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Item Ships From: USA
Antique French Impressionist Framed Landscape Coastal Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French landscape oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Signed verso. Measuring: 12 by 14 inches overall, and 9 by 11 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Ha...
Category
1920s Modern USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Hushed Moment 4
By Amy Van Winkle
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Encaustic on panel.
It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
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 USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Art Deco Formula Two Grand Prix Car Racing Modernist MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very rare and well painted Formula Two racing painting. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Nicely framed.
Category
1950s Modern USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
A Brief View - Large Cool Tone Impasto Textural Thick Paint Abstract Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Castano - Rainbow Cactus Southwest Original Painting
By Will Beger
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Will Beger and his contemporary-minimalist paintings, take on an entirely unique approach to southwest art. Influenced by his youth and inspired by nature, he effortlessly captures a...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Diamond XXXV /// Contemporary Abstract Geometric Striped Pattern Colorful Art
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Diamond XXXV"
Series: Diamond
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2021
Medium: Origin...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 43 by 31 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood mo...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Ray of Light Acrylic Abstract Plethora of Colors Emotions Contemporary Art
By Marthann Masterson
Located in Houston, TX
A Ray of Light is a new painting by Marthann Masterton completed in her Houston studio. It is 48" x 36" , acrylic on canvas.
They say that if you do what you love, you’ll never work...
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Large Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 20H by 24L. Excellent ready to hang condition. Impressive colors and compo...
Category
1960s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,180 Sale Price
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Luminary Nights, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting by James Hiroshi Suzuki
By James Suzuki
Located in Long Island City, NY
Luminary Nights
James Hiroshi Suzuki, Japanese/American (1932)
Date: 1960
Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, dated and titled on verso
Size: 23 x ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Teal Lace Collotype Lithograph
By Patricia A. Pearce
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate layered collotype on heavy bond paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of other Pearce work. No frame. I...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
$540 Sale Price
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Girl / Boy (diptych)
By Hyland Mather (X-O)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Girl / Boy (diptych)" is an original artwork by Hyland Mather made of lost objects, acrylic, aerosol, abandoned papers, laser engraving, string, nails, wood box frame measuring appr...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Thread, Wood, Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic, Engraving
"Sunlit" (2023) By John McCaw, Original Expressionist Oil on Canvas Painting
By John McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
John McCaw's (US based) "Sunlit" (2023) is a beautiful original expressionist painting, which depicts a park pathway during the sunset. A park bench rests along the path which leads...
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ye Huang Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Warm Winter VI"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Warm Winter VI
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 17.25 x 17.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1950s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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Concert (unique, signed Abstract Expressionist painting by celebrated artist)
By Ben Wilson
Located in New York, NY
Ben Wilson
Concert, ca. 1989
Oil on masonite board (Hand Signed by the artist; also bears the Estate Stamp)
Boldly signed front and back, titled and dated on the back by Ben Wilson and also stamped on the back by the estate of Ben Wilson
42 × 48 inches
Unframed
This stunning painting is done by the second generation Abstract Expressionist artist Ben Wilson - one of the youngest artists to be given a show at prestigious ACA Gallery in 1940. This work "Concert" - depicting instruments, in a light, lyrically abstract painting. Exquisite colors and subtle imagery.
In 2017, he was the subject of a retrospective at the George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University from September 6 to November 4 and it was accompanied by a catalogue.
About Ben Wilson:
Ben Wilson was born in Philadelphia in 1913 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Kiev and settled in New York City. He was educated in Manhattan public schools and graduated from City College in 1935. To gain exposure to a wider range of styles, he also studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Educational Alliance.
Admired by critics throughout his long career, Wilson was singled out as a “discovery” by the New York Times art critic Edward Alden Jewel even before his first one-man show at the Galerie Neuf in 1946. His paintings of the ’30s and ’40s were expressionistically rendered, often Biblical parables, filled with what he called “the grief of the intolerable” and reflecting an acute awareness of the agony of the time, from the Holocaust to the Spanish Civil War. A WPA artist who identified strongly with the plight of the Jews in Europe, he relentlessly explored themes of war, torment, and futility in his early decades of painting.
When times changed and social pressures subsided, Wilson’s mood lifted. He spent 1952-54 in Paris working at the Academie Julien. During the ’50s his involvement with specific imagery persisted but became more psychological and mythic in orientation. Influenced by Cubism, he created a vocabulary of interlocking shapes and bold, sweeping gestures that served as a transition between his early figurative expressionism and his later abstract constructivist concerns. Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.”
By 1960, influenced by the Russian Constructivists, Mondrian, and Abstract Expressionism, Wilson turned to abstraction. Reexamining the basic elements of painting, he evolved his own personal vocabulary and structure, fusing the cerebral and the emotive. He became increasingly experimental, using house paint, sand, and other unorthodox materials in paintings that he worked from all directions, dripping, spraying, stenciling, and collaging. He employed elements of disjunction, repetitions of geometric motifs, linear networks, and complex overlays to create the transparent, multi-layer development of space that characterizes his later paintings. A consummate draftsman, Wilson filled notebook after notebook with drawings that he amplified in his paintings.
Eschewing popular movements, Wilson was always one to pursue a personal aesthetic. Despite more than 30 one-man shows and 50 years of teaching, he increasingly withdrew from the gallery scene but continued to paint daily until his death at age 88 in 2001 in Blairstown, New Jersey, where he and his sculptor wife Evelyn Wilson...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Elemental Drift (Grey, Blue,
White Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting)
By Ragellah Rourke
Located in Hudson, NY
Elemental Drift
Grey, White , Blue Abstract Expressionist Painting
Made by Ragellah Rourke in 2025
oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches, unframed
The sides are cleanly painted light grey so ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
End Of Summer Puzzle #3
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Lynn Sanders is an artist excited by beauty: architecture, foliage, landscapes, seascapes, interiors. She finds palettes and shapes in her environment and propels them into her work,...
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Acrylic
Traces - Contemporary Olive Green Coral Pink Abstract Poured Painting, 2021
By Susan English
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract poured painting, the layers of English's tinted polymer create the depth and surface textures throughout the poured painting on Dibond panel. The shades...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Reflections Through The Looking Glass No. 7 - Colorful Geometric Abstract Circle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood
"Golden Pond" Black Outline Bunny on Gold Background Oil Painting Framed
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
This piece depicts a gestural figure of bunny against a golden background. Inspired by nature and a genuine love for animals, Slonem's paintings encompass unique inspirations drawn f...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Trophy, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, unique signed painting w/provenance
By David Humphrey
Located in New York, NY
David Humphrey
Trophy (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago), 1983
Oil on Canvas painting
Signed Twice: Hand signed and dated verso, also artist has signed his name and written his ho...
Category
1980s Contemporary USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Untitled Color Field Oil Painting in Earth Tones by Herbert MacDonald
Located in New York, NY
This stunning Modernist Untitled Color Field Oil Painting in Earth Tones signed Herbert MacDonald originates from the United States, Circa 1968. Features a rectangular composition in...
Category
1960s USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Hyperion Study" acrylic on canvas on wood panel
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Bret Hansen originally from Baltimore, Maryland is a painter and graphic designer based in Los Angeles, California.
His design career spans art direction roles in publishing, brandi...
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Unbraiding In The Sun - Abstract Expressionist Neutral Beige Floral
By Kellie Newsome
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in abstract paintings with a sense of fluidity. Her expressive style emphasizes large flowers, organic shapes and loose brushstrokes i...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Golden Touch" Contemporary Abstract Blue and Maroon Concentric Circle Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Blue and maroon abstract contemporary circular painting by Houston, TX artist David Hardaker. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the reverse.
Artist Statement: The work is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Friedel Dzubas, Merging Darkness, 1974
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
1974
Magna acrylic on canvas
6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (16.5 x 16.5 cm)
Unique
Signed and titled, verso
Framed, pristine condition
Category
1970s Color-Field USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage California Modern Framed Original Vintage Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist painting. OIl on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Garden of Abstraction By Marc Zimmerman
By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
A floral, but instead of a vase it finds itself in a jungle setting. Rich reds weave amongst the large green leaves and white flowers creating fullness for this tropical jungle
Flor...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,520 Sale Price
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Vintage American Modernist Abstract Cubist Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century cubist abstract. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Cubist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$980 Sale Price
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Antique American School Signed Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 19L x 13H.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
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Hunt Slonem "Allie" Black and Purple Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Allie" Black and Purple Bunny
A single rabbit gestured in black on a light purple background in a vintage frame
Unframed: 8 x 6 inches
Framed: 14 x 12 inches
*Painting ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ebb and Flow 3
By Amy Van Winkle
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Encaustic on panel.
It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
"Rich to Grey" (2024) By Danny McCaw, Original Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
By Danny McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
Danny McCaw's (US based) "Rich to Grey" is an original, handmade oil painting with impasto brushstrokes that depicts an ambiguous human figure.
Bio/artist statement:
Danny McCaw is ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Horse Carousel Animal Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive early American modernist painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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Rare Abstract Judaica Hebrew Calligraphy Modernist Painting
By William Proweller
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstracted colorful painting of the first verse of the Shema Prayer. (VeAhavta... and you shall love...)
William Proweller is an associate professor of art history at S.U.N.Y., Fred...
Category
20th Century Conceptual USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Other Medium
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, estate stamp and marked "JR 4202" verso, unframed.
32.5" H x 32.5" W x 1.5" D.
Provenance: The Estate of the Artist.
Category
20th Century Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
avp_1206 Red Colorful Textured Original Contemporary Abstract Painting on Paper
By Alex Voinea
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The colorful abstract artworks of Romanian artist Alex Voinea are inspired by experiments with paint poured over vibrating surfaces, such as speakers at full volume. Alex Voinea coll...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Contemporary Red, White, Tan, and Black Geometric Hard-Edge Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Geometric abstract painting by contemporary artist Stephanie Beukers. The work features layers of hard-edged shapes in red, white, tan, and black set against a light background. Curr...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape Monogrammed American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
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Crusader, Large Abstract Expressionist Painting, Cleveland School Artist
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Crusader, c. 1969
acrylic on canvas
signed and titled verso
48.5 X 62.5 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled (0673)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
This whimsical and sophisticated painting was realized by the esteemed contemporary painter, Hunt Slonem in 2016. It presents a stylized rabbit in profile, rendered with loose and ex...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large-Scale Modern Abstracted Teal Landscape
By Daniel David Fuentes
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-Scale Modern Abstracted Teal Landscape
A dynamic abstracted landscape in teal by San Jose, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,087 Sale Price
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One-Of-A-Kind Abstract Painting on Canvas by Serg Graff " Modern Vision", COA
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This unique large acrylic painting on canvas is a vibrant and energetic abstract work filled with overlapping splashes, drips, and swirls of bold, bright colors such as pink, yellow,...
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Framed Original Vintage Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist painting. OIl on canvas. Framed. Finely painted with wonderful color palette.
Category
1970s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
"River 2" Abstract Composition in Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Wood Panel
Located in Soquel, CA
"River 2" Abstract Composition in Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Wood Panel
Bold abstract composition by California artist Janet Trenchard (American, b. 1947). This piece is composed of layers of rich dark green, and soft yellow. There are accents of bronze-gold leaf that shimmer under direct light. Streaks and scrapes add dynamic movement to the compostition.
Titled and signed on verso: River 2 Janet Trenchard
No frame, but the edges are painted for frame-less display.
Janet Trenchard (American, b. 1947) is an artist and poet from San Jose, California. Trenchard taught art in public high school for 12 years before retiring to pursue her own creative interests. An artist and writer, her paintings and assemblages have been exhibited in San Jose, Palo Alto, and San Francisco. Her poems and stories have been published in Porter Gulch...
Category
1990s USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
avp_1534 - Expressive Blue and Green Abstract Contemporary Painting on Paper
By Alex Voinea
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The colorful abstract artworks of Romanian artist Alex Voinea are inspired by experiments with paint poured over vibrating surfaces, such as speakers at full volume. Alex Voinea coll...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Blue Bottle - Abstract Quirky Still Life Graffiti Pop Art Painting by Gary John
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gary John's pop-street artworks have a whimsical, yet exciting and bold quality inspired by classic cartoon and comic book characters. Blending pop sensibilities with a roughened fau...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
"Ranunculus III" Acrylic, Oil Pastels and Pencils Rose Pink Abstract 60"x60"
By Karina Gentinetta
Located in New York, NY
"Ranunculus III", 2025, 60" H x 60" W. Abstract painting in a deep rose, magenta hue consisting of acrylic, pencils, and oil pastels on canvas by Argentine-born artist Karina Gentine...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Time Vibe, Abstract Art, Large Size Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Abstract Art, Large Size Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Year: 202...
Category
2010s Impressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
From The Depths - Original Pastel Tone Expressive Contemporary Abstract Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Improvisation abstract African-American artist painting.
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roland Ayers (1932-2017). Improvisation, 2nd Series, #5. Ink on paper, measures 19 x 24 inches. Unframed and unmounted. Signed and dated lower right, titled lower left. There are a few minor areas of loss in margins as depicted in close-up photos. Additionally, there a a few minor tears in margins. Ayers holds the distinction of having participated in the first important survey of African-Americans, Contemporary Black Artists in America, a 1971 show at The Whitney.
Biography:
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively.
In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery.
During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic.
A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe.
Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content.
Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...
Category
1980s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$1,080 Sale Price
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Abstract Composition
Located in Columbia, MO
Original oil painting by Pennerton West, signed lower recto.
Pennerton West (American, 1913 - 1965) was a painter, printmaker, and designer, descended from the historical American p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
WPA Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil Painting Panel "Ocho Rios" Jamaica
Located in Portland, OR
A important American Impressionist painting by Isabella Howland (1895-1974), "Ocho Rios", Jamaica, 1940.
Howland was active in both Boston & New York, this impressionistic painting d...
Category
1940s American Impressionist USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tranquil Tides in Daylight
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Lynn Sanders is an artist excited by beauty: architecture, foliage, landscapes, seascapes, interiors. She finds palettes and shapes in her environment and propels them into her work,...
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Acrylic
I
ll See You In My Dreams
By David Spiller
Located in Indianapolis, IN
David Spiller (1942-2018)
I'll See You In My Dreams (2014)
Acrylic and pencil on stitched canvas panels
Size: 34 x 35 in (86.4 x 88.9 cm)
Frame size: 34.25 x 37.25 in (87 x 94.62 cm...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil
Liquify - Soft Abstract Blue Original Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elisabeth Grace, a visionary artist based in Denver, CO (USA), is renowned for her immersive large-scale paintings, collages, murals, and installation art. With a BA in oil painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Canvas
Surreal Figurative City Landscape by Varen circa 1950
s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
2901 City Landscape ,acrylic on canvas
Displayed in a custom gilt wood frame
Image size 18x24" overall 21x26.5"
Signed Varen
Category
1950s USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$675 Sale Price
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Flowers, Trees VI
By Ryan Cobourn
Located in Dallas, TX
Artwork size (without frame): 30"h x 22"w
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
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