Paint Wall Decorations

Sailing Boats Spanish Oil on Canvas, 1940s-1950s Shades of Blue, green, beige and off-white Oil on canvas, unframed Signed 'Camuñas' bottom left side. Overall measures: 76,5 cm W x ...

Impressionist Bucks County - Winter is here and the calmness of night is approaching. A covered bridge gently perched above a lively stream with banks of fresh snow. The ground is co...

A anonymous 17th-century Continental School oil on canvas depicting Saint Jerome in penitence. The saint is portrayed kneeling in prayer before a crucifix, dressed in the traditional...

Framed gouache painting on handmade paper by Caroline Rennequin. Flowers serie 2024 Caroline Rennequin is a Parisian multidisciplinary artist born in 1970, recognized for her work ...

A 1789 French Revolution Patriotism fighting symbol by the famous french Comtess M De La Fayette. Révolution Française: M. de la Fayette offre ses...

English Victorian style carved gilt framed oil landscape painting of field and trees with sun.

A late entry in America's string of public murals painted in the 1930s, 40s and 50s telling the story of various towns and regions, this 1962 Art Deco study b...

This monumental vintage abstract oil painting is a masterwork of Mid-Century Expressionism, drawing significant influence from Cubist geometric structures and avant-garde layering te...

«Blooming Bubbles» ist ein grossformatiges Wandobjekt aus naturbelassener Jute, kunstvoll bemalt mit handgefertigten Schablonen und Acrylfarben. Die Rückseite ist mit goldfarbenen Me...

Beautiful painting on an 1800s paper by contemporary artist Afsoon Thayer. Flower motif painted with Farrow and Ball paint, pastel, and gold leaf on an original 1800s accounting ledg...

This 1840s portrait presents a Dutch gentleman of notable status. He is dressed in a crisp white shirt with high collars, a black silk necktie, and a gold brooch on his chest, reflec...

Mid-Century Abstract Painting. Offered is a lovely mid-century abstract cubist oil painting. This lovely painting is executed in beautiful shades of yellow, orange, tan and rust. Ar...

A stunning oil painting on a canvas by the French artist Louis Cane, dated 1983. The painting is 130 x 104 cm and is namned "Picknick in the green". It is in excellent condition and ...

Charming acrylic painting on canvas of a group of colorful figures in a tropical setting executed in a naive style. Signed Osnel in the lower right and presented in the original wood...

Exciting Gino Hollander style abstract oil painting. This painting is not signed but we believe it to be by the artist.

This original vintage oil painting from around the 1950s shows a woodland landscape with calm water and trees in the background. The leaning tree leads the eye through the painting, ...

English folk art painting from the 1830s-1840s depicting a seated older woman with a bible or book of psalms to show her literacy and faith. She is wearing an ermine trimmed fur coll...

Large oil on canvas painting by Sergio Hernandez from his " Casitas" series from the 1980s.  Naive yet sophisticated style depicting stylized native houses found in the countryside t...

Aura, a mural of a gentle, profound and peaceful nature painted by Mexican artist José Miguel Gómez in different sized ceramic mosaics. Each piece represents a different state of min...

This is a Danish original oil on cavas painting of a traditional half-timbering house with a thick, thatched roof. A haystack sits near the house and chickens are wandering around in...

This is a signed antique oil painting signed "Borch" with a beautiful motive of the interior of a simple, well kept small holding. A calm interior scene opens onto a bright landsca...

Make a bold artistic statement with this original 1991 signed Curtis Jere postmodern metal wall sculpture. Featuring dramatic geometric forms, a richly textured verdigris finish, and...

After Johann Heinrich Richter (German, 1784–1850) A finely executed portrait after Johann Heinrich Richter's celebrated likeness of Princess Eugénie de Beauharnais, Duchess of Hohen...

Oil on canvas impressionist style landscape painting by German artist Paul Ernst Wilke b.1891 - d.1971. 1913-14 studied at the art school in Bielefeld, 1914-15 in Dusseldorf. 1915-1...

Here is a lively and whimsical collage on board by the San Francisco Bay Artist, Jean Varda. Varda is known for combining figurative, surrealist and abstract influences to make colla...

Rare and remarkable set of nine 19th century Chinese watercolor paintings of fruit executed in a charming traditional style in lively colors on pith paper. Presented under glass in g...

19th Century FIgurative Oil on Canvas Painting, Signed 19th Century Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Bearded Man A finely executed 19th century oil on canvas portrait depicting a bearde...

Peter Keil is a German artist that focuses primarily on abstract expressionism. Keil painted with some of the greats including Joan Miró, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso, to name a few...

A Swedish Early 19th Century oil painting on metal, representing a young girl curling her hair sitting by a fountain filling up a jug with water beside white lilies. Her dress and cl...

An early 20th century 'Kamasan' cotton textile painting from Bali, Indonesia. The hand-painted image has great detail and depicts Balinese Hindu mythology. It is stretched over a can...

A wonderful, extremely rare (Beatrice rarely used paint and instead often drew in graphite or pastels) original watercolor painting on paper by famed California artist and ceramist B...

A finely executed mid-19th-century British sporting engraving titled, “Butterfly,” engraved by Edward Hacker (1813–1905) after the distinguished equestrian painter Harry Hall of Newm...

Exquisite, monumental, brutalist, fiberglass figural wall sculpture entitled “Lovers” by Espada for Finesse Originals. Monumental, three dimensional, raised gold figures, mounted o...

A handsome and sophisticated mixed media on canvas by American artist John Rigsby. Found in a original state of preservation. His works are few and far between. The following biography was submitted by John David Rigsby, Jr., son of the artist. The author is Lisa Rigsby Peterson, daughter of the artist, and owner of the copyright of the biography. John David Rigsby was born on October 10, 1934, the seventh child of an Alabama Depression-era sharecropper's son. He and his family moved frequently, from one one-room structure to another, often with no running water, no plumbing, no heat but the stove. His father was killed in a car accident when Rigsby was just 9 years old. Life for the remaining eight family members proved tumultuous and difficult -- food wasn't plentiful, nor money. The family moved from place to place, following work -- Rigsby attended 30 different schools before graduating from high school. Despite living in poverty, Rigsby demonstrated academic and artistic aptitude at a young age. Two oil paintings on covers ripped off of old books that he painted when he was eight years old show the promise of an imaginative and gifted eye. Rigsby was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1953. As he later wrote, "When basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, was over, I was told to go out and find a job. Jasper Johns was painting visual aids for the 28th Regimental Headquarters. He suggested the Band Training Unit." Rigsby played the clarinet in that unit, and after 2 years of service, he enrolled at the University of Alabama on the G.I. Bill to study art. After just two years, he left school and followed his mentor (and one of the greatest and longest-lasting influences on his art), Japanese artist and U of A art instructor Tatsu Heima, to New York City. Heima introduced him to Isamu Noguchi and suggested that Rigsby work as Noguchi's assistant. Instead, Rigsby chose a job as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, since "the notion of seeing all of that art appealed more to me than the boring task of studio assistant." The opportunity was a rich one for Rigsby. He had a chance to study the masters, and cited Rembrandt with his simplicity and elegance as another of the most important influences on his work. In the years between 1957 and 1963, when Rigsby eventually earned his BFA in sculpture, the artist traveled back and forth between New York and Tuscaloosa, alternating study with forays into the fertile New York art scene. Rigsby exhibited some of his early sculpture work in 1958 at a small New York gallery, which was also exhibiting the work of Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Theodore Stamos. Shortly thereafter, searching for an educational venue closer to New York City, Rigsby visited New Haven, Connecticut, and spent an afternoon speaking with Josef Albers at Yale. Albers agreed to accept Rigsby into the Yale program on the condition that he take freshman drawing all over again. A brilliant opportunity, but, in Rigsby's words, "When it was time to register, I was hitchhiking back to Alabama, looking for food and shelter." Rigsby had his first one-man show at the University of Alabama in 1959. A visiting critic from New York, J.F. Goosen, reviewed the show and wrote "here is a talent which produces art because that is the thing for a gifted person to do. In his effortless ease of conception and execution, he has already achieved a goal that eludes many artists for a lifetime." Finally, in 1963, Rigsby received his degree in sculpture, dissolved a short-lived marriage, visited his family, packed up his car and headed permanently for New York. That year, his work was included in a group show at the Delgado Museum in New Orleans - which led to a one-man exhibit at the Delgado in 1964. During 1964, Rigsby took drawing classes at Columbia University, and worked at the General Post Office at night. He met his future wife, Linda Palmieri, and married. In 1965, his daughter Lisa was born, followed in 1966 by the birth of his son, John David Jr. In 1966, Rigsby had a successful one-man show at the Pietrantonio Gallery in New York. Shortly thereafter, he and the family moved to Tunis, Tunisia at the suggestion of a colleague, who urged him to "come paint by the light of Klee." Rigsby worked for the United States Information Agency as a teacher, and he spent the next year and a half painting over ninety paintings inspired by the smells, light, and Phoenician and Roman art surrounding him. He also executed a number of character and landscape drawings, capturing the Tunisian way of life. During his time in Tunisia, Rigsby's work was shown there in two major exhibits. Upon the family's return to the U.S. in 1968, Rigsby once again exhibited at the Pietrantonio Gallery. Later that year, Rigsby enrolled in Southern Connecticut State College's Urban Studies program, earning a master's degree in 1970. During his time at SCSU, Rigsby worked as the city of Bridgeport's Curator of Exhibits, driving a mobile art gallery from schools to neighborhood fairs and housing projects. After completing his degree, Rigsby had an exhibit at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia. This exhibit caught the attention of a member of the search committee looking to hire an artist for a newly-developed program in neighboring South Carolina. In 1970, Rigsby was selected as the first Artist-in-Residence in the state of South Carolina for the National Endowment for the Arts Artists in Schools program. His work with the newly-integrated students at Beaufort (SC) High School over the term of his residency precluded substantial work on his own art. He did, however, set up a studio in downtown Beaufort, and was able to create a modest number of paintings, which were included in exhibits at the Columbia Museum in South Carolina in 1971 and Yale University in 1973. At the end of his residency in 1974, Rigsby was named the National Visual Arts Coordinator of the Artists in Schools program for the NEA, a post he held for two years. In this position, Rigsby traveled the country, reviewing grant applications, meeting with state leaders in government, education and the arts to promote program concepts and explore local opportunities. The message he repeated over and over again echoed that of one of the other major influences on Rigsby as an artist - Ruth Asawa Lanier, whose words taught him that all of the work that the artist does is the artist's work, not simply the paintings he creates. In his capacity as National Coordinator, as well as many times in the future, Rigsby stressed that artists function in the same way as any other person in society, and deserved the same respect and place for their work as did all other professions. After two years traveling the country, Rigsby was ready for a change, saying "for the first time in my adult life, there was not a body of paintings to show for the years put into my work." In 1976, a summer retreat to the mountain community of Central City, Colorado, led to a permanent relocation. Eventually settling in the small town of Evergreen, Rigsby followed his own advice about artists becoming actively involved in their communities, and he established the Evergreen Visual Arts Center. The Center provided working space for artists, classes for adults and children, and, most importantly, a place for Rigsby to create his own work. Buoyed by the opportunity to concentrate once again on his art, and inspired by his new surroundings, Rigsby entered an extremely prolific period in his career. In 1977, he organized a traveling exhibition of his paintings, which showed at the Kimball Arts Center in Utah, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Arvada Center in Colorado. 1978 brought more exhibits, notably in Aspen and Denver, as Rigsby's work continued. He took an extended trip to visit his mentor, Tatsu Heima, in Japan, where he climbed Mt. Fuji, followed by travels to Tehran, Delhi, and several European countries. He chronicled his impressions from his travels in a small collection of paintings upon his return to the U.S. - the beginning of a practice which would continue through the rest of his life. In 1979, Rigsby's marriage failed, and at the same time he lost the lease to his Evergreen studio to redevelopment plans. In response to the personal chaos around him, Rigsby began a series of what he called "hard-nosed process paintings," the watercolor paintings of dots which marked his work from this period. The paintings gained him an NEA Individual Artist grant in 1980, as well as a Yaddo fellowship in 1981. The polka dot paintings were followed by a series of cupcake-like images, again examining space and color. During the early 1980s, Rigsby lived in a suite of old dentists' offices in a rundown part of Denver, with a studio in an area that reminded him of the Bowery in New York. In 1984, Rigsby founded the Progreso Gallery in the building where he lived, using the space both to show his own work and also to mount shows of the work of many Colorado artists. The gallery also served as a focal point for Denver's local arts community, hosting weekly discussion groups and classes. In 1984, Rigsby traveled to the Baja Peninsula and then in 1985 to Yugoslavia. After each sojourn, Rigsby returned to create vibrant and explosive paintings based on his experiences, showing them at his Progreso gallery and another alternative gallery in Denver, the Edge Gallery. The economic recession of the mid-eighties hit the art market and Rigsby hard, however, and although he continued to create new works of art, major exhibitions were difficult to come by. In 1987, Rigsby decided to leave Denver and spent six months in Barcelona, Spain. It was an electrifying trip for him. Rigsby wrote of that time: "The streets alone are a visual feast, and the additions of museums from Saarinen, Picasso and Miro to 12th century icons produced artistic indigestion. My paintings are always about the way things look and feel. Barcelona was a time machine extending those sensory and emotional concerns back to the Middle Ages. I felt the need to reduce my work to essential elements of color, scale, drawing and format. The [resulting] color studies speak eloquently for themselves, and in doing so, redefine all of the work I've done in the past 35 years of painting." Rigsby completed over a hundred paintings while in Barcelona - color studies, street portraits of the characters he encountered on a daily basis, and a number of dark landscape paintings. He found time to run with the bulls in Pamplona, and began writing stories about his adventures that were later published. Upon his return to Denver in 1988, Rigsby continued to explore the alter egos of the color studies - he concentrated on a series of dark paintings, all prominently featuring back. He commented about these black paintings that he " decided it was time to explore the perception of the eye and physical space as defined by low -light conditions…I find these paintings elegant, joyous and light-filled, with no feeling of heaviness at all." In mid-1988, Rigsby moved permanently to Houston, Texas, where he would spend the last five years of his life. Once in Houston, Rigsby made a discovery that would serve as the inspiration and material for some of the last works of his career. In 1989, he discovered a salvage yard filled with scrap rubber, and he began working on black rubber sculptures, as well as paintings with rubber elements incorporated. He made strong connections in the Houston alternative arts scene, and became a regular contributor and art critic for a local weekly newspaper, The Public News. From 1989 through 1992, he exhibited his sculptures and paintings at Houston's Brent Gallery, Fountainhead Gallery, and Blaffer Gallery. He also produced an installation of his rubber sculptures on the roof of the Diverse Works Gallery in Houston. 1992 also marked Rigsby's return to Denver when he exhibited his sculptures at the Payton-Rule Gallery in Denver, leading to an Absolut Rigsby commission by Carillon Importers. The 1990s were a tremendous struggle for Rigsby, with financial crises compounded by physical trauma (he accidentally sawed off the top joint of the index finger of his left hand while working in his studio). Although his work was being shown, it wasn't selling, and the tremendous financial pressure he felt weighed heavily upon him. He spent an increasing proportion of his time going to flea markets and garage sales, rehabilitating and repairing the things he bought there, and then re-selling them simply to raise enough money to keep a roof over his head. He had little time to paint or sculpt, the things in life that had always, no matter what the circumstances, brought him joy. Rigsby's final works were a series of intricate paintings and drawings on used books that he purchased at the flea market. Most of these drawings, which he referred to as sculptural form drawings, were executed on page after page of science texts, music books, and a Korean bible and fill hundreds of pages. Additionally, Rigsby created an exquisite book he titled 28 de los Angeles, in which his twenty-eight simple and elegant drawings of angels resonated with the influence of Rembrandt he had so admired in his early days. In a sense, Rigsby's final works, art created on used books which were the only materials he could afford, brought his work and life full circle from his childhood days. Rigsby's life, though begun and ended in adversity, was nonetheless illuminated and enriched by the irresistible impulse he had to create art and beauty. John David Rigsby was killed in a one-car accident in Colorado in August, 1993. Biography from the Archives of askART Following is a review by Michael Paglia of the artist's July 2004 retrospective at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. It was submitted by John Rigsby, Jr., son of the artist. There's a magnificent retrospective at Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art devoted to the work of the late John David Rigsby, who was a major powerhouse in Colorado's art scene. "Dots, Blobs and Angels" surveys more than forty years' worth of the remarkable artist's paintings and sculptures. The year 1993 was strange, and by that I mean terrible. Many of the city's galleries closed because of bad economic times, and then the artists started dying. In a matter of a few months, Denver lost three significant artists: Rigsby, experimental photographer Wes Kennedy...

This English 19th-century oil on canvas depicts three terriers in a lively outdoor setting and is painted after George Armfield, the British artist closely associated with dog and sp...

A large antique oil on canvas, 19th century or earlier, after Titian, depicting A Girl with a Basket of Fruit. The composition is based on Titian’s celebrated mid-16th-century work (...

A post modern abstract stain painting in the manner of Helen Frankenthaler or Kenneth Noland.This work on raw canvas is signed A. Cohen, and dated 1980.

A true Art Deco masterpiece, painted as a final study for one of a series of large murals for the National Elks Memorial in Chicago, finished in 1926, this large gold-hued scene depi...

Beautiful tile mural with the "HANGING FOODS" motif finely painted. Quantity: 18 tiles Tile mural size: 17.7"H X 35.4"W (45cm X 90cm) Tile size: 5.9"H X 5.9"W (15cm X 15cm) Origin...

Oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a tranquil lakeside path bordered by cypress trees and winter foliage, rendered in a muted Impressionist palette of soft greens, grays, and...

This is a very good example of a Peruvian, possibly Cuzco, painting of the Holy Family that dates to the mid or late-18th century. The Holy Family is depicted as under the protectin...

Antique Oil Painting Portrait of an Austrian Folksy Man, Vienna 1892 This painting depicts the portrait of a 19th-century Viennese man in his traditional costume. Shown in a three-q...

Encaustic on board. 2026 Beautiful natural float frame. Art Dimensions: 60 W x 48 H inches and Framed Dimensions: 49.5 W x 61.5H in John O'Hara (b. 1963) is a contemporary artist ...

19th Century Biedermeier Landscape Painting with River and Mountain Hut A large magnificent antique landscape painting in a golden wooden frame. The scene shows a tranquil Alpine co...

Benjamin Jorj Harris, Newman Decor - American Art Deco airbrush painting on illustration board - featuring an over-sized group of white gardenia blossoms ...

New England Coastline. Connecticut shore painting in oil with marsh grasses and sailboats in the distance, and salty ocean air almost palpable this ...

1950s painting depicting the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco in 1953. Dakin was a student of this school. Notice California Art Tile...

A nice Italian scene signed Donati. It is in a nice frame with a black linen liner. Some losses to the frame and painting.

A beautiful, relatively small, artwork sill life painting of flowers in vase, signed by artist, circa late-20th century, USA. Painting, oil or acrylic, on a canvas board, surrounded ...

Modern Surrealist Painting by Alexander Gore Painting Certified This is an original painting titled "The Big Bear" in the manner of the great Pablo Picasso. Professional gilt wood ...

"The Arms Collector" - An Exceptional Orientalist Watercolor by Filippo Indoni This captivating watercolor, titled The Arms Collector, is an exceptional work by the renowned Itali...

Fine Pair of 18th Century French Religious Devotional Oils This exquisite pair of oil on canvas paintings explores the central themes of divine intercession and monastic devotion. T...

Lovely painting by noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen featuring a river/harbor scene. Crafted with pigmented plaster on a polystyrene base cradled in a custom shadowbox.

Vintage Oil Painting of Bay Horse in Gilded Frame, 20th Century. Stunning oil on board painting of a saddled bay or brown horse in a pasture by unknown artist. Likely a hunter or a ...

18th Century Dutch harbour scene / seascape painting with ships in stormy waters by Jan Verbruggen (1712-1780). Signed 'J.Verbruggen'. Jan Verbruggen and his son Peter were artists,...

Oil on panel, presented in a gilt frame, measuring 22" x 18" overall with frame. Signed in the lower right. Inscription on reverse Torre del Greco, Naples. This work presents very...

19th-Century Watercolor by Claude Thiénon – River Scene with Boat and Church This exquisite 19th-century watercolor by French artist Claude Thiénon captures a serene riverside scene...

Original work by the renowned Norwegian painter Einar Granum (1920-1992), executed in oil on board. With an immersive composition and a subtly expressive color palette, this piece en...

A beautiful view of a street scene in Paris, France. This painting perfectly depicts life in Paris with its restaurants, busy streets, cafes, hotels, monuments, and wonderful archite...

Oil on canvas still life "Pink Roses" by Albert Van Nesse Greene (1887-1971) Born in Jamaica, New York in 1887, Albert Van Nesse Green had a long and thorough art education. He stud...