$3,500
Swirl Abstract Shades of various colors 36"x30" Acrylic on canvas Gallery wrap
By Eleanor McCarthy
Located in Houston, TX
Eleanor has recently begun to pursue non-representational painting and has enjoyed exploring the process of abstraction in creating new works of art.
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
"Coffee Break (Keep on Grinding)" (2025) Oil Still-Life Painting on Panel
By Jay Davenport
Located in Denver, CO
The Waichulis Studio (today the Ani Art Academies) specializes in teaching representational painting and it was here that Davenport spent the next four years studying.
Oil, Panel
Florescence Acrylic on Canvas Bright Floral Colors Framed New Work 2025
By Eleanor McCarthy
Located in Houston, TX
Eleanor has recently begun to pursue non-representational painting and has enjoyed exploring the process of abstraction in creating new works of art.
Canvas, Acrylic
Woodland Waltz Abstract Landscape Bright Colors New Work 2025
By Eleanor McCarthy
Located in Houston, TX
Eleanor has recently begun to pursue non-representational painting and has enjoyed exploring the process of abstraction in creating new works of art.
Canvas, Acrylic
Flower Power Acrylic on Canvas Contemporary Abstract New Work 2024
By Eleanor McCarthy
Located in Houston, TX
Eleanor has recently begun to pursue non-representational painting and has enjoyed exploring the process of abstraction in creating new works of art.
Canvas, Acrylic
$4,400Sale Price|20% Off
LOST AND FOUND Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract , Contemporary , 48 x 53
By Eleanor McCarthy
Located in Houston, TX
Eleanor has recently begun to pursue non-representational painting and has enjoyed exploring the process of abstraction in creating new works of art.
Canvas, Acrylic
Red Hat Oil On Panel 9"x12" Figurative Impressionism Light and Shadow
By David Shevlino
Located in Houston, TX
However, after many years of experimenting, Shevlino began exploring a looser paint application which straddles the line between representational painting and abstraction. This "in...
Oil, Wood Panel
$2,160Sale Price|40% Off
Song of Summer, Acrylic , Abstract, 40 x 30, Variety of Colors, Women in Arts
By Eleanor McCarthy
Located in Houston, TX
Eleanor has recently begun to pursue non-representational painting and has enjoyed exploring the process of abstraction in creating new works of art.
Canvas, Acrylic
$6,800
Your Flowers Have Faded, Original Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Painting
By Stacey Warnix
Located in Boston, MA
Introduced to representational oil painting as a preschooler by an artist grandmother, Stacey created paintings and collages throughout her childhood, winning frequent awards, but sh...
Mixed Media
$2,900
Wintersong, Original Framed Minimalist Black and White Abstract Diptych Painting
By Stacey Warnix
Located in Boston, MA
Introduced to representational oil painting as a preschooler by an artist grandmother, Stacey created paintings and collages throughout her childhood, winning frequent awards, but sh...
Mixed Media
$8,500
Myth Makers - Narrative Landscape Painting, Original Oil on Linen, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting can be read as a strong example of Adam Holzrichter’s narrative representational practice.
Linen, Oil
$8,600
Manarola, Original Framed Contemporary Colorful Abstract Mixed Media Painting
By Stacey Warnix
Located in Boston, MA
Introduced to representational oil painting as a preschooler by an artist grandmother, Stacey created paintings and collages throughout her childhood, winning frequent awards, but sh...
Mixed Media
$2,500
White Roof 16" x 16" Light Wood Float Frame Drone Photo Landscape Contemporary
By David Shevlino
Located in Houston, TX
However, after many years of experimenting, Shevlino began exploring a looser paint application which straddles the line between representational painting and abstraction. This "in...
Oil, Panel
$2,300
Rooftops 12" x 12" Light Wood Float Frame Drone Photo Landscape Contemporary
By David Shevlino
Located in Houston, TX
However, after many years of experimenting, Shevlino began exploring a looser paint application which straddles the line between representational painting and abstraction. This "in...
Oil, Panel
Boats Oil on Panel Docked Boats 12" x 16" Light Wood Float Frame 2023
By David Shevlino
Located in Houston, TX
However, after many years of experimenting, Shevlino began exploring a looser paint application which straddles the line between representational painting and abstraction. This "in...
Oil, Panel
Floral in Glass Vase
By David Henry
Located in Greenwich, CT
It was during this time that Henry was selected by the American Master, Nelson Shanks, to participate in a transformative apprenticeship under his guidance, immersing himself in the ...
Birch, Oil, Panel
$1,960Sale Price|20% Off
Garden Dance, Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract Floral, Free Shipping , Expressionism
By Eleanor McCarthy
Located in Houston, TX
Eleanor has recently begun to pursue non-representational painting and has enjoyed exploring the process of abstraction in creating new works of art.
Canvas, Acrylic
Sand & Sea
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
He built his early career on abstraction and religious iconography, later moving to representational painting, environment sculpture, and photography.
Wood, Wax, Encaustic, Oil
The Navigator (Small)
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
He built his early career on abstraction and religious iconography, later moving to representational painting, environment sculpture, and photography.
Wood, Panel, Wax, Oil
For SRV (Large)
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
He built his early career on abstraction and religious iconography, later moving to representational painting, environment sculpture, and photography.
Encaustic, Wood Panel, Wax, Oil
All Good Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
He built his early career on abstraction and religious iconography, later moving to representational painting, environment sculpture, and photography.
Wax, Encaustic, Wood Panel, Oil
Banja Luka Tulip
By David Henry
Located in Greenwich, CT
It was during this time that Henry was selected by the American Master, Nelson Shanks, to participate in a transformative apprenticeship under his guidance, immersing himself in the ...
Birch, Oil, Panel
Day Lily and Butterfly
By David Henry
Located in Greenwich, CT
It was during this time that Henry was selected by the American Master, Nelson Shanks, to participate in a transformative apprenticeship under his guidance, immersing himself in the ...
Birch, Oil, Panel
Rembrandt Tulip
By David Henry
Located in Greenwich, CT
It was during this time that Henry was selected by the American Master, Nelson Shanks, to participate in a transformative apprenticeship under his guidance, immersing himself in the ...
Birch, Oil, Panel
Chamomile in Blue and White Pitcher with Lemon
By David Henry
Located in Greenwich, CT
It was during this time that Henry was selected by the American Master, Nelson Shanks, to participate in a transformative apprenticeship under his guidance, immersing himself in the ...
Birch, Oil, Panel
$6,000
Varenna, Original Framed Contemporary Blue and Teal Abstract Painting on Linen
By Stacey Warnix
Located in Boston, MA
Introduced to representational oil painting as a preschooler by an artist grandmother, Stacey created paintings and collages throughout her childhood, winning frequent awards, but sh...
Acrylic
$2,300
Camellias On Panel 12 x 12" Floral Still-life Impressionism Flowers in a Vase
By David Shevlino
Located in Houston, TX
However, after many years of experimenting, Shevlino began exploring a looser paint application which straddles the line between representational painting and abstraction. This "in...
Oil, Wood Panel
$2,200
Carnations and an Orange Oil On Panel 13" x 10" Floral Still-life Impressionism
By David Shevlino
Located in Houston, TX
However, after many years of experimenting, Shevlino began exploring a looser paint application which straddles the line between representational painting and abstraction. This "in...
Oil, Wood Panel
"Melt the Butter" portrait of vintage woman with lobster
By Fred Calleri
Located in Edgartown, MA
While exploring the figure and representational painting in general, Calleri found that by adding a slight distortion he was free to let the image take him where it wanted to go.
Canvas, Oil
Mod French Oil Painting Semi Abstract Colorful Composition Israeli Nissan Engel
By Nissan Engel
Located in Surfside, FL
Five years later, he moved to New York City where he continued to produce figurative and representational paintings of landscapes, still lifes, and equestrian themes in a graphic and...
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Butterflies
By David Henry
Located in Greenwich, CT
It was during this time that Henry was selected by the American Master, Nelson Shanks, to participate in a transformative apprenticeship under his guidance, immersing himself in the ...
Birch, Oil, Wood Panel
Black and White(Boxers) 36" x 48" Figurative Contemporary Brushstrokes
By David Shevlino
Located in Houston, TX
However, after many years of experimenting, Shevlino began exploring a looser paint application which straddles the line between representational painting and abstraction. This "in...
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Rabbi at Study Judaica Oil Painting
By Ben-Zion
Located in Surfside, FL
(Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Ben-Zion continued his style of representational painting based on the abstract, and is perha...
Oil, Board
White Peony
By David Henry
Located in Greenwich, CT
It was during this time that Henry was selected by the American Master, Nelson Shanks, to participate in a transformative apprenticeship under his guidance, immersing himself in the ...
Birch, Oil, Panel
$3,750Sale Price|31% Off
1941 Impressionist Pikes Peak by Charles Bunnell, Autumn Colorado Landscape
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
While Bunnell later became celebrated for his semi-abstract works of the 1950s and beyond, early representational paintings such as this 1941 landscape reveal his technical precision...
Tempera
Labyrinth XLVIII
By JT Thompson
Located in New York, NY
This focus converges with a more formal interest in pushing the precepts of representational painting. I aim to create compositions that both surprise and intrigue.
Canvas, Oil
Labyrinth XXXI
By JT Thompson
Located in New York, NY
This focus converges with a more formal interest in pushing the precepts of representational painting. I aim to create compositions that both surprise and intrigue.
Canvas, Oil
Labyrinth XXXVI
By JT Thompson
Located in New York, NY
This focus converges with a more formal interest in pushing the precepts of representational painting. I aim to create compositions that both surprise and intrigue.
Canvas, Oil
Labyrinth XLIII
By JT Thompson
Located in New York, NY
This focus converges with a more formal interest in pushing the precepts of representational painting. I aim to create compositions that both surprise and intrigue.
Canvas, Oil
Labyrinth XLIV
By JT Thompson
Located in New York, NY
This focus converges with a more formal interest in pushing the precepts of representational painting. I aim to create compositions that both surprise and intrigue.
Canvas, Oil
Labyrinth XVII
By JT Thompson
Located in New York, NY
This focus converges with a more formal interest in pushing the precepts of representational painting. I aim to create compositions that both surprise and intrigue.
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting Woman Portrait French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris
By Jean Jansem
Located in Surfside, FL
Known for his washy representational paintings of figure, landscape, marine and genre scenes of European subjects: fishermen and children of Greece, bullfighting in Spain, Italian la...
Canvas, Oil
$12,500
'Portrait', SFAI, SFMMA, Stanford, Pratt Institute, Ram, Surrealism, Nerdrum
By Francesca Sundsten
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Her primary interest was in representational painting, a style which was discouraged in her undergraduate program.
Oil, Panel
$3,800
The Prophet, Modernist Judaica Oil Painting Biblical Jewish Rabbi at Prayer
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
(Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Ben-Zion continued his style of representational painting based on the abstract, and is perha...
Oil
$4,000
Red and White (Two Boxers) Figurative Art Contemporary Brushstrokes Movement
By David Shevlino
Located in Houston, TX
However, after many years of experimenting, Shevlino began exploring a looser paint application which straddles the line between representational painting and abstraction. This "in...
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Fantastic Rafael Coronel Mixed Media 1961
By Rafael Coronel
Located in Detroit, MI
He was from Mexico and the son-in-law of Diego Rivera. His representational paintings have a melancholic sobriety, and include faces from the past great masters, often floating in a ...
Mixed Media, Board, ABS
Modernist Judaica Oil Painting "Old Jew" Jewish Rabbi at Prayer
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
(Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Ben-Zion continued his style of representational painting based on the abstract, and is perha...
Oil, Board
$2,600
"Island Hopping" little girl enjoys arcade game before a map of Marthas Vineyard
By Fred Calleri
Located in Edgartown, MA
While exploring the figure and representational painting in general, Calleri found that by adding a slight distortion he was free to let the image take him where it wanted to go.
Canvas, Oil
"Pelted", winter wonderland, a young boy gets ready to throw a snowball
By Fred Calleri
Located in Edgartown, MA
While exploring the figure and representational painting in general, Calleri found that by adding a slight distortion he was free to let the image take him where it wanted to go.
Canvas, Oil
$15,000
Large Mid-Century Yellow Mandala, Ovoid Figural Abstract Painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Around 1964 Carter acknowledged a need to break from the confines of representational painting. Once Carter had found a potent symbol in the egg, he used it to create an astounding b...
Acrylic
American Modernist Oil Painting Gestural Landscape WPA Artist Group of 10
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
(Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Ben-Zion continued his style of representational painting based on the abstract, and is perha...
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,800
"Solo Journey" girl with white dress and sunhat with ribbon wades into the ocean
By Fred Calleri
Located in Edgartown, MA
While exploring the figure and representational painting in general, Calleri found that by adding a slight distortion he was free to let the image take him where it wanted to go.
Canvas, Oil
"Splash" woman in swim cap and swim suit dances into the wave
By Fred Calleri
Located in Edgartown, MA
While exploring the figure and representational painting in general, Calleri found that by adding a slight distortion he was free to let the image take him where it wanted to go.
Canvas, Oil
$5,500
"Atlantic Blue" woman stands next to a bluefin in front of the Cape and Islands
By Fred Calleri
Located in Edgartown, MA
While exploring the figure and representational painting in general, Calleri found that by adding a slight distortion he was free to let the image take him where it wanted to go.
Canvas, Oil
$3,400
"Penny Arcade" girl in blue bathing suit rides boat game at the arcade, summer
By Fred Calleri
Located in Edgartown, MA
While exploring the figure and representational painting in general, Calleri found that by adding a slight distortion he was free to let the image take him where it wanted to go.
Canvas, Oil
"The Apprentice" young boy in a shop showing his newest piece, a duck
By Fred Calleri
Located in Edgartown, MA
While exploring the figure and representational painting in general, Calleri found that by adding a slight distortion he was free to let the image take him where it wanted to go.
Canvas, Oil
Florabundance Acrylic on Canvas Contemporary Abstract 40" x 40" Water
By Eleanor McCarthy
Located in Houston, TX
Eleanor has recently begun to pursue non-representational painting and has enjoyed exploring the process of abstraction in creating new works of art.
Canvas, Acrylic
Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract paintings, landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other original paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.
When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.
Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.
Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.
No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel.
Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color?
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