Maryann Lucas

"Liquid and Solid" oil painting of ocean seascape, Montauk, The Hamptons, Framed

2018

"Summers View" is an oil painting of the Australian landscape. Painted with a palette knife, the paint is laid on thick. Three dimensional texture of the paint creates realistic forms via shadow and highlights. A somewhat abstract method of painting creates a contemporary realist depiction of nature. A field of green is intersected by a narrow path. Tree spout upward along the hills edges, and a grand blue scape of water floods the background. Framed in a natural wood, floating frame. See images and video for details. Emily Persson is a Melbourne based artist who has been creating oil paintings with a palette knife for three years. Emily is a multi-generational artist with roots in Brisbane, Australia. Although an avid hobbyist painter her whole life, Emily found her style and her new career in 2016 when she began painting landscape, seascape and floral still-life paintings inspired by her surrounds in Queensland. Emily decided in late 2017 that she would give away a successful corporate office job and pursue her life long dream of becoming a full time artist. She relocated to South Yarra in Melbourne and immediately began exhibiting across Australia at galleries such as the Moree Gallery and Satch & Co. Emily participated in many group exhibitions and fundraisers in 2018 including multiple shows in Melbourne, New South Wales and Queensland. Emily has gained most of her notoriety from her popularity on Instagram where she has close to twelve thousand followers. Emily’s art has trended worldwide on social media and she has become a pioneer and mentor for other artists trying to find their online groove. Emily has drawn the eye of some of Australia’s most sought after interior designers including Thomas Hamel, Nina Provan, Lauren Li and has had her work displayed in some of Australia’s biggest lifestyle magazines including Belle and Country Style. Influenced by master artists such as Frederick McCubbin...

An abstract painting that focuses on slight shifts in hue to set mood. The artist, being a surfer himself, imagines a wave of red and pink hues in this smaller scale abstract paintin...

William Sharp (1900 - 1961) Factory on the River Oil on canvas 20 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches Initialed lower left: WS Provenance: Estate of the artist Private Collection, New York Swann Auction Galleries, American Art, June 13, 2019, Lot 178 Private Collection, New York Colonial Sand and Stone Co., founded by Generoso Pope, was once the country’s largest sand and gravel business, providing the concrete for much of New York City’s skyline, including the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, airports and subways. William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry. He later studied in Kraków, Poland, and in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Sharp began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals. He served in the German army during World War I. After the war he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher. Sharp drew political cartoons that were bitterly critical of the growing Nazi movement. As the influence of National Socialism intensified, he began to contribute drawings, under a pseudonym, to publications that were hostile to Hitler. After Hitler assumed power, Sharp was confronted with these drawings and told that he would be sent to a concentration camp. However, in 1934, he escaped to the United States. His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror...

Serene and calm sky, ocean horizon, sunrise or sunset sky painting from American Realist Willard Dixon. A contemporary sky scape with clouds and etherial light. Like a window to a wide open, brilliant and warm sky, in blue, purple yellow and gold. Unframed and ready to hang and enjoy. The original painting is 42 x 40 inches. Signed in paint with artist initials front. And signed in pen with artist's signature, date and title, Verso. One of our finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon has painted Northern California and western landscapes for over 35 years. His work captures the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. The same sensitivity can be found in Dixon’s urban street scenes that offer viewers a resting place to contemplate our rapidly changing world, and his portraiture, which largely focuses on his artist friends and illustrious colleagues. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, and the California Museum of Att in Oakland, CA. Willard Dixon Born Kansas City MO, 1942 Education Art Students League, New York, NY Cornell University Brooklyn Museum School San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969 Awards and N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989 Commissions California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998 Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998 Teaching 1989-90 San Francisco State University 1975 San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar 1974-76 Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA 1973-74, 1976 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1971-72 California State University, Hayward, CA One Man Exhibitions 2015 Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield 2014 SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2008 SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2005 Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY 2005 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY. 2002 Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA 2001 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000 Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY 2000 Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA 1998 Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA 1997 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996, 1995 Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery) 1994 Fischbach Gallery 1993 Contemporary Realist Gallery 1992 Fischbach Gallery 1991 Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1990 Fischbach Gallery 1989 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988 Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1987 Fischbach Gallery 1987 Gallery 454 North 1986 William Sawyer Gallery 1985 Fischbach Gallery 1984 Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx 1984 William Sawyer Gallery 1983, 1982 Fischbach Gallery 1981 William Sawyer Gallery 1980,1979 Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1976, 1975 William Sawyer Gallery 1973, 1972 William Sawyer Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish, Irene Zweig, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 2015 REAL / with Elizabeth Barlow Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2014 Stillness and Activity / A father and daughter exhibition. Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2013 Outwin Boocher Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Hey Everybody / Portraits, Diablo Valley College 2012 Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge”, George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA. Introduction Two/ Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2011 California: A Landscape of Dreams/ Fresno Art Museum 2010 Self Portrait Invitational/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT 2009 On Beauty/ I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA. 2008 At Water’s Edge/ I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA. 2007 San Francisco Scenes/ George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA Ten Years- A Retrospective/ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, S.F., CA. 2006 Our Planet, Our Home/ SFMOMA Artists Gallery, S.F. CA 2005 2005 Spring Group Show/ Earl McGrath Gallery, L.A., CA 2002 H2O’02, Paintings of Water/ Fischbach Gallery, NYC Scene in Oakland 1852-2002 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA The Garden/ Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA The Moving Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY Bay Area Printmakers/ works from Trillium Press, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA California Landscape Paintings/ College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA Bay Area Printmakers/ SF Museum of Modern Art/Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA Visions: Northern California/ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA 2001 Opening Exhibit: Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY 2000 Hackett Freedman Gallery Artists/ Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, Ca 1999 Homage to the Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American Culture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999 What is Art For? What are Museums For? What are You For?/ curated for the Oakland Museum by William T.Wiley & Mary Hull Webster, Oakland, CA 1998 Paintings of Marin County Past and Present/ The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Hackett Freedman Gallery, S.F., CA 1996 Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas/ Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (traveling exhibition) Contemporary American Realist Painters/ Halls Crown Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1996 Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute/ One Bush St., S.F., CA 1996 New Work by Selected Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Flower Paintings/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA 1995 Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area/ De Young Museum, S.F., CA Contemporary Still Life Painting/ David Klein...