Acrylic Animal Paintings

"Ghost Flight" is a framed oil and acrylic painting with diamond dust by Hunt Slonem, depicting a group of butterflies in white with a sparkling black background. Signed to the verso...

Hamptons’ is a signature gestural bunny painting by Hunt Slonem. The gestural bunny can be found throughout Slonem’s Neo-expressionist body of work. The background of the painting is...

A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts gestural figures of white bunnies on an Ultramarine blue background with thick use of pai...

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Pink Diamonds Date: 2024 Medium: Oil & Acrylic w/ Diamond Dust on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 15.5" Framed Dimensions: 24" x 19.5" Signature: Si...

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Untitled Series: Bunnies Date: 2018 Medium: oil and acrylic with diamond dust on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 15" x 13" ...

This whimsical and sophisticated painting was realized by the esteemed contemporary painter, Hunt Slonem in 2015. It presents a stylized rabbit in profile, rendered with loose and ex...

This whimsical and sophisticated painting was realized by the esteemed contemporary painter, Hunt Slonem in 2014. It presents a stylized rabbit in profile, rendered with loose and ex...

This sophisticated modern acrylic painting was realized by the esteemed contemporary painter, Hunt Slonem in 2018. It presents a stylized bunny rabbit, rendered with loose and expres...

Hunt Slonem "Glisten X" Rainbow Bunnies White diamond dust bunnies gestured on a rainbow resin background in a gold contemporary floating frame. Unframed: 34 x 26 inches Framed: 36....

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Shiva Moon Date: 2023 Medium: Oil & Acrylic w/ Diamond Dust on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 28" x 22" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Edition: Un...

Cherryhead by Hunt Slonem Bunnies on Red Background with Diamond Dust Hunt Slonem is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work uniquely combines representational ima...

Hunt Slonem, single bunny oil painting 'Sleep' 2024. Oil on wood, 10 x 8 in. / Frame: 14.5 x 12.5 in. Signed on back. This painting features Slonem's signature bunny outlined in whit...

This whimsical and sophisticated painting was realized by the esteemed contemporary painter, Hunt Slonem in 2014. It presents a stylized rabbit in profile, rendered with loose and ex...

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: New Dawn Glisten Date: 2024 Medium: Oil & Acrylic w/ Diamond Dust on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 15" x 19" Framed Dimensions: 18.5" x 22.5" Signature:...

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Blue Diamond Dust Tanzania Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood with acrylic and diamond dust Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12....

Hunt Slonem’s Hombre (2024) is a radiant and captivating small-scale painting, measuring 10 x 8 inches, crafted with oil and acrylic enhanced by diamond dust on wood. Despite its mod...

Hunt Slonem’s White Diamond Dust (2024) is a radiant, small-format painting that beautifully captures the artist’s iconic bunny motif with an air of elegance and shimmer. Measuring 1...

Hunt Slonem’s Nocturne (2024) is a subtle yet striking oil and acrylic painting on wood, measuring 10 x 8 inches (framed at 16 x 14 inches). This intimate work presents a portrait of...

About the Artwork: The artist's desire to illuminate his works was the impetus for the Glowbox series. About the Artist: Inspired by the luminescence and light quality of blown glas...

About the Artwork: Signed: Recto, bottom right The artist's desire to illuminate his works was the impetus for the Glowbox series. Inspired by the luminescence and light quality of blown glass, each acrylic painting on a plex substrate is internally lit by a custom-designed LED light box with a controllable dimmer switch. About the Artist: Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds, as well as his large-scale sculptures and restorations of forgotten historic homes. Slonem’s works can be found in the permanent collections of 250 museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Since his first solo show at the Fischbach Gallery in 1977, Slonem’s work has been showcased internationally hundreds of times, most recently at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. In 2017 and 2018, he was featured by the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Gallery in Bulgaria, and in countless galleries across the United States and around the world. His flair and admiration for far-flung destinations has been a staple of his life since childhood. Slonem was born in 1951 in Kittery, Maine, and his father’s position as a Navy officer meant the family moved often during Hunt’s formative years, including extended stays in Hawaii, California and Connecticut. He would continue to seek out travel opportunities throughout his young-adult years, studying abroad in Nicaragua and Mexico; these eye-opening experiences imbued him with an appreciation for tropical landscapes that would influence his unique style. After graduating with a degree in painting and art history from Tulane University in New Orleans, Slonem spent several years in the early 1970s living in Manhattan. It wasn’t until Janet Fish offered him her studio for the summer of 1975 that Slonem was able to fully immerse himself in his work. His pieces began getting exhibited around New York, propelling his reputation and thrusting him into the city’s explosive contemporary arts scene. He received several prestigious grants, including from Montreal’s Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cultural Counsel Foundation’s Artist Project, for which he painted an 80-foot mural of the World Trade Center in the late 1970s. He also received an introduction to the Marlborough Gallery, which would represent him for 18 years. Hunt Slonem tends to embrace the ephemeral beauty of nature, a characteristic that brings a nurturing, spiritual effect to his creations. Throughout his extensive career as a New York artist, Slonem has favored the subject of exotic birds, rabbits, and butterflies. Lately, his compositions have consisted of flat spaces with simple forms pushed to the front of the picture plane. The artist creates exotic forms with expressive and highly textural brushstrokes that are full of intense color, loosely inspired by artists of the German Expressionism movement such as Ernst Ludwig and Emil Nolde. Henry Geldzahler, a scholar of Hunt Slonem, notes that of contemporary artists, “he particularly admires the work of Malcolm Morely, Francesco Clemente and Roberto Juarez, all exoticists whose works convey a spiritual aura. Lest we leave the impression, belied by the paintings that Slonem is all depth and piety, we should note that there is a remarkable levity in his work, a lightness of being.” Born in the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese astrological...

A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. "3 Hutch Blue Diamond" depicts a gestural figure of a group of blue bunnies on a deep cobalt blue background...

'Blue Diamond Dust Weekend' by Hunt Slonem, 2024. Oil and acrylic with diamond dust on canvas, 30 x 30 in. Signed on back. This painting features Slonem's signature bunnies outlined ...

'Glisten Hutch' by Hunt Slonem, 2023. Signed on back. Oil, resin, and acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 in. This painting features Slonem's signature bunnies outlined in white painted over ...

Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Glisten Dawn' by Hunt Slonem, 2024. Oil and acrylic with diamond dust on canvas, 30 x 40 in. This painting features Slonem's signature bunnies...

'White Diamond Dust' by Hunt Slonem, 2022. Oil and acrylic with diamond dust on canvas, 36 x 48 in. This painting features Slonem's signature bunnies outlined in black over a white, diamond dusted background. Considered one of the great colorists of his time, Slonem’s neo-expressionist paintings feature an exuberant and bold, fauvist palette to emphasize his beloved menagerie of animals. Through the application of lavish, lush colors, Slonem’s painterly style continues to be fresh and innovative bordering on Pop Art aesthetics. Depicting his signature motifs of repeating whimsical animal imagery, the artist’s devotion to nature and its inhabitants are apparent. Born in Kittery, Maine in 1951, Hunt Slonem graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Painting and Art History from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Slonem later attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he was exposed to influential artists from the New York area including Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Richard Estes, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson and Al Held. This exposure played a pivotal role in Slonem’s artistic career, as it aided in his decision to move to New York in 1973. Since 1977, Slonem has had over 250 solo exhibitions at prestigious galleries. Museums, both domestic and international, have collected his work, among them Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. His work has been exhibited globally, including in Madras, Quito, Venice, Gustavia, San...