Howard Chandler Christy was born in 1873 in Ohio, showed love for art at age three. Encouraged by his parents, he began with sketching and later turned to watercolors. In 1890, he left for New York to pursue his passion. Christy found a mentor in a famous painter, William Merritt Chase. He admired illustrators Howard Pyle and Edwin Austin Abbey and became a magazine illustrator. His creations included likenesses of women who would become known as "Christy Girls," similar to the famous "Gibson Girls." Married twice, his first daughter Natalie was born during his marriage to model Maybelle Thompson. His second marriage was in 1919 to Nancy Palmer. He retired from magazine illustrating in 1921. His partner until his death at age 80 was Elise Ford. They had a daughter named Holly, born in 1939. He took up professional portraiture and painted portraits for the elite including President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mr. and Mrs. Hearst and Herbert Hoover. Renowned paintings include We The People in 1937, The Signing Of The Constitution in 1940 and The Signing of The United Nations Charter in 1946–47. Christy had several works in progress when he passed away at his artist studio in 1952 at age 80. They were a portrait of Douglas Mac Arthur and a Gettysburg painting. Among Christy's honors were an honorary membership in the U.S. Naval Academy, medals from Paris and Chicago Expos and decorations from the N.Y Police Force and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Christy's magazine illustrations are collector's items.
Four Women in a Fanciful Garden Setting, Decorative Screen
By Howard Chandler Christy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A beautiful decorative screen featuring elegant women in a garden setting painted by the renowned American illustrator Howard Chandler Christy. Medium: Oil on Panel in Three Parts D...
Oil, Panel
Shore Birds
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Shore Birds" by Gerald Purdy, oil on panel, 11 1/2 X 14 inches (framed size: 17 X 21 1/2 inches), $2,800. "I chose narrative art from the menu and have ...
Oil, Panel
$2,286
H 29.93 in W 48.04 in D 1.97 in
French Contemporary Art by M.-P. Autonne - Vue de ma Fenêtre
By Marie-Pierre Autonne
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & oil on wooden panel Marie-Pierre Autonne is a French artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Angers, France. She studied at Penninghen in Paris, France. She work...
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$4,802
H 29.93 in W 48.04 in D 1.97 in
French Contemporary Art by M.-P. Autonne - Un Jour de Février
By Marie-Pierre Autonne
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & oil on wooden panel Marie-Pierre Autonne is a French artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Angers, France. She studied at Penninghen in Paris, France. She work...
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$1,143
H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 1.58 in
French Contemporary Art by M.-P. Autonne - Le Bleu des Horizons
By Marie-Pierre Autonne
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic and oil on wooden panel Marie-Pierre Autonne is a French artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Angers, France. She studied at Penninghen in Paris, France. She worked for ...
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Sea coast
By Eugene Le Poittevin
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Eugène Modeste LE POITTEVIN (Paris, 1806 - Paris, 1870) Sunset by the Sea Oil on panel H. 15 cm; W. 19 cm Signed and monogrammed lower left Probably circa 1845 Le Poittevin (whose r...
Oil, Wood Panel
$3,372
H 13.39 in W 8.94 in D 0.12 in
17th C painting of a peasant couple preparing for Carnival.Flemish School.
Located in brussel, BE
Preparation for Carnival: a three day festival of insatiable eating, drinking and carousing that preceded the forty days of Lent, a period of penitence when the pious drank only wate...
Oil, Wood Panel
$2,000
H 19.3 in W 19.3 in
Tavern scene with drunken peasants enjoying dancing and drinking, after Teniers
By David Teniers the Younger
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Charming tavern scene depicting drunken peasants enjoying dancing and drinking in front a farmhouse/ tavern in a landscape. Painted in great detail in vivid colors on a hand cut oak ...
Oil, Wood Panel
$20,580
H 19.3 in W 24.81 in D 0.79 in
Circle of Francesco Albani, The Discovery of Erichthonius, Italian Oil on Panel
Located in Roma, IT
This Italian oil painting on panel depicts an unusual episode from classical mythology: Erichthonius emerging from the basket opened by Aglauros, Pandrosos and Herse, the three daugh...
Oil, Wood Panel
Seen
By Lisa Fricker
Located in Denver, CO
Lisa Fricker's "Seen" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a close-up of a person's eye.
Oil, Panel
$5,533
H 48.04 in W 29.93 in D 1.58 in
French Contemporary Art by M.-P. Autonne - Les Poissons Rêvent en Couleurs
By Marie-Pierre Autonne
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & oil on wooden panel Marie-Pierre Autonne is a French artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Angers, France. She studied at Penninghen in Paris, France. She work...
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$9,718
H 20.87 in W 24.81 in
Gotthardt Kuehl (1850–1915), Ecclesiastical Interior with Canons in Choir Dress
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Oil painting depicting an ecclesiastical interior with members of a cathedral or collegiate chapter assembled within a choir setting. Several clerics are positioned in carved wooden ...
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,543
H 11.03 in W 12.6 in
Antique Dutch oil painting on panel, traveler horseback with a dog, ca. 1835
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Painting with a traveler on a white horse and accompanied by a dog looking up at a road sign in the form of a cross. On the roadsign is ” Arnhem”. (a town at the Rhine river in the E...
Oil, Wood Panel