View From the Window: 21st Century American Realist Oil Painting
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gall...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of a shirtless man in sunglasses and jeans on pea-gr...
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of nude woman sitting with washes of teal, cobalt bl...
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Afternoon Light
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
"Afternoon Light" is an original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ronald Shap.
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Profile
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original ink and watercolor figure painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of a nude woman reclining with washes of orange, peach ...
Ink, Watercolor
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of a nude woman with jewelry in front of a mirror.
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Contact 4954
By Kate Salenfriend
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Gold Leaf
Lighter Days 4974
By Kate Salenfriend
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Gold Leaf
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel, ink and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of nude woman reclining in a turban in washes o...
Oil Pastel, Ink, Gouache
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Vibrant sketch of sitting nude woman with yellow blanket. 2...
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Eat Me 4941
By Kate Salenfriend
Located in Napa, CA
Eat Me 4941 by Kate Salenfriend Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart ...
Gold Leaf
More 4940
By Kate Salenfriend
Located in Napa, CA
More 4940 by Kate Salenfriend Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Ro...
Gold Leaf
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ronald Shap.
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Shower
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
"Shower" is an original oil pastel, ink and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of woman standing in washes of b...
Gouache, Oil Pastel, Ink
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of a nude man sitting in brown, yellow, vermillion a...
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Enigmatic double sketch of two nude women sitting back to b...
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Vibrant sketch of sitting nude woman with washes of neon pi...
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Misty Morning on the Farm, Original Painting
By Catherine McCargar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist CommentsArtist Catherine McCargar presents an old barn on top of a sloping road in rural California. As a plein air painter, she sometimes ventures out in less-than-ideal weat...
Watercolor
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of woman with glasses. 22.5x17.5 inches on glossy paper.
Oil Pastel
European Landscape Oil Painting signed Maurice Braun
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Painted with oil on canvas, framed in a beautiful gold leaf wood frame. An established California plein-air painter in the Impressionist style, Maurice Braun painted landscapes refl...
Wood, Paint
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Stunning sketch of a nude with washes of aqua and pink.
Oil Pastel, Gouache
The Relic
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
"The Relic" is an original gouache and ink painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ronald Shap.
Gouache, Ink
Sierra Mountain Lake, Yosemite Snow-Capped Mountain Landscape
By Kenneth Lucas
Located in Soquel, CA
Ken Lucas was a school teacher and amateur painter from Monterey, California. He was primarily self-taught but became proficient as an artist and left a legacy of excellent paintings.
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of a nude man with a bandana in tones of brown and a...
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Venice Beach Pier
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gall...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Cubist Portrait)
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
By the early 1930s, Murry had relocated to Los Angeles, where he caught the attention of Synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald Wright, State Supervisor for the Federal Art Project (F...
Masonite, Oil
$7,600Sale Price|20% Off
1944 Rock and Sun Abstract Modernist Oil on Canvas by Richard Bowman
By Richard Bowman
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Here is a stunning painting by Bay Area California modernist painter Richard Bowman (1918-2001).
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Dune line
By John Maxon
Located in San Francisco, CA
., Painting, University of California, Davis Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Cabrillo College, Aptos, California Selected Solo Exhibitions 2018 Gallery Panza Verde – Ant...
Lithograph
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of woman sitting with colors of teal, cobalt blue an...
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Path to the Sea
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gall...
Canvas, Oil
Deer at the Purple Mountains - Landscape in Oil on Canvas
By Kenneth Lucas
Located in Soquel, CA
Canvas size: 30"H x 36"W Ken Lucas was a school teacher and amateur painter from Monterey, California. He was primarily self-taught but became proficient as an artist and left a leg...
Canvas, Acrylic
Edward Paul Giddings: Art and Architecture of Passion Hardcover Book
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Nice copy of this book on the Southern California architect and painter Edward Paul Giddings written by his widow, Patricia Giddings, photography by Shulman is spectacular.
Paper
$880Sale Price|20% Off
Mid Century Coastal Town Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Memberships included California Watercolor Society, Women Painters of the West, San Diego Artists Guild, San Diego Watercolor Society, San Diego Art Institute, and Laguna Beach Art A...
Watercolor, India Ink, Laid Paper
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original gouache and oil pastel figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ronald Shap.
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Marin Island
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gall...
Canvas, Oil
Diablo View
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gall...
Canvas, Oil
1903 Rocky Landscape Of Distant Mountains
By Karl Yens
Located in Soquel, CA
(CA) Museum; Astor Theatre (NYC). Memberships: California Teachers Ass'n; American Federation of Art; California Society of Miniature Painters; Academy of Western Painters (LA); La...
Paper, Watercolor
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Vibrant sketch of nude woman with fetish accessories in wa...
Gouache, Oil Pastel
Orange Horizon
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gall...
Canvas, Oil
Ocean with Crescent Moon
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gall...
Canvas, Oil
Dark Horizon
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gall...
Canvas, Oil
Factory Worker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
About the Artist James Patrick was a California Scene painter who was born in British Columbia but grew up in Los Angeles.
Oil
Midday 4865
By Kate Salenfriend
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Gold Leaf
$1,720Sale Price|20% Off
Mid Century Copper Teapot, Vase and Fruit Still Life
By Helen Enoch Gleiforst
Located in Soquel, CA
In 2006, her work was featured among top California plein-aire painters in Santa Barbara in the Sullivan Goss Gallery exhibition titled “Early California.
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Nude with green accents
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
"Nude with green accents" is an original gouache and ink drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ronald Shap.
Ink, Gouache
The Track no. 6
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gall...
Oil
Sonoma Coast
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gall...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
The Bug, Early 20th Century Landscape w/ Rooster & Chicken, Cleveland School
By Henry Keller
Located in Beachwood, OH
The Whitney Museum has Keller's charcoal and watercolor, Bird Rock, California (1925). The painter died in San Diego, on August 3, 1949.
Gouache
Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s
By Frank Van Sloun
Located in New York, NY
While preparing murals for the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939 -1940, Frank Van Sloun died on August 27, 1938. Memberships in California included the San Francisco Art ...
Paper, Egg Tempera
Circus Wagons
By Millard Sheets
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Born in Pomona, California, Sheets became a painter at an early age, winning a prize at the Los Angeles County Fair in 1918.
Watercolor
"Square Tower Ruins" Hovenweep National Monument, Utah
By Ralph Holmes
Located in San Antonio, TX
Lewis's Illustrated Review, was a four-term President of the California Art Club, President of "Art in National Defense", and a member of the Academy of Western Painters.
Oil
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
By Ronald Shap
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of a nude male torso with washes of light aqua/sage ...
Oil Pastel, Gouache
$420Sale Price|20% Off
Crashing Waves - Big Sur Coastal Cove Original Oil on Masonite
By Stephen John Skerce
Located in Soquel, CA
Frame size: 12.5"H x 14.75"W Board size: 5"H x 7"W Stephen John Skerce (American, 1926-2010) was a painter from Monterey, California. He received his formal art training from the Ch...
Masonite, Oil
Blind Beggar
Located in San Francisco, CA
About the artist: From Kansas City, Missouri, Frank Moss Hamilton became a noted watercolor painter in California, where he lived in Cambria.
Watercolor, Gouache
Mid Century River Birches Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Image size: 17"H x 13"W. Eva is a central California plein air painter in oils and watercolors.
Paper, Watercolor
Looking south
By Joe Altwer
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painting dimensions: 14 x 16 inches Framed dimensions: 18 x 20 inches Joseph Altwer is a traditional realist oil painter born in California in 1984. Joseph began his studies in 200...
Oil, Panel
Dust Time, large lithograph
By John Maxon
Located in San Francisco, CA
., Painting, University of California, Davis Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Cabrillo College, Aptos, California Selected Solo Exhibitions 2018 Gallery Panza Verde – Ant...
Lithograph
Storm Source / lightning sky
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
One of our finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon has painted Northern California and western landscapes for over 35 years.
Canvas, Oil
Grey Ocean
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
One of our finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon has painted Northern California and western landscapes for over 35 years.
Canvas, Oil
Ocean Beach Surfers
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
One of our finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon has painted Northern California and western landscapes for over 35 years.
Canvas, Oil
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