Alfred Henry Maurer (USA, 1868 –1932)

 
Rockaway Beach with Pier 1901

Hills (c. 1908) 

oil on wood panel

Landscape, 1916-1918

Two Heads, 1929

Paris, Nocturne

Alfred Henry Maurer (April 21, 1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American modernist painter. 

He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century.  Highly respected today, his work met with little critical or commercial success in his lifetime, and he died, a suicide, at the age of sixty-four.

Oscar Bluemner (1867 - 1938)

Loving Moon (1927)

Sunset on the St. Lawrence

Oscar Bluemner (June 21, 1867 – January 12, 1938), born as Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and since 1933, known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a German-born American Modernist painter.

Often overlooked in his lifetime, Bluemner now is widely acknowledged as a key player in the creation of American artistic Modernism, with better-known colleagues such as Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Bluemner

Georgia O’Keeffe, Purple Leaves

Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918

Plums (1920)

Purple Leaves (1922)

The Beyond



Red Canna, c. 1923, oil on canvas

Gray Line with Black, Blue and Yellow, c. 1923

From the Lake No. 1 (1924)

Lake George Autumn, 1927

Taos, New Mexico, 1931

Sunflower, New Mexico II, 1935


Dead Cottonwood Tree, 1943



Abstraction, 1946 bronze

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way— things that I had no words for."

Georgia, in the exhibition announcement, January 1923

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens, and New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade. Beginning in 1929, when she began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico—which she made her permanent home in 1949—O’Keeffe depicted subjects specific to that area. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the Mother of American Modernism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

Alfred Stieglitz - Georgia O’Keefe, 1927

Arthur G. Dove, Red Sun

Nature Symbolized or Reefs (1924)


Red Sun, 1935


Morning Sun 1935

Sun, 1943

Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter. Arthur Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinations to produce his abstractions and his abstract landscapes. Me and the Moon from 1937 is a good example of an Arthur Dove abstract landscape and has been referred to as one of the culminating works of his career. Dove did a series of experimental collage works in the 1920s. He also experimented with techniques, combining paints like hand mixed oil or tempera over a wax emulsion as exemplified in Dove's 1938 painting Tanks, in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_G._Dove