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Medium: Tempera
Unknown artist - Monk or hermit in prayer, wooden panel
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Tempera painting on panel depicting a monk or hermit with folded hands praying next to a cross and rosary, surounded by 5 pebbles. Gilded background.
Dated lower right AD 1577.
17th...
Category
17th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Wood Panel
Study for a Fish at Sea with Three Flags-Ink, egg-tempera and gold leaf on panel
Located in Dallas, TX
Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1975. He studied painting and printmaking at the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he also received a postgraduate degree...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Siamese Cat with Kittens by Orovida Pissarro - Egg tempura painting
Located in London, GB
Siamese Cat with Kittens by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Egg tempera on linen
39 x 48 cm (15³/₈ x 18⁷/₈ inches)
Signed lower right Orovida and dated lower left 1934
Provenance
J Ankri, 8th October 1967
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 51, p. 56 (illustrated)
Exhibition
London, The Leicester Galleries, Paintings by Orovida, February 1935, no. 6
Women’s International Art Club, 20th February - 13th March 1937, no. 273
London, Redfern Gallery, Ten Years of Work by Orovida, 5th-28th May 1938, no. 7
London, The Royal Society of British Artists, Summer Exhibition, 1947, no. 281 (possibly the etching)
London, O’Hana Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Coloured Etchings: Orovida, 3rd-18th October 1957, no. 13
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...
Category
1930s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Egg Tempera
Bind
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original egg tempera and gold leaf on board by American female conceptual contemporary artist Rosemary Lyons.
What makes an artist a failure?
While strolling through the Metropolitan I was viewing the wing piece of a more extensive altar and observed words etched into the golden grounds.
This had a profound resonance with me because of my fascination and utilization of words in all of my work.
Next I visited the Cloisters and stood transfixed in front of Robert Campion’s “Annunciation”
Of particular interest was the lovely white lily that indicates Mary’s purity.
On this same sojourn I witnessed the line out the door and around the block of people waiting to get into a contemporary artist’s retrospective. Is that success?
My response began with one painting of lilies...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Großes Rapsbild, Ratzeburger See
Located in Paris, IDF
Egg tempera on canvas, Molding frame
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German ...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Egg Tempera
Japanese Contemporary Art by Miyuki Takanashi - Squating Girl
Located in Paris, IDF
Tempera, ink & egg emulsion
Miyuki Takanashi is a Japanese artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Sapporo in Japan. She is graduated from Hokkaido University of Education Iwamiza...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Emulsion, Ink, Tempera
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Zehdenick/Havel, Seerosen, Gänse klein
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Egg Tempera
Icing the Cake, Cover of The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Masonite
Sight Size 14.50" x 11.25", Framed 20.50" x 17.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 16, 1945
Category
1940s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera, Gouache
"Composition with Figure, " Irene Rice Pereira
Located in New York, NY
Irene Rice Pereira
Composition with Figure, 1951
Inscribed, signed and dated Salford/Pereira 2/51 (lr); inscribed I Rice Pereira/2669 Great Clowes St/Sa...
Category
1950s Abstract Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Casein
Costume - Mixed Media on Paper by Alkis Matheos - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Costume is an original painting artwork in mixed media, tempera and watercolor on paper, realized by the Greek-French artist Alkis Matheos
Very good conditions.
The artwork is a b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Tempera, Watercolor
The Soldier - Original Tempera by M. Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Soldier is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1950s.
Mixed colored tempera on cardboard.
Includes a contemporary gilded wooden frame: 54.5 x 3.5 x 31
Mino Mac...
Category
1950s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Japanese Contemporary Art by M. Takanashi - Fascinated by the Brilliance of Life
Located in Paris, IDF
Tempera and gold lieaf on canvas
Miyuki Takanashi is a Japanese artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Sapporo in Japan. She is graduated from Hokkaido University of Education Iwa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
portrait Boy Egon
Located in Roma, GB
original oil,tempera painting on canvas
hand signed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Tempera
The archangel Saint Michael, after an icon of the 14th century
Located in Segovia, ES
Archangel Saint Michael after an icon from Constantinople of the 14th Century.
Artist: Oliver Samsinger
Technique: Egg tempera on gesso and wood, with application of gold leaf
Dimens...
Category
2010s Byzantine Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Three Emperors, Futuristic painting triptych as a Byōbu-ē folding screen
Located in Dallas, TX
The Three Emperors is a triptych, which Papamichalopoulos has created a Byōbu-ē folding screen. Each panel measures 150x40 cm / 59 x 16 inches.
The piece is created using ink, egg-...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
City Scene with Faces casein tempera on canvas by Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Hudson, NY
Modernist painting by Vaclav Vytlacil of "City Scene with Faces". Signed and dated "Vytlacil 32" lower right.
Provenance: Estate of the artist #1584; Martin Diamond Fine Art
Exhibi...
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Casein, Canvas
In the Dentist's Chair, Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, In The Dentist’s Chair, published on October 19, 1957, embodies Ard’s characteristic wit and attention to detail. The young man, still wearing a toy pistol in a holster, seems to have been torn from playing a cowboy with his friends. Having just completed his x-rays, which hang on the wall behind him, the boy awaits the arrival of the dentist to determine his fate.
Interestingly, the Post editors empathize with the dentist rather than the patient. The Post describes: “Dentists are to be pitied. How would you like to be greeted by horrified faces like this from morn till night throughout your professional career? Dentists are kindly, humane souls who love their fellowmen, minister constructively to their grinders, and seldom hurt the faint-hearts much while doing it–yet their only reward, besides a fee, is those eternal faces, staring, staring upward as if at an ogre. Next time you go to a D.D.S., smile at him; and if he doesn’t faint, maybe he’ll pull a couple of your teeth for nothing. Kurt Ard...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Wacholderwald und Heide, Schmarbeck
Located in Paris, IDF
Egg tempera on canvas, Shadow joint frame
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North Ge...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Egg Tempera
Venice Magic
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Egg Tempera on gesso panel
Signed lower right: "R. Vickery"
This item is in our New York City warehouse and can be viewed by appointment.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
St. Atomic oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Exhibited
1950 University of Illinois at Urbana "Contemporary American Painting"
1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 36" x 2".
About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
French Contemporary Art by Claudie Baran - Art is dead - Nature takes over
Located in Paris, IDF
Tempera,Ink on canvas
Framed - 132 x 99 x 4 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Tempera
Ceremonial Dancers oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Artwork measures 48" x 30" and framed 56 ¼" x 38 ¼" x 3"
Provenance:
John Heller Gallery, NYC, circa 1975 (label verso)
The artist's daughter
Corbino Galleries, Sarasota, FL (1990)...
Category
1940s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
The Shepherd, English Victorian 19th Century Egg Tempera
Located in London, GB
Sir William Blake Richmond KCB, RA, PPRBSA
1842 - 1921
The Shepherd
Egg tempera on wooden panel, signed with initials bottom left
Image size: 8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches
Period gilt oak frame
A newly discovered work by the artist.
Sir William Blake Richmond KCB, RA, PPRBSA was an English portrait painter, sculptor and a designer of stained glass and mosaic. He is best known for his portrait work and decorative mosaics in St Paul's Cathedral in London.
He was the son of the portraitist George Richmond RA and studied at the Royal Academy Schools in the early 1860s. Influenced by his father and by Sir John Everett Millais, he is best known for his mosaic decorations below the dome and in the apse of St Paul's Cathedral in London.
His father, George Richmond, was one of 'the Ancients' who were a group of artists who formed around the visionary artist and poet William Blake. Samuel Palmer was an other of the ancients and a close friend of the family.
Our painting could have been inspired by George Richmond’s engraving 'The Shepherd', 1827, but in our panel the shepherd is turned round facing away, and is playing a flute instead of resting on a staff. But the sheep and other elements are there.
It is also suggestive of Welby Sherman's engraving after Samuel Palmer of the same name and date, but here the shepherd is sitting but like ours turned away. William Blake's is an altogether happier image given the figure is playing to his sheep.
Our painting is playing with some of the same ideas and feels like the same sort of period, and the ‘fresco’ like chalk ground is interesting, as is the pen and ink finishing on the tempera. All three are strongly influenced by Blake's illustrations to Thornton's 'Virgil'. The shepherd and his flock are clearly based on Thenot and his sheep in the Frontispiece to Thornton.
Blake Richmond wrote:"If there be the least value in my pictures, it is due to such lovely early impressions derived from the sweet poetic work of many of my father's contemporaries, Calvert, Blake and others, whose shadows are substance still to me" [Sir William Blake Richmond, letter to his father, 50 years after the death of William Blake, from Stirling op. cit p. 28].
Richmond was given private art lessons by John Ruskin before attending the Royal Academy for three years. After that he spent a number of years in Italy, where an encounter with a shepherd called Beppino, 'a splendid speciman of a Sabine Shepherd', could also have gave him the inspiration for the painting we show here. Richmond recalls how he met Beppino on the hillside, and was invited to share the shade of the shepherd's capanna, a wooden hut. 'What a place! In an instant of time I was back into the age of kings, and I knew Romulus had lived and am sure that he lived in a hut exactly like this one'.
That night Richmond dined at Beppino's hut 'on roast kid, hard bread dipped in Roman wine, goat's cream and white ricotta'. The shepherd had such an impression on Richmond that he sought him out on a return visit to Italy some years later, but was saddened to hear that Beppino 'had joined his fore-fathers in the shades'.
He was moved to write the following, which perfectly expresses the mood of this painting and his tribute to a fleeting companion:
'Little events of this kind unite past times with present, create and emphasis continuity of human instincts, which seem to defy time and make travel so intensely interesting and invigorating to a citizen of this world. One need not go to the palace, far otherwise, or to cities and towns to discover the kernal of enduring civilisations. One finds it, if one wills to do so, in the backbone of the world, an ancient peasantry who have watched and still watch the progress of the stars'.
Richmond was influential in the early stages of the Arts and Crafts Movement in his selection of bold colours and materials for the mosaics in St. Paul's Cathedral and in his collaboration with James Powell and Sons...
Category
1860s Victorian Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Egg Tempera
Colorful Surreal Abstract Expressionist Painting of a Macabre Group of Clowns
Located in Houston, TX
Surreal abstract expressionist painting of a group of clowns in the style of Belgian painter James Ensor. Combining the macabre with the playful, the work features distorted clowns a...
Category
1990s Surrealist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
The House, Tempera & Charcoal on Acid Free Paper, Blue, Brown colours "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subha Basu - The House - 10.5 x 9.5 inches (unframed size)
Tempera & Charcoal on Acid Free Paper.
Born - 1982 at Kolkata. B.V.A from The Indian College of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Tempera
Medicinal Plants, Papaver Somiferum L. (Opium)
By Peggy Kliafa
Located in New York, NY
MEDICINAL PLANTS, PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM L. (OPIUM), 2013
Tempera on paper
49,5 x 38,5 cm
Born in 1967 in Trikala, she grew up in Athens, Greece, where s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Archival Paper
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Dover, National Park, Langdon Hole
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Egg Tempera
New Orleans Jazz II Egg Tempera 9 x 12 Portraiture Finalist PSA Jazz Music
Located in Houston, TX
While walking in Jackson Square in New Orleans, you can't help but hear the trumpets and trombones of the Jackson Street band that spends their time entertaining the tourists and loc...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
Another Day Egg Tempera on Panel Gilded Frame Salmagundi Club ACM Panel
Located in Houston, TX
Another Day by E. Melinda Morrison is 24 x 30 is egg tempera on an ACM panel. Framed in a black 3-1/2" gilded frame. ACM (Aluminum Composite Material) panels have several advantag...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
At the Winery - Hungarian Art
Located in London, GB
This original painting is hand signed by the artist "Scheiber H" in the lower left corner,
and dated "1940" below the signature.
Exhibited: Hugo Scheiber - Bela Kadar, Galerie Le Mi...
Category
1940s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache
1976
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Nelson Copley, American (1919 - 1996)
Title: 1976
Year: 1976
Medium: Tempera on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 23.5 x 18 inches
Frame: 36 x 30 inches
Category
1970s Pop Art Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Surreal Eskimo Fairy Tale - Indigenous People Folklore Story-Teller
Located in Miami, FL
This work celebrates the customs and folklore of Indigenous People / Eskimo native life. Illustrator Gianni Benvenuti shows a partially clothed Eskimo man lying on his back in a tran...
Category
1960s Surrealist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Cardboard
Tribesmen with Headdresses - Gay Artist
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
"Riggs openly identified as gay to his friends in the Philadelphia art community, but did not disclose his orientation to his employers." - Woodmere Art Museum
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
1940s American Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Now and Then - Original Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This piece was illustrated on the cover of four magazines:
the May 28, 1957 issue of the Familie Journal, the May 1957 issue of Allers, the August 10, 1957 issue of
HÖRZU, and the October 25, 1958 issue of Panorama.
This illustration featuring two little girls side-by-side, both on the telephone, shows how much has changed between 1907 and 1957.
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Portrait of Woman - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil and tempera on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960.
Hand signed lower right.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist cm. 80x60.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rom...
Category
1960s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera, Cardboard
Pushkin's Fairy Tales Princess - Fantasy Art - Art Nouveau
Located in Miami, FL
Italian Illustrator Gianni Benvenuti depicts a Pushkin's Fairy Tales Princess in a winter landscape of stylized trees with exaggerated curves and twisting branches. The princess is d...
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Illustration Board
Pre-Raphaelite Style Painting of Mothers and Babies in WWII
Located in Miami, FL
Babies are falling from the sky and not bombs. British female artist and illustrator Noel Laura Nisbet makes a passionate twist to the reality of En...
Category
1940s Pre-Raphaelite Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media, Tempera
Woman on Porch Feed Her Cats at Early Morning Light , Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A milk truck is seen caressed in the golden light of early morning as a woman bends down to feed her cat. The artist depicts a precious moment as an older woman reaching down to pick...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
E.K.: With Aqua Fabric
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'E.K.: With Aqua Fabric' by celebrated figurative artist Kim Frohsin, painted in 2018. The artwork is 10 x 8 inches and it is professionally framed in a museum quality white maple ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Archival Paper, Ink, Tempera, Board
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys
Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Category
1940s American Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Safe!
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera on Board
Illustration of a baseball player's dusty crash to a field base as seen out of the corner of a television set.
Category
20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
House at an Angle, Original Holiday Greeting Card Christmas Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original Holiday Greeting Card Illustration featuring a snowy scene filled with horse-drawn sleighs at Christmastime
Medium: Egg Tempera on Gesso Board
Charlotte Joan Sternberg was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1920. Early on, she became interested in art, and her parents encouraged her efforts. She attended public schools in the area, as well as taking art classes at the technical school. Afterwards, she attended the Yale School of Art. Her fellow classmates included Rudolph Zallinger, who executed the dinosaur mural at the Peabody Museum in New Haven; Jean Day Zallinger, renowned book illustrator; and Edward Paier, founder of the Paier College of Art. It was there that she became interested in egg tempera, and most of her well-known artwork was done in this medium. She was one of a number of Yale artists who revived this medium.(She did not work professionally in oils, although she sometimes used gouache or watercolor.)
She went on to a long career in commercial illustration. She worked extensively for J.Walter Thompson, doing advertising art for such companies as Esso (later Exxon), Textron, and Lederle pharmaceuticals. While she did a variety of subjects, she was best known for her Americana themes, particularly snow scenes of historic New England. Many of these pieces were published as Christmas cards for American Artists Group. She also taught for many years at the Paier College of Art.
She also did a number of limited edition prints for Greenwich Workshop. Her art is used on such items as tapestry pillows, puzzles, and decorative flags. She was commissioned to do several portraits, including those of Gov.John...
Category
20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Egg Tempera, Board
Don Quixote - Nobleman on Horse with Sheep - Action Painting
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti depicts a dramatic scene from the epic Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. With unrivaled skill, Benvenuti captures a peak moment of drama when...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Pencil
Desert 9 - Young Polish artist, Social commentary, Realistic tempera painting
By Anna Wardega
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANNA WARDĘGA-CZAJA
Graduated from the Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Art in Cracow, Poland in 2021. She's dealing with easel painting, wall pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Egg Tempera
King Arthur's Knights Battle - Sword Fighting
Located in Miami, FL
Italian Illustrator Gianni Benvenuti depicts a sword battle in a post-cubist/expressionist style. Without regard for proper perspective, the picture is as representative as it is abs...
Category
1960s Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Stinfangblick, Hamburg
Located in Paris, IDF
Egg tempera on canvas, Shadow joint frame
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North Ge...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Egg Tempera
Quattro Virtù Cardinali tempera su tela, arte manierista toscana del XVI secolo
By Cristofano Rustici
Located in Florence, IT
Cristofano Rustici called il Rusticone was an artist active in Siena between the 16th and 17th century, son of Lorenzo Brazzi called il Rustico (Siena 1521-1572). Even if his artistic training started in the family workshop, he was mostly very influenced by the Flemish artist Bernhard van Rantwijk, who was also living in the Tuscan town at the same time.
The subject of the four paintings are the Cardinal Virtues...
Category
16th Century Mannerist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Tempera
The Virgin of Tijvin (after a Russian Icon in the style of the 18th century).
Located in Segovia, ES
The Virgin of Tijvin (after a Russian icon in the style of the 18th Century).
Egg tempera and gold leaf on gesso over wood.
Measurements in centimeters: 45 x 36.5 x 3 cm / In inch...
Category
1990s Byzantine Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Two Women and an Automobile
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera and Collage on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
Category
20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Tempera, Illustration Board
"Birth of Christ" after a Russian icon of the 15th century. Oliver Samsinger
Located in Segovia, ES
"Birth of Christ", after a Russian icon of the 15th century.
Tempera and gold leaves on gesso, wooden board. Dimensions: (H) 68 x (W) 52 x (D) 4 cm.
This icon sums up the events of the birth of Christ. At the top left the three wise men from the Orient approach on horses.
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Category
1990s Byzantine Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Army Poker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Army Poker, c. 1943, probably tempera on board, signed upper right, 16 x 20 inches, inscribed verso a) “Army Poker / Mervin Honig / 421 W 42 St. N.Y.C.,” b) “Mervin Honig / US Army Air Force – Seymour Johnson Field – Goldsboro, NC / Circa 1943,” and c) “(This painting was done before men was (sic) shipped off to the Mariana Islands (Saipan) The Second World War.” Note: four pencil sketches for this work included
Mervin Honig was a New York-based painter and illustrator who is best known for his realistic depictions of everyday life and sports themes. Honig was raised in Brooklyn and recalled almost never being without a paintbox in hand from the time he started elementary school. Honig had a deep reverence for the Old Master painters, Vermeer and Bellini, as well as the Americans Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. He initially studied art from 1939 through 1941 with Francis Criss. At the outbreak of World War II, Honig worked as a mechanic for Republic Aviation, but in August 1942, he enlisted in the US Army Air Corps and was stationed at Seymour Johnson Field in Goldsboro, North Carolina. During the war, Honig began to exhibit nationally, including as part of the Portrait of America exhibitions which originated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and traveled around the country, as well as at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He painted Army Poker in 1943 while stationed at Johnson Field. In this work, Honig draws inspiration from Paul Cezanne's The Card Players (Metropolitan Museum of Art), with a similar placement of the four figures, but Cezanne's table is replaced with an Army cot, the pipe rack with a soldier's mess kit and the drapery in the right background with a heap of discarded uniforms. Unlike the vibrancy of Cezanne's composition, the limited palette of Honig's work suggests the drabness and monotony of stateside Army life.
After being discharged from military service, Honig furthered his studies with Amadee Ozenfant in 1946 and Hans Hoffman from 1947 through 1950. Additional exhibitions included the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Provincetown Art Association, and the National Academies Galleries of the Allied Artists Association. He was represented by the venerable Frank Rehn...
Category
1940s American Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Tempera
Snake, Large-Scale Visionary Abstract with Mystical Creatures by Barbara Carlson
By Barbara Carlson
Located in Soquel, CA
Snake, Large-Scale Visionary Abstract with Mystical Creatures by Barbara B. Carlson
Large scale abstract with Central America mythological motifs by Barbara B. Carlson an Orinda, Ca...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Laid Paper
Tribal Swag
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tribal Swag' by celebrated figurative artist Kim Frohsin, painted in 2018. The artwork is 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches and it is professionally framed in a museum quality white maple hardw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Archival Paper, Ink, Tempera, Watercolor, Pencil
The Sanctuary
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is titled "The Sanctuary" and signed.
Painting is casein paint and plaster on board.
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the Katzen...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Plaster, Casein, Wood Panel
The Road by Valérie de Sarrieu - Oil on canvas painting, landscape
Located in Paris, FR
The Road is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Valérie de Sarrieu, dimensions are 160 × 160 cm (63 × 63 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil, Tempera
Wilhelm Ohm (1905-1965), Double Portrait with Chairs, circa 1950
Located in Greding, DE
Expressive portrait of a man and a woman looking directly at the viewer as well as indicated chairs.
The execution of a series of chair paintings served Wilhelm Ohm (1905 Stettin -...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
"Is Geography Distracting You From the World Series?
By Charles Kerins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover for The Catholic Boy magazine, published September 1952. Captioned on the first page of the magazine: "Is geography distracting you from ...
Category
1950s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Tribesmen with Headdresses - Photo Realism
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
1940s American Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
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