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Shipwreck
Located in Atlanta, GA
different works. Shipwreck was also inspired by some driftwood and other objects collected or photographed
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Shipwreck
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jennifer Bricker-Pugh
Shipwreck
Materials: Mixed Media on Canvas
Date: 2020
Dimensions: 46"x1.5"x29
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Cromdale Shipwreck, signed oil painting
By Louis Letouche
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cromdale in 1913
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Under a Divided Sky, Seascape of Shipwreck
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in Greenwich, CT
-scale and impressive work with lovely light. This painting can hold a large spot. It is in a classic
Category
1880s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
H 40.5 in W 60.25 in D 3.5 in
The Shipwrecked Heart
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"The Shipwrecked Heart" is an original oil painting by American artist Katherine Fraser. The piece
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Romanticism Period Shipwreck Painting, 19th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
In the sphere of marine art, a Romantic-era painting portrays a somber and tragic scene of naval
Category
Antique 19th Century French Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Story of Shipwreck, Rotarian Magazine Cover
By Joseph Francis Kernan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: May 31, 1934
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 22.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of Rotarian Magazine, September 1934.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed Antique French Oil Painting of a Burning Shipwreck at Sunset
Located in New York, NY
French (late 19th Century) oil painting of a burning sinking ship at sunset on canvas in a
Category
Antique 19th Century French French Provincial Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood
Painting Bordeaux 19th french marine Oil canvas Sketch Allegory shipwreck
Located in PARIS, FR
paintings are in the Museum of Bordeaux and the Museum of Cognac.
The subject of our painting is original
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Irish/ American Signed Oil Painting Shipwreck at Sea dated 1883
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
death in 1941.
signed and dated 1883 lower left
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 17 x 22
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
No Reserve
H 17 in W 22 in D 1 in
19th Century Watercolor Seascape with Shipwreck
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique seascape with shipwreck on a rocky shore, mid-19th century, a watercolor on paper seascape
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper
A 19 Century Painting titled "Shipwrecked" by English Artist Stuart Henri Bell
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
The oil painting on canvas depicts a partial side view of the three masted British Galleon named
Category
Antique 1860s English Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
H 22 in W 26 in D 3 in
Shipwreck, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
studio.â€Words that describe this painting: Maine, Monhegan Island, Lobster Cove, shipwreck
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Shipwrecks - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Shipwrecks is a china ink and watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Moon River, Oil Painting
By Hadley Northrop
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist CommentsThe Inverness shipwreck stands as an iconic landmark in the San Francisco Bay
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Motke Blum
Located in Surfside, FL
painting or playing in clay, Blum could be found enjoyoing the company of these spirited entertainers
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Painting of Travellers at Tivoli Falls Outside Rome After Claude Joseph Vernet
By Claude-Joseph Vernet
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
, shipwrecks, and moonlit harbour scenes. Paintings of the Tivoli Falls by or attributed to the artist are
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Canvas
H 60 in W 80 in D 3 in
Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting Boats
By Motke Blum
Located in Surfside, FL
painting or playing in clay, Blum could be found enjoyoing the company of these spirited entertainers
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Twelfth Night Blue, Contemporary Color Field painting
By Carl Holty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Conceived of as one half of a diptych, together with Twelfth Night Red, the title of this painting
Category
Late 20th Century Color-Field Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
This is a miniature
Category
1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Watercolor
Brig EPHRATAH of Port Madoc Entering Naples
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
paintings and drawings of other Baltimore Clippers built in this way.
Most of what we know about the Brig
Category
1870s Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
St. Paul shaking off the Viper in the Island of Malta
By Giovanni Paolo Panini
Located in London, GB
Literature:
cf. 'Catalogue of Paintings in the Wellington Museum Apsley House' by C.M. Kauffman
Category
1730s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Motke Blum Modernist Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Bezalel Artist
By Motke Blum
Located in Surfside, FL
greatest love. He befriended several of the clowns and other performers and, when not painting or playing
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Illustration Board
Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Seascape Oil Painting Tel Aviv Harbor
By Motke Blum
Located in Surfside, FL
surface. The resulting work emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Painting White on White
By Motke Blum
Located in Surfside, FL
. Motke later incorporated shipwrecks, boats, and other maritime subjects into several of his paintings
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Santa Maria - Christopher Columbus's ship, signed oil painting
By Louis Letouche
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Santa Maria, 1490
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
British landscape Dialogue at lunchtime 18th century Oil painting on wood
By Julius Caesar ibbetson
Located in Stockholm, SE
Isle of Wight in 1790, he began painting shipwrecks and smugglers. The next 14 years of his life were
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Motion, " Victor Arnautoff, San Francisco Lighthouse, World's Fair WPA Painting
By Victor Michail Arnautoff
Located in New York, NY
Mile Rocks Lighthouse in San Francisco Bay, built in 1906 after many shipwrecks made the lighthouse
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Oil, Canvas
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Painting Gouache American Modernist Beach Scene
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
Simka Simkhovitch
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Gouache American Modernist Powerline
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
Simka Simkhovitch
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil, Board
Prayer for Those in Peril at Sea, 19th Century English Oil Painting
By William Gale (British)
Located in London, GB
, A collection of paintings by William Gale, January 1914, no. 12
Private collection
William Gale
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
Simka Simkhovitch
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
Simka Simkhovitch
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape w Tower
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
Simka Simkhovitch
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape Pond Tree
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
Simka Simkhovitch
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Beach Scene Nude
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
This is a
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
19th Century Romantic Movement Painting "The Explorer" Unsigned
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
This original oil painting on canvas depicts a forlorn young couple sitting on/by a large rock at
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas
English 1870s Oil on Board Newfoundland Dog Painting after Sir Edwin Landseer
By Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English oil on board painting from the late 19th century depicting a Newfoundland dog, after Sir
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
H 27 in W 29.5 in D 3 in
'White Cliffs of Dover' by Johan Jacob Bennetter, 1822-1904, Norwegian Painter
Located in Bruges, BE
while painting Count Wedel’s portrait.
Bennetter’s journey into the world of art began when the art
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 29.73 in W 38.19 in D 3.94 in
The Apostle Paul's Shipwreck, Digital on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
. (Acts 27:23-25) The painting is available as a print in limited edition of 10. It is printed on
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Arrival, Shipwrecks stories. Iron vessel wall sculpture. 23.5x11"
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
dissimilating them into fragments and reworking them through different media, including computer, painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
H 23.5 in W 11 in D 2 in
Arrival, Shipwrecks stories. Iron vessel wall sculpture. 35.5x19.5"
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
dissimilating them into fragments and reworking them through different media, including computer, painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Metal, Iron
H 35.5 in W 19.5 in D 2 in
First lighthouse in Amsterdam, P.C. Dommersen, 19th century, Oil paint/panel
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
worked in Amsterdam, where his mother died in 1861.
The painter specialized in painting sea and river
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
On the Sea (På havet, 1911) by Swedish Carl Wilhelmson
Located in Stockholm, SE
The painting På Havet (On the Sea) by Carl Wilhelmson, created in 1911, stands as a remarkable
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
The Card Cheats, 19th Century Edgard FARASYN (19th Century French)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Berlin: Widow
Brussels: Shipwreck
Courtrai: Catching Shellfish
Namur: Father's Boat
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stormy Sea Oil on Canvas Flemish School XVII Century
Located in Milan, IT
-1677), the painting falls fully within the style and genre of the author who, working in his father's
Category
17th Century Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Ninth Wave, 19th Century After IVAN AIVAZOVSKY (1817-1900)
By Ivan Aivazovsky
Located in Blackwater, GB
shipwrecked figures at sea, oil on canvas inscribed to Ivan Aivazovsky. Excellent quality and condition scene
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A 17th Century Mythological Scene
Located in Stockholm, SE
This small yet captivating painting, crafted on a copper plate, dates back to the mid-1600s and was
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
Robinson Crusoe, 19th century by James Elder Christie (Scottish 1847-1914)
Located in Blackwater, GB
good condition scene from the novel as the shipwrecked Crusoe journeys through the wilderness of the
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Coastal Fugue #1
By Sylvia Torres
Located in Palm Desert, CA
cliffs drop hundreds of feet to the crashing swells of ocean below, home to historic shipwrecks
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Board
Paul Collomb, Paris, Eiffel Tower, Invalides, The Beautiful View, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
of painting. It begins, in June, some studies of shipwrecks, in Brittany, in the area of Concarneau
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 21.46 in W 16.23 in D 2.37 in
Sunset Sketch #6
By William R. Davis 1
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
, Massachusetts. He is a self-taught artist whose oil paintings typically capture the serene light of sunrise or
Category
2010s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Shipping in Stormy Waters, Attributed to Italian Artist Francesco Guardi
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Stockholm, SE
The splendour of the tragic sea
Francesco Guardi and maritime painting in Venetian art
No
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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H 25.79 in W 29.14 in
Watercolor Interpretation of the The Raft of the Medusa After Théodore Géricault
Located in Cotignac, FR
was an artist who persisted in asking questions. His interpretation of this painting can be seen in
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Visiting Day at the US Life Saving Service
By Xanthus Russell Smith
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
projectile carried a small messenger line by which the shipwrecked sailors were able to pull out a heavier
Category
1860s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Voice in the Rice
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
surviving a shipwreck off the coast of South Carolina, washes ashore near the Santee River and encounters a
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Raising the wreck of the steamer Flushing at Hampton Roads, Virginia
Located in Middletown, NY
illustrator, focusing on shipwrecks and battles occurring along the mid-Atlantic coast.
Graphite on cream
Category
Mid-19th Century American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Winter Farmyard, 18th Century Oil on Canvas, Figures in Snow Landscape
By George Morland
Located in Prato, IT
, textured landscapes informed by Dutch Golden Age painting.
Much of his work was intended for
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
H 27.17 in W 35.44 in D 2.37 in
"Seasons Greetings #1" Drawing by French Painter Marcel Vertes
By Marcel Vertès
Located in Pasadena, CA
a shipwreck. To survive her loneliness, she plans on celebrating the holiday with a Christmas tree
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Wax Crayon
H 16.88 in W 30.75 in D 0.38 in
Young Lady in Profile
By Harrison M. Fisher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
this time, as my mother and I were most timid on the ocean—we had been in a shipwreck—but I also never
Category
1910s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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