Grenning Gallery
Color: Brown
"Clementines" impressionist still life orange, yellow and green
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An impressive still life (oil on panel) of vibrant clementines in android white and blue dish. The attention to detail and the striking ability to find the beautiful within the mund...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Red Ice Block Tongs
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of an antique pair of tongs, meant for use during ice fishing. Suspended from a small rope, hanging from a single nail, against a grey backdrop. Brushstrokes can be seen in the gray of the background, but are harder to make out on the subject. Morfis paints in an extremely refined, realist approach.
Painting dimensions: 25 x 19 inches
Framed dimensions: 30 x 24 x 1.5 inches
Available at Grenning Gallery.
BIOGRAPHY
John Morfis was born in Glen Cove, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetically pleasing, John made an extreme departure from his family life when he chose to base his life on art. Surrounded by mechanics, welders, and otherwise trade workers John had a tough time expressing his interest in a world much more utilitarian and much less expressive and impractical.
With an extraordinary desire to be an artist and a grant awarded, John was able to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of Hartford in 1998. While there John studied oil painting under American realist Stephen Brown.
John’s first solo show took place in 2007 at the Ellen Traut Collection Gallery in Hartford, CT and was a near sell out. Since then John has had success up and down the northeastern coast of the United States working with various galleries and collectors. His work has also appeared in various group shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Each painting, although a portrait of a tired hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Bedroom Interior
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This interior by Amy Florence was painted at Ben Fenske’s home in Tavernelle, Italy. This room is the setting of lots of Ben Fenske’s nude-figure paintings. You might even recognize in the upper right, a finished Ben Fenske canvas. Florence invites us into Fenske's bedroom with no pretensions. An un-made bed, an open wardrobe...
Category
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Interior at Bens
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This interior by Amy Florence was painted at Ben Fenske’s home in Tavernelle, Italy. This room is the setting of lots of Ben Fenske’s still life paintings. You might even recognize i...
Category
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Friday Night at the American Hotel" contemporary oil painting, dinner party fun
By Kelly Carmody
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of figures inside The American Hotel, in Sag Harbor, on a busy Friday Night. Kelly Carmody stood outside on the front porch of the Hotel, and painted the indoor scene...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Tuscany Dining Room
By Tim McGuire
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of an interior, a country home in Tuscany. This is actually the dining room of fellow painter, Ben Fenske. Natural light rushes in through windows and an open doorway...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Potted Still
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Potted Still" is an expressive, colorful still-life painting from Darius Yektai. Heavy outlines are prevalent, and paint is laid on thick, creating a sculptural quality.
Darius Ye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dog Park, Zagreb
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Plein-air landscape painting of a dog park in Zagreb, Croatia.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest yea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Stony Brook
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of a landscape from Stony Brook. Painted from direct observation.
Framing options available.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
San Gimignano
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of San Gimignano, a rural 12th Century village in Tuscany. A distant skyline of buildings sits central on the horizon. Acres of green varyin...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Perched
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of a beach in California
Artist Bio
Carl Bretzke is a representational painter who specializes in urban scenes and plein-air landscapes. Carl's work has been exhibited...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Horse Standing - Contemporary realist oil painting by American Impressionist
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a brown horse, standing on green grass on a sunny day. Painted en plein air, after days of studying and sketching, Ben Fenske captured the correct proportions and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Boat Yard, Lifting Fog" oil painting, American realist, old boats in a harbor
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein-air at a marina on Long Island. An old time fishing boat is the central subject, view from the bow. A small rowboat rests in the foreground. A couple of fishing shac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Gala
By Anthony Ackrill
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A beautifully executed, super-sized, trompe l'oeil oil painting of a gala apple with several levels of irony. A plump, bright, fresh apple, painted hyper realistically. The vibrant ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Up
By Angel Ramiro Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, a nude, female figure sits with an blue cloth draped around her bottom. Ramiro places the figure floating in the atmosphere. The figure's back is revealed, curving sensually and naturally, hair pulled up in a bun to accentuate her form.
Signed: Angel Ramiro Sanchez in lower left corner and on verso
Painting Dimensions: 12.6 x 7.5 inches
Framed dimensions: 16.75 x 11.5 inches
Angel Ramiro Sanchez was born in 1974 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. At age six was accepted with full scholarship into the Instituto the Niños Cantores del Zulia, school for musically gifted children. At age fourteen he began five years of apprenticeship with the realist painter, Abdon J. Romero, an eminent specialist in murals for churches and public buildings. In 1993, a study grant from Mgr. Gustavo Ocando Yamarte, Founder the Niños Cantores, enabled him to travel to Florence, Italy, where he studied at the renowned Accademia di Belle Arti, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1997. At the same time, he was enrolled at The Florence Academy of Art,founded by painter Daniel Graves, where he received a diploma in Painting. Ramiro was appointed senior painting instructor at The Florence Academy of Art in 1997, and is currently Director of the Advanced Painting Program.
Ramiro paints only from life, searching for accuracy beyond physical appearance to reach the psychological state of his subject. He believes the painter must draw his information from "all five senses" to tell the complete human story.
Ramiros work is predominantly represented by th e Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York, but also Scriba Gallery, venice, Italy, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Tx.
Ramiros works can be found in numerous private collections in Europe, The United States and South America. Public collections include: The Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy. The Fremantle Foundation for Foreing Artist in Tuscany at Villa Peyron, Florence, Italy and The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. USA. He shares his life and passion for art with his wife, the artist Melissa Franklin-Sanchez.
Education
1993-1997 Florence Academy of Art, directed by Daniel Graves, Florence, Italy.
1993-1997 Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Thesis: Historic and Technical Notes of Academic Realism Today.
1995 Florence, Italy: Michael John Angel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Spring Eve
By Irina Rybakova
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This painting was created in preparation for Grenning Gallery's second Russian-American Painting Alliance Exhibition in October 2018. Organized by Top Grenning artist Ben Fenske, Ryb...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tree
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A contemporary oil painting of a large, shapely tree in Florence, Italy. Bright green hues fill the canvas, in wide, urgent brushstrokes. A bright blue sky meets a distant horizon.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Overcast Harbor, Stonington
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a bustling harbor in Stonington Maine, as included in the popular 2016 exhibition, The Russian-American Painting Alliance. Grey skies are shadowed with clouds of p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Amy Outside" 2018 - oil painting, portrait of a woman outdoors sunny yellow hue
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil on canvas painting of a woman outdoors, a curvy tree in the near distance frames her portrait. She wears a yellow short sleeve button-down and a matching scarf in her hair.
...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vendemmia No. 2
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Vendemmia No. 2 illustrates a beautiful sunny day on a vineyard in Tuscany. A master of plein-air painting, Dalessio paints the wind, with evidence in the fast-moving cumulus clouds,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Landscape Painter
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a painter painting en plein air! Dalessio paints a an italian house in the country, with a lush green foreground. Another painter, (Ben Fenske) paints the sam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Vendemmia" 2016 - contemporary plein air painting of grape harvest in Tuscany
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by renowned American Plein Air Painter, Marc Dalessio. "Vendemmia" means "Harvest" in Italian. A few figures pick grapes off the vines and into buckets on the ground....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Peaches and Cream
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, a plate of peaches.
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passion was art. In 1989 he sta...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Carnival
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air, at Carnival, in Florence, Italy.
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passion was art. In 1989 he started at the University of California at Santa Cruz where he focused on both art and biology. During his time in Santa Cruz, Marc experimented with different schools of painting and spent much of his spare time studying the history and culture of the profession. He finished his outstanding academic career, graduating Phi Beta Kappa...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sunset
By Nelson H. White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A pastel sorbet-colored sky, represented in an almost abstract manner. Painted thickly, in the oil impasto technique.
Nelson H. White was born in New London, Connecticut in 1932. Wh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Graffiti Artists
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark. Dalessio does contemporary plein air painting at its best with "Graffiti Artists". Two figures against a colorful urban wall. One standing, one squatting. Cans of spray paint surround their feet, a large black bag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Horse on a Wheel
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air in rural america, a horse stands alone on a dirt culdisac. A tall pinwheel tower stands central to the composition. A trailer and car parked beneath the horizon....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Backyard Chickens
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Backyard Chickens was painted en plein air in rural america. Two small ranch buildings compose the border of the painting. The horizon is made up of trees in full bloom. The atmosphe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sitting Nude, Bea" 2016 oil painting of nude woman seated in thought, pink hues
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a nude female figure, sitting upon a bed; chest bent over knees, hand on head, seemingly bored. Hues of pink surround the figure due to decorative fabrics that are...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Town Dock, Hampton Bays
By Thomas Cardone
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Thomas Cardone was born in New York in 1964. He received a BFA from NYIT before making his way out to California to work for The Walt Disney Studios, where he was Head of the Backgro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Autumn Old Cars
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Carl Bretzke is a representational painter who specializes in urban scenes and plein-aire landscapes. Carl's work has been exhibited extensively in Minnesota and California, includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Boathouse, Evening Light" contemporary impressionist oil painting en plein air
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Boathouse, Evening Light" is a contemporary impressionist oil painting, painted en plein air. A recognizable East Coast scene in the Fenske style.
Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Canvas
Bahamas
By Nelson H. White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air in the Bahamas, a narrow seascape beneath a pale lilac sky. A single sailboat soars along the distant horizon. Hues of green, teal, and blue make up the textured...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Village View" - 2016 oil painting of famed historic Hamptons village Sag Harbor
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air, in Sag Harbor, New York, in preparation for the popular 2016 exhibition, the Russian American Painting Alliance. A sunny autumn day, situated on a grassy fork b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
With My Eyes on Your Horizon
By Angel Ramiro Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Artist Statement:
This painting is the result of the situation my birth country Venezuela is in at the moment. A couple of months ago I started to feel very anxious about my country,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Cala del Forno" plein air painting of beach setup in Italy, neutral tones
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air on a beach in Italy. Sheets are strung up and stretched with driftwood, and create a shaded area for beach-goers to sit beneath. The rigid driftwood poles arrang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Big Red
By Michael Kotasek
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Awards
2013 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor/ Allied Artists of America, 100th Annual Exhibition at the National Arts Club
2011 Mary Bryan Memorial Medal / Allied Artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Drawings and Wa...
Materials
Watercolor
The Brooklyn Bridge
By Nelson H. White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Nelson H. White was born in New London, Connecticut in 1932. White has been surrounded by art and artists from the time he was born. He received his earliest art instruction from his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sunset Sketch" 2016 small study for larger oil painting composition Italy
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein-air in Chianti, Italy, a colorful sky cascades above a distant hillside, and the near foliage in the foreground.
Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a native of Minnesot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Circle Cycle
By Edward Minoff
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Circle Cycle is a realist painting of the cycle of waves crashing onto the shore, returning to the expansive ocean, and crash again. Minoff translates the constant motion of the oce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Pink Skirt" impressionist oil painting of woman sitting holding a book.
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Pink Skirt" is an impressionist oil painting of woman sitting holding a book. Painted from life in his home in Chianti, Italy, his muse, Beatrice, sits on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mashomack Point
By Nelson H. White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air, at Mashomack Nature Preserve, Shelter Island, New York. Sand meets shrubbery with red shadows in the foreground. Wild green grass stands tall outlining a marsh....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Roses in the Dune" contemporary plein air painting by American Impressionist
By Nelson H. White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a rose bush with bright pink dots of paint to depict the roses. This is his fourth in his series of rose bush paintings 2017. N...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Oak in Spring" 1930 American Impressionist oil painting, oak tree landscape
By Henry Cooke White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Oak in Spring" is a 1930 American Impressionist oil painting of an oak tree landscape.
Painted en plein-air, in an almost pointillist style, H.C. White depicts a classic Connecticut landscape. A Tall wiry tree stands as the focal point, having just bloomed its first leaves; foliage still thin enough to outline every single branch. Reds and browns scattered throughout the foreground connote autumn leaves that had yet to be cleared.
Henry Cooke White (b. 1861) in Hartford Connecticut. His career in art was founded at the age of 14, when he met the famous American Tonalist painter, Dwight William Tyron. The two became lifelong friends, and White even wrote Tyron’s major biography, The Life and Art of Dwight William Tyron (pub. 1930). In the late 1880’s, Tyron pushed White to move to New York City to further his artistic training at the Art Students League. During this time, White studied under many talented artist’s; Kenyon Cox, John H. Twatchman, and William Merritt Chase.
From 1896-1897, White spent time travelling in Europe. Upon his return to the states, he began to spend most of his time in Connecticut, following his favorite painting seasons. Spring in Hartford was followed a week later by spring in Old Lyme, and then finally at Waterford. He’d experience his favorite seasons three times over each year. Once immersed into Connecticut’s community, White was encouraged to paint habitually in Old Lyme; where an art colony was developing, beginning in the spring of 1903.
Inspired by European artists, including Claude Monet, and Pierre Auguste-Renoir, the Old Lyme Art Colony defined American Impressionism by memorializing the serene qualities of rural New England life through use of vibrant palettes and broken strokes on wood and canvas. The Colony comprised upwards of 200 artists during its three decades of creating nature-based scenes in oils and pastels; Frederick Childe Hassam...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Fishing Hut" contemporary impressionist oil painting boat house, green and blue
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Fishing Hut" contemporary impressionist oil painting boat house in green and blue hues. An oil painting of a small shack in a marina in rich impre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Sunset, Waterford" oil painting by american impressionist, colorful abstraction
By Nelson H. White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An abstract depiction of a seascape during sunset. Painted from life in Waterford, Connecticut. Framed in a traditional black frame with gold inner trim (See pictures).
Nelson H. Wh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Bagno Paradiso
By Nelson H. White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein-air in Italy, a group of figures sit beneath a striped umbrella. T
Nelson H. White was born in New London, Connecticut in 1932. White has been surrounded by art and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Oltrarno
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oltrarno was painted en plein-air in Florence, Italy. Oltrarno literally translates to "beyond the Arno" referring to the Arno River. Painted within the region of the Palazzo Pitti, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
