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[Flowering Carob Tree, San Giorgio Maggiore Island, Venice].
By Jane Peterson
Located in Storrs, CT
c. 1914. Oil on canvas. 18 x 24 (framed 27 x 32 1/2). Exhibited at the Newport Art Museum and Art Association, June 11, 2011 to October 16, 2011. Remembering the Ladies: Women and t...
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20th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
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Houses and Church on the French Countryside (quaint village scene)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A rare color lithograph by late French artist, Éliane Thiollier. Edition of 275, certificate of authentication is provided. Minor acid staining from the old mat.
Éliane Thiollier s...
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1950s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
The Surf at Newport
By Warren W. Sheppard
Located in Storrs, CT
The Surf at Newport (Rhode Island). c. 1906. Oil on canvas. 17 x 24 (framed 26 x 34). Lined; extensive craquelure; otherwise fine condition. Housed in an exceptional Louis XV (reviva...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Collage - Still Life
By Marion Huse
Located in Storrs, CT
Brilliantly-colored collage with various texts and butterfly prints. Oil on canvas measures 20 x 24, presented in a modern frame with white linen liner; frame measures 26 5/8 x 30 5/...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Bird Abstraction' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stephen Harty, Untitled (Bird Abstraction), gouache, 1953. Signed and dated lower left. A fine, meticulously rendered, mid-century, modernist gouache painting, with fresh colors on 1...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Insomnia's Green Ledge
By Terrell James
Located in Houston, TX
Terrell James
Insomnia's Green Ledge, 2022
Oil on canvas
66 x 66 in (167.6 x 167.6 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
UNTITLED
By Morris Shulman
Located in Portland, ME
Shulman, Morris (American, 1912-1978). UNTITLED. Casein on paper, circa 1951. Signed, lower left. 14 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches, framed to 23 x 30 inches. In excellent condition.
Shulman st...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Casein
Nature's Printing Press
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nature's Printing Press
Gouache, tempera, pigments and ink on masonite board, 1967
Signed lower left corner (see photo)
Thompson was part of the late 1960’s Black Emergency Cultural Coalition along with Benny Andrews
The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition Inc. (BECC) was organized in January 1969 by a group of African American artists in response to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Harlem on My Mind" exhibit, which omitted the contributions of African American painters and sculptors to the Harlem community.
Part of a series of works the artist created in 1967. The tree motifs vary as does the color of the background. Please see photo of another work from the series.
Condition: Excellent/very good
Three tiny while flecks in the green border of the painting
Image size: 10 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches
Painting board size: 20 x 16 inches
Frame size: 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches
Russ Thompson (Born 1922- Jamaica
Part of the late 1960’s Black Emergency Cultural Coalition along with Benny Andrews
The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition Inc. (BECC) was organized in January 1969 by a group of African American artists in response to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Harlem on My Mind" exhibit, which omitted the contributions of African American painters and sculptors to the Harlem community. Members of this initial group that protested against the exhibit included several prominent African American artists, including Benny Andrews and Clifford R. Joseph, cofounders of the BECC. The primary goal of the group was to agitate for change in the major art museums in New York City for greater representation of African American artists and their work in these museums.
Studied: Pratt Inst.; Carlyle College; NY Sch. Mod. Photography
Exhibited: MoMA; BM, 1968; Nordness Gals., NYC; Phila. Civic Center; Ruder & Finn FA, 1969; Smithsonian Inst.; Mount Holyoke College, 1969; BMFA, 1970; RISD, 1969; Mem. Art Gal., Rochester, NY, 1969; SFMA, 1969; Contemp. Arts Mus., Houston, TX, 1970; NJ State Mus., 1970; Roberson Center for the Arts & Sciences, Binghampton, NY, 1970; UC Santa Barbara, 1970; Plaza Hotel, NYC; Westchester Art Soc. Gal. (prize); Nassau Community College; Brooklyn Pub. Lib.; Allentown (PA) Art Festival; Quinnipiac College, CT; Parrish Art Mus.; NY State Pavillion; Huntington Township Art Lg. Awards: Mitchell College, CT; BM; Armonk Lib. Show Award; Bedford Hills Lib. Show Award.
Sources: Cederholm, Afro-American Artists.
Public Collections:
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Brooklyn Museum
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Exhibitions: MOMA
Brooklyn Museum, 1968
Nordness Galleries, NYC
Smithsonian Institution
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1970
Rhode Island School of Design, 1969
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1969
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1970
Parrish Art Museum
Courtesy of Afro-American Artist; a biographical directory
THOMPSON, RUSS (Born Jamaica, 1922)
Painter. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, 1922.
Studied at the Pratt Institute; Carlyle College;
New York School of Modern Photography.
Works: Cloud Flowers ; My Breath Is One
with the Clouds ; The Acrobats; Relatives;
Thoreau; Clothes to the Body; America- Amer-
ica; Hanging Garden; Poor Room, Rich Room;
Epigram a Bromide; Passage, 1969 (wood,
epoxy, iron).
Exhibited: Museum of Modern Art; Brooklyn
Museum Fence Show, 1968; Nordness Gal-
leries, NY; Phila. Civic Center; Ruder & Finn
Fine Arts, 1969; Smithsonian Institution; Mount
Holyoke College, 1969; Boston Museum of
Fine Arts, 1970; Rhode Island School of
Design, 1969; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester,
NY, 1969; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1969;
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1970;
NJ State Museum, 1970; Roberson Center for
the Arts & Sciences, Binghamton, NY, 1970;
Art Galleries, Univ. of Cal. at Santa Barbara,
1970; Plaza Hotel, NYC; Westchester Art So-
ciety Gallery; Nassau Community College;
Brooklyn Public Library; Allentown (Pa.) Art
Festival; Quinnipiac College; Parrish Art Mu-
seum; NY State Pavillion; Huntington Town-
ship Art League.
Collections: Frederick Douglass Institute, Wash-
ington, DC; Spiro & Levinson Corp.; Mr.
William Haber; Mr. & Mrs. B. Friedman;
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel J. Rosen; Mr. David
Scribner; Unigraphic Corp.; Mr. Benny An-
drews; Jeanne Paris; Mr. & Mrs. Joseph
Strauss.
Awards: Westchester Art Society; Mitchell
College, Conn.; Brooklyn Museum; Armonk
Library Show Award; Bedford Hills Library
Show Award.
Sources: Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Afro-
American Artists: New York/ Boston, 1970;
Nordness Galleries. 12 Afro-American Artists,
1969; Mount Holyoke College. Ten Afro-
American Artists, 1969; Ghent, Henri. “The
Community Art Gallery,” Art Gallery, April
1970; Paris, Jean. “Black Art Experience in
Art,” Long Island Press, Jamaica, NY, June 14,
1970; Ruder & Finn Fine Arts. Contemporary
Black Artists’, Brooklyn College. Afro-Amer-
ican Artists: Since 1950, 1969; Walker, Roslyn.
A Resource Guide to the Visual Arts of Afro-
Americans, South Bend, Ind., 1971.
NEW YORK (NY). Acts of Art, Inc.
Rebuttal to Whitney Museum Exhibition: Black Artists in Rebuttal at Acts of Art Gallery.
1971.
Unpag. (20 pp.) exhib. cat., 54 b&w illus., brief biogs. of 48 artists. The text consists of an unsigned foreword (probably by Nigel L.
Jackson, director of Acts of Art); a reprint of Z. D. Allen's review of the exhibition, "Rebuttal to the Whitney," from Chelsea Clinton
News (Apr. 15, 1971). The catalogue was published after the show opened. Artists included: Benny Andrews, James Belfon, Betty
Blayton, Lynn (Chuck) Bowers, Vivian Browne, Calvin Burnett, Jo Butler, Robert Carter, Art Coppedge, Adger Cowans...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Spring Field
By Larry Poons
Located in London, GB
Larry Poons
Spring Field
1989
Acrylic on canvas
39.37 x 95.25 cms (15 1/2 x 37 1/2 ins)
LP10155
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Ormolu
By John Hoyland
Located in London, GB
John Hoyland
Ormolu
1972
Acrylic on canvas
183.5 x 137.5 cms (72 1/4 x 54 1/8 ins)
JH001
Provenance:
Andre Emmerich, New York
Christie's London, 1989
Acquired from the above
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Variants
By Matt Magee
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Magee
Variants, 2022
Oil on panel
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rinsing the Eye
By Terrell James
Located in Houston, TX
Terrell James
"Rinsing the Eye" 2019
Oil on linen
64 x 78 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Map - Spirit Level
By Matt Magee
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Magee
Map - Spirit Level, 2020
Oil on panel
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Red Oracle
By Matt Magee
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Magee
Red Oracle, 2009
Oil on panel
32 x 22 in (81.3 x 55.9 cm)
JPHB 1931
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Cubist Abstraction
Signed and dated lower right
Watercolor, charcoal and gouache on paper, 1922
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Schroeder, Romero & Sh...
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1920s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache
Untitled (Iron Forest)
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Untitled (Iron Forest)
1989
Acrylic on prepared paper
91.4 x 182.9 cms (36 x 72 ins)
SF012
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled (SF64-048)
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
From the series Blue Balls, (1960-63). This series preoccupied Francis for a number of years, and as William C. Agee pointed out, are rooted in his threatened physical body. Again, t...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled (six vignettes)
By Pierre Courtin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed lower center edge
Annotated verso: “5 Juin 1966
_____ et de soleil, de et d’oseille”
Image: 6 3/4 x 4 5/8"
Frame: 14 1/2 x 12 3/4"
Finishe...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Acrylic and gold leaf collage on canvas, 2005
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 10 13/16 x 8 5/8 inches
Support Sheet size: 17 x 14 ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
By Dennis Ashbaugh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Mixed media on paper, 1981
Signed and dated 1981 lower left (see photo)
Provenance:
Knoedler Gallery, New York (label)
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
The Collection of Jan...
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
01AS-3
By Larry Poons
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas, signed, titled and dated verso. 47.6 x 59 cm (18 3/4 x 24 1/4 in)
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Geometric Abstraction
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A unique, beautifully composed, large-scale geometric abstraction encaustic, with fresh colors, on fibrous buff, wove paper; the image extending ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
UNTITLED
By George Hoehn
Located in Portland, ME
Hoehn, George (American, 1935 - ?) UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Gouache on heavy wove paper, 1969. Signed and dated, lower right. Tondo, 3 1/4 inches diameter, (image), 15 x 11 inches (shee...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist in acrylic lower right
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Acrylic on paper
Category
20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
UNTITLED
By George Hoehn
Located in Portland, ME
Hoehn, George (American, 1935 - ?) UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Gouache on heavy wove paper, 1967. Signed and dated, lower right. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (image), 15 x 11 inches (sheet). In ex...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
HEART
Located in Portland, ME
Wang Ming (Chinese-American, 1921-2016). HEART.Acrylic on paper, 1969. Signed, titled and dated, verso. 21 x 15 5/8, framed to 28 7/8 x 23 1/2. In excellent condition.
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
UNTITLED
By George Hoehn
Located in Portland, ME
Hoehn, George (American, 1935 - ?) UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Gouache on heavy wove paper, 1969. Signed and dated, lower right. Tondo, 3 1/4 inches diameter, (image), 15 x 11 inches (shee...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Irish Book
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas mounted on board
50.8 x 40.6 cms (20 x 16 ins)
This collage includes a fragment of a 1985 print, Burning Sun. Although Motherwell signed...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
'Central Railroad' — Mid-Century African-American Artist
By Charles Elmer Harris
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (Central Railroad), watercolor, c. 1945. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '697' in ink. A fine, modernist re...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, India Ink
Asian Massif - 1
By Jules Olitski
Located in London, GB
Jules Olitski
Asian Massif - 1
1975
Water base acrylic on canvas
213.4 x 88.9 cms (84 x 35 ins)
JO001
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Chromachord # 31
By James Hayward
Located in London, GB
James Hayward
Chromachord # 28
1998
Oil on canvas on wood panel
35.56 x 26.67 cms (14 x 10.5 ins)
JHAY8937
Category
1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By John Hoyland
Located in London, GB
John Hoyland
Untitled
1981
Acrylic on paper
76 x 55.5 cms (29 7/8 x 21 7/8 ins)
JH5624
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled 12
By John Hoyland
Located in London, GB
John Hoyland
Untitled 12
1981
Acrylic on paper
75 x 106.7 cms (29 1/2 x 42 ins)
JH5623
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Chromachord # 61
By James Hayward
Located in London, GB
James Hayward
Chromachord # 28
1998
Oil on canvas on wood panel
35.56 x 26.67 cms (14 x 10.5 ins)
JHAY8937
Category
1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Russian Orthodox Church, Middle 19th Century
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Russian Artist
Russian Orthodox Church, Middle 19th century
Unsigned
Illuminated in red, yellow blue and green pigments and gold leaf on paper
...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pigment
Untitled
By Michael Tracy
Located in Houston, TX
Michael Tracy
Untitled, 2006
Paint on silk
52 x 44 in (132.1 x 111.8 cm)
JPHB 1166
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silk, Paint
Mountain Road, Late November
By Marion Huse
Located in Storrs, CT
Autumnal scene of a fence-lined road winding down from the mountains. Oil on board measures 14 x 18, housed in a rustic wooden frame with a white linen liner, 18 3/4 x 22 7/8 x 1 3/4...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arctic Light - Orange Sun
By Karl Zerbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arctic Light-Orange Sun
Unsigned
Gouache on Japanese fibrous paper
Series: Tundra Paintings
Exhibited: Karl Zerbe, Gouaches of the Artic
Nordness Gallery, (Madison Avenue, NY) Feb 3 through Feb 23, 1958
Cat. No. 12 (label with work, see photo...
Category
1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Rest
By Joseph Havel
Located in Houston, TX
Joseph Havel
Rest, 2004
Double woven silk taffeta labels in an acrylic construction
13 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Fabric
House of Levy
By Kate Shepherd
Located in Houston, TX
Kate Shepherd
House of Levy, 2022
Oil and enamel on panel
20 x 14 1/2 in (50.8 x 36.8 cm)
JPHB 5184
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Kandahar
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Kandahar
Acrylic and mixed media on fabric, c. 1970
Signed by the artist lower right (see photo)
Kandahar is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country next to Pakistan. Inspired by the Dehns visit to Afghanistan in the 1960's.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Dehn Heirs
Condition: Excellent
Canvas size: 18 x 20 inches
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn
Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
#90 Strange Creature
By Norbert Lenz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#90 Strange Creature
Oil and pencil on board, 1932
Signed and dated in the image lower right (see photo)
Provenance:
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, OH
Condition: excellent
Archival framing
Image size: 10 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches
Frame size: 25 x 24 inches
Painter, illustrator and commercial artist Norbert Lenz was born in Norwalk, Ohio and received his artistic training at both the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art. During his career Lenz exhibited his paintings and drawings at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art. Today the art of Norbert Lenz is held by the Columbus Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art.
Lenz was also a very highly regarded commercial designer of stamps. He worked for a number
of years at the House of Farman, a leading vendor of first day covers...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
untitled
By Dennis Ashbaugh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Mixed media on paper, 1979
Signed and dated ‘79 lower right (see photo)
Sheet size: 31 1/2 x 48"
Frame: 34 1/4 x 50 1/4"
Provenance:
Members Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Galle...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A lifetime New Yorker, Marks graduated from the High...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fabric Design (Black and White)
By Lizzie Derriey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned as is usual
References:
Located at 136, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the Lizzie Derriey Design Studio was active from 1928-1994. This creative co-operative, which emp...
Category
20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Interieur No. II
By Benjamin G. Benno
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Interieur No. II
Oil on canvas, 1937
Signed on verso (see photo)
nscribed on reverse:
Benno 1937
"Interieur" (No. II)
35 x 27 cm
9 rue Compagne Premiere
Paris 14e
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Ruth O'Hara, Lang & O'Hara, New York...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Abstraction)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Abstraction)
Oil on canvas, date unknown
Signed lower left corner: Zayon
Canvas size: 13 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches
Frame size: 19 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches
Condition: Very good
Born i...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Words and Deeds
By Ben Wilson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Words and Deeds
Oil and collage on wood panel, c. 1990
Signed recto lower right (see photo)
Verso: See photo
Signed, verso: Ben Wilson
Dated: c. 1990
Titled: Words and Deeds
Condition: Excellent
Image/panel size: 23 1/4 x 19 inches
Frame size: 26 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches
To gain exposure to a wider range of styles, he also studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Educational Alliance. Admired by critics throughout his long career, Wilson was singled out as a “discovery” by the New York Times art critic Edward Alden Jewel even before his rst one-man show at the Galerie Neuf in 1946. His paintings of the ’30s and ’40s were expressionistically rendered, often Biblical parables, lled with what he called “the grief of the intolerable” and reecting an acute awareness of the agony of the time, from the Holocaust to the Spanish Civil War. A WPA artist who identied strongly with the plight of the Jews in Europe, he relentlessly explored themes of war, torment, and futility in his early decades of painting. When times changed and social pressures subsided, Wilson’s mood lifted. He spent 1952-54 in Paris working at the Academie Julien. During the ’50s his involvement with specic imagery persisted but became more psychological and mythic in orientation. Inuenced by Cubism, he created a vocabulary of interlocking shapes and bold, sweeping gestures that served as a transition between his early gurative expressionism and his later abstract constructivist concerns. Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.” By 1960, inuenced by the Russian Constructivists, Mondrian, and Abstract Expressionism, Wilson turned to abstraction. Reexamining the basic elements of painting, he evolved his own personal vocabulary and structure, fusing the cerebral and the emotive. He became increasingly experimental, using house paint, sand, and other unorthodox materials in paintings that he worked from all directions, dripping, spraying, stenciling, and collaging. He employed elements of disjunction, repetitions of geometric motifs, linear networks, and complex overlays to create the transparent, multi-layer development of space that characterizes his later paintings. A consummate draftsman, Wilson lled notebook after notebook with drawings that he amplied in his paintings. Eschewing popular movements, Wilson was always one to pursue a personal aesthetic. Despite more than 30 one-man shows and 50 years of teaching, he increasingly withdrew from the gallery scene but continued to paint daily until his death at age 88 in 2001 in Blairstown, New Jersey, where he and his sculptor wife Evelyn Wilson...
Category
1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Persephone
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Persephone
Oil on canvas, 1952
Signed lower left (see photo)
Titled reverse "Persephone" Signed "V. 52"
Exhibited: Columbus Gallery of the Arts label "71/30 Bt. 2", see label
Condition: two very small flakes of missing paint
Canvas size: 20 1/8 x 16"
Frame size: 20 7/8 x 16 3/4"
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Dehn Heirs
An important painting by the artist.
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn (1922-2005)
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
Category
1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Chaco
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chaco
Canvas, fabric, pigment and collage elements, 1985-1995
Signed lower left corner in red paint
Title and signed in pencil on the verso on the top of the stretcher
Condition: Excellent
Canvas size: 18 x 18 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent
Chaco is a Native American culture of Ancestral Puebloan peoples, thriving in New Mexico between 850 CE and 1250 CE. Some of the motifs in this work was inspired by Chaco Canyon wall art.
This mixed media work was created after the artist moved from New York to Santa Fe in 1985. It combines many Southwestern and Native American motifs.
This is one of a small group of similar works combing collage and mixed media. (See photo of native pictographs) that inspired this work.
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn
Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Acrylic paint on paper, c. 2005
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 9 7/16 x 7 7/16 inches
Support Sheet size: 17 x 14 inches
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A lifetime New Yorker, Marks graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1952 and Amherst College in 1956.
After a brief stint as a graphic designer in publishing, Marks became a private art dealer and opened his gallery Peter Marks Works of Art, Inc. in 1960. During this time he specialized in the sale of Southeast Asian and Islamic antiquities and made many contributions to the field both as a dealer and an advocate of his profession. Above all, Marks was motivated by a strong desire to find great art and make it available to large audiences.
After retiring from art dealing in 2002, Marks transformed his Manhattan gallery space into a studio where he drew prolifically and painted large non-objective canvasses. This time in his studio was a happy one for Marks, who viewed this period of his life not as retirement, but rather fulfillment, a fact that is confirmed by passionate artistic output in the years leading up to his passing in 2010.
In 2012, Thomas French Fine Art acquired a large number of works by Peter Marks and now represents the estate.
Works by the artist are in the Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute and the Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
(Untitled) Fabric Design
By Marguerite Gross
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Fabric Design)
Annotated on the verso with the studio address of the artist
Signed in ink lower right corner: “Marguerite Gross”
Gouache on heavy paper, 1930-1939
In 1930 ...
Category
1930s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Soft Blue Discs
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Soft Blue Discs
Acrylic/polymer on masonite, 1976
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right: LD Cantine (see photo)
Signed, titled, dated verso (see photo)
Canadian painter Cantine has spent his career exploring the role of color in painterly image construction
Condition: Excellent
Painting size: 12 x 15 inches
Provenance: Kraushaar Galleries (lebl, see photo)
"David Cantine (born 1939) is a Canadian painter, best known for consistently painting pictures using the same composition for the last forty years of his career. Cantine was born in Jackson, Michigan, and went to school at the University of Iowa, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962, and a Master of Arts degree in 1964. In 1965 he began teaching drawing and painting at the University of Alberta, until retiring from his position in 1996.
Cantine's work in the beginning of his career was figurative art, but he began to experiment with abstraction in the 1970s, and in 1975 became inspired by a photograph of a pair of apples casting round shadows. This compositional structure became the basis for the minimalist, post-painterly abstraction David Cantine is best known for. David Cantine's paintings are in a number of collections, including the Art Gallery of Alberta, the University of Alberta, the Christopher Cutts Gallery, the Francis Winspear Centre for Music, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Masur Museum of Art."
Courtesy Wikipedia
"David Cantine’s highly recognizable compositions of coloured circles below Plexiglas have been the painter’s primary pursuit for 45 years of his impressive painting career spanning almost six decades. What originally began as a still-life of apples and their shadows evolved into the present abstract imagery of four circles and seven colours. Motivated by the use of “structural colour instead of descriptive colour,” David Cantine continues to explore variations on this minimalist theme. Since the early 2000s, he has also explored a more painterly form of colourful abstracted still-life, with echoes of inspiration from Giorgio Morandi.
Born in Jackson, Michigan, Cantine received his Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa before permanently relocating to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He taught Drawing at the University of Alberta for over thirty years and has been featured multiple times at the Art Gallery of Alberta, in the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, and most recently in Soak, Stripe, Splatter.
His work has been exhibited in 24 solo exhibitions and 37 group shows and can also be found in the following collections: Masur Museum, Louisiana; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Ontario; Art Gallery of Alberta; University of Alberta FAB Gallery; Simons; Alberta Art Foundation; Hewlett-Packard; The Sims...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Study for Mid-Manhattan II
By John Marin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study for Mid-Manhattan II
Oil and graphite on paper, mounted to board, 1932
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Sight size: 8 1/2 x 7 inches
One of a series of studies for th...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
IT ALWAYS TURNS OUT FOR THE BEST.
By Johnnie Winona Ross
Located in Portland, ME
Ross, Johnnie Winona (American 1949 - ). IT ALWAYS TURNS OUT FOR THE BEST. Acrylics on paper, 1981. 29 3/4" x 29 3/8 inches, framed to 31 9/ 16" x 31 9/16 inches. Signed and titled. Provenance: Private collection, Sherborne, MA.
In excellent condition: the browned edges and the foxing mark are qualities of the old papers...
Category
1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Handel Organ Concerto Opus No. 4 B Flat Major - III Allegro
By Hildegarde Haas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Handel Organ Concerto Opus 4 No.6 B Flat Major - III Allegro
Watercolor and mixed pigments on paper, c. 1960's
Signed and titled recto (see photos)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 19 3/4...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Campo
By Brooke Stroud
Located in Houston, TX
Brooke Stroud
Campo, 2018-2020
Acrylic paint, oil pastel, and aerosol paint on panel
16 x 20 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Dream
By Joseph Havel
Located in Houston, TX
Joseph Havel
Dream, 2004
Double woven silk taffeta labels in an acrylic construction
13 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Paintings
Materials
Fabric
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