Juliette Steele – 1940s action painting 1940s action painting by California woman artist, Juliette Eleanor Wilm Steele. Juliette Steele, (1909-1980) was an American painter, printmaker and educator. She studied art and fashion design at the Traphagen School of Design in New York during the late 1920s. In the 1940s she moved to San Francisco, CA…
Virginia Banks – Floating Tiger 1940s American modern abstract painting by Virginia Banks. Virginia Banks (1920 – 1985) was a well-known Northwest artist based in Seattle. She was born in Norwood, Massachusetts, and received her bachelors degree from Smith College in 1941, and a master of arts from the University of Iowa in 1944. She…
Gaston Lachaise – Standing female figure Standing nude pencil drawing by French born artist Gaston Lachaise. Lachaise was a native of Paris, France best known for his robust depictions of female nudes. While still a student in Paris, studying the European approach to the female form, he met and fell in love with Isabel Dutaud…
Robert Sperry – Large sculptural vessel A large b\ulbous horned vase formed studio pottery vessel by American ceramicist Robert Sperry.Sperry is an important figure in the American studio craft movement. He was born in Bushnell, Illinois, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Saskatchewan, a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in…
Allen Tucker – Girl with a Bow in her Hair – 1913 American modern portrait of a young woman with a bow in her hair by Allen Tucker. Tucker was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines at Columbia University in 1887. Tucker , sometimes known as ‘the…
Raymond Tom – Berkeley School portrait of a seated woman A colorful, stylized portrait of a seated woman by San Francisco Bay Area artist, Raymond Tom. Tom was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley,…
William Henry Clapp – Impressionist painting – Cuba A wonderful impressionist painting of palm trees in Cuba, by Canadian-American artist William Henry Clapp. Clapp was born in Canada, and moved with his family to Oakland, California in 1885. He returned to Montreal in 1900 to study at the Art Association of Montreal. Clapp moved to…
Stanton MacDonald-Wright – modernist drawing An early modernist drawing by synchromist artist Stanton MacDonald-Wright. Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890–1973) was a pioneering American modernist painter and co-founder of Synchromism, in 1912. Synchromist paintings were some of the first abstract paintings created in America. The theory of synchromism is based on the idea that color and sound are…
Leonid Borisov painting – EW Geometric abstract painting by Soviet artist Leonid Borisov, a leading figure in Soviet Nonconformist Art. Borisov participated in almost every significant “unofficial art” exhibitions in St Petersburg since the 1970s. He was influenced by Moscow’s Conceptualism (early 1970s – 1980s) and by 20th century art from the West, including the…
Marr Grounds found object sculpture Found art sculpture by Australian-American environmental and counterculture artist Marr Grounds. This work was likely created in the 1960s when Grounds was active at UC Berkeley, and was involved with the counterculture movement there. At the time Grounds became friends with Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac while spending…
