Bret Reilly Portrait Paintings

This piece depicts famous British model Kate Moss from a Fall 2013 ad campaign with Stuart Weitzman during the Milan Fashion Week while featuring Kate Moss swaggering to Nancy Sinatr...

This exquisite acrylic painting by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Suzanne and Zack Remembered, was executed in 1992. Created during the mature period of Hornak’s career, the composition presents a deeply personal portrait of two individuals who occupied a cherished place within the artist’s life in East Hampton. Close friends and next-door neighbors of Hornak, mother and son are depicted in a moment of tenderness and quiet affection that reflects the artist’s remarkable ability to unite technical precision with emotional intimacy. Seated together within a wicker chair against a richly patterned blue interior enlivened by irises and floral motifs, the pair embody the warmth, familiarity, and enduring friendships that defined Hornak’s East Hampton years. The sitters are Suzanne O’Malley and her son, Zack O’Malley Greenburg. Suzanne would later achieve national prominence as an award-winning journalist, television producer, and New York Times bestselling author whose investigative writing helped shape modern true crime literature. Zack would go on to become a New York Times bestselling author, longtime senior editor at Forbes, and one of the leading chroniclers of contemporary popular culture and business. His books have explored the lives and careers of influential figures including Jay-Z, Michael Jackson, LeBron James, Dr. Dre, and the members of the Wu-Tang Clan. Years before these accomplishments, however, Zack appeared as a child actor in the acclaimed motion picture Lorenzo’s Oil, portraying Lorenzo Odone opposite Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte. Beyond its personal significance, the painting is further distinguished by the survival of the original photographic studies created by Hornak during its development. These preparatory materials are preserved in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art, providing rare documentation of the artist’s creative process. Combining portraiture, friendship, memory, and documentary importance, Suzanne and Zack Remembered stands as both an intimate family portrait and a lasting testament to the relationships that enriched Hornak’s life and inspired some of his most personal works. Executed in acrylic on canvas, this work measures 44 x 37 inches (111.76 x 93.98 cm). Signed by the artist. Artwork Details: Artist: Ian Hornak (1944–2002) Title: Suzanne and Zack Remembered Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 44 x 37 inches (111.76 x 93.98 cm) Inscription: Signed by the artist Date: 1992 Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: Suzanne O’Malley, East Hampton, New York About the Artist: Ian Hornak (1944–2002) was an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and pioneering force in Photorealism and Hyperrealism whose extraordinary technical mastery, visionary imagination, and innovative approach to realism established him as one of the most distinctive and original artists of the late twentieth century. Widely recognized as a founding member of both the Photorealist and Hyperrealist movements, Hornak helped redefine the possibilities of contemporary realism by combining photographic precision with symbolism, romanticism, mythology, environmental awareness, art historical references, and metaphysical inquiry, creating a body of work that stands apart within postwar American art for both its visual brilliance and intellectual ambition. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Michigan before establishing his career in New York and East Hampton, Hornak emerged during one of the most transformative periods in modern art and developed a highly individual visual language that transcended conventional artistic categories. While many of his contemporaries focused on strict photographic transcription, urban imagery, or detached observation, Hornak utilized realism as a foundation for exploring profound themes of memory, beauty, mortality, spirituality, environmental fragility, and humanity’s relationship with nature, producing works that operate simultaneously as visual spectacles and philosophical meditations. His artistic vision reflects an awareness of the revolutionary innovations introduced by Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, while simultaneously drawing inspiration from the Hudson River School, particularly Frederic Edwin Church, Martin Johnson Heade, Thomas Cole, and Albert Bierstadt, as well as the spiritual landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich and the botanical precision of Dutch Golden Age masters such as Jan van Huysum and Rachel Ruysch. Through this extraordinary synthesis of influences, Hornak created a visual language that united scientific observation, photographic realism, romantic grandeur, allegorical symbolism, and philosophical reflection into a form entirely his own. Ian Hornak portrait, Suzanne and Zack Remembered, mother and child portrait, East Hampton painting...

Unique, one of a kind acrylic painting on paper. Hand signed upper front and remarqued and signed on verso by Peter Max. Paper size: 12 x 10 inches. Frame size: 17 x 15 inches. A...

Michael Sheets (American, born 1947) Signed: SHEETS 1981 (Lower, Right) " Break Time ", 1981 Acrylic on canvas 32" x 48" Housed in a 1/2 Silver Me...

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