{"title":"Art","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ralph-rosenborg-landscape-of-the-northwest-trees-1965","title":"Ralph Rosenborg Painting Landscape of the Northwest: Trees 1965","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRalph Rosenborg (1913–1992)\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eLandscape of the Northwest: Trees\u003c\/em\u003e, 1965 Oil on canvas · 36 × 30 in (91 × 76 cm) Signed and dated lower right: \u003cem\u003eRosenborg 1965\u003c\/em\u003e White painted wood float frame\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThere is a world inside this painting that resists easy entry — and that is precisely the point. \u003cem\u003eLandscape of the Northwest: Trees\u003c\/em\u003e is a late-career work by Ralph Rosenborg, one of the foundational figures of American Abstract Expressionism and a painter whose relationship with the natural world was lifelong, intensely personal, and unlike anyone else working in his circle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRosenborg was a colleague of the New York Abstract Expressionists in the 1940s and 1950s, and while he moved freely in that world — sharing a guard post at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting with Jackson Pollock, participating in the landmark Studio 35 discussions alongside de Kooning, Gottlieb, and Motherwell — he went his own way. He preferred small, intimate works, and tended to draw explicitly upon natural forms rather than the gestural abstraction or geometric reduction that defined so many of his peers. Nature was his perennial motif throughout his life. \u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Rosenborg\" class=\"group\/tag relative h-[18px] rounded-full inline-flex items-center overflow-hidden -translate-y-px cursor-pointer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative transition-colors h-full max-w-[180px] overflow-hidden px-1.5 inline-flex items-center font-small rounded-full border-0.5 border-border-300 bg-bg-200 group-hover\/tag:bg-accent-900 group-hover\/tag:border-accent-100\/60\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-nowrap text-text-300 break-all truncate font-normal group-hover\/tag:text-text-200\"\u003eWikipedia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"transition-all opacity-[0%] h-[17px] absolute right-[0.5px] inline rounded-r-full flex items-center px-1.5 bg-gradient-to-r from-accent-900\/0 via-accent-900\/100 via-30% to-accent-900\/100 group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%]\"\u003e\u003csvg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" fill=\"currentColor\" viewbox=\"0 0 256 256\" class=\"transition-all group-hover\/tag:ease-out duration-[500ms] ease-in text-accent-100 group-hover\/tag:scale-[100%] scale-[80%] group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%] opacity-[0%] -mr-[2px]\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M200,64V168a8,8,0,0,1-16,0V83.31L69.66,197.66a8,8,0,0,1-11.32-11.32L172.69,72H88a8,8,0,0,1,0-16H192A8,8,0,0,1,200,64Z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"inline-flex w-1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/artist\/ralph-rosenborg-4134\" class=\"group\/tag relative h-[18px] rounded-full inline-flex items-center overflow-hidden -translate-y-px cursor-pointer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative transition-colors h-full max-w-[180px] overflow-hidden px-1.5 inline-flex items-center font-small rounded-full border-0.5 border-border-300 bg-bg-200 group-hover\/tag:bg-accent-900 group-hover\/tag:border-accent-100\/60\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-nowrap text-text-300 break-all truncate font-normal group-hover\/tag:text-text-200\"\u003eSmithsonian American Art Museum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"transition-all opacity-[0%] h-[17px] absolute right-[0.5px] inline rounded-r-full flex items-center px-1.5 bg-gradient-to-r from-accent-900\/0 via-accent-900\/100 via-30% to-accent-900\/100 group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%]\"\u003e\u003csvg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" fill=\"currentColor\" viewbox=\"0 0 256 256\" class=\"transition-all group-hover\/tag:ease-out duration-[500ms] ease-in text-accent-100 group-hover\/tag:scale-[100%] scale-[80%] group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%] opacity-[0%] -mr-[2px]\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M200,64V168a8,8,0,0,1-16,0V83.31L69.66,197.66a8,8,0,0,1-11.32-11.32L172.69,72H88a8,8,0,0,1,0-16H192A8,8,0,0,1,200,64Z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLandscape of the Northwest: Trees\u003c\/em\u003e is a prime example of why. Painted in 1965 — the year before a National Council of the Arts award took him to Europe — the canvas depicts what appears to be a dense, atmospheric stand of trees rendered in Rosenborg's deeply individual manner: dark, layered, and mysteriously lit. The composition is governed by a near-black field of deep navy and charcoal, from which forms emerge and recede in a way that feels less observed than remembered, or dreamed. A central luminous form — blue-grey, built up in heavy impasto — rises from the lower register of the canvas like a shaft of filtered light through a forest canopy. Above it, a single charged stroke of pure vermillion red sits like an ember in the dark. \u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.caldwellgallery.com\/artists\/ralph-rosenborg\/biography\" class=\"group\/tag relative h-[18px] rounded-full inline-flex items-center overflow-hidden -translate-y-px cursor-pointer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative transition-colors h-full max-w-[180px] overflow-hidden px-1.5 inline-flex items-center font-small rounded-full border-0.5 border-border-300 bg-bg-200 group-hover\/tag:bg-accent-900 group-hover\/tag:border-accent-100\/60\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-nowrap text-text-300 break-all truncate font-normal group-hover\/tag:text-text-200\"\u003eCaldwellgallery\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"transition-all opacity-[0%] h-[17px] absolute right-[0.5px] inline rounded-r-full flex items-center px-1.5 bg-gradient-to-r from-accent-900\/0 via-accent-900\/100 via-30% to-accent-900\/100 group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%]\"\u003e\u003csvg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" fill=\"currentColor\" viewbox=\"0 0 256 256\" class=\"transition-all group-hover\/tag:ease-out duration-[500ms] ease-in text-accent-100 group-hover\/tag:scale-[100%] scale-[80%] group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%] opacity-[0%] -mr-[2px]\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M200,64V168a8,8,0,0,1-16,0V83.31L69.66,197.66a8,8,0,0,1-11.32-11.32L172.69,72H88a8,8,0,0,1,0-16H192A8,8,0,0,1,200,64Z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRosenborg used an assortment of small palette knives to spread paint in buttery slabs, leaving thin edges that catch the light; occasionally he scooped out hollows or cut incised lines within the thick pigment. As a counterpoint, he took up the brush to run paint on top of and within thin glazes, dappling the surface with touches of color or creating delicate linear marks of a barely discernible quality. Every one of those techniques is present here. The close-up photographs reveal the full topographic complexity of the surface: passages of thick, ridged impasto give way to thin, almost translucent glazes; small flashes of green, rust, and deep wine emerge from beneath the dominant field like buried light; the canvas texture shows through in places, giving the darkest passages a roughness that reads as bark, as shadow, as depth. \u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ralphrosenborg.net\/\" class=\"group\/tag relative h-[18px] rounded-full inline-flex items-center overflow-hidden -translate-y-px cursor-pointer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative transition-colors h-full max-w-[180px] overflow-hidden px-1.5 inline-flex items-center font-small rounded-full border-0.5 border-border-300 bg-bg-200 group-hover\/tag:bg-accent-900 group-hover\/tag:border-accent-100\/60\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-nowrap text-text-300 break-all truncate font-normal group-hover\/tag:text-text-200\"\u003eRalphrosenborg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"transition-all opacity-[0%] h-[17px] absolute right-[0.5px] inline rounded-r-full flex items-center px-1.5 bg-gradient-to-r from-accent-900\/0 via-accent-900\/100 via-30% to-accent-900\/100 group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%]\"\u003e\u003csvg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" fill=\"currentColor\" viewbox=\"0 0 256 256\" class=\"transition-all group-hover\/tag:ease-out duration-[500ms] ease-in text-accent-100 group-hover\/tag:scale-[100%] scale-[80%] group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%] opacity-[0%] -mr-[2px]\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M200,64V168a8,8,0,0,1-16,0V83.31L69.66,197.66a8,8,0,0,1-11.32-11.32L172.69,72H88a8,8,0,0,1,0-16H192A8,8,0,0,1,200,64Z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRosenborg frequently drew an arrow in a rectangular box on the back of his paintings — originally a Mayan motif, the arrow signified that he would strive to always go up, aesthetically and spiritually. \"The painting is another world,\" he wrote. \u003cem\u003eLandscape of the Northwest: Trees\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to that other world entirely. \u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/artist\/ralph-rosenborg-4134\" class=\"group\/tag relative h-[18px] rounded-full inline-flex items-center overflow-hidden -translate-y-px cursor-pointer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative transition-colors h-full max-w-[180px] overflow-hidden px-1.5 inline-flex items-center font-small rounded-full border-0.5 border-border-300 bg-bg-200 group-hover\/tag:bg-accent-900 group-hover\/tag:border-accent-100\/60\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-nowrap text-text-300 break-all truncate font-normal group-hover\/tag:text-text-200\"\u003eSmithsonian American Art Museum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"transition-all opacity-[0%] h-[17px] absolute right-[0.5px] inline rounded-r-full flex items-center px-1.5 bg-gradient-to-r from-accent-900\/0 via-accent-900\/100 via-30% to-accent-900\/100 group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%]\"\u003e\u003csvg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" fill=\"currentColor\" viewbox=\"0 0 256 256\" class=\"transition-all group-hover\/tag:ease-out duration-[500ms] ease-in text-accent-100 group-hover\/tag:scale-[100%] scale-[80%] group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%] opacity-[0%] -mr-[2px]\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M200,64V168a8,8,0,0,1-16,0V83.31L69.66,197.66a8,8,0,0,1-11.32-11.32L172.69,72H88a8,8,0,0,1,0-16H192A8,8,0,0,1,200,64Z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe painting is signed and dated in the lower right — \u003cem\u003eRosenborg 1965\u003c\/em\u003e — in Rosenborg's characteristic small, careful script, clearly visible in the photographs. It is housed in its original white painted wood float frame, which suits the work's spare drama without competing with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRosenborg's work is held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Newark Museum of Art, and the Butler Institute of American Art, among many others. He is represented in \u003cem\u003eAbstract and Surrealist Art in America\u003c\/em\u003e by Sidney Janis (1944) and \u003cem\u003eModern Artists in America\u003c\/em\u003e (1952), and his career was the subject of a major critical essay by Martica Sawin in \u003cem\u003eArts Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e in 1960. \u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ralphrosenborg.net\/exhibition.php\" class=\"group\/tag relative h-[18px] rounded-full inline-flex items-center overflow-hidden -translate-y-px cursor-pointer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative transition-colors h-full max-w-[180px] overflow-hidden px-1.5 inline-flex items-center font-small rounded-full border-0.5 border-border-300 bg-bg-200 group-hover\/tag:bg-accent-900 group-hover\/tag:border-accent-100\/60\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-nowrap text-text-300 break-all truncate font-normal group-hover\/tag:text-text-200\"\u003eRalphrosenborg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"transition-all opacity-[0%] h-[17px] absolute right-[0.5px] inline rounded-r-full flex items-center px-1.5 bg-gradient-to-r from-accent-900\/0 via-accent-900\/100 via-30% to-accent-900\/100 group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%]\"\u003e\u003csvg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" fill=\"currentColor\" viewbox=\"0 0 256 256\" class=\"transition-all group-hover\/tag:ease-out duration-[500ms] ease-in text-accent-100 group-hover\/tag:scale-[100%] scale-[80%] group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%] opacity-[0%] -mr-[2px]\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M200,64V168a8,8,0,0,1-16,0V83.31L69.66,197.66a8,8,0,0,1-11.32-11.32L172.69,72H88a8,8,0,0,1,0-16H192A8,8,0,0,1,200,64Z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA signed, dated, and documented oil on canvas by one of the genuine pioneers of American abstract art — and a painting that rewards looking. This is a work for someone who understands that the best paintings never fully reveal themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 30 W × 36 H in (91 × 76 cm), without frame, with frame approximately 38 W × 44 H in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Signed and dated lower right, \u003cem\u003eRosenborg 1965\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good; canvas structurally sound with rich surface patina consistent with age; frame shows period wear\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e Private collection\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hobbs Modern","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44815217295413,"sku":"44815217295413","price":2795.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0293\/5534\/3925\/files\/May5-3121.jpg?v=1778545356"},{"product_id":"steven-barbash-oil-out-from-tigelman-s-island-1968","title":"“Out From Tigelman’s Island” Painting by Steven Barbash,  1968 Oil on Canvas","description":"\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003ePainted in 1968, \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Out From Tigelman’s Island”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is a captivating abstract landscape by American artist \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Barbash\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. Created during a formative period in the artist’s career, the painting exemplifies Barbash’s remarkable ability to evoke atmosphere and emotion through expressive color, texture, and gesture rather than literal representation. Barbash, who earned his MFA from Yale University and became known as both a painter and printmaker, developed a body of work deeply inspired by the natural world and the ever-changing qualities of light and landscape. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eRendered in rich layers of oil paint, the composition is dominated by luminous fields of magenta, violet, crimson, and deep ultramarine. Loose, energetic brushwork creates an immersive sense of movement, suggesting reflections across water, distant horizons, or the fleeting atmosphere of dusk. Rather than depicting a specific place with precision, Barbash invites the viewer to experience the landscape emotionally, allowing color and texture to become the primary subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThe title, \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Out From Tigelman’s Island,”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e hints at a personal or geographic inspiration while remaining intentionally poetic, encouraging individual interpretation. Its sophisticated palette and painterly abstraction make the work equally at home in both traditional collections and contemporary interiors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThe verso retains its original \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Siembab Gallery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e label from Boston, identifying the artist, medium, and title, adding a layer of provenance that collectors appreciate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eWhether displayed as the focal point of a living room, study, or gallery wall, this exceptional 1968 painting offers the timeless appeal of American Abstract Expressionism and Color Field-inspired painting while showcasing Steven Barbash’s distinctive artistic voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e Steven Barbash (American, 1933–2016)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eOut From Tigelman’s Island\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDate:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e 1968\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMedium:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e Oil on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal Carl Siembab Gallery label affixed to the reverse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRichly layered abstract landscape composition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExceptional color palette featuring deep blues, violets, magentas, and crimson hues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn expressive work that bridges Abstract Expressionism and lyrical landscape painting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA striking statement piece for modern, contemporary, or mid-century interiors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThis work represents an opportunity to acquire an early painting by an accomplished American artist whose works are represented in museum collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Cornell University’s Herbert F. 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Wired and ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe ground is a single saturated marigold, poured and polished to a glass-slick resin finish that holds the light like enamel on a car hood. Across it Eoff scatters hundreds of small discs in a full spectrum — cobalt, chartreuse, coral, lilac, teal, black, sherbet orange — some flat and opaque, others translucent, many stacked two and three deep so a disc reads as a colored lens over the one beneath. The dots crowd into a dense band through the center and disperse toward the edges, the whole thing organized like a burst caught mid-expansion. Raised above the glossy field, they cast real shadows; the surface is as much relief as painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEoff, Texas-born and long based in Eagle Rock, studied at Claremont Graduate University and showed with Patricia Faure Gallery in Santa Monica for roughly nine years, until the gallery's closing. He works in oil, resin and wax on panel, describing his own surfaces as having an industrial or \"fetish\" finish — slick as glass — and this work sits squarely in that lineage: the pristine, high-gloss Southern California tradition that runs from the Light and Space and finish fetish painters forward. The recurring starburst-and-dot compositions of these years are close cousins to his Pop Rocks series, which took the candy's fizz and scatter as an abstract structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHung against white or a muted wall, the marigold does the work of a light source. It is an unambiguously joyful painting, and a rigorous one — the exuberance is engineered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtist: Jason Eoff (20th\/21st Century)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTitle: \"Wild Like No Other\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDate: 2005\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMedium: Oil and resin on panel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned, titled, and dated verso: Jason Eoff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 30\"W x 30\"H\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConstruction: Cradled wood panel with braced verso; hanging wire in place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvenance: Estate, Pasadena, California; by family descent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePresentation: Unframed, as intended\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hobbs Modern","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912689901621,"sku":"HM-260820-293","price":1995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0293\/5534\/3925\/files\/Sep_3-1791.jpg?v=1788490369"},{"product_id":"arron-sturgeon-20th-21st-century-untitled","title":"Art work by Arron Sturgeon — Untitled, Oil and Wax on Panel","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArron Sturgeon — Untitled, Oil and Wax on Panel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAn untitled abstract composition by Los Angeles painter Arron Sturgeon (20th\/21st century), worked in oil and wax on a square panel. Signed and titled verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSturgeon's process is closer to excavation than to painting. He builds the surface up, then scrapes, drags, rubs and abrades it back down, so the panel reads at once as a foundation for something unbuilt and the remains of something lost. Here a chalky off-white ground is broken open in ragged, torn-edged passages that expose rust, ochre, mauve and green beneath — the wax lending those buried layers a translucency that shifts with the light. Broad swaths of paint loop and stutter across the panel, colors mixing as they travel, in the manner of Gerhard Richter's dragged surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAgainst that turbulence Sturgeon sets hard-edged, flatly painted forms — deep forest green, dense black, a clean emerald crescent — and a faint yellow ruled grid drawn across the white. The geometry doesn't impose order on the chaos so much as propose that the two might coexist. It is a picture that gives up most of its detail at close range: the rewards are in the tactile range of the surface, not the distanced view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSturgeon exhibited with William Turner Gallery in Los Angeles, where his oil-and-wax panels were noted in the press for exactly this balance of control and abandon — the painter pulling back just before the texture dissolves. The work belongs to the countercurrent of Southern California abstraction: where the 1960s \"finish fetish\" school chased slick, pristine, automotive surfaces, Sturgeon's generation went the other way, toward the raw and deliberately unrefined, with roots in the gestural immediacy of Abstract Expressionism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eUnframed, as intended — painted edges are continuous with the composition and the panel is meant to hang unglazed and unadorned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtist: Arron Sturgeon (20th\/21st Century)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTitle: Untitled\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMedium: Oil and wax on panel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned and titled verso: Arron Sturgeon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 24\"W x 24\"H\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: Excellent. No condition issues. Blacklight examination shows no evidence of restoration.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvenance: Estate, Pasadena, California; by family descent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePresentation: Unframed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Hobbs Modern","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45922050900021,"sku":"HM-260824-103","price":1795.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0293\/5534\/3925\/files\/Sep_3-1780.jpg?v=1788489877"}],"url":"https:\/\/hobbsmodern.com\/collections\/art.oembed","provider":"Hobbs Modern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}