Kinuko Imai Hoffman

Adagio

Acrylic, canvas cloth and twine on canvas

Mixed media on canvas

Leora Armstrong grew up on the West Coast of Scotland surrounded by the sea, hills and Scottish weather. It was this changing light of the West Coast, upon the landscape, which happe...

From the artist: "I was born in New York City in 1952 and went to both private and public schools. I began taking figure drawing at the Art Students League when I was 12. My fath...

One of several in the Charcoal Series

Photograph of Pantheon Dome, within white box frame. Available in larger sizes.

Artist: Chuck Close Title: Tavern Year of Work: 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed & Dated Upper Left Dimensions: framed 31 x 25 unframed 30 x 24 Provenance: Chuck Close, Marjorie Dalton (Dear friend of Chuck), Private Collection. Tavern, is truly a rare find, an original oil on canvas, in compelling blues and grays with a touch of gold and orange. This work reveals more imagery and detail the longer one enjoys it. This painting was created during his years studying in Yale Art School, and draws different qualities to each new viewer similar to a Rorschach. Close's work is in the collections of most of the great international museums of contemporary art, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City. and the Tate Modern in London. Artist Bio: Chuck Close – (1940-2021) an American painter, artist and photographer born in Monroe, Washington. Early childhood illnesses including a neuromuscular condition, nephritis and dyslexia were compounded later in life by a condition known as prosopagnosia (face blindness), which may have inspired him to do portraits. Most of his early, large-format portraits are based on photographs, using photorealism or hyperrealism, of family and friends, often other artists. Close often painted abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Even though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he continued to paint inspired by artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Close's first solo exhibition, held in 1967 at the University of Massachusetts Art Gallery, Amherst, featured paintings, painted reliefs, and drawings based on photographs of record covers. Being much in the mainstream of pop art, a fragment of Close's portrait of singer-songwriter Paul Simon...

Gio Colucci (Italian 1892-1974) Untitled: Abstract Forms/Sky. Gouache on paper laid down on matt board. Archival framing under glass. Circa 1930's - 40's? Signed lower right. This...

Part of a new collection of painted porcelain panels by Chinese artist Yuan Lin, “Daydreams” is a luminous meditation on the sun's rays. In this painting, Lin...

This stylized landscape immediately catches attention from 360 degrees around. The bold blues, greens, browns and touches of warm colors too bring attention to the bustling summer li...

Mindy Weisel Not Everything is Black and White , 2017 oil on canvas 91 x 91 cm 36 x 36 in Exhibited Mindy Weisel "Meditations on Love", Rosenbach Conte...

Evening at the Lake #1 acrylic on wood panel 33 x 33 cm 13 x 13 in Exhibited: "The Art of Opera" , Jerusalem Israel January 2023