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"Boy on Carousel" large oil painting
By Helen Rayburn Caswell
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Boy on Carousel" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist, Helen Rayburn Caswell, 1923-2018. It is signed at the right bottom corner by the artist...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eva Sikorski (1917-1990) Abstract Portrait Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eva Sikorski (1917-1990) abstract portrait painting by listed German born California artist. Classic impressionistic style with muted colors. Oil on canvas. Excellent condition in li...
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Towards the Light
By Erin Parish
Located in Burlingame, CA
Erin Parish draws on patterns found in nature for the subject matter of her tactile, bold, and brilliant abstract paintings created with oil and resin on wood and canvas. Inspired by...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Resin, Wood
Sisters
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sisters" 1989, is an oil painting on canvas by noted Polish/American artist Miriam Briks, b.1957. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rhapsody in Yellow - oil on canvas - abstract
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
Color is always central in Henriques' delightful compositions that are at once, balanced, harmonious, and a toast to life. 'Rhapsody in Yellow' with its bright and pure hues shimmer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Promesse I & II / Diptych - Oil on Linen
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Promesse I & II ( Diptych) is a magnificent abstract oil painting of ephemeral clouds floating on an elegant deep blue sky . A unique view of clouds at twilight, in rich shades of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Wood Panel, Pigment
Midnight Forest
By Stephanie Peek
Located in Burlingame, CA
With Stephanie Peek’s lush, tropical scene — inspired by La Grande Serre public garden in Paris — she has created an environment for refuge and renewal. By focusing on a single subje...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of busy St. Mark's Square with the Doge's Palace
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "View of busy St. Mark's Square with the Doge's Palace" c.1950, is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Marcello Vianello, 1909-1985. It is signed at...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dark Horizon
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Dark Horizon - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Desert at Death Valley, California, 178 Feet Below Sea Level
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Desert at Death Valley, California, 178 Feet Below Sea Level" 1941, is an oil painting on canvas board by Italian/American artist Xavier Barile, 1891-1981. It is...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Granddaddy’s White-hulled Steamship (Before the ‘29 Crash)
Located in San Francisco, CA
It’s such a “Great Gatsby” thing, owning the 100-foot-plus motor yacht, especially when proudly sporting on the bow a distinctive burgee representing membership in an exclusive yacht...
Category
1920s Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Untitled
By Jose Maria Sicilia
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" 1985 in an acrylic painting on paper by renown Spanish artist, Jose Maria Sicilia, born 1954. The exact artwork size is 17.90 x 14.90 inches, framed is 20.25 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Large Scale Abstract Encaustic/Oil Painting
By Sacha Thebaud Tebo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large Scale Abstract Encaustic/Oil Painting by unknown artist, 37 x 54 unframed.
Category
20th Century Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Genre Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautiful 19th century oil on canvas. Probably European but not sure. I do not see a signature. Housed in lovely burl wood frame which measures 30 1/4 inches wide by 22 1/2 high. Pai...
Category
19th Century Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Permutations
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Bolinas
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Bolinas - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Storm Source / lightning sky
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Contemporary 'Storm Source' depicts severe weather at the center of a storm. An intense and electrically radiant sky, ocean, sunset painting from American Realist, Willard Dixon. The unique sky-scape is a birds-eye view to the dramatic and unfolding scene. Framed in dark ebony wood, and ready to hang and enjoy. The original painting is 58 x 60 inches. Signed and dated by the artist. Condition is excellelnt.
One of our finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon has painted Northern California and western landscapes for over 35 years. His work captures the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. The same sensitivity can be found in Dixon’s urban street scenes that offer viewers a resting place to contemplate our rapidly changing world, and his portraiture, which largely focuses on his artist friends and illustrious colleagues.
Willard Dixon’s art has been shown extensively in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, He has had over 40 one-man shows and numerous group shows. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, The SFMOMA, and the Oakland Museum of California Art. He has executed large-scale commissions for The California Supreme Court, The Oakland Museum and The Las Vegas Federal Courthouse. He received an NEA Fellowship Grant in 1989. In 2013, one of his portraits was included in The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Dixon’s works are included in prominent private and museum collections worldwide.
Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1987: Fischbach Gallery
1987: Gallery 454 North
1986: William Sawyer Gallery
1985: Fischbach Gallery
1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx
1984: William Sawyer Gallery
1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery
1981: William Sawyer Gallery
1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery
1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carmel's Romantic Mission San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Without a doubt California's charming coastal village of Carmel compels one to romance. But this location, the 1797 Mission San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo, with its lovely, foun...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Five figures and a horse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Franklin Faust
Mixed media on board
1961
Five figures and a horse
23 x 27.5 unframed
27.75 x 33.75 framed
Category
1960s Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Brian Blood 'Fisherman's Wharf' San Francisco Plein Air Painting
By Brian Blood
Located in San Rafael, CA
Brian Blood (American, b. 1962)
Fisherman's Wharf - SF, 2002
Oil on board
Signed lower left 'BB'
Verso is titled, dated, and signed
Board: 9 x 12 inches
In a brown wooden vintage fr...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
10' Changes Everything, Abstract Painting
By Patricia Oblack
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"My work is completely in the direction of abstract, but many viewers experience other views," says Patricia. "In this piece, the name tells the story that wh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Eventide at Hole-in-the Wall / 44 x 66 in. oil on canvas nature painting
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
Invigorating and exciting painting 'Eventide at Hole-in-the-Wall' features swirling ocean blue water and big rocks at sunset's evening tide at Northern Cali...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moses B Russell 19th Century Still Life
Located in San Francisco, CA
Moses B Russell: 1810-1884. Well listed 19th century American artist. Most known for being a miniature portrait painter, but has similar ...
Category
19th Century Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Watercolor
Promesse I & II / Diptych - Oil on Linen
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Promesse I & II ( Diptych) is a magnificent abstract oil painting of ephemeral clouds floating on an elegant deep blue sky . A unique view of clouds at twilight, in rich shades of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Wood Panel, Pigment
Orange Breeze
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Girl with Her Cat
By Gunnar Donald Anderson
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Young Girl with Her Cat" c.1990 is an oil painting on panel by noted American artist Gunnar Donald Anderson, b.1927 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The panel size is 20 x 16 inches, framed size is 24 x 20 inches. Framed in a wooden gold frame, with fabric liner. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
A painter and illustrator, Gunnar Anderson...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Warm Disparity / still life painting heels
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'A Warm Disparity' still life painting of a simple pair of women's heels by California artist Kim Frohsin, who employs mixed media, acrylic, Stabilo pencil, Prismacolour, watercolor,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Archival Paper
flowers
By Irina Belotelkin Roublon
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Irina Belotelkin Roublon (Russian, 1913-2009)
Title: Flowers
Year: Circa 1960
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 35 x 25 inches
Signature: Signed lower left by the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cherry Pie
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Cherry Pie' original watercolor painted in 2022 by Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovnik who has lived in California for over 40 years. Bukovnik’s art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Oleander in a Tall Vase
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Oleander in a Tall Vase' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seattle Musing
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Painting on paper is 9 x 12 inches. Professionally hinged into an 8ply museum mat with an outer dimension of 17 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches, with an archival crystal clear case.
Frohsin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment
Sonoma Pond
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Sonoma Pond, created in 2023 is a sophisticated abstract painting in blue, green and yellow, that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape with Farm, California
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Farm, California" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Evening Figure In White Dress
By Mary Pratt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Painting from vintage photos, I created this figure surrounded by soft muted color in a textured white skirt.
About the Artist
Mary Pratt, a Georgi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Explosive Abstract in Vibrant Blue, Red and Black
By Heinie Hartwig
Located in San Francisco, CA
Small but mighty. A moment caught, an explosion of energy, of color. And such a departure for California artist Heinie Hartwig (b. 1937), who is known primarily for his Western subje...
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Rhododendrons
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Rhododendrons' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size.
Internationally exhibited and celebrated worldwide, Bukovnik’s iconic works express a spiritual exultation - a joie de vivre - a vivid celebration of beauty. The painting captures the season of nature’s rebirth when the world awakes from its winter repose — Forever Spring...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Linda Besse Leopard On The Hunt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Linda Besse was born in 1959. She lives mostly in Washington state but travels all over the world to paint her incredibly lifelike images of all kinds of wildlife. This incredibly li...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Late Light
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, Late Light, painted in 2022, oil on canvas. The ethereal ocean beach scene captures a couple enjoying the sunset. The original painting is 36" X 36". Framed in a cont...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mendocino Coast
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Mendocino Coast' original oil painting by American realist artist Willard Dixon, features a vivid and expanding California sunset ocean view. Willard Dixon has painted coastal lands...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', c. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Be at Rest II, Abstract Painting
By Jenn Williamson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Jenn painted this piece using Golden Open Acrylics, which take longer to dry and therefore allow for more blending time. Jenn uses this technique to give the painting a dreamy and hopeful essence. "I am more passionate than ever about painting peaceful, reflective art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Minimal Beach
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Oil painting by Willard Dixon featuring a clam evening on the coastline. Willard Dixon, who is one of the finest American contemporary realist painters today, has painted coastal landscapes for 35 years, capturing the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. The painting, with its atmospheric light and calm palette is contemporary and serene. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his work is collected Internationally. Artist signed and dated. A classic Dixon that will sure to bring those who view it a life time of pleasure.
Minimal Beach, painted in 2023. the canvas is 48 X 48 inches. Oil on canvas, and traditionally framed in contemporary, minimal hardwood floater frame.Condition is new and excellent. Artist signed and dated. Ready to ship. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Selected Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
San Francisco Art Commission
Shaklee Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA
Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il
Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA
SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Airport
Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX
California First Bank, San Francisco, CA
United Pipeline, Houston, TX
Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA
Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Atlantic Richfield Corporation
Shell Oil, Houston, TX
First National Bank of Seattle
RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Texas Heritage Society
Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Sohio Corporation
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY
Chemical Bank...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Light, Oil Painting
By Nancy Merkle
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Evening sunlight sifting through a stand of tree. The grass reflects the warm color of the summer day, and the trees cast a shadow as a reminder that night is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Fire Series', C. 1996 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Still Life with Flowers and Pitcher
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Still Life with Flowers and Pitcher" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by German/American artist Eva Sikorski, 1917-1990. It is signed at the lower left corner by the...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 1995 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
California Landscape #I
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape" c.1980, is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Bill Shaddix, b.1930. It is signed at the lower left corner. The ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
San Francisco Street
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
David Shevlino's classic San Francisco city scape with highlights of orange with gray and cream building, blue sky, green trees and the upcoming iconic steep hill,, beautifully links...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Daydream 3
By Laura Browning
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This piece was inspired by the desire to linger near or in warm tropical waters, watching the mesmerizing patterns of light refractions as they move with the currents.
About the Artist
Laura Browning...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Green Ornament
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Argo Navis, 2015-2016
By Kour Pour
Located in Greenwich, CT
Argo Narvis is an acrylic on canvas over panel work measuring 96 x 72 inches, not framed (as the artist intended), signed on the overlap 'KOUR POUR 2015 - 2016.'
EXHIBITED
Tokyo, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Calm Sea
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Calm Sea - The painting was created in 2025 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$10,000
Back / oil painting
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Female figurative back in oil with 22 karat gold on mylar mounted to wood and framed in maple. A sophisticated nude in muted green, gold, and pink. The painting is 17 x 8 3/4 inches....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
By the Beach II, Abstract Painting
By Jenn Williamson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Jenn painted this piece using Golden Open Acrylics, which take longer to dry and therefore allow for more blending time. Jenn uses this technique to give the painting a dreamy and hopeful essence. "I am more passionate than ever about painting peaceful, reflective art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Meeting Again
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Meeting Again' is a sophisticated abstract painting in cream, yellow and indigo, that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint over str...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snowy Field with Aspens
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Snowy Field with Aspens’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his oil on canvas paintings that reflect western environments. Loftus is known for his meticulous realist oil paintings that feature ocean-scenes, babbling brooks, mountain ranges and their vistas, as well as figures and people. 'Snowy Field with Aspens' is beautifully and skillfully painted. An awe inspiring scene that is a pleasure to gaze upon. 42 x 62 inches. Artist signed, titled and dated Verso.
Peter Loftus was born in 1948, in Washington DC. He received a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, in 1971. In 1974, Loftus earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Drawn by the glorious California light, Loftus moved to Santa Cruz in 1975. He has lived and painted there ever since. Loftus taught at both University of California at Santa Cruz and Cabrillo Community College between 1975, through the present (at UCSC). He taught Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Drawing, and Painting, in both oil and aqueous media.
During that time, he also sustained a rigorous exhibition schedule, showing regularly on the East and West coasts; in New York at Fischbach Gallery, and San Francisco at William Sawyer Gallery and later Hackett-Freedman Gallery. In addition, Loftus has participated in a number of group exhibitions. These include: American Realism: 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors (and accompanying book), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New Horizons in American Realism: Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI. Loftus is also included in several publications, including: "The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism" by Alan Gussow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Perle Fine Geometric Abstract
By Perle Fine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Perle Fine: 1905-1988. Very well listed American abstract and geometric abstract artist. Her high auction result was $57,600 in September 2024. She studied with Hans Hoffman, and was...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 19th Century European School "Rustic Mill" Original Oil Painting c.1850
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 19th Century European School "Rustic Mill" Original Oil Painting c.1850
A lumber mill in an alpine setting
Original oil painting - No visible signature
The canvas appears to h...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Marseillaise
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Nude female figure in vibrant and bold red and white, with pink, grey, purple, painting from Kim Frohsin, who is a third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—from the movement that ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Landscape with Boats
By Mario Montilus
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Boats" 1987, is an acrylic painting on canvas by noted Haitian artist Mario Montilus, b.1961. It is signed at the low...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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