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Large Abstract Expressionist Figure Handmade Paper Etching Silkscreen Print

1987

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  • Large Abstract Expressionist Figure Handmade Paper Etching Silkscreen Print
    By Sam Messer
    Located in Surfside, FL
    This is done on a very interesting handmade paper (Japanese?) it is hand signed and numbered. In this print the artist Sam Messer uses bold contrasting colors in a gestural manner. Messer's work, so apparently spontaneous or impulsive in its emphasis on highly dramatic gestural brushstrokes and intense color, is, in fact, carefully considered. The treatment of the composition conveys dynamic movement through the sweep...
    Category

    1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Handmade Paper, Lithograph, Screen

  • New York School Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Painting Handmade Paper Board
    By Taro Yamamoto
    Located in Surfside, FL
    This is an interesting abstract work done with handmade Japanese Kozo or Washi type fiber paper mounted on board. Hand signed and dated in wonderful muted earth tones of fall foliage. Taro Yamamoto (1919 – 1994) belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement of the post World War II era. He was also associated with Action painting Yamamoto was born in Hollywood, California. He lived in Japan from age six to age nineteen. In 1936 he returned to the USA and began studies in cubism at Los Angeles City College. In 1941 he joined the U.S. Army and served during WWII. After being discharged from the service he returned to California where he studied at the Santa Monica City College. 1950-1952 at The Art Students League of New York, under Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Reginald Marsh, Byron Browne and Vaclav Vytlacil; 1951-1953 at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York City. In 1952 he won a John Sloan Fellowship from the Art Students League. The next year he traveled to Europe under a Edward G. MacDowell Traveling Fellowship where he studies in Stuttgart, Germany with Willi Baumeister. He also exhibited at Galerie Huit in Paris. In 1954 Yamamoto was invited to a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. There he worked alongside Stuart Davis, Milton Avery, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko developing his unique abstract expressionist style. Later in his life he devoted himself to a more hard-edge geometric style of painting. He married Gwyneth Cotton, a naturalized English woman, in 1955, and they lived in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. They were active at the Universalist Church of Provincetown. (He descended from a long line of Shinto priests) Yamamoto died in Provincetown in 1994. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1953: Galerie Huit, Paris; 1955: The Art Students League of New York, NYC; 1960-1962: Krasner Gallery, NYC; 1963-1964: 371 Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Selected Group Exhibitions 1951: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; 1952: NY Contemporary Gallery, NYC; 1952, 1955, 1956, 1962: Provincetown Art...
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    1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Paint, Mixed Media, Board, Handmade Paper

  • Abstract Modernist Colorful Mixed Media Painting Handmade Paper
    By Sandy Kinnee
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Sandy Kinnee is known for paper making, printmaking and collage. This has the artists stamp verso. Sandy Kinnee lives and works in Colorado Springs, CO. Kinnee was born on March, 30, 1947 in Port Huron, MI. He received his BFA from the University of Michigan in 1969 and MFA from Wayne State University in 1976. Kinnee has taught at Colorado College, the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. Sandy Kinnee was awarded a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant. His work bears some surface similarities to Sam Francis and Alan Shields works. This has the feel of the Pattern and Decoration art movement. His print works are represented in numerous public and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, Swissair, Zurich, CH Suchard Chocolate, Walt Disney World (Michael Graves designed Hotel, at), Westinghouse Art Collection, General Mills Art Collection. Select Solo Exhibitions 2019 Buell Theatre, Denver, CO 2019 McNichol’s Building, Denver, CO 2019 William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO 2017 Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado Springs, CO 2002 Visual Arts Gallery, Central Arizona College, Coolidge, AZ 1999 Art Selection, Zurich, Switzerland Select Group Exhibitions 2015 “Director’s Favorites: 1999–2015”, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT. 2008 “The Imbedded Image – Current Work In Hand Papermaking”, St. Louis, MO. 1999 Art Multiple, Dusseldorf, Germany 1999 SAGA/FICA Edition, Paris, France 1996 Kunstmessig, Olso, Norway 1994 Dresden Art Fair, Dresden, Germany 1993 Dusseldorf, Germany 1992 “Four Americans” Art Selection, Zurich, Switzerland 1990 Alumni Exhibition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1989 Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL 1984 “Watercolors”, Cunningham Memorial Art Gallery, Bakersfield, CA 1984 “Paper Transformed: A National Exhibition of Paper Art”, Terre Haute, IN 1984 “Paperworks”, Academy of Art College Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983 “Fan and Kimono”, Kauffman Galleries, Houston, TX 1980 “In Celebration of Prints”, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA 1980 “Selected Prints”, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, NJ 1980 “Ten Western Printmakers”, a Traveling Exhibition, organized by WSAF 1980 “Its Pure Paper”, Lake Placid School of Art, Lake Placid, NY 1980 “Fire and Water”, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY 1979 “Fans”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1978 “Paper as Medium”, traveling exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian Institution 1977 “Works on Handmade Paper”, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC 1977 “Paper Art”, Land Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 1976 “Works...
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    1980s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

    Materials

    Paint, Ink, Handmade Paper

  • Abstract Modernist Colorful Mixed Media Painting Handmade Paper
    By Sandy Kinnee
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Sandy Kinnee is known for paper making, printmaking and collage. This has the artists stamp verso and is signed, titled and dated verso. Sandy Kinnee lives and works in Colorado Springs, CO. Kinnee was born on March, 30, 1947 in Port Huron, MI. He received his BFA from the University of Michigan in 1969 and MFA from Wayne State University in 1976. Kinnee has taught at Colorado College, the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. Sandy Kinnee was awarded a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant. His work bears some surface similarities to Sam Francis and Alan Shields works. This has the feel of the Pattern and Decoration art movement. His print works are represented in numerous public and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, Swissair, Zurich, CH Suchard Chocolate, Walt Disney World (Michael Graves designed Hotel, at), Westinghouse Art Collection, General Mills Art Collection. Select Solo Exhibitions 2019 Buell Theatre, Denver, CO 2019 McNichol’s Building, Denver, CO 2019 William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO 2017 Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado Springs, CO 2002 Visual Arts Gallery, Central Arizona College, Coolidge, AZ 1999 Art Selection, Zurich, Switzerland Select Group Exhibitions 2015 “Director’s Favorites: 1999–2015”, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT. 2008 “The Imbedded Image – Current Work In Hand Papermaking”, St. Louis, MO. 1999 Art Multiple, Dusseldorf, Germany 1999 SAGA/FICA Edition, Paris, France 1996 Kunstmessig, Olso, Norway 1994 Dresden Art Fair, Dresden, Germany 1993 Dusseldorf, Germany 1992 “Four Americans” Art Selection, Zurich, Switzerland 1990 Alumni Exhibition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1989 Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL 1984 “Watercolors”, Cunningham Memorial Art Gallery, Bakersfield, CA 1984 “Paper Transformed: A National Exhibition of Paper Art”, Terre Haute, IN 1984 “Paperworks”, Academy of Art College Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983 “Fan and Kimono”, Kauffman Galleries, Houston, TX 1980 “In Celebration of Prints”, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA 1980 “Selected Prints”, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, NJ 1980 “Ten Western Printmakers”, a Traveling Exhibition, organized by WSAF 1980 “Its Pure Paper”, Lake Placid School of Art, Lake Placid, NY 1980 “Fire and Water”, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY 1979 “Fans”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1978 “Paper as Medium”, traveling exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian Institution 1977 “Works on Handmade Paper”, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC 1977 “Paper Art”, Land Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 1976 “Works...
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    1980s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

    Materials

    Paint, Ink, Handmade Paper

  • Stanley Boxer Mixed Media Abstract Expressionist Painting on Paper, Gold
    By Stanley Boxer
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Abstract, 1987 Hand signed and dated verso Not sure of technique. this might be a monotype or monoprint with hand painting. The handmade paper is cut somewhat irregularly as per the artists intentions. Stanley Boxer (1926-May 8, 2000) was an American abstract expressionist artist best known for thickly painted abstract works of art. He was also an accomplished sculptor and printmaker. He received awards from the Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts. Boxer was born in New York City, and began his formal education after World War II, when he left the Navy and studied at the Art Students League of New York. He drew, painted, made prints, and sculpted. His work was recognized by art critic Clement Greenberg, who categorized him as a color field painter, A group that included Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Mark Rothko and was a form of Abstract Expressionism and later included Helen Frankenthaler, Ad Reinhardt, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Jules Olitski, Raymond Parker and Morris Louis. Boxer himself was adamant in rejecting this stylistic label. Over the years, he remained loyal to the materially dense abstract mode on which his reputation rested.. Art critic Grace Glueck wrote "Never part of a movement or trend, though obviously steeped in the language of Modernism, the abstract painter Stanley Boxer was a superb manipulator of surfaces, intensely bonding texture and color." In 1953 Boxer had his first solo exhibition of paintings in New York City, and showed regularly thereafter until his death. His paintings and sculpture were represented in New York City during the late 1960s through 1974 by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, then by the André Emmerich Gallery from 1975 until 1993, and finally by Salander-O'Reilly Galleries until its demise in 2007. Richard Waller...
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    1980s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

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    Archival Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

  • Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
    By Pawel Kontny
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee. Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one is influenced by California Abstract Expressionist artist Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...
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    20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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    Watercolor, Archival Paper

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