Horse Figurative Paintings
to
107
81
82
110
74
111
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
22
99
162
175
9
5
9
14
4
8
6
9
3
8
12
74
73
20
18
10
9
8
7
4
3
335
90
32
3,786
26,389
16,101
9,081
8,201
7,986
4,325
4,098
3,240
2,583
2,047
1,950
1,949
1,904
1,702
1,496
1,220
1,115
1,055
1,018
438
377
253
236
37
5
5
5
4
4
274
38
220
210
Art Subject: Horse
Broken Coach
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a framed original painting.
Biography
Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979.
For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator.
His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana.
Artist Statement
For a long time, the images in my paintings have been identifiably, even iconically, western-stagecoaches and false-front main streets, poker games and gun battles, cowboys, Indians, cavalry troopers and horses, all suspended in a choreographed matrix of dancing paint. Distinct from the traditional western genre-which inventories the minutia of cowboy gear or tells sentimental stories of rangeland romance-my paintings embody something more elemental and timeless, animated and abstract. The images tend to be stark, graphic, and charged with painterly energy. Though they are derived from fugitive television images, the paintings, as paintings, are still, silent and non-ephemeral. They register the technological transfer of primal shadows onto the electroluminescent screens of our collective consciousness, a shimmering blur of perception and memory transposed in an interchange of gesture and description, painted marks simultaneously arresting and embodying movement. I've always liked what a painter friend, Marc Vischer, wrote in 1988 about an early group of my western paintings. Now, I'm fourteen years closer to actualizing my vision for this work, and his astute remarks seem more pertinent today than they did then. He wrote in part, "For McConnell, a searing light emanates from a new desert: that of television. And from that most desolate backdrop, he salvages fragments from a movie world that spoke of honor in a land that was lawless. In a romantic sense, McConnell's works are a visual seance. Figures, like specters distorted through intense heat waves, are captured from their eternity of 24 frames a second. Their shapes and shadows are brought back into a radically different world and given substance and texture. It is an impossible attempt to freeze them, to arrest the present's ceaseless molestation of the past, to close off the continuum. Sometimes this is done darkly and thickly as an emphatic gesture of permanence. In other works a few light strokes quickly applied suggest the ephemeral nature of film and perhaps the fleeting nature of our own lives."
I have been examining new imagery in my paintings, drawing subjects from Mexican graphic novelas, modern women and men of romance and mystery from the mid-20th century, motorcycles and airplanes. The end titles of movies, stated in several languages, have inspired me to begin a new series of cross-media translations in both acrylic and watercolor. My paintings have long begun where the movies have left off. The elements of water and light co-mingle in some pieces from this series and in others which take the viewpoint of a swimmer, watching other swimmers from the wet side of this aqueous membrane, looking up toward the light.
My arrival in Montana in 1982 brought me into intimate contact with some of the most storied places of the historic West and also gave me the opportunity to study the paintings of two of the most influential codifiers of western imagery, Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
Cuban Contemporary Art by Carlos Sablon Perez - Le Duel
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Carlos Sablòn Perez is a Cuban artist born in 1981 who lives & works in Châlons-en-Champagne, France. His talent is quickly recognized in the four corners of the C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Colt Dragoon
Located in Bozeman, MT
Biography
Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979.
For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator.
His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana.
Artist Statement
For a long time, the images in my paintings have been identifiably, even iconically, western-stagecoaches and false-front main streets, poker games and gun battles, cowboys, Indians, cavalry troopers and horses, all suspended in a choreographed matrix of dancing paint. Distinct from the traditional western genre-which inventories the minutia of cowboy gear...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Summer Sense - Oil Painting Landscape Colors Blue Green White Grey Brown Red
By Ivan Roussev
Located in Sofia, BG
"Summer sense" is a landscape painting by the impressionist Ivan Roussev.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : Unique, signed
Wei...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
SPEED, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Speed“ 70 X 100 cm, oil on canvas
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Maximilien Luce Farm Scene Mixed Media Drawing
Located in Dallas, TX
Maximilien Luce (Fr. 1858 - 1941) Farm Scene Painting
Maximilien Luce incorporates ink, crayon, and watercolor to create a large impressionistic and multifaceted social statement of...
Category
1890s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper
Coach and Fours
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Unfortunate Series of Distractions
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Barron graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA and MFA. Shortly after graduating, Barron was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation Grant that allowed him to crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Dabere - Force et Tempérament
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas
Pascal Dabere is a French artist born in 1957 who lives & works in Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, France. At 17 years old, he was spotted by Dargaud Editions and wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Dabere - Cheval d'argent
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas
Pascal Dabere is a French artist born in 1957 who lives & works in Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, France. At 17 years old, he was spotted by Dargaud Editions and wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Wild Geese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 40.25" x 30.00;" Framed Dimensions: 49.25" x 39.25"
The Pictorial Review interior illustration, August 1925-January 1926
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Josef Mathauser, 19th Century, Hunting Scene in a Wintry Forest, "The Wolf Hunt"
Located in Berlin, DE
Josef Mathauser, 19th century, dramatic hunting scene in a wintry forest
Decorative oil painting by the well-known Czech artist Josef Mathauser. Signed lower right.
Magnificently fr...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Forgotten Journey, 20th Century British Artist, Signed and Dated 1939
By Harold Yates
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and ink on paper, signed and dated '1939' bottom left and entitled on the reverse
Image size: 18 x 9 inches (45.75 x 23 cm)
Original frame
This is a wonderfully moving w...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Commanding Curve - Equestrian Watercolor
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Commanding Curve" is a captivating watercolor painting on rag paper that beautifully portrays the freedom horse riding allows. The artwork depicts a woman with short brown hair grac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
A Moment of Grace
Located in Atlanta, GA
I was born in Atlanta, Ga. in i948 and have always lived in the South. The rich tradition of storytelling is in my blood and it is impossible to ignore its influence on my narrative paintings.I am the director of my own tale and must create the characters, the setting, and the poetic tensions implied between the characters and the viewer.
My paintings are done on canvas or museum board in a realistic manner with much attention to detail. I
have created a technique of layering oil paints and varnish that give the surface a unique technical aspect, one that visually reflects the many levels at which the narrative can be interpreted.
The paintings begin with the seed of an idea and a strong fascination and empathy for the central character. One can rely on conscious judgements concerning composition, whether to paint the figure nude or elaborately costumed ,and the use of one's own personal symbols and icons. I believe that only when the artist moves into uncertain territory and listens to her own private language, can she
move beyond mere painting. Artist Statement C.Dawn Davis
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
There is Still so Much we Don't Know About the Rites of Spring
Located in Atlanta, GA
I was born in Atlanta, Ga. in i948 and have always lived in the South. The rich tradition of storytelling is in my blood and it is impossible to ignore its influence on my narrative paintings.I am the director of my own tale and must create the characters, the setting, and the poetic tensions implied between the characters and the viewer.
My paintings are done on canvas or museum board in a realistic manner with much attention to detail. I
have created a technique of layering oil paints and varnish that give the surface a unique technical aspect, one that visually reflects the many levels at which the narrative can be interpreted.
The paintings begin with the seed of an idea and a strong fascination and empathy for the central character. One can rely on conscious judgements concerning composition, whether to paint the figure nude or elaborately costumed ,and the use of one's own personal symbols and icons. I believe that only when the artist moves into uncertain territory and listens to her own private language, can she
move beyond mere painting. Artist Statement C.Dawn Davis
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lord Cardigan, Charge of the Light Brigade, British Army Military Officer
Located in Miami, FL
This graphic composition depicts Lord Cardigan on horseback commanding an equestrian military unit with the Union Jack flag proudly displayed. The famous battle scene "Charge of the Light Brigade...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Paper
Horses, Chicken, Ducks, Rooster and Pigs Children's Book - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Cover illustration for mid-century children's book publisher Merril Publishers. Signed lower right. Unframed. Retta Scott or Retta Worcester was (February 23, 1916 – August 26, 1990) was an pioneering Female Illustrator / American artist. She was the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Scott worked on storyboards to develop scenes of Bambi, his mother, and the film’s hunting dogs, on which she spent weeks to develop them into “vicious, snarling, really mean beasts.” Male artists in the company were stunned who initially assumed that only a man could create drawings with such intensity and technical skill. Her sketches caught the eye of Disney, so when the film went into production, she was assigned to animate scenes of hunting dogs chasing Faline. She worked under the film's supervising director, David D. Hand,and was tutored by Disney animator Eric Larson. This was a significant coup for the young woman, since at the 1930s-era Disney studio, women were considered only for routine tasks: "Ink and paint art was a laborious part of the animation process, and was solely the domain of women..." Her promotion to animator was in part thanks to the success of herself and other women such as Bianca Majolie, Sylvia Holland, and Mary Blair as storyboard artists. Even after receiving a promotion to animator, she and her animations continued being under appreciated in the industry. Though the most recognized Walt Disney female artist is Mary Blair, it is Retta Scott who opened up the doors for women in the animation industry. She became the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator. By the spring of 1941, Scott was also considered a "specialist in animal sketches."
Scott helped produce Fantasia and Dumbo, as well as an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows that was later cancelled. She also made an appearance in The Reluctant Dragon...
Category
1950s Feminist Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The passengers - Julien Calot, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Calot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
Discover the new works on canvas by the French emerging and talented artist Julien Calot in his personal ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Gray Steeplechaser #8 O/C by Fairfield G. Coogan (1925-2024) of York, ME.
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic steeplechasing oil on canvas by the noted York, ME artist, Fairfield Coogan depicting a gray hunter horse #8 signed 'Coogan' (LR)
Art Sz: 23"...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tamar Sulakvelidze - Mescalito
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by ma Wei-Hong - Start Your Wandering Journey
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on fabric
Ma Wei-Hong is a Chinese artist born in 1977 who lives & works in Songzhuang, Beijing, China. She is graduated from Shanxi Yuncheng College of Art. Ma pursued adva...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic
International Field Meadow Brook Club 1939 by Paul Brown
Located in Bristol, CT
New York, published and copyrighted 1939 by Robert B. Strawbridge, Jr.
Numbered limited edition 53/ 60
Art Sz: 17 1/2"H x 26"W
Frame Sz: 25 1/2"H x 33 1/2"
In French matt
w/ original pencil remarque to Charles H. Jackson Jr. Very sincerely Paul Brown
w/ 16 vignette polo teams (bottom left to right): Wanders/ Ranelagh/ Cooperstown/ Meadow Brook Magpies/ Meadow Brook/ Great Neck/ Argentine/ Midwick/ Orange County/ Sands Point/ Hurricanes/ Santa Paula/ Templeton/ Aurora/ Greentree & Old Westbury
Charles Hervey "Pete" Jackson Jr. (1898 - 1978) was an American rancher, investor and polo player.
Early life
Charles H. Jackson Jr. was born on April 12, 1898, and grew up in Albany, New York. He was the grand-nephew of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.
Ranching
Jackson, briefly a banker, was interested in agriculture and became a rancher when he journeyed west and bought the Alisal ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley at auction in 1943. He built it up as a guest ranch, opening to the public in 1946. For a period of time the ranch was known for attracting celebrity visitors; Clark Gable married Lady Sylvia Ashley there in 1949. Under the management of his son it became more popular as a family destination.
Equestrian interests
Jackson was a co-founder of the Santa Barbara Riding and Hunt Club, in the suburb of Hope Ranch, alongside Amy DuPont, Charles E. Jenkins, Harold S. Chase, Dwight Murphy, C.K.G. Billings, John Mitchell, George Owen Knapp, Peter Cooper...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Empress Hilton Leading Her Troops into Russia
By Brett Osborn
Located in Atlanta, GA
Brett Eric Osborn was born in Lima, Ohio in 1963. Both his father and his cousin are artists and influenced the young Osborn during his formative years. Brett recalls being a child d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Country Life
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 6 x 12 inches
Framed size: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Signed
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Horse-Drawn Sled Racing down a Snowy Pass
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 36.25" x 25.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meeting of Two Civilizations
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 40.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of the State House (now Independence Hall) as it appeared circa 1800
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right
Snow at Independence Hall.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Western Scene
By Victor Olson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 29.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sally Ward Greets Soldiers Returning to Louisville
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Sallie Ward, Kentucky Belle, greets soldiers returning from the Mexican War to Louisville, Kentucky.
Illustrating the article “The Loveliest of All Kentucky Girls” by William Perrin...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Ratto delle Sabine II, 2014
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jacopo Scassellati was born in Sassari (Sardinia) in 1989 where he still resides today. His family is originally from Umbria. Very early on, he displayed a strong predisposition for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Departing
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.25" x 38.5"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jack-Knifing The Lead Team
By Robert Elwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Texas Fury, Paperback Cover
By Ron Lesser
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 14.50" x 12.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
J.T Edson, Dell Books
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Incredible realist pencil sketch "Equus" a classic study by Impiglia, horse
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
A rare drawing by world renowned artist Giancarlo Impiglia in which he exhibits his exceptional technique and classical training.
Born in Rome and educated classically, Giancarlo I...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Fox Valley Stables
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic hand-painted Fox Valley Stables wooden horse (double-sided) diagonal sign w/ horseshoes
Sz: 12 3/4"H x 21"W
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Experimental Railway Passing Bull's Head Inn" Philadelphia Whisky Ad
By Simon Greco
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 12.50" x 17.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
'A Gallant Salute' Figurative 19th Century painting of royal, horses & hounds
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'A Gallant Salute' is an extremely impressive work by Samual Edmond Waller, signed and dated 1894. Figurative 19th Century painting of three great noble royalty members dressed in p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man with Horse and Rope, Contemporary Painting
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Mark Beard
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man with Horse and Rope
n.d.
Signed, u.r.
Oil on canvas
68 x 66 inches
Contact gallery for price.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Horse, Ocean, Boat
By Fabian Jean
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Fabian Jean graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University. He has had solo exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax and has been included in several group exhi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
The Andalusia
Located in Missouri, MO
The Andalusia
John Frederick Herring (English, 1795-1865)
Signed Lower Right
14 x 18 inches
18 x 22 inches with frame
Provenance: Frost &Reed, Ltd., London 1984
Herring, born in London in 1795, was the son of a London merchant of Dutch parentage, who had been born overseas in America. The first eighteen years of Herring's life were spent in London, where his greatest interests were drawing and horses.[2] In the year 1814, at the age of 18, he moved to Doncaster in the north of England, arriving in time to witness the Duke of Hamilton's "William" win the St. Leger Stakes horserace. By 1815, Herring had married Ann Harris; his sons John Frederick Herring Jr., Charles Herring, and Benjamin Herring were all to become artists, while his two daughters, Ann and Emma, both married painters. When she was barely of age in 1845 Ann married Harrison Weir.
In Doncaster, England, Herring was employed as a painter of inn...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Western Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Western Scene" c.1960, is an oil painting on canvas by noted Western artist Charles Damrow, 1916-1989. It is signed at the lower left corne...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Wonder!!" Oil Painting 16" x 20" inch by Mr. Everybody
By Mr. Everybody
Located in Culver City, CA
"Wonder!!" Oil Painting 16" x 20" inch by Mr. Everybody
* * * ABOUT THE ARTIST * * *
Shane Everybody (Mr.Everybody) is an Irish born self taught artist, where he is currently paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid-day, Zuni Village
By Frank Reed Whiteside
Located in Missouri, MO
Mid-day, Zuni Village, 1897
By. Frank Reed Whiteside (American, 1866-1929)
Unframed: 20" x 30"
Framed: 28" x 38"
Frank Reed Whiteside, born in Philadelphia on 20 August 1867, became a student of Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1888-92). He already began exhibiting there during his student years (1887-98). In 1893, he enrolled in the Académie Julian in Paris where he received instruction from Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. After his French academic training, Whiteside taught art in Philadelphia high schools. He took frequent trips to the Southwest between 1890 and 1928 to live with and paint the Zuni Indians. Whiteside depicted ceremonial dances, Zuni buildings, and other genre scenes, usually in blinding afternoon sunlight. He carefully observed the effects of light on vibrant color, using a finely crafted impressionist technique. He was fond of broad areas of color, subtle combinations of hues, and simplified shapes and silhouettes. Whiteside continued to exhibit at the PAFA (1905-15), at the Art Institute of Chicago (1896-1916), at the Carnegie International (1905 and 1907) and at the Corcoran Gallery (1907). He was a member of Philadelphia art societies and beginning in 1909 had a summer studio in Ogunquit, Maine, where he took part in Hamilton Easter Field's discussion groups. Frank's wife, Clara Walker Whiteside, who published Touring New England in 1926, was active in the Ogunquit Art Association.
Like Stanford White, Frank Reed Whiteside was the victim of murder, on 19 September 1929, but Whiteside's case remains unsolved. One night, the sixty-three year-old painter answered the doorbell. Two witnesses...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carmelo Niño, Lechera, 2014, Oil on canvas, 207 x 149 cm, 81.4 x 58.6 in.
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
Lechera, 2014
Oil on canvas
207 x 149 cm
81.4 x 58.6 in.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Carmelo Niño, a Venezuelan artist originally from Maracaibo, Zulia State, an oil-producing region of Venezuela, is today one of the most outstanding painters in the plastic arts landscape in the country. Many years have passed since his birth in 1951 to the present, when he inaugurates this August 2022, a major exhibition at the Ascaso Gallery in Miami, with paintings from different dates resulting from the permanent and daily work of reflection, physical and intellectual, that he has always pursued in his creative life. Without neglecting a single moment of day-to-day life to be in front of the medium-sized canvas on the easel or of larger canvas hanging on a wall, he works in his large studio in the area of El Junco, outside the capital city of Caracas, surrounded by lush green vegetation, with a wonderful climate of pleasant temperature and poetic mist that invites to the reverie and glorification of his life as a painter. From a very early age Niño and his family discovered his vocation for drawing, a discipline in which he showed a special disposition and talent. From this moment on he dedicates his life to art, to the practice of painting, starting from a fantastic and strange world of fantasy, close to surrealism, unfailingly influenced by the circus of fantasy owned by his mother and a musician father.
These circumstances will shape the artist's life. His traces and influences from the beginning will be present in his creative work, especially through the memories of the infinite curiosity to look, touch and be enraptured by the strange furniture and objects from his mother's circus that he knew were deposited in a room of the house.
This universe of fantasy will leave an indelible mark on his subconscious and will serve as the thematic and artistic support for all his work. In an interview conducted by the critic Roberto Montero Castro in 1977, Carmelo Niño states, "the symbols of my painting come from the everyday life".
His life has been one of continuous work and effort. At the age of fifteen he enrolled in the School of Arts of Maracaibo, graduated three years later, 1966, and immediately, with a scholarship, he travelled to Spain, took a few courses at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, strengthened his preparation in art workshops and in frequent visits to the big museums of this European capital. With a sensitive gaze he penetrates the mysteries of masterpieces of the great artists who have made the universal history of art. His life as a painter has been intense, of intense study, preparation and work. With much composure and modesty he talks about his life and his artistic production, recognized not only in Venezuela, but also internationally. His participation in exhibitions began in 1969 and as early as 1970 he held his first individual exhibition at the Fine Arts Center of Maracaibo. From these dates onwards successes started to come, with the participation in collective and individual exhibitions, in Venezuela and abroad, as well as the awards from 1971, when he won the Scholarship Award at the First National Salon of Young Artists in Maracay, Aragua State; in 1972 he was awarded the Second Prize at the Regional Salon of Maracaibo. 1975 is the year of awards, he received the First Prize at the IV Salon of Young Artists in Caracas; the Aurelio Rodriguez Award at the IV Avellan Salon in Caracas and the First Prize at the Salon of Young Zulian Artists in Maracaibo; he also participated in the group exhibition of History of Painting in Venezuela, at Casa de Las Americas, Havana, Cuba; and in 1976 he was invited by Jose Gomez Sicre to take part in the exhibition of Venezuelan painting...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carmelo Niño, Arlequin casi nocturno, 2012, Oil on canvas, 145 x 125 cm
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
Arlequin casi nocturno, 2012
Oil on canvas
145 x 125 cm
57 x 49.2 in.
"Arlequin casi nocturno" is a painting by Venezuelan artist Carmelo Ni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Passage Along the Shore
Located in New York, NY
Passage Along the Shore by Victor Pierre Huguet (1835-1902)
Oil on canvas
15 x 23 inches unframed (38.1 x 58.42 cm)
21 x 29 inches framed (53.34 x 73.66 cm)
Signed on bottom right
Description:
In this piece, Victor Pierre Huguet depicts five men traveling...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Avenue de Friedland, L’Arc de Triomphe
Located in Missouri, MO
Framed Size: 21 x 26 inches
*This work has been authenticated by Nicole Verdier
Provenance: Johnson Gallery, Chicago IL, circa 1967/1968
Cortès was born in Lagny, France on April 26, 1882. During his early lifetime, Paris was the center of the art world. Artist from across the globe traveled there to study and paint it's beautiful countryside and cities; views of Paris, or as it became known 'the City of Lights', were in great demand by both collectors and tourists. Édouard Cortès, along with other artists like Eugene Galien-Laloue (1854-1941), Luigi Loir (1845-1916) and Jean Beraud (1849-1936) answered their call.
Specializing in Paris street scenes, each of these artists captured the city during its heyday and continued with these scenes well into the 20th century.Édouard was the son of Antonio Cortès - the Spanish Court painter - who was himself the son of the artisan André Cortès...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In Close Pursuit
Located in Missouri, MO
Site Size: 20 x 15 inches
Framed Size: 28.5 x 24 inches
Donald Spaulding's artistic talents were recognized early. Encouraged by his high school teachers to pursue formal art traini...
Category
1990s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Old High Country Woman
By Roy Andersen
Located in Missouri, MO
Roy Andersen (b. 1930)
"Old High Country Woman"
Oil on Canvas
12 x 16 inches
21.5 x 25 inches framed
Known as a western painter, Roy Andersen did paintings of Crow, Cheyenne, and Apache Indians. He began his career living in Chicago and New York and working as an illustrator. He did numerous covers for Time Magazine including portraits of Albert Einstein and Prince Fahd. He also did illustrations for National Geographic magazine, and did a stamp series on Dogs and American Horses, and in 1984 and 1985, won Stamp of the Year Award. As a muralist, he has filled commissions for the National Park Service, the Royal Saudi Naval Headquarters, and the E.E. Fogelson Vistor Center at Pecos National Monument in New Mexico.
To pursue his talent for painting, Roy Anderson went West, living in Arizona and settling in Cave Creek. In 1990, he was voted official artist for Scottsdale's Parada del Sol, the "world's largest" horse-drawn parade commemorating the Old West.
Andersen grew up on an apple farm in New Hampshire and learned about Indian customs from his many hours spent at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. He is meticulous about being historically accurate in his paintings. Of him it was written: "There are no 'happy accidents' in an Andersen painting. He has a knowledge of his subject that is attained only through extensive research. You will not find an Apache medicine bag...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Franco-Prussian Battle Scene
Located in Missouri, MO
Wilfrid Constant Beauquesne (1847 - 1913)
"Franco-Prussian Battle Scene" c. 1900
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Right
Site Size: approx 22 x 28 inches
Framed Size: approx 35 x 40 inches
French artistry was deeply influenced by three wars during the 19th century and, accordingly, the artistic imagination was not lost upon the public. "Patriotism comes to the aid of battle painters," a contemporary remarked, "presenting them with a sympathetic public already fascinated by the subject." After the brief Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870, French painters were particularly anxious to retrieve national pride by presenting works which reflected their own national heroism versus enemy brutality.
Known for his scenic depictions of this war, Wilfried Beauquesne, a native of Rennes, France, was undoubtedly influenced in his selection of subjects by his instructors at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Vernet-Lecomte and Horace Vernet were both well known military artists. Vernet had actually lived and worked during the period of Napoleonic conflicts - being awarded the Legion of Honor by the Emperor's own hand. Beauquesne exhibited regularly at the annual Paris Salon between 1887 and 1899, as well as throughout Europe.
In 1890, illustrating the fortunes of life, The Art Amateur ran the following item in its "Gossip Column:"
"A queer story comes to me from Paris. A commission agent made a bargain with a poor painter, living out at Saint-Maude, to paint military subjects for him, at two francs an hour. The agent changed the signature to that of Gaubault, and sold the pictures to various dealers. On day, by chance, the poor painter came to Paris, went to the Salon, and was astonished to see one of his pictures there. He look at the catalogue, and found the name of the artist and the address of the dealer where he was to be found, The poor artist went to the dealer and introduced himself saying, "I am Gaubault." "Most happy to make your acquaintance," replied the dealer. "Your pictures sell very well, and I have been wanting to see you for the last six years." "But my name is not Gaubault, it is Beauquesne." Explanations followed. The dishonest commission agent disappeared; and Beauquesne restored his real signature on the pictures, which had made his pseudonym almost famous...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Haywagon
Located in Missouri, MO
James Edwin Meadows (British 1828-1888)
"The Haywagon" 1866
Oil on Canvas
Site: 24 x 40 inches
Framed: 30 x 46 inches approx.
A London landscape painter, James Edwin Meadows was the...
Category
Late 19th Century Land Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil