Dwinell Grant – Contrathemis #2431 ‘Contrathemis #2431’ by Dwinell Grant. This work was created for Grant’s pioneering film, ‘Contrathemis’ ,1941. For his historic stop-motion animation ‘Contrathemis’ Grant created more than 4000 colored pencil drawings and collages which he photographed and sequentialized, to create art in motion, freeing him and the world from static art. Using…
Erle Loran – Abstraction A colorful abstract study created in the 1940s by San Francisco Bay Area artist Erle Loran. This work appears to be an abstracted view of buildings and docks on the bay, which was a common area of interest for Loran. Erle Loran, (1905-1999), was an American painter and educator who painted…
Erle Loran – Navajo Country A great modernist interpretation of a southwest scene created in the 1930s by Erle Loran. Erle Loran, (1905-1999), was an American painter and educator who painted for the entirety of his adult life. Loran studied in the US and abroad, at one point living in the former studio of Paul…
Edward Corbett – 1946 A very rare, early oil painting by Edward Corbett, dated 1946. This work was created when Corbett was studying and socializing with Ad Reinhardt, and had jsut became a member of the American Abstract Artists group. Oil on stretched canvas. Dated 1946. Professionally cleaned and framed in a contemporary frame. Provenance:…
Minoru Niizuma – Abstract Sculpture Carved onyx sculpture by Japanese-American artist Minoru Niizuma. Minoru Niizuma, (1930-1998), was a Japanese-American sculptor who worked in stone a marble to create unique modern forms. Niizuma was deeply interested in the inherent beauty of the stone or marble he used for his sculptures and often worked to…
Albert Eugene Gallatin – No. 20 Albert Eugene Gallatin, (1882-1952), was a leading modernist painter in New York City in the early 20th century. AE Gallatin was born in Villanova, Pennsylvania into a prominent banking family of Swiss descent. Gallatin inherited a family fortune upon his father’s death in 1902. Gallatin moved to Park Avenue…
Howard Norton Cook – ‘Downtown II’ Howard Norton Cook, (1901-1980), was a highly regarded American painter and printmaker based in the American Southwest. Cook is was well educated and traveled extensively, but spent a majority of his life near Santa Fe, and Taos, New Mexico. His works are held in may major institutions in the…
Max Weber – Reclining Female Figure Max Weber, (1881-1961), was a leading figure in the development of a modern art world in the United States. Born in Russia, Weber studied art in Europe before setting and New York where he became a very prominent figure in the budding modern art scene there. Weber’s works…
Roger Selchow – Diptych Abstraction Roger Selchow, (1911-1994), was an American based artist that worked and lived in New York, Connecticut and Italy. Selchow studied in the United States at Columbia University, then in Paris with André Lhote and Fernand Lëger, in Italy at the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Florence, and in Belgium. Selchow’s exhibited…
Juliette Steele – Action Painting, ca. 1946 Juliette Steele, (American 1909-1980), was an early modernist painter who worked and exhibited in California. Action Painting, ca. 1946 Early abstract works by women artists are rare, and this is a great example of early American modernism from a California based female artist. Excellent condition. Purchased from the…
