Thomas B. Griffin Art

A wonderful Impressionist winter pastoral scene of a colorful quaint home by the river. Willet has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed much fee...

Alfred Juergens (American, 1866 - 1934) Signed: Alfred Juergens (Lower, Left) " Indian Creek " (Michigan) Oil on Board 14 1/2" x 19" Housed in a 3...

A wonderful impressionist pastoral landscape with beautiful color tones throughout. Thomas deDecker has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed muc...

This artwork "Landscape with People Fishing" 1978, is an oil painting on hard board by Polish/American artist Morris Katz, 1932-2010. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (Hard Board) size is 20 x 24 inches, framed size is 28 x 31.75 inches. Framed in original wooden gold frame, with fabric liner and gold trim. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition. About the artist: On May 9th, 1988, the New York artist set a new world record by painting a 12- by 16-inch canvas of a child in the snow in just half a minute. (It took an additional eight seconds to frame it.) And that wasn’t the only distinction granted to Katz by the Guinness Book of World Records—his name appeared alongside Pablo Picasso’s under the heading for “Most Prolific Painters.” The Spanish master is estimated to have completed some 13,500 paintings in his life; when Katz died in 2010 at age 78, he was credited with 225,000. Katz’s preposterously productive career began in the small Polish village where he was born in 1932. He started studying under a German painter at age 13, but following World War II he earned a diploma in carpentry instead. In 1949, at the age of 17, he travelled to the United States. It was there that he picked up a paintbrush again, while studying at the Art Students League of New York and showing in the Village. “Soon, I decided I was good enough—compared to others, excellent enough—to make my living as an artist,” he said. It was during those years that he developed the techniques that would eventually land him in the record books. He tossed out his paintbrushes and replaced them with palette knives and toilet paper, which he used to stipple the paint. “Soon I picked up speed,” Katz said. “If you know which way you’re travelling, then you can run.” He made art in bulk, buying up canvases by the thousands and paint by the gallon. He went through some 10,000 rolls of toilet paper per year; he often wore out palette knives. Katz branded his method as “instant art.” Charles Salzberg, writing in New York magazine in 1978, urged readers, “Think of him, if you will, as the McDonald’s of the art world”—fast, cheap, and ubiquitous. He wore a green beret, paint-splattered pants, and a shirt emblazoned with the words “Morris Katz - World’s Most Prolific Artist.” It was a title that came with a price—he worked 18-hour days into his 60s, sometimes from his Greenwich Village studio and other times as a performer at hotels across the Catskills. He would often visit three different hotels in the same day, waking up at 7 a.m. and returning home as late as 1 a.m. His show was as much about the painting as it was the one-liners: “These are the highlights—you can tell because they’re high up on the painting,” he might say. Audiences gobbled up the jokes and the works, often paying less than $50 for a painting. “I give them a fresh painting like a fresh bagel,” he said. Photographer David M. Spindel first met Katz on assignment. “They’d call him mashugana—that’s the Yiddish word for a little bit crazy,” he told Artsy. The pair soon became friends, and Spindel ended up attending several of the artist’s hotel shows. “There were a lot of people from the hotel who were sitting in the room and he set up his easel and his toilet paper and paints and knocked out paintings one after another,” Spindel said. “Just a couple of minutes for each painting, usually. If he was kibitzing with the people in the audience then it took a lot longer. He was always clowning around.” His act was ready-made for television; he appeared on 60 Minutes, David Letterman, and Oprah, among other programs. And Katz didn’t just make instant art—he taught it as well. In 1987, the New Yorker sent a writer to attend one of his speed-painting classes at the Notre Dame School on West 79th Street. A dozen eager students watched in admiration as he whipped up a mountain landscape, asking for advice on how, exactly, to hold their toilet paper for maximum artistic effect. For those who couldn’t make it to Manhattan for a lesson, he published a book—Paint Good & Fast (1985)—with a title as straightforward as his philosophy on art. “Life goes faster and faster,” he wrote. “The fine arts must keep pace. This art will one day be...

Beach Path oil/canvas panel image 7.75 x 8 unframed, 13.5 x 13.5 framed Beach Path is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcas...

Spectacular Radiance, 4th of July, Washington Monument oil/panel 6 x 8 image unframed, 15.5 x 13.5 framed in a very showy frame. Frame can be changed. Spectacular Radiance is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases his interpretation of the radiant light...

Moonlight Marsh oil/panel 8 x 10 unframed 13.75 x 15.5 framed, is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a beautiful view ...

High Dunes Study is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a beautiful view of the ocean with a sailboat off the coast alo...

Morning Pasture II, Cows is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a beautiful sunrise view of a meadow housed in an antiq...

Clyde Steadman's "Commerce City Sunset" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto painting of cars stopped at a street light and th...

This artwork titled "Frosty the Snow Man" c.1960 is a palette knife oil painting on canvas by noted artist Paul Blaine Henrie, 1932-1999. It is signed and ...

Maigical Moment oil/canvas 16 x 20 image unframed 20.38 x 24.38 framed Magical Moment is an oil painting on stretched canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that ...