Marine Abstraction, 1941

Provenance

Private collection, New Canaan, Connecticut
Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, May 25, 1989, lot 386
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, New York
Private collection, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, acquired from above, 1997
Private collection, by descent from above
Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, April 16, 2026, lot 55

Exhibited

Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Collector’s Choice, February 8-April 19, 1998

Related Work

Plane Abstraction, 1944, oil on composition board, 39¹⁄₁₆ x 26 inches; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Untitled (Abstract Seascape), 1966, oil on canvas, 8⅞ x 11⅞ inches; Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Note

While Charles Green Shaw spent much of his artistic career in Europe, primarily between London and Paris, with World War II building in Europe, he began to spend his summers in the United States, traveling to various beach towns, namely Bellport, Long Island and Nantucket, Massachusetts. Inspired by the scenery of the seashore, Shaw created works such as Marine Abstraction, distilling the landscape and life forms into geometric shapes in a two-dimensional plane.