From her early expressionist works of the 1950s, to her “Talking Pop” and Op-surrealist creations of the 1960s, and her Neo Immaculate paintings of the 1970s and beyond, Marina Stern has been preoccupied with capturing the interplay of light and shadow on the natural, built, and imagined environment. Stern’s contemplation of these concepts was the product of a precocious, multi-faceted, and clever mind. Rarely satisfied with a particular style or subject matter, Stern’s diver

1. Abstract Landscape , c. 1950s, oil on canvas, signed verso, 34 x 48 inches $12,500

2. Provincetown, c. 1950s, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 20 ¼ x 30 inches $8,000

3. Nocturne, 1966, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 35 x 40 inches, label verso with title and original price $22,000

4. Bull and Bear , 1967, pencil and acrylic on paper, signed and dated lower right, 25 x 22 ¼ inches $7,000

5. Night Doors II , 1968, pencil and acrylic on paper, signed lower right, 20 x 26 ½ inches, exhibited Marina Stern Paintings,  Eleanor Rigelhaupt Gallery, Boston, MA, March 29 to May 1, 1968 (label verso) $7,000

6. T hree Moons, 1968, pencil and acrylic on paper, signed and dated lower right, 21 ½ x 26 ½ inches, exhibited Marina Stern Paintings,  Eleanor Rigelhaupt Gallery, Boston, MA, March 29 to May 1, 1968 (label verso) $7,000

7. Moonscape 1 , 1968, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 38 x 50 inches $18,000

8. Renaissance, 1969, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 48 x 42 inches $22,000

9. Rooms Orange , 1969, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 50 x 50 inches $20,000

10. Snowy Barn #1 , 1971, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 19 x 23 inches $6,500

11. Silos/Iowa Yellow, 1974, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 50 x 50 inches,   exhibited: 1) Forum Gallery, New York, NY (label verso), unknown date, 2) Marina Stern American Precisionist Painter, Santa Fe East Galleries, Santa Fe, NM, November 2 to 20, 1984 (label verso), and 3) Perception and the Cultural Environment – The Paintings of Marina Stern, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA, January 19 to April 22, 2007, tape with alternate title Iowa Yellow v

12. Con Ed Smokestack, 1978, color lithograph on paper, signed lower right, edition “50/55” inscribed lower left, 31 x 20 inches (image), 35 x 23 inches (sheet), (another example) exhibited An Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Marina Stern, Forum Gallery, New York, NY, October 6 to 26, 1979 (used as key art for exhibition advertisement) $1,500

13. Interior with Cabbage , 1979, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 48 x 42 inches,   exhibited: 1) An Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Marina Stern, Forum Gallery, New York, NY, February 13 to March 6, 1982, no. 2 (label verso) (see Marina Stern , New York Times , February 19, 1982 “one turns . . . to a couple of indoor paintings, such as I nterior with Cabbage, i n which Miss Stern skillfully plays off a 'real' purple cabbage on a white tablecloth with a black and whi

14. Park View , 1980, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 50 x 40 inches $16,000

15. Autumn Window , 1984, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 40 x 50 inches, exhibited: Marina Stern – New Paintings , Forum Gallery, New York, NY, January 12 to February 6, 1985, no. 2 (label verso) $16,000

16. Central Park, 1984, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 20 x 22 inches $6,500

17. White Church, 1985, pastel and oil on board, signed and dated lower right, 23 ½ x 34 inches, exhibited New Pastels by Marina Stern, Forum Gallery, New York, NY, January 31 to February 26, 1987, no. 18 (label verso) $7,500

18. New York Window , 1986, mixed media on illustration board, signed and dated lower right, 31 x 20 inches (image), 36 ½ x 28 inches (board) $7,500

19. Still Life with Lily , 1987, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 50 x 40 inches , exhibited Marina Stern – Venice New Works , Forum Gallery, New York, NY, March 4 to April 1, 1989 (label verso) $16,000