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.
KUPFERMAN American Abstract 1959 Expressionist Painting
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Kupferman (1909-1982) is an American Abstract painter and founder of the Boston Expressionist school. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Mu...
Oil
KUPFERMAN 1969 American Abstract Treescape
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Kupferman (1909-1982) is an American Abstract painter and founder of the Boston Expressionist school. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Mu...
Linen, Acrylic
Ladders
By Alejandro Rubio
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio Ladders, 2020-2024 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches This one-of-a-kind oil painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Canvas, Oil
$644
H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 0.79 in
Pink Mood I - rose impasto colorful painting on linen canvas with 3d flowers
By Anastassia Skopp
Located in Zofingen, AG
In 1757, the Sèvres porcelain manufactory created a pink so particular it needed her name: rose Pompadour. Madame de Pompadour hadn’t asked for restraint. She wanted a colour dense e...
Canvas, Linen, Acrylic
$4,042
H 55.12 in W 51.19 in D 0.04 in
Description Of My Thoughts, expressionism, Koons, Mitchell, flowers, deboning
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting is part of a new series I began in the fall of 2025 titled Contemplation and Introspection. In this series I am exploring the profound relationship between nature and t...
Linen, Acrylic
$1,950
H 25.79 in W 21.26 in D 1.38 in
“So Plant, So Animal” (Animalia, Fuana, Bold Graphic, Abstract, Neutral, Framed)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
Bold yet delicately portrayed, "So Plant, So Animal I" is an abstract piece framed to perfection, offering a timeless neutral color palette. The central theme captures the essence of...
Acrylic, Linen, Wood, India Ink
$900
H 20 in W 20 in D 0.75 in
Colorful Hard Edge abstract painting from circa 1960
By Michiel Gloeckner
Located in Colfax, CA
A great hard edge abstract painting, possibly by Michiel Gloeckner. This work was purchased from Trinity Auctions. Trinity Auctions have handled many works by the artist, and some a...
Oil
$5,273
H 51.19 in W 55.12 in D 1.58 in
Don't Let Yourself Go, contemporary, Joan Mitchell, Larry Poons, pink, purple
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting began with an idea but as often happens in my work, the idea changed, deepened, and revealed itself through the painting process. “Don’t Let Yourself Go” developed slo...
Linen, Acrylic
$644
H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 0.79 in
Many Roses - Impressionistic Painting on Linen Canvas, floral art
By Anastassia Skopp
Located in Zofingen, AG
Not every painting begins with a question. Some begin with a brush, a knife, and whatever arrives. Many Roses is exactly that — a painting that happened. Branches form a loose circl...
Canvas, Linen, Acrylic
$1,950
H 25.79 in W 21.26 in D 1.38 in
“So Plant, So Animal II” (Animalia, Fuana, Bold, Graphic, Abstract, Neutral)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
Bold yet delicately portrayed, "So Plant, So Animal II" is an abstract piece framed to perfection, offering a timeless neutral color palette. The central theme captures the essence o...
Linen, Wood, India Ink, Acrylic
$2,000
H 18 in W 13 in D 0.75 in
"Nature and Human Relation-Ships" Abstract Portrait Expressionist Painting
By Suki Maguire
Located in New York, NY
This piece is an abstract composition done with mixed media, oil and acrylic paints on linen. The artist explores an incredible world filled with color and expressive brush strokes. ...
Linen, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Optimism Painting II - acrylic on wood
By Christian Möller
Located in London, GB
Optimism Painting II - acrylic & mixed media on wood panel, 2019 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm mint condition - original and unique piece. Christian Möller...
Linen, Acrylic
$9,500
H 34 in W 52 in
Systema Solar, Large Abstract Painting by Leonardo Nierman
By Leonardo Nierman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Large early oil painting by noted Mexican abstract artist Leonardo Nierman (1932 - ), signed lower right. Systema Solar Leonardo Nierman, Me...
Masonite, Oil
Rick Lewis - Full Sail, Painting 2024
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil, bitumen, graphite, sand, dry pigment, burlap on canvas 48" x 60" I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of pai...
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Oil, Laid Paper, Graphite, Pigment
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H 28 in W 41.5 in
Abstract Expressionist Painting 1959 "Aspects Of Spring 2"
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 28" x 41 1/2" Mixed Media painting on paper. Lawrence Kupferman had a...
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache