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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: American Realist
James Ormsbee Chapin, 1887 – 1975, American Painter, 'Lady in a Fur Waistcoat'
Located in Bruges, BE
James Ormsbee Chapin
New Jersey 1887 – 1975 Toronto
American Painter
'Lady in a Fur Waistcoat'
Signature: Signed lower left and dated 1913
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Image size 100 x 75 cm, frame size 117 x 92 cm
Biography: Chapin James Ormsbee, born on July 9, 1887, in West Orange, New Jersey, was a distinguished American painter and illustrator. His contributions to the art world left a lasting impact, and his legacy extended beyond the canvas into the realms of music and family connections.
Chapin’s artistic journey began with formal education at Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York. Seeking further inspiration, he continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Antwerp in Belgium. Early in his career, he garnered recognition by winning the Temple Gold Medal of the Pennsylvania Academy for his compelling portrayals of the Marvin Family.
Notably, Chapin created a series of portraits in the 1920s featuring the Marvin family, a body of work that significantly influenced the early history of Regionalist art. His artistic prowess extended beyond portraiture, as evidenced by at least five cover art commissions for TIME magazine during what has been termed the golden age of TIME covers, spanning from 1942 to 1966.
Chapin’s artistic creations found homes in the private collections of art enthusiasts and various prestigious institutions, including The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Phillips Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Harvard Art Museums, among others.
In 1918, Chapin married Abby Beal Forbes in New York, and they welcomed a son named James Forbes Chapin, who later gained fame as a celebrated jazz drummer. This artistic lineage continued with James’s son, singer-songwriter Harry Chapin. Despite the initial union with Forbes, Chapin later divorced.
During the late 1930s, while teaching in California, Chapin encountered Mary Fischer...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Egg Girls on a bike
Located in Sempach, LU
I’ve written a book based on my Egg people and Characters such as the Conspirators. It is a fantasy novel that takes place in Egg Island and London. The story has a mix of good and bad characters, full of excitement, sadness, and intrigue.
Egg Island is a mysterious place where you can find all sorts of creatures, such as dolphins, including a giant one as big as a ship and one even bigger one that sleeps at the bottom of the sea. Baboons who think they own the place, firebugs light up the village, giant turtles protect kids while swimming, Bright orange coconut crabs...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Murdered doll acrylic on board painting surrealism Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Murdered doll - Acrylic panel
Acrylic measurements 61x91 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes fro...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Macintosh-original modern impressionism still life oil painting-contemporary Art
By James Zamora
Located in London, Chelsea
"Macintosh" by James Zamora is a striking ode to technological elegance, where the artist's brushstrokes breathe life into the iconic Macintosh computer. This original still life, cr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Conspirators you saying it's me?
Located in Sempach, LU
Ta's collection of conspirators is full of mischief and secrecy. Each character is always up to something naughty or scheming a dodgy deal, "I want a desperado feel to it, moody as i...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Watercolour and Mixed Media, "Ne Nastupit bui!" (Wouldn't Come!).
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century mixed media surrealist painting by Yuri Ilyich Kononenko. Titled 'Ne Nastupit Bui!' (Wouldn't Come!). Signed with artists symbol bottom left. Fully signed, dated an...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
Portrait of a Girl, American Portraiture, Blue Eyes, White Dress, Excellent
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Presented is a wonderful example of mid-19th-century American Portraiture.
Portrait of a Girl, c. 1850s
Oil on Canvas
27" x 22"
Housed in its original period frame
Spandrel Sit...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman, Early American Portraiture, 1830s Portrait of a Man
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
John F Francis (American, 1808 - 1886)
" Portrait of a Gentleman ", 1838
Oil on Canvas
30" x 25"
Housed in a 3 1/2" Frame
Overall Size: 37" x 32"
...
Category
Early 19th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The plotting of the Conspirators
Located in Sempach, LU
In this vivid oil painting, I embraced cubism and surreal influences to create an ensemble of enigmatic figures, each cloaked in vibrant, contrasting colors, with intense, penetratin...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas
Stately portrait of a boy by William Robert Shulgold (Russian-American, 1897-1989). The subject is looking o...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Portrait of Qiang Woman", oil painting
By Wang Kun
Located in Denver, CO
Wang Kun's "Portrait of Qiang Woman" is an oil painting created in 2023 that depicts a traditional Qiang woman.
kun Wang(王琨), was born in Jilin Province of China in 1970.
His legs...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
High Drama Adventure Scene - Italian Illustrator Mid-Century Jules Verne
Located in Miami, FL
Original illustration was done by Renna for the novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne, published in 1963. What makes this work special is how brilliantly the subj...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Tempera
I Am Not Alone 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"I Am Not Alone" by Joshua Salami is a captivating artwork that delves into the profound bond between a woman and her cherished pet, transcending the conventional role of a companion...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
10 Angry Men
Located in Sempach, LU
I have sent my work to over 65 countries and some significant landmarks such as Berkeley Square in London’s Mayfair, 5th Ave New York, Malibu beach in California Hong Kong, Monaco, M...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait de Femme ( Self Portrait ? )
By Leonor Fini
Located in Miami, FL
This is a possible self portrait by the famed female surrealist artist. It is also strikingly similar in style with it's exaggerated eyes to her portrait of Jean Genet, ( Leonor F...
Category
1940s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
I Am Not Alone 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"I Am Not Alone" by Joshua Salami is a captivating artwork that delves into the profound bond between a woman and her cherished pet, transcending the conventional role of a companion...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Judaica Pastel Portrait Rabbi Painting WPA Era Artist, Social Realist
Located in Surfside, FL
Bernard Gussow 1881 -1957
Bernard Gussow was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Russian Federation. Bernard Gussow is known for genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings.
Ber...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Death of the Young Men 1938 - British art figurative Surrealist oil painting
By Jack Sassoon
Located in London, GB
An oil on canvas painted by Jack Sassoon which was certainly a premonition of what was to come. Entitled Death of the Young Men and dated 1938, it depicts men in gas masks and a woma...
Category
1930s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Egg flowers
Located in Sempach, LU
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud
My hero, Vincent Van Gogh, painted his sunflowers in Arles, in the Sou...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Suzanne Steinbacher - Austrian Surrealism
Located in London, GB
The work is unsigned.
Provenance: Given directly by the artist to the present owner who was a friend of the model.
Condition: Good condition apart from some scratches and pressure ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trumpet Player
Located in Sempach, LU
I love painting people. I love to capture their movement, their emotions, the dramas and the theatrics of life. I paint people to express their personality, their lightness and darkn...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Conversation With Myself
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Conversation With Myself" delves into the realms of self-discovery and introspection. The young man's introspective pose invites viewers to reflect on their inner dialogue and explo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
William Gropper (1898 - 1977)
Unemployed
20 x 16 inches
Oil on canvas, 1937
Signed lower right
Provenance: E...
Category
1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal harlequin oil on board painting expressionism Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Surrealist Harlequin - Oil panel
Oil measurements 41x50 cm.
Frame measurements 44x53 cm.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romer...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Venetian Holiday, American Realist, Representational, Landscape, Venice Italy
Located in Houston, TX
Venetian Holiday is painted in the style of American Realism. The painting is a Representational Italian landscape which is the Plaza in Venice. This realist painting was done on sight on a vacation to Italy. The artist painted himself into the realist painting.
Gary J. Hernandez is an internationally recognized, award winning artist in the style of Realism portrait ,landscape and floral paintings He received training from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts School of Art specializing in Realism and Figurative Art.
He specializes in representational art as seen in Venetian Holiday with an emphasis on the human figure and florals as seen in Her Majesty's Lilies. He was a finalist in The Artist's Magazine International Art Competition, an Award of Excellence winner in the Manhattan Arts Magazine Competition, finalist in Hunting Art...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Princess and Prince, Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina Fairy Tales
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti paints a charming fantasy scene. It's of an extreme closeup of a tiny crowned and winged Prince and Princess They are standing upright in a dand...
Category
1950s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Confident Figure - Original Figurative Abstract Man in Purple Suit on Blue Wall
By Iqi Qoror
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iqi Qoror's surreal figurative paintings are arresting in their earthy palettes offset by pops of fluorescent textile embroidery. His artworks revolve around questions of trust, inte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wool, Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Go With The Flow" Fantasy and Surreal Oil on Canvas by acclaimed British artist
Located in Southampton, NY
In continuing with representing fine artists that are connected to the music industry we are please to announce that we are the only gallery in the United States representing the wor...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Conspiracy
Located in Sempach, LU
Unlike many surrealists, who present their dreams, the central subjects of Ta’s work are people and bold colours. Her work opens up new art dimensions to explore. Her Blue Valentine ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
United and Fate Challenge I
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Mental closeness connects two dissimilar beings, despite great differences.
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Conflab" Oil on Canvas 18x22"
Located in Southampton, NY
In continuing with representing fine artists that are connected to the music industry we are please to announce that we are the only gallery in the United States representing the wor...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Egg girl
Located in Sempach, LU
02 / 10 / 2023 I signed a book contract for Egg Island; it will now go through the publishing process and will be in print next year.
I was overwhelmed by the editorial board's fee...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boss getting a hair cut
Located in Sempach, LU
Welcome to my world of Monkeys and Lions smoking cigars, the Egg family, my Lovers Jazz Conspirators and Ladies in Red.
Someone once said of my work. 'I often wonder why people worl...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Boss jamming with Girlfriend
Located in Sempach, LU
I paint people; I want my paintings to have character to tell a story but without words as if using mime. To be dramatic, emotional, sometimes theatrical but always with feelings and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Conspirators hatching a plot
Located in Sempach, LU
I am an accomplished fine portrait artist, but my real passion is in colour and how the arrangement of colour can produce a different emotional experience of art. I want original and...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Egg Boy on a windy day
Located in Sempach, LU
02 / 10 / 2023 I signed a book contract for Egg Island; it will now go through the publishing process and will be in print next year.
I was overwhelmed by the editorial board's fee...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
King of Jazz
Located in Sempach, LU
Ta has a vibrant personality and loves nothing more than a happy toe-tapping audience appreciating melodic jazz. Jazz and lady in red oozes musical finesse and sultry song.
Ta is ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Two Dummies", surrealist, brown, tan, grey, mixed media, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “The Two Dummies” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 32 x 24 x 1.5 inches wide in browns, tans and greys with red and yellow accents. The wooden neck lever of the ventriloquist suggests that he is in reality the dummy of the young boy; and yet, impossibly, both seem to be the dummies of one another! Regardless, the brightness of the props on the prop table...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
A Boy and his Dog Oil and Mixed Media Cuban Hyperrealism Framed
Located in Houston, TX
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A Boy and His Dog shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art that is now available to the world...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Sax duo
Located in Sempach, LU
Welcome to my world of Monkeys and Lions smoking cigars, the Egg family, my Lovers Jazz Conspirators and Ladies in Red.
Someone once said of my work. 'I often wonder why people worl...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
On the Balcony - American Scene Female Artist
By Louise Lue Osborne
Located in Miami, FL
Female artist Louise Lue Osborne paints a classic composition with an interaction of two women and a child soaked in golden late light. The figural gro...
Category
1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Synthetic Resin, Fiberboard
A Painting of Adaline Glasheen as a Writer's Muse
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: 'A.Brook '59'.
Painted in Sag Harbor, Long Island in 1959. Adeline (Adaline) Glasheen was a writer. She was a friend of the artist and worked in literary circle...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Family of Means", surrealist, blue, red, pink, mixed media, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “A Family of Means” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 38 x 50 inches in blues, reds, and pinks. Depicted in their commodious library, the wealthy family exudes a sense of arrogant privilege and shameless materialism. The matriarch displays her rings to the spectator as though their monetary value was proof of her worth as a person, while her son, in his prep school blazer...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Be A Man
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Beneath my sturdiness is a puddle surrounded by the moistness of fresh mud- soft and mushy- and it’s how I learned to nurture and love flowers.
I’ve been told my best trait has to b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black Angel - African American Artist - Black Artist
Located in Miami, FL
This powerful and graphically composed image of a black man with white angel wings was painted in a realist style by African American artist Thomas Blackshear...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Portrait of Loti-kee-yah-tede of the Laguna Pueblo by Paul Surber
Located in Paonia, CO
Loti-kee-yah-tede, a Laguna woman who often posed in that same fringed costume and jewelry for photographer Carleton Moon is a Paul Surber acrylic painting on a board in an ornate gold frame from one of those photographs. Loti-kee-yah-tede, was the chief’s daughter of the Laguna Pueblo, when she was photographed wearing Ka-waik clothing with a belt and beaded necklaces by Carl Moon in about 1905. The Laguna Pueblo is located in the semi-arid lands west-central New Mexico, near Albuquerque. From 1905-1906, Moon had a short-lived partnership in Albuquerque with businessman Thomas F. Keleher, called the Moon-Keleher Studio. After the partnership dissolved, Moon continued working, photographing carefully selected Indian “subjects” in a romantic, posed style. His photographs began appearing in magazines and he exhibited at the Museum of Natural History in New York. President Theodore Roosevelt invited Moon to exhibit his Native American photographs...
Category
20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Be Brave
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Italian Surrealist Oil Painting Jean Calogero Big Eyed Girl Doll Mandolin Flower
Located in Surfside, FL
Frame is 12 X 10. Canvas is 9.5 X 7.5
Calogero was born August 20, 1922 in Catania, Sicily. Self-taught Surreal Artist First exhibitions in 1945 in Sicily and Rome were very successful. He arrived in Paris in 1947 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
He is best known for his Surrealism and genre works. His paintings are dreamlike and visionary. They travel to an infinite space created by the artist through his memories, the sky and the sea so dear to him. In his paintings there are a few common themes: the masks with their dual dimensions that hide or shows only what you want, the profiles of the women, and the horsemen, drawn as the Sicilian tradition requires.
He exhibited at the Gallery Hervé in 1951 and the following year he went to New York to present his show, then in 1953 he was invited to Los Angeles, where he returned two years later, and from where he regularly exhibited his works, and San Francisco.
In 1954, Maximilien Gauthier devoted a book to him published by "The Gemini." The first exhibition in Japan was in 1965. He was awarded the Grand Silver Medal by the City of Paris in 1957. Calogero had countless exhibitions in Paris, in the fifties, plus the American exhibitions in New York (Associated American Artists, 1952), Los Angeles (James Vigevano Galleries, 1953) and then later in Japan and in major galleries in Italy.
He lived and worked for many years in Paris and Italy. He died in 2001.
Galerie Hervè, Parigi 1950.
Associated American Artists - New York 1952.
James Vigevano Galleries, Los Angeles 1953.
Galerie Madsen, Parigi 1954/1960.
Antologica, Tokyo 1965.
Galleria La Robinia, Palermo 1969.
Florida Gallery, Chicago 1970.
Galleria Il Cavalletto, Catania 1971.
Galleria De Rosa, Milano 1972.
Galleria Pinacoteca, Roma; L'Incontro, Taranto 1973. Galleria Idea-Bellini, Firenze; David Galleries, Bari; Palazzo Melloni, L'incontro, Bologna; Galleria Schettini, Milano; Galleria Pinacoteca, Roma; Galleria La Meridiana, Verona; Pier della Francesca, Arezzo 1974.
Galleria L'isolotto, Napoli; Pinacoteca, Roma; Galleria del Corso, Latina 1975.
Galleria Michelangelo, Firenze; Pinacoteca, Roma 1977.
Galleria Robert...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hopper's Chair
Located in Boston, MA
Thomas Darsney’s paintings reveal a palpable tension between the tactile sensuousness of fabric and the subdued brushstrokes of paint made flesh. United by this visual juxtaposition,...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Fall Approaches, Original Painting
By Libby Ramage
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Libby Ramage presents a surrealist representation of the changing seasons. "The leaves are like flames, and the boy and man are hesitant to venture furth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bulb of Africa 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Bulb of Africa was not just a hairstyle; it was a celebration of African heritage and a testament to the resilience of its people. Passed down through generations, it represented strength, beauty, and the rich tapestry of African traditions. The Bulb showcased the natural texture and volume of African hair, transforming it into an intricate masterpiece of braids, twists, and coils.
The Bulb of Africa became a symbol of empowerment, reminding people of their strength, resilience, and the beauty of their shared heritage. It served as a reminder that hair was more than a physical attribute; it was a connection to something greater—a connection to their ancestors, their community, and celebrating the beauty within themselves.
Beyond their physical beauty, African women possess an immeasurable inner strength that resonates through "Bulb of Africa." Odunayo masterfully captures this strength, highlighting the resilience and determination that have defined African women throughout history. The women depicted in the artwork emanate confidence, wisdom, and a sense of purpose. Their gaze speaks volumes, embodying the stories of countless African women who have overcome adversity, shattered barriers, and carved out their own paths to success. In "Bulb of Africa," Iyiola Odunayo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Equestrian Show Jumping Portrait by Leonid Gervits
Located in Larchmont, NY
Leonid Gervits (Russian/American)
Untitled (Show Jumping), 2000
Oil on canvas
28 x 22 in.
Initialed and dated lower left: LG 00
Leonid Gervits was born April 12, 1946 in a middle cl...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The King's Bride of Double Honor
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This Piece was inspired by the story of the Bride of a King. She was so loved by the King because of her great beauty, but the people of the Land loved her so much, not just for her ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
surreal woman face oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Miquel Torner de Semir (1938) - Surrealist figure - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 46x38 cm.
Frameless.
Miquel Torner de Semir (1938)
Catalan painter attracted by the Middle Ages and I...
Category
1990s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bulb of Africa 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Bulb of Africa was not just a hairstyle; it was a celebration of African heritage and a testament to the resilience of its people. Passed down through generations, it represented strength, beauty, and the rich tapestry of African traditions. The Bulb showcased the natural texture and volume of African hair, transforming it into an intricate masterpiece of braids, twists, and coils.
The Bulb of Africa became a symbol of empowerment, reminding people of their strength, resilience, and the beauty of their shared heritage. It served as a reminder that hair was more than a physical attribute; it was a connection to something greater—a connection to their ancestors, their community, and celebrating the beauty within themselves.
Beyond their physical beauty, African women possess an immeasurable inner strength that resonates through "Bulb of Africa." Odunayo masterfully captures this strength, highlighting the resilience and determination that have defined African women throughout history. The women depicted in the artwork emanate confidence, wisdom, and a sense of purpose. Their gaze speaks volumes, embodying the stories of countless African women who have overcome adversity, shattered barriers, and carved out their own paths to success. In "Bulb of Africa," Iyiola Odunayo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Daydream (WPA Era Oil Painting on Canvas)
Located in New Orleans, LA
What is she dreaming about? Something in the book that is open in front of her? And who are the other characters in this moody, quiet, lovely scene? Not only a wonderful painting, but really captures that WPA period feel. A pensive painting sure to bring you peace. With frame it measures 33" x 27"; canvas measures 30" x 24". Frame has some weathering (probably original) but is still serviceable. The following is some bio information about the artist I pulled from AskArt:
"Born in Swerzen, Russia, Bernard Green came to the US at a young age and settled in the New York City area. He studied art at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League, the College of the City of New York and NYU, exhibiting at the NAD as early as 1910, where he won a prize both in 1910 and 1913, as well as at the ASL, winning another prize in 1914.
Highly accomplished both as painter and etcher, Green continued exhibiting at the NAD throughout the years 1913-1946, at the Pan-Pacific Exposition in California in 1915, and at various galleries and other venues including a solo show at the Roerich Museum in 1930. His style was early 20th-century American Impressionist, and his interests covered a wide range from landscapes and still life to portraiture, including black subjects...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beauty of the Bride
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The inspiration behind "Beauty of the Bride" stems from the age-old practice of African kings selecting brides of great beauty to grace their courts. This tradition, often intertwine...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Midwest Regional Portrait Oil Painting, Circle of Grant Wood, ca 1940’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Create a statement or focal piece for a room. This is a very stylized portrait of a woman dating to the 1940’s. She fills the canvas with her wholesome countenance, hair and period c...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
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.
Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.
On 1stDibs, visit a vast collection of famous portrait paintings or works by emerging artists. Search by medium to find the right portrait paintings for your home in oil paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Find portrait paintings in a variety of styles, too, including contemporary, Impressionist and Pop art, or search by artist to find unique works created by painters such as Mark Beard, Steve Kaufman and Montse Valdés.
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