Willard Dixon

Active Sky

2023

Blue sky painting with sunlight shining through turbulent clouds with a warm hue. Created with a calm and etherial palette of blue, white, and lavender. Painted on a 5 foot circular canvas...

Landscape painting with mustard flowers under a warm sky. Created on a circular canvas that is 48 inches across (4 feet in diameter.) The original work of art ...

Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...

Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...

Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offerings — specifically, the play of light as it touches upon water and earth — her nature-inspired works bridge realism and abstraction, and they convey a thin veneer of the of human spirit. Complex, rich, and slow in the making, the paintings, with their serene simplicity, are intended to be viewed and enjoyed over time. Ten Mile Beach...

Contemporary 'Storm Source' depicts severe weather at the center of a storm. An intense and electrically radiant sky, ocean, sunset painting from American Realist, Willard Dixon. The unique sky-scape is a birds-eye view to the dramatic and unfolding scene. Framed in dark ebony wood, and ready to hang and enjoy. The original painting is 58 x 60 inches. Signed and dated by the artist. Condition is excellelnt. One of our finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon has painted Northern California and western landscapes for over 35 years. His work captures the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. The same sensitivity can be found in Dixon’s urban street scenes that offer viewers a resting place to contemplate our rapidly changing world, and his portraiture, which largely focuses on his artist friends and illustrious colleagues. Willard Dixon’s art has been shown extensively in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, He has had over 40 one-man shows and numerous group shows. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, The SFMOMA, and the Oakland Museum of California Art. He has executed large-scale commissions for The California Supreme Court, The Oakland Museum and The Las Vegas Federal Courthouse. He received an NEA Fellowship Grant in 1989. In 2013, one of his portraits was included in The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Dixon’s works are included in prominent private and museum collections worldwide. Born: Kansas City MO, 1942 Education: Art Students League, New York, NY Cornell University Brooklyn Museum School San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969 Awards and Commissions N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989 California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998 Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998 Teaching 1989-90: San Francisco State University 1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar 1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA 1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA One Man Exhibitions 2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield 2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY 2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY. 2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA 2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY 2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA 1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA 1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery) 1994: Fischbach Gallery 1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery 1992: Fischbach Gallery 1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1990: Fischbach Gallery 1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1987: Fischbach Gallery 1987: Gallery 454 North 1986: William Sawyer Gallery 1985: Fischbach Gallery 1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx 1984: William Sawyer Gallery 1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery 1981: William Sawyer Gallery 1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery 1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish...

An oil painting of a rocky shoreline in Montauk, New York. Painted from life, on site. Framed dimensions: 22 x 31.75 inches Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is pri...

William Sharp (1900 - 1961) Factory on the River Oil on canvas 17 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches Initialed lower right: WS Provenance: Estate of the artist Private Collection, New York Swann Auction Galleries, American Art, June 13, 2019, Lot 178 William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry. He later studied in Kraków, Poland, and in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Sharp began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals. He served in the German army during World War I. After the war he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher. Sharp drew political cartoons that were bitterly critical of the growing Nazi movement. As the influence of National Socialism intensified, he began to contribute drawings, under a pseudonym, to publications that were hostile to Hitler. After Hitler assumed power, Sharp was confronted with these drawings and told that he would be sent to a concentration camp. However, in 1934, he escaped to the United States. His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror...

William Sharp (1900 - 1961) Factory on the River Oil on canvas 20 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches Initialed lower left: WS Provenance: Estate of the artist Private Collection, New York Swann Auction Galleries, American Art, June 13, 2019, Lot 178 Private Collection, New York Colonial Sand and Stone Co., founded by Generoso Pope, was once the country’s largest sand and gravel business, providing the concrete for much of New York City’s skyline, including the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, airports and subways. William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry. He later studied in Kraków, Poland, and in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Sharp began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals. He served in the German army during World War I. After the war he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher. Sharp drew political cartoons that were bitterly critical of the growing Nazi movement. As the influence of National Socialism intensified, he began to contribute drawings, under a pseudonym, to publications that were hostile to Hitler. After Hitler assumed power, Sharp was confronted with these drawings and told that he would be sent to a concentration camp. However, in 1934, he escaped to the United States. His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror...

Short Statements on Painting by Jim Woodson (in no particular order): Remember less, Explore More Learn then forget, then look and discover Move Thought into Thinking A verb is more...

Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. With a high level of technical virtuosity Keifer creates...

Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. With a high level of technical virtuosity Keifer creates a new sense of reality with textures and colors that seem to add lighting effects and distinct shadows, confronting the viewer with new interpretations of familiar objects. This one-of-a-kind 10 inch square original artwork is a composition created with acrylic paint on canvas. It is stretched, wired and ready to hang. The sides are painted as a continuation of the front and it does not require framing. It signed by the artist on the front of the artwork. Convenient local Los Angeles area shipping. Affordable Continental U.S. and global shipping also available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Kathleen’s paintings invite the viewer to consider the complex relationship between time and timelessness. It is the sheer visual interaction between the elements, taken in their bare simplicity that interests her. For her, painting captures the very essence of time and its passage. She believes that actual sites and places have an individual magic. The goal is to take objects from popular culture and paint them in a new narrative context. Her complex approaches to popular board games present the subjects as living, tangible objects. Born and raised in Chicago, Kathleen Keifer is a second-generation artist. Her mother, also a fine artist, exposed Keifer to the world of art and supervised her training from a very early age. This legacy continues today as Keifer closely nurtures the development of the artistic leaning in each of her three daughters, inspiring a third generation of female artists. Her works are represented by Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles and have been exhibited and collected internationally, including Chicago, New York and London. Artspace Warehouse has been representing and exhibiting Kathleen Keifer's original artworks since 2017. The gallery has been a 1stdibs partner since 2014 with consistently excellent reviews from clients worldwide. The gallery exhibits a large selection of affordable original artworks from established and emerging international artists with diverse backgrounds at high standards. Artspace Warehouse is known to provide accurate descriptions, images, reliable services, communication, and delivery. REPRESENTATION Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA EXHIBITIONS 2023 “Postcards From Nowhere”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2022 “The Comforting Familiar”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2020 “Midnight Blue”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Morris Inn, Notre Dame, IN Malibu Beach House, Malibu, CA Bon Voyage, Coda Gallery, Palm Desert, CA Solo Exhibition, Jeffrey Breslow Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, CA Artspace Warehouse, CA 2017 Affordable Art Fair New York, NY Affordable Art Fair London, UK Art Palm Springs, CA “Pop Futurism and Abstraction”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2016 Susan Schomburg gallery, Santa Monica, CA Jazz in the Pines, Idyllwild, CA 2015 Official artist of Chitag, Chicago Toy and Game Fair, Chicago, Il Jazz! Dion Gallery, Redondo Beach, CA Art 90266, LA 25, Manhattan Beach, C Political Commentary, Linus gallery, Long Beach and Pasadena, CA 2014 RETROspective, Coast Gallery, Long Beach, CA ArtHampton, Bridgehampton, NY The Pursuit of…, Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Art 90266, LA 25, Manhattan Beach, CA 2013 Pop meets Painterly, CODA Gallery, Palm Desert, CA University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN Puzzles and Games, Liss Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2012 Art, Wine & Roses, Home Gallery, Malibu, CA Pop Meets Painterly, Oh My Godard Gallery, Atlantic City, NJ 2011 Beach Games, Riley Arts Gallery, Manhattan Beach, CA Art of The Game, Oh My Godard Gallery, Atlantic City NJ Art of The Game, Liss Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2010 Art of The Game, Gallery 319, Santa Monica, CA One Woman Show, Canfin Gallery, Westchester, NY 2009 American Riviera, ARTfront Gallery, Los Angeles, CA American Landscape, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2008 Coastal Living, Gallery 319 Santa Monica, CA 2007 On the Beach, Gallery 319 Santa Monica, CA Why We Live Here, Dion Gallery, Redondo Beach, CA 2006 Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu. CA BOOK: Perspective on Coastal Beauty, From Malibu to Manhattan Beach 2005 Along the PCH, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA FRESH!, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA California Visions, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2004 President’s Show, CA Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA Coastal Nostalgia, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA 2003 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Coastal Nostalgia, 2003, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 2002 Coastal Nostalgia, 2002, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 2001 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Ambient Light, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 2000 The Coastal Landscape, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA Malibu Art...