Mixed Media Figurative Paintings

Evocacion a R.M. mixed media cardboard painting CUIXART I TÀPIES, Modest (Barcelona, 1925 - Palafrugell, Girona, 2007). He cuixart initially studied medicine, but soon abandoned his...

"La Vierge" (The Virgin), an original mixed media on board by Charles Levier, is a piece for the true collector. Levier's vivid use of color projects from the painting, immediately capturing the viewer's attention. A rare, early work by Levier, he chose to paint a complex, abstract scene – an homage to surrealism, with clear influences from Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, and even Henri Matisse, with Matisse-esque female forms within forms. This work comes with great provenance from the 1950s from Martin Lowitz Gallery. Both the technical talent of Levier and his choice of abstract surrealist subject matter pair nicely with the beautifully crafted custom conservation frame. This masterful work is perfect for those who have an affinity for abstracts, surrealist works, and color-rich art. Artist: CHARLES LEVIER AKA CHARLES DE MONTFORT...

Stylized Art Deco pastel, watercolor, pencil depicting woman profile faces against a brown background. Signed "G. Kaitz" at the bottom left, 11 x 9 on crescent board. Regarded as one of the last of the American Art Deco Masters. The singular art of Gustave Kaitz...

Pierre de Clausade (1910-1976) La Mare Nièvre France 20th Century, Post-War, French River Landscape Seascape Painting. Unique Original, Oil on canvas, signed on the lower left. A v...

Beautiful figurative painting titled "Saint with Butterflies" by Kelly Fearing. Mixed media, circa 1955. Signed in lower right corner. Dimensions Without Frame: H 50.5 in. x W 11.5...

Original mixed media on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.

Robert De Niro Sr. (1922-1993). Two Figures, c. 1955. Ink, paint, charcoal, pastel and conte crayon on paper. Sheet measures 26 x 40 inches; 28 x 42 ...

Still Life Vases with Flowers folk art. Size: 14.5x23.5 framed 15x24x1 Peterson Laurent (1888-1958) was a Haitian painter. Born in Saint-Marc, Laurent worked as a blacksmith. He typ...

Ward Lockwood (1894 - 1963) New Mexico, Texas, Kansas / Mexico Artist Image Size: 30 x 20 Frame Size: 37 x 27 Medium: Mixed media on board 1956 "Southwest- No. 20- Battle (Indian Dance)" Bio: Born in Atchison, Kansas, Ward Lockwood became a key painter in the Taos, New Mexico art colony, but diverse modernist art styles including Expressionism*, Cubism*, Surrealism* and Constructivism* reflected his wide ranging travels in Europe and the United States. From the 1920s to the 1960s, his work embraced a series of stylistic changes characteristic of people who influenced him, including John Marin and Andrew Dasburg. He studied at the University of Kansas, and from 1914 to 1917 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts* where he was introduced to Modernism*. In 1917, he began a two-year enlistment in the Army and served in France, and in 1921, a return visit to France led to his being influenced by Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh. During this time, he studied in Paris at the Academie Ranson*, but got bored with the academic climate of that school and spent time at the Louvre and galleries along the Rue de la Boetie. He painted from local models and traveled around France with fellow Kansan, Kenneth Adams. He was much impressed with the diversity of contemporary art movements including Futurism*, Cubism, and Dadaism*. His work from this period shows influences of Geometric Abstraction* and Impressionism. In 1922, he returned to Kansas, committed to the idea that an artist does best painting in his own culture. He worked as a commercial artist and also did portrait commissions. In 1926, he and his wife, artist Clyde Bonebrake, moved to Taos, New Mexico because of his friendship with Kenneth Adams, who was already established there. Lockwood became interested in the Taos Society of Artists*, dedicated to a mutual effort of marketing their art work. Major influences there for a loosening of style were modernists Andrew Dasburg and John Marin. Watercolor became Lockwood's preferred medium because he felt that it gave him more freedom of expression. In the 1930s, he left Taos because of his need to make more money. He did numerous murals for the Federal Arts Project* and accepted teaching positions at the Broadmoor Academy* in Colorado Springs and in 1938, became Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Texas in Austin. Subsequently he taught at at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. In 1940, he moved to San Francisco and experimented with Abstraction* and Assemblage* but was again in the Army during World War II, advancing to the rank of colonel. After that, he returned to California to teach and was much influenced by the modernist art environment there, exhibiting with the Abstract-Expressionist painters of the controversial San Francisco Art Association. He made frequent summer trips to Taos, where he settled during his final years. In 1962, Lockwood retired from teaching and returned to Taos where he died the following year. By the time he died, four hundred paintings were in his estate collection. Sources include: John and Deborah Powers, Texas Painters, Sculptors and Graphic Artists Matthew Baigell, Dictionary of American Artists Dean Porter, Taos Artists Born Atchison, Sept. 22, 1894; died Taos, NM, July 6, 1963. Painter. Lithographer. Decorator. Teacher. Worked on the art staff of the Kansas City Star in 1912. Studied at University of Kansas, Lawrence 1912-14, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in1914-17, and, after service in World War I, at Ransom Academie in Paris in 1921. In 1922, he returned to Kansas, committed to the idea that an artist does his best painting in his own culture. He worked as a commercial artist and also did portrait commissions. Lockwood moved to Taos in 1926 and, although he traveled widely, he maintained a home and studio there the rest of his life. In summer 1932 and 1933, he taught at the Broadmoor Art Academy, Colorado Springs, CO. In 1936 Lockwood painted a mural for the Wichita Post Office, Pioneer in Kansas. He was a professor of Art and head of the Department of Art at the University of Texas, Austin from 1938-49 and at the University of California, Berkeley from 1949-61. He served as Rose Morgan Visiting Professor & Artist in residence at University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1957-58 while on leave from the University of California. He retired from teaching and returned to Taos in 1962. SOURCES: Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)" Reinbach; Sain, Lydia. Kansas Artists, compiled by Lydia Sain from 1932 to 1948. Typed Manuscript, 1948.; Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936- v.1=1936-37 v.3= 1941-42 v.2=1938-39 v.4=1940-47. 1901-4,6,7; Newlin, Gertrude Dix (Development of Art in Kansas. Typed Manuscript, 1951); Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1974. Wiebe, Joanna K. “Kansans Cared About their New Deal Art”, in Wichita Eagle Beacon, May 21, 1972. p.1E & 7E-----. “Local Legends Live in Art”, in Wichita Eagle Beacon, May 22, 1972. p.1A & 3A-----. “Age Enhances Fort Scott Mural”, in Wichita Eagle Beacon, May 23, 1972. p.1A & 8A-----. “Halstead Legend Perpetuated”, in Wichita Eagle Beacon, May 24, 1972. p.1A & 16A -----. “Scenics, Murals and Lithographs Included in Kansas New Deal Art”, in Wichita Eagle Beacon, May 25, 1972. p.15A.; WKDC (Kansas Artists, compiled by Woman’s Kansas Day Club. January 29, 1964. Typed Manuscript.); Eldredge, Charles. Ward Lockwood (1974); Samuels, Peggy. Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1976.; Art in Federal Buildings: an illustrated record of the Treasury Department’s New Program in Painting and Sculpture. Volume 1: Mural Design, 1934-36. Washington, DC: Art in Federal Buildings Inc., 1936; Harmsen, Dorothy. American Western Art; a Collection of One Hundred Twenty-Five Western Paintings and Sculpture with Biographies of the Artists. [Denver}: Harmsen Publishing Co., 1977.; American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-1947 20,22,24,26; Witt, David L. The Taos Artists: A Historical Narrative and Biographical Dictionary. Born on Sept. 22, 1894 in Atchison, KS. From the University of Kansas, Lockwood studied at the PAFA and Académie Ranson in Paris. While based in Taos (NM), he taught at the University of Texas (1938-49) and UC Berkeley (1949-61). He died in Talpa, near Taos, New Mexico on July 6, 1963. Exh: Salon d'Automne, (Paris), 1922; AIC, 1931 (prize); CPLH, 1932; SFMA, 1932 (prize), 1953; Denver Museum, 1932; Calif. WC Society, 1939; Pasadena Museum, 1960. In: Denver Museum; PAFA; CPLH; SFMA; Santa Barbara Museum; Wichita (KS) Post Office (mural). Edan Hughes, author of the book "Artists in California, 1786-1940" AAA 1923-33; WWAA 1936-62. Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. Ward Lockwood (1894 - 1963) Born in Atchison, Kansas, Ward Lockwood became a key painter in the Taos, New Mexico art colony, but diverse modernist art styles including Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Constructivism reflected his wide ranging travels in Europe and the United States. From the 1920s to the 1960s, his work embraced a series of stylistic changes characteristic of people who influenced him, including John Marin and Andrew Dasburg. He studied at the University of Kansas, and from 1914 to 1917 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he was introduced to Modernism. In 1917, he began a two-year enlistment in the Army and served in France, and in 1921, a return visit to France led to his being influenced by Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh. During this time, he studied in Paris at the Academie Ranson, but got bored with the academic climate of that school and spent time at the Louvre and galleries along the Rue de la Boetie. He painted from local models and traveled around France with fellow Kansan, Kenneth Adams. He was much impressed with the diversity of contemporary art movements including Futurism, Cubism, and Dadaism. His work from this period shows influences of Geometric Abstraction* and Impressionism. In 1922, he returned to Kansas, committed to the idea that an artist does best painting in his own culture. He worked as a commercial artist and also did portrait commissions. In 1926, he and his wife, artist Clyde Bonebrake, moved to Taos, New Mexico because of his friendship with Kenneth Adams, who was already established there. Lockwood became interested in the Taos Society of Artists, dedicated to a mutual effort of marketing their artwork. Major influences there for a loosening of style were modernists Andrew Dasburg and John Marin. Watercolor became Lockwood's preferred medium because he felt that it gave him more freedom of expression. In the 1930s, he left Taos because of his need to make more money. He did numerous murals for the Federal Arts Project and accepted teaching positions at the Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs and in 1938, became Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Texas in Austin. Subsequently he taught at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. In 1940, he moved to San Francisco and experimented with Abstraction and Assemblage but was again in the Army during World War II, advancing to the rank of colonel. After that, he returned to California to teach and was much influenced by the modernist art environment there, exhibiting with the Abstract-Expressionist painters of the controversial San Francisco Art Association. He made frequent summer trips to Taos, where he settled during his final years. In 1962, Lockwood retired from teaching and returned to Taos where he died the following year. By the time he died, four hundred paintings were in his estate collection. John Ward Lockwood was a key figure in American painting in the first half of this century; he exhibited widely and he was an influential teacher and writer. Today his work is in most major museums. Lockwood studied at the Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris, followed by a year painting in the south of France with Kenneth Adams, a fellow Kansan. In 1926, Lockwood and his wife moved to Taos where Adams had already joined the Taos Society of Artists. Lockwood's work, at first characteristic of the regionalist painting of early Taos, soon began to show the influence of his modernist-mentors and fly-fishing companion, artists John Marin and Andrew Dasburg, and of Cubism. Lockwood had begun a steady progress toward the Modernist style that characterized his mature work. Along with Bert Phillips...

actual size 23"x18" framed 35"x30" Josef Presser born in Lublin, Russian Poland, Josef Presser came to Boston, MA at the age of 12 where he received a scholarship to the Boston Mu...

We are proud to present the following suite of just discovered, mixed media paintings, c.1957, by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010) Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific a...