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ABOUT AARON PAYNE FINE ART
Established in 2000, Aaron Payne Fine Art is a gallery specializing in 20th and 21st Century modern masterworks. Our areas of focus include American Modernism, African American Art, The Stieglitz Circle, New Mexico Modernism, Postwar and Contemporary Art. We also have a long history with the American Abstract Artists and both European and American Surrealism.
Some of our favorite works don’t fit into any category.
Aaron Payne has expertise in areas he has explored for almost thirty-five years, but is always compelled to work with art he loves.
What Aaron Payne Fine Art also purveys is an experience and opportunity to develop new perspectives. We offer a unique way of looking at art and the art market as well the chance to participate in and engage with both in new and meaningful ways.
We hope you will join us, here on my website, at the gallery, in my office by appointment, or out in the world looking at art at fairs, auctions and wherever we can find it. -
“A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away."
- GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
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VIEWS OF THE WEST
Its landscape and culture, as captured by those who came here
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- Thomas BenrimoNew Mexico Desert, 1941
- Dorothy Eugenie BrettDeer Hunters, 1960
- Dorothy Eugenie BrettDesert Indian, 1937
- Dan ConcholarDesert Cactus, circa 1974
- Edward CorbettNo. 7, 1951
- Andrew Michael DasburgUntitled (New Mexico Church, near Abiquiu), ca. 1922
- Stuart DavisRevolver, 1925
- Laura GilpinRanchos Church, 1930
- Lawren Stewart HarrisPainting # 14, circa 1935
- Lawren Stewart HarrisPainting # 60, circa 1936
- WIillam Penhallow HendersonNavajo Melon Seller and his Wife at Acoma, circa 1920
- Peter HurdRio Hondo, Dusk, 1946
- Raymond Jonson"The First Morning", 1920
- Raymond JonsonNambe I, 1934
- Raymond JonsonRain and Mesa, 1930
- Ila McAfeeWinter Pasture, circa 1939
- Lee MullicanEntrance of the Cloud Fathers, 1980
- Lee MullicanStarcatcher, 1985
- BJO Nordfeldt"Portrait of Two Men" (also titled "Two Men at Table", circa 1920s
- Georgia O'KeeffeRanchos No. 3 (also titled, A Fragment of the Ranchos de Taos Church), 1929
- Florence Miller PierceUntitled (Triangle), 1985
- Ken PriceFrog Cup - Rest Position, 1967
- Ken PriceRetablo 326 (Don't Think of Her When You Are Trying to Drive), 1981
- Fritz ScholderIndian on Red Horse, 1969
- Pansy StocktonLittle Village of Truchas, circa 1946
- Paul StrandChurch, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1931
- Stuart WalkerMountain Rancho, 1935
- Stuart WalkerRanchos de Taos Church, circa 1936-39
- Cady WellsBlue Study, 1947
- Cady WellsJacona Evening, circa 1936
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ABOUT AARON
My love of art comes from my parents and from my earliest memories of growing up in Los Angeles. At home I was surrounded by the artworks of Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Jacob Lawrence, John Outterbridge, Suzanne Jackson, Betye Saar and other contemporary African American artists. As a child, I went to many gallery openings, and a lot of these artists were friends of my family and guests in our home. Some of my best memories from childhood are visits to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) with my mother.
"For me, art has always been a space where I can connect with my own inner life in a way that is not dictated by anyone. When you are with an artwork, there are no rules, no expectations. All we have to do is listen. I love art because is represents Courage. I love art because it is something that any person can engage with in their own way. It brings together people from every demographic, nationality and background in a way that nothing else can. Anyone and everyone can have their own relationship with art."
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MY PERSPECTIVE
Blogs • News • ExhibitionsLike A Real Store
April 18, 2024From South Africa to South LA
Contemporary African and African American Art, 1950 -Today6 April - 8 June 2024Dating from the early 1950s through today, the works highlight some of the trends of the last half century on both continents: figuration in the work of West African artists,...April is the Cruelest Month
Spring 2024April 10, 2024The Perspective of Adventure
Colorado & ParisJanuary 10, 2023
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The Summer Season Commences
New Space • New Website • New ExhibitionWe have some exciting news to announce. NEW SPACE After 13 years on Marcy Street, Aaron Payne Fine Art closed its doors in 2019 and moved to Lena Street to...The Return
Welcome to our new space on Lena Street3 June - 30 September 2023Selected works and recent acquisitions by Modern, Postwar and Contemporary artists. Artists featured include: Beauford Delaney, Fritz Scholder, Romare Bearden, Larry Bell, Lee Mullican, Marion Sampler, vanessa german, Zanele Muholi, Shirley Goldfarb and many others.Aaron Payne on Antiques Roadshow
Nashville • Santa Fe • Woodside • Baton Rouge • RaleighAaron has appeared on two Antiques Roadshow segments -- in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee. He has just completed filming two more -- in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and...The Magic Formula
VeniceOctober 27, 2022
