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Two Bowls, Ink on Watercolor Paper, Original Art on Paper, Mediterranean Blue
Located in New york, NY
Inspired by chinoiserie, Two Bowls, 2023 is an original (unique) work on 25" x 20" 260g watercolor paper signed by Israeli born woman artist Yifat Gat. Title, date, and signature on ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Ink
Blue Vase, Ink on Watercolor Paper, Original Work on Paper, Mediterranean Blue
Located in New york, NY
Inspired by Greek vases, Blue Vase, 2023 is an original (unique) work on 25" x 20" 260g watercolor paper signed by Israeli born woman artist Yifat Gat. Title, date, and signature on ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Ink
Tall Vase, Ink on Watercolor Paper, Original Work on Paper, Mediterranean Blue
Located in New york, NY
Tall Vase, 2023 is an original (unique) work on 25" x 20" 260g watercolor paper signed by Israeli born woman artist Yifat Gat. Title, date, and signature on recto (front of work) - o...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Ink
Antique American School Signed WPA Black Artist Studio Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed modernist artist studio oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18L x 24H.
Category
1930s Modern New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wintry Mix, 2022, oil on canvas, floral still-life painting
By Daisy Craddock
Located in New York, NY
Craddock’s floral paintings are loci for memory, spanning more than a decade and various dwellings. Sharing a kindred spirit with such artists as Jane Freilicher and Lois Dodd, Cradd...
Category
2010s Impressionist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gladiolas, Impressionist Oil Painting by George Gach
By George Gach
Located in Long Island City, NY
An impressionist still life painting of gladiolas flowers in a shallow vase by Hungarian artist George Gach.
Gladiolas
George Gách, Hungarian (1909–1996)...
Category
1980s New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night Tripper (Palisades No.3) - Road landscape painting
By Edie Nadelhaft
Located in East Quogue, NY
Night driving road landscape scene by Edie Nadelhaft - Oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches.
Edie Nadelhaft's paintings focus on the visual nuances and psychol...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"FIELD PROJECT", painting, surrealist dream, rocket, priestess, sci-fi, worship
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
FIELD PROJECT is an acrylic on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 60x48" and is a unique artwork. Note the mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Signed American School Modernist Seashell Minimalist Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Early 2000s Modern New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life, Abstract Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Still Life (58)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Board
Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)
Category
1960s Abstract New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Anvia's Flowers"
Located in Astoria, NY
Kayo Lennar (French/American, b. 1923), "Anvia's Flowers," Oil on Canvas, 1988, signed lower right, signed, titled, and dated on reverse, wood frame. Image: 13.5" H x 10.25" W; frame...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bananas, 1983, Framed Impressionist Watercolor by Ed Ahlstrom
By Ed Ahlstrom
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ed Ahlstrom, American (1944 - )
Title: Bananas
Year: 1983
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed
Size: 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 29.5 x 33 inches
Category
1980s Realist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage American School Realist Trompe L'Oeil Kitchen Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredibly well painted American realist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso.
Category
1970s Photorealist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Skull Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting by Victor De Pauw (1902 - 1971). Oil on board, circa 1950. Framing available. Image size, 24L x 27H. Signed.
Category
1950s Abstract New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ChunLong Zhang Still Life Original Oil On Canvas "Peach Study"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Peach Study
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19 x 23 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"SORCERER'S BISCUIT", painting, surrealist dream, wolf, queen, duality, magic
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
SORCERER'S BISCUIT is a new oil on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 16x20" and is a unique artwork. Note the artist's vocabulary present here – the young girl in early 20th century clothes holding the chewed biscuit; on poles either side of her what looks like a wolf in top hat, and a queen with crown. The wolf and queen are dimensional though appear as garish silhouettes – setting up a duality, a dream, a magic spell...
Tony Geiger has said his paintings take you to a certain place, but you have to find your own way back. The world he creates encompasses both classical surrealism and more contemporary concerns. Conflict is usually present. These mischievous juxtapositions make statements on the human condition – either politically, physically or spiritually. Geiger wants the viewer to be challenged and amused by this mixture of the macabre and the playful.
A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, New York and a longtime NYC resident, Tony Geiger still considers himself a transplanted Californian. He has exhibited paintings at the Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg, the Barbican Centre in London, England, Miami Projects at Art Basel, Ceres Gallery in Chelsea, NYC, and he was accepted into The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program. Tony Geiger lives in Carroll...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
05 Flower Painting, 2023, Acrylic and tinted MSA varnish on panel, pop art
By Lori Larusso
Located in New York, NY
Lori Larusso, an American visual artist, explores themes of domesticity in her work, including this stunning flower painting series. By using layers of bright acrylic paint, often wi...
Category
2010s Pop Art New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Panel
"TOUR GIANT", surrealist painting, American flag, bone, cottage, cups, storybook
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
TOUR (GIANT) is a new oil on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 50x40" and is a unique artwork. A classic Gei...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Toys In The Attic", oil painting, artist's tools, child's pencil, crayon, play
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Toys In The Attic" addresses subject matter that continues to fascinate the artist – on one hand the tools of painting, drawing and art making – brushes, pens, pencils and crayons. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Hard-Edge New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
Iridescence, super realistic oil painting of colorful iridescent ribbons
By Douglas Newton
Located in Brooklyn, NY
colorful ribbons
Oil on canvas
Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can...
Category
2010s Photorealist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"DRAWING INVENTORY (Jamón y Gasolina)", acrylic painting, ham, gasoline, collage
By Andrew Cornell Robinson
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"DRAWING INVENTORY (Jamón y Gasolina)", 2019, painting in acrylic, charcoal, watercolor, collage, silkscreen enamel on cotton rag paper by artist Andrew Cornell Robinson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Art Shipping and Receiving, Photorealist Oil Painting on Board by Harry Lane
By Harry Lane
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Harry Lane
Title: Art Shipping and Receiving
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Board, signed lower right
Size: 30 in. x 24 in. (76.2 cm x 60.96 cm)
...
Category
1950s American Realist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Congregation, still life food peppers dark colors rough textured surface
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on wood with a rough texture surface. Signed and dated on reverse. Part ot an ongoing series if still life by the artist which is the artist refers...
Category
2010s Expressionist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Misty Morning, Chromatic Collision Series, Abstract Geometric Line Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Petrick's "Misty Morning" is a compelling abstract oil painting that masterfully captures the essence of a tranquil and elusive early morning atmosphere through geometric prec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Strengths and Weaknesses", acrylic, charcoal, art history, abstract, portrait
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Strengths and Weaknesses" is a portrait exploring several elements and strategies that fascinate the artist – notably the performance anxiety induced by simply being an artist, staring down the freight train of art history as it hurtles toward you every time you pick up a brush. Luck? Talent? Maybe. There are signposts and guides in this painting, of course (Cubism! Surrealism! Brancusi! Guston!), but they can clobber you too if you're not careful. Even the phrase "strengths and weaknesses" smacks of compromises and rationalization – deadly to an artist looking to construct their own integral world.
"Strengths and Weaknesses" is an acrylic and charcoal on canvas measuring 54" tall by 54" wide. It was included in the artist's solo show "Comedy Cellar" at Freight + Volume Gallery, New York City in July 2018. (See last photograph for an installation view.)
From Daniel Gerwin – "Schenck’s color is vibrant, wild, saturated to the point of overheating, and altogether brilliant in the balancing of hues, temperatures, shapes, and color quantities. The paintings have a remarkable coherence for their dizzying juxtaposition of so many small chromatic passages." (Essay: The Anxiety and the Ecstasy)
Peter Schenck...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Hard-Edge New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
GOOD COMPANY - Humor / Contemporary Still Life / Dining Room / Balloon Dogs
By Robert Jackson
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by Robert C. Jackson.
Robert C. Jackson (b. 1964, Kinston, NC) began his career path as an electrical engineer before turning his passionate hobby into a full...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Line Control, Chromatic Collision Series, Abstract Geometric Line Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Petrick's "Line Control" is a fusion of meticulous geometry and bold abstract expression. From the artist's Chromatic Collisions series, this piece is both timeless and contem...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Rushhour, Chromatic Collision Series, Abstract Geometric Line Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Petrick's "Rushhour" is a fusion of meticulous geometry and bold abstract expression. From the artist's Chromatic Collisions series, this piece...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1928 Underwood Portable Standard Typewriter
By Christopher Stott
Located in Fairfield, CT
Candid, straightforward paintings of various vintage objects. Depicted with painterly realism, natural styling and subtle, quiet narrative.
Category
2010s New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Sunflower Still Life Flower Signed Original Painting
By Barry Johnson
Located in Buffalo, NY
American modernist still life painting. Watercolor on paper, circa 1960. Signed. Image size, 24"L x 18"H.
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
Cold Fusion 3
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Cold Fusion 3" Stripe infusion Series
2017
acrylic on canvas
18X18"
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse side
Robert Petrick's paintings create a link between the street cultu...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Hello Sunshine, Chromatic Collision Series, Abstract Geometric Line Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Petrick's "Hello Sunshine" is a fusion of meticulous geometry and bold abstract expression. From the artist's Chromatic Collisions series, this...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Conversation", oil painting, art history, collage, cubism, ideas discussion
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"The Conversation" is an oil painting on canvas measuring 54" tall by 54" wide, and a key artwork among Peter Schenck's many remarkable paintings address...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Hard-Edge New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE", surrealist oil painting, skeleton, family
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE, 2019, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 62x55". At once provocative and serene, the wel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Standing Nude, Abstract Gouache Painting by Moshe Rosenthalis
By Moshe Rosenthalis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Moshe Rosentalis, Lithuanian (1922 - 2008)
Title: Standing Nude
Year: 1991
Medium: Gouache on Board, signed and dated
Size: 27.5 x 19.5 inches
Category
1990s Modern New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Tulips" Daphne Mumford, Bright and Colorful Floral Diptych
Located in New York, NY
Daphne Mumford
Tulips
Signed lower right, titled on each stretcher
Oil on canvas, diptych
24 x 74 inches
Daphne Mumford studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting in 1952; the Chel...
Category
Late 20th Century New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE", painting, Victorian, Jaguar, surrealist dream, symbol
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE is an acrylic on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 36x48" and is a unique artwork. N...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Après-midi, Chromatic Collision Series, Abstract Geometric Line Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Petrick's "Après-midi" is a fusion of meticulous geometry and bold abstract expression. The second from the artist's Chromatic Collisions series...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"CHILDHOOD MEMORIES I", oil painting, memory, cat lactation, fantasy, innocence
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"CHILDHOOD MEMORIES I", 2014, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 47x62". Characteristic of the artist's best work, it featu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"DRAWING INVENTORY (Another Middle-Class Lunch)", painting, table, crop, food
By Andrew Cornell Robinson
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"DRAWING INVENTORY (Another Middle-Class Lunch)", 2019, painting in acrylic and flashe paint on cotton rag paper by artist Andrew Cornell Robinson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Acrylic, Paint
Bastille Day
By Mary Faulconer
Located in New York, NY
Faulconer, Mary.
Bastille Day.
Gouache on gesso board, 2000.
Framed size: 13 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.
Category
Early 2000s New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Gouache, Board
Attributes of Art
By Dana Loomis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dana Loomis
Title: Attributes of Art
Year: 1984
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and titled in marker
Size: 40 in. x 46 in. (101.6 cm x 116.84 cm)
Frame Size: 41 x 47 inches
Category
1980s Photorealist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ODD DUCKS #3 (DUCK & MODERN DUCK) - Photorealism / Contemporary Still Life
By Samuel Hung
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Samuel Hung
Samuel Hung (b. 1981, Taiwan) is a New York-based artist currently living in Brooklyn. He earned his BFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, and furthered his painting studies at the Grand Central Atelier...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
OBELISK, REMINISCENCE - Still life of Ice Cubes / Realism / High Contrast
Located in New York, NY
Original painting by Kevin Palme.
Through ephemeral constructions of ice cubes and origami paper boxes, Kevin Palme (b. 1976, Morristown, NJ) seeks to convey the transitory nature ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"PEARL", Abstract Painting, Iridescent, Nickel, Yellow, Black, Crystalline Nacre
By Jeffrey Kurland
Located in Toronto, Ontario
The large abstract painting "PEARL" by Jeffrey Kurland is an acrylic on canvas measuring 64" tall by 78" wide. PEARL is new work from the long hot summer of 2020. Often employing pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lillium Umbellatum (Candlestick Lily), Realist Oil Painting by John Zak
By John Zak
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Zak
Title: Lillium Umbellatum (Candlestick Lily)
Year: 1974
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size 72 x 48 in. (182.88 x 121.92 cm)
Category
1970s American Realist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Structure Series #2 V. 2, " East Village, Colorful Abstract Geometric Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
“Structure Series #2” Version 2
2020
Acrylic, oil and chalk on canvas
14 x 24 x x .625 inches
Robert Petrick's paintings create a link between the street culture of the East Villag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
From the Porch, 2023, vibrant floral still-life painting, oil on canvas
By Daisy Craddock
Located in New York, NY
Craddock’s floral paintings are loci for memory, spanning more than a decade and various dwellings. Sharing a kindred spirit with such artists as Jane Freilicher and Lois Dodd, Cradd...
Category
2010s Impressionist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cherries in a Teacup, Oil Painting on Canvas by Elaine Clarfield-Gitalis
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large colorful still-life painting of cherries in a teacup by Canadian painter, Elaine Clarfield-Gitalis. Beautifully framed. Canvas measures 46.5 ...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yaping Hong Landscape Original Oil Painting "Lotus Pod In Vase II"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Lotus Pod In Vase II
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23.5 x 23.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yaping Hong Landscape Original Oil Painting "Lotus Pod In Vase I"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Lotus Pod In Vase I
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23.5 x 23.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vase
By George Tzannes
Located in New York, NY
This still-life fresco painting is part of a series depicting ancient Greek amphoras and pottery vases from the archaeological site of Paliopol...
Category
1990s Realist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Concrete
Amphora
By George Tzannes
Located in New York, NY
This still-life fresco painting is part of a series depicting ancient Greek amphoras and pottery vases from the archaeological site of Paliopoli, in the Greek island of Kythera, known as the place where Aphrodite was born and emerged from the sea. Tzannes used his own fresco technique where the pigment is imbedded in the slab as it dries. The outcome is a sensual, almost silky surface with subtle gray and white tones. The drawing is imbedded in the concrete surface, nearly as an ancient fossil. The amphoras are drawn from the original Minoan pottery...
Category
1990s Realist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Concrete
The Night Rambler, Navy blue forest scene, oil and gold leaf painting with fox
By Anastasia Gklava
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Night Rambler" is a beautiful navy blue oil and gold leaf painting of a textured forest scene with an adorable fox hiding in the bottom right side of the painting. The artist us...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Still Life of Fruit " Albert Swinden, American Abstract Association, AAA
By Albert Swinden
Located in New York, NY
Albert Swinden (1901 - 1961)
Still Life of Fruit, 1937
Oil on canvas
18 x 30 inches
Provenance:
Graham Gallery, New York
Albert Swinden (1901–1961) was an English-born American abstract painter. He was one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists, and he created significant murals as part of the Federal Art Project.
Albert Swinden was born in Birmingham, England in 1901. When he was seven, he moved with his family to Canada, and in 1919 he immigrated to the United States. He lived in Chicago, where he studied for about a year and a half at the Art Institute. He then relocated to New York City, where his art education continued briefly at the National Academy of Design. He soon changed schools again, to the Art Students League, which he attended from 1930 to 1934. He studied with Hans Hofmann and gained an appreciation for Synthetic Cubism and Neoplasticism. According to painter and printmaker George McNeil, Swinden "could have influenced Hofmann ... He was working with very, very simple planes, not in this sort of Cubistic manner. Swinden was working synthetically at this time." While still a student, Swinden began teaching at the Art Students League, in 1932.
Swinden married Rebecca Palter (1912–1998), from New York. Their daughter, Alice Swinden Carter, also became an artist. Carter, who attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, received an award from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston for her large sculptures.
Swinden was hired for the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and he is best known for the murals which he painted as part of that project.
In 1935, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia attended the opening of the inaugural exhibit at the Federal Art Project Gallery, accompanied by Audrey McMahon, New York regional director for the Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project. Among the works on display was Abstraction, a sketch by Swinden; it was the design for a mural planned for the College of the City of New York. A newspaper account described it as consisting of "brightly colored T-squares, triangles and rulers in horizontal, vertical and diagonal positions". La Guardia asked what it was, and upon being told it was a mural design, he said he didn't know what it depicted. Someone joked that it could be a map of Manhattan. The displeased mayor stated that "if that's art, I belong to Tammany Hall." (Tammany Hall, which the Republican mayor referenced, was the New York Democratic Party political society.) Fearing that the mayor's negative attitude could jeopardize the future of abstract art within the Federal Art Project, McMahon dispatched an assistant to summon an artist who could speak to the mayor in defense of abstraction. The assistant returned with Arshile Gorky.
Swinden played an important role in the founding of the American Abstract Artists. In 1935, he met with three friends, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, her future husband Byron Browne, and Ibram Lassaw, with the goal of exhibiting together. The group grew and started meeting in Swinden's studio, which adjoined those of Balcomb and Gertrude Greene...
Category
1930s Modern New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lantern & Cardinal in Snow Holiday Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Gouache painted on cardstock, intended for a greeting card design, painted circa 1970. Unsigned. Displayed in a red archival mat. Cellophane tape on board.
Category
1970s New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
"RIGHT FLANK", painting, surrealist dream, tanks attack birds, peace, protest
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
RIGHT FLANK is an acrylic on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 40x40" and is a unique artwork. It's a classi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Taking Off, Chromatic Collision Series, Abstract Geometric Line Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Petrick's "Taking Off" is a fusion of meticulous geometry and bold abstract expression. From the artist's Chromatic Collisions series, this piece is both timeless and contempo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric New York City - Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
