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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. -
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OUR TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSARY SALE
June 6 - 30, 2026 -
To celebrate 20 years, we will be selling 21 (20 + 1 to grow on!) artworks over 21 days.
All of these works are discounted 40-50% from my asking prices.
I have always seen myself as a temporary custodian for every work of art I own.
So, now it’s time for these works to find new homes.
I have enjoyed them.
I’ll use what comes from these sales to continue the journey.Check back here on June 6 to visit the privateview the artworks.
Once in the private view you can click on any image to see additional images and get the provenance.These are the best prices. All sales are final.
Shipping and sales tax (if applicable) are paid by the Buyer.Everything I have has been expertly conserved, if needed, and all are custom-framed with Optium or Museum Glass.
They have been well cared for. They are ready for you to enjoy.
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“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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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 • Exhibitions-
Aaron Returns to the Antiques Roadshow
Aaron returned to Antiques Roadshow for their 29th season with visits to Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, The Denver Botanic Garden in Littleton, Colorado and The Maryland Zoo, in... -
International Style - Table Magazine
SIX CITIZENS OF THE CITY DIFFERENT GATHERED AT LENA STREET’S LIVING THREADS. THEY BROUGHT FAVORITES FROM THEIR OWN CLOSETS, LAYERED THEM WITH CLOTHES, JEWELRY AND ACCESSORIES FROM SANTA FE SHOPS... -
April is the Cruelest Month
Spring 2024 April 10, 2024 -
The Perspective of Adventure
Colorado & Paris January 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 Street 3 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,... -
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
Venice October 27, 2022
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First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put on the body-armor of... -
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Ken Price, Lorna, 1981 Watercolor & Xerox print on paper 3 x 8 inches (image) 7.7 x 20.3 cm (image)... -
Phoebe Beasley, Mystic Maven, circa 1975 Mixed media collage on paper 20 x 14 ins 50.8 x 35.6 cm #art... -
It’s Not A Destination. It’s Some Place That We’re Dreaming And That We’re Making And That Activity Changes Both The... -
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. - Janis Joplin #janisjoplin #now #liveinthemoment #inspirationalquotes -
I harp always on the “idea” of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment. - Marsden... -
The only Commandment I ever obeyed — “Consider the Lilies”. ― Emily Dickinson #emilydickinson #considerthelilies #callalilies #poetry #quotes -
Marsden Hartley, Calla Lilies in a Vase, 1928 Oil on canvas 24 x 19.625 ins 61 x 50.2 cm #marsdenhartley... -
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one... -
Elizabeth Catlett, Mask, 1981 Agate 14 x 13 x 10 ins 35.56 x 33.02 x 25.4 cm #sculpture #art #blackart... -
Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people. - Elizabeth Catlett #art...
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