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Art Subject: Suit
Millinery Number, Vogue Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Magazine cover: Woman with hat boxes. Francis Xavier Leyendecker, like his older brother, Joseph, was a talented illustrator. Bo...
Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ovie (King)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

"All Things Beautiful"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Hanger Books Signed lower right. Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover illustrator since the 1970s.
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20th Century Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Mother & Baby, 19th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of a Mother & Baby, 19th Century School of Friedrich August Von Kaulbach (1850-1920) Fine large 19th Century portrait of a mother and b...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Time to go - Digital Painting Pop Art Print
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Pop Art Digital Figurative Painting Print - Time to go A man on his journey: With a few strong lines that become finer in places and reveal details, the exterior is depicted to refl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Plexiglass, Digital, Digital Pigment

President Ulysses S. Grant and His Cabinet
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category

20th Century Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Aika - Hyperrealistic Oil Portrait of a Young Woman in Traditional Attire, 2024
Located in Denver, CO
Kazuya Ushioda's "Aika" (2024) is a masterful hyperrealistic oil painting on panel, capturing the delicate grace of a young woman adorned in a richly patterned blue kimono. With exce...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

PS 250 The Night Bride Portrait -Chut les Barbizons! Ready to Hang French School
Located in Zofingen, AG
Portrait PS 250 The Night Bride Ophélia - Arthur Rimbaud I On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping White Ophelia floats like a great lily; Floats very slowly, lying in...
Category

Early 1900s Tonalist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

"The Cubist Artist" Modern Maroon and Green Toned Seated Male Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Cubist inspired portrait painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features a seated male figure wearing a white jacket and maroon tie with a paint p...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Intermission
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Image of a ballerina wearing a tutu sitting in front of a brick wall. Signed Lower Left. Artist Francois Cloutier captures the essence of ballet in paintings of dancers who maintai...
Category

20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Le Bal
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Ar...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Butler with Tray with Still Life, Large Art Deco Painting by Giancarlo Impiglia
Located in Long Island City, NY
An acrylic painting by Giancarlo Impiglia from 1990. An art deco style pop art portrait of a waiter serving wine in a lavishly formal upper-class setting. Unframed. Artist: Giancarlo Impiglia, American (1940 - ) Title: Butler with Tray...
Category

1990s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Kazuya Ushioda "The Sound Of Prayer" - Oil On Panel Figurative Painting 2021
Located in Denver, CO
Kazuya Ushioda’s The Sound of Prayer (2021) is a striking figurative oil on panel that captures a moment of quiet reflection. Measuring 44.12 x 11.87 x 0.70 inches, this tall and slender composition features a single figure clothed in a white kimono adorned with delicate blue floral motifs and cinched by a vivid red sash. The woman’s eyes are closed, and her hands are gently positioned near her head, suggesting an intimate state of concentration or contemplation. Painted in oil on a carefully prepared panel, this original, handmade work showcases Ushioda’s meticulous technique, evident in the rendering of subtle skin tones and nuanced folds of fabric. The vertical format accentuates the graceful poise of the figure, drawing the viewer’s gaze downward from her serene expression to the richly detailed kimono patterns. The neutral background highlights the subject’s form, creating a harmonious interplay of color and space. Executed in 2021, The Sound of Prayer stands...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Contemporary portrait "Poolside Party"
Located in Zofingen, AG
It's strange to paint frills and ruffles when all I have in my head are post-apocalyptic images. But I've never swum in a pool, nor have I been to a real party, even when I was in sc...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Community Plate for Oneida Silversmiths Ltd., Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate date: 1924 Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Center Left Sight Size 20.75" x 29.88", Framed 49.00" x 39.00"
Category

1920s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Remembrance
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Painting of a pensive woman seated in a chair Hans Amis, born in Canton, China, in 1957, is a graduate of the Fine Art College i...
Category

1960s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Make Believe Ballroom”
Located in Warren, NJ
Larry Rivers “Make Believe Ballroom” Signed Acrylic Oil Photolithograph Cast Resin Wood 1989. In good condition measures 48x48
Category

20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Arthur" (2024) By Nicolas Martin, Original Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
"Arthur" (2024) by Nicolas Martin is an original handmade oil painting on panel that depicts a portrait of a man in a suit and bowtie on a greyscale background. Nicolas Martin is a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Joyce Norwood, "Skirting in the Breeze" 48x36 Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This painting "Skirting in the Breeze" is a 48x48 oil painting on canvas by artist Joyce Norwood. Depicted is a young woman dressed in a light pink shirt with a flowing white skirt dancing in wind and the seafoam waves crashing against the beach. Waves crash against the shore as the young woman enters the shoreline looking down. Norwood's use of impressionistic brush strokes and color give this painting a liveliness. About the Artist: A native of North Carolina and one of ten girls, Joyce always loved to draw especially from the human figure. Her education began at the New York Art Student’s League, studying under Robert Brackman and William Draper...
Category

2010s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boreas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statement Intermundium: space between worlds 2021 In the summer of 2019, I traveled to Ireland for an extended painting trip, renting a cottage for a month on the rugged Sheepshead Peninsula in West Cork, and then driving the circumference of the island for more exploration and painting. Along with my husband, also a painter, I’ve been going abroad...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Mediterranean girl III
Located in Zofingen, AG
In creating this artwork, I envisioned a serene moment captured under the Mediterranean sun. The young woman, clothed in traditional attire, symbolizes timeless grace and the profoun...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Social Etiquette V - Surrealist Portrait Figurative Woman in Mask Original Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian governed academia setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

At the sunny sea
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I captured the serene yet dynamic essence of nature juxtaposed with a figure embodying grace and freedom. I was inspired by the powerful tranquility of the sea ...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sacrificing the Queen, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Sacrificing the Queen" is pure Fat Black -- one of Hunter's intriguing, minimalist and expressive abstract paintings from his "Fat Black" collection. Bold. Striking. Calligraphic...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

The War of Independence
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"The War of Independence" is an original oil painting on canvas by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame measuring fifty-nine inches in height ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Memorial of Vivienne Westwood Series. Set of 6 drawings
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him. The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

Materials

Pencil, Permanent Marker, Ink, Paper

"Dawn" oil on canvas figurative painting, stippled lake and mountain landscape
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Dawn" is a contemporary oil painting on canvas. Orsolic is known for her melodic landscapes and precise attention to detail, however, in this painting, she branches away from realis...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Art Deco Glamorous woman in Purple Evening Dress - Golden Age of Hollywood
Located in Miami, FL
Framed Size 28.5 x 21 Jaro Fabry was a brilliant illustrator with a defined style of his own. There is not a brushstroke out of place in his works that appear loosely rendered. He is best known for his depiction of Golden Age of Hollywood...
Category

1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil, Paper

"Believe You Can Fly " by Suzy Smith, Original Oil Painting, Young Girl Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
"Believe You Can Fly" by Suzy Smith (US based) is an original oil painting that depicts a portrait of a young girl with a blue background. About the Artist: Suzy Smith is a Wyoming ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

'Once Upon a Time, ' by George Oswalt, Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This contemporary doppelgänger fairytale by George Oswalt features an aging prom queen in her black and white silk duponi dress dancing in an autumn fie...
Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sunday Afternoon Callers, Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 17, 1950
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed 'Hughes-' Lower Left This work was published as the cover of the June 17, 1950 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. Literature: J. Cohn, ...
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Couple Under Loggia
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 34.00" x 30.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left PRICE ON REQUEST- Story illustration for The Torrent, image of man and woman in outdoor setting. Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His StudentsSouth Dakota Art...
Category

Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Dakota Rose"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Timothy Rees was fascinated with drawing throughout his youth and after high school pursued a degree in animation. The pull to painting portraits and figures was strong, however, leading him to learn the craft in the open studios of the Palette and Chisel...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

"My Darling Bride"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1994 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 22.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Book Cover Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover illustrator...
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Orit Fuchs: Vivid 60 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 55/55"
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv‭, ‬a storyteller with a deep‭, ‬pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression‭. ‬Her medium spans the gamut‭ - ‬sculptures‭, ‬pa...
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Giclée

Blue Denim Shirt Hanging on a Red Hanger with a Boldly Patterned Scarf
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jill Jackson (British, contemporary) Title: Blue Denim Shirt Medium: oil on board, unframed Painting : 16 x 12 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Contemporary portrait "Inhabitants"
Located in Zofingen, AG
Once I lived in a private house. We had four cats, and then we accidentally found the fifth. Where he came from and how long he lived with us is unknown). For texture on the primed c...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

FONDLY, FRANK SINATRA
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Brutalist Columns, Abstract Black and White, Cryptic Text, Oil Crayon on Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful painting by Alberto de Blobs (Barcleona, 1982). Alberto is a talented painter whose elaborate mixture of figurative and free form abstraction create a highly illu...
Category

2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Oil Crayon, Paper

I Promised My Wife, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
“I Promised My Wife: Sandy’s Business Trip Adventures,” original cover for Liberty magazine, published September 24, 1927 Traveling on a business trip, Sandy ventures out of his cut...
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Probable Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Illustration Board Signature: Unsigned
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Illustration Board

Relativity, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published October 17, 1931. As Lil’s Aunt Ruby, a “social gadabout” and “blithe widow of many years’ standing” arrives at the Jenkins family home for a visit, Sandy tries to hide his irritation once he sees the massive amount of luggage she had in tow. Aunt Ruby shows off an enormous new diamond ring and coyly announces she is to be married that fall and that her new fiance would be arriving shortly. As Lil scrambles up some hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, Sandy hears a car pull up to the house and is shocked to discover that Aunt Ruby’s future husband is none other than Sandy’s boss! (Liberty magazine, October 17, 1931, p. 37) “For the Love o’ Lil: The Picture Story of an American Family” In 1926, under his long-term contract to produce a cover per week for Liberty magazine, Leslie Thrasher introduced a signature cast of characters that appeared each week, telling a serialized story through his illustrations. Liberty touted its new cover serial as “something no magazine has ever done before…Heretofore, all magazine cover...
Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Des Artes Graphicas No. 1"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Timothy Rees was fascinated with drawing throughout his youth and after high school pursued a degree in animation. The pull to painting portraits and figures was strong, however, leading him to learn the craft in the open studios of the Palette and Chisel...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Panel

Mourning woman oil on board painting impressionist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Vives Maristany (XX) - Woman in mourning - Oil on panel Oil measures 25x13.5 cm. Frameless.
Category

1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Portrait of Elegant Lady in Pink Dress with Parasol by Beach Original French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"A Day by the Sea" French School, 20th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 29 x 21 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Black Man Stereotype 2 (Mandingo)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Black Man Stereotype 2 (Mandingo)" challenges the pervasive Mandingo stereotype that perpetuates the hypersexualization of black men. Through this artwork, the artist confronts the ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Couples
Located in Boston, MA
With artist frame
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary portrait "The End of the World"
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork combines vintage aesthetics with surreal elements, set against a thought-provoking backdrop. A woman in a black suit and bow tie, holding a cigarette, exudes timeless el...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Tranquility in Nature
Located in Long Island City, NY
A peaceful, romantic scene, a couple seated in the sunlight, lush garden, alongside a gently, flowing stream… Vivid rich shades of greens and warm coral, heavily detailed with gold l...
Category

1990s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

WALKING BAREFOOT, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A girl walks barefoot through a yellow flower meadow, her shoes in hand. She enjoys the cool damp ground beneath her feet, at the start of another long warm late summer day. On...
Category

2010s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Collage 1994 - 1996
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Purvis Young (1943 - 2010) Collage 1994 - 1996, 1994-1996 Paint and wood construction on board 96 x 24 in Collage totem of found objects and paint
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Who Are These Angels LXXI
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This piece is number 71 from my ;Who Are These Angels; series. This painting is on a gallery wrapped canvas with finished ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Original Oil on Board. Vernon de Beauvoir Ward, "The Beauty of the Garden"
Located in Mere, GB
Vernon de Beauvoir Ward, 1905 - 1985. Painter and illustrator of domestic and historical genre, landscapes and birds. Signed. Original oil on board 10 x 14 inches. Frame size 17 x...
Category

Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Lady with a Bird on Bank of a Lake
Located in Zofingen, AG
The work is inspired by the tenderness and purity of the girl on the shore, in whose hands is a white dove. Another moment and the dove will fly in the sky. In this oil painting, I ...
Category

2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Daenerys morning
Located in Zofingen, AG
Once upon a time, a wonderful girl posed for Evgeniy, outwardly very similar to the well-known blonde from Game of Thrones. Almost a doppelganger of her fairy-tale sister .. And then...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel

No, I can never be Mrs. Hammerschlosser!, Liberty Magazine Cover January 22, 192
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published January 22, 1927. Blissful in her recent engagement to Sandy, Lil spends an evening at home knitting him a pair of green zigzag sport ...
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Stepping Out in Paris" Haute Couture Impressionistic Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A very whimsical depiction of a woman stepping out in Paris. This piece captures the essence of fashion and Haute Couture. Done in a very modern and impressionistic style, the colors...
Category

2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Japanese Girl Promenading
Located in New York, NY
Harry Humphrey Moore led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, dividing his time between Europe, New York City, and California. This globe-trotting painter was also active in Morocco, and most importantly, he was among the first generation of American artists to live and work in Japan, where he depicted temples, tombs, gardens, merchants, children, and Geisha girls. Praised by fellow painters such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Moore’s fame was attributed to his exotic subject matter, as well as to the “brilliant coloring, delicate brush work [sic] and the always present depth of feeling” that characterized his work (Eugene A. Hajdel, Harry H. Moore, American 19th Century: Collection of Information on Harry Humphrey Moore, 19th Century Artist, Based on His Scrap Book and Other Data [Jersey City, New Jersey: privately published, 1950], p. 8). Born in New York City, Moore was the son of Captain George Humphrey, an affluent shipbuilder, and a descendant of the English painter, Ozias Humphrey (1742–1810). He became deaf at age three, and later went to special schools where he learned lip-reading and sign language. After developing an interest in art as a young boy, Moore studied painting with the portraitist Samuel Waugh in Philadelphia, where he met and became friendly with Eakins. He also received instruction from the painter Louis Bail in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1864, Moore attended classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and until 1907, he would visit the “City by the Bay” regularly. In 1865, Moore went to Europe, spending time in Munich before traveling to Paris, where, in October 1866, he resumed his formal training in Gérôme’s atelier, drawing inspiration from his teacher’s emphasis on authentic detail and his taste for picturesque genre subjects. There, Moore worked alongside Eakins, who had mastered sign language in order to communicate with his friend. In March 1867, Moore enrolled at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, honing his drawing skills under the tutelage of Adolphe Yvon, among other leading French painters. In December 1869, Moore traveled around Spain with Eakins and the Philadelphia engraver, William Sartain. In 1870, he went to Madrid, where he met the Spanish painters Mariano Fortuny and Martin Rico y Ortega. When Eakins and Sartain returned to Paris, Moore remained in Spain, painting depictions of Moorish life in cities such as Segovia and Granada and fraternizing with upper-crust society. In 1872, he married Isabella de Cistue, the well-connected daughter of Colonel Cistue of Saragossa, who was related to the Queen of Spain. For the next two-and-a-half years, the couple lived in Morocco, where Moore painted portraits, interiors, and streetscapes, often accompanied by an armed guard (courtesy of the Grand Sharif) when painting outdoors. (For this aspect of Moore’s oeuvre, see Gerald M. Ackerman, American Orientalists [Courbevoie, France: ACR Édition, 1994], pp. 135–39.) In 1873, he went to Rome, spending two years studying with Fortuny, whose lively technique, bright palette, and penchant for small-format genre scenes made a lasting impression on him. By this point in his career, Moore had emerged as a “rapid workman” who could “finish a picture of given size and containing a given subject quicker than most painters whose style is more simple and less exacting” (New York Times, as quoted in Hajdel, p. 23). In 1874, Moore settled in New York City, maintaining a studio on East 14th Street, where he would remain until 1880. During these years, he participated intermittently in the annuals of the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, exhibiting Moorish subjects and views of Spain. A well-known figure in Bay Area art circles, Moore had a one-man show at the Snow & May Gallery in San Francisco in 1877, and a solo exhibition at the Bohemian Club, also in San Francisco, in 1880. Indeed, Moore fraternized with many members of the city’s cultural elite, including Katherine Birdsall Johnson (1834–1893), a philanthropist and art collector who owned The Captive (current location unknown), one of his Orientalist subjects. (Johnson’s ownership of The Captive was reported in L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist,” New York Times, July 23, 1893.) According to one contemporary account, Johnson invited Moore and his wife to accompany her on a trip to Japan in 1880 and they readily accepted. (For Johnson’s connection to Moore’s visit to Japan, see Emma Willard and Her Pupils; or, Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary [New York: Mrs. Russell Sage, 1898]. Johnson’s bond with the Moores was obviously strong, evidenced by the fact that she left them $25,000.00 in her will, which was published in the San Francisco Call on December 10, 1893.) That Moore would be receptive to making the arduous voyage across the Pacific is understandable in view of his penchant for foreign motifs. Having opened its doors to trade with the West in 1854, and in the wake of Japan’s presence at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, American artists were becoming increasingly fascinated by what one commentator referred to as that “ideal dreamland of the poet” (L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist”). Moore, who was in Japan during 1880–81, became one of the first American artists to travel to the “land of the rising sun,” preceded only by the illustrator, William Heime, who went there in 1851 in conjunction with the Japanese expedition of Commodore Matthew C. Perry; Edward Kern, a topographical artist and explorer who mapped the Japanese coast in 1855; and the Boston landscapist, Winckleworth Allan Gay, a resident of Japan from 1877 to 1880. More specifically, as William H. Gerdts has pointed out, Moore was the “first American painter to seriously address the appearance and mores of the Japanese people” (William H. Gerdts, American Artists in Japan, 1859–1925, exhib. cat. [New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1996], p. 5). During his sojourn in Japan, Moore spent time in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Nikko, and Osaka, carefully observing the local citizenry, their manners and mode of dress, and the country’s distinctive architecture. Working on easily portable panels, he created about sixty scenes of daily life, among them this sparkling portrayal of a young woman dressed in a traditional kimono and carrying a baby on her back, a paper parasol...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

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