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Catching My Daydreams - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

SPRING THAW - Pink & Green / Mossy rock / Pacific Northwest Forest
Located in New York, NY
Original painting by Alexandra Pacula.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Matt Smith, Red Girl with Pearls, Black Parisian, Porcelain Freshwater Pearls
Located in London, GB
Red Girl with Pearls, 2021 Black Parian, Porcelain and Freshwater Pearls 30 x 16 x 13 cm 11 3/4 x 6 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. Girl in red dress with pearls made...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Porcelain

"Cash and Carrie, " Saturday Evening Post Illustration, April 3, 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Charcoal, Board

Resolution by Louis Shields, Abstract Mixed Media on Canvas, 2012
Located in Middleburg, VA
Mixed media on canvas. Signed Delu 2012
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Solitary, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An interesting lone prominent dead tree dramatically present in the foreground of a country feild setting. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

The Explorer
Located in New York, NY
Abstract, oil on canvas. Subtle hues. Framed in natural wood. 2 inch deep. About the Artist: Nella was born, raised and educated in Italy in a family with a long heritage o...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Figure Study no. 20
Located in Seoul, SO
These photographs explore tonality, texture and depth in context of the human figure. This photograph was made in my home studio in Seoul, South Korea. These figure studies intend...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Untitled (After Lygia Clark)
Located in New York, NY
35.40 x 82.30 in Oil on canvas Unstretched
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Oil

Rayuela
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Peña Rayuela Photo-painting on parchment paper 46h x 40w in 116.84h x 101.60w cm
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Yellow Car with Woman and Puppet
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Casablaca
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal, White Pastel on Canson MiTientes Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: 25.00" x 19.00" Unframed
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

"Empire"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1962-63 NBC-TV`s Modern-Day One Hour Western Series `Empire`, starring Richard Egan as Jim Redigo, general manager of the 500,000-acre Garrett Ranch in New Mexico. A precursor to `Dallas`, the series debuted Sept 25, 1962 but underwent several changes to maintain its various storylines and characters. For its 2nd season, the series was renamed `Redigo` and shortened to a half-hour, which made it difficult to develop complex, in-depth characters, and it was cancelled Dec 31, 1963. Appeared as cover of Aug 11, 1963 New York...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Paul Newman in the motion picture "Cool Hand Luke", black and white portrait
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This black and white portrait of actor Paul Newman was taken by Lawrence Schiller in 1967 on the set of the movie "Cool Hand Luke". A silver gelatin photograph by Post War artist Larry Schiller. This celebrity photograph...
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

GRAND PRIX
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

White and Black Triptych
Located in Fairfield, CT
Each canvas size is 23.5" x 23.75"
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Pigment

Arcs: Uneven Angles - Contemporary, 21st Century, Etching, Black, White, Edition
Located in Zug, CH
Bernar Venet, Arcs: Uneven Angles Contemporary, 21st Century, Etching, Black, White, Edition Etching (Portfolio of 4) Edition of 50, plus 10 AP 98 x 115 cm (79.7 x 52.7 in.) Signed a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Etching

Itinerant Players from Chagall Lithographs I
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Lithograph
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

"remembering the way" black and white photograph clouds sky bird silhouette
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Marie Navarre remembering the way, 2021 archival digital print on Surface Gampi, Rives BFK 25.5" x 25" unframed 28.75" x 27.75" framed Edition of 5 Marie Navarre’s deep interest in poetry, especially the Japanese form of Haiku, has had a profound influence on her work. She conjures dreamlike images that appear to be from just outside the realm of human observation, like the fragments of a distant memory. She prints her mysterious and timeless images of flocks of birds, grey sky and shimmering endless horizons unmoored from specific times and places, then hand stitches over a background of Gampi paper—a soft, silky Japanese paper that has a satin-like sheen. These enigmatic photographic constructions document the implications of a moment rather than its actuality. The artist understands that her relationship to photography is complex: “I have this trouble of being a photographer but wanting to make the photographs into something else. I still think like a photographer even though in some ways I’m sabotaging the way that photography works. I still begin my artmaking process by making pictures. I don’t know how to begin without the photograph.” At play is the tension of a fixed medium documenting a world in movement. Navarre has a BA, MA and MFA from Arizona State University. Her work is collected nationally and she has received a number of awards including a Capp Street Project Residency Grant in San Francisco for her collaboration with Jim Campbell...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

45042 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Among the Catalan artists who have remained loyal to figurative techniques, several have successfully fixed their gaze on the architecture, streets and commercial trappings of the mo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Pink Lines
Located in Fairfield, CT
watercolor on arches paper
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Merry Christmas
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Signature: Unsigned This piece was an advertisement for Lowney's Crest Chocolates. Edward Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith expert and biographer describes Merry Christmas: Two Children Before the Fireplace, “A wonderful mixed media painting by Jessie Willcox Smith, published as an advertisement for Lowney's Crest Chocolates, reminiscent of her paintings for Twas the Night...
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Board

Ilusión (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Iron
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Lukas Ulmi’s work unveils the hidden beauty of shapes taking stones, seemingly static forms, incomplete or meaningless objects and turning them into authentic sculptures where weight...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Iron

Truck Of Color 001
Located in New York, NY
Series of pieces inspired by the graffiti and patina shown on vehicles I described As Trucks Of Color . For the past few years I had documented them around the world with the helps ...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Man on Ladder in Library
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00" Signature: Signed Upper Left Advertisement for Gulf Oil, 1944.
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Board, Oil

Goblet Composition
Located in New York, NY
Set of Joshua Bernbaum's hand-crafted goblets.
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Glass

Stalactite Table
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Louis Durot was born in Paris on April 22, 1939. He was something of an enfant terrible, and managed to be expelled from various schools for bad conduct. His ambition, as stated to his parents, was to earn money without having to work, and for a time, he was an “escort-boy” for a Parisian Grande Dame. He did, however, manage to get a good education in spite of himself, and received his Baccalaureate degree from Lycee Louis Pasteur in 1956. In 1960, he enrolled in the Facultie de Sciences, where he studied mathematics. He terminated his math studies in 1963, and turned his attention to engineering, working for Equipel, where he was responsible for calculating and measuring resistance for prototype nuclear generators. Equipel became a research facility, and offered Durot the opportunity to study organic chemistry. Durot directed numerous research projects for Equipel between 1966 and 1972. During this time, in fact, starting in 1964, he made many friends in the art world, gathering together artists from a variety of disciplines to form an artists commune — the Freelane Studio. Among the members were jazz journalist Gilles Brinnon, and a young painter, Jean Ihallero — a friend of the painter Maxime Defert. Through them, he met the artist Francois Arnal, who was interested in Durots’ engineering expertise for his sculptures. They got on well, and worked together for two years. Also in this circle were the actress Micheline Presle and the actor Daniel Gelin. In 1968, Arnal and Presle created Le Festival de Theatre de Chateauvallon, and through this, Durot became friends with the noted film director Ulysse Reynaud. In 1966, Francois Arnal introduced Durot to the artist Cesar, with the idea that Durot’s talents as a chemical engineer would be useful. Durot spent a year helping Cesar to master the techniques of working with polyurethane foam, with Durot searching for ways to make this fragile and ephemeral substance more stable and permanent, and more amenable to control. Cesars’ first works in this medium were flat, due to the difficulty of controlling the foam, but he went on to create his famous “expansions”. In 1968, Durot conceived a project to create more three-dimensional sculptures following a simple and precise design. It was during this time that Durot made his first polyurethane sculptures — the Champignons and Plantes Carnivores. Also in 1968, he He opened his first technical studio at 35, rue Leon. In order to support this new endeavor,( he needed more space, equipment, time and money), he created La Societe Durgalith. 1971 saw the Durat’s first works exhibited at the Salon Batimat in Paris. With this exhibition, Durot was hoping to attract the attention of architects with whom he could collaborate. Between 1971 and 1974, Durot created sixty sculptures inspired by fantastical “alien” life, mushrooms, and carnivorous plants. In 1974, Durot”s Societie Durgalith ran into problems with the Italian firm that owned Batimat. Credit Lyonnaise seized his studio and many of his sculptures, and quite a number of them were destroyed. This same year, Durot worked with the architects Sloan and Lecouter on an inflatable structure for the Pavillion Franaise in Osaka. Unfortunately, the project was never realized. Durot continued to pursue his research on polyurethanes, and gained world-wide recognition for his developments in this field. In 1977, a “student prank” had un-expectedly bad consequences. Durot was employed as an engineer at L’Usine Francaise de la Monnaie (the French mint) in Pessac. He took three kilos of “blanks”, and used them for playing slot-machines. For this, he spent seven weeks in jail, which was ended by an amnesty granted by Mitterand in 1981. During Durot’s time in prison, he took up weight-lifting, and also designed his next generation of sculptures. The spirals, feet, lips, and a series of erotic chairs...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Miami Demolition
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. New building rises as old building falls and a new Miami is created. Shot on Brickell Avenue. Signed, dated and numbered 3/15 lower left recto , unf...
Category

1990s American Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Reminiscence
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled from the Series Any Human Heart
Located in New York, NY
36" x 24" Edition of 5 +2AP Hahnmühle paper matt fibre 200gr. Archival digital pigment print, unframed. Humans are complex. We are made up of many different layers, oftentimes unwi...
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Still Water Figure, 2012
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Nova
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Abstract artist Paul Light Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1966. Before earning his MFA in painting at SCAD-Atlanta in 2012, Light had an extensive business career where he fueled his creative side as a graphic artist, and product designer. It was in these years that he met and was mentored and greatly influenced by Paul Chelko...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Unruffled
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Appealing To Be Allowed To Help Fight For The Union
By James Earl Taylor
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache Signature: Signed Lower Right a slave with shackles on the ground behind him appealing to Abraham Lincoln with the Civil War battle s...
Category

Late 19th Century Art

Materials

Gouache

Estructura Rosa y Verde #2
Located in New York, NY
39.40 x 59 unstretched Oil on canvas Rebeca Mendoza plays with simultaneity, superimposition, and ambiguity in her work as she goes through the stages of oil painting. The artist se...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Do Bee Book of Manners
Located in Miami, FL
Grosset & Dunlap, Illustration, Art Seiden was a top children's book illustrator in the 1950' - 1060's Work comes in two parts that are butted together by the artist
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Gouache, Ink

Antique Map of Lincoln & Norfolke Circa 1610
Located in Lincoln, GB
Antique Map of Lincoln & Norfolke Circa 1610 65 x 72cm Lovely antique map in excellent frame showing Lincolnshire and part of Norfolk and bordering counties.
Category

17th Century Art

Materials

Paper

Pink Umbrellas in the Snow, New York City, Fine Art Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated, numbered lower left recto 3/15 , other sizes available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer"....
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Inkjet, Photographic Paper

Dawn, Dawn, Dawn, Ticonderoga pencil advertisement
By Harvey Dunn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Twice and Dated Lower Left: Harvey / Dunn 1932 Harvey Dunn's Dawn, Dawn, Dawn is a truly exceptional illustration that captures a key moment of American History. In the present work, Dunn skillfully depicts colonial soldiers...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Big Garden - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Drawing, Charcoal
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Years of collecting books, travel archives and studying art in Europe, went hand in hand with visiting historical monuments and grand palaces, remnants of past golden eras. This nostalgic raking over the past encompasses these inspirational elements, weaved together with her own curiosity in loose charcoal lines depicting Baroque, whimsical and once decadent interiors. “The rooms in my paintings are small trips to the past. I look for an alternative reality through a fictional scenario, represented by a dystopian era of booms and declines.” Francisca Ahlers...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Before / After (diptych)
Located in Nashville, TN
Alison Underwood's work evokes various emotions of desires as her artwork proves to display the ideas of temptation and anticipation. These profound feelings are demonstrated in the ...
Category

2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Oil Crayon

Untitled Blue Dog With Red Eyes - Signed Silkscreen Blue Dog Print
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of 3 different outlined portraits of dogs. One frame is 1 dog on a white background, another is 2 dogs on a dark blue background with a moon and the 3rd i...
Category

1990s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen

Ice Follies Souvenir Program Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1963 Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Original cover art of two women skaters in costume for the Twenty-Seventh Annual Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Figura Femminile IV, 2018
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Son of painter Angelo Bonfanti, Maurizio Bonfanti attended Bergamo's Liceo Artistico and studied etching at the Accademia di Belle Arti in the same city. Though he enrolled to study ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Contemporary Oil of Art Deco Home Decor w/ Blue Masculine Statue in Drawing Room
Located in Fort Worth, TX
Blue Statue, 2020 "For Blackburn, the Western’s heroic drama, good-versus-evil narrative, and assertive landscape are challenges to face in her work. These aspects of film can overwhelm a painting, thus distancing the viewer from the art. She wants the art to be dominant; “Painting wins,” she declares. She finds this happens when a painting possesses what she terms “classical balance.” By this the artist means that everything is where it needs to be compositionally—nothing can be changed—and “the whole can be seen at once.” Linda Blackburn...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Grand Canyon National Park, National Park Service
Located in New York, NY
24 x 24 inch digital chromogenic print Edition 15 +3AP Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided Neal Slavin, a native New Yorker, began photographing groups i...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital

Untitled
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Emerging from a history of innovative West Coast artists, who pioneered the Finish Fetish and Light and Space movements, Casper Brindle has mastered the industrial materials at his d...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Resin, Automotive Paint, Acrylic, Panel

View from the Empire State Building, Looking South
Located in New York, NY
40 x 60 inch mineral ink print, framed Signed on label verso Edition 5 Miguel Ángel García was born in Madrid in 1952, and currently lives and works in Cantabria, Spain. A visual ar...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Salón Rojo - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Drawing, Charcoal
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Years of collecting books, travel archives and studying art in Europe, went hand in hand with visiting historical monuments and grand palaces, remnants of past golden eras. This nostalgic raking over the past encompasses these inspirational elements, weaved together with her own curiosity in loose charcoal lines depicting Baroque, whimsical and once decadent interiors. “The rooms in my paintings are small trips to the past. I look for an alternative reality through a fictional scenario, represented by a dystopian era of booms and declines.” Francisca Ahlers...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

For Victory the Navy Calls
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Revere F. Wistehuff was one of the central group of cover artists in the New Rochelle Art Colony in the 1920's, '30s, '40s which ...
Category

1930s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

An Illustration from "Tugboat Annie"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right Inscribed "PAGE #17/'Stay outta this, you hear?' he yelped in sharp alarm. 'This is my job!'" on the reverse. Harold v...
Category

20th Century Other Art Style Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Weir Dam, Sullivan County, Tennessee (#2312)
Located in New York, NY
8 x 10 inch (image size) gelatin silver contact print, on an 11 x 14 inch sheet Edition 10. Signed and stamped on verso. Framing additional. Larger sizes available - please inqui...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

White Butterfly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist's Statement: "My paintings are an attempt to synthesize and enlighten pursuits of eastern and western art and their traditions. Using the full visual language of abstraction –...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Paper

Mending the Shirt, Boys Life Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Boys' Life, The Boy Scouts' Magazine Cover, February 1922 Harold Anderson studied at the Fenway Art School in his native Boston. Among his instructors were Chase Emerson, Harold Brett, and Arthur...
Category

1920s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Queen Elizabeth
Located in Fort Washington, PA
From the Estate of John McLaughlin. Signed center left. William Andrew (Willy) Pogany was a native of Hungary and his first studies in Budapest and Paris were in engineering. Success in caricaturing led him to pursue and art career, first in London and then in America. His influences were the Oriental artists...
Category

20th Century Other Art Style Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Susan Sontag and Gloria Vanderbilt
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number and initialed Tim ...
Category

Late 20th Century Pop Art Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Relax
Located in New York, NY
Figurative piece with a fun, simple narrative. The beauty of the piece lies in its simplicity. On 3/4 canvas.
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

La Señorita Perdida de Avignon
By Javier Martin
Located in Atlanta, GA
Collage on wood by Javier Martin
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Neon Light, Oil, Acrylic

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