People Paintings

Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female Tonita Peña (born 1893 in San Ildefonso, died 1949 in Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico) was born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with watercolor. She was a well-known and influential Native American artist and art teacher of the early 1920s and 1930s. Tonita Peña was born on May 10, 1893, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Ascensión Vigil Peña and Natividad Peña of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. When she was 12, her mother and younger sister died, as a result of complications due to the flu. Her father was unable to care for her and she was taken to Cochití Pueblo and was brought up by her aunt Martina Vigil Montoya, a prominent Cochití Pueblo potter. Peña attended St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe. Edgar Lee Hewett, an anthropologist involved in supervising the nearby Frijoles Canyon excavations (now Bandelier National Monument) was instrumental in developing the careers of several San Ildefonso “self-taught” artists including Tonita Peña. Hewett purchased Peña's paintings for the Museum of New Mexico and supplied her with quality paint and paper. Peña began gaining more notoriety by the end of the 1910s selling an increasing amount of her work to collectors and the La Fonda Hotel. Much of this early work was done of Pueblo cultural subject matter, in a style inspired by historic Native American works, however, her use of an artist's easel and Western painting mediums gained her acceptance among her European-American contemporaries in the art world. At the age of 25, she exhibited her work at museums and galleries in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque area. In the early 1920s, Tonita did not know how much her painting sold for at the Museum of New Mexico, so she wrote letters to the administrators because a local farmer was worried that she got paid too little. In the 1930s Peña was an instructor at the Santa Fe Indian School and at the Albuquerque Indian School and the only woman painter of the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, which included such noted artists as Alfonso Roybal, Julian Martinez, Abel Sánchez (Oqwa Pi), Crecencio Martinez, and Encarnación Peña. As children, these artists attended San Ildefonso day school which was part of the institution of the Dawes Act of 1887, designed to indoctrinate and assimilate Native American children into mainstream American society. In 1931, Tonita Peña exhibited at the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts which was presented at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice Biennial. That year is the only time Native American artists have shown in the official United States pavilion at that biennial, and Tonita Peña's paintings were part of that exhibition.[1 Her painting Basket Dance, that had shown in the Venice Biennial was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for $225. This was the highest price paid up to this time for a Pueblo painting...

A fine and pertinent example of Nathan Hoffman's charming New York City scenes. Here we find a Central Park pathway looking South East and the General Motors Bulging along with some ...

Artodyssey "Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...

French realist artist of the 19th century oil painting on board, unframed board: 12.5 x 10.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: ...

Gathering the Harvest English School, 20 th century, painted in an earlier style oil painting on board, in moulded gilt frame framed: 14 x 16 inches board: 8.5 x 10 inches provenanc...

Gracious ballerina, in a moment of silence and meditation. Part of my "Nude in Interior" series Original painting, one a kind. No need for frame. Shipping directly from the artist's studio, stretched, wide stretcher. 15.7x15.7x2in / 40x40x5cm Free shipping special! "As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and imagery. My goal is to capture the nude’s relation to the surrounding space and the solitary moments. My interest turned from depicting the space to depicting the atmosphere, and the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings." Paula Craioveanu

Artist: Ashot Muradyan Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Sity scape Size: 18.5" x 25.5" x 0.8...

Maura Petersen (American, born 1956) "Model by Window" 2024 Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the painting. In "Model by Window," Maura Petersen ca...

Romanticism movement is well maintained here by Benedikt Franz Hess (1817-1870), Swiss / American, a painter of panoramic landscapes in a detailed transcriptive yet broadly painted s...

Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well Attributable to Ludovico Pozzoserrato (Antwerp circa 1550 - Treviso 1605) Oil on the table 37 x 27 cm., In ...

"The Wind" is an original painting on canvas measuring 30 x 40 inches by Erik Freyman. The artist is best known for his 80's style which draws heavily on Art ...

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 (Issued by the Gal...

Attributed to British Old Master painter, Benjamin Blake (1757-1830). Still Life of Game in a Larder. Well presented in a gilt effect frame with internal slip. Unsigned. On canvas la...

This is an original antique oil painting on canvas depicting a country landscape with a Woman and Ducks. Signed and dated 1876 in the lower left by listed Artist George Whitton Jo...

Painting size without frame: 8"x10" Painting size with frame: 15"x16" This expressive oil painting by Antonio Cirino (1889–1983) captures the quiet energy of a street scene under an overcast sky. The softened light gives the composition a moody atmosphere, while Cirino’s confident brushwork and rich texture animate the buildings and figures with life and movement. A key figure in the Rockport Art Association and the Cape Ann art...

An important & fine antique George IV period oil painting; a portrait of John & Sara Ogle of Kirkley Hall Northumbria, England, by Sir John Hayter RA, signed & dated 1829. Sir John ...

A charming early 20th century oil depicting a hunter and his game. Signed illegibly and dated to the lower left. On canvas on stretchers.

Nudist Women, Signed Oil Painting By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016) Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner, Oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 32 x...

Title: Historic Miniature Watercolor of Street Scene on the Christmas Steps in Bristol by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed Measur...

Seated Nude Woman American Figurative School 1940s Mid-century American impressionist painting of a woman by American artist Frederick "Fred" Yost (American/Swiss, 1888-1968). He studied: at Mt. Union Col., Alliance, OH; American Students League, New York, and with Homer Boss, John Sloan, Robert Henri, R. Lahey. The painting gleans much form his studies with John Sloan and Robert Henri in the French post-impressionist style. Image 24"H x 18"W Frame, 30"H x 24"W x 1.5"D Signed "Yost" lower right Painter, lithographer, teacher, lecturer About Fred's life: by Hal Fry of the Herald “Fred Does Whatever He Likes” was a title given to a biography written about Fred Yost by Hal Fry of the Herald. The following is taken directly from this column: “Fred Yost’s living style is like his painting style. He has fun with it. Fred John Yost was born in Switzerland, he’ sure, on November 6, 1889, he thinks. His father John brought the family to his country when Fred was about a year old—first to New York and later to Canton, Sebring and finally Alliance, where Yost Sr. loaded freight for a railroad. Fred like drawing and painting so far back he can’t remember how or when it started—it was always that way. But through the public schools in Alliance he didn’t think of this as a career possibility. He wanted to be a newspaperman. He worked his way through Mt. Union College, finishing, he thinks, about 1912. Then he beat it for New York and after kicking around for a time got a job as a proofreader for the Wall Street Journal. He combined this and art school until World War I took him into the Army. In infantry, field artillery and ordnance duties he served with the 27th New York Division through St. Mihiel and the Argonne and the rest—in the process getting his hearing clobbered by blasts from his outfit’s own guns. Coming out a Sergeant in 1919, he went back to the Wall Street Journal briefly—then caught on as a staff artist for the (New York) Herald. For several years, when he felt like it, Yost would take a bus to the Mexican border and switch to a Mexican bus to carry him way down south, then make it any way he could to the places he wanted to see. On these trips he virtually becomes a peon, disappearing totally from those who know him—living with, like and clearly thoroughly liked by the people among whom he moves.” Yost was a graduate of the Art Students League and past president of the Ohio Watercolor Society. Fred Yost, a man who eminently loved the Mexican landscape, Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1928, 1930-33; MMA, 1945; AIC; Butler AI, 1947-1951; Ohio WC Soc.; PAFA, 1948-1950; Akron AI, 1947-1951, 1958; Fla. Southern Col., 1952; Ohio Univ., 1950; Columbus Gal. FA, 1947-50; AWCS, 1958; Salons of Am.; 3 solo: Canton AI; Akron AI, Springfield Mus. A. Contributor to Ford Times, 1958-59. Awards: prizes, Massilon Museum, 1944; Ohio Watercolor Society, 1944, 1948; Indianapolis, Ind., 1944; Tri-State Pr. M., 1945, 1946; Butler AI, 1946; Youngstown Pub. Schools, 1946 (prize); Ohio Univ., 1950; Ethel Printz award, 1950; Fla. Southern Col., 1952; Akron AI, 1952, 1956-1958; Canton AI, 1961, 1963; medal, Phila. Pa., 1950 Member: Ohio Watercolor Society (president) Work: Massillon Mus.; Youngstown Pub. Sch. Coll.; Butler AI; Akron AI; Kennedy & Co., NY; Beaver Col., Beaver Falls, Pa.; Block Gal., Indianapolis; Prospect Park, NY; murals, Sioux City Steak House; Sioux City A. Center; City Hall, Sioux City; Akron AI; Evangelical Church, Akron; Rockefeller Center; Radio City, NY; Brooklyn Zoological Park. Affiliated with NYC Park Dept. Mural Projects. Comments: Came to U. S. in 1889. Position: teacher, Butler AI; Akron AI; instr., Akron AI, Akron, Ohio; cur. Historical House of Refuge...

Bolognese school of the seventeenth century Circle Giovanni Battista Ramenghi, known as Bagnacavallo (Bologna, 1521 - 1601) Oil painting on canvas (86 x 72 cm. - With antique frame ...

The Grape Harvest by Max Toutain (1935-2006) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas : 24 x 29 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from the artists ...

Rebecca Venn's (US based) "Untitled" is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas paper that depicts a nude female model laying on her back. This is ...

After Jean-Baptiste Van Loo, A Portrait of King Louis XV of France (1710-1774) A magnificent quality three-quarter length portrait of King Louis XV of France and Navarre, painted in the 18th century after Jean-Baptiste Van Loo. Oil on canvas, in the original carved and gilt wood frame. Canvas: 40" high x 32" wide Frame: 46.5" high x 39" wide Very good condition, ready to hang. No damages noted. The present composition follows a portrait of Louis XV painted by Jean-Baptiste Van Loo in 1726-1727, today in Versailles. (Oil on canvas. 198.5 by 143 cm. Inv. no. MV 6942.) There were several full-length portraits painted by Van Loo of the young Louis XV, and all were executed in the years of or after his majority, 1723, when he took full control of government, wresting power from the Régent, his great-uncle Philippe, Duc d'Orléans. A slightly larger version (205 by 171 cm), in which the pose and surrounding paraphernalia mirrors that of the present work, is in the Château de Versailles, while another, in which Louis stands more front-on, his pointing right index-finger now tucked in, and with a different background arrangement, is also in Versailles. Further versions of this latter are in Nice, Musée Chéret and the Musée de Perpignan. The composition of all of these full-lengths would appear to derive from Van Loo's large equestrian portrait of Louis XV, painted in collaboration with Charles Parrocel, which was commissioned in 1723 by the Surintendance for Charles de Lorraine. Louis is depicted in similar armour and costume, astride his horse, similarly turned three-quarters to the left and his right arm outstretched. Most subsequent depictions of Louis followed this original design, including, for example, Carle Van...

Eliseo SALA, attributed to (Milan, 1813 – Triuggio, 1879) Dream of freedom Oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm without frame 66x 57 with frame Around 1846 Related work: La toeletta del matti...

Title: Spring in Cadaqués Author: Rafael Duran Benet (1931–2005) Technique: Oil on canvas board Dimensions: 14.96 x 18.11 in Signature: Signed "R. Duran" in the lower left corner Dat...

Charles Burdick (1924 - 2016) Untitled (Reclining Nude) Oil on paper (?) Sight: 7 x 10 1/4 in. Framed: 14 x 16 1/4 x 3/4 in. Signed lower right: Burdick Excellent midcentury style r...

Artist: Boris Serdyuk Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Style: Impressionism Year: 2020 Title: Morning on the Lake Size: 23.5" x 31...

This splendid mid-18th-century Dutch landscape painting depicts a view with travellers before distant rolling hills. Amid the long shadows of early evening, a travelling party rests...

Jon Wassom’s "The Space Between" is a striking mixed media painting on panel, measuring 16 x 12 inches. This evocative figurative work merges expressive brushwork with geometric abst...

Title: French Watercolor of "Château de Blois" with Architectural and Garden Details by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017) Signed: Yes Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, ...

This artwork expresses cheerfulness no matter what. Feel like a mistress of your emotions! The painting is on canvas on a stretcher 30x24x2cm with painted sides. It’s part of my silh...

This superb French Old Master oval portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Nicolas de Largilliere. Painted circa 1700 it is a half length portrait of a gentleman in a red co...

Suchitra Bhosle's "Demure Longing" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a young woman looking off into the distance while resting in a doorway. About the Artist: Such...

Portrait of a Child European School, early 20th century oil on canvas, framed frame: 21 x 18 inches canvas: 15 x 12 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: extensiv...

Still Life by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) stamped verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 26 x 18 inches Colors: Brown colors, blue, pink, white and red Very good cond...

Very stylish, unique and original 1930's French fashion design, no doubt of Parisian origin. The painting, executed in gouache/ watercolor and pencil, is dated to the upper corner ...

Roman painter (18th century) - Landscape with wayfarers. 43.5 x 34.5 cm without frame, 58.5 x 49.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden fram...

Portraits of a man and Woman Circa 1850-1860 Original Oil on Paper Early American portraits in the style of and possibly by Henry Bryan Hall (English/American, 1808-1861) Later in hi...

Biblical Figures, Large Gathering around Christ? Dutch Old Master, early 17th century oil painting on wood panel, stuck on velvet backing board velvet board: 27 x 29 inches board: 25.5 x 26 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: good and sound condition, obvious old panel...

Dominic Finocchio, an American painter raised in St. Louis, is known for his narrative figurative works that explore masculinity through modern male figures in contemporary settings....

In this vivid expanse of warmth and vitality, I’ve unleashed my passion through oil pastel and colored pencil, embracing expressionism, impressionism, and pop art to provoke emotion....

This piece, "Fishin' Solo" is a 36x48 oil painting on canvas by artist Trip Park featuring a man in orange shorts, blue shirt and cowboy hat fishing on the edge of the water. The wat...

Figurative painting with animals, mixed media, on a blue background. Figurative animal magic in blue. A shared dream where you and I are one with them. Everything is connected: the v...

This intimate portrait captures a woman in profile, adorned with pearls and luxurious fabrics, set against a dark background that enhances the subject's luminous skin tones. Unsigned...

This fine oil on canvas, attributable to a late 17th-century Venetian artist, is a coeval copy of the famous portrait by Pieter Paul Rubens, documented in the collections of Cosimo I...

"The unusual shapes coming together in their raw simplistic form, how they interact with each other, the shapes creating their own language. I let them stand alone in their purest fo...

A vibrant and colorful Parisian city scene by Australian Mollie Flaxman. Captured in a very impressionist manner 'The Bastille' which was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the B...

Konstantin Razumov (Born 1974) Russian Elegant Young Lady seated on the Terrace at a Parisian Café, wearing a Lilac and blacvk dress Oil on canvas: 16 x 13inches. Frame: 23 x 20 i...

Two Arcadic Landscapes are a couple of original oil paintings by a follower of the Flemish artist, Jan Frans Van Bloemen (1662-1749). These old master's original paintings represen...

A mysterious blond young woman is standing by the window in a plush drawing room which has a velvety feel. With her back turned to us, she is looking out over the spires and roofs of...

Mid Century French Portrait Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided Size: 12.5 (height) x 9.75 (width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good...

ANNA WARDĘGA-CZAJA Graduated from the Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Art in Cracow, Poland in 2021. She's dealing with easel painting, wall painting as well as drawing. F...

Nude Lady by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) oil on thin board, unframed board: 27 x 15 inches good condition with some cracks shown in photos provenance: from the artists estate, ...

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1970's Title: Reclining Nude Model on a Red Sofa within an interior setting Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed Size: painting: 19.75 x ...

Small limited edition run of 49 and 6 E.A."s (Edition of the artist). Each canvas reproduction is crafted by a skilled printer under the supervision of the artist. Román Francés has...

AGNIESZKA STAAK-JANCZARSKA (born in 1994) A graduate of the State Secondary School of Art of Józef Kluza in Krakow. In 2020, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in painting at the studio of prof. Janusz Matuszewski. Selected achievements: 2019 - Award of the Rector of the University of Rzeszów 2019 - Scholarship of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow 2020 - Finalist of the Polish National Painting Competition Leon Wyczółkowski...

William Malherbe (1884-1953) Signed lower right Dated 1928 Oil on Canvas 27x22 inches unframed 34x29 inches Framed Carved American period Frame Good Condition William Malherbe was ...

Up for sale is a beautiful Antique 18-century original oil painting on canvas depicting a portrait of a Nobleman with a large whig, and red lined jacket...

This painting is part of a series of artworks dedicated by Anna Pennati to William Shakespeare and in detail to the drama of Antonio and Cleopatra. The figures are presented one ups...