Canvas Figurative Paintings
Color: Brown
Medium: Canvas
"Opulence 12" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Aiden Kringen's (US based) "Opulence 12" is an original handmade oil painting that is unframed, but ready to hang.
About the Artist:
A kaleidoscopic fantasia—crystalline planes floating in space, nestling together like immaculate puzzle pieces—abstract nebulae, human figures and faces enveloped in swirling fields or particles of energy—these number among the images evoked by the hauntingly enigmatic paintings of artist Aiden Kringen. Within this worldview a mysterious network of interlocking planes becomes visible to the beholder: mystical fields of unknown substance revealed as the building blocks of our bodies and semblances, surrounding, cocooning, perhaps even protecting us. It is a vision verging on the mystical, which Kringen portrays through a distinctive style: a fractured, cubistic mode of conscious- ness in which multiple dimensions or perspectives assimilate into an ecstatic whole. The artist deploys this style in opulent and seductive portraits as well as abstract tableaux whose optical signature is magnified by compositional dynamism and deeply layered surfaces.
Born in Los Angeles in 1992, Kringen lived variously in the American West and Mexico—Sebastopol, Jalisco, Portland, Flagstaff—before settling in the hill- and vineyard-dotted environs of Sonoma, County, where he is now based. In these very different environments, each of which possesses a uniquely picturesque natural beauty, the artist began from an early age to develop his aesthetic approach. He has always had a keen eye for detail, grounded in a gift for looking closely at the human experience. “I’ve always been interested in observing people,” he recalls, “and in the details of how we interact with one another.” He put this natural ability to task when he began working on illustration and graphic-design projects while in high school. From his mother, an artist and graphic designer, he learned the fundamentals of composition and typography, the nuances of positive and negative space and the relationships between them. Using sheets of Letracet—a system for transfer- ring typeface—proved particularly instrumental in developing a methodology for layering and collage, which continue to inform his works on canvas and paper. He learned old-school tech- niques, hands-on and mechanical, in keeping with a Bauhaus-like appreciation for perfectionism, integrity, and hard work.
Kringen began painting at 14. Then as now, drawing was central to his approach. He studied vintage anatomy atlases and drew meticulously in his journals, working through myriad permutations of bones and skin, angle and pose, muscles in motion. Honing his natural talent for figuration through long and exhaustive study, he arrived at an understanding of the figure that is both intuitive and virtuosic. On acrylic and mixed media on canvas, Kringen lays down linework with a Micron pen in ever-more-complex compositions, often with the addition of gloss mediums to bring out the layers’ reflectivity and prismatic character. In some pieces he incorporates gold and silver leaf to heighten drama and luxuriance, recalling the mosaic-like work of Gustav Klimt—who, along with fellow Austri- an Expressionist Egon Schiele, stands among Kringen’s most prominent influences.
It was in 2011 that he began painting in the style with which he is now most associated: a technique fusing drawing and painting, line and brushstroke, with fragmented shapes undergirding the imag- ery. Notably, this is not simply a stylistic conceit, but more a way of perceiving reality. “Ever since I was young,” Kringen notes, “I’ve spent most of my time observing people: trying to break people down, in a visual sense, into small categorizations of their features, their mannerisms, the way they twitch their nose...” His hypersensitivity to likeness and gesture is key, for this is what distinguishes his portraits from those by artists who strive to depict idealized beauty as an end in itself. Yes, there is an undeniable beauty to Kringen’s subjects, but it does not follow strictly conventional paradigms.
There is an individuality, a capturing of idiosyncracies and eccentricities, of optimism and fatalism, light and dark, in his work. He is not painting archetypes, but rather illuminating the essential charac- ters of real people in a highly refined genre of psychological portraiture. The fragmented linework, the grids of planes he uses as lenses to focus these characteristics, is sui generis but never gimmicky; above all it is a tool for defining and refining the features of the face, adding depth and definition.
In his abstract work he uses similar techniques, paring the fabric of perception itself down to bare essentials of form, color, and texture. The abstract pieces are simultaneously elegant and complex, combining the sweeping gesturalism of Abstract Expressionism with the rigorous structure of geomet- ric painting. Across the breadth of his output Kringen balances technical and thematic polarities into bracing integrations of sensuality and grittiness, inviting contemplation into the nature of opticality and the infinite possibilities of the seen and unseen.
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Category
2010s Surrealist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Flamboyant Licht LIght Oil Painting on Canvas Table Beach Still Life In Stock
By Juane Xue
Located in Utrecht, NL
Flamboyant Licht LIght Oil Painting on Canvas Table Beach Still Life In Stock
Juane Xue (Hui Xue, Kaiffeng, China, 1962) has been drawing since her c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Betrothal Ring
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: WARREN B. DAVIS 06
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting of Family Picnic by the River with Horse & Dog by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Gudrun Sibbons (1925- ) German-born British Artist. Oil Painting of Family Picnic by the River with Horse & Dog. Oil on Board, Signed. Framed in a high ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Alexandre Akar - Pink Mobile
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Akar is a French artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Gennevilliers, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tako Chanchaleishvili - Landscape
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vicenta Garcia de Paredes
Located in MADRID, ES
19 century, pairs, oil on canvas, probably the most important pairs painted by Paredes.
Category
19th Century Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
East Santa Cruz (California), Farm House with Storm Clouds Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"East Santa Cruz (California)" is an oil on canvas board by Jon Blanchette (1908-1987) of a yellow farm house with dark gray storm clouds overhead. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 21 ¾ x 25 ¾ x 1 ½ inches. Image size is 16 x 20 inches.
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About the Artist:
Jon Blanchette
Born England, 1908
Died California, 1987
Jon Blanchette was born in Somerset, England on March 29, 1908. He immigrated to Battle Creek, Michigan in 1918. Artistically inclined at age six, he later studied at the Pittsburgh Art...
Category
1950s American Modern Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Declined Expectation
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Sometimes as individuals, our expectations are not met or sometimes disorganized when we find ourselves in a confusing situation that has to do with going on a date. We are always anxious about going on a date we are already thrilled about and can't wait to explore that beautiful moment but unexpectedly our expectation was declined due to certain turn-off symbols or what we do dislike experiencing, but that shouldn't end up trying to overcome the unexpected to achieve the expected and aim of dating and love life.
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA
studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Angel's Whisper, Figurative, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang, Framed
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2018
Style: Surrealism,
Title: Angel's Whisper,
Size: 35" x 48" x 1'' inch, 89x122.5x6 cm,
Fr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rio Hondo, Cowboy Oil Painting on Canvas, Western Art
By Dennis Lyall
Located in Whitefish, MT
Rio Hondo by Dennis Lyall
Oil on Canvas
16" x 24"
21" x 30" (framed)
Dennis Lyall is an artist and illustrator with more than 40 years of experience in working with many of the bigg...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Seduction", Lady Intoxicated by the Music Played by the Man Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This is an original painting on canvas by French artist Françoise Collandre.
A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre entered...
Category
2010s Modern Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
19th Century genre oil painting of a woman & child in a Welsh cottage
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Alfred Provis
British, (1818-1890)
By the Fireside
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1869
Image size: 10.5 inches x 15.5 inches
Size including frame: 21.5 inches x 26.5 inches
This charming cottage scene by Alfred Provis features a woman preparing supper by a fire with her young daughter. As the mother peels the turnips and places them in the pot, the girl’s attention is drawn to the kitten feeding from a saucer. The dress and hat of the woman bears a similarity to those found Provis’s other scenes of Welsh cottage interiors. The artist was known to have visited North Wales around the time this painting was produced. In 1869, he exhibited a work entitled ‘Interior of a Welsh Farmhouse’ at the Royal Society of British Artists. Given the level of detail in the painting and the fact that it is in such an impressive original frame, it is possible this is the same painting as the one exhibited.
Alfred Provis was a genre painter born on 18 February, 1818 in Chippenham, Wiltshire. He was the son of John Provis, a timber merchant and his second wife Ann Banks. He spent time in London being tutored by the historical and portrait artist John Wood (1801-1870) before returning to Chippenham. He began exhibiting at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1843, continuing to exhibit there regularly until 1886. He made his debut at the Royal Academy in 1846 with a work entitled ‘A Cottage Door...
Category
19th Century Victorian Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Place de l'Opéra" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting Canvas
By Jean Salabet
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Jean Salabet. Salabet was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His wor...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Camouflage III
Located in Singapore, SG
Camouflage III dressed in kaleidoscopic colors shows multi dimensional all-inclusive diversity. Camouflage III argues for an interdependent self-identity that makes connections acros...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rakhsh Zahra Zeinali 21st Century art Contemporary art Iranian artist girl
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI
“Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
What would happen if, Oil on canvas 70x50 cm, 2020
Located in Yerevan, AM
What would happen if, Oil on canvas 70x50 cm, 2020
Category
2010s Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers in Fog, Large Painting by F. Hasenflug
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Florence Hasenflug, American (1914 - 2010)
Title: Abstracted Bouquet
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. and verso
Size: 37.75 x 54 in. (95.89 x 137.16 cm)
Fr...
Category
1970s American Realist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figurative landscape oil painting- Purple Memory
Located in Beijing, CN
Dai Xiangwen was born in Hunan in 1991 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Jianghan University,
He is a member of China Artists Association, China Designers Association, a painter of Li Keran...
Category
2010s Modern Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Looking Out, Oil Painting, Impressionism, LA Academy of Figurative Art
Located in Houston, TX
Looking Out by Vadim Zang is an oil painting that is 18" x 14"". This is painted in the style of Impressionism.
Vadim Zanginian was born in Armenia in 1965. He is a graduate from A...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Playing Under A Cloudless Sky: Contemporary FigurativeExpressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Playing Under A Cloudless Sky is a joyous piece full of movement and light. The figures glide through the landscape, dancing with delight at the beauty of the day. This is a truly ex...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Umbria" Ornate Bowl with Figs Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Victoria Novak’s "Umbria," a 2012 oil on canvas, is an intimate portrayal of still life that measures 15.70 x 15.70 inches, enclosed in a frame that bri...
Category
2010s Photorealist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Parisian Chandeliers, landscape art, original art, interior art, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Parisian Chandeliers by Lesley Ann Derks [2017]
original
Oil and enamel on canvas
Image size: H:40 cm x W:50 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Croatian Village
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rehearsal, Victorian Era painting by Francis Sydney Muschamp
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil on canvas painting measuring 17 x 8 inches by F.S. Muschamp, signed lower right. In the nineteenth century, the Neo-Classical movement bloomed, bringing forth a new style and interpretation of the past. F. Sydney Muschamp...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Breakfast
Located in Wareham, GB
Breakfast 2016 by Juliane Hundertmark is from the artists 'Breakfast' exhibition at Knight Webb Gallery Brixton in 2017. The painting was purchased...
Category
2010s Expressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
"Morning Coffee", Portrait of People Street Background Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Original painting on canvas by French artist Françoise Collandre.
A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre entered the fine a...
Category
2010s Modern Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - The Eye
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Woman With Leaf
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cake
Located in Wareham, GB
Cake is an excellent example of Hundertmark's political style of mixed media work. The painting is an inventive interpretation of Russia's return to Cold War tactics in Ukraine.
Category
2010s Expressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Calm Red Abstract
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Banks of the Seine River, Parisian Cityscape Painting by Charles Cobelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
An idyllic painting of the bustling Seine river in Paris, by French artist Charles Cobelle. Cobelle was an accomplished French artist who studied under Marc Chagall and Raoul Dufy. U...
Category
1960s Fauvist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Canvas, Acrylic
After Kupta, Portrait, Realism, Oil Painting, Texas Artist, Sawyer Yards
Located in Houston, TX
"After Kupta" 7 x 5 Framed 12 x 10
One of my favorite paintings is the Yellow Scales, a self portrait by Frantisek Kupka hanging in my home city museum, Houston Fine Arts, and whe...
Category
2010s Realist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English fox hunting scene with fox hounds, men up on horse back in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Gerald Coulson was an English painter in the mid to latter part of the 20th century.
Gerald Coulson has been painting professionally for over 47 years ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blonde Nude Leaning on a Stool
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful modern impressionist figure painting of a nude woman by bay area artist George Wishon (American, b.20th Century). A contrast of...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Telekinesis lesson Julien Wolf Contemporary art painting expressionist red raw
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Hand-signed on the back by the artist
“At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tried to captur...
Category
2010s Expressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alienation, Oil on canvas 60x80 cm, 2020
Located in Yerevan, AM
Alienation, Oil on canvas 60x80 cm, 2020
Category
2010s Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Women Gathering Garlands', Paris, Cooper Union, Metropolitan Museum, NAD, NG
By Frederick Ballard Williams
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Fred. Ballard Williams' for Frederick Ballard Williams (American, 1871-1956) and dated 1906.
An early twentieth-century oil showing two young women in classical robes, one standing holding a polished silver mirror while her companion braids her hair with flowers, all beneath a canopy of foliage with a distant view beyond towards a body of blue water.
Frederick Ballard Williams first artistic training took place artistic training took place at the Cooper Union in New York and he subsequently worked for a time in the drafting room of John Williams. He later studied at the New York Institute of Artists with John Ward Stimson, before enrolling in the life class of the National Academy of Art where he studied under Charles Yardley Turner and Edgar Melville Ward.
Williams made two trips to Europe, first in 1904 and again in 1908. During his first trip, he visited France, staying with Henry Golden Dearth...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Judaica Painting Blowing Shofar at the Western Wall
By Savu Petra Dan
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaica
Subject: Religious
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: Israel
Dimensions: 20" x 16" x 3/4"
Dimensions w/Frame: 27 1/4" x 23 1/2"
Savu Petra Dan (born 1903 in Bucharest , died March 16, 1986 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Romanian-Israeli painter.
Savu Petra Dan studied from Bucharest between 1926 and 1933 at the Kunsthochschule . He had an order as a court painter at Carol II. During the Second World War he was imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Triumph Of Love. Contemporary Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
The Triumph of Love weaves symbolism with uplifting imagery. The painting is woven with free flowing brush strokes overlaying the canvas to create a stunning piece that is imbued wit...
Category
2010s Expressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, Orange, Brown Contemporary Indian Artist “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rahim Mirza - Untitled
Acrylic on Canvas, 12 x 12 inches (unframed size)
Born in 1969, Rahim Mirza completed his art education at Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, where he studied printmaki...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tranquility, Adele Riley, Original art, Landscape art, 2022
Located in Deddington, GB
Tranquility by Adele Riley [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic and acrylic inks on boxed canvas
Image size: H:61 cm x W:61 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Figure de Notier" framed, signed oil on canvas painting by artist Max Papart
By Max Papart
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Figure de Notier" oil on canvas painting of a human figure by Max Papart. Signed Max Papart on front. Signed and titled "Max Papart Figure de Notier" on back. Additional markings o...
Category
1950s Abstract Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lulav and Etrog Benediction, Judaica Oil Painting, Early 20th Century
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Seeberger (Sieberger) was a known artist and post-card designer who lived in Paris and was active around 1900-1940. He was arrested for being a Jew when the Germans occupied Paris in the 1940s. He was brought into a concentration camp...
Category
20th Century Modern Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Black Contemporary Indian Artist “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rahim Mirza - Untitled
Acrylic on Canvas, 18 x 18 inches (unframed size)
Born in 1969, Rahim Mirza completed his art education at Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, where he studied printmaki...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of Artist's Wife with Fruit, 1945 American Modern Oil Painting
By Hayes Lyon
Located in Denver, CO
Untitled (Portrait of Bessy Lyon, Artist Wife) is an oil on canvas painting by Hayes Lyon (1901-1987) from 1945. Presented in a wood frame, outer dimensions measure 35 ¼ x 29 ¼ x 1 ¾ inches. Image size is 30 x 24 inches.
About the Artist:
A native of Athol, Kansas, Lyon is primarily associated with Colorado. After several summer vacations at the Boulder Chautauqua and at Manitou near Colorado Springs, his family relocated in 1920 to Boulder where his father had a lumber business. Nine years later they settled in Denver where his father owned the Acme Lumber Company. To comply with his desire for his son’s financial self-reliance, Lyon graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1931 with a B.A. degree in economics.
But shortly thereafter he returned to his first love – art – that ultimately became his career. His interest in the arts was nurtured by his mother, herself a talented amateur artist, and by two of his aunts who served as role models. Beginning in 1932, he pursued a five-year course of study at the Chappell School of Art in Denver which by then had become part of the University of Denver. During his time at the school he studied with John E. Thompson and Santa Fe artist, Józef Bakoś. He also met two other Santa Fe-based artists, Willard Nash and B.J.O. Nordfeldt, when they exhibited at Chappell House, then the home of the Denver Art Museum. Lyon likewise attended the Cooke-Daniels Lecture Series there on the arts in the 1930s.
Following graduation with a B.F.A. degree from the University of Denver in 1937, he studied privately for about a year with Andrew Dasburg in Taos, New Mexico, that redirected his attention to the rugged Rocky Mountain landscape, which he saw with directness and painted with an economy of means. His canvas, Winter Vista, done following his study with Dasburg, received the Edward J. Yetter Memorial Prize at the 45th Annual Exhibition of the Denver Art Museum in 1939. The painting was reproduced in the September 1939 issue of the Magazine of Art (Washington, DC). That same year his painting, Mount Evans, was included as one of Colorado’s entries in the American Art Today Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York.
The money he received from the Yetter Prize financed his trip to Mexico City and Guadalajara in 1939 to see firsthand the frescoes of José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera and the easel paintings of David Alfaro Siqueiros. Their work was admired by many Americans who participated in the WPA-era mural projects in the United States in the 1930s and early 1940s. The economic fallout from the Great Depression affecting many American artists at the time likewise resulted in Lyon’s participation in the Colorado Art Project, part of the WPA’s national program. Under its auspices he produced three murals in 1940 about the pioneer era of Fort Lupton, Colorado, which were installed in the auditorium of the local high school. Covering 367 square feet of wall space, one of the murals – Behold the West (the largest one) – incorporates the old fort for which the town is named. Before Lyon painted the murals, the students at Fort Lupton High School researched the history of their community and contributed to their cost, facilitating the murals’ allocation to their school under the Colorado Art Project.
In the early 1940s Lyon shifted his focus to two new subjects – bathers, and canyons with conifers – reflecting his ongoing search for personal artistic growth. However, his reliance on structure to create form in his paintings and works on paper alienated some of his longtime followers. Nonetheless, his painting Conifers and Canyons won recognition at the 47th Annual Exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. The watercolor version of the piece was among three hundred works in that medium selected by John Marin, Charles Burchfield and Eliot O’Hara from a national competition held by the Section of Fine Arts (Federal Works Agency) and shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in 1941. Later that year Lyon spent time in California where he saw Orozco’s Prometheus, influencing him to increase his range of originality and expression.
In 1942 Lyon enlisted in the U.S. Army, spending almost three years in the Mediterranean Theater – Africa and Italy – preparing camouflage operations and scale models of proposed landing sites. He used his free time in Italy to expand his artistic vocabulary by seeing cultural masterpieces in Rome, Florence, Siena and Milan, and through his extensive contact with Giorgio de Chirico, founder of the scuola metafisica art movement, and Gino Severini, a leading member of the Futurist movement. Because of Lyon’s low army rank and pay, de Chirico did a small watercolor for him signing it, "For Mr. Lyon; G de Chirico, 1944." Lyon often visited de Chirico and his wife, Isa, at their apartment near the Spanish Steps in Rome.
Following his Army discharge in 1945 fellow Kansas native, Ward Lockwood, invited him to join the Art Department at the University of Texas at Austin where he taught painting from 1946 to 1951. During this period some of Lyon’s work employed the palette of the School of Paris which he had seen while stationed in Europe, while other paintings had a certain flatness found in some of Lockwood’s work from the 1930s. From 1951 to 1953 he was affiliated with the Lower Colorado River Authority in Austin as an illustrator and editor of the employee magazine.
In 1953, following time spent in Mexico, he returned to Denver, working as an illustrator at Lowry Air Force Base until retirement in 1961. During that time he did little of his own art because he also was designing and building a home in Arvada, Colorado, and re-establishing himself in the Denver art community after a decade-long absence. His painting, Autumn Aspens (1953-present location unknown) illustrates his experimentation with abstraction.
In the early 1960s he began painting from memory that continued until the steadily degenerative effects of Alzheimer’s disease took their toll a decade later. He depicted scenes from his wartime European sojourn and from his early adulthood. The latter include Souvenir of Boulder (1962), a nostalgic return to his boyhood home in Boulder; and Holly Mayer and Friends, a painting of Glenn Miller and his musicians, inspired by Lyon’s first encounter with jazz in Boulder in the 1920s. His lifelong passion for vintage cars and automobile racing...
Category
1940s American Modern Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Hungarian Judaica, Hassidic Rabbi painting
By Weber Gyula
Located in Surfside, FL
Gyula Weber
Genre: Realism
Subject: Portrait
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Dimensions: 16" x 12" x 3/4"
Dimensions w/Frame: 21 1/4" x 17 1/4"
Category
20th Century Impressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young girl from Tetouan, Morocco
Located in New Orleans, LA
Young girl from Tetouan, Morocco
Signed (center right)
Oil on canvas
In this important oil on canvas, French Orientalist painter Charles Landelle captures the engaging visage of a young Moroccan woman in a moment of tranquil contemplation. Seated on the floor of what is almost certainly an opulent riad, the young woman wears an intricately embroidered Moroccan kaftan and headdress. The sumptuous patterns on the floor and in the background lend an additional warmth to the strikingly vivid red hues which dominate the composition and are a hallmark of Landelle’s work.
The symbols behind the young woman may represent either the Jewish Star of David or the Islamic Seal...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Man - Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtle and moody portrait of a Pensive man by Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2002). The sitter in the portrait is a middle-aged man looking slightly downwards, wearing a collared shirt. This piece is completed in a tan and green palette, creating a somber feeling. Of particular note are the confident, thick brushstrokes - each one is well-placed in the modernist style. Similar in some ways to Picasso's portraits.
Signed "Joan Tidwell" on verso
Unframed.
Canvas size: 30"H x 22"W
oan Gay Tidwell (American, 1930-2002) was born and raised in Hollywood, CA, where she had some success as a child actor. Later, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Washington with a Master's Degree in English Literature and Drama. Tidwell moved to the Bay...
Category
1960s American Modern Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris Street Scene, Mid Century Figural Landscape by Marc Ottee
Located in Soquel, CA
Paris Street Scene, Mid Century Figural Landscape by Marc Ottee
Charming mid century urban landscape of Paris by Marc Ottee (20th c.). Figures, signage and...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Canvas, Oil
Fishing in Vejle Fjord - Realist Oil, River Landscape by Peder Monk Monsted
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A charming riverscape oil on canvas by Danish Realist painter Peder Mork Monsted. The painting depicts a beautiful spring landscape on a bright day. A man stands fishing on the bank of a river outside a pink cottage. Flowers are bursting into life on the riverbank and int he cottage garden.
Signature:
Signed, titled and dated 1920 lower left
Original artist's label verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 20"x26"
Unframed: 14"x20"
Provenance:
Private collection - Denmark
Mønsted was born at Grenå, Denmark. He was the son of Otto Christian Mønsted and Thora Johanne Petrea Jorgensen. His father was a prosperous ship-builder. At an early age, he began to receive painting lessons at the art school in Aarhus. From 1875 to 1879, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner. In 1878, Mønsted studied under the artist Peder Severin Krøyer. In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau.
In 1889, he went to Algeria. Three years later, he travelled to Greece, where he was a guest of King George I who had been born a Danish prince. While there, he also did portraits of the Greek royal...
Category
1920s Realist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Vixen in Venetian Red"
By Lane Timothy
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Lane Timothy was born and raised in the small town of Missoula, Montana where at a very young age he discovered a love of art. Lane sold his first paintin...
Category
2010s Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dapple Earth, Adele Riley, Original painting, Contemporary art, Woodland art
By Adele Riley
Located in Deddington, GB
Dappled Earth by Adele Riley [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic and acrylic inks on boxed canvas
Image size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:6...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Paris – Montmartre, Charles Verbrugghe, Bruges 1877 – 1974 Paris, Signed
Located in Bruges, BE
Paris – Montmartre
Verbrugghe Charles
Bruges 1877 – 1974 Paris
Belgian Painter
Signature: Signed bottom left and placed Paris
Dimensions: Image si...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Seated Female Nude Figure
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful modern impressionist figure painting of a seated nude woman by George Wishon (American, b.20th Century). The two-toned light bl...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Drummer - Acrylic Figurative Painting, Animal, Colorful, Polish art
By Rafał Bojdys
Located in Warsaw, PL
RAFAŁ BOJDYS (born in 1967) Bojdys studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Graphics Department in Katowice. He graduated from project atelier of Tomasz Jury and painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary Brown Pale Light Forrest Landscape By Danish Steffen Bue
By Steffen Bue
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
“Folehaven” is a beautiful forest scenery by the Scandinavian (Danish) contemporary artist Steffen Bue.
In this work, the artist draws his inspiration from the pale light of spring. He gradually brings out the nuances and intensity of delicate natural light dancing in between the trees, up until the level when the light catches an intensity that becomes sharp to the eye. The color palette is limited as he works with deeper nuances to capture the harmony created between the warm and cold colors that are characteristic of a forest in spring.
Acrylic on canvas with dimensions 70cm (H) x 99cm (W) (27,5in. x 38,9in.). This work is monogrammed “S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Canvas Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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