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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
"Lovers" in Carved Wood, Young But Eternal
"Lovers" in Carved Wood, Young But Eternal

"Lovers" in Carved Wood, Young But Eternal

Located in San Francisco, CA

We are surrounded by graphic images, songs, greeting cards, and even paintings all created toward the effort of expressing romantic love. While so potent, and even sometimes transfor...

Category

1960s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Steel Garden Wall - "Diptych Tree with Firewood Rack" - Outdoor Art - 205×195 cm
Steel Garden Wall - "Diptych Tree with Firewood Rack" - Outdoor Art - 205×195 cm

Steel Garden Wall - "Diptych Tree with Firewood Rack" - Outdoor Art - 205×195 cm

By Stefan Traloc

Located in Winterswijk, NL

Beautiful contemporary oxidized sheet steel Garden Wall or privacy screen. Customization possible. With this garden wall you'll conjure up an atmospheric ambience in your garden. Id...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Solid Bronze 20th Century Nude Ballet Dancer 'Stepping Stones' by Benson Landes
Solid Bronze 20th Century Nude Ballet Dancer 'Stepping Stones' by Benson Landes

Solid Bronze 20th Century Nude Ballet Dancer 'Stepping Stones' by Benson Landes

By Benson Landes

Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

'Stepping Stones' by Benson Landes is a Solid Bronze 20th Century Nude Ballet Dancer - she is so light on her feet and beautifully elegant. For Benson Landes, sculpture was most definitely a passion. His oeuvre of cast bronzes is populated with ‘off duty’ ballet dancers, rather wistful women, often caught in moments of solitary repose. Such an obvious appreciation of the grace and elegance of the female form was, no doubt, heightened by 25 years spent in the couture business, which Benson entered at the age of 14. The sculptor admitted that his time as an apprentice at his father’s clothing...

Category

20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

The Eye, Abstract Copper and Wood Sculpture
The Eye, Abstract Copper and Wood Sculpture

The Eye, Abstract Copper and Wood Sculpture

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Unknown Medium: Hand-Hammered and Welded Copper and Wood Construction Size: 89 in. x 19 in. x 2 in. (226.06 cm x 48.26 cm x 5.08 cm)

Category

20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Copper

Horse With Two Riders Life Size Bronze Sculpture
Horse With Two Riders Life Size Bronze Sculpture

Horse With Two Riders Life Size Bronze Sculpture

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Horse With Two Riders Large Outdoor, indoor patinated bronze sculpture 1974 Artist signed, edition 2/6. Light blue green patina. Deaccessioned from the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Th...

Category

1970s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Extreme Effort - Powerful Bronze Sculpture by Alfredo Pina (1883-1966)
Extreme Effort - Powerful Bronze Sculpture by Alfredo Pina (1883-1966)

Extreme Effort - Powerful Bronze Sculpture by Alfredo Pina (1883-1966)

Located in Gent, VOV

Alfredo Pina’s Extreme Effort (Le Suprême Effort) is a striking bronze sculpture that embodies the raw struggle of human perseverance. This expressive work portrays a muscular male f...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Female Figure
Female Figure

Female Figure

By Lorrie Goulet

Located in New York, NY

It is marvelous to find discoveries such as Lorrie Goulet's female form, one of our few American women sculptors who direct carved in marble. Goulet has an attractive technique of u...

Category

1960s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Visage Solaire
Visage Solaire

Visage Solaire

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

• An authenticated work This unique circular plaque in wax crayon on terracotta was created by Pablo Picasso and authenticated by Claude Ruiz Picasso on September 26, 2022. • A pres...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Visage dans un ovale (Face in an Oval), A.R. 273
Visage dans un ovale (Face in an Oval), A.R. 273

Visage dans un ovale (Face in an Oval), A.R. 273

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Palo Alto, CA

Created in 1955, Pablo Picasso ceramic Visage dans un ovale (Face in an Oval), 1955 A.R. 273 is a Madoura white earthenware clay oval dish with decoration in engobes and oxides (blue...

Category

1950s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Clay, Earthenware, Glaze

Contemporary Art Tapestry in Ivory and Multicolored Cotton, North American
Contemporary Art Tapestry in Ivory and Multicolored Cotton, North American

Contemporary Art Tapestry in Ivory and Multicolored Cotton, North American

Located in Madrid, MD

Large-format artisan wall-hanging, meticulously handmade from 100% raw cotton thread derived from the agave plant, featuring natural dyed details. This textile piece offers a contemp...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Sculptures

Materials

Cotton

Spiral#2-Red, large maple sculpture, carved, painted elements
Spiral#2-Red, large maple sculpture, carved, painted elements

Spiral#2-Red, large maple sculpture, carved, painted elements

By Eric Pesso

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Large maple abstract sculpture, geometric spiral, created from one tree trunk. This sculpture is subtracted from the single block using primarily hand tools, not an assembled constru...

Category

2010s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Maple, Latex

Tête de Chèvre de Profil (A.R.145)
Tête de Chèvre de Profil (A.R.145)

Tête de Chèvre de Profil (A.R.145)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

• Picasso began working with ceramics in 1946 at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris, opening an important new chapter in his career. • He created over 3,500 ceramic works, transformi...

Category

1950s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

1970s  Large Wood, Copper Inlay Sculpture Wall Relief Tropical Flowers Motif
1970s  Large Wood, Copper Inlay Sculpture Wall Relief Tropical Flowers Motif

1970s Large Wood, Copper Inlay Sculpture Wall Relief Tropical Flowers Motif

By Helen Weber

Located in Surfside, FL

Helen Weber Large wall hanging wood and metal sculptural relief in a tropical Hawaiian or Polynesian motif with tropical flowers. "Art belongs everywhere from cruise ships to churches" This has been the mantra of Helen Webber since she began her career in the 1970’s creating hundreds of art works for public spaces throughout the United states and abroad. It was her strongly held belief that art can touch the spirit of many more people than those whose art experiences are limited to the halls and walls of museums and galleries. Her bold and richly hued art works executed in a wide variety of media, such as tapestry, glass, metal wood and clay have been installed in universities, corporations, medical facilities, cruise ships, hotels, religious spaces, community and civic centers and even in a train station. Over the years many architects and interior designers have collaborated with Helen Webber finding that her work enhanced their designed environments, giving her the opportunity to create art for well known corporations as well as multitudes of residences. It is the tapestries that she is best known for, and it is this medium that dominates the largest body of her work, which was first introduced to the design world in the mid 1970's. The tapestries utilize a fabric collage technique combining an array of designer upholstery fabrics such as velvets, brocades, worsteds, jacquards, mohair, hand woven woolens, among many others. Yarns of all kinds are integrated into the tapestries surrounding the edges of each fabric piece. Some clients, who saw that Webber’s particular art style could be expressed in a variety of media, offered her commissions in stained and etched glass, wood collage, sculpted tile...

Category

1970s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Copper

Modern Texas Mixed Media Sculpture of a Mummified Portrait Bust in a Box / Crate
Modern Texas Mixed Media Sculpture of a Mummified Portrait Bust in a Box / Crate

Modern Texas Mixed Media Sculpture of a Mummified Portrait Bust in a Box / Crate

By Roy Fridge

Located in Houston, TX

Modern mixed media sculpture by Texas artist Roy Fridge. The work features a mummified portrait bust encased in a red, white, and blue flag placed in a wooden box or crate. Artist Biography: A native of Beeville, Fridge was an only child who made his own toys. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he graduated from Baylor University in Waco with a degree in filmmaking. In the 1960s, he and his best friends, sculptors Jim Love and Dave McManaway, became known as the "unholy trio" of Texas contemporary art. In 1963, Fridge left a career in television advertising and "ran away to the beach." He settled in the sleepy town of Port Aransas...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Vessel #378 (INV# NP5676) by Richard DeVore
Vessel #378 (INV# NP5676) by Richard DeVore

Vessel #378 (INV# NP5676) by Richard DeVore

By Richard DeVore

Located in Morton Grove, IL

Vessel #378 (INV# NP5676) Richard DeVore stoneware and glaze 16.75 × 7.5 × 11” 1975 BIO- Richard DeVore (1933 - 2006) was one of the most important American ceramicists of the pas...

Category

1970s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Le saut de mouton

Le saut de mouton

By Mauro Corda

Located in Atlanta, GA

Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Sculptures

Materials

Iron, Bronze

Sora, Clay Abstract Sculpture, 2019

Sora, Clay Abstract Sculpture, 2019

By Beverly Morrison

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: Black stoneware; cone 5/6 oxidation firing; Slips and Oxides Keywords: abstract, textured, ceramic, expressive Artist Biography: Beverly Morrison (Los Angeles...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Sculptures

Materials

Clay

Bronze Female Nude Sculpture Modernist, WPA, New York Chelsea Hotel Artist
Bronze Female Nude Sculpture Modernist, WPA, New York Chelsea Hotel Artist

Bronze Female Nude Sculpture Modernist, WPA, New York Chelsea Hotel Artist

By Eugenie Gershoy

Located in Surfside, FL

Eugenie Gershoy (January 1, 1901 – May 8, 1986) was an American sculptor and watercolorist. Eugenie Gershoy was born in Krivoy Rog, Russia (Krivoi Rog, Ukraine) and emigrated to New York City in the United States as a child in 1903. Considered somewhat of a child prodigy, Gershoy was copying Old Master drawings at the age of 5. Her interest and talent in art was encouraged from a very young age. Aided by scholarships, she studied at the Art Students League under Alexander Stirling Calder, Leo Lentelli, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Boardman Robinson. Around this time, she created a group of portrait figurines of her fellow artists, including Arnold Blanch, Lucile Blanch, Raphael Soyer, William Zorach, Concetta Scaravaglione, and Emil Ganso, which were exhibited as a group at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At age 17, she was awarded the Saint-Gaudens Medal for fine draughtsmanship. Early in her career she became an active member of the Woodstock art colony. In Woodstock she experimented by sculpting in the profusion of indigenous materials that she found. Working with fieldstone, oak and chestnut, Gershoy created works based on classic formulae. As she became more interested in the dynamism of everyday life, she found that these materials and her idiom were too restrictive. By the time Gershoy came to Woodstock in 1921 her own individual artistic style was already evident in her sculptures. Eugenie Gershoy worked in stone, bronze, terracotta, plaster and papier-mache. Gershoy’s sculptures were mainly figurative in nature and many of her artist peers such as Carl Walters, Raphael and Moses Soyer, William Zorach and Lucille Blanch, became her subjects. Eugenie Gershoy’s works on paper should not be overlooked. She was the winner of the Gaudens Medal for Fine Draughtsmanship at the tender age of 17. Gershoy married Jewish Romanian-born artist Harry Gottlieb. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the pair kept a studio in Woodstock, New York. There, Gershoy was influenced by sculptor John Flanagan, who lived and worked nearby. From 1936 to 1939, Gershoy worked for the WPA Federal Art Project. She collaborated with Max Spivak on murals for the children's recreation room of the Queens Borough Public Library in Astoria, New York. She developed a mixture of wheat paste, plaster, and egg tempera, which she used in polychrome papier-mâché sculptures; she was the only New York sculptor to work in polychrome at this time. She also designed cement and mosaic sculptures of animals and figures to be placed in New York City playgrounds. Alongside others employed by the FAP, she participated in a sit-down strike in Washington, DC, to advocate for better pay and improved working conditions for the projects' artists. Gershoy's first solo exhibition was held at the Robinson Gallery in New York in 1940. She moved to San Francisco in 1942, and began teaching ceramics at the California School of Fine Arts in 1946. In 1950, she studied at the artists' colony at Yaddo. Gershoy traveled extensively throughout her life. She visited England and France in the early 1930s, and worked in Paris in 1951. She traveled to Mexico and Guatemala in the late 1940s, and also toured Africa, India, and the Orient in 1955. In 1977, Gershoy dedicated a sculpture to Audrey McMahon, who was actively involved in the creation of the Federal Art Project and served as its regional director in New York, in recognition of the work McMahon provided struggling artists in the 1930s. Gershoy's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her papers are held at Syracuse University Grant Arnold introduced her to lithography in 1930 and Gershoy depicted many scenes of Woodstock artists and their daily activities through this medium. From 1942 to 1966 Gershoy lived and painted in San Francisco where she taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. She traveled extensively, filling sketchbooks with scenes of Mexico, France, Spain, Africa and India. During her later years Eugenie Gershoy returned to New York City and concentrated on numerous well received exhibitions. Her last exhibition in at Sid Deutsch Gallery included many of the sculptures that were later exhibited in the Fletcher Gallery. John Russell, former chief critic of fine arts for the New York Times, writes about the 1986 Sid Deutsch exhibition: “As Eugenie Gershoy won the Saint-Gaudens Medal for fine draftsmanship as long ago as 1914 and since 1967 has had 15 papier-mache portrait figures suspended from the ceiling of the lobby of the Hotel Chelsea, she must be ranked as a veteran of the New York scene. Her present exhibition includes not only the high-spirited papier-mache sculptures for which she is best known but a group of small portraits of artists, mostly dating from the 30’s, that is strongly evocative.” Eugenie Gershoy is an artist to take note of for several reasons. She was a woman who received great awards and recognition during a time when most female artists were struggling to hold their own against their male counterparts. As a young girl she won a scholarship to the Arts Student League where she met Hannah Small...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Monumental Pair of White Marble Sculptures of Classical Figures
Monumental Pair of White Marble Sculptures of Classical Figures

Monumental Pair of White Marble Sculptures of Classical Figures

Located in Rome, IT

Standing figure of Julius Caesar wearing a Tunic and holding a billowing drapery with a composition marble square-section pedestal. . The other figure is of Hannibal. Provenance fro...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Marble

"Ship", from Life in Venice series
"Ship", from Life in Venice series

"Ship", from Life in Venice series

Located in Indianapolis, IN

This piece is unique in a series of only seven made. Wall-hanging sculpture, Torino, Italy, ca. 1965; Copper-washed ironwork and welded spill castings, metallic enameled copper; sign...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Copper, Enamel

Water, Original Glass Wall Sculpture
Water, Original Glass Wall Sculpture

Water, Original Glass Wall Sculpture

By Karo Martirosyan

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Water, Size: 37.5" x 77.5" x 1'' inch, 95x197x3 cm...

Category

2010s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Metal

"Olie" Bronze Bust of a Man
"Olie" Bronze Bust of a Man

"Olie" Bronze Bust of a Man

By Rick Pasterchik

Located in Houston, TX

Brons bust of a man that sits on a square metal base. The work is stamped and dated by the artist. The sculpture needs cleaning.

Category

1970s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Abstract Fish Sculpture
Abstract Fish Sculpture

Abstract Fish Sculpture

Located in Rochester, NY

A striking metal sculpture of a fish. Iron with gold gilt decoration. Probably Asian.

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Dancing Ballerinas Bronze Sculpture
Dancing Ballerinas Bronze Sculpture

Dancing Ballerinas Bronze Sculpture

By Victor Salmones

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Bronze Sculpture Dencing Ballerinas. Victor Salmones (Mexican, 1938-1989) "'Pas de Quatre" Edition 1 of 10, 1976, 26 x 11 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. This sculpture was originally created and ...

Category

1970s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

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