Rudy Nappi Figurative Paintings

NIGHTIE NIGHT 1 - In this original artwork, focus is placed on the blending of delicate detail and expressive brush work. A subtle tone on tone texture is built up in the background ...

A vibrant Bermuda seascape depicting the rocky shoreline with turquoise waters breaking against sunlit boulders beneath a sweeping tree. Mears uses bold, textured brushstrokes and a ...

"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers Douglas Crockwell (1904-1968) "Paper Making" 19 x 39 inches Oil on board, c. 1936 Signed verso Framed: 28 x 47 Provenance: Estate of the Artist BIO Spencer Douglass Crockwell was born into a comfortable middle class household on April 29, 1904 in Columbus, Ohio. His father, Charles Roland Crockwell, was a mining engineer; his mother, Cora, was the daughter of an Iowa attorney. He became a commercial artist and experimental filmmaker who spent a good part of his career creating illustrations and advertisements for the Saturday Evening Post. In 1907 the Crockwell family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he graduated from high school and then attended from Washington University. Initially he studied engineering, but soon switched to business. While still an undergraduate, Crockwell took courses at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and quickly realized that he wanted to be an artist. After graduating from Washington University in 1926, Crockwell continued to study at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts until 1929. The following year he relocated to Chicago and continued his studies at the American Academy of Art. In 1930 and 1931 he studied in Europe on a Traveling Fellowship. In 1932 Douglass Crockwell moved to Glens Falls, New York, which was to be his home for the remainder of his life. The following year he married Margaret Braman. They had three children, a son Douglass and two daughters, Johanna and Margaret. During the depression he created murals and posters for the Works Progress Administration including Post Office murals in White River junction, Vermont; Endicott, New York; and Macon, Mississippi. In 1934 he painted Paper Workers, Finch Pruyn & Co. (the leading Glens Falls, New York company) for the WPA. In the 1930s Crockwell developed an interest in experimental animated films that occupied him for the rest of his life. In 1936 and 1937, he collaborated with David Smith, a sculptor, to create surrealist films. Because of his interest in experimental films, his output of paintings was limited to just twenty to forty illustrations a year during this time. Crockwell painted his first of many Saturday Evening Post cover in 1933. He also worked for Life, Look, and Esquire, and numerous national advertisers including Friskies dog food, Welch’s Grape Juice, Republic Steel...

Ernst Louizor (1938-2011) a beautiful oil painting on board. This vibrant artwork depicts a bustling village scene, elegantly mounted in its original carved wooden frame from Haiti. ...

About this work: “Birches and Huckleberry, October Morning Matunuck" c. 1925 by Frank Convers Mathewson (American, 1862-1941). A stunningly beautiful autumn view of Matunuck, Rhode ...

"Worth The Wait" is painting with many shades of blue and teal. Featured are herons and songs birds, and a hummingbird. There are also blue plants and flowers. The background is a th...

This whimsical painting "First Note" bursts with playful imagination, featuring elegant egrets adorned with crowns, feathers, and musical instruments drifting through a dreamlike gar...

"The Joy Series: A Journey to Inner Happiness." In this series of artworks, I delve into the theme of happiness and joy in unusual times when it seems that the whole world is in a st...

"Close to Shore" features four blue and teal boats stacked atop one another. This layered mixed media composition filled with symbolic boats, ladders, and fragments of memory suspend...

Alkyd-oil on Masonite, signed and dated (middle left), 61cm (diam.), (83cm diam. framed). (This work was kept by the artist for his personal collection. It remained in his collection...

Oil on board, signed (lower left), 40cm x 56cm, (51cm x 67cm framed). The picture is good condition and the work comes directly from the artist. Painter, draughtsman and teacher, b...

Alkyd-oil on board, 81cm diam., (100cm diam framed). Although most famous for his portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth in the National Portrait Gallery, London, from the late 1970s up un...