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Paintings For Sale
Colour:  Blue
Girl With Harpoon - Florence, Italy, 2020
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Wet Hair, Florence, Italy, 2021
Located in New York, NY
This price includes that the painting is stretched and framed. ABOUT Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rider, Florence, Italy, 2019
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artisti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Piazza del Popolo Trittico - Acrylic on Canvas by G. Salvatori - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Triptych realised by Giuseppe Salvatori in 1990 on oval canvases. Dimensions: 140x60 / 140x70 / 140x60 cm. Signed, dated and titled by the Artist. Registered in the Archive "Giuseppe...
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1990s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Retrato en Colores, Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting, 21st Century
Located in Mexico City, MX
Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting Acrylic on canvas 170x130cm Signed About the artist Enrique Pichardo (Mexico City, 1973) graduated from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultur...
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled 6" Painting 102" x 102" inch by GUELA TSOULADZE
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 6" Painting 102" x 102" inch by GUELA TSOULADZE Oil painting on oilcloth canvases. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Nomad from birth, Guela Tsouladzé wa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Submerged" Abstract Mixed Media Art Painting 67" x 149" inch by Ahmed Farid
Located in Culver City, CA
"Submerged" Abstract Mixed Media Art Painting 67" x 149" inch by Ahmed Farid mixed media art on canvas Born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1950 where he currently lives and works, Farid is an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Epreuve de l''Irréel n°1/19- Urban Landscape Painting, Paris
Located in Paris, FR
Ink and acrylic on old book pages mounted on canvas, 80 x 80 cm. Original work of art, signed, sold unframed, delivered with a certificate of authenticity. Whilst perfectly set in Gu...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

Blue Pines - Day Porters, Japanese landscape painting
Located in Paris, FR
Blue Pines - Day Porters is a diptych painting by French-Japanese contemporary artist Lumi Mizutani. Chinese painting, copper leaves on Japanese cardboard. composed of two panels, 2...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Copper

GROWING UP (#3) by Zoran Šimunović - Large framed painting, bright colours
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas painting by Croatian artist Zoran Šimunović from the series GROWING UP. The artwork is sold framed. Dimensions of the frame...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Prelude" Abstract Painting 75" x 75" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Prelude" Painting 75" x 75" inch by Ahmed Gaafary To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more important or is it wha...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media

Acrylic Painting on wood Panel Titled “Exulansis”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started his artistic career as a colour consultant for his family''s Design and Painting company that took on constant projects of custom painted interiors and decorating. This work of 20 yrs led him to his fascination with textiles and paint, along with custom furniture. After creating and selling dozens of unique pieces of furniture, here began his transition from wall, to wood on furniture, to canvas. Painting on canvas was the culmination of his creative outlet. William feels that his lack of formal training in Fine Art has afforded him a freedom to paint what he envisions and feels, rather than conform to specific style or genre that he feels is limiting. Inspired by hard edge abstraction and colour field art...
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Blue Landscape II
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
I see blue as a seminal colour representing life in all its forms.

About the Artist
Pat Forbes is an abstract painter whose aesthetic is heavily in...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Colourscape colourful abstract expressionist painting framed in oak rainbow blue
Located in COOMERA, QLD
Brighten and enliven your space with this colourful expressive abstract landscape. Vibrant colours of joy alongside a bright Australian blue sky. Painterly detailed textures, layered...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled XXIX by Ferle - abstract art, oil painting, red and dark blue tones
Located in Paris, FR
Untitled XXIX is a large-scale abstract painting by French contemporary artist Ferle. Oil on free-standing canvas, 2014. 200 cm x 140 cm // 78 3/4 in. x 55 in. ”In her work, Ferle ...
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Epreuve de l''Irréel n°8/19 - Urban Landscape Painting, Paris
Located in Paris, FR
Ink and acrylic on old book pages mounted on canvas, 50 x 100 cm. Original work of art, signed, sold unframed, delivered with a certificate of authenticity. Whilst perfectly set in G...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

Serie 2021 #6
Located in New York, NY
Rebeca Mendoza plays with simultaneity, superimposition, and ambiguity in her work as she goes through the stages of oil painting. The artist sets out to entice a direct dialogue wit...
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Lake Manyara No.2 by Calo Carratalá - Large Waterscape Painting, Tanzania
Located in Paris, FR
Lake Manyara No.2 is an oil painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá. Oil on canvas, 150 cm × 300 cm. Calo Carratalá is a contemporary Spanish artist, based in Valenci...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Udo Haderlein Acrylic Painting, Untitled 2017
Located in Berlin, DE
Acrylic ink and colour on canvas, 2017. Unframed, ready to hang. Signed and dated verso. It comes directly from the studio of the artist. Dimensions: 47.48 x 47.36 x 1.81 in ( 120,6...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Canvas

Across the Lake - Serene Landscape with Expansive Sky & Calm Water, Original Oil
Located in Chicago, IL
"Across the Lake" is a minimalist landscape painting depicting subtle shifts of colour in the cloud covered sky. The clouds part slightly to reveal the sun reflected on the calm water...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel, Oil

The Fauzan, Valley - large-scale contemporary landscape painting
Located in Paris, FR
The Fauzan is an oil painting by French contemporary Valérie de Sarrieu picturing a landscape of Southern France (The Minervois in Occitanie). Oil on canvas, 114 cm x 195 cm. Paintin...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Stimulus II" Painting 39" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Stimulus II" Painting 39" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary Nabokov’s Signs Ahmed Gaafary takes Vladimir Nabokov’s phenomenal short story “On Signs and Symbols” as an instigator to serie...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

"Tiger Skin" mixed media art painting 58"x46 in by John Paul Fauves
Located in Culver City, CA
"Tiger Skin" mixed media art painting 58"x46 in by John Paul Fauves 2018 ABOUT John Paul FAUVES: John Paul Fauves (born in 1980) is a contemporary Artist from Costa Rica . His artistic journey started at a very young age after he became a student of Joaquin Rodriguez del Paso , one of the most important Costa Rican modern art tutors. John Paul spent 15 years studying and mastering his technique, and only a few years ago he finally started showcasing his work. In his paintings he engages questions of identity as they relate to art history as well as our everyday interactions with mainstream culture and social media. Greatly inspired by modernist masters as wellas pop-artists, Fauves mixes fragments of different iconic images in vivid and colourful compositions. Of his experimental and high eclectic style, he says, “art is an expression from the soul, and the soul is somethinglimitless. This is why I am always searching for different elements to bring into the work.” 2019: Alts Iz farloyrn, Los Angeles, CA Portraits of Someone, London 2018: [ Mi / Me ] solo exhibition at DOPENESS ART LAB, Taipei, Taiwan Arte de La Peer Papi Chulo group exhibition, Krause gallery, NYC Down the Rabbit Hole group exhibition, Imitate London, London, UK ARCO Madrid Art Palm Beach, Miami 2017: Art Basel Miami PIXELS Pre-Basel group exhibition by JM Art Management...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

"Mario SAFE my GUCCI arse" Mixed media Painting 37" x 48" in by John Paul Fauves
Located in Culver City, CA
"Mario SAFE my GUCCI arse" Mixed media Painting 37" x 48" in by John Paul Fauves 2017 Mixed media, acrylic and oil on canvas 37" × 48" inch From GUCCI in Wonderland series GUCCI in Wonderland series contains two parts. First one, GUCCI in wonderland, is an inspiration that came to John Paul Fauves after doing a 10 piece collection of some Alessandro Michele art campaigns. There was so much magic realism in the GUCCI brand and concept that transcended from being a clothing label to something more surreal. It is here when the artist decides to give a hold to his new collection for 2018 named "holy exit" and dive into this new world of colours and wonders. The second part, Alice in Wonderland, represents the artist a world of fantasy and dreams. It seems as if the author Lewis Caroll could write like a dream. The same concept of surrealism is what FAUVES feels about Gucci design and branding. It as if Gucci can design and create form the world of dreams, and this is what the artist wants to represent in his art GUCCI in wonderland. ABOUT John Paul FAUVES: John Paul Fauves (born in 1980) is a contemporary Artist from Costa Rica . His artistic journey started at a very young age after he became a student of Joaquin Rodriguez del Paso , one of the most important Costa Rican modern art tutors. John Paul spent 15 years studying and mastering his technique, and only a few years ago he finally started showcasing his work. In his paintings he engages questions of identity as they relate to art history as well as our everyday interactions with mainstream culture and social media. Greatly inspired by modernist masters as wellas pop-artists, Fauves mixes fragments of different iconic images in vivid and colourful compositions. Of his experimental and high eclectic style, he says, “art is an expression from the soul, and the soul is somethinglimitless. This is why I am always searching for different elements to bring into the work.” 2019: Alts Iz farloyrn, Los Angeles, CA Portraits of Someone, London 2018: [ Mi / Me ] solo exhibition at DOPENESS ART LAB, Taipei, Taiwan Arte de La Peer Papi Chulo group exhibition, Krause gallery, NYC Down the Rabbit Hole group exhibition, Imitate London, London, UK ARCO Madrid Art Palm Beach, Miami 2017: Art Basel Miami PIXELS Pre-Basel group exhibition by JM Art Management...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Canvas

Amanda Horvath, Secret Spring Original Bright Landscape Painting, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Amanda Horvath Secret Spring Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas Acrylics on canvas Image size: 61cm x 61cm x 3.5cm Sold Unframed “Secret Spring” is inspired by the lovely woods clo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sailing to Scolt Head, Burnham Overy Staithe and Wells Harbour
Located in Deddington, GB
Sailing to Scolt Head by Kate Heiss [2021] limited_edition Oil based inks on 300gsm Somerset Velvet paper Edition number 100 Wells Harbour by Kate Heiss [2021] limited_edition oil...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Linocut

Man With Lizard, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"On hot summer afternoons on the East Side of Milwaukee, a young man could often be seen carrying his pet Tegu lizard to Bradford Beach so it could bask in the ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Blue Landscape III
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
I see blue as a seminal colour representing life in all its forms.

About the Artist
Pat Forbes is an abstract painter whose aesthetic is heavily in...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Early Summer Creamsicle, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Judy Mackey says she asked her patrons to help her title this impressionist painting of orange tulips, and she loved the suggestion of Creamsicles. Jud...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rose Garden on the Cape, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Ruth LaGue says she was inspired by the quintessential Cape Cod landscape. She renders a painterly rose garden with bright red flowers in a field of green. Nestled in the background, a crisp white house adds clean lines and a pale colour palette to the summer scene.


About the Artist
In her abstracted landscape paintings, Ruth LaGue pares composition down to its barest form. Through simple colour, line and form, landscapes are invoked, rather than detailed. Ruth adjusts the placement of the horizon line in her paintings to suggest a range of natural formations. She stretches form, line and colour to their limits, providing the least amount of visual information needed to understand the landscape. Her colour palette is nuanced and each colour is distinctly her own. She is deeply influenced by her childhood in Alaska and her travels to India. While in India, she found an indelible connection between the vast, wild landscape of her childhood and the limitless internal landscape of the soul. Ruth’s beautifully simplified landscapes become metaphors for the spiritual or otherworldly realms inherent in both nature and in the self.


Words that describe this painting: landscape, garden, roses, serene, Cape Cod, house, home, summer, flowers, Massachusetts, landscape, representational, modern , acrylic painting, green


Rose Garden on the Cape...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

A landscape - XXI Century, Contemporary Mixed Media Art Art
By Karolina Urbanska
Located in Warsaw, PL
Mixed media landscape painting: acrylic & embroidery (cotton) on canvas, by Polish artist
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Thread, Acrylic

Text Tonic - vivid, colourful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Translucent layers of periwinkle, blue and steel-grey compose the background of this rich and energetic painting. Dragged horizontally across the canvas are thick bands of black, whi...
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic

Jonathan Speed, Journey''s End, Original Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Journey’s End [2021] Original Landscapes and seascapes Oil paint on canvas Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:4cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Teal Light, Contemporary Tree Painting, Woodland Artwork, Blue Landscape Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Teal Light is an original landscape painting featuring an Autumnal forest scene, by Sarah Pye. With her signature impasto painting style alongside a beautifully considered colour palette with a teal sky and a contrasting copper and warm toned forest floor. Silver birched dotted throughout the composition. This painting would make a statement in any home. Sarah Pye, artist with Wychwood Art. Sarah Pye creates large impressionist paintings...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Summer Valley, Original Oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2022 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Summer Valley, Size: 43" x 55.5...
Category

2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lilies, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2021 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Lilies, Size: 21.5" x 36" x 0.8...
Category

2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tempestuous Nature
Located in NIAGARA PARK, NSW
This painting is the tempestuous behaviour of nature from an emotional perspective. Although this is an abstract painting and emotionally driven, there are similarities with the temp...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Acrylic Polymer, Varnish, Acrylic

Mulher Verde, Oil Painting by Menelaw Sete
Located in Long Island City, NY
A portrait of a woman in green with her arms outstretched towards the sky. In a cubist style the arms and colours create a tropical feel to this composition.
Category

Early 2000s Cubist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Piano Reflections 2 - dark, cool, expressive, abstracted, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Every morning for 15 minutes, Pat Service finds peace in playing the piano—classical music she learnt as a teenager. This lyrical composition was inspired by such a moment rendered i...
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Retrato, Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting, 21st Century
Located in Mexico City, MX
Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting Acrylic on canvas 150x150cm Signed About the artist Enrique Pichardo (Mexico City, 1973) graduated from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultur...
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Thoughtful - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Surrealism, Nocturn
Located in Warsaw, PL
Mariusz Zdybal (born in 1955) He was awarded with "Golden Palm" at the international painting competition in Cannes and his works has been shown in Cannes, Warsaw, Gdansk and Berli...
Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Flamingo
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Nataliia Svitlychna "Flamingo"
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

San Pedro Harbour
Located in New York, NY
It is infrequent, to say the least, that a diagnosis of tuberculosis proves fortuitous, but that was the event, in 1921, that set Paul Starrett Sample on the road to becoming a professional artist. (The best source for an overview of Sample’s life and oeuvre remains Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, exhib. cat., [Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, 1988] with a detailed and definitive chronology by Sample scholar, Paula F. Glick, and an essay by Robert L. McGrath. It is the source for this essay unless otherwise indicated.) Sample, born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1896 to a construction engineer and his wife, spent his childhood moving with his family to the various locations that his father’s work took them. By 1911, the family had landed in Glencoe, Illinois, settling long enough for Paul to graduate from New Trier High School in 1916. Sample enrolled at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, where his interests were anything but academic. His enthusiasms included the football and basketball teams, boxing, pledging at a fraternity, and learning to play the saxophone. After the United States entered World War I, Sample, to his family’s dismay, signed on for the Naval Reserve, leading directly to a hiatus from Dartmouth. In 1918 and 1919, Sample served in the U.S. Merchant Marine where he earned a third mate’s licence and seriously contemplated life as a sailor. Acceding to parental pressure, he returned to Dartmouth, graduating in 1921. Sample’s undergraduate life revolved around sports and a jazz band he formed with his brother, Donald, two years younger and also a Dartmouth student. In November 1933, Sample summarised his life in a letter he wrote introducing himself to Frederick Newlin Price, founder of Ferargil Galleries, who would become his New York art dealer. The artist characterised his undergraduate years as spent “wasting my time intensively.” He told Price that that “I took an art appreciation course and slept thru it every day” (Ferargil Galleries Records, circa 1900–63, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, available on line). In 1920, Donald Sample contracted tuberculosis. He went for treatment to the world-famous Trudeau Sanitorium at Saranac Lake, in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains for the prescribed regimen of rest, healthful food, and fresh air. Visiting his brother in 1921, Paul also contracted the disease. Tuberculosis is highly contagious, and had no certain cure before the development of streptomycin in 1946. Even for patients who appeared to have recovered, there was a significant rate of recurrence. Thus, in his letter to Price, Sample avoided the stigma conjured by naming the disease, but wrote “I had a relapse with a bad lung and spent the next four years hospitalised in Saranac Lake.” The stringent physical restrictions imposed by adherence to “the cure” required Sample to cultivate an alternate set of interests. He read voraciously and, at the suggestion of his physician, contacted the husband of a fellow patient for instruction in art. That artist, then living in Saranac, was Jonas Lie (1880–1940), a prominent Norwegian-American painter and an associate academician at the National Academy of Design. Lie had gained renown for his dramatic 1913 series of paintings documenting the construction of the Panama Canal (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; United States Military Academy, West Point, New York). Primarily a landscape artist, Lie had a particular affinity for scenes with water. His paintings, impressionistic, atmospheric, and brushy, never strayed from a realistic rendering of his subject. Sample regarded Lie as a mentor and retained a lifelong reverence for his teacher. Sample’s early paintings very much reflect Lie’s influence. ` In 1925, “cured,” Sample left Saranac Lake for what proved to be a brief stay in New York City, where his veteran’s benefits financed a commercial art course. The family, however, had moved to California, in the futile hope that the climate would benefit Donald. Sample joined them and after Donald’s death, remained in California, taking classes at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. In Sample’s account to Price, “I couldn’t stomach the practise of painting a lot of High Sierras and desert flowers which seemed to be the only kind of pictures that were sold here so I got a job teaching drawing and painting at the art school of the University of Southern California.” Initially hired as a part-time instructor, Sample progressed to full-time status and ultimately, by the mid-1930s, to the post of Chairman of the Fine Art Department. Sample, however, did not want to wind up as a professor. “Teaching is all right in small doses,” he wrote, “but I have a horror of drifting into being a college professor and nothing more.” At the same time as he taught, Sample began to exhibit his work in a variety of venues at first locally, then nationally. Though he confessed himself “a terrible salesman,” and though occupied with continued learning and teaching, Sample was nonetheless, ambitious. In 1927, he wrote in his diary, “I am eventually going to be a painter and a damned good one. And what is more, I am going to make money at it” (as quoted by Glick, p. 15). In 1928, Sample felt sufficiently solvent to marry his long-time love, Sylvia Howland, who had also been a patient at Saranac Lake. The Howland family were rooted New Englanders and in summertime the Samples regularly travelled East for family reunion vacations. While the 1930s brought serious hardship to many artists, for Paul Sample it was a decade of success. Buttressed by the financial safety net of his teacher’s salary, he painted realist depictions of the American scene. While his work addressed depression-era conditions with a sympathetic eye, Sample avoided the anger and tinge of bitterness that characterised much contemporary realist art. Beginning in 1930, Sample began to exhibit regularly in juried exhibitions at important national venues, garnering prizes along the way. In 1930, Inner Harbour won an honourable mention in the Annual Exhibition of the Art Institute of Chicago. That same year Sample was also represented in a show at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo and at the Biennial Exhibition of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In 1931, Dairy Ranch won the second Hallgarten Prise at the Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, in New York. Sample also made his first appearances at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. In 1936, Miner’s Resting won the Temple Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy’s Annual Exhibition. Always interested in watercolour, in 1936, Sample began to send works on paper to exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, New York. While participating in juried exhibitions, Sample also cultivated commercial possibilities. His first New York art dealer was the prestigious Macbeth Gallery in New York, which included his work in a November 1931 exhibition. In 1934, Sample joined the Ferargil Galleries in New York, after Fred Price arranged the sale of Sample’s Church Supper to the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1937, The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased Sample’s Caretaker’s Holiday from the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design, a notable honour. As prestigious as this exhibition schedule may have been, by far Sample’s most visible presence in the 1930s and 1940s was the result of his relationship with Henry Luce’s burgeoning publishing empire, Time, Inc. Sample’s first contribution to a Luce publication appears to have been another San Pedro Harbour, Los Angeles which illustrated a Fortune article debating the merits of international trade versus home-grown industry as the best route for recovery from the economic depression that continued to grip the nation. It appeared in September 1934 (p. 62) above the caption “Industry Faces the Sea.” In 1935, again illustrating an article on a New Deal-related topic, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Sample contributed Norris Dam (New Britain Museum, Connecticut) above the caption “Work in Progress.” In December 1936, and January 1937, Fortune ran two articles, “Anaconda I,” and “Anaconda II,” both with original oil paintings by Sample. “Anaconda I” focused on the landscape around the Anaconda copper factory in Butte, Montana. “Anaconda II” featured oil paintings of the process of copper smelting inside the factory. (Butte had been one of the stops on the family odyssey in 1902, when Paul was six years old.) In September 1937, “Eight U.S. Ports” appeared in Fortune, subtitled “A portfolio of paintings, done for FORTUNE by Paul Sample[,] and some simplified notes on the imbroglio of interport competition.” The ports (in the order in which they appeared in the article) were: Los Angeles, California (the present picture); Stockton, California; Seattle, Washington; New Orleans, Louisiana; Houston, Texas; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; and Boston, Massachusetts. Sample’s public profile was further enhanced that November when Luce’s Life magazine ran an illustrated feature article, “From Football and Boxing to Painting is the Strange Career of Paul Sample,” with a photo of the artist and his wife relaxing at home and reproductions of six oil paintings including Norris Dam (November 15, 1937, pp. 42–44). The “Eight Ports” commission marked a major change in Paul Sample’s s life. In 1936, he had received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth. In 1937–38, Sample took a sabbatical year from the University of California. Completing the sketching tour for the ports he was planning to paint for Fortune, in spring 1938, the Samples travelled to England, Belgium, France, and Italy where Sample had the opportunity to see firsthand the work of the artist he cited as his chief source of inspiration, Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Upon returning home, in autumn 1938, Sample took up the newly-created post of Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth. In late 1939, the Sample’s only child, Timothy, was born. Sample remained at Dartmouth, except for his World War II years as an artist war correspondent, until he retired in 1962. He continued to live in Vermont and paint until his death in 1974. While Sample studied briefly with the modernist, Stanton McDonald Wright, in California, in his early years as a painter he remained unwaveringly a disciple of his first teacher, finding inspiration in harbour scenes rendered very much in the spirit of Jonas Lie, atmospheric, impressionistic views of small boats anchored in placid waters. Two works in particular, Inner Harbour (1929, Irvine Museum Collection at the University of California, Irvine) and Fish Harbour (1930, Sample, pl. 3 illus)., are views of different areas of San Pedro Harbour, very much in the spirit of Jonas Lie. The waterfront area called Inner Harbour, at the Wilmington shoreline was improved in the late-nineteenth century by dredging and the building of a seawall. Fish Harbour, nearby, was created in 1928 on Terminal Island to facilitate the tuna fishing industry. Fish Harbour was home to a tight-knit community of Japanese-American tuna fisherman whose catch supplied the adjacent tuna fish canneries. (The community was razed in 1941 immediately following the forced internment of the entire population by the United States Government.) When Sample returned to San Pedro for his 1934 Fortune commission, his interest was dramatically different. He was no longer interested in small fishing boats resting in calm waters. His purpose was to convey the power of a maritime industrial seascape. The Port of Los Angeles lies some 20 miles south of downtown L.A. on the southern end of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, facing west across San Pedro Bay and looking twenty-five miles across the Pacific at Santa Catalina Island. It is the Port of Los Angeles by dint of a 1906 political manoeuvre that annexed a five-mile wide ribbon of land, aptly called “the shoestring addition,” connecting downtown Los Angeles with the town of San Pedro. San Pedro and Catalina both owe their present names to Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese explorer working for the Spanish crown who, in 1542, “discovered” San Pedro on the feast day of St. Peter of Alexandria and Santa Catalina on the following day, the feast day of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Native peoples continued to live there peacefully, as they had for millennia, until European settlement began in 1769. “New Spain” passed from the Spanish monarchy to the fledgling nation of Mexico in 1821. After the Mexican-American War of 1848, the area was part of the territory that Mexico ceded to the United States. The harbour at San Pedro, shallow and muddy, but protected against wind and waves, had long attracted local shipping, smugglers eluding Spanish commercial regulations, and a modest fishing community. In 1851, Phineas Banning, an energetic entrepreneurial Delaware native keen on making his fortune in the California gold economy, arrived in sleepy San Pedro. Beginning as a shop clerk, Banning built a stagecoach transportation network connecting the port at San Pedro to Los Angeles The larger town to the north, with a population of about 2,000 people, had been the previous capital of Mexican California. It was an unprepossessing local agricultural centre with links to the rest of the western territory including, after 1848, the gold fields of southern California. Banning acquired land in San Pedro and what is now Wilmington (named for his birthplace). At the beginning of the Civil War, Banning, a staunch unionist disturbed by secession sentiment in Los Angeles, donated land in Wilmington for the Federal government to build a fort. Patriotism, as usual, proved good business, bringing people and trade to the area. Banning was not only industrious, but also visionary. He saw a glorious future when dusty San Pedro would serve as the port for a splendid city of Los Angeles. Acting on that, he dredged a channel in the harbour to accommodate ocean going vessels. As importantly, in 1868, Banning built the first railway between San Pedro and Los Angeles, facilitating freight traffic as well as passenger service. Though Banning died in 1885, he is credited as the father of the present-day Port of Los Angeles, a dream his sons and heirs worked to realise. It required, however, a monumental political struggle in the 1890s to establish San Pedro as the port. Railway magnate Collis Huntington invested his money and influence to support Santa Monica as the site of the future port. In a dramatic battle in the United States Senate, Huntington lost, and, in 1899, the Federal government began to build the breakwater that initiated the process of serious port construction at San Pedro. In 1906, Los Angeles annexed the shoestring, never more than eight city blocks or half a mile wide. In 1909, the independent towns of San Pedro and Wilmington were incorporated into the city. (In 1985, the “shoestring strip,” was given a “proper” neighbourhood name, “Harbour Gateway.”) President Woodrow Wilson declared San Pedro the home of the U.S. Navy Pacific Battle Fleet in 1919, a designation that endured until 1940 when the Fleet moved to Honolulu, Hawaii. As Banning, Huntington, and the leading citizens of Los Angeles had believed in the nineteenth century, the Port of Los Angeles became and continues to be a major engine in the economic success of the city Together with its neighbour and rival, the Port of Long Beach, these adjacent ports constitute the premier container shipping hub in the United States, through which passes the bulk of American Far East trade. When Paul Sample painted his pictures of San Pedro, the shoestring strip was rural, but the port was already an important player in the national economy. The Fortune commissions mark an artistic and personal watershed in Sample’s career. After his sabbatical in 1937–38, Sample never returned to California to live. Sample’s affiliation with Time, Inc. continued into the 1940s. For the February 1939 edition of Fortune, he contributed eight pictures, a mix of oil and watercolour to illustrate a lengthy essay on the life and economics of the Hoisington family farm in Vermont. These proved the keynote of the bulk of Sample’s later work: Brueghel-inspired depictions of rural life in New England. Sample was involved in the war effort during World War II as an artist/correspondent for Life magazine. His oil painting, Shell Factory, a view of a munitions plant in Detroit, appeared in the July 7, 1941 issue of Life (U.S. Army Centre of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, see Sample, no. 39 illus in colour). From March through July 1943, and again from September through December 1944, Sample travelled with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theatre documenting life on board ship, on a submarine, and at the invasion of Leyte in the Philippines. The result was a series of striking oil paintings, watercolours and drawings of the wartime life of American troops. As with his earlier work for Fortune, the magazine exposure meant that a wide audience of viewers experienced important current issues through the lens of Sample’s artistic sensibility. The Time, Inc. commissions gave Paul Sample the opportunity to create what is arguably his most important body of work. Sample joined a distinguished company of writers, photographers, and artists hired to shape the content of Fortune, Henry Luce’s business publication launched in 1930. In one respect Sample’s work for Fortune is deeply personal. The pictures of ports, of the Norris Dam, and of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in Butte, Montana serve as reminders that Paul Sample’s father was a civil engineer. Moving from the personal to the professional, in themes, conception, and execution, Sample’s works recall the epic series of views of the Panama Canal under construction that established Jonas Lie’s reputation as a major painter. Lie had utilised the device of the aerial view to convey the grandeur of the engineering feat, a perspective that Sample found equally useful. While European impressionism had scandalised critics for its choice to paint the heroics of everyday life, American impressionists found rich subject matter in such topics. Two of the artists in Robert Henri’s circle of urban realists, Ernest Lawson and George Bellows, painted memorable views of the construction of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. While Lie, Bellows, and Lawson all used the technical language of American impressionism for their depictions. Sample, painting three decades later, used a visual language filtered through precisionism to convey the same appreciation of American progress...
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20th Century American Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blue Pacific Foamy Shorelines, Horizontal Calm Seascape, Minimal Waterscape
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. "Pacific Foamy Shoreline" is a handmade cyanotype print portraying a smooth wave reaching the shore. Details: + Title: Pa...
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2010s Minimalist Paintings

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Emulsion, Mixed Media, Watercolour, Photographic Paper, Lithograph, Mono...

Sail Boats, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Peter Tovpev Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2021 Style: Post Impressionism Title: Sail Boats Size: 31.5" x 35.5" x...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Summer Coast, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Peter Tovpev Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2021 Style: Post Impressionism Title: Summer Coast Size: 25.5" x 31.5"...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Near the Lake, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Peter Tovpev Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2021 Style: Contemporary Art Title: Near the Lake Size: 31.5" x 35.5" ...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Water Lilies
Located in Deddington, GB
Water Lilies by Jan Rogers [2012] original Acrylic paint on canvas Image size: H:60 cm x W:70 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:70 cm x D:3.5c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Claudio D''Angelo, "Sunrise Over the Marsh", Winter Fox Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Sunrise Over the Marsh", is a 20x20 winter oil painting on canvas by artist Claudio D''Angelo. Featured is an early sunrise over a snow covered marshland, the sun and mo...
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2010s Realist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Oil Painting By New York Artist Sandrine Kern 'Blue Water Lilies'
Located in Scarsdale, NY
'Blue Water Lilies' by New York City based, French artist Sandrine Kern. 2021. Oil and cold wax on canvas, 30 x 70 in. This abstracted landscape painting features a pond and water lily scene in deep colours of blue, white, pink, red, and black. Sandrine Kern's Water Lily Series is a joyful, gestural interpretation of a pond with water lilies. A separate and beloved series from previous works, the lyrical brush strokes and dramatic colour palettes are more free and figurative. Kern's practise combines oil sticks, oil paint, and cold wax to create a creamy, rich surface with subtle textured layers to portray the large-scale, zoomed-in water scenes. Sandrine Kern was born in Paris, France where she received an MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts. Her work has been shown nationally in solo shows at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, OK Harris - New York, Thomas Paul Fine Art - Los Angeles, Gail Harvey Gallery - Santa Monica. She has also been shown at the San Francisco Art Fair, Dallas Art Fair, Chicago Art Fair, ART MRKT San Francisco, Art Miami, Toronto Art Fair, and other national and international art fairs. Kern was elected for membership of the Fondation Taylor in Paris, France in June 2016. Her work has been featured in New York Arts Magazine April, 2003, OK Harris Randem Publishing, Wabi-Sabi Painting...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

Naked Girl, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Peter Tovpev Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2022 Style: Contemporary Art Title: Naked Girl Size: 31.5" x 35.5" x 0...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Breakwall large scale double panel abstract expressionist painting blue cobalt
Located in COOMERA, QLD
Breakwall is an impressive double panel painting from my 'Big Is Beautiful Collection'. Definitely big, exceptionally beautiful and sure to impress. Set the mood with this stunningl...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

City View, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Peter Tovpev Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Post Impressionism Title: City View Size: 29.5" x 33.5" x ...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fun Fetch, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Jeff Fleming describes his painting style as kinetic impressionism. In this piece, a beagle triumphantly retrieves a stick thrown into the ocean. Jeff started the piece with a pencil sketch on the canvas, then with gloved hands, he applied oil paint using his fingers. Details were later added using brushes. Once these layers of paint dried, he moved the piece to his studio floor. "At this point, I whisked paint in random but authoritative strokes - a speckling technique which replicates water splashing."


About the Artist
Artist Jeff Fleming uses fingerpainting to create exuberant portraits of dogs. Growing up in Southern California, Jeff was first introduced to fingerpainting in kindergarten. He painted through high school and college and won several art awards, including Best of Show in a city wide student competition. After graduating with a degree in journalism and advertising, he went to work as an art director. For the next 40 years, he created print, radio and television ads for a number of top agencies. "After retiring in 2019, the clouds of stress and pressure cleared and allowed me to set my creative energy free," says Jeff. He began developing new techniques focused on the excitement and energy of painting. Today, he uses a variety of methods and tools, including fingerpainting wearing nitrile gloves...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Modern Contemporary Fauvist Autumnal Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern Contemporary Fauvist Autumnal Landscape by Michael William Eggleston Stunning contemporary fauvist autumnal oil painting landscape by San Francisco artist Michael William Egg...
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21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Paintings

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Board, Oil

Sea Shore, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Anatoly Borisovich Tarabanov Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2017 Style: Impressionism Title: Sea Shore Size: 15.5"...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Arrival of Gunning Gerta
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "The Arrival of Gunning Gerta" Series: Americana *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso Year: 20...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Still Life, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Anatoly Borisovich Tarabanov Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2017 Style: Impressionism Title: Still Life Size: 15.5...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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