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Item Ships From: Austin
Window by the Sea
Located in Austin, TX
By Rei Yuki Medium: Wood block print on paper Size: 27 x 21" Year: 1967 Framed
Category

1960s Austin - Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Woodcut

Paris
By Robert Lavin
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Paris" Artist: Robert Lavin Medium: Oil Paint on Canvas Size: 14" x 18" Framed
Category

20th Century Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th Century British Woolie "Dieu Et Mon Droit"
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century handcrafted Woolie featuring sailboat bordered by British flags with the motto of the British monarch Dieu et Mon Droit, (God and my rig...
Category

Mid-19th Century Folk Art Austin - Art

Materials

Wool

Composition
By Jacques Germain
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Jacques Germain Composition, 1971 Oil on canvas Signed and dated verso 76.75 x 51 in. 78.75 x 53 in. (frame...
Category

1970s Abstract Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

H.M.S Volage British Woolie 1869
Located in Austin, TX
Created in 1869 by British Naval Officer a woolie of H.M.S Volage which was built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s and was assigned to the Flying Squandron circumnavigating the w...
Category

Mid-19th Century Folk Art Austin - Art

Materials

Wool

"Itch" White Longhorn Cow on Black Large Painting Animal Portrait Chiaroscuro
Located in Austin, TX
David Ackerson Texas Artist Size: 30 x 40" Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Markings: Signed LR "David Ackerson, Sola Deo Gloria"
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Little Ol Tex
Located in Austin, TX
David Ackerson (b. 1950, American) Title: "Little Ol' Tex" Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 18 x 24 in. Markings: Signed LR "David Ackerson" Signed & Ti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Warm Beach (#108)
By Joyce Kozloff
Located in Austin, TX
Acrylic and graphite on canvas. Signed and titled verso. 59 x 58.5 in. 61 x 60.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish. Provenance B...
Category

1970s Post-War Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

Four Winds from One Cent Life
By Robert Indiana
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Robert Indiana Title: Four Winds from One Cent Life Year: 1964 Medium: 2 page lithograph, as printed from One Cent Life As printed with Walasse Ting poem, from the One Cent ...
Category

1960s Expressionist Austin - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Four Horns
Located in Austin, TX
David Ackerson (b. 1950, American) Title: "Four Horns" Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 40 x 30 in. Markings: Signed LR "David Ackerson" Signed & Titled...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

New Mexican Walls, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Marlene Llanes
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting was inspired by the Pueblos in New Mexico. Those walls were painted in the style of impossible art which tricks the mind to create a very thought provoking and intrigui...
Category

2010s Surrealist Austin - Art

Materials

Oil

David Bowie "A Day in Kyoto 2 - Hankyu Train" by Sukita
By Masayoshi Sukita
Located in Austin, TX
16" x 20", signed limited edition print of David Bowie, titled "A Day in Kyoto 2 - Hankyu Train" by Masayoshi Sukita This print is also available as a 30x40" signed limited edition...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Austin - Art

Materials

C Print

"Migration of Silver Geece" Large Painting of Birds and Trees with Gold Leaf
By Thomas Swanston
Located in Austin, TX
Mixed Media on Canvas 50 x 56 in. A stunningly beautiful painting that portrays the grace and wild beauty of migrating geese with a combination of naturalistic subject matter and ab...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Austin - Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Campagne Contre Jour, Antibes
By Gustav Bolin
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right; signed, dated, and titled verso. 38.25 x 51.25 in. 39.75 x 52....
Category

1960s French School Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Desert Rain, Mixed Media on MDF Panel
By Clay Pape
Located in Yardley, PA
Tonal landscape painting with strong siennas, orange, and reds beneath sky of grey. :: Mixed Media :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an off...
Category

2010s Abstract Austin - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Manifestation II
By Virginia Fleck
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: This kinetic artwork is intended as a gently rotating, dimensional mandala. It has a baroque-upcycled aesthetic that playfully transcends the utility of the can-tab. Sparkling moiré patterns emerge as the artwork rotates slowly. One can experience the artwork as a sparkling, crystalline mystery from a distance, then as a familiar but incalculable marvel up close. Fun fact: it is powered by a disco ball motor Keywords: kinetic art,sensory art, suspended art, upcycled, sparkling , metal Details: A kinetic, sensory sculpture made from post-consumer can-tabs, safety pins, steel armature and ceiling mounted motor. 84"l x 44"w x 44"d x 40 lbs. rotates at 1 to 1-1/2 rpm Artist Biography: Since 2002, award winning artist Virginia Fleck...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Kinetic Austin - Art

Materials

Found Objects

"Hill Country Landscape with a Creek" Texas Landscape in Summer
Located in Austin, TX
In this painting, 20th century artist Palmer Chrisman depicts a flowing Texas creek in the summer. This piece is executed in oil on canvas. Canvas Size: 24 x 36 inches Framed Size: 3...
Category

20th Century Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled (#222)
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed and dated verso. 49.5 x 34.5 in. 51 x 36.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple fl...
Category

1950s Post-War Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Hold onto Your Hat" Figurative Painting with Orange Background
Located in Austin, TX
This expressionist piece by Majorcan artist Pep Suari depicts a man holding his hat in the wind with an orange background with white gestures. 12" x 12" - acrylic on canvas
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Art

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

“Life” 180/300, signed color modern serigraph of abstract blue woman flowers
Located in Austin, TX
page size: 12 x 12 in. frame size: 21.5 x 21.5 in. Signed: lower right Numbered: "180/300" This striking Serigraph, features the figure of a woman, bold and central, in a reclining...
Category

1990s Pop Art Austin - Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Screen

Nightfall, Original Landscape Drawing, 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: A stunning, colorful Texas sunset. Keywords: Landscape & Nature Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Austin - Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Some scratched out, illegible writing in paint and graphite verso, which may ha...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bob Dylan Contact Sheet Print
By Barrie Wentzell
Located in Austin, TX
Contact sheet of Bob Dylan, taken at the BBC TV Studios, London 1965 by Barrie Wentzell Barrie recalls : On the first of June, 1965, Bob came to the BBC Studios in London, to do a live concert. I went along to rehearsals but the studio was empty, so I headed off to the canteen bar where I ran into some musicians I knew from The Pretty Things. Sitting a few tables away were Bob Dylan and his chum Bobby Neuwirth. I sat and chatted with the Pretty Things, who later would be immortalized in a line in one of Bob’s songs, “The Sweet Pretty Things are in bed now, of course. This Bob Dylan print...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Austin - Art

Materials

Giclée

According to Equation
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed, titled, dated verso. 67 x 66 inches67.75 x 66.75 inches (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater. Warren Rohrer...
Category

1980s Abstract Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Liberty Mandala
By Virginia Fleck
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: I challenged myself to create complex patterning on this piece. This mandala is made from post-consumer plastic bags Keywords: collage, abstract, assemblage Details: This is a wall mounted scuplture made from post consumer can-tabs and safety pins mounted on green MDF. A hanging cleat is attached on back. signed on back. No paints are use in this piece. The can-tabs are manufactured in many colors according to thier brand. Artist Biography: Since 2002, award winning artist Virginia...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Austin - Art

Materials

Plastic, Board

The Rolling Stones "Keith and Pug"
By Michael Joseph
Located in Austin, TX
The Rolling Stones "Keith and Pug" - Outtake from the famous photo shoot of The Rolling Stones for their Beggars Banquet album at Sarum Chase mansion, Hamp...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Austin - Art

Materials

C Print

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in bed
By Allan Tannenbaum
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of John Lennon and Yoko Ono during the filming of a video to promote their new album, "Double Fantasy", New York City, November 26, 1980, taken by Allen Tannenbaum. Filming began in Central Park, then moved to a gallery on SoHo for scenes where they would arrive in a white bedroom, first in street clothes and later in kimonos, strip, and make love. Allan Tannenbaum is an esteemed photojournalist and fine art photographer. His documentation of New York art, music, and nightlife has become iconic, particularly his definitive coverage of the burgeoning 1970s punk...
Category

1980s Contemporary Austin - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Tickets Please - Bob Dylan The Band 1974
Located in Austin, TX
Bob Dylan & The Band, Hollywood Sportatorium, Pembrook Pines, FLA 1974 Signed limited edition photographic print by Blaise Hayward from his series “Tickets Please” These editioned ...
Category

2010s Austin - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Blondie rooftop hammock by Lynn Goldsmith signed limited edition 20x24" print
By Lynn Goldsmith
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition 20x24"" print of Blondie members, Chris Stein and Debbie Harry relaxing in a hammock on the rooftop of their New York City apartment in 1978 by Lynn Goldsmith....
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Austin - Art

Materials

C Print

Cattle Pond
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Texas hill country sunset on a warm October evening. Keywords: Landscape Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the town of Mequon, Wis...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Austin - Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

The Clash "London Calling" co-signed by Paul Simonon
Located in Austin, TX
Original art canvas entitled London Calling by renowned contemporary U.K. artist Jagga. Co-signed by the artist and The Clash bass player, Paul Simonon. Limited edition number 16/20...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas

Ian Curtis Heart And Soul - by Shepard Fairey and Kevin Cummins artist proof
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Austin, TX
Joy Division Ian Curtis Heart and Soul. Screen print on thick cream Speckletone paper From a 2023 collaboration between Shepard Fairey and photographer Kevin Cummins. Artist Proof...
Category

2010s Contemporary Austin - Art

Materials

Screen

"Mother and Child" Art Nouveau Bronze Sculpture Woman Carrying Harvest Green
By Louis Auguste Moreau
Located in Austin, TX
20 inches tall x 11 inches wide at base. Signed. Numbered 6/100 A cast bronze sculpture that depicts an adult female, rural worker, mid-stride, holding a large bundle of wood on her...
Category

Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Austin - Art

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Untitled
By Norman Carton
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed and sequentially numbered on verso. 44 x 30.25 in. 47.5 x 33.75 in. (framed) Custom framed in a two-tiered matte white hardwood tray frame. Provenance Estate of Norman Carton Norman Carton was born in the Ukraine, eventually immigrating to the U.S. in 1922 and settling in Philadelphia, where he attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art. In the 1930s, he received a scholarship to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). Between 1939 and 1942, the Works Project Administration (WPA) employed Carton as a muralist. During World War II, Carton was a naval structural designer and draftsman at the Cramps...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Kurt Cobain "Floating Guitar in Swimmingpool" Nirvana Nevermind
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition photographic print of the electric guitar Kurt Cobain used during the famous 1991 swimming pool photoshoot to promote the album Nevermind, taken by underwater ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Austin - Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Edge
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on board. Signed and dated lower right and verso, titled verso. 36.25 x 48 in. 40.5 x 52.25 in. (framed) Framed in contemporary silver, tiered floater frame. Dennis Eugene Norman Burton was a Canadian modernist who was born in Lethbridge, Ontario. He attended the Ontario College of Art from 1952 to 1956, and worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as a graphic designer until 1960. Inspired by a 1955 exhibition of the “Painters Eleven” at Toronto’s Hart House, as well as American Abstract Expressionist artists such as Robert Motherwell, Jack Tworkov, and Willem de Kooning, Burton shifted his focus toward abstraction in the mid-1950s. Burton showed with the famed Isaacs Gallery in Toronto, becoming one of the youngest members on the gallery’s roster. A talented musician, he also played saxophone in the Artist’s Jazz Band in Toronto - a pioneering Canadian free-jazz group...
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil, Board

"Three Perched Birds"
Located in Austin, TX
Watercolor piece depicting birds perched on a tree branch by Gustav Likan. Watercolor on paper. 7" x 8.5"
Category

20th Century Austin - Art

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Untitled
By Paul Brach
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. 41.75 x 61 in. 44 x 63 in. (framed) Custom framed in a hardwo...
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chinatown Portfolio #1, 97/250
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933) Chinatown Portfolio #1 Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 Edition: 250 Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4i...
Category

1970s Conceptual Austin - Art

Materials

Screen

Led Zeppelin by Barrie Wentzell
By Barrie Wentzell
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Led Zeppelin by Barrie Wentzell, taken in 1972. This print is available in the following sizes. 16" x 20" - Edition 50 20" x 24" - Edition 50 30" x ...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Austin - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Angel with Bugle" Antique Cuzco School Painting
Located in Austin, TX
23" x 16" – Oil on Canvas Framed Size: 32.5" x 26" This Peruvian antique Cuzco School painting depicts an angel in elegant clothing playing a bulge ...
Category

19th Century Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bob Marley
By Guido Harari
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Bob Marley by Guido Harari, taken in 1980 in Milan, Italy. Available in the following sizes: A. 11” x 16” - Edition 50 B. 16” x 20” - Edition 50 C. 20” x 28” - Edition 25 D. 32” x 44” - Edition 10 E. 44” x 59” - Edition 5 Guido Harari has photographed many music legends in his prolific career in Italy. Lou Reed said about him: "I'm always happy when Guido takes my picture because I know it will be a musical picture...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Austin - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bob Marley 1972 portrait
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition, silver print of Bob Marley, taken in the recording studio during the "I Can See Clearly Now" sessions with Johnny Nash, 1972 Alec Byrne...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Austin - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Silver Gelatin

Slate Blue Abstract with Yellow and Green
By Tom Reno
Located in Austin, TX
Blue, Green, and Yellow Abstract by Tom Reno 28.5" x 22" Acrylic on Paper Tom Reno is an abstract artist originally from Southern California who now resides in New Mexico. He is th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Austin - Art

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

Toss, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Sarah Boisvert combines abstraction and figuration in her stunning works. Compelling edge to edge dynamics that isn’t trying to tell a tale-it is awak...
Category

2010s Contemporary Austin - Art

Materials

Acrylic

Signed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Austin City Limits original poster
By Chuck Sperry
Located in Austin, TX
Original signed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds poster from the PBS Austin City Limits season 40 taping by artist Chuck Sperry 35" x 17" screen print Signed by Nick Cave Signed by ar...
Category

2010s Austin - Art

Materials

Screen

Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on linen. Unsigned. 58.25 x 46.75 in. 59.75 x 48 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish. Provenance Estate of Gottfried Mair...
Category

1970s Abstract Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Raw Linen, Oil

April 10, 1961
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right; signed, titled, dated verso. 48 x 60 in. 49.75 x 61.75 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater, with an heirloom white finish. Provenance Kootz Gallery, New York Collection of John G. and Kimiko Powers, New York/Aspen, CO Prentice-Hall Corporate Art Collection, New York Kyle Morris was born in Des Moines, IA in 1918. After serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, he completed M.F.A. programs at both Northwestern and Cranbrook Academy of Art before settling in New York and renting a studio on Mercer Street in downtown Manhattan during the 1950s. Transitioning away from the figurative painting of his formal training, he began to create the bold gestural works that would serve as his hallmark in the ever-growing fraternity of the New York School. Morris’ first major solo exhibition occurred at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1952. This show served as the catalyst for his recruitment onto the rosters of the prominent Stable and Kootz galleries in New York. In 1961, he was included in the Guggenheim’s landmark exhibition, American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, which surveyed the abstract expressionist movement that would come to dominate contemporary American art...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Green and Purple Circle)
By Julian Stanczak
Located in Austin, TX
Acrylic on canvas. Signed verso. 36.5 x 36 in. 42.75 x 42.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple tray frame with an heirloom white finish. Provenance Private Collection, C...
Category

1960s Abstract Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Ray Davies of The Kinks by Barrie Wentzell
By Barrie Wentzell
Located in Austin, TX
Ray Davies of The Kinks by Barrie Wentzell, taken at “Konk Studio’s” in North London during an interview with the Melody Maker in 1974. This print is avail...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Austin - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

BB King On Stage - in Spotlights, Boston Garden, 1969 by Glen Craig
By Glen Craig
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of BB King by photographer Glen Craig. BB King during a performance at the Boston Garden. Captured as he opened for the Rolling Stones during their lege...
Category

Late 20th Century Austin - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Miles Davis Performing at Fillmore East, NYC, June 17, 1970 by Glen Craig
By Glen Craig
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Miles Davis on stage at Filmore East, NYC in 1970 by photographer Glen Craig. Miles Davis recorded Miles Davis at Fillmore over the course of four ni...
Category

Late 20th Century Austin - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Miles Davis Shadowboxing in the Mirror at Gleason s Gym, NYC, 1970 by Glen Craig
By Glen Craig
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Miles Davis shadowboxing at Gleason’s Gym in 1970 by photographer Glen Craig. Miles Davis exercises in Gleason’s Gym in 1970. At age 46, "He was in e...
Category

Late 20th Century Austin - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Miles Davis training at Gleason s Gym, NYC, 1970 by Glen Craig
By Glen Craig
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Miles Davis boxing at Gleason’s Gym in 1970 by photographer Glen Craig. Miles Davis works out with a speed bag at Gleason’s Gym in the Bronx. “He was...
Category

Late 20th Century Austin - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Best Of Blondie album cover art by Martyn Goddard
By Martyn Goddard
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Blondie, by photographer, Martyn Goddard. Blondie on top of Record Plant Studio in New York, 1978. "Blondie took time off from recording Parallel ...
Category

Late 20th Century Austin - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on linen. Estate stamp verso. Unsigned. 71.25 x 40.5 in. 72.75 x 42 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish. Provenance Estat...
Category

1970s Abstract Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Raw Linen

Red-8
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated on verso. 36.25 x 42 in. 37.25 x 43.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in maple. Provenance Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta Yoshishige Furukawa...
Category

1990s Abstract Geometric Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
By Luigi Boille
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Unsigned. 63 x 51.25 in. 64.5 x 52.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in an ebonized solid walnu...
Category

1950s Abstract Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Led Zeppelin by Robert Knight 30x40” signed limited edition print
By Robert Knight
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Led Zeppelin by legendary rock photographer, Robert M Knight, taken in Hawaii at Honolulu airport on 12th May 1969, holding the master tapes to Led Ze...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Austin - Art

Materials

C Print

Captain Cook
By Cleve Gray
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated lower right, titled verso. 69 x 68.25 in. 70.5 x 70 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater. Provenance Private Collection, Hilton Head Island, SC Cleve Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg in New York on September 22, 1918. The family subsequently changed its surname to ‘Gray’ in 1936. He attended the Ethical Culture School in New York, and completed his college preparatory studies at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, where he won the Morse Prize for most promising art student. In 1940, Gray graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with degrees in art and archaeology. He wrote his thesis on Chinese landscape painting, which would later become an important influence on his own painterly practice. Gray joined the U.S. Army in 1942 and was deployed to the U.K., France, and Germany, where he sketched wartime destruction. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, he began informal studies with the French artists André Lhote and Jacques Villon, which continued following the conclusion of the war. Soon after, he began to exhibit his work at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris, followed shortly by his first solo exhibition at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery in New York in 1947. Before 1950, Gray would participate in group exhibitions at such venerable institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago. In the 1960s, he formed a close friendship with the first generation Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman. It was during this time that Gray experienced an artistic metamorphosis, dissolving his earlier cubist compositions in a sea of distilled color. This dramatic body of work marked the beginning of an artistic meditation that would last for over 40 years. The rigors of French modernism, the ethos of Abstract Expressionism, and the meditative restraint of Chinese and Japanese scroll painting commingle with astounding affect. The atmospheric, subdued tones of his 1960s paintings gradually gave way to bright, monochromatic fields of color, hazily washed onto the canvas in stain like swathes. Much of his work from the last three decades of his career feature striking graphic brushwork that conjures the influence of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. Beginning with his marriage in 1957 to the French author and New Yorker staff writer, Francine Du Plessix, Gray would spend the remainder of his life working out of his home base in Warren, CT, while continuously exhibiting and participating in residencies around the world. He enjoyed representation and exhibitions with some of the most influential galleries of the day, including the Betty Parsons Gallery, Staempfli Gallery, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Eva Cohon Gallery, and Berry-Hill Gallery. Cleve Gray died in Hartford, CT in 2004, at the age of 86. Gray's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and many other museums and institutional collections around the world. Source: The New York Times and Loretta Howard...
Category

1970s Color-Field Austin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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