Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922–1993)

 

Driveway (1956)
Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 50.8 cm

Woman at Table in Strong Light

Untitled (c. 1955–66)

gouache, oil and crayon on paper, 19 x 31 ½ inches

Berkeley No. 57 (1955)

oil on canvas 149.23 x 149.23 cm

Coffee (1956)

Bridge (1961)

Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he began his extensive series of geometric, lyrical abstract paintings. Known as the Ocean Park paintings, these paintings were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.

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​​Grace Hartigan (USA, 1922–2008)

 

Chinatown  (oil on canvas, 1956)

On Orchard Street (1957)

oil, paper and printed paper collage on paper 55.9 x 73.7 cm

Grace Hartigan (March 28, 1922 – November 15, 2008) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and a significant member of the vibrant New York School of the 1950s and 1960s. 

Her circle of friends, who frequently inspired one another in their artistic endeavors, included Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Frank O'Hara. Her paintings are held by numerous major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As director of the Maryland Institute College of Art's Hoffberger School of Painting, she influenced numerous young artists.

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Isca Greenfield Sanders (American, b. 1978)

 

Low Tide II, 2009. Mixed media and oil on canvas, 49 x 49 in.

Jeanette Mundt (b. 1982)

Untitled, recently shown at White Columns' Looking Back, 2015 

Jeanette Mundt (born 1982) is an American painter, best known for her works in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.^[1]

Roland Petersen (USA, b. 1926)

Two Figures, 1961

Oil on canvas, 85 x 45 cm

Wheat field, 1962

Oil on canvas

Picnic Scene, 1963

Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 172.7 cm

Blue Vase with Flowers, 1964

Oil on canvas, 62 x 48 in.

Standing Figure (1964)

Girl Pulling Back Hair (1969)

oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches

Figures with Sunbeams (1986) 

acrylicl on canvas

Untitled (1988)

watercolor and gouche on paper

Roland Conrad Petersen (born 1926) is a Danish-born American painter, printmaker, and professor. 

His career spans over 50 years, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and is perhaps best-known for his "Picnic series" (a yearly event at UC Davis) beginning in 1959 to today. He is part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.

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John Francis Murphy

October Mist

John Francis Murphy (December 11, 1853 – January 30, 1921) was an American landscape painter. (from wikipedia)

American Fauvism: Henry Lyman Saÿen

Henry Lyman Saÿen - St. Germain des Pres 1912

An inventive scientist and pioneering artist, H. Lyman Saÿen was one of the earliest Americans to adopt the principles of Fauvism, and one of the most committed.  He was captivated by the possibilities of color, by its ability not simply to represent emotions, but to embody them completely.  Ever the scientist, he developed theories of color vision, believing that individual’s perception of colors depended on the context in which they were viewed; paired with various hues, colors will register differently to the eye. To demonstrate this theory, he devised a rotating color wheel, which produced the effect of different colors based on their proximity to other colors and the speed with which the disc turned.

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Charles H. Woodbury

At Sea - Violet Sky, circa 1905

Charles Herbert Woodbury (July 14, 1864—January 21, 1940), United States marine painter, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts.
He maintained a strong and consistent vision in his more than fifty years of professional life and became a master of compositions of the coast and sea. Woodbury’s many on-the-spot sketches and etchings produce a sense of motion through quick, sure-handed strokes. Seeing and understanding movement was fundamental to his art and teaching, and is reflected in his own maxim: “Paint in verbs, not nouns.” In the words of his son David, Woodbury "...painted what he saw, satisfied that what he saw was really there, all in proper relationship, checked and rechecked by endless reference to the real world".
In his later years he spent his winters in the Caribbean sailing from island to island painting watercolor studies of the beaches and town backed by dramatic mountains and clouds. Over a large part of his career he made some of the most expressive etchings of any American artist of his time, completing more than 500 plates and teaching many younger artists to express themselves in this medium. He died on January 21, 1940 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Woodbury engaged in over 100 solo exhibitions throughout his career, and was included in all of the major invitational and juried shows throughout the country. His work may be found currently in The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art among many others. more on wikipedia

Bob Thompson

Bob Thompson (1937-1966) - The Spinning, Spinning, Turning, Directing 1963

Bob Thompson (June 26, 1937 – May 30, 1966) was an American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were appropriated from the Old Masters. He was very prolific in his eight-year career, producing over 1000 works before his death in Rome, Italy in 1966. The Whitney Museum in New York mounted a retrospective of his work in 1998. He also has works in numerous private and public collections throughout the United States.

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The Eight: Maurice Prendergast

 The Porch with the Old Mosaics, St. Mark’s, Venice 1899

Venetian Canal Scene (1898-1899)

Boston Harbor, c.1900-c.1905

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compositions and mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the artistic intentions and philosophy of the group.

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Marsden Hartley (American, 1877-1943)

Song of Winter, 1908

Oil on board

Franconia Notch, 1930

Untitled (Landscape)

Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 – September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley developed his painting abilities by observing Cubist artists in Paris and Berlin.

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Alice Pike Barney

Marshlands at Sundown, 1908

In Sunlight, 1910

Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike; 1857–1931) was an American painter. She was active in Washington, D.C. and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts.

John Ottis Adams

John Ottis Adams (American, 1851-1927)

Flower Border

J. (John) Ottis Adams (July 8, 1851 – January 28, 1927) was an American impressionist painter and member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters.

He spent his youth in Franklin, Shelbyville, and Martinsville, Indiana and attended Wabash College for two years.

He studied art at the South Kensington School of Art in London for two years. He settled in Muncie in 1876 and opened a studio there in 1887 after spending seven years doing further art study in Munich with T. C. Steele and other members of the Hoosier Group. Adams was the central figure in the formation of an art school in Muncie, Indiana, where he later participated in forming the Art Students League of Muncie, after the Muncie Art School closed.

Adams later (with other members of the Hoosier Group) founded the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. He and his wife, Winifred Brady Adams, also a painter, lived and painted at The Hermitage in Brookville, Indiana along with T. C. Steele and his wife.

Together with William Forsyth, Adams also instructed American Impressionist artist Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971).

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Richard Edward Miller

Richard E. Miller (American, 1875 – 1943)

Summer Reverie

Landscape, Provincetown

Standing nude

Reclining Nude


Richard E. Miller (March 22, 1875 – January 23, 1943) was an American Impressionist painter and a member of the Giverny Colony of American Impressionists. Miller was primarily a figurative painter, known for his paintings of women posing languidly in interiors or outdoor settings. Miller grew up in St. Louis, studied in Paris, and then settled in Giverny. Upon his return to America, he settled briefly in Pasadena, California and then in the art colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he remained for the rest of his life. Miller was a member of the National Academy of Design in New York and an award winning painter in his era, honored in both France and Italy, and a winner of France's Legion of Honor. Over the past several decades, he has been the subject of a retrospective exhibition and his work has been reproduced extensively in exhibition catalogs and featured in a number of books on American Impressionism.
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Mary Cassatt, Red Poppies

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844 – 1926)

Red Poppies (1880)

Woman in a Lodge, c.1880

Autumn

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot.

The Ten: Frank Weston Benson

Frank W. Benson (American, 1862 – 1951) 

Summer (1900)

Benson, a leading member of the group of American painters known as “the Ten”, taught in both Boston and New York and occasionally offered studio critiques to students at Rhode Island School of Design. 
In this painting, the light-filled view represents Benson’s daughters and niece on the cliffs near the artist’s vacation home on North Haven Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Rendered with the brilliant palette and broken brushstrokes of French Impressionism, it is based on sketches and photographs that captured the poses of these confident young women, personifications of beauty and optimism on a perfect summer day.
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River Landscape, 1924

Head of a lady

Evening, 1925. Watercolor, gouache and graphite.

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Charles W. Hawthorne

Charles Webster Hawthorne (American, 1872 – 1930)

On Board The S. S. Alesia, circa 1928-1929

The House, Provincetown 1927-1930

Highland Lighthouse

Artist in Plein Air

Two Mesquite Trees, 1928

Untitled

Provincetown

Charles Webster Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899.

He was born in Lodi, Illinois and his parents returned to Maine, raising him in the state where Charles' father was born. At age 18, he went to New York, working as an office-boy by day in a stained-glass factory and studying at night school and with Henry Siddons Mowbray and William Merritt Chase, and abroad in both the Netherlands and Italy.

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American contemporary: Fairfield Porter

Fairfield Porter (American, 1907-1975)

Fallow Field

Surf On Windy Day

The Barred Islands

Wild Roses

Bushes, 1962

Casein on canvas, 24 x 22 in.

Low Tide, 1962

Hawkweed, 1968

Oil on board, 11.5 x 14 in.

Still life with boats, 1968

The Table on the Porch, 1971, Oil on canvas

Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 – September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family. 

While a student at Harvard, Porter majored in fine arts; he continued his studies at the Art Students' League when he moved to New York City in 1928. His studies at the Art Students' League predisposed him to produce socially relevant art and, although the subjects would change, he continued to produce realist work for the rest of his career. He would be criticized and revered for continuing his representational style in the midst of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

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