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Item Ships From: Austin
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right.
50.5 x 38.25 in.
51.5 x 39 in. (framed)
Custom framed in maple.
Theodore Franklin (“Ted”) Appleby, Jr. was born January 28, 1923 in Asbury Park, New Jersey to a very prominent family in Monmouth County. He attended the Pauling School in New York and studied at the atelier of John Corneal.
On December 12, 1942, Appleby enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, subsequently seeing action in the Marshall Islands. Upon the conclusion of the war, he was stationed for a year in Yokohama, Japan, where he studied local engraving techniques.
In 1947, after returning home, Appleby moved to Mexico for a year to study mural painting in San Miguel de Allende. Following his sojourn in Mexico, Appleby briefly returned home to the U.S. before ultimately relocating to Paris. There, he joined a lively community of expatriate American artists involved with what would come to be known as the “School of Paris.” Appleby befriended fellow Americans Sam Francis and Jackson Pollock, exhibiting extensively throughout France with the former. He also regularly visited the atelier of Fernand Léger, and was represented in the "Salon de Réalités Nouvelles" and the “Salon d’Automne” during the 1950s and 60s.
From 1955 to 1961, Appleby participated in group exhibitions in Chicago, Leverkusen (Germany), Lisbon, London, and Paris. He also had three notable solo exhibitions during this period: Studio Facchetti, Paris (1956); Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (1957); and the American Cultural Center, Paris (1959). In 1957, Appleby’s work was presented at the 62nd American Exposition of Painters and Sculptors at the Chicago Art Institute, where he was awarded the Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal and Prize.
Answering the famed artist André Lhote’s call to help save the village of Alba-la-Romaine in the Ardèche, Appleby and his wife - the artist Hope Manchester - purchased a home in the village in 1950, ultimately settling there until their deaths.
Source: Taylor Graham Gallery
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Estudio de Rosas 1" Floral Impressionist Painting
By Bartolome Sastre
Located in Austin, TX
The title of this piece by Bartolome Sastre translates to the "Study of Roses 1". The piece features blue, yellow, and green color palette with magenta accents. The impressionistic s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lazy Bones
Located in Austin, TX
Gaylon Dingler
22" x 28" Acrylic on Canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$4,800
Four Quadrants Abstract
By Tom Reno
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Tom Reno
Measurements: 60 x 48
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
A an elegant composition by Tom Reno executed in acrylic on canvas. This harmonious painting balances layers of dee...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Luigi Boille
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Unsigned.
63 x 51.25 in.
64.5 x 52.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in an ebonized solid walnu...
Category
1950s Abstract Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$85,000
Four Horns
Located in Austin, TX
David Ackerson (b. 1950, American)
Title: "Four Horns"
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 40 x 30 in.
Markings: Signed LR "David Ackerson"
Signed & Titled...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Prana
Located in Austin, TX
"Prana" is an abstract expressionist painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium, and graphite on a cradled wood panel; measuring 36 x 36 inches.
Titled "Prana" the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
$3,200
Antique European Landscape with Mountains, Lake, Woman and Three Kids
Located in Austin, TX
Unknown Artist
29" x 44" Oil on Canvas
Framed Size: 36" x 51"
Antique
Category
19th Century Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Congress Ave (II)
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Congress Ave."
Artist: Pep Suari
Medium: Acrylic paint on paper
Size: 20" x 27"
Framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Half-Circle Abstract
By Cora Van
Located in Austin, TX
“Half-Circle Abstract” is an abstract painting by Cora Van executed in acrylic on canvas; measuring 63 x 49.5 inches.
A large, bold composition in deep blues, blacks, white, and oli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Slate Blue Abstract with Yellow and Green
By Tom Reno
Located in Austin, TX
Blue, Green, and Yellow Abstract by Tom Reno
28.5" x 22"
Acrylic on Paper
Tom Reno is an abstract artist originally from Southern California who now resides in New Mexico. He is th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Austin - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Reunion" Expressionist Figurative Man and Woman
Located in Austin, TX
By Pep Suari
32" x 39.5" Acrylic on Linen
This figurative expressionist painting by Pep Suari depicts a man and a woman looking at each other with flowers between them. The colors o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
"Congress Avenue" Expressionist painting of downtown Austin, Texas
Located in Austin, TX
A painting of Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, Texas from Pep Suari's visit to Austin. Suari is an artist based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. This piece is executed in acrylic on p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Breach of Dawn
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil-based mixed media on canvas. Signed verso.
47.25 x 56 in.
48.25 x 57.25 in. (framed)
Custom framed in white oak.
Provenance
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
John Beardman...
Category
1980s Abstract Austin - Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Oil
Heat Lightning
Located in Austin, TX
"Heat Lighting", an abstract painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium, and pastel powder on a cradled wood panel; measuring 12 x 12 inches.
A warm, harmonious comp...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
Garden #8 1/2-C
By Beatrice Mandelman
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Diptych, acrylic on canvas. Signed lower right. Two canvases, joined along vertical stretcher on verso.
40 x 60 in.
41 x 61 in. (framed)
Custom framed in maple.
Provenance
Estate of Beatrice Mandelman
203 Fine Art, Taos, NM
A certificate of authenticity issued by the Mandelman Ribak Collection at the University of New Mexico Foundation will be provided with this work.
Beatrice Mandelman was born on December 31, 1912 in Newark, New Jersey. At age 12, she began taking classes at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, subsequently attending Rutgers University, the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, and the Art Students League in New York.
In 1935, Mandelman was employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), first as a muralist and then as a printmaker with the Graphic Division of the New York Project. One of the original members of the Silk Screen Unit under Anthony Velonis, she worked until the disbandment of the WPA in 1942. During this period, she was associated with numerous New York School artists including Louis Lozowick, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, and Stuart Davis.
Mandelman married fellow artist Louis Ribak in 1942, and two years later they traveled to Santa Fe, NM to visit his teacher and mentor, the artist John Sloan. Finding Santa Fe congested, they took the train along the Rio Grande and a stagecoach up to Taos and decided to settle there. An impulsive and inspired move, it was a decision that would effectively remove them from mainstream art involvement, for which Santa Fe had become an important outpost in the west. While Taos was a well-known within the art community, there were no galleries exhibiting modern art. This changed later in the decade, with an influx of new artists arriving from New York and California. Some of these artists would come to be known collectively as the “Taos Moderns...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Contra Luz - Jardines Generalife, Granada" Palace Garden Spain Roses Fountains
By Borja Fernandez
Located in Austin, TX
"Contra Luz" - Jardines Generalife, Granada
Artist: Borja Fernandez
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 63.75" x 45"
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ace of Spades
Located in Austin, TX
A sophisticated abstract painting by Kendall Rabon executed in acrylic on a cradled wood panel, measuring 38.5 x 30 inches.
This stately composition balances creamy white with deep...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Floral Still Life with Roses, Lilacs, and Zinnias
By A.D. Greer
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning floral still life by A.D. Greer features a bouquet of vibrant red and white roses, purple lilacs, and red and orange zinnia flowers. Measuring a sizable 36 x 48 inches,...
Category
20th Century American Realist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Fete Champetre" Victorian Park Scene
Located in Austin, TX
Title: Fete Champetre
Artist: George Henry Andrews
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 25" x 36"
Framed
Category
19th Century Victorian Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Girls and a Parrot" Fauvist Figurative Painting
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
13" x 16" Pastel on Paper
Category
20th Century Fauvist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Dum-Dum Roses
By Robert Kulicke
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Dum-Dum Roses"
Artist: Robert Kulicke
Medium: Hand Varnished Serigraph
Size: 8.5" x 11"
Framed
Category
20th Century Austin - Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Springtime Resurrection
By Ronnie Landfield
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated on verso.
86 x 74 in.
87.25 x 75.25 in. (framed)
Please note:
This work was re-framed AFTER photography was completed. The frame seen in the photos was original, and has since been replaced with a solid maple floater, finished in a polyurethane clear coat (see other listings for an example of this frame).
Provenance
Steve Chase Design, Palm Springs, CA
Ronnie Landfield was born in the Bronx, NY on January 9, 1947 - the same day as his older brother. As a teenager, he was encouraged to pursue a career as an artist, subsequently creating his first real paintings around the age of 14. He was particularly influenced by a Life magazine article from 1961 on the Abstract Expressionists, most notably: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline.
After stints at the Art Students League, the Kansas City Art Institute, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the University of California at Berkeley, Landfield’s professional career as a painter began in New York in 1965. The following year, after completing a major series of hard-edge border paintings, success as a painter began to materialize. The famous architect and collector Philip Johnson and the collector Robert Scull each acquired large paintings works, as did the Sheldon Memorial Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In 1967, Landfield was invited to participate in the Whitney Annual at the end of the year. His work attracted considerable attention, and he was invited to participate in important group exhibitions at the Bykert, Bianchini, and Park Place Galleries in New York.
Landfield joined the David Whitney...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Red and Blue Abstract" Large Painting Gestural Color Fields
By Tom Reno
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Tom Reno
Measurements: 60 x 48 inches
Medium: Oil on Canvas
A striking abstract composition by Tom Reno, executed in acrylic on canvas. Reno describes his pieces as "destin...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Raixa III" Architectural Painting
By Bartolome Sastre
Located in Austin, TX
This painting is part of a aesthetic study on a mysterious fountain by Bartolome Sastre. There are three pieces in this study, titled "Raixa". This painting measures 39.5" x 28.75" a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Pollensa at Night", Impressionist Coastline Landscape Scene
By Borja Fernandez
Located in Austin, TX
This calm and peaceful night scene by Borja Fernandez depicts the coastline of Pollensa. This piece is executed on oil on canvas and measures 38.25 x 5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Detour
Located in Austin, TX
"Detour" is an abstract painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium, and pastel powder on a cradled wood panel; measuring 48 x 36 inches.
A warm, calming composition ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
Green Center
By Kenneth Lochhead
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso.
62.25 x 62.25 in.
63.75 x 63.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish.
Provenance
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Private Collection, Lancaster, PA
Exhibited
"," June 2, 2003-July 15, 2004, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada.
Publications
"Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light...
Category
1960s Post-War Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Prairie
By Estela Aguirre
Located in Austin, TX
A richly textured abstract mixed media composition on gallery wrapped linen. This image resembles a landscape of a prairie with deep browns and beiges with hints of reds, yellows, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media
$5,100
Bicycle
Located in Austin, TX
By Roberto De La Renta
34" x 22.5"
Acrylic on Paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Some scratched out, illegible writing in paint and graphite verso, which may ha...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Swimmers" Vibrant Expressionist Figurative Scene
Located in Austin, TX
Pep Suari
14.75" x 40"
Acrylic on Board
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Mystic Waters
Located in Austin, TX
"Mystic Waters" is an abstract painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium on a cradled wood panel. The painting measuring 20 by 30 inches.
A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
Big Tex & His Three Egrets
Located in Austin, TX
David Ackerson (b. 1950, American)
Title: "Big Tex & His Three Egrets"
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 40 x 30 in.
Markings: Signed LM "David Ackerson"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
April 10, 1961
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right; signed, titled, dated verso.
48 x 60 in.
49.75 x 61.75 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid maple floater, with an heirloom white finish.
Provenance
Kootz Gallery, New York
Collection of John G. and Kimiko Powers, New York/Aspen, CO
Prentice-Hall Corporate Art Collection, New York
Kyle Morris was born in Des Moines, IA in 1918. After serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, he completed M.F.A. programs at both Northwestern and Cranbrook Academy of Art before settling in New York and renting a studio on Mercer Street in downtown Manhattan during the 1950s. Transitioning away from the figurative painting of his formal training, he began to create the bold gestural works that would serve as his hallmark in the ever-growing fraternity of the New York School.
Morris’ first major solo exhibition occurred at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1952. This show served as the catalyst for his recruitment onto the rosters of the prominent Stable and Kootz galleries in New York. In 1961, he was included in the Guggenheim’s landmark exhibition, American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, which surveyed the abstract expressionist movement that would come to dominate contemporary American art...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
It's Springtime Somewhere in the World
Located in Austin, TX
"It's Springtime Somewhere In the World" is an abstract painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium, and pastel powder, and rice paper on a cradled wood panel; measuri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Wood Panel, Rice Paper, Graphite
Printemps
By Borja Fernandez
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Printemps"
Artist: Borja Fernandez
Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 25.5" x 39.25"
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$5,200
New Synthesis #34
By Jack Roth
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, titled, and estate stamped on verso.
50.25 x 31 in.
51.25 x 32 in. (framed)
Custom framed in maple.
Provenance
Estate of Jack Roth
Born in Brockway, Pennsylvania, Jack Roth was at various times a painter, poet, photographer, and mathematician. He enrolled at Pennsylvania State University in 1943 to study chemistry, but like many of his fellow Abstract Expressionists, his matriculation was interrupted World War II, where he served in both the Army and Air Force.
Discharged from the service in 1948, Roth moved to Big Sur, California and married his first wife, Colleen Bleier, with whom he had two daughters. A year later, the young family settled in San Francisco, where Jack enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts. It was here that he studied painting under Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, and Elmer Bischoff.
The Roth family left the Bay Area to return to Pennsylvania, where Jack completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry in 1951. In pursuit of his seemingly discordant academic interests, Roth moved yet again, this time to Iowa where he received a Master of Fine Arts at Iowa State University in 1953. Seeking gainful employment, Roth moved to New York, settling in the lower East Side where he began looking for a teaching job and working as a reviewer for Arts Digest magazine.
Now divorced, in 1954 Roth married the artist Rachel Chester whom he had met in Iowa. He continued to paint and work odd jobs, some of which were as a hotel night clerk and an orderly at Beekman Downtown Hospital. That year, he unsuccessfully applied for the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in the field of photography.
However, Roth’s professional prospects greatly improved when his work was selected by James Johnson Sweeney, Director of the Guggenheim Museum of Art for the traveling exhibition Younger American Painters, alongside giants such as William Baziotes, Richard Diebenkorn, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis, and others. One of the first major debuts of the Abstract Expressionist movement to be shown at an American museum, the exhibit traveled to the prominent museums across the country. In 1956 he began graduate work in mathematics at New York University.
Opting to dive back into academia, Roth began graduate coursework in mathematics at New York University in 1956. He enrolled at Duke University in 1958, receiving his PhD in mathematics in 1962.
Roth continued to create art throughout the pendency of his graduate studies and in 1963, legendary Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) curators Dorothy Miller and William Lieberman recommended Roth as the new talent graphic artist for Art in America. Concurrently, MoMA purchased several works from Roth for the museum’s permanent collection.
During this period of artistic achievement, Roth continued to teach - first, at the University of South Florida in Tampa, before moving back north to Montclair, New Jersey, where he was hired as the chairman of the Mathematics department at Upsala College. In 1971 he accepted a dual appointment at Ramapo College, teaching both mathematics and advanced painting. After he received tenure and his finances were secure, his artistic production thrived as he received the first Thomases Award for contributions at the school, which came with the use of a large studio space. This allowed him to work with larger canvases and become what he saw as an Abstract Expressionist Color Field painter.
In 1978, the acclaimed gallery Knoedler & Co. in New York began representation of Roth’s work. Other artists represented by the gallery at this time included Alexander Calder, Adolf Gottlieb...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life with Fruit
Located in Austin, TX
Still life by Gustav Likan
16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas
signature located on lower right side and dated '64
Category
1960s Austin - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sea Breeze
Located in Austin, TX
"Sea Breeze" is an abstract painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium, and pastel powder on a cradled wood panel; measuring 12 x 12 inches....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel, Pigment
Fish Composition II
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Fish Composition II"
Artist: Pep Suari
Medium: Acrylic on wood board
Size: 15" x 13.5"
Framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Fish Composition I
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Fish Composition I"
Artist: Pep Suari
Medium: Acrylic on wood board
Size: 15" x 13.5"
Framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Standing Nude Woman Pastel Painting
Located in Austin, TX
Oil pastel on paper of a nude woman with a dark background.
13" x 20"
About the Artist:
Miles Mathis is an American artist known for his nude portrait paintings and drawing of women...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Infinity Field (Jerusalem Series)
By Theodoros Stamos
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed verso.
68 x 50 in.
69.5 x 51.75 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple floater with a matte white finish.
Provenance
Camillos Kouros Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Theodoros Stamos is heralded as one of the few abstract painters who bridged the New York School’s first and second generations. His age, in particular, afforded him this unique position, as he was the youngest member of the “Irascibles,” the core group of fifteen New York School painters publicized by Nina Leen...
Category
1980s Post-War Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Clash "London Calling" co-signed by Paul Simonon
Located in Austin, TX
Original art canvas entitled London Calling by renowned contemporary U.K. artist Jagga. Co-signed by the artist and The Clash bass player, Paul Simonon.
Limited edition number 16/20...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Spring
By Gustav Bolin
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right.
35 x 45.5 in.
36.5 x 47 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid...
Category
1970s French School Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$15,000
Untitled
By John Opper
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed and dated verso.
62.25 x 56.25 in.
64 x 58 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a natural cherry wood floater.
Provenance
Washburn Gallery, New York
Behnke Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot, CT
Born in 1908 in Chicago, John Opper moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1916. In high school, he began studying art and attending classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
After graduation, he enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art), only to withdraw after a year and move to Chicago, where he took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. He eventually returned to Cleveland, enrolling at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve), receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1931. The Depression has taken hold during this period, so Opper found work by teaching metalworking and sketching classes at the Karamu Settlement House, the oldest African American theater in the United States.
In 1933, Opper traveled to Gloucester, Massachusetts, eventually connecting with the artist Hans Hofmann, who was teaching at the school run by Ernest Thurn. Hofmann encouraged Opper to work “in a more modern vein and start finding what it’s all about.” Heeding this advice, Opper relocated to New York, co-founding a mail-order club of American and British prints for dissemination to schools and museums.
By the mid-1930s, he joined the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Easel Division, and also began attending the 57th Street school that Hans Hofmann had established after leaving the Art Students League. Looking back at his time at the school, Opper felt that beyond Hofmann’s teaching, most advantageous was his contact with fellow artists, including Byron Browne, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, and George McNeil. At the time, he also met Giorgio Cavallon and the sculptor Wilfrid Zogbaum.
In 1936, Opper became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, along with Balcomb and Gertrude Greene. The organization was formed to provide an opportunity for artists to show abstract works at a time when such opportunities were scarce. This led to his first solo show in 1937 at the Artists’ Gallery in New York.
During his summer in Gloucester in 1933, Opper came to know Milton Avery. Painting in Avery’s informal studio in New York City the following winter, he became acquainted with Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko. Opper participated in a couple of shows during the 1930s of the American Artists Congress Against War and Fascism, whose president was Stuart Davis. About the same period, Opper joined the Artists’ Union and served as the business manager of its publication, Art Front.
During World War II, Opper worked for a ship design company creating drawings for piping systems used in PT boats...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$25,000
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed, dated, and stamped verso.
23.75 x 24 in.
25 x 25.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a ...
Category
1970s Post-War Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
African Ancestor
By John Little
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic and paper collage on canvas. Signed and dated lower left; signed, ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper
Impossible Walls, Original Contemporary Surrealist Blue Oil Painting
By Marlene Llanes
Located in Boston, MA
Impossible Walls, Original Contemporary Surrealist Blue Painting, 2022
24" x 30" x 1.65" (HxWxD) Oil on Canvas
Like the Penrose stairs and M.C. Escher's Relativity, artist Marlene Llanes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bolmes
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso.
46.5 x 36 in.
47.5 x 37 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple floater.
Charles Strong, who was born in Greeley, Colorado on Christmas Day in 1938, was one of the youngest artists of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism. He was a colleague of vanguard artists such as Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Jack Jefferson...
Category
1960s Post-War Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,000
Strutture d'insieme
By Luigi Boille
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on sackcloth. Signed and dated lower center; signed, dated, and titled verso.
57.75 x 45 in.
59.5 x 47 ...
Category
1960s Abstract Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Dawn
By John Little
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Egg emulsion on fiberglass. Signed and dated upper left and verso; titled verso.
49 x 48 in.
49.75 x 49 in. (framed)
Custom framed in hickory.
Provenance
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Born in Alabama, John Little attended the Buffalo (NY) Fine Arts Academy as a teenager, until 1927. Soon after, he moved to New York where he began operatic vocal training and opened what would become a very successful textile business designing fabric and wallpaper.
In 1933, he enrolled at the Art Students League under the tutelage of George Grosz. Little’s early work consisted predominantly of landscapes, until 1937, when he began studying under Hans Hofmann and his work naturally shifted toward abstraction. During his time with Hofmann, he with artists such as Lee Krasner, George McNeil, Gerome Kamrowski, Giorgio Cavallon...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Fiberglass, Egg Tempera
$30,000
Untitled (#222)
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated verso.
49.5 x 34.5 in.
51 x 36.25 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple fl...
Category
1950s Post-War Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Artist's Monaco Home Interior Scene" with Painting of Ducks, Sofa Candles Chair
By Marcus Hodge
Located in Austin, TX
Panting size: 10 x 13 in.
Frame Size: 16 x 19 in.
Medium: Oil on board.
Signed, top left, "Marcus Hodge"
Inscribed, top left, "La Turbie, Monaco"
This expressive scene rendered in bold, juicy brush strokes of impasto oil paint, captures a cozy, warm interior scene, the artist, Marcus Hodge's home in Monaco. The room is bathed in an intimate, low light, with a comfortable-looking, cream-colored sofa on the left, strewn with a colorful throw pillows. Above the sofa hangs a large, painting featuring broad strokes of blue and green that depict a duck on water. This painting within a painting references wildlife art created by the painter's father, Spencer Hodge...
Category
Late 20th Century Austin - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled
By Tom Goldenberg
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas (diptych). Signed and dated verso.
68.25 x 32.25 in.
69.75 x 33.5. (framed)
Custom framed in...
Category
1980s Post-War Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$24,000
Danish Middle
By Joseph Drapell
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated on verso.
34.25 x 87.5 in.
36 x 89.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in in a natural cherry floater.
Provenance
Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto
Born Josef Drapell in German-occupied territory near Prague in the present-day Czech Republic, his interest in art was piqued as a young boy growing up in a country that traded one occupier for the next. Czechoslovakia - under communist Soviet control following the war - would never allow Drapell to enjoy true freedom of artistic expression. He eventually fled his homeland, first stopping in Vienna, before ultimately settling in Canada in 1966.
After a brief spell at the venerable Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI, Drapell returned to Canada in 1970, settling in Toronto - though he frequently traveled between the two countries in pursuit of exhibition opportunities in both Toronto and New York. Those opportunities arrived almost immediately, as he enjoyed solo exhibitions with both Robert Elkon Gallery in New York, and Dunkelman Gallery back home in Toronto.
Drapell splits time between his homes in Toronto and Georgian Bay on Lake Huron...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Infinity Field (Jerusalem Series III #1)
By Theodoros Stamos
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed lower left; signed, titled, and dated verso.
65.75 x 50.25 in.
67.25 x 51.75 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple floater with a matte white finish.
Provenance
Takis Efstathiou, PTE Fine Arts, New York
Private Collection, New York
Theodoros Stamos is heralded as one of the few abstract painters who bridged the New York School’s first and second generations. His age, in particular, afforded him this unique position, as he was the youngest member of the “Irascibles,” the core group of fifteen New York School painters publicized by Nina Leen...
Category
1980s Post-War Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Congress Avenue (V)" Austin, Texas Urban Cityscape Street Scene
Located in Austin, TX
By Pep Suari
36" x 36" Acrylic on Canvas
This dynamic painting is iconic for those from Austin, Texas. It depicts the view of Congress Avenue facing the Texas Capitol building in th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Komposition rot/schwarz
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left, inscribed label verso.
59.25 x 55.25 in.
61 x 57 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a wooden double tray frame, hand-painted white.
Provenance
Galerie Lovers of Fine Art, Gstaad, Switzerland
This work has been recorded under no. 1531 in the digital Catalogue Raisonné of the artist, prepared by Michel Reymondin, Montreux, Switzerland.
Carl Walter Liner was born in the Swiss canton of Appenzell, near the border with Liechtenstein, in 1914. The son of famed artist Carl August Liner, the younger Liner enjoyed more critical and commercial renown for his landscapes.
In 1938 at the age of 24, he undertook what would become the first of several residencies in Paris. This particular sojourn helped to establish the trajectory of his career, as Paris would provide the setting in which he became acquainted with early twentieth century masters Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Braque, Ossip Zadkine, Gérard Schneider, and Erich Heckel. The stylistic and technical influence of his contemporaries is clearly evident in Liner’s work from this point forward.
Unfortunately, the dawn of the 1940s would bring about a number of challenges for Liner. With the outbreak of war, Liner was mobilized for the Swiss Border Guard, and returned home to Switzerland in 1939. He remained on active duty until 1945, only to lose his father the following year. The death of the elder Liner left a profound impact on his son, who eventually made his way back to Paris in 1947 and embarked upon what would become a very successful series of nudes.
By his own admission, 1948 was a pivotal year in Liner’s career, as a particularly spiritual trip to Algeria would foment the emotions led to the beginning of his practice with abstraction. Henceforth, Liner would vacillate between the figurative and abstract, creating parallel oeuvres. His abstraction from the 1950s and 60s mirrored...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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