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Contemporary 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
Item Ships From: USA
"Guinness" (2023) by Carrie Goller, Original Oil and Cold Wax Encaustic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Carrie Goller's (US based) "Guiness" (2024) is an original, mixed media painting using encaustic on wood panel which features a side portrait still-life of a sheep. Born and raised ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Encaustic, Wood Panel

After Party II - Original Blue Colorful Figurative Surrealist Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iqi Qoror's surreal figurative paintings are arresting in their earthy palettes offset by pops of fluorescent textile embroidery. His artworks revolve around questions of trust, inte...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Top Hat
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Top Hat", is a unique stained glass shadowbox handmade by TF Dutchman, contains an acrylic and paint marker painting on canvas set in a stained glass box...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Glass, Acrylic, Permanent Marker

Modigliani Pin-ups
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Carbone Title: Modigliani Pin-ups Year: 1994 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 48 x 60 inches
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abraham Pinto, "Brooklyn Bridge" 36x28" Urban Landscape Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This unique perspective cityscape piece titled, "Brooklyn Bridge" is a 36x28" mixed media painting on canvas by artist Abraham Pinto. Featuring a bird's eye view of the Brooklyn Brid...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Oil

Pedernal Blue
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans 7 x 7 image size and 16 x 16 matted and shrink-wrapped The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started paint...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Denied Andy Warhol Pink Electric Chair Painting by Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Denied Warhol Pink Electric Chair Painting by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and acrylic on linen with the Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. 22 x 28" inches 2008 Lutz's 2007 ''Warhol Denied'' series gained international attention calling into question the importance of originality or lack thereof in the work of Andy Warhol. The authentication/denial process of the [[Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board]] was used to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED". The final product of the conceptual project being "officially denied" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Based on a press photo painted by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in early 1960's, this is likely one of the most iconic images from his Death and Disaster Series. The Death and Disaster Series was a dark view of the time's media and death culture. This was a departure from Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando in that these were images of the deaths of everyday people- one could say their "15 minutes of fame" as Warhol coined...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Linen

Reading Figure No. 1, 2014
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Reading Figure No. 1, 2014' by John Goodman. The artwork is 40 x 30 inches. Artist signed, dated in ink verso. Condition is excellent, as new. Goodman’s signature restrained palet...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Warm Cider" woman making something in the window on a snowy day
Located in Edgartown, MA
Fred Calleri was born in Maryland and has slowly moved westward towards his current home in Santa Barbara, California. On his way, he earned an Illustration and Graphic Design degree...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Cape Pogue Light" painting of a white lighthouse in the nature with sunny skies
Located in Edgartown, MA
From an incandescent sunset on Long Island Sound to an iconic pop-kitsch ice storage bin at the neighborhood corner store, Rob Brooks offers us a visual journey from the real to surr...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abiquiu Chamisa
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans lavender gray white blue green yellow peach brown orange framed in brown frame The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Santa Cruz" Iconic Scenes, Original Painting In the Style of Keith Haring
Located in Soquel, CA
"Santa Cruz" Iconic Scenes, Original Painting In the Style of Keith Haring This playful artwork depicts iconic scenes from California beach town, Santa Cruz, in the style of Keith H...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Deborah Hill, "Jeb's Farm", 40x30 Rural Green Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Jeb's Farm" is a 40x30 contemporary oil painting on canvas by artist Deborah Hill. Featured is a view of abstract textured lines that give the impression of rows of harvest in a lush green field. While a gray sky and distant emerging mountain line give an overall foggy atmosphere. About the artist: Artist Hill...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Purple Abstract Painting Mixed Media Canvas Rhythm of the violinist 9
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Nat King Cole - Unforgettable (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Pop, Crooner, Jazz)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith Nat King Cole - Unforgettable Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2022 Size: 21x20in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1647 *Black frame with a mirror-glos...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board

Andrea Bonfils - Golden Hour, Painting
Located in Greenwich, CT
1/1, steel frame Oil and encaustic Size: 30" x 40" This painting will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Oil

Blue Abstract Painting Mixed Media on Canvas 45x45" Romance & Reality
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Mixed Media

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Rock & Roll, Pop)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2022 Size: 21x20in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1643 *Black frame with a mirror-gloss...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board

Summer Lawn (Elegant Collage of Three Female Figures Playing Croquet)
Located in Hudson, NY
Summer Lawn (Elegant Collage of Three Female Figures Playing Croquet) by Olan Quattro 2025, gouache, paper, and acrylic on wood panel, 24 x 18 inches Olan Quattro's subtle and sophi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel

Modernist Hillside Painting by Marion Maas
Located in New York, NY
Marion Maas (American, b. 1930) Untitled, c. 1980s Oil on canvas 21 7/8 x 27 1/2 in. Framed: 23 1/2 x 29 1/4 x 1 in. Signed lower right Landscape, figurat...
Category

1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Colorful Stories" by Masri - Large Colorful Stunning Contemporary Abstract
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri (Lebanese, born 1965) "Colorful Stories" 2018 Acrylic paint, Oil paint, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher bars The artist signed the back of the painting. "Colorful Stories" by M...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

"Tidal Bodies" - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in East Quogue, NY
"Tidal Bodies" - Contemporary figurative oil painting of a man's torso by Chelsea Gibson Medium: Oil on panel Size 39.5 x 35 inches. Offered unframed. "Tidal Bodies" is part of...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Sunset Skies" cool blue skies turn warm as the sun sets over waterfront
Located in Edgartown, MA
“People sometimes ask me how I start a painting. Starting a painting is easy. I just put down two strokes of color. The interaction between these two marks is the beginning of the di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Opulent 2 (gold)
Located in Atlanta, GA
It changes with the light in the room! In her semi-abstract compositions, reflective metallic backgrounds in silvery pearl, gold, and blue acrylic paint...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Panel

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 Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Pastry Chef
Located in Burlingame, CA
Figurative nude with complex color—pink, green, grey and yellow— rhythm, and overall design by Kim Frohsin. 'The Pastry Chef' abstracted nude acrylic and mixed media painting in Froh...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Pencil, Pigment

Snowy Mountains
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media

"Crystalline Mind Fortress", Abstract Acrylic Painting, Bright Colors, Geometric
Located in St. Louis, MO
Groot Foundation Grant Honorable Mention Recipient 2025 "My work, both in painting and sculpture, involve networks of intricately connected, overlapping, and morphing shapes and pat...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Cara Delevingne Icon X /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Fashion Model Actress
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Cara Delevingne Icon X" Series: Icon *Signed, titled, and dated by Graves on verso Year: 2019 Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

As If Three - Abstract Painting Gradient Curving Stripes Purple Magenta, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In acrylic on canvas, carefully ordered curving stripes of color in gradient shades of violet and magenta transition throughout purple hues. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Audre...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Final Portal, Shrouded Male Nude on a Burgundy Backdrop, Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
The partially shrouded male nude stands in front of a doorway outlined in black. The rich burgundy background does not give us any clues as to where the figure is yet the darkened d...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Untitled (In a Meadow)
Located in Denver, CO
From Los Angeles, California, Daisy Patton moved back and forth between Oklahoma and California during her childhood. She spent much of her early years reading adventure and detective tales, history and art history books...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel, Wood Panel, Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment

Big Red Bug - Gyotaku Red Lobster Painting on Marbled Mulberry Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Locals know them as "bugs". A small bug is a one pound lobster. Artist Jeff Conroy was able to print this "bug" - a behemoth weighing in at almost 8 pounds aptly named "Big Bug". The artist uses a style of gyotaku printing which uses various inks directly on a fish (or in this case, a lobster) and then "prints" it to paper. Here he has used acrylic to print this monster on mulberry paper. This work is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options. Jeff Conroy Big Red Bug...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

Secrets to Tell, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Johansen Newman paints a portrait of a young tattooed woman with short feathery hair and a delicate fishnet top. Beautiful s...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Woodland Water 2", Contemporary Landscape, Brown, Acrylic Painting, 2014
Located in Natick, MA
Cheryl Clinton's 'Woodland Water 2' is a 36 x 36 x 2 inch fresh contemporary take on landscape painting in acrylic on canvas in deep rich browns and blues, and is part of the artist'...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Signal 7
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jennifer Bricker-Pugh Signal 7 Acrylic on Panel Year: 2022 Size: 10x10x1.5in Signed, dated and inscribed by hand COA provided Ready to hang Ref.: 924802-1093 Jennifer is an Abstract...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

April Rain, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
April rain ! People walking on soft rainy day, this time it is 42nd street walking toward Chrysler building, and there is New York Library right next-Chrysler building is one of t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Flip Fazio Flies Again"
Located in Astoria, NY
Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928), "Flip Fazio Flies Again", Oil on Canvas, apparently unsigned, unframed. 22" H x 28" W. Provenance: From the collection of the artist. Note: D...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Couple by the Bay" by Maura Petersen - Vibrant Abstract Figurative Couple
Located in Carmel, CA
Maura Petersen (American, born 1956) "Couple by the Bay" 2024 Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the bottom right of the painting. "Couple by the Bay" by Maura ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

“Oranges”
Located in Southampton, NY
Interesting abstract of a stillife of oranges by the American artist, Clifford Johnson. Signed lower left. Titled verso. Condition is excellent. Circa 1970. Presently unframed. ...
Category

1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Into The Blue
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "Into The Blue", Contemporary Acrylic on Canvas, 48 x 36 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2018 Colors: Yellow, Orange, Red, White, Blue, Black, Brown, Grey, Pur...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Large oil painting 50x63" - "Skyline" - Oil Painting on Linen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Presenting this bold piece with strong masterful brushwork, Alexis Portilla shows that his artistic virtuosity ranges from the strong and bold and big to the fragile, vulnerable smal...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Tea and Posies, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Sometimes I paint objects that I think are "pretty." China, flowers, ribbons. Soft colors. It still needs a nice design. A center of interest. It has to stay...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Elegant Illusions By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included. Bruno Paoli (1915-2005) Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master. Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

The White Church, Rumford Center, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Doug says of this pastoral American landscape, "On Highway 2 along the Androscoggin River in Maine is the village of Rumford Center, where there is a small United Church. Its simple design and white facade are an iconic symbol of 19th century America. The church hasn't changed over the years, but the surroundings have. This painting is how I perceive the church and things were back in the simpler times when agriculture was the primary livelihood of its parishioners."


About the Artist


Words that describe this painting: church, Maine, architecture, landscape, rural, farm , landscape, representational, oil painting, green


The White Church, Rumford Center
Doug Cosbie...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Timeless
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Blue, Navy, calm, teal, white, cloud, green, river,landscape 49 x 37" oil on canvas, maple frame Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes wi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil

Tranquility 70 X 80 white, blue, red
By Timothy Sanchez
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tranquility 2019 70 X 80 white, blue, and red In the luminous acrylics and collages of Timothy J. Sanchez, a profound mastery of color and high drama vie with a subtly puckish sense of humor and joy. This is the work of a mature artist able to blend the nuances of personal experience with the realities of modem existence. It is work full of energy, full of action. Yet the fluidity of his brush and his skill in pulling all the aspects of his art together trigger an epiphany for the viewer. Sanchez now lives in Vero Beach...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Lands End 2005 No. 4 / blue watercolor, beautifully framed
Located in Burlingame, CA
Glorious electric cobalt blue Land's end watercolor from William Stanisich, whose provocative Land’s End series was painted over a 40-year span with a force and directness that refle...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

A Hope Sighed
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kansas where vas...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Sunset
By Dennis Hare
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Iconic Dennis Hare mixed-media oil painting.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Alga Aligata No. 5 - seaweed kelp oceanic abstracted work on paper
Located in Burlingame, CA
Original work of art that utilizes both painting and drawing - Mixed-media: Sumi Ink, graphite, metallic pigment and acrylic on Moulin de Larroque paper, made by hand in a mill in Fr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Metal, Gold Leaf

Shovel and Shellfish_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin "Shovel and Shellfish" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 22.5" x 18" Framed Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based Ame...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

"In One Ear and Out the Other", Contemporary Portrait, Collage, Acrylic Painting
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s portrait “In One Ear and Out the Other” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 x 18 inches in various pinks and purples with blue and emerald green highlights....
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Rustic Purple Flower Painting Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Purple Sensation
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Rustic Purple Flower Painting Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Purple Sensation State-of-the-art HAND EMBELLISHED ∽ MUSEUM QUALITY ∽ DISPLAY READY Giclee Reproduction Each limited e...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée

"The Leopard" Contemporary Black and White Western Cowboy Inspired Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract figurative painting by Frisco Pete, The Wild West Art Wrangler. The work features a central figure with leopard spots and a tail rearing up on horseback. Signed...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Alchemy - Mixed Media Abstract Painting - Les Taylor - Contemporary Art
Located in Carmel, CA
Les Taylor is an artist who has embraced a lifelong love for both music and art. Over the past decade, Les's dedication to painting has grown exponentially. In the sanctuary of her s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Late Afternoon Near Salina, Kansas, Serene Landscape with Lush Greens & Blues
Located in Chicago, IL
In this serene landscape, Jeff Aeling uses deep greens and browns in the open field and a sapphire blue in the endless sky above. The painting is fra...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Characters By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included. Bruno Paoli (1915-2005) Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master. Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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