Spring 69
By Nancy Genn
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Spring 69" 1969 is an original color lithograph by American artist Nancy Genn, b. 1929. It is hand signed, titled and inscribed Artist Proof in pencil by the ar...
Lithograph
Untitled Collage #1 on Canvas
By Nancy B. Negley
Located in Houston, TX
Painting once hung in Meredith Long and Company's gallery. Artist Biography: Nancy B Negley was born in 1927.
Mixed Media
Untitled. Very large original screen print
By Robert Natkin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" 1986 is a large original color screen print on Wove paper by noted American abstract expressionist artist Robert Natkin, 1930-2010. IOt is hand signed, dated ...
Screen
Colorful Abstract Expressionist Silkscreen by Ray Parker
By Raymond Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raymond Parker, American (1922 - 1990) Title: Untitled 7 Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 70 Image Size: 21 x 27 inches Size: 22 x 30 in....
Screen
$1,600
H 50 in W 38 in
Large Abstract Expressionist Silkscreen by Michael Steiner
By Michael Steiner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Abstract expressionist print by American artist Michael Steiner, who is most commonly known for his large scale sculptures. Numa I Michael Steiner, American (1945) Date: 1979 Scree...
Screen
Colorful Abstract Silkscreen by Raymond Parker
By Raymond Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raymond Parker, American (1922 - 1990) Title: Untitled Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 70 Size: 23 x 30 inches
Screen
$1,250
H 32 in W 24 in
Abstract VI, Abstract Expressionist Monotype by Dana Gordon
By Dana Gordon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dana Gordon, American (1944 - ) - Abstract VI, Year: circa 1990, Medium: Monotype on Wove Paper, Image Size: 30 x 22 inches, Size: 32 x 24 in. (81.28 x 60.96 cm)
Monotype
Untitled #1
By Howard Bradford
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "untitled #1" 1978 is an original color serigraph on Wove paper by Canadian/American artist Howard Bradford, 1919-2008. It is hand signed, dated and inscribed A.P. (Arti...
Screen
$1,600
H 50 in W 38 in
Large Abstract Expressionist Silkscreen by Michael Steiner
By Michael Steiner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Abstract expressionist print by American artist Michael Steiner, who is most commonly known for his large scale sculptures. Michael Steiner, American (1945) Date: 1979 Screenprint,...
Screen
$1,600
H 35 in W 45 in
Untitled 18, Large Colorful Abstract Screenprint by Raymond Parker
By Raymond Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raymond Parker, American (1922 - 1990) Title: Untitled 18 Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 75 Size: 35 x 45 inches
Screen
$950
H 22 in W 30 in
Untitled 10, Colorful Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by Raymond Parker
By Raymond Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raymond Parker, American (1922 - 1990) Title: Untitled 11 Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed in pencil Image Size: 19 x 27 inches Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
Screen
Untitled VII
By Tracey Adams
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled VII" is a monotype on paper by noted artist Tracey Adams, born 1954. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 15....
Monotype
Untitled VI
By Tracey Adams
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled VI" is a monotype on paper by noted artist Tracey Adams, born 1954. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 15.6...
Monotype
$750
H 40 in W 26 in
Lost Cause, Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by William Schwedler
By William Schwedler
Located in Long Island City, NY
In this vibrant print by William Schwedler, the artist superimposed geometric shapes with animal prints between converging, angled lines over a tricolor diagonal background composed ...
Screen
Untitled I
By Charles Eckart
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" 2000, is an original colors soft ground etching on wove paper by noted American artist Charles Eckart, b.1935. It is hand signed and numbered 9 in pencil by t...
Etching
untitled
By Stephen Procuniar
Located in New York, NY
Gestural screenprint, number 29 from an edition of 30
Screen
Untitled IV
By Tracey Adams
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled IV" is a monotype on paper by noted artist Tracey Adams, born 1954. It is hand signed, dated 1995 in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist and numbere...
Monotype
Untitled III
By Tracey Adams
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled III" is a monotype on paper by noted artist Tracey Adams, born 1954. It is hand signed and dated 1998 in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The im...
Monotype
$4,862 / item
H 56.11 in W 25.6 in D 19.1 in
Arcate sideboard, in Canaletto walnut by Accardibuccheri Medulum for Medulum
By Mauro Accardi & Silvia Buccheri
Located in Meolo, Venezia
Il settimanale Arcate fa parte di una collezione esclusiva che include comodini e comò, ideata dal rinomato studio milanese Accardi Buccheri per il brand MEDULUM. La scocca, realizza...
Walnut
Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Lively abstract painting with primary tones of yellows, reds and greens with accents of blue and black on white background, 1952. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper dis...
Acrylic
Flowers, Pop Art Screenprint by Knox Martin
By Knox Martin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist:Knox Martin, American (1923 - ) Title: Flowers 8 Year: 1981 Medium: Silkscreen on Heavy Hand-Made Paper, signed in pencil Paper Size: 42 x 30 inches Printed by American Ate...
Screen
$4,500
H 40 in W 54 in
Saratoga, Abstract Monoprint on Handmade Paper by Nancy Genn
By Nancy Genn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nancy Genn, American (1929 - ) Title: Saratoga Year: circa 1978 Medium: Monoprint on hand-made paper, signed l.l. Size: 40 x 54 inches (101 x 137 cm)
Handmade Paper, Monoprint
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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