Alicia Czechowski, notwithstanding an MFA in art from Wayne State University, is a self-taught artist, as most artists have been. As a child with a natural aptitude for drawing and a lust for sheer visual experience, she began drawing with whatever materials came to hand. Her drawing skills developed during her teens, keeping a sketchbook handy at all times with the result that she did thousands of impromptu studies from life of happenstance subjects that struck a chord, such as people and animals at rest and in motion, random objects, buildings, vistas and extempore imagined imagery.
Growing up in Detroit, Alicia Czechowski had ready access to the superb collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. At the age of 10, she did her first copy of a painting, a still-life by Claesz, which she rendered on a much reduced scale in colored pencil, and then she did a somewhat more ambitious quarter-scale oil copy of “Trappers on the Missouri” by Bingham. Later, she did full-scale oil copies of paintings, or details of paintings, by Frans Hals, Rubens, Chardin, Gainsborough, Van Dyke, Velasquez, Fantin-Latour, Fragonard and G. D. Tiepolo in the National Gallery and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through copying works by these artists, Czechowski's aim was to imbibe something of the virtuosic fluidity and transcendent expressiveness of their handling of the painting medium.
“Being at work with your brushes and colors in front of a living, breathing painting by one of the greats, like Hals or Velasquez, is the most potent learning experience. It is the best way to learn to paint, almost like journeying back in time and actually watching them at work at their easels,” she says.
Alicia Czechowski's work is in private collections throughout the United States, in Mexico, Germany, the U.K. and Japan. She has had solo shows in New York City, Connecticut, Maine and Wisconsin, and has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. She did over 200 freelance illustrations for The New Yorker magazine from 1988 to 1995. Czechowski has taught painting, artistic anatomy, 3-D design and drawing at Wayne State University, Portland School of Art, University of Utah, Heartwood College of Art, and was Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for five years. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Rahr-West Museum, Miller Art Museum and Haggerty Museum of Art.
Nude Oil Female Figures Women Realism Expressionism Contemporary Sensual Signed
By Alicia Czechowski
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Sauna" is an original oil painting on canvas signed by the artist Alicia Czechowski. It depicts six nude female figures lounging in a sauna. These figures have a wide variety of...
Oil
$3,200
Contemporary female artist still life gouache painting vase flowers signed
By Alicia Czechowski
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Gloxinia & Slice of Torte" is an original gouache painting by Alicia Czechowski. It depicts a basket of lush flowers and a slice of a dessert painted in a photorealist style. 20 1/...
Gouache
$26,963
H 24.02 in W 18.12 in
The Bath. Late 19th Century. Oil on canvas, 61x46 сm
Located in Riga, LV
Vinsent G. Stiepevich (1841 - 1910) Russian and American artist. Emigrated to New York in 1878, where he lived in Brooklyn, Vincent Stiepevich was noted for his realist painting style of portrait, figure and genre subjects, especially in Harem and Orientalist* settings. Memberships in New York included the Artists Fund Society* the Brooklyn Art Association*, 1878-82, 1891; National Academy of Design*, 1878-91; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts* annual, 1885, 1888-91; Boston Art...
Canvas, Oil
$4,999
H 39.37 in W 25.59 in D 1.18 in
"Bolonia IV" – Oil Painting, Female Nude Beach Scene
Located in Denver, CO
"Bolonia IV" by Conrado López is a striking original 2024 painting depicting a female nude figure executed in acrylic, gold leaf, and oil on canvas. Measuring 39.37 x 25.59 x 1.18 in...
Gold Leaf
"Awakening" Oil Painting
By Matt Talbert
Located in Denver, CO
Matt Talbert ( US based) "Awakening" is an oil painting that depicts a nude feminine form in pearls with an Afro reclining with her hands clasped in her hair. Artist bio/statement:...
Oil, Panel
$7,058
H 31.5 in W 23.63 in D 1.19 in
Beautiful Oil On Canvas, Female Nude By V Tsvetkov Sold without frame
Located in Gavere, BE
"Realistic Oil On Canvas, Female Nude By V Tsvetkov " Original contemporary painting by Bulgarian artist V Tsvetkov, depicting a beautiful female nude Signed lower left V Tsvenkov E...
Canvas, Oil
$6,100
H 40.125 in W 36.125 in D 1.75 in
Robert Kenneth White “Back to Nature” Signed Figurative Nude Oil Painting
Located in Miami, FL
ROBERT KENNETH WHITE – "BACK TO NATURE" ⚜ Oil on Canvas ⚜ Hand Signed Lower Right ⚜ Frameless Display A MASTERWORK OF LIGHT, FORM, AND HUMAN CONNECTION TO NATURE In "Back to Nature"...
Canvas, Oil
$3,950
H 20 in W 27.5 in D 2.5 in
"Lenaia" (2020) By Diego Glazer, Original Realist Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Diego Glazer's "Lenaia" is an original, handmade oil painting that is framed and ready to hang. The framed measurements are 21 in H x 29 in W. About the Artist: For as long as I ca...
Canvas, Oil
$7,350Sale Price|25% Off
H 46 in W 30 in
Figurative portrait painting of semi nude woman with arrows "Marks"
By Aaron Nagel
Located in East Quogue, NY
Striking realistic portrait painting of a semi-nude woman with arrows titled "Marks" by Aaron Nagel. Oil on canvas. Size 46 x 30 inches. Unframed. Aaron Nagel is inspired by the co...
Oil
"Nomos", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Remmers' (US based) "Nomos" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude man hugging a glowing orb of light to himself as ...
Oil, Panel
$8,000
H 36 in W 24 in D 0.25 in
"Red Hair" - Modern Realism Figurative Nude - Woman with Red Hair
By Shana Wilson
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana Wilson (Canadian, born 1966) "Red Hair" 2014 Oil paint on wood panel The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Shana Wilson, born in Edmonton in 1966, has ...
Oil, Wood Panel
$8,254
H 31.5 in W 39.38 in D 3.55 in
Oil painting on Canvas, Bathing Nude By Maria Szantho
By Maria Szantho
Located in Gavere, BE
Oil painting on Canvas, Bathing Nude By Maria Szantho Nice and large painting " portrait of a nude Gipsy girl " painted by the female artist Maria Szantho (1897 - 1998) Hungarian sc...
Canvas, Oil
$13,000
H 28 in W 20 in D 0.75 in
"Volley", Contemporary Realism Figurative Nude, Woman on her Knees with Flowers
Located in Carmel, CA
Rizaldy Celi Jr. (American, Filipino-Vietnamese, born 1983) "Volley" 2025 Oil paint on canvas, stretcher bars The artist signed the back of the canvas. “Volley” is a powerful figura...
Oil, Stretcher Bars, Canvas
Cherry Blossom
By Jason de Graaf
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My paintings are about staging an alternate reality, the illusion of verisimilitude on the painted surface, filtered so that it expresses my unique vision. Though my paintings may ap...
Canvas, Acrylic