Wally Strautin – 1940s Abstract Needlepoint 1940s abstraction in needlepoint by Wally Strautin. Valleja (Wally) Strautin (American, 1898-1995), was Latvian born American abstract artist who lived and worked in New York city. Strautin studied painting at the Cooper Union School of Art, where she graduated in 1931. Her work was greatly influenced by her friends,…
Raymond Jonson – No. 11 – 1958 Raymond Jonson – No. 11 – 1958 Raymond Jonson, (1891-1982), was the leading artist in the American Southwest, at teh forefront of the non’objective art movement in America, and the co-founder of the Transedentalist Group based in Santa Fe, NM. Jonson’s works are held in public and private…
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…
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…
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…
Andre Beaudin – ‘Oiseau’ (Bird) Andre Beaudin – ‘Oiseau’ (Bird) – 1947 André Beaudin, (1895 – 1979), was a french painter and sculptor from the School of Paris who worked in a cubist manner throughout his career. Beaudin was born in Mennecy, and studied from 1911 to 1915 at the l’École des Arts Décoratifs.…
Carlos Dyer – WPA painting – 1938 Carlos Dyer – WPA oil painting – dated 1938 Carlos Dyer, (1917-2016), was an American painter and educator. Dyer, who sometimes went by Carlus, was born in Springfield, Missouri, and lived and worked in Los Angeles, California in the 1930s. During this time he was working…
Jean Xceron – Exhibited oil painting – 1949 Jean Xceron – ‘Variations No. 329’ – 1949 Jean Xceron, (1890-1967), is heralded as a pioneer of non-objective painting by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and Xceron was a wildly successful American modernist artist during his lifetime. Xceron was a Greek-born American artist and writer. He…
Zahara Schatz – 1940s Kinetic Sculpture Zahara Schatz – Kinetic Sculpture Zahara (Zohara) Schatz, (1916 – 1999), was progressive female artist, designer, and educator from Israel, and the daughter of Israeli artist Boris Schatz who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. During her lifetime Zahara lived, created and taught in…
