Charles Schorre Abstract Paintings

Green, blue, red, and gray abstract landscape painting by Houston artist Charles Schorre depicting a landscape of field near Ingram, Texas. Signed by artist in front bottom right. Un...

Jewel-tone abstract color field painting that appears to be a landscape. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom right corner and displayed in a beautiful golden frame. Dime...

Impressionistic study of nature. The artist painted in watercolor a tree that looks similar to a weeping willow tree. The work is done in a range of colors like blues, browns, greens...

Neutral tonal abstract color field painting that appears to be a landscape. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The canvas is framed in a wooden fl...

Pink, blue and yellow tonal color field painting. The work is done with watered down acrylic paint. The work is signed and titled by the artist. The canvas is not framed. Artist Bio...

Neutral tonal color field painting. The work is done using watered down acrylic paint. It is signed and titled by the artist on the back of the ca...

Colorfield abstract painting with watered down acrylic paint. The painting is mainly red, blue and pink tones. The work is signed and dated by the artist in the bottom corner. It is ...

Pink and deep blue colorfield abstract painting using watered down acrylic paint. The canvas is signed by the artist in the bottom corner with a title on the back of the canvas. The ...

Neutral tonal colorfield abstract painting using watered down acrylic paint. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner and titled on the back of the canvas. The canvas is...

Gray-toned modern abstract with pink and black accents done in oil on canvas by renowned artist Charles Schorre in 1969. Artist Biography: Charles Schorre was born in Cuero, Texa...

Gorgeous and bold abstract by Charles Schorre. Charles Schorre was born in Cuero, Texas, in 1925. In 1948, he graduated from the University of Texas - Austin with a BFA, then married Margaret Storm and set up residence in Houston. He and his wife had three daughters and eight grandchildren. Schorre taught classes and led workshops at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1949-50) and Rice University (1960 - 72). Later, in 1974 he conducted a month-long university workshop in Guadalajara, Mexico and in 1978 he led an outdoor figure drawing workshop in Ingram, Texas. In 1963, Schorre began traveling throughout the United States observing mental health facilities in preparation for designing, illustrating and partially editing Planning, Programming and Design for the Community Mental Health Center (1965) for which he won a number of awards. He went on in 1968 to design, edit and partially illustrate Life Class, listed among the Fifty Best Books of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Schorre would receive awards from the International Typographic Society and the Watercolor Society only to sever, as a protest, all connections with professional organizations in 1970. After starting his Emerge series in 1956, he initiated the Artist's Handbook series in 1970, and by 1971 he had embarked on his extensive Pages From Books Unpublished series. In 1977, the same year he was awarded a poster commission from the American Academy in Rome, he began his Art Lessons series. In 1979, Mobil Corporation awarded Schorre an Artist-in-Residence grant for a stay in Saudi Arabia. He also received that year a National Endowment for the Arts grant. He would later attend the 34th International Design Conference...