Alysanne McGaffey

"Barbara S. Poet" Bay Area Figurative Portrait in Oil, 1978

1978

This circa 1977 oil on canvas figurative scene in warm tones painted with oil on canvas is by Bay Area artist Alysanne McGaffey (1931-2018). Born in Seattle, McGaffey moved to San Francisco in the mid 1950s to study at SFAI with Bay Area Figurative pioneers Joan Brown, Nathan Oliveira, Jay DeFeo, Walter...

This December 1990's gouache and graphite on paper seated figure in blue and orange is by Oakland artist Rip Matteson (1920-2011). Matteson was educated at U.C. Berkeley, C.C.A.C, Sc...

This circa 1940s oil on burlap figure in pale, pastel colors is by San Francisco North Beach artist Martin Snipper (1914-2008). Snipper studied at the National Academy of Art In New...

This circa 1958 oil on canvas nude is by Bay Area artist Alysanne McGaffey (1931-2018). McGaffey was part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement and graduated from the San Francisco Art...

This 1952 oil on canvas figure painting of a seated nude woman with bright colors is by Dutch-Californian Expressionist Richard Van Wingerden (1893-1969). A WPA artist, Van Wingerden...

This 1930-50s ink wash abstracted figure on flesh-colored paper is by Washington D.C. artist Helen Rennie (1906-1989). Rennie was a WPA artist. She exhibited at the Metropolitan Muse...

ABOUT the artist: Audrey Frank Anastasi is a prolific feminist artist, working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, & printmaking. She is also curator, gallerist, educator and arts advocate. Most of Ms. Anastasi's figurative works are painted with her non-dominant left hand. She has created large bodies of works of birds, animals and birch trees. She has had 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her "ref-u-gee" series will be shown in 2020 at Medgar Evers College in collaboration with the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Accompanying the show will be a limited-edition monograph w/ over 180 images and a foreword by Phyllis Braff. Ms. Anastasi's collage series was exhibited at Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, in May, 2019. In 2018, ten paintings were exhibited in "Painting to Survive," curated by Yale critic Jonathan Weinberg. Book and catalog publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog essay Cindy Nemser, and "Collage," essay by Giancarlo T. Roma. Public art includes a portrait of Jo Davidson...

Hand-signed and dated 'Havard 65' upper left corner Custom frame dimensions: 19.5" x 19.5"

Original mid-century modern oil on canvas board painting of a woman with birds by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and ...

Carl Gustaf Simon Nelson, American (1898-1988) "Nude Musicians," 30 x 35 inches, oil on canvas Signed and dated 1938 signature lower right. Provenance: Collection of Seymour Stein Bio Carl Gustaf Simon Nelson (1898 - 1988) A painter, graphic artist and teacher whose paintingfocus was color and content landscapes, Nelson at age five immigrated with his family to Sioux City, Iowa from Sweden in 1903. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts* from 1920 to 1921, then at the Art Students League* in New York from 1923 to 1927 with Kimon Nicolaides and Kenneth Hayes Miller. He taught at the American Peoples School of New York, an adult education project; at the Cambridge School of Design from 1948 to 1952; and finally at the Boston YMCA until 1968. His work was exhibited at the Carnegie...

Rip Matteson "Slumberline" 2006-2007 Oil painting on canvas 12"x16" unframed Signed lower right in paint Signed, dated, titled and inscribed "O Woman! In our hours of ease" Sir Walte...

JERRY FARNSWORTH "NAKED IN THE CITY" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED AMERICAN. EXHIBITED: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN 1949 29.5 X 24.5 INCHES FRAM...