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By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
The Self is a Construction
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Whirl
By Ellen Steinfeld
Located in Buffalo, NY
Ellen Steinfeld is a sculptor, a painter and has worked in several different media. She graduated with a degree in painting and design from Carnegie Mellon University and earned a graduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She has received numerous large-scale public and private commissions including an 18’ steel sculpture for the atrium of Roswell Park Cancer Institute and a commission to design 16 large stained glass windows for Christ Church in Detroit. Works in various media have been selected and incorporated into public spaces including schools, hotels, hospitals, museums, airports, stadiums and corporate collections. Her work was selected to represent New York State for the Absolut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Drawings and Wate...
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Nude Picnic Virgin Islands
By Robert Noel Blair
Located in Buffalo, NY
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He is best known for his rural life & desert landscapes and World War II sc...
Category
1960s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Picture of People Sitting Before Painting - National Gallery, Washington DC
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Justice
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (BEEF)
By Michael Beam
Located in Buffalo, NY
Mistreated and abandoned spray-painted butcher paper (saturated), archival mounts, appropriated internet imagery heat transferred with Ink Jet T-shirt Tr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Ink, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Well Before….the Trusty S.C.O.R.E.* Crows
By Michael Beam
Located in Buffalo, NY
Peenemunde 1943—During World War II, German rocketeers developed Vergeltungswaffen or "V" weapons at the German rocket facility Peenemunde, built in 1937. The first civilian employee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil
Barbara
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Three Dog Night
By Michael Beam
Located in Buffalo, NY
The title for this work was inspired by the ruminations of Charles Manson in the 2010 publication Charles Manson NOW. “When you come to prison and you stay the fifteen years, all the dogs of the world are dead when you come back out, there is no dog that was a live when you were out last time. The three dog...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Canvas, Glitter
Turkish Medal
By Michael Beam
Located in Buffalo, NY
Beam recognizes that a successful work of art “must develop its own personality…It must empower, engage or provoke the public’s attention.” One exhibition in particular, titled Owavi...
Category
1990s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Latex, Latex, Masonite, Wood
Dancers at the Bar 6
By Michael Costello
Located in Buffalo, NY
Boxers, Ballerinas and Bible Stories “ are a suite of drawings wherein one model plays a series of interactive roles with his or her self. Contemporary graphic novels and the Pop cul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Paper
Stall
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary realist oil painting by American artist A.J. Fries.
Artist’s Statement:
My paintings are less about the images or scenes that they depict and more about my state ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
The Birthday Cake
By Anthony Nelle
Located in Buffalo, NY
An Art Deco gouache painting by American artist Anthony Nelle featuring exquisite details and materials to create a fantastic and enchanting scene.
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silver Leaf
Stage Sketch1
By Alexander Oscar Levy
Located in Buffalo, NY
Alexander O. Levy was a painter, illustrator,
printmaker and designer who was born in 1881 in Bonn, Germany. He
died in 1946 in Buffalo, New York. At age three, he was brought to
...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Theater Sketch 2
By Alexander Oscar Levy
Located in Buffalo, NY
Alexander O. Levy was a painter, illustrator,
printmaker and designer who was born in 1881 in Bonn, Germany. He
died in 1946 in Buffalo, New York. At age three, he was brought to
...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Black 002
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas work by Bruce Adams. This piece is from the artist's black on black series which uses one single color of black paint with different textures and mediums t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman on Couch with Boy
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
With this series I continue my practice of alluding to historical painting styles and themes as a means of prompting various contextual associations. I began by referencing portrait ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Birds
By David Gerstein
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original one of a kind hand carved and painting wall sculpture by Israeli artist David Gerstein.
David Gerstein is an Israeli painter and sculptor. He began as a figurative pai...
Category
1990s Pop Art Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Ancestry Breakdown
By Michael Mararian
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rendering traditionally cheerful images and concepts into frightening, yet humorous, tableaus, Michael Mararian often focuses on children as the last bastion of innocence to explore ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
A is for Alfie who plunged from a blimp
By Michael Mararian
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rendering traditionally cheerful images and concepts into frightening, yet humorous, tableaus, Michael Mararian often focuses on children as the last bastion of innocence to explore ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Horrible gifts for children (a Mapplethorpe calendar)
By Michael Mararian
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rendering traditionally cheerful images and concepts into frightening, yet humorous, tableaus, Michael Mararian often focuses on children as the last bastion of innocence to explore ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Les Affairs Comme D'Habitude
By Jed Jackson
Located in Buffalo, NY
Jed Jackson received his MFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, 1980 and his BFA from Memphis College of Art in Tennessee, 1977 and was awarded a residency at the Skowhegan Schoo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Famous Expatriates
By Jed Jackson
Located in Buffalo, NY
Jed Jackson received his MFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, 1980 and his BFA from Memphis College of Art in Tennessee, 1977 and was awarded a residency at the Skowhegan Schoo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Little Winners
By Jed Jackson
Located in Buffalo, NY
Jed Jackson received his MFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, 1980 and his BFA from Memphis College of Art in Tennessee, 1977 and was awarded a residency at the Skowhegan Schoo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Untitled
By Michael Kessler
Located in Buffalo, NY
Kessler makes nature-based paintings that merge geometric elements with biomorphism. He began his art career as a landscape painter. While still an undergraduate at Kutztown Universi...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Wood
Narcissus with Venus Effect
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venus at her Mirror
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Diana and the Stag
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chromatagenous
By Paula Sciuk
Located in Buffalo, NY
Artist Statement: My work focuses on the surface tension within reflective surfaces exploring diverse and abstract forms. The imagery is fluid, caught in the instant between space an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Ink
Have Some Wine
By Robert Sellers
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic painting by American Primitive Artist Robert Sellers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Strum
By Robert Sellers
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic painting by American Primitive Artist Robert Sellers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Four Eyes
By Robert Sellers
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic painting by American Primitive Artist Robert Sellers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Eye on the Prize
By Robert Sellers
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic painting by American Primitive Artist Robert Sellers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Don't Bogart
By Robert Sellers
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic painting by American Primitive Artist Robert Sellers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Team Player
By Robert Sellers
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic painting by American Primitive Artist Robert Sellers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
WTF
By Robert Sellers
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic painting by American Primitive Artist Robert Sellers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Untitled
By Harriet Holden Nash
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing an abstract expressionist painting by American female artist Harrier Holden Nash.
Harriet was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived with her husband in ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Child's Play (I and II)
By Dianne Baker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Each of the works is 14" x 16" x 1". They are meant to be hung together either vertically or horizontally.
Diane Baker is a mixed media and fiber-related sculptor working out o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Keynote XIV
By Dianne Baker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Diane Baker is a mixed media and fiber-related sculptor working out of Buffalo, NY. She has exhibited throughout the United States and in Canada and is included in several public and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Tape, Wood
Stall Study
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary realist oil painting by American artist A.J. Fries.
Artist’s Statement:
My paintings are less about the images or scenes that they depict and more about my state o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Untitled
Located in Buffalo, NY
An unsigned mid century modern American abstract painting
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Illustration Board, Oil
Atomic Sycamore
By John Santomieri
Located in Buffalo, NY
The paintings I create are referential. Through process and symbol, I use
heavily affected information as context in which to introduce contemporary
concept and question. The p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glaze, Oil
Number 2
By John Santomieri
Located in Buffalo, NY
The paintings I create are referential. Through process and symbol, I use
heavily affected information as context in which to introduce contemporary
concept and question. The p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil, Other Medium, Permanent Marker
Entrances and Exits
By Harriet Holden Nash
Located in Buffalo, NY
Harriet was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived with her husband in Park Slope for over 35 years.
She attended the Brooklyn Museum School at age 14 where she establis...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pen, Permanent Marker, Watercolor
The Prince's Room
By Willy Pogany
Located in Buffalo, NY
Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children," "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children.
He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children's books and did a series of annual gift books...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Pen, Watercolor
Still Life with Snippers
By Richard Huntington
Located in Buffalo, NY
Richard Huntington (b. 1936) is an american painter, printmaker, and writer, is Critic Emeritus at The Buffalo News and has written for High Performance magazine, ARTnews, and Art Ne...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Dickie (Child in High Chair)
By Will Barnet
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original woodcut on japan paper created by master American artist Will Barnet in 1942.
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Freedom Wagon
By James C. Litz
Located in Buffalo, NY
James C. Litz is a self-taught artist who has a "primitive-naive" style of oil and acrylic paintings that features colorful and humorous characters and scenes. His paintings have a very child-like quality to them and you can see the artist's active imagination at work transforming everyday life into art. In 1994, the fine arts magazine Sunstorm, described him as having a "natural wit and style".
Permanent displays: The National and International Vietnam Veterans War Art Museum, Chicago, IL; the American Folk Art Museum, NYC; the President Bush Library, Houston, TX; Museé D'Art Naïf de l'lle De France; the International Folk Art Museum, La Jolla, CA; and the James Fennimore Coopers Museum, Cooperstown, NY.
Private Collections: Jackie Gleason (deceased); Roy Rogers (deceased); the Flamenco guitarist Carlos Montoya (deceased); opera singer Patrice Munsel, cellist Lynn Harrell, and Bill Cosby.
Category
1980s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Eros and Psyche in L.A.
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstraction
By Robert Noel Blair
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing a modern abstract painting by Robert Blair.
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He is best k...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary abstract oil painting by American artist A.J. Fries.
Artist’s Statement:
My paintings are less about the images or scenes that they depict and more about my state ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grain Elevators
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary realist oil painting by American artist A.J. Fries.
Artist’s Statement:
My paintings are less about the images or scenes that they depict and more about my state o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Untitled 18
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary oil painting on linen by American artist A.J. Fries.
Artist’s Statement:
These works are an extension of a small series of realistic paintings that I did of graves...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Untitled # 3
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary oil painting on linen by American artist A.J. Fries.
Artist’s Statement:
These works are an extension of a small series of realistic paintings that I did of graves...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Large Original Oil Painting
By Harriet Holden Nash
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Signed Verso.
Harriet was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived with her husband in Park Slope for over 35 years.
She attended the Brooklyn Museum Scho...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled 11
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary oil painting on linen by American artist A.J. Fries.
Artist’s Statement:
These works are an extension of a small series of realistic paintings that I did of graves...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Untitled 12
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary oil painting on linen by American artist A.J. Fries.
Artist’s Statement:
These works are an extension of a small series of realistic paintings that I did of graves...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Rainstorm Sunset
By Robert Noel Blair
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing a modernist American watercolor painting by Robert Noel Blair.
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and te...
Category
American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Horse and Tree
By Robert Noel Blair
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing a modernist American watercolor painting by Robert Noel Blair
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and te...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Paper, Watercolor
