Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Suchitra Bhosle's "Downstream Riot" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts white and orange koi fish mingling and pressing together in the shallow blue water of a koi pon...

Ulrich Gleiter's (EUR based) "On a Bright Winter Day" is an oil painting that depicts a small wooden structure surrounded with tall trees all coated with a heavy blanket of snow. B...

Galopando-Galloping Cuban Figurative Young Liz Taylor Horses Giant Marfa Oil is by Cuban artist ANDRES RETAMERO VALENZUELA . Andres Retamero was born ...

Helena Malarewicz-Krajewska (born 14 July 1910 in Biecz , died May 7, 1998 in Warsaw) is a Polish painter, active advocate of socialist realism. Studied between 1928 and 1929 at the...

An oil painting by Marc Dalessio. Painted en plein air, on the beach (Ditch Plains) in Montauk, New York. Dalessio captures this picturesque & popular Ham...

An oil on canvas painting of a woman sitting in front of a mirror, tending to her hair. Window open behind her admits natural light. Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a native of Minnes...

American b. 1939 Renowned Impressionist painter Shirley Cean Youngs is a native New Yorker who now lives on a family compound in Connecticut surrounded by nature and those she loves...

Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm Elegant woman portrait with scarf

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. Illustrator (9) Ann Brockman, cover, March 12, 1917, Every Week magazine (10) Illustration of an article, "The Taking of a Salient" by Henry Russell...

"Waterways" is a stunning original oil painting by Carl Lindin (1869-1942), a Swedish-American artist known for his beautiful landscapes. This 1920s-1930s signed framed oil painting ...

South. 1993, oil on canvas, 60 x 55 cm Roman Lapp (1961. 24. VII Moscow) – painter Artist learned drawing to M. Zuhovickis. He graduated Art Academy of Latvia, department of monumen...

Folk song, choir. 1976, oil on cardboard, 37x71 cm Dzemma Lia Skulme (born 1925 20 IX - 2019) Skulme graduated from the Academy of Arts of Latvia, Department of Monumental Painting...

Oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm (18 ⅛ x 21 ⅝ inches) Signed lower left, Ridgway Knight Artist biography American artist Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Pennsylvania and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1872 he lived and worked at Poissy on the River Seine, just to the west of Paris. Best known for his landscapes and depictions of peasant women in the fields, Knight earned distinction at the Paris Salon of 1882. He went to be was awarded the Silver Medal and Cross of the Legion d’Honneur at the Exposition Universelle in 1889, the Gold Medal of Honour from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1893 and in that same year was created a Knight of the Royal Order...

Kevin Weckbach's (US based) "Quilted Land" is an original, hand made oil painting that depicts an aerial view of farmland with patterns from the roads and sectioned green and pink l...

Ulrich Gleiter's (EUR based) "The Road to our Cabin" is an oil painting that depicts a tree lined lane leading into the distance Bio/Artist Statement: German-born artist Ulrich Gle...

"Cold Walk" by Clyde Steadman (United States) is a handmade nude portrait painting that is unframed, but ready to hang. Clyde Steadman got his start as an artist drawing people in c...

Signed at the bottom left Jean Duquoc is a French artist born in 1937 who lives & works in Belz, Brittany in France. In his work, we can see the skill with which he uses color, movi...

Signed with stamp, J.V. 7-5/8" x 4-3/4" art 19" x 15-1/4" frame Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963) French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon...

A fine Impressionist oil, ' Young Friends by the Beach Watching Fishermen' circa 1950's. oil on canvas 43cm x 53cm Good quality gallery frame 52cmx62cm ...

Preparing the Boat" by Clara Belle Owen is a luminous impressionist depiction of a young boy approaching a grand sailboat, ready to prepare it for an impending journey. The painting ...

"Sneaky Kitty" by Kirsten Savage is an original, handmade oil painting on panel that depicts a black and white cat sitting hidden amongst a flower bush. Kirsten Savage is one of Col...

Edwin Mendoza was born in Alexandria. He spent his younger years in Fontainebleau, France where he lived and studied. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art in London. Exhibited at...

Joseph Vande Fackere Bruges 1879 – 1946 Belgian Painter Les Fleurs et Accessoires Signature: Signed bottom right Medium: Pastel Dimensions: Image size 54,50 x 65,50 cm, frame size 6...

An oil painting by contemporary English painter, Melissa Franklin Sanchez. Oil paintings on metals (like brass, copper, etc) is an old dutch trad...

Jonas Lie (American, 1880-1940) Boat at the End of a Jetty OIl on canvas board Signed lower right 12.75 x 10.5 inches 18.75 x 16.75 inches, framed Jonas Lie was a prolific painter, ...

This artwork titled "The Abandoned Factory" c.1945 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist William E. Frates, 1891-969 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 24 x 30 inches, framed is 40.75 x 34.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold brownish frame, with fabric liner. This particular artwork has been exhibited at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, August to April 1946. About the artist: Painter, etcher. Born in Hayward, CA in 1896. Frates first studied art in San Francisco with Wm Otto...

Admiring the Ancient Ruins by Etienne Auguste Krier ( 1875 - 1953) oil on board, framed framed: 10.5 x 7.5 inches board: 8 x 6 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition...

This artwork "California Landscape" 1967, is a large oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Bill Shaddix, b.1930. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The ...

Lighthouse Landscape signed by Fanch Lel ( French School) Oil painting on board, unframed Board: 10.75 x 13.5 inches Inscribed verso Condition: The painting is in good condition, wit...

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse 1851-1932 French Danseuse Signed “Pierre Carrier-Belleuse” (lower right) Pastel on canvas Strikingly elegant, this extraordinary pastel by French impressi...

"Reverie" is a figurative nude Painting by the impressionist Maestro Dmitriev Alexey Olegovich. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting...

The Shipwreck by Anthony Hedges (British marine artist, 20th century) signed oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 25.5 x 35 inches canvas: 20 x 30 inches Provenance: private collec...

Franke focuses on still life and figurative paintings, although she has also done some wonderful landscapes and pet portraits as well. With the looseness and spontaneity of her techn...

In this interior illustration for "When the Heart Beats Young" by J.W. Riley, pioneering female illustrator Ethel Franklin Betts creates an intimate statement of mother and child in an embrace. The composition is abstract with patterns that suggest the influence of Asian art—initialed lower right. Work is framed under glass - Oil on board Ethel Franklin Betts Bains (September 6, 1877 – October 9, 1959) was an American illustrator primarily of children's books during the golden age of American illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Betts first gained work illustrating magazines, including St. Nicholas Magazine, McClure's, and Collier's. Beginning in 1904, she was commissioned to illustrate several books, including James Whitcomb Riley's The Raggedy Man, While the Heart Beats Young, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess...

Village Scene by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 7.75 x 10.5 inches Oil painting on cardboard, unframed Condition: The painting is in good condition, with minor signs of aging. Pro...

Pausing for Conversation French School, early 1900's indistinctly signed oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 46 x 29 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good ...

Garden scene by Agostos Acs (Hungarian 1889-1947). Oil on canvas. In great gilt frame, early 20th century. period sculpted artis...

Judd Mercer's (US based) "046 - Plein Air-Star K Ranch, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a river in a lush green forest. Artist bio/statement Judd Mercer is a contemporary lands...

Acrylic on canvas painting. Hand signed and titled on front by Theo Tobiasse. Frame size approx 33 x 41 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity incl...

This contemporary floral expressionist piece with a touch of impressionism was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot and belongs to her evocative series dedicated to the beauty o...

Framed dimensions: 74.93 x 86.75 inches A large scale oil painting of a harbor of fishing shacks, seen from above, in Nova Scotia. Tim McGuire Born in 1971, Tim McGuire grew up in...

Joaquin Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) - Landscape - Oil cardboard Oil measures 33x41 cm. Frame measures 47x55 cm. Joaquim Terruella Matilla (1891 - 1957) Joaquim Terruella Matilla,...

"Pierrot and the Butterfly" is an early 20th century Impressionist oil portrait. The painting is indistinctly signed lower right and m...

In this luminous canal scene, painted during his stay in Venice in the early 1880s, Wilhelm von Gegerfelt captures the vivid atmosphere and dazzling light of the city with remarkable...

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Resting Boats on a Tranquil Shoreline By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 7.5 x 10.5 inches (height x width) Signed: Yes Oil painting on b...

F. Luis Mora was the first Hispanic member of the National Academy of Design. Spanish Souvenir- mantilla, peineta, by Francis Luis Mora is a painting of beautiful Spanish women in...

In this delicate and expressive oil painting, a nude male stands with his backside to the viewer. Notably, the model looks over his left shoulder as his left hand grips the back of h...

River Seine French Modernist, mid 20th century signed oil on board, framed Framed: 22 x 25.5 inches Board : 15 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good...

A compelling original modernist painting by Eunice Katz, featuring a richly evocative scene of an elderly woman seated and preparing a meal over a large pot. Rendered in a warm, eart...

"Quarry Fisherman" Figurative Oil Painting 39" x 55" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has...

Josh George's (US based) "Parkade" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts a brightly lit urban parking structure. About the Artist: Josh George is a contemporar...

Title: Afternoon with Family Artist: Josep Costa Vila Date: 1985 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 28.7 x 36.2 inches (73 x 92 cm) Framing: Unframed Signature: Signed "Costa...

Unframed this piece measures 14 x 11. Stephanie was born and raised on Long Island, NY. Choosing computer programming as her first career, her passion for drawing and painting promp...

ABOUT THE ARTWORK "Who We Really Are?" from the "Perichoresis" series raises questions of identity, duality, and the masks we wear—whether to hide or, paradoxically, to see ourselves...

This stunning work features Mr. Dumond's trademark green. Trout Rock Signed lower left: F. V. Dumond Titled on stretcher with artist's estate stamp: Trout Rock From a Texas Estate. Frank Vincent Dumond was an artist, illustrator, and painter of the Tonalist school...

Beveled wood painting depicting a landscape of river banks with lavandieres by a painter from Spain. He works in Paris and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français Very good co...

Signed at the bottom right Jean Duquoc is a French artist born in 1937 who lives & works in Belz, Brittany in France. In his work, we can see the skill with which he uses color, mov...

Ernst Louizor (1938-2011) a beautiful oil painting on board. This vibrant artwork depicts a bustling village scene, elegantly mounted in its original carved wooden frame from Haiti. ...

"Descanso, Peru (Woman)" by Ernesto Gutierrez, 1986, oil on jute canvas, signed lower right. 25" x 30" art 35" x 40" frame Artist Bio: Ernesto Gutierrez was born in Lima, Peru in ...

Choosing a contemporary English Impressionist figure painting inspired by Philip Wilson Steer, specifically capturing the Henley Regatta ...