Earl Mayan

Portrait of Man as a Woman, Drag Queen

1960

High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event. Signed lower left From the Estate of Charles Martignette. Most likey for the Sa...

Saturday Evening Post, Story Illustration Depicts Connecticut train station with possible drunk commuter being assisted by good samaritan Signed lower left Provenance: Illustration ...

Harry Lemon Parkhurst American, 1876–1962 was a pulp illustrator for crime and detective stories. The works depicts an art thief caught at a pe...

Pruett Carter captures the quintessential look of the 1950's in this loosely rendered but charming work for Redbook. Bright, punchy colors define each object and are arranged in a simplified but complex composition of intersecting and overlapping planes of color. The double portrait of the girl expresses a peak moment of introspection. She ponders her situation while preparing to get dressed for her special occasion. The whole scene is imbued with suspense about her future. Carter is a great academic painter. With just a few light touches of the brush, he quickly defines the form of the subject and achieves the X factor of the work. The profile and frontal view of the girl clearly are the same person. He nails her look. This is hard to do. Do not underestimate it. Sadly, there is a reason why there are very few contemporary artists can actually paint and draw without tracing photographs or resort to naive painting. It's hard to do. It's hard to be a painter. You can not fake...

A fine, large-scale portrait of a Philadelphia lady, fabled soprano singer Florence Foster Jenkins, by Richard Langtry Partington (American, 19...

"Lockdown Self-Portrait" is a contemporary realist portrait of the artist in his studio. Framed Dimensions: 17 x 20 inches Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, Californi...

Artist self portrait in mirror

Blonde figure holding small butterfly in interior