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Art Subject: Animal
Four Horns
Located in Austin, TX
David Ackerson (b. 1950, American) Title: "Four Horns" Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 40 x 30 in. Markings: Signed LR "David Ackerson" Signed & Titled...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Deconstructed
Located in Bozeman, MT
This whimsically tall painting is a portrait of a black bear. There is a golden blue sky with clouds behind the bear's head. "Deconstructed" is hand written on the light gold frame. The painting is done in oils, and the frame is included with the painting. Biography Robert McCauley was born and raised in Mt. Vernon, Washington. He graduated from Western Washington University in 1969, and received his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Washington State University in 1972. Throughout his career, McCauley has earned many prestigious awards including a Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1982 and the Illinois Arts Council in 1999. McCauley also enjoyed a long and distinguished career as professor and Chairman of the Art Department at Rockford College in Illinois. Robert McCauley has created a mode of realism that is haunting and full of ambiguity. His distinctive animals manage to seem literal and symbolic at the same time, the viewer is suspended between these realms. Wild Life "We are losing our relationship with Nature. I aspire to re-tether some of the connections." -Robert McCauley Robert McCauley is an important 21st century American artist, and history will remember him as such. But in order to understand why, we first must consider where he is from and how he got here. A little less than a decade ago, McCauley was featured at a major exhibition in Chicago and he was quoted as saying then, "I think you spend all your life trying to find the right form for the content you have within you." Urban, Midwestern visitors who viewed the show were enthralled. Make no mistake about the source of McCauley's inner content: He is a product of America's greatest forest-the mighty aboriginal stands of fir, spruce, cedar and redwoods growing in the Pacific Northwest. Those skyscraping canopies once reservoired a breathtaking array of ecological richness and diversity, from streams choked with spawning salmon to massive grizzliesl wapiti and deer haunting the understories, raptors screeching through the misty, arboreal heavens, and the loom of an ever-present ocean. As the totem poles and amulets of native peoples attest, the life forces of nature there are planted indelibly into the human psyche. Robert McCauley's too. When I think of where McCauley fits into American art, as a contemporary painter, sculptor and naturalistic interpreter, I place him in the same philosophical tribe as Walton Ford, Alexis Rockman, Annie Coe...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Four Pink Ostrich on Violet Splash
Located in Napa, CA
Josh Brown has had a lifetime interest in creating art, most notably through his depiction of animals. He swiftly captures the mood of his subjects and brings the personality of each...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Reindeer In The Forest Chinese
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Reindeer In Forest Tempera on silk, gold leaf frame under glass, by Chinese artist Ma Hai Feng born 1958.
Category

1980s Modern Animal Paintings

Materials

Silk, Egg Tempera

At Rest, Yet Alert - Watchful Tiger, 2001, David Shepherd Original Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
David Shepherd’s At Rest, Yet Alert - Watchful Tiger, 2001 is a masterful example of wildlife art, capturing the raw power and quiet intensity of one of nature’s most formidable pred...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"#1569" acrylic painting of a black and white zebra standing in a cardboard box
Located in Edgartown, MA
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...
Category

2010s Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Flushing Landscape with Cows, " Charles Henry Miller, Barbizon, Rural Farm
Located in New York, NY
Charles Henry Miller Flushing Landscape with Cows, circa 1880 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 13 x 19 inches Charles Henry Miller was a noted artist and painter of landscapes from Long Island, New York. The American poet Bayard Taylor called him, "The artistic discoverer of the little continent of Long Island." Miller was educated at Mount Washington Collegiate Institute, and graduated in medicine at the New York Homeopathic Institute in 1864. Before his graduation, he had occasionally painted pictures, and in 1860 he exhibited The Challenge Accepted at the National Academy of Design, in New York City. He lived in Queens at the summer estate, Queenslawn, originally purchased by his parents. He went abroad in 1864 and again in 1867, and was a pupil in the Bavarian Royal Academy at Munich under the instruction of Adolf Lier...
Category

1880s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lunar Moose Ascending - contemporary, figurative, pop-art, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This pop art painting of a moose is by Charles Pachter. One of Canada’s most beloved and important contemporary artists, Charles Pachter’s singular imagery of iconic national symbol...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sockeye
Located in Burlingame, CA
Sockeye - sill life composition - exquisite highly contemporary still life acrylic on canvas painting, 22 x 28 inches unframed and professionally framed in maple measuring 22 3/4 x 2...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

A collie lying on a stone wall
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Lillian Cheviot (1894-1930) A collie lying on a stone wall signed 'L. ChevioT.' (lower left) Oil on canvas Canvas Size - 20 x 24 in Framed Size - 31 x 35 in Provenance Sale, Doyle &...
Category

19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Wild Ones
By Patrick Cunningham
Located in Houston, TX
Texas artist Cunningham Patrick (1932-1989). Active in Houston. Represented by the Barbizon Gallery. "Wild Ones", circa 1970s. Measures: 24" x 30", oil o...
Category

1970s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Ray Simonini, "Stardust" 10x8 Impressionist Horse Farm Animal Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This painting by artist Ray Simonini titled "Luna" is a 12x16 farm animal oil painting on canvas featuring a portrait of a white horse against a colorful bright background. Afternoon...
Category

2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Tops of The Trees - Contemporary semi abstract painting birds
Located in London, GB
Christopher Rainham has always been inspired by the natural world and more specifically an experience of the natural world. He is inspired by the way flora and fauna are woven into l...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

magnificent, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
As the title shows, this composition, dealing with the four elements air, water, earth, and fire; represented in a living burning red parrot, is an attempt to capture the intense emo...
Category

2010s Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Kicking Dust
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Sunlight illuminates a dust cloud kicked up by the herd at a wild horse sanctuary. There was no reason for the horses to run other than for the sheer joy of motion. Oil on gallery wr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Kicking Dust
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Ray Simonini, "Dante" 24x24 Long Horn Bull Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This painting by artist Ray Simonini titled "Dante" is a 24x24 oil painting on canvas featuring a portrait of a long horned bull standing facing forward. Soft light from an afternoon sun glows...
Category

2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Contemporary Animal Painting by Christine Pultz - Hykos
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas Christine Pultz is a French animal painter born in 1953 who lives & works in Pontault-Combault, France. Through her passion for painting animals, especially feline...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"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 Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Encaustic, Wood Panel

Swans 2, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Nine swans in the water, painted by oil on canvas. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang...
Category

2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Painting on Canvas of a Crow
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Striking acrylic painting on canvas of a crow with a familiar quizzical expression in a colorful baron landscape. Presented in a paint decorated wood frame and signed on the back Tay...
Category

20th Century Modern Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

'Warrior' Photorealist painting of a Water Buffalo in the wild, wildlife, grey
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Warrior' by Ben Waddams is a Contemporary Realist Wildlife oil painting of a Water Bufallo in the wild. With such incredible detail. Ben Waddams is a British wildlife artist livin...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Contemporary oil painting cows outdoors realist animal grass field animals
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nursing Cow" is an original oil painting on canvas by Heather Foster. The artist initialed the painting in the lower right corner. The painting depicts a brown and white mother cow ...
Category

Early 2000s Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Study of a Gordon Setter, original oil on canvas, 20thC British animal artist
Located in Naples, Florida
This contemporary painting of a Gordon setter is a beautiful oil-on-canvas study by the prolific British Artist John Trickett. Trickett is a Briti...
Category

Late 20th Century Naturalistic Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Aurum 19- Acrylic Painting, floral, colourful, tropical, canvas
Located in London, GB
Keng Wai Lee is a painter trained to a high level. Keng Wai Lee’s gorgeously rich nature impressions are a synergy of decorative tableaux and depiction in paint on canvas of his memo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Shaman of the Park
Located in Bozeman, MT
Using a mix of inspirations, El Gato thrives in his world of 8th and 9th century storytelling full of ideas of alchemy, magic, occultism, folklore, and spiritualism and blends this w...
Category

2010s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Flamingo, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A small flock of pink Flamingo gather in the water of the Florida Everglades. This wildlife painting has been created by Anthony Dunphy using professional grade acrylics on a sheet o...
Category

2010s Realist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Paw Prince III (Full Body), 2021
Located in Greenwich, CT
Paw Prince III is an acrylic on canvas painting by Robert Deyber, signed 'DEYBER' lower right and framed in a contemporary, black wood moulding.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Mule II" Pencil on Paper Drawing 13" x 15" inch by Ahmed Saber
Located in Culver City, CA
"Mule II" Pencil on Paper Drawing 13" x 15" inch by Ahmed Saber AHMED SABER - BIO Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist based in Luxor in Upper Egypt, where he received his BFA with hon...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Oil On Canvas Portrait of an American Brittany hunting dog
Located in Gavere, BE
Old oil painting on canvas Portrait of An orange and white American Brittany hunting dog This oil on canvas is from the 19th century, painted by Léon Viardot (dijon, 1805 – Paris, 18...
Category

1860s French School Animal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Animals I: Young-Coyote-Out of Sorts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts Young Coyote learning the trade of trickster, not just as a folk story but as archetype that walks among the communities in New Mexico, turning ...
Category

2010s Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Aurum 17 - contemporary, birds, flowers, gold, geometric, hummingbird
Located in London, GB
The collaboration between Keng Wai Lee and Marco Araldi is based on the contrast between the techniques used. Marco uses ink pen and gold...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic

Sea gulls, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Two seagulls figting for the fish. Alla prima oil painting with few final tuches when dry. Beach Paintings always inspire thoughts of holidays, long walks, warm breezes and relaxatio...
Category

2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Swallows, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An original piece from the series “Point me at the sky!â€
Category

2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sitting, Attentive Dogs, Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A charming picture of two sitting, attentive dogs. Signed and dated. Hand carved and gilded frame.
Category

Late 19th Century Baroque Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Portrait Of A Grey Horse, 19th Century English School
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Grey Horse, 19th Century English School Large 19th Century English School portrait of a grey horse in a stable, oil on canvas. Good quality and condition large scal...
Category

19th Century Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Livestock Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, a luminary of 19th-century Belgian art, wielded his brush with unparalleled mastery, capturing the timeless allure of pastoral landscapes and noble anim...
Category

Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Beth Parcell, "Spring", 9x12 Equine Horse Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This vibrant landscape, "Spring", is a 9x12 equine oil painting on canvas featuring a grey horse and a brown horse walking in a lush green grassy pasture in the warm sunlight. Trees...
Category

2010s Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Linda Holt: Recent Koi & Abstractions"
Located in Wellesley, MA
NOTE: The painting on the left of this diptych has been sold however it can be replaced with the 30" x 40" ("Two Koi June") pictured individually as an added image. It's the one w...
Category

2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

VISION OF PICASSO 2, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pintura acrilica en bastidor de madera sobre soporte de tela. Se suministra con los cantos acabados listo para ser colgado. Lleva una capa de barniz para evitar el polvo y la humed...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Mable
By Charley Snow
Located in Bozeman, MT
Charley Snow currently lives in Helper, Utah—a small coal-mining town about 100 miles south of Salt Lake City. He earned his BFA from the University of Utah in 1998. Since graduation he has served, as David Dornan...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

'Morning Stroll' realist oil high realism animal signed by Cathryn Ruvalcaba
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Wisconsin artist, Cathryn Ruvalcaba creates images of classic midwestern farm scenes by zooming in on the animals that populate these fields. Her use of oil paint on gesso board offe...
Category

2010s Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Oil, Board

Walking seagulls, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Two walking seagulls. Alla prima oil painting with few final tuches when dry. Beach Paintings always inspire thoughts of holidays, long walks, warm breezes and relaxation. beach and ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique French Romantic Signed Oil Painting Farmer & Cow Sunset Field Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Auguste Corbiere (late 19th/ early 20th Century) signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 22 x 32 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: very good condition For more any mo...
Category

Early 20th Century French School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Up With the Sun
Located in Indianapolis, IN
Exhibited: National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society "Best of America Exhibition," October 10–November 9 , 2024. Depicts the artist's dog Bjorn in action.
Category

2010s American Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Transplant, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A tortoise hangs suspended by a hook, with daisies resting gently on its shell. The composition blends realism and surrealism, inviting reflection on captivit...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled
Located in Bozeman, MT
When I think of where McCauley fits into American art, as a contemporary painter, sculptor and naturalistic interpreter, I place him in the same philosophical tribe as Walton Ford, A...
Category

2010s American Modern Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

Spring, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A Baltimore oriole perches gracefully among blooming white flowers against a clear blue sky. The bird’s orange plumage contrasts with the soft petals surround...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Deep blue waters, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The original oil painting "Deep blue waters" is from the World of Instincts series. The painting depicts sharks against the backdrop of the bottomless blue of the water. The shark ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil Painting by Cornelius Jansen Walter Winter "A Favourite Hunter"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Cornelius Jansen Walter Winter "A Favourite Hunter" 1817- 1891. Born in Bungay the son of a stained glass painter. Pupil of Edwin Cooper of Beccles. Painted Norfolk A...
Category

19th Century Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Parrots, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original Oil painting by Ukrainian artist Evgeny Chernyakovsky " parrots" 60.0 X 80.0 CM / 23.6 X 31.4 IN HIGH QUALITY oil on canvas Signed on the front and back Dated 2022 G...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Stag 4 (after Landseer)
Located in Bozeman, MT
Reed borrows visual fragments from predominantly seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Northern European art, citing the artists of these works like a dutiful scholar. She copies and r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Europa's Revenge
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Tony Scherman (1950 - 2023) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. He is renowned internationally for his work, typically executed in encaustic, a mix of wax an...
Category

1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic

Two Giraffe on Terracotta II
Located in Napa, CA
Josh Brown has had a lifetime interest in creating art, most notably through his depiction of animals. He swiftly captures the mood of his subjects and brings the personality of each...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Zu Sheng Yu, "Amazing Graze", Cow Field Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas, 36x36
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This painting, "Amazing Graze" is a 36x36 oil painting on canvas by artist Zu Sheng Yu. Depicted is a brown cow in the foreground gazing at the viewer. ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Darkling, monochromatic bird, black white grey
Located in Brooklyn, NY
black bird image, monochromatic
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Crossing the Center Stripe
Located in Bozeman, MT
Biography Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Ba...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

19th Century Landscape Oil Painting - Deer by the Banks of a Lake
By Jacob Thompson
Located in London, GB
Jacob THOMPSON (1806 – 1879) Deer by the Banks of a Lake 1842 oil on canvas 18.9 x 27.6 inches; 22.5 x 31 inches Inc. frame Jacob Thompson (1806–1879) was an English landscape-pa...
Category

1840s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

wet dogs, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Two dogs in the sea. Alla prima oil painting with few final tuches when dry.Beautiful weather with a big shining sun. And I'm standing there taking it all in.The many spectacular sig...
Category

2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Chromatic butterfly - light blue, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An original piece from the series œPlease do not kill butterflies
Category

2010s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Dancing 1, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A roseate spoonbill opens its wings beside a clear, shimmering river, its gaze fixed on its own reflection. Bright colors create a dreamlike scene. The composit...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Horse Paintings, Giraffe Paintings, Dog Paintings and Other Animal Paintings on 1stDibs

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Animal paintings depict the beauty and power of nature in an elegant way that can complement any room. Interacting with animals has long captured the imagination and has been interpreted in diverse artistic media.

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