Contemporary Paintings

Hunt Slonem’s Matagulpa (2024) is a mesmerizing oil on wood painting measuring 28 x 19 inches (framed at 36 x 27 inches) that bursts with vibrant color and intricate detail. Dominati...

Hunt Slonem’s Bayou La Fouche Madewood (2024) is a captivating oil on wood painting measuring 21 x 27.5 inches (framed at 26.5 x 33 inches) that transports viewers to the serene beau...

Hunt Slonem’s Whydah (2024) is a captivating oil on canvas measuring 33 x 50 inches (framed at 45.5 x 62 inches), presented in an ornate, intricately detailed frame that enhances the...

Hunt Slonem’s Blue Diamond Dust Hutch (2024) is a dazzling mixed-media work that captures the artist’s signature charm and vibrancy. Created with oil and acrylic enhanced by diamond ...

Hunt Slonem’s Blue Guardians Butterflies Friday (2024) is a stunning large-scale oil on canvas measuring 60 x 60 inches, where a dynamic array of butterflies comes to life against a ...

Hunt Slonem’s Chinensis La Jolla is a large-scale, exuberant oil on canvas measuring 72 x 84 inches, bursting with color and energy. Set against a soft gray background that peeks thr...

Hunt Slonem’s The Nile Red Butterflies (2024) is a breathtaking large-scale oil on canvas measuring 72 x 84 inches, where a swarm of vibrant red butterflies takes center stage. The b...

Hunt Slonem’s Hutch Travel Plan (2024) is a commanding large-scale oil on canvas measuring 72 x 84 inches, featuring an expansive array of his iconic rabbit motifs. Each rabbit is re...

Hunt Slonem’s Migration (2024) is a monumental oil on canvas measuring 77 x 101 inches, a breathtaking celebration of color, movement, and natural beauty. The composition is alive wi...

Blue Bliss IV by Carolyn Reynolds captures nature’s elegance with two hummingbirds in flight over a serene light blue background. The rich hue evokes calm, while silver leaf adds a s...

About the Artwork: The artist's desire to illuminate his works was the impetus for the Glowbox series. About the Artist: Inspired by the luminescence and light quality of blown glas...

About the Artwork: Signed: Recto, bottom right The artist's desire to illuminate his works was the impetus for the Glowbox series. Inspired by the luminescence and light quality of blown glass, each acrylic painting on a plex substrate is internally lit by a custom-designed LED light box with a controllable dimmer switch. About the Artist: Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds, as well as his large-scale sculptures and restorations of forgotten historic homes. Slonem’s works can be found in the permanent collections of 250 museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Since his first solo show at the Fischbach Gallery in 1977, Slonem’s work has been showcased internationally hundreds of times, most recently at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. In 2017 and 2018, he was featured by the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Gallery in Bulgaria, and in countless galleries across the United States and around the world. His flair and admiration for far-flung destinations has been a staple of his life since childhood. Slonem was born in 1951 in Kittery, Maine, and his father’s position as a Navy officer meant the family moved often during Hunt’s formative years, including extended stays in Hawaii, California and Connecticut. He would continue to seek out travel opportunities throughout his young-adult years, studying abroad in Nicaragua and Mexico; these eye-opening experiences imbued him with an appreciation for tropical landscapes that would influence his unique style. After graduating with a degree in painting and art history from Tulane University in New Orleans, Slonem spent several years in the early 1970s living in Manhattan. It wasn’t until Janet Fish offered him her studio for the summer of 1975 that Slonem was able to fully immerse himself in his work. His pieces began getting exhibited around New York, propelling his reputation and thrusting him into the city’s explosive contemporary arts scene. He received several prestigious grants, including from Montreal’s Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cultural Counsel Foundation’s Artist Project, for which he painted an 80-foot mural of the World Trade Center in the late 1970s. He also received an introduction to the Marlborough Gallery, which would represent him for 18 years. Hunt Slonem tends to embrace the ephemeral beauty of nature, a characteristic that brings a nurturing, spiritual effect to his creations. Throughout his extensive career as a New York artist, Slonem has favored the subject of exotic birds, rabbits, and butterflies. Lately, his compositions have consisted of flat spaces with simple forms pushed to the front of the picture plane. The artist creates exotic forms with expressive and highly textural brushstrokes that are full of intense color, loosely inspired by artists of the German Expressionism movement such as Ernst Ludwig and Emil Nolde. Henry Geldzahler, a scholar of Hunt Slonem, notes that of contemporary artists, “he particularly admires the work of Malcolm Morely, Francesco Clemente and Roberto Juarez, all exoticists whose works convey a spiritual aura. Lest we leave the impression, belied by the paintings that Slonem is all depth and piety, we should note that there is a remarkable levity in his work, a lightness of being.” Born in the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese astrological...

In "Teal Tondo," Hunt Slonem's artistry unfolds on a circular canvas adorned with whimsical charm. Numerous gestural bunnies, outlined boldly in black, populate the composition again...

Hunt Slonem’s "Flutter" features eleven, multicolored butterflies set against a soft pale yellow background. Brought to life through the sgraffito technique, a method where Slonem us...

A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. "3 Hutch Blue Diamond" depicts a gestural figure of a group of blue bunnies on a deep cobalt blue background...

Hunt Slonem's "Mixed Leap" is a mesmerizing fusion of his signature motifs, showcasing a playful yet elegant black bunny painted with lively, gestural strokes. Set against a rich pur...

'Glisten Hutch' by Hunt Slonem, 2023. Signed on back. Oil, resin, and acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 in. This painting features Slonem's signature bunnies outlined in white painted over ...

'Morning Cloak & Coma' by Hunt Slonem, 2019. Oil on wood, 28 x 34 in. / Frame: 34.75 x 40.5 in. Signed on back. This painting features a charming portrait of colorful butterflies. Th...

Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Scored' by Hunt Slonem, 2023. Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in. This painting features Slonem's signature bunnies painted in silver, outlined in black...

Hunt Slonem butterfly oil painting 'Trinity 2' 2024. Oil on wood, 13 x 10.5 in. / Frame: 17 x 14.5 in. Signed on back. This painting features t...

Hunt Slonem 'Tulip 7' 2024. Oil on wood, 10 x 8 in. / Frame: 14.5 x 12.5 in. Signed on back. This painting features a single tulip painted in red with a green stem and leaves over a ...

Hunt Slonem Starry Night, 2018 Oil on Canvas60 x 60 x 2.50 in (152.40 x 152.40 x 6.35 cm) Unique painting signed on verso

Hunt Slonem’s New Line Series (2017) is a radiant and immersive large-scale painting, measuring 72 x 84 inches, that dazzles with color, texture, and light. The composition features ...

Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds,...

'Finches' by Hunt Slonem, 2022. Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in. This painting features Slonem's signature finches in white, red, blue, and green on a white background. Considered one of the great colorists of his time, Slonem’s neo-expressionist paintings feature an exuberant and bold, fauvist palette to emphasize his beloved menagerie of animals. Through the application of lavish, lush colors, Slonem’s painterly style continues to be fresh and innovative bordering on Pop Art aesthetics. Depicting his signature motifs of repeating whimsical animal imagery, the artist’s devotion to nature and its inhabitants are apparent. Born in Kittery, Maine in 1951, Hunt Slonem graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Painting and Art History from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Slonem later attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he was exposed to influential artists from the New York area including Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Richard Estes, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson and Al Held. This exposure played a pivotal role in Slonem’s artistic career, as it aided in his decision to move to New York in 1973. Since 1977, Slonem has had over 250 solo exhibitions at prestigious galleries. Museums, both domestic and international, have collected his work, among them Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. His work has been exhibited globally, including in Madras, Quito, Venice, Gustavia, San Juan, Guatemala City, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Stockholm, Oslo, Cologne, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. His work has been shown in thirty-one different museums including the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1981; the Museo Diocesano d'arte sacra Sant'Apollonia in Venice, Italy, in 1986; the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia, in 2007; the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2007; Museo de Arte de El Salvador in San Salvador...