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Robert Lawson Abstract Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Robert Lawson (1892-1957) Abstract Acrylic on Canvas measuring 40 x 40 inches.
The work bears a thin metal frame measuring 40 1/4 x 40 1/4 x 1 3/8 inches.
The painting is signed lowe...
Category
1940s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Paul Pletka Acrylic Painting, 1972 - “Omaha Dancer”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
California/New Mexico artist Paul Pletka (b. 1946) Acrylic on Canvas, 1972.
Native American subject in Decorative Hair Plates. Signed lower right.
Titled in pencil on the verso by th...
Category
Late 20th Century Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
$28,000 Sale Price
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Hobbit #3
By Ed Moses
Located in Phoenix, AZ
video copyright by the artist and Bentley Gallery, Inc.
b. Long Beach, CA (April 9, 1926 – January 17, 2018)
Ed Moses was a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene and key promoter of Post-War, West Coast art for almost 60 years. Best known for his eclectic range, his canvases are formal abstractions that use a variety of processes to experiment with surface—creating striations, cracks, marks and blurs at times juxtaposed with hard-edge geometric abstraction. As he described, “Painting is like discovery, trying this, trying that, bending this, twirling that, and then, every once in a while, it goes bing!”
As a young man, Moses joined the military during World War II as a Navy Medical Corps surgical technician and discovered an aptitude for treating injuries. After his tour ended, he enrolled in Long Beach City College's pre-med program with the intent of becoming a doctor. After a painting course with Pedro Miller, Moses switched his major to art. He then went on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he would receive both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. While enrolled in his master’s program, fellow artist Craig Kauffman introduced Moses to Walter Hopps, future owner of the influential Ferus Gallery. Though he’d been exhibiting since 1949, Moses first showed at Ferus in 1958—while still enrolled at UCLA—and quickly became part of the “Cool School” with artists Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Ed Ruscha, John Altoon, and others.
Following graduation, Moses moved to New York City where he became friends with Franz Kline, Milton Resnick, William de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, with whom he would exhibit in New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. In 1959, Moses married Avilda Peters and moved back to Los Angeles to start a family, travel, and continue his painting career. Always working with process and experimenting with materials as a painter, Moses was critically lauded for his bold composition and innovation. In 1968, he received a Tamarind Lithography Fellowship as well as the offer of a teaching position at the University of California, Los Angeles, his alma mater, where he would teach until 1972. After travels in Europe, he would return to UCLA to teach until 1976, the same year he was recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant and his first museum shows: a show of drawings from 1958-1970s at the Wight Gallery at UCLA, and a show of new abstract and cubist red paintings at LACMA curated by Stephanie Barron, the latter marking a transitional moment in his career. While drawing was prominent in his work in the 1960s and early 70s, by the mid-70s, Moses was turning increasingly to painting.
In 1980, Moses was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled in Japan. Moses worked with Peter Goulds...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
$55,500
BIRD'S OF PARADISE
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
signature and title on verso
b. 1942, Elgin, OK
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured....
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Shape of Resonance 9
By Danielle Hacche
Located in Phoenix, AZ
pastel and micron pen on raw canvas
b. 1979, Poole, Dorset, UK
In this new series of work, I explore the intersection of minimalist architecture, design, and the raw beauty of mater...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Raw Linen, Pen
SEEING DOUBLE
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain the landscape painted...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pigment
1979 (70x40)
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
painting on canvas
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the...
Category
1970s Minimalist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Figurative Abstract Gouache on Paper - Woman
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Abstract Gouache on Paper by Minnesota/Chicago artist Richard Koppe (1916-1073).
Simply titled “Woman,” the work is an excellent composition by the artist created 1941.
The painting ...
Category
1940s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
6 Kackle
By Ed Moses
Located in Phoenix, AZ
b. Long Beach, CA (April 9, 1926 – January 17, 2018), video copyright by the artist and Bentley Gallery, Inc.
Ed Moses was a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene and key promoter of Post-War, West Coast art for almost 60 years. Best known for his eclectic range, his canvases are formal abstractions that use a variety of processes to experiment with surface—creating striations, cracks, marks and blurs at times juxtaposed with hard-edge geometric abstraction. As he described, “Painting is like discovery, trying this, trying that, bending this, twirling that, and then, every once in a while, it goes bing!”
Moses' works are held in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Gallery, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Berkeley Art Museum at UC Berkeley; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Dallas Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cincinnati Museum of Art; Butler Art Institute of American Art, Ohio; Dallas Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art; Musee National d'art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR; and many others.
As a young man, Moses joined the military during World War II as a Navy Medical Corps surgical technician and discovered an aptitude for treating injuries. After his tour ended, he enrolled in Long Beach City College's pre-med program with the intent of becoming a doctor. After a painting course with Pedro Miller, Moses switched his major to art. He then went on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he would receive both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. While enrolled in his master’s program, fellow artist Craig Kauffman introduced Moses to Walter Hopps, future owner of the influential Ferus Gallery. Though he’d been exhibiting since 1949, Moses first showed at Ferus in 1958—while still enrolled at UCLA—and quickly became part of the “Cool School” with artists Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Ed Ruscha, John Altoon, and others.
Following graduation, Moses moved to New York City where he became friends with Franz Kline, Milton Resnick, William de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, with whom he would exhibit in New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. In 1959, Moses married Avilda Peters and moved back to Los Angeles to start a family, travel, and continue his painting career. Always working with process and experimenting with materials as a painter, Moses was critically lauded for his bold composition and innovation. In 1968, he received a Tamarind Lithography Fellowship as well as the offer of a teaching position at the University of California, Los Angeles, his alma mater, where he would teach until 1972. After travels in Europe, he would return to UCLA to teach until 1976, the same year he was recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant and his first museum shows: a show of drawings from 1958-1970s at the Wight Gallery at UCLA, and a show of new abstract and cubist red paintings at LACMA curated by Stephanie Barron, the latter marking a transitional moment in his career. While drawing was prominent in his work in the 1960s and early 70s, by the mid-70s, Moses was turning increasingly to painting.
In 1980, Moses was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled in Japan. Moses worked with Peter Goulds...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
$76,000
Untitled (Blue 1969)
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
1927 - 2017
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the, now, San...
Category
1960s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
9.77
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the, now, San Francisco A...
Category
1970s Color-Field Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$11,250
RADIANCE
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
SIGNATURE AND TITLE ON VERSO
b. 1942, Elgin, OK
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured....
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$7,500
Alfonso Pena Important Mexican Muralist Painting, Drying Laundry, Mexico
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Beautiful Mexican landscape painting by Alfonso Pena
Oil on canvas created 1963. Mexican subject.
Excellent condition, unframed.
Measures: 19 3/4" H x 24 ...
Category
1960s Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Harry Crowley NYC Abstract Expressionist Painting, circa 1954, Slow Solitude
By Harry Crowley
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Harry Crowley (1898-1979) oil on board, 1954. Abstract Expressionist. Titled on the verso “Slow Solitude.”
Measures: 33 x 38. Frame: 42 x 47. In excellent condition and in the origi...
Category
1950s Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
Shape of Resonance 13
By Danielle Hacche
Located in Phoenix, AZ
pastel on raw canvas
b. 1979, Poole, Dorset, UK
In this new series of work, I explore the intersection of minimalist architecture, design, and the raw beauty of materials. Drawing i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Pastel
Wifredo Lam Cuban Artist Original Watercolor, 1961
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Phoenix, AZ
This original watercolor on paper by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam is in excellent condition and measures 12"h x 10"w. It is signed lower right and dated 1961. It bears a simple gold fr...
Category
1960s Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
Untitled Red (1979)
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on linen
1927 - 2017
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended...
Category
1970s Color-Field Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Flat-Out Pointless Violet-Black
By Jan Maarten Voskuil
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on linen 45.5 x 45.5 x 5 inches
b. 1964, Arnhem
Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
The Approach of Spring
By Mark Pomilio
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on linen
Mark Pomilio’s current research has focused on creating images, which embody principles of geometry, fractals, cloning and single-cell manipulation. These interests hav...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Mose Tolliver Rattlesnake Painting on Wood Panel - Circa 1980's
By Mose Tolliver
Located in Phoenix, AZ
This is a wonderful naive painting on wood panel by the self-taught black artist
Mose Tolliver (1920-2000). It’s a great example of Mose’s unique folk-art style.
It features the rat...
Category
Late 20th Century Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood
4.20.07
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended t...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
$1,200
4.84
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas
1927 - 2017
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school sh...
Category
1980s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
$15,000
Shape of Resonance 6
By Danielle Hacche
Located in Phoenix, AZ
b. 1979, Poole, Dorset, UK
In this new series of work, I explore the intersection of minimalist architecture, design, and the raw beauty of materials. Drawing inspiration from the B...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Raw Linen, Acrylic
Shape of Resonance 5
By Danielle Hacche
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on raw canvas
b. 1979, Poole, Dorset, UK
In this new series of work, I explore the intersection of minimalist architecture, design, and the raw beauty of materials. Drawing ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Raw Linen, Acrylic
John Edward Costigan Painting, circa 1950's - Carnival
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Phoenix, AZ
John Costigan (1888-1972) oil on canvas, circa: 1950s. In excellent condition.
Exciting Expressionist Painting of a lively Carnival Scene. Signed lower right: ''J.E. Costigan",
Title...
Category
Mid-20th Century Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
Prefate Duffaut Haitian Folk Art Painting, circa 1960
By Préfète Duffaut
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Prefate Duffaut (1923-2012) Haitian Folk Art painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Signed lower right.
Measures: 23 1/2" H x 19 1/2" W. Frame: 25" H x 21" W. Excellent condition. Tit...
Category
1960s Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
Shape of Resonance 2
By Danielle Hacche
Located in Phoenix, AZ
b. 1979, Poole, Dorset, UK
In this new series of work, I explore the intersection of minimalist architecture, design, and the raw beauty of materials. Drawing inspiration from the B...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
7.31.98
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the, ...
Category
1990s Color-Field Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,100
Cuts in Orange
By Jan Maarten Voskuil
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on linen 24 x 24 x 2.5 inches
Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are based on simple ge...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Raw Linen, Acrylic
Glyph #1
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contai...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$2,500
Shape of Resonance 10
By Danielle Hacche
Located in Phoenix, AZ
pastel and micron pen on raw canvas
b. 1979, Poole, Dorset, UK
In this new series of work, I explore the intersection of minimalist architecture, design, and the raw beauty of mater...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Pen
The Sower
By Mark Pomilio
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on linen
Mark Pomilio’s current research has focused on creating images, which embody principles of geometry, fractals, cloning and single-cell manipulation. These interests hav...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Alfa Blues, 2024, framed encaustic and oil on panel
By Raphaëlle Goethals
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic and oil on panel, framed
Focusing on painting as a space of exploration, Raphaëlle Goethals has worked with wax, resin, and pigments as her signature medium for over twent...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
Strindberg Nocturnes II
By Robert Kelly
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Robert Kelly’s painted collages are anchored in a step-by-step process of formal puzzle composition and informed by decades of expert surface crafting. Having grown fond of the pared...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Karl Larsson, Swedish, New York, and New Mexico Artist, Abstract Watercolor
By Karl Larsson
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Karl Larsson (1893-1967) non-objective abstraction
Original watercolor, circa 1920s-1930s
In excellent condition. Archivally Matted - not framed.
Measures...
Category
Early 20th Century Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
Untitled #5250
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on canvas
Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky and ...
Category
2010s Romantic Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frederic Karoly Vintage Drip Painting
By Fredric Karoly
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Fred Karoly (1897-1987) Oil on Canvas created 1963. In excellent condition.
A very attractive abstract subject and typical for the artist.
Signed and dated 1963 on the verso. Framed simply in a modern black wood frame.
Measures 28"h x 24"w. Frame size: 29.5"h x 25.5"w x 1.25"d.
Fredric Karoly was born in Budapest in 1897. According to Karoly's own vitae, his exhibition history began in New York in 1947, when at the age of 54 he took part in a four-person group show at Hugo Gallery. His involvement with visual art however was apparently lifelong. In a brief introduction to his solo show at Galerie Mai in Paris in June of 1949, Jen Luc de Rudder, reports that Karoly began painting at the age of 12 in Budapest.
After several years of studying, then working in London, Paris and Berlin, Karoly emigrated to the United States in 1925 or 1926. In New York, Karoly worked in women's fashion as a designer. By the early 1950's, Karoly started experimenting with the drip...
Category
1960s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Days Sliding By
By Louise Blyton
Located in Phoenix, AZ
b. Melbourne, Australia
Louise Blyton is a reductive artist exploring the romance of raw linen and dry pigment. The artist’s geometrically shaped canvases explore color, light, and form through the visual language of Reductivism, an aesthetic style characterized by streamlined compositions, restricted color, and a reduction of form and means. Identifying with Reductivism’s simplicity, Blyton’s shaped canvases and three-dimensional wall sculptures elevate craftsmanship and process, achieving a compositional clarity that unifies color and form.
To construct her works, Blyton covers custom built balsa wood stretchers with raw linen, adorning them with layers of pure pigment or acrylic paint. Each pigment reacts differently to raw linen and requires a specific number of coats to reach the artist’s desired level of saturation. As the artist explains, “I’m always looking for a kind of quietness and harmony when making my works even if the color being used is loud.”
The artist creates her own spatial dimension by manipulating the shape of the canvas, which escapes from the flat surface of the wall, confusing its role as a painting. “Rather than responding to the architecture they ask particular attributes of the building to act as support,” as some works appear to climb the surface of the walls, while others straddle columns and corners.
Louise Blyton lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in 1988. Her works are held in significant corporate and private collections in Australia, China, France, United Kingdom, Portugal, and the United States. Since 2000, Blyton has run an artist supply store called, St. Luke Artist Colourman, which specializes in professional paint and raw materials, with her husband David Coles.
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Cuts n Tears (whites)
By Jan Maarten Voskuil
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on linen 35.5 x 35.5 x 2.25 inches
b. 1964, Arnhem
Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions a...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Water Street (7.79)
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas
1927 - 2017
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she...
Category
1970s Color-Field Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
Standing Grey Spectral Light
By Eric Zammitt
Located in Phoenix, AZ
layered acrylic panels
Eric Zammitt’s work alludes to the dynamics and interplay of dual elements: matter and energy, spirit and body, emotion and intell...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
ABS
Geomorphology 1427
By Andy Moses
Located in Phoenix, AZ
video copyright by the artist and Bentley Gallery, Inc.
acrylic on canvas, over concave wood panel
Andy Moses is interested in pushing the physical properties of paint. Through chemical reactions, viscosity interference, and gravity dispersion, Moses creates elaborate compositions that mimic nature and its forces. DESERT LIGHT is a body of work that responds to the sense of infinite space that drifts in on California's ocean breezes and across the Southwest's vast, desert expanses. Light and space naturally elongate in these geographies and Moses channels this time warp through both material and process.
Born in Los Angeles in 1962, Moses attended California Institute of the Arts...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Big Red One
By Ed Moses
Located in Phoenix, AZ
video copyright by the artist and Bentley Gallery, Inc.
One of his last available paintings created in Hawaii and inspired by his visit to the lava fields.
b. Long Beach, CA (April 9, 1926 – January 17, 2018)
Ed Moses was a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene and key promoter of Post-War, West Coast art for almost 60 years. Best known for his eclectic range, his canvases are formal abstractions that use a variety of processes to experiment with surface—creating striations, cracks, marks and blurs at times juxtaposed with hard-edge geometric abstraction. As he described, “Painting is like discovery, trying this, trying that, bending this, twirling that, and then, every once in a while, it goes bing!”
Moses' works are held in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Gallery, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Berkeley Art Museum at UC Berkeley; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Dallas Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cincinnati Museum of Art; Butler Art Institute of American Art, Ohio; Dallas Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art; Musee National d'art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR; and many others.
As a young man, Moses joined the military during World War II as a Navy Medical Corps surgical technician and discovered an aptitude for treating injuries. After his tour ended, he enrolled in Long Beach City College's pre-med program with the intent of becoming a doctor. After a painting course with Pedro Miller, Moses switched his major to art. He then went on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he would receive both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. While enrolled in his master’s program, fellow artist Craig Kauffman introduced Moses to Walter Hopps, future owner of the influential Ferus Gallery. Though he’d been exhibiting since 1949, Moses first showed at Ferus in 1958—while still enrolled at UCLA—and quickly became part of the “Cool School” with artists Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Ed Ruscha, John Altoon, and others.
Following graduation, Moses moved to New York City where he became friends with Franz Kline, Milton Resnick, William de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, with whom he would exhibit in New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. In 1959, Moses married Avilda Peters and moved back to Los Angeles to start a family, travel, and continue his painting career. Always working with process and experimenting with materials as a painter, Moses was critically lauded for his bold composition and innovation. In 1968, he received a Tamarind Lithography Fellowship as well as the offer of a teaching position at the University of California, Los Angeles, his alma mater, where he would teach until 1972. After travels in Europe, he would return to UCLA to teach until 1976, the same year he was recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant and his first museum shows: a show of drawings from 1958-1970s at the Wight Gallery at UCLA, and a show of new abstract and cubist red paintings at LACMA curated by Stephanie Barron, the latter marking a transitional moment in his career. While drawing was prominent in his work in the 1960s and early 70s, by the mid-70s, Moses was turning increasingly to painting.
In 1980, Moses was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled in Japan. Moses worked with Peter Goulds...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Desert Sun
By Mark Pomilio
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on linen
Mark Pomilio’s current research has focused on creating images, which embody principles of geometry, fractals, cloning and single-cell manipulation. These interests hav...
Category
2010s Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Sand & Sea
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on panel
b. 1954, Reno Nevada
Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...
Category
2010s Color-Field Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Wax, Encaustic, Oil
Dynamic Monochrome Green-Gold
By Jan Maarten Voskuil
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on linen
b. 1964, Arnhem
Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are based on simple geometric...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
H. Wilson Smith California Artist Geometric Abstract Painting, circa 1940s-1950s
By H. Wilson Smith
Located in Phoenix, AZ
H. Wilson Smith (1901-1981) California Artist
Oil on board in the original frame.
Painting measures 24 x 20.
Frame: 25 x 21.
Titled on the verso “Nude - Automatic Elevator”
Signed lo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
Untitled (WOP-5)
By Daniel Brice
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on paper
image size: 20.5 x 29.5 inches
Daniel Brice’s paintings are composed using a minimal rectilinear language, divided into planes of color implying vast spatial landscape...
Category
2010s Color-Field Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
All Good Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes - Giant Tondo
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on panel
b. 1954, Reno Nevada
Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...
Category
2010s Minimalist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Oil, Wood Panel
7.10.83 (Olympics)
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended ...
Category
1980s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
Einar Petersen Monterrey Harbor Oil on Canvas, Circa 1930's
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Well executed oil on canvas by Danish-American artist Einar Petersen (1895-1986)
This dock scene titled “Monterrey Harbor” is in excellent condition.
It measures 22 x 19 inches and i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
6.20.95
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended ...
Category
1990s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
$14,500
Harold Christopher Davies Abstract Expressionist Oil on Paper, 1968
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Harold Christopher Davies (1891-1976) abstract painting.
Signed lower left
Rubber stamp on the back from Hoover Gallery, San Francisco
Initialed and dated on the back, 1968
Oil on pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
1978 (red)
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on linen
1927 - 2017
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she ...
Category
1970s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil
#5091
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on layered canvas
Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light i...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
$37,000
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By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on canvas
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky a...
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic
$4,000
Sacred Heart Triptych (5.81)
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas, three panels (84 x 90 x 1.5 inches, each panel)
1927 - 2017
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California ...
Category
1980s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil
1976 (7)
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas
1927 - 2017
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she att...
Category
1970s Color-Field Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$14,500
Traces II
By Bryan David Griffith
Located in Phoenix, AZ
smoke from an open flame accumulated in encaustic beeswax on panel
b. 1975
My work explores the idea that dualities—light and darkness, life and dea...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Panel, Wood Panel
9.22.98
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended ...
Category
1990s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
$14,500
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