Lamar Briggs Paintings

Modernist Composition This appears to be an oil or gouache on paper or board. Bears estate stamp verso. Dimensions: Framed 25 x 21.5. Sight 13.5 x 10.5. Albert Kotin (1907 – 1980) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including in Paris, France. The New York School Abstract Expressionism, and action painting represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and others became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era. Albert Kotin was born August 7, 1907, in Minsk, Russian Empire and emigrated to the US in 1908. He became a US citizen in 1923. Kotin studied: (1924–1929) at the National Academy of Design, New York City; with Charles Hawthorne, Provincetown, Massachusetts; (1929–32) at the Académie Julian, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and at the Atelier de Fresque and the Académie Colarossi, Paris, France; (1947–1951) at The Art Students League of New York, New York City; under the GI Bill he went to study with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown and in New York City. He participated in the Federal Art Project: Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) (1933–34) and Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project (WPA FAP) (1935–40). Kotin won competitions that were funded through commissions under the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (later known as The Section of Fine Arts) in Ada, Ohio, and in Arlington, New Jersey. He completed two WPA murals, The City and The Marsh for the Kearney, New Jersey, post office in 1938. Kotin served in the U.S. Army military service during World War II (1941–1945). After the war Kotin found a studio on 10th Street. He soon joined the "Downtown Group" which represented a group of artists who found studios in lower Manhattan in the area bounded by 8th and 12th street between First and Sixth Avenues during the late 1940s and early 1950s. These artists were called the "Downtown Group" as opposed to the "Uptown Group" established during the war at The Art of This Century Gallery. In 1949 Kotin joined the "Artists' Club" located at 39 East 8th Street. Albert Kotin was chosen by his fellow artists to show in The seminal 1951 9th Street Art Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, the official title artist Franz Kline hand-lettered onto the poster he designed for the Ninth Street Show. The show was located at 60 East 9th Street on the first floor and the basement of a building which was about to be demolished. "The artists celebrated not only the appearance of the dealers, collectors and museum people on the 9th Street, and the consequent exposure of their work but they celebrated the creation and the strength of a living community of significant dimensions." Now considered historic, the artist-led exhibition marked the formal debut of Abstract Expressionism, and the first American art...

France, 1856-1939 Édouard Gelhay was born on June 13, 1856 in Braine (Aisne). His father was a shoemaker. He was trained by Alexandre Cabanel, William Bouguereau, Adolphe Goupil and...

Dutch, 1864 – 1932 Cornelis Kuijpers was born on February 20, 1864 in Gorinchem. He lived and worked in Amsterdam, The Hague and Rijswijk, among others. He was taught by his father ...

This cloud scene presents such an airy feeling for the viewer. The clouds blurred reflection over the water makes it feel as if you are there on the scene. The darker spots of color in the background almost allude to rain coming into to sprinkle over the water. Pam Folsom...

Charles Jiao grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution, which caused his formal education to be frequently interrupted. To avoid wasting his time, his father had him get tutore...

Charles Jiao grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution, which caused his formal education to be frequently interrupted. To avoid wasting his time, his father had him get tutore...

"Eggshell Yellow Curls" is an abstract painting triptych by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of rhythmic brushstrokes combined...

A landscape painting by Scott Addis. Framed

An oil painting of Indian Mound Reserve by Charles Jiao.

Myers creates an atmospheric scene from the perspective of the inlet looking towards Marine Street, St. Augustine. The burning sunset sky reflects onto the historic skyline casting ...

A landscape painting of a yellow house by Scott Addis. Framed

A landscape painting with a barn by Scott Addis. Framed