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Bleak House

Bleak House Interior Illustration
By Alice Barber Stephens
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Board Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left
Category

Early 1900s Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Board, Watercolor

'Bleak House 7-13-2020' - plein air landscape - architectural painting
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 7-13-2020" is a plein air painting of the artist's farm house in Louisiana, featuring
Category

2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paper

'Bleak House 7-16-2020' - plein air landscape - architectural painting
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 7-16-2020" is a plein air painting of the artist's farm house in Louisiana, featuring
Category

2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paper

'Bleak House 6-16-19' - exterior watercolor - house painting - Giorgio Morandi
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 6-16-19" is an architectural watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, tan and green
Category

2010s American Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Watercolor

'Bleak House 4-5-20' - exterior watercolor - house painting - Giorgio Morandi
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 4-5-20" is an architectural watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, tan, pink and
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2010s American Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Watercolor

'Bleak House 4-26-2021' - interior watercolor - work on paper - Giorgio Morandi
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 4-26-2021" is an interior watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, purple, pink and
Category

2010s American Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Dark House
By Jane Bauman
Located in New York, NY
Collaboration between Jane Bauman and David Wojnarowicz Jane Bauman writes: "I had made that bleak
Category

1980s Street Art Paintings

Materials

Spray Paint, Stencil

Essex House, Framed
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
flourish under desolate circumstances. The seemingly bleak, the empty landscape, speaks to me. It is in
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Vantage Point, 27 x 36, Landscape, Oil Painting
By Robin Cole
Located in Denver, CO
, this original work is gracefully housed within a frame that extends its dimensions to 30.5 x 39.5
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of Manop - Monumental Portrait, Original Charcoal on Mylar, Framed
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Bleak to Chic in Less Than a Week” The Chicago Sun Times May 2006 • Art Knowledge News. “Bold Charcoals
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

Materials

Mylar, Charcoal

Portrait of Matt Latham - Large Scale Portrait, Original Charcoal on Mylar
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Bleak to Chic in Less Than a Week” The Chicago Sun Times May 2006 • Art Knowledge News. “Bold Charcoals
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mylar, Charcoal

Abstract Expressionist Landscape With Trees
By Jacques Kupfermann
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
– as are his love of bleak Northerly scenery, the combination of delicacy and vibrant movement
Category

1960s Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still Life of Gourds with Japanese Celadon Vase & Dragon Decorated Plate, 1944.
By Denis Mitchell
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
War II, and they went on to have a family of three daughters. The war years were bleak for Denis, but
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Portrait of Feleg Abraha - Large Scale Original Charcoal on Mylar, Framed
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Bleak to Chic in Less Than a Week” The Chicago Sun Times May 2006 • Art Knowledge News. “Bold Charcoals
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mylar, Charcoal

Portrait of Justin Shanitkvich - Large Scale Charcoal on Mylar Original, Framed
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Bleak to Chic in Less Than a Week” The Chicago Sun Times May 2006 • Art Knowledge News. “Bold Charcoals
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mylar, Charcoal

Sketch-book Page, Shoreham, Samuel Palmer, Late 19th Century
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in London, GB
wrote in his 1824 sketchbook, 'whatever you do, guard against bleakness & grandeur and try for the
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Galilee, RI 01.08.1988
By Nelson White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A Nelson White plein air painting from a bleak January in 1988. Framed dimensions: 18.5 x 22.5
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
By Charles Alston
Located in Miami, FL
African American displayed at the White House. Charles Henry Alston was born on November 28, 1907, in
Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

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Bleak House
By Kathryn Keller
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sitting at her easel in a mirror. "Bleak House" plays on the idea of vision and art, and also brings to
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"Bleak House 9.14.18" original watercolor, interior space, by Kathryn Keller
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Houses on Hill
By Sofia Silva
Located in New York, NY
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Bleak House
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Gary John used acrylic paint to create this one-of-a-kind original artwork. It is signed by the artist and dated on the bottom left front of this artwork. This art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Abstract Paintings

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Three Hunting Drawings
By Hablot Knight Browne
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
, Dombey and Son, Martin Chuzzlewit and Bleak House. Browne made several drawings for Punch in his early
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Late 19th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Portrait of Catherine Watson, Countess of Rockington (1658-1695)
By Studio of Sir Peter Lely
Located in London, GB
for Charles Dickens’ Jarndyce v Jarndyce court case in his novel Bleak House (1852-3), was that of
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How Much is a Bleak House?

A bleak house can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $10,500, while the lowest priced sells for $575 and the highest can go for as much as $50,000.