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John Muafangejo Style, Elia Shiwoohamba, Linoleum block print on paper
Located in Windhoek, NA
John Muafangejo Style, 2013. Linoleum block print on paper. Edition of 5. Elia Shiwoohamba was born in 1981 in Windhoek, Namibia. He graduated from th...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Linocut

AUTUMN BALANCE, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Autumn balance“ 90 X 110cm, oil on canvas
Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mary Taylor, c.1934 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography/Fashion Photography)
Located in London, GB
Mary Taylor, c.1934 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography/Fashion Photography) Inscribed 'Mary Taylor' in unknown hand and stamped with photographers copyri...
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Persefona by FRANCESCO BERTOLA & FLAVIA YL
Located in MADRID, ES
El cuerpo cubre al cuerpo, lo habita como amargos espejos. Le come la cara como secuencia pecaminosa. Ameba comecerebros que no sabe amar, que deja cicatrices...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Violin Studies
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard 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 w...
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Board

W is for Wrestler, from Alphabet Series
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category

1990s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen

Little Miss Honky Tonk
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Canvas. Vibrant colors. Blues. Pinks. Greens. Whites. Yellows. About the Artist: Francine Tint is a New York based abstract expressionist painter. She studied pai...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

No. 131, January 1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Acrylic on Paper
Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Redoshi
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Maler und Modell (rot) / Painter and Model (red)
Located in Wien, 9
Fritz Aigner (1930 - 2005) was an Austrian artist who has been a solitary figure in the Austrian art scene of the 20th century throughout his life, defying any categorisation of art ...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Etching

Els Terrats Dels Confinats - 21st Century, Contemporary, Oil Painting, Abstract
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Tomàs Martínez Sunyol was born in Dieulefit (France) in 1964 and was surrounded by art from a young age. Both his father, Joaquim Martínez Lerma, and uncle, Álvaro Sunyol, were pain...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Jean Shrimpton In Evening Dress' Limited Edition silver gelatin V&A Portfolio
Located in London, GB
'Jean Shrimpton In Evening Dress' Limited Edition V&A Portfolio silver gelatin fibre print. Jean Shrimpton modelling a dress, John French (1907-66), England, 1961 © Victoria and Alb...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

United Together
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"United Together" is part of a series called "Spoken" by artist Kelvin Agyepong Ansong which depicts the fierce fight women around the world continue t...
Category

2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Leda and the Swan
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, 1897-1986 Reuben Nakian, born August 10, 1897 in College Point, New York enjoyed a long and distinguished career, maintaining his innovative spirit and creativity over mor...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Crayon

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

Clip
Located in Milano, MI
Work on canvas by Anne Neukamp
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Nizza - large format photograph of summer beach scene in South of France
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale highly detailed photograph of European beach Nizza by Frank Schott 44 x 69 inches (112 x 175cm) signed edition of 10 48 x 75.5 inches (122 x 192cm) signed edition of 7...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper

Celia
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

'Scottsdale Home' Arizona (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Scottsdale Home' by Slim Aarons Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973. You cannot almost feel the heat! Guests relax around the beautif...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

C Print

Mirror II
Located in Boca Raton, FL
(59 x 45 inch framed + $2,000) New York-based, Armenian-born artist, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan, is especially interested in how people interact in this new era of technology and social me...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

On Land - large format photograph of iconic wooden row boat on desert lake bed
Located in San Francisco, CA
On Land (2006) by Frank Schott, large scale photograph of classic red wooden row boat in dry California desert landscape 26.5 x 40 inches (67 x 102cm)...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée

Framed 42"x 42" Limited Edition Color Photograph "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This beautifully minimalist photograph was shot in Zurich. Pops of red accent the surrealist scene. This is a limited edition color photograph. Number 1 of 8 is currently available, ...
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

On Blue
Located in Singapore, SG
On Blue Oil on Canvas 30.5 by 30.5cm Valerie Ng’s abstract paintings are created through explorations in colour, light, form and texture. A dynamic balance of strokes and subtle var...
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bauhaus Yellow
Located in WINDSOR, AU
Hand signed by artist on back side, bottom part of the artwork
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Museum Light, United Nations and Chrysler Building, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
The United Nations Building is positioned next to the Chrysler Building. Two iconic New York City architectural masterpieces are juxtaposed from the precise lens of veteran New York ...
Category

Early 2000s American Modern Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Gate
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Canvas. Vibrant colors. Blues. Pinks. Greens. Whites. About the Artist: Francine Tint is a New York based abstract expressionist painter. She studied painting at P...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Terrace Positano, 2002
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Watercolored By Jim Dine
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Jim Dine Watercolored By Jim Dine 2015 Watercolor and copperplate etching 42 x 56 1/2 in. Edition of 6; each piece is unique Pencil signed, dated and numbered...
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Watercolor, Etching

Hollywood - large format photograph of iconic California landmark in Los Angeles
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of the iconic HOLLYWOOD sign in golden California sunlight with downtown Los Angeles in the distance HOLLYWOOD by Christian Stoll 48 x 48 inches (122 x 122c...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Untitled
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 politic...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Xxray Plus: Flintstone Dino
Located in palma de mallorca, ES
From the wonderful animated world of Hanna-Barbera's Flintstones comes a fresh new twist to the ever lovable Dino! The beloved pet dinosaur in the cartoon is now a cool piece for art collectors in the real world. Ever wondered what it would be like to have a pet dinosaur? Now you can with the XXRAY Plus: Dino! XXRAY Plus: Dino is captured in Jason Freeny...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Polymer

The Gods of Voodoo
By Harold McCauley
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard Signature: Unsigned Dimensions: Sight Size 18.00" x 24.00;" Framed 28.50" x 35.50" Cover for Fate Magazine - August 1953 The original cover painting by H.W. McCauley used for the August 1953 cover of Fate (True Stories of the Strange and Unknown), illustrating "The Gods of Voodoo" by North Hildabrand. In this offering a dancing pin...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Board

Boy Reading
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned
Category

1920s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Old New York Brooklyn Heights Promenade by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Old New York, Brooklyn Heights Promenade, 1972, Bathed in magical golden light. There is a sense of loneliness akin to Edward Hopper paintings where ...
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Bodybuilder
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique. Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation numb...
Category

1980s Pop Art Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Martin Reyna Untitled, 2015 Mixed media on paper 18 x 24 in (45.72h x 60.96w cm)
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Stratosphere I - large format photograph of abstract liquid water cloudscapes
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the bo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

The Practice 'Take 18'
Located in Milano, MI
Sculpture, ballerina by Folkert de Jong
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Acrylic, Polyurethane

Dreamers, 2020
Located in ATLANTA, GA
"Alexei Ravski unites landscape painting with the art of the surreal in his dramatic, large-format compositions. Meticulous in technique, they are marked by a striking use of perspe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Oil

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

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Patricia Morison in "Kiss Me Kate"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink Cardstock Signature: Signed Lower Right Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of the lovely Patricia Morison recreating her...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Pen, Ink

Árbol Invertido - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Sculpture, Steel, Tree
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Jordi Díez Fernández graduated from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with a degree in Fine Art and honours in sculpture. He started his profe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

Cloud Study I - large format photograph of dramatic cloudscape sky
Located in San Francisco, CA
an homage to Caspar David Friedrich, towering thunder clouds over the Mediterranean Sea, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale photograph...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée, Black and ...

Forgotten Red
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

Yellow Lemon on Black, 2018, Color silkscreen with enamel inks
Located in Atlanta, GA
Donald Sultan (Born 1951) Black Lemon on Yellow, 2018 Color silkscreen with enamel inks and tar-like texture on 2-ply museum board 39 x 39 in. Edition of 40 Signed by artist
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Untitled SFE-003 (Blue, Red and Yellow) - American Abstract Expressionism
Located in London, GB
SAM FRANCIS 1923-1994 San Mateo, California 1923 – 1994 Santa Monica (American) Title: Untitled SFE-003 (Blue, Red and Yellow), 1982 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Inscribed E...
Category

1980s Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Presencia Efímera II - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract, Iron Sculpture
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 authent...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Iron

le Bois
Located in New York, NY
Martin Reyna le Bois, 2015 Mixed media on paper 59.05 x 76.77 in (149.99h x 195w cm)
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Dr. Albert Hibbs on "Exploring"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Dr Albert Hibbs on NBC-TV`s Saturday morning educational progra...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Illustration Board, Ink, Pen

"Quiet, The Dove (from The Book of LOVE)" silkscreen print by Robert Indiana
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Quiet, The Dove (Book of LOVE)" silkscreen print from a portfolio of 12 original poems and 12 original prints by artist Robert Indiana. Edition 58/200. The prints in the portfolio w...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Pido ayuda
Located in MADRID, ES
PIDO AYUDA title means looking for help and this came up when during the painting João Cardoso found an article that had the same title and it was about a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

Bridge
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

Slim Aarons Tennis In The Bahamas Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In The Bahamas' by Slim Aarons It really doesn't get much more fabulous than this. A realtively new discovery in the Archive -two fashionably dressed women in tennis outfit...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

C Print

Boombox
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nick Veasey Boombox 47 x 47 inches Edition 9 Digital C print Diasec Framed Signed and numbered Also available in the following size 23 x 23 inches / Edition 25 Nick Veasey X ray Art...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital

Two Horses
Located in New York, NY
Acrylics, inks, archival spray on custom stretched canvas. Triptych of Two Horses at play. Subdued palate. About the Artist: My process often moves m...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis Untitled 1995 Etching in colours, Edition of 35 53.3 x 45.7 cms (21 x 18 ins) SF17887
Category

1990s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Etching

Japanese Girl Promenading
Located in New York, NY
Harry Humphrey Moore led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, dividing his time between Europe, New York City, and California. This globe-trotting painter was also active in Morocco, and most importantly, he was among the first generation of American artists to live and work in Japan, where he depicted temples, tombs, gardens, merchants, children, and Geisha girls. Praised by fellow painters such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Moore’s fame was attributed to his exotic subject matter, as well as to the “brilliant coloring, delicate brush work [sic] and the always present depth of feeling” that characterized his work (Eugene A. Hajdel, Harry H. Moore, American 19th Century: Collection of Information on Harry Humphrey Moore, 19th Century Artist, Based on His Scrap Book and Other Data [Jersey City, New Jersey: privately published, 1950], p. 8). Born in New York City, Moore was the son of Captain George Humphrey, an affluent shipbuilder, and a descendant of the English painter, Ozias Humphrey (1742–1810). He became deaf at age three, and later went to special schools where he learned lip-reading and sign language. After developing an interest in art as a young boy, Moore studied painting with the portraitist Samuel Waugh in Philadelphia, where he met and became friendly with Eakins. He also received instruction from the painter Louis Bail in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1864, Moore attended classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and until 1907, he would visit the “City by the Bay” regularly. In 1865, Moore went to Europe, spending time in Munich before traveling to Paris, where, in October 1866, he resumed his formal training in Gérôme’s atelier, drawing inspiration from his teacher’s emphasis on authentic detail and his taste for picturesque genre subjects. There, Moore worked alongside Eakins, who had mastered sign language in order to communicate with his friend. In March 1867, Moore enrolled at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, honing his drawing skills under the tutelage of Adolphe Yvon, among other leading French painters. In December 1869, Moore traveled around Spain with Eakins and the Philadelphia engraver, William Sartain. In 1870, he went to Madrid, where he met the Spanish painters Mariano Fortuny and Martin Rico y Ortega. When Eakins and Sartain returned to Paris, Moore remained in Spain, painting depictions of Moorish life in cities such as Segovia and Granada and fraternizing with upper-crust society. In 1872, he married Isabella de Cistue, the well-connected daughter of Colonel Cistue of Saragossa, who was related to the Queen of Spain. For the next two-and-a-half years, the couple lived in Morocco, where Moore painted portraits, interiors, and streetscapes, often accompanied by an armed guard (courtesy of the Grand Sharif) when painting outdoors. (For this aspect of Moore’s oeuvre, see Gerald M. Ackerman, American Orientalists [Courbevoie, France: ACR Édition, 1994], pp. 135–39.) In 1873, he went to Rome, spending two years studying with Fortuny, whose lively technique, bright palette, and penchant for small-format genre scenes made a lasting impression on him. By this point in his career, Moore had emerged as a “rapid workman” who could “finish a picture of given size and containing a given subject quicker than most painters whose style is more simple and less exacting” (New York Times, as quoted in Hajdel, p. 23). In 1874, Moore settled in New York City, maintaining a studio on East 14th Street, where he would remain until 1880. During these years, he participated intermittently in the annuals of the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, exhibiting Moorish subjects and views of Spain. A well-known figure in Bay Area art circles, Moore had a one-man show at the Snow & May Gallery in San Francisco in 1877, and a solo exhibition at the Bohemian Club, also in San Francisco, in 1880. Indeed, Moore fraternized with many members of the city’s cultural elite, including Katherine Birdsall Johnson (1834–1893), a philanthropist and art collector who owned The Captive (current location unknown), one of his Orientalist subjects. (Johnson’s ownership of The Captive was reported in L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist,” New York Times, July 23, 1893.) According to one contemporary account, Johnson invited Moore and his wife to accompany her on a trip to Japan in 1880 and they readily accepted. (For Johnson’s connection to Moore’s visit to Japan, see Emma Willard and Her Pupils; or, Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary [New York: Mrs. Russell Sage, 1898]. Johnson’s bond with the Moores was obviously strong, evidenced by the fact that she left them $25,000.00 in her will, which was published in the San Francisco Call on December 10, 1893.) That Moore would be receptive to making the arduous voyage across the Pacific is understandable in view of his penchant for foreign motifs. Having opened its doors to trade with the West in 1854, and in the wake of Japan’s presence at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, American artists were becoming increasingly fascinated by what one commentator referred to as that “ideal dreamland of the poet” (L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist”). Moore, who was in Japan during 1880–81, became one of the first American artists to travel to the “land of the rising sun,” preceded only by the illustrator, William Heime, who went there in 1851 in conjunction with the Japanese expedition of Commodore Matthew C. Perry; Edward Kern, a topographical artist and explorer who mapped the Japanese coast in 1855; and the Boston landscapist, Winckleworth Allan Gay, a resident of Japan from 1877 to 1880. More specifically, as William H. Gerdts has pointed out, Moore was the “first American painter to seriously address the appearance and mores of the Japanese people” (William H. Gerdts, American Artists in Japan, 1859–1925, exhib. cat. [New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1996], p. 5). During his sojourn in Japan, Moore spent time in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Nikko, and Osaka, carefully observing the local citizenry, their manners and mode of dress, and the country’s distinctive architecture. Working on easily portable panels, he created about sixty scenes of daily life, among them this sparkling portrayal of a young woman dressed in a traditional kimono and carrying a baby on her back, a paper parasol...
Category

Late 19th Century Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

No. 13
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Piccillo is a skilled draftsman, and his nuanced use of shadow and scale highlight this ability. Joseph Piccillo’s signature graphite and charcoal drawings...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite

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