Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 14

Gerald Purdy
Shore Birds

2021

$2,800
£2,130.16
€2,490.81
CA$3,915.92
A$4,399.10
CHF 2,341.15
MX$54,396.52
NOK 28,527.16
SEK 27,581.67
DKK 18,579.09
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

"Shore Birds" by Gerald Purdy, oil on panel, 11 1/2 X 14 inches (framed size: 17 X 21 1/2 inches), $2,800. "I chose narrative art from the menu and have never looked back (some people think I can’t look back because I’m already there). My heart is in American art of the 1930’s and 40’s and the sentimentalism of the “Saturday Evening Post”! Time and space have collapsed in art but not in the self of the artist. I happen to think we are still driven by the need to tell stories and to create illusion and order where none exists. My own stories are basically domestic and tend to be ironic. They may not be visually or conceptually whole, because two or three ideas may intrude on the same piece, but they are intended to be “stories” that contain location, exposition, conflict and resolution. They just aren’t the great stories of salvation or war that populate the history of art and take up so much valuable space on museum walls. Finally, irony is one of the great forms of the comedic, which drives me — and comedy is anarchy." - Gerald Purdy
  • Creator:
    Gerald Purdy (1931, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2021
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Salt Lake City, UT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU154328357992

More From This Seller

View All
Dressed In Yellow
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Dressed in Yellow, oil on panel, 11 x 17 inches (Framed size: 18 x 24 inches), $1,500 Raised in the Bear River Valley, Tom Howard has an attachment to the la...
Category

2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Evening Shroud
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Evening Shroud, oil on panel, 7 x 10 inches (Framed size: 14 x 17 inches), $1,050 Raised in the Bear River Valley, Tom Howard has an attachment to the land that runs deep. Surrounde...
Category

2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

San Rafael Reef #2
By Mark Knudsen
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
San Rafael Reef #2, acrylic on panel, 11 x 37 1/2 inches, $2,200 “It is my feeling that the desert country of the American West is too large, too wild, too gorgeous to be encompassed by traditional landscape painting. Our inherited aesthetic defines beauty in landscape as green and arable land or grand, breathtaking places. I feel the need to expand that definition. I want to portray the desert as it is right now; to dispense with the limitations of what has come before, to quietly point out the beauty of places that are harsh and forbidding to habitation but express an aesthetic of the wild. I strive to go beyond the sentimentality that often defines our images of the West. The scale of many of my pieces (an extreme horizontal) is a compositional strategy to capture the vastness of these places.” – M. Knudsen Mark Knudsen...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Assertive
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Assertive (2018), 6 x 6 inches (framed size: 7.5 x 7.5 inches), watercolor on gesso on panel by Lindey Carter. $560 Lindey Carter’s delicate watercolor ...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Watercolor, Panel

25th Street
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
25th Street, by Elise Zoller, 24 x 30 in. oil on panel. Elise Zoller has recently embarked on a series of plein air paintings of sites around Salt Lake City and in the smaller towns of Utah from Hurricane to Huntsville. She has enjoyed meeting people along the road and learning about the history of the state. “Plein air work can be physically demanding, but there is no substitute for working from life. Light and shadow dance in subtle ways a photograph cannot capture. Even the wind and the fragrances it carries inform the work. Scenes come alive when you stand in one place for a few hours. You’ve got to get to know a spot,” Elise says. “While I work, all manner of people come up and talk to me about their towns and their lives. I’ve met a downwinder from Enterprise, pie bakers in Veyo, pony cart...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Linen, Birch, Oil

Golden Light
By Connie Borup
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Golden Light", Connie Borup, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches (Framed size: 33 x 43 inches), $4,800 “Connie Borup’s work cannot simply be described as land...
Category

2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

You May Also Like

"Notre Dame de Paris" Robert Cabay, French artist, Impressionist style, 1960 c.
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Robert Cabay (French, 1901-1990) Title: Notre Dame de Paris Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: 41 x 31 cm l 16 1/8 x 12 1/4 in Frame: 52 x 42 cm l 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. Immerse...
Category

20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Long straight road Nicolas Kennett Contemporary art painting black spiritual
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel Unique Hand-signed by the artist on the back
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Marsh Lands, " Colorado Sunset, Landscape Oil Painting by Sparky LeBold
Located in Denver, CO
"Marsh Lands" by Sparky LeBold (US and Portugal based) is a handmade oil painting that depicts a brilliant Colorado sunset. ARTIST STATEMENT Sparky LeBold has made a name for hims...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Baldwin Piano Factory" (2020) - Original Oil of Cityscape by Brad Davis
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis's "Baldwin Piano Factory" (2020) is a compelling oil on panel of a cityscape that measures 10 x 8 inches unframed.
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Utah" by David Shingler - Oil Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Shingler’s "Utah" (2015) is an original oil painting on wood panel, measuring 5 x 5 inches. Known for his dynamic landscapes rendered through bold and expressive brushstrokes, ...
Category

2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"In the Pocket" (2023) By Kirsten Savage, Original Oil Painting, Portrait
By Kirsten Savage
Located in Denver, CO
"In the Pocket" by Kirsten Savage is an original, handmade oil painting on panel that depicts a a portrait of a man playing an electric guitar. Kirsten Savage is one of Colorado’s t...
Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel