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CanadianMountie Gazing at Butte
Located in Miami, FL
A majestic Canadian mountain rises to the sky with a small Canadian Mountie on hours viewing the scene, Mizen uses a creative technique of exposing...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Fiberboard
Rustic Coastal Landscape with Horse and Cart Oil Painting
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rustic Coastal Landscape
by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
size: 9 x 10.5 inches
double sided
oil painting on board, unframed
condition: the painting is in very good condition. It has pr...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait with Cat - Scottish 1920's Art Deco Oil Painting female artist
By Helen Margaret MacKenzie
Located in London, GB
This stunning Scottish 1920's self portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish female artist Helen Mackenzie. Painted circa 1929 the composition is the head and shoulders of the artis...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snowy Mountains
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
Fine English Dog Painting Portrait of Staffordshire Bull Terriers 'Tess & Jim'
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/School: A. Bayle (English Late 20th Century), signed, titled and dated
Title: Tess & Jim - The Staffordshire Bull Terriers
Medium: ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Anatomy Drawing of a Horse - Original French Artwork Equestrian Anatomy Study
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Anatomy of a Horse
by Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014)
original drawing stuck on card in black folder/ thick paper, unframed
drawing: 12 x 17.75 ...
Category
Academic 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
Stopping to water the driven horses Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous European figurative of a simpler time. Horses being watered in the plains by Janos Viski (Hungarian/American 1891-1965), circa 1940. Signed lower ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
23% Off
Circus Bareback Rider, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, 1932
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, published May 14, 1932
Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s Circus Bareback Rider (1932) is a standout example of his work for The S...
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Wind
Located in Lexington, KY
Living in a creekside cabin in Bliss, New York, Daly involves the environment around him in almost all of his paintings. He mostly paints landscape pictures and also produces still l...
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Chichen" after "Jaguar Eating Heart" Temple of the Eagles Walter Henry Williams
Located in Soquel, CA
"Chichen" after "Jaguar Eating Heart" Temple of the Eagles
Detailed painting of a sculptural relief from the Platform of the Eagles and Jaguars at Chichen Itza by Walter Henry Willi...
Category
Modern 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Rice Paper
Stoic Lion /// African Wildlife Safari Big Cat Animal Art Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Adolf Sehring (Russian/German-American, 1930-2015)
Title: "Stoic Lion"
Series: Wildlife
*Signed by Sehring lower right
Circa: 1990
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Ref...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Sheeps in the Sheep-Fold
By Charles Clair
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Charles CLAIR (1860-1930)
Sheeps in the Sheep-Fold
Oil on canvas signed low right and dated 1913
Old original Frame
Dim canvas : 92 X 73 cm
Dim Frame : 126 X...
Category
Barbizon School 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century French Post Impressionist Oil Swans on Lily Pond Chateau Lake
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Chateau Lake
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed front and back
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 29 x 24 inches
Colors: Green colors, blue, yellow and white
Ver...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Goat), Water colour on Paper by Indin Artist " In Stock "
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
KG Subramanyan
Untitled (Goat), Water colour on Paper
6 x 8 inches 15.2 x 20.3 cm
1999
Inclusive of shipment without frame.
Style : K G Subramanyan was one of the leading artists...
Category
Modern 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mickey Mouse
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Mickey Mouse" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds, blacks, yellows, and oran...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Large Original Oil Painting Abstract Expressionist Horse
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning large scale abstract expressionist horse's head/eye, circa 1990. Unsigned. Unframed. Size: 60"H x 60"W x 1.5.
Category
Abstract Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$2,000 Sale Price
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Farm Horse at Trough before a Tavern - British Victorian animal art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Victorian genre oil painting is by noted animal artist Arthur William Redgate. Painted circa 1900 the scene is a farm horse having a drink at a water trough outside a tav...
Category
Realist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Blue Fish"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984)
He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, returning to New York when he was 20. From 1913 to 1916, he enjoyed a scholarship from the Art Students League, and worked with John C. Johansen (a portraitist whose expressive style resembled that of John Singer Sargent), and Anders Zorn.
He accepted a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1916, remaining there until 1921. This enabled him to travel to Europe to study Cézanne’s paintings and works of the Old Masters. He traveled to Paris, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, and Munich seeking the works of Titian, Cranach, Rembrandt, Veronese, and Holbein, which gave him new perspective. Vytlacil studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, settling there in 1921. Fellow students were Ernest Thurn and Worth Ryder, who introduced him to famous abstractionist Hans Hofmann. He worked with Hofmann from about 1922 to 1926, as a student and teaching assistant.
During the summer of 1928, after returning to the United States, Vytlacil gave lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on modern European art. Soon thereafter, he became a member of the Art Students League faculty. After one year, he returned to Europe and successfully persuaded Hofmann to teach at the League as well. He spent about six years in Europe, studying the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Dufy. In 1935, he returned to New York and became a co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. He later had teaching posts at Queens College in New York; the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California; Black Mountain College in North Carolina; and the Art Students League.
His paintings exhibit a clear inclination toward modernism. His still lives and interiors from the 1920s indicate an understanding of the art of Cézanne. In the 1930s, his works displayed two very different kinds of art at the same time. His cityscapes and landscapes combine Cubist-inspired spatial concerns with an expressionistic approach to line and color. Vytlacil also used old wood, metal, cork, and string in constructions, influenced by his friend and former student, Rupert Turnbull. He eventually ceased creating constructions as he considered them too limiting. The spatial challenges of painting were still his preference. During the 1940s and 1950s, his works indicated a sense of spontaneity not felt in his earlier work.
He married Elizabeth Foster in Florence, Italy, in 1927 and they lived and worked in Positano, Italy for extended periods of time. Later on, they divided their time between homes in Sparkill, New York and Chilmark, Massachusetts, where Vyt, as he was affectionately called, taught at the Martha's Vineyard Art...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Impressionist Signed Oil Painting - Lady with Peke Dog in Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School/ Date:
Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021)
American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter years to become a full time painter.
...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Dog Portrait Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist dog portrait. Finely painted. Measuring 24 by 30 inches.
Category
Modern 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The fashion parade
Located in London, GB
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, R.A. (1901-1979)
The fashion parade
signed ‘CF Tunnicliffe’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ⅛ x 30 ¼ in. (63.8 x 76.8 cm.)
frame 30 ⅞ x 36 in. (78.4 x 9...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jenness Cortez, "Secretariat as a Stallion, Claiborne Farm", Equine Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This rare original equine painting by renown artist, Jenness Cortez, features a stately portrait of legendary racehorse Secretariat standing in the lush verdant grass at Claiborne Farm. Bathing in the warmth of an afternoon sun, Secretariat's copper-colored beauty is captured perfectly.
Titled, “Secretariat as a Stallion Claiborne Farm”, this beautiful oil painting measures 18.5 x 24.5 and is framed in an ornate gold frame, finished with a commemorative plaque.
Secretariat is widely considered to be the greatest racehorse of all time and the most recognizable name in thoroughbred racing.
Big Red, as he is most often affectionately referred, became America’s Horse after his historic Triple Crown win in 1973, winning the Belmont Stakes by an unimaginable 31 lengths (in world record time) in what stands today as the single greatest horseracing performance ever.
About Jenness Cortez:
Jenness Cortez is a distinguished figure in the contemporary revival of classical realist painting.
She was born in Indiana and exhibited a very early talent for art. As a teenager, she took private lessons with Antonius Raemaekers...
Category
Realist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jenness CortezJenness Cortez, "Secretariat as a Stallion, Claiborne Farm", Equine Oil Painting, 1990
$26,600 Sale Price
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Antique English Signed Oil Painting Coach & Horses Racing to London Huntsman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Fast Road to London
Charming English Coaching Scene watched by the passing Hunt
by Richard Simm (British, bn. 1926)
signed oil on canvas with board backing, framed
framed: 22 x 2...
Category
English School 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Scale Surrealist Oil on Canvas, 'At the Watering Hole'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large late 20th century oil on canvas of animals at the watering hole by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed to the bottom right.
A magical, highly colourful and energetic paint...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$5,539 Sale Price
31% Off
Vintage Lakeland Landscape Painting with Sheep by 20th Century British Artist
By Peter McKay
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Lakeland Landscape Painting with Sheep by 20th Century British Artist, Peter McKay
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame measures ...
Category
Realist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peter McKayVintage Lakeland Landscape Painting with Sheep by 20th Century British Artist, 1975 Circa
$1,597 Sale Price
30% Off
"Home Corral" Very early Wieghorst California Western Painting awesome colors
Located in San Antonio, TX
Olaf Wieghorst
(1899 - 1988)
California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist
Image Size: 20 x 24
Frame Size: 29.5 x 33
Medium: oil
1946
"Home Corral" California Olaf Wieghorst
Without a doubt one of if not the most colorful Wieghorst paintings ever done. Signed lower left. Titled on verso. Dated on verso.
In very nice condition. Has been professionally cleaned. Has very fine craquelure in the tree branches and a small spot below the horse that is really only visible if you are extremely close to the painting or with magnification. One of his finest paintings. Also please view my other Wieghorst from the same estate. I have included close up photos as well as photos taken in natural light, spot light and fluorescent lighting.
Olaf Wieghorst
(1899 - 1988)
California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist
Image Size: 20 x 24
Frame Size: 29.5 x 33
Medium: oil
"Home Corral"
Dated 1946
Biography
Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988)
Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting.
In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa. He later recalled a favorite horse from that period and said that riding through El Paso in 1921, the horse fell on his ankle and broke it. The outfit was heading to Douglas, Arizona, and not wanting to be left behind with his injury, he stayed on the horse which carried him all the way through the New Mexico desert on one of the hottest days of the year. The horse died during the night, having expended all his energy on saving Wieghorst. He later wrote that when the Cavalry discarded the use of horses, "they took the soul out of that great branch of the service" ("Widening Horizons").
He wandered extensively through the West sometimes on horseback, finding work in Arizona and New Mexico as a cowboy. Then he went to New York and served as a mounted policeman until 1944, spending most of his time on a horse named Rhombo patrolling the Central Park bridle paths and saving many people injury from runaway horses. He began painting in his spare time, and he was successful enough that his work was represented by the Grand Central Art Galleries of the Biltmore Hotel.
In 1944, he settled in El Cajon, California. His paintings include cowboys, horses, and Indians in landscape, but there is little if any collectible art of his done during his early days in the West. His primary output came after his return to California when he began painting cowboys and horses extensively. He did numerous horse portraits, spending time on ranches studying their unique personalities. He painted celebrity horses including Roy Rogers' Trigger, Gene Autry's Champion and Tom Morgan's stallion.
He was a large, powerful, handsome, and very personable man.
Source:
Kathleen Wade
Olaf Carl Wieghorst (1899-1988)
He arrived in the U.S. in 1918, joining the U.S.
Cavalry, & patrolled the Mexico border in New Mexico & Arizona . When he mustered out of the army, he drifted, ending up as a wrangler on
the Cunningham Ranch near Alma, New Mexico.
By the mid-twenties,
Wieghorst was in New York City, working as a mounted policeman - his
relationships with the many horses that were a part of his life became
the common denominator of his paintings. Living in California by the end
of WWII, he began a career that spiraled to success, in part due to his
engaging personality.
His paintings have appeared in numerous solo
& retrospective exhibitions including the National Cowboy &
Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City (1974), The Tucson Museum of Art,
Arizona (1981), & the San Diego Historical Society, California
(2002).
His work was the subject of the 1970 biography, "Olaf Wieghorst"
by William Reed...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Three Cranes - Coastal Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Three Cranes - Coastal Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Vivid coastal landscape of three cranes in a lush wetland habitat leading towards a distant ocean by Barbara Wilson (American, 20th...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$812 Sale Price
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Paddock, 1970
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
PADDOCK, 1970
signed "Grau Sala" (lower left)
signed, dated and titled "GRAU SALA / 1970 / "Paddock"" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
15 x 18-1/8...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
African Series #2
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil
On the Way to Work
Located in St. Albans, GB
HENRY H. PARKER - 1858 - 1930
Canvas Size: 12 x 24" (30 x 60cm)
Outside Frame Size: 19 x 31" (48 x 78cm)
A traditional image that Parker often painted. The piece is fully signed in...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Framed Mid 20th Century Oil - Abstract Horse
Located in Corsham, GB
A mosaic of angular shapes and earthy tones pieces together this Cubist-inspired painting of a horse. Unsigned. Presented in a white tray-style frame. On paper.
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lion and Lioness, The Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Watercolor on Board
Cover illustration for "The Saturday Evening Post," March 19, 1932, a copy of whic...
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Vintage French Oil Painting Figures Camping In Tipees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
Size: signed painting: 13 x 1...
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Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s Western Mountain Landscape Oil Painting "Little Bear" Framed Art
Located in Denver, CO
"Little Bear" is a captivating mid-century oil painting by American artist Harold Vincent Skene (1883–1978). This traditional Western landscape, painted in...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,297 Sale Price
34% Off
India Miniature Painting Cow Calf Natural Pigments Jaipur School Listed Artist
Located in Norfolk, GB
Paper Size: 38.8 x 49.7 cm
Painted by Suresh Sharma, this is a 20th Century miniature painting from one of the leading contemporary miniature painting Ateliers in Jaipur, owned by M...
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pigment
"Gyrfalcon" LARGEST OF THE FALCONS Exquisite painting
Located in San Antonio, TX
Michael Coleman
Born 1946
Utah Artist
Image Size: 15.5 x 10
Frame Size: 22 x 16
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Dated 1990
"Gyrfalcon" Largest of the Falcons
Michael Coleman Born 1946
Born a...
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Realist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting Of Brown Horses In Open Field Path
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
dated 1966
Size: painting: 1...
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Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Milly With Minstrel Children And Their Childhood Pony In Dappled Summer Sunlight
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Harold Walton Freckleton.
English ( b.1890 - d.1979 ).
Milly With Minstrel.
Oil On Canvas.
Signed Lower Right.
Image size 24.4 inches x 29.52 inches ( 62cm x 75cm ).
Frame size 30.7 inches x 35.8 inches ( 78cm x 91cm ).
Available for sale; this original oil painting is by the Nottingham artist Harry Freckleton and dates from the 1960s.
The painting is presented and supplied in its’ original wooden frame (which is shown in these photographs).
The frame, canvas and the painted surface have benefitted from cleaning, restoration and conservation, which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval. The original cotton covered slip has been replaced.
This vintage painting is now in very good condition, defying its age. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The painting is signed lower right.
The acclaimed artist Harry Freckleton was born in Nottingham in 1890 and lived there for most of his life. He studied at the Nottingham School of Arts, as it was then known, from 1904 to 1912 under Wilson Foster and was much influenced by the local painter Arthur Spooner. He worked as a lithograph artist, and then served in the army during World War 1. He then worked as an artist for New Zealand Cine Studios and went on to run his own photographic business from 1924-65.
Freckleton married the artist Vera Freckleton and they spent most of their married life living in at Whitegates in The Park, Nottingham.
Most of Freckleton’s art is painted in oils, and he specialised in still life, landscape and figurative work, especially childhood scenes. His best works have a strong human interest, with an individual technique showing quality and fine execution. He was a member of the Nottingham Society of Artists, exhibiting there and becoming an esteemed Associate. As a successful artist Freckleton exhibited work seven times at the Royal Academy, as well as the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Society of British Artists. His work continues to be sought-after and is today represented in permanent collections in Nottingham, Blackpool, Huddersfield and elsewhere.
© Big Sky Fine Art
This beautiful oil on canvas painting by Harry Freckleton shows a scene in an English farmyard. Besides an old green painted barn and a tall haystack, we see Minnie, a young girl sitting astride Minstrel, her brown pony. She is wearing a riding hat, white blouse and red trousers, and looks down at her left side towards a second figure, in a blue top and tan trousers, who is possibly adjusting her stirrups. A third figure, another girl, in grey blouse...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Constant David Ludovic Artz (Paris 1870 – 1951 Soest) - 'Family of Ducks'
Located in Knokke, BE
Constant David Ludovic Artz
Paris 1870 – 1951 Soest
Dutch Painter
'Family of Ducks along a brook'
Signature: signed lower left ‘Constant Artz’
Medium: waterco...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The violinist by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 50x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,200 Sale Price
65% Off
Travellers, Horse Drawn Carriage, Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Travellers, Horse Drawn Carriage, Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed
By French artist J.Dubois, Mid 20th Century
Signed and dated '1958' by the ar...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
A hunter in a stable interior, by George Wright (30 June 1860 - 11 March 1944)
Located in London, GB
George Wright (1860–1944) was a British painter renowned for his equestrian art, particularly hunting and coaching scenes. Born in Leeds, England, he was the eldest of seven children...
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hawk Bird Of Prey Framed Original Mid 20th Century Powerful Watercolor Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Dame Elisabeth Frink.
English ( b.1930 - d.1993 ).
Hawk, 1969.
Watercolor.
Signed & Dated Lower Right.
Image size 25.4 inches x 19.5 inches ( 64.5cm x 49.5cm ).
Frame size 34.4 inches x 28.1 inches ( 87.5cm x 71.5cm ).
Available for sale; this original painting is by Dame Elisabeth Frink and is dated 1969.
The painting is presented and supplied in a glazed frame and mount dating from June 1997.
This vintage watercolor is in very good condition, commensurate with its age.
The watercolor is signed and dated lower right.
Previously with Beaux Arts, London and Bath in 1999.
Dame Elisabeth Frink was one of Britain’s most important post-war sculptors, an accomplished draughtsman, illustrator and teacher. She was part of the post-war school of expressionist British sculptors dubbed the Geometry of Fear, and enjoyed a highly acclaimed career that was commercially successful, broke boundaries and contributed greatly to bringing wonderful sculpture to public places.
She was born on 14 November 1930 in Thurlow, the daughter of a cavalry officer, and brought up in rural Suffolk near to an active airbase. She was brought up a Catholic and educated at the Convent of the Holy Family, Exmouth.
She then studied at the Guildford School of Art from 1947-1949 under Willi Soukop and Henry Moore’s assistant, Bernard Meadows, and then at the Chelsea School in London 1949-1953. She taught at Chelsea School of Art 1951-61, St. Martin’s School of Art 1954-62 and was a visiting instructor at the Royal College of Art 1965-1967, after which she lived in France until 1973.
Frink first came to the attention of the public in 1951 at an exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London. In 1952 she represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, being described by Herbert Read as “the most vital, the most brilliant and the most promising of the whole Biennale”. The same year the Tate bought its first work by her, and she began to enjoy commercial success. Thereafter she exhibited regularly and was for 27 years associated with Waddington’s, London.
The subjects which Frink was most concerned with were man, dog and horses, with and without riders. Interestingly she seldom sculpted the female form, drawing on archetypes of masculine strength, struggle and aggression. Her work has the recurring themes of the vulnerable and the predatory, in the spirit of an authentic post-war artist. It has been said that she was more concerned with representing mankind that portraits of individuals.
The appeal of her work lies in its directness, provoking a frank statement of feeling. The anatomy is often exaggerated or incorrect; the impact growing more out of her interest in the spirit of the subject. Her animals and birds may be drawn from nature but verge on the abstract, conveying raw emotion and character rather than a realistic depiction. Her unique style is characterised by a rough treatment of the surface which embeds each piece with vitality and her personal impression. In her later work even the distinction between human and bird figures becomes blurred. Commentators have noted that the often rugged, brutal and contorted surfaces of her work reflect the destruction and terror of the six-year world-wide conflict that she witnessed as a child. Frink was an active supporter of Amnesty International.
In the 1960s and early 1970s Frink produced a notable series of falling figures and winged men. Later, living in France during the Algerian war, she began making heads, blinded by goggles which had a threatening facelessness.
Frink produced many notable public commissions, including Wild Boar for Harlow New Town, Blind Beggar and Dog for Bethnal Green, Noble Horse and Rider for Piccadilly, London, a lectern for Coventry Cathedral, Shepherd for Paternoster Square beside St. Paul’s Cathedral and a Walking Madonna for Salisbury Cathedral. In the early 1980s she produced a set of three larger than life figures The Dorset Martyrs which stand on the edge of the old walled town of Dorchester on the site of the old gallows, as a memorial to those who had been executed there ‘for conscience sake’.
Frink’s Canterbury Tales was a collection of 19 etchings drawn directly on to copper plates and etched by her. The ‘book’ was issued in three limited editions. Her illustrations have been praised as “amongst the most successful illustrations of the century, encompassing the mood of the text in concise delineations and disarmingly ribald humour”. She illustrated other books with colored lithographs or drawings.
Frink was on the Board of Trustees, British Museum from 1976, and was a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission 1976-81. CBR (1969), DBE ((1982), Associate of the Royal Academy (1971), Royal Academy (1977). She was made a Companion of Honour in 1992. She died on 18 April 1993, but not before completing her last commission, a monumental but unusual figure of Christ for the front of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, unveiled a week before her death.
For several decades Frink exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. In her later years she lived and worked in Dorset where her home and garden became an arena for her work.
In 1985 she had a retrospective at the Royal Academy. She died on 18 April 1993, but not before completing her last commission, a monumental but unusual figure of Christ for the front of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, unveiled a week before her death. There was a memorial show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall in 1994.
Today Frink is venerated as one of the great twentieth century British sculptors. Her unique work is represented in the Tate Gallery and major public and private collections world-wide.
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This original watercolor on paper painting of a hawk by Dame Elizabeth Frink...
Category
Modern 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Naughty Pusscats!'. Hommage to Matisse, Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century oil on canvas of an interior scene with cats and fish by French artist Maurice Delavier, signed and dated (November '82) to the bottom r...
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20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,292 Sale Price
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Manon Cleary "Rat"
By Manon Cleary
Located in Washington, DC
Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse "Cleary". Painting is stretched on aluminum stretcher and dates to the 1990s.
Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art.
Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets.
As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance.
Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations.
She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.”
Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years.
In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon.
“She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.”
Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year.
As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.”
She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001.
In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side.
She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh.
After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility.
Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley Cleary-Cooper, is an artist in Helena, Mont.
She was a 1964 graduate of Washington University in her home town and, for the rest of her life, was proud of having been a member of the Pi Phi...
Category
Photorealist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,400 Sale Price
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Tranquil Lake Scene with Boats & Swan in the Mountains of the Scottish Highlands
Located in Preston, GB
Tranquil Lake Scene with Boats & Swan in the Mountains of the Scottish Highlands by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, Howard Shingler.
Art measur...
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Realist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
"FLOWERS ON HER DINNER TABLE" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY CATTLE
Located in San Antonio, TX
Chuck Mauldin
Born 1949
Fredericksburg Artist
Size: 22 x 28
Frame: 31 x 37
Medium: Oil
"Flowers On Her Dinner Table" Texas Hill Country
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A nati...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bird Collage No. 2
Located in Columbia, MO
Born in 1918 in Fordyce, Arkansas and raised in Louisiana, Fearing first studied art at Louisiana Tech University, and later earned a master’s degree at Columbia University in New Yo...
Category
Naturalistic 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Silver
English Oil Painting Yorkshire Terrier Dogs in Landscape
By Heather Budgett
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Superb signed English oil painting on canvas, depicting these two characterful Yorkshire Terrier dogs in a woodland landscape. The painting is by the...
Category
Realist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
James - A Brindle Scottie Terrier. Antique oil painting on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Wright BARKER
Exhibited 1885 - 1935
Canvas Size: 20 x 26" (50 x 65cm)
Outside Frame Size: 29 x 35" (72.5 x 87.5)
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
Victorian 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th century English Fox Hounds, Huntsmen &, horse and cart in landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Early 20th-century English oil painting with the subject taken from one of Robert Bloomfield's poems, The Farmers Boy.
"E'en Sober Dobbin lifts his clumsy heel, and kicks, disdainful of the dirty wheel
Edward Algernon Stuart Douglas...
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Victorian 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Four Orange Kittens Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Orange Kittens
watercolour painting on artist paper
painting: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Herding The Fleet Of Animals French Impressionist Thick Oil Impasto
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Herding Animals
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
stamped verso
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
Colors: Yellow colors, brown, ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"AFTERNOON ON THE BAY" SEASCAPE SAILBOAT SCENE PAUL SCHUMANN DIED 1946
Located in San Antonio, TX
Paul Schumann
1876-1946
Galveston Artist
Image Size: 16 x 20
Frame Size: 21.5 x 25.5
Medium: Oil on Board
"Afternoon on the Bay"
Paul Schumann was born near Leipzig Saxony, in the G...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Scale Surrealist Oil on Canvas, 'Noah's Ark and the Animals'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Very large scale late 20th century oil on canvas of Noah's Ark and the Animals by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed to the bottom right.
A magical, highly colourful and energe...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,921 Sale Price
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The mermaid who couldn't climb the iceberg . Framed painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The mermaid who couldn't climb the iceberg painting by Suzzane Law
Image size: 12.6 in. H x 17.1 in W
Framse size: 18.1 in. H x 22.4 in W x 1 in D
W...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Deer in a Mountain Landscape, Karl-Heinz Wenzel, 20th Century, German Painter
Located in Knokke, BE
Deer in a Mountain Landscape
Wenzel Karl-Heinz
1932 – ?
20th Century
German Painter
Signature: Signed bottom left
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Im...
Category
Naturalistic 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monida
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
$437,000
Portrait of an English Brown and White Otter, on the banks of a River Landscape
By M.Naplee
Located in Woodbury, CT
Portrait of an English Brown and White Otter, on the banks of a River Landscape.
Very Pretty English Otter, in an extensive landscape, painted circa 1970.
The painting is an amazin...
Category
Realist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Cows at Rest in Front of the Barn" Michael Therkildsen (Danish, 1850 - 1925)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Cows at Rest in Front of the Barn"
Michael Therkildsen (Danish, 1850 - 1925)
Oil on canvas
9 x 14 3/4 (15 3/4 x 21 1/4 frame) inches
Signed lower left
The son of farmer Hans Micha...
Category
Realist 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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