James O'Shea was born in 1952 in Buffalo, New York. He lived in London from 1970–75, where he attended the City and Guilds of London Art School studying with Eric Morby. He also attended Goldsmith's College and the University of London, where he majored in printmaking. Moving to New York in 1975, he spent 10 years life drawing and investigating color. He experiments in most media and is now primarily interested in oils and encaustic paints. In 2004, he exhibited his work at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, Connecticut, in a one man show. In 2006, he exhibited at Paesaggio Fine Arts’ 100 Pearl Street Gallery in Hartford, Connecticut. O’Shea has also shown at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York and the Guildhall in London. His work is included in many private collections. O’Shea divides his time between New York City and the Hudson River Valley.
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Orchard (Abstract Painting on Canvas in Earth-Tones of Blue & Green, Framed)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract painting on canvas in an bright, earthy blue and green palette "Orchard", made in 2010 oil on board 33.5 x 32 inches 35 x 33 x 2 inches with a natural maple floater frame S...
Oil, Wood Panel
May 29 (Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting in Earth Tones of Green & Blue)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural, abstract expressionist oil painting on canvas in earth tones of blue and green, with accents of burgundy and pale yellow "May 29", Painted by Hudson Valley based artist, James O'Shea in 2021 Oil on canvas, 26 x 26 inches unframed, raw canvas sides Wire backing, ready to hang Signed verso James O’Shea’s deeply pigmented abstractions are grounded in the landscape. Taking his cues from the bare winter months in the Northeast when the horizon is stripped of its foliage, he suggests that “So much of life’s structure reveals itself when it goes into hibernation”. The architecture in O’Shea’s compositions takes form with expressive gestures using...
Canvas, Oil
$6,400
Acreage (Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas Painting in Tones of Blue & Taupe)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural, abstract expressionist oil painting on canvas in tones of blue and taupe, with pops of ochre and mauve Painted by Hudson Valley based artist, James O'Shea in 2021 Oil on c...
Canvas, Oil
Prato (Large Abstract Painting on Canvas in Blue & Green)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract painting on canvas in an bright, earthy blue and green palette "Prato", made in 2025 oil on canvas 64 x 64 x 1.25 inches Framing options available Signed verso, excellent co...
Canvas, Oil
Acanthus (Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas Painting in Blue & Ochre)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural, abstract expressionist oil painting on canvas in earth tones of blue and orche, with pops of green and red Painted by Hudson Valley based artist, James O'Shea in 2021 Oil ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 36 in W 25.5 in D 1 in
Large French Expressionist Abstract Oil Painting Beautiful Colors 20th Century
By Jean-Francois Pierre
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Absolutely stunning original French abstract oil painting on canvas, dating to 1961. The work is on a large scale, measuring 36 x 25.5 inches. It i...
Oil, Canvas
Abstract Landscape Painting by Yangyang Pan 'Flourish'
By Yangyang Pan
Located in White Plains, NY
'Flourish' 2023 by Chinese/Canadian artist Yangyang Pan. Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in. / Frame: 37 x 37 in. This beautiful abstract-expressionistic, landscape painting incorporates gest...
Canvas, Oil
$549
H 7.88 in W 7.88 in D 0.79 in
"Summer Storm" Small Abstract Colorful Landscape, Oil and Acrylic on Wood
By Silvana Ilieva
Located in Sofia, BG
"Summer Storm" is a colorful abstract landscape painting created with oil, acrylic and pastel on wood panel. Inspired by the atmosphere of a summer storm moving across a blooming la...
Wood, Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$1,371
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.5 in
Blue Iris. Oil on Canvas, Floral, Iris, Horisontal, Impressionism, Interior
By Irina Matvienko
Located in Oslo, NO
Blue Iris. Stillife, Oil on Canvas, Floral, Flowers, Iris, Horisontal, Rectangular, Impressionism, Interior, Blue, Green, Medium. This painting was created in 2025. It's a rectang...
Canvas, Oil
$1,714
H 40.75 in W 33.27 in D 0.79 in
Joan Cruspinera Large Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 1993
By Joan Cruspinera
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Joan Cruspinera Large Abstract Oil Painting, 1993. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1993. Artwork: 100 × 81 cm (39.4 × 31.9 in.). Framed: 103.5 × 84.5 cm (40.7 × 33.3 in.). Original...
Canvas, Oil
Labyrinth no. 3
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Labyrinth No. 3, 2001' by John Goodman. The artwork is 36 x 48 inches and it is framed in solid wood. Signed and dated by artist. Excellent condition. From Andra Norris Gallery in C...
Oil, Canvas
Colorful Vermont
By Andrei Sitsko
Located in Zofingen, AG
Colorful Vermont I created this vivid painting with a symphony of brushstrokes that dance on the canvas, weaving into a tapestry of color and energy. Each stroke is a whisper of emot...
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Landscape Painting by Yangyang Pan 'Ideal'
By Yangyang Pan
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Ideal' 2023 by Chinese/Canadian artist Yangyang Pan. Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in. / Frame: 31 x 31 in. This beautiful abstract-expressionistic la...
Canvas, Oil
Transformation No. 8
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$1,450
H 11 in W 14 in
Abstract Welsh cottage landscape with trees, hills, cottage
Located in Woodbury, CT
Andrew Douglas Forbes is a fantastic Abstract and classical painter. He works in his home often painting the interior of his wonderful cottage. His work has been collected throug...
Oil, Wood Panel
Patmos
By Margaret Kennedy
Located in New York, NY
Oil and Aluminum Leaf on Canvas
Canvas, Oil
“Sandscape 2”
By Syd Solomon
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil and acrylic painting on canvas titled “Sandscape 2” by the well known American artist, Syd Solomon. Signed Syd Solomon lower left. Signed and dated Syd Solomon 1972 and inscribed as titled on the reverse. 22 × 30 inches. Overall very good to excellent condition. No notable issues detected during inspection. No signs of restoration under UV inspection. The painting is in its original wood with silver reveal floating frame. Overall framed measurements are 24.25 by 32.25 inches. Provenance: A private collector. Syd Solomon was born near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1917. He began painting in high school in Wilkes-Barre, where he was also a star football player. After high school, he worked in advertising and took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the war effort and was assigned to the First Camouflage Battalion, the 924th Engineer Aviation Regiment of the US Army. He used his artistic skills to create camouflage instruction manuals utilized throughout the Army. He married Ann Francine Cohen in late 1941. Soon thereafter, in early 1942, the couple moved to Fort Ord in California where he was sent to camouflage the coast to protect it from possible aerial bombings. Sent overseas in 1943, Solomon did aerial reconnaissance over Holland. Solomon was sent to Normandy early in the invasion where his camouflage designs provided protective concealment for the transport of supplies for men who had broken through the enemy line. Solomon was considered one of the best camoufleurs in the Army, receiving among other commendations, five bronze stars. Solomon often remarked that his camouflage experience during World War II influenced his ideas about abstract art. At the end of the War, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Because Solomon suffered frostbite during the Battle of the Bulge, he could not live in cold climates, so he and Annie chose to settle in Sarasota, Florida, after the War. Sarasota was home to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and soon Solomon became friends with Arthur Everett “Chick” Austin, Jr., the museum’s first Director. In the late 1940s, Solomon experimented with new synthetic media, the precursors to acrylic paints provided to him by chemist Guy Pascal, who was developing them. Victor D’Amico, the first Director of Education for the Museum of Modern Art, recognized Solomon as the first artist to use acrylic paint. His early experimentation with this medium as well as other media put him at the forefront of technical innovations in his generation. He was also one of the first artists to use aerosol sprays and combined them with resists, an innovation influenced by his camouflage experience. Solomon’s work began to be acknowledged nationally in 1952. He was included in American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From 1952–1962, Solomon’s work was discovered by the cognoscenti of the art world, including the Museum of Modern Art Curators, Dorothy C. Miller and Peter Selz, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Director, John I. H. Baur. He had his first solo show in New York at the Associated American Artists Gallery in 1955 with “Chick” Austin, Jr. writing the essay for the exhibition. In the summer of 1955, the Solomons visited East Hampton, New York, for the first time at the invitation of fellow artist David Budd. There, Solomon met and befriended many of the artists of the New York School, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, James Brooks, Alfonso Ossorio, and Conrad Marca-Relli. By 1959, and for the next thirty-five years, the Solomons split the year between Sarasota (in the winter and spring) and the Hamptons (in the summer and fall). In 1959, Solomon began showing regularly in New York City at the Saidenberg Gallery with collector Joseph Hirshhorn buying three paintings from Solomon’s first show. At the same time, his works entered the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut, among others. Solomon also began showing at Signa Gallery in East Hampton and at the James David Gallery in Miami run by the renowned art dealer, Dorothy Blau. In 1961, the Guggenheim Museum’s H. H. Arnason bestowed to him the Silvermine Award at the 13th New England Annual. Additionally, Thomas Hess of ARTnews magazine chose Solomon as one of the ten outstanding painters of the year. At the suggestion of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the Museum of Modern Art’s Director, the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota began its contemporary collection by purchasing Solomon’s painting, Silent World, 1961. Solomon became influential in the Hamptons and in Florida during the 1960s. In late 1964, he created the Institute of Fine Art at the New College in Sarasota. He is credited with bringing many nationally known artists to Florida to teach, including Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, James Brooks, and Conrad Marca-Relli. Later Jimmy Ernst, John Chamberlain, James Rosenquist, and Robert Rauschenberg settled near Solomon in Florida. In East Hampton, the Solomon home was the epicenter of artists and writers who spent time in the Hamptons, including Alfred Leslie, Jim Dine, Ibram Lassaw, Saul Bellow, Barney Rosset, Arthur Kopit, and Harold Rosenberg. In 1970, Solomon, along with architect Gene Leedy, one of the founders of the Sarasota School of Architecture, built an award-winning precast concrete and glass house and studio on the Gulf of Mexico near Midnight Pass in Sarasota. Because of its siting, it functioned much like Monet’s home in Giverny, France. Open to the sky, sea, and shore with inside and outside studios, Solomon was able to fully solicit all the environmental forces that influenced his work. His friend, the art critic Harold Rosenberg, said Solomon’s best work was produced in the period he lived on the beach. During 1974 and 1975, a retrospective exhibition of Solomon’s work was held at the New York Cultural Center and traveled to the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota. Writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. conducted an important interview with Solomon for the exhibition catalogue. The artist was close to many writers, including Harold Rosenberg, Joy Williams, John D. McDonald, Budd Schulberg, Elia Kazan, Betty Friedan...
Acrylic, Oil, Canvas
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H 41 in W 55.25 in D 2 in
August (Abstract Painting on Canvas in Blue & Green, Framed)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract painting on canvas in an earthy blue and green palette "August 25", made in 2024 oil on canvas 40 x 54 inches 41 x 55.25 inches with a natural maple floater frame Signed ver...
Canvas, Oil
Bridge (Abstract Painting in Blue & Green by James O'Shea)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Bridge, 2024 oil on canvas 27.5 x 39.5 inches with a natural maple floater frame Predominantly painted in blue and green, this abstract work by James O'Shea is vivacious while delic...
Canvas, Acrylic
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H 66 in W 66 in D 1.5 in
Poise (Large, Modern Abstract Expressionist Painting in Earth Tones)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, modern abstract expressionist painting on canvas with an earth toned palette of sage green, sand, teal, and peach, with accents of white, yellow and hot pink "Poise", painted ...
Canvas, Acrylic
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H 12.5 in W 13 in D 2 in
April 9 (Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting in Chartreuse, Sage, & Dusty Peach)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural, abstract expressionist oil painting on canvas in sage, chartreuse, and dusty peach "April 9", Painted by Hudson Valley based artist, James O'Shea in 2011 Oil on canvas mou...
Canvas, Oil
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H 39 in W 39 in D 1.5 in
Corlear's (Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas in Green, Blue & Grey)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
"Corlear's", (Gestural, abstract oil painting on canvas in a palette of earth green, sky blue, navy blue, teal, and grey) Painted by Hudson Valley based artist, James O'Shea in 2009 Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 36 x 36 inches, 39 x 39 inches framed Wire backing, ready to hang Signed verso James O’Shea’s deeply pigmented abstractions are grounded in the landscape. Taking his cues from the bare winter months in the Northeast when the horizon is stripped of its foliage, he suggests that “So much of life’s structure reveals itself when it goes into hibernation”. The architecture in O’Shea’s compositions takes form with expressive gestures using...
Canvas, Oil
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H 48 in W 72 in D 1.5 in
Swimmer in Blue (Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting in Green, Blue & Sienna)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural, abstract expressionist oil painting on canvas in earth tones of blue and green, with accents of burgundy, brown, white and taupe "Swimmer in Blue", Painted by Hudson Valle...
Canvas, Oil
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H 48 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
Hartigan (Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting in Blue and Green)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural, abstract oil painting on canvas in a palette of teal, aqua, and blue with accents of green Painted by Hudson Valley based artist, James O'Shea in 2015 Oil on canvas, 48 x ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 20 in W 16 in D 1 in
Tablescape III (Abstract Framed Gouache Drawing on Paper in Teal, Blue, & Green)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract gouache on paper drawing in a palette of teal, blue, and green Created by Hudson Valley based artist, James O'Shea in 2019 ...
Gouache, Archival Paper
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H 48 in W 48 in D 1 in
Edgewater Painting (Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas in Green, Blue & Grey)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural, abstract oil painting on canvas in a palette of earth green, sky blue, navy blue, teal, and grey Painted by Hudson Valley based artist, James O'Shea in 2019 Oil on canvas,...
Canvas, Oil
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H 30 in W 34 in D 1 in
Rivertop I (Square Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas in Green & Teal Palette)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract oil painting on canvas in a palette of earth green, grey, and blue created by Hudson Valley based artist, James O'Shea in 2019 Oil on canvas, 30 x 34 inches unframed Wire ba...
Canvas, Oil
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H 16.5 in W 16.5 in D 1.5 in
Untitled 60 (Square Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas in Green & Teal Palette)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract oil painting on canvas in earth green and teal tones created by Hudson Valley based artist, James O'Shea in 2011 11 x 11.5 inches unframed 16.5 x 16.5 inches in brown wood f...
Canvas, Oil
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H 12 in W 12 in D 1.5 in
Dominion (Square Abstract Gouache Painting on Paper in Earth Green Palette)
By James O'Shea
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract gouache on paper painting in earth green tones created by Hudson Valley based artist, James O'Shea in 2017. 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches in handmade white wood frame James O'Shea ...
Gouache, Archival Paper