Kim Dorland Art

"NYC - Central Park West" by Christopher Clark is an original abstract impressionist oil painting on cradled board that is ready to hang. Christopher has been an artist since earl...

“Summer Blush” is an original floral still life oil painting on stretched cotton canvas by French contemporary artist Natalya Mougenot, measuring 55 × 46 × 2 cm (21.7 × 18.1 × 0.8 in...

Lisa Fricker's "Sara's Morning" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a close up nude portrait of a woman in front of a earth toned , geometrical abstracted background. ...

Maurice Chabas French (1862-1947) Signed bottom right Ame s’élançant vers son centre d’amour Picture size 32 x 39.5" / 81.5 x 100cm Frame size 40 x 47.5" / 102 x 121cm Maurice Ch...

Lisa Fricker's "Ivory's Second Life" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a close up portrait of a woman in front of a earth , geometrical abstracted background. Throu...

Framed size: 25.5" x 29" The Piazza During Carnival by Alan Halliday, bursts with festive energy and theatrical charm. Set in the most famous Italian Piazza of Venice the scene is al...

Sunny Morning Figurative Art, Oil, Canvas on board, Nude, Abstract Realism, Vertical, Pastel Colors, Pinks, Cream, Ochre, Blue, Violet, Medium-size. 28 cm x 36 cm (11 × 14 inches), v...

American Impressionist

Like his mentor the great American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, Charles Webster Hawthorne was equally admired in his own day as both a talented painter and a highly influential instructor. Hawthorne first studied with Chase at his Shinnecock Summer School of Art, which was specifically dedicated to open-air landscape painting. Not only did Hawthorne quickly absorb all the principles of Chase’s instruction, but he also became determined to found his own school based on the same model. In 1899 Hawthorne discovered the small fishing village of Provincetown on the furthermost tip of Cape Cod, and after purchasing a large house on Miller Hill, he opened the Cape Cod School of Art, which proved to be an immediate success. While Hawthorne’s own approach as a teacher owed much to Chase, he developed a distinctly unique painting style and teaching method that defies easy categorization. He was greatly impressed with the work of Franz Hals, which he was exposed to during his trip to Holland in the summer of 1898. Hawthorne was particularly struck by Hals’ Regentesses of the Old Men’s Almhouse, and from this work he absorbed a deep appreciation for the power of human expression and an economy of technique. Hawthorne applied these lessons to his own realistic portraits of Provincetown fishermen and their families; these works have a somber, almost melancholy quality to them, and they reveal a sense of the vulnerability of the human condition. Stylistically, Hawthorne maintained a life-long commitment to the importance of color. “Beauty in art,” he said, “is the delicious notes of color one against the other.” Of equal importance to him was capturing the effects of light. He told his students: “Everything in painting is a matter of silhouettes. Hold light against shadow, not light against light.” He developed a particular technique of layering glazes and texturing the surface of his paintings, which heightens the relationship between the colors and creates a light effect that seems to emanate from within the painting. These stylistic techniques in combination with his straightforward compositions of one or more figures shown at close range create the hallmarks of Hawthorne’s best paintings. Hawthorne and his wife Ethel’s 1905-1907 trip to Italy did not result in a drastic impact on his artistic style. Nonetheless, it proved to be a transformative and enlightening voyage. The extensive trip was financed by collectors who paid in advance for a painting to be produced abroad. On the trip, Hawthorne explored the work of old masters and was struck particularly by the paintings of Titian, which to Hawthorne, demonstrated the master’s true adoration for the act of painting itself through his handling of paint and color. Where Titian’s paintings...

From the series "The Sovereign Self." This artwork explores a woman’s transition from survival to absolute personal sovereignty. The serene profile of the female figure stands in bol...

This work of a young musician by Frederick E. Wright is set in an exceptional original Doll & Richards, Boston, frame. The framed dimensions are 16' x 13 1/3" x 1". A hand-written la...

Acrylic, watercolour, marker & ink on paper Maria Vanishvili is a Georgian artist born in 2004 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She signa her...