Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

American, b. 1956

Bill Scott’s paintings are radiant, with a quality of surface achieved through the thinnest applications of paint and the use of various techniques honed over decades. This radiance has remained a constant as his work continues to evolve and is visible in both his paintings and works on paper. Scott creates contrast between opacity and transparency, where blocks of color are overlapped with linear forms. In certain areas, paint is scraped away, or thin layers are applied over patterned surfaces, creating compositional variance akin to collage. This quality is felt at full force in Scott’s prints, with shallow surfaces that visually read as separate components layered upon one another. Scott spends a great deal of time in a printmaking studio, where through his longstanding and rewarding partnership with master printer Cindi Royce Ettinger, makes color etchings based on elements of his large-scale oil paintings. An expert colorist, Scott draws from nature and his own imagination, making paintings that complicate firm boundaries between the abstract and the representational. Although his canvases overflow with lush renderings of all flora and fauna, he has little interest in copying directly from nature. Instead, each painting is an offering of a perfect window view, an idealized garden, or a feeling evoked by the final days of a season. He is a painter of sensations and feeling rather than one of tangible realities, and his paintings are associative, where their titles hint at, without fleshing out, points of inspiration. Scott’s most recent paintings show a new mark of release, a distinct shift in the career of an artist who has most often been associated with the Philadelphia colorist tradition. While color remains at the heart of Scott’s art making, his newest paintings announce a return to a darker ground. So, while many of the new paintings contain his signature layering of blocks of color, they furthermore assert his work as soulful in its complexity and complicated in its otherwise uplifting tones. Scott began his career studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1974 to 1979 but considers longer periods of working informally with painters Jane Piper and Joan Mitchell as the pivotal influences of his own painting. Scott has exhibited widely over the past three decades at museums that include Swarthmore College, Hollins University, the State Museum of Pennsylvania, the National Academy Museum, and the University of Delaware. Major public collections with Scott’s work include Cleveland Museum of Art, Delaware Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, and Woodmere Art Museum. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, ARTnews, The New York Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2006, he was awarded a Distinguished Alumni award from the Pennsylvania Academy.

Artist: Bill Scott (b.1956)

Bill Scott (b.1956)Bas-Relief I, 2021

$32,000

Bas-Relief I

By Bill Scott (b.1956)

Located in Greenville, DE

"Bas-Relief I" by Bill Scott. Radiant color, bordering between abstract and representational. Oil on canvas, 31 x 29 inches framed.

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2010s Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nicholas Evans"For Granted I." (quiet, floral, soft, natural, abstract, antique French linen), 2024

$390

H 13 in W 9.45 in D 0.79 in

"For Granted I." (quiet, floral, soft, natural, abstract, antique French linen)

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

"For Granted I.", 2024, Paris, France "For Granted I." is a quiet, rich and cerebral abstract painting using a subtle but powerful color palette of brown, magenta, purple, green and...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Canvas

Nicholas EvansHoly Split II Mixed Media Painting on Canvas, Abstract Landscape, 2026, 2026

$1,438

H 21.66 in W 18.12 in D 0.79 in

Holy Split II Mixed Media Painting on Canvas, Abstract Landscape, 2026

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

HOLY SPLIT II 2026 Paris, France HOLY SPLIT II is an ethereal mixed medium painting on canvas depicting a surreal dreamlike rift in a serene landscape. Abstract fuchsia forms sugges...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Pencil

Nicholas Evans"At The Very Least" (original abstract, flora, flowers, fauna, green, pink, red), 2026

$1,438

H 21.66 in W 18.12 in D 0.79 in

"At The Very Least" (original abstract, flora, flowers, fauna, green, pink, red)

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

AT THE VERY LEAST 2026 Paris, France This vibrant and immersive floral painting, captures an expansive, almost overgrown garden expanse of blooming roses enveloped in dense, swirlin...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Nicholas Evans"An Impulse Budding" (abstract, flora, energetic, calm, rose, blush, pink), 2024

$650

H 17.43 in W 17.43 in D 1.38 in

"An Impulse Budding" (abstract, flora, energetic, calm, rose, blush, pink)

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

AN IMPULSE BUDDING 2024 Paris, France This piece is formed first with a pink dye underpainting on canvas, with white acrylic and green oil painted on top. The notion of the title, "...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Dye, Oil

Stuart BigleyAbstract Triptych, 1973

$3,500

H 8.5 in W 31 in

Abstract Triptych

By Stuart Bigley

Located in Germantown, NY

Stuart Bigley is an artist based in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. He has been making and showing his artwork for over 40 years. During this time he also co-founded and ran the ...

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1970s Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Acrylic Polymer, Canvas, Oil

Monroe HodderRiver In The Sea-Monroe Hodder, American, Abstract, Bold, Modern, sea, Blue, Oil, 2023

$17,318

H 60 in W 60 in D 2 in

River In The Sea-Monroe Hodder, American, Abstract, Bold, Modern, sea, Blue, Oil

By Monroe Hodder

Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh

River In The Sea is an oil on canvas painting by American artist Monroe Hodder. Hodder’s abstract paintings are gloriously bold. Inspired by the urban backdrops of her life in New Yo...

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2010s Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Nicholas EvansHoly Split I Mixed Media Original Painting on Canvas, Abstract Landscape, 2026, 2026

$1,438

H 21.66 in W 18.12 in D 0.79 in

Holy Split I Mixed Media Original Painting on Canvas, Abstract Landscape, 2026

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

HOLY SPLIT I 2026 Paris, France HOLY SPLIT I is an ethereal mixed medium painting on canvas depicting a surreal dreamlike rift in a serene landscape. Abstract fuchsia forms suggesti...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Pencil

Nicholas Evans"An Urgent Man" (Abstract, Black & White, Figurative Oil Painting, Neutral Tone), 2020

$850

H 21.66 in W 18.12 in D 0.79 in

"An Urgent Man" (Abstract, Black & White, Figurative Oil Painting, Neutral Tone)

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

AN URGENT MAN 2020 Paris, France Oil and acrylic on canvas portray a ‘derbyed’ man attempting to shed the weighted armor of his obligations and persona. A very loose nod to the character from René Magritte’s 1964 painting, ‘The Son of Man...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Nicholas Evans"All Fours" (Animalia, Fauna, Contemporary, Original, Nude Figures, Raw, Horses), 2025

$600

H 18.12 in W 14.97 in D 0.79 in

"All Fours" (Animalia, Fauna, Contemporary, Original, Nude Figures, Raw, Horses)

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

ALL FOURS 2025 Paris, France The painting shows four men on hands and knees in the foreground, their bodies merging in muted white and black tones against a plain ochre-brown backgr...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Acrylic, Dye, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Nicholas Evans"Doves for the Dorians II" (pink, green, white, Greek warrior. sword, painting), 2023

$450

H 16.15 in W 13 in D 0.79 in

"Doves for the Dorians II" (pink, green, white, Greek warrior. sword, painting)

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

The Dorians played a significant role in the development of the Greek city-states during the Bronze Age -- and Doves are widely recognized as symbols of peace, primarily in the story...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Canvas, Dye, Oil, Acrylic

Stuart BigleyAbstraction in Yellows, 1972

$3,800

H 27 in W 33 in

Abstraction in Yellows

By Stuart Bigley

Located in Germantown, NY

Stuart Bigley is an artist based in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. He has been making and showing his artwork for over 40 years. During this time he also co-founded and ran the ...

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1970s Abstract Bill Scott (b.1956) Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Louis-Paul OrdonneauImbriglio and revelation Louis-Paul Ordonneau Contemporary painting abstract art, 2022

$5,875

H 36.23 in W 25.6 in D 1.97 in

Imbriglio and revelation Louis-Paul Ordonneau Contemporary painting abstract art

Located in Paris, FR

Oil paint on canvas Hand-signed by the artist on the back Louis-Paul Ordonneau is a French painter born in 1975. He lives and works in Paris. In 1999, he set up his studio in tempo...

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