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'Coastline', Expressionist California Landscape, San Francisco Woman Artist
By Alice Beamish
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A dramatic, Expressionist Coastal landscape showing a view of white-capped jade green breakers crashing against a rocky shoreline, with a distant mountain painted in shades of scarlet, slate blue, and indigo rising in the background.
Signed lower right, "Beamish", titled verso and painted circa 1960.
Provenance: The Vincent Price Collection...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Sunset over Velden, Holland', French Expressionist Landscape, Benezit
By Henri Plas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "H. Plas" (French, born 1933) and dated 1971; inscribed verso "Champs de Velden" (Fields of Velden).
A substantial Expressionist oil landscape showing a lyrical view of russet and gold fields bathed in evening sunlight outside the Dutch village...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Organic Abstract
By Hilary Goldblatt
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A dynamic, cabinet-size oil abstract comprising contiguous and overlapping areas of coral, jade, pink and slate-blue with additional linear and circular emphasis.
Signed lower righ...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Abstract in Coral and Turquoise', Woman Artist, Pasadena
By Pearl Took
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Oil abstract comprising interconnected organic shapes in variegated shades of turquoise, vermilion, coral, and lime, outlined in deep ebony.
Signed with monogram lower right, 'P.T.'...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
'Sabrina's Wedding' Bay Area Abstract, Esalen, California, Santa Cruz Art League
By Anthony McNaught
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A lyrical, cabinet-size abstract comprising complex striated and overlapping pastel elements of aqua, chartreuse, saffron and jade applied with alla prima brushwork.
Signed lower right, 'Ant'; additionally signed verso, titled 'Sabrina's Wedding II' and dated 2015.
This California artist studied with Erin Gafill...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
'Geometric Abstract', New York, Gallery
By Duane Bousfield
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, "D.B.", signed verso, "Duane Bousfield" (American, born 1960) and inscribed "Unchartered Lesson".
Oil abstract comprised of fields of violet, teal, rust, and ochre overlapped by dynamic linear and geometric forms.
Duane Bousfield is a fifth-generation Californian living in New York City since 1995. In 2001 Duane accepted the directorship of Wally Findlay Gallery in East Hampton, NY, and continued working with the gallery on 57th Street, NYC, for more five years. Wanting to work with more contemporary art, Duane accepted a position as Senior Art Consultant at Franklin Bowles Gallery, in SoHo, NY, where he continues to help people build art collections for their homes and estates. During the years of art consulting, Duane has continued making his own art and exploring the relationship of meaning and abstraction.
Selected Solo Exhibits:
2009 Mud, Sweat & Tears New York, NY
2002-2005 The Duplex New York, NY
2000 Merican New York, NY
2000 Big Genius Art Williamsburg, NY
1999 & 2000 Pegasus New York, NY
1998 Town House Club Room New York, NY
1996 Esalen Institute visiting artist Big Sur, CA
1995 Esalen Institute visiting artist Big Sur, CA
1994 Center for Psychological Studies Albany, CA
1994 Citadel Gallery San Jose, CA
1992 Montgomery Theatre San Jose, CA
1992 Objectivity Gallery...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Abstract in Saffron and Jade
By Nancy Shafsky
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Shafsky' and painted circa 1960.
A kinetic, mid-century oil abstract comprising a structurally inter-related field of jade and saffron contrasted against second...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract in Lilac and Lapis', Denver Metropolitan Museum, Germany, Galerie Lutz
By Kenneth Martin Snodgrass
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, Amrican school o,il abstract comprising adjacent and superimposed, organic shapes in Prussian blue, vermilion, and olive contrasted against a slate and lavender groun...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Geometric Interior', New York ASL, California Watercolor Society, Oakland
By Jon Cornin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Cornin," dated "LVII" for 1957, and titled verso "Uncial."
Jon Cornin first studied with Raphael Soyer at New York's Art Student's League and, subsequently, at the Grand Central School of Art. Using the pseudonym, CorKa, he and his wife, Zena Kavin produced cartoons for Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker from 1941-1952. The Cornins moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1940 and settled in Oakland. In addition to his career as a painter, Jon Cornin was also a noted teacher, respected theorist of Modernism and the author of 'Painter's Credo: Selected Notes' (Stone House Press, 1985). He exhibited widely and with success and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards.
Partial List of Exhibitions:
Museum of New Mexico, 1937-39; Oakland Art Gallery, 1939-45; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1938, 1940, 1945; California Watercolor...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Abstract in Coral and Gold'
By John Franklin Sommers
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial oil abstract comprising overlapping squares and circles in spackled shades of crimson, ochre, cream, ivory, and black, accented by curved linear elements.
Attributed t...
Category
20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Reclining Nude', Fauve Figural, SFAA, Carmel, LACMA, Louvre, Paris
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955, and with Di Gesu estate stamp verso.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art C...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Forms in Blue & Gray', Bay Area Abstraction, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts
By Robert George Gilberg
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Gilberg" for Robert Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and dated 1954.
A substantial, mid-century gouache abstract comprising pendant geometric forms in pastel tone...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
'Abstract in Coral and Jade', American School
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant, cabinet-size, American School abstract comprising fragmented structural areas of goldenrod, coral, and ebony, superimposed on a soft field of jade and sage green.
Signed...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
'Abstract, Ebony & Rust', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, Large Oil
By Eral Leek
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Eral" for Eral Leek (American, 20th century) and dated 1962.
A substantial, mid-century oil abstract comprising bold, overlapping rectangular compositional elem...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil