Fairfield County - Paintings

This contemporary abstract painting by Julia Contacessi features light, washy layers of blue tones through the middle of the canvas, with lighter, textured layers on either side, Ove...

About the artist: As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition...

This textured abstract diptych by Teodora Guererra features a light blue, grey, and white palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife over board, creating...

PROVENCAL Series: “In [this] series I was exploring the classical influences of the impressionist masters, to build on their ideas to move them forward, yet being true to the many ap...

Series: Pop Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...

A marvelous and affecting depiction of "Elsa" the artist's wife at the kitchen table with an object not yet decided in her hand. It could be a coffee cup, a glass or a letter that t...

Daniel Hill’s work is an exploration between vision and sound and the power of this connection to generate compelling visual environments. The inquiry of this integration has also sa...

Series: Pop Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...

Series: Abstract Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...

This large abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint and raw canvas pieces assembled on gallery wrapped canvas. It features a light pink and deep blue ...

Series: Pop Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...

Series: Pop Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...

Alley, arch, Italy, Italian, flowers, shadows, buildings, green, red, beige ABOUT ALTINO VILLASANTE Born in Puno, Peru, 1966, Altino Villasante is a young master of the watercolor. At the age of 20, he conquered the two highest Peruvian awards by winning the Michell Watercolor Contest and the Annual Exhibition of Watercolor. Mr. Villasante is a self-taught watercolorist. By 1988 he was one of Latin Americas rising stars in the art world. His subject matter varies from figurative and landscape art to architectural and abstract work. Always, his subject is characterized by a dedication to portraying the accuracy of the homeland that nurtured his artistic visions. He was born in a small village on the shores of Lake Titicaca at the southern tip of the Peruvian Mountains...

TIDEPOOLS Series: “[This series] is an ever-changing fluid eco-world that is filled with life. I can not help but reflect upon these tiny systems, a microcosm of the larger cycle of ...

René Romero Schuler’s expressionistic paintings depict delicate female figures that she paints using a dry-brushed, minimalist hand, leaving her subjects mostly featureless but nonet...

This large abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint and raw canvas pieces assembled on gallery wrapped canvas. It features a light pink and blue palette with ge...

Series: Wax Weave 1/1 Beeswax, reclaimed paper, and silk on wood panel Size: 36" x 40"

Paul Pitsker’s watercolor paintings combine the tradition of still life with narrative elements exploring themes of confinement, thwarted yearning and looming disaster, subjects that...

Lady Amaranth Series: Greenwich Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas 59" x 39" I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image ...

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Green Oval Year: 1962 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 48 x 28 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LO...

Series: Abstract Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...

This abstract painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint and aluminum on board. It features two blue and green birds, one at the top right-hand corner and one at the bottom left, ...

Steve Baris is interested in the interconnections of the built environment and spatial experience. His artwork is a response to a largely overlooked type of landscape that is emerg...

A highly idyllic and unique Barbizon painting, depicting the women of a region all at the water's edge doing the wash. In 19th century France this was an everyday occurrence but this...

Suzanne Chamlin’s paintings are records of her observations and imagination. Painting on site Chamlin explores her expressions of light and color. Suzanne’s process centers on exper...

This original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a dark blue palette and washy layers of paint. "In this deep blue piece," the ...

This abstract portrait painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint on panel. Part of the artist's Spirits Through Time series, it features a woman's face rendered realistically, wi...

Her oil on canvas images are photorealistic and gorgeous.

Paul Manes was born May 4, 1948, in Austin, Texas. He began his professional career in New York City in the early 1980s. His art has been widely exhibited in America and Europe and h...

PROVENCAL Series: “In [this] series I was exploring the classical influences of the impressionist masters, to build on their ideas to move them forward, yet being true to the many ap...

This abstract painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint and recycled aluminum on board. It features a grid composition with a light layers of blue, black, and silver paint, with ...

SHEPHERD’S PASS Series: “In [this] series I wanted to move into expressing more of a post-impressionist mode by deconstructing with lyricism, while not fracturing in hard edges; so a...

TIDEPOOLS Series: “[This series] is an ever-changing fluid eco-world that is filled with life. I can not help but reflect upon these tiny systems, a microcosm of the larger cycle of ...

This contemporary fine art mirror piece is created using mixed media on mirror, which creates a reflective, iridescent, and metallic aesthetic. T...

This horizontal abstract painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint and 24K gold leaf on aluminum. The artist's signature square and rectangular patterned composition serves as a ...

Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...

WEIR FARM Series: “[This] series runs the full range from natural to post-impressionism, yet always having the themes of the American pictorial sense of place with an accurate drawin...

This abstract painting by Roger Mudre is made with acrylic paint over metal leaf on birch panel. It is part of Mudre's Venezia series, which is inspired by his recent trip to the Nor...

This abstract oil painting by Tony Iadicicco features a light grey palette. The painting has an abstracted landscape composition, with a stark horizon line running through the compos...

Paul Manes was born May 4, 1948 in Austin, Texas. He began his professional career in New York City in the early 1980s. His art has been widely exhibited in America and Europe and hi...

This abstract painting by Sue De Chiara is made with acrylic paint on canvas. It features a light blue-grey palette, with white circular shapes applied in light, loose strokes across...

This contemporary abstract painting by Teodora Guererra is made with acrylic paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It features a neutral, metallic palette with charcoal and light grey, white, and metallic gold. The paint is applied in broad strokes that move out from the center of the composition with an energetic burst toward the edges of the piece. The painting is wired and ready to hang. Teodora Guererra’s abstract artistic vision has evolved throughout her years spent painting and teaching in Fairfield County, Connecticut; Tucson, Arizona, and upstate New York. Arizona’s naturally radiant landscape and arid climate led her to experiment with rich under-painting and vivid color; while the shifting seasons of the East Coast inspired Guererra to pursue dripping and staining techniques. Her focus has always been pushing the limits through experimentation with new materials. “As an artist, painting can be tormenting and sublime at the same time," the artist says of her work. "I'm a big risk taker, experimenting with different materials to layer, stain and saturate color on large canvases. My most successful work looks as if it happened all at once. It sometimes takes 7 or more paintings to produce a successful one and then it's a beautiful thing." Guererra received her undergraduate and graduate Art degrees from Southern Connecticut University, The College of Saint Rose and Skidmore College. Guererra’s paintings can be found in public and private collections across the U.S., including the Allmen Health and Wellness Center for Women in New York and SUNY Brockport, NY, William & Sonoma, San Francisco, CA. Her influences are Pat Steir, John McCracken, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Jud, Bernar Venet, Agnes Martin and Brian...

This abstract painting by Sue De Chiara is made with acrylic paint on panel. It features a light blue and white palette and a layered, minimalist composition. The painting has clean,...

This contemporary abstract statement painting by Teodora Guererra is made with acrylic paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It features a cool, neutral grey palette, with layers of paint...

This small abstract painting by Sue De Chiara is made with acrylic paint on board. It features a blue, teal, and green palette and a layered, minimalist composition. The painting is ...

This small abstract painting by Sue De Chiara is made with acrylic paint on board. It features a blue, teal, and green palette and a layered, minimalist composition. The painting is ...

This small abstract painting by Sue De Chiara is made with acrylic paint on board. It features a blue, teal, and green palette and a layered, minimalist composition. The painting is ...

This abstract portrait by Ned Martin is made with oil paint on panel. Part of his Spirits Through Time series, it features a woman in profile - her face and hair are rendered realist...

This masterful and detail oriented depiction of potentially three generations of what may be leather tanners and or saddle-makers in their workshop is a very American genre scene tha...

Signed verso Unframed Dimensions: 24 x 22 inches Framed Dimensions: approximately 26 x 24 inches Adam S. Umbach Biography American, b. 1986 Adam Umbach was born in Chicago, and cur...

This contemporary abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a cool palette, with layers of washes of blue, grey, violet and and white applied in sweeping gestures across the pie...

This work on paper by Cleve Gray is lovely in person - delicate and yet singular and eye catching. Framed in a white washed new wood frame with white matting and plex. Common to al...

Capiobianco experimented with a series of circles and spheres during the era of hard edge abstraction. He daringly puts the black at center here which creates a strong question mark...

Aquaessence on Canvas TIDEPOOLS Series: “[This series] is an ever-changing fluid eco-world that is filled with life. I can not help but reflect upon these tiny systems, a microcosm ...

SHEPHERD’S PASS Series: “In [this] series I wanted to move into expressing more of a post-impressionist mode by deconstructing with lyricism, while not fracturing in hard edges; so a...

Oil on panel Compline Series: Compline is a recent piece, a work honoring New England. It is a culmination of what I developed and experienced from those decades painting and trekki...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Looking Toward Oyster Pond, Montauk Year: 1983-2001 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 42 x 60 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed rect...

As in many of Michael Forster’s works Untitled, 1987 similarly places a special focus on the supremacy of color. This all-absorbing passion for color h...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with gouache on paper and features a cool, muted palette and light texture. The painting itself is 13" x 22" and measures 21.25" x 29.25" x 1" framed. It is signed by the artist in the lower left-hand corner of the painting and is framed in a black frame with an acid-free mat. It 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...

Oil on canvas Provencal: Compline is a recent piece, a work honoring New England. It is a culmination of what I developed and experienced from those decades painting and trekking th...