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Highland Cattle at Dusk Antique Scottish Loch & Mountains Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Highland Cattle at Dusk by WILLIAM LANGLEY (1852-1922 signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 17 x 21 inches canvas: 12.5 x 16.5 inches Provenance: Private collection, previously exhibi...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Red Moon Rising - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored pencil to convey an extra...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil

Mind Field
By Chris Leib
Located in Dallas, TX
Featuring casts of astronauts and Bonobo chimps, Leib’s meticulously layered and detailed paintings provide his subjects with a corporeal quality that pull us into their narrative an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Crow Walking - Contemporary semi abstract painting birds
Located in London, GB
Christopher Rainham has always been inspired by the natural world and more specifically an experience of the natural world. He is inspired by the way flora and fauna are woven into l...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Goldilocks, Pastel - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyotaku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored pe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil

Anubis. 2017. Oil on canvas, 50x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Anubis. 2017. Oil on canvas, 50x40 cm Dagnia Cherevichnik (1974) Born in 1974 in Riga. Professional education: 1986-1993 – J. Rozentals Riga Art Secondary School; 1995 - 2001- LMA ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Anne Wolff, "Moondance Joy", Realistic Horse Portrait Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This equine racing portrait "Moondance Joy" by artist Anne Wolff is a 20x16 original oil painting on canvas. Depicted is a frontal close up view of the famous thoroughbred mare Moon...
Category

2010s Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Peregrine City - Photorealist Painting of a Peregrine Falcon in an Urban Setting
Located in Chicago, IL
Every detail in this extraordinary painting is rendered with exacting care. It is not unusual to find these majestic predatory birds amongst the skyscrapers and bridges of our cites...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Portrait of a Wire Hair Fox Terrier, 19th Century by Henry CROWTHER circa 1935
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of a Wire Hair Fox Terrier, circa 1935 by Henry CROWTHER Circa 1935 English portrait of a wire haired Fox Terrier, oil on canvas by Henry Cr...
Category

Early 20th Century Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wet dogs, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Two dogs at the sea. Alla prima oil painting with few final tuch when dry.Water right by the edge of the shore. Waves crashing at my feet. Beautiful weather with a big shining sun. A...
Category

2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Majestic Mustang Oil on Canvas Wyoming Custom Framed Western Art
Located in Houston, TX
LOOK FOR FREE SHIPPING AT CHECKOUT. Majestic Mustang is a 20" x 20" oil on canvas painting by artist Joan Breckwoldt. Majestic Mustang was painted in 2024 in Wyoming. The painting shows the movement of the Mustang, they are obviously not standing still in a pasture. Majestic Mustang is custom framed with an all wood frame which gives them somewhat of a Western feel. The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the Western United States, descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish. Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but because they are descended from once-domesticated animals, they are actually feral horses. The original mustangs were Colonial Spanish horses, but many other breeds and types of horses contributed to the modern mustang, now resulting in varying phenotypes. Some free-roaming horses are relatively unchanged from the original Spanish stock, most strongly represented in the most isolated populations. In 1971, the United States Congress...
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2010s American Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Highland Cattle by a Mountain Stream
Located in Naples, Florida
Robert Watson was an accomplished painter of Highland scenes depicting sheep or cattle. There was much demand for Watson’s work as Scottish scenes were extremely fashionable in late nineteenth century Europe, partly due to Queen Victoria’s extended summer visits to Balmoral Castle...
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Songs in the Sky 2
Located in Bozeman, MT
John Hitchcock uses the print medium with its long history of social and political commentary to explore relationships of community, land, and cu...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Screen

Rural road. Cardboard, oil, 50x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rural road. Cardboard, oil, 50x60 cm
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Zhuo Ii Animal Original Oil On Canvas "Bird - Olive Green"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Bird - Olive Green Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 19 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Zhuo Ii Animal Original Oil On Canvas "Bird Series - Blue"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Bird Series - Blue Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 20 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Zhuo Ii Animal Original Oil On Canvas "Bird Series - orange"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Bird Series - orange Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 20 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: Thi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Waiting for Spring.
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The accent in this picture is the cat's eyes. You can see the whole universe in them. Cat eyes are magical. They are mesmerizing and you can hardly take your eyes off them.
Category

2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blossoming - figurative painting
Located in New York, NY
A farm stands before you on the horizon. A windmill majestically slices the blue sky. A bird, painted in taut brushstrokes, struts on a branch. These are tranquil images; horizon far...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Mother's Brood
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on panel Panel size: 16 x 12 inches Framed size: 23.25 x 19.25 inches Signed lower right
Category

19th Century Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Long Stay (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer The Long Stay (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting) Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 21x17in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1895 *on stretch...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Traveling Deity (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer The Traveling Deity (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting) Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 21x17in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1896 *Frame...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Beth Parcell, "Peaceful Evening", 16x20 Equine Horse Farm Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This vibrant piece, "Peaceful Evening", is a 16x20 equine oil painting on canvas featuring three brown horses and one white horse grazing together in a lush green pasture. The distan...
Category

2010s Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Summerhouse. Cardboard, oil, 33x48 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Summerhouse. Cardboard, oil, 33x48 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of applied arts (1942 – 43), in studio of L. Svem...
Category

1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Reds In Overdrive: Horse Grid / original large acrylic painting
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Reds in Overdrive' from Frohsin's Horse Grid series is vibrant and lively, in reds pinks and purples. The work features horses walking, galloping, jumping and standing. The painting...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment

Siamese Cat with Kittens by Orovida Pissarro - Egg tempura painting
Located in London, GB
Siamese Cat with Kittens by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Egg tempera on linen 39 x 48 cm (15³/₈ x 18⁷/₈ inches) Signed lower right Orovida and dated lower left 1934 Provenance J Ankri, 8th October 1967 Literature K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 51, p. 56 (illustrated) Exhibition London, The Leicester Galleries, Paintings by Orovida, February 1935, no. 6 Women’s International Art Club, 20th February - 13th March 1937, no. 273 London, Redfern Gallery, Ten Years of Work by Orovida, 5th-28th May 1938, no. 7 London, The Royal Society of British Artists, Summer Exhibition, 1947, no. 281 (possibly the etching) London, O’Hana Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Coloured Etchings: Orovida, 3rd-18th October 1957, no. 13 Artist biography Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies. She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy. Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...
Category

1930s Modern Animal Paintings

Materials

Linen, Egg Tempera

Beth Parcell, "Frozen in Time", 18x24 Autumn Horse Hound Fox Hunt Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This colorful piece, "Frozen in Time", is a 18x24 oil painting on canvas featuring two riders atop their horses in a green field during a fox hunt. A group of hounds eagerly run alo...
Category

2010s Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Outsider Artist American Modern Animals Colorful Geometric Red Blue
Located in Buffalo, NY
A whimsical modern American painting of animals in a geometric composition. Signed Taylor this wonderful folksy painting comes housed in a re...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Eyes of Shivers - Cinema Inspired Oil Painting w/ Couple Embracing and a Dog
Located in Chicago, IL
In Shivers, a disease is spread through the throat, resulting in a zombie-like infection. In this painting, coupled with an image from The Eyes of Laura Mars, is a reference to ideological possession and the use of compelled speech. It is a concern towards those who display totalitarian traits in their quest for justice, too caught up in their own righteousness to really consider the damage they are doing. The do in the background stands above the lifeless body of a woman, it is dogma and its dismantlement of womanhood. Inspired by the films Shivers, 1975 The Eyes of Laura Mars, 1978 Georgia Hinaris Eyes of Shivers oil on panel 16h x 24w in 40.64h x 60.96w cm GHS003 Horror films are the most profound and visceral of films, garnering the most extreme responses: vehement hatred and cultish admiration. Horror elicits a controlled neurosis while exposing the rejected weaknesses and brutalities of humanity. I embrace the power of cinema and its ability to alter perception, as it is media that is a reflection of our primordial desires. I’m fascinated by concepts involving the limits of human perception, the ambiguity of morality in relation to nature, the paradoxical nature of reality, and the human struggle to reckon with uncertainty. Humans bear the burden of being as we are, all caught in a flux of unbelievable cognitive abilities and animalistic instincts. Every painting is in its own universe and I cater to it. Nothing is precious. Chaos is embraced. Georgia Hinaris, b. 1993, Chicago, Illinois Education 2019 MFA Painting, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2015 BFA Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Exhibitions 2020 Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY Summer Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY 2019 Di Donna Gallery, New York, NY AXA Art Prize, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Richard Gray...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

In the Rain, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A solitary black swan leisurely glides on a tranquil pond in artist Guigen Zha's allegorical rendering. The still waterscape ripples from the delicate movemen...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Faun and Fawn" Aaron Bohrod, Realist Still Life, Deer and Putti
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod Faun and Fawn, 1984 Signed lower right Oil on gesso board 16 x 12 inches Aaron Bohrod's work has not been limited to one style or medium. Initially recognized as a regionalist painter of American scenes, particularly of his native Chicago, Bohrod later devoted himself to detailed still-life paintings rendered in the trompe l'oeil style. He also worked for several years in ceramics and wrote a book on pottery. Born in 1907, Bohrod began his studies at Chicago's Crane Junior College in 1925, and two years later enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. But it was at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1930 to 1932, that he studied under the man believed to be his most significant early influence, John Sloan. Sloan's romantic realism is reflected in the many depictions of Chicago life, which comprised most of Bohrod's early work. Under Sloan's tutelage, Bohrod came to subscribe to the belief that painters should find the subjects of their art in the immediate world around them. These paintings emphasized architecture unique to north Chicago and featured Chicagoans engaged in such everyday activities as working, playing or going to the theatre. The romantic aspect was conveyed by the use of misty colors, and the realism by attention to detail. In 1936, Bohrod won the Guggenheim Fellowship award in creative painting...
Category

1980s Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Gray Magen David
Located in Jerusalem, IL
Unique work by famous Israeli artist, Menashe Kadishman. Made witht he artist's signature style.
Category

1980s Conceptual Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ostrich on Blue
Located in Napa, CA
Josh Brown has had a lifetime interest in creating art, most notably through his depiction of animals. He swiftly captures the mood of his subjects and brings the personality of each...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Trip Park, "Another Fly", 24x24 Abstract Butterfly Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This Painting, "Another Fly", is a 24x24 oil painting on canvas by artist Trip Park. Featured in the painting is a large white and red butterfly with wings f...
Category

2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hare Today
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Hare Today Date: 2021 Medium: Oil on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 14" x 10" Framed Dimensions: 20" x 16" Signature: Signed Verso Edition: Unique Prove...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Complementary Angels" Aaron Bohrod, Pun Humor, Magic Realism, Putti
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod Complementary Angels, 1977 Signed lower center Oil on gesso panel 16 x 12 inches Aaron Bohrod's work has not been limited to one style or medium. Initially recognized as a regionalist painter of American scenes, particularly of his native Chicago, Bohrod later devoted himself to detailed still-life paintings rendered in the trompe l'oeil style. He also worked for several years in ceramics and wrote a book on pottery. Born in 1907, Bohrod began his studies at Chicago's Crane Junior College in 1925, and two years later enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. But it was at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1930 to 1932, that he studied under the man believed to be his most significant early influence, John Sloan. Sloan's romantic realism is reflected in the many depictions of Chicago life...
Category

1970s Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Red Rum - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored p...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil

Beth Parcell, "Lush Pasture", 16x20 Equine Horse Field Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This vibrant landscape piece, "Lush Pasture", is a 16x20 featuring three brown horses grazing in a green pasture surrounded by the warm afternoon sun light. Lush green trees fill the...
Category

2010s Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

John Frederik Hulk II - Grazing Sheep
By John Frederik Hulk II
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John Frederik Hulk II Title: Grazing Sheep Medium: Oil on Wood Panel Dimensions: Unframed 13.5" x 13.5" Framed 19.5" x 16" Frederik Hulk II paints a rural landscape. His careful brushstrokes create the fluffy, wool coats of the sheep as well as the detailed facial features in the foreground. These farm animals are dusted with bright and light. Behind them, Hulk’s forest provides a dark contrast as trunks and boughs crisscross and entangle. Hulk’s oil painting is both a playful and realist representation of 19th century Dutch landscape...
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Deer & Eagle Winter Snow Scottish Landscape Signed British Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Eagle & Deer by Ben George Powell, British contemporary artist signed and dated 2014 acrylic on canvas, unframed canvas: 20 x 24 inches provenance: private collection of this artists...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

A Pair of Horns in Texas Oil Western Art Landscape Southwest Art OPA
Located in Houston, TX
Paulette Lee works from her studio on Route 66 in South Pasadena, California. Her loose, expressive painting style is influenced by the Russian Masters of the 19th and 20th Century. ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Squirrel Monkey and Allen
Located in Napa, CA
Largely self-taught, Linda Ridd Herzog’s paintings boast unbelievably detailed animals and objects in fantastical, surreal scenes. Growing up in Utah, Herzog found herself so inspir...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Kiss the Sky
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Night Dream Black/White Bunnies Original Oil Painting in Ornate Vintage Frame
Located in Greenwich, CT
Hunt Slonem Original Framed Oil Painting. Signed on Verso. Our Gallery works directly with Hunt Slonem. This painting was acquired directly from the artist and has the Artist's St...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2021 -Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract, NeoExpressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on canvas.
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Animals I: Coyote with Ladder
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts the individual presence of animals, strongly influenced by the enchanted land of New Mexico. Animal iconography is woven deeply throughout three...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Fredrick Acrylic on Canvas Painting by Lucie Sheridan, 2022
Located in Deddington, GB
Fredrick by Lucie Sheridan [2022] A colourful painting of a cat Additional information: Original Acrylic on Canvas Image size: H:50.8 cm x W:40.6 cm...
Category

2010s Abstract Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Bull and Cow American Landscape, Tonalism, Cattle painting, Utah, Idaho
Located in Houston, TX
Bull and Cow was done on one of Marty Rick's trips to Idaho and Montana. It is oil on canvas and is 16 x 20. Marty Ricks is known for his Tonalism paintings that have been done in th...
Category

2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Gallimaufry" Aaron Bohrod, Realism, Surrealism, Charlie Brown, Buddha, Gnome
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod Gallimaufry, 1989 Signed on the right Oil on gesso panel 14 x 11 inches Aaron Bohrod's work has not been limited to one style or medium. Initially recognized as a regionalist painter of American scenes, particularly of his native Chicago, Bohrod later devoted himself to detailed still-life paintings rendered in the trompe l'oeil style. He also worked for several years in ceramics and wrote a book on pottery. Born in 1907, Bohrod began his studies at Chicago's Crane Junior College in 1925, and two years later enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. But it was at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1930 to 1932, that he studied under the man believed to be his most significant early influence, John Sloan. Sloan's romantic realism...
Category

1980s Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Out Running the Waves
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
When I walk along Santa Barbara beaches in winter, Marbled Godwits are the most common bird, often seen in herds, as in thi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Bunny Bashing" Contemporary Pastel Surrealist Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful, pastel-toned painting by contemporary artist Henry David Potwin. This work features a woman driving a yellow car driving through a group of rabbits. Signed in the front low...
Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Chase
Located in Bozeman, MT
Paying attention to what's outside, beyond walls, fences and myths of the modern world, my painting process inspires me to become more aware, attuned and present. I get excited notic...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Gouache

Maybe Next Time
Located in Bozeman, MT
Jenny Day (b.1981) is a painter and sculptor who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Vinyl, Pen, Color Pencil

Leaping From the Box
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a framed painting on paper. Biography Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979. For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator. His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana. Artist Statement For a long time, the images in my paintings have been identifiably, even iconically, western-stagecoaches and false-front main streets, poker games and gun battles, cowboys, Indians, cavalry troopers and horses, all suspended in a choreographed matrix of dancing paint. Distinct from the traditional western genre-which inventories the minutia of cowboy gear or tells sentimental stories of rangeland romance-my paintings embody something more elemental and timeless, animated and abstract. The images tend to be stark, graphic, and charged with painterly energy. Though they are derived from fugitive television images, the paintings, as paintings, are still, silent and non-ephemeral. They register the technological transfer of primal shadows onto the electroluminescent screens of our collective consciousness, a shimmering blur of perception and memory transposed in an interchange of gesture and description, painted marks simultaneously arresting and embodying movement. I've always liked what a painter friend, Marc Vischer, wrote in 1988 about an early group of my western paintings. Now, I'm fourteen years closer to actualizing my vision for this work, and his astute remarks seem more pertinent today than they did then. He wrote in part, "For McConnell, a searing light emanates from a new desert: that of television. And from that most desolate backdrop, he salvages fragments from a movie world that spoke of honor in a land that was lawless. In a romantic sense, McConnell's works are a visual seance. Figures, like specters distorted through intense heat waves, are captured from their eternity of 24 frames a second. Their shapes and shadows are brought back into a radically different world and given substance and texture. It is an impossible attempt to freeze them, to arrest the present's ceaseless molestation of the past, to close off the continuum. Sometimes this is done darkly and thickly as an emphatic gesture of permanence. In other works a few light strokes quickly applied suggest the ephemeral nature of film and perhaps the fleeting nature of our own lives." I have been examining new imagery in my paintings, drawing subjects from Mexican graphic novelas, modern women and men of romance and mystery from the mid-20th century, motorcycles and airplanes. The end titles of movies, stated in several languages, have inspired me to begin a new series of cross-media translations in both acrylic and watercolor. My paintings have long begun where the movies have left off. The elements of water and light co-mingle in some pieces from this series and in others which take the viewpoint of a swimmer, watching other swimmers from the wet side of this aqueous membrane, looking up toward the light. My arrival in Montana in 1982 brought me into intimate contact with some of the most storied places of the historic West and also gave me the opportunity to study the paintings of two of the most influential codifiers of western imagery, Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

Lover Boy, colorful humorous woman and Cat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fanta...
Category

2010s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

BLACK SUN
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas Shipped well protected, unframed
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Permanent Marker

“Horse”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a vibrant and richly painted original work of a horse by the well known American artist, Neith Nevelson. Signed lower right and dated 2000. Condition ...
Category

Early 2000s Post-Modern Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

What Size Would You Like To Be?
Located in Bozeman, MT
Jenny Day (b.1981) is a painter and sculptor who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Vinyl, Pen, Color Pencil

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