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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Color:  Beige
Artist: Dean Cornwell
Cosmopolitan Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Woman with suitor/explorers wearing pith helmets Publication Information: Story Illustration for "A Marriage of Concenience" by Comerset Mau...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

At the Precinct, Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929 Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left Dimensions: 30.00" x 19.00" Study for "Find the Woman" (Cosmopolitan Magazine) Artist biographical not...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

Kindred of the Dust, Frontier Town Cosmopolitan Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
More than 20 beautifully rendered post-impressionist portraits in character, define Dean Cornwell as one of America's great artists. In his time, he was a famous as Norman Rockwell and was Norman Rockwell's favorite illustrator. "One thing puzzled Dirty Dan extremely. That was the perfectly frank, friendly manner in which his employer and this outcast woman greeted each other, the earnestness with which they conversed, and the effect of the woman's low-spoken words upon the color of Hector McKaye's face." Morris Weiss collection...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Woe is Me
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 25.50" x 20.00" Signature: Initialed Lower Right
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

The Callers, Cosmopolitan Magazine Interior Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1925 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 25.5" x 16.5" Signature: Initialed, Dated and Inscribed Lower Left: DC / 1925 / To Sid Hydemon / 19
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

Two Different Canvases, Cosmopolitan Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 40.00" x 30.00" Signature: Initialed and Dated Lower Right of Right Canvas Woman with suitor/explorers wearing pith helmets Pub...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Story illustration: “Painless Extraction”, Author: Octavus Roy Cohen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1919 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 35.50" x 23.00" Signature: Signed Story illustration: “Painless Extraction”, author: Octavus Roy Cohen, Saturday Evening Post, March...
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1910s Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

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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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