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"Soho Morning" Oil painting of NYC Street scene by American Impressionist 2019
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Plein-air street scene painting in Soho, NY.
Choice of black or gold frame.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Afternoon on Ditch Plains" - Contemporary oil painting at Montauk Beach
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This plein air painting emits the tranquility of an empty beach in the late afternoon. A lifeguard's chair barely visible in the background reminds us that it is still summer here. O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Branching out
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a tomato still life. On a neutral background sits a larger tomato and 6 smaller tomatoes still attached to a vine. The two groups are divided by a diagonal slash of branch.
Painting dimensions: 6 x 13 inches
Framed dimensions: 12 x 19 inches
John Morfis was born in Bayville, 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...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Ditch Plains
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a surfer about to head into the waves while in the background sunbathers recline under their umbrellas. A serene depiction of a summer day at Ditch Plains...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sailboat in Rockport
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting a boat in the Rockport harbor. The glittering water stands out in this impressionistic painting—a feature Dalessio excels at.
Artist ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Yellow Lupin in a Cork Forest
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a sea of bright Lupins. The flowers are thriving, but a tree in the background has fallen to the ground.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Ang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Piazza in Zadar
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a shady piazza in Croatia.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passion ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Palo Carona
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a California landscape.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passion w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Ames Pond No.3
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a misty day on a pond. Reminiscent of Monet's waterlilies.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Hollywood and Vine, Stoplight
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a Hollywood intersection at a quiet moment.
Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Ev...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Santa Croce
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a winding street. Light speckles the shady street. A study in the masterful use of perspective by Dalessio.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Path in the Woods, Bex
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a snowy scene. Dalessio transports his viewer into this wilderness landscape.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Primosten
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of the Primsten coast in Croatia. A figure stands on the rocks looking out at the sparkling water.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, Cal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Coke Truck on Main Street
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a shady main street.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passion was ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Hook Head Lighthouse
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of the Hook Head lighthouse in Ireland. Dalessio constructs a nostalgic view of a longstanding landmark.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Top of Corral de Tierra
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of an expansive California landscape.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Arroyo Seco, Vineyard
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a vineyard with sfumato mountains in the background.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
House in Chianti
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A serene plein air painting of a Tuscan-style house seen through thick summer foliage.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest yea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Watsonville Farm
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a road cutting through farmland.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
San Niccolo, Florence
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a quiet street in Florence.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Zadar, the Riva II
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a busy pier.
Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Passage East Harbor (Ireland)
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of boats docked in the harbor.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Old Oaks
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a sprawling landscape with old oak trees in shadow.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Carmel Beach
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of the rocks that overlook the ocean in Carmel, California. A figure sits on the rocks taking in the sublime waterscape.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Hay Stack
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting reminiscent of Van Gough's hay stack paintings but with the distinct style of Dalessio. The haystack and the couple are in shadow, while...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Street in Plyos
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a dirt road with a church at the end of it.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
New Chalets
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a snowy landscape. Ski chalets line the side of the composition. Dalessio uses the color of the wood panel peeking out under the paint as the light of the set...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
San Frediano, White Flags
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a street in Florence.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passion was a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Chinthe of Lawkananda Paya
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of Chinthe (lions) at the Stupa of Lawkananda Paya in Burma.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Church in Maremma
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a path leading to a Tuscan church. This painting is from earlier in Dalessio's career, and a great marker of how his style has evolved over the years.
Framed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Salt on Canal Street
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This painting by Marc Dalessio conveys the beautiful chaos of New York on a snowy day with salt on the ground. Somehow Dalessio is able to make even New York look serene, conveying m...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Fishing Boats, Salema
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An electric blue sea contrasts the worn blue of the fishing boats, showing their age and use. Painted en plein air, Orsolic Dalessio masterfully represents the textures of the beach and the shadows of the boats.
Framed dimensions: 19.5 x 15.5 inches
Tina Orsolic Dalessio is a figurative painter born and raised in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from Florence Academy of Art in June 2018. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Zagreb Law School...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Secret Agent Cap Gun
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A trompe l'oeil painting of a toy gun hung upside down by a nail through the trigger.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Spatula on Blue" - Oil painting, trompe l'oeil american realist kitchen utensil
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A dark, yet crisp tromp-l'oeil depiction of a spatula. Morfis makes beauty out of the ordinary objects that we use everyday. Beacuse of varnish, the painting is difficult to photograph. The navy color is dark, but brightens with a spotlight on the painting.
Framed in a modern black wood frame.
Signed "J.Morfis" lower left
ARTIST BIO
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"View from the Garden, Casa De Insua" Oil painting, Portugal, Castle gardens
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Orsolic Dalessio displays two forms of nature in this plein air painting. Cultivated nature is situated in the foreground, with bright colors and sharp lines. Rugged nature is seen i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Louse Point Moonrise" contemporary plein-air painting of sailboat, East Hampton
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting. Tina Orsolic Dalessio masterfully depicts the reflections of the sky on the water in this plein-air painting. The small boat seems to bob in the water as it faces the rising moon over the blue-toned landscape.
Framed dimensions: 15.5 x 19.5 inches
Framed in a custom Italian black frame with gold trim
Tina Orsolic Dalessio is a figurative painter born and raised in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from Florence Academy of Art in June 2018. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Zagreb Law School...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"A Magic Carpet" oil painting, fiery orange tree in autumn, fallen leaves
By Melissa Franklin Sanchez
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by Melissa Franklin Sanchez. A whimsical depiction of fall. The bright orange leaves from the tree line the ground outside a home. The leaves seem to enter the doorwa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Metal
Lagos Harbor
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio, en plein air, depicts the an impressionist's view of the Lagos harbor of Portugal. Dalessio is able to compose the entire harbor of mostly red and blue tones.
Framed dime...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Sarges Port
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio's plein air painting depicts a group of boats on the beach of Sarges port with the breakwater in the distance.
Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Artist Bio:
Marc Dale...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Fisherman, Praia de Barrica
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio depicts en plein air, a fisherman on the rocks of the beach, waiting for his catch. Even with his broad impressionistic strokes, Dalessio composes reflections of the rocks a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Bougainvillea in Evora
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a quiet street in a Portuguese city. Bougainvillea spills over the rooftop of one of the buildings, adding color and vibrancy to an otherwise tranquil scene. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
"Port de Honfleur" Oil painting of boats in a harbor, Northern France, Normandy
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Orsolic Dalessio's plein air painting depicts an idyllic view of this Normandy harbor.
Tina Orsolic Dalessio is a figurative painter born and raised in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from Florence Academy of Art in June 2018. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Zagreb Law School, LL.M. degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a PhD degree from the University of Maastricht, Faculty of Law. Before becoming a painter, she worked as a lecturer and researcher in law, specializing in philosophy of law and European Union law.
Alongside her husband Marc Dalessio, she discovered her passion for fine arts, which lead her to a life changing decision to leave academia and devote herself fully to painting.
After being accepted into the prestigious BP Portrait Award...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Sag Harbor Windmill" - contemporary oil painting of historic Hamptons windmill
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Orsolic Dalessio depicts the iconic landmark of Sag Harbor: its windmill. The plein air painting shows no sign of the bustling town behind. The windmill is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Flor do Canal, Algarve
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Orsolic Dalessio creates the illusion of clear blue water in oil paint for this plein air painting.
Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Tina Orsolic Dalessio is a figurative painter born and raised in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from Florence Academy of Art in June 2018. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Zagreb Law School, LL.M. degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a PhD degree from the University of Maastricht, Faculty of Law. Before becoming a painter, she worked as a lecturer and researcher in law, specializing in philosophy of law and European Union law.
Alongside her husband Marc Dalessio, she discovered her passion for fine arts, which lead her to a life changing decision to leave academia and devote herself fully to painting.
After being accepted into the prestigious BP Portrait Award...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Market Stalls in the Medina, Tangier
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a market scene in Tangier. The vibrant colors match the energy of the composition.
Framed dimensions: 17.5 x 13.5 inches
Tina Orsolic Dalessio is a figurative painter born and raised in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from Florence Academy of Art in June 2018. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Zagreb Law School, LL.M. degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a PhD degree from the University of Maastricht, Faculty of Law. Before becoming a painter, she worked as a lecturer and researcher in law, specializing in philosophy of law and European Union law.
Alongside her husband Marc Dalessio, she discovered her passion for fine arts, which lead her to a life changing decision to leave academia and devote herself fully to painting.
After being accepted into the prestigious BP Portrait Award...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
In the Port of Asilah
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Orsolic Dalessio depicts the port of a Moroccan town from the point of view of a man on the beach, leaning against a boat. He looks over the light blu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Hay Bales
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting, painted from a sketch done en plein air, a field half shaded by a large tree on the right side of the canvas.
Framed Dimensions: 33 .5 x 41.25 inches
Signed by t...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Monterey Cypress, Point Lobos" oil painting portrait of large old tree in CA
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein-air painting of Monterey Cypress tree in California.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Street in Tirana
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a street in Tirana, Albania.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Lilacs, Pecorino, Wine" contemporary impressionist earthy tone still life
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Lilacs, Pecorino, Wine" is a contemporary impressionist earthy tone still life. A moka pot, jug of olive oil, and pecorino make this still life uniquely Italian. The hard cheese lay...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Odilon's Flowers" oil painting, expressionist still life, thick paint, unframed
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by American Expressionist painter Darius Yektai. In his signature thick application of paint, Yektai molds a vase of flowers atop a simple footstool in primary colors...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Nasturtium, Diptych
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Nasturtium, Diptych" is an abstract diptych painting of two potted plants. On the lefthand canvas the background is painted a thin hookers green and resin was poured over the top. The potted flower is painted over the resin, sitting on a white stippled table with a thick yellow edge. Yellow stipples are painted around the plant. The righthand painting has intentionally exposed canvas soft smudges of green paint through the middle of the canvas and navy up in the upper lefthand corner, at the middle of the composition. A heavy impasto flower...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Oil, Linen, Acrylic
Irises
By Rachel Personett
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, a grouping of irises stand tall against a black backdrop. A classical painting subject and style, with a fresh and intriguing touch. Iris blossoms range from buds ...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Oar Locks
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life in his connecticut studio, John Moris paints two metal oar locks. These tools are normally attached to the sides of a row-boat, and lock in the oars with which a sailor would row. Hanging fro a tiny metal nail, dangling from a small white thread, before an off-white, monochromatic backdrop.
Framed in a simple black frame, as pictured. Frame dimensions are 24 x 20 inches.
Painting dimensions are 19 x 15 inches.
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
Oil
Purple Falling Flowers
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Purple Falling Flowers' is abstract painting of flowers and vines over a pale teal and tan background. Bright green stems tangle together as if the flowe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Resin
Garden Dibble
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of an antique tool, a Garden Dibble, which is a long stick-like tool used to make holes for seeds, to make sure they are sufficiently buried in the soil without damage. This particular object that Morfis chose to paint has a wooden handle, and a metal point. The dibber rests atop a nail, against a gray wall. Bright studio-light casts a sharp shadow directly beneath the tool. Painted in the academic realist style of "trompe-l'oeil" which is French for "trickery of the eye".
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
Oil, Linen
"Agave Blossom, Luz" - contemporary plein air oil painting, seaside flora plants
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a agave blossoms silhouetted against a hazy sky, clouds and blossoms backlit by the sun. Far below, the ocean reflecting white clouds and sun glare. The agave plan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Poppies" contemporary realist oil painting, red wildflowers birch tree green
By Rachel Personett
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a poppies in front of a rock wall. The setting sun shines through the petals making them glow golden orange against the darker foliage. The sun cuts shadows into t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
"Three Magenta Peonies" contemporary realist oil painting pink flowers on black
By Rachel Personett
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Three Magenta Peonies" is contemporary realist oil painting pink flowers on black background. A classical painting subject and style, with a fresh and intriguing touch.
Signed "Personett" lower left corner.
Framed in a traditional black frame w gold trim.
Framed dimensions:
Rachel Personett was born in Hawaii, but raised in Colorado. Being the daughter of a pilot she has always traveled extensively. She has studied part time at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Angel Academy of Art, and finally settled on the Florence Academy of Art, graduating in 2015. In January 2016 she apprenticed the painter Odd Nerdrum in Norway for eight months. Rachel Personett works strictly from life, and enjoys the challenged of painting the ephemeral. Working from life provides the opportunity to travel around the world painting the ever changing people and landscapes.
Artist Statement
My mother had studied advertising in college, so she knew a lot about arts and good craftsmanship. She did talks at my elementary school each week and on a different artist. I remember being very moved by the images of Van Gogh and Andrew Wyeth. At the Florence Academy I really liked Sargent, Sorolla, Willard Metcalf, Henri Fantin-Latour and Velazquez. At Odd Nerdrums I gained new respect for Rembrandt and was introduced to other Scandinavian...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Winter River" 2018 contemporary realist plein air oil painting, snowy landscape
By Rachel Personett
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a winter scene. White snow covers trees and rocks alongside a river. Soft short brushstrokes create a sense of movement in the icy water. White snow is painted thickly to accentuate the heavy snowfall.
Painting dimensions: 24 x 18 inches
Framed dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5 x 1 inches
Framed in a traditional-style frame (see pictures).
Artist Bio
Rachel Personett was born in Hawaii, but raised in Colorado. Being the daughter of a pilot she has always traveled extensively. She has studied part time at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Angel Academy of Art, and finally settled on the Florence Academy of Art, graduating in 2015. In January 2016 she apprenticed the painter Odd Nerdrum...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
