Shawn Nelson Dahlstrom

Architect's Dream, Painting, Oil on Canvas

1998

My still life paintings vary from lively decorative colorful compositions to thoughtful studies of reality. I rip objects out of their context and put them to new context. Here they ...

A gallery wrapped oval canvas, the painted image extends around the perimeter of the painting avoiding the need for any framing. Supplied ready to hang with advice on hanging options...

A Skipjack, an oyster boat of the Chesapeake Bay, sailing off the Thomas Point Lighthouse. This painting was awarded the Katlan Family Seascape Award a...

Bees are buzzing, and the sun is intermittent as lazy winds move cloud shadows over the undulating land near White Cottage, Fairlight. I love London but I must admit when in England...

Bacharach is a charming small town with generous people, historic old buildings, and cobblestone streets. Wine tasting is like a local sport here. It is a painting waiting to be pa...

A sunny day in Prague. Clouds move silently over the gentle water of the Vltava river. The bridge was built between 1899 – 1901 and replaced the earlier Francis I Chain Bridge (bui...

During his successful career as a goldsmith the desire to paint grew on Dutch artist René Smoorenburg (1954). The attention to detail, which was of great importance in his work as a ...

Yuriy Grigoryan loves to work with symbols, the chain is something, on the one hand, chaining us, on the other, it is something that connects us to something or someone. This is both...

In the work "Out of the Ordinary", Yuriy Grigoryan is talking about geniuses in the crowd, about those who are not afraid of being different from the masses, and may want to be diffe...

Yuriy Grigoryan loves to work with symbols, the chain is something, on the one hand, chaining us, on the other, it is something that connects us to something or someone. This is both...

Yuriy Grigoryan loves to work with symbols, the chain is something, on the one hand, chaining us, on the other, it is something that connects us to something or someone. This is both...

Antique Dog Portrait of a Terrier "Sugar Nose" Carl Friedrich Deiker (German, 1836-1892) Circa 1870 Oil on wood panel Circa 12 1/2 x 11 1/12 ​Having mastered the feat of posing terriers with ​sugar cubes balanced carefully at the very tip of his sitter's noses, Deiker displayed the skill of an artist who deeply loved his subjects. Carl Friedrich Deiker specialized in depicting animal and hunting motifs. From 1864 until his death, he lived in Düsseldorf. His specialty was painting big game and wild boar and he was also skilled at the depictions of deer fights, fleeing big game – being pursued by the hunter - and the like. He also treated vultures and falcons, scenes from the life of foxes with excellent results. His painting, Sauhatz-Sow Hunt (1870), is in the Museum in Cologne. He has also supplied numerous drawings of hunting scenes for illustrated journals and hunting books. With his dramatic depictions of the hunt and his connection to the painting of the Rubens School, he is regarded as an important source of inspiration for the animal paintings of the Düsseldorf School. The highly regarded British animal painter Louis Henry Weston Klingender was a student of Deiker as was the remarkable Swedish animal painter Bruno Liljefors...