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Located in Kingston, WA
This encaustic painting started with the light behind the trees, adding mystery is the dark of the woods in contrast to the evening sky. The rabbit is the local watcher, always alert...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Camel trainer
By Reuven Rubin
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A beautiful watercolor painting by Israeli artist Reuven Rubin.
Featuring a camel trainer and his camel.
Signed and framed.
In very good condition.
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of an Arabian Bay in an Orientalist Landscape
Located in London, GB
John E Fernley, senior
1782-1860
Portrait of an Arabian Bay in an Orientalist Landscape
Oil on panel
Image size: 16 x 21 inches (40.5 x 53.5 cm)
Hand made Orientalist gilt frame
Thi...
Category
19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ora Sorensen "Bird and Grapes" Photorealistic Floral Oil Painting on Canvas
By Ora Sorensen
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This hyperrealist floral "Birds and Grapes" by artist Ora Sorensen is a 40x30 original oil painting on canvas. Depicted is a pink protea flower and white...
Category
2010s Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,000 Sale Price
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"Eucharistic miracle of the mule and the heretic before Saint Anthony of Padua"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Francesco Belotto (1721–1780)
"Eucharistic Miracle of the Mule and the Heretic Before Saint Anthony of Padua"
Framed: 82 x 170 cm
Flat: 76 x 161 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
This dramat...
Category
18th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Blind Chicken" Pen & Ink Illustration of Chicken with Blindfold by Sean 9 Lugo
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Blind Chicken" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art. The piece is made from acrylic and ink on mixed media panel and was debuted in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"A Wet Windy Day", Joe Rader Roberts, 30x40, Original Oil on Canvas, Western Art
By Joe Rader Roberts
Located in Dallas, TX
Cowboys trying to run out of the storm on this cold rainy day of cattle herding on the ranch. A cowboy in a wagon being pulled by four brown and black horses is herding the longhorns...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Boy in a Dog Cart' by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip ( 1821 – 1909 )
By Henriëtte Ronner-Knip
Located in Knokke, BE
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip
Amsterdam 1821 – 1909 Brussels
Dutch – Belgian Painter
'Boy in a Dog Cart'
Signature: signed lower right ‘Henriette Ronner.'
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: ...
Category
19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Painting 19th Century Fox Hunting Scene With Characters Horses and Dogs
By Joseph August Knip
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
KNIP August (1819 - 1859)
Starting Fox Hunting day in Baden-Baden
Oil on canvas signed low right dated 1837
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 81 X 118 cm
Dim frame :...
Category
1830s Academic Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gottfried Libalt, Still Life with Birds, Fruits and Vegetables Landscape, signed
Located in Greven, DE
Stilllife with dead Birds, Fruits and Vegetables
Oil on Canvas, 101 x 84 cm
signed (upper left) „G Libald “ (G and L ligated)
Provenance: Private Collection, Brussels; Private Coll...
Category
17th Century Baroque Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's English Dog Painting Wire Fox Terrier Puppies Waiting to be Fed Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Waiting for Supper'
Wire Fox terrier puppies
English School, indistinctly signed with monogram
dated 1936
watercolour painting on artist paper, framed
Glass covering
framed: 13.5 x ...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
September on Honey Creek
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on canvas by artist Bonnie Marris.
39.5 X 49.5 Framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Happy Family Pig Land Life Farm Animal Figurative Art In Stock
By Walter Elst
Located in Utrecht, NL
A Happy Family Pig Land Life Farm Animal Figurative Art In Stock
Walter Elst Born in Antwerp, Belgium - 1955 After finishing his study Medicine at the University of Brussels Walter ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique English Oil Cornish Beach Scene with Distant Island Coastal Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cornish Beach Scene with Distant Island
English School, early 20th century
signed oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 23.5 x 27.5 inches
Canvas: 20 x 25 inches
Provenance: private collecti...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of A Prize Winning Shire Horse, 19th Century by WILLIAM ALBERT CLARK
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of A Prize Winning Shire Horse, 19th Century
WILLIAM ALBERT CLARK (1860-1843)
Large 19th Century English portrait of a prize winning shire horse, oil on canvas by William ...
Category
19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Highland Cattle in a Mountain Glen, original oil on canvas, 19thC British
Located in Naples, Florida
This is a stunning artwork entitled a ‘Landscape with Highland Cattle’. It is circa 20th Century and is an original oil on canvas painting by the English Artist William Perring Holly...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Pegasus Equestrian Fantacy Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6024 Blue Pegasus equestrian painting on board
Framed
Image size 9.5x11.5"
Category
1960s Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Three horses and a Foal
Located in St. Albans, GB
Wright BARKER
1864 - 1941
Canvas Size: 27 x 40" (69 x 102cm)
Outside Frame Size: 33 x 46" (84 x 117cm)
Oil on Canvas
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Exhibited : 1885 - 1935
He was a figure and animal painter who was based originally in Bradford, where he lived until 1885, when he moved to Edwinstowe, near Mansfield, Nottingham. In 1901 he moved to Hampstead and then back north to Harrogate where he stayed until his death. In his later years he became a picture dealer, but in his will he referred to himself as ‘animal painter’.
Barker became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1896. Although he called himself an animal painter he is also known to have painted ‘Roman Maidens...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
‘Landscape with Cows' by Louis Thysebaert (1879 - Sint-Niklaas - 1962)
Located in Knokke, BE
Louis Thysebaert
1879 - Sint-Niklaas - 1962
Belgian Painter
‘Landscape with Cows’
Signature: signed lower right ‘L.Thysebaert’
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Image size 95,5 c...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A seated Collie
By John Emms
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Emms (1841-1912)
A seated Collie
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Canvas Size - 15 x 13 1/2 in
Framed Size - 21 x 19 in
Provenance
The Collection of Charlie Watts.
Charlie Watts, the legendary drummer of The Rolling Stones, was renowned not only for his musical prowess but also for his profound affection for animals, particularly Collies. He and his wife, Shirley, resided at Halsdon Manor in Devon, where they managed a stud farm for Arabian horses. Their estate was also home to numerous dogs, reflecting their deep commitment to animal welfare.
John Emms was a British artist best known for his dynamic and characterful paintings of dogs, especially working breeds like foxhounds, terriers, and collies. Born in Blofield, Norfolk, in 1843, Emms developed a deep connection to the countryside and rural life, which became the heart of his artistic inspiration.
While he painted horses and hunting scenes, it was his dog portraits that brought him enduring recognition. Emms had a remarkable ability to capture the individuality and spirit of each animal, portraying them not just as pets or working animals, but as noble and expressive beings. His brushwork was confident and lively, and he often painted dogs with a sense of pride, intelligence, and dignity.
Among the many breeds he painted, collies held a special place. Emms portrayed them with great sensitivity, often emphasizing their alert expressions, soft coats, and loyal nature. His collie paintings...
Category
19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
$17,288
Butch at Fire Hydrant, "Wet Paint" - Original Promotional Illustration of a Dog
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A shaggy black and white dog sits in front of a fire hydrant
Promotional illustration used on items like playing cards and calendars.
In the published images, the sign on the fir...
Category
1940s Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Perdices y reclamo
Located in Madrid, ES
RAFAEL ZABALETA
Spanish, 1907 - 1960
PERDICES Y RECLAMO
signed "RZabaleta" (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 x 39-1/2 inches (81 x 100 cm.)
framed: 33-1/4 x 41-1/8 inches (84.5 x 104.5 c...
Category
1950s Naturalistic Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Glen Lyon
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 20 x 30 inches
Framed size: 30 x 39 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'In Full Flow' - A Hunting scene
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Heather St. Clair Davis (1937-1999)
In Full Flow
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
Canvas size 22 x 28 in
Framed size 27 x 33 in
Provenance
Sold by Frost & Reed Galleries, London.
...
Category
20th Century Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
English Native School, 19th Century, still life with fish
Located in Tricase, IT
English Native School, 19th Century, still life with fish
Oil on canvas 54x63 cm frame included.
Beautiful native English painting, representing an elegant still life of fish, cabba...
Category
1880s English School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stags Rutting in Scottish Highland Landscape Family of Deer Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Ralston Gudgeon (Scottish 1910-1984)
Born Ayr, painter of birds and animals. Studied Glasgow School of Art 1928-1933, winning the Torra...
Category
Mid-20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Voiceless Point of Issue" Contemporary Oil on Canvas Framed Painting
By Craig Alan
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Voiceless Point of Issue" is a framed oil on canvas piece by Craig Alan, featuring an elephant balancing on a single wagon wheel, suspended above a field of red poppies. A cascade o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Wild Turkey, Realist Animal Portrait of Wild Turkey
Located in London, GB
This wonderful original oil painting by Paul S. Brown depicts a wild turkey, with its glorious feathers spread across the table. Brown's extraordinary attention to detail and impecca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PIPE SPRINGS American Realist UTAH Western Cowboy Indian Horse Ranch Painting
Located in New York, NY
Jim C. Norton
“Pipe Springs”
Oil on Masonite
Image: 12x16 inches
Overall: 18x22 inches with frame
Oil on Masonite
Signed lower right and verso
Up for sale is a wonderful Western pai...
Category
1970s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Rooster, Charcoal Drawing by Etienne Poirier
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stunning charcoal drawing by French artist Etienne Poirier (1919 - 2002). This rare artwork is a charcoal-on-paper composition depicting an interpretation of the proud rooster. Thi...
Category
1950s Abstract Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
The Morning Ride
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 24 x 18 inches
Framed size: 35.5 x 30.5 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Animal portrait oil painting of Pekingese dog
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Florence Mabel Hollams
British, (1876-1963)
Robert
Oil on panel, signed & also inscribed ‘Robert’
Image size: 12.25 inches x 15.25 inches
Size including frame: 16.5 inches x 19.5 in...
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
Resting with the Sunflowers
By Patt Baldino
Located in Fairfield, CT
Patt Baldino is an artist passionate about capturing the beauty and complexity of the natural world through her award-winning oil paintings. Her work is rooted in a deep appreciation...
Category
2010s Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,320 Sale Price
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'A Best Friend' by Carl Haag, Erlangen 1820 – 1915 Oberwesel a. Rhein, German
Located in Knokke, BE
Carl Haag
Erlangen 1820 – 1915 Oberwesel a. Rhein
German Painter
'A Best Friend'
Signature: Signed middle right
Medium: Mixed media
Dimensions: Image size ...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
Up With the Sun
Located in Indianapolis, IN
Exhibited: National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society "Best of America Exhibition," October 10–November 9 , 2024. Depicts the artist's dog Bjorn in action.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil On Canvas Portrait Of A Pekingese Dog 20th French School
Located in Gavere, BE
Old oil painting on canvas Portrait of a Pekingese dog breed, this is an oil on canvas from the beginning of the 20th century.
Painted by André Leroux (1911-1997) French school.
High...
Category
1940s French School Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Owl/Búho". Contemporary, Realism, hyperrealims, figurative, bright, vivid, anim
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, Realism, hyperrealims, figurative, bright, vivid, animal
Category
2010s Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
“Abstract Figures”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a vibrant and richly painted original work of a series of abstract figures by the well known American artist, Neith Nevelson. Signed lower right. Condi...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
$1,920 Sale Price
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Songbird in Snowy Landscape, Winter Bird, Danish?, J Brady, signed and dated
By Joan Brady
Located in Greven, DE
Danish Painter School
J Beney? J. Brady? signed and dated lower left 1868
Songbird in a snowy underground
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Adrian Parnell, Modern British Artist, Seascape with seagulls
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really striking image of birds in flight at the edge of the sea, capturing the spectrum of wonderful blues in the sea and sky.
Adrian Parnell (b.1952)
Seabirds
Signed with initial...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Set of Twelve Chinese Pith Paintings Depicting Butterflies
Located in London, GB
Antique set of twelve Chinese pith paintings depicting butterflies
Chinese, 19th Century
Panel: Height 19cm, width 28cm
Frame: Height 35cm, width 43.5cm, depth 1.5cm
This superb set...
Category
19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Watercolor
Jessica Leonard, "Across the Board", Black and White Equine Oil on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This black and white equestrian piece, "Across the Board", by artist Jessica Leonard is a 16x40 oil painting on canvas featuring a portrait of horse with focus on the eyes. The dras...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,560 Sale Price
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Rooster at 5 a.m. Oil Painting, Rooster, Texas Artist, Animal Paintings, Framed
Located in Houston, TX
Rooster at 5 a.m. is a 16 x 20 framed oil painting of a Rooster by Texas Artist Cheri Christensen . This rooster is from Luckenbach, Texas . Luckenbach is famous for Rusty the Roost...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Circa 1910 English Dog Portrait of Border Terrier Dogs
By Henry Crowther
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Lucy, Linnet, Lorna & Lark, Border Terriers, circa 1910
early 20th century - attributed to Henry Crowther
Early 20th Century English School portrait of 4 Border Terrie...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Board
A Woeful Companion
By Arthur Batt
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 27 x 24 inches
Framed size: 33 x 30.5 inches
Signed and date '87 lower left
Category
19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Modern Golden Retriever Dog Oil Pastel Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3953 Oil Pastel on paper of a golden retriever dog
Image size 11.5x15.5
Set in a oak frame
Category
1990s Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Through the Grass
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. Please note that given the characteristics of the silver and gold leafing the work will photogr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Late 19th Century Cairn Terrier Puppies, Dog Portrait
By Katherine L Fitz
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming 19th-century painting of two Cairn Terrier puppies playing in sewing basket by Katherine L. Fitz (American, 19th Century). Written on verso, "Pa...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
$901 Sale Price
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Monmouth County Hunt Race Meet NJ Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Claus Hoie (1911-2007).
Monmouth Hunt Race Meet 2, 1967.
Watercolor on paper. Measuring 15 x 19 inches; 24 x 28 inched framed.
Signed and titled lower left.
Original label on verso.
Hoie was born in Stavanger, Norway, November 3, 1911. He lived for a few years in Oslo before emigrating to the United States at the age of thirteen, when he settled in Brooklyn, NY.
He spent time at sea (two years), a heritage from his grandfather and father who were both ship’s captains. During World War II, Hoie served four years in the Army as a Sergeant in a special Norwegian-American battalion of the mountain infantry (99th Infantry Battalion), whose mission was to assist in the liberation of Norway. His Battalion also landed on Normandy Beach five days after D-Day.
After the war, he studied art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Claus also attended Pratt Institute, and at the Art Students League in New York. Hoie worked as an independent artist creating primarily watercolor works and graphics However, also was a commercial artist.
In the 1950s he met the young artist and fashion designer, Helen Hunt Bencker and in 1957 they wed. Helen Hoie...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Beth Parcell, "Spring", 9x12 Equine Horse Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This vibrant landscape, "Spring", is a 9x12 equine oil painting on canvas featuring a grey horse and a brown horse walking in a lush green grassy pasture in the warm sunlight. Trees...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study of An Appaloosa Horse, 19th Century by H Milnes (19th Century British)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Study of An Appaloosa Horse, 19th Century
by H Milnes (19th Century British)
19th Century portrait of An Appaloosa Horse in a yard, oil on board by H Milnes. Rare early portrait of...
Category
19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Naive oil Painting of a Patchwork Goat " Natures Lawnmower "
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Naive oil on board with painted wood frame
Image size 7.50 H x 9.5 W
Category
1970s Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Rhinoceros, 20th Century Magical Realism, Cleveland School Artist
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977)
Rhino
Oil on paper
Signed lower right
22.5 x 29 inches
27.5 x 34.25 inches, framed
Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explored the unreal ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pheasants Aloft at Dawn
Located in San Francisco, CA
At dawn on a beautiful morning, two pheasants take flight out of their roosting cover. Were they flushed out by sudden noise, or are they simply heading out to their feeding areas? T...
Category
1970s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Antique American Panoramic Cloudscape Cows Grazing Bucolic Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready...
Category
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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