Stamford / Westport - Abstract Paintings

This contemporary abstract landscape painting by Bri Custer, titled Reverberate, captures the shifting energy of land and light through expressive brushwork and layered color. Earthy...

Potential pulses with kinetic color and form, offering a vibrant abstraction of a forest path flooded with light. Bri Custer’s distinctive approach blends bold geometry with nuanced ...

Bri Custer’s Extol offers a breath of open air in painted form—a vast expanse of luminous sky rendered in saturated blues and airy pastels. With a horizon line that whispers rather t...

This contemporary landscape painting by Bri Custer, titled Extol, captures the quiet reverence of the natural world through expressive brushwork and a refined, earthy palette. The pi...

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

This abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with oil paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It features loose, gestural brush strokes and a light palette with light blue, pink, and la...

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

This abstracted figure painting by Juniper Briggs is made with mixed media on cold pressed paper with deckle edges. It features an abstracted woman in a patterned brown and blue dres...

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

This contemporary abstract landscape painting by Bri Custer, titled Misstep, explores the tension between movement and stillness through expressive mark-making and a sunlit, tonal pa...

This original abstracted coastal landscape oil painting by artist Bri Custer features a vibrant blue and yellow palette. It captures an abstracted view of a shoreline, with thick layers of paint, loosely applied on the surface of the canvas. The painting is made on gallery wrapped canvas and has clean white sides. It is wired and ready to hang. "A memory of the Freeport, Maine coastline...

This abstracted figure painting by Juniper Briggs is made with mixed media on cold pressed paper with deckle edges. It features a warm contrasting yellow-gold and pink palette with a...

This beautiful blue painting is by Japanese artist, Takefumi Hori. He was born in Tokyo, Japan. He paints beautiful gold leaf paintings. This piece is acrylic, gold leaf and metal leaf on canvas. The artist studied calligraphy in Japan. In 2004 he moved to New York where he began painting abstract works of acrylic on canvas. Since 2009, Takefumi has been making gold and colored abstract works. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn where he is surrounded by the hustle and bustle of everyday urban life. The energy of New York City is an inspiration. His use of gold as a main material came about after long and intensive experiments. His compositional forms such as circles, squares and rectangles are ideal forms for gold to work with other colors in his work. The compositions of these elements are based on his experience with Japanese calligraphy. He merges the traditions of Eastern and Western art. His works are in numerous collections including Tiffany and Co., Claridges Hotel...

A fresh and intriguing composition that keeps you looking at it. The composition is composed of summer greens, whites, blues and lavenders and also conveys figures and movement. Ho...

This original abstracted landscape statement oil painting by artist Bri Custer features a cool blue palette with warm orange and pink accents throughout. The artist applies thick lay...

This contemporary seascape painting by Molly Wensberg, titled Perfect Day, radiates joy through its playful palette and layered, expressive composition. The piece features a bright, ...

This abstract contemporary painting by Roger Mudre features a cool-toned palette with subtle gold accents and an iridescent quality. Concentric circles of varying sizes overlap one a...

Donald Martiny’s signature work is composed of dispersed pigment on aluminum. He creates immediately frozen brushstrokes that are made from his own movements. They are defined by the...

This large abstract contemporary statement painting by Roger Mudre features many light circle shapes, layered over one another in a concentric fashion and a cool blue and silver pale...

This abstract painting by Tony Iadicicco features a light grey palette. The artist blends light shades of grey together to create an abstracted landscape composition, with a darker s...

This large abstracted seascape painting by S. Cora Aldo features a cool, light blue palette with warm sand tones in the foreground of the composition. The painting captures an abstra...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate features a vibrant and unique palette. Made with oil paint on canvas, the painting is modeled after the famed painting by ...

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

This abstracted figure painting by Juniper Briggs is made with mixed media on cold pressed paper with deckle edges. It features a warm, contrasting palette and captures an abstracted...

This Mount Fuji inspired work is what Noel called a Palimpseste. Meaning like an ancient piece of papyrus paper, man would use the paper over and over again, making his markings. There is sand on the canvas and he worked on this wet to incise in and build up the surface so there is beautiful texture. It is elegantly framed in a gold leaf float frame - 24 karat gold. Noel is an avant grade artist that worked alongside Cy Twombly in his early years at Fachetti Galleries in Paris - both artists used writing/.graffiti to form their compositions. Beginning in the late 1950s through 2000, Georges Noël produced both canvases and works on hand-made papers inspired by palimpsests, 6th century manuscript pages...

This abstract fine art mirror by Alina B is made with dichroic film on mirror, and is framed in a champagne-toned frame. The film on the mirror allows for it, and the space it reflec...

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

This abstracted figure painting by Juniper Briggs is made with mixed media on Arches paper with deckle edges. It features a warm, earth-toned palette an...

This abstracted figure painting by Juniper Briggs is made with mixed media on cold pressed paper with deckle edges. It features a warm orange and contrasting blue-grey palette, and c...

This abstracted figure painting by Juniper Briggs is made with mixed media on unstretched (rolled) canvas. It features a vibrant blue palette and captur...

This abstracted figure painting by Juniper Briggs is made with mixed media on cold pressed paper with deckle edges. It features a vibrant contrasting orange and blue palette with an ...

Steve Bickley creates beautiful metal sculpture and wall reliefs, as well as color prints. In addition, he makes large outdoor sculpture in stainless steel and aluminum. He has bee...

This small original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a palette that combines washes of varying blue and turquoise tones. It ...

Cathy Choi's eye catching striped paining is bursting with dazzling color. The surface shines. This work is a progression from Choi's signature minimalist works. The bottom of the p...

This minimalist layered painting is by David Skillicorn. Hw began his career as a documentary filmmaker and is a self-taught artist. His process is one of applying paint liberally, c...

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

This large abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with oil paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It features a cool, muted blue, beige, and grey palette with a strong horiz...

Donald Martiny’s signature work is composed of dispersed pigment on aluminum. He creates immediately frozen brushstrokes that are made from his own movements. They are defined by the...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil paint and and lacquer on board. It features light textured and a light blue-grey and yellow palette contrasted by the almost black focal point of the composition. The painting is 14.5" x 19" and measures 16.25" x 20.5" x 2" framed. Signed by the artist in the lower left-hand corner of the painting, it is framed in a floater frame with warm silver face and black sides and is ready to hang. Stanley Bate was born on March 26, 1903 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Bates were an established Tennessee family, in fact, Henry’s brother William Bate was the governor of Tennessee from 1883-1887 and a United States Senator from 1887-1905. Stanley studied art at the Watkins Institute in Nashville. In the 1920’s Bate moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League under Frederick Bridgman. He soon landed a job with Encyclopedia Britannica, and from 1927-1929 served as art editor. From 1929 until his death in 1972, Stanley was a self-employed artist. He taught art classes at both the Art Students League and the Albany Institute of History and Art and brought in extra income by making illustrations for magazines such as “Outdoor Life” and “Popular Science”. On January 27, 1934 Stanley married Emilie Rossel. Emilie had emigrated from Switzerland to New York in 1923. She found work as a governess to Alfred Vanderbilt and later as an executive secretary for Wall Street investment brokers Kahn, Loeb and Co. Emilie met Stanley in New York in the early 1930’s when she attended one of his art exhibitions with a friend. The couple, who had no children, lived on 34th Street in Manhattan. During this period, Bate was producing and exhibiting his art and joined several artists groups. Stanley and Emilie became part of the New York art scene, dining weekly at the Society of Illustrators Clubhouse. Stanley Bate’s time in New York was pivotal in the formation of his painting style. He lived in New York during the inception of one of the most important Modern Art movements, one that helped New York replace Paris as the center of avant-garde art. This movement, which was called the New York School of artists, was later known as Abstract Expressionism. It was comprised of a loosely associated group of vanguard artists working in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. The New York School was not defined by a specific style, but instead reflected a fusion of European Modernism and American social relevancy that was depicted in many individual styles. Influences of Surrealism, Cubism, and Modernism can be found in their work, along with an interest in experimenting with non-traditional materials and methods. American art was in the forefront of international avant-garde for the first time. Stanley Bate was undoubtedly exposed to the varied styles and techniques that were emerging during the formative years of the New York School. Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell were formulating their versions of color field paintings. Joseph Cornell was experimenting with assemblages, collage and the use of different types of textured paints. Jackson Pollock was adhering objects such as buttons and coins into his early works, while Louise Nevelson was using found objects. Helen Frankenthaler added sand to her early paintings. The New York School artists were undermining traditional fine art by using mixed media and non-traditional methods. Stanley Bate absorbed these varied influences and soon his early realistic landscapes and still-lifes were replaced with something entirely new. The influence of Cubism, notably the flat shallow space of the picture plane, is obvious in many of Bate’s paintings. Surrealism is evident in Bate’s use of subjects from myth, primitive art and antiquity, along with the Automatism-like line work in his more linear images. The unfettered experimentation of the New York School is everywhere in Stanley Bate’s work. We see nods to color field, collage, the mixing of textures into paint, mixed media, the inclusion of found objects and thick, luscious impasto. Bate was prolific and experimented in various media including oil, watercolor, lithography, silk screen, wood cut, drawing, collage, ceramics and sculpture. Bate is considered a true Modernist. His work is largely abstract, but sometimes figures and buildings are discernable. He frequently mixed paint, sand and glue together to achieve a textured surface, and then scraped and scratched through this layer to expose some of the underpainting below. His sculpture, which is often whimsical, also reflects the non-traditional methods of the New York School. Bate pioneered the use of enamel and copper in his work. The sculptures are not carved or modeled as was done in the past, but instead are built using mixed media and new materials. In addition to the New York School influence, many of Bate’s works exhibit a strong connection to the Spanish school, especially the work of Antonio Tapies and Modesto Cuixart. These artists were both part of an avant-garde group known as Art Informel, the Spanish equivalent of Abstract Expressionism. These artists likewise worked in mixed media and introduced objects and texture into their work. Many of Bate’s subjects and titles relate to Spanish locations and words. It is likely that Stanley spent time in Spain and found inspiration there. By the early 1940s, Stanley and Emilie had started spending weekends in a barn they purchased in Craryville, New York, a few hours north of Manhattan. The barn had no electricity or plumbing, but when the Bates eventually decided to leave New York and live full time in Craryville, they remodeled the barn, putting a gallery downstairs and a studio and living quarters upstairs. Although the Bates moved out of New York City, Stanley remained part of the New York art scene, exhibiting in New York and elsewhere throughout the 50s and 60s. During his lifetime he was represented by the New York galleries Knoedler and Company, Kennedy Galleries, Rose Fried Gallery and Key Gallery, along with Tyringham Gallery located in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Craryville was Stanley’s home until his death on August 21, 1972. Emilie died 1984...

This original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a deep blue and magenta palette, with two large organic planes of washy color layered over one another for a b...

This abstracted landscape painting by Molly Doe Wensberg features a cool blue, green, and yellow palette and captures a landscape scene with lush fo...

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

A large and impressive Karel Appel of his most desirable subject, abstracted faces. Very difficult to find a work of this size and impact by the artist. Often the faces are not as ...

This large abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with oil paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It features cool blue palette with light pink and dark charcoal accents and...

This contemporary landscape painting by Carol Young captures a rural scene with a bright, contrasting palette. A barn sits in an orange field, with a line of red foliage behind it. O...

This Modern painting by Abstract Expressionist painter Stanley Bate features a textured aesthetic and a deep, colorful palette. Deep blue and red is contrasted by a brighter accents ...

This abstract painting by Roger Mudre is made with acrylic paint over mica powder on cradled birch panel. It features a light blue and silver palette, with the light outlines of circ...

Ilya Bolotowsky is an important and highly recognized hard edge american abstractionist. He experimented with diamond shaped canvases and circular works as well as square formats wi...

This untitled artwork by Stanley Bate was created circa 1960. It is a Modern abstract oil painting on canvas, featuring an earthy palette of sandy brown and umber, light blue, muted ...

This contemporary floral painting captures the elegant simplicity of white blossoms arranged artfully within a translucent green vase. Set against a lush, soothing green backdrop, th...

This abstract landscape painting by Elwood Howell features the artist's signature high horizon line, separating a textured, pale nearly grey foreground and a blue gradient sky. Along...

This large abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with oil paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It features cool blue palette with light pink and dark charcoal accents and...

This abstract floral encaustic painting by Linda Bigness features a cool green, blue, and violet palette, with large organic botanical forms and line work throughout the composition....

It is rare to see a painting by Vasa Mihich available. These works are carefully worked through and planned with the aid of Computers. Mihich will work through the sequencing of co...

This abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It features light gestural brush strokes in deep blue, green, and grey tones on a white...

This abstract painting by Sofie Swann features a warm, bright orange palette with varying sizes of circular shapes layered over a imperfect white and gold vertical lines. This painti...

This abstracted seascape painting by S. Cora Aldo features a cool, light blue palette with warm sand tones in the foreground of the composition. The painting captures an abstracted v...

This original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a warm pink, orange, and lavender palette, with three large organic planes of washy color layered over one ano...

This abstract floral encaustic painting by Linda Bigness features a cool green, blue, and violet palette, with large organic botanical forms as the central focus of the composition. ...

This contemporary landscape statement painting by Carol Young captures a rural scene with a barn-like structure in an open field. The bright, warm yellow and orange tones of the barn and ground are contrasted by the cool blue sky and lavender shadows cast by the building. The painting is signed by the artist in the lower right-hand corner of the canvas. The gallery wrapped canvas sides are painted light blue, and the painting is wired and ready to hang. Carol C. Young is a landscape painter working in acrylics and oils. She is a plein air painter as well as a studio artist whose contemporary work is primarily identified by a bold use of light and shadow along with iconic depictions of structures within the rural landscape. A fine arts major at the College of New Rochelle, NY, her paintings have won several awards including best in show at the Pequot Library Art...