Feminist Art

To be safe in the world you must first be safe with yourself. This piece represents the energy of the solar plexus chakra, an energy center located in the stomach just below the ribs. Solar plexus energy is that of gut feelings, personal power, and self-regard. The mirror image depicts the egoic self with eyes closed and the higher self smiling knowingly at the ego with eyes open.

Artist self-portrait.

My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scenes of play, group interacti...

My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scenes of play, group interacti...

My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scenes of play, group interacti...

My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scenes of play, group interacti...

"Ortez (Modernist Family Portrait)" is a gouache on paper abstract painting by Lewis Lee Tilley (1921-2005) from 1947 of five family members sitting on a couch. Painted in jewel tone...

Untitled (Portrait of Bessy Lyon, Artist Wife) is an oil on canvas painting by Hayes Lyon (1901-1987) from 1945. Presented in a wood frame, outer dimensions measure 35 ¼ x 29 ¼ x 1 ¾ inches. Image size is 30 x 24 inches. About the Artist: A native of Athol, Kansas, Lyon is primarily associated with Colorado. After several summer vacations at the Boulder Chautauqua and at Manitou near Colorado Springs, his family relocated in 1920 to Boulder where his father had a lumber business. Nine years later they settled in Denver where his father owned the Acme Lumber Company. To comply with his desire for his son’s financial self-reliance, Lyon graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1931 with a B.A. degree in economics. But shortly thereafter he returned to his first love – art – that ultimately became his career. His interest in the arts was nurtured by his mother, herself a talented amateur artist, and by two of his aunts who served as role models. Beginning in 1932, he pursued a five-year course of study at the Chappell School of Art in Denver which by then had become part of the University of Denver. During his time at the school he studied with John E. Thompson and Santa Fe artist, Józef Bakoś. He also met two other Santa Fe-based artists, Willard Nash and B.J.O. Nordfeldt, when they exhibited at Chappell House, then the home of the Denver Art Museum. Lyon likewise attended the Cooke-Daniels Lecture Series there on the arts in the 1930s. Following graduation with a B.F.A. degree from the University of Denver in 1937, he studied privately for about a year with Andrew Dasburg in Taos, New Mexico, that redirected his attention to the rugged Rocky Mountain landscape, which he saw with directness and painted with an economy of means. His canvas, Winter Vista, done following his study with Dasburg, received the Edward J. Yetter Memorial Prize at the 45th Annual Exhibition of the Denver Art Museum in 1939. The painting was reproduced in the September 1939 issue of the Magazine of Art (Washington, DC). That same year his painting, Mount Evans, was included as one of Colorado’s entries in the American Art Today Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. The money he received from the Yetter Prize financed his trip to Mexico City and Guadalajara in 1939 to see firsthand the frescoes of José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera and the easel paintings of David Alfaro Siqueiros. Their work was admired by many Americans who participated in the WPA-era mural projects in the United States in the 1930s and early 1940s. The economic fallout from the Great Depression affecting many American artists at the time likewise resulted in Lyon’s participation in the Colorado Art Project, part of the WPA’s national program. Under its auspices he produced three murals in 1940 about the pioneer era of Fort Lupton, Colorado, which were installed in the auditorium of the local high school. Covering 367 square feet of wall space, one of the murals – Behold the West (the largest one) – incorporates the old fort for which the town is named. Before Lyon painted the murals, the students at Fort Lupton High School researched the history of their community and contributed to their cost, facilitating the murals’ allocation to their school under the Colorado Art Project. In the early 1940s Lyon shifted his focus to two new subjects – bathers, and canyons with conifers – reflecting his ongoing search for personal artistic growth. However, his reliance on structure to create form in his paintings and works on paper alienated some of his longtime followers. Nonetheless, his painting Conifers and Canyons won recognition at the 47th Annual Exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. The watercolor version of the piece was among three hundred works in that medium selected by John Marin, Charles Burchfield and Eliot O’Hara from a national competition held by the Section of Fine Arts (Federal Works Agency) and shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in 1941. Later that year Lyon spent time in California where he saw Orozco’s Prometheus, influencing him to increase his range of originality and expression. In 1942 Lyon enlisted in the U.S. Army, spending almost three years in the Mediterranean Theater – Africa and Italy – preparing camouflage operations and scale models of proposed landing sites. He used his free time in Italy to expand his artistic vocabulary by seeing cultural masterpieces in Rome, Florence, Siena and Milan, and through his extensive contact with Giorgio de Chirico, founder of the scuola metafisica art movement, and Gino Severini, a leading member of the Futurist movement. Because of Lyon’s low army rank and pay, de Chirico did a small watercolor for him signing it, "For Mr. Lyon; G de Chirico, 1944." Lyon often visited de Chirico and his wife, Isa, at their apartment near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Following his Army discharge in 1945 fellow Kansas native, Ward Lockwood, invited him to join the Art Department at the University of Texas at Austin where he taught painting from 1946 to 1951. During this period some of Lyon’s work employed the palette of the School of Paris which he had seen while stationed in Europe, while other paintings had a certain flatness found in some of Lockwood’s work from the 1930s. From 1951 to 1953 he was affiliated with the Lower Colorado River Authority in Austin as an illustrator and editor of the employee magazine. In 1953, following time spent in Mexico, he returned to Denver, working as an illustrator at Lowry Air Force Base until retirement in 1961. During that time he did little of his own art because he also was designing and building a home in Arvada, Colorado, and re-establishing himself in the Denver art community after a decade-long absence. His painting, Autumn Aspens (1953-present location unknown) illustrates his experimentation with abstraction. In the early 1960s he began painting from memory that continued until the steadily degenerative effects of Alzheimer’s disease took their toll a decade later. He depicted scenes from his wartime European sojourn and from his early adulthood. The latter include Souvenir of Boulder (1962), a nostalgic return to his boyhood home in Boulder; and Holly Mayer and Friends, a painting of Glenn Miller and his musicians, inspired by Lyon’s first encounter with jazz in Boulder in the 1920s. His lifelong passion for vintage cars and automobile racing...

Oil on panel painting by Lewis Lee Tilley (1921-2005) titled "Opera Matinee" from 1948. Image presents two women at an opera, one in pink leans over to the other in blue to whisper i...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Audrey Hepburn Icon" Series: Icon *Signed, dated, and titled by Graves on verso Year: 2017 Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canv...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Apollo Icon" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2022 Medium: Original A...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Icon III (Bernini)" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Coco Chanel Icon III" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Brigitte Bardot Icon IV" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2022 Mediu...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Princess Diana Icon" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2017 Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas Framing: Framed in a contemporary gold moulding Framed size: 31.38" x 27.25" Canvas size: 30" x 26" Condition: The stretched canvas was custom built by the artist himself. In excellent condition Notes: This is Graves' first ever "Princess Diana Icon" painting. Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997), was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales—the heir apparent to the British throne...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Alexander the Great Icon V" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled,...

Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Cowboy" *Signed by May upper right Circa: 2020 Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Board Framing: Framed in a contemporary black moulding F...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Female Face Icon IX (Claire)" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, dated, and t...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Steve McQueen Icon III" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2022 Medium:...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Female Face Icon VII (Alexandra)" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, dated, ...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Female Face Icon VI (Cleopatra)" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, dated, an...

Alirio Palacios was one of the most versatile Venezuelan painters, draftsmen and engravers of the second half of the 20th century. He was part of the n...

Armando Barrios Rostro, 1971 Oil on paper 26.5 x 19 cm 10.4 x 7.4 in. The work is illustrated page 121 No. 0682, in the General Catalog (1930 - 1999) La Pintura Como Razón de Ser, edited by Armando Barrios Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela, 2005. " Armando Barrios was born in Caracas on August 21, 1920. Son of Serapio Barrios and Carmen Rodríguez de Barrios, both of Spanish origin. Since his adolescence he developed a great love for the arts, so from the age of 12 he was already studying at the School of Fine Arts and Applied Arts in Caracas. His searches in the artistic field were initially directed towards the study of the Impressionist and Cubist schools...

Armando Barrios India, 1955 Pastel on paper 41 x 26 cm 16.1 x 10.2 in. The work is illustrated page 70 No. 0256, in the General Catalog (1930 - 1999) La Pintura Como Razón de Ser, edited by Armando Barrios Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela, 2005. " Armando Barrios was born in Caracas on August 21, 1920. Son of Serapio Barrios and Carmen Rodríguez de Barrios, both of Spanish origin. Since his adolescence he developed a great love for the arts, so from the age of 12 he was already studying at the School of Fine Arts and Applied Arts in Caracas. His searches in the artistic field were initially directed towards the study of the Impressionist and Cubist schools...

"Dama con Icaro" is a portrait painting, acrylic on wood d by Venezuelan artist Carmelo Niño (b. 1951). Since he first appeared in the local scene, with h...

Alirio Palacios Versiones, 2012 Mixed media and gold leaf on cardboard (intervened by the artist) 145 x 134 cm 57 x 52.7 in. The artwork is signed and...

My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scenes of play, group interacti...

John Baker’s “Pacific Celebration” is an acrylic painting with collage on canvas 66 x 50 inches in greens, blues, yellows and rose reds. As though at a fantastical wedding, the color...

John Baker’s “The Two Dummies” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 32 x 24 x 1.5 inches wide in browns, tans and greys with red and yellow accents. The wooden neck lever of the ventriloquist suggests that he is in reality the dummy of the young boy; and yet, impossibly, both seem to be the dummies of one another! Regardless, the brightness of the props on the prop table...

Beth Carlson's oval dog painting featuring a closeup of an elegant Vizsla showcases the artist's talent in capturing the soul of her animal subjects ...

Beth de Loiselle's "Loyal Companion”, a detailed realist dog painting of a yellow Labrador Retriever with a trompe l'oeil gold frame on a black backgro...

Greyhound, This stunning large minimalist black and white painting of a Greyhound dog, is a contemporary portrait in acrylic on canvas. Ian Mason's portrai...

Valarie Wolf's horse painting, an elegant profile of a Thoroughbred is a beautiful the statement. The details of the handsome Bay Thoroughbred horse's profile are more outstanding w...

This elegant minimal black and white dog painting of a seated English Setter gazing lovingly at his owner, is a contemporary portrait in ink on Ind...

This stunning large black and white ink painting of a German Shorthair Pointer dog, is a contemporary minimal portrait in black ink on Fabria...

Valarie Wolf's sighthound dog painting is of an Italian Greyhound with a beautiful collar. The Italian Greyhound, a sighthound dog, has the poise of a model with a glamorous collar w...

A Yorkshire Terrier dog painting masterfully painted by Hans Guerin intrigues with detailed brush strokes and is in a handsome dark frame. The finely detai...

Johann Ludwig Robert von Steiger (Swiss, * 8th of January, 1856, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; † 1st of June, 1941, Buenos Aires, Argentina) Portrait of Karl Alfred Arthur von Steiger Lie...

Nino Giuffrida (Sicilian, 1924, active in France) Un Garçon avec des Fruits • Oil on canvas, ca. 41 x 33 cm • Frame, made by the renowned framer Knöll from Zürich, ca. 54 x 46 cm • Signed top left Worldwide shipping for this object is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery. Born in 1924 in Sicily, Nino already attended the artistic high school in Catania at the age of 17, where he befriended fellow painters including Pippo Aleo and Giovanni Calogero. At that time, he painted with passion everything he saw, landscapes, seascapes, still lifes. After a first attempt to come to France with his friend Giovanni in 1948, aborted for lack of a visa. Nino finally arrived at the Gare de Lyon on December 8, 1949 and settled at number 30 rue Gabrielle in Montmartre. Nino began to paint Paris. Like many Montmartre artists of this period, while he painted all day long, he moved about in the evening on the terraces of the cafés of Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés to transform himself into a portrait painter and randomly sketch the customers in restaurants. Nino then devoted himself more and more to the painting of children, which became his favorite theme of inspiration. Pierre Imbourg, journalist and art critic, wrote of him: "Montmartre, the land of little ‘Poulbots’, inspiring Nino to record in his mind all these childrens faces whose intense facial expression he would endevour to reproduce". It was also at this time that his career as a Montmartre painter influenced by cubism began. With the disappearance of the art galleries in Montmartre, Nino decides to settle on the French Riviera, in Cannes then in Vallauris. From 1952 his personal exhibitions follow one another and Nino becomes an international painter: Rome, Brussels, Chicago, Copenhagen, Helsingborg and Aüs in Sweden, in Geneva, in Kourou in Guyana... In Paris, he manages the Galerie de la Colonne...

Hellmuth Bachrach-Baree, a German artist, apprenticed with neo-impressionist painters. His early compositions depicted rural life, integrating people and animals into familiar landsc...

Hedwig Mechle - Grossmann (Germann, * 3rd of December 1857, Görlitz - † 1st of October, 1928 Ödenburg) Die Kleine Rosenverkäuferin - The Little Rose Seller • Oil on carse canvas, ca. 100 x 75 cm • Frame, 107 x 81 cm • Signed and dated 1920 upper right This large painting will make everybody stop, look, smile and want to buy a lovely rose from that charming girl. Take your time and have a look at the details … the stopper of the water ceramic bottle, her piece of bread, the torn and frayed clothing and more. Hedwig Mechle-Grossmann is well known and appreciated for her expressive genre scenes depicting children. Born in Görlitz, she worked in Berlin and moved on to Ödenburg, where she died. Important examples of her work are held in the Ödenburg Landesmuseum. A few words on condition: The painting has received slight sympathetic restoration - The partially frayed edges have been professionally relined with a narrow strip of new canvas for strength and then the canvas has been re-stretched on to the original stretcher, with the arms of the stretcher covering most of the newly attached strips of canvas. One of the arms of the stretcher has suffered slight worm damage in the past. That short section has been treated, stabilized and the restorer covered the unsightly area with a strip of the same canvas, which was used to reline the edges. The frame seems to be original (certainly early 20thC) - the corners have been re-glued, small areas have been retouched and minor sections of the molding are missing. New small woodblocks...

Josefine Batke - Koller (Austrian, 1897-1976) Portrait of a Young, Jewish Communist Brigadist from the Spanish Civil War • Oil on panel ca. 60 x 49 cm • Frame ca. 75 x 62 cm • Sign...

This portrait has a naïve and gentle charm to it. To my eye it looks like a woman but it could equally be any gender or age. Perhaps this is the beauty of Turner Durrant's abstraction. The materiality is more distinct when you see the piece in the flesh. There is something endearing about being able to see the edges of the paper, torn almost in haste as if the artist just had to get the image down. Maybe it was painted on the spot or an image from the artist's imagination. Whichever, the use of minimal line and a reduced palette adds to the simplicity and thus free nature of the painting. Roy Turner Durrant Untitled (Head) Medium: Watercolour on paper Signed bottom right 1977 Image size: 31 x 26 cm - Frame size: 50.5 x 44 cm Roy Turner Durrant (1925 - 1998) A Modern British artist, Roy Turner Durrant was born in Suffolk, England in 1925. His career was long and distinguished, culminating with work in major public galleries in the UK and internationally. After the war he secured a place at Camberwell College of Arts where he was taught by amongst others by Edward Ardizzone Michael Rothenstein Keith Vaughan and John Buckland Wright and was a contemporary of Theodore Mendez. Whilst at Camberwell he was already exhibiting his paintings in London galleries. His work moved from early landscape and architectural interest to abstraction but with a great variety of style and technique. A member of the New English Art Club, from the late 1940s he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and in numerous commercial galleries in London. From the 1950s, his early figurative style began to change, becoming more abstract. He said of his own work in 1951 that his abstract imagery were 'by-products of an inquisition primarily concerned not with what the eye sees but with what the intellect and emotion experience’. In 1963 he moved to Cambridge to take up the post of Art Gallery Manager at Heffers at the time a well known local artists' materials and book sellers...

Beth de Loiselle's "Maine Coon" , a detailed realist cat painting of a Maine Coon cat with a trompe l'oeil gold frame on a black background. The friendly Maine Coon cat is one of th...

Bloodhound, this stunning large minimalist black and white painting of a Bloodhound dog, is a contemporary portrait in acrylic on canvas. Ian Mason's portr...

Hans Bertle (Austrian, 1880-1943) Geburt des Todes - Kain und Abel (Birth of Death - Cain und Abel) • Symbolistic painting • Oil on canvas, ca. 62 x 72 cm • Original Frame, ca. 87 ...

Valarie Wolf's "Approach with Caution" portrays a bay horse, possibly startled or cautious, a horse painting which sparks a conversation or contemplation. For horse lovers, this pa...

Cocker Spaniels, Barrie Barnett, renown pastel artist, astonishes with her skill with pastel. Not a photograph this is an original painting. Two blonde C...

This lovely minimal black and white dog painting of a Bulldog is a contemporary portrait in acrylic on board which displays Ian Mason's unique abil...

Beth Carlson's dramatic fox painting, titled "Reynard," emphasizes the fox's power of wit over strength. The cunning fox is set against a beautiful snowy winter backdrop. The fox pa...

This lovely minimal black and white dog painting of a Bassett Hound, is a contemporary portrait in ink on Indian rag paper which displays Ian Mason's unique ability to harmoniously i...

In a classic monochrome palette, Valarie Wolf skillfully captures the essence of bygone days with her intricate horse painting featuring a boy donned in vintage attire. The artwork harkens back to yesteryear and evokes the nostalgia of original black and white photography...

"Ghost" is a photoreal portrait of a white horse in his dark barn in the South of France. The equine painting stuns the viewer with the drama o...

In Valarie Wolf's captivating dog painting of a greyhound, "All Dogs Are Angels ", the sighthound's devoted gaze draws the viewer in, evoking its' angelic presence. While gracing you...

This elegant sporting painting "Catch The Scent" by Beth de Loiselle is a detailed close up of an English Pointer pointing at a bird while on the hunt....

The charming quintessential Corgi dog painting by Audrey Challoner-Desjardins is a must have for the Corgi lover.   Audrey Challoner-Desjardins immortalizes ...

This lovely minimal black and white dog painting of an elegant English Pointer, is a contemporary portrait in ink on Indian rag paper which displays Ia...

Golden Retriever, dog, This stunning large black and white ink painting of a Golden Retriever, is a contemporary minimal portrait in ink wash on Heritage paper 200 gsm paper. Ian Mason's portraits of dogs are very striking as he is able to capture the form of each dog breed with minimal brush strokes. His start as a sculptor is evident with his unique, minimal paintings of dogs. Viewers always exclaim that he captures each dog's personality perfectly for each breed. This Golden Retriever dog exudes loving and gentle traits. In the images we have included a lovely image of Luna 1 which is framed the same size (they make a stunning pair of golden retriever paintings...