24-276 Charles Green Shaw Original 1950s Painting 26 x 30

This oil painting on board by New Yorker Charles Green Shaw dates from the Mid-1950s based on comparison to his other works from that period. It is an abstract expressionist composition featuring contrasting colors with an orange glow in the center. Very effective. 26 x 30 in a new gold leafed hardwood frame. There is some wear along the edges caused by the poor framing job done 75 years ago.

Charles Green Shaw (1892–1974) was a key figure in early American abstract art. Shaw’s paintings in the collections the Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Whitney. Shaw was the only American artist to have two solo exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in his lifetime.

In 1933, he started a series of works called Plastic Polygon, working on this series of abstracted architectural paintings for about seven years. In the 1940s Shaw shifted from the strict geometrical format of the polygon paintings, focusing on Abstract Expressionism in a softened color palette. (Wikipedia)