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16 Th Century Painting

Section 30 - Landscape Painting, Original Oil on Canvas
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
relationship between personal mythologies and representation in painting and how it may simultaneously give
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Living Dangerously, Original Oil Painting, Large Scale Fictional Book Cover
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
representation in painting and how it may simultaneously give reference to a narrative.Working in cross
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Battle For Yellowstone, Original Oil Painting of Oversized Fictional Bookcover
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
The Battle for Yellowstone is an oversized book cover painting emphasizing a battle between
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

I'm Witnessing a Forest Fire-Oil Painting, Fictional Penguin Classic Book Cover
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
discussion of the current state of our environment in this oil painting entitled "I'm Witnessing a Forest
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Traditional British Landscape Figures Gathering the Harvest Oil in Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Gathering the Harvest English School, 20 th century, painted in an earlier style oil painting on
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20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Section 35
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
relationship between personal mythologies and representation in painting and how it may simultaneously give
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Silent Running
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
relationship between personal mythologies and representation in painting and how it may simultaneously give
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

New France and Labrador - Graphite Drawing, Landscape, On Antiqued Map
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
experiencing the land. The paintings document a landscape that flows between two realities: one outside the
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chicago Portage - Serene Wooded Landscape with Stormy Skies, Oil on Canvas
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
experiencing the land. The paintings document a landscape that flows between two realities: one outside the
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dracula
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
relationship between personal mythologies and representation in painting and how it may simultaneously give
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Central Park, Sherry Netherland Hotel, Plaza Hotel" Nathan Hoffman, New York
Located in New York, NY
19th century and the first two decades of the 20 th century.” Today, little remains of this once
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Teckell T1.1 Crystal 9-foot Pool Table in Black by Marc Sadler
By Teckell, Marc Sadler
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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Teckell T1.1 Crystal 8-foot Pool Table in Light Bronz by Marc Sadler
By Teckell, Marc Sadler
Located in Brooklyn, NY
aluminum rails. The tempered glass playing field is at least 9/16” thick. A precise leveling system
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Game Tables

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Teckell T1.1 Crystal 9-foot Pool Table in Light Bronz by Marc Sadler
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Game Tables

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Teckell T1.1 Crystal 8-foot Pool Table in Black by Marc Sadler
By Teckell, Marc Sadler
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Game Tables

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Crystal, Stainless Steel, Aluminum

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