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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
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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
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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

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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19th Century French Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Winter Park, FL
19th century French still life oil on canvas, signed lower right, L. Benoist. Vineyard harvest theme with grape vines and baskets of peaches and plums. Frame: 41" W x 52" H x 2" D. C...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Paintings

Materials

Canvas

'Drawing with Water' - interior watercolor - ordinary objects - Giorgio Morandi
By Kathryn Keller
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Drawing with Water" is an interior watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, purple, green, red and orange. Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hoppe...
Category

2010s American Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Early 20th Century French Metal and Porcelain Flowers Six-Light Chandelier
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate an entryway or powder room with this elegant and feminine light fixture. Crafted in France circa 1920, the petite antique chandelier is decorated with white and light pink p...
Category

Early 20th Century French Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Metal

Heading Home - Sunset - Symbolist Figure in Landscape Oil by Edmond Aman-Jean
By Edmond Aman-Jean
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed symbolist figure in landscape oil on original canvas circa 1890 by French painter Edmond Francois Aman-Jean. The work depicts a lone woman carrying a load on a rural path. In ...
Category

1890s Symbolist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Arising" - Abstract Fauvist - Style of Rothko in Acrylic on Paper by Joy Willow
Located in Soquel, CA
"Arising" - Abstract Fauvist - Style of Rothko in Acrylic on Paper Abstract painting depicting a faint yellow watercolor background with different hues of yellow along the borders, ...
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Acrylic

Antique Dutch Oil Painting in a Giltwood Frame
Located in London, GB
A beautifully executed antique Dutch oil painting in a gilt wood frame, depicting a mother and baby, dating from around the 1860-1880 period. It is a beautiful and touching subject,...
Category

Antique 1860s Dutch High Victorian Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

Antique Dutch Oil Painting in a Giltwood Frame
Antique Dutch Oil Painting in a Giltwood Frame
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Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #47: "Morning in the Spring" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser (1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art w...
Category

1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

"Vineyard in Provence" - Wall Art Composition of Decorative Plates and Painting
By Studio DeSimoneWayland
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Vineyard in Provence consists of 9 plates ‐ among which one hand painted Faïence plate from France, two hand painted Frisian plates from Makkum and two hand painted Italian plates fr...
Category

2010s Dutch Other Wall-mounted Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Paint

Still-life by Frank Chabry - Oil on cardboard
By William Goliasch
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Oyster" vertical photorealist oil painting of an open oyster, linen behind
By Michel Brosseau
Located in Edgartown, MA
Michel Brosseau was born in Nantes and has lived in Bordeaux for many years. Both cities are on the Atlantic coast of France and have rich maritime histories, highlighted by prospero...
Category

2010s Still-life Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Australian Aboriginal Painting by Mabel Juli, Warmun Art Centre
By Mabel Juli
Located in Somerton, GB
A beautiful natural pigment painting on canvas by renowned Aboriginal painter Mabel Juli. This piece is a dreaming story. Glingennayn is the name of the Ngarranggarni (Dreaming ) ra...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Australian Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Oil on Canvas "OTL 8"
By Frank Arnold
Located in Fresno, CA
“OTL 8” is 60”x 60”. Central figure of Vibrant to deep reds on a split field of warm beige/coral and deep red/black. The foreground exhibits heavy strokes and Arnold’s “8” and “X” fi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil on Canvas "OTL 8"
H 60 in W 60 in D 1.75 in
Wild Flowers
Located in Lawrence, NY
Frank Hutchens was an American Impressionist painter known for his gentle landscapes and portraits. Indeed, one reviewer in the New York Times called him "an ingratiating interprete...
Category

Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Garden Song" Porcelain Figure by Lladro Spain. Depicts Young Girl with Parasol
By Juan Huerta, Lladro
Located in Incline Village, NV
This was a limited edition hand painted porcelain made in 1992 and retired in 1995; manufactured by Lladro in Spain. Designed and sculpted by world renowned artist, Juan Huerta, it i...
Category

1990s Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

The Course at Sankaty Head
By Lori Zummo
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1962 Contemporary artist Lori Zummo paints in a style evocative of the American Barbizon School. She received her BFA from Syracuse University in 1984. After receiving ...
Category

2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Mountain Vineyard Landscape Watercolor
By Henry Hank Volle
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor landscape of a white farmhouse beside a colorful California vineyard with tall mountains fading into the distance Henry Hank Volle (American, 20th Century). This...
Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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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
Category

2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Bleak House 9.14.18" original watercolor, interior space, by Kathryn Keller
By Kathryn Keller
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed watercolor by Kathryn Keller. Kathryn received her BA in 1974 from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee where she majored in Fine Art and English. Her early work...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Houses on Hill
By Sofia Silva
Located in New York, NY
Sofia Silva's panoramic photographs capture the bleak beauty, striking geometry, and vacant desires
Materials

C Print

Bleak House
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Gary John used acrylic paint to create this one-of-a-kind original artwork. It is signed by the artist and dated on the bottom left front of this artwork. This art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Magazine Paper, Acrylic Polymer

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
Category

Late 19th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

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
Category

17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Frozen Stream, Victorian Style Dutch Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
houses warm during a bleak and chilly day. The detail of this painting is quite lovely. The wooden
Category

Mid-20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"The Fortune Teller, " Leon Kelly, American Surrealism, Woman with Playing Cards
By Leon Kelly
Located in New York, NY
, and a Parrot), circa 1926 Oil on canvasboard 20 x 16 inches Signed lower right Housed in a distressed
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1920s American Modern Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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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1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mylar, Charcoal

Portrait of David Uy - Large Scale Charcoal Drawing on Mylar by Mary Borgman
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
at Ann Nathan” 2006 • Margaret Hawkins. “From Bleak to Chic in Less Than a Week” The Chicago Sun
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mylar, Charcoal

Acrylic Painting of a House in the Country
Located in Pasadena, CA
A visually striking house in an abstract neighborhood where the cloudy atmosphere evokes a bleak
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Nam June Paik, Soho, 1981
By Robert Herman
Located in NEW YORK, NY
bleak predictions for the future in his classic novel 1984. Robert Herman Robert Herman has been a
Category

1980s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Thou Shalt Not Steal (Eighth Commandment)
By Jane Dickson
Located in New York, NY
neighbor's house or goods, they both address the current fashions in white collar crime. Dickson places us at
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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