paintings have been likened to palimpsests and his method described as one of building “meticulously on inhabited ground, layering materials, documents, and signs, covering them, wiping out their beauty, nearly, but allowing something of the labor and their languages to persist.” Kelly worked as a commercial photographer for Polaroid in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and completed residencies at The MacDowell Colony and The Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France, before devoting himself entirely to painting in 1982. His work has been the subject of more than forty-five solo shows at venues in North America and Europe, including Spazio Bianco/AR Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy; Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York; and The John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California. He has participated in more than one hundred group shows in the United States and abroad. including the Projects Inaugural Exhibition at Bentley Gallery Featuring works by Jim Dine, Jennifer Bartlett, Donald Sultan, Frank Stella, John Chamberlain, Julian Schnabel and, Dominique Blain. Kelly’s influences include the De Stijl movement, Malevich and Mondrian and modernists like Bauhaus, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Philip Guston, Richard Diebenkorn, Kurt Schwitters, Blinky Palermo and Brazilian Neo-Concretists Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica. Kelly himself cites Hans Arp, Myron Stout, Tony Smith, Brancusi, Calder, Bill Traylor, Louise Bourgeois, and Ellsworth Kelly. Primary Abstraction, Process-Oriented, Hard-Edged, New York School Artists, Line, Form, and Color, Curvilinear Forms. “Kelly compares his work method to the practice of a stonemason building a wall, setting the components in place as they rise with an astuteness and precision found in the process of composing formal puzzles. Addressing the full expanse of a canvas covered entirely with paper, he masterfully builds up his surface with the pared down tools of line, form and color. Given their remarkable elegance, sheen and tactile qualities, the paintings invite drop-dead awe.” Edward Leffingwell, Robert Kelly: Paper Trails “In these works the sophisticated play between translucency and opacity, representation and abstraction conflates past and present—be it the history of art or of a psyche.” Hilarie M. Sheets, Art in America “[His] process yields the self-sustaining and harmonious ‘rightness’ of so much of Kelly’s work, a sense that each form could never be other than it is; were it sharper, more obtuse, or thicker, each angle, curve, or horizontal band would collapse into formlessness. Kelly’s compositions are held in such perfect moments of balance...” João Ribas, Robert Kelly: Praxis and Poesis “The works are paradoxical: by disassembling and then reassembling the pieces, Kelly seems to undermine visual ‘completeness’ by a fragmented presentation. Yet it nonetheless feels as though the image is a cohesive whole.” Melissa Kuntz, Art in America “Confronted as all artists are now with the exhaustion of subjectivity, Robert Kelly insists on the capacity of painting to mediate subjective apprehension through symbolic forms and sensual experience. Nothing less.” Lyle Rexer, Robert Kelly: Painting’s Place “Robert Kelly’s art is exemplary. It reveals an intelligence that is as alert and modern as one could wish but is at the same time saturated in the knowledge of other times and places.” John Ash...

Category

Abstract 1980s Art

Materials

Paper, Oil, Gouache

Bruce Springsteen 1981 Original Vintage Poster

Bruce Springsteen 1981 Original Vintage Poster

Located in London, GB

Bruce Springsteen 1981 Original Vintage Poster Measures 32×23″ inches / 81×58 cm Condition : Excellent As part of the European leg of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s ‘Th...

Category

Modern 1980s Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

A Particular Kind Of Heaven

A Particular Kind Of Heaven

By Ed Ruscha

Located in London, GB

Ed Ruscha A Particular Kind Of Heaven, 1983 Poster 61 x 92 cm 24 x 36.2 inches Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco exhibition poster Ed Ruscha’s expansive oeuvre defies easy categor...

Category

Contemporary 1980s Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Improvisation abstract African-American artist painting.
Improvisation abstract African-American artist painting.

Improvisation abstract African-American artist painting.

By Roland Ayers

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Roland Ayers (1932-2017). Improvisation, 2nd Series, #5. Ink on paper, measures 19 x 24 inches. Unframed and unmounted. Signed and dated lower right, titled lower left. There are a few minor areas of loss in margins as depicted in close-up photos. Additionally, there a a few minor tears in margins. Ayers holds the distinction of having participated in the first important survey of African-Americans, Contemporary Black Artists in America, a 1971 show at The Whitney. Biography: Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively. In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery. During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic. A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe. Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content. Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...

Category

Abstract 1980s Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Flamingos, Lowell Nesbitt
Flamingos, Lowell Nesbitt

Flamingos, Lowell Nesbitt

By Lowell Nesbitt

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Flamingos Year: 1981 Edition: 178/200, plus proofs. Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 33.5 x 41 inches Condition: Good Inscription: S...

Category

Pop Art 1980s Art

Materials

Screen

Lovers Bronze Sculpture Signed Illegibly edition 2/10
Lovers Bronze Sculpture Signed Illegibly edition 2/10

Lovers Bronze Sculpture Signed Illegibly edition 2/10

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Lovers Figurative Bronze Sculpture Signed Illegibly edition 2/10 Large bronze sculpture signd illegible possible in Hebrew.

Category

Modern 1980s Art

Materials

Bronze

Retired Whaling Captain's Study, Nantucket, Miniature Room by Eugene Kupjack
Retired Whaling Captain's Study, Nantucket, Miniature Room by Eugene Kupjack

Retired Whaling Captain's Study, Nantucket, Miniature Room by Eugene Kupjack

By Eugene J. Kupjack

Located in Chicago, IL

This highly detailed Miniature Room of a Retired Whaling Captain's Study in Nantucket is an excellent example of the true talent of Eugene Kupjack. Tiny scrimshaw and knick-knacks fill the shelves while the perfectly proportioned furniture adorns the center of the room. A mariners wheel and captain's chest are set off to the side with a small sea shell set atop. All painstakingly researched to the exact time period in a one inch to one foot scale. Kupjack Miniatures Eugene Kupjack "Retired Whaling Captain's Study, Nantucket, circa 1860," 1983 mix media 11.50h x 19.50w x 11d in 29.21h x 49.53w x 27.94d cm KJK010 Eugene Kupjack and his sons Hank and Jay created museum quality miniature rooms...

Category

Contemporary 1980s Art

Materials

Mixed Media

BI-RHOMBS, Victor Vasarely
BI-RHOMBS, Victor Vasarely

BI-RHOMBS, Victor Vasarely

By Victor Vasarely

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) Title: BI-RHOMBS Year: 1977 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Edition: 91/250, plus proofs Size: 43.5 x 26 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Si...

Category

Op Art 1980s Art

Materials

Screen

Untitled
Untitled

Roland AyersUntitled, 1982

$960Sale Price|20% Off

Untitled

By Roland Ayers

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Roland Ayers (1932-2017). Untitled, 1983. Ink on paper, measures 17 x 23 inches. Unframed and unmounted. Signed and dated lower left. Ayers holds the distinction of having participated in the first important survey of African-Americans, Contemporary Black Artists in America, a 1971 show at The Whitney. Biography: Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively. In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery. During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic. A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe. Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content. Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...

Category

Abstract 1980s Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Important Colorful Still Life Oil on Canvas Painting, Fruit-Bowl Motif
Important Colorful Still Life Oil on Canvas Painting, Fruit-Bowl Motif

Important Colorful Still Life Oil on Canvas Painting, Fruit-Bowl Motif

Located in Atlanta, GA

Bursting with color and movement, this vibrant oil‑on‑canvas still life presents a boldly modern interpretation of the classic fruit‑bowl motif. The composition features grapes, appl...

Category

Modern 1980s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Yellow Jack
Yellow Jack

Yellow Jack

By Helen Frankenthaler

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) is one of the most revered abstract painters of the 20th century, and one of the most successful and collected female artists of all time. She was a ...

Category

Abstract 1980s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Three Poems: Mexico City Personages II, Abstract Lithograph by Robert Motherwell
Three Poems: Mexico City Personages II, Abstract Lithograph by Robert Motherwell

Three Poems: Mexico City Personages II, Abstract Lithograph by Robert Motherwell

By Robert Motherwell

Located in Long Island City, NY

Three Poems: Mexico City Personages II Robert Motherwell, American (1915–1991) Portfolio: Octavio Paz Date: 1988 Lithograph on Japon with Chine Colle Edition of 750 Image Size: 13 x ...

Category

Abstract Expressionist 1980s Art

Materials

Lithograph