Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Lawrence Kupferman was born in the Boston area, and he became one of the most important abstract artists to emerge from there in the early 1940s. Kupferman worked as an artist for the WPA in the 1930s, developing a strictly realistic style that depicted Victorian houses and other detailed architectural images.
Around 1943, Kupferman began to integrate more expressionistic forms into his works. He soon moved completely away from the recognizable subject matter and definitively became an abstract painter. In 1946, he studied with the influential German-born artist Karl Zerbe at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Kupferman later attended the Massachusetts College of Art, where he would become a professor and retire as its Head of Painting in 1969. His focus, as it would remain until the late 1960s, was on abstract, marine-like amoeboid forms—intimated, rather than strictly described.
Kupferman was an active participant in a huge thrust in Boston art in the 1940s to create a vibrant art scene that rivaled New York. He has been appropriately credited with bringing Abstract Expressionism to Boston, serving as a critical artistic conduit to New York painters such as Mark Rothko and Hans Hofmann, contacts he made in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he spent his summers beginning in 1946. Kupferman’s unique brand of abstraction integrated with the already burgeoning figurative expressionism in Boston, and he showed at the Boris Mirksi Gallery, arguably the most important Boston gallery at the time. He served as the Chair of the Modern Artists Group and is considered one of the major Boston artists whose numerous exhibitions throughout the world helped establish that city as a vital art scene.
20th Century Abstract Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil, Color Pencil
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Karina Gentinetta"Eye of the Beholder" Acrylics, Pencils, Oil Pastels in Neutral Hues of Taupe, 2024
2010s Abstract Geometric Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
2010s Abstract Geometric Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Pencil, Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
2010s Abstract Geometric Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
2010s Abstract Geometric Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
2010s Abstract Geometric Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
1980s Abstract Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Mixed Media, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite
2010s Abstract Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Color Pencil
1980s Abstract Expressionist Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Color Pencil, Monoprint, Mo...
2010s Abstract Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Linen, Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil
1980s Abstract Expressionist Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Dye, Handmade Paper, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
2010s Abstract Expressionist Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker, Pencil, Mixed Media
1950s Abstract Expressionist Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Encaustic
20th Century Abstract Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil, Color Pencil
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Lawrence Kupferman Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media