Landscape, Scotland - 20th Century Scottish Landscape Oil Painting in Green
By Stephen Bone
Located in Kingsclere, GB
An exhibition at Ryman's Galleries, Oxford, in 1936 included oil paintings of forty-one British counties that Bone had created during his travels.
Oil, Board
Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones
By Philip Burne-Jones
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Christie’s, London, 3 March 1922, lot 46 (with The Tower of Babel); James Nicoll Private Collection Sotheby’s, London, 29 March 1983, lot 157 Private Collection, New Yo...
Canvas, Oil
The Sun is in Our Bones
By Matthew Mullins
Located in Santa Fe, NM
The Sun is in Our Bones is a 2018 Mixed-media (oil, burnt bones, mica, cobalt, and slate on linen) painting by Matthew Mullins.
Mixed Media, Oil
"Bone in Blue" Oil Painting
By Jill Soukup
Located in Denver, CO
Jill Soukup's "Bone in Blue" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white horse with a backdrop of 4 dark horses and a blue sky.
Canvas, Oil
Wish Bone in a Bottle
By Deborah Davidson
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Wish Bone in a Bottle, 2019, oil on panel, 18 x 18 inches ABOUT DEBORAH DAVIDSON Deborah Davidson received an MFA from California State University, Long Beach. Her work has been sh...
Oil, Panel
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