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Woman on the Rocks I
Located in New York, NY
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Woman on the Rocks I, 2016
Mixed media oil on canvas
35 x 35 inches
88.9 x 88.9 cm
Signed, titled and dated (verso)
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Greenfield-Sanders’ landscape paintings invite the viewer into nostalgia, to forge a connection to their own experience. Using found vintage photography as a starting point, she creates several iterations of each image, which she alters with pencil and watercolor, and finally paints over with oil. They emerge simultaneously familiar yet enigmatic. She elaborates, stating, “All of my paintings are based on amateur slides from seventy years ago. I am interested in the ‘comfortably familiar’ nature of the images and how the elapsed time allows them to ‘prickle with new meaning’ to connect that which was worth capturing with that which is worth painting, at present.” The paintings require a great deal of forethought and groundwork, but still appear unlabored and fresh. Her style of painting, which prizes color, representation and evocation, is activated by both individual experience and collective memory.
Isca Greenfield-Sanders (b. in 1978 in New York City) received her dual BFA and BA degree from Brown University. The artist lives and works in New York, NY.
Recent solo exhibitions include “The Things I Can’t Forget,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Ocean Eyes of Blue,” Michael Reid...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Young Girl Red Dress lost in Thought, Mid Century Woman's Magazine Illustration
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox (1922–1976) was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for was Wo...
Category
1960s Feminist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Hiver XII
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1951, Eishin Yoza was largely inspired by the 1970s growing up. The art sphere of the 1970s was epitomized by a desire to evolve and strengthen its...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Ink
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
The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid, Paperback Cover
By Dean Morrissey
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1991
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 36.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
DEAN MORRISSEY (American, 20th Century) The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dancing Couple at the Ball, Theatre Magazine Cover
By Clara Peck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache watercolor painting on artist board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Size: 18" x 14"
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache, Watercolor
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
Pro Skater
By Joe Currie
Located in New York, NY
Figurative acrylic on canvas. Portrait of female skateboarder. Has abstract quality. Almost dreamlike. Vibrant colors.
About the Artist:
"Growing up in England during the 80s, the influence and love of American sub cultures through TV, and being surrounded by large non-spaces of US air bases around East Anglia, gave me a slightly odd and romantic view of America.
I finished the Masters Degree bronze-casting course at the Royal College of Art in 1999 and have pursued my passion for Art ever since. I have built up a body of work that follows the theme of a journey into abstraction, inspired by Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Fiona Banner, Cornelia Parker...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Audrey
By Chris Tomlin
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Wood Panel. Portrait or Audrey Hepburn is 24x24. Vibrant colors.
About the Artist:
"Tomlin is young, upcoming artist based out of NY. His interests in portraits, i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Something New, Something Old- Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 16.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
GIrls of Canby Hall Book Cover
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"Memorias" (FRAMED) Painting 34" x 28" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Memorias" Painting 34" x 28" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Medium: Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate
Image size: 25" x 19" inch
Size framed: 34" x 28...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Brooks (Surfer) 2022_Greg Miller_Acrylic/Collage_Figurative/Swimmer/Waterscape
By Greg Miller
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
GREG MILLER
"Brooks"
Acrylic, Collage on Panel
24 x 36 in.
Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his Californian roots, Greg Miller explores his relationship wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
Bayside_2022_Greg Miller_Acrylic/Collage_Figurative/Swimmer/Waterscape
By Greg Miller
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
GREG MILLER
"Bayside"
Acrylic, Collage on Panel
24 x 36 in.
Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his Californian roots, Greg Miller explores his relationship w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
Clown with Birthday Bouquet - Oil and Ink on Cardstock
Located in Soquel, CA
Clown with Bouquet - Acrylic and Ink on Cardstock
Colorful portrait of a clown holding a bouquet of flowers by Jassen Marek (20th Century). A sad clown in a suit with a straw hat ho...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil, Pen
Planeta Agua
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Pietrina Checcacci was born in Taranto, Italy. Currently, she lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Checcacci studied at the National School of Fine Arts from 1958 to 1964 and has won n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Submerged" Original Oil Painting 36 in x 36 in
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Submerged"
2022
Oil on canvas
36 in x 36 in
"Submerged" is an original oil painting in the genre of Contemporary Realism. A frequent theme in my work is figures in water. Surf...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Meeting By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Face of fear
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pencil, Color Pencil
At the Foggy Beach, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2024
Style: Impressionism
Title: At the Foggy Beach
Size: 31.5" x 39...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scuba Girl, Florence, Italy, 2020
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rider, Florence, Italy, 2019
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artisti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The world is falling apart
Located in Ridgewood, NY
Most mornings we wake up to a physical reality of sharp contrast and clear-cut edges. Defined outlines help us navigate everyday life and the world around us. But the blurry fringes ...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl With Harpoon - Florence, Italy, 2020
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera Art Academy. He lives in Florence, pursuing painting, bas-reliefs in terracotta and in bronze, and bronze sculpture.
Piussi presents an ideal, almost childlike world which can be found below everyday events, a step outside the flow of time, yet still a part of contemporary life, with a nod to Alex Katz and David Hockney. The drama, or lack thereof, is played out in simplified, almost abstract spaces. Pure in intent, Piussi’s oeuvre are inspired by the Early Renaissance.
Snapshot images of a world reduced to its essence, the apparently comic-book style has echoes of Giotto, Paolo Uccello, of medieval illuminations. Rather than mimicking the appearance of nature, Piussi reaches for its essence, without distracting details. Women stand on the shore of quintessentially peaceful seas, self-contained, at ease, unwitting replicas of classical goddesses - a proud diver echoes Neptune holding a trident.
“Queen Kong...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.046
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.046 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.046 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and p...
Category
1970s Feminist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Night Crossing" Cowboy Pastel Painting Green Twilight Creek Horses Western
Located in Austin, TX
A dramatic scene of cowboys on horseback set in the Wild West. Twilight has fallen on a gang of four cowboys as they ride their horses across a river. Their riffles are ready as if anticipating an enemy.
The piece measures 23 x 34.5. It is beautifully framed and ready to hang in an ornate, gilt wood frame with reflection proof glass. The overall measurements is 33 x 45 inches.
About the Artist:
David Sanders...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
Celebration, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Diana Elena Chelaru depicts figures grooving to the pulsating beat of the music. Bright lights cast vibrant hues across the scene, adding an electrifying...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Musical Flow, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In this lively and spirited painting, five figures revel in the music and each other's company. Tones of blue and orange embrace their forms as they hit the dan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Three Graces
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
Jack Rosenberg
Three Graces, 2023
oil on aluminum panel
48 x 36 in.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
Return Voyage #3 - Collage and Acrylic on Canvas, Yellow.
Located in New York, NY
Return Voyage #3 is a 30 x 24-inches acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are yellow and blue. The silhouette of a woman stands inside a series of yellow buys, surr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Wet Hair, Florence, Italy, 2021
Located in Hudson, NY
This price includes that the painting is stretched and framed.
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vibes, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Diana Elena Chelaru captures the essence of movement in her composition, where two figures dance, swaying to the rhythm. Bright beams from the strobe lig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Autumn Sky - Original Oil on Canvas Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mark Acetelli’s oil and mixed media paintings awaken the viewer’s sense of exploration and adventure; they demand a new discovery. His artworks exhibit a chemistry of complexity and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wave of Rapture, Oil Painting
By Gary Leonard
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Gary Leonard creates a striking portrait of a woman plunging into the water. The large, spontaneous brushstrokes of the wave merge into the emotional flo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Slide Right (Paper)" figurative oil painting of swimmer underwater red swimsuit
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. Pr...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
The Puzzle, Original Contemporary Figurative Painting on Canvas
Located in Boston, MA
The Puzzle, Original Contemporary Figurative Painting on Canvas
36x36 (HxW), Acrylic Paint
This fun, colorful, inverted abstract figura...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Synchronized Swimmers, Pop Art Figurative Abstract on Blue
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid contemporary pop art style acrylic painting on paper of two synchronized swimmers posed in unison on a bright blue background by Marc Foster Grant (American, b. 1947), 2007. Th...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
“Lost in Beautiful Thought”- oil on canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Using the striking imagery that is abundant in the California landscape, queer artist Kory Alexander creates dreamy paintings that are flooded with vibrancy and movement. Kory consid...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figure 2
Located in Denver, CO
Matthew Durante's "Figure 2 2021" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a pink-toned nude male model kneeling on a blue surface.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Panel, Pencil
Jeux de Lumieres
Located in Naples, FL
Laurent Parcelier was born in 1962 in France. Interested in art from an early age, Parcelier attended the Applied Arts School in Dordogne. His obvious talent soon materialized into t...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tulipanes en Rojo II
Located in Southampton, NY
The perfect shape of a f red tulip is poised with grace on it's stem, in a medley of color blocks that capture the movement perfectly.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Child Resting in Chair, Expressionist Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Child Resting in Chair" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 41" x 35.75" oil on board portrait is painted in a vibrant color palette. The painting is framed in a new, black wood frame and signed "Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Contemporary Cubist Figurative Abstract with Saxophone
Located in Soquel, CA
A highly abstracted figure playing saxophone in this contemporary cubist painting by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th c.). A bright and colorful palette of pastel purple, p...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Colorful Portrait Painting on Board by Peter Keil w Tiffany Blue Background
By Peter Keil
Located in Hudson, NY
This modern abstract painting by Peter Keil is on a smooth masonite board with a painted Tiffany Blue background, black abstract portrait. Here you ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Board
Sunrise Pines, Origingal Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Sunrise Pines" by Tracy Wall (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is framed and ready to hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
“Wet”- oil on canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Using the striking imagery that is abundant in the California landscape, queer artist Kory Alexander creates dreamy paintings that are flooded with vibrancy and movement. Kory consid...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spoke 1, nude, blue tones, suggests sky water
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil painting of semi-abstracted female nude against a moody, ambiguous cloudy sky. The figure appears both an ethereal part of and emerging from another world.
Category
2010s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Petit Dejeuner (Framed Contemporary Abstract Painting)
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Rubber, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic
Rhapsody
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Art is and has always been at the very center of my life. In creating I find communication and connection with others that surpasses any barrier or boundary. Through imagery, I can c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fields of Vision
Located in Ridgewood, NY
Most mornings we wake up to a physical reality of sharp contrast and clear-cut edges. Defined outlines help us navigate everyday life and the world around us. But the blurry fringes ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Acrylic
Presque Isle (Day 95) June 24, 2022, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Presque Isle (Day 95) June 24, 2022" by Primary Hughes (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is unframed, and will require a frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ice And Water
Located in Greenwich, CT
Against a backdrop of blue, white, and dark gray vertical strokes suggesting a waterfall, a vibrant blue silhouette of a nude woman takes center stage. With her arms bent behind her ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
A Synaptic Disconnect
Located in Nashville, TN
From Gallatin, TN, I forged a deep connection with visual art at an early age. I have always drawn and created. I continued my passion throughout my schooling. In college, at Sewan...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chico Basin, San Luis Valley, Colorado, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Chico Basin, San Luis Valley, Colorado" by David Shingler (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is unframed, but ready to hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nymph Lake, Rocky Mountain Park, CO, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Nymph Lake, Rocky Mountain Park, CO" by David Shingler (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is unframed, but ready to hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Station Blue, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Station Blue" by Mark Harrison (United Kingdom) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Wind of Change
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
"The Wind of Change" by Ukrainian painter, Alina Sharovskaya, depicts current events for people of Ukraine who are adapting to the new reality of war. The color palette reflects the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Herd Rhythm, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Herd Rhythm" by Emma Kalff (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting with Pinecone, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Painting with Pinecone" by Lisa Lebofsky (United States) is a handmade landscape oil on paper painting that is framed and ready hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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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