Bleak House
Bleak House Interior Illustration
By Alice Barber Stephens
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Board
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left
Category
Early 1900s Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board
'Bleak House 7-13-2020' - plein air landscape - architectural painting
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 7-13-2020" is a plein air painting of the artist's farm house in Louisiana, featuring
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Bleak House 7-16-2020' - plein air landscape - architectural painting
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 7-16-2020" is a plein air painting of the artist's farm house in Louisiana, featuring
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Bleak House 4-5-20' - exterior watercolor - house painting - Giorgio Morandi
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 4-5-20" is an architectural watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, tan, pink and
Category
2010s American Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
'Bleak House 6-16-19' - exterior watercolor - house painting - Giorgio Morandi
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 6-16-19" is an architectural watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, tan and green
Category
2010s American Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
'Bleak House 4-26-2021' - interior watercolor - work on paper - Giorgio Morandi
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bleak House 4-26-2021" is an interior watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, purple, pink and
Category
2010s American Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Dark House
By Jane Bauman
Located in New York, NY
Collaboration between Jane Bauman and David Wojnarowicz
Jane Bauman writes: "I had made that bleak
Category
1980s Street Art Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Stencil
Essex House, Framed
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
flourish under desolate circumstances. The seemingly bleak, the empty landscape, speaks to me. It is in
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of Matt Latham - Large Scale Portrait, Original Charcoal on Mylar
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Bleak to Chic in Less Than a Week” The Chicago Sun Times May 2006
• Art Knowledge News. “Bold Charcoals
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Portrait of Manop - Monumental Portrait, Original Charcoal on Mylar, Framed
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Bleak to Chic in Less Than a Week” The Chicago Sun Times May 2006
• Art Knowledge News. “Bold Charcoals
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Portrait of Feleg Abraha - Large Scale Original Charcoal on Mylar, Framed
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Bleak to Chic in Less Than a Week” The Chicago Sun Times May 2006
• Art Knowledge News. “Bold Charcoals
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Portrait of Justin Shanitkvich - Large Scale Charcoal on Mylar Original, Framed
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Bleak to Chic in Less Than a Week” The Chicago Sun Times May 2006
• Art Knowledge News. “Bold Charcoals
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Still Life of Gourds with Japanese Celadon Vase & Dragon Decorated Plate, 1944.
By Denis Mitchell
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
War II, and they went on to have a family of three daughters.
The war years were bleak for Denis, but
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Denis MitchellStill Life of Gourds with Japanese Celadon Vase & Dragon Decorated Plate, 1944. , 1944
H 22.25 in W 17.92 in D 1.38 in
Abstract Expressionist Landscape With Trees
By Jacques Kupfermann
Located in Delray Beach, FL
– as are his love of bleak Northerly scenery, the combination of delicacy and vibrant movement
Category
1960s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sketch-book Page, Shoreham, Samuel Palmer, Late 19th Century
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in London, GB
wrote in his 1824 sketchbook, 'whatever you do, guard against bleakness & grandeur and try for the
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
By Charles Alston
Located in Miami, FL
African American displayed at the White House.
Charles Henry Alston was born on November 28, 1907, in
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Galilee, RI 01.08.1988
By Nelson White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A Nelson White plein air painting from a bleak January in 1988.
Framed dimensions: 18.5 x 22.5
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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Located in Geneva, CH
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Bleak House
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Charlottesville, VA
sitting at her easel in a mirror. "Bleak House" plays on the idea of vision and art, and also brings to
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"Bleak House 9.14.18" original watercolor, interior space, by Kathryn Keller
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Located in New Orleans, LA
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Located in New York, NY
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Bleak House
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Three Hunting Drawings
By Hablot Knight Browne
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
, Dombey and Son, Martin Chuzzlewit and Bleak House. Browne made several drawings for Punch in his early
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Late 19th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors
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Portrait of Catherine Watson, Countess of Rockington (1658-1695)
By Studio of Sir Peter Lely
Located in London, GB
for Charles Dickens’ Jarndyce v Jarndyce court case in his novel Bleak House (1852-3), was that of
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
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Frozen Stream, Victorian Style Dutch Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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By Leon Kelly
Located in New York, NY
, and a Parrot), circa 1926
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20 x 16 inches
Signed lower right
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1920s Colorado Mountain Landscape Oil Painting Farm, Jewel Tones Green Purple
By Ernest Lawson
Located in Denver, CO
too bleak…forbidding." Nevertheless, Colorado allowed Lawson to explore a new locale and to recapture
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Portrait of Justin Shanitkvich
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago Reader “The Female Gaze-Mary Borgman at Ann Nathan” 2006
• Margaret Hawkins. “From Bleak to Chic
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By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
at Ann Nathan” 2006
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Located in Pasadena, CA
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Nam June Paik, Soho, 1981
By Robert Herman
Located in NEW YORK, NY
bleak predictions for the future in his classic novel 1984.
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Thou Shalt Not Steal (Eighth Commandment)
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Located in New York, NY
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