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Art Subject: Sea
The Glow Below II, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Timon Sloane
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on stretched canvas. Museum wrapped with 1.5 inch deep stretches with painted edges. Designed to be hung unframed. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an offi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coastal Calm Under Breaking Skies, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Timon Sloane
Located in Yardley, PA
Original oil painting on a museum wrapped canvas with black edges. Suitable for hanging as-is. Can also be framed. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official...
Category
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Point arthur afternoon, Painting, Acrylic on Other
By Rick Matear
Located in Yardley, PA
My partner suggested I put the boat in the painting as the painting would tell a story. A picture that may not have changed in the last thousand years. :: Painting :: Pre-Raphael...
Category
2010s Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Wave", Oleg Turchin, Oil on Canvas, 30x47, Photorealism Original Oil Seascape
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
Oleg Turchin's "Waves" is an oil on canvas that measures 30" x 47". The painting is a beautiful photorealistic seascape of the blue and white ocean waves crashing in on a brown sandy beach on a stormy day. The artist's attention to detail, perspective, and refinement of the scene brings together a painting true to the scenery. The painting is not stretched at the moment but can be stretched and shipped within 3 days.
Blending photorealism and surrealism, Oleg achieves a signature style of his own. The beauty of nature bursts off the canvas with vibrant life. Oleg Turchin is a Moldovan artist, born in 1964. He studied at the Sciusev children’s art...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spanish Contemporary Art by Mercedes Aparicio - La Mer Cantabrie
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Contemporary Art by Zhao De-Wei - Character Series, Underwater
By Zhao De-Wei
Located in Paris, IDF
Zhao De-Wei is a Chinese artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Beijing, China. Zhao’s art was initially based on Pollock’s select sprinkling techniques, but he also brings more co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$7,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Chilled Moonscape
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Black Sea Coastline, blue turquoise seascape, minimalistic
Located in Vienna, AT
Size: 80 x 160 x 4 cm
Year: 2022
Media: oil on linen canvas.
Style: modern, abstract
A large abstract beautiful painting with deep (4cm) painted edges, so it can be hung immediately ...
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Fabienne Delord-Descourvières - Pêche à Koh Phi Phi
Located in Paris, IDF
Fabienne Delord-Descourvières is a French painter who lives & works in Yermenonville in Eure-et-Loir, France.
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Russian Drone Painting No. 5 (Hong Kong, 2019 Pro-Democracy Protestors)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
William Turner Gallery is proud to present a small solo exhibition of paintings by artist Lawrence Gipe called “Recent Pictures,” which draws fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rivages de Monde Flottant
Located in New York, NY
Mickaël Doucet is a French, Paris-based artist whose work largely focuses on vibrancy of color and minimalistic interiors, one bouncing off the other to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oceanic I & II diptych
Located in Fairfield, CT
Janet Jennings is known for her luminous oil & watercolor paintings. After working for Lawrence Rubin at Knoedler Contemporary Art, Jennings maintained a studio at Waverly Studios in New York City. She began as a Color Field painter, working on canvas and linen. Janet moved to Amagansett, NY in 1981 and switched her focus to landscape painting. Her career path led her to teach at The Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall & The Victor D’amico Institute of Art. From 1993 to 1998, she was the Chair of the Andy Warhol Visual Arts Preserve Program. Jennings maintains ties to the art community as an educator and curator. She is a member of the East Hampton Arts Council, an advocacy group for performing and visual artists of East Hampton. Ms. Jennings maintains a painting studio in East Hampton and currently teaches oil and watercolor classes. In 1997, she was a founding member of CMEE, The Children’s Museum of the East End. Working with Lee Skolnick and JoAnn Secor, she was an exhibit designer and fabricator for “Time and Place, Light and Space”, the initial installation at Guild Hall, which launched CMEE. She was a lead designer for the permanent exhibition installation of CMEE, located in Bridgehampton, NY. Jennings received her BFA from the University of Dayton and attended The Dayton Art Institute, Antioch College and The Art Students League. Her paintings are in numerous corporate and private collections worldwide. She has exhibited at numerous galleries on Long Island and New York City including The New York Design Center, Hampton Road Gallery, Pamela Williams Gallery, Folioeast, Lizan-Tops Gallery, Chase Edwards Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Color of Water 18
Located in Fairfield, CT
Additional $150 for framing.
Frances Ashforth’s spare paintings, drawings and waterbase monotypes reflect the geography and geology of intersecting habitats that she has visited and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Synthetic, Oil
"Playa Pelada Costa Rica"' 2010 Oil On Canvas by F.A. Cushing
Located in Bristol, CT
Oil on canvas of a beach scene at Playa Pelada, Costa Rica by Newport scion, FA 'Freddy' Cushing (1934-2013) signed & dated 2010 (LR)
Provenance: The Isherwood Gallery in Newport, ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sea", Oleg Turchin, Oil on Canvas, 30x47, Photorealism Original Oil Seascape
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
Oleg Turchin's "Sea" is an oil on canvas that measures 30" x 47". The painting is a beautiful photorealistic seascape of the blue and white ocean waves crashing in on a brown sandy beach on a stormy day. The artist's attention to detail, perspective, and refinement of the scene brings together a painting true to the scenery. The painting is not stretched at the moment but can be stretched and shipped within 3 days.
Blending photorealism and surrealism, Oleg achieves a signature style of his own. The beauty of nature bursts off the canvas with vibrant life. Oleg Turchin is a Moldovan artist, born in 1964. He studied at the Sciusev children’s art...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Caribbean Riviera
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A depiction of the Caribbean Riviera.
Signed Lower Right.
Category
1990s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Longevity Painting v.2
Located in Palm Desert, CA
commercial enamel on aluminum
Signed, titled, and dated on verso, "Timothy Tompkins, Longevity Painting v.2, 2015".
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Aluminum, Enamel
Color of Water 10
Located in Fairfield, CT
Frances Ashforth’s spare paintings, drawings and waterbase monotypes reflect the geography and geology of intersecting habitats that she has visited and studied. Land, water, mountai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Synthetic Paper
Untitled (Psychedelic Blue)
By Linda Jacque
Located in New York, NY
Linda Jacque
Untitled (Psychedelic Blue), 2011
Acrylic on skateboard
$1,600.00
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Topos
By Perry Burns
Located in Fairfield, CT
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$21,000
The Wave, 1948
Located in London, GB
JEAN MIROSLAW PESKE 1870-1949
Ukraine 1870-1949 France (Ukrainian/Russian/French)
Title: La Vague / The Wave, circa 1948
Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on canvas laid on board.
This work was painted circa 1948.
size:33 x 41 cm / 13 x 16.1 in
Additional Information: This is an original painting by Jean Peske...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bagno La Salute 09.16.2019
By Nelson White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A classic Nelson White plein air painting.
Framed Dimensions: 24 x 38 inches
Artist Bio:
Nelson H. White was born in New London, Connecticut in 1932. White has been surrounded by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue railing
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This painting presents a fragment of a calm sea and a railing post on a promenade. The scene serves as a pretext for combining a harmony of cool and warm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Reservoir Trail - Palmer Lake, Original Contemporary Magical Realism Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Reservoir Trail - Palmer Lake, Original Contemporary Magical Realism Painting
24" x 30" x 1.25" (HxWxD), Oil on Canvas
Hand-signed by the artist.
This vibrant painting by artist Gina Blickenstaff...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of Mataleñas
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This painting captures the serenity and vastness of the Mataleñas landscape in Santander. From a balcony, the view opens toward a cliff, where a construction post in the foreground h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
In the Wind
Located in Fairfield, CT
Lawrence McAdams remembers waking up literally and figurative in the fall of 1999, with a clear calling to become an artist. He writes, “The Images in my paintings are usually metap...
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shore with green stones
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This work captures a fragment of the coast of Santander on a somewhat gray day. Through a careful composition, it presents a shore dotted with green stones, gently lapped by the sea ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Irish Study II - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Watercolor on paper
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Island
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Island 1995
Category
1990s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
What's Left
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: John James Audubon's print of the Florida Cormorant
With minimal effort, it’s easy to find a great deal of research about how ecosystems and habitats are being dramatically a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
$12,500
Adam's Shoes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Lies in Empty Skies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Growing up as an African American kid, I never really saw artwork that represented people of my culture. Most other 70s and 80s babies like myself can remember going to granny’s hous...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Wadoons Pool
By Vitali Bondarenko
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vitali Bondarenko was born in 1965. He graduated from the Kiev State Institute of Fine Arts in 1990, where he majored in oil painting and developed his talents for landscape and fig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Viewing Spot, Original Impressionist Seascape Pastel Painting on Board, 2021
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Original Impressionist Seascape
10" x 8" (HxW) Pastel Painting on Board
The color palette in this seascape by artist Dina Gardner includes an exquisite t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
"Beacon Head, Georgian Bay, Ontario"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower right.
Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame.
Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1948)
Peter Sculthorpe was born in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Untitled VI
Located in Toronto, ON
17.5" x 11.5" Unframed
Mixed Media on Paper
Hand Signed by Rachel Isadora
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Breakwater
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Awards
2013 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor/ Allied Artists of America, 100th Annual Exhibition at the National Arts Club
2011 Mary Bryan Memorial Medal / Allied Artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Xanadu
Located in Napa, CA
Oil, charcoal, wax, pigment, and graphite on canvas.
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotat...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
$12,250
Parallel events #2 - Hélène Duclos, 21st Century, Contemporary Painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas
Signed
Unique work
1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement
“Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is it to be a living being? Who /...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Neptune Rising
Located in Fairfield, CT
Here oil on canvas images are photorealistic and gorgeous.
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View From Space
Located in Fairfield, CT
With a career spanning four decades, Suzan Woodruff is well known for her luminous, ethereal, and yet deeply grounded abstractions. Utilizing a physically demanding painting process, Woodruff creates paintings that are marked by cascading patterns that seem to change as the eye moves across the painting - colors shift, forms appear and recede, the light changes. Woodruff’s mastery of her medium is haunting in its beauty - transfixing and transforming.
Born in Phoenix, AZ, Woodruff’s creative life began at an early age. Raised by her gold-prospector grandparents who taught her how to read rocks and by her desert-bohemian mother, Woodruff immersed herself in the desert’s infinite spaces, stark light, and spectacular vistas. She received an art scholarship to Arizona State University where she studied printmaking, painting, and sculpture followed by apprenticeships with printmakers and artists including Shinkichi Tajiri...
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
MacCormacks Beach
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Looking Out from Kingsburg
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Favourite Tree on the LaHave
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Crescent Beach Sun
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sunrise at Caribou
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Adieu
Located in Napa, CA
Oil, charcoal, wax, pigment, & graphite on canvas
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotation...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
$5,625
Falaises Bretagne
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Contemporary figurative painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Au Revoir
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I made these paintings in response to a prediction for a change in the colour of the sky and oceans as a consequence of man-made climate change. This idea described by Peter Ward in his book Under a Pale Green Sky is based on his study of the great mass extinction events of the past. For many of these extinction events the earth’s chemistry changed the sky to green and the oceans purple.
My personal memories are often tied to colour – my first recollection is of an orange cup...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,500
Overview
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I made these paintings in response to a prediction for a change in the colour of the sky and oceans as a consequence of man-made climate change. This idea described by Peter Ward in his book Under a Pale Green Sky is based on his study of the great mass extinction events of the past. For many of these extinction events the earth’s chemistry changed the sky to green and the oceans purple.
My personal memories are often tied to colour – my first recollection is of an orange cup...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,200
Great Expectations
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I made these paintings in response to a prediction for a change in the colour of the sky and oceans as a consequence of man-made climate change. This idea described by Peter Ward in his book Under a Pale Green Sky is based on his study of the great mass extinction events of the past. For many of these extinction events the earth’s chemistry changed the sky to green and the oceans purple.
My personal memories are often tied to colour – my first recollection is of an orange cup being handed to me, and I can vividly remember the very first time I was able to wield colour with a red crayon. As a painter, I acutely feel the significance of this change in colour of the world’s landscapes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
ATARDECER EN COSTA BRAVA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Devouring the Future
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In his book Now or Never naturalist Tim Flannery describes a vision of a world with a dead purple ocean and a poisonous green sky. This is a world where warming has melted the ice caps and slowed down the circulation of the oceans so that they have become like a gigantic stagnant pond. This still oxygen depleted water will allow the proliferation of anoxygenic bacteria that will change the chemistry of the ocean making it poisonous to oxygen dependant life. These bacteria will also release hydrogen sulfide into the atmosphere causing a mass extinction of animal and plant life on land. This stark yet colourful world will be sublimely beautiful, but there will be no one around to see it.
This series of paintings depicts an imagining of our world after the catastrophic consequences of climate change through a reinterpretation of well-known images with a romantic sensibility towards nature. Romanticism was in part a reaction to the industrial revolution marked by a nostalgia for an untouched natural world and a reverence for its overwhelming power. Ironically the spread and continuation of that industrialism is predicted to set in motion a new version of nature that will completely overpower the human world as we know it. With these thoughts in mind, I’ve sourced some paintings associated with the romantic movement and removed the human figures from them – the only evidence of people are the decaying ruins left behind in this uncanny green and purple landscape. I’ve also referenced some photographs from the Apollo moon missions that are thought to have influenced the beginning of modern environmental awareness.
The starting point for this series of paintings was Arnold Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Water Vessel
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Blindspots
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King was born in Montreal and has a BFA from Laval and an MFA in visual art from York University. She currently teaches at Concordia University. Her photographs have been shown...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Melting Shard
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Tendril Promise
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Barbed Paradise
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Rising Levels
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Nothing but Blue Skies
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In his book Now or Never naturalist Tim Flannery describes a vision of a world with a dead purple ocean and a poisonous green sky. This is a world where warming has melted the ice ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
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