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Item Ships From: Austin
Architectural Composition
By Fernand Léger
Located in Austin, TX
By Fernand Léger
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Size: 28" x 21"
Framed Size: 39.25" x 32"
An glorious example of a Master Cubist, Fernand Léger, featuring bold primaries and stately s...
Category
Early 20th Century Cubist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Gouache
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
"Carmel California" Impressionist Landscape
By Forrest Moses
Located in Austin, TX
By Forrest Moses (American, b. 1934)
Carmel California, 1967
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 18" x 24"
Framed Size: 22.5" x 28.5"
About the Artist:
Fo...
Category
1960s Post-War Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brazil
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed upper right; signed and titled verso.
60 x 59.75 in.
61.5 x 61.25 in. (framed)
Custo...
Category
1960s 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
Crawling Landscape
Located in Austin, TX
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 gr...
Category
1970s Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
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
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
The Police "Giant Steps" co-signed by Sting
Located in Austin, TX
Original art canvas entitled London Calling by renowned contemporary U.K. artist Jagga. Co-signed by the artist and musician Sting
Limited edition number 1/10 - comes with a signed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Untitled
By John Little
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left.
36.25 x 30.25 in.
38.5 x 32.5 in. (framed)
Custom hardwood frame with dark stain. FredEric’s Frame Studio, Chicago.
Provenance
McCormick Gallery, Chicago
Born in Alabama, John Little attended the Buffalo (NY) Fine Arts Academy as a teenager, until 1927. Soon after, he moved to New York where he began operatic vocal training and opened what would become a very successful textile business designing fabric and wallpaper.
In 1933, he enrolled at the Art Students League under the tutelage of George Grosz. Little’s early work consisted predominantly of landscapes, until 1937, when he began studying under Hans Hofmann and his work naturally shifted toward abstraction. During his time with Hofmann, he with artists such as Lee Krasner, George McNeil, Gerome Kamrowski, Giorgio Cavallon...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Quiet Secret, Original Framed Signed Contemporary Abstract Purple Painting
Located in Boston, MA
A Quiet Secret, Original Contemporary Abstract Painting, 2022
48" x 36" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas
Framed in a gunmetal grey, aluminum frame.
Hand-signed by the artist in verso.
Somewhere between a geometric abstraction and an abstract landscape, this composition by artist Ann Flemings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas.
77.25 x 59 in.
79.75 x 62 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid hardwood floater, with a matte white finish.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Hollis Taggart...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric 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
"Complimentary Tempest" Abstract
Located in Austin, TX
This painting by Gaylon Dingler is an exploration of color and form featuring a swirl of complimentary orange and teal. The piece is also highly textured.
"Complimentary Tempest" mea...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
"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
Untitled
By Norman Bluhm
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on paper (two sheets) mounted on canvas. Signed on rear support, gallery labels verso.
35.25 x 46.2...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper
Floral Mystique
Located in Austin, TX
"Floral Mystique" is an abstract diptych painted by Rebecca Sobin in oil, cold wax medium, and pastel powder on a cradled wood panel; measuring 44 x 44 inches. Each separate panel m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Wood Panel, Pigment
It's Springtime Somewhere in the World
Located in Austin, TX
"It's Springtime Somewhere In the World" is an abstract painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium, and pastel powder, and rice paper on a cradled wood panel; measuri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Wood Panel, Rice Paper, Graphite
Springtime Resurrection
By Ronnie Landfield
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated on verso.
86 x 74 in.
87.25 x 75.25 in. (framed)
Please note:
This work was re-framed AFTER photography was completed. The frame seen in the photos was original, and has since been replaced with a solid maple floater, finished in a polyurethane clear coat (see other listings for an example of this frame).
Provenance
Steve Chase Design, Palm Springs, CA
Ronnie Landfield was born in the Bronx, NY on January 9, 1947 - the same day as his older brother. As a teenager, he was encouraged to pursue a career as an artist, subsequently creating his first real paintings around the age of 14. He was particularly influenced by a Life magazine article from 1961 on the Abstract Expressionists, most notably: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline.
After stints at the Art Students League, the Kansas City Art Institute, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the University of California at Berkeley, Landfield’s professional career as a painter began in New York in 1965. The following year, after completing a major series of hard-edge border paintings, success as a painter began to materialize. The famous architect and collector Philip Johnson and the collector Robert Scull each acquired large paintings works, as did the Sheldon Memorial Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In 1967, Landfield was invited to participate in the Whitney Annual at the end of the year. His work attracted considerable attention, and he was invited to participate in important group exhibitions at the Bykert, Bianchini, and Park Place Galleries in New York.
Landfield joined the David Whitney...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sea Breeze
Located in Austin, TX
"Sea Breeze" is an abstract painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium, and pastel powder on a cradled wood panel; measuring 12 x 12 inches....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel, Pigment
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
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
Prana
Located in Austin, TX
"Prana" is an abstract expressionist painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium, and graphite on a cradled wood panel; measuring 36 x 36 inches.
Titled "Prana" the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
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
Prairie
By Estela Aguirre
Located in Austin, TX
A richly textured abstract mixed media composition on gallery wrapped linen. This image resembles a landscape of a prairie with deep browns and beiges with hints of reds, yellows, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media
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
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
Four Quadrants Abstract
By Tom Reno
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Tom Reno
Measurements: 60 x 48
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
A an elegant composition by Tom Reno executed in acrylic on canvas. This harmonious painting balances layers of dee...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Michael Goldberg
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil, pastel, and paper collage on canvas. Signed and dated verso.
52.75 x 47.75 in.
54 x 49 in. (framed)
Gilded floater frame.
Provenance
Compass Rose, Chicago
Born Sylvan Irwin Goldberg in 1924 and raised in the Bronx, Michael Goldberg was an important figure in American Abstract Expressionism, who began taking art classes at the Art Students League in 1938. A gifted student, Goldberg finished high school at the age of 14 and enrolled in City College. He soon found New York’s jazz scene to be a more compelling environment, and he began skipping classes in favor of the Harlem jazz clubs near campus. Goldberg’s love of jazz would become a lifelong passion and a key component to his approach to composition in his paintings.
From 1940 to 1942, like many of the leading artists of the New York School, Goldberg studied with Hans Hofmann. In 1943, he put his pursuit of painting on hold and enlisted in the U.S. Army. Serving in North Africa, Burma, and India, Goldberg received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star before being discharged in 1946. After his service, he traveled and worked in Venezuela before returning to the United States, settling back in New York and resuming studies with Hofmann and at the Art Students League.
Living downtown and frequenting the Cedar Bar, Goldberg befriended many of the artists of the New York School. In 1951, his work was included in the groundbreaking Ninth Street Show, co-organized by Leo Castelli, Conrad Marca-Relli, and the Eighth Street Club, and featuring the work of - among others - Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline. In 1953, the Tibor de Nagy...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Handmade Paper
"Estudio de Rosas II" Abstracted Still Life Study of Roses
By Bartolome Sastre
Located in Austin, TX
This painting is the second piece in a study done by Bartolome Sastre on roses. This piece singles out the roses as they hang off of an iron gate, surrounding the detail with an abst...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary 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
"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
Detour
Located in Austin, TX
"Detour" is an abstract painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium, and pastel powder on a cradled wood panel; measuring 48 x 36 inches.
A warm, calming composition ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
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
Bicycle
Located in Austin, TX
By Roberto De La Renta
34" x 22.5"
Acrylic on Paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
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
New Synthesis #34
By Jack Roth
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, titled, and estate stamped on verso.
50.25 x 31 in.
51.25 x 32 in. (framed)
Custom framed in maple.
Provenance
Estate of Jack Roth
Born in Brockway, Pennsylvania, Jack Roth was at various times a painter, poet, photographer, and mathematician. He enrolled at Pennsylvania State University in 1943 to study chemistry, but like many of his fellow Abstract Expressionists, his matriculation was interrupted World War II, where he served in both the Army and Air Force.
Discharged from the service in 1948, Roth moved to Big Sur, California and married his first wife, Colleen Bleier, with whom he had two daughters. A year later, the young family settled in San Francisco, where Jack enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts. It was here that he studied painting under Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, and Elmer Bischoff.
The Roth family left the Bay Area to return to Pennsylvania, where Jack completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry in 1951. In pursuit of his seemingly discordant academic interests, Roth moved yet again, this time to Iowa where he received a Master of Fine Arts at Iowa State University in 1953. Seeking gainful employment, Roth moved to New York, settling in the lower East Side where he began looking for a teaching job and working as a reviewer for Arts Digest magazine.
Now divorced, in 1954 Roth married the artist Rachel Chester whom he had met in Iowa. He continued to paint and work odd jobs, some of which were as a hotel night clerk and an orderly at Beekman Downtown Hospital. That year, he unsuccessfully applied for the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in the field of photography.
However, Roth’s professional prospects greatly improved when his work was selected by James Johnson Sweeney, Director of the Guggenheim Museum of Art for the traveling exhibition Younger American Painters, alongside giants such as William Baziotes, Richard Diebenkorn, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis, and others. One of the first major debuts of the Abstract Expressionist movement to be shown at an American museum, the exhibit traveled to the prominent museums across the country. In 1956 he began graduate work in mathematics at New York University.
Opting to dive back into academia, Roth began graduate coursework in mathematics at New York University in 1956. He enrolled at Duke University in 1958, receiving his PhD in mathematics in 1962.
Roth continued to create art throughout the pendency of his graduate studies and in 1963, legendary Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) curators Dorothy Miller and William Lieberman recommended Roth as the new talent graphic artist for Art in America. Concurrently, MoMA purchased several works from Roth for the museum’s permanent collection.
During this period of artistic achievement, Roth continued to teach - first, at the University of South Florida in Tampa, before moving back north to Montclair, New Jersey, where he was hired as the chairman of the Mathematics department at Upsala College. In 1971 he accepted a dual appointment at Ramapo College, teaching both mathematics and advanced painting. After he received tenure and his finances were secure, his artistic production thrived as he received the first Thomases Award for contributions at the school, which came with the use of a large studio space. This allowed him to work with larger canvases and become what he saw as an Abstract Expressionist Color Field painter.
In 1978, the acclaimed gallery Knoedler & Co. in New York began representation of Roth’s work. Other artists represented by the gallery at this time included Alexander Calder, Adolf Gottlieb...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract Painting in Blues with Orange, White and Earth Tones
Located in Austin, TX
This abstract expressionist painting by Shizuka Moriyama uses bold, textured brushstrokes and a vivid color palette to create a sense of fluidity and depth. The dominant cool blues a...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Tom Goldenberg
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas (diptych). Signed and dated verso.
68.25 x 32.25 in.
69.75 x 33.5. (framed)
Custom framed in...
Category
1980s Post-War Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Congress Ave (II)
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Congress Ave."
Artist: Pep Suari
Medium: Acrylic paint on paper
Size: 20" x 27"
Framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
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
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
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
African Ancestor
By John Little
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic and paper collage on canvas. Signed and dated lower left; signed, ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper
Heat Lightning
Located in Austin, TX
"Heat Lighting", an abstract painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium, and pastel powder on a cradled wood panel; measuring 12 x 12 inches.
A warm, harmonious comp...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
Danish Middle
By Joseph Drapell
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated on verso.
34.25 x 87.5 in.
36 x 89.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in in a natural cherry floater.
Provenance
Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto
Born Josef Drapell in German-occupied territory near Prague in the present-day Czech Republic, his interest in art was piqued as a young boy growing up in a country that traded one occupier for the next. Czechoslovakia - under communist Soviet control following the war - would never allow Drapell to enjoy true freedom of artistic expression. He eventually fled his homeland, first stopping in Vienna, before ultimately settling in Canada in 1966.
After a brief spell at the venerable Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI, Drapell returned to Canada in 1970, settling in Toronto - though he frequently traveled between the two countries in pursuit of exhibition opportunities in both Toronto and New York. Those opportunities arrived almost immediately, as he enjoyed solo exhibitions with both Robert Elkon Gallery in New York, and Dunkelman Gallery back home in Toronto.
Drapell splits time between his homes in Toronto and Georgian Bay on Lake Huron...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Estate stamped and numbered verso; initialed “SF22” verso.
48.25 x 34.25 in.
49.25 x 35 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid maple floater.
Provenance
Estate of Samuel Feinstein
McCormick Gallery, Chicago
Samuel Lawrence...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Swimmers" Vibrant Expressionist Figurative Scene
Located in Austin, TX
Pep Suari
14.75" x 40"
Acrylic on Board
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
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
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
"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
Let it Wash Over Me
Located in Austin, TX
"Let it Wash Over Me" is an abstract painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil and cold wax medium on a cradled wood panel; measuring 22 x 44 inches.
A soothing, harmonious composit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
"Blue and Orange Abstract" Large Gestural Color Field Painting Green Accents
By Tom Reno
Located in Austin, TX
Blue and Orange abstract with green accents by Tom Reno
Acrylic on Canvas
60" x 48"
Tom Reno is an abstract artist originally from Southern Cali...
Category
2010s Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right.
50.5 x 38.25 in.
51.5 x 39 in. (framed)
Custom framed in maple.
Theodore Franklin (“Ted”) Appleby, Jr. was born January 28, 1923 in Asbury Park, New Jersey to a very prominent family in Monmouth County. He attended the Pauling School in New York and studied at the atelier of John Corneal.
On December 12, 1942, Appleby enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, subsequently seeing action in the Marshall Islands. Upon the conclusion of the war, he was stationed for a year in Yokohama, Japan, where he studied local engraving techniques.
In 1947, after returning home, Appleby moved to Mexico for a year to study mural painting in San Miguel de Allende. Following his sojourn in Mexico, Appleby briefly returned home to the U.S. before ultimately relocating to Paris. There, he joined a lively community of expatriate American artists involved with what would come to be known as the “School of Paris.” Appleby befriended fellow Americans Sam Francis and Jackson Pollock, exhibiting extensively throughout France with the former. He also regularly visited the atelier of Fernand Léger, and was represented in the "Salon de Réalités Nouvelles" and the “Salon d’Automne” during the 1950s and 60s.
From 1955 to 1961, Appleby participated in group exhibitions in Chicago, Leverkusen (Germany), Lisbon, London, and Paris. He also had three notable solo exhibitions during this period: Studio Facchetti, Paris (1956); Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (1957); and the American Cultural Center, Paris (1959). In 1957, Appleby’s work was presented at the 62nd American Exposition of Painters and Sculptors at the Chicago Art Institute, where he was awarded the Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal and Prize.
Answering the famed artist André Lhote’s call to help save the village of Alba-la-Romaine in the Ardèche, Appleby and his wife - the artist Hope Manchester - purchased a home in the village in 1950, ultimately settling there until their deaths.
Source: Taylor Graham Gallery
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Austin - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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