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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Blue Sea
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Carol Sideman– American (1925-2021)
Title: Blue Sea #57
Year: circa 1975
Medium: Acrylic paint, gouache, chine colle on heavy watercolor paper
Si...
Category
1970s Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board, Oil
View From the Window, Oil on Canvas
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
One of our finest living contemporary American Realist artists, Willard Dixon, has painted 'View From the Window; featuring green leaves, grey branches, purple lilac and orange turni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Tweet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Tweet" c.1990, is an acrylic painting on paper by noted American artist Glen Chesnut. It is. signed and titled at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwo...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Winter Lake
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Bajo tierra (Underground)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Bajo tierra (Underground), 2024
Mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 inches
This one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars. Extern...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Botanical Experiment #3
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Botanical Experiment #3, 2025
Watercolor and alcohol inks on paper
12 x 9 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed and ships in a tube. External, visi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Paul W. Wood Modernist Abstract Cityscape, 1979
By Paul W. Wood
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paul Winthrop Wood modernist abstract cityscape, 1979
Modernist Abstract Landscape
Oil on Board
18" x 34" unframed, 24.5" x 40.5" framed
Paul Winthrop Wood
1922-2003
Wood was born on August 29, 1922, in Kingsville, ON, Canada. He was the son of Albert G., an architect and Louise Wood. He married Jacqueline Stark, a pianist, on September 4, 1953.
Wood attended Grand Central School of Art, 1938, New School for Social Research, 1939, and Art Students League in New York from 1939-41 and 1946-47.
He was a portrait painter in 1948 at Paul W. Wood Studio, Port Washington, NY, owner, 1949-68, and a part-time course tutor.
He taught at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England, beginning in 1980 and at the Department of Art History, 1993-2003.
Wood was president of the Pleasant Hill, Inc., former director of Albert Wood and Five Sons...
Category
1970s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fluid Heart
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hope Echoes
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler’s dazzling contemporary water reflection acrylic paintings bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet with a little di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hypnosis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler’s dazzling contemporary water reflection acrylic paintings bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet with a little di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Journeys, Abstract Painting
By Pat Forbes
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Part of Pat Forbes's ongoing "Journey" series of modern abstract paintings, evoking our colorful and complex life paths. "Life offers us many choices," she sa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Metamorphosis I
By Shyun Song
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This piece is one of two images of Metamorphosis. This one is the metamorphosis of a bud into a flower. The second painting, Metamorphosis II, is the metamorp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pacific Plates No. 11
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
A bold, intensely color-saturated painting from Stephen Henriques, who is influenced by Bonnard and Vuillard, and the western landscape and its light. When referring to his oil on ab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1918
By Jane Kim
Located in Burlingame, CA
When competing desires collide, which one wins?
At the turn of the 20th century, North American bird populations were plummeting, hitting a nadir with the extinction of the Passeng...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Latex, Acrylic
Arthur Dove 1940 "Sun" Painting
By Arthur Dove
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arthur Dove: 1880-1946. One of the most important early American Modernists and Abstract Expressionists. He has had auction results over $8,000,000 and that record was 2 weeks ago. A...
Category
1940s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Hacked
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American visual artist Javier Arizmendi-Kalb’s expressive and texturally rich paintings are nuanced with symbolic and narrative motif in oil and oil-crayon on canvas. 'Hacked...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Into the Water
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Warm Waters is a beautiful abstract painting in clear blue, with touches of warmth, that references color through water, with a quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint over st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Abstract Painting by Chamlin Oil Paint on Canvas
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid-century Abstract Painting by Chamlin
Oil Paint on Canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Olja Ivanjicki "Florence or Hell of l'Inconnue De La Seine" Oil Painting c.1965
Located in San Francisco, CA
Olja Ivanjicki "Florence or Hell of l'Inconnue De La Seine" original oil circa 1965
Original oil on board. Dimensions 26" wide x 42" high.
The frame measures 30" wide x 46" high.
Signed and dated at the upper border. She has auction results over $9,000 which was earlier in 2021.
Olga Ivanjicki, the daughter of Russian emigrants was born in Pancevo, Danube Banovina. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, graduated in 1957, and in the same year she was the only woman among the founders of MEDIALA Belgrade, an art group of painters, writers and architects such as Leonid Šejka, Vladimir Velickovic, Ljubomir Popovic, Miodrag Ðuric. In 1962, she received a scholarship of the Ford Foundation to pursue her art studies in the United States, and in 1978 she was a selected artist of the Fulbright program Artist in Residence at the Rhode Island School of Design.
She had over ninety individual exhibitions and participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions. Ivanjicki’s painting was influenced by Symbolism, Surrealism, Pop art and Fantastic art. In the course of her career, the artist received the Vuk Lifetime Achievement Award (Vukova nagrada, 1988), the Seventh of July Award (Sedmojulska nagrada, 1988) and the Karic Award.
L'Inconnue de la Seine (English: The Unknown Woman of the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fred Kenknight "Midday Sun" Abstract Oil Painting c.1963
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fred Kenknight Vintage 1960s "Midday Sun" Abstract Oil Painting
Fantastic vintage oil painting signed by Fred Kenknight.
Though untitled, we are call...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Scale Mid 20th Century Acrylic Painting by Vanguard Studios by Van Gaard
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large Scale Mid 20th Century Acrylic Painting by Vanguard Studios Signed Van Gaard
Classic 1950s to 1960s acrylic painting of a guitar against a colorful ab...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Perle Fine Geometric Abstract
By Perle Fine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Perle Fine: 1905-1988. Very well listed American abstract and geometric abstract artist. Her high auction result was $57,600 in September 2024. She studied with Hans Hoffman, and was...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winter Road
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eva Sikorski (1917-1990) Abstract Portrait Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eva Sikorski (1917-1990) abstract portrait painting by listed German born California artist. Classic impressionistic style with muted colors. Oil on canvas. Excellent condition in li...
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tectonic Plates no. 17
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
A bold, intensely color-saturated painting from Stephen Henriques, who is influenced by Bonnard and Vuillard, and the western landscape and its light. When referring to his oil on ab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Longing
By Charlotte Bernstrom
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Longing' 48 x 48 inches, professionally framed in soft white wood, 49 x 49 inches from Swedish-American visual artist Charlotte Bernstrom’s paintings are inspired by the Earth and i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Meandering Light
By Craig Mooney
Located in Napa, CA
Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive. Though a representational painter, the artist incorpor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Printemps
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sonnet 7 (Abstract painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Sonnet 7 (Abstract painting)
Oil on paper — Unframed
Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementary mystical tra...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Botanical Experiment #4
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Botanical Experiment #4, 2025
Watercolor and alcohol inks on paper
12 x 9 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed and ships in a tube. External, visi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Kismet
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Tivona, Abstract Painting
By Krispen Spencer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Tivona" means lover of nature. Nature inspires all of my work, but I saved the title for this one. It is a large, colorful abstract. Fluid acrylics were poured onto a horizontal canvas.
About the Artist
Krispen Spencer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Fractured Land #3
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio
Fractured Land #3, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
55 x 55 inches
This one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
This painting is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mystery Mid Century Modern Sailboats
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mystery heavy impasto abstract sailboat scene. Fabulous midcentury oil on canvas which appears to be illegibly signed. It has wonderful colors and is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Towards the Light
By Erin Parish
Located in Burlingame, CA
Erin Parish draws on patterns found in nature for the subject matter of her tactile, bold, and brilliant abstract paintings created with oil and resin on wood and canvas. Inspired by...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Wood
Possibilities
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Explosive Abstract in Vibrant Blue, Red and Black
By Heinie Hartwig
Located in San Francisco, CA
Small but mighty. A moment caught, an explosion of energy, of color. And such a departure for California artist Heinie Hartwig (b. 1937), who is known primarily for his Western subje...
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Terra Incognita (Le Pavé de France 5) (Abstract Painting)
By Jessica Snow
Located in London, GB
Terra Incognita (Le Pavé de France 5) (Abstract Painting)
Oil on linen stretched on panel - Unframed.
Snow sees her work as a constant play between order and chaos, logic and emoti...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
10' Changes Everything, Abstract Painting
By Patricia Oblack
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"My work is completely in the direction of abstract, but many viewers experience other views," says Patricia. "In this piece, the name tells the story that wh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Rhapsody in Yellow - oil on canvas - abstract
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
Color is always central in Henriques' delightful compositions that are at once, balanced, harmonious, and a toast to life. 'Rhapsody in Yellow' with its bright and pure hues shimmer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Manifestation" Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Illustrator Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
"The Manifestation"
1994
Oil on canvas
48"x36" artist framed
Signed lower center
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
He was born in san Francisco, in 1931, Bill moved to Texas, where he grew up. Moved to New York in 1940 and later joined the Naval Air Corps at the age of 18. He served as an Aviation Cadet in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945. At the end of WWII, Bill returned to Texas.
At 21, Bill re-focused his energy and enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Art as an Illustration major. What followed was a whirlwind of success, great friendships and a sense of belonging he had never before experienced. Art was his calling and the art-world could not have been less prepared for the likes of Bill Shields...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1997 "Blue Heaven" Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Illustrator Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
"Blue Heaven"
1997
Oil on canvas
48"x48" artist framed
Signed lower right
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 -...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ether Sans Oiseaux II (Ether without Birds) / - Oil on Linen
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ether Sans Oiseaux II (Ether without Birds) Elegant sophisticated whites and creams of the clouds on rich blue sky. 39 x 39 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, has had multi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Verse XLIX (Abstract painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Verse XLIX (Abstract painting)
Oil on paper — Unframed
Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementary mystical t...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Phyllis Ciment Abstract Pastel Painting c.1970s
By Phyllis Ciment
Located in San Francisco, CA
Phyllis Ciment Abstract Pastel Painting c.1970s
Red, white and blue - Fine colorful abstract painting
24" wide x 18" high
The frame measures 33" wide x 28" high
Signed by the art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Amber Bar
By Charles Eckart
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Abstract encaustic oil painting.
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stewart's Stream, Abstract Oil Painting
By Ronda Waiksnis
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Ronda Waiksnis says of this atmospheric landscape, "I love a direction through nature that leads to the unknown!"
About the Artist
Ronda Waik...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Permutations
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
1970s Abstract Oil Painting by San Francisco Artist P. Ciment
By Phyllis Ciment
Located in San Francisco, CA
1970s Abstract Oil Painting by San Francisco Artist Phyllis Ciment
Created with oils on paper over mat board.
Using wide brush strokes an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Doubtful Sounds, New Zealand
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Abstract Triptych. Colorful. Vibrant. Expressionistic & large scale
By Jane Burton
Located in Maricopa, AZ
A true show stopper! This original is comprised of 3 separate panels (also sold individually upon request) that will add a vibrant pop of color and movement to your space. Titled Pas...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Large Mid-Century Abstract Oil Painting By E. Costello
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid Modern Abstract Oil Painting By E. Costello
Large and impressive abstract oil painting created with oils on Masonite.
This painting can hang vertical, or horizontal.
Dimension...
Category
1960s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
James Grant (1924–1997) Mixed Media Abstract 1963
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fine art mixed media painting by listed artist James Grant (1924–1997). Titled "Three Dots". Collage with oils on Masonite. This fine mid modern abstract painting will brighten up a...
Category
1960s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Morning Pond / oil on linen over wood
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Green, yellow and bronze abstract Impressionist reflective scene alludes to light on water. Created with a rich range of golden tones. The late-career established artist paints thinl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Panel
Rachmaninov “Letter to Sergei" cello music inspired diptych oil canvas 6x18 feet
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Inspired contemplative, warm cream, bronze abstract Impressionist diptych painting created in homage to the composer Rachmaninov, Sublime 'Rachmaninov “Letter to Sergei" is compris...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Panel
Tectonic Plates V / oil on canvas
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
Vibrant and alive with rhythmic lines and color, oil on canvas from Stephen Henriques, who says, “Magnificent Color is my greatest gift”. A mid career California artist, Henriques, h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Ether Sans Oiseaux I (Ether without Birds) / Oil on Linen
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ether Sans Oiseaux I (Ether without Birds) Elegant sophisticated whites and creams of the clouds on rich blue sky. 39 x 39 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, has had multip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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