Katherine Kean

Cloud Chasing

2014

This original oil on linen painting, inspired by an adventurous, stormy day on the Big Island in Hawaii at lava engulfed, surf pounded, Kaimu beach is 24 x 30 inches, on gallery wrap...

Depicting a quiet moment, "Clouds Swirling Over the Great Marsh" is an atmospheric, contemporary landscape painting inspired by visits to the Great Marsh of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. ...

Interesting phenomena affect the look of the landscape, whether it is the light effects caused by the reflective particles thrown into the air by a volcano, or the strange twilight caused by a storm suddenly and dramatically changing the angle of the sun’s rays and for a moment, relighting the landscape. In this painting it is a thunderhead cloud forming suddenly above the mountains. This small alla-prima painting is created directly in a single session, on gallery wrapped linen, with 1 1/2 inch deep stretchers. The edges are hand painted, providing a finished look, suitable for framing, or beautiful left as is. Katherine Kean has exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, and has been acquired by many private and corporate collections. She has been honored to have her work selected for Bloomingdales in Santa Monica, California, Schiffer's 100 Artists of the West Coast II, Paint America's Paint the Parks, Manhattan Arts Healing Arts International...

The phenomenon of murmuration is fascinating. At a particular time at the end of the day birds gather in large numbers and swoop back and forth across the sky. Here they are emerging...

Original oil on linen painting imagines a whisper quiet moment. The fog draped beach boulders slowly emerge into view as the fog lifts revealing strokes of blue sky. This painting wo...

In this colorful, imaginary landscape, diminutive saffron finches fly through the yellow leaves and graceful branches of a tropical Bacarubu tree. The light of the evening sun reflec...

The Flowers Bed. 1998. Oil on linen, 50x60.5 cm

JUST BEFORE SUNSET, Original Signed Contemporary Realist Landscape Painting 24" x 40" x 0.5" (HxWxD) Oil on Linen mounted on Gator Board Hand-signed by t...

Expressive depiction of Christ being aided by Simon of Cyrene by an unknown artist, Italiante School style of 17th-century Northern European painters principally Dutch, c.1700s-1800s. This piece is composed of oil on linen, laid down on fiberboard. Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 42"H x 33"W. Italianate painters, group of 17th-century northern European painters, principally Dutch, who traveled in Italy and, consciously adopting the style of landscape painting that they found there, incorporated Italian models and motifs into their own works. Chief among the Italianates were Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Andries and Jan Both, Nicolaes Berchem, and Jan Asselijn...

A Venetian scene of the Palazzo Dario by F. R. Unterberger Austrian, c.1898-1900 Frame: height 97cm, width 85cm, depth 7cm Canvas: 83cm, width 70cm, depth...

In "Nostalgia" a 21st -century Nigerian painter uses an impressionist technique the brushwork clearly visible —to evoke the haziness between wakefulne...

Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen (The Hague 1795-1860) A winter landscape with hunters on a path along a stream Signed and dated 'H vd S. Bak...