Canvas Contemporary Art

Work belonging to the Series ¨Honoring Bacchus¨ Painted between Spain and the United States in 2009 Abstract backgrounds, Manhattan buildings as a background of fruits as a symbol...

Mid-century inspired, contemporary artwork entitled, "Interactive", Mixed Media on Canvas by Shahen Zarookian. Acclaimed American Armenian artist and designer, Shahen Zarookian, ties...

There is something about this solemn portrait that lures you in. Rendered in gestural strokes reminiscent of Franz Kline, the figure cuts across the austere white. The stark field of...

The colorful paintings of Jan Pieter Fokkens transport us to distant worlds beyond our comprehension. Within seemingly infinite networks of lines, dots, and crosses, he decodes the r...

About the painting “Itinerary” 2014 Shows your walk in your life. About the artist: Cecilia’s is working with all geometrical forms, lines and shadows. Her style developed to be clean and sharp forms in different combinations. Often they are in juxtaposition to create a three dimensional effect. Since two decades she has only painted in acrylic on canvas. Her art characteristics are uniform geometrical shapes with pristine borders, often in bold colours. Born in Sweden in 1954, Cecilia Setterdahl has always been painting from Swedish inspiration. Studied ascetics in High School and then went on to the Technical University of Lulea and graduated as a teacher. Moved to Stockholm and studied at the “Konstskolan” First exhibition 1988. Through a move to Neuchatel, Switzerland Cecilia continued her studies at the M-Art and Accademie Maximilien de Meuron...

Wonderful vintage colorful (colorful) abstract modernist oil painting on canvas signed with the monogram 'O.H.' by Otto Herter (1924-2000) painted in 1993. Otto Herter was born i...

This abstract monochrome painting by little known Los Angeles artist is a fine example of color abstraction. The canvas has been painted with a monochrome, purplish brown paint that ...

Parisian cityscape, signed and framed oil on canvas by Serge Belloni, ‘57 This painting has all the quintessential features of Belloni’s renowned Parisi...

Stef Duffy was born in New York, NY, and studied illustration, figurative painting, sculpture and ceramics at Parsons, FIT, Skidmore and NYAA. Drawing inspiration from both the ma...

Mid-century inspired, contemporary artwork entitled, "Golden Autumn", Mixed Media on Canvas by Shahen Zarookian. Acclaimed American Armenian artist an...

"Migration (Screw #4)", 2014, Financial newspaper collage, acrylic on canvas and board, 50 x 40 x 2.5cm by Gordon Cheung Screw Paintings Begun around 2014 they were originally...

"Distant Thunder" by Kent B Lemon A vivid landscape featuring two moose graising by the river amidst the beautiful backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. Signed lower left with ornate French inspired gold frame. Circa 2002 Artist Biography: Kent is a native of Colorado where he grew up in a home filled with paintings and a family immersed in the arts. He was educated at Colorado University, Boulder, and Parsons School of Design, New York. After studying in New York he returned to Colorado and apprenticed with Denver artists Mark Daily and Ned Jacob...

J. Paramé is considered one of the most talented and promising Portuguese artists of his generation. Born in Lisbon in 1978, he studied at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon. His work is represented in numerous private and public collections, national and international. Several exhibitions in galleries and public spaces have attracted public attention, allowing expose his work abroad, including France, Germany, Canada and USA. "Agora Gallery...

1970's abstract oil painting on canvas, signed Mabel Swan. Please confirm item location (NY or NJ) with dealer.

Mid-century inspired, contemporary artwork entitled, "Lineart Tree", Mixed Media on Canvas by Shahen Zarookian. Acclaimed American Armenian artist and...

Humorous original oil on canvas with black ink, painting by deceased American comedienne, Phyllis Diller (1917-2012), which she titled, “Two Idiots On A...

Contemporary painting made by the artist Bomberbax from 2021. The painting is made with mixed media on canvas and newspaper applications inspired by the vintage circus world. Iconogr...

Oil on canvas. 2005. Born in Avilés, and based in Madrid, where he has his studio, Javier Riera can still be defined by his age as a young artist but, given his long history of ex...

Mesmerizing large abstract painting on canvas having a marvelous composition of stripes, ovals, circles and overlapping shapes with rich colors including dark blue, electric blue, pu...

Mid-century inspired, contemporary artwork entitled, "Los Angeles Abstract Skyline", Mixed Media on Canvas by Shahen Zarookian. Acclaimed American Arm...

A wonderful informal abstract modernist painting signed by German artist Walter Wohlschlegel (1907-1999) in 1986. Painted on canvas, Wohlschlegel creates an interesting color play, m...

Dynamic geometric abstract painting on canvas by Dutch artist Eric Pool 2009 titled; 'T.H.E. Typical Heroic Exclusive'. The geometric pattern is like a quilt or patchwork of refined ...

Artwork by Gordon Cheung, "New Order Still Life with Flowers and Fruit (after Jan Evert Morel I, 1800-1808)", 2021, giclee on canvas This pieces is ...

Painting by artist BomberBax from 2021 with mixed media on canvas with barbed wire insert. His vibrant colors are characterized by a sensual use of color and canvas work. The artist ...

Milan Miletic, Serbian Artist, Born 1950. Pont Neuf, Paris oil on canvas, signed lower right and dated 2008. In decorative gilt frame. Yugoslavian...

Mid-century inspired, contemporary artwork entitled, "Tomorow", Mixed Media on Canvas by Shahen Zarookian. Acclaimed American Armenian artist and designer, Shahen Zarookian, ties tog...

Fantastic Mid-Century Modern oil on canvas painting by Pascal Cucaro titled "Festival". The painting depicts Asian women in colorful Kimono robes with bold, vivid colors and thick br...

Mid-century inspired, contemporary artwork entitled, "Harvard Square Newsstand ", Mixed Media on Canvas by Shahen Zarookian. Acclaimed American Armeni...

The painting is created by Italian artist Bomberbax in 2021. The painting the artist created is a sequence of Bits with special relevance to the artificial world. The deliberately in...

Large painting by Leopoldo Torres Aguero Oil on canvas in bleu and white colors. Signed and dated on the back.  

Gold leaf painting with 18th century Italian fragment molding. The painting has strokes of gold, grey, and white colors on canvas wit...

Acrylic on canvas. Karen Parisian is a Chicago based artist. Her work can be thought of as Spiritual Modernism as she has found inspiration in the modern masters as well as her o...

Mid-century inspired, contemporary artwork entitled, "Jazz Trio", Mixed Media on Canvas by Shahen Zarookian. Acclaimed American Armenian artist and designer, Shahen Zarookian, ties t...

Oil on canvas painting "Untitled" by Paola Vega, Argentina, 2014. The painting was exhibited in her solo show "The life of paintings" at Calvaresi in Buenos Aires, 2020. Paola Vega bio: Paola Vega is an artist, researcher and curator. She graduated with a degree in History from the Universidad Nacional del Sur in 2003. In parallel, she began to study painting in Bahía Blanca at Espacio Vox with Gustavo López, and carried out work clinics with Jorge Gumier Maier and Diana Aisenberg between 2001 and 2002, and later in Buenos Aires with Pablo Siquier...

Framed Eduardo Esquivel Solario (Solarium) Acrylic Paint Wall Art 2005. Signed on Reverse and at the front by Artist.  

Bathing beauties oil on canvas, original by Arkadi Ostromuchov "Beware this is not an exercise" Arkadiji Ostromuchov wurde in Russland geboren, und absolvierte seine Ausbildung ...

Contemporary square abstract painting, mixed-media of acrylic paint resin and Delray Beach Florida white beach sand, soft colors, all together to become b...

A modernist painting oil on canvas by Olga Pagana, "Bailerina", dated 2002. Signed lower right. In very good condition and with original wooden frame. Oil on canvas 16.50 by 13 inch...

Still life oil painting of cabbage, leaks by listed artist Alicia Cajiao framed.46x48"

"Sunset" contemporary art oil painting on canvas rendered in beautiful pastel shades of cream white pink and blue by June Hendrickson, USA, 1986.

Midcentury abstract Expressionist oil painting by Raphael Collzo in a wood frame-title "Landscape #1".

Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique compositions of abstract painted elements and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera—including fragments of fabric, scrolls, drawings, and books collected during his travels. In a departure from his split bamboo kite series, this work on stretched canvas entitled "Study in Red" layers textured paper and silken fragments within a rosy red color story. A gradient of red to pink sweeps across the composition, interrupted by a panel of Japanese silk depicting a whimsical scene...

"GAA21 – 12 / BS 0147" Bosco Sodi, 2012 Mixed-media on canvas Measures: 186 x 186 cm. Bosco Sodi (No. 1970, Mexico City) is known for its large-sc...

Evocative color-field abstract composition by contemporary American artist, Benjamin Casiano. Casiano is a lover of color and uses dramatic brushstrokes to bring color alive on his c...

Abstract oil on board painting by Robert Chapman. In the artist's hand made frame. As the assistant to Willem de Kooning for the last decade of de Koon...

"Castles Cascade to Sand (Screw #5)", 2014, Financial newspaper collage, acrylic on canvas and board, 50 x 40cm by Gordon Cheung Screw Paintings Begun around 2014 they were or...

A lovely Aboriginal contemporary painting by Abie Loy depicting Medicine leaves in Dreamtime. The alternating burnt orange and white dots contrast each other on the black background, a haze of orange mini-dots further providing a shifting visual effect that is subtle and mysterious. The painting comes with COA and photographs of the artist signing the painting. Abie Loy Kemarre...

Entitled "Seascape," this painting by Chicago artist Michael Thompson is a departure from the collage work of his ongoing kite series. Rendered in grayscale palette, the painting has...

Vivid color and movement to this original acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated on the verso. Shelley Herman 1970 "June Breath".

Large abstract expressionist oil on canvas titled "caldron" painted by Tom Lieber 1992 (American b. 1949). Signed, titled, and dated verso on canvas. Impressive size from an estate i...

"Fruit Bowl" acrylic on canvas, by Swedish abstract expressionist painter Peter Astrom, b. 1946. The monumental painting measures 5' x 5' , canvas is str...

Rare abstract oil on canvas painting by the Swedish artist Bertil Berntsson made in 1963. In good vintage condition showing some signs from age and use. Measurements: 115 x 103 x 2 cm.

Title: Ecriture Liee (Linked Writing) Artist: Jean-Daniel Rohrer (Swiss Canadian, 1960-). Media: Mixed media on Canvas (collage, stencil, chalk and oil on canvas). Year: 2007 Siz...

Juan Archuleta gates and garden painting. Well done in a fine custom gilt frame from a fine New Jersey private. collection. Juan S.E. Archuleta, Bor...

Still life painting (Violin, Flowers), Oil on canvas, by Agnes Weinrich, Signed and dated "22", Unframed: 20" x 16", Framed 27.5 x 23". Agnes Weinrich (1873-1946) was an early female, American modernist artist at a time when there was little interest in Modern Art in the USA and when few women were artists. She was a ground breaker in modern art. The painting shown is an important example of her mature phase of her work. A biography from Wiki-pedia follows: Agnes Weinrich (1873–1946) was one of the first American artists to make works of art that were modernist, abstract, and influenced by the Cubist style. She was also an energetic and effective proponent of modernist art in America, joining with like-minded others to promote experimentation as an alternative to the generally conservative art of their time. Early years[edit] Agnes Weinrich was born in 1873 on a prosperous farm in south east Iowa. Both her father and mother were German immigrants and German was the language spoken at home. Following her mother's death in 1879 she was raised by her father, Christian Weinrich. In 1894, at the age of 59, he retired from farming and moved his household, including his three youngest children—Christian Jr. (24), Agnes (21), and Lena (17), to nearby Burlington, Iowa, where Agnes attended the Burlington Collegiate Institute from which she graduated in 1897.[1][2][3] Christian took Agnes and Lena with him on a trip to Germany in 1899 to reestablish links with their German relatives. When he returned home later that year, he left the two women in Berlin with some of these relatives, and when, soon after his return, he died, they inherited sufficient wealth to live independently for the rest of their lives. Either before or during their trip to Germany Lena had decided to become a musician and while in Berlin studied piano at the Stern Conservatory. On her part, Agnes had determined to be an artist and began studies toward that end at the same time.[1][4] In 1904 the two returned from Berlin and settled for two years in Springfield, Illinois, where Lena taught piano in public schools and Agnes painted in a rented studio. At this time Lena changed her name to Helen. In 1905 they moved to Chicago where Agnes studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under John Vanderpoel, Nellie Walker, and others.[1] In 1909 Agnes and Helen returned to Berlin and traveled from there to Munich, where Agnes studied briefly under Julius Exter, and on to Rome, Florence, and Venice before returning to Chicago.[5] They traveled to Europe for the third, and last, time in 1913, spending a year in Paris. There, they made friends with American artists and musicians who had gathered there around the local art scene. Throughout this period, the work Agnes produced was skillful but unoriginal—drawings, etching, and paintings in the dominant academic and impressionist styles.[1] On her return from Europe in 1914, she continued to study art, during the warm months of the year in Provincetown, Massachusetts,[1] where she was a member of the Provincetown Printers art colony in Massachusetts,[6] and during the colder ones in New York City. In Provincetown she attended classes at Charles Hawthorne's Cape Cod School of Art and in New York, the Art Students League.[1] Drawing of an old woman by Agnes Weinrich, graphite on paper, 11.5 x 7.5 inches. Hawthorne and other artists established the Provincetown Art Association in 1914 and held the first of many juried exhibitions the following year. Weinrich contributed nine pictures to this show, all of them representational and somewhat conservative in style.[1] A pencil sketch made about 1915 shows a figure, probably one of the Portuguese women of Provincetown. Weinrich was a metculous draftsperson and this drawing is typical of the work she did in the academic style between 1914 and 1920. She also produced works more akin to the Impressionist favored by Hawthorne and many of his students. When in 1917 Weinrich showed paintings in a New York women's club, the MacDowell Club, the art critic for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle said they showed a "strong note of impressionism."[7] Broken Fence by Agnes Weinrich, a white-line woodblock made on or before 1917; at left: the woodblock itself; at right: a print pulled from the woodblook. In 1916 Weinrich joined a group of printmakers which had begun using the white-line technique pioneered by Provincetown artist B.J.O. Nordfelt. She and the others in the group, including Blanche Lazzell, Ethel Mars and Edna Boies Hopkins, worked together, exchanging ideas and solving problems.[1][8] A year later Weinrich showed one of her first white-line prints at an exhibition held by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.[9] Broken Fence, in its two states—the print and the woodblock from which she made it—show Weinrich to be moving away from realistic presentation, towards a style, which, while neither abstract, nor Cubist, brings the viewer's attention to the flat surface plane of the work with its juxtaposed shapes and blocks of contrasting colors. Cows Grazing in the Dunes near Provincetown by Agnes Weinrich, white-line woodcut, 10 x 10 1/2 inches When in 1920 the informal white-line printmakers' group organized its own exhibition, Weinrich showed a dozen works, including one called Cows Grazing in the Dunes near Provincetown. This print shows greater tendency to abstraction than eitherBroken Fence or the prints made by other Provincetown artists of the time. The cows and dunes are recognizable but not presented realistically. The white lines serve to emphasize the blocks of muted colors which are the print's main pictorial elements. Weinrich uses the texture of the wood surface to call attention to the two-dimensional plane—the paper on which she made the print—in contrast with the implicit depth of foreground and background of cows, dunes, and sky. While the work is not Cubist, it has a proto-Cubist feel in a way that is similar to some of the more abstract paintings of Paul Cézanne.[10] By 1919 or 1920, while still spending winters in Manhattan and summers on Cape Cod, the sisters came to consider Provincetown their formal place of residence.[1][11][12][13] By that time they had also met the painter, Karl Knaths. Like themselves a Midwesterner of German origin who had grown up in a household where German was spoken, he settled in Provincetown in 1919. Agnes and Knaths shared artistic leanings and mutually influenced each other's increasing use of abstraction in their work.[1][14] The sisters and Knaths became close companions. In 1922 Knaths married Helen and moved into the house which the sisters had rented. He was then 31, Helen 46, and Agnes 49 years old. When, two years later, the three decided to become year-round residents of Provincetown, Agnes and Helen used a part of their inheritance to buy land and materials for constructing a house and outbuildings for the three of them to share. Knaths himself acquired disused structures nearby as sources of lumber and, having once been employed as a set building for a theater company, he was able to build their new home.[15] Weinrich was somewhat in advance of Knaths in adopting a modernist style. She had seen avant-garde art while in Paris and met American artists who had begun to appreciate it. On her return to the United States she continued to discuss new theories and techniques with artists in New York and Provincetown, some of whom she had met in Paris. This loosely-knit group influenced one another as their individual styles evolved. In addition to Blance Lazzell, already mentioned, the group included Maude Squires, William Zorach, Oliver Chaffee, and Ambrose Webster. Some of them, including Lazzell and Flora Schofield had studied with influential modernists in Paris and most had read and discussed the influential Cubist and Futurist writings of Albert Gleizes and Gino Severini.[16][17] Mature style[edit] Woman with Flowers by Agnes Weinrich, circa 1920, oil on canvas, 34 x 30 1/4 inches, exhibited at the Provincetown Art Association exhibition of 1920, made available courtesy of the Association. Two of Weinrich's paintings, both produced about 1920, mark the emergence of her mature style. The first, Woman With Flowers, is similar to one by the French artist, Jean Metzinger called Le goûter (Tea Time) (1911).[18] Red Houses by Agnes Weinrich, circa 1921, oil on canvas on board, 24.25 x 25.5 inches; exhibited "Red Houses" at Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists. Like much of Metzinger's work, Le goûter was discussed in books and journals of the time—including one called Cubism co-authored by Metzinger himself.[19] Because the group with which Weinrich associated read about and discussed avant-garde art in general and Cubism in particular, it is reasonably likely that Weinrich was familiar with Metzinger's work before she began her own. The second painting, Red Houses, bears general similarity to landscapes by Cézanne and Braque. Both paintings are Cubist in style. However, with them Weinrich did not announce an abrupt conversion to Cubism, but rather marked a turning toward greater experimentation. In her later work she would not adopt a single style or stylistic tendency, but would produce both representative pictures and ones that were entirely abstract, always showing a strong sense of the two-dimensional plane of the picture's surface. After she made these two paintings neither her subject matter nor the media she used would dramatically change. She continued to employ subjects available to her in her Provincetown studio and the surrounding area to produce still lifes, village and pastoral scenes, portraits, and abstractions in oil on canvas and board; watercolor, pastel, crayon and graphite on paper; and woodblock prints.[20] Possessing an outgoing and engaging personality and an active, vigorous approach to life, Weinrich promoted her own work while also helping Karl Knaths to develop relationships with potential patrons, gallery owners, and people responsible for organizing exhibitions. With him, she put herself in the forefront of an informal movement toward experimentation in American art. Since, because of her independent means, she was not constrained to make her living by selling art, she was free to use exhibitions and her many contacts with artists and collectors to advance appreciation and understanding of works which did not conform to the still-conservative norm of the 1920s and 1930s.[1][21][22] Early in the 1920s, critics began to take notice of her work, recognizing her departure from the realism then prevailing in galleries and exhibitions. Paintings that she showed in 1922 drew the somewhat dry characterization of "individualistic.",[23] and in 1923 her work drew praise from a critic as "abstract, but at the same time not without emotion."[24] In 1925 Weinrich became a founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists. Other Provincetown members included Blanche Lazzell, Ellen Ravenscroft, Lucy L'Engle, and Marguerite Zorach. The membership was limited to 30 painters and sculptors all of whom could participate in the group's exhibitions, each getting the same space.[23][25][26] The group provided a platform for their members to distinguish themselves from the genteel and traditionalist art that women artists were at that time expected to show[27] and, by the account of a few critics, it appears their exhibitions achieved this goal.[1][28][29][30] In 1926 Weinrich joined with Knaths and other local artists in a rebellion against the "traditional" group that had dominated the Provincetown Art Association. For the next decade, 1927 through 1937, the association would mount two separate annual exhibitions, the one conservative in orientation and the other experimental, or, as it was said, radical.[31][32] Both Weinrich and Knaths participated on the jury that selected works for the first modernist exhibition.[11] Still Life by Agnes Weinrich, circa 1926, oil on canvas, 17 x 22 inches. Permission to use granted by Christine M. McCarthy, Executive Director, Provincetown Art Association and Museum. The painting was the gift of Warren Cresswell. Weinrich's painting, Still Life, made about 1926, may have been shown in the 1927 show. Representative of some aspects of her mature style, it is modernist but does not show Cubist influence. The objects pictured are entirely recognizable, but treated abstractly. Although fore- and background are distinguishable, the objects, as colored forms, make an interesting and visually satisfying surface design. In 1930 Weinrich put together a group show for modernists at the GRD Gallery in New York. The occasion was the first time a group of Provincetown artists exhibited together in New York. For it she selected works by Knaths, Charles Demuth, Oliver Chaffee, Margarite and William Zorach, Jack Tworkov, Janice Biala, Niles Spencer, E. Ambrose Webster, and others.[1][23] Later years[edit] Weinrich turned 60 on July 16, 1933. Although she had led a full and productive life devoted to development of her own art and to the advancement of modernism in art, she did not cease to work toward both objectives. She continued to work in oil on canvas and board, pastel and crayon on paper, and woodblock printing. Her output continued to vary in subject matter and treatment. For example, Still Life with Leaves, circa 1930 (oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches) contains panels of contrasting colors with outlining similar to Knaths's style. Movement in C Minor, circa 1932 (oil on board, 9 x 12 inches) is entirely abstract. It too relates to Knaths's work, both in treatment (again, outlined panels of contrasting colors) and in its apparent relationship to music, something in which Knaths was also interested. Fish Shacks...

"Study in Orange" by Dennis Yersner in brass frame.

Original oil on canvas painting by listed Italian artists Federico Salvatore. The painting depicts a sailboat coming out of the Marina Grande in Capri Italy. Hand marked ‘Marina ...

Artists: Angelos Panayiotou Born: 1943 Nationality: Greece Title: An elderly Man in Contemplation Medium: oil on canvas, Mark: signed lower r...