Brown Bess
Abstract Figurative Primary Color Circus Acrobat Clown Painting
By Forrest Bess
Located in Houston, TX
Forrest Bess's laboriously textured multi-colored painting resembles a scene of two circus acrobats
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 34.5 in W 27.5 in D 2 in
Jose & Pierrette Botero
Located in Atlanta, GA
Helene and Eric Bess are a team who have been collaborating for over 20 years. Both are
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern More Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Mimi Rouge
Located in Atlanta, GA
Helene and Eric Bess are a team who have been collaborating for over 20 years. Both are
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Mark Twain
Located in Atlanta, GA
Helene and Eric Bess are a team who have been collaborating for over 20 years. Both are
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
La Femme Magenta
Located in Atlanta, GA
Helene and Eric Bess are a team who have been collaborating for over 20 years. Both are
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Three Perspectives
Located in Atlanta, GA
Helene and Eric Bess are a team who have been collaborating for over 20 years. Both are
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Ladies Night
Located in Atlanta, GA
Helene and Eric Bess are a team who have been collaborating for over 20 years. Both are
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Listed San Diego Artist Bess Gilbert Watercolor Painting 1935 Exposition CPIE
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful watercolor painting by listed San Diego impressionist artist Bess Gilbert. Dates from the
Category
Vintage 1930s Paintings
H 9.5 in W 11.75 in D 0.75 in
Listed San Diego Artist Bess Gilbert Impressionist Plein Air Oil Painting, 1930s
By Maurice Braun 1
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful plein air painting by listed San Diego impressionist artist Bess Gilbert. Dates from the
Category
Vintage 1930s Paintings
H 13.5 in W 16.5 in D 1 in
1943 French Post Impressionist oil painting of a steam barge on the Seine, Paris
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Bess (French, 1943)
A steam barge on the Seine, Notre Dame beyond
24 x 15.1/2 in.
Oil on board
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
H 24 in W 15.5 in D 1 in
Chatsworth, The Attic Sale, Auction at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, 5-7 October 2010
Located in valatie, NY
constructed by Sir William Cavendish and Bess of Hardwick in 1555. Chatsworth's garden attracts around 300,000
Category
2010s English Books
Materials
Paper
H 10.5 in W 8.25 in D 3.25 in
Battle For Yellowstone, Original Oil Painting of Oversized Fictional Bookcover
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
, Illinois
1993 Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver,British Columbia, canada
Bess Cutler Gallery, NewYork,NewYork
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silent Running - Oversized Oil Painted Book Cover with Unexpected Juxtapositions
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vancouver,British Columbia, canada
Bess Cutler Gallery, NewYork,NewYork
1992 Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Florida Fantasy (Beach Landscape)
By Oliver Smith
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
!, Porgy and Bess), and operas (La Traviata). His association with the American Ballet Theatre began in
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Early Victorian Ashford Marble Table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
only two sites in Derbyshire and has been used as a decorative building material since Bess of Hardwick
Category
Antique 1840s English Early Victorian Tables
Materials
Marble
Dracula
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vancouver,British Columbia, canada
Bess Cutler Gallery, NewYork,NewYork
1992 Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large scale 19th Century historical genre oil painting of a group of musicians
By Robert Alexander Hillingford
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
proportions correct.
Hardwick Hall itself was built around 1590 by Bess of Hardwick and was designed by the
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Carved Stone Bear Head Sculpture
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
as “Ned Whiting,” “Harry Hunks” and “Blind Bess.”
King James I (1603-1625) was such a fan of the
Category
Antique Early 17th Century English Georgian Animal Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone, Stone
Large Pastel Landscape Purple Mountains Landscape American Modernist Painting
By Larry Horowitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Hills, CA
2002 Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, OH
2000 Galerie Françoise et ses frères, Baltimore
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
“Rainy Marsh”
By Larry Horowitz
Located in Southampton, NY
Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York, NY
2002 Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, OH
2002 Pilar
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Porgy and Bess, Unframed Poster, 1959
Located in London, GB
Porgy and Bess, Unframed Poster, 1959
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Mardi Gras
By Bess Tsonis
Located in New York, NY
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"Flower Vendors" Alice Scott Charleston South Carolina American Artist Prints
Located in Antwerp, BE
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mixed-media; watercolor hand accented lithographs on brown paper.
The
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H 10.75 in W 8.75 in D 0.5 in
Elizabethan Portrait of Noble Lady Large Framed English Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Elizabethan Lady
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signed and dated verso
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Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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by Tim Brown, (British contemporary)
signed and dated verso
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Portrait, possibly Queen Elizabeth the 1st in the guise of Diana the Huntress
Located in London, GB
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"Dolly - Flower Woman" ELDERLY BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN FLOWER VENDOR SMOKING PIPE
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Located in Palm Springs, CA
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"Jennifer Muller Benefit", Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
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William Ker Reid Two Handled Silver Trophy Cup
By William Ker Reid
Located in London, GB
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Listed San Diego California Artist Bess Gilbert Oil Painting Balboa Park
Located in San Diego, CA
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19th Century Carved Walnut Centre Table
By George Strachan & Son
Located in Brighton, Sussex
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18th Century American Brass Steeple Top Andirons - a Pair
Located in Sheridan, CO
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By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
, Illinois
1993 Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver,British Columbia, canada
Bess Cutler Gallery, NewYork,NewYork
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Grand Central Station NYC Modernism WPA Industrial Transportation Depression Era
By George Biddle
Located in New York, NY
their opera, Porgy and Bess. Biddle produced a prodigious compilation of images—many in watercolor and
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Materials
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Mountains and Sea, 1920
By Carl Sammons
Located in Soquel, CA
years of marriage Queen went by Bess or Bessie.
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Lambert's Cove # 5
By Albert Winslow Barker
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied charcoal drawings, as well as met his future wife Bess
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1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
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Tenth Month Second
By Albert Winslow Barker
Located in New Orleans, LA
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The Barn (a romantic look at the rural landscape of an earlier American era)
By Albert Winslow Barker
Located in New Orleans, LA
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Upper Barn, Winter (a look at the rural landscape of an earlier American era)
By Albert Winslow Barker
Located in New Orleans, LA
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Located in Great Barrington, MA
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Located in Hudson, NY
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Little is know about the artists who Created this Images ( Bess Eleanor
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