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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Artist: Roxanna Melendez
Mixed Media on Canvas Self Portrait Painting -- Se Parece a Mi?
Located in Troy, NY
This self-portrait of the artist, Roxanna Melendez, is in mixed media and oil paint on canvas. The painting shows several personal details about Melendez, such as the use of Cafe Bus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Oil Painting with Latino Theme -- La Vidente y Vendedora de Cigarros
Located in Troy, NY
This oil painting shows a figure of a woman most often associated with Cuban folk life. The title of the painting may be translated as the "The Seer and Seller of Cigars," indicating...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil on canvas Painting -- Le Chat Plus Grande
Located in Troy, NY
Although this painting of oil on canvas is named after the "Cat" (le Chat), the painting mainly depicts a woman sweeping with a broom. The cat, a popular tabby painted in great detai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mixed Media Painting -- Wishful Dream
Located in Troy, NY
This mixed media painting shows the aspirations of a young woman who sees endless possibilities on the horizon. Depicted on a blue sky in the center is a fashionable young woman with sun glasses, a red bra, and purple hair. To her right is the outline of a younger girl playing a brown flute. On the other side is a doll in orange who appears to be carrying a girl painted in green. In the forefront, a bicycle and a motor bike...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
Mixed Media Portrait on Canvas -- Huracana
Located in Troy, NY
This mixed media portrait shows a Caribbean woman bearing red on her face and surrounded by images of daily rural life. There is a maroon rooster, a turquoise shack, and green palm f...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
Mayor of San Juan, P.R., Portrait -- Doña Felisa
Located in Troy, NY
This is a portrait of Felisa Rincón de Gautier (Doña Fela) whose terms in office as Mayor of San Juan lasted from 1947-1969. The painting captures Doña Fela's iconic gestures: her ever present fans, in this case white with red floral embellishments, her Spanish coif, and a mahogany wicker chair. In the painting Dona Fela wears a violet dress...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Oil Painting on Canvas -- The "Three" of Life
Located in Troy, NY
In this oil painting on canvas, three generations of Latina women stand in front of a maroon tree-trunk with a pre-adolescent girl between the mother and grandmother. The grandmother...
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Rosas
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La Portadora de árboles
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Waiting Room 1 - Contemporary Expressive Symbolic Black-White and Brown Painting
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Joanna Mrozowska
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Yellow Roses
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Clown. Oil on canvas, 90X70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
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The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also presently living and creating his works.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
The Exchange of Flowers (Diptych), 2022_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic_Figurative
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America Martin
"The Exchange of Flowers (Diptych)"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
94" x 38.125" Each 94" x 76.25" Overall
Exploring the identity of both her na...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Black Beauty
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Art is often a celebration of beauty, and Olaosun Oluwapelumi's artwork "Black Beauty" is a prime example of this. The artwork depicts a woman with a soph...
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Unlikely Event 5 (The Soothsayer)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Can we please lay out the tables now? Can we allow the days? Once more permit the rivers and oceans to lie in their beds? May I close my eyes and reach out, breathing normally again, certain that the sky is filled with birds, and that you will remain? Or shall we send me back into the grey-blue chambers of disconnection and hollow ambition?
A strange card to the wail of the unseen host, somewhere in Africa across the fields, turning over an unfortunate card and laying them slickly in the firelight, winking in such dark, knowing eyes. I was passing at some distance, circled and charmed to all ends, painting the figure in place of any other kind of sustenance, yet distracted and possessed by one who would undoubtedly deny it. One who would claim to have never had my name.
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Sister Loveth
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The artwork "Sister Loveth" by Gobe Joseph is a stunning piece that captures the elegance and beauty of a lady standing in a relaxed pose. The artwork feat...
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Lady in Red with Flowers
Located in London, GB
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Nicolle was born in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia as it was then) and grew up in Africa and then travelled the world for some years before set...
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Two Women Gesturing - Contemporary Painting Inspired by Flemish Masterworks
By Amy Hill
Located in Chicago, IL
My paintings are updates of works from earlier eras. I choose these eras because of my stylistic kinship with their artists, which allows me to carry on a kind of dialogue with them. Each era brings up a particular theme that I translate to the present day. Using portraiture I choose poses, gestures and fashion to make social, psychological and anthropological statements. Humor emerges through the juxtaposition of modern day fashion with classic poses and compositions.
In addressing Renaissance works, because many of the figures from this era are depicted in poses of prayer or worship, I paint my subjects worshipping secular things such as designer labels and digital devices. - Amy Hill
Amy Hill
Two Women Gesturing
oil on canvas
42h x 32w in
106.68h x 81.28w cm
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AMY HILL
Education
1977 New York University, New York, NY
1976 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA BFA
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Front Room Gallery, New York, NY “Back to Nature”
2017 Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL with Front Room Gallery
2016 Lois Lambert Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY "Young and Innocent”
2013 Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “The Age of Delightenment”
2010 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
2008 McCaig Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Jack the Pelican Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD
2001 Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Curcio Spector Gallery, New York, NY
1995 University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco, CA
1994 Sunnen Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Queens Museum at the Bullova Center, Queens, NY
1991 Tegenbosch Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY. “American Psyche”
2018 One Art Space, New York, NY “Untitled”
2018 Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis “People, Places, Things”
2017 New York Art Lab 2017, Osaka, Japan
2107 490 Atlantic, Brooklyn, NY “American Pie”
2016 The Parlour Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Booth Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Porter Contemporary, New York, NY
2014 St. Paul’s Church, New York, NY
2014 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Front Room Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Ill
2011 MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2009 Denise Bibro, New York, NY
2008 Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY “Peopled People”
2007 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2007 Like the Spice, Brooklyn, NY
2006 McCaig Welles, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Magaret Bodell Gallery, Cornwall, CN
2006 NYU Small Works Show, New York, NY
2005 Ambrosino Gallery, N Miami, FL “Gods and Monsters”
2005 Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa “Fear”
2004 B-Side Gallery, New York, NY
2004 MF Gallery NewYork, NY “Freak Show”
2004 Krasdale Foods Art Gallery, White Plains, NY
2002 NYU, New York, NY “Small Works"2001 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca.
2001 Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY “Bogus”
2000 Upstate Art, Phoenicia, NY “Nature Made”
2000 Nexus Contemporary Center, Atlanta, Ga. “Rememberance of Things Past”
1999 DFN Gallery, New York, NY
1999 HBO Offices, New York, NY
1998 Battersea Art Center, London, UK ‘Sickly Sweet’
1996 Barbara Moran Fine Arts, Egermont, Mass.
1994 The New Museum, New York, NY ‘Bad Girls’
1993 Art in General, New York, NY ‘Good and Plenty...
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"Bird in Blue, Renaissance Bird Painting", Contemporary Surrealist Oil Portrait
By Amy Hill
Located in New York, NY
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Oil on Canvas -- Portrait of Sylvia Rexach
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"Two Girls at a Table" Contemporary Double Portrait in Early American Style
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Woman with Credit Card, Contemporary Renaissance oil painting portrait
By Amy Hill
Located in New York, NY
Woman with Credit Card
oil on wood
5" x 7" unframed, 9" x 11" framed
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"Boy and Girl with Dog"
By Amy Hill
Located in New York, NY
oil on canvas, 31"x 34" signed on reverse.
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Portrait of Girl with Dog, "Snow Scene" oil on canvas (Contemporary Folk Art)
By Amy Hill
Located in New York, NY
oil on canvas, 28"x27" signed on reverse
In this portrait of a young girl and a dog, the main figure stands with an oversize quilted white coat and a red plaid scarf around her neck....
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2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings
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Contemporary Renaissance Portrait, "Woman in JH Sports Jacket" oil on panel
By Amy Hill
Located in New York, NY
9"x12" oil on panel, signed on reverse. Painted in the Northern Renaissance style of portraiture, this oil painting depicts a sensitive portrait of an auburn haired woman in a classi...
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2010s Northern Renaissance Portrait Paintings
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'Woman with Cat" Contemporary Renaissance Style Portrait, oil on panel framed
By Amy Hill
Located in New York, NY
9"x12" oil on wood panel- available framed in a period style dark wooden frame, framed dimensions: 17"x14"
This portrait by Amy Hill is painted in the style ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
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Figurative Painting on Canvas -- Hexed
Located in Troy, NY
This is an acrylic and mixed media portrait of a person seating in a beige settee while holding a cane in hand. As in other paintings by Melendez, the nar...
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2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
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"Madonna with Mullet" Contemporary Renaissance Style Portrait
By Amy Hill
Located in New York, NY
28"x34" oil on canvas. This is a modern take on Madonna and Child, painted by New York artist, Amy Hill. Amy Hill is a New York based artist who received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon...
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2010s Renaissance Portrait Paintings
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La Comadrona
Located in Troy, NY
This oil on canvas impressionistic painting portrays a figure that was common years ago in Puerto Rico, where the artist hails from. The figure, as the title states, is LA COMADRONA, or the Midwife. Midwives were crucial in rural and poorer neighborhoods in the Island. In this oil painting, the midwife, dressed in white, carries some sort of medical bag...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Shop Antique and Vintage Portrait Paintings
An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.
Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.
For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.
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