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Art For Sale
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George Jessel, circa 1945
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Graphite on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Upper Right On illustration board, matted. The piece measures to 18.00" x 14.00" overall with an 8.00" x 6.00" image. Caricature by George...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Graphite, Illustration Board

Ariadne by Jill Moser
Located in New York, NY
Jill Moser, Ariadne, 2021 Woodcut print on Khadi 100 % cotton paper Signed and numbered by the artist on recto Paper size: 8.25 x 8 in Edition of 18 Published by Eminence Grise Editions, New York Printed by Andrew Mockler...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Woodcut

Hana
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jennifer J L Jones was born in Virginia U.S.A. in 1971 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illin...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Ink, Graphite, and Watercolor on Paper Mounted Signature: Signed Lower Right circa 1881 Exhibited: Kennedy Galleries, with their label suggesting the creation date of 1881.
Category

1880s Art

Materials

Ink, Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Hobo & Three Clowns at Poker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 24.00" x 30.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Hobo & 3 clowns at poker
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rubi
Located in MADRID, ES
Rubi
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Family Values Vol VI
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on panel. Artist Statement: "I am a self-taught artist who utilizes an experimental approach. I let the experience of creating guide me. I often have no clear vision of...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media

From OJ to Merlot
Located in Miami, FL
This interactive work can fit in any format the collector desires and can contain as many elements, both big and small, that the space requires. From the artist's Levitation series...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Steel

Beat My Drum - Signed Silkscreen Print Blue Dog
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of 4 frames each with a dog and different colored backgrounds. One is a red background with a yellow center, one is purple background with a yellow center...
Category

1990s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen

Ballet Night Train
Located in Greenwich, CT
Dick “Night Train” Lane and Alex Ramond’s ballerina from Rip Kirby The intention of this work is to generate conversations about values and identity by as...
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

John Wayne
By Charles David De Mar
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 2011 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 30.00" x 24.00" Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right and Verso
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

'Readers Digest' Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Board Dimensions: 15.75" x 13.25" Signature: Signed Lower Right Readers Digest Cover Woman in Yellow Riding Crop
Category

Early 20th Century Art

Materials

Board, Pastel

In The Cathedral
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Story illustration for "In The Cathedral" by Achmed Abdullah published in Cosmopolitan, May 1938, pages 24-25. The magazine descri...
Category

Early 20th Century Art

Materials

Board, Oil

Terracotta bozzetto, dancing woman nude
Located in Greding, DE
Terracotta bozzetto of a dancing female nude with scarf in mannerist style, on square base.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Terracotta

Interject
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

Oil

Aurora - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Sculpture, Mahogany Root, Wood
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Mahogany root The Ingravidesa Sculpture Alliance is formed by an international group of sculptors and designers who collaborate to create abstract sculp...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood, Mahogany

Abstract Expressionist painting- Namaste
Located in Beijing, CN
Description: Wan Rui acrylic on canvas 150 x 170cm dated 2020 About Wan Rui Wan rui is a chinese contemporary artist, born in 1970 in Hunan, China. The artist received her MA fro...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Roses & Lisianthus
Located in Greenwich, CT
Flowers
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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

Mahayana Buddhist Center, NYC
Located in New York, NY
13.25 x 18 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

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital

Yamoto- 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Pigment Print, Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Edition of 50 Ger Doornink's limited editions are based on a high resolution scan of the original artwork. They are printed on archival Hahnemühle German Etching paper. This techniq...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Etching

Golden Companions 1 by Thomas Scoon
Located in Cleveland, OH
Cast Glass and Granite Sculpture (Pictured ON LEFT)
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Granite

L'appareil digestif, 2000
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-François LARRIEU (1960) (France) is an artist born in 1960 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Becoming Us
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Turbán layers paintings with transfers, acrylic, charcoal, and other mixed media onto canvas or paper. Her abstract paintings manifest memory, cultural experience, and politi...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Whoosh
Located in Boca Raton, FL
An abstract painter who has been an active member of the New York art scene since the early 1980s, James Walsh follows in the modernist tradition of Pollock in using art to reveal it...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Elutheria
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Ron Reihel. "Elutheria" is an abstract, cast resin, plaster, wood and canvas wall sculpture executed in a deep, glossy black by contemporary artist Ron Reihel. Ron Rei...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Plaster, Resin, Wood

Striding Drum Major, Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right Cover of American Boy Weekly Magazine, 1927 of a Striding Drum Major Edgar Franklin Wittmack ...
Category

1920s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Two Women in the Sauna
Located in London, GB
DAVID BURLIUK [Burlyuk] 1882-1967 Kharkiv, Ukraine 1882-1967 Southampton, Long Island, New York (Ukrainian/Russian/American) Title: Two Women in the Sauna Technique: Original...
Category

Mid-20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

Sunset
Located in Charelston, SC
James Denmark is a formally trained artist, and one of the few masters of collage. Represented by Neema Fine Art Gallery with locations in Charleston, SC and Atlanta, GA, Denmark utilizes an exacting process to cut and assemble brightly handcolored papers, fabric and objects into familiar figures and images. Denmark is also proficient in charcoal and watercolor. Born in Winter Haven, Florida in 1936, Denmark’s grandmother, a wire sculptor and quilt artist, exposed him to color and form at an early age. He was also influenced by his grandfather, a bricklayer noted for his unique custom design molds. Denmark attended Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, FL where studied under the artist and acclaimed African-American art historian, Dr. Samella Lewis and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. After graduating from FAMU, Denmark moved to Brooklyn, NY and began teaching art in the public school system. Denmark earned his Master of Fine Arts Degree at the prestigious Pratt Institute of Fine Arts in New York. While at Pratt, Denmark was heavily influenced by the abstract expressionists, admiring such mainstream artists as Jackson Pollock, Clifford Still...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media

"Summer Guests"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Illustrated in "Joseph Barrett, The Prime Years 1970s - 1990s", pg. 16 018 Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Joseph Barrett (1936 – ) Joseph Barrett was born in Midland, North Carolina, in 1936 and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Barrett, now of Lahaska, Pennsylvania, has been painting his entire adult life. His favorite subjects include the landscape surrounding New Hope and many local landmarks often encompassing figures into his compositions. Barrett utilizes a heavy impasto and his palette bears similarities to that of Fern Coppedge and George Sotter. Barrett’s paintings are always found in unique and somewhat charming handmade frames designed by the artist and finished in metal leaf. A living contemporary of the no longer living “New Hope School” impressionist painters, Joseph Barrett resides outside of New Hope above his old-fashioned antique shop and studio. Entering Barrett’s shop is like taking a step back in time. Inside this cluttered and dusty haven of treasures from the past, is a studio spanning only four by eight feet. This little studio, containing cans of old brushes and hundreds of used paint tubes...
Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Rescue
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
Category

1940s American Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Lighthouse Keeper, Brant Point
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left ‘Stevan Dohanos’ Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Laid Down on Masonite The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 26th, 1954...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board

Ginevra de Benci
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Brett Eric Osborn was born in Lima, Ohio in 1963. Both his father and his cousin are artists and influenced the young Osborn during his formative years. Brett recalls being a child d...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Crying Clown
Located in New York, NY
Portrait
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Audrey
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn. Portrait. Abstract Feel. Oil on Linen. Sides painted black. About the Artist: Karl has been a fine artist his entire life and is well known for his portraits,...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Marble & Idaho Green Quartzite 4
Located in New York, NY
Born in Pasadena and raised in Orange County, Elizabeth Turk earned her M.F.A. at the Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. In Turk’s work, the shape of the line is created by extreme loss. That is, the reductive process of carving creates a positive, fragile form in which the absence of the original material is a focus. Turk encourages us to consider how nature has shaped these organic materials long before the artist’s manipulation of them into new forms. When viewed as components in a complex natural system, their singular beauty and inherent mystery is revealed. Turk compels us to view works of art not only as objects to be coveted and collected, but also as expressions of the natural world and our evolving relation to it. A recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2010), a Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship (2010), and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2011), Turk is internationally recognized for transforming her signature medium of marble into strikingly intricate objects that defy convention and challenge our preconceptions of what marble can do. Through the use of electric grinders, dental tools...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Stone, Marble

Notre-Dame de Paris - 24k Gold Leaf and Sumi Ink, Paris Realism Painting, Zen
Located in Tokyo, JP
A traditional Japanese painting made with 24k gold leaf, crushed seashells and Sumi ink on Japanese paper mounted on a wood panel. Because these substances consist of unique chemical and physical properties, every artwork has its own story to tell and embodies a sense of connection to the earth. With the art of Zen. Presents the sceneries seen through the artist's eyes in an art form. In mint condition, Certificate of Authenticity included and calligraphy seal in front, hand-signed at the back. Sold unframed and ready to hang (eye bolt and string mounted at the back). Artist: Maria Mitsumori...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

SET OF TWO ITALIAN CARVED AND GILT WOODEN HEADS OF LIONS
Located in Milan, IT
Set of two carved and gilt wooden heads of lions, italy, venice, 1760 circa This pair of playful and charming lion heads are a marvelous example of Venetian sculptural and decorative...
Category

Mid-18th Century Art

Materials

Wood

Boating Pier
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Contact for exact dimensions.
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Paint

"Wickencheoke Creek at Prallsville"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed lower left. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame. Alexander Farnham (1926 - 2017) Alexander Farnham studied with Anne Steele Marsh, Van Deering Perrine, and at the Art Students League with George Bridgman...
Category

20th Century American Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

We Dream in Colors Borrowed by the Sea
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Female centric. Tans, Browns. Whites. Figurative art. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where C...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

All Apologies, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 48 x 30 in.
Located in Atlanta, GA
2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 48x48 in. Signed by artist Justin Lyon's credits his introduction into the world of street art as the spark that led him to his style of work. Over the next several years, Justin started to take his art production more seriously. Inspired by the li- ves and work of Cy Twombly, Barry McGee, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Justin refined his process and worked to develop a style all his own which is both thought- provoked and thought-provoking. Justin’s mediums include wood, acrylic, house paint, spray paint, oil stick, epoxy resin and pencil. He aims to produce art that sticks with the viewer long after they seen it. “What I am after is capturing the thoughts and feelings of the human condition with images and words that make you stop and think about what's in front of you.” Justin wants “to make honest art, raw art, vulnerable art...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Camino
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Manziales, Colombia in 1987, Esteban received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art before returning to his native country. Related works are featured in top collections, ...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Still Life, 2008
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Eugenio Ramos Alvarez Eugenio Ramos born in Madrid And individual awards and exhibitions Painting Prize 1966 of the Ministry of the Army.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Daydreaming Royal Poincianas in Pink and Red
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. Get lost in a floral dreamscape of vermillion, magenta, green and pink rendered with vivacious energy. We promise you will emerge in a happy state...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Inkjet

Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine, February 1931 Depicting a Duryea Automobile Driving by a Blacksmith Shop
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Hedge Fun - Star Island, Miami Beach - Slim Arrons forgot to shoot the Shrubs
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Funk’s photographs of elaborate landscaping redefine what Street Art is. Star Island is home to billionaires, socialites, jet-setters, and the celebrities of the world. Hedge Fun - Star Island, Miami Beach - Captures what Slim Arrons...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Inkjet

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

Note to self
Located in MADRID, ES
Acrylic and pastel chalk on canvas
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

The Vanishing Men
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1919 Medium: Charcoal on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Dimensions: 15.20" x 18.50" "The Vanishing Men," November 29, 1919.
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Charcoal, Board

Table
Located in ATLANTA, GA
George Long received his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1995 and currently lives and works in Atlanta. His first solo exhibition was at Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta in 2004, where he introduced the widely acclaimed 8 x 8 work. Long’s solo and 2 person exhibitions include Flux Projects, Atlanta, the Zuckerman Museum, Kennesaw State University, Space Eight, St Augustine, FL, Gallery One Twelve, Atlanta, Tempus Projects, St. Augustine, FL,Cosms, Dashboard Coop, Atlanta, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, the University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA, the Madison County Art Council, Marshall N.C. among others. Group exhibitions have included the International Kunstler Kolonie Exhibition,Nuremburg, (and residency), The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2007 Biennial and 2012 "Day Job: Georgia), the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL, the Zuckerman Museum, Kennesaw, GA, Art on the Beltline, Atlanta, GA, Paco Sas Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Georgia, and Brenau University, Georgia. In 2010 he received an NEA grant for public sculpture. Sculpture exhibitions include theAnn Marie Sculpture Center in Solomon Island, Maryland, North River Park, Charleston, SC, and the Chattahooche Nature Center, Roswell, GA, Art in Freedom Park, Atlanta, and Bonaroo, Manchester, Ten. Long has collaborated with Spelman University choreographer T. Lang, New Orleans Airlift, Georgia Tech, Lucky Penny...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

ADROGUE II, 2013-2016
Located in ATLANTA, GA
1972-73 Eastbourne College for Art and Design: Fine Art Foundation Course: studies drawing. Works through the South Coast Period of paintings. Studio: South Coast of England. 1974-81 University of Wales: studied painting under Welsh artist Selwyn Jones. Public and private commissions: twenty-five multistory murals in Wales and England: documented by the BBC and British National Newspapers. Studios: Bethesda and Bangor City, Wales. Studies composition and portraiture. Shows at the Royal Exchange, London; Bangor City Museum, Wales. 1981-82 Commission: The Trial of Saint Deiniol: 19-panel, 18 x 21 ft. painting. Studio: Shropshire, England 1982-86 The New York Times send photographer Dith Pran (on whom the movie The Killing Fields was based) to photograph Povey in New York with The Trial of Saint Deiniol painting at Art Expo New York 1986. Povey is advised by George Bush Senior’s former campaign manager Zena Temkin on shaping his public persona. The BBC film Edward Povey with former President of the Royal Academy of Art in London - Sir Hugh Casson KCVO, RA, RDI in which Sir Hugh interviews Povey about his art career. Public and private commissions for collections in the United States, London, Wales, Belgium, West Indies. Studies symbolism and trains in color with Jan de Maere in Brussels and works through the Tapestry Period of paintings Studio: Grenada, West Indies. 1987-91 Studies psychology and narrative in art whilst he builds the extensive Childhood, Illusion and Desire Period of paintings. Studio: Guisborough, England courtesy of the town mayor. Shows in Belgium, London, New York. 1992-93 Public commission: Hall of Illusion mural: 20 X 40 ft. interior oil painting in the Chamber Concert Hall of the University of Wales. The commission is followed by BBC Television, S4C Television; BBC Radio Four and regional and national newspapers. Studios: Guisborough, England; Bangor City, Wales. Designs the Hall of Illusion mural on the island of Grenada, West Indies. 1994-96 Deepens his studies in the relationship between art and the psyche. Researches new ways to evolve concepts with models using theaters...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Linen, Plaster, Paper, Oil

Street Art from from the Wealthy - Two and a Half Arches in Palm Beach
Located in Miami, FL
Street Art is today's dominant contemporary art movement. Yet it has overlooked the obvious. It’s the luscious landscaping from the rich. Street art made from plants has been beauti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

A Break from Play
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 24 x 18 inches Framed size: 31 x 25.5 inches Signed lower left
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Marilyn Flag by Guy Boudro
Located in Cleveland, OH
Marilyn Flag by Guy Boudro Acrylic Paint on Wood, Black Frame Pop Art
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Acrylic, Wood

The First Flag Raising
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Du Pont Safety Calendar, 1941, June # 2270 in the Catalogue Raisonné, 2009
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Girl Peeling Apple, Johnson & Johnson Advertisement, 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.50" x 12.00" Johnson & Johnson reproduced the present work as an advertisemen...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Oil, Masonite

"Summer Skies"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Peter Sculthorpe (born 1948) Peter Sculthorpe was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1948. His talent was evident even as a child and developed rapidly in high school, where he was awarded an art scholarship in his senior year. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Hussian School of Fine Art under William Palmer Lear. He is a recipient of the Daisy Jamison Art Scholarship. Sculthorpe's work is represented in private and corporate collections including General Electric, AT&T, DuPont, and Nabisco. His paintings are in the permanent collections of the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware; the William Penn Art Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He has presented his work in exhibitions including the American Watercolor Society, the National Academy of Design in New York, the Philadelphia Sketch...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

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