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Hindenburg Disaster, Painting by Lynn Curlee
By Lynn Curlee
Located in New York, NY
A painting of the famous Hindenburg disaster in 1937. This was used as an illustration in SHIPS OF
Category

Late 20th Century American Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Kayakers Escaping from a Disaster, Painting by Lynn Curlee
By Lynn Curlee
Located in New York, NY
Kayakers escaping from a disaster. Fine art painting by Lynn Curlee, artist, and author
Category

Vintage 1980s American Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Wood

Our Children of Angels, 1958 School House Fire, Disaster Painting, Original Oil
By Eric Edward Esper
Located in Chicago, IL
exclusively oil painting and have assembled a body of paintings chronicling scenes of Chicago done primarily
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Denied Andy Warhol Green Disaster Car Crash Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz
By Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Denied Warhol Green Disaster Painting by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and acrylic on linen with Denied
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Disaster Fantastic!, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Katrina Avotina
Located in Yardley, PA
The painting is 4 cm deep and can be hung without an additional frame, also all picture sides are
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Master of Disaster
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Provenance: Venice Institute of Contemporary Art Consigned from Artist Far & Near, ViCA 2019 Edge to Edge, ViCA May 5-June 28, 2019
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer

Master of Disaster
H 48 in W 60 in D 2 in
"HELP YOURSELF BEFORE HELPING OTHERS", Painting, Yellow Life Jacket, Disaster
By Andrew Smenos
Located in Toronto, Ontario
OTHERS" – an oil painting on canvas showing a yellow life-jacket or life-preserver, saving no one's life
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Natural disaster and Urban Landscape
Located in Stamford, CT
Chaurasiya experiments with his mediums, using unconventional materials like matchsticks and motherboards to create a cultural commentary on our decaying natural surroundings. His wo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor, Board, Pencil

Ashtabula Train Trestle Collapse - Painting of Historic Disasters, oil on linen
By Eric Edward Esper
Located in Chicago, IL
relocated to Chicago to pursue my artistic endeavors. Here, I began exclusively oil painting and have
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Last Voyage of the Lady Elgin - Detailed Painting of an Historic Ship Disaster
By Eric Edward Esper
Located in Chicago, IL
Lady Elgin disaster resulted in the greatest loss of lives in open water in the history of the Great
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Kitchen Disaster (The Kitchen Destroyed) (diptych), 1995
By Robert Jessup
Located in ATLANTA, GA
where he taught painting in the College of Visual Arts and Design from 1991 to 2018. His work is
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"RISING TIDES USED TO BE A GOOD THING", Painting, Oil on Canvas, Disaster, Humor
By Andrew Smenos
Located in Toronto, Ontario
THING" – the life-jacket saving no one... At 20x20", this oil on canvas figurative painting embodies the
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus Fire of 1944 - Historic Disaster
By Eric Edward Esper
Located in Chicago, IL
. Here, I began exclusively oil painting and have assembled a body of paintings chronicling scenes of
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Flood Rushes In - Disaster Landscape in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Dramatic depiction of a flood by an unknown artist (20th Century). Flood waters have risen and are rushing through a town, with rain still falling. One house is still standing, but a...
Category

1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Ohio State Penitentiary Fire of 1930, Art of Disasters Series, Original Oil
By Eric Edward Esper
Located in Chicago, IL
. Here, I began exclusively oil painting and have assembled a body of paintings chronicling scenes of
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"THIS WON'T HELP", Oil Paint on Canvas, Fire Extinguisher, Home, Disaster, Humor
By Andrew Smenos
Located in Toronto, Ontario
extinguisher melting in the heat of disaster... At 30x20", this accurately detailed oil on canvas painting is a
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mimosas, October 2, 2006
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
still-life imagery as well as his “Disaster” paintings and subject matter of industry, war, and man-made
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Screen

Study for a Lesson from a Disaster, original drawing by famed modernist sculptor
By Jacques Lipchitz
Located in New York, NY
JACQUES LIPCHITZ Study for a Lesson from a Disaster, ca. 1952 Black and Blue Crayon on Paper Signed
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Mixed Media, Graphite, Crayon, Wax Crayon

Attributed to Francesco Casanova (1727-1803), A Mamluk fighting , watercolor
By Francesco Giuseppe Casanova
Located in Paris, FR
four famous "disaster paintings", which were purchased by Jean-Benjamin de la Borde on behalf of King
Category

1790s Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Bring Me Good News 1, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Christel Haag
Located in Yardley, PA
, environmental disasters, price increases, never-ending corona diseases, war, destruction and so on. You long
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Bring Me Good News 2, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Christel Haag
Located in Yardley, PA
, environmental disasters, price increases, never-ending corona diseases, war, destruction and so on. You long
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Earthquake, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Ted Richards
Located in Yardley, PA
Completed to represent the disaster earthquake and tsunami that happened in Japan. :: Painting
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Beautiful Disaster - Sold - Commission available
By Joanne Handler
Located in New York, NY
the language of abstraction. This continued exploration inspired a transition into painting
Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Acrylic, Spray Paint

Elizabeth Taylor Denied Andy Warhol Red Liz Painting Charles Lutz Pop Art
By Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Denied Warhol Red Liz Painting on canvas by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and acrylic on canvas with the
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Linen

Delta Muscae - Black and White Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
spontaneity and vim of post-war action painting, though they employ a unique vocabulary of mark-making. He
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

Mini alocasia painting
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: This painting was created from a photo of a leaf I captured in Hawaii. I was
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"Futur ?" abstract painting acrylic on linen canvas 80x80cm
By Emmanuelle Vroelant
Located in Roscoff, FR
"Futur ?" abstract painting acrylic on linen canvas 80x80cm TV reports on endangered species, the
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Scalby Road, Scarborough, Moonlight Oil Painting, Grimshaw, 1874
By John Atkinson Grimshaw
Located in London, GB
based on the evocative and atmospheric ‘moonlight’ paintings, such as this one, which he perfected
Category

1870s Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Devastation - Mid Century Figurative Illustration Grayscale Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Stark and emotional depiction of a family after a natural disaster by Charles Kinghan (American
Category

1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cardboard, Acrylic

Mini elephant's ears painting
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: This painting was created from a photo of a leaf I captured in Hawaii. I was
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Think New II ( Garden of Love ), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Bea Garding Schubert
Located in Yardley, PA
beauty and hope. The painting is talking about starting to see the world differently. Every disaster
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

MIchael Knigin Abstract Pop Art Surrealism Acrylic Painting
By Michael Knigin
Located in Surfside, FL
Michael Jay Knigin (American, 1942 – 2011) Untitled (abstract) Mixed media painting on paper
Category

20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache

"Maine Landscape #2, " Oil on Canvas - Abstract painting
Located in Houston, TX
Alfredo’s understanding of composition shines through here in this abstract oil painting on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Maine Landscape #4, " Oil on Canvas - Abstract painting
Located in Houston, TX
Alfredo’s understanding of composition shines through here in this abstract oil painting on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Journey of Our World II, Oil painting
By Christopher Clark 1
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's "The Journey of Our World II" is an oil painting on wood panel. It depicts a
Category

2010s American Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Maine Landscape - Dusk, " Oil on Canvas - Abstract painting
Located in Houston, TX
Alfredo’s understanding of composition shines through here in this abstract oil painting on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Solidarity", acrylic painting, portrait, politics, humanity, Americans, resist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Solidarity" is an acrylic painting and collage on paper measuring 36" high by 24" wide. It is one
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

"Night Studio - Ritual, " Oil on Canvas - Abstract painting
Located in Houston, TX
Gisholt lives and works in Boston. This abstract painting on canvas presented here was part of Gisholt’s
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Night Studio II, " Oil on Canvas - Abstract painting
Located in Houston, TX
Gisholt lives and works in Boston. This abstract painting on canvas presented here was part of Gisholt’s
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wellington, Washington Avalanche of March 1, 1910 - Original Oil Painting
By Eric Edward Esper
Located in Chicago, IL
Also known as the Great Northern Railway disaster and Americas deadliest avalanche. After days of
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Incident: Large Framed Vertical Luminist Style Oil Landscape Painting
By Leigh Palmer
Located in Hudson, NY
Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches This large vertical painting of an expansive pastoral landscape was
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

A Cornish Man - Newlyn School Antique Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
paintings showed the hazards and tragedy of the community's life, such as women anxiously looking out to sea
Category

Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Osip Mandelstam", acrylic painting, portrait, political exile, poetry, resist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
reportage of Goya’s Caprichos and Disasters of War, and the personal mythologizing of the late paintings of
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

"Idiot Wind, Sweet Reason", acrylic painting, duality, politics, humanity
Located in Toronto, Ontario
and Disasters of War, and the personal mythologizing of the late paintings of Philip Guston. Such
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Outskirts", acrylic painting, duality, nature, humanity, chaos, dream, myth
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Outskirts" is an acrylic painting with collage elements on canvas, measuring 38" high by 44" wide
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"Maine Landscape - High Tide, " Oil on Canvas - Abstract painting
Located in Houston, TX
Alfredo’s understanding of composition shines through here in this abstract oil painting on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Maine Landscape - Storm II, " Oil on Canvas - Abstract painting
Located in Houston, TX
Alfredo’s understanding of composition shines through here in this abstract oil painting on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Maine Landscape - Low Tide, " Oil on Canvas - Abstract painting
Located in Houston, TX
Alfredo’s understanding of composition shines through here in this abstract oil painting on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tlaloc and the Tiger oil painting by Julio de Diego
By Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Exhibited: 2018 The Arts Club of Chicago, "A Home for Surrealism – Fantastic Painting in Mid-Century Chicago
Category

1930s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

"Ceremony" Abstract Oil Painting 39" x 59" in by Muzaffar Abdullaev
Located in Culver City, CA
"Ceremony" Abstract Oil Painting 39" x 59" in by Muzaffar Abdullaev ABOUT: He was born in 1953
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Human Welfare", acrylic painting, portrait, politics, Paris, humanity, resist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Human Welfare" is an acrylic painting on paper measuring 36" high by 24" wide. It is one of 50
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

"Starnosed Mole", acrylic painting, portrait, politics, poetry, humanity, resist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Starnosed Mole" is an acrylic painting with litho ink and charcoal on paper, measuring 36" high by
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

"Alas", acrylic painting, drawing, portrait, democracy, politics, citizen lament
Located in Toronto, Ontario
reportage of Goya’s Caprichos and Disasters of War, and the personal mythologizing of the late paintings of
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Ink, Crayon, Paper, Acrylic

Ceremonial Dancers oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
By Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the
Category

1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil, Tempera

"Interior, " Mixed Media on Canvas - Black and White painting
Located in Houston, TX
This sizable work is an achromatic mixed media collage and painting on canvas. The lack of color
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lords of the Sky oil painting by Julio De Diego
By Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
as forty glazes of oil in each painting. He also commonly worked within gouache, graphite, and mixed
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spring Storm, Modernist Southwestern New Mexico Landscape Casein Painting
By Doel Reed
Located in Denver, CO
Spring Storm, original vintage painting by New Mexico & Oklahoma modernist, Doel Reed (1894-1985
Category

1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Casein, Archival Paper

"Bukhara" Abstract Oil Painting 59" x 39" inch by Muzaffar Abdullaev
Located in Culver City, CA
"Bukhara" Abstract Oil Painting 59" x 39" inch by Muzaffar Abdullaev ABOUT: He was born in 1953
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

18th century allegorical painting of The Triumph of Beauty
Located in London, GB
Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1800, no. 93 What was happening in British history painting in
Category

18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Studio - Afternoon, " Oil on Canvas - Abstract Painting, Contemporary Art
Located in Houston, TX
Gisholt lives and works in Boston. This abstract painting on canvas presented here was part of Gisholt’s
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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