Duke Windsor

Impressionist Cityscape Wall Sculpture, "Golden Alley No. 1"

This is a one of a kind original acrylic and gold leaf still life painting by San Diego artist, Duke Windsor. Its dimensions are 12"x12". It is framed. A certificate of authenticity ...

This is a one-of-a-kind original acrylic and gold leaf still life painting by San Diego artist, Duke Windsor. Its dimensions are 18"x36"x1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery. Windsor’s success as a contemporary artist lies in his ability to infuse ordinary subject matter with his own ingenuity. Windsor’s wealth of occupations and personal drive have shaped the foundation of his creative spirit. Through observation of the traditional American Way, Windsor finds his most powerful subject matter. The gold in his contemporary icons elicit consideration for reverence, love, compassion, and courage in our world. Gold leaf is the color of extravagance, wealth, riches, and excess which exerts a hypnotic attraction and evokes a very celestial, reverent feeling towards the serenity of the subject. "The Golden Skies series came about after several years of experimenting with new ways to create my urban/rural cityscape scenes in a fresh way. I was inspired to utilize gold leaf after seeing the biopic film, Klimt. In the movie, Klimt (John Malkovich) is working the “Adele Bloch-Bauer” portrait, and in the scene, he was applying gold leaf on the painting. Later while visiting the Timken Museum in Balboa Park, I viewed the collection of Russian Icons on wood...

This is a one-of-a-kind original acrylic and gold leaf still life painting by San Diego artist, Duke Windsor. Its dimensions are 12"x24"x2.5". It is framed. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery. Windsor’s success as a contemporary artist lies in his ability to infuse ordinary subject matter with his own ingenuity. Windsor’s wealth of occupations and personal drive have shaped the foundation of his creative spirit. Through observation of the traditional American Way, Windsor finds his most powerful subject matter. The gold in his contemporary icons elicit consideration for reverence, love, compassion, and courage in our world. Gold leaf is the color of extravagance, wealth, riches, and excess which exerts a hypnotic attraction and evokes a very celestial, reverent feeling towards the serenity of the subject. "The Golden Skies series came about after several years of experimenting with new ways to create my urban/rural cityscape scenes in a fresh way. I was inspired to utilize gold leaf after seeing the biopic film, Klimt. In the movie, Klimt (John Malkovich) is working the “Adele Bloch-Bauer” portrait, and in the scene, he was applying gold leaf on the painting. Later while visiting the Timken Museum in Balboa Park, I viewed the collection of Russian Icons on wood...

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 ability to infuse ordinary s...

Folk Outsider Naive Art Metal NYC Cityscape Sculpture Wall Hanging Contemporary "NYC Cityscape" 39 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 2 inches Unsigned Offered is an extraordinary hand crafted wall s...

Impressive 5ft x wide three-dimensional Brutalist wall hanging sculpture by Finesse Originals. The cityscape is comprised of fiberglass made to give the effect of a gold / bronze scu...

A large and intricately detailed plaster sculpture of a street scene by celebrated British sculptor, Paul Day. Thought to be an original maquette – a model for a larger piece of scul...

Beverly Pepper is an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement. She was married to the writer Curtis Bill Pepper. Pepper was born Beverly Stoll on December 20, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. At sixteen, she entered the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York to study advertising design, photography, and industrial design. She then embarked on a career as a commercial art director. She studied at Art Students' League and attended night classes at Brooklyn College, including art theory with György Kepes, who introduced her to the work of Lasló Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray. It was also at this time, in her mid twenties, that she met the environmental artist Frederick Kiesler. Drawn to post-war Europe in 1949, she studied painting in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. There she attended classes with cubist painter André L'Hôte, and with Fernand Léger at his atelier. She also visited the studios of Ossip Zadkine and Brâncuși. Pepper began her career as a painter, but after a trip to Angkor Wat, Cambodia in 1960, she was so awed by the temple ruins surviving beneath the jungle growth that she turned to sculpture. She made her debut in 1962 with an exhibit of carved tree trunks at a gallery in Rome. After several exhibitions in New York and Rome, she was one of ten artists invited by Giovanni Carandente, along with David Smith, Alexander Calder, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Lynn Chadwick, and Pietro Consagra, to fabricate works in Italsider factories in Italy for an outdoor exhibition, "Sculture nella città", held in Spoleto during the summer of 1962. Beverly Pepper has had a long and extraordinary career. Like her contemporaries Louise Bourgeois and Louise Nevelson, Pepper forged a unique path as a mid-century feminist artist. As the 1960s progressed, Pepper turned to polished stainless steel. In some of the first works, she used a torch to carve used one-inch thick elements of stainless steel. From there, her pieces evolved into highly polished stainless with painted interiors. She was, in fact, one of the first artists, if not the first, to incorporate Cor-Ten steel into sculpture. Beginning in the 1970s, and to the present day, she has lived a bi-continental life traveling between Europe and the United States. Western Washington University outdoor sculpture collection. The collection has some pieces which qualify as "land art" including Alice Aycock's 1987 "The Islands of the Rose Apple Tree Surrounded by the Oceans of the Word, for You, Oh My Darling," and Nancy Holt's 1977-1978 "Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings." Other artists in the collection include Beverly Pepper, Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Isamu Noguchi, Bruce Nauman, Tom Otterness, and Mark di Suvero. Pepper's works have been exhibited and collected by major museums and galleries throughout the world, including: deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York The White House Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Denver Art Museum, Colorado Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Les Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris, France Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria The Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain The Wohl Rose Garden, Jerusalem, Israel The Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Europarkas Sculpture Park, Vilnius, Lithuania The Bradley Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Gori Collection, Pistoia, Italy Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas The City of Todi, Italy Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Casal Solleric, Majorca, Spain Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri The Seattle Art Museum, Olympic Sculpture...