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Item Ships From: New Jersey
Sunflower, 36x36 original contemporary floral still life
By Jim Twerell
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
An international flower of summer, the sunflower offers an aura of hope and renewal. This contemporary perspective of the sunflower feels somewhat surrealistic, much as the times we ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chess with a Comic Collector
By Macauley Norman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Mixed-Media / Oil Painting / Illustration / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Human Figure / Chess / Comic Books / Video Games
/ Representations of Everyday Objects / Illustration / Interiors / Figurative Art / Outsider Art / Pop Art
From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Chess with a Comic Collector" is an incredible figurative, pop surrealist piece made with oil and acrylic and a PLA plastic filament drawing affixed to wood panel. The 3D piece features a "a bearded and bespectacled young man, beer bottle close at hand, cut-outs of the Incredible Hulk...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Plastic, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Graphite
Variety Yellow Magnolias
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Carol creates a range of subjects—landscapes, figures, portraits and still life. Whatever the subject, all are imbued with her strong sense of design; luscious brushwork; love for 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Mother's Copper Bowl"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Gershon Benjamin (1899 – 1985).
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and urban scene...
Category
1950s New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Spree on Fire by Keith Garcia, Pontiac Fiero, Gucci bag, knolling, earth tones
By Keith Garcia
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Spree on Fire by Keith Garcia
Acrylic on panel
The artist's classic highly detailed knolling style narrative painting, this one includes all of the fixings for a perfect heist -- th...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel
Unknown Flower-abstraction art, made in pale pink, rose colored
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work is made with alcoholic ink in pale pink, rose color on Yupo paper.
It is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold) with styrene face on a double mat...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Ritual (2022) oil, linen, impressionist hot pink interiors, bathtub, candlelight
By Ekaterina Popova
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Ritual is an original oil painting on linen measuring 30" high x 24" wide x 1.25" deep by Ekaterina Popova, founder of Create Magazine. She uses vibrant, saturated pigments in her serene and inviting candlelit bath scene...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Shrimp"
By Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right
Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 - 1955)
Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...
Category
1940s American Modern New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Studio Interior"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
1930s Modern New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Begonias"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
Gershon Benjamin is a painter of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene. He had a pro...
Category
20th Century Abstract New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"57th Street Window"
By Mary Elizabeth Price
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower left. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame.
M. Elizabeth Price (1877 - 1965)
Mary Elizabeth Price was born in West Virginia and raised on a farm in Solebury, Pennsylvania, on the outskirts of New Hope. She studied at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Hugh Breckenridge. Additionally, she studied in New Hope with William Lathrop. Following her art studies, Price went to New York. While there, she conducted the “Baby Art...
Category
1920s American Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Gladioli in Clay Pot"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
Gershon Benjamin is a painter of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene. He had a pro...
Category
20th Century Abstract New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower Piece
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A lovely original oil on canvas painting of a floral still life. The artist is German born artist, Dietz Edzard. Signed lower right and housed in a beautiful period frame.
Overall fr...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Scarlet Zinnias & Gladiolus"
By Constance Cochrane
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower left.
Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame.
Exhibited at the "4th Annual Exhibition of the National Asso...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pelicans at Hilton Head, Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
I saw these pelicans at the marina in Hilton Head where we often visit with our boat. This was their hangout. They lined up there every ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Flowers and Fruit"
By Mercedes Matter
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Mercedes Matter (1913 - 2001)
Best known as a painter of abstract still life and founder of the New York Studio School, M...
Category
20th Century Abstract New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
3D works on found book pages: ''Telstar'
By Valerie Huhn
Located in New York, NY
Fingerprints were once used as a symbolic action of pride, but in our society they have become a passive action—we are fingerprinted. We can use our fingerprints to unlock the data ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Carnations & Rose Buds
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous oil on panel by Harold Cohn. Beautiful reds - the photo does not do the painting justice. The texture of the flowers is stunning. The piece is fra...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Board
Sticker Painting
By Macauley Norman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Mixed-Media / Stickers / Illustration / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Human Figure / Chess / Comic Books / Video Games / Resin / Drawing / Representations of Everyday Objects / Figurative Art / Pop Art
From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Sticker Painting" is an incredible and unique resin coated pop surrealist painting featuring well over 70 gel pen drawings on sticker paper affixed to a wood panel painted in oil and acrylic paint. Among the illustration images are a panoply of pop culture references from the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern hemispheres -- birds and other animals, landscapes, UFOs, food items, nineties-era pornography, vehicles, yin yang symbols, skulls, daggers, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Plastic, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Ink
"Phlox"
By Cora S. Brooks
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this work by Cora S. Brooks (1885 - 1930).
Cora S. Brooks was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1885. Her father, Edward F. Brooks, was the General Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1902, her family moved to Lansdowne, PA. She attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now the Moore College of Art & Design). Brooks specialized in flower still lives, but also was known to paint landscapes, and do an occasional portrait. She was one of the founding members of the Philadelphia Ten, a group of women artists who emerged out of the Philadelphia art...
Category
1920s Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Summer Flowers"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Illustrated in "Joseph Barrett, The Prime Years 1970s - 1990s", pg. 10 #010
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Joseph Barrett (1936 – )
Joseph Barrett was born in Midland, North Carolina, in 1936 and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Barrett, now of Lahaska, Pennsylvania, has been painting his entire adult life. His favorite subjects include the landscape surrounding New Hope and many local landmarks often encompassing figures into his compositions. Barrett utilizes a heavy impasto and his palette bears similarities to that of Fern Coppedge and George Sotter. Barrett’s paintings are always found in unique and somewhat charming handmade frames designed by the artist and finished in metal leaf.
A living contemporary of the no longer living “New Hope School” impressionist painters, Joseph Barrett resides outside of New Hope above his old-fashioned antique shop and studio. Entering Barrett’s shop is like taking a step back in time. Inside this cluttered and dusty haven of treasures from the past, is a studio spanning only four by eight feet. This little studio, containing cans of old brushes and hundreds of used paint tubes...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Have a Nice Day
By Macauley Norman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Oil Painting / Figurative Art / Still Life / Representations of Everyday Objects / Food
From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Have...
Category
2010s Pop Art New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
"Still Life with Green Shade"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Illustrated in "Joseph Barrett, The Prime Years 1970s - 1990s", pg. 23 Plate #026
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Joseph Barrett (1936 – )
Joseph Bar...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Two Bouquets"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Illustrated in "Joseph Barrett, The Prime Years 1970s - 1990s", pg. 54, plate #062.
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Joseph Barrett (1936 – )
Joseph Barrett was born in Midland, North Carolina, in 1936 and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Barrett, now of Lahaska, Pennsylvania, has been painting his entire adult life. His favorite subjects include the landscape surrounding New Hope and many local landmarks often encompassing figures into his compositions. Barrett utilizes a heavy impasto and his palette bears similarities to that of Fern Coppedge and George Sotter. Barrett’s paintings are always found in unique and somewhat charming handmade frames designed by the artist and finished in metal leaf.
A living contemporary of the no longer living “New Hope School” impressionist painters, Joseph Barrett resides outside of New Hope above his old-fashioned antique shop and studio. Entering Barrett’s shop is like taking a step back in time. Inside this cluttered and dusty haven of treasures from the past, is a studio spanning only four by eight feet. This little studio, containing cans of old brushes and hundreds of used paint tubes...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Gladioli Still Life"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
1950s Modern New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Red Tulips, Paris"
By Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 – 1955)
Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...
Category
1930s American Modern New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Roses In Focus
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Carol creates a range of subjects—landscapes, figures, portraits and still life. Whatever the subject, all are imbued with her strong sense of design; luscious brushwork; love for 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Flowering Cactus"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
1950s Modern New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude, Flowers, Pitcher, and Fruit
By Macauley Norman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Nude, Flowers, Pitcher, and Fruit", oil on canvas, figurative, pastel.
Category
2010s Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Homage to Cezanne II"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
Gershon Benjamin is a painter of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene. He had a pro...
Category
20th Century Abstract New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Pink Vase with Flowers"
By James Lechay
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
James Lechay (1907 – 2001)
Born in the Bronx in 1907, James Lechay spent most of his childhood in Brooklyn before moving to Joilet, Illinois at age 13 to live with his uncle after his mother passed away. In 1928, he received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Illinois. The next year, he attended one week of graduate school before leaving to study under his brother, the painter Myron Lechay, in New York. At his brother’s studio, James began to associate with other artists of the time such as Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, William Zorach, and Raphael and Moses Soyer. From Myron, James Lechay learned to train his eye to observe natural forms and developed a philosophy dependent upon the relationship built between the artist and the subject.
Lechay became engaged in the social and political issues of Depression-era New York and even joined the social realism movement for a brief time in the 1930s. He operated as the leader of the Artists Union while employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). With the WPA, Lechay traveled to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where he established a gallery and exhibited the works of Milton Avery, Max Weber, and other WPA artists. Despite his association with many artists and artistic communities in New York in the 1930s and 40s, Lechay opposed adopting a style due to its popularity and commercial success. His use, however, of large brushstrokes from Abstract Expressionism, the flattened plane of Modernism, and the simple compositions of early Abstraction created a combination of styles completely his own.
A painter of a vast range of subjects, including still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, Lechay was known to reduce these forms to their visual essentials. Lechay often did not date his paintings as he frequently reworked them, even after they were exhibited, calling his pieces, “finished at all stages and never finished”.
In 1945, Lechay was hired by the University of Iowa’s art department, where he worked alongside Mauricio Lasansky, Humbert Albrizio, Carl Fracassini, and Byron Burford...
Category
1990s Abstract New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers in a Vase, original 42 x 33 abstract expressionist floral still life
By Sonia Grineva
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Sophisticated, chic, worldly--call it what you wish--but abstract expressionist flowers by Sonia Grineva, shown here freshly cut and placed in an emerald green glass vase, is what br...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Gladiola, Orange"
By Jan Voerman Jr.
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed LL
Jan Voerman Jr was the son of Jan Voerman sr . In 1905 Jan Voerman Jr received his first official commission of his grandfather Verkade of the eponymous company to make dr...
Category
20th Century New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Dragonflies-interior art made in grey, white, black, blue, orange, violet color
By Pavel Polanski
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Photographically accurate realism and conceptualism, peacefully coexisting on the canvases of Pavel Polanski.
His canvases are gray with different depths of tone, almost monochrome a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bulletin Board
By Macauley Norman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Drawing / Illustration / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Representations of Everyday Objects / Figurative Art / Pop Art / Mixed-Media
From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Bulletin Board" is an incredible and unique installation-style figurative, pop surrealist piece featuring over 15 traditional and 3D drawings made with PLA plastic filament and gel pen on archival paper affixed with pins to a bulletin board. Among the imagery are a panoply of pop culture references from the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern hemispheres -- Nacho Libre...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Spaghetti Western
By Macauley Norman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Mixed-Media / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Representations of Everyday Objects / Illustration / Human Figure / Interiors / Landscape / Still Life / Technology / Bright and Vivid Colors / Figurative Art / Outsider Art / Pop Art
From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Spaghetti Western...
Category
2010s Pop Art New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Epoxy Resin, Oil, Graphite
Entertain
By Macauley Norman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Pop and Contemporary Pop / Text / Illustration / Mixed-Media / Pastel Colors / Animals / Sports/Athletics / Bright and Vivid Colors / Figurative Art / Outsider Art / Pop Art / Surrealism
From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Entertain" is a pop surrealist piece made with acrylic and a PLA plastic filament drawing affixed to wood panel. The 3D piece features a skull, a cowboy riding a horse, a fly and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...
Category
2010s Pop Art New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Wood Panel
America's Pastime
By Macauley Norman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Illustration / Animals / Sports/Athletics / Representations of Everyday Objects / Bright and Vivid Colors / Pastel Colors / Figurative Art / Outsider Art / Pop Art / Surrealism
From Macauley Norman...
Category
2010s Pop Art New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Plastic, Acrylic
Peaches, original 30x24 impressionist still life
By Bart DeCeglie
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
An abundance of flowers reach out to the sunlight competing for fresh air and space through which to enchant the passersby! But, they are white lilies and other favorite cuttings fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
White Poppies on Blue
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Carol creates a range of subjects—landscapes, figures, portraits and still life. Whatever the subject, all are imbued with her strong sense of design; luscious brushwork; love for 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Prancing
By Macauley Norman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Mixed-Media / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Pastel Colors / Human Figure / Surrealistic / Figurative Art / Outsider Art / Pop Art / Surrealism / Illustration / Animals / Sports/Athletics / Representations of Everyday Objects / Bright and Vivid Colors / Martial Arts / Horse / Nude / Flamingo
From Macauley Norman...
Category
2010s Pop Art New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Foxglove Hybrid, 48x36 original contemporary floral still life
By Jim Twerell
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
With an art nouveau flair, artist Jim Twerell has given this foxglove hybrid floral a contemporary presence. The curvature of the teal blue conical petals and stems juxtaposed with...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunflowers, original 24x30 contemporary impressionist landscape
By Bart DeCeglie
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
A sentimental favorite flower, sunflowers, are transporting, leaving one feeling revitalized and fresh! This original 24x30 contemporary oil painting is ideal for any transitional lo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Still Life with Bananas"
By Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984)
He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, returning to New York when he was 20. From 1913 to 1916, he enjoyed a scholarship from the Art Students League, and worked with John C. Johansen (a portraitist whose expressive style resembled that of John Singer Sargent), and Anders Zorn.
He accepted a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1916, remaining there until 1921. This enabled him to travel to Europe to study Cézanne’s paintings and works of the Old Masters. He traveled to Paris, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, and Munich seeking the works of Titian, Cranach, Rembrandt, Veronese, and Holbein, which gave him new perspective. Vytlacil studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, settling there in 1921. Fellow students were Ernest Thurn and Worth Ryder, who introduced him to famous abstractionist Hans Hofmann. He worked with Hofmann from about 1922 to 1926, as a student and teaching assistant.
During the summer of 1928, after returning to the United States, Vytlacil gave lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on modern European art. Soon thereafter, he became a member of the Art Students League faculty. After one year, he returned to Europe and successfully persuaded Hofmann to teach at the League as well. He spent about six years in Europe, studying the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Dufy. In 1935, he returned to New York and became a co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. He later had teaching posts at Queens College in New York; the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California; Black Mountain College in North Carolina; and the Art Students League.
His paintings exhibit a clear inclination toward modernism. His still lives and interiors from the 1920s indicate an understanding of the art of Cézanne. In the 1930s, his works displayed two very different kinds of art at the same time. His cityscapes and landscapes combine Cubist-inspired spatial concerns with an expressionistic approach to line and color. Vytlacil also used old wood, metal, cork, and string in constructions, influenced by his friend and former student, Rupert Turnbull. He eventually ceased creating constructions as he considered them too limiting. The spatial challenges of painting were still his preference. During the 1940s and 1950s, his works indicated a sense of spontaneity not felt in his earlier work.
He married Elizabeth Foster in Florence, Italy, in 1927 and they lived and worked in Positano, Italy for extended periods of time. Later on, they divided their time between homes in Sparkill, New York and Chilmark, Massachusetts, where Vyt, as he was affectionately called, taught at the Martha's Vineyard Art...
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Dawn, R.E. Mayo, NC, Original Acrylic Painting, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
R.E. Mayo is a seafood and fuel stop on the Intracoastal Waterway in North Carolina. We tied up at the rickety dock there one night in early winter when we were ta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Cape May Salt Oyster Company
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This is the dock where the Cape May Salt Oyster Company is centered. The oysters are farmed in the intertidal flats of Delaware Bay ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Mooring Balls, Atlantic Highlands Marina, Original Acrylic Painting, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This humble scene is a few blocks from my home at the boatyard, early in the spring. The mooring balls are all lined up, lines and anchor chains at the ready for t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Roses In Amber Vase
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Carol creates a range of subjects—landscapes, figures, portraits and still life. Whatever the subject, all are imbued with her strong sense of design; luscious brushwork; love for 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Cluster
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Carol creates a range of subjects—landscapes, figures, portraits and still life. Whatever the subject, all are imbued with her strong sense of design; luscious brushwork; love for 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
White Roses on Grey
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Carol creates a range of subjects—landscapes, figures, portraits and still life. Whatever the subject, all are imbued with her strong sense of design; luscious brushwork; love for 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
South Carolina Oysters and Spanish Moss, Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
My husband and I love eating oysters. When we travel, we always eat the local oysters and choose one to take with us to remember the experience. I then later paint their portraits. These oysters, as well as some Spanish moss...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Flowers
By Stephany Cousins
Located in Summit, NJ
Bright and fun floral by lingtime Connecticut artist Stephany Cousins. Beautifully framed in an elegant gold floater frame. The piece measures 25 i...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
"The Pot Stove, the Flowers and the Pitcher"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
1950s Modern New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bunker, Great Kills Harbor, Original Acrylic Painting, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
My husband and I were living on our boat in Great Kills Harbor, Staten Island, for a couple of months when we were between houses. The harbor was often crowded wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Port Royal Wild Oysters
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
These deliciou-looking Port Royal Wild oysters were locally sourced. They were served at a waterside restaurant in Port Royal, South Caro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Mixed Media
Heron, Morikami Pond - Original Still Life Painting, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This painting is of a scene I stumbled on at a pond at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. The goldfish and the turtles are just living their lives, but it m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Ranchos de Taos
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This mixed media painting includes the back of the Ranchos de Taos church that Georgia O'Keefe made famous in her painting. My painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Paper
"Bottle & Glasses"
By James Lechay
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
James Lechay (1907 – 2001)
Born in the Bronx in 1907, James Lechay spent most of his childhood in Brooklyn before moving to Joilet, Illinois at age 13 to live with his uncle after his mother passed away. In 1928, he received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Illinois. The next year, he attended one week of graduate school before leaving to study under his brother, the painter Myron Lechay, in New York. At his brother’s studio, James began to associate with other artists of the time such as Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, William Zorach, and Raphael and Moses Soyer. From Myron, James Lechay learned to train his eye to observe natural forms and developed a philosophy dependent upon the relationship built between the artist and the subject.
Lechay became engaged in the social and political issues of Depression-era New York and even joined the social realism movement for a brief time in the 1930s. He operated as the leader of the Artists Union while employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). With the WPA, Lechay traveled to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where he established a gallery and exhibited the works of Milton Avery, Max Weber, and other WPA artists. Despite his association with many artists and artistic communities in New York in the 1930s and 40s, Lechay opposed adopting a style due to its popularity and commercial success. His use, however, of large brushstrokes from Abstract Expressionism, the flattened plane of Modernism, and the simple compositions of early Abstraction created a combination of styles completely his own.
A painter of a vast range of subjects, including still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, Lechay was known to reduce these forms to their visual essentials. Lechay often did not date his paintings as he frequently reworked them, even after they were exhibited, calling his pieces, “finished at all stages and never finished”.
In 1945, Lechay was hired by the University of Iowa’s art department, where he worked alongside Mauricio Lasansky, Humbert Albrizio, Carl Fracassini, and Byron Burford...
Category
20th Century Abstract New Jersey - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
