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CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
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...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

"Leaping Horse on Purple Background, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Leaping Horse on Purple Background" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a brown horse rearing with a purple and yellow pattern in the backg...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Camel - Oil on Cardboard by Lillo Bartoloni - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Camel is an original oil painting on cardboard, realized in 1974 by the Italian artist Lillo Bartoloni. Hand-signed in black China ink on the lower right margin. A beautiful profil...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Hunt Slonem "Toad Hall" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Toad Hall Date: 2023 Medium: Oil on Panel Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14" Signature: Signed Verso Edition: Unique Proven...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Hunt Slonem "More Rave 1" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: More Rave 1 Date: 2024 Medium: Oil on wood with acrylic & diamond dust Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5" Signature: Si...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Mixed Media

Light Blue and Silver Butterflies Oil Painting on Wood
Located in Greenwich, CT
Hunt Slonem - Blue Ascension Cleo Original Framed Oil Painting. Signed on Verso. Our Gallery works directly with Hunt Slonem. This painting was acquired directly from the artist a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

"Ziggy" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kaitlin Ziesmer's (US based) "Ziggy" is an original, handmade AcrylaGouache painting that depicts a portrait of a black bird wearing a red frilly colla...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel

Warm in the Sun
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...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Golden Retriever 2, large contemporary minimal portrait in black ink on paper
Located in Charleston, US
Golden Retriever, dog, This stunning large black and white ink painting of a Golden Retriever, is a contemporary minimal portrait in ink wash on Heritage paper 200 gsm paper. Ian Mason's portraits of dogs are very striking as he is able to capture the form of each dog breed with minimal brush strokes. His start as a sculptor is evident with his unique, minimal paintings of dogs. Viewers always exclaim that he captures each dog's personality perfectly for each breed. This Golden Retriever dog exudes loving and gentle traits. In the images we have included a lovely image of Luna 1 which is framed the same size (they make a stunning pair of golden retriever paintings...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Ink

Trickster Engery
Located in Columbia, MO
Metra Mitchell holds a BFA in Painting and minor in Art History from Western Kentucky University and an MFA in Painting from Fontbonne University. She has taught studio and art histo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Cooper Dr. #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 ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Sky above Kuraszewo - Polish Master Of Art, Abstract acrylic on paper, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANDRZEJ FOGTT (born in 1950) He graduated from the PWSSP in Poznań in 1974 where he studied in the studios of prof. Z.Kępiński and M. Abakanowicz. Initially, his art was considered t...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper

Hunt Slonem "Lavender" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Lavender Date: 2021 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 11.5" x 8.5" Framed Dimensions: 15" x 12" Signature: Signed verso Edition: Unique Hu...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Hunt Slonem "Franklin" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Franklin Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Edition: U...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Saved (American Bald Eagle)
Located in Burlingame, CA
The original painting by Adrienne Sherman in oil on panel with a lacquer-like luster. depicting the once endangered American Bald Eagle, is happil...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel, Wood Panel

Hunt Slonem "Night Owl" Owl
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Night Owl Date: 2024 Medium: Oil on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 20.5" x 12.5" Framed Dimensions: 25.5" x 17.5" Signature: Signed Verso Edition: Uniqu...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Cooper Dr. #1
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

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Bon Voyage, original painting, contemporary, abstract
Located in Deddington, GB
This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring the use of space, composition and keeping it relatively unfussy. The use of that space then dictates the shape of the animal. This i...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Mixed Media

Bright earth colors contemporary dog/Scottie acrylic painting with text on paper
Located in Charleston, US
"Making a Beseech" (Frill Dog series). A colorful contemporary dog painting of a Scottish Terrier dog with accompanying text from a book is an inspirational departure from the traditional illustrations found in British Rudyard Kipling's "Thy Servant a Dog", 1930. The book was the first ever narrated by a dog, Boots, a Scottie. Making a beseech is the only trick the Scottie, Boots knows, paws over nose. Nancy van Meter...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Graphite

Tortoise
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and dated, verso Acrylic on canvas Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sunset Glow
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...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Chrysanthemum Fox, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Celebrating the transition of summer into fall, featuring a white fox in a field of golden and rust colored chrysanthemums. This painting is part of a series ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Little Blue Tit 4 and Little Kingfisher, Over The Moon Diptych, Birds
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a diptych of a new series - Over The Moon with Little British Birds. This Diptych include Little Kingfisher, Over The Moon and Little Blue Tit 4, Over The Moon, We are so bl...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Serene Afternoon
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...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Little Wren 4, Over The Moon, Bird, Nature, Animals, Gold
Located in Deddington, GB
New Series - Over The Moon with Little British Birds. We are so blessed with such a variety of beautiful garden bird species within the UK. I feel inspired and 'Over The Moon' with j...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Red Line- Fauvist Painting in Red + Green + Yellow of Black and White Cow
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Red Line" is a colorful contemporary piece by Indian artist Ritu Sinha. Mixing abstract expressionist with fauvism to create the conceptual spiritual work. Using colors and the sacr...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Bullish 2
Located in Brooklyn, NY
CAM’s work can be seen as a moving meditation on the very nature of transformation and the notable significance of challenge as a rite of passage to sacred change. Concerned with ho...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

"How to Fly" Oil Painting 71" x 59" inch by Marius Seidlitz
Located in Culver City, CA
"How to Fly" Oil Painting 71" x 59" inch by Marius Seidlitz Marius Seidlitz is a contemporary painter based in Germany. His work explores the intricate nature of self-identity. He p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Emotional Attachment, Cow, Acrylic on canvas by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jiban Biswas - Emotional Attachment - 20 x 24 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas. Style : According to him, “ The Mud colour are changing its shade...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Tetons (5)
Located in Bozeman, MT
Piggott finds resonance and beauty in the familiar. His subjects, anchored in the stuff of the every day, are quietly captured in a moment of time. Each composition speaks to the art...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Trilogy (Self Portrait, 3 Ages) - Architectural Imagery, Doorways, Figures
Located in Chicago, IL
Carol S. Pylant Trilogy (Self Portrait, 3 Ages) Oil on Panel 30h x 36w in 76.20h x 91.44w cm CSP051 Resume Artist / Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Education 1979 M.F.A. Painting, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 1977 B.F.A. Painting, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Academic Appointments 1996 - 2011 Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1991-96 Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1987-91 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1985 Instructor, Simmons College, Boston, MA 1984 Instructor, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA 1984 Instructor, DeCordova Museum and School, Lincoln, MA 1984 Instructor, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA 1982-84 Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach, CA 1978-82 Instructor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI International Teaching 2011 Professor, UW- Madison, Villa Corsi Salviati, Sesto-Fiorentino, Italy 2006,7 Visiting Affiliate Professor, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy International Artist Residencies 2017 Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, (Gallifa) Spain 2015 Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, (Gallifa) Spain 2002 Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, (Gallifa) Spain 1990 The Tyrone Guthrie Center, Co. Monaghan, Ireland 1990 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus,Schwandorf/Fromberg, West Germany 1987 Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy 1987 The Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France International Research Awards 2010 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Villa di Livia Frescos, Museo Nazionale, Rome, Italy" 2005 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Romanesque Art in France" 2004 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings Inspired by Romanesque Art in France" 2002 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Pagan or Christian, Romanesque Art in Spain" 1998 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings of Neolithic Monuments in Brittany" 1996-7 Vilas Associate Award, University of Wisconsin System, "Paintings of Prehistoric Stone Circles, Ireland and the British Isles 1995 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings of Celtic Ceremonial Sites in Ireland and the British Isles" 1993 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Egg Tempera Paintings in Florence, Italy" 1992 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings of Ireland" 1990 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Figure and Environment: Ireland" 1989 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Figure and Environment Painting: Germany" 1988 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Figure and Landscape Painting: Umbria, Italy" Other Awards 2008 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison 2007 Sabbatical, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2006 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison 2002-3 Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Named Professorship, University of Wisconsin 2000 Alumni Arts Achievement Award, Wayne State University Dept. of Art & Art History, Detroit, MI 2000 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison 1999 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Past /Present: Paintings based on Celtic Imagery" 1999 Sabbatical, University of Wisconsin 1998 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship 1993 Faculty Development Grant, "Figurative Sculpture" University of Wisconsin System 1991,93 Visual Arts Development Grant, The Wisconsin Arts Board 1989 Visual Arts Fellowship for Painting, The Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, WI 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Arts Midwest 1986 Residency, Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, NY 1985 Residency, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY 1985 Residency, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA 1985 Milton and Sally Avery Award for Painting, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH 1984,5,6 Residency, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH International Exhibitions 2010 Handmade Artist's Journals, Villa Corsi Salviati, Sesto-Fiorentino, Italy 2008 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany 1995-99 Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland 1994 "Exquisite Corpse" Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland 1992 "Faces and Places of Ireland" Ulster Bank, Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland 199l "Ardara Annual Show" Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland 1988 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf/Fromberg, West Germany 1988 "Art .... Made in USA" Stadische Galerie, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Regensberg, West Germany 1987 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy One and Two Person Exhibitions 2005 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2001 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2000 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI 1999 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (with John Sayers) 1998 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI 1997 Barbara Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, MI 1993 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1993 Carey Gallery, Rochester, MI (with Jo Powers) 1993 J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, N.Y. 1990 Pennsylvania School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Lancaster, PA (with Dan Gihooley) 1990 Hobe Sound Gallery, Brunswick, ME 1990 Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, MA 1989 Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 1985 Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA 1982 Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 "Exquisite Corpse" Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 "Non-Stop" Invitational, Train Depot, Madison, WI 1989-2014 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2012 "Invitational Alumni Exhibition", Elaine Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 2002-10 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI 2008 Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 Chapman Museum of Art, Myrtle Beach, NC 2007 Carthage College, Kenosha, WI 2007 Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC 2007 "Real and Imagined" Elaine Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 2003-7 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003 "The Exquisite Snake" Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI 2002 Sonyia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1994 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI 1993 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1993 New York Arts Club, New York, N.Y. 1993 "Previews of l993" J. Cacciola Galleries, NY 1992 "Small Painting Exhibition" J. Cacciola Galleries, NY 1992 "Women in the Bowdoin Collection" Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, MA 1992 Steibel Modern, New York, NY 1984-91 Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, MA 1986-7 Portraits Inc., New York, NY 1985-6 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY 1981-4 Frumkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1984 "All California '84" Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA 1983 "Western States Figurative Realism" Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA 1982 "Atlas Building Artists" Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI 1981 "Michigan Artists 80-81" Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI 1981 Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI 1970 Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI Public Collections Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Gallifa/Barcelona, Spain American Express Corporation, New York, New York Ulster Bank, Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin The Block Museum of Northwestern University Malden Public Library, Malden, Massachusetts Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf/Fromberg, Germany Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia University of Wisconsin, The Graduate School, Madison, Wisconsin Carol Pylant Bibliography 2017 M is for Math, Museum and Manhattan Kansas, by Natasha Rozhkovskaya, Publisher: Tamara Rozhkovskaya Novosibrisk 2015 Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL. (Exhibition catalogue) 2013 "Remarkable Women Exhibit" by Mary Louise Schumacher, Journal Sentinel, online, Milwaukee, WI, June 25 2012 "Peltz Gallery Celebrates Remarkable Women" by Peggy Sue Dunigan, The Sheperd Express, Milwaukee, WI, July 7 2008 "Teachers Who Can, UW Faculty..." by Jacob Stockinger, The Capital Times, Madison, WI, February 2007 "Art in Nature" by Bill Robbins, Kenosha News, Kenosha, WI, September 14 2004 "Ambition clothes 'Remarkable Women'" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 7 2004 "Waxing enthusiastic over 'Colors'" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 18 2003 "Remarkable Women Celebrated" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 2003 "Art Lesson" by Jennifer Smith, Isthmus, Madison, WI, February 21 2003 "Installation Appreciation" by Kevin Lynch, The Capital Times, February 7 2001 "Pylant unites sketches with classical style" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 12 2001 "WSU Exhibit shows figurative painting" by Keri Guten Cohen, The Detroit Free Press, February 18 1999 "On Art" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel October 12 1999 "School of Art quadrennial exhibition" by John Aehl, The Wisconsin State Journal, January 24 1999 "Something old, something new" by C.R. Gabriel, Isthmus, February 5 1999 "Honoring our Own" Madison Magazine, January 1998 "The Madison Fifty" Madison Magazine, November 1997 "Back in the Game" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, Nov. 26 1997 "Three artists will charm at local shows" by Joy Hakanson Colby, The Detroit News, May 8 1997 "At the Galleries" by Keri Guten Cohen, The Detroit Free Press, April 27 1997 "Talent not gender, is focus at show", by James Auer, Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, December 11 1996 "Remarkable Women Exhibition" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, Jan 14 1994 "In Art, these 20 made an impression in '93" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal, Jan 9 1994 "Window to the World" by Michelle Grabner, Milwaukee Magazine, Guide to the Arts, February 1994 "Art of Love: ..." by Elby Frieda Abbe, Milwaukee Sentinel, Let's Go. February issue 1993 "Variations on a theme", by Paul Pace, Rochester Clarion, Rochester, Mi, December 9 1993 "Work of women holds surprises in summer show", by Janice T. Paine, Milwaukee Sentinel, June 4 1993 "Remarkable Women has merit with or without it's gender theme", by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal, June 13 1993 "Irish Landscape" Cross Country, Country Living Magazine, March (feature article) 1993 "Ireland's Wild West" On the Road, Country Living Magazine, March 1993 "Short List SoHo Gallery Exhibitions, The New Yorker, February 14 & 22 1993 "SoHo Exhibitions", Gallery Listings, New York Magazine, February 7 1993 Gallery Listings, The New York Times, January 31 1993 Tandem Press: Five years of Collaboration by Drew Stevens, University of Wisconsin Press 1992 "From the World's Hot Spots to Ardara", by Michael McHugh, The Donegal Democrat, Co. Donegal, Ireland, August 6 1992 "Exhibits spotlight women", by Janice T. Paine, Milwaukee Sentinel, June 5 1992 " Women's show proves a strong one", by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal, May 24 199l "Tandem Press foster diverse printmaking styles", by John Carlos Cantu, Ann Arbor News, December 1 1991 "Quadrennially yours...U W art faculty exhibit show vital, vibrant", by Katherine Rogers, Wisconsin State Journal, January 6 1991 Who's Who in the Midwest 23rd Edition, A.N. Marquis, MacMillian Directory Division, Wilmette, Illinois 1990 "Impressive Art on a Small Scale", by Nancy Stapen, The Boston Globe, December 20 1990 "View from the Tower", by James Rhem, The Isthmus, December 21 1990 "NEA Survives but Artists Shiver", by Bill Moore, Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin, November 18 1990 "Artists Bring New Visions", by Ina Pasch, Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin, October 7 1990 "Madison's Wisconsin Triennial Makes a Statement in Many Ways", by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal, October 7 1990 "Wisconsin Artists Represented at Triennial", by Kirsten Simonsen, The Daily Cardinal, University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 28 1990 "Wisconsin Triennial Art Show", by Kevin Lynch, The Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin, September 22 1990 "School of Art & Design opens photo exhibit" The Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, Penn., September 1990 "Art courts drama at PSA&D" Lancaster, Pennsylvania, September 1990 "Windows on an Artist", by Larry Mallak, Research Sampler ,The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1989 "Upward Mobility and Disposable Imagery", by Edgar Allen Beem, Maine Times, September 24 1989 "Award Winning Pylant Displays Realism", The Bowdoin Orient, Brunswick, Maine, September 8 1989 "Art Exhibit Opens at University Art Gallery", The Daily Star Journal, Warrensburg, Missouri, September l 1989 "Arts Calendar has Variety /Pylant Paintings in Bowdoin Show", The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, August 1989 "Amerikanerinnen im Oberpfalzer Kuntslerhaus, Gegenseitiges Lernen", by Harold Raab, Die Woche, West Germany, July l3 1989 "American Spirits im Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Mittelbayerische Zeitung, West Germany, July 6 1989 "Zum Abscheid eine Ausstellung Arrangiert", Mittlebayerische Zeitung, West Germany, July 5 1989 "Amerikanerinnen in der Kebbel Villa", Mittelbayerische Zeitung, West Germany June 9 1989 "A Day With Carol Pylant", by Jackie Michard, On Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin- Madison, July 1989 "VCCA Artists in Germany", The News and Daily Advance, Lynchburg...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Bobbing Bottoms - Horse Racing, original painting, abstract, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Garth Bayley Garth Bayley. Bobbing Bottoms -Horses Racing Original pen, watercolour and ink painting on watercolour paper Pen and ink on paper Image size: H24 cm x W32 cm x D 0.1cm S...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Ink, Pen

Hunt Slonem "Jet Stream" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Jet Stream Date: 2023 Medium: Oil on Panel Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14" Signature: Signed Verso Edition: Unique Prove...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Heartfelt Meeting
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...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Where Do Tigers Live?
Located in Columbia, MO
A native of Kansas City, Josh George completed his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute (1997), followed by an influential session at The Illustration Academy. His exhibitions and pu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil

Me First - Horse Racing, original painting, abstract, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Garth Bayley Garth Bayley. Me First -Horses Racing Original pen, watercolour and ink painting on watercolour paper Pen and ink on paper Image size: H24 cm x W32 cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unf...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Ink, Pen, Watercolor

"11:17" Contemporary Surrealist Watercolor with raven, clock, tumbler of whiskey
Located in New York, NY
This watercolor painting depicts a profile of a large raven perched on a shelf, with a glass tumbler of whiskey with ice cubes and a small branch as a garnish. A large clock hangs o...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Nine Lives IX" White Cat Leaping in the Air With Red Tinsel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Nine Lives IX" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser and is made of oil on canvas. This piece measures approximately 23.5" x 27.5" a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hunt Slonem "Ashley" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Ashley Series: Bunnies Date: 2023 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5" Signature: Signed Edition: U...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Shakespeare in Central park Moreno Pincas Contemporary art oil paint NY nature
Located in Paris, FR
Moreno PINCAS depicts life. Noisy, agitated. With a critical and tender eye, he sketches existence as if it were a play and each time tells us a new story made up of meetings and liv...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Golden Bull
Located in New York, NY
oil and gold leaf on wood panel
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Sandpipers, original 40x30 contemporary marine landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
In today's challenging world, we all crave a tranquil moment. Some respond to the call of the sea, watching the waves lap upon a soft sandy beach in nature's own repetition. The sand pipers echo our feelings as the tension slowly melts away and this contemporary marine landscape envelops us with the bounty that comes from the warmth of sun as it penetrates a clear aquamarine...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Ochre Rabbit - Modern Figurative Animal Folk Art Inspired Painting on Raw Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meredith Walker’s "Ochre Rabbit" is a whimsical and serene example of contemporary folk art, blending narrative illustration, primitive symbolism, and the tactile charm of hand-paint...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Gouache

Hunt Slonem "Lavender Belle Grove" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Lavender Belle Grove Date: 2024 Medium: Oil on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 12" x 10" Framed Dimensions: 18.5" x 16.5" Signature: Signed Verso Edition:...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Purple Bunny, America Martin_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Animal Portrait_Pastel
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin "Purple Bunny" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 12 x 12 in. ; 13.75 x 13.75 in. Framed ______________ Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Emerald Ammonite - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting on Mulberry Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
A 65 million year old sea creature is captured here through the art of Gyotaku by Jeff Conroy. After inking and taking impressions of a reproduction fossil Ammonite shell and combini...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil

Untitled (Clouds)
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

1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil

Hermit Crab on the Sand in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Hermit Crab on the Sand in Acrylic on Paper Vibrant "portrait" of a hermit crab by Federico Leon de la Vega (Mexican, 20th Century). Signed "Leon de la Vega" in the lower right co...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Metanoia
Located in Burlingame, CA
Diana Tremaine’s large-scale, dynamic, figurative oil paintings reflect a search for truth and meaning in the human experience. She develops brushstrokes and marks by adding and then...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Perception
Located in Burlingame, CA
Diana Tremaine’s large-scale, dynamic, figurative oil paintings reflect a search for truth and meaning in the human experience. She develops brushstrokes and marks by adding and then...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Up in Blue
Located in Bozeman, MT
It is a tall, vertical painting. The mixed media is composed of oil paint and gold leaf with smaller silver leaf birds at the bottom of the composition. The bird silhouettes look lik...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Hunt Slonem "Chat Noir" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Chat Noir Date: 2023 Medium: Oil on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14" Signature: Signed Edition: Unique Provenance: H...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Blue Tiger, Lucie Sheridan, Original paining, Animal art, Graphic art, 2022
Located in Deddington, GB
Blue Tiger by Lucie Sheridan [2022] original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic on canvas Image size: H:91.4 cm x W:60.9 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:91.4 cm x W:60.9 cm ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Starlings that weren't in the Chimney - Contemporary semi abstract painting
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

Untitled, Acrylic on Fabriano Paper By Contemporary Artist- "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gurucharan Singh - Untitled - 30 x 22 inches (Unframed Size ) Acrylic on Fabriano Paper ( Framed & Delivered ) Born 1949 Exhibitions : Selected...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

In the Fish Tank - Oil Painting - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
In the fish tank is al modern artwork realized in the 1970s-. Mixed colored oil and enamel on cardboard. Monogrammed CB on the lower margin
Category

1970s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Goldfinch - Oil Painting by Enotrio Pugliese - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The goldfinch is an modern artwork realized by the artist Enotrio in the half of 20th Century. Mixed colored oil on masonite Hand signed on the lower m...
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Gabrielle Benot, "Aster", Contemporary Textured Equine Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This contemporary equine painting, "Aster" by artist Gabrielle Benot is a 48x60 original mixed media painting on canvas. Depicted is a colorful abstra...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Bird. River, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A yellow bird with a long red-orange beak and legs stands on a white background. Light blue and yellow-gold vertical strokes suggest reeds and grasses. The mini...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Bird. Ocean, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A great blue heron stands on a sandy shore, shown in profile with its long neck elegantly curved and its legs extended. Abstract shapes in the background evoke ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Contemporary animal paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary animal paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add animal paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hunt Slonem, Jeff Conroy, Arozarena De La Fuente, and John Defeo. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary animal paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for animal paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $98 and tops out at $437,000, while the average work sells for $3,497.

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