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Style: American Modern
“Girl in the Grass”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting by Anton Refregier of a young girl resting in the grass. Signed upper right and dated 1962. Condition is very good. The painting is in its original oa...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,875 Sale Price
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Large Richard Merkin Painting Harlem Jazz Club, New Yorker Magazine Cover Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Richard Marshall Merkin (American, 1938-2009)
Gladys and Half-Pint
Hand signed 'Merkin' (center right),
Titled, inscribed, dated, and initialed 'GLADYS BENTLEY AND FRANKIE 'HALF-PINT' JAXON 1997/R.M.' verso.
Oil on canvas
37 1/2 x 72 in. (95.3 x 182.9 cm)
framed 39 1/4 x 74 x 2 in.
Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, a well-known gay speakeasy in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer. She headlined in the early 1930s at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She dressed in men's clothes (including a signature tailcoat and top hat), played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting with women in the audience. On the decline of the Harlem speakeasies with the repeal of Prohibition, she relocated to southern California, where she was billed as "America's Greatest Sepia Piano Player" and the "Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs". She was frequently harassed for wearing men's clothing. She tried to continue her musical career but did not achieve as much success as she had had in the past. Bentley was openly lesbian early in her career, but during the McCarthy Era she started wearing dresses and married, claiming to have been "cured" by taking female hormones.
Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, born Frank Devera Jackson was an African American vaudeville singer, stage designer and comedian, popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, orphaned, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. His nickname of "Half Pint" referred to his 5'2" height. He started in show business around 1910 as a singer in Kansas City, before travelling extensively with medicine shows in Texas, and then touring the eastern seaboard. His feminine voice and outrageous manner, often as a female impersonator, established him as a crowd favorite. By 1917 he had begun working regularly in Atlantic City, New Jersey and in Chicago, often with such performers as Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, whose staging he helped design.
He served slightly less than a year in the United States Army in 1918–1919 and rose to the rank of sergeant. In the late 1920s he sang with top jazz bands when they passed through Chicago, working with Bennie Moten, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard and others. He performed and recorded with the pianists Cow Cow Davenport, Tampa Red and "Georgia Tom" Dorsey, recording with the latter pair under the name of The Black Hillbillies. He also recorded with the Harlem Hamfats. In the 1930s, he was often on radio in the Chicago area, and led his own band, titled Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon and His Quarts of Joy. Jaxon appeared with Duke Ellington in a film short titled Black and Tan (1929), and with Bessie Smith in "St. Louis Blues" (1929). Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" (1931) is based both musically and lyrically on Jaxon's "Willie the Weeper" (1927).
Richard Merkin, Sometimes described as Rhode Island’s most famous New York artist, Richard Merkin has led a dual life for nearly 40 years - teaching at RISD while enjoying a celebrated painting career based in New York City. He has exhibited in countless gallery and museum shows in the US and abroad and is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the RISD museum and many others. In addition to contributing drawings and paintings to The New Yorker (along with, Art Spiegelman, Saul Steinberg, Harper’s, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and several books on Erotica and Baseball, he is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a former style columnist for GQ. Merkin’s honors include a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship and the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Museums and Selected Collections :
The American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
First city Bank, Chicago, Ill
Fisk University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN
Hallmark Collections, Kansas City, MO
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Maimi-Dade Junior College, Miami, FL
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Minnesota Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Pennsylvania Acadamy of the Arts, Philadelphia PA
Prudential Insurance Company, Boston, Ma
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Sara Robey Foundation, New York, NY
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
State University of Brockport, Brockport, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Selected Publications :
1986-Present Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair ..1988-Present, New Yorker... 1988-Present, style column, GQ...1997, Text and Illustration for The Tijuana Bibles, published by Simon & Shuster, 1995, Illustrated book, Leagues Apart: the Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues published by Morrow.
1967 Cover of the Beatles “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” Album (Mr. Merkin appears in the back row, right of center)
RISD: MFA in Painting, 1963; Professor, Department of Painting
special skill: Merging his role as flaneur (connoisseur of city life) with his role as painter and social historian, Merkin retrieves lost cultural artifacts – a Turkish cigarette, a gangster, a bowler and generally “things most people don’t know about” – and reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. (ala Robert Crumb and Ben Katchor)
breaking in: Perpetually on the fly from his middle-class Brooklyn background, Merkin found the perfect escape in the mid ‘60s in George Frazier, a dapper Boston columnist who inspired the emerging New York painter’s overnight reinvention of himself. The elements of structure, stability and surprise he admired in this well-dressed dandy – a cool linen suit, a splash of suspender, a polka dot scarf and pearl-handled walking stick – soon surfaced in paintings peopled by impeccable underdogs of café society along with his personal pop heroes: William Burroughs, Bobby Short and Krazy Kat...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil
Villa Schifanoia, Florence.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This colorful artwork ""Villa Schifanoia, Florence" 1984 is an oil painting on paper by American artist Patrice Lombardi. It is signed and dated at t...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Unwelcome Interruption, Oil Painting by A. Raymond Katz 1935
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 - 1974)
Title: Unwelcome Interruption
Year: circa 1935
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and titled verso
Size: 16 x 20 in. (40...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s "Orange Nude Lounging" Mid Century Figurative Painting Pratt Graphic Arts
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Orange Nude Lounging"
c.1950s
Oil pastel and gouache paint on paper
23" x 20" framed black gallery wood frame float mount
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2008) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of Fine Art
The Art Students League
Pratt Graphic Arts Center
University of Paris 1953-54
University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55
Faculty: Art Department of the New School
Museum of Modern Art
School of Visual Arts
Stacy Studio Workshop
Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns
George Wittenborn
The New School
Print Exhibitions, Chicago
University of Oklahoma
Honolulu Museum
Monclair Museum
Wisconsin State College
Louisiana Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Oil Pastel
"Asian Woman II" American Modernist Figurative Painting Académie Julian
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Asian Woman II"
10-1990
Acrylic and conte crayon on rag paper
31"x42.25 unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Minor wear consistent with age and history
Jac...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Conté, Acrylic, Rag Paper
$1,800 Sale Price
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Performer w African Mask, Asian Fan, predominantly black and white oil on panel
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Created with oil on panel, and using her non-dominant hand, the performers series reveals the rich brushwork and deft confidence with which Audrey Anastasi paints her compelling imag...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"View in the Court of Rue Du' Jardinet"
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a oil on academy board painting by the American artist, Alvin Raffel. Signed and titled verso. Circa 1930's. Condition is good. Small puncture in the ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$575 Sale Price
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Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
An ink drawing Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait of an old Jewish man. Coming over from Europe on a ship crossing. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
TOAST TO THE BAR MITZVA Modernist Judaica Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Subject: Jewish American Family Bar Mitzvah with Rabbi
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
In this painting, Joseph Wolins uses vibrant and complimentary colors and...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1969 American Modern "The Concert"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Powerful mid century American modern painting of 3 musicians. Really well painted mystery piece. It is oil on canvas dated on back with a name of either a...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Quirky 1941 Painting of Artist Harold Haydon Painting Cows in a Farm Yard
Located in Chicago, IL
A unique, humorous and colorful landscape painting by Harold Haydon depicting the artist painting alongside cows. The painting dates from 1941.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fo...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,800 Sale Price
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Man With Moon - Figurative Abstract
By J Gold
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling abstract figurative oil painting in bold, primary colors of a man and the moon by J. Gold (American, 20th Century). Signed "J. Gold" lower right. Presented in a Maple woo...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
$700 Sale Price
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New Sun III
Located in Bozeman, MT
When I think of where McCauley fits into American art, as a contemporary painter, sculptor and naturalistic interpreter, I place him in the same philosophical tribe as Walton Ford, A...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Horse Traners
Located in Los Angeles, CA
UMBERTO ROMANO
"HORSE TRAINERS"
OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED
AMERICAN, DATED 1952
23.74 X 35.75 INCHES
Born: 1905 - Naples, Italy
Died: 1984 - New York C...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,853 Sale Price
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Holocaust Memorial Oil Painting Judaica Rabbi Composed of Figures Artists Frame
By Maurice Newman
Located in Surfside, FL
Maurice Newman was active/lived in Massachusetts / Lithuania. Maurice Newman is known for sculpture-abstraction, impressionist landscape painting, diorama.
Born in Lithuania, Mauric...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mervin Jules Folk Singer Portrait, Signed
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
Mervin Jules (American, 1912-1994)
Folk Singer, 20th century
Oil on masonite
18 x 7 1/2 in.
Signed lower left: Jules
Provenance: Garelick's Gallery, Detroit
Matte included, no fram...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
At the Market, Oil Portrait Painting by David Azuz
By David Azuz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Azuz, Israeli/French (1942 - 2014)
Title: At the Market
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Oil on Paper, signed upper right
Size: 25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.26 cm)
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Children Playing, Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003)
Title: Children Playing
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal
21 x...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Surrogate Family cat woman and with her extended family on sofa humorous theme
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a recent oil on linen canvas mounted on cradled wood panel signed and dated on reverse . Created earlier this year, the artist has titled it in response to the current politi...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
Bathers at the Quarry 1940s American Modernist Oil Painting WPA era
By Theresa Berney Loew
Located in Surfside, FL
Swimmers and sun tanners at the local watering hole.
Her birth name was Theresa Berney. At the time of her passing she was known as Theresa Loew.
Birth place: Baltimore
artist, blo...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Central Park South" Georgina Klitgaard, Female Modernist New York Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Central Park South
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
40 1/2 x 28 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign ar...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boy with Dog
Located in Columbia, MO
LARRY KANTNER
Boy with Dog
1980
Acrylic on canvas
52.5 x 40.5 inches
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Prophet, Modernist Judaica Oil Painting Biblical Jewish Rabbi at Prayer
Located in Surfside, FL
An oil on board Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. The work depicts a standing prophet with white robes raising his arms towards heaven. The work is signed "Ben-Zion" in the bottom right corner. The work is signed and dated "4/14/59" on verso.
Provenance: Ex. Sotheby's Parke Bernet
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tribe of Benjamin, Large Judaica Mixed Media Collage Painting
By Archie Rand
Located in Surfside, FL
Tribe of Benjamin, Biblical mural with wolf. I believe this is a study for a stained glass window. Untitled, mixed media on paper, signed lower left, inscribed "To my dear friend Dav...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media
'Portrait of a Man, Ochre and Coral', Post Impressionist oil
By K.C. Collins
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Study of a man's face, shown wearing horn-rimmed glasses and gazing to the viewers left and painted in monochromatic tones of ochre against a vibrant coral-red background.
Signed lo...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
$1,425 Sale Price
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The Kabbalists, Hassidic Rabbis Judaica Colorful Modernist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Wolins
1915-1999
Wolins was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He studied at the National Academy of Design from 1935 to 1941 under Leon Kroll. He also studied in Europe in ...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Market #2 - by Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
The universal farmers market is bustling with action. Geometric stalls with intense color coupled with contrasting blue arches creates the dynamism in this work of art.
The Market #...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Judaica Oil Painting "Old Jew" Jewish Rabbi at Prayer
Located in Surfside, FL
An oil on board Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait in profile of an old Jew. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Snowy Night
Located in Columbia, MO
LARRY KANTNER
Snowy Night
2021
Watercolor, ink, and collage
11 x 13 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Ink
"Catskill Mountains" Georgina Klitgaard, Country Landscape Modernist Hills
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Catskill Mountains
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artist...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Glorious Flight - Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot" - Children's Book
Located in Miami, FL
Study for "The Glorious Flight - Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot"; 1983; Gouache on Illustration Board; 14.5" x 13.75"; Signed Lower Right; Unframed.
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Alice Rose[1] Provensen (née Twitchell; August 14, 1918[2] – April 23, 2018[3]) and Martin Provensen...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Untitled Mid-Century Painting of Party by African-American Artist from Detroit.
Located in Marco Island, FL
This scale of this dynamic party painting by Leroy Foster (1925-1993) makes you feel like you are in the room with a cocktail in hand. He was an accomplished muralist, so it is no ...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman with Cat
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003)
Title: Woman with Cat
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 31 x 20 in. (78.74 x 50.8 cm)
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
mr. c and gladys, bright colorful man and dog
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Delightful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard
Located in Chicago, IL
A Delightful, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Painted near the artist's Edgartown summer home a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Large Pop Art Cartoon Acrylic Painting By Syndicated Cartoonist R.P. Overmyer
Located in Surfside, FL
R.P. Overmyer (American, 1948-2010).
An original oil painting (this might be acrylic) on canvas. A figural Pop Art work painted in an abstract whimsical style, featuring an interior scene of bloody murder, with corpse figure, bullet riddled wall and chair, picture frame with photograph, and additional forms. Artist signature to bottom R.P. OVERMYER. The artist was a syndicated cartoonist and creator of the popular strip, "Hollywood Dog."
Work Size: 29.5 x 39.5 in.
Dimensions: 30 X 40.25 X 1.75 in.
Overmyer was a longtime LA-based cartoonist and designer. His newspaper clients included LA Weekly and the San Jose Metro Weekly; his animation employers included Fox and Universal Studios.
He may be best known for his Hollywood Dog feature, which was nationally syndicated in its current, political-cartoon illustration art form since I believe January 2006 and included the Los Angeles Times among its clients. The feature was originally a comic strip for the Los Angeles Reader, was trademarked for t-shirt production in 1989, and was briefly the basis for a television show in the post-Simpsons 1990s. That show appeared in 1993 and feature Simpsons utility performer Hank Azaria as the voice of the title character. He is from a long line of outsider, alternative, underground comics, cartoonist movement like Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Harvey Pekar, Ben Katchor, Ralph Bakshi...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Portland's Finest: Viva la Fem - Figurative Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
A cubistic, playful cityscape of Portland, with its famous bridges crossing the river is a backdrop for this female biker, clad in vintage wear and a red hat.
Portland's Finest: Vi...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Declaration, Realist Oil Painting with Text by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman, Romanian/Israeli (1923 - 1977)
Title: Declaration
Year: Circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower left
Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 38...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Rabbi in Jerusalem
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Portrait
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
EMANUEL ROMANO
Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984
Emanuel Glicenstein Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897.
His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born. His father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland.
In 1926 Emanuel and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later.
Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame.
In 1936 Romano was worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida.
Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel.
In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York.
Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicentein Museum.
COLLECTIONS
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston Fine Arts Museum
Fogg Museum
Musée Nacional de France
Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bold Graphic Illustration Pop Art Image of Large Truck, Orignal Alkyd Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Doug Fraser Graphic design illustration artist. Doug was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He attended the Alberta College of Art & Design in Calgary where he studied graphic design and illustration. After four years at ACAD he went to New York for graduate school, attaining a masters degree, MFA, from the School of Visual Arts. Without missing a beat, Doug became an award winning illustrator, (in a cartoon, bold comic book sort of style) having executed commissioned works for an array of international clients including The New York Times, the Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Wirtschafts Woche (Germany), Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Motor Trend, NHL, IBM, and Levis.
His technique originally involved traditional media of oils on canvas and evolved over the years to incorporate digital aspects both exclusive and combined with paint. During the early 90's, he was approached by the ACAD(Alberta College of Art & Design in Calgary) to teach and accepted a part-time position. Doug has sat on several juries and spoken in numerous cities including New York and Los Angeles.
His illustration work has been exhibited in the US, England, Japan and Canada. Memberships have included the prestigious Society of Illustrators(NY) for eighteen years, the advisory panel of ICON5, the American Illustrator Partnership (founding member status), CAPIC and the Graphic Artists Guild of New York. 2004 recipient of the Alberta College of Art & Design Board of Governors Alumni Award of Excellence.
His style is similar to the graphic novel style of Art Spiegelman, Shepard Fairey, Ben Katchor or Robert Crumb in its graphic expressiveness
After a long successful career as an illustrator, the desire to create works of a different nature and purpose began to surface. Building on the technical knowledge developed professionally as a visual communicator in the graphics world for 30 years, he began to experiment once again, without the burden of client and other constraints. This freedom enabled Doug to move beyond his past and develop a body of work which is more personal in subject. This new body of paintings strongly links artistic influences with personal observations. Influences affecting structure include graphic design, abstract and figurative art. A two dimensional quality is embraced and the construction becomes as important as the subject. The subject, which is somewhat banal in tone, is derived from his own first hand experience. Exploring subject that which is usually only seen in passing, but is now observed more closely. Intense visual study precedes a process of disassembling and then reconstruction. Throughout, there's an internal dialogue between the objective and the subjective. The experiential challenge of this process has Douglas tracing the edges of where the figurative meets abstraction.
EDUCATION; Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Visual Communication Arts. School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, M.F.A. degree.
ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS; Editorial: Boston Globe, Business Week, BUZZ, Esquire, Forbes, Globe & Mail, GQ, L.A. Times, Mademoiselle, Manhattan Inc, Mother Jones, Newsweek, New York Times, New York Woman,Omni, Penthouse, FORTUNE, TIME, Washington, Self, Sports Illustrated, Texas Monthly, Washington Post, Rolling Stone Book: David R. Godine, Houghton-Mufflin, Knopf, Macmillan, Rabbit Ears Video & Book, Simon Schuster, The Progressive, Turner Publishing (CNN), BLAB!, Telstar Comic compilation Corporate: Air Canada, Allen-Bradley [a Division of Rockwell International],Citibank, Coca-Cola, Danzas (Europe), IBM, Kingston Electronics, Kohler, Levis, Lowenbrau Beer, Concept-1 Calgary, Memorex, Oakland A's Baseball Team, National Football League, National Hockey League, Nike, Northern Telecom, Nynex NY, Pfizer, RCA, Roundtree U.K., Samsung Electronics, Sony, Suzuki Motorcycles, Tamko, USF&G [financial investment group]. Graphic Novel, Comic Book: Adhouse Press, story titles; "Electric Sheep...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Alkyd, Illustration Board
Regal Figures, Modern Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Regal Figures (64)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Board
Size: 26 x 22 in. (66.04 x 55.88 cm)
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Shovel Handles, 1950s Framed American Modernist Oil Painting, Green Bronze Blue
Located in Denver, CO
"Shovel Handles" is an original 1953 semi-abstract modernist oil painting on board by renowned Denver artist Paul K. Smith (1893-1977). This captivating piece showcases Smith’s signa...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with Arms Crossed
By Byron Browne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Arms Crossed
Mixed media collage-painting on stone chip surface, mounted on fabric, mounted on wood support by the artist, 1955
Signed and dated lower center
Image size: 1...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Other Medium
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape w Tower
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
Thes...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Rescue, original cover illustration for Complete Northwest Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover Illustration for Complete Northwest magazine, April 1940
Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in Yellow Jacket, Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003)
Title: Woman in Yellow Jacket
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: ...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Maze, 20th Century Geometric Figurative Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Maze, 1982
Acrylic on cardboard
Signed and dated upper right
7 x 9.5 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting.
Clar...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of a Child
By Will Barnet
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern abstract portrait of a child by American artist Will Barnet. The work has a letter of provenance from the artist's wife. The i...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
$9,750 Sale Price
35% Off
"Truck Gardens" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Country Landscape With Train
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Truck Gardens
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
26 x 36 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artists to ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Terror of History No. 1, Mid-Century Abstract Acrylic & Sand, Blue and Yellow
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Terror of History No. 1, 1962
Acrylic and sand on scintilla
Signed and dated upper left
23 x 30 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vetriculus Egg, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic and collage painting, Figural Abstract
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Vetriculus Egg, 1965
Acrylic and collage on textured paper
Signed and dated lower right
30 x 22 inches
A surrealist mid-century figura...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Torso No. 3, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Acrylic Painting, Ohio artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Torso No. 3, 1967
Acrylic on paper
Signed and dated lower right
13 x 9 inches
21 x 17 inches
A mid-century figural abstract painting.
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Clown and Nude
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003)
Title: Clown and Nude
Year: 1960
Medium: Oil on Board, signed and dated
Size: 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 28.5 x 34 inches
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Television, Oil Painting by B.G. Bradley
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: B.G. Bradley, Americn XXth
Title: Television
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed 'BGB' l.r.
Size: 20 x 24 inches
Frame: 25 x 29 inches
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl on a Buick Painting on Metal Cut Out Sculpture Wall Hanging
Located in Surfside, FL
Seymour Chwast, B. 1931, American, 'Girl on a Buick', Painted Sheet Metal. A label on the reverse reads: "Seymour Chwast, 'Girl on a Buick', Metal Cut-Out, $2,000" Provenance: Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT
Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.
Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. Often referred to as "the left-handed designer," Chwast's unique graphic design melded social commentary and a distinctive style of illustration. Today, he continues to work and is principal at The Pushpin Group, Inc. in New York City.
In 1979, he was hired by McDonald's to design on the first box for their Happy Meals. He is the font designer of Chwast Buffalo, Fofucha, Loose Caboose NF, and Weedy Beasties NF. He is a member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI). In the pantheon of American (nay, world) illustration, he stands, albeit slightly shorter and a little more rumpled, beside N.C. Wyeth, J. C. Leyendecker, and Normal Rockwell...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
Untitled Figurative Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Untitled red figurative abstract painting with various nude figures holding various objects by Portland, Oregon artist Brendan McKeon. The canvas is not currently framed.
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Hollywood portrait of girl with red wig
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, w...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ode to John Franklin
Located in Bozeman, MT
When I think of where McCauley fits into American art, as a contemporary painter, sculptor and naturalistic interpreter, I place him in the same philosophical tribe as Walton Ford, A...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
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