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Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Designs for Light', 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
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', 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
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', 2008 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
Jupiter
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Juniper — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 66 x 83 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, New York, and California's B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Quadrants Ephemeral
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Quadrants Ephemeral' from Irene Zweig, where intellect, science, mathematics and order are at play in shades of green, blue, grey and white, in the abstract mixed media painting tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', 2009 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, Acrylic, Watercolor
Charm on Turin Field, Abstract Oil Painting
By Ronda Waiksnis
Located in San Francisco, CA
<p>Artist Comments
A quiet landscape at dusk, rendered in expressionist strokes of greens, blue and white and highlights of reddish orange. The river refl...
A quiet landscape at dusk, rendered in expressionist strokes of greens, blue and white and highlights of reddish orange. The river refl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Watermark
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb created this abstract painting with symbols and narrative motif, in bold black with yellow ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', 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
Acrylic Painting Diptych, Floral and Geometric, Red, Purples, White, Black, 2019
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Chenese Flower I and II Sánchez creates a world of brightly colored red and purple/blue flowers on a gold backdrop combined with black and white geometric shapes. Each panel is 19...
Category
2010s Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
CT: Aerial Map, Zones / Ramps
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
An abstracted collage created in late 2015. The dynamic, mixed-media work is among the last of Frohsin’s critically acclaimed Cautionary Tales series, which considers the true price ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Mixed Media, Pigment
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space', C. 1998 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
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2008 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
Seascape, Geometric Figure #2
By Dave Fox
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Fox (American, 1920-2011)
Title: Seascape, Geometric Figure #2
Year: c.2000
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Paper: Watercolor paper
Image size: 10 x 8 inches
Paper ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Torso No. 9, 2013 / figurative abstract expressionism
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Torso No. 9, 2013' is professionally framed in a contemporary museum quality clear maple hardwood frame. The artwork itself is 23 1/2 x 20 inches. The outer frame dimensions are 31 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space, C. 2005 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
Reaching for You triptych
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Three individual abstract canvases that are 24 x 24 inches each to create a 24 x 72 inch triptych when hung together. Can be hung with spacing between each painting.
Donna McGinni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflections on Crossing XXXVI
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
Warm shadows and cascading light are the focus of this sophisticated abstract oil on canvas painting by artist Anne Subercaseaux, whose gleaming oil paintings realistically bridge u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Colorful Abstract 2008 Signed "VERSO"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Colorful Abstract 2008 Signed "VERSO"
Oil on canvas
36 x 48 unframed
Category
Early 2000s Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quadrants Quadrille
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Quadrants Quadrille' from Irene Zweig, where intellect, science, mathematics and order are at play in shades of calm blue, silver, grey and white, in the abstract mixed media painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Fantasy Garden 11, Abstract Painting
By Sheila Grabarsky
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Part of Sheila's Fantasy Garden series of 20 paintings. Swirling pink, red, yellow, violet, blue and green intimate a vibrant su...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vivace' - multicolor vibrant oil painting
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters is a colorist whose abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues that speak to each other when com...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
CT: Compound Fissures
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Vibrant orange flourescent mixed media painting from Kim Frohsin, whose important and provocative Cautionary Tales series of 2015, considers the true price of progress and its reperc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Pacific Plates No. 8
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 abstract canvases that glow with yellow, blue, orange and red, he says,"magnificent color is my greatest gift and joy". A California painter, Stephen Henriques is strongly influenced by music; and specifically jazz. 'Pacific Plates...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Geometric Figure #21
By Dave Fox
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Fox (American, 1920-2011)
Title: Geometric Figure #21
Year: 2003
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Paper: Watercolor paper
Image size: 10 x 8...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Composition in Orange
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Composition in Orange - French American Frédéric Choisel is inspired by the cities of France, New York and the Bay Area and creates elegant abstracti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal, Gold
Geometric Figure #23
By Dave Fox
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Fox (American, 1920-2011)
Title: Geometric Figure #23
Year: 2003
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Paper: Watercolor paper
Image size: 9.75 x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Red and White
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
Sumptuous abstracted landscape with red and white station from artist David Shevlino, whose masterful application of paint through the use of broad brush...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', c. 2008 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
1994 "Dreamer's Forest" Abstract Painting on Panel William Shields
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
"Dreamer's Forest"
1994
Oil on panel
48"x36" artist framed
Signed lower right
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. He took them by storm, first Houston, then San Francisco, followed by New York in the late 60's. For 35 years, Bill produced some of the country's best illustrations: fresh, playful, loose and innovative. His illustrations were coveted by such clients as Bantam Books, Time Life, MacMillan Publishing Co., and were awarded numerous gold medals by the Societies of Illustrators in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the Houston Artists Guild.
Later, following inspirational trips to Mexico and France, Bill shifted his attention to the self-directed world of fine art. After years of sculpting, making assemblages, painting nudes and landscapes, he settled on the exploration of large abstract oil paintings. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Connecticut and New York.
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EDUCATION:
Chicago Academy Of Fine Art
San Antonio Art Institute
MAJOR FIELDS OF PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVOR:
Freelance graphic design and illustration
Instructor of painting and illustration
Landscape, figurative and abstract painting
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT: (Professor of Art)
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute
San Jose State University
AWARDS FOR ILLUSTRATION, Gold Medals:
New York Society of Illustrators
Los Angeles Society of Illustrators
San Francisco Society of Illustrators
Dallas-Fort Worth Art Director's Club
Houston Artist's Guild
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Feature articles in: American Artist, Communication Arts, Print, North Light.
Architectural design featured in: Better Homes and Gardens, American
Home, Sunset Magazine, Architectural Digest.
ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS:
Oil Companies:
Champlin Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, Continental Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company.
Industrial:
Hughes Tool Company, General Electric, United States Steel, Phelps Dodge, Sylvania Television,
Texas Gulf Sulphur, Litton Industries, Houston Lighting and Power Company...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Excavation - monochrome geometric abstraction
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Action painting in mainly black and white with cream, brown and ivory, 'Excavation,' by Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb, who creates autobiographical paintings that are comprised of both abstract and representational elements that consider the natural world as it intersects with utilitarian and architectural design. 'Excavation,' is 48 x 60 inches, and is from a series of paintings that characterize sacred spaces such as Mexican chapels...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', 2004 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
Superbloom
By Alison Haley Paul
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite
Childlike Wonder
By Morgan Fite
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
From my series called Lessons from Winter, inspired by my process of discovering and embracing the beauty, mystery, and warmth of the coldest and darkest seas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Storm Source / lightning sky
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Contemporary 'Storm Source' depicts severe weather at the center of a storm. An intense and electrically radiant sky, ocean, sunset painting from American Realist, Willard Dixon. The unique sky-scape is a birds-eye view to the dramatic and unfolding scene. Framed in dark ebony wood, and ready to hang and enjoy. The original painting is 58 x 60 inches. Signed and dated by the artist. Condition is excellelnt.
One of our finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon has painted Northern California and western landscapes for over 35 years. His work captures the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. The same sensitivity can be found in Dixon’s urban street scenes that offer viewers a resting place to contemplate our rapidly changing world, and his portraiture, which largely focuses on his artist friends and illustrious colleagues.
Willard Dixon’s art has been shown extensively in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, He has had over 40 one-man shows and numerous group shows. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, The SFMOMA, and the Oakland Museum of California Art. He has executed large-scale commissions for The California Supreme Court, The Oakland Museum and The Las Vegas Federal Courthouse. He received an NEA Fellowship Grant in 1989. In 2013, one of his portraits was included in The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Dixon’s works are included in prominent private and museum collections worldwide.
Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1987: Fischbach Gallery
1987: Gallery 454 North
1986: William Sawyer Gallery
1985: Fischbach Gallery
1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx
1984: William Sawyer Gallery
1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery
1981: William Sawyer Gallery
1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery
1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hamsa - 72 x 60 inches - abstract expressionistic oil on canvas
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb created this abstract painting with symbols and narrative motif, in bold black with yellow ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Contemporary 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
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for form', C. 2007 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
Crimson Labyrinth
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Suzanna Hart-Broughton – American (ca.1935-)
Title: Crimson Labyrinth
Year: 1983
Medium: Oil and/or acrylic and collage on canvas
Sight size: 30 x 36 inches.
Framed size: 30.25 x 36.25 inches
Signature: Signed lower right, reverse
Condition: Very good
Frame: Framed in original frame
This painting is composed of oil/and or acrylic paint with collage on canvas. The painting's collage elements have a strong symbolic/mythological reference in keeping with Hart-Broughton's extensive study of Carl Jung...
Category
1980s Other Art Style Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2005 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
Mid Century Abstract Dock Scene by Igor Medvedev c.1960
By Igor Medvedev
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid Century Abstract Dock Scene by Igor Medvedev c.1960
Oil on canvas. Dimensions 42" x 26". The frame measures 43" x 27".
Signed in the lower right co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', C. 1997 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
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', 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
The Stories that Create Us #12, 2021 Mixed Media Painting in (Green+Red+Violet)
By Laurie Barmore
Located in Gilroy, CA
In this work by Laurie Barmore, the artist's hand is exceedingly present. Using strong strokes of black, red, and purple creates its own essences of form atop washes of whites and gr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Spectacle of Fancy, Abstract Oil Painting
By Cynthia Ligeros
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Cynthia says this painting was inspired by the enticing yet subtle colors that appear in the early winter landscape. A block of pale yellow worked over with b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jamica
By René Romero Schuler
Located in Napa, CA
René Romero Schuler is an American painter and sculptor who creates powerful images that speak to the complexities of the human condition and the spirit that connects all human being...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Oil
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Untitled', c. 1990's 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
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Tokolosh- Round Mixed Media Abstract Painting in Pink and White Circle Mythology
By Jennifer Blalack
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Tokolosh" is part of a series of circular abstracts that Jennifer Blalack worked on in 2020. This piece, in particular depicting Zulu mythology. In Zulu mythology, the Tokolosh is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Ink
Friend Ship Carry Me - Contemporary Conceptual Abstraction on Paper, Purple
By Vivian Liddell
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Friend Ship Carry Me" is a text-based conceptual contemporary work by artist Vivian Liddell. This piece has intricate deliberate details scattered throughout. Liddell often walks th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Monotype
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', 2005 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, Acrylic, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', 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
Yearning
By Gloria Matuszewski
Located in Burlingame, CA
Minimalistic 'Yearning' glows with pink, peach, blue and green and is inspired by Taoist teachings and meditations, with a focus on color, rhythm and flow. Matuszewski creates medita...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
Calypso
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters is a colorist whose abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', 2022 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
2010s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Fire Series', C. 1998 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
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space', C. 1998 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
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Flame #1
By Jennifer Davenport
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Flame #1" 1990 is an acrylic painting on paper laid on cardboard by American artist Jennifer Davenport. It is signed and dater at the lower left corner by the ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space', 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
Contemporary 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
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space, C. 2000's 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
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