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Art For Sale
Color:  Brown
Color:  Beige
"Yellow"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Rex Ashlock (1918 – 1999) Born in Spokane, Washington in 1918 Rex Ashlock was known for his abstract, figurative expression...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fandango, c. 1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Born in Philadelphia, Ben Wilson was a New York abstract expressionist painter. His work was exhibited frequently from the mid-thirties through sixties, and less frequently but consi...
Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Movie Poster Illustration for "American Pop"
Located in Miami, FL
McLean's consummate skill as a portrait artist, graphic designer and master of composition is on full display in the complex narrative work. This work contains 41 portraits including those of Bette Midler, Jimi Hendrix, and Benny Goodman...
Category

1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Two Wood Ducks on a Flowering Branch
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of Italian immigrants from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. But Stella was not a child of poverty. His father was a notary and respected citizen in Muro Locano, a small town in the southern Appenines. The five Stella brothers were all properly educated in Naples. Stella’s older brother, Antonio, was the first of the family to come to America. Antonio Stella trained as a physician in Italy, and was a successful and respected doctor in the Italian community centered in Greenwich Village. He sponsored and supported his younger brother, Joseph, first sending him to medical school in New York, then to study pharmacology, and then sustaining him through the early days of his artistic career. Antonio Stella specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and was active in social reform circles. His connections were instrumental in Joseph Stella’s early commissions for illustrations in reform journals. Joseph Stella, from the beginning, was an outsider. He was of the Italian-American community, but did not share its overwhelming poverty and general lack of education. He went back to Italy on several occasions, but was no longer an Italian. His art incorporated many influences. At various times his work echoed the concerns and techniques of the so-called Ashcan School, of New York Dada, of Futurism and, of Cubism, among others. These are all legitimate influences, but Stella never totally committed himself to any group. He was a convivial, but ultimately solitary figure, with a lifelong mistrust of any authority external to his own personal mandate. He was in Europe during the time that Alfred Stieglitz established his 291 Gallery. When Stella returned he joined the international coterie of artists who gathered at the West Side apartment of the art patron Conrad Arensberg. It was here that Stella became close friends with Marcel Duchamp. Stella was nineteen when he arrived in America and studied in the early years of the century at the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase, under whose tutelage he received rigorous training as a draftsman. His love of line, and his mastery of its techniques, is apparent early in his career in the illustrations he made for various social reform journals. Stella, whose later work as a colorist is breathtakingly lush, never felt obliged to choose between line and color. He drew throughout his career, and unlike other modernists, whose work evolved inexorably to more and more abstract form, Stella freely reverted to earlier realist modes of representation whenever it suited him. This was because, in fact, his “realist” work was not “true to nature,” but true to Stella’s own unique interpretation. Stella began to draw flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and birds in 1919, after he had finished the Brooklyn Bridge series of paintings, which are probably his best-known works. These drawings of flora and fauna were initially coincidental with his fantastical, nostalgic and spiritual vision of his native Italy which he called Tree of My Life (Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth Foundation and Windsor, Inc., St. Louis, illus. in Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994], p. 111 no. 133). Two Wood Ducks...
Category

20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Color Pencil

Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine illustration, December 1906 Literature: This illustration appeared in O. Henry's shor...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Gouache, Board

Thousand and One Nights" Painting with Plastic Technique, Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
"Thousand and One Nights" painting with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. This painting can be placed both horizontally and vertically. Dimensions: cm 70 x 50 with frame cm...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic

Buff
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic, canvas cloth and twine on canvas
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Family Picnic, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 34.00" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Cover for The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, May 31, 1952. Clymer's coverscape takes you to Massachusetts' tidelands where the frost is on the pumpkin and the red and gold areon the trees. Gloucester harbor and the inlets roundabout-- for three centuries this haven has been the homeport of renowned and valiant fisherman. They were the Captains Courageous of Rudyard Kipling, the hero’s of Longfellow's The Wreck of the Hesperus and of James B. Connolly's tales of the sea. John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Untitled" by Alan Reid. Limited Editon Print. Animal themed etching. 2015
Located in Tuscany, Pisa
Alan Reid (born 1976) is a contemporary American artist who lives in New York City. His gauzy, colored-pencil representational images of heiresses, bored fashionistas and aquiline b...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Etching

"Ghostly Meditations (waltzing with the forgotten)" drawing collage figures text
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Enrique Chagoya Ghostly Meditations (waltzing with the forgotten), 2012 acrylic and India ink on de-acidified 19th century paper (facing pages of etchings from a 19th century book) 1...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, India Ink, Acrylic

GOOD
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Contextually within the framework of postmodern Neo-pop and Post-pop, Miller utilizes a semiotic process of mining familiar pictorial codes from the popular culture of his youth for ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Seated Nude
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
An oil on board painting by Belgian Modernist painter Emiel Creado. Framed - 60 x 38 Inches Unframed - 53 x 31 Inches
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Massive Explosion
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Painting. Vibrant Colors. Movement. Acrylic on Canvas. About the Artist: "Growing up in England during the 80s, the influence and love of American sub cultures through TV, and being surrounded by large non-spaces of US air bases around East Anglia, gave me a slightly odd and romantic view of America. I finished the Masters Degree bronze-casting course at the Royal College of Art in 1999 and have pursued my passion for Art ever since. I have built up a body of work that follows the theme of a journey into abstraction, inspired by Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Fiona Banner, Cornelia...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

The Porter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Provenance, The Executive V.P. office of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bozzetto for the Christos at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Red Chalk and Brown Ink
Category

1970s Art

Materials

Chalk, Ink, Paper

Lumina, ca. 1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bellhop
Located in New York, NY
Many places, many times intermingle in the work of Roberto Juarez. His life is so much a part of his work, that each new body of work introduces subjects, styles and motifs that seem...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Stencil

TRESPASS
Located in New York, NY
Homage to Dick Tracey. Pop Art influenced work of amazing, infamous graffiti, pop, street artist. Sprays, enamels, oils acrylics on canvas. About the Artist Born in Belgium and artistically inclined at an early age, V.P. was executing well-defined pencil sketched portraits of anyone who would sit for him by age 4. The family’s emigration to the United States in 1967 landed the 8 year old in the Fordham section of the Bronx at the height of the psychedelic era and POP ART movement.  The Fordham Road shopping district offered the young budding artist a fount of inspiration in the form of vibrant Rock & Roll, “black-light” posters in the windows of “head-shops” and the elaborately colored wardrobes of the hippies crowding the boulevard. The pivotal shift in V.P.’s artistic expression was fueled in 1968 by the sight of a Peter Max designed billboard.  Armed with magic markers and acrylic paints, V.P. recreated the vibrant designs from Max’s billboard, the music posters in store windows and the paisley patterns of the shirts the “flower children” favored, as well as the names and slogans painted on the walls of the neighborhood.  The early seventies brought with it a wondrous sight passing overhead on the sides of the elevated trains. NYC Subway Graffiti had arrived.  Looking up and seeing the esoteric names intricately rendered in multi colored swirls and strategically placed on the sides of the trains completely enthralled V.P.’s creative and adventurous spirit. Compelled to be a part of this fascinating movement he watched and rode the subways, deciphering the names and studying the “styles” on the steel rolling art gallery. Using his artistic influences and skills with markers, V.P. created his first moniker “SONIC-ACE” and obsessively drew it in colorful flowing letters to develop his own style.   At age 13 he set out to traverse the city, facing dangers and overcoming obstacles to enter an unknown and secretive world in order to join those who inspired him.  By 1974, he would change his moniker to “VICTOR-161” and paint hundreds of train cars and soon be admitted into the world famous graffiti clique “WILD STYLE” - an honor bestowed due to peer recognized artistic and stylistic abilities.  (WILDSTYLE was created/coined by the iconic TRACY-168)  V.P. was a well known and respected “writer” who “pieced” with revered writers of the day, under the aforementioned monikers including aka’s T-BOLT-123, SULFA-ONE, FANTA-ONE, BOND & ACES.  V.P. retired from painting NYC subway trains in 1977 with occasional excursions in 1986,1987,1988,1999 & 1992.  He continuously expanded his artistic pallet, studying Art History & Graphic Design in college while seeking knowledge from masters in chosen fields of art.  His works have shown in independent galleries nationally and are sought after by international collectors, with numerous private commissions. He has been featured in several best selling books and magazines focusing on graffiti art as well as his status of having been a part of the 1970’s “Golden Era” of NYC Subway Graffiti. V.P. works with a variety of mediums including aerosol paints, oils, water color & acrylic paints, often combining mediums as well as blending POP, graffiti and abstract styles of painting onto wood, canvas and metal.  His professional artistic background includes commercial art and design, logo design, silk screening, printmaking, large commissioned public murals, sign painting, pin striping and airbrushing cars, sculpting, metal fabrication, woodcarving and tattooing. Exhibitions:  Fashion Moda (BXNY) Group Show 1980/Fun Gallery (NYC) group show 1981, Beef Gallery, (LA) Group Show 1981, Gallery International (NYC) Group Show 1985, Susan Greco Gallery (NY) Group Show 1990, Shady Side...
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Spray Paint

Meraud Guinness, 1930s - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
Located in London, GB
Meraud Guinness, 1930s - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Inkwash signature on mount Stamped with Sotheby's Cecil Beaton studio ink stamp on reverse Silver gelatin print m...
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jerusalem - Original Oil on burlap painting by Alexander Evgrafov
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Unique oil on Burlap painting by Alexander Evgrafov Title : Jerusalem
Category

2010s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Burlap, Oil

"The Cave Man, " Liberty Magazine Cover, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, November 12, 1927 "The Cave Man or the Cave Max?"
Category

1920s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Yellow Field, April 24, 2014
By Leora Armstrong
Located in New York, NY
Leora Armstrong grew up on the West Coast of Scotland surrounded by the sea, hills and Scottish weather. It was this changing light of the West Coast, upon the landscape, which happe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Touring Car in Reverse
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

Early 20th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pilgrims Fairwell
By Frank T. Marrill
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1880 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 18.20" x 24.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

1880s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Judgment
Located in Miami, FL
Thin edged metal frame Philip Castle is an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle He is rarely exhibited and Prince Rainier of Monaco once pu...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Lilian"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Analogía de la luna
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #clay #sun #energy #moon #female JUANA MARTÍNEZ (Tlalpujajua, Michoac...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Magazine Paper, Clay

Wealth of Love
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Money bags 1910 "Wealth of Love". The illustration depicts a man torn between wealth and beauty. Orson Byron Lowell was the son of the landscape painter, Milton H. Lowell, and his...
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Ink, Paper, Pen, Watercolor

Eminent Women, Illustration for McCall's Magazine, May 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned Illustration celebrating important women throughout history, published in McCall's magazine, May 1959. Accompanied by a tear sheet of the p...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Rastral Columns - Original Oil on burlap painting by Alexander Evgrafov
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Oil on Burlap painting by Alexander Evgrafov Rastral Columns
Category

2010s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Oil

Manége Rue Caulaincourt ou Le Petit Manége Aux Chevaux de Bois
Located in London, GB
JACQUES VILLON 1875-1963 (Gaston Duchamp) Damville 1875-1963 Paris (French) Title: Manége Rue Caulaincourt ou Le Petit Manége Aux Chevaux de Bois, 1904 Technique: Original H...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Aquatint, Etching

Safely Gaurded - Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Calendar Illustration: Girl walking to school with puppy Gerlach Barklow Calendar Company Signed lower right Adelaide Hiebel was born in New Hope Wisconsin in 1886. She studied at the Art Institute in Chicago. In 1919 Hiebel was an art instructor when her friend and mentor Zula Kenyon...
Category

20th Century Other Art Style Art

Materials

Pastel

Secret Project, Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 17.25" x 13.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left Magazine Story Illustration
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

El sentido que nunca duerme
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone #color #energy #seed #ambar #wood JUANA MARTÍNEZ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Precious Stone, Magazine Paper, Wood

(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 12.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

Mid-20th Century Art

Materials

Gouache, Board

Nudes and Horses
Located in London, GB
BELA KADAR 1877-1956 Budapest 1877-1956 (Hungarian) Title: Nudes and Horses, 1911 Technique: Original Hand Signed Pastel on paper size: 63 x 94.5 cm / 24.8 x 37.2 in Additional I...
Category

1910s Expressionist Art

Materials

Pastel

Cloud Waves . Organic Sculpture on wood backlit with an LED light
Located in Miami, US
Cloud sculpture. It is made up of a sculpture made of plaster and painted with acrylic and spray paint. The sculpture is assembled to a piece of painted wood, which in turn is assembled to a larger one, composing a single piece with several layers. The artwork is backlit with an LED light box...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Plaster, Wood, LED Light, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

San Francisco Cable Cars Landscape against Bay Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Compositional exactitude and magical gold lighting describe this iconic work of San Franscico This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. . The work is unframed ...
Category

1990s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Country Life
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 6 x 12 inches Framed size: 13.5 x 17.5 inches Signed
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

More than Ever
Located in London, GB
Polyurethane cast, ebony, acrylic, taxidermy snake, 2017, numbered from the edition of 10, 17 x 10 x 10 cm. (3.9 x 6.9 x 3.9 in.)
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Ebony, Acrylic Polymer, Polyurethane

Five Hollyhocks and Two Peaches
Located in London, GB
GEORGES ANATOLOVITCH DE POGEDAIEFF 1897-1971 Pogedaievska 1897 - 1971 Ménerbes (Russian/ French) Title: Five Hollyhocks and Two Peaches / Cinque Roses Tremières et Deux Pêche...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Oil

The Car Chase Cartoon
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Life Magazine Story Illustration Dec 31,1910s signed lower left He moved from Chicago to New York in 1893. Known for the richness of his work in pen and ink, he drew, in 1898, ...
Category

1910s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Ink, Paper, Pen

I-S #1 /// Abstract Geometric Sewell Sillman Screenprint Purple Pink Modern Art
By Sewell Sillman
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sewell Sillman (American, 1924-1992) Title: "I-S #1" *Signed and dated by Sillman in pencil lower right Year: 1968 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded heavy white wove ...
Category

1960s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Screen

Plate XVI, from Album 19
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1961, on BFK Rives wove paper, signed with the artist's monogram in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (the total edition included 15 impressions numbered...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

God help the Rhinos of Namibia, Elia Shiwoohamba, Cardboard print on paper
Located in Windhoek, NA
God help the Rhinos of Namibia, 2019. Cardboard print on paper. Edition of 10. Elia Shiwoohamba was born in 1981 in Windhoek, Namibia. He graduated from the ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Untitled 513 - 21st Cent, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer generated animated graphics. It is...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Omaha Sketchbook: North Omaha Power Station, Omaha, NE, - Photography
Located in London, GB
Omaha Sketchbook: North Omaha Power Station, Omaha, NE, - Photography Signed on reverse Digital chromogenic print 22 x 18 inches From a limited edition of 7 prints For the last fifteen years, Gregory...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

The Old Couple
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 21.00" x 28.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Book cover, The Old Couple.
Category

Mid-20th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Creativity of Mind
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Painting. Can be hung vertically or horizontally. Muted hues. The surface is the result of an intriguing contrast. Acrylics glazed with resin. The acrylic’s softness an...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Resin, Acrylic, Canvas

Untitled #23-1997-22-R-V
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category

1990s Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

The Frontersman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Plywood Dimensions: 15.00" x 24.00" Signature: Signed Upper Right
Category

Mid-20th Century Art

Materials

Plywood, Acrylic

RECTUS XVI
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sunny Capri - Original Oil on burlap painting by Alexander Evgrafov
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Unique oil on Burlap paint by Alexander Evgrafov Sunny Capri
Category

2010s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Burlap, Oil

Umbrellas, Rainy New York
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15, other size available, unframed
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Red Diamond
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Peter Lodato offers new oils on canvas, whose layers of paint and scumbled surfaces resonate like tuning forks to the soul.
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vermouth
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media/ Wood panel with epoxy resin finish. Homage to vintage Martini & Rossi. Black and cream colors. Woman featured. About the Artist: Seek One is an up and coming ...
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Epoxy Resin, Wood Panel

Turf and Sport Digest
By Randall Shaull
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvasboard Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover for Turf and Sport Digest, probably late 1930s
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right Printer's and designer's marks in margins "Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom." Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category

1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

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