Charles Green Shaw

Blue Heron Fine Art

Buys & Sells 19th and early 20th Century American Paintings
By This And Many Other Artists.
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Charles Green Shaw, American (1892-1974). As one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists, a group whose intent was to provide exposure and understanding to the abstract and non-objective world, Charles Green Shaw remains a key figure in the history of American Art. Born into a wealthy family, Shaw was described as a "wealthy man-about-town, poet and minor novelist" before he began to paint seriously when he was in his 30s. His parents died when he was young, and he was raised by an uncle. He graduated from Yale University and then studied at the Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton. He also took private lessons from George Luks. Shaw's work quickly progressed from his still-life studies with Thomas Hart Benton and George Luks to a divergence from cubism, ultimately resulting in pristine forms and ultimate clarity and structure. He served in World War I and during much of the 1920s, lived in Europe, writing articles for the "New Yorker" and "Smart Set". Shortly after, he turned to abstract painting and exhibited in important avant-garde shows, including those at the Salons of America, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery, American Abstract Artists, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Shaw's work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Guggenheim, the Smithsonian Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Another painting by Charles Green Shaw currently is also available for purchase on our website. Click Here! "Geometric Abstractions" Signed and dated 1941 on the reverse. Oil on canvasboard. 16" x 12"   To purchase this painting, you may     by email, or call the gallery directly.

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