Charles Ford

Georgetown Movie Theatre, Photorealist Painting by Charles Ford

1985

American Photorealist Ian Hornak’s stunning depiction of a tropical landscape is framed by back-lit palm trees and clouds illuminated with the setting sun. The painting is signed, ti...

Artist: Giuseppe Bartolini, Italian (1938 - ) Title: Il Camion Year: 1984 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 22.5 x 20.5 in. (57.15 x 52.07 cm) Frame: 31 x 29 inches

Artist: Harry McCormick, American (1942 - ) Title: Annecy Year: circa 1990 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 50 in. x 60 in. (127 cm x 152.4 cm) Frame Size: 57 x 67 inches

Artist: Alexander McKenzie, Australian (1971 - ) Title: Holiday Boating near Dungarvan Year: 2001 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled, and dated verso Size: 48 x 48 inches

Artist: Ian Hornak Title: Hannah's Mirror, Variation #3: The Expulsion from Eden Year: 1977 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, dated, and titled verso Size: 42 x 60 inches (106.68 x 152....

Artist: Ian Hornak, American (1944 - 2002) Title: Italy, Garden, Coming Rain Year: 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso Image Size: 28.75 x 38 in. (73.03 x 96.52 cm) Canvas Siz...

Colin Hunt (b. 1973) is a Brooklyn, NY-based artist working primarily in egg tempera and watercolor. His recent series of landscapes of the Avebury stone circle outside of London are...

Val Edwin Lewton (May 23, 1937 – April 24, 2015) was a painter and museum exhibition designer. As an artist, he created Realist acrylic paintings and watercolors of urban and suburban scenes, predominantly in the Washington, D.C., area, where he lived and exhibited. Val Lewton was born May 23, 1937, in Santa Monica, California. His father, also named Val Lewton, produced a string of successful and influential B movies for RKO Pictures, including Cat People (1942) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943). His mother, Ruth Knapp, was a painter and teacher of autistic children. He graduated in 1959 from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and earned a master's degree in fine arts from Claremont University in 1962. After moving to Washington, D.C., he served on the staff of the Smithsonian American Art Museum for 32 years, simultaneously maintaining a career as a painter in his own right. Lewton died in 2015s oon afterwards, exhibitions of his paintings were planned for the Katzen Arts Center (June 17 – August 13, 2017) and Addison/Ripley Fine Art (June 3 – July 8, 2017). Chiefly known for his landscapes, Lewton generally depicted cities and suburbs with a detached, impersonal sensibility. Writing about his watercolors in Arts magazine in 1980, Harry Rand observed, “Either by implication or statement, personalities are absent from Lewton’s work; there is hardly a sense of the lives that move through those spaces he describes.” The critic compared the artist to Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, and Charles Sheeler. Lewton painted from a young age. On a family trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, he discovered the work of Henri Matisse, an encounter that permanently influenced his artistic vision. In the early 1960s, Lewton lived in southern California and taught art classes at the University of California Riverside. During this period, he was inspired by the paintings of Roger Kuntz...

DAVID KESSLER (American born 1950 - ) Greyed Magic #2 (Water and Light Series) Acrylic on canvas Hand signed and titled with artist's studio stamp on verso 60 inches x 84 inches David T. Kessler was born in Park Ridge, New Jersey in 1950. He attended Arizona State University, where he received the award for Outstanding Graduate in Studio Art in 1972. In 1973, David was one of 12 painters accepted into the graduate program at The San Francisco Art Institute, where he received his M.F.A. in 1975. He is well known for his holographic airbrush paintings on aluminum. His paintings have been exhibited internationally since 1977, with shows in Tokyo, Strasbourg, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Scottsdale, and New York. Kessler's paintings are in the permanent collections of The Strasbourg Contemporary Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Minnesota Museum of Art, The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, The Santa Barbara Museum, The Barrington Art Center, and others. Within Arizona, his work is in the collections of The Phoenix Art Museum, The Scottsdale Center for the Arts, The Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, and Northern Arizona University Art Museum. Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media. An American art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Photorealism evolved from Pop Art as a counter to Abstract Expressionism as well as Minimalist art movements. Though Photorealists share some aspects of American realists, such as Edward Hopper, they tried to set themselves as much apart from traditional realists as they did Abstract Expressionists. Photorealists were much more influenced by the work of Pop artists and were reacting against Abstract Expressionism. The word Photorealism was coined by Louis K. Meisel in 1969 and appeared in print for the first time in 1970 in a Whitney Museum catalogue for the show "Twenty-two Realists." It is also sometimes labeled as Super-Realism, New Realism, Sharp Focus Realism, or Hyper-Realism. The first generation of American Photorealists includes the painters Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Charles Bell, Audrey Flack, Don Eddy, Robert Bechtle, Ron Kleemann, Richard McLean, John Salt, John Kacere, and Robert Cottingham. Photorealism's influence and popularity continues to grow, with new books such as Juxtapoz's 2014 book entitled Hyperreal detailing current trends within the artistic genre. Selected Museum and Public Collections: Achenbach Foundation (San Francisco, CA) Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe, AZ) Barrington Arts Center (Barrington, IL) Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY) Davidson College (Davidson, NC) De Anza College (Cupertino, CA) Minnesota Museum of Art (St. Paul, MN) Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art (Monterey, CA) Northern Arizona University Art Museum (Flagstaff, AZ) Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ) Portsmouth Community Arts Center (Portsmouth, OR) Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA) Scottsdale Center for the Arts (Scottsdale, AZ) Strasbourg Museum of Contemporary Art (Strasbourg, France) Tucson Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ) University of Minnesota (St. Paul, MN) Select Exhibitions Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY Dean Day Gallery, Houston, TX Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix, AZ Susan Street Gallery...

Have you ever heard of the Kennebunkport street signs? If the answer to that is no, then you might as well move on to the next painting. But if you are a Maine lover, you might lov...

The concluding artwork in the series, "At the Edge of Reality VII," maintains its size at 70x70 cm, wherein the orange and red buoys now cast elongated, profound reflections on the w...

In the twin piece, "At the Edge of Reality V," the canvas size remains a constant, but the narrative deepens with the addition of a second buoy. This pair, set against the complex we...