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Elias Telles Figurative Paintings

American, b. 1950

Elias Telles is an American folk artist and painter, born in 1950, in Los Angeles, California. He has a distinct personality and is an uniquely gifted artist, who brings to his work, all the charm of some earlier primitive painters, combined with an unusually cerebral and provocative dimension. Soldiers, skeletons and honky-tonk men populate his paintings, as do cultural and historical figures. Having recently retired from his lifelong trade of brick laying and marble-setting, Elias is now fully able to devote himself entirely to painting. A recent acquisition of his Bean Eaters painting, by the very established 1800s Algonquin Club, in Boston, has led to a commission of several additional paintings of historic Boston athletes for that institution, when it reopens in 2020, after renovations.

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Artist: Elias Telles
Acrylic on Canvas Painting Titled "Monterey, California, 1850's" by Elias Telles
By Elias Telles
Located in New York, NY
Elias Telles (b. 1950, American) Monterey, California, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas, Found Wood, Metal Brackets 21.5 x 25.5 Inches Elias led an adventurous existence before becoming a sel...
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2010s Elias Telles Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic on Panel Painting Titled "Lonely Woman", By Elias Telles
By Elias Telles
Located in New York, NY
Elias Telles (b.1950, American) Lonely Woman, 2019 Acrylic on Panel, Found Wood, Metal Brackets 15 x 18 Inches Elias led an adventurous existence before becoming a self-taught paint...
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2010s Elias Telles Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Panel

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