Angela Rio

"The Nightmare Began Just Like Any Other Dream" Nighttime landscape, surreal

2023

This piece titled "Adansonii Leafr" is an original artwork by Jiaranai Apaipak. It's an oil painting on canvas. The piece measures 10”h x 10”w. Born in Thailand, Jiaranai grew up in...

This piece titled "Shapeshifter" is an original painting by Adrian Landon Brooks and is made from acrylic on wood panel. This piece measures 19”h x 19”w. Adrian Landon Brooks (b. 19...

This dog painting titled "Afghan Hound II (Somewhere in PA)" is an original artwork by Emily White made of acrylic paint on birch panel. This piece measures 13"h x 13"w. Emily White...

"White Raven II" is an original hand-painted wall-hanging woodcarving by Dennis McNett (also known as Wolfbat) measuring 41”h x 50”w x 2”d. Please send us...

This figurative dog portrait titled "Afghan Hound I (Hindu Kush Mountains)" is an original artwork by Emily White made of acrylic paint on wood panel. This ...

This piece titled "Home Plate 14" is an original artwork made from oil paint and acrylic on panel by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece is freestanding and measures approx. 7.25"h x 2.5"w x ...

A stylized horse is depicted grazing in an abstract landscape. Most likely, the location is Woodstock, New York, where the artist lived. Signed Lower Right; Framed; Note: titled and signed on verso. Ethel Magafan (August 10, 1916 – April 24, 1993) was an American painter and muralist. Magafan was born in Chicago to Greek parents who had recently immigrated to the U.S. The family soon relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Magafan's artistic training occurred at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center under the tutelage of Peppino Mangravite, Boardman Robinson and Frank Mechau, who hired Magafan and her twin sister, Jenne, to assist on mural projects. In 1937, aEthel won the commission to paint a mural in the U.S. post office in Auburn, Nebraska, making her the youngest recipient of such a commission. It would be the first of seven government-sponsored commissions for the artist. Murals "Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814" E. Magafan, 1943 Under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, several programs were created to employ Americans during the Great Depression. The Magafan twins worked under the New Deal's Section of Painting and Sculpture, a program that hired thousands of artists to paint murals in public spaces, particularly post offices. Ethel and her twin sister, Jenne Magafan, became widely known for their murals painted during the Great Depression. Ethel received her first of seven Government commissions when she was commissioned to produce a painting for the United States post office in Auburn, Nebraska, titled Threshing.Other murals commissioned by the US Government hang in the United States Senate Chamber, the Social Security Building and the Recorder Deeds Building in Washington, D.C., and in post offices in Wynne, Arkansas, titled Cotton Pickers in 1940; in Madill, Oklahoma, titled Prairie Fire in 1941; and Englewood, Colorado, titled The Horse Corral in 1942.Her final mural, entitled Grant in the Wilderness, was installed in 1979 in the Chancellorsville Visitor Center at the Fredericksburg National Memorial Military Park in Virginia, She was a member of the National Academy of Design. Magafan died April 24, 1993, in Woodstock, New York, at the age of 76. References "Collections National Academy Museum". Retrieved 2017-03-08. "Jenne Magafan". Retrieved 2017-03-08. Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984. "Browse New Deal projects by State and City". Living New Deal. Retrieved 9 January 2015. "Ethel Magafan Passes Away". New York Times. No. Obituary. April 29, 1993. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book...

Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...

Acrylic on canvas In China, pandas are very well protected. While many old buildings have to face the reality of being demolished and replaced by new buildings. Historical old build...

Under the influence of the social and educational system, the children today focus only on the test scores, and obsessed with electronic products, do not like sports, lazy like panda...

The panda is regarded as the national treasure of China and they are very well protected. Along with the pace of modernisation, traditional culture is being forgotten and many many o...

In 2016, we visited Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany. The beautiful castle left us with very good memories, so we have this work.This work is dra...