Mario Montilus

Landscape with Boats

1987

This artwork titled "Span" 1993 in an acrylic painting on paper by noted artist Richard Morhous, b.1940. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 25.5 x 34 inches, framed size is 33.25 x 41.25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with white color matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Richard Morhous is a nationally recognized artist whose work is collected countrywide. Emphasizing painterly qualities and expressionistic color, Morhous creates tangible, new worlds of pictorial space. His colorful paintings depict dynamic cityscapes, still life, and landscapes. Richard Morhous was born in South Dakota in 1945 and raised in Eastern Washington and Montana. After receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Washington in 1970, Morhous moved to Melbourne, Australia to study printmaking at the Prahan Institute where he also taught. In 1976 he returned to the University of Washington for independent studies in printmaking. The artist, who has resided in Seattle for the last 40 years, has works included in such collections as Microsoft, The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, City of Portland, City of Seattle, Cisco Systems, Perkins Coie, Deloitte Touche, University of Washington Medical Center, The Heathman Hotel and numerousprivate collections internationally. His work appears in The Pacific Northwest Landscape...

This painting with added elements is an excellent example of Joe Doyle’s abstract illusionist art. It is composed of acrylic on shaped canvas with fabric elements added. It measures 36 x 43 inches. Each edge has been painted except for the left edge which has a frame. The right edge has been shaped. The black elements of the tent-like structure are added fabric. The work is signed, titled "564" and dated on the reverse. As well it bears a label from Harcourts Gallery, a gallery in San Francisco during the 1980s and 1990s. The work is in very good condition. Joe Doyle established himself as a painter during the movement toward new abstraction in San Francisco in the mid-seventies. Stylistically his work evolved from photo-realist renderings of aircraft which exaggerated differences in focus of background and foreground" By 1975 his imagery shifted to arrangements of flat, geometric forms and tubular squiggles in a trompe l'oeil manner that created the illusion of a multi-layered, three dimensional space. By the late 1970s Doyle, along with James Havard, Jack Reilly, George D. Green, and others, had attained national prominence working this style now referred to as Abstract Illusionism. Doyle and others were included in 'Reality of Illusion' a large touring exhibition of primarily American illusionist artists organized by the University of Southern California and The Denver Art Museum. Doyle enrolled at San Francisco State College receiving his M.A. in 1971. From 1971 to 1975 he was a photo-realist transferring images from photographs using airbrush techniques on canvas, occasionally adding political satire into the subject matter, as in "Ice House...

Oil and acrylic on canvas Signed lower right Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is it to...

Acrylic paint on canvas Signed Unique work Antoine Neron-Bancel is a young artist of brazilian origins. After studying literature, he graduated from The Nîmes School of Fine Arts (A...