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Art Subject: Electronics
Ashabi Oge - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa Women, Fashion
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Azeez Muritadoh ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$4,280 Sale Price
20% Off
"Station Blue" Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Station Blue" by Mark Harrison (United Kingdom) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Light. Still life Paintings
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series of pieces is the result of an investigation into the use of light as a tool for the representation of reality and image creation. Starting in the 40s, the work of the art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Chambers" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Harrison's (UK based) "Chambers" is an oil painting that depicts an arid landscape with clouds and a small unassuming building.
I have been interested in painting skies for a ...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
1950's French Signed Modernist Oil Painting Large Ship off the Coastline
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Off the French Coast
French artist, mid 20th century
signed oil on board, unframed
board: 18 x 22 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: a few minor scuffs but over...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Day Break on the Land, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Dawn breaks over purple hills, warm sunlight spilling across the cool landscape. A gas station stands quiet along a long stretch of highway, waiting to open. So...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clean Again. Contemporary Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Clean Again
oil on canvas, 76 x 100cm,
" To me only our dishwasher seems to lend its self to painting. Its something to do with the angle of the light from the widow and it being t...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cold Calculator – Midcentury Pop Realism, Vintage Adding Machine, Oil on Linen
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Step into a bygone era with TR Colletta's "Remingtayn Rand," a realistic oil painting of a vintage Remington Rand adding machine with a rich black and teal body, bright red function...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Getting the Eye of the Tiger" (2022) by Nathan Durfee, Original Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Nathan Durfee's "Getting the Eye of the Tiger" is an original oil painting depicts a cat in headphones perched on a radio.
Artist bio:
Nathan Durfee has garnered notoriety for his...
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Yesterday Evening. Contemporary Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Yesterday Evening
" To me only our dishwasher seems to lend its self to painting. Its something to do with the angle of the light from the widow and it being tucked in a corner. Th...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Geometric Pot Patterns Diptych on Pink, Ancient Vessels Painting on Paper, 2024
Located in Barcelona, ES
This modern still life diptych by Gio Bellagio is inspired by ancient Greek ceramic vessels. The pots are adorned with minimalist patterns reminiscent of Greek geometry, emphasising...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Shop Fan" by Elizabeth Zanzinger Original Oil Painting, Colorful Still Life
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Shop Fan" is an oil painting that depicts a whimsical still life of a brightly colored, vintage teal fan.
Elizabeth Zanzinger is an award-winning ...
Category
2010s American Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Erotic Target, Pop Art Acrylic Painting by Max Epstein
By Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Erotic Target, Year: 1973, Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r., Size: 48 x 48 in. (121.92 x 121.92 cm), Frame Size: 48.5 x 48.5 inches
Category
1970s Pop Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Nikon Away - Pop Art inspired by Camera Original by Carl Smith
By Carl Smith
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carl Smith is an American artist who has been living in Berlin, Germany, since 2001. He works with a combination of silkscreen printing, collage, and painting to create his urban ins...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Morning Light, North of Springfield - Serene Landscape with Purple Haze, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
The rising sun casts a purple haze over this serene Midwestern landscape as only Ahzad Bogosian can capture. This tranquil landscape, devoid of a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Anton Misha (Michael Mlinaric) Still-life Painting "Paint Brushes"
Located in Detroit, MI
This still-life is an acrylic on canvas work that depicts a jar full of various paint brushes bunched together brushes up. In contrast to many still-lifes that depict the setting tha...
Category
1980s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Clouds Above the Inlet - Original Landscape painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Ahzad Bogosian
Clouds Above the Inlet, 2024
acrylic on canvas
30h x 40w in
76.20h x 101.60w cm
AZB146
Ahzad Bogosian
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Ahzad Bogosian, Gallery VICTOR, Chicago,...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"PLUGS" Contemporary Pastel Toned Hyperrealist Still Life Interior Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pastel toned hyperrealist still life painting of an electric outlet plug by Texas-based artist Michael J. Abraham. Recently featured in "Michael J. Abraham: Quasi-Realis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
All The Way
Located in Bozeman, MT
David Rathman, born in 1958 in Choteau, MT, is known for his delicately rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He focuses o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Waiting By The Phone, Signed B Nacion
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Nacion
Untitled (Waiting By The Phone), Late 20th Century
Acrylic and mixed media on artist board
Image: 10 x 12 in.
Mat: 12 x 14 in.
Signed ver...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board, Mixed Media
Georgian Contemporary Art by Goga Gomareli - Apocalypse
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas
Goga Gomareli is a multidisciplinary Georgian artist born in 1983 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is also a musician and a professional i...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Tomato and Anvil" hyperrealist, tender tomatoes atop stiff, cold, heavy metal
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Trompe l'oeil still life of tomatoes resting atop an anvil, with a sledgehammer in the background, painted on an old cabinet door.
Anthony Ackrill was born in Alaska in 1958, but sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Oil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Goga Gomareli - Inception
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas
Goga Gomareli is a multidisciplinary Georgian artist born in 1983 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is also a musician and a professional i...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Georgian Contemporary Art by Goga Gomareli - Power
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas
Goga Gomareli is a multidisciplinary Georgian artist born in 1983 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is also a musician and a professional i...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Battery low"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This oil painting depicts a sleeping Jesus, with a cord connected to his halo, symbolizing power from an electrical outlet.
The composition features a close-up of a sleeping Jesus, o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Light Switch" Contemporary Pastel Toned Hyperrealist Still Life Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pastel toned hyperrealist still life painting of a light switch by Texas-based artist Michael J. Abraham. Recently featured in "Michael J. Abraham: Quasi-Realism" at Ree...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Filling Up, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting depicts a scene from the 1930's of a car pulling off the highway to fill up with gasoline at a filling station and maybe have a beer with lunch. The price of 5cents per...
Category
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Songs from a motel, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The work is inspired by long and full of essence, reflection, and spirit journeys. Stop for the night at a roadside motel and then again ... The songs are always an integral part of ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - Objects at Liberty
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the Schoo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Space Cowboy
By Arno DNA
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Space Cowboy
2018
Mixed media: stencil, aerosol spray, Posca
Support: 33 rpm vinyl
Diameter: 30 cm
Signed artwork, with certificate of the artist
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Stencil
Reception, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A receptionist speaks on the phone, her face and hand carrying the emotional weight of the scene. Her yellow polka-dot scarf strikingly contrasts with her subdu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
No personnal just business
By Arno DNA
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
No personnal just business
2018
Mixed media: stencil, aerosol spray, Posca
Support: 33 rpm vinyl
Diameter: 30 cm
Signed artwork, with certificate of the artist
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Stencil
Block and Tackle, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting depicts the running and standing rigging of a ship under sail. The creak of ropes as the strain comes upon them are the music of the ship at sea. This painting has been...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Ordinary Morning
Located in Zofingen, AG
It’s an ordinary morning for a woman. The same ritual every day. In my case - right here, by this window. Dry my hair and put on some makeup. Not let the day freeze, not let it go so...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Asuka1 : Ethereal Allure on a Whispering Green Canvas
Located in PARIS, FR
2009, Unique Artwork
Oil on Canvas
51 1/5 × 38 1/5 in - 130 × 97 cm
The artwork is signed by the Artist on recto of the canvas & stamped with the logo of the Studio of the Artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Watcher - Kate Brinkworth, photorealist, dice, casino, black and white, art
Located in London, GB
Kate Brinkworth (b.1977)
The Watcher (Black and White No. 2)
2013
oil on canvas
90 x 135 cm
Price:
£8,400 GBP (inc. 20% UK VAT)
Provenance:
Direct from the artist’s studio
Notes:
Kate Brinkworth undertook her artistic training at Nottingham Trent University, and graduated in 2000 with first class honours. She rapidly began exhibiting her work, and her first major solo show took place in 2001 at Britart Gallery, London. Her success led to further exhibitions across the country and abroad, and she began featuring regularly in several international art fairs and won numerous awards. These include the Westgate Prize (2004), and a commission from GUS headquarters in Mayfair.
Kate Brinkworth's painting stems from her curiosity in films, particularly those directed by or in the style of Hitchcock. She is particularly inspired by effects created though experimentation with focus, and repeatedly photographs her still lifes with various shutter speeds, camera angles and lighting to find the optimum composition. Brinkworth's style uses the language of film, advertising and photography to create these unique images; her visits to Las Vegas have developed her interest in the representation of objects associated with vice. Painted in varying degrees of focus, her expert technique deceives the viewer into believing the work is a photograph, due to the realism of her subject matter and style, and the thin application of paint which gives a smooth, glossy finish. It is only on closer inspection that the viewer realises the work is entirely painted by hand.
Brinkworth's works challenge our perceptions of the image; in our contemporary world inundated with visual stimuli, she painstakingly labours over her compositions to make us look at these familiar objects in a new way. In a parallel challenge to contemporary conventions her technique mirrors the Renaissance mural technique of the 'cartoon', a drawing which would be pricked along the lines and dusted with charcoal to transfer the skeleton of the image to the wall. Brinkworth similarly maps out her photographs onto both sides of sheets of paper and rubs the reverse to move the image onto the canvas. Once the composition is mapped out, she begins working into the picture in oil using her distinctive technique.
Categories:
The Watcher, Kate Brinkworth, photorealist, dice, gambling, casino...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Garden Shovel on Red" hyperrealist oil painting, hand trowel, Signed & Framed
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
John Morfis was born in Bayville, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetical...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flight Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting fly character yellow black
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
KkKop (2020), Unique Spray Paint and Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"KkKop" by artist Goin is an unique stencil and spray paint artwork on canvas. It was created in 2020 after George Floyd died after being detained by Minneapolis police.
There are ...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Stencil
$4,600 Sale Price
50% Off
"Coffee Break (Keep on Grinding)" (2025) Oil Still-Life Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
As a trompe l’oeil painter, Jay Davenport is rooted in representational art, but his subject matter departs from tradition in offering commentaries on contemporary life--often humoro...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
La Beauté du Diable The Devil's Beauty Surrealism Conteporary Landscape Creature
Located in Utrecht, NL
La Beauté du Diable The Devil's Beauty Surrealism Conteporary Landscape Creature
Gérard Willemenot was born on February 11, 1943.
World War II and his father's deportation to Mautha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Goodnews 7 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Happiness
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Bor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Transgenre Transgender Tempera on Panel Creature Surrealism In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Le Transgenre Transgender Tempera on Panel Creature Surrealism In Stock
Gérard Willemenot (1943, Paris, France) graduated as an architect at the School of Art in Paris. After worki...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Mother III - Contemporary Gold Mythical Creature Winged Animal, 2024
By June Glasson
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary painting in ink, gouache and pencil on archival paper of a silhouette suggesting the form of a gold mythical winged creature with claws and a split tail.
Available unfr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil
Things Fall Apart 2 (Men Don't Cry) - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. (Issues b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Hasselblad III
By Fabio Torre
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Signed, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Born in Bologna, Italy, in 1955, Fabio Torre is an Italian photographer and painter whose...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Good vibes
Located in Zofingen, AG
This work brings together two rhythms — the pulse of the outside world and the stillness within.
Good Vibes is a visual meditation on the power of memory: how a fleeting scent, a war...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Frequency Of A Loving Heart - Colorful Figurative Mixed Media Texture Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Step into the rhythmic world of Amadou Opa Bathily, where tradition meets contemporary artistry. This 35-inch high by 36-inch wide mixed-media original textural artwork, "The Frequen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Silver Porsche 911 on Blue
By Nick Veasey
Located in PARIS, FR
Nick Veasey
Silver Porsche 911 on Blue
2025
SilXScreen series
Signed and numbered by artist
63,7 x 206 cm frame included as seen in the image.
Edition of 25
Featured in artist's s...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Screen
Rockaway Shell
Located in Burlingame, CA
Rockaway Shell - an iconic American painting depicting a Shell Gasoline Station by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Parisian Vintage Jewelry Design Art by Van Cleef & Boucheron Designer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Flowing Gold Brooch and Twisted Leaf Duo Jewelry Design
circa mid 20th century
by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917)
original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper
unframed
left d...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Boatyard Lift (Photo-realist Oil Painting of a Red & Yellow Crane on Blue)
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, photo-realist painting on canvas featuring a crimson red and yellow industrial boatyard lift against a bright sky blue background
47 x 31 x 2 inches
oil on canvas, thin wood stripping
signed verso, "Joseph E. Richards"
Hangs with wire installed on the back
This precisely detailed photo-realist painting was made by Joseph E. Richards in 2001. The artist painted this piece when he was 71 years old during a long career of painting trains, cargo ships, and industrial machinery. Richards served in the US Navy during WWII and went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia before showing with Ivan Karp of O.K. Harris Gallery in NYC. The artist moved upstate to Hillsdale, NY for the later years of his life.
This painting captures one of Richards' most beloved subjects, industrial cranes. With a photo-realist approach to the subject, Richards was able to capture detailed changes in light and shadow, shape and form. The red and yellow crane, painted with extreme detail and focus, vividly contrasts against a bright blue sky. Areas of brown rust, attesting to the machine's power and longevity, are captured with immaculate precision.
Since the painting has a very smooth surface, one could easily mistake this painting with a photograph. It is not until you examine the painting up close, do you realize the artist's calculated brushwork.
The painting is framed with natural wood stripping. The work is lightweight and easy to hang with pre-installed wire. The artist's signature is located on the back of the canvas.
About the artist:
Joseph Richards’ precisely painted canvases of giant cranes, cargo booms, propellers and train engines are fueled with a fascination like that of a six-year old boy. Working directly from photographs, Richards unites light and color together as one element, evident in the reflective surfaces of steel. The otherwise mundane signs of corrosive wear are magnified; rust stains glow on the canvas and yellow painted pulleys radiate like beacons against a bright, blue sky. Richards finds beauty in their dramatic color, resilient texture, definitive form and functionality. Richards paints sections of these objects in grand scale, with canvases up to 6 feet long and eye-popping color, calling attention to their massive proportions and exceptional strength.
Richards had solo exhibits in New York City, Scottsdale AZ, and Washington DC, and his work is found in private and corporate collections here and abroad, e.g., the Tucson Museum of Fine Arts, Mobil Oil, Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia, and E. Jean Belloni in Geneva, Switzerland.
Resume:
Born in 1921 in Des Moines, Iowa, Joseph Richards left for Chicago after high school to pursue a career in art. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1942 – 1945, he went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He eventually settled with his wife, Betty, in New York City. In 1969, longtime dealer Ivan Karp opened The OK Harris Gallery on West Broadway in Manhattan’s SoHo. Karp was at the forefront of the Photorealism movement, showing artists such as Duane Hanson and Manny Farber...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Other Red Phone Call - 21st Century, White, Female, Love, Figurative, Red
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Other Red Phone Call, 2019
Oil on canvas (Signed on reverse)
35 7/16 H x 23 5/8 W in.
90 H x 60 W cm
In his paintings, Radu Rodideal speaks about t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
DROPS
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"DROPS" is an original acrylic on canvas by Jim Houser measuring 8in x 8in.
ABOUT // Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently resides....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Hemp, Acrylic
"Adaptation" by Russell Gordon, Oil Painting of Tangled Cords and Creatures
Located in Denver, CO
Russell Gordon's "Adaptation" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts multiple small creatures such as a frog, butterfly and bee playfully pe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Changement (~47% OFF LIST PRICE, Oil Painting, Symbolist)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stella Jae
Changement
2024
Oil on Canvas
Size: 26.06 x 31.04 inches (60 x 80cm)
Signed by hand
COA provided
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Tags: #StellaJRichey #VisualArtist ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,444 Sale Price
46% Off
Stillife with vinyl record player and azulejo
Located in Zofingen, AG
This still life contains everything that distinguishes the rich culture of Latin America - azulejo tiles, which came from Portugal, a book by Mexican writer Juan Rulfo...
Category
2010s Aesthetic Movement Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pink Ball & Hook (Photorealist Oil Painting of Industrial Equipment on Blue)
Located in Hudson, NY
Vertical photo-realist painting on canvas of pale pink ball with steel colored hook on a bright sky blue background
72 x 36 x 1.5 inches
oil on canvas, thin wood stripping
signed "Richards" on bottom right corner in yellow paint
wire is installed on the back for easy hanging
This precisely detailed photo-realist painting was made by Joseph E. Richards in 1981. The artist painted this piece when he was 60 years old during a successful career painting trains, cargo ships, and industrial machinery. Richards served in the US Navy during WWII and went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia before showing with Ivan Karp of O.K. Harris Gallery in NYC. The artist moved upstate to Hillsdale, NY for the later years of his life.
This painting captures one of Richards' most beloved subjects, close up views of industrial equipment against a vivid blue sky. With a photo-realist approach to the subject, Richard was able to capture detailed changes in light and shadow, shape and form. The pale pink colored ball and steel colored hook, down to each screw and bolt, is completed with extreme focus and precision. One could easily confuse this painting with a photograph since it was completed with a very smooth application of paint, with no texture built upon the surface. It is not until you examine the painting up close, do you realize the artist's calculated brushwork.
The painting is framed with natural wood stripping. The work is lightweight and easy to hang with wire installed on the back.The artist's signature is located on the front and back of the canvas.
About the artist:
Joseph Richards’ precisely painted canvases of giant cranes, cargo booms, propellers and train engines are fueled with a fascination like that of a six-year old boy. Working directly from photographs, Richards unites light and color together as one element, evident in the reflective surfaces of steel. The otherwise mundane signs of corrosive wear are magnified; rust stains glow on the canvas and yellow painted pulleys radiate like beacons against a bright, blue sky. Richards finds beauty in their dramatic color, resilient texture, definitive form and functionality. Richards paints sections of these objects in grand scale, with canvases up to 6 feet long and eye-popping color, calling attention to their massive proportions and exceptional strength.
Richards had solo exhibits in New York City, Scottsdale AZ, and Washington DC, and his work is found in private and corporate collections here and abroad, e.g., the Tucson Museum of Fine Arts, Mobil Oil, Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia, and E. Jean Belloni in Geneva, Switzerland.
Resume:
Born in 1921 in Des Moines, Iowa, Joseph Richards left for Chicago after high school to pursue a career in art. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1942 – 1945, he went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He eventually settled with his wife, Betty, in New York City. In 1969, longtime dealer Ivan Karp opened The OK Harris Gallery on West Broadway in Manhattan’s SoHo. Karp was at the forefront of the Photorealism movement, showing artists such as Duane Hanson and Manny Farber...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Telescoping #2 (Large Photorealist Oil Painting of a Red & White Crane on Blue)
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, photo-realist painting on canvas featuring a fire engine red and white industrial crane against a bright sky blue background
69 x 48 x 2 inches
oil on canvas, thin wood stripping
signed verso, "Joseph E. Richards"
Hangs with wire installed on the back
Excellent condition, ready to hang as is
This precisely detailed photo-realist painting was made by Joseph E. Richards in 1992. The artist painted this piece when he was 71 years old during a long career of painting trains, cargo ships, and industrial machinery. Richards served in the US Navy during WWII and went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia before showing with Ivan Karp of O.K. Harris Gallery in NYC. The artist moved upstate to Hillsdale, NY for the later years of his life.
This painting captures one of Richards' most beloved subjects, industrial cranes. With a photo-realist approach to the subject, Richards was able to capture detailed changes in light and shadow, shape and form. The red and white crane, painted with extreme detail and focus, vividly contrasts against a bright blue sky. Areas of brown rust, attesting to the machine's power and longevity, are captured with immaculate precision.
Since the painting has a very smooth surface, one could easily confuse this painting with a photograph. It is not until you examine the painting up close, do you realize the artist's calculated brushwork.
The painting is framed with natural wood stripping. The work is lightweight and easy to hang with pre-installed wire. The artist's signature is located on the back of the canvas.
About the artist:
Joseph Richards...
Category
1990s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Crane: Large Photo-Realist Painting of Industrial Red Ball & Grey Crane on Blue
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, vertical photo-realist painting on canvas of industrial red ball and steel grey crane on a sky blue background by Joseph Richards
oil on canvas,...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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