Edward Marecak was an American painter who was born in 1919. Growing up in the farming community of Brunswick, Ohio, he showed early artistic promise, hired by the National Youth Administration to document historic barns. In 1946, Marecak came to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center for a year and after a semester interlude at Cranbrook returned to study lithography with Lawrence Barrett. There he also met his future wife and sometime collaborator, ceramicist Theresa Madonna Fortin. Given the opportunity to teach a summer course at the University of Colorado, he decided to obtain a teaching certificate at the University of Denver and subsequently embarked on his 25-year career in the Denver Public School system. Rather than pursue fame, Edward Marecak directed his zeal toward fostering younger generations in the principles of art as well as his simple philosophies. Moreover, his teaching salary allowed him to ply his prodigious talent at whatever he pleased, instead of bending to the dictates of trends and sales. Having inherited his faith in education from his Slovakian immigrant parents, Marecak could add the shaping of lives to his mastery of art forms, including lithographs, monoprints, drawings, hooked rugs, ceramics, paintings, wood sculptures, stained-glass windows and jewelry. While exhibiting in his lifetime, he was, in his wife’s words, “his own greatest collector”, but shows and his popularity at the Kirkland Museum have positioned Marecak posthumously among Colorado’s pre-eminent modernists. As a child, Marecak was enthralled by the Carpathian tales of magic and supernatural beings told by his grandmother. As with other artists with roots in Eastern Europe, his artistic turn to folk tradition would free him from learned practices of perspective and modeling in favor of flat patterns within patterns and brilliant, throbbing color. While others ventured further into abstraction, Marecak stylized figurative elements into crowded compositions that appeared like a mosaic or stained glass. As he matured, he could declare, “I am still very much a Byzantine designer and my joy with what color can do grows all the time”. The traceries of strong outlines and bold shapes provide compartments for vibrant colors, contrasts and rough textures that can scarcely be contained. The Kirkland Museum staged a retrospective of Edward and Donna Marecak in 2007.
Edward Marecak Surrealist Still Life Oil Painting with Smiling Face, 1969
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
A vibrant and imaginative original oil painting by acclaimed Denver modernist Edward Marecak (1919–1993), titled Still Life with Smiling Face and created circa 1969. Combining elemen...
Oil
$5,500
Large-Scale Edward Marecak Abstract Figurative Painting, 1991, Expressionist Art
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
“I Have the Trump Card” is a bold and psychologically charged 1991 oil painting by acclaimed Denver modernist Edward Marecak, whose visionary body of work merged folklore, mythology,...
Oil
$2,780Sale Price|20% Off
Edward Marecak 1984 Masks & Flowers Abstract Oil Painting Modern Art
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1984 oil on canvas by Edward Marecak represents the artist’s mature period of American abstract painting. The composition combines expressive color with mask-inspired f...
Oil
$5,800
Edward Marecak 1983 Semi-Abstract Still Life Painting with Masks, Oil on Board
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1983 oil painting by Edward Marecak is a striking example of the artist’s mature semi-abstract modernist style. Titled 'Still Life with Masks', the composition blends f...
Oil
$450
H 11 in W 11 in D 1.5 in
"Merc Power" (2019) by Sheri Farabaugh, Still Life Oil Painting
By Sheri Farabaugh
Located in Denver, CO
"Merc Power" (2019) by Sheri Farabaugh (United States Based) is a handmade still life oil painting that depicts a scene on a lake, with a closeup of a boat engine in deep blue waters...
Oil, Board
$3,017Sale Price|20% Off
H 33.5 in W 25.5 in D 3 in
Still Life Painting of Two Plants on an Orange Table by Fauvist British Artist
By Steve Capper
Located in Preston, GB
Still Life Painting of Two Plants on an Orange Table by Fauvist British Artist, Steve Capper Art measures 20 x 28 inches Frame measures 25.5 x 33.5 inches Presented in a high quality black wooden moulding Steve Capper attended Manchester’s High School of Art in 1955, the Manchester College of Art in 1962 and Bretton Hall College in 1965. He taught painting for thirty years as head of a large art faculty in an Oldham comprehensive school, before taking early retirement in 1996 to concentrate on producing his own work. Capper produces on-the-spot sketches which are then taken into his studio where he re-works them into a painting. Both his landscapes and his still-life paintings reflect the influences of the cubists and the fauves. The work of Picasso, Braque and Matisse are amongst his major influences. Capper still lives and works near Oldham, in the Pennines...
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board
$15,748
H 19.89 in W 25.71 in D 0.95 in
Vaso di Anemoni (Red Anemones) - 1910s - Arturo Noci - Oil on Canvas
By Arturo Noci
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated lower right "Arturo Noci 1912". In excellent conditions. Includes wooden frame: 63x78 cm.
Oil, Canvas
$1,300
H 14 in W 14 in D 2 in
"Last Light" (2025) Abstract Figurative Oil and Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
By John McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
John McCaw's (US based) "Last Light" is framed at 16.25 x 16.25 inches, and is wired and ready to hang. John McCaw (b. 1967), the eldest son of American expressionist Dan McCaw and ...
Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media
$1,200
H 17 in W 13 in
"On the Vine" (2023) By John McCaw, Expressionist Mixed Media Painting
By John McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
John McCaw's (US based) "On the Vine" is a beautiful original expressionist mixed media on canvas painting that depicts a ripe pepper plant with flowers in tow. John McCaw (b. 1967...
Mixed Media, Board
$2,200
H 24 in W 18 in
"Impressions" (2023) By John McCaw, Expressionist Mixed Media Painting
By John McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
John McCaw's (US based) "Impressions" is a beautiful original expressionist mixed media on board painting that depicts poppies and stems growing upwards, resting in a shelf on of art...
Mixed Media, Board
Abstract II. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
By Christopher Barrow
Located in Brecon, Powys
Oil on board, well framed Signed Image 16" x 20" Framed 20" x 24"
Oil
$3,100
H 39 in W 51 in
To Love And Be Loved - Still Life Floral Artwork Original Oil Painting
By Katharina Husslein
Located in Los Angeles, CA
With a contemporary perspective on landscape painting and inspired by paintings created by old masters, German artist Katharina Husslein paints in a representational manner to captur...
Canvas, Oil
$2,200
H 24 in W 18 in
"Art Deco Garden" (2023) By John McCaw, Expressionist Mixed Media Painting
By John McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
John McCaw's (US based) "Art Deco Garden" is a beautiful original expressionist mixed media on board painting that depicts poppies and stems growing upwards, resting in front of an a...
Mixed Media, Board
$2,799
H 17.72 in W 23.63 in D 2.37 in
Evening in peace. Raquel Fariñas Symbolic Blue Folk Art Still-life
By Raquel Fariñas
Located in Segovia, ES
"Evening in peace" (Tarde en calma). Acrylic and mixed media on wood panel. Dimensions: centimeters (H) 45 x (W) 60 (D) 6 / inches: 17.72 x 23.62 x 2.36 The pictures of Raquel Fariñas...
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
$9,750
H 36 in W 36 in D 1.5 in
"Wild and Beautiful II" - Colorful Impasto Abstract Floral Inspired Oil Painting
By Sveta Hessler
Located in Carmel, CA
Sveta Hessler (Russian, born 1973) "Wild and Beautiful II" 2025 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the painting. Sveta Hessler explodes the traditional ...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$1,275
H 25.5 in W 1 in D 28.5 in
Abstract Composition by Zoute (Leon Salter) Mid Century
Located in Rochester, NY
Abstract Modernist oil painting by Zoute. Oil on canvas mounted on board. Painted in circa 1940's. Zoute (Born-Leon Salter, 1903-1976) was self-taught and well exhibited during his l...
Canvas, Oil
Sunflowers (Abstract Still Life)
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
Original 1960s abstract still life by mid-century modern Colorado artist, Edward Marecak (1919-1993). Sunflowers is an abstract still life painting in dominant colors of brown, rust...
Oil, Board