Wood Panel Figurative Paintings

Saint Jerome in the desert Cercle of Lambert Van Noort (1520-1571, Antwerp) Antwerp School, mid-16th century Oil on oak panel. Dimensions: panel h. 69 cm (27.16 in), l. 52.5 cm (20.6...

Francien Krieg, a contemporary Dutch artist, gives a new dimension to figurative painting with her penetrating and unfiltered portraits. Krieg, who received her art education at the ...

The painting, of which the subject is Saint Catherine from Alexandria with the breaking wheel used for her martyrdom, can be attributed to the mannerist artist of Emilia Romagna region Luca Longhi...

Egon Hofmann war nicht nur als Maler wichtig und wegweisend, sondern auch als Netzwerker, der als Gründer und langjähriger Präsident der Künstlervereinigung „März“ eine wichtige Roll...

Burning Ember is painted on a wood panel, in acrylic. The size is 40" x 40". The painting hangs on a French cleat. Troy Smith is a Canadian artist, designer, sculptor and painter w...

Pop Art. Americana. Bullseye. Ephemera, Oil, Acrylic, Resin on Panel. About the Artist: John Joseph Hanright is a contemporary painter and assemblage artist who brings togethe...

Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...

Feng Shi, born in Shanghai in 1990, professional painter. In 2009, he studied in the painting department of the school of fine arts of Shanghai Normal University. After graduating from the University in 2013, in September of the same year, he entered the studio of Giovanni Chiapello in the painting department of l'accademia Di Belle arti...

ENRIQUE ATALAYA Spanish, 1851 - 1913 BELEM´S TOWER, LISBON signed "ATALAYA" (lower right) oil on wood panel 6-1/4 x 8-1/8 inches (15.8 x 20.5 cm.) fram...

Harry Humphrey Moore led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, dividing his time between Europe, New York City, and California. This globe-trotting painter was also active in Morocco, and most importantly, he was among the first generation of American artists to live and work in Japan, where he depicted temples, tombs, gardens, merchants, children, and Geisha girls. Praised by fellow painters such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Moore’s fame was attributed to his exotic subject matter, as well as to the “brilliant coloring, delicate brush work [sic] and the always present depth of feeling” that characterized his work (Eugene A. Hajdel, Harry H. Moore, American 19th Century: Collection of Information on Harry Humphrey Moore, 19th Century Artist, Based on His Scrap Book and Other Data [Jersey City, New Jersey: privately published, 1950], p. 8). Born in New York City, Moore was the son of Captain George Humphrey, an affluent shipbuilder, and a descendant of the English painter, Ozias Humphrey (1742–1810). He became deaf at age three, and later went to special schools where he learned lip-reading and sign language. After developing an interest in art as a young boy, Moore studied painting with the portraitist Samuel Waugh in Philadelphia, where he met and became friendly with Eakins. He also received instruction from the painter Louis Bail in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1864, Moore attended classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and until 1907, he would visit the “City by the Bay” regularly. In 1865, Moore went to Europe, spending time in Munich before traveling to Paris, where, in October 1866, he resumed his formal training in Gérôme’s atelier, drawing inspiration from his teacher’s emphasis on authentic detail and his taste for picturesque genre subjects. There, Moore worked alongside Eakins, who had mastered sign language in order to communicate with his friend. In March 1867, Moore enrolled at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, honing his drawing skills under the tutelage of Adolphe Yvon, among other leading French painters. In December 1869, Moore traveled around Spain with Eakins and the Philadelphia engraver, William Sartain. In 1870, he went to Madrid, where he met the Spanish painters Mariano Fortuny and Martin Rico y Ortega. When Eakins and Sartain returned to Paris, Moore remained in Spain, painting depictions of Moorish life in cities such as Segovia and Granada and fraternizing with upper-crust society. In 1872, he married Isabella de Cistue, the well-connected daughter of Colonel Cistue of Saragossa, who was related to the Queen of Spain. For the next two-and-a-half years, the couple lived in Morocco, where Moore painted portraits, interiors, and streetscapes, often accompanied by an armed guard (courtesy of the Grand Sharif) when painting outdoors. (For this aspect of Moore’s oeuvre, see Gerald M. Ackerman, American Orientalists [Courbevoie, France: ACR Édition, 1994], pp. 135–39.) In 1873, he went to Rome, spending two years studying with Fortuny, whose lively technique, bright palette, and penchant for small-format genre scenes made a lasting impression on him. By this point in his career, Moore had emerged as a “rapid workman” who could “finish a picture of given size and containing a given subject quicker than most painters whose style is more simple and less exacting” (New York Times, as quoted in Hajdel, p. 23). In 1874, Moore settled in New York City, maintaining a studio on East 14th Street, where he would remain until 1880. During these years, he participated intermittently in the annuals of the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, exhibiting Moorish subjects and views of Spain. A well-known figure in Bay Area art circles, Moore had a one-man show at the Snow & May Gallery in San Francisco in 1877, and a solo exhibition at the Bohemian Club, also in San Francisco, in 1880. Indeed, Moore fraternized with many members of the city’s cultural elite, including Katherine Birdsall Johnson (1834–1893), a philanthropist and art collector who owned The Captive (current location unknown), one of his Orientalist subjects. (Johnson’s ownership of The Captive was reported in L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist,” New York Times, July 23, 1893.) According to one contemporary account, Johnson invited Moore and his wife to accompany her on a trip to Japan in 1880 and they readily accepted. (For Johnson’s connection to Moore’s visit to Japan, see Emma Willard and Her Pupils; or, Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary [New York: Mrs. Russell Sage, 1898]. Johnson’s bond with the Moores was obviously strong, evidenced by the fact that she left them $25,000.00 in her will, which was published in the San Francisco Call on December 10, 1893.) That Moore would be receptive to making the arduous voyage across the Pacific is understandable in view of his penchant for foreign motifs. Having opened its doors to trade with the West in 1854, and in the wake of Japan’s presence at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, American artists were becoming increasingly fascinated by what one commentator referred to as that “ideal dreamland of the poet” (L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist”). Moore, who was in Japan during 1880–81, became one of the first American artists to travel to the “land of the rising sun,” preceded only by the illustrator, William Heime, who went there in 1851 in conjunction with the Japanese expedition of Commodore Matthew C. Perry; Edward Kern, a topographical artist and explorer who mapped the Japanese coast in 1855; and the Boston landscapist, Winckleworth Allan Gay, a resident of Japan from 1877 to 1880. More specifically, as William H. Gerdts has pointed out, Moore was the “first American painter to seriously address the appearance and mores of the Japanese people” (William H. Gerdts, American Artists in Japan, 1859–1925, exhib. cat. [New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1996], p. 5). During his sojourn in Japan, Moore spent time in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Nikko, and Osaka, carefully observing the local citizenry, their manners and mode of dress, and the country’s distinctive architecture. Working on easily portable panels, he created about sixty scenes of daily life, among them this sparkling portrayal of a young woman dressed in a traditional kimono and carrying a baby on her back, a paper parasol...

Harry Humphrey Moore led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, dividing his time between Europe, New York City, and California. This globe-trotting painter was also active in Morocco, and most importantly, he was among the first generation of American artists to live and work in Japan, where he depicted temples, tombs, gardens, merchants, children, and Geisha girls. Praised by fellow painters such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Moore’s fame was attributed to his exotic subject matter, as well as to the “brilliant coloring, delicate brush work [sic] and the always present depth of feeling” that characterized his work (Eugene A. Hajdel, Harry H. Moore, American 19th Century: Collection of Information on Harry Humphrey Moore, 19th Century Artist, Based on His Scrap Book and Other Data [Jersey City, New Jersey: privately published, 1950], p. 8). Born in New York City, Moore was the son of Captain George Humphrey, an affluent shipbuilder, and a descendant of the English painter, Ozias Humphrey (1742–1810). He became deaf at age three, and later went to special schools where he learned lip-reading and sign language. After developing an interest in art as a young boy, Moore studied painting with the portraitist Samuel Waugh in Philadelphia, where he met and became friendly with Eakins. He also received instruction from the painter Louis Bail in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1864, Moore attended classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and until 1907, he would visit the “City by the Bay” regularly. In 1865, Moore went to Europe, spending time in Munich before traveling to Paris, where, in October 1866, he resumed his formal training in Gérôme’s atelier, drawing inspiration from his teacher’s emphasis on authentic detail and his taste for picturesque genre subjects. There, Moore worked alongside Eakins, who had mastered sign language in order to communicate with his friend. In March 1867, Moore enrolled at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, honing his drawing skills under the tutelage of Adolphe...

With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.

With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.

Ludwig Schwarzer formulates a highly independent work, bizarre in content and marked by perfection in craftsmanship. After realistic and later expressionist attempts, he found his ow...

Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of history as seen through a white lens. With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view. Many of the figures are from the 1400-1800s, a timeframe that corresponds with Europeans beginning to use racial distinction as a tool to justify slavery. Greenfield honors their simultaneously disturbing and astounding lives by bestowing them with halos, traditionally seen as reverential symbols of adoration and respect. “I am reimagining what a saint is,” Greenfield says. “Maybe in studying their stories, they can inform us on better ways to live.” Thought to have been a descendent of central African royalty...

With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.

Oil painting on wood panel. Building blocks. A glimpse into a child's world, one we all have experienced. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal. About the artist: Mollo...

Acrylic on Wood Panel. Portrait or Audrey Hepburn is 24x24. Vibrant colors. About the Artist: "Tomlin is young, upcoming artist based out of NY. His interests in portraits, i...

Red Houses No. 1 is a unique oil on laminated wood painting from the Norway series by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 46 × 74 cm (18.1 × 29.1 in). The art...

In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...

Lesley Powell paints in oils with a classical approach to composition and color, but she has a point of view that is fresh and contemporary. Whenever possible, she prefers to paint f...

Lesley Powell paints in oils with a classical approach to composition and color, but she has a point of view that is fresh and contemporary. Whenever possible, she prefers to paint f...

Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...

Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...

Spring Rain is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, silver leaf, dimensions are 110 × ...

Shelter is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with natural mineral pigments, copper leaf, Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 120 ...

In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...

Calvin Lai's (US based) "Approaching Equilibrium" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude female figure, standing, with her face in profile and dappled in light. ...

Narvik No. 4 is a unique oil on wood painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 46 × 74 cm (18.1 × 29.1 in). The artwork is signed and comes with a certi...

Red Houses No. 3 is a unique oil on wood painting from the Norway series by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 46 × 74 cm (18.1 × 29.1 in). The artwork is sig...

Mimosa is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 53 × 41 cm (20.9 × 16.1 ...

Research is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 90 × 76 cm (35.4 × 29....

The spring wind is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 70 × 100 cm (27...

Umbel is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 20 × 50 cm (7.9 × 19.7 in...

Hydrangea is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments, gold and silver leaf on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are...

Marinas 17, is a unique oil on wood painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 22 × 35 cm (8.7 × 13.8 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes ...

Cherry tree rain is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments, silver leaves on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are...

Road going to Baqueira is a unique oil on laminated wood painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 38 × 58 cm (15 × 22.8 in). The artwork is signed, sol...

Wind II is a unique painting by contemporary artist Yiching Chen. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 30 x 40 cm (11.8 × 15.7...

Snow of May III is a unique painting by contemporary artist Yiching Chen. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 38 x 46 cm (15 ...

Narvik No. 4 is a unique oil on wood painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 46 × 74 cm (18.1 × 29.1 in). The artwork is signed and comes with a certi...

Summer II is a unique painting by contemporary artist Yiching Chen. The painting is made with mineral pigments and gold leaves on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 50 × ...

Wind is a unique painting by contemporary artist Yiching Chen. The painting is made with Mineral pigments, gold and silver leaves on japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 30...

Trees in Baqueira is a unique oil on laminated wood painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 29 × 50 cm (11.4 × 19.7 in). Framed dimensions are 34 x 55 ...

Bellflowers is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments, Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 61 × 50 cm (24 × 19.7...

Hide and seek is a unique painting by contemporary artist Yiching Chen. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 30 x 40 cm (11.8 ...

Marinas n°38 is a unique oil on wood painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 22 × 35 cm (8.7 × 13.8 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and come...

Marinas n°9 is a unique oil on wood painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 22 × 35 cm (8.7 × 13.8 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes...

Solitude is a unique painting by contemporary artist Yiching Chen. The painting is made with mineral pigments and silver leaf on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 70 × 1...

Marinas 19, is a unique oil on wood painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 22 × 35 cm (8.7 × 13.8 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes...

By the Waterside III is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Valérie de Sarrieu, dimensions are 50 × 50 cm (19.7 × 19.7 in). It is part of the “Silhouettes” series....

Flourishing is a unique painting by contemporary artist Yiching Chen. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 60.6 cm × 45.5 cm (...

Blast is a unique painting by contemporary artist Yiching Chen. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 85 × 110 cm (33.5 × 43.3 ...

Flax Field is a unique painting by contemporary artist Yiching Chen. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions are 41 cm x 33 cm (16.1 ...

Marinas No. 3 is a unique oil on wood painting by contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 22 × 35 cm (8.7 × 13.8 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with ...

Snow of May II (2016) is a painting by contemporary Taiwanese artist Yiching Chen. Mineral pigments and silver leaves on japanese paper mounted on wood. 50 cm × 70 cm. Sold unframed...

Vincennes forest, painting by contemporary Taiwanese artist CHEN Yiching. Mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, 2018. 41 cm × 33 cm. This artwork is sold framed with a...

Hope is a unique painting by contemporary artist Yiching Chen. This painting is made with earth and mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood panel. This artwork is a dipty...