James Childs

James Childs

1988

Portrait, figure, narrative, abstract. One of a series on unsung female heroism. Oil on canvas.

Dimitri incorporates and captures free form expression using urban iconography, text, collage and traditions methods.

These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...

An imagine portrait of Arthur Rimbaud, 19th century modernist author of "Illuminations" and "A Season in Hell." Oil paint, Weathered-Oak wood stain, and mixed media on panel.

This artwork titled "J.B" c.1970 is a lithograph on paper by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is signed and titled in the plate as issue. The image (Stone mark) size is 5 x 8 inches, framed is 15.35 x 12 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden brown frame, with off white matting. It is in very good condition, paper is slightly toned by age. About the artist. Charles Bragg was born in St. Louis, Missouri to two Vaudeville performing parents that he traveled with throughout his childhood. He attended New York’s High School of Music and Art in Harlem and ran away with his sweetheart when he turned 18. He studied at the Art Students League in New York and later resided in Los Angeles. Before he decided to truly pursue painting, Bragg was a cab driver, a truck driver, a stand-up comedian, and a factory worker. When he arrived in California, he began painting for the wealthy and even gave lessons. It was during this time that he began to develop satirical feelings for the upper-class he was painting. Considered the foremost social satire artist in America, Charles Bragg is highly acclaimed for his cryptic and humorous portraits. Bragg is a spiritual descendent of Bosch, Brueghel and Daumier His work is found in the collections of at least 20 international museums, including thePushkin Museum, Moscow, USSR - Galleria d' Arte, Moderna de Milano Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland - Dayton Art Museum, Ohio - DowneyMuseum of Art, California - Long Beach Museum of Art, California - Wichita State University Collection - Roswell Museum Collection, New Mexico - Canton Art Institute, Ohio - Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando Florida - University of Wyoming Museum of Art - The Albrecht Museum of Art, St Joseph, Mo - St Lawrence University, Canton, NY - Gibbes Art Center, Charleston, SC - Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan ¬University of Judaism, Los Angeles, Ca - Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska - Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas - Joseph Hirshhorn Collection, National Gallery of Design...

Eric James Mellon (1925-2014) Eric James Mellon was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist who was born in Watford, Hertfordshire. In his early teens he attended Watford Technical and Art Institute to prepare for a career in the local printing industry and at weekends he would Harrow School of Art for life drawing and pottery classes. In 1944 he enrolled at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London to study book production and printmaking. The wood-engraver John Farleigh...

Benjamin Stahl: 1910-1987. Well listed illustrator with auction records over $10,000. I bought this fabulous illustration 15 years ago and it has been hanging on my wall ever since....

Ink on bristol