Ram Kumar is one of the greatest artists in Indian modern art. He was part of the progressive group of artists and was preoccupied with painting Beneras for a large part of his main and later years in art.
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Ram Kumar Landscape Painting
By Ram Kumar
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Ram Kumar (1924-2018) Marking(s); notes: signed; 1991 Country of origin; materials: Indian; acrylic on paper Dimensions (H, W, D): 22"h, 27.75"w (work ...
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled, Acrylic on Paper by Indian Modern Artist Ram Kumar "In Stock"
By Ram Kumar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Ram Kumar - Untitled Acrylic on Paper 9.5 x 12.5 inches, 2014 (Framed & Delivered) Born in 1924 in Simla, Ram Kumar was among India’s leading modernists. In the early 1930s, whilst ...
Paper, Acrylic
$1,975
H 30.75 in W 28.5 in D 1 in
Mid Century Antica Roma Figurative Abstract Collage
By James Coughlin
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning mid century mixed media collage of Roman travel items and photos by James A. Couglin, a Berkeley Abstract Expressionist (American, 1929-1979), c.1966. Painted during his Par...
Paper, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Magazine Paper
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H 40 in W 28 in
Turquoise Leaf Cutout on Abstract Cloudy Background, Organic Modern Painting
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a unique mixed media piece: it is a hand-painted botanical abstract colorful shape upon a background that is a cyanotype print of a cloudy texture, giving it a modern, abstract geometric feel that will look great in contemporary and classic homes and businesses. Details: + Title: Turquoise Leaf...
Emulsion, Sumi Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Engraving, ...
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H 30.5 in W 38 in D 1.25 in
Eucalyptus Trees, Sunset Coastal Landscape Watercolor by Kipp Stewart
Located in Soquel, CA
"Shoreline", Modern Coastal Landscape Eucalyptus Trees, Sunset Coastal Landscape Watercolor by Kipp Stewart (American, b. 1928), late 20th century. This vivid scene uses a soft and dreamy polychromatic palette of golden rod yellow, subdued purple, and dark green. Acrylic on natural edge paper. Signed in the lower right, "Stewart". Tag on verso with title ("Shoreline"), artist's name, size, and materials. Presented in a light wood frame, mounted on a white background. Image size: 12.75"H x 17.5"W. Paper size: 23"H x 30"W. Framed size: 30.5"H x 38"W x 1.25"D. Kipp Stewart (American, b. 1928) is an artist, architect, and designer from Pennsylvania. Known to furniture obsessives for the Declaration series he codesigned for North Carolina’s Drexel Furniture, Stewart is most commonly associated with mid-century design movements of his adopted home state of California. There, in 1972, Stewart designed the Ventana Big Sur, a luxury resort near Montecito for which he oversaw architecture, planning, furniture and interior design across 160 acres of land. By the time Stewart spearheaded the Ventana, he was already well versed in furniture design. After briefly serving in the U.S. Navy as a teenager, Stewart enrolled at the Chouinard Art Institute (present-day Cal Arts) in Los Angeles. By the time he graduated, he was steeped in the world of modern seating design, experimenting with new chair models that bridged form and function. Charles and Ray Eames were important influences on his early work, which included a chrome-framed lounge chair whose reclined shape bears a striking resemblance to the Eames iconic lounge. In the late 1950s, Stewart partnered with another West Coast furniture designer, Stewart MacDougall, on a line of modern furniture for Drexel. (The pair were also producing case pieces and more for Glenn of California.) Drexel soon unveiled Stewart and McDougall’s Declaration line, which was constructed entirely of natural walnut and featured the choice of white porcelain or brass drawer pulls and cabinet door handles...
Paper, Acrylic
$3,200
H 49 in W 37 in
"Falling Squares" Abstract, Linear, Muted Colors, Acrylic
By William Antonow
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Falling Squares" is a rich gouache painting by William Antonow. Though the colors are muted they blend in a harmony that contrasts slightly with the falling squares that bring a movement to the piece. One of the original Cass Corridor artists from the 1960s William Antonow studied at the School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts (now the College for Creative Studies) and at Wayne State University, where he received his BFA (1967) and MA (1970.) Other well-known individuals who taught or studied at Wayne State University and are connected with the arts are Arthur Danto, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Susan Aaron-Taylor, Tyree Guyton, Hughie Lee-Smith, Philip Levine, Casey Kasem, Helen Thomas, Sergio DeGuisti, Stanley Rosenthal...
Paper, Acrylic
$720
H 28 in W 40 in
Evening in The Tropics, Geometric Tiles in Yellow, Miami Sunset Patterns
By Natalia Roman
Located in Barcelona, ES
These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...
Watercolor, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Original Abstract Mixed Media Painting
By William Finlayson Jr.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started his artistic career as a color consultant for his family's Design and Painting company that took on constant projects of custom painted interiors and decorating. This work of 20 yrs lead him to his fascination with textiles and paint, along with custom furniture. After creating and selling dozens of unique pieces of furniture, here began his transition from wall, to wood on furniture, to canvas. Painting on canvas was the culmination of his creative outlet. William feels that his lack of formal training in Fine Art has afforded him a freedom to paint what he envisions and feels, rather than conform to specific style or genre that he feels is limiting Inspired by hard edge abstraction and color field art such as Kenneth Noland, Joseph Albers, Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Imi knobel...
Acrylic, Paper, Magazine Paper
$2,600
H 36 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
"Library" Contemporary Neutral Toned Cubist Inspired Geometric Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Brown and blue abstract painting by contemporary artist James McCahon. This painting features dark brown and dark blue geometric shapes in a rectangular pattern with a few red, white, and green shapes spread throughout. Signed and dated by artist on reverse. Currently unframed but options are available. Artist Biography: James McCahon is a multi-disciplinary designer and artist based in Southern California. With experience in product design, art direction, fine art and photography, James is an expert in visual story telling. Through storytelling, James' artwork consists of abstract shapes and a wide range of colors. James believes the unifying factor of any successful project is a clear point of view. James has a BFA in Design from the Biola University in La Mirada...
Canvas, Acrylic
$720
H 28 in W 40 in
Pastel Diagonal Tiled Floor, Abstract Sun Shapes, Pink, Yellow and Red Triangles
By Natalia Roman
Located in Barcelona, ES
These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...
Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Paper
$5,000
H 24 in W 18.5 in
Evening Shadows - Dusk at Wrigley Field, Chicago, Acrylic & Ink on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Patrick Vale Evening Shadows acrylic and ink on paper 24h x 18.50w in 60.96h x 46.99w cm PKV006 See What I See Why are Chicago and baseball so perfect for each other? What is it ab...
Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
$610
H 28 in W 40 in
Purple Desert Mirage, Large Geometric Painting in Pale Tones, Rainbow Gradient
By Ryan Rivadeneyra
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Purple Desert Mirage" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. These painting, influenced by modernist artists of the 50's, 60's, a...
Acrylic, Archival Paper
$1,400
H 15 in W 22 in D 0.82 in
Harbour View - Abstract Landscape Original Painting - Fine Art Modern
By Christina Blaabjerg
Located in New York, NY
Harbour View is an abstract landscape painting by Danish artist Cristina Blaabjerg. This fine art, museum quality contemporary piece juxtaposes urban land...
Canvas, Acrylic
$540
H 28 in W 40 in
Translucent Teal Kidney Pools, Mid-Century Shapes and Layers in Cold Blue Tones
By Ryan Rivadeneyra
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Translucent Teal Kidney Pools" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. These painting, influenced by modernist artists of the 50's...
Acrylic, Paper
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H 19.5 in W 16 in D 1 in
Abstract, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Paper by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Ram Kumar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Ram Kumar - Untitled - 11.5 x 8 inches (unframed size) Pen & Ink on Paper Style : Ram Kumar, like many of his confreres among the first generation of post-colonial Indian artists - including such figures as F N Souza, M F Husain, Paritosh Sen, Jehangir Sabavala, Krishen Khanna, S H Raza and Akbar Padamsee - combined an internationalist desire with the need to belong emphatically to their homeland. In its internationalist mood, this generation looked to the early 20th-century modernisms of Paris, London and Vienna for inspiration; its need to belong prompted an interest in the construction of a viable ‘Indian’ aesthetic that bore a dynamic relationship to an Indian identity. With Ram Kumar, this quest for an indigenist tenor has not meant a superficial inventory of ‘native’ motifs offered as evidence of a static and essentialist Indian identity. Instead, as I have already suggested, he demonstrates that a painter can enact the innermost dramas of his culture while maintaining the individuality, even idiosyncrasy of his performance. Ram Kumar’s art, which has proceeded through an alternation of joyous expressivity and brooding reticence, plays out a crucial polarity of emphasis in the context of Indic culture: that between samsara, the sensual participation in the world of events, and nirvana, the ascetic blowing-out of desire. Having renounced the active engagement with the state and civil society that had earlier characterised his position, the artist has turned gradually inward, choosing to be an internal exile of the spirit. This withdrawal affords him the space in which to reflect upon the great natural forces that have enthralled him since his childhood, to gauge their metaphorical import: in their workings, he senses the deeper intrigue of time as kala, the destroyer of worlds. Attentive to the ceremonials of decay, alert to the processes of transformation, he stands on that threshold where the anguish of the private self is sublimated into the universal rhythm of creation and destruction. If Ram Kumar’s art has been a journey from city to landscape, from the grihasta’s social obligations to the sanyasin’s peripatetic freedom, it has also been an art of looking back, an art of reminiscence. As he departs from places he has known intimately, the artist takes with him spasms of agitation that he will recollect in tranquillity; so that the images that time has shattered may be set right, and words lost to the wind may be strung together, again, in chants. Do we see evidence, in Ram Kumar’s most recent work, of a reconciliation between householder and renouncer, city and landscape? In the paintings that he has executed since the late 1990s, the architecture of the tomb has been replaced by the architecture of the temple-town built by the river. This is surely a Varanasi idealised as tirtha, the ford that signifies a place of pilgrimage in Indic culture: the point where settlement meets openness, and the pilgrim self makes the crossing from locality to cosmos, the earthly to the transcendent, time to eternity. Ram Kumar’s recent paintings attest, also, to another kind of reconciliation: since the aesthetic experience belongs, eventually, to the realm of samsara rather than that of nirvana, it cannot be defined by severity of structure alone; the impulse towards the voluptuary insinuates itself even into the sternest asceticism. Motivated by one pole of his sensibility, Ram Kumar has often acted as an ‘inquisitor of structures’ (the phrase is Wallace Stevens’), translating the earth in the idiom of the surveyor’s map, so that a topographical code of contour lines and benchmarks constrains the deep saturations of the landscape. But he has also been tempted to oscillate to the other and romantic pole of his sensibility: taking a passionate and unabashed delight in the physicality of the vista, its capacity for moodiness and unstable beauty, he has celebrated the flush of magnolias in bloom, the gravid slopes borne down by clouds. The dialogue between these opposite poles has grown richer, and replenishes Ram Kumar’s oeuvre: his stringent geometry and his contemplation of mortality now yield primacy to the celebration of sensuousness, the solace of the beautiful. The true subject of Ram Kumar’s art, perhaps, is the landscape as Beloved. In responding to the palpable eroticism of graze and blur, the stippling and studding of textures across these painted surfaces, we share his manifest rapture, his sense of stepping outside himself to attain communion with the Beloved. About the Artist & his works : Born : 1924, Simla, Himachal Pradesh. Ram Kumar (1924 - 2018) was among India’s leading modernists. Education : 1949-52 : Studied Painting under Andre Lhote and Fernard Leger, Paris. 1946 : M. A. in Economics from the St. Stephens College, Delhi University, New Delhi. 1945 : Sharada Ukil School of Art, New Delhi. Exhibitions : Selected Solo Exhibitions : 2016 : 'Ram Kumar: Traversing the Landscapes of the Mind', Saffronart, New Delhi 2014 : 'Ramkumar Drawings from the 60's', Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, New Delhi 2013 : 'Ram Kumar and the Bombay Progressives: The Form and the Figure Part I', Aicon Gallery, New York 2012 : 'Drawings', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2011 : 'Ram Kumar: A Retrospective', Aicon Gallery, London 2010-11 : 'Selected Works: 1949 -2010', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2010 : 'Ram Kumar: A Retrospective', Aicon Gallery, New York 2009 : Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2008 : ‘Homage to Kekoo Gandhy’, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai & Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2007 : ‘Reflective Landscapes’, Aicon Gallery, New York 2006 : Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2005 : Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai & Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2003 : Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2002 : Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, New Delhi, San Fransico, New York 2001 : Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2000 : Landscapes from New Zealand, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1999 : Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai 1998 : A Gallery, New York 1997 : Arks Gallery, London & Amdavad Ni Gufa, Ahmedabad 1996 : ‘Pages From a Sketch Book’, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai & ‘Ram Kumar – A Journey Within’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1988 : Works on Paper, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi 1986 : Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai 1983 : Works on Paper, Miskole, Hungary & Sarla Art Centre, Chennai 1981 Works on Paper, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai 1977,79 : Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi 1971,73,76 & 78 : Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai 1966 : Grosvenor Gallery, London & Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 1960 : Wax and Ink on paper after first visit to Benaras, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1958 : Warsaw and Krakow 1957 : Alliance Francaise, New Delhi 1953 : Alliance Francaise, Mumbai 1949 : Y.M.C.A. Hall, Simla. Selected Group Exhibitions : 2014 : 'Immutable Gaze Part I: Masterpieces of Modern and Pre-Modern Indian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York 2013 : 'Pioneers of Modernism', Sovereign FZE, Dubai ; 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi & 'Nothing is Absolute: A Journey through Abstraction', The Jehangir Nicholson Gallery at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai. 2012 : 'Iconic Processions', Aicon Gallery, New York ; 'Through the Ages: South Asian Sculpture and Painting from Antiquity to Modernism', Aicon Gallery, New York ; 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art', prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai & 'Sightings', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai. 2011-12 : 'Reprise 2011', Aicon Gallery, New York 2011 : 'Modern Masters', Aicon Gallery, New York ; 'POP: Progressives on Paper', Aicon Gallery, New York & 'Masterclass', Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi. 2010 : 'The Progressives & Associates', Grosvenor Gallery, London ; 'From Miniature to Modern: Traditions in Transition', Rob Dean Art, London in association with Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai. 2009 : 'Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin', Emily Lowe Gallery, Hempstead ; 'Progressive to Altermodern: 62 Years of Indian Modern Art', Grosvenor Gallery, London & 'Moderns and More', Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto. 2008 : 'Post Independence Masters', Aicon Gallery, New York & ‘Freedom 2008 – Sixty Years of Indian Independence’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata. 2006 : ‘Moderns Revisited’, Grosvenor Vadehra, London & ‘Shadow Lines’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2005 : Ashta Nayak: Eight Pioneers of Indian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York 2001 : ‘Modern Indian Art’, organized by Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York & ‘Ashta Nayak’, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai. 1997 : ‘Image-Beyond Image’, a Traveling Exhibition of Works from the Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan, at New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Mumbai 1996 : ‘The Moderns’, National Gallery Of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai 1991 : ‘Remembering Kali Pundole’, Joint Exhibition with M. F. Husain, V. S. Gaitonde, Akbar Padamsee and Krishen Khanna, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai 1988 : ‘Three Indian Artists’, Karachi, Pakistan 1971 : Ten Indian Artists, a traveling exhibition in U. S. A. 1958 : Eight Indian Artists, Graham Gallery, New York ; Seven Indian Painters in Europe, Gallery One, London & Graphic exhibition with M. F. Husain, Tyeb Mehta and V. S. Gaitonde, Mumbai 1952 : Delhi Shilpi Chakra, New Delhi. Retrospective Exhibitions : 1994 : National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Jehangir Art Gallery (Traveling Exhibition), organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1993 : From 1949-93 at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1986 : From 1953-86 at Art Heritage, New Delhi organized by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai & Museum of Contemporary Art, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal. 1985 : Art Heritage, New Delhi 1980 : From 1953-80, Birla Museum, Kolkata. Selected Joint Exhibitions : 2012 : 'Eternal Landscapes', with Paresh Maity presented by ICIA at The Arts Trust, Mumbai 1995 : With Jogen Chowdhury, Gallery Raku, Japan < 1967 : With M. F. Husain, Geeta Gallery, New Delhi & With M. F. Husain, Prague. Participations : 2015 : 'Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection', Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York. 2014 : 'Ode to Monumental: Celebration, Visuality, Ideology', presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2012-13 : 'Radical Terrain: Modernist Art from India...
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Abstract, Acrylic on Paper, Orange, Green, Blue by Modern Indian Artist"In Stock"
By Ram Kumar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Ram Kumar - Untitled - 10.5 x 13.5 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Paper, Acrylic