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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Artist: Leslie Thrasher
Artist: Bruce Adams
New Years Baby, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1932
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 18.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
A New Year's themed cover painting by Leslie Thrasher for the January 9, 1932 edition of L...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Hands on Hips- One Two Three Four' Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Liberty Magazine Cover, December 3, 1927 "One Two- One Two- American Artist Label"
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Eyes have "It" - Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, February 16, 1929
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Go Yankees, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1926
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Go Yankees, Liberty magazine cover, August 7, 1926
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Green-Eyed Monster, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 15.50" x 13.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 20.00" x 16.00;" Framed 26.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, Janua...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Boy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 22.00" x 9.75"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Tuned Out" Liberty Magazine Cover, 1925
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1925
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 22.00" x 19.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Tuned Out. Cover illustration for Liberty Magazine, June 6, 1925, ,featuring a father tuning out the sharp cries of his newborn with the assistance of a Ham Radio...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'None but the Brave, ' Liberty Magazine Cover, 1928
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Liberty Magazine Cover 3/31/28
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Angry Man, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 15.00" x 12.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, October 13, 1928
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fare Thee Well! Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, August 4, 1928
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Everything is going to Turn out Beautifully'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
5/5/28 "Everything is going to turn out Beautifully"
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 15.50" x 13.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, March 8, 1930
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Getting Ready, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1923
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 15.00" x 13.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, 7/27/23
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"I'd Love To, " Liberty Magazine Cover, 1929
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Liberty Magazine Cover, November 2, 1929
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Crashing the Gate, " Liberty Magazine Cover, 1928
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, 3/10/28 "Crashing the Reception Clerk"
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Watch Your Step! Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, November 5, 1927
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 15.00" x 12.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Liberty Magazine Cover August 17, 1929
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Water Babies' Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, April 12, 1930
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Heavy Going, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 17.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Heavy Going, Liberty Magazine Cover, January 19, 1930
Magazine Included
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'East, West, Hame's Best' Liberty Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Liberty Magazine Cover, March 16, 1929
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
She Loves Me...She Loves Me Not, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 19, 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1926
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 17.00" x 15.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
She Loves Me ...She Loves Me Not, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 19, ...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fish and Bicycles # 12
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on paper by contemporary artist Bruce Adams from his Fish and Bicycles series. This work is currently part of an exhibition at Benjaman Gallery "Over the Fence".
This piece comes framed in an archival natural wood frame presentation.
The Fish and Bicycle series employs a similar strategy as my Men at Work series. This time the subject matter includes both men and women (exhibited in pairs) representing a range of gender identities. The title is derived from Irina Dunn’s witty statement (often erroneously attributed to Gloria Steinem...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Opera Night, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, 4/13/29 "Opera Night"
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Four Men Conversing, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, September 24, 1927
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New Provisions
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 21.00" x 17.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Teacher and Student, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1931
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, April 25, 1931
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1931
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, October 17, 1931
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 19.75" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, April 7, 1928
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Children Playing Indians, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Contact exact dimensions.
Liberty Magazine Cover, April 12, 1930
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Trouble at the Garage
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Liberty Magazine Cover, December 17, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: December 17, 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Diana and the Stag
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Liberty Magazine Cover, November 6, 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1926
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Liberty magazine cover, November 6, 1926
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled 012 (Snow)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original contemporary painting by American artist Bruce Adams.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Barbara
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Eros and Psyche in L.A.
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sampson and Dahlia
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the layers of meaning inherent in making and viewing art.
Artist Statement:
Though we don’t generally think about it, thirteenth-century religious art actually reflects medieval European perceptions of events that occurred in the ancient Middle East. In the Divine Beauty project I filter sacred iconography through the secular lens of today’s societal perceptions by placing found commercial fashion imagery (from magazines and other sources) in the context of painted religious narratives, producing a clash of ideas that throw both sources into question.
Like many Western New Yorkers, I was raised Catholic. I attended a Catholic elementary school, went to church every day. While the indoctrination didn’t last beyond childhood, it did instill a lifelong affinity for the visual traditions of sacred art. But, as the recent economic meltdown has made apparent, conspicuous global consumption has replaced western religion today as the favored path to personal fulfillment. Fashion models serve as the new icons...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Liberty Magazine Cover, February 21, 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1931
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 13.00" x 9.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover February 21, 1931
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Liberty Magazine Cover, May 25, 1929
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 5/25/1929
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 14.00" x 12.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Narcissus with Venus Effect
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Pair of paintings Rituals 1 and Rituals 2
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of original mixed media paintings by American contemporary artist Bruce Adams from the artist's technology series.
"Sometime around 1981 I was at my mother-in-law’s house r...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Paper, Spray Paint
Doll Atrocities (Girl Parts and Boy Parts)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of mixed media paintings by American artist Bruce Adams. The frames were also painting by the artist and are meant to compliment the works and concept of the piece.
Bruce ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Archival Ink, Oil
Venus at her Mirror
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nemesis
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams often references historical painting themes and styles in order to throw into relief western tropes in figurative art. Here as part of the artist's series Myths and Lies,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Woman on Couch with Boy
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
With this series I continue my practice of alluding to historical painting styles and themes as a means of prompting various contextual associations. I began by referencing portrait ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
It
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Unbridled (Mrs. Clinton)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Neo Geology
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Matrix #3, How to Draw
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Simulate Direct Experience with Freeing Marks
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Ampulla Veneration
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the layers of meaning inherent in making and viewing art.
Artist Statement:
Though we don’t generally think about it, thirteenth-century religious art actually reflects medieval European perceptions of events that occurred in the ancient Middle East. In the Divine Beauty project I filter sacred iconography through the secular lens of today’s societal perceptions by placing found commercial fashion imagery (from magazines and other sources) in the context of painted religious narratives, producing a clash of ideas that throw both sources into question.
Like many Western New Yorkers, I was raised Catholic. I attended a Catholic elementary school, went to church every day. While the indoctrination didn’t last beyond childhood, it did instill a lifelong affinity for the visual traditions of sacred art. But, as the recent economic meltdown has made apparent, conspicuous global consumption has replaced western religion today as the favored path to personal fulfillment. Fashion models serve as the new icons...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Self is a Construction
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Picture of People Sitting Before Painting - National Gallery, Washington DC
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Justice
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Child in Hospital, Liberty Magazine Cover, 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
Sight Size 20.00" x 16.00;" Framed 26.00" x 22.00
Liberty Magazine Cover, Febuary 28th, 1931
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Chaos Theory
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Figurative Paintings for Sale
Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
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