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Style: American Impressionist
"Eggs on Purple" (2024) By Scott Conary, Original Oil Painting on Paper
Located in Denver, CO
Scott Conary's "Egg's on Purple" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a cracked egg on a purple napkin.
About the Artist:
Raised where the East Coast suburbs filtered ...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Snow by Flatiron NYC" Impressionist Snow Scene Oil Paint Style of Guy Wiggins
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
A charming depiction of the Flatiron building in New York City with figures in the snow and a small tea cup terrier. A cozy impressionistic street scene with colors of cobalts, white...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Redhead On A Yellow Blanket - Original San Francisco Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Redhead On A Yellow Blanket - Original Figurative Nude Study
Original San Francisco figurative nude painting depicting a redhead model laying on a yellow blanket. Her hand lays over...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$704 Sale Price
20% Off
Wall Street New York
By Gail Sherman Corbett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Seated Butterfly" Haute Couture Impressionistic Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
This piece captures the essence of fashion in Pairs. Done in a very modern and impressionistic style, the colors are bright yet subtle. Painted oil on canvas, signed lower right. Pai...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Tuscan Hill Town" Encaustic painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dale O Roberts' "Tuscan Hill Town" is an original, hand made encaustic painting that depicts a colorful Tuscan hillside.
About the artist:
Born 1959 in Waterville NY, Dale O Robert...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Black Woman's Honor, 14x11" oil on board
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Black Woman's Beauty by Lu Haskew
Oil 14x11" image size, Portrait Painting
This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed.
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Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Rose at Dusk" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Scott Conary's "Rose at Dusk" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a hyper realistic white flower with a dark background.
About the Artist...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Woman Dressing"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this work by Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874 – 1939).
Frederick Carl Frieseke was a member of the third generation of American painters to inhabit and find inspiration from Giverny, France. His use of bright colors and light, to depict the female figure, defined the style of the Giverny group during his residence, synthesizing aspects of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Born in the United States, Frieseke studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. In 1898, he moved to Paris to enroll in the Académie Julian, where he studied under Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. During this time, Frieseke also briefly studied with James A. Whistler, who would prove to be a great inspiration in Frieseke’s early works. From Whistler, Frieseke adopted a tonalist palette and a decorative approach to figurative painting.
While in Paris, Frieseke’s works were featured at the American Art Association of Paris and in several annual salon exhibitions. His painting, “Before the Mirror...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Beach Modern Impressionist Oil Painting
By Marguerite Rousseau
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
The Beach Modern Impressionist Oil Painting
Marguerite Rousseau was born in 1888 in Belgium died in 1948.
She is known for her French Impressionist style in her earlier work, she was painting parks...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alejandro, Oil/Linen, Figurative Painting , Cuban-American Artist, Mythology
By Edel Lugones
Located in Houston, TX
Alejandro is an oil on linen painting by Cuban-American artist Edel Lugones who lives in Miami, Fl. It is 17 x 14 unframed and the gallery is waiting fo...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Female Illustrator, Flapper of 1800, Monochromatic
By Anna Whelan Betts
Located in Miami, FL
A "Flapper of 1800" is depicted in profile with her maid holding a hat box and cradling a little monkey. The maid is a step to the right and a step behind her. Overlapping garments v...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Marblehead Harbor, Grey Day" John Rettig, 1919 Marine Landscape Work
Located in New York, NY
John Rettig
Marblehead Harbor, Grey Day, 1919
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on academy board
15 x 18 inches
Dubbed as the “Wizard of Scenic Creation”, John Rettig was best known...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Evening - New York - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Johann Berthelsen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Stunning oil on canvas circa 1955 by American impressionist painter Johann Henrik Carl Berthelsen. The piece depicts a view of the illuminated waterfront buildings from the East Rive...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Tea, Reading" impressionist composition of woman at the kitchen table, Tuscany
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Tea, Reading" impressionist composition of woman at the kitchen table, Tuscany.
A woman sits in Fenske's kitchen, reading a book and sipping on tea. Light streams in through an open...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Canvas
"The Auction"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Robert Spencer (1879 - 1931)
One of the rarest and most important artists among the New Hope School, Robert Spencer was bor...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Red Dress"
By Joseph Newman
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Joseph Newman (1890 - 1979)
Joseph Newman was born in New York City in 1890. He attended the Pratt Institute and the Adelphi College Art School, and served in the U.S. Army during WWW1. After the war, he married and traveled to Europe. He returned to New York in the mid 1920's, and with a group of contemporaries formed The Fifteen Gallery in Manhattan.
Newman painted a broad variety of subjects including genre scenes, landscapes, figurative works, and equestrian subjects. He worked in various styles ranging from academic realism to a looser, post-impressionist approach, and is best known for colorful, animated genre scenes painted in and around Rockport Harbor and as far west as Taos, New Mexico.
He exhibited frequently at the Brooklyn Museum, The National Academy, The Carnegie Institute, The Whitney and The Society of Independent Artists.
He was a member of the L.C. Tiffany Foundation, The Salmagundi Club, Rockport Art Association, and the American Watercolor Society.
His work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The Newark Museum, the Boston Library...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$45,625
Modern Impressionist Still Life Vegetable Oil Painting Eggplant Celery 1934
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modern impressionist still life with vegetables signed Michelle.
Charming composition depicting eggplant, celery, peppers, tomatoes and more.
Original period frame.
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
"Under the Large Striped Umbrella on a Foggy Day"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Martha Walter (1875 - 1976).
Born in Philadelphia in 1875, Martha Walter attended Girls’ High School followed by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It was at the Academy that Walter’s artistic talent was discovered. An admiring instructor by the name of William Merritt Chase took young Martha under his wing, giving her both inspiration and direction. She additionally enrolled with Chase at his summer school in Shinnecock, Long Island and in 1903, was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship by the Pennsylvania Academy. This sent Martha Walter on travels to France, Italy, Spain, and Holland, where she attended the Grand Chaumiere and the Academie Julian in Paris. Afterwards, she established a studio on the Rue De Bagneaux in France with several other American women artists...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Flamingo Portrait of Lady of the Everglades
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Lady of the Everglades" by Frederick Stuart Church is a captivating portrait that combines the grace of a poised lady with the exotic beauty of flamingos, set against the lush backd...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sailor and Reading Woman, Impressionist Oil Painting by Robert Philipp
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Philipp, American (1895 - 1981)
Title: Sailor and Reading Woman
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. and verso
Size: 22 in. x 18 in. (55.88 cm x 45.72 c...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Willow Patterns" Original Oil Painting, Landscape, Snow scene
By Dan Young
Located in Denver, CO
"Willow Patterns" by Dan Young is an original oil painting depicting a rural snow scene.
Dan Young was born in Denver and grew up in western Colorado. “Camping and fishing throughou...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Matriarch" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Scott Conary's "Matriarch" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a hyper realistic pink and white flower with a dark background.
About the Artist:
Raised where the Eas...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Low Tide
Located in Milford, NH
This splendid coastal marine landscape painting was done by American artist Reynolds Beal (1866-1951). Beal was born in New York City, studied painting at Merritt Chase’s Shinnecock Summer School, and went on to become a prominent East Coast marine and landscape painter, eventually settling in Rockport, MA. Oil on canvas, signed lower left, titled “Low Tide” on front plaque, as well as on verso Clark Point Gallery, Southwest Harbor...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$26,000
Impressionistic painting of NYC by Lawrence Kelsey, 'Downtown Skyline and Tug'
Located in White Plains, NY
'Downtown Skyline and Tug' 2012 by NY contemporary artist Lawrence Kelsey. Oil on canvas, 42 x 34 in. A painting of downtown New York City in late afternoon in atmospheric hues of or...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saturday Evening Post Cover, Evening Gown May 21st, 1938
By Neysa McMein
Located in Miami, FL
Pastel on board - Saturday Evening Post Cover, Evening Gown May 21st, 1938 - Reproduced version looks better because the Saturday Evening Post Art Director retouched the plates before printing and strengthened the colors to give it more newsstand appeal -
Signed and inscribed lower left. Housed in an inexpensive period frame
From Wiki : as an American illustrator and portrait painter who studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. She began her career as an illustrator and during World War I, she traveled across France entertaining military troops with Anita P...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Rainy Day by the Met" Impressionistic NYC Street Scene Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
"With shades of Pierre Bonnard’s Parisian street vistas and Edward Hopper’s New York shopfronts, American impressionist Cindy Shaoul’s oil paintings depict the much-loved locales and...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Hillside Picnic", Greg Harris, Original Oil, Figurative, Landscape, 24x30 in.
By Greg Harris
Located in Dallas, TX
"A Hillside Picnic" By Greg Harris is a perfect example of his most sought after paintings. Measuring 24x30 in., this painting has three woman in white and pink walking in fields of ...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"NYC Gal" Woman in Dolce & Gabbana Haute Couture Sunglasses Pop Art Oil Painting
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a pop art portrait of a woman in Haute Couture Dolce and Gabbana Sunglasses made from pieces of glass which give the painting a sparkle when viewing it in perso...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Glass
"South Ferry from Shelter Island" Oil painting, seascape Sag Harbor, Hamptons
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, a subtle and colorful seascape. The South Ferry runs across the Peconic Bay, from North Haven, Sag Harbor, to Shelter Island. A humble spot in New York's famous Hamptons.
Signed: Angel Ramiro Sanchez
Angel Ramiro Sanchez was born in 1974 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. At age six was accepted with full scholarship into the Instituto the Niños Cantores del Zulia, school for musically gifted children. At age fourteen he began five years of apprenticeship with the realist painter, Abdon J. Romero, an eminent specialist in murals for churches and public buildings. In 1993, a study grant from Mgr. Gustavo Ocando Yamarte, Founder the Niños Cantores, enabled him to travel to Florence, Italy, where he studied at the renowned Accademia di Belle Arti, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1997. At the same time, he was enrolled at The Florence Academy of Art,founded by painter Daniel Graves, where he received a diploma in Painting. Ramiro was appointed senior painting instructor at The Florence Academy of Art in 1997, and is currently Director of the Advanced Painting Program.
Ramiro paints only from life, searching for accuracy beyond physical appearance to reach the psychological state of his subject. He believes the painter must draw his information from "all five senses" to tell the complete human story.
Ramiros work is predominantly represented by th e Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York, but also Scriba Gallery, venice, Italy, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Tx.
Ramiros works can be found in numerous private collections in Europe, The United States and South America. Public collections include: The Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy. The Fremantle Foundation for Foreing Artist in Tuscany at Villa Peyron, Florence, Italy and The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. USA. He shares his life and passion for art with his wife, the artist Melissa Franklin-Sanchez.
Education
1993-1997 Florence Academy of Art, directed by Daniel Graves, Florence, Italy.
1993-1997 Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Thesis: Historic and Technical Notes of Academic Realism Today.
1995 Florence, Italy: Michael John Angel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"A Man in His Garden, " Emil Carlsen, Backyard and Barn Impressionist Landscape
By Emil Carlsen
Located in New York, NY
Soren Emil Carlsen (1848 - 1932)
A Man in His Garden, 1893
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 35 1/2 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
The artist [1848-1932]
Macbeth Gallery, New York
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York
Luella May (Ruby) Carlsen (the artist's wife), New York
Dines Carlsen (the artist's son), Falls Village, Connecticut
Private Collection, Miami, Florida
Exhibited:
New York, Macbeth Gallery, Summer Exhibition: Painting by American Artists, July - August, 1926, no. 31 (as The Man in the Garden).
Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Contemporary American Art by Members of the Grand Central Art Galleries, January 13 - 27, 1929 (as The Man in the Garden).
Miami Antique...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$48,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Hallman's, American Impressionist Landscape with Figures and Farmhouse
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Hallman's" is a landscape with figures and farmhouse, by American Impressionist painter Albert Van Nesse Greene. The painting is a 13.5" x 19....
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Down River from the Pont Vecchio Bridge, Impressionism , Landscape, Plein Aire,
Located in Houston, TX
Down River from the Pont Vecchio Bridge is part of newly released small works from V....Vaughan's collection of recent travels in Italy and France. V....Vaughan painted each of these on location "en plein air" It has an Impressionistic Style as seen in many of Virginia Vaughan's paintings. The Ponte Vecchio is said to have existed since Roman times. The bridge was then only made of wood and after the flooding of the bridge in 1333, the Ponte Vecchio was rebuilt in stone in 1345. The bridge consists of three arches, of which the middle one is the largest at thirty meters in length. V....Vaughan s know for her animal, Texas missions...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Regis Prograis, pro-boxer, oil, Contemporary Impressionistic, Boxing, Sports
By Steve Parker
Located in Houston, TX
Steve Parker is a Native Texan and has been painting for many years. He paint portraits and Texas landscapes. He teaches at the Art League of Houston and is collected by individuals and corporations around the world. Many people will buy a Steve parker landscape when they are leaving Texas and returning home to their native country after working for oil companies in Houston.
Steve Parker has also done portraits of CEO's and sports players. The size of the framed oil painting of Regis Progaris is 28 x 24.
This oil painting is of Regis Prograis, a young professional boxer. Regis Prograis' record currently stands at 27 wins, 1 loss and 0 draws. Of those 26 wins he has stopped 22 of his opponents, so his current knock-out ratio is 85%. In his only defeat, he lost on the scorecards. He's boxed a total of 119 rounds, meaning his professional fights last 4.4 rounds on average.
This painting is done from a photograph from Mayumi Cabrera...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,080 Sale Price
35% Off
Gratitude
Located in Denver, CO
Lone figure with red
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,500
Searching the Waters, 18x22, figurative watercolor, framed
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Searching the Waters by Lu Haskew
Pastel 18x22" image size, 26x30" framed
Figurative Portrait of young children on a dock looking into the water.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lu Haskew 1921...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$600 Sale Price
25% Off
Mid Century Figure Painting in the Studio Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century figure study of nude models and a painter in the studio by California artist Genevieve Rogers (American, 1904-1984). Unsigned, but a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
$399 Sale Price
20% Off
"Brighton Beach" Nathan Hoffman, New York, Sunny Day Landscape Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman
Brighton Beach, July 31, 1946
Signed, dated, and estate stamped on the reverse
Oil on artist's board
10 x 13 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Esta...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Viridian's Ride
Located in Denver, CO
Valerio D'Ospina's (US based) "Viridian's Ride" is an oil painting depicting an urban street in green, at night, with a motion blur.
Valerio D’Ospina was born in Taranto in 1980. O...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Daylight, energetic paintings, sense of motion, figurative, urban landscapes
By Jim Beckner
Located in Houston, TX
Daylight is an example of the bright colors that Beckner uses in his paintings. Daylight makes you wonder what the figure in the painting is thinking.
Jim Beckner’s art vibrates with the pulse of the city. His edgy and energetic paintings...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage 1960s Nocturnal Coastal Oil Painting – Moonlit Marine Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
"The Coast" is an original vintage oil painting from the mid-20th century (circa 1950s-1970s) by renowned New Mexico artist Marjorie Chambers (1923-2006). This stunning nocturnal marine landscape captures the serene beauty of the coast under a glowing moonlit sky. The artist masterfully uses a soothing palette of blues, greens, browns, and whites to create a tranquil, ethereal atmosphere. The painting is rendered on wood panel, signed by Chambers in the lower right corner, and titled on the reverse. It is presented in a custom frame with a dark finish and gold lip, with outer dimensions measuring 18 ¼ x 21 ¾ x 1 inches, and an image size of 11 x 15 inches.
About the Artist: Marjorie Bell Chambers (also known as Marjorie Bell) was born in 1923 in New York. She became a prominent figure in both the arts and social activism, earning a degree in Art History and Political Science from Mount Holyoke College (1943) and a Master of Arts from Cornell University (1948). Chambers moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the 1940s, where she raised her family and worked as a substitute teacher while her husband, William H. Chambers, worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Along with her artistic pursuits, Chambers was a passionate advocate for women's rights and education. She earned a PhD in History and Political Science from the University of New Mexico in 1974, later serving as a faculty member and dean at Colorado Women's College. She was appointed to the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs in 1976 and was vice-chair of President Carter...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"It Was All a Memory" Impressionist Scene Oil Painting on Canvas with Gold Frame
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the excitement of High-End Fashion, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composi...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Stepping Out - Bal Harbour" Impressionist Figure Walking Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the excitement of High-End Fashion, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composi...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Make Up
Located in Indianapolis, IN
Fine 22K gold gilt frame.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Adrift" (2023), Original Impressionist Abstract Female Portrait, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ryan Morse's (US based) "Adrift" is an original, handmade oil painting created in 2023 that is unframed but ready to hang.
Artist Bio:
Ryan Morse is a Denver based freelance artist ...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Two Girls on the Beach - Figurative Landscape
By Gladys Hart
Located in Soquel, CA
"Two Girls on the Beach" figurative landscape by Santa Cruz, California artist Gladys Hart (American, 1933-2017). Signed "Hart" lower right. Titled, ...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Female Bather (Nude Women)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ann Brockman (1895–1943) was an American artist who achieved success as a figurative painter following a successful career as an illustrator. Born in California, she spent her childhood in the American Far West and, upon marrying the artist William C. McNulty, relocated to Manhattan at the age of 18 in 1914. She took classes at the Art Students League where her teachers included two realist artists of the Ashcan School, George Luks and John Sloan. Her career as an illustrator began in 1919 with cover art for four issues of a fiction monthly called Live Stories. She continued providing cover art and illustrations for popular magazines and books until 1930 when she transitioned from illustrator to professional artist. From that year until her death in 1943, she took part regularly in group and solo exhibitions, receiving a growing amount of critical recognition and praise. In 1939 she told an interviewer that making money as an illustrator was so easy that it "almost spoiled [her] chances of ever being an artist."[1] In reviewing a solo exhibition of her work in 1939, the artist and critic A.Z Kruse wrote: "She paints and composes with a thorough understanding of form and without the slightest hesitancy about anatomical structure. Add to this a magnificent sense of proportion, and impeccable feeling for color and an unmistakable knowledge of what it takes to balance the elements of good pictorial composition and you have a typical Ann Brockman canvas."[2]
Early life and training
Brockman was born in Northern California in 1895 and spent much of her youth in nearby Oregon, Washington, and Utah.[1][3] She met the artist William C. McNulty in Seattle where he was employed as an editorial cartoonist. They married in March 1914 and promptly moved to Manhattan where he worked as a freelance illustrator.[4][5] At the time of their marriage, Brockman was 18 years old.[6] Over the next few years, her career generally followed that path that her husband had previously taken. His art training had been at the Art Students League beginning in 1908; she began her training there after moving to New York in 1914.[1] After an early career as an editorial cartoonist, he freelanced as a magazine and book illustrator beginning in 1914; she began her career as a magazine and book illustrator in 1919.[7] He embarked on a teaching career in the early 1930s and not long after, she began giving art instruction.[8][9] While they both adhered to the realist tradition in art, their usual subjects were different. His prominently depicted urban cityscapes in the social realist whereas hers generally focused on rural landscapes. He was best known for his etchings and she for her oils and watercolors.[8][10]
Brockman returned to the Art Students League in 1926 to take individual instruction for a month at a time from George Luks and John Sloan.[1] Despite their help, one critic said McNulty's "sympathetic encouragement and guidance" was more important to her development as a professional artist.[11]
Career in art
In the course of her career as illustrator, Brockman would sometimes paint portraits of celebrities before drawing them, as for example in 1923 when she painted the French actress Andrée Lafayette who had traveled to New York to play title role in a film called Trilby.[12] She would also sometimes accept commissions to make portrait paintings and in 1929 painted two Scottish terriers on one such commission.[13] During this time, she also produced landscapes. In 1924 she displayed a New England village street scene painting in the Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings in the J. Wanamaker Gallery of Modern Decorative Art.[14] Available sources show no further exhibitions until in 1930 a critic for the Boston Globe described one of her portraits as "well done" in a review of a Rockport Art Association exhibition held that summer.[15]
Between 1931 and her death in 1943, Brockman participated in over thirty group exhibitions and five solos.[note 1] Her paintings appeared in shows of the artists' associations to which she belonged, including the Rockport Art Association, Salons of America, Society of Independent Artists, and National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[17][19]Between 1932 and 1935, her paintings appeared frequently in New York's Macbeth Gallery.[20][23][25][27] She won an award for a painting she showed at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1940.[41] In 1942, the Whitney Museum bought one of the paintings she showed in its Biennial of that year.[10] Critical praise for her work steadily increased during the decade that ended with her untimely death in 1943. In 1932, her painting called "The Camera Man" was called "a clever piece of illustration."[21] Three years later, a painting called "Small Town" gave a critic "the impression of freshness, honesty, and skill".[29] In 1938, a critic described her "Folly Cove" as "masterful" and said "Pigeon Hill Picnic" was "sustained by excellence of execution".[48] At that time, Howard Devree of the New York Times saw "evidence of gathering powers" in her work and wrote "she imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Three years later, a Times critic reported Brockman had "set herself a new high" in the watercolors she presented,[52] and another critic said the gallery where she was showing had not "for some time" shown "so outstanding a solo exhibitor as Ann Brockman."[2] Shortly before her death, a critic for Art News maintained that she was "one of America's most talented women painters".[46]
After she had died, a critic said Brockman's paintings "displayed real power", adding that she was "highly rated among the nation's professional artists" and was known to give "aid and encouragement, always with a smile," both artists and to her students.[10] in reviewing the memorial exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries held in 1945, reviewers wrote about the strength and vibrancy of her personality, the quality of her painting ("every bit as good, possibly better than people had thought"),[53] called her "one of the best of our twentieth century women painters", and credited "her sense of the vividness of life" as a contributor to "the unusual breadth that is so characteristic of her work.[11] One noted that her work was "widely recognized throughout the country" and could be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[54] Writing in the Times, Devree wrote, "even those who had followed the steady growth of this artist for more than a decade, each successive show being at once an evidence of new achievement and an augury of still better work to come, may well be surprised at the combined impact of the selected paintings in the present showing,"[55] and writing in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A.Z Kruse said she had made "extraorginary accomplishments", painted with "inordinate distinction" showing a "lyrical majesty," and possessed "a keen esthetic sense which did not deviate from truth."[54]
Artistic style
(1) Ann Brockman, undated drawing, black chalk on paper, 18 x 22 inches
(2) Ann Brockman, High School Picnic, about 1935, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 44 1/4 inches
(3) Ann Brockman, untitled landscape, about 1943, watercolor and pencil on paper, 15 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches
(4) Ann Brockman, North Coast, undated watercolor, 21 1/2 x 30 inches
(5) Ann Brockman, On the Beach, 1942, watercolor on paper, 16 1/2 x 20 inches
(6) Ann Brockman, Lot's Wife, 1942, oil on canvas, 46 x 35 inches
(7) Ann Brockman, New York Harbor, 1934, watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches
(8) Ann Brockman, Youth, 1942, oil on board, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
Brockman was a figurative painter whose main subjects were rural landscapes and small-town and coastal scenes. She worked in oils and watercolors, becoming better known for the latter late in her career. Most of her paintings were relatively small. Although she made figure pieces infrequently, the nudes and circus and Biblical scenes she painted were seen to be among her best works. In 1938, Howard Devree wrote: "Her gray-day marines and coast scenes are familiar to gallery goers and are favorites with her fellow artists. Her figure pieces have attained a sculptural quality without losing warmth or taking on stiffness. One spirited circus incident of equestriennes about to enter the big tent compares not unfavorably with many of the similar pictures by a long line of painters who have been fascinated by the theme. She imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Similarly, a critic for Art Digest wrote that year: "Fluently and virilely painted, [her] canvases suggest a close affinity between nature and humans. The artist takes her subjects out in the open where they may picnic or bathe with space and air about them. A fast tempo is felt in the compositions of restless horses and nimble entertainers busily alert for the coming performance. Miss Brockman is also interested in portraying frightened groups of people, hurrying to safety or standing half-clad in the lowering storm light."[56]
Her palette ranged from vivid colors in bright sunlight to somber ones in the overcast skies of stormy weather. Of the former, one critic spoke of the rich colors and "sun-drenched rocks" of her coastal scenes and another of her "summery landscapes of coves and picnics."[11][50] Of the latter, Howard Devree said she "painted so many moody Maine coast vignettes of lowering skies and uneasy seas that artists have been heard to refer to an effect as 'an Ann Brockman day'".[57]
Brockman's handling of Biblical subjects can be seen in the oil called "Lot's Wife", shown above, Image No. 6. Her watercolor called "On the Beach" and her oil portrait called "Youth" may both indicate the "sculptural quality" that Devree said was typical of her figure pieces (Image No. 8, above).
An example of Brockman's bright palette in a typical summer theme is the oil painting called "High School Picnic" shown above, Image No. 2. Next to it is a painting, an untitled landscape of about 1943 whose medium, watercolor on paper, shows off the sunny palette she often used (Image No. 3).
Among the darkest of her works was an untitled 1942 drawing she made in black chalk (shown above, Image No. 1). In a book called Drawings by American Artists (1947), the artist and art editor Norman Kent noted that this study influenced her painting through its use of "forms" that were "elastic" and suggested "color". He said its "massing of dark and light" created "a definite mood" that was "impressionistic" and had "the strength of a man's work".[58] Brockman's undated watercolor called "North Coast" (shown above, Image No. 4) is an example of the paintings to which Kent referred.
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