Blanche McAlister Harris

Summer Pasture, original contemporary expressionist landscape oil painting

Adding dimension to a long allee of cypress trees and the spring shadows they cast is the endless quest to select the ideal path to follow. Artist Blanche McAlister Harris...

An abstracted view of home, with the light forever glowing from within, is the essence of Allegro. With seemingly random strokes of color and texture the abstract expressionist transitional landscape takes form. The coloration is representational until the texture changes the subject to a living form, subject to interpretation. The green exterior landscaping grounds the oil painting in the imagined reality. Artist Daryl Hastings...

Heading due west from NYC to escape the hustle and bustle of city living and arrive in time for the afternoon milking was quite a trek for the American aristocrats who built the estates of the New Jersey Somerset Hills during the Great Depression. Whether arriving by horse and carriage, train or motorcar, the festivities never ceased once there, overlooking the bucolic farms and farmland, resplendent with with some of the most elaborate homes and estates in the country. A popular arrival spot was Bernardsville, with it's horse and carriage manufacturing plant, car repair and train station, still home to a dairy farm just outside of the town center. Artist Joseph Sundwall...

Feeling the natural beauty of the summer sun as it discreetly unfolds over you is a true blessing and gift for the soul. The orange and yellow bursting out from the sun is what your soul has been begging for! Artist Bart DeCeglie displays his experience talents as he implements ultiiple techniques in the formation of sky, ocean and earth with motion and feeling true to the composition. The unframed size of this original abstract expressionist oil painting was finished with an elegant contemporary gold frame selected by the artist. Born and raised in Italy, now living and painting in New York, popular artist Bart DeCeglie studied his craft at both Pratt Institute...

Afternoon Pastorale Gilbert Boyd, Irish/American (1896–1981) Date: circa 1950 Oil on Board, signed Size: 23.5 x 29.5 in. (59.69 x 74.93 cm)

"Countryside" is a beautiful original impasto oil painting, created on linen panel by American artist Sandra Pratt. Born 1978, Sandra Pratt is an American painter who anchors her ar...

RALPH DELLA-VOLPE (1923-2017) Fine Art Painter, American Contemporary The Valley Oil on canvas Hand signed lower left and again to stretcher and verso 16 x 20 inches. frame dimensions: 22 1/4 x 26 inches, wood frame Provenance: The Estate of the artist Ralph Della Volpe TRAINING: National Academy of Design The Art Students League, NYC Ralph Eugene Della-Volpe's semi-abstract paintings of often simplified, minimalist, beach scenes and anonymous portraits "convey profound awareness of mood and character", and his paintings are hardly as literal as they may first appear (Arts Magazine. "New York Exhibitions". 1965). His brightly-colored, light-infused, ornamental compositions bring together aspects of many modernist art movements including Fauvism, Impressionism, Symbolism, and abstraction. Della-Volpe first studied painting at the prestigious National Academy of Design before joining the Army during World War II. As a soldier, the artist saw action on Utah Beach, winning a Purple Heart, and his experiences undoubtedly affected his later artistic style. The Fauvist "coloristic exuberance" found in the works beginning in the mid 1960's, with their vibrant fuschias and yellows, seem to offset what could be an otherwise solemn tone to many of his works at the time. Upon his return from military service, Della-Volpe’s style evolved significantly. In the years following the second world war, his work was solemn, imbued with a quiet darkness. Over time, this darkness faded: by the 1950s, influenced by his time at the Art Students League, his oeuvre was overtaken by the tenants of Abstract Expressionism. Paintings from this period boast bold brushwork, energetic compositions, and strong color. Although the next decade saw Della-Volpe trade expressionist abstraction for figuration, his love of color continued to shine through his work.Della-Volpe took a teaching position as the first artist-in-residence at Bennett College in Millbrook, New York where he remained for 28 years, serving as chairman of the Art Department for most of that time. Obviously influenced by impressionism 's preoccupation with the treatment of light, Della-Volpe's own works have a "faultless tonal quality, with its sense of failing light—the areas of silvery gray deepening into rosy tans" (Arts Magazine. "In the Galleries". 1960). Della-Volpe has exhibited widely throughout his career and has lectured on art at colleges, universities, and galleries across the country. SOLO SHOWS: Hotchkiss Library, Sharon, Conn Millbrook Library, Millbrook,NY Gregory James Gallery...

One of my favorite plein air paintings, Spring Meadow is an impressionistic landscape oil painting on canvas panel that showcases a beautiful early spring farm scene near my home wh...