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Westhampton /// Contemporary Thomas McKnight Screenprint Hamptons NY Modern Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Thomas McKnight (American, 1941-)
Title: "Westhampton"
Portfolio: The Hamptons
*Signed by McKnight in pencil lower right
Year: 1987
Medium: Original Screenprint on soft-white Somerset paper
Limited edition: 143/175, (there were also 40 artist's proofs)
Printer: Willco Fine Art, New York, NY
Publisher: Chalk & Vermilion, New York, NY
Sheet size: 21" x 23"
Image size: 16" x 18.13"
Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away in its original green silk boxed portfolio for decades. In mint condition
Notes:
Numbered by McKnight in pencil lower left. Comes from McKnight's 1987 "The Hamptons" portfolio of twelve screenprints. Artist's copyright stamp lower right on verso.
Biography:
Thomas McKnight (born 1941) is a U.S. artist. He was born in 1941 in Lawrence, Kansas. He attended Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was one of only five art majors. He spent his junior year in Paris. After a year of graduate work in art history at Columbia University, in 1964 McKnight found a job at Time Magazine where he would work for eight years, interrupted by a two-year stint in the U. S. Army in South Korea. In 1972 McKnight left Time, summered on the Greek island of Mykonos, and commenced painting in earnest. In 1979 in Mykonos, McKnight met Renate, a vacationing Austrian student, and married the following year. Throughout the 1980s McKnight’s art, mainly limited edition serigraph prints, became increasingly popular. In 1994 he was commissioned by the White House to paint the first of three images for President Clinton...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
The Art Wagon Galleries: Fritz Scholder (Reclining Woman) Poster (Signed)
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Fritz Scholder (Native American, 1937-2005)
Title: "The Art Wagon Galleries: Fritz Scholder (Reclining Woman)"
*Signed by Scholder in purple marker lower right
Circa:...
Category
1970s Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
$700 Sale Price
30% Off
Hoarfrosted Lonely Tree Frozen Field
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Digital pigment ink print, edition of 7.
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist.
Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with 4cm white border.
15.75 x 15.75 in. (40 x...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Between Thoughts. Richard K Blades. Painting of sea at dusk. Turner influence.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A warm sunset over Norfolk's Cromer beach.
Between Thoughts is a sublime oil painting that captures the mesmerizing tranquility of a sunset over thw North Sea. The horizon is ablaze...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
SUMMER DAYS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Emerging young artist with a very personal and recognizable style.
Without a doubt he will have a long journey and a great progression in her artistic career.
Acrylic on canvas
Ship...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
$119 Sale Price
55% Off
Festive bouquet 004
Located in Zofingen, AG
The work is painted with large brushstrokes, in the artist's characteristic manner.
The painting conveys vivid impressions of summer, sun glare, feelings of warmth, freshness and ce...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Landscape with Farmhouse and Wheat Fields oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Landscape with Farmhouse and Wheat Fields
Artist: Lluís Puig Barella (Barcelona, 1894 – Barcelona, 1984)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 46 × 55 cm (18.1 × 21.6 in)
Support:...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 1920s British Horse Oil Painting Sporting Art Equestrian Portrait in Stable
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Jim"
by WILLIAM WASDELL TRICKETT (FL. 1921-1939)
signed oil on canvas, framed in wooden original frame
framed: 18 x 22 inches
canvas : 12 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Art
Materials
Oil
Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Field and Orchard (Land and Skyscape with Open Field and Dark Treeline)
Located in Hudson, NY
Field and Orchard (Land and Skyscape with Open Field and Dark Treeline) by David Konigsberg
2025, oil on panel, 23.5 x 24 inches
Konigsberg is a conceptual realist who works across ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Fishing Boat, small Islands, La Hong Bay, Vietnam, limited seascape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Fishing Boat Study 1, La Hong Bay, Vietnam - no. 21361
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. P...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Adore, Cherish and Love You - Abstract Brown Tone Graffiti Mixed Media Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Cobbolds Point, Groyne, England, limited minimalist seascape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Cobbolds Point Study 1, England - no. 21362
Digital pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Original-Summer Bloom Series-British Awarded Artist-Impasto-oil-plein air garden
Located in London, GB
This painting marks Shizico Yi’s joyful return to en plein air painting in her garden after a season of unusual weather—storms and heatwaves alternating unpredictably.
By late July, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Antique American Impressionist Nude Woman Portrait Nicely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist nude portrait and landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 18 by 22 inches overall, and 14 by 18 painting alone.. In excellent origina...
Category
1920s Impressionist Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Antique mariner portrait oil painting French sailer man with a beard
Located in AIGNAN, FR
An amazing antique portrait of a mariner. This is an atmospheric old original oil painting on canvas in its original gold frame. The artist is Henry Jacquier and his signature is i...
Category
1880s French School Art
Materials
Oil
Global Warning - Global Warming (Andy Warhol museum Edition) - Signed/N politics
Located in New York, NY
SHEPARD FAIREY
Global Warning - Global Warming (Andy Warhol Edition), 2009
Silkscreen on wove paper
24 × 18 inches
Pencil signed and numbered 264/450 on the front
Unframed
Global War...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Art
Materials
Screen
Neptune Flower Arrangement - Abstract Botanical Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Krisanne Souter weaves together elements of nature and ancient feminine archetypes, such as the Mother and the Mystic. Botanical themes, playful elements, and unexpected surprises ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Poppy No.2 - analogue black and white floral photography, limited edition 2/15
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Poppy no. 2'
London, United Kingdom 2023
Limited edition of 15.
Printed on Hahnemühle photo rag Baryta 308 Gsm fine art paper, these limited edition photographs are designed to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Giclée
Castaway - Abstract Playful Earth Tone Textural Paint Splat Mixed Media Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Abstract 4, Abstract Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Layers of blue and cream with touches of orange and black create an energetic composition. The blending of colors evokes a strong sense of movement, while the s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Moon Flower Potted Plant - Lively Abstract Colorful Botanical Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Krisanne Souter weaves together elements of nature and ancient feminine archetypes, such as the Mother and the Mystic. Botanical themes, playful elements, and unexpected surprises ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil
The Highlands Point Lobos Carmel California 1930 Thomas O. Sheckell Original Oil
Located in Soquel, CA
Thomas Owings Sheckell (1883 - 1943) was active/lived in New York. Thomas Sheckell is known for Trees, landscape, snow scenes, coastal view and industrial scene painting...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
''Resting with Ancients'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of a Horse
Located in Utrecht, NL
Nichola Theakston (1967) has established herself as one of the UK’s foremost contemporary sculptors working within the animal genre.
With the ''Resting with Ancients' Nichola shows...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Waterfall into the Ocean Faroe Islands
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with 4cm white border.
15.75 x 15.75 in. (40 x ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Plants in Pottery Pots - Original Abstract Colorful Botanical Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Krisanne Souter weaves together elements of nature and ancient feminine archetypes, such as the Mother and the Mystic. Botanical themes, playful elements, and unexpected surprises ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Into the Nothing, long exposure jetty waterscape photo, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Into the Nothing Study 1, Austria - no. 21351
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Impressionist English fox hunter with hounds in an extensive British landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
George Wright (1860–1942)
Fox Hunting Scene
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Circa 1920
Presented in a newly made, hand-carved Watts-style frame
A spirited and richly atmospheric example of English sporting art by George Wright, one of the foremost British equestrian painters of the early 20th century. This oil on canvas captures the thrilling energy of a mounted fox hunt as riders in scarlet coats gallop across an open countryside, accompanied by a lively pack of hounds coursing through a stream.
Wright’s deft brushwork and ability to render movement and musculature make his work particularly admired among collectors of sporting and animal art. The moody sky and brisk terrain contribute to a sense of action unfolding in real time—a hallmark of Wright’s dynamic compositions.
Signed lower left, the painting is framed in a superb hand-crafted Watts-style frame, lending an additional sense of classical elegance and elevating its visual presence. George Wright’s works are held in private collections and continue to be exhibited by specialists in British sporting painting...
Category
1920s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Doves Flying - Abstract Pastel Tone Textural Dove Graffiti Mixed Media Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
“Amber Light” — Hyperrealistic Seascape Oil Painting of Sunset Ocean Wave.
Located in Zofingen, AG
«Amber Light» is a fleeting and rare moment when the sea glows from within, filled with warm golden light. A wave sparkles like a drop of amber, inviting us into the slow, quiet rhy...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
French Stately Home (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
French Stately Home (1956) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne, with his wife the Comtesse and their children at the...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
BE WATER
Located in Zofingen, AG
She floats where silence begins — just beneath the skin of the water.
Her form is neither here nor gone, dissolving into rhythm and light.
There is no past, no edge, no name — only t...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
To Return. Richard K Blades. Oil painting of the sea at dusk Turner influence.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Moody skies over the sea.
Richard K Blades’ To Return is a captivating artwork that captures the vastness and drama of a seascape, where earth and sky blend in a mesmerizing dance. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Sea Within - Gifts of the Silent Tide
Located in Zofingen, AG
Series: Sea Within — Journey Between Light and Silence.
A visual meditation on strength and serenity, this work is part of the Sea Within series — where the ocean becomes a metaphor ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Forget Me, No
Located in Zofingen, AG
A stubborn, vulnerable plea — to refuse, yet still hold on.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Cotton Candy Cumulus Gum Drop - Original Blue Three-Dimensional Wall Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Atticus Adams' organically composed modern metal sculptures embody the transformative power of art, illustrating the creation of beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Cotton Candy Cumulus Sour Cherry - Original Abstract Three-Dimensional Wall Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Atticus Adams' organically composed modern metal sculptures embody the transformative power of art, illustrating the creation of beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Pastoral Scene at Auvers sur Oise by Durch friend of van Gogh Barbizon landscape
By Théophile de Bock
Located in Norwich, GB
You may have recognised the church in the painting, Our Lady of the Assumption in Auvers sur Oise, made famous by van Gogh's 1890 portrait of it. Interestingly, the present work was ...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an Edwardian Dandy (Man)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Portrait of an Edwardian Dandy Gentleman, 2003.
Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.
Signed with monogram and dated lower right.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
«Light of Hope» – Hyperrealism Ocean Splash Wave at Sunset Oil Painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
Created in March 2022, during the first weeks of the war in Ukraine, Light of Hope carries a deep emotional resonance. This hyperrealistic seascape unites the fiery energy of a sunse...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Board
Entrelacement 2, Abstract Lanscape, oil on canvas, Expressionism, Contemporary
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Size unframed: 50 x 50 cm (15.75 x 15.75 in)
Size framed 57 x 57 cm or 22.44 x 22.44 in.
Choose the color of frame black or wood.
A certificate comes the painting
the painting is re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
The Golfer
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: The Golfer
Medium: Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
Year: 1973
Edition: XXXV/CI
Sheet Size: 23 7/8" x 18 7/8"
Image Size: 19" x 16"
Signature: Hand s...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Double Vision 69 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Vibrant Yellow Abstract Art
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Anthos, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A tulip-like shape emerges from a warm beige background. Three vertical bars extend from the top of the petals while sharp lines and a small brown circle hover on the bottom. Two small crosses and a square introduce a playful detail on the lower part of the composition. Artist Sally Morris Clark...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Secret Wish - Impasto Inspired Blue Accent Textural Thick Paint Abstract Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Before you came - Polaroid, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Before you came- 2020
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-937.
No...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Vintage French Impressionist Villa Gardens Landscape Oil Painting 1960's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3365 Oil on artist board of on enchanted lily pond
Set in an ornate hand painted wood frame
Image size 12.5x15.5"
Category
1960s Art
Materials
Oil
$300 Sale Price
47% Off
Time Zone 7 - Modern Resin Minimalist Earth Tone Geometric Abstraction Artwork
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Bathers Impressionist Figurative Landscape Painting of nude bathers, lake
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Framed size: 28" x 32.5"
The Bathers, depicts a serene riverside featuring nude or partially nude bathers engaged in both swimming and leisure. Lush greenery surrounds a calm body ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
DIVE
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Be like water, my friend" by Bruce Lee.
When Lee said "be like water," he called upon people to embrace flexibility and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances. He asserted ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cradle - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Cradle' part of the series 'Hands down' - 2019
50x50cm,
Edition 5/7.
archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory PL2019-505.
Not...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
Summer in Grabs. Horizontal, mountains, Switzerland, landscape, design for wall
Located in Oslo, NO
In this painting, the artist celebrates the idyll of an alpine summer in the small Swiss village of Grabs. The canvas is filled with light and transparency of the air: a field strewn...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tall ship at sea, dramatic sky, crashing waves, maritime oil by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Tall ship at sea, dramatic sky, crashing waves, maritime oil by British Artist
Art measures 18 x 13 inches
Frame measures 23 x 18 inches
This is a beautifully framed maritime oil ...
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Nude in Coral and Sand', California School of the Fine Arts, Diebenkorn, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Ginghofer' for Raymond Ginghofer (American, 1934-2023) and painted circa 1975.
A substantial monotype and gouache figural showing a woman reclining on her stomach...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Monotype
Baroque Pearl — Luminous Essence
Located in Zofingen, AG
Series: Sea Within — Journey Between Light and Silence.
A contemplative homage to hidden treasures of the sea, this work reflects the dialogue between radiance and stillness. At its ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Please (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Nude, 21st Century, Color, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Please (Sidewinder) - 2005
48x60cm,
Edition 1/10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 3391.
Not mounted.
Consider Stef...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
Be-formed 4 by Sharon Brill - Wall sculpture, porcelain, white, aesthetic
By Sharon Brill
Located in Paris, FR
Be-formed-4 is a unique sculpture by contemporary artist Sharon Brill. This is a mixed media wall sculpture (porcelain, wall putty, paint, wooden frame), dimensions are 53 × 48 × 17 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Porcelain, Paint, Wood Panel
Liminality -21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract, Pop Culture, Love, Healing
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"I stood in the liminality of love, no longer believing it was enough, not yet ready to stop feeling it. Somewhere between the ache and the awakening, I learned that love alone could...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Rhapsody
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rhapsody - 2016
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs
50x50cm
Based on the Polaroid
Archival C-print,
not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2017-110...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wayne Thiebaud 'Meringue Mix' Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This high-quality reproduction of Wayne Thiebaud's "Meringue Mix" exemplifies the artist’s celebrated approach to elevating ordinary objects through his unique painterly style. Here,...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Offset
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