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Style: American Modern
Please exit, monoprint collage politics hand, figurative
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This monoprint transfer painting on paper bridges single printmaking and painting, with collage. The color palette is monochromatic. Thematically it is a figurative work referencing ...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Monoprint
Serious Moonlight, abstract figures on gold metal leaf inspired by David Bowie
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Collage and acrylic paint on gold leafed sintra panel, excellent gift
Work inspired by David Bowie music
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Chalk on black paper 1963. (Inscribed 1963) Signed and Dated.
I.Rice Pereira was an American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher who playe...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Guy Pene du Bois WPA American Modernism Realism NYC Scene Oil Lawyers in Court
Located in New York, NY
Guy Pene du Bois' "Two Figures in Courtroom" is a WPA era American scene oil painting created in a realistic style. Modernism at its best The work is framed by Heydenryk.
Pène du Bois descended from French immigrants who settled in Louisiana in 1738 and was raised in a Creole household. He was born in 1884 in Brooklyn, NY and first studied with William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art and later continued his training with Robert Henri. Pène du Bois was greatly impressed with Henri's credo that "real life" was subject matter for art and throughout his life a realist philosophy informed his art as well as his parallel career, art criticism. In 1905, Pène du Bois made his first visit to Paris where he painted scenes of fashionable people in cafes rendered in the dark tonalities and impasto associated with the Ashcan School. By 1920, he had achieved his mature style, which was characterized by stylized, rounded, almost sculptural figures painted with invisible brushstrokes. The subjects of his paintings were often members of society whom he gently satirized.
In 1924, Pène du Bois and his wife, Floy, left for France where they would remain until 1930. Returning to America showcases pictures the artist produced after this very productive period abroad. After five years of living in France, Pène du Bois was able to observe American life with fresh eyes. His work becomes more psychologically intense and less satirical. In Girl at Table a slender, blond is shown gazing at a small statue that she holds at arm's distance. The meaning is elusive, but a powerful sense of longing is evoked. Similarly, paintings such as Dramatic Moment and Jane are taut with unresolved dialogue. Both pictures depict mysterious interiors in which a lone woman anxiously awaits the denouement of a suspenseful scene. Other pictures, for example, Chess Tables, Washington Square and Bar, New Orleans, recall Pene du Bois's Ashcan origins in their depiction of urban entertainment.
During this period, landscape becomes an important subject for Pène du Bois. Girl Sketching...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
The Budding Artist urban narrative muted blue colors subway scene
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on linen mounted on board signed and dated on reverse.
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Board, Oil
flowers from evergood, bright figure domestic setting predominantly red painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on wood by Stephen Basso
Narrative work, woman in chair in interior setting
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
Mervin Jules (1912 – 1994)
"The Tailor"
9 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
Oil on masonite, c. 1930s
Signed lower ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Two Heads -- 1947
By Byron Browne
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Byron Browne was an important American modernist painter.
Ink, tempera, and crayon on paper
Signed and dated lower right.
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Warm Reflections pool theme sunny colors florida suburbia human condition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on stretched linen canvas framing not required signed and dated on reverse
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pensive With Nosegay Mid Century Modern Oil Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Pensive with nosegay -
Painted in Berkeley CA. painting size 10x8 with frame 16x14x1
Jon (Corka) Cornin 1905-1992
Born in New York City on March 24, 1905, Jon Cornin studied in Ne...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Blue Top
Located in Boston, MA
Signed verso: "Robert Vickrey". Titled verso: "The Blue Top". In fine condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing.
Study to Scale Mural Sketch for “Evolution of Textile Production” East. All,...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Vendor of Masks, 1930s Original Modernist Gouache Painting of Carnival Scene
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating 1930s modernist gouache painting by Boardman Robinson (1876–1952), titled The Vendor of Masks, depicts a striking mask vendor’s display with male and female figures,...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Primus Mixed Media on Panel
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Primus
Artist signed, acrylic and collage on panel, 1993
28x27 with the frame 38x38
Patrick Archer (b. 1926). Archer studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (MFA). 2002
Philip Hulitar Award, Society of 4-Arts, Palm Beach, FL (A national Contemporary Painting competition)
Graduate- Arts & Crafts in Oakland, CA
Undergraduate- Principia in Elsah, IL
Exhibitions:
2002 Merrill Lynch...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
Abstract painting of People on the Beach oil on canvas circa 1950-1960 New York
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Aaron Berkman (New York, 1900 - 1929)
"Beach"
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Signed lower right: Aaron Berkman
Unframed
Provenance: Private collection, USA
An abstract oil painting o...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed Watercolor Portrait of Two Women – Figurative Exterior Scene Art
By Lloyd Moylan
Located in Denver, CO
This vibrant modernist watercolor on paper by Lloyd Moylan features a captivating portrait of two women seated in an outdoor landscape. Richly painted in a harmonious palette of pink...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$3,450 Sale Price
40% Off
Kuppenheimer Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A Kuppenheimer ad study and was published in Step By Step Graphics, January/February 1987 in the article “Learning From Masters of the Past” by Walt and Roger Reed
Medium: Oil on Ca...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Harbor Stories: The Pulse of Pier 12” Continuous Narrative Acrylic Painting
Located in Pasadena, CA
“Harbor Stories: The Pulse of Pier 12” illustrates a dynamic specific to narrative painting, embodying a visual crossroads of individual and collective stories within an effervescen...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The New Dog
Located in Columbia, MO
LARRY KANTNER
The New Dog
2022
Acrylic and collage
8.5 x 10.5 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Blossom
Located in Columbia, MO
LARRY KANTNER
Blossom
2022
Acrylic and collage
8.5 x 6.25 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Fish Story oil painting by Williams Charles Palmer
Located in Hudson, NY
This painting is illustrated in the Catalogue of the 1945 Encyclopedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting, p.84. Written and edited by Grace Pagano.
"Painting ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Party - oil on canvas - New York City town house at night - 20th century
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches
Signed verso
Not framed
Provenance:
Private collection, USA
Aaron Berkman was born in Hartford, Connecticut where his parents had been settled since 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Woman By a Tree, Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003)
Title: Young Woman by Tree
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 24 x 28.5 inches
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self-Portrait, Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003)
Title: Self-Portrait
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Dimensions: 48 x 30 in. (121.92 x 76.2 cm)
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Modernist American Judaica Painting Gaon and his Disciples
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a Rabbi, or Rebbe outside the synagogue The vibrant colors used in this painting seem to overlay each other without being previous mixed.
Ervin B...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
People Lawn Bowling in Central Park New York City 1950 oil/canvas NYC blue green
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Aaron Berkman (1900 - 1991)
“Bowling in Central Park” New York
Oil on canvas
10 x 14 inches
Signed and titled verso: Aaron Berkman 1950
Provenance:
Private collection, USA
Aaron Ber...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sandwich boy food related theme dark muted color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting was done on cradled wood board signed and dated on back. The rough texture is achieved by adding an pumice like material to the painting ground. It is a companion work ...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right.
Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.'
Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of a Seated Woman
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors.
Provenance: Christie's
Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
Category
1910s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Golfer Swinging, Vintage 7 Up Ad "Get Real Action" in Green and Yellow - Golf
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
This strobe-like dynamic composition with bright and bold colors reflects the energetic taste of the 7 Up brand. It lies somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Peaks' use of b...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board
Portrait of Bert Lahr - Circus Performer - Modernism
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
A recent Kuhn Circus Performer sold for $312,000 at Bonhams, NY
Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depict...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother and Child
By Chaim Gross
Located in New York, NY
Chaim Gross is considered to be one of the greatest American Modernist sculptors, and his graphic work is also highly celebrated. Known for his direct wood carvings of animals, jubil...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper, Graphite
Happy California Prune Farmers - Female Illustrator - Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Commercial illustration depicting happy California framers for California Prunes. The work is rendered in a charming and highly stylized manner. Unfr...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait
By Joseph Pollet
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Description
A portrait of a stylized young man dressed in a blue coat with a ruffled white shirt in an artistic background suggest that it may be a portrait of a young actor or performer.
About the artist.
Joseph Pollet was an important member of the Woodstock Art Colony. He emigrated to NYC in 1911 from Albbruck, Germany (born in 1897) and at age 21 had a promising career as an advertising copywriter. While working, he studied painting and his landscapes were immediately successful in NYC galleries. He studied at the Art Student's League with John Sloan, Robert Henri, and Homer Boss...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,000
Geese
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Gregory Sumida. “Geese” is a landscape painting, watercolor on paper in an earth-tone palette by American artist Gregory Sumida. The artwork is signed in the lower left...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$12,500
Modern Dance Female Dancer in Red Dress Jazz - oil paint on board circa 1950s
By Raimondo Puccinelli
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Signed lower right
Raimondo (Raymond) Puccinelli (American, 1904-1986).
Puccinelli began art training at age 15 at the California School of Fine Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and the Schaeffer School of Design. While in Italy in 1927, he studied ancient Italian sculpture (Romanesque, Gothic, and late Renaissance) which affected his future work. After a year of studying in France and Italy with various craftsmen, he returned to San Francisco to assist in the studio of J. Vieira and study under Benny Bufano...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Heavy Hauler - Mid-Century Illustration - Children's Books
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1923. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for eight years (!) at the Art Students League. Mario Cooper was among his instructors. Up...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Woman Baking, Redbook Illustration, Mid - Century
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, unframed - Interior Illustration for Redbook Magazine
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of a Charming Seated Woman Against Maroon Drapes
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors.
Provenance: Christie's
Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
Category
1910s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$49,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Vogue Magazine Cover, Alternate
Located in Miami, FL
Alternative Cover work, Ink, Gouache, Watercolor on paper
Initialed and dated lower center
h: 9.2 x w: 12 in / h: 23.4 x w: 30.5 cm
Worth Avenue Galle...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, India Ink, Watercolor
"Two Women"
By James Lechay
Located in Lambertville, NJ
James Lechay was a painter of figures, landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes who played a notable role in the tradition of avant-garde painting in New York and in the Midwest. An ar...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,000
"Little House Lambertville, Public Sale"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower middle. Artist designed frame.
Joseph Barrett (b. 1936)
Joseph Barrett was born in Midland, North Carolina, in ...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jealous, 2009
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Glasgow Sarah Muirhead graduating from ECA in 2009 and Muirhead was nominated as one of '10 New Sensations' by a panel including Kirsty Wark and Tracy Emin for a show which w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA
Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975)
"Water Story" (Study for The History of Water)
Tempera and o...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Egg Tempera, Board
"Final Edition" Virginia Berresford, Precisionist Cemetery, Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Virginia Berresford
Final Edition, 1937
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
17 x 25 inches
Provenance
Montross Gallery, New York
D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York
Private Collect...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Statue of Liberty
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Missouri, MO
LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921-2012)
Statue of Liberty, July 4, 1986
Signed and Dated Lower Left
Acrylic Paint and Chalk
24 x 16 inches
37.5 x 29.25 inches with frame
Mr. Neiman's ki...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
The Landing/Dawn Landing
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
The Landing/Dawn Landing, 1944, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 x 30, titled verso; exhibited in the Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Trends in Southern California Art at the Foundation of Western Art, Los Angeles, from early November to December 30, 1944 (see Millier, Arthur, Trends Show Attracts Best Southland Art, The Los Angeles Times, part III, p.6, November 4, 1944, illustrated in Edward Biberman, Time and Circumstance: Forty Years of Painting by Edward Biberman, The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles (1968), p. 57, presented in its original frame
The Landing/Dawn Landing is a rare and critically acclaimed example of Edward Biberman's World War II paintings...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Fallen Comrades/Interlude
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Fallen Comrades/Interlude, 1949, oil on masonite, signed lower left, 35 x 56 inches; Gallery Z la...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Price Upon Request
Modern Early Texas Western Wilderness Landscape Scene of Two Men and a Hog
By Otis Dozier
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Western wilderness scene by early Texas artist Otis Dozier. The work features two men kneeling and cleaning a hog set against a desert landscape. Signed and dated in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a wooden frame with a cream matting.
Visible Dimensions Without Frame: H 14 in. x W 19 in.
Artist Biography: Otis Dozier (1904-1987) was raised on a cotton farm between Forney and Mesquite, developing a love for art and nature at a young age. After his family moved into Dallas in 1920, he received his earliest art training from well-known instructor Vivian Aunspaugh. Following his 1925 graduation from Forest High School, Dozier continued his art studies at the Dallas Art Institute with Olin Travis and Tom Stell. Also, during the 1920s, he accompanied his parents and three sisters on at least three automobile trips through the American West, familiarizing himself with the region that he would later depict in his art.
Six of Dozier’s works were included in 1932’s “Exhibition of Young Dallas Painters”; a number of these artists, including Dozier, Jerry Bywaters, John Douglass...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Alice in Wonderland, 1960s Large Mural by Andrew Karoly & Louis Szanto
Located in Beachwood, OH
Andrew Karoly (Hungarian-American, 1893-1978)/
Louis Szántó (Hungarian-American, 1889-1965)
Alice in Wonderland, 1960
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated low...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Street Cleaners
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Street Cleaners, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 28 ¾ x 42 inches, Gallery Z...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
DONDA Shirt
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed, Dated, Titled Verso
BIO:
Daniel Jefferson AKA "Bipolar Holiday" is a self-taught street artist. A native of St. Louis, he grew up in North St. Louis County in the cities of Normandy and Hazelwood. By the age of 3, he was drawing and painting alongside his father and together they shared studios and collaborations into his mid-20s.
His father grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi and his mother in St. Louis. Expounding on his family history, Holiday speaks of his Quaker and Native American ancestry - along with his father, who is black, and his mother who is white - as forming his multiracial identity and upbringing. He expresses “not always fitting in,” - being neither “this nor that” - and residing on the margins between the social constructs of race. This emotional state is reflected in his artistic output. He cautions us to see that, while the subject matter of his work is not always a direct depiction of his experience of race, his existence as a person of color propels him and bears directly on his artistic focus and choice of materials, along with the application and gesture in each work. Anger and sadness are part of it – also love, joy, pride and humility. The artist often signs his work with a mark inspired by the ancient Egyptian Eye of Horas – a symbol of power, protection, and health.
Throughout his career, Bipolar Holiday has been both a solo practitioner and a collaborator. Tagging as King Dee and later Melo, he worked variously in the St. Louis area from the mid- 1990s to early 2000s. In the 1990s, he painted with the then St. Louis-based graffiti artist Nick Miller and his crew. Choice spots ranged from free standing concrete walls on abandoned property to temporary fencing along construction sites. The artist's compositions contained expressive line and figural elements – human faces, eyes – and the ethereal and allegorical – angel, devil motifs, etc. Later, he moved his artistic focus to a more studio-based form starting in the early 2000s. Holiday had his first show alongside his father’s work at Urbis-Orbis Gallery in downtown St. Louis in 2003. Coming full circle, he occasionally works in a few items of collage or spontaneous marks made by his daughter during her early childhood.
Bipolar Holiday has exhibited his work both locally and globally including St. Louis, New York, Grand Rapids and Antwerp. In 2019, he was featured in a four-page spread of JMG Lifestyle Magazine and a large-scale work whet to the Isabis Art Expo in 2019. St. Louis Magazine listed “Bipolar Holiday: Kyoto Girls” when the Walker-Cunningham Fine Art pop-up exhibit was named to the A-List in July 2020.
Holiday's work can be found in numerous private and public collections. He lives in St. Louis City...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Forgive Them Nigo
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed, Dated, Titled Verso
BIO:
Daniel Jefferson AKA "Bipolar Holiday" is a self-taught street artist. A native of St. Louis, he grew up in North St. Louis County in the cities of Normandy and Hazelwood. By the age of 3, he was drawing and painting alongside his father and together they shared studios and collaborations into his mid-20s.
His father grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi and his mother in St. Louis. Expounding on his family history, Holiday speaks of his Quaker and Native American ancestry - along with his father, who is black, and his mother who is white - as forming his multiracial identity and upbringing. He expresses “not always fitting in,” - being neither “this nor that” - and residing on the margins between the social constructs of race. This emotional state is reflected in his artistic output. He cautions us to see that, while the subject matter of his work is not always a direct depiction of his experience of race, his existence as a person of color propels him and bears directly on his artistic focus and choice of materials, along with the application and gesture in each work. Anger and sadness are part of it – also love, joy, pride and humility. The artist often signs his work with a mark inspired by the ancient Egyptian Eye of Horas – a symbol of power, protection, and health.
Throughout his career, Bipolar Holiday has been both a solo practitioner and a collaborator. Tagging as King Dee and later Melo, he worked variously in the St. Louis area from the mid- 1990s to early 2000s. In the 1990s, he painted with the then St. Louis-based graffiti artist Nick Miller and his crew. Choice spots ranged from free standing concrete walls on abandoned property to temporary fencing along construction sites. The artist's compositions contained expressive line and figural elements – human faces, eyes – and the ethereal and allegorical – angel, devil motifs, etc. Later, he moved his artistic focus to a more studio-based form starting in the early 2000s. Holiday had his first show alongside his father’s work at Urbis-Orbis Gallery in downtown St. Louis in 2003. Coming full circle, he occasionally works in a few items of collage or spontaneous marks made by his daughter during her early childhood.
Bipolar Holiday has exhibited his work both locally and globally including St. Louis, New York, Grand Rapids and Antwerp. In 2019, he was featured in a four-page spread of JMG Lifestyle Magazine and a large-scale work whet to the Isabis Art Expo in 2019. St. Louis Magazine listed “Bipolar Holiday: Kyoto Girls” when the Walker-Cunningham Fine Art pop-up exhibit was named to the A-List in July 2020.
Holiday's work can be found in numerous private and public collections. He lives in St. Louis City...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Wise Man Say
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed, Dated, Titled Verso
BIO:
Daniel Jefferson AKA "Bipolar Holiday" is a self-taught street artist. A native of St. Louis, he grew up in North St. Louis County in the cities of Normandy and Hazelwood. By the age of 3, he was drawing and painting alongside his father and together they shared studios and collaborations into his mid-20s.
His father grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi and his mother in St. Louis. Expounding on his family history, Holiday speaks of his Quaker and Native American ancestry - along with his father, who is black, and his mother who is white - as forming his multiracial identity and upbringing. He expresses “not always fitting in,” - being neither “this nor that” - and residing on the margins between the social constructs of race. This emotional state is reflected in his artistic output. He cautions us to see that, while the subject matter of his work is not always a direct depiction of his experience of race, his existence as a person of color propels him and bears directly on his artistic focus and choice of materials, along with the application and gesture in each work. Anger and sadness are part of it – also love, joy, pride and humility. The artist often signs his work with a mark inspired by the ancient Egyptian Eye of Horas – a symbol of power, protection, and health.
Throughout his career, Bipolar Holiday has been both a solo practitioner and a collaborator. Tagging as King Dee and later Melo, he worked variously in the St. Louis area from the mid- 1990s to early 2000s. In the 1990s, he painted with the then St. Louis-based graffiti artist Nick Miller and his crew. Choice spots ranged from free standing concrete walls on abandoned property to temporary fencing along construction sites. The artist's compositions contained expressive line and figural elements – human faces, eyes – and the ethereal and allegorical – angel, devil motifs, etc. Later, he moved his artistic focus to a more studio-based form starting in the early 2000s. Holiday had his first show alongside his father’s work at Urbis-Orbis Gallery in downtown St. Louis in 2003. Coming full circle, he occasionally works in a few items of collage or spontaneous marks made by his daughter during her early childhood.
Bipolar Holiday has exhibited his work both locally and globally including St. Louis, New York, Grand Rapids and Antwerp. In 2019, he was featured in a four-page spread of JMG Lifestyle Magazine and a large-scale work whet to the Isabis Art Expo in 2019. St. Louis Magazine listed “Bipolar Holiday: Kyoto Girls” when the Walker-Cunningham Fine Art pop-up exhibit was named to the A-List in July 2020.
Holiday's work can be found in numerous private and public collections. He lives in St. Louis City...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Return II, Painting by John Biggers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Biggers, American (1924 - 2001)
Title: Return II
Year: circa 2000
Medium: Acrylic/Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 28 x 22 inches
Signed and dated on reverse by Mrs. Hazel B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Tending the Garden
Located in Missouri, MO
Robert Elton Tindall (1913-1983)
"Tending the Garden" (Girl with a Hoe) c. 1940
Egg Tempera with Resin Oil Glazes on Panel
Signed Lower Left
Site: 10 x 9 inches
Framed: 15 x 14 inch...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Wood Panel
Price Upon Request
The Blind Peanut Vendor
Located in Missouri, MO
Cecil C. Bell
"The Blind Peanut Vendor" 1958
Oil on Panel
Signed; Titled & Dated Verso
Panel Size: approx. 14 x 18 inches
Framed Size: approx 21.25 x 25.25 inches
Cecil Bell was b...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Price Upon Request
Figurative Abstract
Located in Missouri, MO
Ernest Tino Trova
"Figurative Abstract" 1965
Oil on Canvas
approx 17 x 12.5 inches
Signed and Dated Lower Right
Known for his Falling Man series in abstract figural sculpture, he cr...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
The Farmer
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare early oil painting from the, "WPA" period, 1941, by American artist Ron Blumberg, “The Farmer”
After his classical training in Paris, Blu...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
The Speed God Mercury, Collier's Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 29.25" x 21.00", Framed 44.00" x 35.00"
The Speed God Mercury, Collier's Magazine Cover, January 19, 1907
Leyendecker,...
Category
Early 1900s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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