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Item Ships From: Fairfield County
Rick Lewis - 24 Hours at Sea, Painting 2023
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
24 Hours at Sea
Oil, bitumen, graphite, marble powder, burlap on canvas
72" X 60"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the me...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Marble
"Home" Abstract Painting
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Sofie Swann features a bold, contrasting palette with a simple light blue house and chimney shape on a solid, peach-toned background. This mini...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Rick Lewis - Best Laid Plans, Painting 2024
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Best Laid Plans
Oil, bitumen, collage, marble powder, burlap on canvas
96" x 48"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the med...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Marble
A Woman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Brian Novatny's sophisticated figure paintings are sought after from his early body of work. These pieces are from a private collection.
Category
2010s Realist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Composition Blue Center Rouge
Located in Greenwich, CT
A painting that almost feels and acts like a sculpture as it is highly built up surface that takes on a 3 dimensional quality. He builds up the acrylic and resin in heavy layers and...
Category
1960s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Canvas
Lilacs
By Jarvis Wilcox
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented By George Billis Gallery. As the practitioner of a non-verbal art, Jarvis Wilcox’s first objective is to intrigue the viewer into spending enough time with the painting t...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
$2,304 Sale Price
20% Off
Suzanne Benton, Flyaway, 2021, oil on canvas, Spiritualism
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
In this ninth decade of life, and as a working artist for nearly70 years, Suzanne Benton has become interested in the concept of Late Style as described by the literary theorist Edwa...
Category
2010s Orphist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Primeval Landscape, Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Primeval Landscape
Year: 1985
Medium: Acrylic on double layered Masonite
Size: 16 x 19 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, ...
Category
1980s Photorealist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite
$22,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Suzanne Benton, Centering, 2022, oil on panel, Neo-Transcendentalism
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
In this ninth decade of life, and as a working artist for nearly70 years, Suzanne Benton has become interested in the concept of Late Style as described by the literary theorist Edwa...
Category
2010s Orphist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Optical wall sculptures
By Charles Hinman
Located in Greenwich, CT
Our shaped canvas which also is a sculptural form in essence for a wall, is a geometric and forward play of optical illusion. Hinman is an important pioneer of exploration in the co...
Category
1970s Hard-Edge Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Man and A Woman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Brian Novatny's sophisticated figure paintings are sought after from his early body of work. These pieces are from a private collection.
Category
2010s Realist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Night Flash
Located in Fairfield, CT
For me, art begins with the sensation of being uplifted by the sheer beauty of nature. The colors grab my attention and move me to translate this feeling I get when I see a luscious ...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Giants Causeway Northern Ireland
By Carla Goldberg
Located in Westport, CT
Primarily an experimenter, Goldberg’s work is a collection of variations on the theme of water in movement, through drawings, paintings and sculptures
She works primarily in resins ...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Resin, Plexiglass, Ink
Stacked (geometric acrylic on paper painting)
By Carole Eisner
Located in New York, NY
Artist Bio:
Carole Eisner was born and raised in New York City and received a BFA from Syracuse University. She has had eight solo shows in New York City at David Findlay Gallery, E...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Set Design, Theater and Stage
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Greenwich, CT
This gem of a set design or theatre design was possibly done prior to the artist coming to the United States from Russia. Born in Kiev, this artist was talented and given the distin...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Summer in Provence, Painting, Abstract, Blue, Yellow, Travel, Acrylic
Located in Riverdale, NY
Summer in Provence is an abstract painting filled with blue, white and yellow by Australian artist, Jill Morton. It is 30 x 30, acrylic and oil stick on canvas. It is currently unf...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Busy Lives
By Charlie Bluett
Located in Westport, CT
Charlie Bluett's art works are driven by his overriding passion for Nature and the natural world. It's ethereality beauty and ebb and flow, as well and the light and color of the e...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Intercoastal, Water, Waterscape, Abstract Landscape, Oil on Canvas, painting
By Dale Najarian
Located in Riverdale, NY
Dale Najarian, Intercoastal, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30. It is framed. It is an abstract landscape and waterscape filled with rich texture and blues, orange tones and white.
Dale Najar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Clara Fialho
Located in Westport, CT
Brazilian artist, Clara Fialho, is based in New York. Her abstract work with bright and exuberant colors is inspired by her Latin heritage.
She received her BFA from the prestigious Cooper Union, on a full scholarship and had her first solo exhibition in Chelsea at age 22. Since then, she has been exhibiting extensively in group, two-person, and solo shows, throughout the country and abroad. Her work has been exhibited at Art Miami , Art Silicon Valley...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
$10,000
Brooklyn Bridge
By Stephen Magsig
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- When I think about the conventions of painting -- a tradition I respect immensely -- I notice that my concern has always been with ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Quinces
By Peter Poskas III
Located in Greenwich, CT
A native son of New England, Peter Poskas III—like many American artists before him—derives inspiration from the charming towns and tranquil landscapes of coastal Maine and Connectic...
Category
2010s American Realist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Guardian
By Glenn Ness
Located in Fairfield, CT
Glenn Ness is recognized for his photorealistic oil paintings of vacant backyards, landscapes, urban streets, and interiors. Ness’s compositions are flooded with his signature warm l...
Category
2010s Photorealist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$3,500
Looking Out
By Ira Barkoff
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1934
Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “por...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$16,000
A Backlit Rose
By Jeffrey Vaughn
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. There is a sense of freedom that I experience when painting landscape. The quality of these kinds of images allows for expression and interpret...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Red Barn, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Mira Vitarello
Located in Yardley, PA
A painterly view of a shaded barn, created in an impressionistic style. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the a...
Category
2010s Impressionist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Walk
By David Leonard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --The primary subjects of my paintings are 21st century man's working monuments, which represent our culture's dedication to produc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,200
Abstract Dogwood Blossoms
Located in Westport, CT
DAVID DUNLOP is a modern-day old master whose luminous paintings draw from both Renaissance techniques and contemporary science. His paintings have been shown internationally and a...
Category
2010s Modern Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rick Lewis - Spanish Windows III, Painting 2023
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Spanish Windows III
Oil, bitumen, graphite, marble powder, burlap on canvas
48" X 72"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in th...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Marble
Lemons and Gravy
Located in Fairfield, CT
In September 2006, Pam began her artistic journey at Silvermine School of Art where she studied still life for eight years with Kirill Doron of the Art Institute of Moscow.
Pam's pr...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Torah Scholar, Shimshon Holzman
By Shimshon Holzman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Shimshon Holzman (1907-1986)
Title: Torah Scholar
Year: 1962
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Size: 13.75 x 19.75 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed...
Category
1960s Academic Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Falling Leaves
By Ira Barkoff
Located in Greenwich, CT
Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vastness” and instill feelings of awe in his viewers, he says. Furthering his exploration of the abstract, Barkoff paints in his studio, rather than en plein air, fabricating landscapes from his visual and emotional memories. The Impressionist-turned-Expressionist painter is inspired by the atmospheric qualities of works by Claude Monet and J. M. W. Turner and cites Gerhard Richter as a more contemporary influence. He recently transitioned from using a paintbrush to using a squeegee and palette knives for his work, as the latter allow for greater spontaneity and manipulation of color.
He says of his work: “Looking at a blank canvas can be both exciting and frightening at the same time. Most of the time exciting wins out and I plunge in. That is, I paint the landscape, which for me is what it’s all about. The landscape represents nature and contemplating nature is being in touch with God. You could cast me as a modern-day Luminist-Tonalist-Impressionist. Monet’s Water Lilies have been a big influence, along with the landscape painter Wolf Kahn.”
“The landscape is what I see before me or from my mind’s eye. When I paint a mountain or a tree, I’m not trying to capture the mountain or tree literally (that’s what a photograph does). I’m trying to express my inner spirit in the painting – to transcend the physical to reach the spiritual.”
“My most successful pictures are not those that are the most accurate in terms of nature, but are the ones where the state of my consciousness allowed me to translate my feelings – my deepest inner feelings – to the canvas. When I get into this altered state...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$11,100
Wrench
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA --The process of endless building and reconfiguring transcends the mere physical and encompasses the spiritual and symbolic. The scars a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rick Lewis - Watching the Ocean Bend II, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Watching the Ocean Bend II
Oil, acrylic, muslin on canvas
73" X 70"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painti...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Muslin, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Sea, Royal Blue Abstraction
By John Zinsser
Located in Greenwich, CT
Rich blue lush color is the feature of this motivating abstraction by well known minimalist John Zinsser. From his series of works celebrating a correlation with Theodore's Stamos, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Vase with Peaches
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank is represented by George Billis Gallery. Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new master...
Category
2010s American Realist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Watching
By Paul Pitsker
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. Paul Pitsker’s watercolor paintings combine the tradition of still life with narrative elements exploring themes of confinement, thwarted yearning and looming disaster, subjects that are now too familiar to all of us whose lives have been upended by the coronavirus pandemic. His interest is in "delicate subjects," a term meant not just literally as it applies to insect...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Autumn Afternoon
By Marilyn Turtz
Located in Fairfield, CT
Marilyn Turtz is a former student of Lois Dodd. Her intimate paintings, evoked from observation of the Maine landscape, translate to serence glimpses of light and color. "Ms. Turtz h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Archy - #76 T, Painting 2025
Located in Greenwich, CT
"My Pop Minimalist collection, “A Small World”, celebrates iconic characters from pop culture, film, music and television by presenting them in a pared-down, regressive form, highlig...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Archy - #7 D & D, Painting 2024
Located in Greenwich, CT
"My Pop Minimalist collection, “A Small World”, celebrates iconic characters from pop culture, film, music and television by presenting them in a pared-down, regressive form, highlig...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Soninka
By Donald Martiny
Located in Westport, CT
Donald Martiny’s signature work is composed of dispersed pigment on aluminum. He creates immediately frozen brushstrokes that are made from his own movements. They are defined by the physicality of his body. Moving is an expression, just as is the color. The paintings are actual authentic gestures. Once completed, they look like relief on the wall.
The artist is represented by galleries in Europe, the US and
Australia. Additionally, his work is in the permanent collections of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX; the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA; the FWMoA, Fort Wayne, IN and the Lamborghini Museum in Bologna, Italy.
In 2015 Martiny received a commission from the Durst Organization to create two monumental paintings that are permanently installed in the lobby of One World Trade Center in New York City.
His work is in numerous collections, including: Graham Gund Family Foundation (Cambridge, MA); Patrick Duffy (Chairman, Las Vegas Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Pigment
$30,000
Nocturne I: White Peacock, Black Cockatoo
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Nocturne I: White Peacock, Black Cockatoo
Year: 1990
Medium: Acrylic on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame
Size: 58 x...
Category
1990s Photorealist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$88,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Keeper of the Shadow I - 30" X 30"
By Sebastian Spreng
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Keeper of the Shadow I 30" X 30"
Oil on Canvas
Sebastian Spreng, is a Miami-based artist born in Argentina, who at the early age of 17, had his first solo show at a gallery in Bueno...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cruise #8
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$2,300
Rick Lewis, Neches, Painting 2016
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Neches (Homage for PM)
Oil, Bitumen, Aluminum Powder, Sand, Burlap, On Cavas
48" x 41"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in t...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Burlap, Powder Coating, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Rick Lewis, Eclipse, Painting
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Eclipse
Oil, Collage On Canvas
20" x 24"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting employing the use of ind...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas
Peruvian Lily
By William Nelson
Located in Greenwich, CT
William Nelson Biography
American, b. 1961
Artist Statement
The intention of this work is to generate conversations about values and identity by assembling unlikely pairs, Hollywood...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Splash, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Christiane Pape
Located in Yardley, PA
Highly textured abstract painting of a wave gently crashing onto shore. Vibrant blues and greys. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authentic...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sea Smoke, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Julia Contacessi
Located in Yardley, PA
Soft, smoky blues, greens and tones of cream and white layer with a touch of deep gray and meld into this abstract piece creating depth and intrigue. The edging is finished in gold o...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Kodak Flash Six-20
By Christopher Stott
Located in Fairfield, CT
Chris Stott is part of a new generation of representational painters pushing the genre forward in fantastic ways. At first glance, Stott’s paintings are elegantly refined compositio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rick Lewis, Taysha, Painting 2014
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Taysha
Oil, Marble Powder, Asphalt, Burlap On Canvas
73.25 x 70"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Marble
Rick Lewis, Adaizan, Painting 2014
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Adaizan
Oil, Marble Powder, Asphalt, Burlap On Canvas
73.3 x 70"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Marble
Pink and Crimson
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statements:
“My paintings are the poetry of my interpretations of reality."
"After my years of formal academic training, I sometimes take my work toward the more contempora...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Winter's Edge, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Mira Vitarello
Located in Yardley, PA
A yellow country home is perched on the edge of a cliff. The Cliff is has a wintery mix of snow and ocher grass with bare trees reaching into a blustery sky. This painting ships as a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil
NOTICER
By Daniel Phill
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. These recent paintings are my abstracted interpretations of the natural world. This is an ongoing reimagining of vegetation, flowers and the la...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
$2,200
Butterfly Garden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billlis Gallery. The bold flowers and repeating geometric patterns in this series of paintings are lushly modeled in oil paint, and are coupled with the use of inlaid wood. Surrounding the colorful and whimsical bouquets and garlands is a border of complimentary colors rife with kaleidoscopic floral images to further entice the eye. Influences of Persian miniatures and French Baroque are prevalent, as well as traditional floral painting which was used to document nature’s beauty. The artist states, “By using subject matter that is historically decorative and painterly, I seek to explore the medium’s more ethereal content.” The paintings become visually intense and hallucinatory as different varieties of flowers and leaves dance and intertwine in the geometry of the surrounding patterns.
Traditionally mysticism was effectively communicated in painting through an assortment of lyrical, painterly indulgences, creating a supernatural, as well as an escapist experience. Matt Jacobs...
Category
2010s Realist Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Amonia 11-9
By David Skillicorn
Located in Westport, CT
This minimalist layered painting is by David Skillicorn.
Hw began his career as a documentary filmmaker and is a self-taught artist.
His process is one of applying paint liberally, c...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Flow, " Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This small abstract painting by Tony Iadicicco is made with oil paint on gallery wrapped canvas. Three parallel dark blue-grey horizontal lines are located at the top of the composit...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Heinz Ketchup Packet
By Gina Minichino
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statement
I like to think that my food paintings are a bit of a time capsule... especially the foods in their package. I like to explore the contrast between a wrapper and ...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Hippo Color Abstraction
Located in Greenwich, CT
Pierre Wemaere was part of the prestigious and rare movement of CoBrA and created fantasy oriented, dream like compositions that keep the viewer visually guessing at what they see. ...
Category
1990s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Moving On, Landscape Abstract
By Albert Stadler
Located in Greenwich, CT
Albert Stadler was an innovator in American art, particularly in the 1960's. He was in Clement Greenberg's exhibition of 1964 titled "Post Painterly Ab...
Category
1960s Abstract Fairfield County - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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