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21st c. Painting After Magritte "The Empire of Light II" Oil Paint on Canvas

21st century

Here’s a recipe for an instant coastal escape. It’s all there in this painting, the exploding spray of seawater straight up into the salty air above the boulders, the endless variety...

On offer is a post-World War II European cityscape. This scene, defined by French-influenced architecture, expresses a bright optimism that the worst is finally over. Here are people going about their daily lives in peace. The very ordinariness of this activity is beautiful. Spanish-born artist Jose Luis...

At dawn on a beautiful morning, two pheasants take flight out of their roosting cover. Were they flushed out by sudden noise, or are they simply heading out to their feeding areas? T...

We might share with you the biography of Texas-born Steven Seymour Thomas (1868-1956), but it would take pages. Consider his precocious talent, which catapulted him to fame in New Yo...

Using an impasto, painterly technique Dana Cowie creates cubist-inspired farm and rural landscapes. Working within controlled color schemes, her artworks appear abstract up close and...

Clement Drew grew up in Kingston, Massachusetts, a coastal New England town. Early on he settled into a career as a marine painter. He augmented his income by working in a number of ...

Painted in his studio from a preliminary study painted en-plein-air at Gibson Lane beach in Sagaponack, New York. The sun has clearly just set, hence the lavender aroma of the horizon, which reflects then onto the thin layer of water pulling back from shore, into the sea. A romantic seascape...

Thomas Birch is considered one of the earliest American Marine painters of importance both in his own time and historically, forming the foundation of what would become a great American Maritime movement in the successive years of the 19th century. Born in England, Birch started as a landscape painter but after the War of 1812 he turned to marine subjects, taking inspiration from the best of both English and Dutch maritime traditions but refining these techniques into a very recognizable style all his own. The work featured here is a classic of Birch's later period, when he focused specifically on maritime subjects, mainly the busy waterways of Philadelphia Harbor. Here we see one of those scenes- a series of ships plying their trade, all framed by the city as it sits across the Delaware River, with the tall, white spire of what is either Independence Hall or Christ Church to the left of the main vessel. The details of the city are particularly good in this painting, with the wharf building to the left and the long line of buildings all along the shore. The American Merchant Bark at the center of this painting is rendered in excellent detail, from her house flag and pennant, to her rigging and sails, and down to her deck filled with the activity of crewmembers readying the ship to head out, her gilt billet...