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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...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Trouble at the Garage
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 28.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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Late 19th Century 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
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'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
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 14.50" x 13.00;" Framed 23.75" x 21.75" The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

"The Cave Man, " Liberty Magazine Cover, 1927
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 12, 1927 "The Cave Man or the Cave Max?"
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'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
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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
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Gum Kids
Located in New Orleans, LA
Two young children play an ill-advised game of gum stretching on the family couch in this charming composition by famed American illustrator, Leslie Thrasher. Painted towards the start of the Great Depression, Thrasher provided light-hearted images of the lives of everyday people to distract Americans from their troubles. These images appeared on the covers of Liberty Magazine, for whom he produced one cover illustration a week for six consecutive years. Born in 1889 in Piedmont, West Virginia, Thrasher studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a teenager and received a scholarship to study art abroad in Paris. Upon his return, he began studying under Howard Pyle, known as the “father of American illustration.” Thrasher sold his first cover illustration to the Saturday Evening Post in 1912, four years before Norman Rockwell’s first Post cover, and he would go on to produce over 360 magazine covers throughout his career. He painted humorous, relatable scenes of life in America with colorful characters set against white backgrounds. He was also a successful commercial artist, painting advertisements for Cream of Wheat, Chesterfield Cigarettes...
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20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting / Abstract versus Figurative Art / Figurative Art / Human Figure /
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
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1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Santa
Located in New Orleans, LA
A Salvation Army Santa looks on with a mixture of fatigue and disinterest as a group of children tell him their Christmas gift wish lists in this lighthearted composition by leading American illustrator Leslie Thrasher. This painting was created for the December 20, 1930 issue of Liberty Magazine, for which the artist illustrated covers on a weekly basis for six consecutive years. Thrasher is known for his scenes of everyday American life imbued with a sense of humor, qualities represented to great effect in this charming painting. Born in 1889 in Piedmont, West Virginia, Thrasher studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a teenager and received a scholarship to study art abroad in Paris. Upon his return, he began studying under Howard Pyle, known as the “father of American illustration.” Thrasher sold his first cover illustration to the Saturday Evening Post in 1912, four years before Norman Rockwell’s first Post cover, and he would go on to produce over 360 magazine covers throughout his career. He painted humorous, relatable scenes of everyday life in America with colorful characters set against white backgrounds. He was also a successful commercial artist, painting advertisements for Cream of Wheat, Chesterfield Cigarettes...
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Early 20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections, among them the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, and the UB Anderson Gallery (all of which are located in Western New York...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Acrylic Painting / Portrait / Figurative/ Museum/ Abstract/ Contemporary
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections, among them the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, and the UB Anderson Gallery (all of which are located in Western New York...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State ...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections, among them the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, and the UB Anderson Gallery (all of which are located in Western New York...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil painting / Portrait / Figurative/ Museum/ Interior/ Expressive/ Text
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled 021 (Cocktail dyptych)
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections, among them the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, and the UB Anderson Gallery (all of which are located in Western New York...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections, among them the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, and the UB Anderson Gallery (all of which are located in Western New York...
Category

Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil painting / Portrait / Figurative/ Museum/ Interior/ Expressive/ Text
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State ...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting /Portrait/ Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Acrylic Painting / Portrait / Figurative/ Museum/ Abstract/ Contemporary
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections, among them the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, and the UB Anderson Gallery (all of which are located in Western New York...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Acrylic Painting / Portrait / Figurative/ Museum/ Abstract/ Contemporary
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Acrylic Painting / Portrait / Figurative/ Museum/ Abstract/ Contemporary
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections, among them the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, and the UB Anderson Gallery (all of which are located in Western New York...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Acrylic Painting / Portrait / Figurative/ Museum/ Abstract/ Contemporary
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Too Tight Fit, Liberty Magazine Cover, August 31, 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 17.50" x 16.00;" Framed 19.00" x 18.00" Liberty magazine cover, August 29, 1931.
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Conference on the Mound, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, June 8, 1912
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Liberty Magazine Cover, July 24, 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 20.00" x 16.00;" Framed 26.00" x 22.00" Liberty Magazine Cover, July 24, 1926
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

32- Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left January 27, 1934 Liberty Magazine Cover
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Liberty Magazine Cover, January 26, 1929
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of Liberty magazine, January 26, 1929
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Research & Development Figural 1 & 2
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of paintings by American contemporary artist Bruce Adams. Art is the R&D for culture. Artists Conduct the R&D for society. In the late twentieth century painting was rejec...
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1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

The Newborn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sofa Talk, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Liberty Magazine Cover, December 14, 1929
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Liberty Magazine Cover, September 18th, 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 20.00" x 16.00;" Framed 26.00" x 22.00" September 18th, 1926 cover of Liberty Magazine
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

'You Moron', Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Liberty Magazine, May 23, 1931.
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Card Game, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Pair of paintings Rituals 1 and Rituals 2
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...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Mixed Media, Paper, Spray Paint

Research & Development Figural 3 & 4
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of paintings in one singular frame presentation by American contemporary artist Bruce Adams Art is the R&D for culture. Artists Conduct the R&D for society. In the late tw...
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1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Liberty Magazine Cover, March 28, 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930s Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 16.00" x 13.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of Liberty magazine, March 28, 1931. Woman spanking ch...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary Hyperrealist Large Portrait Film Noir Strip Film Still Black White
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original painting by American contemporary conceptual painter Bruce Adams from the artist's new Untitled series. The “Untitled,” series draws from a variety of visual and histori...
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2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Contemporary Surrealist Hyperrealist Large Figures Super Hero Wonder Woman Women
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original painting by American contemporary conceptual painter Bruce Adams from the artist's new Untitled series. The “Untitled,” series draws from a variety of visual and histori...
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2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

'Hearts and Flowers' Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1926 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: Framed 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Liberty Magazine Cover, December 11, 1926
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary Hyperrealist Large Portrait Film Noir Strip Film Still Black White
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original painting by American contemporary conceptual painter Bruce Adams from the artist's new Untitled series. The “Untitled,” series draws from a variety of visual and histori...
Category

2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Doll Atrocities (Girl Parts and Boy Parts)
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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Archival Ink, 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
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Tattooed Man, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1931 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 20.25" x 17.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Liberty Magazine Cover, May 30, 1931 Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by a...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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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