Alice Baber Art

American, 1928-1982

Abstract painter, lithographer and feminist, Alice Baber is recognized for her use of luminous, abstract shapes, particularly in stained canvases filled with transparent, radiant color. For this reason, she is often compared with her contemporary, Helen Frankenthaler. Baber's lyrical compositions often consist of overlapping floating round or ovoid shapes. Born in 1928 in Charleston, Illinois, the artist was dogged by ill-health as a child, forced to spend her winters in Florida to escape the harsh northern winters. Cancer would claim her at the relatively young age of 54. Baber began her art studies early, as if to compensate for a shortened life, studying drawing as an eight-year-old, and taking a college class by age twelve. She attended Lindenwood College in Missouri for two years, then studied with Alton Pickens, a figurative expressionist painter, at Indiana University in Bloomington. She received her M.A. degree there in 1951. Travel was an important activity for Baber in the early 1950s, during her marriage from 1964-1970 to abstract painter Paul Jenkins, and throughout her life. In 1951, she studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Fontainebleau, France, and traveled through Europe. In 1958, she began a several-year period of living in Paris. In 1964, Baber and Jenkins visited Japan for their show at the Osaka Pinacotheca Museum. In the early 1950s, Baber went to live in New York City, where she became a member of a Tenth Street co-operative gallery, the March Gallery, where she had her first one-person show in 1958. She attended the Yaddo Colony in Saratoga Springs, New York for the first time in that year. She was supporting herself by writing, later becoming art editor of McCall's magazine. Baber visited India twice in the 1970s. In 1974, she had a one-person exhibition in New Delhi, the same year she traveled to Iran for a show in Teheran. From 1976 to 1978, Baber traveled to 13 Latin American countries with the U.S. State Department, exhibiting her work and lecturing on art. In 1979, Baber was an artist-in-residence at the Tamarind Institute print workshop. Baber organized exhibitions of women artists, including "Color Forum," in 1972 at the University of Texas, in Austin, and "Color, Light, and Image," in 1975 in New York City at the Women's Interart Center, a show of artists from around the world in recognition of the United Nations International Women's Year. Baber wrote an essay for the catalogue of the Texas show. Baber was a writer and teacher, as well as an artist, serving as artist-in-residence in Albuquerque at the University of New Mexico's Tamarind Institute lithography workshop. She taught painting at the New School, New York City; the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of California, Berkeley. Her stain paintings, different from but related to those of Paul Jenkins, explored both variations of a single color and rich combinations of multiple colors.

Artist: Alice Baber

Alice Baber"Across the Wide, Tokyo" Alice Baber, Blue and Red, Color-Field, Abstract, 1964

$25,000

"Across the Wide, Tokyo" Alice Baber, Blue and Red, Color-Field, Abstract

By Alice Baber

Located in New York, NY

Alice Baber Across the Wide, Tokyo, 1964 Signed, titled, and dated on the reverse Watercolor and leaf collage on paperboard 10 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches Provenance Hatonomori Art, Tokyo, J...

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1960s Color-Field Alice Baber Art

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Paper, Watercolor, Board

Kory TwaddleBasement Systems, 2019

$1,150

H 18 in W 12 in D 0.2 in

Basement Systems

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Basement Systems Materials : Acrylic, tempera, gouache, and glitter glue on cardboard drawing pad back Date : 2019 Dimensions : 18 x 12 x .2 in. Kory ...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Alice Baber Art

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Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

Kory TwaddleAutumn Biogram of the Nelson, 2011

$1,150

H 24 in W 18 in D 0.1 in

Autumn Biogram of the Nelson

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle "Autumn Biogram of the Nelson" Newsprint, graphite, conté crayon pastel, charcoal, beeswax, cardboard, paper, gingko leaves, stickers, and Mixed Media on drawi...

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2010s Abstract Alice Baber Art

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Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

Kenneth NolandKenneth Noland - Target, acrylic on paper, Color Field signed & inscribed Framed, 2001

$38,500

H 22 in W 21.75 in D 1.25 in

Kenneth Noland - Target, acrylic on paper, Color Field signed & inscribed Framed

By Kenneth Noland

Located in New York, NY

Kenneth Noland Untitled Target, 2001 Acrylic paint on offset lithograph paper Signed, dated, and dedicated along lower edge: For Howard and Susan with Love Kenneth Noland 6.10.01 Fra...

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1990s Color-Field Alice Baber Art

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Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

Larry ZoxDexter's Choice State II, signed mixed media watercolor (unique variant), Framed, 1990

$10,000

H 42 in W 62 in D 1.5 in

Dexter's Choice State II, signed mixed media watercolor (unique variant), Framed

By Larry Zox

Located in New York, NY

Larry Zox Dexter's Choice, State II, ca. 1990 Mixed media, Watercolor pochoir, and Oil stick Wax, Water-Based Crayons, on heavy Arches museum watercolor rag paper with deckled edges ...

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1990s Color-Field Alice Baber Art

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Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil, Watercolor, Graphite, Monoprint

Alexander KwiatAbstraction #13, Mixed Media Abstract Watercolor on Paper by Alexander Kwiat, 1980

$720Sale Price|20% Off

H 30 in W 22 in D 1 in

Abstraction #13, Mixed Media Abstract Watercolor on Paper by Alexander Kwiat

By Alexander Kwiat

Located in Soquel, CA

"Abstraction #13", beautiful modernist abstract color field watercolor in pastel hues on paper by Alexander Kwiat (American, b. 1955). Signed lower right hand corner. Gallery label...

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1980s Color-Field Alice Baber Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Mala BreuerLao (1.22.98), 1998

$1,100

H 10.75 in W 10.75 in D 1.25 in

Lao (1.22.98)

By Mala Breuer

Located in Phoenix, AZ

watercolor on Arches, framed Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she att...

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1990s Color-Field Alice Baber Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Kory TwaddleBlue Springs Semi Upper Level, 2010

$1,312

H 36 in W 24 in D 0.1 in

Blue Springs Semi Upper Level

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Blue Springs Semi Upper Level Materials : Colored pencil, marker, tempera, gouache, stickers, tape, glitter glue, pastel, oil pastel, acrylic, graphite...

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2010s Abstract Geometric Alice Baber Art

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Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

Kenneth NolandMonotype w/hand painting, geometric art famed color field painter, signed Framed, 1987

$20,000

H 43 in W 31.25 in D 1 in

Monotype w/hand painting, geometric art famed color field painter, signed Framed

By Kenneth Noland

Located in New York, NY

Kenneth Noland Untitled, 1987 Monotype with hand painting on wove paper Signed and dated in pencil on the reverse, with the artist's initials blind stamped lower right Unique Frame i...

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1980s Color-Field Alice Baber Art

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Acrylic, Monotype, Screen

Sylvia Spicuzza"Color Field (Chalk on Wet Paper)" original pastel by Sylvia Spicuzza, ca. 1960

$2,430

H 25.75 in W 19.75 in

"Color Field (Chalk on Wet Paper)" original pastel by Sylvia Spicuzza

By Sylvia Spicuzza

Located in Milwaukee, WI

In this composition, Sylvia Spiczza works in the manner of color field artists like Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, presenting a gradation of colors shifting from yellow to red ...

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1960s Color-Field Alice Baber Art

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Pastel

Hiro YokoseWOP 2 - 00669, 2015

$1,800

H 22 in W 30 in

WOP 2 - 00669

By Hiro Yokose

Located in Phoenix, AZ

mixed media on paper; unframed signed lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated wi...

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2010s Color-Field Alice Baber Art

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Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Walter Darby BannardWalter Darby Bannard, Ammersee #2 signed painting by renowned Color Field artist, 1975

$8,000

H 23 in W 28.5 in D 1.5 in

Walter Darby Bannard, Ammersee #2 signed painting by renowned Color Field artist

By Walter Darby Bannard

Located in New York, NY

Walter Darby Bannard Ammersee #2, 1975 Watercolor and acrylic painting on paper Signed, titled and dated lower recto This is a unique work Frame included: elegantly floated and frame...

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1970s Color-Field Alice Baber Art

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Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite

Kory TwaddleBiogram of the Kansas City Zoo, 2009

$1,312

H 48 in W 36 in D 0.1 in

Biogram of the Kansas City Zoo

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Biogram of the Kansas City Zoo Materials : Pastel, oil pastel, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, tempera, glitter glue, foam stickers, paper, marker, color...

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2010s Abstract Alice Baber Art

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Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

Previously Available Items

Alice BaberLAVENDAR SWEEP, 1973

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H 51 in W 31 in D 1.5 in

LAVENDAR SWEEP

By Alice Baber

Located in Three Oaks, MI

Abstract painter, lithographer and feminist, Alice Baber specialized in paintings of ovals, circles and free-forms that extolled the radiance of color. Her...

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1970s Color-Field Alice Baber Art

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Canvas, Oil

Alice BaberThe Bridge of the Piper for Virgo, 1975

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H 50 in W 90 in D 2 in

The Bridge of the Piper for Virgo

By Alice Baber

Located in Summit, NJ

Gorgeous large scale abstract by Alice Baber. The piece came out of designer Arnold Scaasi’s Palm Beach estate. Scaasi was known to have an important and f...

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1970s Abstract Expressionist Alice Baber Art

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Canvas, Oil

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