$2,280Sale Price|20% Off
'Canyon River', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, Mid-Century, Maxwell Gallery
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Reference: San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism, Scott A. Shields, Crocker Art Museum 2004, page 108; et al.
Canvas, Oil
$920Sale Price|20% Off
Abstract Expressionist Bay Area Hills Landscape
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
The painting captures a sense of place through symbolic shapes and patterns rather than realistic depiction, reflecting Berg's roots in Bay Area Abstract Expressionism and her affini...
Archival Paper, Gouache
South Cascade
Located in San Francisco, CA
Tom Ide is one of the artists in the important book about San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionism titled, “San Francisco and the Second Wave”
Oil
$960Sale Price|20% Off
Bay Area 6, neutral green, abstract, expressionism water
By Juanita Bellavance
Located in Cumming, GA
“Bay Area 6” 24 x 24 inches is a one-of-a-kind original, modern seascape impressionist painting by Juanita Bellavance. In this nature inspired painting neutral green, gray and white ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,900
Sam Tchakalian Abstract Oil & Paper on Canvas Painting, Sutter’s Mill 1962
By Sam Tchakalian
Located in Milford, NH
Sam Tchakalian's work of the late 1950s and 1960s exhibit indications of classic bay area abstract expressionism. Still, he also maintained an individual style and applied collage th...
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Robert McChesney Watercolor Titled "Investigators"
By Robert McChesney 1
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Considered one of the "progenitors of Bay Area abstract expressionism", he had influence far beyond his home town.
Paint, Watercolor, Paperboard
$4,072Sale Price|20% Off
Dragon Boats Chinese New Year San Francisco Bay Area Original Oil on Canvas 1960
By Peter Lowe
Located in Soquel, CA
Dragon Boats Chinese New Year San Francisco Bay Area Original Oil on Canvas 1960s A seminal abstract expressionist work by Peter Lowe (American, 1916-1922).
Canvas, Oil Crayon
$2,500
John Grillo - Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstraction Op silkscreen Signed 6/9
By John Grillo
Located in New York, NY
It is in very good condition with deckled edges John Grillo Biography A leading exponent of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s, John Grillo was a painter, sculptor, an...
Screen
Believe, Abstract Painting
By Gena Brodie Robbins
Located in San Francisco, CA
Words that describe this painting: abstract, figure, bay area figurative painting, german expressionism, abstract, people, non-representational, acrylic painting, blueBelieveGena Bro...
Acrylic
$1,200
Low Fog
By Ruth Armer
Located in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco and Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism 2002 Hughes, Edan Milton.
Oil
$500
Collage Watercolor Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism MixedMedia
By David Gilhooly
Located in Surfside, FL
Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$500
Collage, Assemblage Cardstock Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism
By David Gilhooly
Located in Surfside, FL
Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$500
Collage, Assemblage Cardstock Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism
By David Gilhooly
Located in Surfside, FL
Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$500
Collage Watercolor Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism MixedMedia
By David Gilhooly
Located in Surfside, FL
Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY -Hirshh...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY -Hirshh...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY -Hirshh...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY -Hirshh...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Diptych
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Size 69 1/4" x 53 1/4" each panel Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Cib...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY -Hirshh...
Oil
Untitled
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY -Hirshh...
Oil
Untitled
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY -Hirshh...
Oil
Untitled
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY -Hirshh...
Oil
Untitled
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY -Hirshh...
Oil
Untitled
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on paper Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Ciba-Geigy Corporation, ...
Acrylic
Mask
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA (2007) Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY...
Acrylic
Untitled
By Ernest Briggs
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on Paper Collections: -San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA -Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism -Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA -Ciba-Geigy Corporation, ...
Gouache
Monochromatic Hillside Landscape 20th Century Graphite
By Jack Freeman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Freeman's style varied between Abstract Expressionism, the Bay Area Figurative Movement, and plein air landscape painting.
Graphite
Outing
By Ian Kimmerly
Located in San Francisco, CA
Within the tensions generated between nonobjective and illusory space, notes of Abstract Expressionism, Bay Area Expressionists such as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff, Gerhard...
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H 6 in W 4 in
Collage Watercolor Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism MixedMedia
By David Gilhooly
Located in Surfside, FL
Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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H 6 in W 4 in
Collage, Assemblage Cardstock Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism
By David Gilhooly
Located in Surfside, FL
Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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H 6 in W 4 in
Collage, Assemblage Cardstock Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism
By David Gilhooly
Located in Surfside, FL
Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Sold
H 6 in W 4 in
Collage Watercolor Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism MixedMedia
By David Gilhooly
Located in Surfside, FL
Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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H 19.5 in W 47.5 in D 0.75 in
'Cloudscape Mandala' Seoul, Korea, San Francisco Bay Area Abstract Expressionism
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Besides the title of Mandala Artist, Chun has been recognized by critics for “his natural description of the Oriental way of thinking in adopting abstract expressionism.” In the 195...
Canvas, Oil
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H 36 in W 30 in D 0.5 in
1960s Bay Area Abstract Expressionism Female Artist Pastel and Paint on Paper
By Gloria Dudfield
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield Figurative Abstract Stretch 1960s Oil Pastel and Gouache on Paper 36"x30" unframed Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield July 12, 1922 – May 27, 2015 Came from a portfolio of he...
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
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H 34 in W 50 in D 0.75 in
'Chariot', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, Mid-Century, Maxwell Gallery
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Reference: San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism, Scott A. Shields, Crocker Art Museum 2004, page 108; et al.
Canvas, Oil
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H 39.5 in W 31.5 in D 2 in
Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Mid-Century painting by Tom Ide
Located in San Francisco, CA
Tom Ide is one of the artists in the important book about San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionism titled, “San Francisco and the Second Wave”
Oil
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H 11 in W 13.38 in
Ocean Landscape (Small, Abstract Expressionism, Bay Area, San Francisco)
By Walter Kuhlman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 8, p. 73; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-19...
Paper, Gouache
John Grillo 1947 Surrealist Gouache, Ink and Pencil Abstract
By John Grillo
Located in Arp, TX
John Grillo Surrealist Abstract 1947 Gouache, ink and pencil on paper 15"x20" unframed Signed and dated in ink lower left John Grillo 1917–2014 A leading exponent of Bay Area Abstra...
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Hesperides
By Karl Kasten 1
Located in San Francisco, CA
Susan Landauer, author of San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area of Abstract Expressionism writes that Kasten was the artist who most successfully absorb...
Aquatint
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H 6 in W 4 in
Collage, Assemblage Cardstock Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism
By David Gilhooly
Located in Surfside, FL
Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Display
By Ian Kimmerly
Located in San Francisco, CA
Within the tensions generated between nonobjective and illusory space, notes of Abstract Expressionism, Bay Area Expressionists such as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff, Gerhard...
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
A Good Strong Wind Will Keep You Honest
By Ian Kimmerly
Located in San Francisco, CA
Within the tensions generated between nonobjective and illusory space, notes of Abstract Expressionism, Bay Area Expressionists such as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff, Gerhard...
Acrylic Polymer, Canvas, Oil
$1,500
H 30.25 in W 34.25 in D 0.75 in
"Bold Autumn Forest" Large photography
By Christopher Burkett
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Bold Autumn Forest" 1989, is a colors Ilfochrome Photograph by noted photographer Christopher Burkett, b.1951. It is signed on the first matting at the lower rig...
Other Medium
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