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Art Subject: Women
The Lost Mitten
Located in London, GB
Image dimensions: 19cm x 39cm
Framed dimensions: 37.3cm x 56.5cm
An original watercolour by contemporary artist Jonathan Walker, The Lost Mitten depicts a whimsical winter scene of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sporting horse oil painting of a chestnut hunter & rider
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Florence Mabel Hollams
British, (1876-1963)
Chestnut Hunter with Rider
Oil on panel, signed & dated (19)26
Image size: 9.75 inches x 13.75 inches
Size including frame: 15.25 inches x...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Etretat, washerwomens in Normandy
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Georges VILLAIN
(1854, Paris – 1930)
Washerwomen on the beach at Étretat
Oil on canvas
H. 51 cm; L. 65 cm
Signed lower right Around 1900
Son of Eugène Marie François (1821-1897), wh...
Category
Early 1900s French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early Florida Painting "Spanish Garden" St. Augustine by Eric Stry Circa 1950
Located in Rochester, NY
Early Florida painting "Spanish Garden" St. Augustine Florida. Painted by Eric Stry. Oil on canvas board. Original carved frame. Circa 1950. Signed lower left. Titled on the reverse...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Ukrainian flowers"
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Sunflower is a symbol of Ukraine. This incredibly bright flower is a sign of the sun. It brings people strength and well-being, is considered the embodiment of solar energy, good lif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vacation Days
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful impressionist oil painting of three young girls and a doll carriage on the path by American artist Lee Lufkin Kaula (1865-1957). Kaula was born in Erie, PA and studied wi...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wilton Center
By Stanley Wingate Woodward
Located in Milford, NH
A fine landscape painting of Wilton Center, New Hampshire by American artist Stanley Wingate Woodward (1890-1970). Woodward was born in Malden, Massachusetts, and went on to author A...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Lawless Frontier by Frank Tenney Johnson
Located in New Orleans, LA
Frank Tenney Johnson
1874–1939 American
The Lawless Frontier
Signed, lower left: F Tenney Johnson A.N.A 1930
Oil on canvas
Frank Tenney Johnson’s The Lawless Frontier exemplifies...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Climb
By Zoe Hawk
Located in Bozeman, MT
My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scenes of play, group interacti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Race Point 2" Impressionistic Coastal Landscape Paintings of Rocks and Ocean
Located in Austin, TX
An impressionistic, antique landscape painting depicting the rugged coastal beauty of Race Point Beach, Massechusets. The rocky coastline and rushing waves are rendered in luminous ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Steamship off Abbazia"
Located in Wien, Wien
Leontine von Littrow
Trieste 1856 - 1925 Abbazia
"Steamship off Abbazia"
Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 55 cm
Monogrammed u.l.
Kolhammer & Mahringer
Archive Leontine von Littrow
WVLL No. 111...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
11:05 - Contemporary Beach Landscape Pink Clouds Blue Sky Ocean, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in oil on canvas mounted on panel, two figures stand by the shore of a beach, gazing out at the deep blue ocean, while fluffy, pale salmon pink cumulus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Garden Light 4933
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Playing Marbles, 1932 Chicago, Street Scene
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Attributed to Randolph LaSalle Coats (American, 1891 - 1957)
" Playing Marbles " 1932
Oil on Canvas Laid on Board
24" x 18"
Housed in a 3" Frame
Overall Size: 28 7/8" x 23 3/4"
...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vue du château de Versailles depuis la place d’Armes
Located in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, FR
Henry Tenré received a solid training in Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre’s studio at the Julian Academy from 1875 to 1885. Then he studied under the multi-medallist landscape pa...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Knight in Campagnano
Located in Roma, RM
Giacomo Balla (Turin 1871 - Rome 1958), Knight at Campagnano (1935)
Oil painting on pressed cardboard 46 x 64 cm signed Balla lower right, on the back are the following inscriptions...
Category
1930s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Flying into Love' Unique Painting
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
'Flying Into Love' is a masterpiece by Hunt Slonem. Rainbow butteries dance across the glistening gold canvas. The butterflies fly in all directions, and Slonem adds vertical marking...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cutter Horses
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil
Famous PISSARRO French POST-IMPRESSIONIST “L’entree Village” W/ COA from ARTIST
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is a wonderful Post Impressionist French Painting by the famous Paul Emile Pissarro
Painting comes With original $1500 purchase receipt from 1971, and accompanied by an ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Autumn Landscape
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Private collection
Description
Harry Leith-Ross’s Autumn Landscape is a fine example of the spontaneous fluidity of the artist’s painting style. Leith-Ross does not total...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
ROND-POINT DES CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES
signed "Grau Sala" (lower left)
signed, located and dated "GRAU SALA / PARIS 1967" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Saint Front, Périgueux" Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Painting
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Cathédrale Saint Front
Acrylic on Canvas
61 x 50 cm
Disclaimer: Please be aware that some images automatically generated by 1stDibs do not accurately reflect the painting’s proport...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Diana, Goddess of the Chase' by Artist 17th Century, French School, Circa 1660
Located in Bruges, BE
Artist 17th Century
French School
Circa 1660
'Diana, Goddess of the Chase'
Signature: not signed
Medium: tempera on paper applied to oak panel
Dimensions: image size 23.5 x 18.5 cm...
Category
17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Egg Tempera, Wood Panel
Along the Annisquam
By John Terelak
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1942
John Charles Terelak is recognized as one of America's finest living impressionists. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received formal art instruction at the Vespe...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rabbit Hole Singularity, Bunny, Flowers, Pink, Teal Surreal Botanical Landscape
By Peter Hamlin
Located in Kent, CT
A futuristic rabbit hybrid is the focus of this fantastical landscape in acrylic ink on canvas by Peter Hamlin. The rabbit is whimsical and surreal, held in the center of a flower. M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Gap of Dunloe, Day" - Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Landscape Painting of Ireland
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
A perspective of the Gap of Dunloe in the afternoon light, this painting full of greens represents a highlight of Ireland's beautiful outdoors landscapes. It is the first of a series...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Irish Promenade" - Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Landscape Painting of Ireland
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Acrylic on Canvas with light blue and layered green, this composition is a representation of Ireland and its intimate connection to music, mixing elements of Irish nature alongside m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Irish Ballad" - Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Landscape Painting of Ireland
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Acrylic on Canvas with vibrant blue and green, this composition is a representation of Ireland and its love for music.
This painting was recently showcased in Dublin, alongside oth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Memories of Ireland" - Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Painting
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Colourfoul with vibrant green, blue and touches or red, Memories of Ireland is the first painting of a series of paintings inspired by Ireland that Grégoire Mathias started to paint ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Crying in the Wilderness II
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
Margaret Grimes
Crying in the Wilderness II, 2007
oil on linen
64 x 44"
MG0016
Margaret Grimes (1943-2020) was widely recognized for her dynamic and complex depictions of nature. Wor...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The Lady and The Suitor, Little Dog, Romance Painting, Cuffing Season
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Edouard-Jean-Conrad Hamman (Belgian, 1819-1888)
Signed: Ed. Hamman (Lower, Right)
" The Lady and The Suitor ", c. 1860s
Oil on Canvas
26" x 15 3/4"
Housed in a 3 1/2" Frame
Ove...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Corinne Et Isaac Au Jardin By H. Claude Pissarro
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hugues Claude Pissarro
b.1935 French
Corinne et Isaac au jardin
(Corinne and Isaac in the Garden)
Signed “H. Claude Pissarro” (lower left)
Oil on canvas
In this composition, Fren...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Place De La Bastille By Edouard Léon Cortès
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edouard Léon Cortès
1882-1969 French
Place de la Bastille
Signed “Edouard Cortès” (lower left)
Oil on canvas
A glowing warmth radiates from this bustling street scene by the reno...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Very Fine Austrian Oil on Canvas "Young Ladies Collecting Spring Flowers"
By Hans Zatzka
Located in LA, CA
Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) a very fine and charming oil on canvas ""Young Ladies Collecting Spring Flowers", depicting three young maidens picking flowers by a lake. The three...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Love to Help, Yellow Gray Encaustic Landscape, Female Figure, Child, Tree
By Cecile Chong
Located in Kent, CT
In this encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting on panel, a peaceful landscape scene in shades of pale yellow and atmospheric gray, and accented with bright Robin's Egg blue and neon ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel
Making Room, Encaustic Landscape, Female Figure, Child, Table Still Life, Tree
By Cecile Chong
Located in Kent, CT
In this encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting on panel, a peaceful landscape scene in shades of pale sky blue and light yellow accented with teal blue sculptural details along the l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel
Reflecting Pool, Versailles, Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe, The Danish Girl, France
By Einar Wegener
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Einar Wegener was born in Vejle, Denmark in 1882. Wegener studied art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and in 1907 won Denmark's Neuhausens prize. He exhibited at Kunstnernes...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Summer Garden, Harpswell, Maine, Flowers, Coastal, Landscape, Impressionist, Oil
By Keith Oehmig
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, Oehmig now resides in Brunswick, Maine. He holds a B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, as well as an M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Winter Sheep Drive Dr. #7
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
LARGE OLD MASTER LATE 18th CENTURY CIRCLE of SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS OIL PAINTING
Located in Ferndown, GB
HUGE OLD MASTER LATE 18th CENTURY CIRCLE of SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS OIL PAINTING
Fine OIL PAINTING Old Master 18th Century R.A artist in a Large
...
Category
18th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING 18th CENTURY Scottish School FINE DETAIL GOLD GILT FRAME
Located in Ferndown, GB
DESCRIPTION
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING 18th CENTURY Scottish School
FINE DETAIL
GOLD GILT FRAME
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF Scottish HISTORY
Description
( Late 18th centur...
Category
18th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
FINE OIL PAINTING By Richard Ansdell RA 19th Century British OLD MASTER PIECE
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING Antique 19th Century British old master in a Gold Gilt Frame
Description
Good condition Canvas , Professional Cleaned & relined ,
Frame Is original and in very good ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
FINE Original By Giuseppe Pitto (1859-1928) 19th Century OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING
Located in Ferndown, GB
LARGE OIL PAINTING Antique 19th Century Fine Quality Piece
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING ITALIAN SCHOOL 19th Century
in a Gold Frame
Descripti...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
FINE Original Antique 19th Century French School OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING By French artist Beautiful lady of Nobility in a Neoclassical Frame
FINE Portrait OIL PAINTING Old Master Early 19th Century
Fre...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Au Bord De La Rivière By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919 French
Au bord de la rivière
(Along the River)
Oil on canvas
"Renoir may be the only great painter who has never painted a sad picture."
- Octave ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Blind Woman
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Blind Woman" by artist Miles Cleveland Goodwin is oil on canvas, and measures 72 5/8 x 44 5/8 inches. Including the artist-made frame, the overall dim...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Afternoon in Autumn" Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Painting
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
During a family afternoon in Périgord, the artist sought to capture all the remarkable elements that caught his eye: the ever-changing colors of autumn, a walker on a path, and more.
Disclaimer: Please be aware that some images automatically generated by 1stDibs do not accurately reflect the painting’s proportions, often making it appear much smaller than its actual size. Unfortunately, we cannot remove these images and apologize for any confusion this may cause. Please disregard them.
About the Artist: Grégoire Mathias, graduate of the National School of Fine Arts in Paris (ENSBA - École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts), is exhibiting his work at Sotheby's gallery in Périgueux, as well as in numerous galleries across Paris, New York, and Dublin. Mathias is the creator of diachronic cubism, an unexplored branch of cubism that depicts landscapes, interiors, everyday life scenes, and, most notably, the concept of time itself. This unique style is characterized by the deconstruction of subjects and light over specific periods of time. Since 2020, he has been designing UN posters...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
The toy seller
Located in Roma, RM
Federico Del Campo (Lima 1837 - Venice 1923), The Toy Seller (1877)
Oil painting on panel 22 x 37 cm signed Campo on the left, on the back is an old label from Williams and sons ga...
Category
1870s Academic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Far Away Thoughts", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Daniel Hernández
Located in Madrid, ES
DANIEL HERNÁNDEZ
Peruvian, 1856 - 1932
FAR AWAY THOUGHTS
signed "Daniel Hernandez" (lower right)
oil on canvas
27-1/2 x 19-1/4 inches (70 x 49 cm.)
framed: 39-3/8 x 31-1/8 inches (100 x 79 cm.)
Daniel Hernández Morillo...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peter Jones, the King's Road, London
Located in London, GB
Executed with a palette knife, this painting by Henry Dawnay depicts the iconic King’s Road, with the Peter Jones, the famous superstore.
The King’s Road was originally King Charles II’s private road, which he would use to travel between his palaces in St James’ and Hampton Court. Until the 1800s, access was only allowed for members of Royalty, courtiers and the aristocracy.
The road become a hub of the Swinging 60s, with fashionistas, including the famous fashion designer Mary Quant, using it as a global hotspot.
In the 1970s Led Zeppelin established their record label at number 484, and Vivian Westwood and Malcolm McClaren opened up their infamous ‘Sex’ clothing...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
19th Century genre oil painting of a woman in a garden with two girls
By William Stephen Coleman
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
William Stephen Coleman
British, (1829-1904)
By the Fish Pond
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1898
Image size: 23 inches x 35 inches
Size including frame: 30.25 inches x 42.25 inches
A beautiful painting by William Stephen Coleman of a woman with two girls in a semi classical style by a Mediterranean pond. The woman is depicted resting on a terrace with her young daughter asleep on her lap, whilst another child catches goldfish in a bowl. This tour de force would have most likely been painted by Coleman as an exhibition piece.
William Stephen Coleman was a figurative painter who was born in Horsham in 1829. He was one of 12 children born to a physician named William Thomas Coleman and his wife Henrietta (née Dendy). Three of his siblings Rebecca Coleman (b1837), Helen Cordelia Angell (1847–1884) and George Coleman also became artists, inheriting their artistic talent from their mother’s side of the family. Coleman developed an interest in nature from an early age, producing drawings as a hobby. Despite his ability, he initially followed in his father’s footsteps and trained as a surgeon. However, this proved unsuccessful and by the age of 21 he had turned back to art, later gaining employment with the Dalziel Brothers, a firm of wood engravers who specialised in natural history illustrations.
Sometime during the late 1850’s he moved to London where he married his first wife Henrietta Augusta Boultbee in 1858. Around the same time, he began producing illustrations for books; the first of which was entitled ‘Common Objects of the Country’ and published in 1858. He subsequently published two of his own books ‘Our Woodlands. Heaths, and Hedges’ in 1859 and ‘British Butterflies’ in 1860. After the death of his wife in 1860, his sister Rebecca and brother George went to live with him in Garway Road, Paddington. Rebecca would often assist him with the wood blocks for his illustrations.
As well as working as an engraver, he also began producing classically influenced paintings featuring figures in landscapes. Initially these were executed in watercolours but later extended to oil paintings. He began exhibiting at the Dudley Gallery in 1865 and was one of the original committee members. He continued to exhibit there until 1879 and was a committee member up until 1881.
By 1869, he had also begun to work on pottery decoration and in 1871 was asked by Minton’s to establish an Art Pottery Studio at Kensington Gore. Whilst at Minton’s, he produced figure designs for their ceramic ware. His sister Rebecca also worked at Minton’s and they moved to Belle Vue in Chelsea to be closer to the studio. From 1881, he lived at 3 St John’s Wood Studios, Queens Terrace in Paddington and in 1888 moved to 43 Broadhurst Gardens in Hampstead. In 1893 one of his classically inspired works ‘The Gold Fish Bowl...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Market Day, Greenwich Village, New York City, Impressionist, Oil on Board
By Rachel Hartley
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Rachel Hartley's maternal grandfather was the acclaimed Tonalist landscape painter George Inness, and her father was sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley, the primary founder of the Salma...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
In the Park, American Impressionist, Mother and Child, Landscape, Figures, Oil
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Philadelphia John Hamilton was known for portraits, figure paintings and illustrations. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Christian Schuessel and Thomas Eakins and then traveled to Europe where he studied in Paris with Jean-Léon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He lived abroad, mostly in London, for many years, although he maintained a Philadelphia address. He was the official painter to the English Prime Minister, William...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arriving at the Bois de Boulogne, Figural, Park, Paris, France, Watercolor
By Gabriel Spat
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Gabriel Spat was born in Kishinev, Russia, in 1890. Leaving Russia in 1911, he studied at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and at the Academie Colarossi and the Academie de la ...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
December Morning, Cornwall
Located in London, GB
Signed lower left.
Painted whilst Munnings was living in Cornwall, 'December Morning, Cornwall' depicts a huntsman surrounded by his scampering, eage...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Industry and Commerce, 1936, tempera on panel, 16 ½ x 39 ½ inches, signed verso “John Ballator, Portland Ore.” provenance includes: J.C. Penney Company, represented by Russell Tether Fine Arts Assoc.; presented in a newer wood frame
About the Painting
Industry and Commerce is a prime example of WPA Era muralism. Like a Mediaeval alter, this mural study is filled with icons, but the images of saints and martyrs are replaced with symbols of America's gospel of prosperity through capitalism. Industry and Commerce has a strong narrative quality with vignettes filling the entire surface. Extraction, logistics, design, power generation, and manufacturing for printing, chemicals, automobiles and metal products are all represented. To eliminate any doubt about the mural's themes, Ballator letters a description into the bottom of the study. Ballator also presents an idealized version of industrial cooperation, as his workers, lab-coated technicians and tie-wearing managers work harmoniously toward a common goal in the tidy and neatly designed environments. Although far from the reality of most industrial spaces, Ballator's study reflects the idealized and morale boosting tone that many mural projects adopted during the Great Depression.
About the Artist
John R Ballator achieved success as a muralist, lithographer, and teacher during the Great Depression. Born in Oregon, he studied at the Portland Museum Art School, the University of Oregon and at Yale University where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. In 1936, Ballator was commissioned to paint a mural panel for the new Department of Justice Building in Washington DC, an important project that spanned five years with several dozen artists contributing a total of sixty-eight designs. Ballator completed murals for the St. Johns Post Office and Franklin High School, both in Portland, Oregon. He also contributed to the 1938 murals at Nathan Hale School in New Haven, Connecticut. During the late 1930s, Ballator taught art for several years at Washburn College in Topeka, Kanas, where he completed a mural for the Menninger Arts & Craft Shop before accepting a professorship at Hollins College...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Subway Construction
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Subway Construction, c. 1928, oil on board, 19 x 15 ¾ inches, signed upper left, artist and title verso; exhibited: 1) 12th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, The Waldorf Astoria, New York NY, from March 9 to April 1, 1928, no. 864 (original price $250) (see Death Prevailing Theme of Artists in Weird Exhibits, The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), March 8, 1928); 2) Boston Tercentenary Exhibition Fine Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Horticultural Hall, Boston MA, July, 1930, no. 108 (honorable mention - noted verso); 3) 38th Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, June, 1931 (see Alexander, Mary, The Week in Art Circles, The Cincinnati Enquirer, June 7, 1931); and 4) National Art Week Exhibition [Group Show], Montross Gallery, New York, New York, December, 1940 (see Devree, Howard, Brief Comment on Some Recently Opened Exhibitions in the Galleries, The New York Times, December 1, 1940)
About the Painting
Ernest Stock’s Subway Construction depicts the excavation of New York’s 8th Avenue line, which was the first completed section of the city-operated Independent Subway System (IND). The groundbreaking ceremony was in 1925, but the line did not open until 1932, placing Stock’s painting in the middle of the construction effort. The 8th Avenue line was primarily constructed using the “cut and cover” method in which the streets above the line were dug up, infrastructure was built from the surface level down, the resulting holes were filled, and the streets reconstructed. While many artists of the 1920s were fascinated with the upward thrust of New York’s exploding skyline as architects and developers sought to erect ever higher buildings, Stock turned his attention to the engineering marvels which were taking place below ground. In Subway Construction, Stock depicts workers removing the earth beneath the street and building scaffolding and other support structures to allow concrete to be poured. Light and shadow fall across the x-shaped grid pattern formed by the wooden beams and planks. It is no surprise that critics reviewing the painting commented on Stock’s use of an “interesting pattern” to form a painting that is “clever and well designed.”
About the Artist
Ernest Richard Stock was an award-winning painter, print maker, muralist, and commercial artist. He was born in Bristol, England and was educated at the prestigious Bristol Grammar School. During World War I, Stock joined the British Royal Air Flying Corps in Canada and served in France as a pilot where he was wounded. After the war, he immigrated to the United States and joined the firm of Mack, Jenny, and Tyler, where he further honed his architectural and decorative painting skills. During the 1920s, Stock often traveled back and forth between the US and Europe. He was twice married, including to the American author, Katherine Anne Porter. Starting in the mid-1920s, Stock began to exhibit his artwork professionally, including at London’s Beaux Arts Gallery, the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Whitney Studio and various locations in the Northeast. Critics often praised the strong design sensibility in Stock’s paintings. Stock was a commercial illustrator for a handful of published books and during World War II, he worked in the Stratford Connecticut...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman in a Landscape, Scottish Portraiture, Portrait, Wealthy
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
John Pairman (Scottish, 1788 - 1843)
Signed: J Pairman 1820 (Lower, Right)
" Portrait of a Gentleman ", 1820
Oil on Canvas
22 1/4" x 18 5/8"
Housed in a 2 3/4" Husar Frame
Ove...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil