Heather Speck

Portrait of a Woman Reading - Bay Area Figurative School Abstract Expressionist

2000

Seated Nude Woman Bay Area Figurative School Abstract Expressionist Seated Woman, a abstract portrait by Santa Cruz and San Francisco artist Heather Speck...

Seated Nude Woman Bay Area Figurative School Abstract Expressionist Seated wearing a hat by Santa Cruz and San Francisco artist Heather Speck (American,...

Gorgeous contemporary impressionist figurative portrait of Annie, a reclining woman in a one-piece bathing suit reading on a couch, with a California license plate tucked behind her,...

Figurative abstract painting by San Jose, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 20th Century). San Francisco bay area abstract expressionist and landscape artist dur...

This contemporary figurative painting "Meditation " featuring a woman wearing a red blouse and blue jeans with a book in her hands on a light blue background makes part of my series ...

Ecriture (Writing) Oil on cardboard 33 × 21 cm n Écriture, Grégoire Mathias captures an intimate moment of solitude and focus: a woman writing, her head bowed over the page. Execute...

This contemporary abstract expressive portrait, On My Own Path, was created in 2025 by French artist Natalya Mougenot in her studio in Lyon, France. It presents a faceless woman with...

"Girl Thinking" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 40" x 30" oil on board portrait of a young woman is painted in a vibrant color palette. The painting is framed in a new, black wood frame and signed "B 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 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke...