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Item Ships From: Manhattan
"Hey Sinatra" Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Portrait of Iconic Frank Sinatra
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
This painting is from the artist's Hollywood abstract series, where she instills the character on the lower half of the composition and depicts abstract colors and movements around t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Sworn to Fun, Loyal to None" Contemporary Colorful Abstract Painting on Canvas
By Daniel Oglander
Located in New York, NY
What inspired Daniel to produce this unique piece was the inner conflict he had inside of him to express his true thoughts and emotions. He thus wanted to create a collection of work...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Dripping Dots - Coco in the Jungle" Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
This piece is part of an exciting new collection depicting iconic "Coco Chanel" with the artist's "Dripping Dots" style. Focused on a pointillistic technique, the paint is able to ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Contemplation" Colorful Contemporary Oil and Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses gold drips, mixed media and, pieces of glass t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Glass
$1,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Unique signed Mid Century Modern Abstract painting by renowned American painter
By Thomas Brownell Eldred
Located in New York, NY
THOMAS BROWNELL ELDRED
Untitled Mid Century Modern Abstraction, 1941
Gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated 1941 on the front
14 3/4 × 21 inches
Unique
Provenance: Acquired from the estate of Thomas Brownell Eldred
Accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee from Alpha 137 Gallery
Unframed
This gorgeously colored gouache painting on thick paper was created at a time when the Guggenheim Museum (Museum of Non-Objective Painting) was collecting Eldred's work, alongside works by Kandinsky and Bauer. Unique works like this by Eldred are very desirable in the marketplace. It typifies the artist's eclectic style, reflecting his involvement with Surrealism and the New York School. It also highlights Eldred’s excellent draftsmanship through the characteristic bright colors and patterns that he developed during his time as a naval wood pattern maker in the merchant marines...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
"Big Rock" Photorealism & Surrealist Style Painting Mixed Media on Wood Board
By Santiago Fuentes Bo
Located in New York, NY
Santiago Fuente Bo pieces are exceptionally high in detail, but as well are playful and thought provoking. He is influenced with the ever-changing idea of what home means. His consta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Martina Nehrling "Family Stories, cont." Acrylic on Montval Paper
By Martina Nehrling
Located in New York, NY
"Seduced by the formal complexity of color, I revel in its emotive slipperiness and enjoy mining its controversial decorativeness. The inextricability of these aspects unique to col...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Rocio Rodriguez "Broken Image" Abstract Oil Pastel on Paper
By Rocio Rodriguez
Located in New York, NY
Rocio Rodriguez
Broken Image, 2013
acrylic and oil on canvas
60 x 72 in.
This original oil oil pastel drawing on paper by Rocio Rodriguez features abstracted rectangles rendered in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Beyond Blue" Colorful Contemporary Oil and Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses gold drips, mixed media and acrylics to add a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
PR 09
By Andre Costa
Located in New York, NY
Andre Costa, PR09, Abstract Acrylic on Vinyl, 19.75 x 19.75, 2014
Colors: Green, Yellow, Red, Orange, Blue, White, Black
Andre Costa is Brazilian visual artist and author of the "Ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$2,800
Tayo Heuser, Arrival, 2016, ink on wood panel, Meditative, Abstract Geometric
By Tayo Heuser
Located in Darien, CT
By developing a geometry between line and the spaces in between in their work, the abstract paintings of Tayo Heuser create a point of departure for the mind into a spiritual consci...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Wood Panel
Sirens (Abstract Paintings)
By Matthew Langley
Located in London, GB
Sirens (Abstract Paintings)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed.
This artwork is made of 2 panels. Each panel's dimensions are 40 x 30 inches/101.6 x 76.2 cm
Matthew Langley's technique ...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Falling Rain" Contemporary Blue & Pink Mixed Media Abstract Painting on Canvas
By Robert Gregory Phillips
Located in New York, NY
Through his use of color, texture and brush stroke, Robert vibrates the viewer with these strong emotional ties that he so longs to connect with nature and the spirit of the all-enco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Put Into Words #2" Traditional Wooden Typography on Reclaimed Poster Paper
By Ro Barragan
Located in New York, NY
In Ro Barragan's latest work we explore a production of typographic posters that seeks to highlight the multiplicity of meanings in everyday messages. Words meet, bifurcate, overlap, amalgamate and juxtapose in speeches and the context of communications. It is in this complex multiplicity, that manifests itself in a printed text, which also functions as an image. The material used is the same as the one historically used in urban advertising posters: the work is developed by using typographic printing methods, with mobile types of wood, in typographic families dating back to the last century. The works of art are printed on sulfite paper of various sizes. This piece comes displayed on a black contemporary frame under glass.
Art measures 38.25 x 26.25 in
Frame measures 43.5 x 31.5 in
The machines of the early 20th century and manual presses of various sizes are used for printing, which still works in historical workshops in Argentina – Pucará printing shop in La Tablada - and in the Ilusión Gráfica workshop, owned by Ro Barragán, where it is sought to continue the tradition and the typographic trade, linking its production with artistic practices.
Ro holds a Master in Aesthetics and Art Theory by the National University of La Plata, all while developing artistic activities since 1994. She has participated in collective and individual exhibitions in Painting, Engraving, Objects, Digital Art, Installations and Interactive Art, in Buenos Aires and other cities of Argentina, Bogotá, Rome, and Miami. She also has developed art activities in the context of the street, through stickers and posters. She is a Teacher of the Engraving and Complementary Printed Art Workshop at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the National University of La Plata and a teacher of the typography workshop at the Museo de Calcos y Escultura comparada Ernesto de la Cárcova, city of Buenos Aires. She is the creator of Ilusión Gráfica, a typographic printing company that seeks to preserve the tradition of printing with wooden mobile...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
"Topology with Knot 1/2" Abstract Representational Knot Painting Work on Paper
By Wolfgang Leidhold
Located in New York, NY
This piece represents a part of the artist's "Kinetic Knots" series which symbolizes shapes of the knots that are not planned. It is like the “Dao” grabbing the artist and the power ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Paper, Watercolor
Warren St 18 (Abstract Painting)
By Peter Soriano
Located in London, GB
Warren St 18 (Abstract Painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano is a Philippines-born French-American abstract artist who divides his time b...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
The Blue Urn
By Elliot Gordon
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Blue Urn", Contemporary Acrylic on Linen, 36 x 24 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2009
Colors: Red, Yellow, Orange, White, Blue, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen
Martina Nehrling "Family Stories" Abstract Acrylic Painting on Montval Paper
By Martina Nehrling
Located in New York, NY
"Seduced by the formal complexity of color, I revel in its emotive slipperiness and enjoy mining its controversial decorativeness. The inextricability of these aspects unique to col...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Open Eyes (Open eyes, explore, Open mind, absorb)
By Bisco Smith
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Smith, Bisco
Title: Open Eyes (Open eyes, explore. Open mind, absorb)
Date: 2024
Medium: acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 40" x 30"
Signature: ...
Category
2010s Street Art Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Thoughts in Space 5
Located in New York, NY
Orange, Green, Yellow, Turquoise, black - mixed media on canvas by Jonathan Georgi. Several pieces of this series hung together or as a single piece of art make for a very powerful ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Felt Pen
Deborah Dancy "Discovery" Oil on Canvas Abstract Painting
By Deborah Dancy
Located in New York, NY
"I work abstractly because I am interested in its ability to operate in a realm in which beauty and tension simultaneously exist without explanation or narrative. It’s my intention t...
Category
2010s Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Woman Reads Plato
By Elliot Gordon
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Woman Reads Plato", Contemporary Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 20, Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2014
Colors: Red, Yellow, Oran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Savannah, Abstract Figure on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
A very whimsical and bold depiction of a woman standing gracefully in a white gown against a pink, and intense red background.. This piece captures the essence of fashion in Pairs. D...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Cynthia Rojas "Drawn & Curtained" Abstract Acrylic Painting on Panel
Located in New York, NY
Cynthia Rojas creates her paintings with an insistent, intuitive line and colorful, eccentric shapes. Annual trips to Mexico have had a major influence on her palette and vintage te...
Category
2010s Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Panel
Spirit (mid century modern abstract painting by artist daughter of MOMA founder)
Located in New York, NY
Victoria Barr
Spirit, 1974
Crayon on Paper
Signed and dated lower right front
Frame included
Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
This bright, abstract 1970s artwork was created by Victoria Barr, daughter of the legendary developer of the Museum of Modern Art, Alfred H. Barr. There is a Fischbach Gallery label on the back of the frame. The Fischbach Gallery was, for many years, the gallery of record for the American artist Alex Katz. It is not easy finding Barr's work on the market at this time.
Measurements:
Framed:
23 inches x 29.5 inches x .5 inches
Artwork:
23 inches x 29 inches
Victoria Barr was born in New York, NY, in 1937 to the legendary MOMA curator and art historian Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and art historian Margaret Scolari Barr. Barr often traveled to Europe with her parents from the age of 14 onwards, meeting influential artists like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Marc Chagall and collectors like Peggy Guggenheim. For high school, she went to Milton Academy...
Category
1970s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Graphite
"Dripping Dots - Cypress" Colorful Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses thick textured oils and gold, to add a very co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
LIKE A HURRICANE
By Nicola Bolla
Located in New York, NY
pigment on Roxy Music album cover
signature located on the vinyl album
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pigment
"Fine Detail II" - Red, Blue, Purple Abstract Floral Petal Oil Painting
By Edie Nadelhaft
Located in East Quogue, NY
Edie Nadelhaft “Fine Detail II” Oil on canvas, 22 x 48 inches. Offered unframed.
Edie Nadelhaft's bold, large-scale, colorful monolithic oil paintings of bodega flowers were born fr...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ozymandias (unique, signed Abstract Expressionist painting by renowned painter)
By Ben Wilson
Located in New York, NY
Ben Wilson
Ozymandias, 1989
Oil on masonite board
Boldly signed by Ben Wilson on the back
36 × 48 inches
Unframed
Provenance: acquired from the Estate of Ben Wilson
This work is titled "Ozymandias" after the famous sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). Shelley's poem is one of the most poignant meditations on the fleeting nature of human power and the inevitability of decline. The poem serves as a reminder that time erodes even the most imposing empires and leaders and that the pursuit of lasting fame and control is ultimately futile.
Depending on how one views Ben Wilson's Abstract Expressionist painting of "Ozymandias" -- some of the imagery might reveal the head of an angry king and a sickle.
Shelley's poem Ozymandias reads:
I met a traveler from an antique land...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Aiming For Your Heart" Colorful Contemporary Oil & Mixed Media Painting Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses gold drips, gold leaf, thick textured oils, mi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Big City" Bright Colorful Magenta Large Scale Floral Oil Painting
By Edie Nadelhaft
Located in East Quogue, NY
Edie Nadelhaft “Big city” Oil on canvas, 46 × 48 inches. Offered unframed.
Edie Nadelhaft's bold, large-scale, colorful monolithic oil paintings of bodega flowers were born from her...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PR 06
By Andre Costa
Located in New York, NY
Andre Costa, PR 06, Abstract Acrylic on Vinyl, 19.75 x 19.75, 2014
Colors: Green, Blue, Purple, Yellow, Orange, Red, White, Black, Gray
Andre Costa is Brazilian visual artist and au...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$2,800
Magenta, Blue and Snow White
By Robert Gregory Phillips
Located in New York, NY
An abstract gestural work, with free expressions, and vibrant colors. This is an acrylic on canvas work, signed by the artist.
Art measures 24 x 18 in
Robert's work considers the d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Continually, A Bright Orange & Red Abstract Painting with Gestural Brushstrokes
By Patricia Spergel
Located in New York, NY
Patricia Spergel’s "Continually" (2020) is a striking example of abstract painting, defined by bold color, gestural brushwork, and expressive composition. This 36 x 40-inch oil paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Jun" Contemporary Colorful Fluid Mixed Media Painting on Circular Canvas
By Corinne Natel
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful circular mixed media on canvas painting. Executed with bold, bright colors and beautiful pops of metallic and gold. We are enamored by the stark contrast, as the shape of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The First Time I Met You #2" Contemporary Colorful Fluid Mixed Media Painting
By Corinne Natel
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful circular mixed media on canvas painting. Executed with bold, bright colors and beautiful pops of metallic and gold. The First Time I Met You is part of a series of abstra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Glitter
Charming Abstract Expressionist Painting by Mystery Artist
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist
Untitled, 20th Century
Oil on canvas
38 x 36 x 1 1/2 in.
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Breeze II, Figurative oil painting, woman in red orange dress
By Al Saralis
Located in Dallas, TX
Al Saralis – Autumn Breeze II (2025) Oil on canvas, 59 x 51 inches (150 x 130 cm)
This evocative oil painting by British artist Al Saralis captures a solitary figure enveloped in th...
Category
2010s Realist Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Tianying Li Art Nouveau Original Oil Painting "The Clock"
Located in New York, NY
Title: The Clock
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 22 x 18 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Year: 2000 Circa
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thoughts in Space 7
Located in New York, NY
Orange, Green, Yellow, Turquoise, black - mixed media on canvas. Several pieces of this series hung together or as a single piece of art make for a very powerful statement.
Drawn t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Felt Pen, Canvas, Color Pencil
Early Spring (Abstract painting)
By Gina Werfel
Located in London, GB
Early Spring (Abstract painting)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper - unframed
Werfel employs expressive, lyrical gestures that create bursts of movement and energy. Her color choice...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Shadow Blooms 3, large abstract painting on canvas, textured with bright colors
By Liz Barber
Located in Dallas, TX
"Shadow Blooms 3" is a brightly colored abstract painting with richly layered tones, inks and paint. It is sized at 48x60 inches, and can be in...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
$8,400 Sale Price
20% Off
"Minolta" Original 35mm camera sculpted in plaster & wood of 'White box series'
By Daniel Fiorda
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Fiorda takes objects such as old typewriters and 35mm cameras: “Discarded remnants of the industrial world,” transforming these objects into high-e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, House Paint
"Dripping Dots - Monaco Nights" Colorful Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses textured oils to add a very contemporary, urba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Pyramids
By Elliot Gordon
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Pyramids", Contemporary Acrylic on Linen, 36 x 24 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2015
Colors: Red, Yellow, Orange, White, Blue, Black, Pink, Purple, Gre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen
"Dripping Dots - Palm Springs" Colorful Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses textured oils to add a very contemporary, urba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Nature and Human Relationships – Embrace – 50 S1" Abstract Painting on Linen
By Suki Maguire
Located in New York, NY
Unorthodox; yet effective, Suki treats us to a series of works that tantalizes the imagination with bold strokes of dark and light, hinting at shapes both human and ethereal and pull...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media
Untitled Geometric Abstraction (unique two sided acrylic and pencil drawing)
By James Rosati
Located in New York, NY
James Rosati
Untitled Geometric Abstraction, 1982
Two-sided Acrylic and Colored Pencil on Paper drawing
Hand signed and dated on lower right front
14 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches
This is a un...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Mixed Media
Lightness (Abstract Expressionist painting), Hand signed and Estate stamped
By Ben Wilson
Located in New York, NY
Ben WIlson
Lightness, ca. 1980
Oil on masonite board
21 × 25 × 3/10 inches
Stamped by artist's estate, Hand signed by the artist on the front AND stamped by the artist's estate on the back
Unframed
Hand signed by the artist on the front and stamped by the artist's estate on the back. Acquired from the Estate of Ben Wilson.
This poignant painting is done by the second generation Abstract Expressionist artist Ben Wilson - one of the youngest artists to be given a show at prestigious ACA Gallery in 1940.
Ben Wilson was born in Philadelphia in 1913 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Kiev and settled in New York City. He was educated in Manhattan public schools and graduated from City College in 1935. To gain exposure to a wider range of styles, he also studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Educational Alliance.
Admired by critics throughout his long career, Wilson was singled out as a “discovery” by the New York Times art critic Edward Alden Jewel even before his first one-man show at the Galerie Neuf in 1946. His paintings of the ’30s and ’40s were expressionistically rendered, often Biblical parables, filled with what he called “the grief of the intolerable” and reflecting an acute awareness of the agony of the time, from the Holocaust to the Spanish Civil War. A WPA artist who identified strongly with the plight of the Jews in Europe, he relentlessly explored themes of war, torment, and futility in his early decades of painting.
When times changed and social pressures subsided, Wilson’s mood lifted. He spent 1952-54 in Paris working at the Academie Julien. During the ’50s his involvement with specific imagery persisted but became more psychological and mythic in orientation. Influenced by Cubism, he created a vocabulary of interlocking shapes and bold, sweeping gestures that served as a transition between his early figurative expressionism and his later abstract constructivist concerns. Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.”
By 1960, influenced by the Russian Constructivists, Mondrian, and Abstract Expressionism, Wilson turned to abstraction. Reexamining the basic elements of painting, he evolved his own personal vocabulary and structure, fusing the cerebral and the emotive. He became increasingly experimental, using house paint, sand, and other unorthodox materials in paintings that he worked from all directions, dripping, spraying, stenciling, and collaging. He employed elements of disjunction, repetitions of geometric motifs, linear networks, and complex overlays to create the transparent, multi-layer development of space that characterizes his later paintings. A consummate draftsman, Wilson filled notebook after notebook with drawings that he amplified in his paintings.
Eschewing popular movements, Wilson was always one to pursue a personal aesthetic. Despite more than 30 one-man shows and 50 years of teaching, he increasingly withdrew from the gallery scene but continued to paint daily until his death at age 88 in 2001 in Blairstown, New Jersey, where he and his sculptor wife Evelyn...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Concert (unique, signed Abstract Expressionist painting by celebrated artist)
By Ben Wilson
Located in New York, NY
Ben Wilson
Concert, ca. 1989
Oil on masonite board (Hand Signed by the artist; also bears the Estate Stamp)
Boldly signed front and back, titled and dated on the back by Ben Wilson and also stamped on the back by the estate of Ben Wilson
42 × 48 inches
Unframed
This stunning painting is done by the second generation Abstract Expressionist artist Ben Wilson - one of the youngest artists to be given a show at prestigious ACA Gallery in 1940. This work "Concert" - depicting instruments, in a light, lyrically abstract painting. Exquisite colors and subtle imagery.
In 2017, he was the subject of a retrospective at the George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University from September 6 to November 4 and it was accompanied by a catalogue.
About Ben Wilson:
Ben Wilson was born in Philadelphia in 1913 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Kiev and settled in New York City. He was educated in Manhattan public schools and graduated from City College in 1935. To gain exposure to a wider range of styles, he also studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Educational Alliance.
Admired by critics throughout his long career, Wilson was singled out as a “discovery” by the New York Times art critic Edward Alden Jewel even before his first one-man show at the Galerie Neuf in 1946. His paintings of the ’30s and ’40s were expressionistically rendered, often Biblical parables, filled with what he called “the grief of the intolerable” and reflecting an acute awareness of the agony of the time, from the Holocaust to the Spanish Civil War. A WPA artist who identified strongly with the plight of the Jews in Europe, he relentlessly explored themes of war, torment, and futility in his early decades of painting.
When times changed and social pressures subsided, Wilson’s mood lifted. He spent 1952-54 in Paris working at the Academie Julien. During the ’50s his involvement with specific imagery persisted but became more psychological and mythic in orientation. Influenced by Cubism, he created a vocabulary of interlocking shapes and bold, sweeping gestures that served as a transition between his early figurative expressionism and his later abstract constructivist concerns. Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.”
By 1960, influenced by the Russian Constructivists, Mondrian, and Abstract Expressionism, Wilson turned to abstraction. Reexamining the basic elements of painting, he evolved his own personal vocabulary and structure, fusing the cerebral and the emotive. He became increasingly experimental, using house paint, sand, and other unorthodox materials in paintings that he worked from all directions, dripping, spraying, stenciling, and collaging. He employed elements of disjunction, repetitions of geometric motifs, linear networks, and complex overlays to create the transparent, multi-layer development of space that characterizes his later paintings. A consummate draftsman, Wilson filled notebook after notebook with drawings that he amplified in his paintings.
Eschewing popular movements, Wilson was always one to pursue a personal aesthetic. Despite more than 30 one-man shows and 50 years of teaching, he increasingly withdrew from the gallery scene but continued to paint daily until his death at age 88 in 2001 in Blairstown, New Jersey, where he and his sculptor wife Evelyn Wilson...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Coherence - black and white abstract geometric diptych painting
By Hadley Radt
Located in New York, NY
Hadley Radt’s abstract geometric paintings explore the connection between systems in our environment and how they relate to her own impulse to construct order. The structures she dev...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Tasmania, Aquatic, 2009
By Matt Kinney
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Matt Kinney was born in Georgetown, Massachusetts. He attended Pratt Institute and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, graduating in 1998. After graduation, Kinney began in...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Approach (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Approach (Abstract painting)
Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed.
McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying ...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
"Home" Photorealism & Surrealist Urban Style Painting Mixed Media on Wood Board
By Santiago Fuentes Bo
Located in New York, NY
Santiago Fuente Bo pieces are exceptionally high in detail, but as well are playful and thought provoking. He is influenced with the ever-changing idea of what home means. His consta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
“Dripping Dots - Journey of Wonder” Colorful Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. This painting is from Shaoul's more modern collective works w...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pink transition -textile abstract beige, yellow, pink handwoven wool framed
Located in New York, NY
Alma Prism stands at the intersection of art and ethics, creating geometric abstraction designs that are as responsible as they are beautiful. Through our collaboration with skilled ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wool
Mary Didoardo "Wild Thing" Oil on Wood Panel Abstract Painting
By Mary Didoardo
Located in New York, NY
Mary Didoardo is a long-time resident of Long Island City, NY. She was born in New Jersey and has lived in New York City since graduating from Pratt Institute where she studied sculp...
Category
2010s Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Deborah Dancy "In Short Order" - Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas
By Deborah Dancy
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Dancy
In Short Order, 2021
oil on canvas
26 x 24 in.
(dan031)
This original contemporary abstract oil painting on canvas by Deborah Dancy is comprised of blue, orange, cream, and black hues in her signature built up/re-built space.
Deborah Dancy is an abstract artist. Her paintings and drawings are sensuous provocations beset with marks that guide, then abruptly collide into confrontational slabs of color. There is an atmosphere of complex but urgent tension in her work, as she builds tangential linear demarcations, and abutting shapes, that provoke, entice and disrupt; -taking us everywhere and nowhere. From densely painted forms to more minimally declared images, Dancy’s work operates in the recognition that meanderings, intentional and accidental declarations are best when the beautiful and the disconcerting exist simultaneously.
Deborah Dancy was born in Bessemer, Alabama and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She earned BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MS and an MFA from Illinois State University. She is the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellow, and a National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award. Her work is in many collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum and The Detroit Institute of Art. N’Namdi Contemporary Miami, Robischon...
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2010s Abstract Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Siren's Song 4, Contemporary Abstract Painting
By Willy Bo Richardson
Located in New York, NY
A dynamic and colorful painting with vertical stripes of color. Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in 2000. He was a painting tech at Cooper Union a...
Category
2010s Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Lovers and Others (unique mid century modern painting) - double sided artwork
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in New York, NY
Nahum Tschacbasov
Lovers and Others (Two Unique Works), 1978-1979
Gouache on Two-sided Paper (Two Signed Works)
Hand signed twice: once on each side
11 × 15 inches (each side)
A rare...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Manhattan - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
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