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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 1960s
Period: 18th Century
Portrait Of A Gentleman & His Estate, Attributed to Arthur Devis, 18th Century
By Arthur Devis
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Gentleman & His Estate, 18th Century
attributed to Arthur DEVIS (1712-1787)
One of a matching pair - the other is believed to be the brother
Large 18th century Eng...
Category
18th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figure in a Wide-brimmed Red Hat
By René Gruau
Located in Miami, FL
Elegant and graphic study of a figure of undetermined gender. It's executed with quick and confident brush strokes in the artist's signature color scheme of black and red. It's a fla...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pastel, Gouache, Board
Portrait after Franz Josef Winter, Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop Cologne
Located in Greven, DE
Clemens August Ferdinand Maria Hyazinth, Duke of Bavaria (* August 16, 1700 in Brussels; † February 6, 1761 in Koblenz) was as Clemens August I from 1723 to 1761 Archbishop of Cologne and thus at the same time Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, sovereign of the associated archdiocese as well as the tributary lands of Recklinghausen and Westphalia. In addition, he was Legatus natus of the Holy Apostolic See in Rome and Archchancellor of Imperial Italy. Furthermore, he combined the offices of Grand Master of the Teutonic Order...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Morning Towers" Contemporary Figurative Self Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Saturated, intimate depiction of sharing a bed with a partner by Narcissus Robert Quagliata (Italian-American, b. 1942). While four fingers dominate the composition, the focus of the...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman Washing Clothes In The River, 17th Century
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Blackwater, GB
Woman Washing Clothes In The River, 17th Century
circle of Francesco GUARDI (1712-1793)
Fine large Italian Old Master landscape view of figures in a ...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait Of Henry Farington, East India Company, 18th Century
By Arthur Devis
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Henry Farington, East India Company, 18th Century
attributed to Arthur DEVIS (1712-1787)
One of a matching pair - the other is believ...
Category
18th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Lady Bagot - Niece to the Duke of Wellington
Located in Miami, FL
The sitter is Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesly-Pole, eldest daughter of William, 4th Earl of Mornington and niece to the Duke of Wellington. This is one of Hoppner's best works. The sitt...
Category
1780s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charles Jervas, Portrait of Joseph Mellish
Located in London, GB
Charles Jervas (1675-1739)
Portrait of Joseph Mellish (1675-1733)
Oil on canvas; held in a carved period frame
Dimensions refer to size of frame.
Provenance: Blyth Hall, Nottinghamshire, England; by descent to Sir Andrew Buchanan of Hodsock Priory, Nottinghamshire
In 1635 John Mellish, a merchant tailor of London, bought the estate of Blyth in Nottinghamshire. His son, a wealthy Oporto merchant, dying unmarried, left Blyth in 1703 to a cousin, Joseph Mellish, who became one of Newcastle’s earliest and most important political supporters in the county. He went up to Clare College, Cambridge in 1692 and on to the Inner Temple the following year. He married Dorothea Gore, daughter of Sir William Gore...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled, Boy Eating Watermelon
Located in Miami, FL
The work looks much better in person with snappy bright colors that form a complex abstract composition of interconnected shapes.
Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, The Work is Signed lower left - Provenance: Forum Gallery, New York - Label on verso
Swann Gallery...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Alabama Surreal Folk Art Oil Painting African American Woman, Flower Headdress
By Maltby Sykes
Located in Surfside, FL
The painting is signed Sykes and dated 1960 lower right.
It has "Maltby Sykes, 1911- for Leon" written on the stretcher verso
It is a Surrealist Folk Art ...
Category
1960s Folk Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of George Farington, East India Company, 18th Century
By Arthur Devis
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of George Farington, East India Company, 18th Century
attributed to Arthur DEVIS (1712-1787)
One of a matching pair - the other is belie...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait Of A Lady, Believed to be Miss Craigie, 18th Century
By Sir Allan Ramsay
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Lady, Believed to be Miss Craigie, 18th Century
circle of Allan RAMSAY (1713-1784)
Fine large 18th century portrait of a Lady in a. white dress, believed to be a Mi...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Livestock Market, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Livestock Market, 17th Century
School of Karel BREYDEL (1678-1733) - rare 17th Century Cattle/Livestock Market
Fine large 17th century Dutch/Flemish livestock market landscape,...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Pair of Vintage Native American Portraits
Located in Soquel, CA
Pair of two vintage portraits of Native American figures, one older and one younger, in profile with braids and headdresses by Victor S. ...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Cardboard
Mid Century Fauvist Portrait of Red Headed Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Striking Fauvist portrait with a vibrant, high voltage color palette, featuring a green woman with red hair by Sydney Helfman (American, 1926-2010). Aut...
Category
1960s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Old Master portrait of a lady musician by the master or portraiture
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Attributed to Pierre Paul Prud’hon (French, 1758-1823)
'La belle musicienne'
Oil on canvas, oval
Signed ‘P. P. Prudon’ (lower left)
28.3/4 x 23.1/2 in. (73 x 59.5 cm.)
Pierre Paul Prud'hon is considered a prime example of early French Romanticism. He was born as the seventh and last child of a master tailor. At the age of 16 he was a pupil of the painter and sculptor Francois Devosge. After finishing his studies he moved to Paris, where he first worked for an engraver and became friends with the Baron of Joursanvault, who became his patron. He also made a friendship with the "incorruptible", the politician and revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre. Despite important friendships and the care of some cardinals, Prud'hon plunges into loneliness and melancholy. He has a good reputation and produces allegorical paintings, but his attachment to Robespierre forces him to leave the French capital. He now lives in the Free County of Burgundy, where he makes portraits and illustrations for Pierre Didot, the owner of the printing house. After a few years he moved back to Paris and his career received a new impetus.
In the Louvre, Prud'hon is provided with a studio in which he paints "La sagesse et la vérité descendant sur la terre" (Wisdom and Truth descend to earth) for one year, as well as some ceilings of the Louvre. The government assigns him a studio in the Sorbonne, where his wife Jeanne, whom he married at the age of 19, comes looking for him. To escape her, he asks the museum director for protection. In 1808 he wrote "La justice et la vengeance divine poursuivant le crime" (Justice and divine revenge pursue the crime). In the same year he is also named Knight of the Legion of Honour and is able to break with his grumpy wife once and for all. He soon reconnects with his student and painter of neoclassicism Constance Mayer. Pierre is commissioned to paint a portrait of the Empress and wife of Napoleon, Joséphine de Beauharnais, which can still be seen today in the Louvre. He also paints the small "Roi de Rome" (King of Rome). In 1816 the Academy of Fine Arts elected him a member, where he took over the armchair in the painting section of François-André Vincent.
A few years later his depressed wife commits suicide, and full of pain Prud'hon finishes her last work "Une famille malheureuse" (Engl. An Unhappy Family) and exhibits it. He himself dies soon afterwards and is buried in Paris.
Many renowned artists admire Prud'hon for his "clair-obscur", the chiaroscuro painting...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'The Red Headdress' by W. Worms
Located in London, GB
'The Red Headdress', pastel on art paper, by W. Worms (circa 1960s). A beautiful woman with contemplative expression and tender eyes is exquisitely portrayed by the artist. The treat...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Portrait of Joseph Benwell Original Oil Painting 18th Century
By Sir Allan Ramsay
Located in London, GB
Sir Allan Ramsay
1713-1784
Portrait of Joseph Benwell
Oil on canvas, inscribed with sitter's name and dated 1756
Image size: 31 x 25 inches
Original ...
Category
1750s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Soldier Beats Up Muggers on Subway - Stag Magazine story illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Signed (as Emmett Kaye) lower right it was Mort Kunstler's pseudonym, unframed
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled - Mysterious Figure in Black Pancho and Expressive Hands
Located in Miami, FL
Haunting yet beautiful with a simple graphic composition and monochromatic palette.
Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, signed E. Kingman and dated (lower right)
Looks better in pe...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mixed Media
Portrait of a Girl, 18th Century Oil Old Master
By George Knapton
Located in London, GB
George Knapton
1698-1778
Portrait of a Girl
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20 x 18 inches
Original giltwood frame
This beautiful half length portrait of a young woman, turned to left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a pink, white lace-embroidered, dress, in her hair a pink bonnet trimmed with lace to match her dress.
The depiction of a young girl epitomises child portraiture of the late eighteenth century, in which painters such as William Beechey, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough had begun to discover and express the true character of children, in contrast to the stiff, miniature-adults of previous generations.
The Artist
Knapton was born in Lymington, one of four sons of James Knapton. He was apprenticed to Jonathan Richardson from 1715 to 1722, and in 1720 was a founding subscriber to the academy of St. Martin's Lane established by Louis Chéron...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Lion Mangled Me - A Man Eating Lion
Located in Miami, FL
Using brilliant compositional devices and late afternoon light, Frank McCarthy captures a man at the precise moment before death.
The scene is staged wi...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Casein, Board
Portrait of a Young Man (Russian male portrait)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Friedrich Wigand (Russian, 1800-1853). Portrait of a Young Man, 1841. Oil on canvas, 12.5 x 16 inches. Framed measurement: 17 x 20.5 inches. Signed an...
Category
Mid-18th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Art, Rococo Portrait, Oval, Pastel, Portrait of a Lady, Circle of Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
French School, Portrait of a Lady, Rococo, 18th Century, Fine drawing in Pastel/ Oil Pastel on Paper in the style of Vivien. The Lady might be a woman from Marie Antoinette's Court. It is part of a Pendant (see the other listing with the portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Mid Century Portrait of a Clown #5
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "Blake" in the lower left corner. Unframed.
Marjorie May Gulley Blake w...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman Commoner at Oxford, 18th Century Oil on Canvas
By James Northcote b.1746
Located in London, GB
James Northcote
Portrait of a Gentleman Commoner at Oxford
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm)
Original gilt frame
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Infanta - Study number 6 - a painting inspired by Velázquez by Fermin Aguayo
Located in PARIS, FR
A breath of modernity animates this iconic work, inspired by Velázquez' portrait of the Infanta Margarita, which reveals the immense talent of the pa...
Category
1960s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Figurative Portrait of a Boy with Toy Car
Located in Soquel, CA
Realistic mid century portrait of a boy playing with an antique toy car by Ralph Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Signed "R. Joosten" in the lower left ...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Resting, Expressionist Portrait of Young Man by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Resting" is an interior portrait of a young man resting on a sofa. This work was painted by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 24" x 32" oil on board painti...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Heights & fast sketch. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 9, 5x6 cm; 9x6cm
Located in Riga, LV
Heights & fast sketch. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 9,5x6 cm; 9x6cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Henry Pickering, Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in London, GB
Henry Pickering, Portrait of a Gentleman
Oil on canvas; signed and dated 1759; held in a giltwood period frame
Provenance: Lenygon & Morant Ltd. c.1900; Knoedler, October 1912 (Sto...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Drums, Expressionist Group Portrait of Three Musicians by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Drums" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 34" x 40" oil on board group portrait of three musicians playing t...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
18th Century, Antique Oil Painting, Old Master. Portrait of Mother with child.
Located in Berlin, DE
18th century, antique painting, oil on canvas, old master. Mother with child.
Relined canvas.
Stretcher frame also renewed.
Artist unknown.
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Owen Ormsby, bust-length, in a brown coat
Located in London, GB
Attributed to Gainsborough Dupont (1754 - 1797, British)
Portrait of Owen Ormsby, bust-length, in a brown coat, with slightly later inscription identifying the sitter
oil on canvas
2...
Category
Late 18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Androscoggin River Falls, study for The Manufacturers National Bank of Lewiston-
Located in Miami, FL
If there ever were a perfect work in the canon of art history, this masterpiece study by Dean Cornwell would be it. Every line has meaning and not a line out of place, as Cornwell d...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pastel
"Mme de Noirmont", Oil on Canvas Portrait, circa 18th Century
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
This painting titled "Mme de Noirmont" is an oil on canvas work from the studio of Nicolas de Largilliere, one of the most prolific and esteemed French portrait p...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Adhesive, Oil
THE GOLD EARRINGS 1886 Robert Edward Morrison Pre Raphaelite Portrait Watercolor
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
Robert Edward Morrison (1852-1925)
The gold earrings
Robert Edward Morrison (1852-1925) The gold earrings signed 'R.E.Morrison/1886' (upper left...
Category
Mid-18th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1960s Clown Portrait #4
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a clown in three quarter view, with expressive brushstrokes and use of color by Marjorie Blake (1920-1994). Unsigned, but was purchased with...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
"Boy Standing in The Field" Post-Impressionism French Oil Painting on Board
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a whimsical portrait of a young boy outdoors with an alluring look. The bright colors and quick brush strokes are what makes this painting so attractive and des...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Last Snapshot - Minimalism
Located in Miami, FL
This graphic and flatwork was an Interior illustration for the Saturday Evening Post.
George Giusti( Italian - American 1908-1990)- ''The Last Snapshot''- ink and acrylic on illust...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Ink
18th Century European Portrait of a Child Saint John the Baptist
Located in SANTA FE, NM
18th Century European Portrait of a Child Saint John the Baptist
Oil on Canvas
19 x 14 1/4 inches
This lovely and sensitively painting has been examined by a professional restorer w...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Girl at the Beach with wide Brim Hat
By Bernie Fuchs
Located in Miami, FL
Wonderful 60's chic is on full display in this beach scene. It's masterfully designed. The beautiful model horizontally fills the center space while supporting players fill background spaces. The style is very flat with lots of gray muting the colors and defining the artist's palette. Fuch's was a giant talent who is overlooked by today's art world participants. His style could be described as a post-post impressionist. This particular work is so deftly designed and exhibits the most intriguing positive and negative spaces. The model is rendered with loose, quick and authoritative brush strokes which give an air of chic confidence. Most of all, it's her dreamy blue eyes that truly captivate the viewer. All parts of the eye ( Iris, Pupil, Sclera ) are composed of a soft robin's egg blue which is in counterpoint the pink day-glow color on her lips. She looks at you. You look back and the process is repeated and repeated. Fuch's not just a great painter, designer, academic artist but a brilliant and innovative colorist as well. To demonstrate how great this simple work is, out of a world population of 7.2 billion people, as a betting man, I would say there may be no other artist who could render a scene this good. An artist such as Peter Doig, who does nice and beautiful work, may come close to the talent of Fuchs.
Bernard Fuchs
American, 1932 - 2009
Girl at the Beach...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
At night. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At night. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Portrait of a Young Man in Striped Shirt
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1965 portrait of a young man (possibly the artist Don Bachardy) in a striped shirt looking back over his shoulder by Paul Sorel (American, b- 1920...
Category
1960s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carpathian Ancestor
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Painting is on casein paint on plaster on board. Catalogue of a postumous retr...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Casein, Plaster
Jazz, Expressionist Portrait of Woman with Violin by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Jazz" is a figurative painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon from 1968. The 34" x 40" oil on board portrait features a young African American woman playi...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Smoke Portrait - Original Ink and Tempera and Oil Painting by D. Bergamo - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Smoke Portrait is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in Italy by Danilo Bergamo (b.1938) in 1969.
Original ink, tempera and oil painting on cardboard
Hand-signed and dated b...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Oil
French Impressionist landscape the South of France, with children playing
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful French impressionist landscape of children playing in a playground somewhere in the South of France.
The earliest work by the artist is from the late 1960s and this piece...
Category
1960s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait, Expressionist Figurative Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Self Portrait" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 47" x 28.5" oil on canvas portrait features Harmon at a young age of about 25 years old. ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Figure, Male Expressionist Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Seated Figure" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 48" x 35.75" oil on board portrait is painted in energetic and bold brushstrokes, with vi...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Portrait of a Young Woman', Philadelphia Modernist, PAFA, Baum School of Art
By Martin Zipin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Zipin' for Martin Zipin (American, 1920-1991) and painted circa 1960.
Displayed in the original, hand-carved giltwood frame.
Framed ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Secundo Congreso Feminino, Large Canvas Surrealist Female Group Portrait, 1969
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Secundo Congreso Feminino " by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a large scale, surrealist painting of a group gathering showing women in the nude. The 60" x 42" oi...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Portrait of a Young Lady" Post-Impressionism French Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a whimsical portrait of a young lady posing with an alluring look in a colorful blouse. The bright colors and quick brush strokes are what makes this painting s...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grand Prix Racer
Located in London, GB
'Grand Prix Racer', French School, oil on board (circa 1960s). The 'good ole' days' of Formula One racing are depicted in this thrilling mid-century...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cupid Paint Oil on canvas France Neo classicism Art Quality Love 18th century
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Eighteenth-century French school
Entourage de François Boucher (Paris 1703 - 1770)
Cupid who shoots his arrow
Oil on canvas, 48 x 40 cm
with frame 58 x 49 cm.
The painting, of pl...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Portrait of a Man Original Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American school abstract painting. Watercolor on paper, circa 1970.
Signed. Image size, 5.5"L x 8.5"H.
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
Pair of Mid Century Blocking Portrait Study, Mid Century Portrait of a Woman
By Gordon Cook
Located in Soquel, CA
Blocking Study pair #1 and #2, portrait of a blonde woman, by Gordon Cook (American, 1927-1985). Circa 1960. Signed on verso "G. Cook (3) #1. unframed. Image size: 24"H x 20"W each. Bay area estate sale find.
Gordon Cook was born in 1927 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington where he received his B.F.A in 1950. Cook then went on to study fundamentals and life drawing at The American Academy of Art* in Chicago. The same year he studied intaglio* printmaking with Vera Berdich at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago*. He took graduate courses and continued studying intaglio printmaking under artist Mauricio Lasansky at the State University of Iowa.
In 1951, Cook moved to San Francisco. Soon after his works received the journeyman's card in International Typographical Union, Local 21. He began exhibiting his prints, drawings, and paintings at the Porpoise Gallery in San Francisco. Four years later, Cook became a charter member of the Bay Printmakers Society and exhibited in their annual exhibitions at the Oakland Art Museum for the next five years. His etchings portrayed mainly San Francisco landscapes such as the Golden Gate Park, Diamond Heights, and Lake Merced as well as flowers, especially roses.
He participated in his first weekly drawing group with artist Alvin Light, Manuel Neri, Joan Brown, and William H. Brown. Cook also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute*. His etchings where exhibited in a one-man exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. At this point Cook returned to painting. Moving to Rio Vista...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Late 18th Century English Family Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
English family portrait from the late 18th century. The canvas is aged accordingly with newsprint from October 1847. The painting is framed in a decorative gold frame with an open ba...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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A Rare Q&A with American Legend Alex Katz
On the eve of a new exhibition just north of New York City, the nonagenarian contemporary-art icon talked with ‘Introspective’ about his long and ongoing career, the development of his signature style and his rather malleable definition of realism.