William Pettit

Oil on Canvas Portrait -- Trudy

2015

This oil painting shows a figure of a woman most often associated with Cuban folk life. The title of the painting may be translated as the "The Seer and Seller of Cigars," indicating...

Although this painting of oil on canvas is named after the "Cat" (le Chat), the painting mainly depicts a woman sweeping with a broom. The cat, a popular tabby painted in great detai...

This oil on canvas portrait of a Hudson Valley farm worker shows on his face the demands of the work and his openness to life. The artist treats the blue denim in its many hues as if she were showing the many folds of royal clothing in an eighteenth century portrait...

This oil on canvas painting features a beautifully formed pair of women's legs in classic red stiletto heels. The background of the painting also shares ...

A man and woman embrace in this oil painting. The woman, lost in the moment, gazes outwardly as her dark brown hair spills over peach toned skin. Her companion is trusting with eyes ...

This oil on canvas portrait shows a boy wearing a brown colored overcoat and hat. The landscape that stretches behind the figure primarily features blue and yellow in a tranquil scen...

A stunning depiction of James Dean done in an abstract impressionistic manner with a heavy use of paint and we also can find bold strokes of white, gray and black. Creating a black a...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Joseph Newman (1890 - 1979) Joseph Newman was born in New York City in 1890. He attended the Pratt Institute and the Adelphi College Art School, and served in the U.S. Army during WWW1. After the war, he married and traveled to Europe. He returned to New York in the mid 1920's, and with a group of contemporaries formed The Fifteen Gallery in Manhattan. Newman painted a broad variety of subjects including genre scenes, landscapes, figurative works, and equestrian subjects. He worked in various styles ranging from academic realism to a looser, post-impressionist approach, and is best known for colorful, animated genre scenes painted in and around Rockport Harbor and as far west as Taos, New Mexico. He exhibited frequently at the Brooklyn Museum, The National Academy, The Carnegie Institute, The Whitney and The Society of Independent Artists. He was a member of the L.C. Tiffany Foundation, The Salmagundi Club, Rockport Art Association, and the American Watercolor Society. His work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The Newark Museum, the Boston Library...

A wonderful large self portrait of the artist with a Russian model by American artist Pauline Lennards Palmer (1867-1938). Born in McHenry, Illinois, Palmer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago between 1893 and 1898, including a one-month session with William Merritt Chase in 1897, and further temporary instruction with Frank Duveneck. She became one of Chicago's early twentieth-century portrait and landscape painters and one of the Midwest's most active and energetic exponents of impressionism. After her career was well established, she moved to Provincetown and studied with Charles Hawthorne...

First Catch of the Day - Young Fisherman at Sea Figurative oil painting of a young boy out at sea holding a fish on his lap by Bay Area artist Betty (American, 20th C). The boy is h...

Portrait of a young woman in a white blouse in the style of William Merritt Chase. ( American Impressionism). This work was most likely painted from life and is wonderfully painted a...

Label verso: "Portrait of a Lady / Oil / MUC / Beatrice Whitney Van Ness / unsigned / size 30h x 25w ". From the estate of the artist. Beatrice Whit...