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Item Ships From: Austin
"Red Butterflies, 1998" Large Textured Abstract Oil Painting Metallic Gold
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Austin, TX
Canvas Size: 36 x 48 inches.
Hand Signed, dated, inscribed on verso.
The iconic and wildly popular works of Hunt Slonem are a the essence of lavishness and luxury. They are inspire...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sky Blue and Multi Color Abstract" Large Painting Cobalt Yellow Red Gestural
By Tom Reno
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Tom Reno
Measurements: 72 x 50 in.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
A brilliant, large scale, abstract painting by Tom Reno, executed in acrylic on canvas. This 72 x 50 inch canva...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abres en bord de mer
By Gabriel Godard
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Gabriel Godard, "Arbres en bord de mer" (1966). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left; titled and inven...
Category
1960s French School Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Phenomena Dervish Spell
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Paul Jenkins
Phenomena Dervish Spell, 1974
Acrylic on canvas
Signed lower right
65 x 63 in.
66.5 x 64.5 in....
Category
1970s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Campagne de Grasse
By Roger Mühl
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, titled and inventoried verso.
43.25 x 47.25 in.
44.75 x 48.5 in. (framed...
Category
1980s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ace of Spades
Located in Austin, TX
A sophisticated abstract painting by Kendall Rabon executed in acrylic on a cradled wood panel, measuring 38.5 x 30 inches.
This stately composition balances creamy white with deep...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Lu Blows Again
By Hassel Smith
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Hassel Smith
Lu Blows Again, 1963
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left, dated lower right; signed and dated verso...
Category
1960s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$140,000
Green Burst
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Kyle Morris
Green Burst, 1958
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right; signed, titled, dated verso.
48...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$75,000
Infinity Field (Jerusalem Series)
By Theodoros Stamos
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed verso.
68 x 50 in.
69.5 x 51.75 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple floater with a matte white finish.
Provenance
Camillos Kouros Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Theodoros Stamos is heralded as one of the few abstract painters who bridged the New York School’s first and second generations. His age, in particular, afforded him this unique position, as he was the youngest member of the “Irascibles,” the core group of fifteen New York School painters publicized by Nina Leen...
Category
1980s Post-War Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Red and Blue Abstract" Large Painting Gestural Color Fields
By Tom Reno
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Tom Reno
Measurements: 60 x 48 inches
Medium: Oil on Canvas
A striking abstract composition by Tom Reno, executed in acrylic on canvas. Reno describes his pieces as "destin...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Green Center
By Kenneth Lochhead
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso.
62.25 x 62.25 in.
63.75 x 63.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish.
Provenance
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Private Collection, Lancaster, PA
Exhibited
"," June 2, 2003-July 15, 2004, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada.
Publications
"Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light...
Category
1960s Post-War Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract in Black, Yellow, Orange, Pink, and Teal
Located in Austin, TX
By 2nd generation abstract expressionist Jack Nichols. Executed in oil on canvas. Measures 48" x 60" with a 49.25" x 61.25" frame.
About the Artist:
Jack Nichols, based in Texas, bo...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Edward Zutrau
Untitled, 1960
Oil on canvas
Signed verso
51.5 x 38.25 in.
53.25 x 40 in. (framed)
Custom fr...
Category
1960s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$40,000
Oliviers
By Roger Mühl
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, titled and inventoried verso.
19.75 x 21 in.
23.25 x 24.25 in. (framed)
...
Category
1980s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$30,000
Blue and Green Gestural Abstract with Yellow Accents
Located in Austin, TX
By Roberto de la Renta
13" x 13"
Acrylic on Paper
Framed Size: 20" x 20"
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Yellow Tail I
By Sherron Francis
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated verso.
40 x 76.5 in.
41.75 x 78.25 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid, unfinished maple floater.
Provenance
Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston
Private Collection, New York
Sherron Francis was born in 1940, in Downers Grove, IL outside of Chicago. She originally enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, but later transferred to the Kansas City Art Institute to focus more on art. Initially, Francis' practice was focused on figurative art, with visiting professor and renowned modern realist Philip Pearlstein remarking on Francis’ draftsman acumen.
In the early 1960s, art dealers and gallerists from New York would visit the Institute to entice promising artists by offering scholarships and financial aid. Because such financial arrangements were only made for men, Francis had to persuade the school's leadership to allow for women to also be eligible for merit-based aid. Her advocacy was successful, and she ultimately graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1963. She would then proceed to obtain her MFA from the University of Indiana, before assuming a teaching position at Eastern Michigan University.
In 1968, with only $300 on hand, Francis moved to 16 Waverly Place in SoHo, New York. The neighborhood was a hotbed for young AbEx artists of the day, and she quickly befriended the likes of Peter Reginato, Walter Darby Bannard, Michael Steiner, Peter Young, Peter Bradley...
Category
1970s Post-War Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Force #6
By Gabriel Godard
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left.
47.25 x 47.25 inches
48.75 x 48.75 inches (framed)
Custom fram...
Category
1960s French School Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$25,000
Untitled
By John Opper
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed and dated verso.
62.25 x 56.25 in.
64 x 58 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a natural cherry wood floater.
Provenance
Washburn Gallery, New York
Behnke Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot, CT
Born in 1908 in Chicago, John Opper moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1916. In high school, he began studying art and attending classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
After graduation, he enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art), only to withdraw after a year and move to Chicago, where he took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. He eventually returned to Cleveland, enrolling at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve), receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1931. The Depression has taken hold during this period, so Opper found work by teaching metalworking and sketching classes at the Karamu Settlement House, the oldest African American theater in the United States.
In 1933, Opper traveled to Gloucester, Massachusetts, eventually connecting with the artist Hans Hofmann, who was teaching at the school run by Ernest Thurn. Hofmann encouraged Opper to work “in a more modern vein and start finding what it’s all about.” Heeding this advice, Opper relocated to New York, co-founding a mail-order club of American and British prints for dissemination to schools and museums.
By the mid-1930s, he joined the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Easel Division, and also began attending the 57th Street school that Hans Hofmann had established after leaving the Art Students League. Looking back at his time at the school, Opper felt that beyond Hofmann’s teaching, most advantageous was his contact with fellow artists, including Byron Browne, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, and George McNeil. At the time, he also met Giorgio Cavallon and the sculptor Wilfrid Zogbaum.
In 1936, Opper became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, along with Balcomb and Gertrude Greene. The organization was formed to provide an opportunity for artists to show abstract works at a time when such opportunities were scarce. This led to his first solo show in 1937 at the Artists’ Gallery in New York.
During his summer in Gloucester in 1933, Opper came to know Milton Avery. Painting in Avery’s informal studio in New York City the following winter, he became acquainted with Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko. Opper participated in a couple of shows during the 1930s of the American Artists Congress Against War and Fascism, whose president was Stuart Davis. About the same period, Opper joined the Artists’ Union and served as the business manager of its publication, Art Front.
During World War II, Opper worked for a ship design company creating drawings for piping systems used in PT boats...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$25,000
Terres Rouges
By Roger Mühl
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed, dated, and titled verso.
59 x 62.75 in.
60.75 x 64.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a matte white hardwood floater, with gilded metallic front.
Roger Mühl was born on December 20, 1929 in Strausbourg, France, where he attended the National School of Decorative Arts. He spent most of his life living and working in Provence, while regularly exhibiting in London, Paris, Geneva, Tokyo, and New York.
Mühl is best known for his brightly colored, heavily textured landscape renderings of the south of France. His bucolic paintings...
Category
1980s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rectangular Orange Abstract
By Cora Van
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Rectangular Orange Abstract"
Artist: Cora Van
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 63" x 49.5"
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Construct 7.14.22
By Roi James
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In all of James' work, he is intrigued by the ability of the individual to distinguish form when staring into the unrecognizable and, how, when confronted with mystery and uncertaint...
Category
2010s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Splash, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Sarah Boisvert
Located in Yardley, PA
Inspired by light on water. Lots of layers and texture combine for visual beauty that photos can’t do justice. Textured and shaded with multiple coats of paint for wonderful d...
Category
2010s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Red and Orange Abstract" Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Tom Reno
Located in Austin, TX
By Tom Reno
5" x 7" - Acrylic paint on paper
Framed Size: 9.5" x 11.5"
An contemporary abstract expressionist painting featuring wavy black lines with orange and red on a white backg...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Argo
By Jacob Kainen
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right; signed, dated, titled verso (underneath foamcore backing).
49.75 x 59.75...
Category
1990s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$48,000
"Broken Road" Abstract in Black and White
Located in Austin, TX
This black, white, and grey abstract by Gaylon Dingler (1942 - 2022) plays with the perspective of the viewer by creating a sense of depth within a non-representational scene. The su...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Blue and Yellow Abstract" Large Gestural Color Field Painting
By Tom Reno
Located in Austin, TX
Blue and Yellow abstract by Tom Reno
60" x 48"
Acrylic on Canvas
Tom Reno is an abstract artist originally from Southern California who now re...
Category
2010s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Spanish Ghost
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso.
52.25 x 52.75 in.
54 x 54.25 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple hardwood floater.
Provenance
Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York
Private Collection, Connecticut
Provenance
Estate of Samuel Feinstein...
Category
1980s Color-Field Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Strutture d
insieme
By Luigi Boille
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on sackcloth. Signed and dated lower center; signed, dated, and titled verso.
57.75 x 45 in.
59.5 x 47 ...
Category
1960s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Crawling Landscape
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right; signed, titled, dated along rear stretcher.
48.25 x 52.25 in.
49.5 x 53.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid maple floater, painted a light gray.
Provenance
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Exhibited
1996 - Locks Gallery, Philadelphia (Warren Rohrer...
Category
1970s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arapahoe XII
By Ludwig Sander
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed, titled, dated verso.
40 x 44 in.
41.5 x 45.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a natura...
Category
1970s Color-Field Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
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 - Abstract Paintings
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Board
$16,000
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$30,000
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
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 - Abstract Paintings
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 - Abstract Paintings
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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 - Abstract Paintings
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 - Abstract Paintings
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$85,000
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 - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$75,000
July Fourth
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and titled verso.
40.25 x 56.25 in.
40.75 x 56.75 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a wh...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Lights
By Carl Holty
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Carl Holty
Winter Lights, 1966
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right.
60 x 46 in.
62 x 48 in. (framed)
Custom...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Komposition rot/schwarz
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left, inscribed label verso.
59.25 x 55.25 in.
61 x 57 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a wooden double tray frame, hand-painted white.
Provenance
Galerie Lovers of Fine Art, Gstaad, Switzerland
This work has been recorded under no. 1531 in the digital Catalogue Raisonné of the artist, prepared by Michel Reymondin, Montreux, Switzerland.
Carl Walter Liner was born in the Swiss canton of Appenzell, near the border with Liechtenstein, in 1914. The son of famed artist Carl August Liner, the younger Liner enjoyed more critical and commercial renown for his landscapes.
In 1938 at the age of 24, he undertook what would become the first of several residencies in Paris. This particular sojourn helped to establish the trajectory of his career, as Paris would provide the setting in which he became acquainted with early twentieth century masters Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Braque, Ossip Zadkine, Gérard Schneider, and Erich Heckel. The stylistic and technical influence of his contemporaries is clearly evident in Liner’s work from this point forward.
Unfortunately, the dawn of the 1940s would bring about a number of challenges for Liner. With the outbreak of war, Liner was mobilized for the Swiss Border Guard, and returned home to Switzerland in 1939. He remained on active duty until 1945, only to lose his father the following year. The death of the elder Liner left a profound impact on his son, who eventually made his way back to Paris in 1947 and embarked upon what would become a very successful series of nudes.
By his own admission, 1948 was a pivotal year in Liner’s career, as a particularly spiritual trip to Algeria would foment the emotions led to the beginning of his practice with abstraction. Henceforth, Liner would vacillate between the figurative and abstract, creating parallel oeuvres. His abstraction from the 1950s and 60s mirrored...
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