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Art Subject: Airplane
"Beach Day" Gouache Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Beach Day" is an gouache painting that depicts the calm inlet full of water and watersports, lined with trees and vegetation Bio/artist statement: Judd Me...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Royal Air Force Display 'Book to Colindale', c.1930 art deco poster design
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987) Royal Air Force Display, 'Book to Colindale' Gouache 26 x 32 cm c.1930 Stamped to reverse A E Halliwell Provenance: Family of the artist A.E. Halliwell ...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

Royal Air Force Display, 1928 art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987) Royal Air Force Display by Underground (Hendon) Gouache 21 x 28 cm 1928 Signed and dated 1928, inscribed 'Roughs Submitted for the 1929 Air Display'; wit...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Tank War
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Beijing in China. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Chen Danqing at Oil Pain...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

hand painted plane street art pop art contemporary art graffiti yellow landscape
Located in New York, NY
Hand Painted Oil on canvas - graffiti plane - 1/1 original
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2010s Street Art Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Zeppelin Airship
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 24.50" x 36.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left
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20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Oil on Canvas, ROY GARGETT, "R.A.F. 35B fighter jet, the Lightning"
Located in Mere, GB
ROY GARGETT, 1931 - 2015 Joined the RAF in 1945 as a flying cadet and flew Tiger Moths. Later joined the Royal Observer Corps and developed his love of pain...
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Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Silu Niu Contemporary Original Acrylic On Canvas "The Fighter"
Located in New York, NY
Title: The Fighter Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This paintin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Matthew Hanzman 'Old School Magician'
Located in New York, NY
Old School Magician 2023 Acrylic on canvas 10 x 8 inches Signed and dated on verso by the artist Matthew Hanzman is a self taught painter whose work ranges from bold, whimsical figu...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Ghosts II
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
Category

2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Santa Claus Christmas Eve original Southern Air Transport Illustration
Located in San Francisco, CA
Incredibly detailed Original illustration of Santa Claus on what I imagine is Christmas Eve. He must be falling behind schedule as he has commandeered planes instead of reindeers. I ...
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20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - Tarmac
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper, she creat...
Category

2010s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

London Rooftops, Original painting, Cityscape, London painting, Landscape art
Located in Deddington, GB
Sarah Adams London Rooftops Original Acrylic Painting Acrylic Paint on Canvas Size: 60 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm Sold Unframed London Rooftops is an original painting by Sarah Adams. It is ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Planes landing into Burbank 4-4-22, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
On April 4, 2022 I painted the airplanes landing into Burbank airport from my backyard. 25 canvas panels mounted on a wood frame. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Landscape of Orrisa , Acrylic on canvas by Indian Contemporary Artist from MSU
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rajiba Lochan Pani - Skyward Root - 66 x 90 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on canvas, 2007 Inclusive of shipment in a roll form. About the Artist and his work : Born : 1978 Education : 2001 - BFA in painting from Kala Bhavan at Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal. 2003 - MFA in Creative Painting from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai. Selected Solo Exhibitions : •2007 'The Missing Link', Gallery Kolkata, Kolkata •2006 'Into the Interior', Arushi Art, New Delhi Selected Group Exhibitions : •2010 'Amongst the Others', presented by Osmosis Gallery at Museum Gallery, Mumbai •2010 'A. SYCO', The Viewing Room, Mumbai •2010 'Irreverent Gene', Crimson- The Art Resource, Bangalore •2009 'Nature vs. Modernity', India Fine Art, Mumbai •2009 'Towards a New Viewership/ Audience', presented by Art and Deal, New Delhi and Bakul Art Foundation, Bhubaneshwar at Art Konsult, New Delhi; Lalit Kala Academy, Bhubaneswar •2009 'With the Best Intentions', presented by Anant Art at Shridharni Gallery, New Delhi •2009 'Trying to Make Sense of It All', Ganges Art, Kolkata •2009 'With the Best Intentions', Anant Art ,New Delhi. •2008 'Beyond Boundaries', Cork Street, London •2008 'Dimensions & Directions', Mon Art Gallery, Kolkata •2007 'Modern to contemporary', Gallery Kolkata, Kolkata •2007 Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata •2007 'Paper Love', India Fine Art, Mumbai & Kolkata •2006 'Endearing Palette', Vadehra Art Gallery; India Habitat Centre, New Delhi •2006 'What Has Been Lost', Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi •2006 'Stepping in.. Stepping Out', Vadehra Art Gallery; India Habitat Centre, New Delhi •2006 'The Indian Art Show', Nehru Centre, London •2006 ABS Bayer Gallery, Baroda •2005 'Now', Arushi Art, New Delhi •2005 Associate Capsules Worldwide, Gallery Art Resource Trust, Mumbai •2005 'Detour', Gallery 88, Mumbai •2003 'Home Bound We', Odisha Lalit kala Academy, Bhubaneshwar Joint Exhibitions •2005 'Echo', Kaleidoscope Art...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mickey Frome, "Westbound Across the Early Morning Sky, " Oil on Canvas, 2003
Located in Long Island City, NY
This photorealistic oil painting on canvas was created by self-taught American artist Mickey Frome. Frome is greatly interested in hyperrealistic representations of cars, trucks, mot...
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Early 2000s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Palmhouse of Kew Gardens
Located in Deddington, GB
The Palmhouse of Kew Gardens By Max Panks [2018] original Watercolour on Paper Image size: H:26 cm x W:36 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:23.5 cm x W...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

His last day, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I present figural motifs in special, critical moments of life, in spectacular panoptical compositions of unusual measurement, freezing. I want to lead the viewer into the mysterious ...
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2010s Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

A is for Alfie who plunged from a blimp
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rendering traditionally cheerful images and concepts into frightening, yet humorous, tableaus, Michael Mararian often focuses on children as the last bastion of innocence to explore ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

30 planes landing into Burbank 4-11-22, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
On April 11, 2022, I painted the airplanes landing into Burbank airport from my backyard. I live streamed the event on my YouTube channel Letspainttv. 30 canvas panels mounted onto a...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Street Angel. ( Subway Series ) Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
1980's NYC; dark and dangerous times. Gangs roamed the streets again, as they did in the 1800's, committing acts of egregious violence upon helpless citizens. But......... there was ...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Sky Glide, Original Landscape Painting, 2015
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Another attempt at Art Deco.... Keywords: Glider, Clouds, Deco, Sky Artist Biography: Robert Crooker was born in Massachusetts in 1951. A life long Red Sox fan, he saw the likes of Frank Malzone, Yaz, George Scott, Rico, Jim Lonborg all play in years gone by. He has been married for over 27 years with 4 children, and 2 grandchildren. In the Mid-1970’s, Robert started collecting Vintage Disney Collectibles...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

From the Heart II, Painting, Acrylic on MDF Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
A jet zooms through the heart shaped cloud echoing the romantic image of a heart shot through by love. Soft pastel colours. This painting is sold without a frame, see the photogra...
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2010s Pop Art Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Winter in blue", Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
One of a kind original Oil painting by Ukrainian artist Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska - Canvas painting stretched and ready to hang (NOT FRAMED. The sides are painted with acrylic. ...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Little Blue Houses - Oil Still Life Landscape with Rural and Urban Symbolism
Located in Chicago, IL
Mark Bowers- Artist Statement With the depiction of landscape playing such a central role in the history of North American art, it seemed to offer many of the critical possibilities I was looking for, and it felt more and more like something I have always known. Something I could easily apply, stage, and manipulate as a diary. My work consists of small-scale highly detailed landscape paintings. They are inspired by the comfort, trepidation, and beauty found in the mundane Chicago Suburbs. I combine nature, decorative house wares, municipal structures, and personal artifacts to hint at current life and future implications in the orchestration of these elements. Each work in the series is a portrait of a search for markers on a journey, an attempt to learn from what is palpable and to appreciate the intangible. The paintings are meant to suggest the truth in the un-idealized moment--the actual truth only exists off the edges of my canvas, off stage, and in the experience of the viewer. Painting the objects in these compositions is like positioning characters on stage in a play, each adding to the dramatization Mark Bowers Little Blue Houses oil on panel 15h x 30w in 38.10h x 76.20w cm MJB008 Mark Bowers b. 1977 St. Joseph, MI Exhibitions 2013 American Painting Today: Physical and Visceral, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI 2012 Fort Wayne Art Museum, Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne, IN Rockford Art Museum Midwestern Biennial, Rockford, IL Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL 2009 Art Chicago, Represented by Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL 2007 Beverly Arts Center Biennial, Chicago, IL Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL 2005 Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL 2003 Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2001 The Box Factory Gallery, St. Joseph, MI 2000 John G. Blank Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN Michigan State...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

17 (Sally B), Original Acrylic Painting, 2015
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: My father was a B17 crew member during the war in 1944 and 1945. This bomber is a tribute to his contribution to my freedom. Keywords: B17, Bomber, WW II Plane A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Land Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"N10092" Oil painting of small airplane, East Hampton Airport - black frame
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air at the local airport in East Hampton, New York. Framed dimensions: 40 x 48 inches Victor Butko was born into a long line of artists, and has been mentored in painting since the age of 8. He is currently the youngest artist exhibiting at Thomas Kearns McCarthey Gallery, one of the foremost dealers in the United States for Russian Impressionist art...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Georgian Contemporary Art by Mariam Odishvili - Choose a Direction
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on mirrored cardboard (Metal frame), 25 x 19.5 x 0.2 cm Mariam Odishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1994 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She mainly uses oil on canvas...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Old Tbilisi 4, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The next from series of landscapes of authentic Tbilisi streets of the old city. Original oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Georgian Contemporary Art by Rusiko Chikvaidze - Aquamarine Ocean and Cafe
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas, ''I offer art collectors series about the world we live in simultaneously with reality, they can live in these colorful, interesting, modern and dynamic world filled with ecology, making their lives more diverse and fascinating'' Rusiko Chikvaidze is a Georgian artist born in 1970, who lives and works between Tbilisi, Georgia and Chevy Chase...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

30 planes landing into Burbank Airport, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
For a little over 3 hours on March 22, 2019, I painted all of the planes as they flew over my backyard. 30 paintings in all, each painting is 8" x 10". Oil on canvas panels. Panels m...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pan Am, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is acrylic on deep-profile canvas, wired and ready to hang. :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist...
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2010s Pop Art Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

The Bombs Bursting in Air
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 12h x 17.50w in ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Home Again, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A large unframed original acrylic painting that captures a dramatic sunset as the backdrop to a lone Spitfire returning to the English coast. Edges are painted so that the artwor...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Buzzing The Light, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A classic Bi-plane rigged as a seaplane buzzes a lighthouse as it takes to the early dawn sky. This painting has been created using professional grade acrylics on archival quality c...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

French Contemporary Art by Helen Uter - Mirage
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced b...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Georgian Contemporary Art by Rusiko Chikvaidze - Blue Ocean
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas, ''I offer art collectors series about the world we live in simultaneously with reality, they can live in these colorful, interesting, modern and dynamic world filled ...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Seascape
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork framed: 75 x 65 x 5,5 cm The panda is regarded as the national treasure of China. There are only about 1,000 in the world. All live in China. They are very well protected. W...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Desolation Bound, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Three colors: Cadmium Yellow, Process Cyan and Theo Violet were used in the creation of this acrylic of a pod of killer whales headed for Desolation Sound o...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

French Contemporary Art by Helen Uter - Wings
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced b...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

WWII Naval Battle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed lower right “Tony Fachet” and dated ’80 Illustration depicting a WWII Naval Battle.
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Gusts Of Wind
By Lachezar Yavrukov
Located in Sofia, BG
"Gusts of Wind" is a romantic art line painting by the Bulgarian Lachezar Yavroukov, The painting is unframed. “The impressions of Lachezar Yavroukov'...
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2010s Romantic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tiger & Fighter Plane
By Roy Grinnell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
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20th Century Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Courage
Located in Paris, IDF
In order to fly higher, see further, eagle needs to challenge its limits again and again. This is a kind of courage. The gull wing door created in helplessness has been criticised fo...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled, Figurative, Charcoal on Paper by Modern Artist Suhas Roy "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Untitled Charcoal on Paper, 11 x 13 inches, 2007 Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or soft colored pastel on Paper or board are a se...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Untitled, Figurative, Charcoal on Paper by Modern Artist Suhas Roy "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Untitled Charcoal on Paper, 10 x 13 inches, 2007 Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or soft colored pastel on Paper or board are a se...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Simon Wachtel Oil on Canvas Painting Titled "The White Bridge", circa 1936
By Simon Wachtel
Located in New York, NY
A precisionist painting of an industrial cityscape with a white bridge spanning between New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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1930s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Contemporary Art by Helen Uter - The Propeller
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen - tryptich Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

American Contemporary Art by Elena Borstein - Red White & Blue
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Figurative, Dry Pastel & Tea Liquor on Paper by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Biswas - Untitled - 10 x 8 Inches ( unframed size ) Dry Pastel & Tea Liquor on Paper. ( Unframed All in Delivered Price ) Style : The motive of a child in its most basic fo...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Tea

At the Airport
Located in Miami, FL
Before there was Photorealism, there was Austin Briggs. Done in 1951, this work has all the hallmarks of the 1970's fine art movement and more. Briggs is using photographs as a refer...
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1950s Photorealist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oceanic White-Tipped Shark, by Joseph Rossano, 2020
Located in Orange, CA
Oceanic White-Tipped Shark, by Joseph Rossano, 2020 Additional information: Medium: Tar, whitewash, and ash on wood panel Dimensions: 19 × 29 × 1 in (48.3 × 73.7 × 2.5 cm) Rossano’...
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21st Century and Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Tar, Wood Panel

Unspecified Involvement #2, Acrylic on Paper Painting by Kara Maria, 2003
Located in Orange, CA
Unspecified Involvement #2, Acrylic on Paper Painting by Kara Maria, 2003 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic on paper Dimensions: 12 x 16 in Kara Maria produces paintings and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Discordance
Located in New York, NY
Figurative Painting. American Flag with symbolism of disparate views of the states. About the Artist. Mothes is an artist living and working in East Hampton.  His work has be...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

Mohawk Airlines
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Depicting a Mohawk Airlines airplane in flight Signature: Signed Lower Right and Dated ’97
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1990s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Low Tide at South Beach, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
On the west coast of Vancouver Island, the waves crash in dramatic storms, but when the tide is out and the sea is calm, the beach is a wonderful place to enjoy the undulating shape...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Boats at night “ Black And White Photography On Canvas 1 Of 5
Located in Carmel, CA
Mixed media, photography and acrylic paint on canvas. One of a kind. O. Devan paints that which he doesn't really see. His camera captures a second in time, as if he stops at his t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Drawing from the 1990's #469
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Purvis Young (1943 - 2010) Drawing from the 1990's #469 ink on paper 10.50 x 8 in
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1990s Outsider Art Paintings

Materials

Paper, Found Objects, Ink

Departure Beat
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, lif...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Red Hardbody
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on the road, and 1960s West Coast art. His main subject is modernism’s footprint on the outposts of Americana—places typified by harsh artificial light and hard shadows on concrete. The show makes clear that for Young, despite the contemporary art world’s preferences for irony, disjunction, and tongue-in-cheek intellectual gamesmanship, painting is at its best when it attempts to offer an unpretentious accounting of where and how we live our day-to-day lives. The celebrations of urban sprawl offered by artists like Ed Ruscha—who famously took no-nonsense aerial photographs of thirty four LA parking lots in 1967, and created sleek, stripped down paintings of Standard Oil stations—are an obvious point of reference in Young’s work. But Young’s choices seem more personal than Ruscha’s, and his technique is certainly more painterly: His images of gas stations are uneasy amalgamations, cobbled together from his own memories of road trips, photographs, and pure invention, and rendered with a sense of atmosphere and drama seemingly at odds with his use of hard lines and simple geometric shapes. Painters today tend to lean on pastiche, on art-historical mashups and code-switching. This typically results in images with no unified style and no concern for pictorial space, illusionistic or otherwise. For many contemporary painters, the picture plane is simply a flat, delimited arena in which different types of visual syntax collide, floating freely. This is a non-strategy in which artists make an end run around some of the thornier problems of composition, perception, and cognition. Young bucks this trend. He activates every square inch of his canvases, blocking in large passages of negative space with skeins of scruffy countervailing strokes. He is not a fussy painter, nor is he out to prove his own mastery to an audience. Like Edward Hopper, Young tends to eschew a lot of paint’s seductive properties, preferring to create hard edges and large, gently undulating planes of subdued color. He draws the viewer into an unpopulated, uncluttered world with a clear horizon line—but one that is also filled with hiccups, discontinuities, and compromises. In Service in the Rear, for example, a shelter for gas pumps in the foreground—closest to the viewer and, therefore, logically a dominant compositional element—is rendered as a hazy silhouette that flagrantly disobeys the rules of linear perspective. This is intentional: The structure is only important to Young in the way that it draws the viewer’s eye below and past it, to the glowing, low-slung building dominating the lefthand side of the picture. Thus Young shows his talent for creating visual tension and drama—and for sidestepping the viewer’s expectations. Young understands that some might regard his brand of painting as obsolete. He also understands the troubled legacy of modernism, and what the triumph of universal technology has meant for cultures around the globe. Still, for Young, the cold comfort offered by outposts of convenience—gas stations, airports, cheap hotel rooms—is not so easily dismissed. Young shares the strange buoyant optimism of his hero, Jonathan Richman, who, in his early ‘70s proto-punk single, Roadrunner, exults in the simple act of driving past the Stop’n’Shop with the radio on...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

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