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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 19th Century
Japanese Children with Tortoise
Located in New York, NY
Harry Humphrey Moore led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, dividing his time between Europe, New York City, and California. This globe-trotting painter was also active in Morocco, and most importantly, he was among the first generation of American artists to live and work in Japan, where he depicted temples, tombs, gardens, merchants, children, and Geisha girls. Praised by fellow painters such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Moore’s fame was attributed to his exotic subject matter, as well as to the “brilliant coloring, delicate brush work [sic] and the always present depth of feeling” that characterized his work (Eugene A. Hajdel, Harry H. Moore, American 19th Century: Collection of Information on Harry Humphrey Moore, 19th Century Artist, Based on His Scrap Book and Other Data [Jersey City, New Jersey: privately published, 1950], p. 8).
Born in New York City, Moore was the son of Captain George Humphrey, an affluent shipbuilder, and a descendant of the English painter, Ozias Humphrey (1742–1810). He became deaf at age three, and later went to special schools where he learned lip-reading and sign language. After developing an interest in art as a young boy, Moore studied painting with the portraitist Samuel Waugh in Philadelphia, where he met and became friendly with Eakins. He also received instruction from the painter Louis Bail in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1864, Moore attended classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and until 1907, he would visit the “City by the Bay” regularly.
In 1865, Moore went to Europe, spending time in Munich before traveling to Paris, where, in October 1866, he resumed his formal training in Gérôme’s atelier, drawing inspiration from his teacher’s emphasis on authentic detail and his taste for picturesque genre subjects. There, Moore worked alongside Eakins, who had mastered sign language in order to communicate with his friend. In March 1867, Moore enrolled at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, honing his drawing skills under the tutelage of Adolphe...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
1900 Young Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Violin Studies
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Revere F. Wistehuff was one of the central group of cover artists in the New Rochelle Art Colony in the 1920's, '30s, '40s w...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Boy Reading
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Dancer Burlesque Stripper with Purple Gloves - The Bump -
By Jack Levine
Located in Miami, FL
A gritty Burlesque Stripper with long purple gloves bumps and grinds with a hard-driving beat. American Social Realist artist Jack Levine paints this se...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Board
Figures in Rowboat Alongside of Barg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated Lower Right
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ballentine Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Western Scene
By Victor Olson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 29.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed "A.O.F 19" Lower Left
"Man & Woman in Disagreement"
Long affiliated with The Saturday Evening Post (nearly 50 years), he did dozens of covers and much story art, most notably the long-running Tug-Boat Annie and with maritime painting, Fischer was more versatile than depicting the sail and dreadnaughts when given a chance. Still, he's best known for painting the sea, her beauty and her dangers (whether hurricanes or U-Boats). It's no surprise that his oils graced such titles as The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales, Treasure Island, The Mutineers, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woodstock
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Painting for a Woodstock film's poster.
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Things in My House” Little Golden Book, Children's Book CoverIllustration Art
Located in Miami, FL
Joe Kaufman, writer, illustrator. Recipient Art Directors Club medal, 1948, New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book award, 1973, Gold award, Silver award Art Directors C...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of a Redhead in Profile
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully rendered in Krolls signature academic style. Unframed - Signed lower right, unframed
Category
1930s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Company K - Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Book cover for "Company K" by William March.
Subject matter features three army soldiers in monochrome ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Savior, Paperback Cover
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This is the paperback cover for A Bullet For My Love by Octav...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Battle of the Wilderness
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 27.00" x 12.75"
Signature: Unsigned
Written by Price on the mount below the image: Like endless lines of phantoms, men, horses, guns, wagons, continued to pass through the smoking forest.
A striking and emotional night scene at the Battle of the Wilderness...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Hobo & Three Clowns at Poker
By Hal Crecy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Hobo & 3 clowns at poker
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Collier's Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1890s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man on Ladder in Library
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00"
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Advertisement for Gulf Oil, 1944.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1921
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Dimensions: 26.00" x 40.00"
Illustration for American magazine.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Who's the Fairest?
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Vogue magazine cover 3/15/13
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
In The Cathedral
By E.M. Jackson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration for "In The Cathedral" by Achmed Abdullah published in Cosmopolitan, May 1938, pages 24-25.
The magazine descri...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Appealing To Be Allowed To Help Fight For The Union
By James Earl Taylor
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache
Signature: Signed Lower Right
a slave with shackles on the ground behind him appealing to Abraham Lincoln with the Civil War battle s...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Do Bee Book of Manners
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Grosset & Dunlap, Illustration, Art Seiden was a top children's book illustrator in the 1950' - 1060's Work comes in two parts that are butted together by the artist
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
Dawn, Dawn, Dawn, Ticonderoga pencil advertisement
By Harvey Dunn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Twice and Dated Lower Left: Harvey / Dunn 1932
Harvey Dunn's Dawn, Dawn, Dawn is a truly exceptional illustration that captures a key moment of American History. In the present work, Dunn skillfully depicts colonial soldiers...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Fair Student
By Henry Wyatt
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1835' center right
Category
1830s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Rescue
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph, Mixed Media
Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine, February 1931 Depicting a Duryea Automobile Driving by a Blacksmith Shop
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lighthouse Keeper, Brant Point
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left ‘Stevan Dohanos’
Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Laid Down on Masonite
The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 26th, 1954...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Fred C. Dobbs Paddle Steamer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration dates circa 1950.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine illustration, December 1906
Literature: This illustration appeared in O. Henry's shor...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Spring is Here" The Country Home Magazine Cover, March (Year Unknown)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
"Spring Is Here" The Country Home Magazine Cover, March (Year Unknown).
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Judgment
Located in Miami, FL
Thin edged metal frame
Philip Castle is an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle
He is rarely exhibited and Prince Rainier of Monaco once pu...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"End of Track, " Paperback Cover, 1951
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
End of Track - Paperback Cover, written by Ward Weaver, Popular Library, 1951.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Nude Woman with 2 Men"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 25.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Fawcett book cover.
Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover il...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Smoke Shop
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Girl in Pareu"
By RAD Miller
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Robert Alexander Darrah “R.A.D.” Miller (1905 - 1966)
Robert Alexander Darrah Miller, called “RAD” by his friends, was born in Philadelphia. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1923 to 1927 under the tutelage of Daniel Garber. In 1928, Miller moved to Bucks County where he would meet and marry Celia Belden Marshall, daughter of Dr. George M. Marshall, who at that time owned the Phillips Mill property.
Nearly a year later, in 1929, a committee headed by artist, William Lathrop, negotiated to purchase the Mill property from Dr. Marshall for the purpose of holding art exhibitions. Thus, the Phillips Mill Art Association was formed. RAD Miller was a regular exhibitor at the Phillips Mill with the traditional New Hope Impressionists. Many of the original founders of the New Hope Art Colony, set in their ways, frowned upon the concept of modernist painting. A decision was made by the Association to not include the growing group of modernist painters in the area to exhibit with them at Phillips Mill. Although clearly not a traditional impressionist, Miller was not being excluded with the others, largely because his father-in-law formerly owned the mill and was one of the Association’s board of directors. RAD was sympathetic to his fellow modernists. In 1933, he was one of the original members of the Independents, a group formed for modernist artists who chose to embark on a more non-traditional creative path. They would exhibit in tandem with the Impressionists but at different locations.
Around the time of his arrival to New Hope in 1928, Miller struck up a friendship with Thomas Hart Benton, and in 1932 he worked under Benton on a mural project. RAD’s paintings...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Country Life
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 6 x 12 inches
Framed size: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Signed
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl Peeling Apple, Johnson & Johnson Advertisement, 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right
Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.50" x 12.00"
Johnson & Johnson reproduced the present work as an advertisemen...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Boy in Striped Sweater Sits on a Tree Branch, Advertisement, Cream of Wheat, 1929
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Advertisement, Cream of Wheat, 1929.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother with Child by Candlelight
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Illustration, 1917
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pajama Party
By Victor Kalin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Gouache on Board
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dizzy Dean, The Pride of St Louis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Dizzy Dean, The Pride of St Louis
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Two Women"
By James Lechay
Located in Lambertville, NJ
James Lechay was a painter of figures, landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes who played a notable role in the tradition of avant-garde painting in New York and in the Midwest. An ar...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Lion and the Throne, The Atlantic Magazine Cover
By James Avati
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Contact for exact dimensions.
The Atlantic Magazine Cover Illustration.
November 1956, Volume 198
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Depicting a Woman in Blue Lingerie with Her Arms in a Dress Overhead
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Board with Collage
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
The Falconer, interior Argosy magazine story illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Unsigned
Category
Early 20th Century 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...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Shore Leave, Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Center
August 8, 1931 Saturday Evening Post Cover
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Film Noir Curse of the Golden Cross Magazine - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Herbert Morton Stoops
American (1888 - 1948)
Curse of the Golden Cross
Magazine illustration, 1925
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 in.
Not signed
Work is framed
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pilgrims Fairwell
By Frank T. Marrill
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1880
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 18.20" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1880s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Touring Car in Reverse
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Interior Scene
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Medium: Mixed Media Illustration
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Signed M. Maccari Post Impressionist Figurative Painting dated 1956 oil canvas
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (oil on canvas, 44.5 x 35 cm; with wood frame 64 x 54,5 cm) represents a moment on deception.
It's signed Maccari on the bottom left, and it's dated 1956 and titled "ins...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sur le Bosphone, On the Bosphorus, Orientalist Beautiful Girl in Boat
Located in Miami, FL
The key to this painting's charm is that the subject is a beautiful young woman who is showing her face. She lounges comfortably in a carpeted boat with a lute by her side, running...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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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