Lawrence Kupferman was born in the Boston area, and he became one of the most important abstract artists to emerge from there in the early 1940s. Kupferman worked as an artist for the WPA in the 1930s, developing a strictly realistic style that depicted Victorian houses and other detailed architectural images.
Around 1943, Kupferman began to integrate more expressionistic forms into his works. He soon moved completely away from the recognizable subject matter and definitively became an abstract painter. In 1946, he studied with the influential German-born artist Karl Zerbe at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Kupferman later attended the Massachusetts College of Art, where he would become a professor and retire as its Head of Painting in 1969. His focus, as it would remain until the late 1960s, was on abstract, marine-like amoeboid forms—intimated, rather than strictly described.
Kupferman was an active participant in a huge thrust in Boston art in the 1940s to create a vibrant art scene that rivaled New York. He has been appropriately credited with bringing Abstract Expressionism to Boston, serving as a critical artistic conduit to New York painters such as Mark Rothko and Hans Hofmann, contacts he made in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he spent his summers beginning in 1946. Kupferman’s unique brand of abstraction integrated with the already burgeoning figurative expressionism in Boston, and he showed at the Boris Mirksi Gallery, arguably the most important Boston gallery at the time. He served as the Chair of the Modern Artists Group and is considered one of the major Boston artists whose numerous exhibitions throughout the world helped establish that city as a vital art scene.
KUPFERMAN American Abstract 1959 Expressionist Painting
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Kupferman (1909-1982) is an American Abstract painter and founder of the Boston Expressionist school. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Mu...
Oil
KUPFERMAN 1969 American Abstract Treescape
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Kupferman (1909-1982) is an American Abstract painter and founder of the Boston Expressionist school. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Mu...
Linen, Acrylic
$3,850
H 40 in W 40 in
AWH 353 - Abstract Minimalist Textured Layered Colorfield Oil Painting on Canvas
By Bernhard Zimmer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bernhard Zimmer produces deeply layered, subtly textured abstract paintings that contain diametrically opposed elements—order and chaos, abstraction and representation, boldness and ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$3,850
H 40 in W 40 in
AWH 352 - Abstract Minimalist Textured Layered Colorfield Oil Painting on Canvas
By Bernhard Zimmer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bernhard Zimmer produces deeply layered, subtly textured abstract paintings that contain diametrically opposed elements—order and chaos, abstraction and representation, boldness and ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$3,208
H 59.06 in W 55.12 in D 0.04 in
Tears, Smiles and Moments Lost, contemporary abstract, landscape, large painting
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting is part of a series that is influenced by trying to find simplicity and beauty in todays chaotic world. I start each painting with a feeling; be it hope, despair, happi...
Linen, Acrylic
$1,909
H 68 in W 44 in D 1 in
Abstract Painting, Acrylic on Canvas by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
By Amit Kalla
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amit Kalla - Untitled - 60 x 36 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on canvas ** Free Shipment ...... will be delivered in rolled form. Style : Kalla’s work can be represented by his com...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
$27,900
H 55.25 in W 55.25 in
Quetzal Air - Abstract Painting, Textured Blue and Yellow
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary abstract painting is by David Sorensen. A Canadian treasure, David Sorensen pursued his own vision of abstract expressionism for decades. He was known for his lyri...
Canvas, Oil
$27,900
H 55.25 in W 55.25 in
Quetzal Earth - Abstract Painting, Textured Oil on Canvas
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary abstract painting is by David Sorensen. A Canadian treasure, David Sorensen pursued his own vision of abstract expressionism for decades. He was known for his lyri...
Canvas, Oil
Blue Studio
By David Collins
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, and has exhi...
Acrylic, Linen
$4,001
H 40.56 in W 34.26 in D 1.58 in
Contemporary New Abstract Artwork Dark Colors Artist Christina Gschwantner
By Christina Gschwantner
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
In her work, artist Christina Gschwantner combines contrasting art movements such as Art Informel and Minimal Art. She succeeds in depicting and...
Raw Linen, Oil, Acrylic
$11,500
H 51 in W 50 in
Ptyson (abstract, nuetral, gray, geometric, large, acrylic on canvas painting)
By Carole Eisner
Located in New York, NY
1980s Geometric Abstract Painting in cool, mutes tones, acrylic on linen
Linen, Acrylic
$1,200
H 22.5 in W 20 in D 2 in
Deep Down Abstract Painting, Oil on Wood Panel, 2010s, Unframed
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from ...
Oil, Wood Panel
$3,500
H 24 in W 38 in
Contemporary Expressionist Oil Painting Mixed Media Great Colors Linen
By Jeffrey Vincent
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media painting on raw linen by American contemporary conceptual painter Jeffrey Vincent.
Raw Linen, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Washington, DC
A Sculptor's Full Circle, Yoichi Tamaki at Alex - Washington Post (April 1, 1999). Judging from his lively exhibition at Alex Gallery, Yoichi Tamaki wo...
Sandstone
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H 28 in W 41.5 in
Abstract Expressionist Painting 1959 "Aspects Of Spring 2"
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 28" x 41 1/2" Mixed Media painting on paper. Lawrence Kupferman had a...
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache