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Contemporary Still-life Paintings

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
"King Puma" - Mixed media animal painting with text
Located in East Quogue, NY
Original mixed media painting by Adam Baranello. Size 36 x 36 in. Offered unframed. Mixed media, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. Multidisciplinary artist Adam Baranello creates mus...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

John Duffin, Battersea Bridge, London Cityscape Painting, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Battersea Bridge [2014] Original Oil paint on canvas Canvas Size: H:51 cm x W:76 cm x D:4cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

''Bouquet of Roses'', Contemporary Still Life with Roses in a Orange Vase
Located in Utrecht, NL
When you look at this painting ''Bouquet of Roses'' by Dutch artist Sasja Wagenaar (1959) from a distance you see a perfectly painted image, but up close a generous paint streak is visible. She has a unique way of applying shadow and light effects in her paintings. Sasja Wagenaar is inspired by our classic masters from the seventeenth century, a flourishing period in Dutch painting. The century in which new continents, markets and arts were discovered. At that time in the Netherlands it was a real fad to collect chinoiserie. Originally porcelain, but also Dutch pottery, also known as Delft blue, inspired by Chinese and especially by Japanese bowls and vases. To quote Sasja Wagenaar: ‘Every platter, every bowl is already so much in itself. They were made with great care through hundreds of hands before they ended up here. Their character must be respected in composing the story that forms a still life. They are as alive as the blossom branches and I try to let them speak together. Slowly the image is created’. Although rooted in the 17th century Dutch tradition, her work shows her very own signature and is contemporary. As a true Modern Dutch Master...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic, Panel

"Hard Eggs and God Mothers", Food motif, Caterpillars, moths, Gelatin, Cake
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Hard Eggs and Godmothers" is an orginal piece by Angela Rio made from oil on canvas. This piece measures measures 18"h x 15"w and is signed by the artist i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

View of the Gate
Located in Burlingame, CA
Bicycles and passers by view the Golden Gate Bridge at the water's edge in San Francisco in this contemporary horizontal landscape from celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as the Oakland Museum of California. The work comes is 32 x 50 inches and is framed is a hard wood floater frame. Outer dimensions with frame is 33 x 551 inches. Signed and dated by the artist. Painted in 2020. Born: Kansas City MO, 1942 Education: Art Students League, New York, NY Cornell University Brooklyn Museum School San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969 Awards and Commissions N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989 California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998 Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998 Teaching 1989-90: San Francisco State University 1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar 1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA 1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA One Man Exhibitions 2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield 2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY 2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY. 2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA 2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY 2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA 1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA 1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery) 1994: Fischbach Gallery 1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery 1992: Fischbach Gallery 1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1990: Fischbach Gallery 1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1987: Fischbach Gallery 1987: Gallery 454 North 1986: William Sawyer Gallery 1985: Fischbach Gallery 1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx 1984: William Sawyer Gallery 1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery 1981: William Sawyer Gallery 1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery 1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish, Irene Zweig, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 2015: REAL with Elizabeth Barlow Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2014: Stillness and Activity / A father and daughter exhibition, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2013: Outwin Boocher Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Hey Everybody / Portraits, Diablo Valley College 2012: Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge”, George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA. Introduction Two/ Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2011: California: A Landscape of Dreams/ Fresno Art Museum 2010: Self Portrait Invitational/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT 2009: On Beauty /I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA. 2008: At Water’s Edge / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA. 2007: San Francisco Scenes/ George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA Ten Years- A Retrospective/ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, S.F., CA. 2006: Our Planet, Our Home/ SFMOMA Artists Gallery, S.F. CA 2005: 2005 Spring Group Show/ Earl McGrath Gallery, L.A., CA 2002: H2O’02, Paintings of Water/ Fischbach Gallery, NYC Scene in Oakland 1852-2002 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA The Garden/ Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA The Moving Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY Bay Area Printmakers/ works from Trillium Press, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA California Landscape Paintings/ College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA Bay Area Printmakers/ SF Museum of Modern Art/Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA Visions: Northern California/ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA 2001: Opening Exhibit: Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY 2000: Hackett Freedman Gallery Artists/ Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, Ca 1999: Homage to the Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American Culture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999: What is Art For? What are Museums For? What are You For? curated Curated for the Oakland Museum by William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster, Oakland, CA 1998: Paintings of Marin County Past and Present/ The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997: 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Hackett Freedman Gallery, S.F., CA 1996: Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas/ Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (traveling exhibition) Contemporary American Realist Painters/ Halls Crown Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1996: Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute/ One Bush St., S.F., CA 1996: New Work by Selected Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Flower Paintings/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA 1995: Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area / De Young Museum, S.F., CA Contemporary Still Life Painting/ David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1994: Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY New Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA A Room with a View/ The North Point Gallery, S.F., CA 1993: Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA Vanishing Point: A Look at Contemporary Landscape Painting”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Tribute/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, S.F., CA Contemporary Realism: Central and Northern California Landscapes/ Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism/ a traveling exhibition curated by Alan Gussow and Babcock Galleries, N.Y., NY 1992: A Day in the Country, California Landscape Painting / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA West Art and the Law/ Weat Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN(traveling ex.) The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY In Support of Contemporary Bay Area Artists / One Market Plaza, S.F., CA 1991: The Landscape in 20th-Century American Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art/ New York, NY, National Traveling Exhibit 1990: Contemporary Landscapes/ 21st Anniversary Exhibition Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 1990: New Bay Area Painting Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA 1989: The Modern Pastoral/ Robert Scholekopf Gallery, New York, NY 1988: Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988: Ten Artists from the William Sawyer Gallery / Shasta College Gallery, Redding CA Works on Paper/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1987: The Contemporary American Landscape/ Swain Gallery, NJ 1986: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape/ Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1985: The Bay Area Seen/ Bay Area Regionalists Show, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA Large Scale/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX A City Collects/ Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA American Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984: San Francisco Bay Area Painting/ curated by George Neubert for the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE American Landscape Painting/ California State University, L.A. CA Western Landscape Painters/ The Museum of the West, Houston, TX The Urban Landscape / One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA 1982: Collectors Gallery 16/ McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX Thirty Approaches to Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1981: Views of California Past and Present/ Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA Landscapes/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX 110th Anniversary S.F. Art Institute Alumni Group Show/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1980: Realism/ Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 1979: Bay Area Artists Exhibition/Sale/ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Omnium Gatherum/ Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA California Viewpoints/ Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA 1978: New Work/ Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1977: Contemporary California Artists/ Marshall-Meyers Gallery Alternative to the Whitney Annual/ James Yu Gallery, N. Y, N.Y. San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gallery, Seattle, WA Faculty Show/ California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1975: Realism in Painting and Ceramics/ Helen Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA 1975: A Tribute to the Art Institute/ Hansen Fuller Gallery, S.F., CA California Artists/ Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT 1974: Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water/ by Alfred Frankenstein Expo 74, Spokane, WA A Sense of Place/ curated by Alan Gussow for the Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE The Discovery Gallery, Montclair, N.J. 1973: College of Marin Gallery, Kentfield, CA California Artists/ Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA 1972: Visiting Artists/ California State University, Hayward, CA 1970: Drawing Invitational/ Emanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA 1970: San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA 1967: Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Annual, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA 1966: California Landscape Painters/ San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA. Selected Collections The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Oakland Museum The Utah Museum of Fine Art San Francisco Art Commission Shaklee Corporation Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA San Francisco International Airport Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX California First Bank, San Francisco, CA United Pipeline, Houston, TX Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA Atlantic Richfield Corporation Shell Oil, Houston, TX First National Bank of Seattle RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA Texas Heritage Society Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA Sohio Corporation Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY Chemical Bank, NY Swissre Corporation, NY The Insurance Company of North America First National Bank of Midland, Texas Commerce Bank AMA Headquarters, Washington, DC Hughes Tool, Houston, TX ATT, NY Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, San Francisco, CA IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL Smith Kline and French Corp., Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA Republic National Bank Chevron Trammel Crow Company, Dallas, CA U.S. Insurance Group, N.J. Southwestern Bell Corp., MO Union Bank Pacific Bell United States Trust Company, NY The United Bank of Denver, CO Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, PA Atlantic Richfield Corp., Los Angeles, CA Show, Pittman, Pots and Trobridge, Washington, DC San Francisco Zen Center Hughes Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, CA Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN Bank of America, NY Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City,MO Robinson Humphrey/American Express, Atlanta, GA Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA Goldman Sachs, NY Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NY Victoria Bank and Trust, Victoria, TX NYNEX, NY Coca Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta, GA TransAmerica Corporation Pacific Telesis Group Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison Exxon Corporation U.S. Trust Selected Private Collections Estate of Ahmet Ertegun, New York, NY Mr. Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, CA Estate of Irving Lazarr, Los Angeles, Ca Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holzer, New York, NY Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asher, Los Angeles, CA Mr. John Irvin, London, England Ms. Joan Didion, New York , NY Ms. Sabrina Guinness, London, Eng. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hills, San Francisco, CA Mr. and Mrs. Peter Duchin Ms. Linda Ronstadt Ms. Faye Dunaway Mr . Peter Morton Mrs H.J. Heinze, New York, NY Mr. Rupert Lowenstein Mr. and Mrs. Robert Emery, San Francisco, CA Mr. Earl Mc Grath, New York, NY Mr. Nat Weiss, New York, NY Mr. Luca Barilla Mr. Bruce Schnietzer, New York, NY Dr. and Mrs. Robert Carroll, New York, NY Mrs. Nicholas Boyd, San Francisco, CA Mr. and Mrs. Robert Green, San Francisco, CA Mr. Chappy Morris, New York, NY Ms. Carla Kirkeby, Los Angeles, CA Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Caplow, Los Angeles, CA Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meyerowitz, New York, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. Steven Gilsendaine Mrs. Caroline Cushing Graham, Los Angeles, CA Mr. Michael Nesmith, Los Angeles, CA Mr. Griffen Dunne, New York, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Erskine, Pasadena, CA Mr. N.J. Friedman, Hillsborough, CA Mr. Harold Hollingsworth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Patch, White Paint on Wooden Board, Woodgrain, Golden Brown
Located in Kent, CT
A patch of white paint adorns a wooden board with golden brown woodgrain, unexpectedly dramatic against a stark white wall. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Brett Eberhardt’s pain...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"The Valuable Collection" Sietse W. Jonker 21st Century Contemporary Oil Paint
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Since August 2018 Sietse W. Jonker belongs to the group of artists that we permanently represent in our stock-exposition. In mid-2019, this still-life artist will take part in a group exhibition devoted to still life in painting. His work can be seen all year round and for sale through our gallery. To get to know him, we visited the artist in his studio in Leeuwarden. a centrally located donkey and a window on the Noorderlicht dominate the space together with the still life that he is currently working on. According to the artist, a still life should not be 'made to look', in the final painting it should ultimately be an ordered harmony. The artist himself: That is not always easy and sometimes I am busy with all kinds of objects here in the house. Every now and then something comes up or something is taken away again until I am satisfied. Usually I have a vague idea of ​​what I want, but to give that 'vague idea' a concrete form is quite difficult. The idea then to create a three-dimensional world on a two dimensional level intrigues Sietse Jonker...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Gravitation - Space Galaxy Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
As one can see some objects from planet earth have been pulled into the gravitational orbit of the distant planet of Saturn. It remains a mystery as to how this occured. Gravitatio...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Snow Above Emerald Bay
Located in Burlingame, CA
American Realist nature scene oil painter Peter Loftus who is known for captivating color rich scenes through shadow and light through his oil on canvas paintings that breathe life while reflecting natural western and Hawaiian environments. Lotus's subject matter includes oceans, mountains, babbling brooks, mountain ridges and vistas, as well as people and figures. This beautiful oil painting glows with cool tranquil waters reflecting the tropical palm trees on a pool of floating lotus pads. Peter Loftus was born in 1948, in Washington DC. He received a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, in 1971. In 1974, Loftus earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Drawn by the glorious California light, Loftus moved to Santa Cruz in 1975. He has lived and painted there ever since. Loftus taught at both University of California at Santa Cruz and Cabrillo Community College between 1975, through the present (at UCSC). He taught Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Drawing, and Painting, in both oil and aqueous media. During that time, he also sustained a rigorous exhibition schedule, showing regularly on the East and West coasts; in New York at Fischbach Gallery, and San Francisco at William Sawyer Gallery and later Hackett-Freedman Gallery. In addition, Loftus has participated in a number of group exhibitions. These include: American Realism: 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors (and accompanying book), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New Horizons in American Realism: Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI. Loftus is also included in several publications, including: "The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism" by Alan Gussow...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sky above Waikoloa / Hawaii - 36 x 24 inches
Located in Burlingame, CA
Tranquil tropical sky above Waikoloa by American Realist nature scene oil painter Peter Loftus who is known for captivating color rich scenes through shadow and light through his oil...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Yellow butterflies and tropical plants" oil landscape on canvas
Located in Zofingen, AG
Being born in one form and ending life in another, the butterfly represents rebirth. A gentle, trembling creature capable of flight appears from an inconspicuous caterpillar, refutin...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Lacquer, Oil

Elly's Drawing, Art on Studio Wall, Plumb Bob Pendulum, Wooden Table
Located in Kent, CT
In this quiet still life painting, a drawing on paper of a sketched plant in a simple pot is taped with blue tape to a white wall with gray marks, while a plumb bob, an artist's tool...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Amaryllis Study no. 4
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Amaryllis Study no. 4' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Cavalos e pitangas, Still Life Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian artist who primarily utilizes painting as a field of creative possibility exploring themes such as identity, memory, and nature, compulsivel...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Yellow Gerbera's - 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Flower Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Keimpe van der Kooi Yellow Gerbera's 50 x 50 cm Framed: 55x 55 cm ( This frame is included) Oil on wood panel This Painting is made by Dutch Artist Keimpe van der Kooi. He likes to...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Umbrella - City View With Figure, Expressive Oil Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas Copernicus University UMK, securing a Master of Art degree. He...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

February
Located in Dallas, TX
"In the world of still life and landscape, conceptual events meet one another – the structural meets the narrative, the small stands in the space of the large, and color has a chance...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Ink, Oil, Panel

Defying Gravity, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A textured peony bloom unfolds in expressive, layered brushstrokes. Soft white, lavender, and blue petals exude grace, while warm yellows and pinks light up t...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

"Timeless Grace" by Celi Jr - Contemporary Still-Life - Pink and White Flowers
Located in Carmel, CA
Rizaldy Celi Jr. (American, Filipino-Vietnamese, born 1983) "Timeless Grace" 2024 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the painting. In "Timeless Grace", ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Stretcher Bars

White Hydrangea in Tall Vase
Located in Burlingame, CA
'San Francisco Symphony Still Life no. 4' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Watercolor

Yunxian Li Contemporary Original Oil On Canvas "No.5"
Located in New York, NY
Title: No.5 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 12 x 15.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life
Located in Dallas, TX
Vera Barnett is best known for creating elements of her composition—by sewing and painting plastic, building objects with cardboard and tape, and assembling found objects—then settin...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Resting in Waters by Anne Darby Parker, Cubist Figure Oil on Canvas
Located in Atlanta, GA
Resting in Waters by Anne Darby Parker is a serene 48 x 36 inch acrylic on canvas that captures a quiet, introspective moment through fluid brushwork and soft, layered color. Parker’...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Metal bin in a stable- 21st Century Contemporary Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This still-life is made by Dutch painter Erik Zwaga. The painter started in the style of the romantic school, Erik Zwaga began to search more and more for his own visual language...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Delft Agapanthus (cyanotype painting framed to 35 x 28")
Located in Oakland, CA
This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals are different from those used in black and white photography. The light-sensitive chemicals can be used to print blue and white photographs from a large negative or a person can capture the silhouette of solid objects rather like an x-ray in blue and white. In her Delft Garden series, artist Christine So first drew the outline of a plant in pencil and then painted it in a dark room —not paint– but with the cyanotype light-sensitive emulsion. When the painting had dried, she arranged plants on top of the painted silhouette in a pattern that would leave gaps like lace, carefully moved the entire bundle outside while still covered and then exposed the pattern multiple times at different angles to the sun, to achieve various shades of blue and white. The heavy cotton watercolor paper then needed to be thoroughly rinsed in order to stop the darkening process. The silhouette here is of the Giant California Tree...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

"The Ecstasy of Maria Sibylla Merian, " 2025
Located in New York, NY
Marilla Palmer The Ecstasy of Maria Sibylla Merian, 2025 Pressed foliage, millinery velvet, Durabrite prints, 12K gold leaf, acrylic on Ampersand panel 16 x 12 in. (pal261) Marilla ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Pompeii / oil on canvas - abstract nature - warm earthtones.
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Pompeii' from Stephanie Peek, who makes her home in California, is beautifully rendered with a sense of depth, intellect, timelessness, and mystery. A warm, rich and elegant wonder, reflecting leaves falling through space. Peek has floated tulips, roses and other flowers from 17th century still life paintings through the dark smoky atmosphere of her paintings of night...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Metal Composition "Arum Lilies"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Mark Hilltout has always been drawn to the random, the discarded and the broken. Car dumps fascinate him - he is attracted to the broken edge, not the perfectly straight line. For th...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Metal, Steel, Iron

Red onion in glass bowl- 21st Century Contemporary Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Adriana van Zoest Red onion in Glass bowl 65 x 45 cm Framed 73 x 73 cm ( Frame is included in price) Oil paint on wood panel (2024) Various subjects Adriana van Zoest's paintings ar...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Landscape - Blue Green Gold / oil painting - rain on field
Located in Burlingame, CA
Sumptuous still life landscape with blue, green and gold features a rain storm over a field in daylight from artist David Shevlino, whose masterful application of paint through the u...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

"Pyramid of Irises" (2024) By Robin Hextrum, Original Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Pyramid of Irises" is an oil painting that depicts purple flowers in tall grass on a black background.. This piece measures 22.50 x 22.50 inches in its fr...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Panel

Number 50: My Half Century Marker
Located in Burlingame, CA
Number 50 'My Half Century Marker' from Frohsin's 'Number's series 2010-2014. Created in layers of mixed media: acrylic, gouache, pencils, ink on archival museum board, and then prof...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Glaze, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Pigment

Summers 3 - Modern Architecture Original Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
English artist Jonjo Elliot's artworks are a collision of expressionistic fauvism and his collections encourage a youthful candor. Plants thrive in environments the viewer wants to i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

late 20th century still life oil painting with flowers and fruit on a blue table
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Rich, colorful, expressionist still life by American artist Warren Brandt featuring a decorative vase with white flowers, an assortment of fruit, and a small wooden sculpture...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Early Morning- 21st century Contemporary Dutch Winter Landscape Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This landscape painting is made by Dutch painter Erik Zwaga. The painter started in the style of the romantic school, Erik Zwaga began to search more and more for his own visua...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

The Light 9 and 13. From The Light series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series of pieces is the result of an investigation into the use of light as a tool for the representation of reality and image creation. Starting in the 40s, the work of the art...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Delicious fruits" (contemporary impressionist colorful still-life painting)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this floral still-life artwork "Delicious fruits" I experience the world of nature through the bright colors of a summer period. While painting, I sought to capture the beauty of...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Tulips. Gouache Painting, Abstract, Figurative, Flowers, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary floral still life figurative gouache on cardboard painting by Polish artist Bozena Lesiak. BOŻENA LESIAK (born in 1952) Studied at the faculty of painting at the Acade...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Gouache, Cardboard

Field of Sunflowers in the Summertime in France by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Field of Sunflowers in the Summertime in France by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 30 x 20 inches Frame measures 35 x 25 inches This painting features a ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Freeway No. 13 (diptych) / color abstract city oil cars painting
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Freeway No. 13 (diptych) ' by artist Ryan Reynolds, who uses bold colors to depict contemporary life in this painting that is from his 'Freeway' series. Fantastic spiraling highway...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Evening Bag - Evening Shoes - 9.4" x 11.4" Each, Set Of Two Paintings, Framed
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Evening Bag - Evening Shoes: This set of two original paintings blend acrylic paint, textile collage and a delicate touch of sparkle. Attention to detail captures a hint of timeless ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Fabric, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil

Abstract Botanical - Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Abstract Botanical - Marc Zimmerman This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. ABOUT THE ARTIST Marc Zimmerman is a visionary artist whose creations embody ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Grey Wall
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
ROBINSON, Geoffrey (b.1945) Grey Wall 2000 60.0 x 43.5 cm Collage on unstretched canvas, Unframed Geoffrey Robinson trained at Bournemouth College of Art in the 1960’s, before a ca...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

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The smell of warm coffee and bloomed roses ( floral oil painting on canvas)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This floral painting named "The smell of warm coffee and bloomed roses" makes part of my "Floral " series which celebrates my love for flowers. This art piece also underlines the im...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The warm glow of sunshine in the morning (still life painting of flowers)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This floral painting "The warm glow of sunshine in the morning" makes part of my "Floral " series which celebrates my love for flowers. This art piece also underlines the importance of enjoying simple things in life. This still-life painting portrays a vivacious bouquet of yellow summer flowers in a blue vase on a red coffee table. Near the vase there is an open book and a golden jewelry box...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

#449
Located in New Orleans, LA
Calvert’s current paintings investigate the relationship between digital media and the reception and perception of images, and utilizes diverse technologies such as fresco, 3D modeling, AI and data manipulation through code. She is especially interested in the evolution of pictorial space. Today we view our screens and the world they occupy as a shallowly layered space of overlapping desktop windows. The picture plane has tilted up again from the flatbed to float in front of our eyes. Calvert’s paintings in turn depict an intermediate space, where the verticality of the still life paintings cohabitate with these digital panes. Dutch floral still life paintings encapsulate multiple concerns. Their subjects were botanical fantasies, emblems of an economic mirage that has contemporary corollaries. Most important to Calvert’s pictorial concerns, they depict ephemeral things in shallow and diagrammatic space - they are all foreground. They contain an abundance of visual information in overwhelming density, creating an allover resolution; a visual field that is equivalent to digital noise. By making painterly interventions into reproductions, Calvert attempts to dissolve the layer between the resolution of the source image and abstraction of the painted mark. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Tiffany Calvert has exhibited her work in the US and abroad including Lawrimore Project in Seattle, E.TAY Gallery in New York, the Speed Museum in Louisville and Cadogan Contemporary in London. Residencies include the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, I-Park, and ArtOmi International Arts Center where she received a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship. Calvert has received grants from the Great Meadows Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her work was recently profiled by critic John Yau in the online journal Hyperallergic. Her curatorial projects include “Some Abstraction Occurs” at 65GRAND Gallery in Chicago and “Magic” at Mercer College (featuring work by Chris Martin, Karla Knight...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Inkjet

Flower vase - Oil Painting - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flower vase  is an artwork realized by an italian artist in the late 20th Century.   Oil painting, 70 x 58 cm; with frame.  Handsigned lower side. G...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Concordia Coffee, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A modernist painting part of artist Rachel Srinivasan's Cubist Coffee series. For these pieces, Rachel studies her extensive collection of cafetieres that she keeps in her studio. "The work is inspired by Modernism, Cubism, and even architecture," says Rachel. "It reminds me of the years I lived in Italy."


About the Artist
For Rachel Srinivasan, an idea is worth putting on a canvas only if it still feels exciting after a few days. Rachel enjoys mulling the idea over in her mind for some time before creating an artwork. She hopes viewers will engage with her work and wonder about the subject matter, shapes and colors. "My current work is all about creating a connection between the person on the canvas with the viewer," she explains. She prefers large paintings and sometimes even makes her own canvases. She currently lives in Arizona and enjoys baking rhubarb pies, reading, running and going to art museums.


Words that describe this painting: coffee, moka...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Green with flowers- 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Flower Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Keimpe van der Kooi Green with flowers 68 x 80 cm Framed: 73 x 110 cm ( This frame is included) Oil on wood panel This Painting is made by Dutch A...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Balconies of the sky II by Joachim van der Vlugt - Semi-abstract flower painting
Located in Paris, FR
Balconies of the sky II is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 100 × 130 cm (39.4 × 51.2 in). The artwork is signed, sold unf...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Iris in a tall vase
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Iris in a tall vase' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Rose. Trespassing 3, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Two roses float across tree trunks. The soft pink and white petals contrast with the dark, curving forms surrounding them. The use of light and shadow highlig...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

The Escape Artist - Tall Figurative Landscape Painting Woman Birds Sky
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bay Area artist Michelle Fillmore found her love of oil painting at the University of Las Vegas, where she graduated with a BA in Painting and Drawin...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"Ethereal Web" 2025 24K gold, acrylic on Ampersand panel
Located in New York, NY
Marilla Palmer Ethereal Web, 2025 24K gold, acrylic on Ampersand panel 16 x 12 in. (pal251) Marilla Palmer lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and has shown extensively throughout the U...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Gold Leaf

"Ecstatic Clematis" 2025
Located in New York, NY
Marilla Palmer Ecstatic Clematis, 2025 pressed petals, Durabrite prints, sequins, 24K gold leaf, acrylic on Ampersand panel 16 x 12 in. (pal250) Marilla Palmer lives and works in Br...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Tipsy Lilies
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tipsy Lilies' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size. Internationally exhibited and celebrated worldwide, Bukovnik’s iconic works express a spiritual exultation - a joie de vivre - a vivid celebration of beauty. The painting captures the season of nature’s rebirth when the world awakes from its winter repose — Forever Spring...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Ikebana (nestled), acrylic on canvas, raised texture, green, tan, rabbit
Located in San Diego, CA
Welcome to Ben Darby's world. This is a whimsical interpretation of an ikebana arrangement. The texture is raised along the branches, with a green gradient that falls to tan at the b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

"Peony with Yellow Patterns, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Peony with Yellow Patterns" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a pink and white peony with a yellow pattern in the background. Robin Hex...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Iris (Contemporary Abstract Geometric Painting, Diptych in Oil)
Located in Hudson, NY
Iris (Contemporary Abstract Geometric Painting, Diptych in Oil) by Ricardo Mulero 24 x 24.5 x 1.75 inches Oil on Two Panels No frame necessary Signed on bottom left corner Contemporary Hard Edge Abstract Geometric Origami painting...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Tess Michalik "Francis B" 2024 Oil on panel
Located in New York, NY
Tess Michalik Francis B, 2024 Oil on panel 10 x 8 in. (mic012)
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

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