Thomas Broadbent is well known for his contemporary naturalistic depictions of the intersection of nature and man. Thomas Broadbent has shown extensively throughout the U.S. as well as internationally. Broadbent’s work won the PULSE Prize for best solo booth at PULSE Art Fair. His work was subsequently featured in “Mission to Space” at the Children's Museum of Manhattan. His work is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Broadbent’s numerous solo exhibitions include the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Croxhapox Art Gallery in Gent, Belgium, The Voorkamer Gallery in Lier, Belgium, Inspace gallery in Beijing, China and the Newark Arts Council. Broadbent’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Star-Ledger, New Jersey, NY Arts Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail and numerous other publications.
"Bluebird Teapot" Contemporary Surrealist painting bird and reflection in teapot
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
This contemporary surrealist painting depicts a blue bird perched atop a silver and blue round teapot. The reflection of a room in a round steel teapot offers a highly curved, disto...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$28,000Sale Price|20% Off
"The Visitor" Contemporary Surrealist Painting, tiger, books, Albers and fruit.
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
This large scale oil painting depicts a tiger with a book in its mouth on a modernist table with wine and fruit. At 6ft in width this impressive oil painting exemplifies the artist’s...
Oil, Canvas
"Crash" Large Scale Watercolor on paper
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
watercolor on paper, 51"x72" This large scale watercolor on paper depicts a crystal chandelier that appears to have crashed to the floor. Smal...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$8,000Sale Price|20% Off
"The Catch" Contemporary Realist painting: osprey w/ trout on red ottoman framed
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
A striking blend of natural realism and surreal domesticity, in this oil painting, "The Catch" captures a moment of tension and elegance. At its center, an osprey, rendered in meticu...
Oil
"Pheasant on Ghost Chair" with red poppies in blue vase large scale oil painting
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
This large scale oil painting depicts a phesant standing on a designer "ghost chair". A blue vase sits next to the plush chair filled red poppies. A lemon sits on the wooden side ta...
Canvas, Oil
$28,000Sale Price|20% Off
In from the Jungle (African Elephant) Large Scale Contemporary Surrealist oil
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
This large scale oil painting of a elephant depicted in the remains of a party, with cups, chairs and a disco ball, is an excellent statement piece. At 6ft in width this impressive ...
Oil
"Playtime" blue parakeet, wooden spindle bench, contemporary surrealist painting
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
This contemporary surrealist animal painting depicts a blue parakeet with a yellow throat on a wood spindle chair. The scale relationship of the bird to the bench makes it seem eith...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$12,480Sale Price|20% Off
"Black Bear in Den" large scale contemporary surrealist wildlife oil painting
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
This large scale oil painting depicts a black bear in a domestic setting, with the bear walking across a grey sectional couch with a book in its mouth. A redbreasted songbird sits i...
Oil, Canvas
$13,500
"The Break" vulture on red office chair contemporary surrealist oil painting
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
A large vulture stands atop a red Eames chair, with gucci loafers underneath, a glass of whiskey sits to one side and a coffee cup sits atop a file folder box. A small stack of file...
Oil
$10,050
Phobos
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
watercolor on paper 48.5"x74.5" (available framed) This is a depiction of Mars' larger moon, Phobos, rendered in watercolor by the artist Thomas Broadbent. This large scale wat...
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Little Moon Ida
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
watercolor on paper 28"x40" (available framed) This is a depiction of the asteroid Ida and its moon, rendered in watercolor by the artist Thomas Broadbent. Thomas Broadbent ...
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Nick
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Denver, CO
This example of Hunt Slonem's most well-known motif comes complete with a lovely golden frame sourced by Hunt himself. Slonem's artistic trajectory has always been characterized by ...
Wood, Oil
$931Sale Price|68% Off
H 25.6 in W 31.89 in D 0.99 in
Taxi Driver Dachshund Skate Street Art Chut les Barbizons!
By bazevian animal
Located in Zofingen, AG
☀️Taxi Driver - Dachshund and chicks☀️ In the artistic world, animals have always been key protagonists in expressing the power and beauty of the wild. Artists often use animals as ...
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil, Stretcher Bars
The Cliche, Oil Painting
By Keith Thomson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson commissioned a formal family portrait, insisting their beloved pet elephant, Elbert, be included. Elbert is family, after all. When the co...
Oil
Birds in Flight
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern Chinese watercolor painting depicting birds soaring under a red sun.
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Watercolor
Six Birds
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Six Birds" c.1990, is an acrylic painting on canvas by Mexican artist Gustavo Martinez, b.1941. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is ...
Acrylic
$1,746
H 11.82 in W 9.45 in D 1.58 in
Blue tit - 21st Century Contemporary realistic Painting of a bird
By Ria Koreman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ria Koreman Blue tit 30 x 24 cm (framed included in price 35 x 29 cm) Ria Korenman paints what many people overlook: the magic in everyday life. Especially birds, with a soft spot f...
Canvas, Oil
$15,000
H 64 in W 66.5 in
Nature's Web of Dependency - Large Scale Oil Painting with Animals and People
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting exemplifies Bruno Surdo’s synthesis of Renaissance figuration, Northern allegory, and psychological symbolism. Female figures twist and overlap beneath a lattice of tree branches, while animals—a lamb, fox, squirrel, hummingbird—inhabit the same compressed pictorial space. The interlocking limbs and diagonals recall High Renaissance and Mannerist strategies of sculptural composition, and Surdo’s atelier training is evident in the anatomical precision and volumetric modeling of flesh. Yet the scene feels intentionally dense and claustrophobic. Rather than a pastoral idyll, the forest becomes charged—alive with tension, concealment, and layered meaning. The symbolic animals situate the work within a long art historical lineage. The lamb evokes innocence or sacrifice; the fox suggests cunning and instinct; birds often signify fragility or spirit; the spider embedded in the branches recalls vanitas traditions of the Dutch Golden Age, where small creatures signal mortality and hidden threat. However, the background introduces an additional, more psychological register: the partially obscured eye and the numbers 3, 5, and 7. These are not naturalistic elements; they intrude like fragments from another realm. Their presence subtly aligns with Jungian thought—an area of interest for Surdo—where numbers function as archetypal structures of order within the psyche. In Jungian symbolism, such numbers carry qualitative meaning rather than mere quantity, suggesting stages, wholeness, embodiment, or cycles of psychic development. Their appearance within the forest—traditionally a metaphor for the unconscious—suggests the mind’s attempt to map or structure instinctual terrain. The eye, half-hidden behind branches, intensifies this reading. It can be understood as a symbol of awareness or consciousness emerging from within the thicket of instinct. Rather than divine omniscience, it feels psychological—an archetypal “watcher” embedded in the natural world. The forest thus becomes more than environment; it reads as psychic landscape. Surdo collapses civilization and instinct, rational structure and animal impulse, into a single visual field. Within his broader oeuvre—often concerned with the tension between performance and authenticity, order and chaos—this work becomes a contemporary myth of the psyche. Renaissance form provides authority and structure, while allegorical animals and Jungian symbols suggest the layered architecture of the unconscious. The result is a painting that feels timeless yet inwardly modern: a meditation on innocence, predation, awareness, and the hidden numerical and symbolic frameworks through which the human mind seeks to understand its own wilderness. Bruno Surdo Nature's Web of Dependency oil on canvas 64h x 66.50w in 162.56h x 168.91w cm BRS082 Bruno A. Surdo b. Chicago, 1963 EXHIBITIONS 2021 Ethos + Truth, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2020 Realities, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY 2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL The Art Show, New York, NY Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL John Robert Wiltgen Design Shoemaker Ruud Collection Julie & Thomas Danilek Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver Benjamin Fernandez Tom Braake Betsy Colburn Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose Michael Staab & Kathy Brock Bruce Leep Frank Tzurect Mary Foley Rosalyn Carlson Mimmy Turney Janet Long Halstead Billy Hunt Carol Galli Myles Kerrigan Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman Theodore Gage Northrop Art Museum Past Present & Future Company Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler Salvatore Monastero Nix & Virginia Lauridsen Joel Miller David & Marlene Zerkel Ann & Andy Abel Claudia Rush Marc Miller Leonard Goldberg Lawrence Pucci Howard Tullman Collection Susan & Manny Kramer James Rinnert Richar Interiors Michael & Nancy Colt Khalid Altijir Dr. Joe Grodman Beryl & Jack Gore Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle Chuck Wolandi Jack Schwab & David Sandelin Thomas Kaczmarek Marti Dinerstein Craig & Michael Golden...
Canvas, Oil
$1,746
H 11.82 in W 9.45 in D 1.58 in
- 21st Century Contemporary realistic Painting of a bird
By Ria Koreman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ria Koreman Wren 30 x 24 cm (framed included in price 35 x 29 cm) Ria Korenman paints what many people overlook: the magic in everyday life. Especially birds, with a soft spot for t...
Canvas, Oil
$250
H 7.09 in W 7.09 in D 0.79 in
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Flowers
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & watercolor on paper mounted on wood panel Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art direct...
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel
$550
H 10 in W 8 in D 1.5 in
"Just Outside" by Patrick Maxcy, Acrylic Painting, Blue Fish
By Patrick Maxcy
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Maxcy's "Just Outside" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts an oversized blue fish next to a tiny house perched on a rock. About the Artist: Nature, anima...
Canvas, Acrylic
$7,917
H 78.75 in W 70.87 in D 1.46 in
Large Contemporary Equestrian Portrait. Horse Oil Painting 200 x 180 cm
By Rubins J. Spaans
Located in ALP, ES
This large figurative oil painting is a reinterpretation of a painting by John Wootton, Portrait of a man on horseback, ca. 1740. A unique oil painting on the finest quality Belgian ...
Canvas, Linen, Oil
$4,750
H 30.5 in W 36 in
Bighorn Sheep, 20th Century Oil Painting by Magical Surrealist, Cleveland School
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977) Bighorn Sheep Oil on paper Signed lower right 25 x 30.5 inches 30.5 x 36 inches, framed Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explored the un...
Oil
Sold
H 40 in W 30 in D 1 in
"Great Grey Owl on Womb Chair" large scale contemporary surrealist oil painting
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
This large-scale oil painting by contemporary artist Thomas Broadbent features a great grey horned owl perched atop a cobalt-blue Eero Saarinen Womb Chair, a celebrated example of mo...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 26 in W 40 in
"Container" (Apollo Command/Service Module) watercolor on paper, 26"x40"
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
26"x40" watercolor on paper, signed on reverse by the award winning New York artist, Thomas Broadbent. Depicting the Apollo Command/Service Module, this painting presents a view of t...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Lift Off" framed watercolor on paper
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
watercolor on paper, original painting by the artist, Thomas Broadbent, signed on reverse. Framed in a black finish, shadowbox frame. The artwork size is 11"x27, the framed dimensi...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
White Noise
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
This large scale watercolor painting depicts an astronaut floating in space. The cosmos and stars of outer-space reflect in his visor. A beautiful and masterfully detailed painting, this piece is perfect for contemplation and a gives a feeling of relaxation. Framed in a shadowbox frame, the watercolor painting 40"x60", is presented in a high quality wooden white finish frame, framed dimensions: 51.5x74.5 This painting is featured currently at the Front Room Gallery in a solo exhibition of works by Thomas Broadbent, entitled: Macrocosm The Front Room Gallery is proud to present, “Macrocosm” a solo exhibition of new large-scale watercolor paintings and sculpture by Thomas Broadbent. This is Broadbent’s fourth solo exhibition at Front Room Gallery. The Paintings in this exhibition probe into the human impulse for exploration. Broadbent has carefully selected and analyzed subjects that remind us of humankind’s scale and position in the universe. And while our perception of the cosmos is informed by the data and images gathered by satellites, telescopes and manned missions; the moon, planets and stars, still seem to be objects of our imagination. It is these astronomical bodies and the impulse to map them that has inspired the new works in Thomas Broadbent’s exhibition, “Macrocosm” Thomas Broadbent presents his compositions from a naturalist point of view; his visual depictions adhere to the natural laws that govern the structure and behavior of the natural universe. These works have a photo-realistic quality to them: the object based works often have a trompe l’oeil effect, while the large scale works are visually immersive in their detail. At over 11 feet in length, Broadbent’s “Andromeda” galaxy painting captures the spectacle and wonder one feels when looking at the stars in the night sky. In this enormous painting, Broadbent’s absolute blackness of the space contrasts with the vibrant points of lights emanating from each star’s a warm bright white. Broadbent’s accurate depiction of the spiral galaxy is poignant because, while Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way, it is also is the most distant object in the sky that mankind can see unaided from the Earth. In this exhibition, Broadbent juxtaposes the grandeur of space with the fragility of humankind and our attempts to explore and understand. The apparatuses for space travel are presented as isolated objects in Broadbent’s paintings and act as a metaphor for expansion of knowledge and quest for adventure. Broadbent references early technologies and methods of space exploration with a reverence and a point of nostalgia. In his Lunar Mosaic paintings, he applies the same photo-mosaic tiling technique that was used by technicians of the early lunar probes. Yet, instead of individual photographs, each panel is a photo-realistic watercolor painting. In “White Noise...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Dione
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
watercolor on paper, available framed This watercolor painting depicts Dione, one of the moons of Saturn. This piece is masterfully rendered by the artist and presented on a black ...
Helmet Void
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
22"x30" watercolor on paper signed on reverse Thomas Broadbent has shown extensively throughout the U.S. as well as internationally. Broadbent’s numerous solo exhibitions include...
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Capsule
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
22"x30" watercolor on paper signed on the reverse Thomas Broadbent is a New York based artist who has shown extensively throughout the U.S. as well as internationally. Broadbent’...
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Spaceman
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
106"x52" watercolor on paper - Available framed This is a large scale watercolor of an astronaut floating in space, painted masterfully with immense detail, it has a photo-realis...
Archival Paper, Watercolor
"The Incident" Aircraft and UFO painting
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
watercolor on paper 15"x40" (available unframed) In this painting a UFO and an airliner share the same airspace. "The Incident" portrays a flying saucer spacecraft hovering just abo...
Archival Paper, Watercolor