Virginia Banks – Lobster Buoys Virginia Banks, (1920-1985), was an American abstract artist who lived in worked in Connecticut and Washington State. Banks earned a Bachelors degree from Smith College in 1941, and went on to earn a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa before moving to Seattle in the mid-1950s. Banks…
Rudolph Gessley – Exhibited Oil Painting Rudolph Gessley, (1852-1941), was an artist and treasurer of John Robinson’s Circus. Gessley was enrolled in the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1932, around the time that this work was exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s annual show. I discovered and purchased this painting many years ago from an…
Wally Strautin – Abstract Oil Painting 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, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, who were…
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…
Hildegarde Haas was born with a unique and astounding ability; The ability to see sounds. Gifted with a condition known as synesthesia, when Haas heard certain sounds she would see colors and shapes. Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory…
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…
