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"Vision" Vortex Circle Painting
Located in Washington, DC
Original painting by Padme from her "Vortex" series. Padme (Megan Sievert) was raised as a global nomad attending international schools in Zambia Pakistan, Norway, Venezuela, and H...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Grandview" Vortex Circle Painting
Located in Washington, DC
Original painting by Padme from her "Vortex" series. Padme (Megan Sievert) was raised as a global nomad attending international schools in Zambia Pakistan, Norway, Venezuela, and ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

Gulugufe XVI Butterfly Kaleidoscope Painting
Located in Washington, DC
Original painting by Padme from her Gulugufe "butterfly" series. This transformational earlier work draws from a profound experience while in a kaleidoscope of butterflies. Padme (...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Gulugulfe VII Butterfly Kaleidoscope Painting
Located in Washington, DC
Original painting by Padme from her Gulugufe "butterfly" series. This transformational earlier work draws from a profound experience while in a kaleidoscope of butterflies. Padme (...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Gulugufe IV Butterfly Kaleidoscope Painting
Located in Washington, DC
Original painting by Padme from her Gulugufe "butterfly" series. This transformational earlier work draws from a profound experience while in a kaleidoscope of butterflies. Padme (...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Transformation (blue, red, gold, yellow)
Located in Washington, DC
Original acrylic on canvas painting by Padme titled "Transformation". Padme (Megan Sievert) was raised as a global nomad attending international schools in Zambia Pakistan, Norway,...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Gulugufe III Butterfly Blue Green Kaleidoscope Painting
Located in Washington, DC
Unique painting by Padme from her Gulugufe "butterfly" series. This transformational earlier work draws from a profound experience while in a kaleidoscope of butterflies. Padme (Me...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

Traveling Magicians
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Acrylic painting is on plaster on wood which gives the painting a wonderful te...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Animal Paintings

Materials

Plaster, Wood, Acrylic

The Sanctuary
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is titled "The Sanctuary" and signed. Painting is casein paint and plaster on board. Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the Katzen...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mirror, Plaster, Casein, Wood Panel

Geometric Modern Painting "From the Center"
Located in Washington, DC
Geometric abstraction painting by Brazilian-born artist Elizabeth Freire. Painting is acrylic on canvas. Signed on reverse and titled "From the Center". B&W photo is of Ms. Freire with renowned sculptor Etienne Martin at the Ecole Nationals des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Elizabeth Freire is a Brazilian-born, contemporary American artist. At the age of eighteen, she left Rio de Janeiro and moved to Paris to study sculpture at l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, receiving her Diploma there in 1979 under the direction of Claude Viseux, Etienne Martin, and Cesar. During that time she worked as an apprentice at the Fonderie de France where she learned bronze technique and she also attended etching courses at l’Ecole de Montparnasse. In 1976, she won a commission to make three life-size figures representing the printing company, “Les Imprimeries de Boulogne,” at the International Printing Fair in Paris. She spent 1977 in Aix-en-Provence where she carved the local stone of Rogne. Returning to Paris, the painter Lutka Pink introduced her to Otero, Frans Krajcberg and Hajdu from whom she received valuable lessons. In 1978, she traveled to Brazil where she was invited to participate in the exhibit ‘A Century of Sculpture in Brazil’. She also met with the sculptor Sergio Camargo and the architect Oscar Niemeyer. She then traveled extensively throughout Europe and North Africa. In 1983, the sculptor Cardenaz advised her to go to Carrara in Italy to develop her carving skills. She spent the following two years at the Studio Nicoli where she met the sculptors Knutt Steen, Gigi Guadagnucci...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Christian Zeimert "Gentilly", 1972
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by French artist Christian Zeimert (b.1934 – 2020). Signed in lower right corner and titled on reverse "Gentilly". Zeimert's painted slow and meticulously. It took him se...
Category

1970s Conceptual Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting Rat "Unicorn #3"
By Manon Cleary
Located in Washington, DC
Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse Manon Cleary and titled Unicorn #3. Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art. Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets. As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance. Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations. She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.” Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years. In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon. “She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.” Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year. As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.” She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001. In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side. She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh. After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility. Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley...
Category

1990s Photorealist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Latin American Modern Surreal Figure Painting, 1950's
Located in Washington, DC
Wonderful Surreal Latin American painting. Painting is oil on masonite board with original frame. Appears to be unsigned. Condition is excelle...
Category

1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Carpathian Ancestor
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Painting is on casein paint on plaster on board. Catalogue of a postumous retr...
Category

1960s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Casein, Plaster

Modern Abstract Painting by George McClancy
Located in Washington, DC
George McClancy (1930-2014) abstract painting. Acrylic on canvas 48"H x 72"W George McClancy received a MA in painting from Catholic University in Washington DC, where he was a st...
Category

1990s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Large Abstract Painting by George McClancy
Located in Washington, DC
George McClancy (1930-2014) abstract pattern painting. Acrylic on canvas 48"H x 72"W George McClancy received a MA in painting from Catholic Univer...
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Pattern Painting by George McClancy
Located in Washington, DC
George McClancy (1930-2014) abstract pattern painting. Acrylic on canvas 48" x 72" George McClancy received a MA in painting from Catholic Universi...
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Kiss
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind shaped painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Titled "The Kiss" and signed on reverse. Painting is casein paint and plaster on board. Catalogue of an exhibition in...
Category

1980s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Plaster, Casein, Wood Panel

White & Green Pattern Triptych Painting by George McClancy
Located in Washington, DC
George McClancy (1930-2014) abstract pattern triptych painting. Acrylic on canvas 75W" x 48H" George McClancy received a MA in painting from Catholic University in Washington DC, ...
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Botanical Painting Ode to Angelo in Heaven
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Ode to Angelo in Heaven". Work is mixed media on D'Arches Aquarelle paper, signed and dated 2023 on reverse. Measurements are 22" x 30". Maryan...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Thomas Downing "Moon", 1985
By Thomas Downing
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Thomas Downing (1928 - 1985). "Moon", 1985 Acrylic on paper bag 35" x 15" (framed) Dedication on reverse to his wife Helen. Downing’s works are in many collections in...
Category

1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Girl with Cat
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is untitled and signed. Measures 22" x 12". Painting is casein paint and plaster on board. Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the...
Category

1960s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Post Impressionist Portrait Painting with Antique Frame
By Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Donald Purdy (1924 - 2016). Oil on masonite Measures 25"L x 23"W. Work is behind glass and comes with exceptional antique frame. Acquired from the Schoneman Gallery in NY...
Category

1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Transmitter
Located in Washington, DC
Exceptional painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Transmitter". Work is signed and dated 2021 on reverse. Painting measures 48" x 48" and is mixed media on canvas. Artists Robert ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Rebirth the Earth
Located in Washington, DC
Exceptional painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Rebirth the Earth". Work is signed and dated 2021 on reverse. Painting measures 48" x 48" and is mixed media on canvas. A mentor ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Girl with Cat
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Painting is made with casein on plaster on wood. Catalogue of a postumous ret...
Category

1960s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Plaster, Wood, Casein

Window into Studio
Located in Washington, DC
Painting titled "Window into Studio" and dated 2023 by Jeanne Cosimano. The painting is gouache on paper, frame is included. This work was recently included in a solo exhibition at Gallery 2112...
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Horseman
Located in Washington, DC
"Horseman" by Washington DC artist Jeanne Cosimano. Painting in gouache on paper and dated 2021. Artist is known for her dynamic compositions and skillful ...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Tuesday
Located in Washington, DC
Wonderful painting by Washington DC artist Jeanne Cosimano. Painting is titled "Tuesday" and dated 2021. Artist is known for her dynamic compositions and ski...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

A Different Beat
Located in Washington, DC
"A Different Beat" by Washington DC artist Jeanne Cosimano. Painting in gouache and chalk on paper and dated 2022. Artist is known for her dynamic composit...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Chalk, Gouache, Archival Paper

Flower Painting by Lowell Nesbitt "Rose Iris", 1982
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Washington, DC
Oil painting by Lowell Nesbitt (1933 - 1993). Titled "Rose Iris" and dated 1982. Wonderful vibrant painting in excellent condition. In 1958...
Category

1980s Pop Art Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Flower Caryatid - Blue Woman Shaped Painting
Located in Washington, DC
Important one of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). A shaped painting titled " Flower Caryatid". Noche Crist imbued her cutouts with more...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mirror, Plaster, Wood, Acrylic

Femme Fatale
Located in Washington, DC
An original work by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Titled "Femme Fatale" and signed on reverse. Wonderful work made with cut wood, paint and plaster. Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 ...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mirror, Plaster, Wood, Acrylic, Pencil

Totem
Located in Washington, DC
Painting titled "Totem" and dated 2021 by Jeanne Cosimano. Painting is gouache on paper and framed. The painting was recently included in a solo exhibition at Gallery 2112...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Ice Skating
Located in Washington, DC
Painting titled "Ice Skating" and dated 2021 by Jeanne Cosimano. Painting is gouache on paper and framed. The painting was recently included in a solo exhi...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Disco Inferno
Located in Washington, DC
Painting titled "Disco Inferno" by Jeanne Cosimano. Wonderful vibrant gouache on paper and dated 2020. Frame is included. This work was recently featured in a solo show at Gallery 2112...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Botanical Painting Ode to Angelo - Malibu
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Ode to Angelo - Malibu". Work is mixed media on D'Arches Aquarelle paper, signed and dated 2021 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Ode to Angelo - Fall Sunflowers
Located in Washington, DC
Painting titled "Ode to Angelo - Fall Sunflowers" by Maryanne Pollock. Mixed media on D'Arches paper, signed and dated 2022 on reverse. Measurements are 22" x 30". Maryanne Pollock...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Noche Crist "La Ronde des Serpento"
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Acrylic painting is made with plaster on wood, which gives the painting a wonderful texture and depth. Painting is signed and titled on reverse "La Ronde...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Plaster, Wood, Acrylic, Mirror

Maryanne Pollock
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Totem". Work is signed and dated 2018 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. She continued studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran College of Art and Design and American...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Bamboo Paper

The Fountain of Youth
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909-2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Acrylic painting is made with plaster on wood, which gives the painting a wonderful texture and depth. Painting is signed and titled on reverse "The Fountain of Youth...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Nude Paintings

Materials

Plaster, Wood, Acrylic

Elizabeth Freire "What is the world if not a flow of forms"?
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Brazilian-born artist Elizabeth Freire. Work is acrylic on canvas. Signed on reverse and titled "What is the world if not a flo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Willem de Looper
By Willem de Looper
Located in Washington, DC
Watercolor by Willem De Looper (1932-2009). Painting is signed "de Looper" and dated 76' lower right. Painting measures 20" x 8". Willem De Looper was a Washington D.C. abstract...
Category

1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Untitled (Study for Līnea), 2021
Located in Washington, DC
Poured beeswax work by Mary Early from her "Study for Līnea" series. "The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available." Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries. Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record. In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space. Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007). Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wax Crayon, Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite

"Archetypes" Abstract Modern Painting
Located in Washington, DC
Appealing painting by Brazilian-born artist Elizabeth Freire. Work is acrylic on canvas. Signed on reverse and titled "Archetypes". B&W photo is of Ms. Freire with renowned sculptor Etienne Martin...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

George McClancy Abstract Pattern Painting Yellow
Located in Washington, DC
George McClancy (1930-2014) abstract pattern painting. Acrylic on canvas 72" x 72" George McClancy received a MA in painting from Catholic Universit...
Category

1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled (Study for Līnea)
Located in Washington, DC
Poured beeswax work by Mary Early from her "Study for Līnea" series. "The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available." Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries. Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record. In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space. Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007). Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Mixed Media

Materials

Wax Crayon, Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite

Photo Realistic Diptych Hand Paintings
By Manon Cleary
Located in Washington, DC
Exceptional pair of paintings by Manon Cleary (1942-1911). Paintings are oil on canvas. Dated 1980 and signed in the front lower right corner and on reverse. Manon Cleary's work is ...
Category

1980s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"That Day in Pompeii", 1982
By Joe Shannon 1
Located in Washington, DC
Acrylic on canvas painting by Joe Shannon (b.1933). Titled "That Day in Pompeii". Signed and dated in lower left. Gallery label on reverse. New York Time...
Category

1980s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Beeswax Line Painting Untitled (Study for Līnea)
Located in Washington, DC
Poured beeswax work by Mary Early from her "Study for Līnea" series. "The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available." Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries. Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record. In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space. Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007). Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wax Crayon, Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite

Maryanne Pollock "Beige Haze"
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Beige Haze". Work is signed and dated 2020 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Ital...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

Manon Cleary "Rat"
By Manon Cleary
Located in Washington, DC
Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse "Cleary". Painting is stretched on aluminum stretcher and dates to the 1990s. Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art. Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets. As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance. Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations. She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.” Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years. In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon. “She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.” Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year. As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.” She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001. In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side. She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh. After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility. Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley Cleary-Cooper, is an artist in Helena, Mont. She was a 1964 graduate of Washington University in her home town and, for the rest of her life, was proud of having been a member of the Pi Phi...
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1990s Photorealist Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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By Joe Shannon 1
Located in Washington, DC
Acrylic on canvas painting by Joe Shannon (b.1933). Titled "Reprimand" signed and dated 1970. Corcoran Museum label on reverse. New York Times art crit...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Christian Gardair Monumental Painting "Oceano Graphie", 1983
Located in Washington, DC
Exceptional and large painting by French artist Christian Gardair (French, b.1938). Painting is acrylic on polyester paper. Signed and titled "Oceano Graphie" dated 1983. Painting me...
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1980s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Synthetic Paper

Joe Shannon "Three Business Men", 1972
By Joe Shannon 1
Located in Washington, DC
Acrylic on canvas painting by Joe Shannon (b.1933). Titled "Three Business Men" signed and dated 1972. New York Times art critic Grace Glueck observed tha...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

St. Catherine's
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "St. Catherine's". Signed and titled on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. She...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

Winter Walk
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Winter Walk". Signed and titled on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. She continued studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran College of Art and Design and American University. Maryanne Pollock represented the United States in a contextual exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale, at the Arts Embassies Program in Egypt, and had solo exhibitions in Paris, Glasgow, Basel, and Cairo. Publications include Home and Design, Luxe, Traditional Home, Professional Artist (cover), and the Washington Post...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

"Alizarin Maze ll"
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Alizarin Maze ll". Work is signed and dated 2019 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Archival Paper

Maryanne Pollock "Alizarin Maze lll"
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Alizarin Maze lll". Work is signed and dated 2020 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Ro...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

Maryanne Pollock "Alizarin Maze l"
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Maze l". Work is signed and dated 2018 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

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