Worker Paintings

Title: Fisherman Returning to Port Artist: Domingo Álvarez Gómez Technique: Pastel on paper Dimensions: 13 x 16 in (unframed) Year: c. 2000 Condition: Good conservation Description: ...

Havana, Cuba - Time marches on everywhere. In Cuba, as in many tropical countries, the pace seems slower in the country and in the villages, but accelerated, almost frenetic, in big ...

"Global Marine Oil Workers" Artist: Robert Lavin Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 39" x 64" Framed In 1980, Charles Russel Luigs, CEO of Global Marine Inc. commissioned painter Robert La...

House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Mixing Mortar 12 1/2 X 14 3/4 inche...

Michael Harrell was born in Florida in 1964. He began painting nautical scenes at a young age and created his first published work at age 7. After rece...

This is a parody portrait of the famed Duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro, by Piero della Francesca, in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence. Hispanic Illustrator Ignacio Gomez pain...

David Shingler's (NC based) "Unloading Truck" is an oil painting that depicts a industrial scene of a construction worker standing with a full loading truck Bio/artist statement: ...

David Shingler's (NC based) "Man on Truck" is an oil painting that depicts an industrial scene of a construction worker preparing to unload material from...

Havana, Cuba - There is nothing glamourous about the work that keeps a city clean. And keeping a city like Havana clean is a pretty monumental task. There are a lot of piles of garba...

Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade: “Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...

Havana, Cuba – I often refer to this painting as a reverse composition – the majority of artist would have painted it from the other side of the pillars. But I liked the composition,...

Kathryn Maher’s oil paintings pluck the viewer from the mundane, racing, complicated world and transports them to an experience of wonder and quiet exhilaration. The paintings trans...

This painting started as an acrylic sketch, but I enhanced it with oils. I have many pictures of this stop with different people. On cotton canvas stretched over pine boards, can be ...

This is a one of a kind original acrylic and gold leaf painting by San Diego artist, Duke Windsor. Windsor’s success as a contemporary artist lies in his ...

Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Scraping" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a construction worker smoothing freshly poured cement in a developing urban landscape. About the artist: When Dianne Massey...

Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Cement and Tree Shadows" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts construction workers laying fresh cement in the shade of a tree wit...

Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade: “Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...

Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Eight Men Working" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts construction workers laying fresh cement in th...

What makes this work important? It's not that it's a commissioned artwork for a men's 60s pulp adventure magazine depicting the instant a soldier is shot. The big point of the painting is how brilliantly the formal elements are thought out, designed, and executed. John McDermott tells a story using a complex figural composition in an unexpected wide-angle vision. The work is as abstract as it is representation. His use of light is significant because it creates a high-contrast two-color style that bears the mark of its creator. This is a work done by a master artist/illustrator without peers compared to artists living today. If the contemporary art world gave awards for draftsmanship, painting technique, and graphic design .... John McDermott would win the highest accolades. Initialed lower left - unframed John McDermott (August 30, 1919 – April 20, 1977), also known under the pen names J.M. Ryan and Mariner, was an American illustrator and author noted for action and adventure illustrations.[1] McDermott worked as an in-between and effects animator for Walt Disney Studios and as a US Marine combat artist,before establishing himself as a cover illustrator for 1950s paperbacks and pulp magazines such as Argosy, American Weekly, and Outdoor Life. Under his J.M. Ryan pen name, he wrote the novels The Rat Factory (1971), a derogatory satire of Walt Disney and the Disney studio; Brooks Wilson Ltd (1967), on which the 1970 film Loving was based; and Mother's Day (1969) about Ma Barker. Under his own name, he novelized director-writer Bo Widerberg's screenplay for the 1971 film Joe Hill, which would be his final published book. Early life John Richard McDermott was born 30 August 1919 in Pueblo, Colorado, the younger of two sons of Henry McDermott, an oil broker. McDermott was a young child when his father committed suicide.[4] The family eventually moved to Los Angeles where McDermott's mother, Hazel, worked in a beauty parlor. He graduated from Hollywood High School in 1936. Although he had had no formal art education, he took a job as an artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Career Disney At Disney, McDermott worked as an in-betweener and effects animator on Brave Little Tailor, Pinocchio, The Reluctant Dragon and Fantasia. His experiences while working at Disney, particularly during the time of the 1941 Disney animators' strike, would later become the basis for his 1969 satirical novel The Rat Factory. McDermott left Disney to fight with US forces during World War II. US Marines McDermott World War II sketch titled "Buddy is Wounded" On September 29, 1942, McDermott enlisted with the US Marine Corps. He served as a "pistol and palette" combat artist assigned to the map-making section. As a sergeant with the III Amphibious Corps, McDermott was involved in battles in the South Pacific theater of war, documenting the Guam, Okinawa and the Guadalcanal Campaigns. McDermott considered his wartime years to be his art education. "In the Marines, as a combat artist, I traveled with the troops and for three years got all the drawing opportunity anyone could want. My work changed enormously during this time and I’m sure it was due to constant drawing, every single day, from life, just putting down what I saw around me. In a few instances it was a dangerous kind of scholarship." According to the Marine Corps history journal Fortitudine, McDermott was so prolific that his contemporary style pen-and-ink sketches became easily recognizable to both Marines, from published work in Leatherneck Magazine, and civilians, from glossy copies supplied by the Marine Corps to the nation's press.His wartime art appears in World War II history books and is displayed at the Pentagon and the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Illustration Following the end of World War II, McDermott moved from California to New York City to work as a freelance illustrator. McDermott made his reputation drawing modern action, war and adventure scenes. His work adorned the covers and inside story pages of popular pulp magazines of the 1950s such as Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book, Outdoor Life and American Weekly. McDermott's illustrations appeared on numerous covers of 1950s paperback novels published by Dell, Fawcett Gold Medal, Bantam Mystery and others. His action graphics were geared toward thriller and detective genres, such as Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm books Murderers' Row and The Betrayers. He also created covers for science fiction comic titles such as Voyage to the Deep[citation needed] and horror-themed paperbacks such as the classic 1955 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers...

This Oil Painting is a Major piece for me. It is something that I can relate to since I worked in some capacity as a Steelworker for 42 years. I worked on this for awhile. I really w...

Signed verso American, b. 1956 Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable collec...

American, b.1956 Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable collections include ...

Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, with several solo exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Boston, ...

Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, with several solo exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Boston, ...

This painting started as an acrylic sketch, but I enhanced it with oils. I have many pictures of this stop with different people. On cotton canvas stretched over pine boards, can be ...

these paintings are about learning and childhood. The things we learn from watching streams and diverting the course of water. The power of might :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This...

Robert "Bob" Lavin Title: "Hanging the Transformers" Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 32" x 20" Framed: 36.5" 23.5" Marking: Hand-Signed LR "Lavin" In Bob Lavin's Original Frame

Micah Johnson Big Brother 40 x 36 inches Charcoal and gouache on canvas This piece is unique Signed by artist Please contact us for additional artworks by...