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
$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
$1,950
H 25.79 in W 21.26 in D 1.38 in
“So Plant, So Animal III” (Animalia, Fuana, Bold, Graphic, Abstract, Neutral)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
Bold yet delicately portrayed, "So Plant, So Animal III" is an abstract piece framed to perfection, offering a timeless neutral color palette. The central theme captures the essence ...
Linen, Wood, India Ink, Acrylic
$3,250
H 45.67 in W 35.04 in D 0.79 in
"Jardin Des Plantes" (Fauna, Floral, Black, Blue, Graphic Landscape, Sky, Trees)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
JARDIN DES PLANTES 2024, PARIS Inspired by the artist's relationship to "Jardin Des Plantes", located in the 5th arrondissements of Paris, France, this original landscape depicts th...
Dye, Acrylic, Linen
$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
$800
H 18.12 in W 14.97 in D 0.79 in
"Take Me With You" (contemporary, black, flora, floral painting, antique linen)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
TAKE ME WITH YOU 2024 Paris, France Canvas composition is divided in half, with the upper potion focused on a floral bouquet, and the bottom half left unfinished other than a subtl...
Linen, Oil, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Washington, DC
A Sculptor's Full Circle, Yoichi Tamaki at Alex - Washington Post (April 1, 1999). Judging from his lively exhibition at Alex Gallery, Yoichi Tamaki wo...
Sandstone
$7,750
H 36 in W 38 in D 1 in
"Untitled 2" Abstract Acrylic on Linen Painting 36" x 38" inch by Hossam Dirar
By Hossam Dirar
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 2" Abstract Acrylic on Linen Painting 36" x 38" inch by Hossam Dirar Untitled 2" by Hossam Dirar Acrylic on linen canvas 2016 This work in on loose canvas, ships rolle...
Canvas, Linen, Acrylic
$1,009
H 20.87 in W 15.75 in D 0.79 in
BOAT 02 September 20:24 - Modern Landscape Oil Painting, Nature Lake, Minimalism
By Robert Motelski
Located in Hallein, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Canvas, Oil
$25,000
H 78 in W 78 in
"Geostructure II" Abstract, Geometric, Colors, Primary Shapes, Acrylic
By Franklin Jonas
Located in Detroit, MI
"Geostructure II" is an intensely colorful painting of the primary shapes of the circle, square, and triangle. Though the shapes are repetitive their mixed juxtapositions and the creative use of color moves the eye around the canvas with constant interest. This painting is an extraordinary example of Franklin Jonas...
Acrylic, Linen
$1,484
H 29.14 in W 39.38 in D 0.79 in
"Here & There", Abstract Marine Landscape Turquoise & Red Touch Oil Painting
By Françoise Duprat
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork by Françoise Duprat depicts an abstract marine landscape in turquoise blue with red touch. In her early artist carrier Françoise painted mostly figurative & symbolist ar...
Linen, Oil
$650
H 21.66 in W 18.12 in D 0.79 in
"With Fear, With Blanket 1" (fauna, figure, swan, animalia, pattern, abstract)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
WITH FEAR, WITH BLANKET (1) PARIS, FRANCE 2024 This painting depicts the most vulnerable version of ones child self. A blanket is represented with the patterned blue material the c...
Oil, Acrylic, Linen
$7,250
H 32 in W 46 in D 1 in
"Untitled 4" Abstract Acrylic on linen Painting 32'x46' inch by Hossam Dirar
By Hossam Dirar
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 4" Abstract Acrylic on linen Painting 32'x46' inch by Hossam Dirar Acrylic on linen canvas CHAOS This project is a representation of the life around me right now. All t...
Canvas, Linen, Acrylic
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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