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 Demeter and Persephone 1960s Mythological Modernist Oil
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
A striking 1960s mid-century modern oil painting by Edward Marecak titled Demeter and Persephone, depicting the mythological mother-and-daughter figures through a bold modernist abst...
Oil
$3,100
Mid-Century Modern Triptych “Dance of Salome” – Vibrant Figurative Oil, 1967
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
A bold and visually commanding mid-century modern triptych, The Dance of Salome (1967) by Edward Marecak transforms a dramatic biblical narrative into a vivid, color-saturated work o...
Oil
$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
1950 Modernist Figurative “Fertility Goddesses” by Edward Marecak
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
This striking mid-20th century modernist figurative painting titled “Fertility Goddesses” was created circa 1950 by celebrated Denver modernist Edward Marecak (1919–1993). Executed i...
Oil
$3,750
H 18 in W 12 in
"Study at Jan and John's" (2025) Original Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
By Ron Hicks
Located in Denver, CO
Ron Hicks' (US based) "Study at Jan and John's" (2025) is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a lightly abstracted portrait of a woman against a pale white background. T...
Oil, Wood Panel
$30,000
H 55.12 in W 51.19 in D 1.19 in
Large Colourful French Exotic Impressionistic Figurative Painting "Hypnose"
By Claire Denarie-Soffietti
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique, large scale figurative painting with a vivid, exotic background featuring flowers and a cat. The painting style shows influences from the post-impressionists, yet is undeni...
Canvas, Varnish, Wax, Oil, Acrylic
"Classic Maiden"
By Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed & Dated LR Vaclav Vytlacil (Vas-lav Vit-la-chil) was born in New York City in 1892 to Czech parents, but was raised in Chicago. He was an artist since boyhood, becoming the y...
Canvas, Oil
$1,800
H 28 in W 24 in D 4 in
"Retired Ballerina" Great Mid Century Modern Portrait.
By Clarice Akin Holloway
Located in San Antonio, TX
Clarice Akin Holloway (1905-1989) Port Arthur Artist Image Size: 20 x 16 Frame Size: 28 x 24 Medium: Oil Circa 1960s "Retired Ballerina" Biography Clarice Akin Holloway (1905-1989) Mrs. Richard B. Dell Holloway Port Arthur Painter, teacher. A native of Port Arthur, Holloway graduated from nearby Lamar College, Beaumont, with honors. She received instruction or criticism on various occasions from Otis Dozier, Frederic Taubes, Elliott O'hara, Henri Gasser, Ted Schuyler, Fred Samuelson, Boardman Robinson, Morris Davidson...
Oil
$8,188
H 66.93 in W 86.62 in D 1.19 in
Abstract Expressionist Painting in Acrylic and Oil, 21st Century
By Zahra Shahcheraghi
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
Untitled, from Zahra Shahcheraghi’s Enchanters of Heaven series (2024) Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas · 170 x 220 cm Zahra Shahcheraghi’s monumental abstraction bridges Persian ar...
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
$870
H 33.08 in W 23.23 in D 0.79 in
Liberty: Portrait Painting Renewal Flowers Striking Bold Exclusive Blue Red Life
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: Liberty Portrait Painting Liberty Flowers Abstract Artwork Striking Bold Original Blue Red Life This abstract contemporary artwork takes one to a place of freedom and the fe...
Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
$990
H 28.35 in W 39.77 in D 0.2 in
Portrait Painting Longing Africa Bold Flow Desire Striking Invest Gold Sensual
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: My African Dream - The Longing Portrait Painting Contemplation Africa Bold Flow Dream Striking Investment Color Gold Abstract portrait in Acrylics and Oil sealed with high qu...
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Zhyvotkov Serhiy (1961-2000) Portrait of a Woman, 1993. Oil on artist's panel, 16 x 20 inches. Framed measurement 18 x 22 inches. Signed and dated on verso. Author Biography Z...
Oil
$975
H 28 in W 24 in D 2 in
Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
By Chuck Close
Located in Buffalo, NY
American modernist abstracted portrait oil painting in the style of Chuck Close. Framed. Oil on paper. Image size, 23H by 20L.
Canvas, Oil
$6,400
H 31.5 in W 25.5 in
"Contained Emotions" (2025) By Danny McCaw, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Danny McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
"Contained Emotions" is a beautiful original abstract expressionist oil portrait, created by American artist Danny McCaw. His highl...
Oil, Board
$2,500
H 40 in W 30 in
"Hey Sinatra" Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Portrait of Iconic Frank Sinatra
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
This painting is from the artist's Hollywood abstract series, where she instills the character on the lower half of the composition and depicts abstract colors and movements around t...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$14,583
H 40.2 in W 47.2 in
Dimitri Likissas - Mubadala, Abu Dhabi (Tennis Court), Painting 2022
By Dimitri Likissas
Located in Stamford, CT
Series: Pop Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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H 41 in W 30.5 in D 1.5 in
Vintage Semi-Abstract Brightly Colored Portrait, Woman with Plant and Flowers
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
Semi-abstract oil on canvas painting by Edward Marecak (1919-1993). Composition featuring a brightly colored portrait of a woman holding flowers. Presented in an original frame measu...
Canvas, Oil
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H 33.25 in W 37 in D 2.25 in
Two Ladies Trying to Out-Mystify Each Other, Semi Abstract Figural Oil Painting
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
'Two Ladies Trying to Out-Mystify Each Other', Original 1969 semi-abstract cubist style oil painting portraying two female figures with still life. Figural abstraction, oil paint on ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 24.75 in W 30.5 in D 0.75 in
The Three Fates Thinking Mysterious Thoughts, Semi-Abstract Cubist Female Heads
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
The Three Fates Thinking Mysterious Thoughts, vintage semi-abstract painting by Edward Marecak (1919-1993). Three heads in a somewhat cubist style are...
Oil
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H 21 in W 41.25 in D 1.75 in
Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave (Vintage Cubist Semi-Abstract Painting 3 Figures)
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave is a vintage 1983 original signed oil painting with 3 figures painted in a cubist/semi-abstract style in colors of red, blue, ...
Oil