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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.

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Style: Contemporary
Period: 20th Century
Angus Drawing #233
Located in Denver, CO
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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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

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Paper, Acrylic

Frenchie
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Tony Scherman (1950 - 2023) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. He is renowned internationally for his work, typically executed in encaustic, a mix of wax an...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Encaustic

Mile River Herefords Dr. #14
Located in Denver, CO
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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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Ink, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil

Melstone Herefords Dr. #2
Located in Denver, CO
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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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil

Tate's Sheep Dr. #13
Located in Denver, CO
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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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil

Untitled (Clouds)
Located in Denver, CO
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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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil

Peace Blessings Portland - Landscape Painting - Oil On Canvas By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Ascending and soaring blue birds give rhythm and grace to the city. This is an artists memory of the city of Portland emphasizing the river and bridges. 'Peace Blessings Portland' -...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Winter Sheep Drive Dr. #7
Located in Denver, CO
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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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Summer Charolias Dr. #1
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Steinbecks Sheep
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

A. Dr. #16
Located in Denver, CO
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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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Untitled (Sin Titulo I)
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
Manuel Soto-Muñoz (1913-2000), Puerto Rican born American painter. Recipient award of merit Florida Southern College, 1958; prize Art Students League New York, 1950; 1st prize Salón ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Lone Horse in Abstract Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
A stylized horse is depicted grazing in an abstract landscape. Most likely, the location is Woodstock, New York, where the artist lived. Signed Lower Right; Framed; Note: titled and signed on verso. Ethel Magafan (August 10, 1916 – April 24, 1993) was an American painter and muralist. Magafan was born in Chicago to Greek parents who had recently immigrated to the U.S. The family soon relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Magafan's artistic training occurred at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center under the tutelage of Peppino Mangravite, Boardman Robinson and Frank Mechau, who hired Magafan and her twin sister, Jenne, to assist on mural projects. In 1937, aEthel won the commission to paint a mural in the U.S. post office in Auburn, Nebraska, making her the youngest recipient of such a commission. It would be the first of seven government-sponsored commissions for the artist. Murals "Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814" E. Magafan, 1943 Under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, several programs were created to employ Americans during the Great Depression. The Magafan twins worked under the New Deal's Section of Painting and Sculpture, a program that hired thousands of artists to paint murals in public spaces, particularly post offices. Ethel and her twin sister, Jenne Magafan, became widely known for their murals painted during the Great Depression. Ethel received her first of seven Government commissions when she was commissioned to produce a painting for the United States post office in Auburn, Nebraska, titled Threshing.Other murals commissioned by the US Government hang in the United States Senate Chamber, the Social Security Building and the Recorder Deeds Building in Washington, D.C., and in post offices in Wynne, Arkansas, titled Cotton Pickers in 1940; in Madill, Oklahoma, titled Prairie Fire in 1941; and Englewood, Colorado, titled The Horse Corral in 1942.Her final mural, entitled Grant in the Wilderness, was installed in 1979 in the Chancellorsville Visitor Center at the Fredericksburg National Memorial Military Park in Virginia, She was a member of the National Academy of Design. Magafan died April 24, 1993, in Woodstock, New York, at the age of 76. References "Collections National Academy Museum". Retrieved 2017-03-08. "Jenne Magafan". Retrieved 2017-03-08. Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984. "Browse New Deal projects by State and City". Living New Deal. Retrieved 9 January 2015. "Ethel Magafan Passes Away". New York Times. No. Obituary. April 29, 1993. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book...
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1960s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Tempera

Sandra's Blackbirds
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

Gordon and Duke
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Canvas, Oil

Lela #4
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Canvas, Oil

Anniversary
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Canvas, Oil

American Family No. 2
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Canvas, Oil

Man with Dog
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Oil, Canvas

Horse Portrait - Painting by Hans Cortes - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Horse portrait is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-20th century by Hans Cortes. A mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin....
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vals Zebra Dr. #2
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

Necco Zebra Dr. #18
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

Texas Horses Dr. #19
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Paper

Fisherman-3, Oil on Canvas, Yellow, Green, Brown, Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Shipra Bhattacharya - Fisherman-3 Oil on Canvas 35 x 40 inches (unframed size) , 1989 ( Framed & Delivered ) Style : Shipra , is a leading contemporary mid career artist of India....
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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Monida
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

Font Diaz Black Cat original ink drawing realist painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
my cat original ink drawing realist painting Manel Font Díaz (Barcelona, 1950) es un artista centrado especialmente en la pintura, primero formado en la facultad de Bellas Artes de...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Rice Paper

Piper's Bird Dr. #10
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media

Self Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
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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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas, Encaustic

Modernist Still Life Painting with Cat
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This Acrylic Modernist still-life on Canvas Painting depicts a gray Siamese cat seated on a tabletop amongst ceramic and glass vessels containing plants, rocks and flowers. A renderi...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Cats - Oil Paint by Giancarlo Martelli - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Cats is an original oil painting on canvas realized by Giancarlo Martelli (Novara, 1926) 6x75x85 cm frame included. Hand signed on the lower right. Good conditions exept for some...
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1960s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Lithograph

Balaam’s Ass
Located in Brecon, Powys
Derived from a biblical tale Balaam’s Ass is such a figurative work. Summers has taken the humble donkey from the biblical story and elevated it to a position of power in this contem...
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20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Colorful green contemporary Dog/Foxhound acrylic painting with text on paper
Located in Charleston, US
“There is that Far-off Tall Dog Singing to a Hole in Bank” (Frill Dog series). A colorful contemporary dog painting of Foxhounds dogs singing to a fox in a hole 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. Nancy van Meter...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Graphite

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...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Eagle Kachina, painting, by Dan Namingha, vertical, brown, red, black, turquoise
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Eagle Kachina, painting, by Dan Namingha, vertical, brown, red, black, turquoise We present paintings, prints, and sculptures by Southwestern luminary, DAN NAMINGHA. Our collection ...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

“Horse Races”
By Johannes Schreiter
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed oil on canvas painting of a dramatic horse race by the German/American artist Johannes Schiefer. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Overall framed in nar...
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1960s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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
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1970s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Man - Original Oil painting by Danilo Bergamo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Man is an original contemporary artwork realized by Danilo Bergamo in the 1970s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on the lower margin. Fair conditions Danilo Ber...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

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

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Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite

Fantasy Animals - Acrylic Paint by C. Bissattini - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Fantasy Animals is an original contemporary artwork realized by Claudio Bissattini in 1980s. Mixed colored acrylic on canvas. Hand signed on the l...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Colorful contemporary Dog/Scottie in Frills/i.e.Tutus with text acrylic on paper
Located in Charleston, US
A colorful contemporary dog painting of Scottish Terrier dogs with accompanying text from a book is an inspirational departure from the tradi...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Graphite, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Shepherds and climb by a lake
Located in Genève, GE
monogram artwork Work on canvas Plaster moldings frame and gilded wood 49.5 x 67.2 x 5 cm
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Two Dolphins - Original Acrylic by Robert Lewis - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Two Dolphins is an original contemporary artworks realized by Robert Lewis (1941) in 1990s Acrylic on Canvas. Hand signed on the lower left margin Includes a contemporary white wo...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic

Broken Silence
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) Title: Broken Silence Year: 1990 Medium: Acrylic on canvas mounted on board, signed verso Size: 60 in. x 36 in. (152.4 cm x 91.44 cm)
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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic

Small Scale Abstracted Figurative -- Big Fish, Little Fish Coral Reef
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant figurative of abstracted fish in coral reef by John Stenvall (American, 1907- 1998), circa 1990. Signed left edge. Presented in gilt-toned frame under glass. Image size: 6"H ...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Acrylic

'Glider, ' by Sarah Folkman, Acrylic on Wood Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this dramatic acrylic on wood painting by California artist, Sarah Folkman, a diving nude female is interwoven with a swan which envelopes ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

'Black Mat' original signed alkyd on canvas painting of white cat sleeping
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present painting, titled 'Black Mat,' is a small and intimate work by the American artist Fred Reichman. An intimate work measuring only ten by ten i...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Alkyd

Precencia Magica de una Serpiente - Acrylic on Canvas by H. Bermudez - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated lower right. Henry Bermudez's production is usually characterized by a strong interest in the visual representations of cultures and mythologies. Bermudez real...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Materials

Oil

A Hippopotamus Lay Down to Die Near the Town of Clontibret
By Dermot Seymour
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
This item is located in our New York City warehouse and can be viewed by appointment. A self-taught artist, Dermot Seymour was born in Belfast in 1956. Like many of his contempora...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tropical Mozart
Located in New York, NY
mixed media and collage on cardboard. Depiction of Butterfly Fantasy
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Mixed Media, Cardboard

"Cock Fighting" Facing Left
Located in Houston, TX
Illustrated roosters in the action of fighting. Part of a pair by the artist Lem Palmer. Framed in a wooden frame.
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20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Fishy Story, bright multicolored figurative painting, under the sea
Located in New York, NY
“After I achieved what I had set out to do in the geometric series in the 1970s and 80s, I turned to looser, figurative work in the 1990s . I wanted to portray energy, action and col...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Cock Fighting" Facing Right
Located in Houston, TX
Illustrated roosters in the action of fighting. Part of a pair by the artist Lem Palmer. Framed in a wooden frame.
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20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Tigers, 1960-70 - oil paint, 110x220 cm, framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed lower right.
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1960s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Trapped in New York, " Acrylic on Canvas Field of Trees signed by Tom Shelton
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Trapped in New York" is an original acrylic painting by Tom Shelton. The artist signed, titled, and dated the piece in the lower right. This piece features a forest with animals and...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Roosevelt Raceway, Oil Painting by Ernest Aebi
By Ernst Aebi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ernst Aebi, Swiss Title: Roosevelt Raceway Year: circa 1975 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 36 x 50 inches (91.44 x 127 cm)
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1970s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

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