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Mid-Century Modern Vintage Still Life Watercolour - The Teapot
Located in Bristol, GB
THE TEAPOT
Size: 58 x 56 cm (including frame)
Watercolour
An elegant and gentle still life painted in watercolour.
A teapot, a pitcher, a plate of fruits, and a garlic glove are la...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Two roses in vase
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
49 x 36 x 2 cm
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life
Located in Sheffield, MA
Nicolai Cikovsky
Russian, 1894-1984
Still Life
Oil on board
18 by 14 in. w/ frame 26 by 22 in.
Signed lower right
Landscape and figure painter Nicolai S. Cikovsky, 1894-1984, was born in Russia, where he studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art...
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life of Spheres and Wood Sculpture- Painting by Antonio Sciacca - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Still life of spheres and wood sculpture is an oil painting on canvas made by Antonio Sciacca ( Catania 1957).
100x98 cm.
Handsigned on the lower right and on the back.
Good cond...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Liu BingHui Impressionist Original Oil Painting "Drinking"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Drinking
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 20.25 x 23.75inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Age: 2000s
Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bouquet of flowers by the window
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
59 x 51 x 3.5 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bouquet of flowers
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Still Life with Porcelain and Fruit, Mortelmans Frans, Antwerp 1865 – 1936
Located in Bruges, BE
A Still Life with Porcelain and Fruit
Mortelmans Frans
Antwerp 1865 – 1936
Belgian Painter
Signature: Signed bottom right
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Image size 50 x 75 cm, frame size 70 x 95 cm
Biography: Mortelmans Frans was a painter of still lifes, flowers, fruits, landscapes, house interiors, marine views, beach scenes and portraits; also aquarellist and pastellist. He was born in Antwerp on 1 May 1865. He was the older brother of the famous Flemish composer-conductor Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868-1952).
Frans grew up in the popular neighbourhood of Saint Paul’s parish and studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Antwerp, where his teachers included Edward Dujardin, J.E. Van den Bussche, P. Beaufaux, E. Siberdt, J. Geefs, Albrecht De Vriendt...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still life
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pengfei Wu Still Life Original Oil On Canvas "Bottles"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Bottles
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 15.5 x 15.5inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Age: 2000s
Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Afternoon Delights
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Afternoon Delights' depicts a historic San Francisco building with warm sunlight and shadows cascading across the facade of the building with an ins...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"In Company of Pigeons" Painting 56" x 64" inch by Ahmed Saber
By Ahmed Saber
Located in Culver City, CA
"In Company of Pigeons" Painting 56" x 64" inch by Ahmed Saber
acrylic, ink & silver leaf on wood
AHMED SABER - BIO
Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver
Classic Botanical Cyanotype of Vintage Pressed Flowers, Artisan Made, Blue Tones
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Details:
+ Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº4
+ Year: 2022
+ Edition Size: 20
+ St...
Category
2010s Baroque Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Film, Other Medium, Emulsion, Watercolor, Archival Paper, P...
Samovar
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Sergii Druziaka and Sergii Litvinov. ART tandem "Samovar"
Category
1990s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Yellow Pitcher
Located in London, GB
'The Yellow Pitcher', oil on canvas, by Charles Kvapil (1939). A prolific painter of bouquets, the artist created dozens of tableaux with flowers as sub...
Category
1930s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eleanor Woolley, Still Life with Owls, Impressionist Style Still Life Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Still Life with Owls is an Original Painting by Eleanor Woolley. This Still Life is an arrangement of found objects from around the artists home. The Rose Madder background made up of the drape and the window frame make a lovely contact with the posing blues of the glass and the Jug of flowers. Interior pictures thanks to Vanitjan of Freepik.
Eleanor Woolley was born in the Channel Island of Jersey, and moved to Gloucestershire where she was drawn to the outdoors, always taking walks in the landscape. Her first true love for painting came from an inspirational Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20th Century French Signed Oil Beautiful Flowers in Teal Vase Pink Back
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, circa 1950
signed 'Sylvia Gardette'
Still Life of Flowers in a teal colored vase against a soft pink background
oil on canvas, framed in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dinner Plate 1 (8"x10", Still Life Painting On Canvas, Muted Green, White)
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
“People who love to eat are always the best people.” Julia Child
This still life painting puts the spotlight on the dinner plate, a big part of our everyday lives. Emphasis is placed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
Sun Flower - Oil Painting by Claude Decamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sun Flower is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s
Oil painting on cardboard canvas.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
The ar...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dinner Plate 3 (8"x10", Still Life Painting, Muted Green, White)
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
“People who love to eat are always the best people.” Julia Child
This still life painting puts the spotlight on the dinner plate, a big part of our everyday lives. Emphasis is placed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
Still life with pipe and fruit
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in wood and gilded plaster
47 x 59.5 x 4.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flowers in the Round Vase - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas realized by Elena Mardashova, 40x40 cm. , realized in 2022.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dinner Plate 2 (8"x10", Still Life Painting On Canvas, Muted Green, White)
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
“People who love to eat are always the best people.” Julia Child
This still life painting puts the spotlight on the dinner plate, a big part of our everyday lives. Emphasis is placed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Canvas, Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Still life with corn cobs
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
58 x 78 x 5 cm
Category
1920s Italian School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sean Farrell, "Dogwood and Hydrangea", 26x20 Floral Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Dogwood and Hydrangea", is a 26x20 oil painting on board by artist Sean Farrell. Featured is a grand bouquet of flowers arranged in a harmonious blend of...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Rose bouquet and cane with silver knob
By Jean Verdier
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
56 x 49.5 x 3 cm
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Violet Roses 1974, Op Art Floral Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Lowell Blair Nesbitt is an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. Although he worked in a variety of media and covered a wide range of subjects throughout his career, he is best known for his large, Photorealist botanical paintings.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1933, Nesbitt earned a degree from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Later, he also studied at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.
Working in stained glass and etching and also producing abstract paintings in his early career, a 1962 encounter with artist Robert Indiana led him to steer his aesthetic toward realism. Though he held his first solo show at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1958, it was his 1964 debut at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. that would truly bring him to the attention of the art world. In this exhibit, his botanical series of paintings, drawings, and prints captivated the art world and public alike. The game-changing Corcoran Gallery show would send his career down the trajectory of sustained success.
In 1976, Nesbitt moved from his New York City West 14th Street studio to a massive space located at 389 West 12th Street. The 12,500 square foot living and workspace supplied ample room for creating his enormous paintings (the largest was more than 30 feet long), but it also bragged an indoor swimming pool, a four-story atrium, and a rooftop area for entertaining. “The Old Stable,” as Nesbitt came to call it, soon became a popular hangout for celebrities, dignitaries, and other art world heavy hitters. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, Larry Rivers, and James Rosenquist were all known to have frequented The Old Stable or to have at least paid a visit.
Throughout his long career, Nesbitt was known as an artist who could successfully capture an array of diverse subject matter using a variety of techniques. Creating beyond his signature Photorealistic flowers and botanicals, Nesbitt produced paintings, drawings, and prints of everything from landscapes to reptiles to electronic components. He is even credited as the first artist to use computer parts as artistic subject matter.
In 1980, the United States Postal Service honored his contributions to the art world with a series of four stamps based on his trademark floral paintings. Another unique honor arrived when Nesbitt became the official artist for NASA’s Apollo 9 and Apollo 13...
Category
1970s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers-21st Century Contemporary Flower Painting of a Tulip vase with Flowers
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Joran van der Haar
Flowers
104 x 80 cm ( framed 116 x 92 cm, frame is included in price)
oil on canvas
The realistic painted "17th century style' b...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Sins of Omission 48 X 36
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sins of Omission 48 X 36
Painters who have tackled the genre of Still Life are awe inspiring to me. To name a few, Matisse, Cezanne and my favorite, Georgio Morandi, all of whom painted memorable still lifes. The content of a Nature Morte (French translation) usually consists of domestic, ubiquitous items that occupy a place in the home environment. My interest in this genre of painting began long ago and I have pursued it concomitantly with my larger abstract works. As an abstract painter, I find many corollaries between Abstraction and Realism. That’s not to say that my still life paintings are realistic or abstract but to be more accurate, artistic license allows me to invent my own brand of semi realism incorporated into ‘’The Stll Life’’.
My goal in this body of work was to create a dynamic based on the juxtaposition of patterns and a bold, complementary palette-- resulting in a synergy of texture, animation and optical effects. As the work progressed, an organic evolution of ideas took over and the work became more reductive and less confrontational.
Just a word about my titles. Some are ‘’tongue in cheek’’ and some are a sardonic take on the imagery but I spend a lot of time making sure the titles fit the idea behind the painting. Of course, viewer interpretation is always welcome.
Patricia Zinsmeister Parker...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Flowers in vase with doily
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1920s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Autumn Flowers - impressionist still life artwork oil painting modern flowers
Located in London, Chelsea
This small scale still life study by John D Martin imparts a soft impressionist style to describe everyday objects with sensitivity that highlights the beauty which is often overlooked. The piece is briskly and loosely rendered, confidently creating the impression of an arrangement of delicate subject matter, their beauty conveyed in true, relative colours. The softness of the palette imbues the piece with a serene ambience. With dissolution of form, exquisite detail is applied to the handling of light and shade capturing a calming scene. The subject matter is composed in a satisfying and tranquil way, depicting comforting and delicate objects such as bright flora and a stylish tea cup. This contemporary artwork is imparts oil on board, is hand signed by the artist and ready to be displayed.
John Martin was born in 1957. He studied at Hornsey followed by three years at Exeter College of Art where he obtained a First Class Honours Degree. He then studied at the Royal Academy Schools under Peter Greenham, gaining a Post Graduate Diploma.
His work is in a line of traditional figurative painting, influenced by the Camden Town Group, particularly Sickert, Gilman and Spencer Gore...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Small White Roses - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova, 60x25 cm. Realized In 2020.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Wine Bottle, Interior scene of tablescape
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Still Life with Wine Bottle, c. 1980
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
24 x 30 inches
...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sean Farrell, "Wine and Cheese", 15x24 Tuscan Still Life Oil Painting on Board
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Wine and Cheese", is a 15x24 oil painting on canvas by artist Sean Farrell featuring a table draped with soft green linen cloth. A spread of wooden charcuterie boards of cheese and bread lay arranged between bowls of fresh fruit and wine. Among the red wine is a bowl of lemons...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Table with vase- 21st Contemporary Hyper Realistic Still-life painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Dutch artist Heidi Von Faber lives and works in The Hague.
The Stillllifes she paints are modern but made according the tradition of the old masters. Her still-life paintings show ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Pouring Bowl 1, Original Art, Still Life Painting Contemporary Realist Style Art
By Fiona Smith
Located in Deddington, GB
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Mother’s Bowl 1 is a contemporary still life painting by Fiona Smith. The delicate tones and Smith’s ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Marigolds, Cornflower and Thyme, Impressionist Style Art, Still Life Floral Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Marigolds, Cornflower and Thyme [2022]
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
Painted from life, flowers grown by the artist. Signed and labeled on the back of the picture and the back of the frame. Signature in lower right corner of painting. Ready to hang.
Lynne Cartlidge artist offers original oil paintings for sale...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Terrace in Shade, Summer Garden Still Life Scene
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Terrace in Shade, 1980
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated upper right
48 x 60 inches
Joseph...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Lilac " Purple and white Oil cm. 101 x 97
Located in Torino, IT
Flowers,Garden ,Lilac ,Purple , white,Spring
Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015)
MUSEUMS
Moscow, Tret’jakov Gallery
Moscow, USSR Artists Collectio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Alan Latter, Roberson oils, Cobalt Blue
Located in Harkstead, GB
Alan Latter (born 1961)
Cobalt Blue
Signed and dated 2021
Oil on board
16 x 12 inches
Unframed
A charming still life capturing the artist's working materials.
Born in Islington in 1961, Alan Latter's work is influenced by Bloomsbury Group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and Fauvists Henri Matisse and Jean Puy...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Happy Flowers - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova 70x50 cm. Meant to create the happy feeling that any flowers can gift.
Realized in 2020.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red-Brown Teapot
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA --The process of endless building and reconfiguring transcends the mere physical and encompasses the spiritual and symbolic. The scars a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Two worlds" oil painting on canvas - Peter Keizer - Flowers, Nature
By Peter Keizer
Located in Paris, France
"Two worlds", oil painting of flowers (spring) by Peter Keizer.
Simple, reduced forms, coarse materials, large areas of colour, often monochromatic, colour layers woven through each...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life in Yellow by Ginny Williams Framed Tea Kettle Still Life Oil on Board
Located in Atlanta, GA
Unframed this painting measures 16 x 16.
We were immediately drawn to the thoughtfully painted work, the clever titles and the rich, deep hues. And when we got to know the artist, w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Spring Dandelions - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas by Elena Mardashova, 70x50 cm., realized in 2022.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tulips in Vase - Giuseppe Balbiani by Elena Mardashova - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova, 70x50 cm., realized in 2020.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Vase
Located in Provincetown, MA
Julian Cardinal is from the tip of Cape Cod in Truro, Massachusetts and has showcased his vast, colorful array of feminine figures, still lifes and landscapes at prominent galleries ...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Garden Series: Garden Behind Studio, Vibrant Landscape Still Life with Guitar
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Garden Series: Garden Behind Studio, 1991
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
36 x 42 inch...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil Painting on Burlap of Lily Flowers
By Jacques Lamy
Located in Palm Beach, FL
A very large oil painting on burlap of lilies in a planter, executed in the ancient fresco style with a quiet simplicity that evokes a sense of sere...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blossoming in Spring, Bright Contemporary Tree Art, Pop Art Impressionist Style
By Nicky Chubb
Located in Deddington, GB
Blossoming in Spring is an original contemporary pop art style tree painting by Nicky Chubb artist. The bight pink tones paired with the opulent gold background makes for a large lig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Thoughts of Home
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Thoughts of Home by Lu Haskew
Oil 24x30" image size, 30x36" framed (gold)
Still life with flowers and fruit amongst a porcelain tea set, multicolor
...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Superb French Post-Impressionist Signed Oil Still Life Fruit & Champagne
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: signed Guy Benard (French, contemporary)
Title: 'Nature Morte'
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed and inscribed verso
Canvas: 18 x 21.5 inch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Sunflowers
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Kovalov is an outstanding Russian impressionist known for confident brushwork, thick texture, strong compositions and rich color.
He graduated from the Kharkov State Art School as ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carnation
Located in Atlanta, GA
We are obsessed with the brilliance of Donald Beal's paintings, and we think you will be, too. The color and sense of light that unites all of his paintings project an unforgettable ...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Copper
Ceramic and Apples
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Kovalov is an outstanding Russian impressionist known for confident brushwork, thick texture, strong compositions and rich color.
He graduated from the Kharkov State Art School as ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Gardenias in Juliska Vase" - Still Life - American Realist Painting - botanical
By Sarah Lamb
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Gardenias in Juliska Vase" is a still life painting featuring hues of green, white, and dark blue.
Sarah Lamb is inspired by the work of John Singer Sar...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Still life painting - Seven pots
Located in Beijing, CN
Feng Shi, born in Shanghai in 1990, professional painter. In 2009, he studied in the painting department of the school of fine arts of Shanghai Normal Univer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
McCormick Mustard - Original Oil Painting by Renowned Photorealist Mark Schiff
By Mark Schiff
Located in Boca Raton, FL
What are your thoughts on this spice rack?
One cannot appreciate this painting on a computer screen; in real life, it is absolutely amazing. Because you cannot appreciate it on a computer screen, our gallery has a unique policy. When purchasing from us, the buyer has sixty days to determine if they want to keep the artwork. If not, the buyer returns to piece to us for full refund, and we pay the shipping both ways!
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About Mark Schiff -- Animated by photographs that reflect his personal life, Mark Schiff’s paintings are fueled by what makes him happy. Through his open touch and signature blending method, he lends his artistic perception to the original photographic compositions captured on his Leica.
Mark’s creative vision has been alive since he was a boy. As a child he spent his summers observing life as he rode the trolley back and forth to art classes at the Pratt Institute. During his future travels to Europe, Mark’s eye for light and photography merged with his passion for painting at the Jeu de Paume in Paris; which triggered his career in photorealism.
Mark is well known for painting objects that people can identify and emotionally connect with. His work is distinctly marked by a rich palette and the luminous range of light he paints into his compositions. Each painting is a true extension of his vision and can take up to 200 hours to complete.
Mark Schiff’s work has been commissioned by the well-known brands The Hershey Company and Tropicana. His private collectors include A-list celebrities and also corporate collectors in the US and abroad.
Possessing a strong philanthropic nature, Mark donates both his time and works to charitable organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Ronald McDonald House, Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Humane Society and the Special Olympics.
Photorealism is widely viewed as one of this century’s most exciting genres of art. When a photorealistic painting is viewed from afar, it looks like a photograph. Only when getting very close to the art does the viewer realize that it is in fact not a photo, but rather an oil painting.
Photorealism can also refer to sculptures. Duane Hanson is known as the greatest photorealistic sculptor of all time. Some of the greatest photorealistic painters include Mark Schiff, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Charles Bell and Audrey Flack.
Photorealist Mark Schiff was born in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in a neighborhood known as a kuchalane, a Yiddish word which Schiff defines as a place where everyone (from the Old Country) ended up living on the same street, and most likely knowing each other’s business. His Russian grandfather came to the US before the revolution and both his parents were first generation American.
Even at five years of age, Mark showed exceptional talent. In the summer, his mother permitted him to travel by himself on the trolley for art classes at the Pratt institute. He continued studying there until he was eleven and the family moved to Great Neck. Except for a few art classes in high school and playing baritone horn in the band, Mark focused on other things besides art, especially when his mother worried for his financial future, kept insisting “that Jewish boys don’t starve to death.” His father made a good living as a production man in textiles so Mark, who had spent years doing the rounds of knitting mills with his father, decided to major in textile chemistry at North Carolina State.
ROTC was mandatory on his campus and he did two years in order to be eligible for officer status. He won the Armed Forces Chemical Association award and thought for sure that he would be assigned chemical work, but instead was made a tank commander and stationed at Fort Knox. Not exactly what his heart yearned for, but a good job awaited him at Sandoz, a Swiss company that made dyestuff. What perfect training for someone who would soon be working in wonderful rich colors on canvas.
He went on to receive his MBA degree from Hofstra University, left Sandoz and was hired to sell at a spinning mill. He liked it. In 1976 he joined Bennett Berman Associates and had an opportunity to buy the spinning mill Spun Fibers.
But what of art? In the early days, Elsie, his wife of fifty-two years, had a problem with the large amount of space his canvases occupied in their one bedroom apartment. Mark took up photography instead, which only required a small darkroom. Photography was a natural ally for his eventual return to painting in the photorealistic style.
It was on his second trip to Europe that Mark fell in love with painting all over again. The impressionistic museum, Jeu de Paume in Paris, renewed his passion and it’s been non-stop since then. Out came the brushes, but this time, he used his love and skill of photography, and built a style based on the photographs he had taken, bringing them to life with paint.
Mark was still not painting to sell until in 1990 when someone discovered and desperately wanted his candy bar (Sweet Series) painting. Mark didn’t want to let go of that particular piece, but was finally convinced to sell it and a second candy painting to this ardent art and candy lover. Two years later, Mark was commissioned to make three paintings of this man’s new Ferrari.
Some of the artists who have inspired his work are Richard Estes, Sandy Scott, Chuck Close, and Charles Bell. He appreciates the work of Ken Keeley, but unlike Keeley’s hard-lined/tape and ruler style, Mark prefers an open touch, using the blending method.
Mark’s subject matters range from candy bars to spice racks to soda cans and soda bottles. He photographs with a Leica M-7 and each painting can take up to 200 or more hours to complete. His palette is rich; his subjects, be it a fire engine or a pretzel cart, take on a luminous quality, always photoreal, but even more beautiful.
Mark developed his own technique for working with bottles by painting a canvas all black, so that the transparency of the bottles allows a wonderful range of light to filter through. The same light and reflection can be seen in the black rotary phone...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil