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MODERN STYLE

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
“The Crow”
“The Crow”

“The Crow”

Located in Southampton, NY

Original gouache and watercolor on brown archival paper of a standing crow in profile. Signed and dated lower right. Condition is good to very good. Colors of the bird are strong a...

Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper, Graphite

Untitled, from Women are Beautiful Portfolio - Street Photography, Park
Untitled, from Women are Beautiful Portfolio - Street Photography, Park

Untitled, from Women are Beautiful Portfolio - Street Photography, Park

By Garry Winogrand

Located in Denton, TX

Untitled, from Women are Beautiful Portfolio, by Garry Winogrand is a black and white gelatin silver print of two women in matching outfits, walking through a park with people staring as they pass by. Edition of 80 Signed, numbered and misc. notations by Garry Winogrand Gelatin silver print Paper size: 11 x 14 in., Image size: 8 3/4 x 13 in. Printed 1981 From the Women are Beautiful Portfolio Garry Winogrand was an American photographer from New York. He is known for his extensive documentation of American life.. Winogrand was the recipient of the various Guggenheim Fellowships and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His work is included in the George Eastman Museum, Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Center for Creative Photography...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Drinks at Gstaad - Models Pose in Furs with Cocktails for Apres Ski Drinks
Drinks at Gstaad - Models Pose in Furs with Cocktails for Apres Ski Drinks

Drinks at Gstaad - Models Pose in Furs with Cocktails for Apres Ski Drinks

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Drinks at Gstaad - Models Pose in Furs with Cocktails in Gstaad by Slim Aarons 16" x 20" Digital C-Type Print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. ...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

C Print, Digital, Photographic Paper, Color

Memory of Flowering Ages
Memory of Flowering Ages

Memory of Flowering Ages

Located in Zofingen, AG

‘Memory of Flowering Ages’ is a painting that explores the idea of fragility and continuity of cultural layers through the image of a flower. Its petals, filled with a depth of hues ...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Inglewood
Inglewood

Inglewood

By Jessica Brilli

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Jessica Brilli (Sayville, NY 1977) has been drawing and painting since her childhood. Working in a style that encompasses American realism and 20th century graphic...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Vintage American Modernist Southwestern Nocturnal Starlit Sky Oil Painting
Vintage American Modernist Southwestern Nocturnal Starlit Sky Oil Painting

Vintage American Modernist Southwestern Nocturnal Starlit Sky Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 9 by 17 inches overall. Handsomely framed in giltwo...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Zen Minimalist Flowers Etching American Modernist Ed Baynard Pop Art Print
Zen Minimalist Flowers Etching American Modernist Ed Baynard Pop Art Print

Zen Minimalist Flowers Etching American Modernist Ed Baynard Pop Art Print

By Ed Baynard

Located in Surfside, FL

ED BAYNARD (American, 1940-2016) Flowers, Flowers in a Vase, Etching. 1979/1980, Hand signed, dated l.r., Hand numbered from small edition 12/24, Dimensions: 23 by 19 in. Framed 25 by 21 in Born in Washington, D.C. in 1940. Raised in Washington, D.C. and newly graduated from high school, he flew to Europe living off and on in Paris and London. During this time, he designed costumes for Jimi Hendrix, worked as a graphic designer for the Beatles as well as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Returning to New York, he dedicated his life to art after a surprise success with his first show in 1971 at the Willard Gallery in NYC. Ed's images are Zen-like in their simplicity and grace rendered in a flat, graphic style that recalls Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. His watercolors are luminous, like the rest of his representations regardless of the medium. The Japanese inspired ukiyo-e style woodblock prints and lithograph works he created at Tyler Graphics in 1980 contain a 20th century "floating world" sensibility. Ed's wish was to bring harmony, color, and a meditative stillness to this chaotic planet. He did so in a gentle and powerful way, always as an expression of his deep gratitude for the love and beauty, friendship, and concerns he held dearest. His first solo exhibition was in 1971 at New York's legendary Willard Gallery on the recommendation of Agnes Martin. Baynard went on to have exhibitions at galleries including Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (1973); Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (1977); John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (1980); and Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (1980/81).. Baynard manages to retain a simplicity of form inspired by a love of Japanese Woodblock prints. His new works reflect the same poetry of his earlier paintings, retaining his stylized compositions with their Zen like minimalism and Oriental calm, along with a new sense of rhythm and movement. Baynard uses familiar themes such as flowers, plants, pots, and vases, incorporating them into his delicate watercolor still lifes, thus creating stunning visual feasts. He was included in the 1972 Landscape exhibition at MoMA NY alone with other luminaries James Boynton, Christo, Jan Dibbets, Minnie Evans...

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Jeanloup Sieff - Intimode - Les Dessous de la mode

Jeanloup Sieff - Intimode - Les Dessous de la mode

By Jeanloup Sieff

Located in Cologne, DE

From a Portfolio with 26 exclusive works of Jeanloup Sieff, limited to 200 copies. The photograph of Jeanloup Sieff has been produced as Collotype under the direct commandment of the...

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photogravure

'Downtown, New York' — 1920s Modernism
'Downtown, New York' — 1920s Modernism

'Downtown, New York' — 1920s Modernism

By John Taylor Arms

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

John Taylor Arms, 'Downtown, New York', etching with aquatint, 1921, edition 75, Fletcher 108. Signed, dated, and numbered 14/75 in pencil. A superb, finely nuanced impression, in d...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

2 Lazy 2 P

2 Lazy 2 P

Located in Phoenix, AZ

2 Lazy 2P, ca. 1939 Lon Megargee Serigraph 20 x 24 inches Signed in screen Original serigraph print by Lon Megargee 1883 - 1960 Featured in "Hot Irons" by Oren Arnold and John Hale, 1940 SHIPPING CHARGES INCLUDE SHIPPING, PACKAGING & INSURANCE Lon Megargee created this serigraph from his commission with Oren Arnold and John Hale to do their dust jacket for the book, " Hot Irons", 1940. Arnold and Hale wanted to establish a reference work, an "authority", with a entertaining history about the evolution of the brand. Megargee created a painting of a steer that was branded with the script, 2 Lazy 2 P. Surrounding the steer is a random display of famous brands of ranches in the Southwest. It was well received and must have prompted Megargee to create the likeness as a print. The brand is described in chapter thirteen, page 207-208 and says, " Ed Stram, who was Arizona state veterinarian for sixteen years, fire-branded his cattle with this peculiar crest. It isn't peculiar unless you have an equally peculiar sense of humor. At a glance it appears to be just another typically unimaginative brand, but it has been used to make many a thousand girls blush, and a few thousand bashful young men as well". COLLIER GALLERY, FINE ART ESTATE OF LON MEGARGEE Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lon Megargee, at age 13, ran away from his upper class home and went West in 1896 led by his zest for the wild and adventuresome life. There he established a reputation as a cowboy painter and illustrator with work most associated with Arizona Brewing Company ads featuring humorous aspects of cowboy life. In his youth, he worked as a free-lance cowboy, exhibition roper, poker dealer, and bronco buster in Arizona, and then went east again to study art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and to New York at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute. He returned to Arizona, living in Cave Creek, Salt River Canyon, Phoenix and the last years of his life near Sedona. His Phoenix home later became a popular hotel and dining place called the Hermosa Inn. Megargee was a ranch owner and also did oil canvases of the places he loved and the cowboy life he admired. By 1910, he was among the earliest resident artists, and was probably the best known artist in Arizona. His name was first associated with a landscape series of 15 large murals for the Capitol Building, newly constructed just after Arizona became a state in 1912. Another one of his paintings, Elemental, was the first painting by an artist living in Arizona to be acquired for the Municipal Collection of Phoenix. These works were chosen from entries in the State Fair, where he continued to win prizes for figure and landscape painting. From 1911 to 1953, he did numerous commission works for the Santa Fe Railroad, including a work titledNavajos Watching a Santa Fe Train. Between 1915 and 1930, he also painted in the Los Angeles area of California and had entries in the California State Fair. He died in Cottonwood, Arizona. After his death, theSaturday Evening Post had a double-page reproduction of his painting Cowboy's Dream. Creator of the iconic logo for the Stetson Hat Company, " Last Drop From his Stetson", still in use today. Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee We offer signed in print and original signature block prints. Custom, hand carved, signature frames, with archival standards and a speciality in hand dyed mats and french matting are provided for a beautiful and timeless presentation. Megargee explored different mediums; printmaking captivated him in particular. The contrast of the black and white block print method captured perfectly his interpretation of a bold American West. The first print was produced around 1921 and culminated with the creation of “The Cowboy Builds a Loop” in 1933 with 28 images and poetry by his friend, Roy George. Megargee continued producing prints throughout the 1940s and early 50s. At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar Ranch . . . and, after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Patchwork Abstracted Landscape
Patchwork Abstracted Landscape

Patchwork Abstracted Landscape

Located in Soquel, CA

Abstracted landscape by an unknown artist (20th Century). The landscape is made up of patches of color, reminiscent of viewing agricultural land f...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Ink, Watercolor, Newsprint, Tissue Paper

From the suite La Passion
From the suite La Passion

From the suite La Passion

By Georges Rouault

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork from the suite "La Passion" 1932, published 1939 is a wood engraving by French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. (Block engraved by Georges Aubert) It is signed and dat...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Revelations de Nozdriov
Revelations de Nozdriov

Revelations de Nozdriov

By Marc Chagall

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Revelations de Nozdriov" from the suite "Nicholas Gogol, Les Ames Mortes" created 1923-1937, published 1948, is an etching on paper by renown Russian/French arti...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Jasper Johns Red (Portrait, Iconic, Homage)
Jasper Johns Red (Portrait, Iconic, Homage)

Jasper Johns Red (Portrait, Iconic, Homage)

By Shepard Fairey

Located in Kansas City, MO

Shepard Fairey Jasper Johns Red Screen print on thick cream paper Year: 2009 Size: 24 x 18 inches (60.96 x 45.72 cm) Edition: 450 Signed by Shepard Fairey, dated and numbered by hand...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

La Donna Lucertola, Modern Etching by Rafael Alberti
La Donna Lucertola, Modern Etching by Rafael Alberti

La Donna Lucertola, Modern Etching by Rafael Alberti

By Rafael Alberti

Located in Long Island City, NY

This captivating 1971 etching by Rafael Alberti features abstract imagery inspired by the “lizard woman” theme through Modern Abstract Art sensibility. Alberti, renowned as a poet of...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

"Final Judgement" Large original colors lithograph.
"Final Judgement" Large original colors lithograph.

"Final Judgement" Large original colors lithograph.

By Guy Buffet

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "The Final Judgement" c.1990, is an original colors lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and numbered 188/350 in pe...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Tommy's Pond
Tommy's Pond

Tommy's Pond

By Gabor F. Peterdi

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Tommy's Pond Etching, aquatint and intaglio, 1966 Signed, dated and numbered in pencil Image/Plate size: 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches Sheet size: : 20 1/16 x 14 7/16 inches From: The Portf...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Intaglio

The Eiffel Tower (1929) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized

The Eiffel Tower (1929) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized

By H. Armstrong Roberts

Located in London, GB

The Eiffel Tower (1929) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy) Eiffel Tower built in 1889 seen from Trocadero wrought iron doors Paris France, circa 1929. Additional Information: Unframed Paper Size: 40x30'' Printed Later Silver Gelatin Fibre Print NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE 10 x 12'' 12 x 16'' 16 x 20'' 20 x 24'' 20 x 30'' 30 x 40'' FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST About the Artist: H. Armstrong ROBERTS (1883-1947) is an artist born in 1883 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a photography sold in 2012. ACTORS ON SET, Bette Davis, Ladies Fashion...

Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Jean Serpieri 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Jean Serpieri 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Jean Serpieri 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged to the wife of Otto, the fir...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative

Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative

By Edward Feingersh

Located in Cologne, DE

Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot without flash in available light. The photographs he made of her during the week March 24–30, 1955 as she prepares for two appearances; opening night of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Morosco Theatre and being fitted with a burlesque corset for her ride on a pink elephant at a charity event at Madison Square Garden. (from Wikipedia) This is a unique silver gelatine print, made in 1988 from the original negative.

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Old City Jaffa
Old City Jaffa

Old City Jaffa

Located in Surfside, FL

Pencil signed artists proof lithograph or serigraph. Shmuel Katz (Hebrew: שמואל כ"ץ‎) (August 18, 1926 – March 26, 2010) was an Israeli artist, illustrator, and cartoonist. A Holocau...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mid Century River & Farm Landscape in Oil on Canvas Stretched Over Board
Mid Century River & Farm Landscape in Oil on Canvas Stretched Over Board

Mid Century River & Farm Landscape in Oil on Canvas Stretched Over Board

Located in Soquel, CA

Mid Century River & Farm Landscape in Oil on Canvas Stretched Over Board A pastoral mid-century landscape with a red farmhouse on the banks of a beautiful river valley by J. Anderso...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

"Portrait of Dr. Monroe Mufson"
"Portrait of Dr. Monroe Mufson"

"Portrait of Dr. Monroe Mufson"

By Joseph Biel

Located in Southampton, NY

Unsigned ; attributed to Joseph Biel Good friend of Dr. Mufson View is from New York University School of Medicine. Overall size with original frame 25.5 x 21 in.

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe Tate Exhibition 1971 Original Vintage Poster

Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe Tate Exhibition 1971 Original Vintage Poster

Located in London, GB

Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe Tate Exhibition 1971 Original Vintage Poster measures 20×30" inches / 51 x 76 cm Original vintage advertising poster for a Warhol pop art exhibition at ...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, C Print

LOTUS FLOWER - ROEDING PARK - Provincetown Style
LOTUS FLOWER - ROEDING PARK - Provincetown Style

LOTUS FLOWER - ROEDING PARK - Provincetown Style

By Mary Travis

Located in Santa Monica, CA

MARY TRAVIS (Active 1935 - 40) LOTUS FLOWER ROEDING PARK. c.1935-40 White line color woodcut. Signed and titled in pencil. Small edition. 10” x 8”. Full sheet. tears in upper margin. Travis worked in Berkeley, California and was probably a follower of William S...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

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