Byron Browne – Guitarist – 1958 Byron Browne – ‘Guitarist’ Byron (George Byron) Browne, (1907 – 1961), was an American modernist artist and a central figure in many of the modernist artistic and political groups that flourished during the 1930s in New York City. Browne was born in New York in 1907 and began his…
Joseph Meierhans – Action painting Joseph Meierhans – Action painting. Joseph Meierhans, (1890-1980), was a Swiss born American abstract painter. Meierhans came to America in 1917 and lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania before moving to the Bucks County area. He studied in New York at the Art Students League with Karl Knaths and John Sloan and…
Humphrey Jennings – Motion Humphrey Jennings abstract oil painting. Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings, (1907-1950), was a British painter, writer and filmmaker, and was one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization. Mass Observation is a United Kingdom social research project which ran from 1937 to the mid-1960s, and was revived in 1981 at the…
Hildegarde Haas – Shostakovich ‘String Quartet No 7’ Hildegarde Haas – Abstraction Hildegarde Haas, (1926-2002), was a German born American abstract painter and printmaker. Haas was born in Frankfort, Germany. When she was 11 years old the family moved to the United States, settling in Colorado Springs, CO. As a young girl Haas studied art…
Jesse Reichek – Abstraction – 1964 Jesse Reichek – Abstract Jesse Reichek, (1916-2005), was an American abstract artist who worked in Northern California. Reichek was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1916 and was educated at the Institute of Design Chicago, and the Academy Julian in Paris. He influenced many young minds with his own…
Peter Lowe – 1940s Abstract Oil Painting Peter Lowe – 1940s Abstract Oil Painting Peter Lowe, (1913-1989), was a Chinese- American abstract painter who lived most of his life in California. Lowe was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1913. When he was one year old his family moved to China where Lowe began…
Cesar Domela – Abstraction Cesar Domela – Abstract Composition Cesar Domela, (1900-1992), was a Dutch born painter and sculptor, and a key member of the De Stijl movement. Domela painted his first non-objective painting in 1923 and had his first solo exhibition in 1924 at the Galeria d’Audretsch inn Berlin, Germany. In 1925 Domela became…
Arthur N. Christie painting Arthur N. Christie painting Arthur N. Christie, (1891-1980), was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and studied at the Pratt Institute, the American Artists’ School, and later with Hans Hoffman in New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Christie began doing abstract painting about 1931 and from 1937 to 1941 he exhibited with…
Jerry Foyster – Op Art Sculpture Jerry Foyster – Op Art Sculpture Jerry Foyster, (born 1932- ), is an American abstract artist who showed his work in the now famous 1965 Optical art show at the Museum of Modern Art, ‘The Responsive Eye’. This show traveled to multiple museums the country and was a…
Minimalist Steel Sculpture Early minimalist steel sculpture by James Prestini. James Libero Prestini, (1908-1993), was a California minimalist sculptor best known for his thin-walled turned wood bowls he created early in his artistic career, and his highly polished aluminium I-Beam sculptures Prestini created later in his life. Prestini’s father was an Italian stonecutter, who exposed…
