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Item Ships From: Brooklyn
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Landscape Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 14 by 17 inches overall, and 10 by 14 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Handsomely...
Category
1950s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Look See
By Anne Russinof
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas - Unframed
For Russinof, everything begins with color. She begins a painting by applying color in lyrical, gestural marks. The marks coalesce into a structure, a loose...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed (Abstract painting)
By Anne Russinof
Located in London, GB
Framed (Abstract painting)
Casein on Arches paper. Unframed.
Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand.
...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
American School New York City Abstract Expressionist Original MCM Oil Painting
By Barry Johnson
Located in Buffalo, NY
American school abstract painting. Watercolor on paper, circa 1960. Signed. Image size, 24"L x 18"H.
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
Setting Sun
By Vicki Sher
Located in Dallas, TX
acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pebbles, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Julie Combal
Located in Yardley, PA
oil on canvas, 40" x 40" :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signatur...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Icon: Abstract Gold Leaf and Red Impasto Contemporary Painting - Wood Panel
By Axel Getz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Titled 'Icon', this powerful abstract painting reimagines sacred tradition for a contemporary audience. Executed in mixed media—featuring genuine gold leaf and heavy crimson red oil ...
Category
2010s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Riprap 2 (Abstract Drawing)
By Margaret Neill
Located in London, GB
Riprap 2 (Abstract Drawing)
Colour pencil and acrylic on paper. Unframed.
This fluid abstract work on paper is intuitively made with a coloured pencil and acrylic.
The intersectin...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Large Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Jazz Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Striking mid-20th century abstract oil painting on canvas by artist Johnsen, titled “Jazz IX – Club Date” (as inscribed on the verso). The work features a bold interplay of geometric...
Category
2010s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Antique American Impressionist Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Charles Sutton, “April Afternoon,” Oil on Board, Framed Landscape Painting
Warmly toned impressionist oil painting by Charles Sutton, titled April Afternoon. The work captures a tra...
Category
1930s Impressionist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Framed River Landscape Summer Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas board. Framed.
Category
1920s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Rare American Signed Cubist Cactus Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American female modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent conditi...
Category
1940s Cubist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Snow 8-5
By Hyun Ae Kang
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Hyun Ae Kang was born in South Korea. Currently based in California, USA.
Hyun is an important figure in Korean contemporary art. In her art she combines traditional Korean spirit ...
Category
2010s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$25,000
Meditations on Don Quixote
By Patrick Collins
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Created while living in Madrid, inspired by great Spanish authors.
Category
2010s Contemporary Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Abstract Flower Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist abstract still life oil painting. Oil on board. Signed verso. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a paintedwood molding...
Category
1960s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Huge Antique American School Original Oil On Canvas Landscape Abstract Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Unsigned. Image size 60L x 36H. Unframed
Category
1960s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$746 Sale Price
25% Off
Inside You and Me (Large Scale Contemporary Abstract Painting) aqua, rose, pink
By Debra Drexler
Located in New York, NY
A large scale (84"x60") acrylic and oil painting by Debra Drexler, an artist based in New York and Hawaii. In this refreshing and abstract image, a blast of pink and magenta drips do...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
Riprap 2 (Abstract Drawing)
By Margaret Neill
Located in London, GB
Riprap 2 (Abstract Drawing)
Colour pencil and acrylic on paper. Unframed.
This fluid abstract work on paper is intuitively made with a coloured pencil and acrylic.
The intersectin...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Antique American Modernist Signed Abstract Framed Landscape Nature Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 18 by 21 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a ...
Category
1960s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American School Cubist Abstract Signed Framed Pastel Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract pastel and watercolor painting. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 14L x 18H.
Category
1930s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
City moves I (Abstract Painting)
By Gudrun Mertes-Frady
Located in London, GB
City moves I (Abstract Painting)
Ink on handmade paper - Unframed
Mertes-Frady creates layered, expressionistic, abstract compositions
She is inspired by instinct and intuition. By...
Category
2010s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Ice Squared, acrylic bold blue, aqua, red geometric and gestural abstract
By Jeffrey Kurland
Located in Brooklyn, NY
2018 acrylic on canvas 60x55 x 1.75”
Light teal on black gesso ground. Surface texture.
Transfer process with acrylic paint skins and additional paint on stretched canvas.
Composi...
Category
2010s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and en...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Skipstep (DE)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
The skipstep and Shadow Boxer paintings grow out of an interest in the paradox of spatial comprehension found in abstract painting.
As with the shadow...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,198 Sale Price
20% Off
Surreal Nude Woman Abstract Signed Framed Mid Century Modern Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 31 by 21 inches overall and 30 by 20 painting alone.
Category
1960s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique English Modernist Tropical Palm Tree Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique English landscape oil painting by Julian Barrow (1939 - 2013). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 10 by 12 inches overall, and 8 by 10 painting alone. In excellent or...
Category
1940s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"LAKE ONTARIO", Abstract Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, Yellow & Green
By Jeffrey Kurland
Located in Toronto, Ontario
The large abstract painting "LAKE ONTARIO" by Jeffrey Kurland, with acrylic paint on canvas measuring 60" tall by 78" across, is new work from the summer ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Gesso, Pigment
Queen of hearts - abstract red grey brown black painting and collage on panel
By Deborah T. Colter
Located in New York, NY
Deborah T Colter is a contemporary abstract painter who lives on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard. Deborah graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor Degree of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Drenched in Green (Large Scale Contemporary Abstract Painting)
By Debra Drexler
Located in New York, NY
A large scale (60"x48") acrylic and oil painting by Debra Drexler, an artist based in New York and Hawaii. Deep, light blues, aqua, teal, aquamarine and green forms weave and layer t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
American School Summer Wildflowers and Meadow Path Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A radiant Impressionist-style landscape, this oil painting captures the vibrant warmth of a summer meadow scattered with white daisies and blush-pink wildflowers. Loose, expressive b...
Category
1940s Impressionist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Surreal Musical Abstract Guitar Violin Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract musical painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang ...
Category
1930s Surrealist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
polygon in space #22 - Triangular Bright Colored Sculptural Painting on Wood
By Zin Helena Song
Located in New York, NY
mixed media on wood, acrylic paint
In this piece, Zin Helena Song utilizes a sharp triangular shape as her wood panel. This shape is common in city grids, like when Broadway meet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Wood
Antique American Modernist Shaped Geometric Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American school abstract geometric painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
American School Modernist Trompe L'Oeil Still Life Realist Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist realist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso.
Category
1970s Photorealist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Signed Flower Still Life Framed Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted American modernist still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 24H by 12L.
Category
1940s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Pink-Orange
By Lizzie Scott
Located in Dallas, TX
flashe on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
Antique American Nicely Framed Abstract Expressionist Large Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a modernist wood molding. Excellent co...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large American Modernist Abstract Architectural Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 34 by 48 inches overall, and 28 by 42 painting alone. In excellent original condition. H...
Category
1950s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique French Impressionist Framed Landscape Coastal Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French landscape oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Signed verso. Measuring: 12 by 14 inches overall, and 9 by 11 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Ha...
Category
1920s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Monumental American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Original NYC Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Measuring: 40 by 49 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Category
1960s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Still Life Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Measuring: 16 by 22 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Excellent condition, ready to hang a...
Category
1950s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape "Pink Hills" Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Measuring 24 by 30 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Category
1960s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Nassau Bahamas Original Mixed Media Portrait Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist mixed media abstract portrait. Framed. Mixed media original collage. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, r...
Category
1950s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Nassau Bahamas Original Mixed Media Portrait Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist mixed media abstract portrait. Framed. Mixed media original collage. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, r...
Category
1950s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Breather (Abstract Painting)
By Anne Russinof
Located in London, GB
Breather (Abstract Painting)
Oil on canvas - Unframed
For Russinof, everything begins with color. She begins a painting by applying color in lyrical, gestural marks. The marks coal...
Category
2010s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Aquatic Forest" Contemporary Large Scale Abstract Painting, violet, turquoise
By Debra Drexler
Located in New York, NY
This is a large scale, contemporary abstract painting by the New York/ Hawaiian artist, Debra Drexler. Vertical elongated forms in rose pink, mauve, lavender and turquoise blue rise over a layered field of cream white brushed with violet. Washes of red and orange fade into hot pink in this vibrant abstract painting by the artist. You can see the influence of tropical colors in this canvas and a wistful yearning for the beach and the sea.
Debra Drexler is an American painter, installation artist, curator and professor. Her work is informed both by participating in the contemporary resurgence of abstraction coming out of New York, and by living in the Post Colonial Pacific since 1992. She has participated in over thirty solo and over 100 group exhibitions in national and international venues including Front Room Gallery, Exit Art, The Drawing Center, White Box-The Annex, Art Finance Partners, Van Der Plas Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, and Denise Bibro Gallery in New York, as well The Honolulu Museum of Art and Maui Arts and Cultural Center. Debra Drexler is a Professor at the University of Hawaii, where she is Chair of the Drawing and Painting Area. She maintains studios in Brooklyn, NY and on the island of Oahu in Hawai’i. Debra Drexler's most recent work is highly experimental large-scale abstract painting. In a recent review of a two-person exhibition (Whitehot Magazine,2017) Drexler's work as clearly referencing the long tradition of American abstraction and the established legacy of the New York School. The reviewer, Jonathan Goodman, described the work as a “new non-objectivity” that comes out of the current moment. He states that Drexler's painting “quite accurately describes the spirit of abstract art today, in which painting is struggling to break free of the constraints of time."
Debra Drexler frequently uses hot pink, a color with heavily gendered associations. Her hot pink brushstrokes...
Category
2010s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tightrope (Abstract painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Tightrope (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between foreground and background, center and edge, inside and out. The dual spatial identities that the myriad forms have with one another create a visual riddle.
His goal as a painter is not to solve the riddle as much as pose it as a unique perceptual challenge. And it is that challenge that fulfils the experience one has with the painting.
Macyn Bolt is an American abstract painter. Using a visual language informed by geometric abstraction, he creates artworks that examine how color and form create shifts in visual perception. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and upstate Pennsylvania.
Bolt works with acrylic paint on a variety of surfaces including canvas, wood panel, vinyl and paper. Using scrapers...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Antique American School Signed Framed Abstract Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Abstract Framed Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted modernist landscape by Robert Noel Blair (1912 - 2002). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed Image size, 23 by 31 inches. In excellent original condition. ...
Category
1950s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,340 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American School Modernist Guitar Cubist Abstract Musical Still Life
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed American school guitar still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 22L x 18H.
Category
1950s Cubist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique 19th Century French Impressionist Nocturnal Cityscape River Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early European impressionist cityscape painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 11H by 8L.
Category
1890s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,820 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Sunset Seascape Signed Framed Rolling Waves Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist seascape sunset oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 28 by 32 inches overall, and 20 by 24 painting alone.. In excellent origina...
Category
1960s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique French Riviera Modernist Mediterranean Seascape Signed Boat Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed modernist seascape painting by Gabriel Godard (Born 1933).
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Housed in a wide giltwood frame. Thick impasto and wonderful colors. I...
Category
1960s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snap 8
By Holly Miller
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and thread on canvas - Unframed
The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a transparency i...
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Acrylic
$3,435
Antique American Modernist Wild Horses Western Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted modernist landscape by Robert Noel Blair (1912 - 2002). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed Image size, 22 by 30 inches. In excellent original condition. ...
Category
1950s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Flower Cloud" Framed Antique American Modernist Abstract Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a thin wood molding. Excellent condition...
Category
1940s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American Modernist 19th Century Framed Sunset Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist landscape sunset painting. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy....
Category
1890s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,780 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Tropical 19th Century Landscape Original Oil Painting Flower Path
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 17.5L x 13.75H. Signed.
Category
Early 1900s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$296 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Modernist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 20H by 16L.
Category
1960s Abstract Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American Female Modernist Precisionist Street Scene Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene oil painting by Elaine Wesley (1923 - 2007). Oil on board. Estate stamped verso.
Category
1950s Modern Brooklyn - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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