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Style: American Realist
The Carlton Hotel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955. The Carlton Hotel Black and White Photography Slim Aarons E...
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1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Hombre! Que Sin Vergeunza!
Located in New York, NY
George Biddle (1885-1973), Hombre! Que Sin Vergeunza!, 1928, lithograph, signed and dated in pencil lower right, titled and numbered lower left [also signed in plate lower left ”Biddle/1928/44]. References: Pennigar 78, Trotter 44. Edition 100. In excellent condition (never framed, without light or time staining), with wide margins, the full sheet, 9 3/4 x 13 3/4, the sheet 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches. Printed by George C. Miller. On cream wove paper with the FRANCE watermark. Archival mounting (mylar unattached mounting between acid-free board). A fine, fresh impression, in pristine condition. According to Pennigar the title translates roughly to “Buddy! Aren’t you ashamed of yourself!” The title refers to the composition: the well-groomed man with his foot up in the carriage passes a group of naked little boys...
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1920s American Realist Art

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Lithograph

Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
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1950s American Realist Art

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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

"Icy River" Oil Painting
By Rick Howell
Located in Denver, CO
Rick Howell's "Untitled 2" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a snow lined stream reflecting the blue and rust colored shimmer of cold water melt flowing into the distance. About the Artist: Rick Howell's landscape paintings deftly fuse the influences of the Old Masters, the American Romantic Landscape movement, and the tonal colors, loose brushwork, and softness of form displayed in the Barbizon school. Howell’s art is notable for its poetic and atmospheric interpretation of the land, as derived from his direct on-site observations and impressions. A master of light, color, and shadow, Howell creates highly ordered scenes which consciously juxtapose hazy or blurred elements with sharp and refined details. A master of the tonalist landscape, Howell often utilizes the overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist to elicit an emotional response. Howell’s work demonstrates extraordinary sensitivity to time and place, to the endless variety of forms and colors of landscape in the Southwest, and to expressing the quiet contemplative beauty of nature, capturing the nuances of place through his use of subtle gradations of color and light. Howell often painted en plein air for weeks at a time, even in harsh winter months. While Howell was neither purely a realist nor an impressionist painter, his works convey both the earthly and the ethereal to capture the full essence of a locale as observed and felt on location. As a fourth-generation native of New Mexico, Howell had a deep connection with the Southwest; in particular, he drew considerable inspiration from the wilderness that surrounded his studio at the mouth of the Conejos Canyon in the Southern San Juan Mountains...
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2010s American Realist Art

Materials

Oil

New England Skiing
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955. New England Skiing Black and White Photography Slim Aa...
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1950s American Realist Art

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Photographic Paper, Emulsion, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Palm Bay Club, Estate Edition Photograph: 1950s Skiing in New Hampshire
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two female skiers outside the Carroll Reed Ski Service Shop and Check Room in New Hampshire, 1955. Slim Aarons New England Skiing Black and White Photogr...
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1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

New England Skiing
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955. New England Skiing Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and s...
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1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Eden Hartford, Hollywood, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features actress Eden Hartford, sister to Dee, in the Hollywood home she shared with her husband, co...
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1950s American Realist Art

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Photographic Paper, Emulsion, ABS, Black and White, Photogram, Digital

Eden Hartford, Hollywood, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Actress Eden Hartford, sister to Dee, in the Hollywood home she shared with her husband, comedian Groucho Marx. Slim Aarons Eden Hartford Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Est...
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1950s American Realist Art

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Photographic Paper, Emulsion, ABS, Black and White, Photogram, Digital

Jamaica Sea Sailing
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaica. Slim Aarons Spring Break Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Cert...
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1950s American Realist Art

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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

September Affair, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features actress Joan Fontaine (1917 - 2003) and co-star Joseph Cotten (1905 - 1994) receive direction from William Dieterle (1893 - 1972), while filming, 'September Affair...
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1940s American Realist Art

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Luxury Dining
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circa 1955. Slim Aarons Luxury Dining Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aaron...
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1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Private Transport
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gladys 'Patsy' Bartlett (1928 - 2011, née Pulitzer, later Pulitzer Preston) rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car, 1954. The car is parked by a plane belonging to the Everg...
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1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Spring Break
Located in Los Angeles, CA
High schoolers picnic on the beach at Bonita Springs, Florida, 1955. Slim Aarons Spring Break Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Estate Edition Nu...
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1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Liz Pringle, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features fashion model Liz Pringle drinking from a coconut at the Round Hill resort, Montego Bay, ...
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1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Il Pellicano Hotel, Poolside Porto Ercole, Italy. Red, Blue, Turquoise
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel, Porto Ecole' Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). * Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons, Porto Ercole, Italy, Il Pelicano, Vintage Glamour, 70s...
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1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

"Rhineback Special", Automobile Painting by Robert Bidner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert D. H. Bidner, American (1930 - 1983) Title: Rhinebeck Special Year: 1976 Medium: Acrylic on Panel, signed l.l. Size: 22.5 x 32 in. (57.15 x 81.28 cm) Frame: 23.5 x 33 ...
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1970s American Realist Art

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Acrylic, Panel

White Rose
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Rose Year: 1981 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size...
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1980s American Realist Art

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Screen

Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez Seafront (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seafront in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, September 1970. Slim Aarons Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez Seafront Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez, Vintage Ships, French Riviera, Beach Photography, Vintage Riviera, Vintage Docks...
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1970s American Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

The Black Road: Crystal - Resin Head Sculpture with Interior Light and Tree
Located in Chicago, IL
Dean Kugler The Black Road: Crystal, 2022 resin, steel, limestone 31h x 13w x 12d in 78.74h x 33.02w x 30.48d cm DK0044 Dean Kugler is a seasoned interdisciplinary artist, painter, ...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Concrete, Steel

Francine Brandt, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico. This is an estate stamped and ha...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Red Rose, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Red Rose Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 30...
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1980s American Realist Art

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Screen

Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and...
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1960s American Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Cricketers on the Pitch, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features cricketers on the pitch, Belfast, 1962. This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edit...
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1960s American Realist Art

Materials

Black and White, Lambda

Cricketers on the Pitch, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features cricketers on the pitch, Belfast, 1962. This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edit...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Black and White, Lambda

Dodge and Truck - Photorealist Watercolor on Paper by Don David
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Davis Title: Dodge and Truck Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.r. Image Size: 18 x 24 inches Frame Size: 24.75 x 30.25 inches This watercolor by American artist Don ...
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1980s American Realist Art

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Archival Paper, Watercolor

Slim Aarons, Marie-Louise Scio, Tettuccio Terme, Montecatini, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Marie-Louise Scio (Tettuccio Terme, Montecatini, Italy, 1980) Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Marie-Louise Scio poses in a leotard at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, November 1980 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate). Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles. Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source. Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun. Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic. Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons, Acapulco, Red and White Stripes, Mexico, Vintage Glamour, Midcentury Photography, Vintage Resort...
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1970s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Busy Woman
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Busy Woman" Artist Proof, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s Depicts a woman sewing. Color: Black and White ...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Lithograph

Beach Family
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Beach Family" Edition of 125, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1963 Depicts family in swimsuits and towels on a h...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Lithograph

'Dali's Party' Estate Edition, ft Surrealist Salvador Dali in New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking stick and wearing a mustache, and the woman smiles with mischief, wearing extraordinary mid-century dress and jewels. In Dali's work and life, the magical, mysterious, artistic and alchemical mix. The vintage and classic mingles with the bizarre and strange in this historic photograph of an avant-garde legend. Dali's Party, 1959 (Salvador Dali in New York) Slim Aarons Estate Edition Photograph Lambda Print Estate Embossed with 2 Certificates of Authenticity Printed Later 4 sizes available Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquess of Dalí de Púbol gcYC (/ˈdɑːli, dɑːˈliː/;[1] Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli]; Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli];[2] 11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work. Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age, he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931, and is one of the most famous Surrealist paintings. Dalí lived in France throughout the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) before leaving for the United States in 1940 where he achieved commercial success. He returned to Spain in 1948 where he announced his return to the Catholic faith and developed his "nuclear mysticism" style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism, and recent scientific developments. Dalí's artistic repertoire included painting, graphic arts, film, sculpture, design and photography, at times in collaboration with other artists. He also wrote fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays and criticism. Major themes in his work include dreams, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science and his closest personal relationships. To the dismay of those who held his work in high regard, and to the irritation of his critics, his eccentric and ostentatious public behavior often drew more attention than his artwork. His public support for the Francoist regime, his commercial activities and the quality and authenticity of some of his late works have also been controversial. His life and work were an important influence on other Surrealists, pop art and contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. There are two major museums devoted to Salvador Dalí's work: the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain, and the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Salvador...
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1950s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Basilica de la Sagrada Familia
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting depicting the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia. This nocturne shows the beautifully sculpted spires of a cathedral designed by architect ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Oil, Panel

Acapulco Villa, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph on the Pacific Coast
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This midcentury landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Las Brisas Residencias, home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, where Henry Kissinger spe...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Marbella Club, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a guest taking a break from the sun at the Marbella Club, Marb...
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1970s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Knowles Memorial Chapel, Winter Park, Florida, 1930s
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Frederick Hamilton Daniels (American, 1872-1966) Signed: F.H. Daniels, 1935, (lower, left) " Knowles Memorial Chapel, Winter Park, Florida ", 1935 Oil on canvas laid on board 8" ...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Dina Brodsky, Bluebird, realist animal watercolor on paper, 2019
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky pairs gouache and watercolor to achieve the luster of her subject's plumage. The rich royal blue reflects in a dreamy glow off the bird's perch. Each carefully defined f...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Dining At The Eagle Club, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photogra
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1660s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers pass by a snow covered tree in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1969. This is an estat...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Jerusalem 1967 Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Western Wall Kotel Hamaaravi
By Richard Gordon
Located in Surfside, FL
Richard Gordon was born in Chicago in 1945. He studied Political Science at the University of Chicago and did not begin photographing until he worked at a photography studio in 1965. Early in Gordon’s career, Robert Frank critiqued his work and stated that he “loved photography too much.” Gordon frequently makes photographic references in his work and pays homage to the photographers who influenced him: Eugène Atget, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Helen Levitt. Bookmaking has been an important element of Gordon’s photography from the beginning; he created his own press, Chimaera Press, and published Meta Photographs (Chimaera Press, 1978), One More for the Road: The Autobiography of a Friendship 1966-1996 (Flâneur Bookworks, 1996), American Surveillance: Someone to Watch Over Me (Chimaera Press, 2009), and Notes from the Field (Chimaera Press, 2012), as well as handmade and limited edition books. Richard Gordon’s photographs are represented in many institutional collections including: Art Institute of Chicago; Bibliothéque National, Paris; Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris; Corcoran Gallery of Art; J. P. Getty Museum (Wagstaff Collection); Library of Congress; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; New York Public Library; Oakland Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Stanford Museum of Art; and University of Colorado, Boulder. From the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection The Ruttenbergs are longtime art lovers who have collected abstract expressionist paintings, African art, sculpture, graphics, old watches and photographs-lots and lots of photographs. They started collecting them in the 1960s when the medium was still the stepchild of the arts. They kept collecting until they had more than 3,000 prints, 99 of which are in the Art Institute exhibit, ``The Intuitive Eye: Photographs from the Collection of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg.`` The show encompasses the entire history of photography with black-and-white and color prints from every genre, It includes street photography by Walker Evans and Garry Winogrand, glamour shots by Edward Steichen and Richard Avedon, nudes by Robert Mapplethorpe and Nicholas Muray...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

"Historic Village Morning" oil painting, colorful colonial homes, architecture
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of the exteriors of a grouping of historic homes, in various colors, on a sunny day. A white picket fence encases a garden in the foreground. Dimensions: 12 x 24 in...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Linen

Skiing Holiday, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition. Winter Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing Holiday, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition. Winter Portrait Photograph This late 1970s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features A...
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1970s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Cat-Shaped Pool, Estate Edition, Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Cat-Shaped Pool, a newly available Estate Edition photograph, features a charming swimming pool in the shape of a cat at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami, circa 1955. This historic shot of the pool was captured just after the the Fontainebleau's opening in 1954. Visual Description: Guests enjoying the newly opened turquoise cat-shaped pool at the Fontainebleu Hotel, designed by Morris Lapidus. The deck features sunny, graphic yellow and black umbrellas, as well as red, yellow and blue striped umbrellas and loungers. The cat's tail is a vintage wooden diving board, its ears are stairs, and its nose is a slide. Designed by Morris Lapidus. Slim Aarons Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Printed Later Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Internal: vintage '50s florida, 50's Miami, vintage poolside, vintage swim fashion, vintage slim aarons, Fontainebleau Hotel, vintage Miami beach, Miami architecture, collins avenue The Fontainebleau Miami...
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1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Signed Mt. Lassen Vintage Lithograph by Richard Walter Dubois, Limited Edition
Located in Denver, CO
This striking vintage black-and-white lithograph by acclaimed artist Richard Walter Dubois vividly captures the dramatic landscape of Northern California’s Mt. Lassen. Featuring snow...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Woman
Located in Rockport, MA
David Levine - New York Times cartoonist In 1967 Levine was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1971. Levine's work h...
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1990s American Realist Art

Materials

Graphite

Homestead, Lithograph by Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000) Title: Homestead Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Size: 23 in. x 29 in. (58....
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1970s American Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Along the Kanahawa River, West Virginia, " Ernest Fiene, WPA Coal Steamboat
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Fiene Along the Kanahawa River, West Virginia, 1936 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 26 x 36 inches Fiene made a series of paintings, drawings and lithographs which are based on his travels through Pennsylvania and West Virginia during the winter of 1935-36. The industrial areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia are represented in numerous oils, among which are some of his most well-known. Fiene wrote of the trip, "The increasing snow and atmospheric conditions [in the Kanawha River valley} enhanced this mountainous coal mining country with a majestic beauty." Winter on the River is Fiene's only American Artists Group print and there were only two lithographs produced from the West Virginia trip. The American Artists Group (AAG), under the direction of Carl Zigrosser, who was then working at New York's famed Weyhe Gallery, published ninety-three prints by over fifty artists in 1936 and 1937. Zigrosser's goal was to popularize contemporary American art through original prints offered at the low price of $2.75. The project was also a means to provide income for impoverished artists during the Depression. The prints were featured in many of the leading print exhibitions and publications of the period. The lithograph produced from this image is now in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pensacola Museum of Art, San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, Syracuse Museum, Yale University Art Museum. Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923. Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925. In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. The first monograph from the Younger Artists Series was published on Fiene in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects. By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene’s paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene’s paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene’s paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City. With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled “Changing Old New York,” in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene’s oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well. Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene’s Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy. On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes. Fiene’s landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. Through the fall and winter of 1935-36, Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings from this trip were featured in an exhibition held at the First National Bank in Pittsburgh in October of 1937 by the Pittsburgh Commission for Industrial Expansion. Fiene said of these works that he formed rhythm, opportunity for space and color, and integrity in the Pennsylvania mill and furnace paintings. Fiene received the silver medal for one of the Pittsburgh paintings...
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1930s American Realist Art

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Oil, Canvas

The Friendly Path, Rabbits, 1920s Landscape, Split Rail Fence
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Ethel Williams (American, Early 20th Century) Signed: Ethel Williams Adrian Mich. 1928 (on stretcher verso) " The Friendly Path ", 1928 Oil on Canvas 12" x 14" H...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Crested Bird, contemporary realist gouache on paper miniature animal portrait
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky's realist animal miniature, Crested Bird, is a rich melange of hues and textures. The bird's plumage is a blaze of brick red and burnt orange. His tail and crest are pun...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Early 1945 Realist Etching of Rice University Building Architecture Houston, TX
Located in Houston, TX
Early realist etching of the architecture around Rice University campus in Houston, TX by an unnamed student. The work features a cropped view of a tower and an open courtyard area. ...
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1940s American Realist Art

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Etching

Water Patterns
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Water Patterns, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (Framed size: 43 x 33 inches), $4,800 “Connie Borup’s work cannot simply be described as landscape; it is t...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

The Captain's Lady
Located in Miami, FL
This meticulously rendered work depicts a three-quarter view of a young woman lost in deep introspection. Inscribed on verso: " The Captain's Lady" Leslie of ____________ St. ...
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1980s American Realist Art

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Watercolor, Board

Slim Aarons, Gwendolyn Brooks, Chicago Poet (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gwendolyn Brooks on the back steps of her home in Chicago, 1960. Slim Aarons Gwendolyn Brooks 30 x 30 Inches Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 191...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Marie-Louise Scio, Tettuccio Terme, Montecatini, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Slim Aarons, Marie-Louise Scio (Tettuccio Terme, Montecatini, Italy, 1980) Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Marie-Louise Scio poses in a leotard at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, November 1980 48 x 48 inches $4500 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate). Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles. Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source. Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun. Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic. Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons, Acapulco, Red and White Stripes, Mexico, Vintage Glamour, Midcentury Photography, Vintage Resort...
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1970s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Two Houses on Church Street
Located in Fairfield, CT
Ron Rizk’s paintings depict the intimate personal history of locales from his life. Ethereal and yet grounded in reality, the paintings tell the stories of very real places as seen ...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Oil, Wood Panel

American Radiator Building, Photorealist Architectural Etching by Richard Haas
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Haas, American (1936 - ) Title: American Radiator Building Year: 2005 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 20 Image Size...
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Early 2000s American Realist Art

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Etching

"Nostalgia" - Contemporary History Painting - Vermeer
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Nostalgia" features soft hues of brown, orange, yellow, purple and blue. Richard Thomas Scott is inspired by the work of Rembrandt, Andrew Wyeth,...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Oil, Linen

Robin Frisella, "Hanging in There", 10x10 Blue Hydrangea Still life Pastel
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Hanging in there" is a 10x10 original oil pastel drawing on paper by artist Robin Frisella PSA-MP, IAPS/MC. Depicted is a bright blue bunch of hydrangeas hanging upside down. The sp...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Oil Pastel

Jazz Scooter: Louis Armstrong and Lucille Brown in 1940s Rome, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) displays his musical appreciation of the ancient Colosseum in Rome. Slim Aarons Jazz S...
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1940s American Realist Art

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Digital, Black and White, Emulsion

Subway 36, Black & White, Limited Edition Photograph, NYC, 1981, Unframed, Kid
Located in Riverdale, NY
John Conn’s New York City Subway limited edition fine art photographs were originally taken between 1975 and 1982. Each black and white photograph is signed and numbered. Edition of 20. The image is 10.5 x 14.5 printed on 13 x 19 archival paper. This is unframed. In this series, Conn captured the graffiti and one of the most crime ridden periods in New York. According to one source “In the 1980s, over 250 felonies were committed every week in the system, making the New York subway the most dangerous mass transit system in the world.” One image captures an Irish Catholic...
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1980s American Realist Art

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Photographic Paper

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