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Charles Green Shaw Mixed Media

American, 1892-1974

Charles Green Shaw was an American artist, painter and writer, born in 1892, in New York City. He went on to become a significant figure in the history of American abstract art. His work was noted for its clarity of form and architectural construction. In the later part of his life, Charles turned to abstract expressionism. He graduated from Yale University and then studied at the Art Students League of New York, with Thomas Hart Benton. He also took private lessons from George Luks.

Shaw’s work is part of most major collections of American Art, including the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Arts Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery.

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Artist: Charles Green Shaw
American Surrealist pipes and playing cards spirit of Magritte abstract Montage
By Charles Green Shaw
Located in Norwich, GB
I love this extraordinary American surrealist piece - a collage/montage, an assembly of objects in a velvet-clad box/frame - for a number of reasons reasons. I love the fact that it depicts pipes, among the most iconic images of the surrealist movement, rooted in Magritte’s famous 1929 painting which depicts a pipe accompanied by the caption “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (This is not a pipe). Marcel Duchamp loved using pipes...
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1930s Surrealist Charles Green Shaw Mixed Media

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Clay, Glass, Paper, Found Objects, Wood

"Montage (Gaming)" Charles Green Shaw, Playing Cards Collage, Games
By Charles Green Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Charles Green Shaw Montage (Gaming), circa 1935 18th Century print, playing cards 15 x 10 inches Charles Green Shaw, born into a wealthy New York family, began painting when he was...
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1930s American Modern Charles Green Shaw Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

"Pleasure and Recreation" Charles Green Shaw, Playing Cards Collage, Games
By Charles Green Shaw
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Charles Green Shaw Pleasure and Recreation, circa 1935 18th Century print, playing cards 15 x 10 inches Charles Green Shaw, born into a wealthy New York family, began painting when...
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1930s American Modern Charles Green Shaw Mixed Media

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Paper

"Montage, Italian Minchiate Cards" Charles Green Shaw, Playing Cards Montage
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Located in New York, NY
Charles Green Shaw Montage, Italian Minchiate Cards, circa 1935 Signed on label on verso Antique Playing cards and mixed media 9 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches Provenance Washburn Gallery Priv...
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1930s American Modern Charles Green Shaw Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

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