$650
H 12 in W 19.5 in D 0.1 in
William Knox "Dream City" Original Watercolor c.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
William Knox (1862 - 1925) William Knox was active/lived in United Kingdom. Gorgeous original
Watercolor
Etching of John Knox's House Hedley Fitton RA
By Hedley Fitton
Located in New York, NY
Hedley Fitton (British, c. 1857-1929) John Knox's House, c. 1900 Etching 17 x 12 3/4 in. Framed: 25
Etching
$4,500
H 18 in W 55 in
Kenneth Snelson Vintage C-Print Panoramic Photograph of Paris Chromogenic Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Maquette, 1975, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Smithsonian E.C. Column, 1969–81
Photographic Paper, C Print
$5,000
H 11 in W 24 in
Sheila Isham, Flight XXXI, unique collage signed inscribed to Fischbach director
Located in New York, NY
, Washington, D.C., Paris, Haiti, and New York, absorbing the various influences and traditions of each place
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
$2,800
H 15.88 in W 18.5 in
Cuban Artist Pastel Drawing African American Emilio Cruz Bonnie & Clyde Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Culture, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Albright–Knox Art Gallery
Paper, Oil Pastel
$10,500
H 52.75 in W 90.5 in
Huge Abstract Modernist "August Series" Mixed Media Monotype Colorful Painting
By Terence La Noue
Located in Surfside, FL
, Pennsylvania, United States Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., United States Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Paint, Mixed Media, Monotype
$2,800
H 37.25 in W 32.25 in
Large Abstract Modernist Monterey Series Mixed Media Monotype Colorful Painting
By Terence La Noue
Located in Surfside, FL
, Pennsylvania, United States Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., United States Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Paint, Mixed Media, Monotype
$45,000
H 92 in W 92 in D 2.5 in
Winter Kill Five Paths Large Abstract Mixed Media
By Terence La Noue
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., United States Albright-Knox
Canvas, Cord, Acrylic, Mixed Media
$2,200
H 35.5 in W 25.5 in
"Indianapolis Museum of Art Inaugural Exhibitions", Color Silkscreen, Signed
By Robert Indiana
Located in Detroit, MI
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the
Paper, Ink, Screen
Unavailable
H 6.75 in Dm 7.75 in
Archibald Knox / Liberty & Co. Clutha bowl on tri-leg Tudric stand c. 1902
By Archibald Knox, James Couper & Sons
Located in New York, NY
ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933) UK LIBERTY & CO. London JAMES COUPER & SONS Glasgow Clutha bowl
Ellington
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Runaway
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
White Space Series #9
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Tenderhook #10
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Kindred Spirit
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Lagniappe #10
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Deep (Kali Poem #41)
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Lagniappe #7
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Navajo
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Geisha
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
New Winter
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Calliope
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Cakewalk
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Viking
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Paper, Acrylic
Seance
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Kali Poem #67
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Shaman
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Raja
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Haiku
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Palomino
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Paper, Acrylic
Kali Poem #23
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Double Changing
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Morning Market
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Paper, Acrylic
Phoenix
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Fast Summer
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Geri's Way
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Lagniappe #9
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Kali Poem #11
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Heron's Flight
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
La Syphide
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Marzipan
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Pageant
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Night Bay
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Night Banquet
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
White Space Series #4
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Kali Poem #62
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Harbour
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
White Space Series #5
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Lagniappe #4
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Lush Life
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Cara
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Buried Treasure (Kali Poem #66)
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Race Point
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Rite of Passage
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Tribute
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Fun Fling
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Balthazar's Gifts
By Ann Purcell
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
Canvas, Acrylic
Archibald Knox Liberty & Co Enamel Basket English C.1900
By Archibald Knox
Located in Toronto, ON
Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co, English C.1900. Tudric pewter and turquoise enamel basket, pierced
Archibald Knox Liberty Pewter Tray, C.1906
By Liberty & Co.
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Rare Archibald Knox Liberty Pewter Tray, C.1906. The hammered finish tray with stylised entrelac
Pewter
Liberty Archibald Knox Tray, C. 1905
By Liberty & Co.
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Rare Archibald Knox Liberty & Co Tudric Tray, C.1905. The polished pewter tray of plain punch
Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co large Fruit Bowl C.1905
By Liberty & Co.
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co large Fruit Bowl C.1905. Typical Knox honesty celtic sinuous
Pewter
Gold Enamel Art Nouveau Brooch, attributed Archibald Knox for Liberty, C.1900.
Located in Toronto, ON
Gold Enamel Art Nouveau Brooch, attributed Archibald Knox for Liberty, C.1900. The brooch of open
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
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If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.
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