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Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract Geometric Painting by Dave Braden
Located in San Francisco, CA
No two shapes are alike. Yet they work together as a harmonious whole. Painter David Braden has described his vision overall in abstract terms. Inspired by individuality, he especial...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mesh No. 1 / Cautionary Tales
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Important work from Kim Frohsin's Cautionary Tales series of 2015, that considers the price of progress in our rapidly changing world. Here in this compelling diptych "Mesh no. 1' we...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Birth of a Star in Daylight
Located in San Francisco, CA
Someone had Coltrane on the HiFi as they channeled Jackson Pollock. There’s a dark Gauloise going—a habit picked up in those student years in Paris—with smoke emitting from the chrom...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Blue Sea
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Carol Sideman– American (1925-2021)
Title: Blue Sea #57
Year: circa 1975
Medium: Acrylic paint, gouache, chine colle on heavy watercolor paper
Si...
Category
1970s Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board, Oil
Pacific Plates No. 11
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
A bold, intensely color-saturated painting from Stephen Henriques, who is influenced by Bonnard and Vuillard, and the western landscape and its light. When referring to his oil on ab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rhapsody in Yellow - oil on canvas - abstract
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
Color is always central in Henriques' delightful compositions that are at once, balanced, harmonious, and a toast to life. 'Rhapsody in Yellow' with its bright and pure hues shimmer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fluid Heart
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Colemere
By René Romero Schuler
Located in Napa, CA
René Romero Schuler is an American painter and sculptor who creates powerful images that speak to the complexities of the human condition and the spirit that connects all human being...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Mendocino Artist
s Abstract “Ode to Day”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Subtle but vibrant, this abstraction of a hibiscus in brilliant yellow is framed by a cluster of bird of paradise blooms in the shady foreground—the latter simplified into bursts of the plant’s renown color duo. Bring a garden inside without the watering and weeding. Nice.
Oil on canvas
Titled "Ode to Day"
Dated 1982
Signed faintly on the upper left-hand corner
According to the Smithsonian Institution’s archives, the artist Hilda Pertha...
Category
1980s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trafalgar, London
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Thelma Speed Houston – American (1914-2000)
Title: Trafalgar
Year: unknown
Medium: Watercolor on heavy watercolor paper
Sheet size: 18 x 24 inches
Signature: Signed lower lef...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Summer
s Sunset
Located in San Francisco, CA
In this abstract landscape, artist Geneva Cross conveys the mood of a dreamlike summer evening that might be remembered by any of us in its universality. Blending the basic elements ...
Category
1970s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Eva Sikorski (1917-1990) Abstract Portrait Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eva Sikorski (1917-1990) abstract portrait painting by listed German born California artist. Classic impressionistic style with muted colors. Oil on canvas. Excellent condition in li...
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Underneath It All
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid Century Abstract Painting by Chamlin Oil Paint on Canvas
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid-century Abstract Painting by Chamlin
Oil Paint on Canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Untitled
, c. 1990
s by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Design for Light
, c. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
April
By René Romero Schuler
Located in Napa, CA
René Romero Schuler is an American painter and sculptor who creates powerful images that speak to the complexities of the human condition and the spirit that connects all human being...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Cubist "Nob Hill" Becomes San Francisco
s "Oz"
By Jean Kalisch
Located in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco’s elegant Nob Hill caught the eye of Japanese-born, Californian painter Jean Kalisch ((1912-1995). In this atmospheric cityscape, the artist has rendered the famously e...
Category
1960s Cubist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Danseur Bleu (Very Large triptych)
By Pierre Marie Brisson
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Danseur Bleu" Thriptych, 1985, is a large oil painting and mixed media triptych on canvas linen by noted French artist Pierre Marie Brisson (b. 1955) It is si...
Category
20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Nature VIII
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
The oil on canvas painting features golden shadows and cascading light which is the focus of the sophisticated abstract oil on canvas painting by artist Anne Subercaseaux, whose glea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Maine Farmer" A late 20th-Century Abstract Painting in Red, Black
White
Located in San Francisco, CA
Not the visual expected of a painting carrying the title “Maine Farmer.” But this abstract composition manages to convey the flinty resolve of men who support their families on the output of demanding and “generally infertile” soils, as described by the University of Maine. Thank the Lord for blueberries.
Artist Abraham Elterman bestrides two countries. He was born in Mexico City and spent much of his education in the sciences, here in sequence: a B.Sc. in Physics at the nearly 475-year-old Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in his home town; a stint at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley; and then, taking a new direction with a residency in The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture located in Madison, Maine. Ah-ha, Maine!
Elterman’s website lists 22 exhibitions in both Mexico and California, starting in 1986, and inclusion in group shows at the Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California and the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento...
Category
1980s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A language of my own/Contemporary large scale colorful abstract expressionistic
By Jane Burton
Located in Maricopa, AZ
Original vibrant abstract painting by Jane Burton. Her work can be found in public and private collections all over the country, and also in Canada. The artist uses a variety of tech...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
David Hammons, Gray
Rust Abstract
By David Hammons
Located in San Francisco, CA
This signed painting by acclaimed African-American artist David Hammons displays an early experimental use of painted material during the artist’s formative years at Otis Art Institu...
Category
1960s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Ladders
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio
Ladders, 2020-2024
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
This one-of-a-kind oil painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
blue the world is blue, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By matthew bailey seigel
Located in Yardley, PA
Sometimes when the sea meets the sky, everything merges into black and white. Or deep liquid blue to black. Sides painted blue. Signed on back. Canvas on wood stretchers. :: Painting...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
View From the Window, Oil on Canvas
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
One of our finest living contemporary American Realist artists, Willard Dixon, has painted 'View From the Window; featuring green leaves, grey branches, purple lilac and orange turni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Untitled #2
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled #2" 1990 is an oil painting with collage on canvas by noted artist Georgia Whitaker. It is signed at the lower left corner by t...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
An Abstraction in the Primary Colors
Located in San Francisco, CA
Modest in life—the artist signed quite discreetly with the initials GAC—but bold on the canvas. This abstract is easy to embrace, depending only on primary colors. (Remember those th...
Category
1970s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Scale Mid 20th Century Acrylic Painting by Vanguard Studios by Van Gaard
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large Scale Mid 20th Century Acrylic Painting by Vanguard Studios Signed Van Gaard
Classic 1950s to 1960s acrylic painting of a guitar against a colorful ab...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
In the Twinkle of an Ocean
By Erin Parish
Located in Burlingame, CA
Lustrous blues and golds abound in this original and highly unique contemporary oil and resin painting on canvas from acclaimed American abstract artist Erin Parish, Parish's tradema...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Oil
Presence
By Elizabeth Barlow
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Barlow’s contemporary still lifes are singular in their ability to capture beauty as a quiet, enduring presence. Her brilliant floral oil paintings are instantly recognizab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
An Abstract Geometric "Men of Matthew"
Located in San Francisco, CA
It’s time to bury the so-last-century idea that folks are either "right-brained,” i.e., naturally creative, or (boringly) "left-brained," always operating logically. And here’s just ...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Warm Halo
By Craig Mooney
Located in Napa, CA
Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive. Though a representational painter, the artist incorpor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Valley Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio
Valley Landscape, 2025
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches
This one-of-a-kind oil painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Transition
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio
Transition, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 inches
This one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1918
By Jane Kim
Located in Burlingame, CA
When competing desires collide, which one wins?
At the turn of the 20th century, North American bird populations were plummeting, hitting a nadir with the extinction of the Passeng...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Latex, Acrylic
$36,000
Explosive Abstract in Vibrant Blue, Red and Black
By Heinie Hartwig
Located in San Francisco, CA
Small but mighty. A moment caught, an explosion of energy, of color. And such a departure for California artist Heinie Hartwig (b. 1937), who is known primarily for his Western subje...
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Pointillist View of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
The artist had a lot to say. Why else spend the intense focus and time on rendering such a luminous work brought to completion literally point by point in tiny dots? Ask yourself: Ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Pointillist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Abstract Stream Painting by Gibbs C.1968
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid Century Abstract Stream Painting by Gibbs C.1968
Original oil on panel
Dimensions 10" wide x 25" high
The rabbet measures 15.5" wide x 30.5" high
Please note: The rabbet is i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Abstract Watercolor Painting,
Design for Sculpture
, C. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Arthur Dove 1940 "Sun" Painting
By Arthur Dove
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arthur Dove: 1880-1946. One of the most important early American Modernists and Abstract Expressionists. He has had auction results over $8,000,000 and that record was 2 weeks ago. A...
Category
1940s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Jupiter
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Juniper — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 66 x 83 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, New York, and California's B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Large, mid century abstract, painting, signed "Sutton"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large, mid century abstract, painting, signed "Sutton"
Dated 1969
Oil line Candace
24 x 48 unframed, 26.5 x 50.5 framed
Category
1970s Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ether Sans Oiseaux I (Ether without Birds) / Oil on Linen
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ether Sans Oiseaux I (Ether without Birds) Elegant sophisticated whites and creams of the clouds on rich blue sky. 39 x 39 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, has had multip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Hope Echoes
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler’s dazzling contemporary water reflection acrylic paintings bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet with a little di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-century Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid-century Abstract Painting
No visible signature
24 x 40 unframed, 24.74 x 40.75 framed
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fireflies no. 8
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Fireflies no. 8', oil on canvas, painted in 2025 by Stephen Henriques. This piece measured 32 1/4 x 37 1/4 inch, vibrant and alive with rhythmic color. Stephen Henriques says “magni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tweet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Tweet" c.1990, is an acrylic painting on paper by noted American artist Glen Chesnut. It is. signed and titled at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwo...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Feather Wall Art, Tree Rings and gold leaf, 2021
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Growth Rings IV" by Spanish artist Henar Iglesias is a one of a kind organic shaped abstract partridge feather and gold leaf work. This work mimics the growth rings of a tree. The f...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Abundance
By Elizabeth Barlow
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Barlow’s contemporary still lifes are singular in their ability to capture beauty as a quiet, enduring presence. Her brilliant floral oil paintings are instantly recognizab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
David Hammons, Brown
Blue Abstract
By David Hammons
Located in San Francisco, CA
This signed painting by acclaimed African-American artist David Hammons displays an early experimental use of painted material during the artist’s formative years at Otis Art Institu...
Category
1960s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
In the Stillness, Abstract Oil Painting
By Morgan Fite
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Morgan creates ethereal atmospheres using feathery brushstrokes and subtle contrasts. Her muted, tonal palette allows the texture and layering to take centers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Striped Landscape #3
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio
Striped Landscape #3, 2024
Acrylic on panel
36 x 36 inches
This is a one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on panel.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Fireflies no. 5
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Fireflies no. 5', oil on canvas, painted in 2025 by Stephen Henriques. This piece measured 45 1/2 x 45 1/4 inch, vibrant and alive with rhythmic color. Stephen Henriques says “magni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Watercolor Painting,
Design for Sculpture
, C. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Spellbound, Colorful Contemporary Abstract Original with movement
By Jane Burton
Located in Maricopa, AZ
Original vibrant & expressionistic abstract painting by Jane Burton. Her work can be found in public and private collections all over the country, and also in Canada. The artist uses...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$4,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Skull
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
Here is David Shevlino's Skull with crown created with a minimal range of colors, and features the artist's sensuous application of paint and controll...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Aegean XI
By Jacob Kainen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jacob Kainen– American (1909 - 2001)
Title: Aegean XI
Year: 1981
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 48 x 60 inches
Framed size: 49 x 61 inches
Signature: Signed, dated lower right. ...
Category
1980s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$27,500
Fred Kenknight "Midday Sun" Abstract Oil Painting c.1963
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fred Kenknight Vintage 1960s "Midday Sun" Abstract Oil Painting
Fantastic vintage oil painting signed by Fred Kenknight.
Though untitled, we are call...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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