Fairfield County - Abstract Paintings

Collection: Beyond the Horizon Acrylic on canvas Md Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. Th...

Collection: Beyond The Horizon Acrylic on canvas Md Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. Th...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil paint and 3-dimensional wooden shapes on canvas. The warm metal grey paint is highly textured, while the ...

Kurt Moyer’s oil paintings explore his primal and personal connection to the forest. The artist grew up near French Creek State Park, a woodland of over seven thousand acres. It was ...

Born in London in 1936, Tony Magar studied at the Royal Albert School of Speech and Literature. The artist traveled extensively for five years through Africa, China, and India. Magar...

Steve Baris is interested in the interconnections of the built environment and spatial experience. His artwork is a response to a largely overlooked type of landscape that is emerg...

This abstracted figure painting by Juniper Briggs is made with mixed media on Arches paper with deckle edges. It features a vibrant, contrasting palette...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Domain of Asmodeus Year: 1985 Medium: Acrylic on double layered Masonite Size: 31 x 37 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, ...

Series: Pop Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...

About the artist: As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition...

When a simple vertical line finds itself in the midst of accidental organic chaos, a sense of directionality and stability is introduced. The line itself can act as a tool used to di...

This large abstract statement painting by Teodora Guererra features a light, coastal palette of blue, light grey and white. The artist applies thick layers of paint in wide horizonta...

Tiger, from the Tiger collection, Acrylic Paint on Canvas, I bring my sensibility as a sculptor into these recent paintings. Thick textured impasto surfaces combine with landscape i...

Series: Pop Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Kiki Smith is one of the most widely recognized people in the art world today, and one of the most prolific artists of her generati...

Oil on canvas Compline: Compline is a recent piece, a work honoring New England. It is a culmination of what I developed and experienced from those decades painting and trekking thr...

Heat 2019

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...

About the artist: As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition...

A vibrant and yet romantic sailing scene which was a favorite series by Della-Volpe. His compelling colorist approach has made his works desirable as he was one of the few artists post-war to be representative in style like Milton Avery and Wolf Kahn. Head to Sea has the hallmark intense and lovely coloration for which Della-Volpe is known. He came out of Abstract Expressionism in the New York school but then pivoted, like Milton Avery to representational, colorist work. The frame is a silvered gold leaf float frame of quality and has a rubbed, antiqued surface...

Collection: Beyond The Horizon Acrylic on canvas Md Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. Th...

About the artist: As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- JOHN BELINGHERI ​Artist Statement "Thoughts are patterns that bounce back and forth expressing the vacillating dialogue in my ...

Oil on canvas Compline: Compline is a recent piece, a work honoring New England. It is a culmination of what I developed and experienced from those decades painting and trekking thr...

About the artist: As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition...

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 vas...

About the artist: As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition...

Blurring the line between mass consumerism and fine art, New York City based artist Jojo Anavim has established his body of work stemming from a background in graphic design and bran...

Signed lower left: Purdy A very cool example of mid-century 50"s abstraction. Harbor is done in a style that was being experimented with particularly in the New York and California ...

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...

Punk Me Tender (b. 1982) is a French street artist whose brightly colored work explores themes of love, beauty, sensuality, and desire. Born Romain Lefebvre in Paris, France, he immi...

WEIR FARM Series: “[This] series runs the full range from natural to post-impressionism, yet always having the themes of the American pictorial sense of place with an accurate drawin...

Karen has always been interested through readings and travel in ancient cultures and their customs, dance, music, poetry, and visual arts and other forms of creative expression. Her travels took her to American Indian sites in many areas of the United States, the Mayan ruins in Central America, Cambodia, Greece, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, the British Isles, the Caribbean, and Canada. Using these travels as an impetus for further exploration as she became more fascinated with each culture that she studied, the influences and mark making techniques of the cultures were absorbed into her psyche and in her artwork. She decided to focus on these ideas and finished an MFA degree in painting at Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. In this program, she studied with N.Y. artist, Susan Wilmarth Rabineau, wife of the deceased minimalist sculptor, Christopher Wilmarth...

Oil on canvas Compline: Compline is a recent piece, a work honoring New England. It is a culmination of what I developed and experienced from those decades painting and trekking thr...

Collection: Silent Space Acrylic on canvas Md Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. The phys...

This contemporary abstract painting by Sofie Swann features a contrasting palette, with two simple house shapes situated side-by-side over a pale yellow background. A black and white...

These two small framed abstract paintings by Julia Contacessi are sold together. They feature a cool blue palette with washes of white and grey that flow horizontally through the cen...

This Modern painting by Abstract Expressionist Stanley Bate was made with oil on canvas circa 1960. It features a cool blue and grey palette along the perimeter, with warmer muted gr...

Miesmer began painting in the open air during the summers in Nantucket.  Using a pad of Arches paper as an easel and working out of the back of his pickup truck, the quietude and pea...

A vibrant and fun work by the celebrated and beloved Sir Terry Frost - British artist. Framed in clean and contemporary white matting and lacquered frame this is an attention gettin...

This contemporary abstract floral painting by Jill haas features a contemporary style, often exploring themes of introspection and emotion through abstract forms and thoughtful color...

"UNVEILED DUALITY A visual interplay of contrasting elements Never having considered myself an abstract thinker, I am delving into very unfamiliar territory with my newest series – U...

Ellen Hackl Fagan builds connections between color and sound using installations, interactive games, and collaborative projects that combine color-and-texture saturated paintings wi...

About the artist: As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition...

This abstract painting by Roger Mudre is made with acrylic paint over mica powder and cradled birch panel. Lightly translucent concentric circles overlap throughout the composition, ...

Abstract painting wherein a calligraphic brushstroke delineates a mountaintop.

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil paint on canvas. It features a muted, earth-toned palette with contrasting warm yellow, orange, and red accents throughout. The painting is framed in a floater frame with gold face and black sides. It is 22" x 36" and measures 24" x 38" x 2" framed. This painting is not signed by the artist, but has been authenticated by his estate. It is stamped with the estate seal on the back of the painting, and on the back of the frame. Ready to hang. Stanley Bate was born on March 26, 1903 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Bates were an established Tennessee family, in fact, Henry’s brother William Bate was the governor of Tennessee from 1883-1887 and a United States Senator from 1887-1905. Stanley studied art at the Watkins Institute in Nashville. In the 1920’s Bate moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League under Frederick Bridgman. He soon landed a job with Encyclopedia Britannica, and from 1927-1929 served as art editor. From 1929 until his death in 1972, Stanley was a self-employed artist. He taught art classes at both the Art Students League and the Albany Institute of History and Art and brought in extra income by making illustrations for magazines such as “Outdoor Life” and “Popular Science”. On January 27, 1934 Stanley married Emilie Rossel. Emilie had emigrated from Switzerland to New York in 1923. She found work as a governess to Alfred Vanderbilt and later as an executive secretary for Wall Street investment brokers Kahn, Loeb and Co. Emilie met Stanley in New York in the early 1930’s when she attended one of his art exhibitions with a friend. The couple, who had no children, lived on 34th Street in Manhattan. During this period, Bate was producing and exhibiting his art and joined several artists groups. Stanley and Emilie became part of the New York art scene, dining weekly at the Society of Illustrators Clubhouse. Stanley Bate’s time in New York was pivotal in the formation of his painting style. He lived in New York during the inception of one of the most important Modern Art movements, one that helped New York replace Paris as the center of avant-garde art. This movement, which was called the New York School of artists, was later known as Abstract Expressionism. It was comprised of a loosely associated group of vanguard artists working in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. The New York School was not defined by a specific style, but instead reflected a fusion of European Modernism and American social relevancy that was depicted in many individual styles. Influences of Surrealism, Cubism, and Modernism can be found in their work, along with an interest in experimenting with non-traditional materials and methods. American art was in the forefront of international avant-garde for the first time. Stanley Bate was undoubtedly exposed to the varied styles and techniques that were emerging during the formative years of the New York School. Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell were formulating their versions of color field paintings. Joseph Cornell was experimenting with assemblages, collage and the use of different types of textured paints. Jackson Pollock was adhering objects such as buttons and coins into his early works, while Louise Nevelson was using found objects. Helen Frankenthaler added sand to her early paintings. The New York School artists were undermining traditional fine art by using mixed media and non-traditional methods. Stanley Bate absorbed these varied influences and soon his early realistic landscapes and still-lifes were replaced with something entirely new. The influence of Cubism, notably the flat shallow space of the picture plane, is obvious in many of Bate’s paintings. Surrealism is evident in Bate’s use of subjects from myth, primitive art and antiquity, along with the Automatism-like line work in his more linear images. The unfettered experimentation of the New York School is everywhere in Stanley Bate’s work. We see nods to color field, collage, the mixing of textures into paint, mixed media, the inclusion of found objects and thick, luscious impasto. Bate was prolific and experimented in various media including oil, watercolor, lithography, silk screen, wood cut, drawing, collage, ceramics and sculpture. Bate is considered a true Modernist. His work is largely abstract, but sometimes figures and buildings are discernable. He frequently mixed paint, sand and glue together to achieve a textured surface, and then scraped and scratched through this layer to expose some of the underpainting below. His sculpture, which is often whimsical, also reflects the non-traditional methods of the New York School. Bate pioneered the use of enamel and copper in his work. The sculptures are not carved or modeled as was done in the past, but instead are built using mixed media and new materials. In addition to the New York School influence, many of Bate’s works exhibit a strong connection to the Spanish school, especially the work of Antonio Tapies and Modesto Cuixart. These artists were both part of an avant-garde group known as Art Informel, the Spanish equivalent of Abstract Expressionism. These artists likewise worked in mixed media and introduced objects and texture into their work. Many of Bate’s subjects and titles relate to Spanish locations and words. It is likely that Stanley spent time in Spain and found inspiration there. By the early 1940s, Stanley and Emilie had started spending weekends in a barn they purchased in Craryville, New York, a few hours north of Manhattan. The barn had no electricity or plumbing, but when the Bates eventually decided to leave New York and live full time in Craryville, they remodeled the barn, putting a gallery downstairs and a studio and living quarters upstairs. Although the Bates moved out of New York City, Stanley remained part of the New York art scene, exhibiting in New York and elsewhere throughout the 50s and 60s. During his lifetime he was represented by the New York galleries Knoedler and Company, Kennedy Galleries, Rose Fried Gallery and Key Gallery, along with Tyringham Gallery located in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Craryville was Stanley’s home until his death on August 21, 1972. Emilie died 1984...

portrait of a woman

This abstract painting by Sofie Swann features a light neutral background with a simple, deep midnight blue outline of a house shape in the center of the composition. This painting i...

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 vas...

FLOWERS Series: "I have journeyed through black and white, expanding my visual grip of form, light and reflection. Now the seeds I’ve planted along the way are blossoming into flower...

SHEPHERD’S PASS Series: “In [this] series I wanted to move into expressing more of a post-impressionist mode by deconstructing with lyricism, while not fracturing in hard edges; so a...

Painting of flowers in green vase

Alyse Rosner 2021

Excerpt from Mark Segal, "An Artist at the Mercy of Her Subjects," The East Hampton Star, May 14, 2015 "Ms. Lynch paints recognizable things, and she alway...

This abstract floral encaustic painting by artist Linda Bigness features a cool blue palette with metallic gold leaf accents. The painting is made with e...

This abstract painting by artist Christine Averill-Green is made with oil and mixed media on canvas. Blue, purple, and teal colors blend together beautifully and are juxtaposed by metallic gold paint embellishments, causing the painting to change in altering light. The artwork features organic line work and calming colors. Averill-Green has been exhibiting her artwork in galleries and museums in Upstate New York for over 40 years. She received her B.A. in Art and an M.S. in Art Education. Artists such as Richard Diebenkorn, Euan Eglow, Antonio Lopez Garcia, and her teachers Catherine Kehoe...

Polymer Paint on Tissue Paper on Canvas