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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Richard Whalen "Ukrainian Dancers" Original Oil Painting c.1990
By Richard Whalen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Richard Whalen (American, 1926-2009) "Ukrainian Dancers" Original Oil Painting c.1990 Created on a wooden panel and housed in a handmade custom frame...
Category

Late 20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Rue de Paris Sous la Pluie
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Rue de Paris Sous la Pluie" c.1970 is a palette knife oil painting on canvas by French artist Marc Selva, 1919-1992. It is signed at th...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Simple Buddha Girl
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Simple Buddha Girl' is a figurative portrait by multi-disciplinary artist Kim Frohsin. The art is 9 3/4 x 8 3/4, professionally framed in an white ash hardwood floater frame measuri...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Pigment

La Charette de Lion
By Irene Darget-Bastien
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Irene Darget-Bastien (french, born 1938) Title: La Charette de Lion Year : Circa 1980 Medium: Oil on board Board size: 8.75 x 10.5 inches Signature: Sig...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

She's Got a Ticket to Ride / oil on wood
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'She's Got a Ticket to Ride' features a long haired young woman with hummingbirds, who is shrouded in mystery. Tattooed and decorated with ladybugs and sitting within a ring of stone...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Sibling
By Francisco Masseria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sibling" 1968 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Argentinian artist Francisco Masseria, 1927-2002. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist, als...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Hauling Wood
By Stuart Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Hauling wood" 1998 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Canadian artist Stuart Main, born 1934. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Monterey Pier
By Gregory Kondos
Located in San Francisco, CA
Untitled (Cityscape) is an oil on canvas created by Gregory Kondos (American, b. 1923), one of the world's most prominent California landscape artists. The artwork is signed in the lower right corner and was created circa 1950. The canvas size is 24 x 47.75 inches. Overall in good condition. Framed in a gold wooden frame. The size including frame is 33 x 56.75 inches. Gregory Kondos has spent decades depicting California’s unique, majestic beauty, from its rolling farmland to its varied coastline, to the forests and peaks of Yosemite, where he has often served as artist-in-residence. He has been drawn as well to the deserts around Santa Fe, and to Europe, especially Greece, the country from which his parents emigrated. Now in his nineties, he is celebrated as one of the world’s foremost landscape painters, known for his light-filled palette and intuitive, organic forms that seem like effortless extensions of nature. Kondos describes his paintings as possessing a sense of quietude and cleanliness while maintaining a necessary lonely quality: “Less is more…and what is left out makes the picture more understandable.” His distilled images tend to feature a solitary element—a lone boat, a mountain peak, a house standing away from the others—that projects a contemplative sense of being alone in thought. His simple yet lively palette and elegant lines, influenced by artists like Willem de Kooning, Cezanne, and Gauguin, allow us to place ourselves within the space of the painting. Chief curator and associate director at Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum, Scott A. Shields, who organized “A Touch of Blue: Landscapes by Gregory Kondos” at the museum in 2013, remarks: “His paintings simultaneously celebrate the terrain's inherent formal, abstract properties, as well as the beautiful possibilities of the paint itself." Kondos’ lifelong achievements place him in the great tradition of American landscape painters such as Albert Bierstadt, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O’Keefe. He has won numerous prizes and awards, including a lifetime achievement award from International Bienniale in Florence, Italy, and has been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York. Collections of Kondos’ work are displayed in museums around the world, including the Shanghai Art Museum in China, the Phoenix Art Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The gallery at Sacramento City...
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oculus, Oil Painting
By David Shepherd
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Part of David Shepherd's latest series of hyperrealist paintings focusing on women's faces. A sensual portrait rendered in extremely precise painting. Among o...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Desert Scene near Palm Spring
By Frederick Richard Chisnall
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Frederick Richard Chisnall (British/American, 1887-1965) Title: Desert Scene Near Palm Springs, CA Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Oil on canvas board bo...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

In the Bathroom
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Portrait of a young woman in the bathroom, painted with oil and gold leaf on paper. The artwork is is 14 x 11 inches. And it is newly and professionally framed with all museum materi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Bowing figure no. 1. 2020
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bowing Figure No. 1, 2020' is professionally framed in simple maple hardwood. The artwork is 30 x 18 inches with the outer frame dimension being 31 x 19 inches. Artist signed, dated...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Legs at the MakeOut Room, Oil Painting
By Hadley Northrop
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Enjoying live music at the MakeOut Room in San Francisco, I found this view of the dancers' legs, mirror ball beams on the floor, and candles on the tables cl...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sustension, Oil Painting
By David Shepherd
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Provocative hyperrealist oil painting created with breathtaking detail. Artist David Shepherd used water and flowers to create a feeling of life, and to serve...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

STREET FUN - children playing skateboarding, sports, family, bicycle
By William Rushton
Located in Burlingame, CA
Children at play, including bicyclists and skateboarders occupying a neighborhood street to have some fun. Color is key in Rushton's thick, impasto, action-packed and joyous figurati...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

"Couple Holding a Baby" Colorful expressionist painting
By Victor Thall
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Couple Holding a Baby" c 1940 is an oil painting on hardboard by noted American artist Victor Thall, 1902-1983. It is signed at the upper right corner by the artist. The board size is 10.75 x 17.25 inches, framed size is 22.25 x 27,75 inches. Framed in original gold wash frame, with fabric liner. it is in excellent condition. About the artist: Victor Thall belongs to that unique American brand of rugged individualist. Working closely for a time with such painters as Gorky and de Kooning, Thall wasn't content to join the burgeoning American clique of Abstract Expressionism. Instead, on the eve of its international recognition, he abandoned New York, making a worldwide tour of indigenous cultures attempting to find a solution to the crisis of abstraction. Thall felt that painting needed to communicate in a way that Abstract Expressionism could not. Using parts of its vocabulary, Thall created work that was modern in spirit but based on fundamental traditions that he believed connected the whole history of art. In this way he resembled his contemporary Max Beckman, and it is fitting that Thall was chosen with Beckman by The New Yorker art critic Robert Coates as the best painter of the 1949 Whitney Annual. Fiercely uncompromising in his opinions, Thall sadly fell into obscurity in his later years. Yet it was a willful obscurity. But America does eventually honor her difficult individualists, even if sometimes years after their deaths. Victor Thall was born in New York in 1902. He studied at the Art Students League under Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, George Luks, and John Sloan. Further studies were at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He left for Paris in 1924 continuing his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julien. Returning to the United States in the early 1930's, he became friendly with Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky. He participated in the WPA New Deal Art Project of New York City between 1935 and 1939. He taught at the Art Students League in the late forties and was represented in the Whitney Annual of 1949 and 1950. His paintings are in numerous private collections in the United States and Europe. He died in 1983. Education: 1914 -1927 Art Student's League - Studied with:Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, George Bridgman, George Luks, Von Schlegel, Robert Henri, John Sloan, Frank Vincent du Mond. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - Studied with:Arthur B. Carles, Henry McCarter Ecole des Beaux Arts - Paris; Grande Chaumiere - Paris; Academie Julien, Paris Teaching: 1947 -1949 Art Students League Selected Bibliography: Falk, Peter Hastings , ed. The Annual and Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art 1918-1989. (New York): Sound View Press, 1991. Levick, L.E., "A Guide to the Art Galleries," New York Journal American, May 23, 1964. Review of one-man show at Southampton Gallery. 1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950. Coates, Robert M., "The Art Galleries: Paul Klee, The Whitney Annual, and John Marin, The New Yorker, December 31, 1949, pp. 42-43. 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1949. Lansford, Alonzo, "Thall at Binet," The Art Digest, December 15, 1947, ill. Upton, Melville, "George Binet Gallery," Sun, December 13, 1947. Devree, Howard, "Victor Thall at the Binet Gallery," New York Times, December 10, 1947. "Victor Thall at Binet Gallery," Art News, December 1947, p. 59. Oil Paintings by Victor Thall, New York: George Binet Gallery, 1947. Burrows, Carlyle, "Art of the Week," Herald Tribune, 1946. Review of group show at the Chinese Gallery. Coates, Robert M., "The Art Galleries: Past and Present," The New Yorker, May 27, 1944, pp. 68-69 Victor Thall at Puma Gallery," Art News, November 1-14, 1943, p. 22. Devree, Howard, "Victor Thall," New York Times, October 24, 1943. Burrows, Carlyle, "Victor Thall at the Puma Gallery," Herald-Tribune, October 24, 1943 Upton, Melville, "Victor Thall at Puma Gallery," Sun, October 23, 1943. Lansford, Alonzo, "Varied Shows of the Week," The Art Digest, October 1943. Review of Puma Exhibition. Victor Thall Oil Paintings, New York: Puma Gallery, 1943. Art News, "Our Own Exhibition Gallery," June-july 1943, ill. MacLeod, Norman. Thanksgiving Before November. New York, 1936. Book ill. Selected Public and Private Collections: Brooklyn Museum Desmond Child, Los Angeles Robert Crewe, Los Angeles Sidney Lumet, New York Newark Museum Billy Steinberg, Los Angeles 1968 DePoliolo Gallery, Palm Springs 1965 Studio Gallery, Naples, Florida 1964 L’lnstitute Francais d’Haiti 1964 Summit Gallery, New York City 1964 Southampton Gallery, New York City 1963 Guildhall Gallery, Chicago 1961 Leicester Gallery, London 1950 Whitney Museum , New York City 1949 Whitney Museum, New York City 1947 Binet Gallery, New York City 1946 Chinese...
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Talmudiste
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Talmudiste" c.1970, is an oil painting on hard board by noted French/Austrian artist Casper (Caspar) Mine, b.1905. It is signed at the upper right corner by ...
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Belgian Landscape
By Gustav Pynaert
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Belgian Landscape" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas board by Belgian artist Gustav Pynaert, 1900-1968. It is signed at the lower lef...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

In the style of Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa Beach Scene Oil Painting c.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the style of Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa Oil on Panel Beach Scene C.1920 Original oil on panel Dimensions 23" wide x 20" high The painting is in good condition - Signed in...
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Peddler
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Peddler" 1949 is an oil painting on canvas board by renown western artist Elizabeth Davey Lochrie, 1890-1981. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas board size is 9.75 x 28 inches, framed size is 20 x 38.25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden brown golden frame, with fabric and gold liner. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: ELIZABETH DAVEY LOCHRIE was born in Deer Lodge Montana, July 1, 1890; she was educated in Butte schools and received her art education at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1911. During 1924-1925 she painted eighteen children's murals for the Montana State Hospital...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pierre Mas "The Bull Fighter"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pierre Mas: born in France 1933. He is a listed post war modernist painter. This wonderful depiction of a bull fighter and bull is a mixed media on paper ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Modern Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

That Perches in the Soul
Located in Burlingame, CA
'That Perches in the Soul' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious themes inclu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

On The Town: Paris / restaurant kitchen scene oil on canvas - food + dining
By Mimi Jensen
Located in Burlingame, CA
'On The Town: Paris', depicts a warm and inviting restaurant dining experience. A scene from a night on the town in France from Jensen's series of paintings that depict and celebrate...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Foating Tube
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
David Shevlino's pool side female figure sitting on a yellow pool tube, beautifully links traditional representation with abstraction. Through Shevlino’s sensuous application of pain...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Clown, Medrano Circus, France
By Benton Scott
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Clown, Medrano Circus, France" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Benton Scott, 1907-1983. It is signed at the middle right side by the...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Grey Stroke Pose
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Grey Stroke Pose' is a figurative portrait by multi-disciplinary artist Kim Frohsin. Professionally framed in an white ash hardwood floater frame, with an opening on the back, to reveal the artist's signature, title of the painting, and year of its making - 2008. Ready for hanging and also suitable to sit of a table as a sculpture. Frohsin’s work is held by the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Office of the Governor, State Capital, Sacramento, and the United States Department of State. Her work is also in numerous corporate and private collections, among them the Morgan Flagg Family Collection, Buck Fine Arts, Adobe Systems, Inc Neiman Marcus and the Gap, Inc. Frohsin began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri and Stephen De Staebler in an exhibit of "Four Figures from the Bay." With Wayne Thiebaud as the juror, she won the California Society of Printmakers' Award in 1996, and the following year exhibited at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in "Bay Area Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Pigment

He Knows
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'He Knows' features the beautiful face of a boy with down syndrome encircled with lace and shrouded in dignified mystery. The small painting is 7 x 5 1/2 inches, framed 8 3/4 x 7 1/4...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Gaza
By Roy Borrone
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gaza, a Provocative and haunting figurative work painted with warm golden and burgundy red hues. ‘Gaza’ takes its inspiration from images of women in turmoil that the artist has seen...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Wax, Oil, Alkyd, Wood Panel

Room Alone / oil on canvas - figurative surrealism
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Room Alone' is a masterfully painted oil on canvas, that features a young bespectacled semi-nude woman redlining on a pile of rocks at the interior of a formal room with heavy drape...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Enchanted Winter
By Joseph Dande
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Enchanted Winter" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas by Hungarian artist Joseph (Jozef) L.R. Dande 1911-1969. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artis...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Arlequin et Pierrette au Carnaval
By Nino Guiffrida
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Nino Guiffrida (Italian, born 1924) Title: Arlequin et Pierrette au Carnaval Year: 1985 Medium: Oil on canvas Canvas size: 24 x 19.75 inches Signature: signed upper right...
Category

Late 20th Century Romantic Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

TEAM No. 1 & II / two 30 x 30 inch paintings - children beach play (diptych)
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Two 30x30 inch beach scene paintings with children at play in the ocean water and sunshine. Willard Dixon is one of the finest American contempo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Figure no. 4, 2017
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Figure no. 4, 2017' by John Goodman. The artwork is 40 x 30 inches. Artist signed, dated in ink verso. Condition is excellent, as new. Goodman’s signature restrained palette and i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Eric Gill "Hawaiian Drummer" Original Airbrush Painting C.1930s
By Eric Gill
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eric Gill "Hawaiian Drummer" Original Airbrush Painting C.1930s Small but mighty airbrush. Classic 1930s Hawaiian painting by Eric Gill. Dimension...
Category

Early 20th Century Tribal Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Evening Swim
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Beach scene with children at play in the ocean water. Willard Dixon is one of the finest American contemporary realist painters who has painted western landscapes for 40 years. His ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

V.B.: Her Rain Hat
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'V.B.: Her Rain Hat' by celebrated figurative artist Kim Frohsin, painted in 2018. The artwork is 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches and it is professionally framed, 20 3/4 x 17. 1/2 inches in a ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Ink

untitled
Located in Burlingame, CA
'untitled' 2022 contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious themes including global...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Modern Three Figures Dockside Oil Painting c.1950s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid Century Modern Three Figures Dockside Oil Painting c.1950s Fine mid century oil painting Signed in the lower right corner - Possibly "Becker, 1959" - See pics Original oil on ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Naschera
By Vittorio Maria Di Carlo
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Naschera" is an oil painting on canvas by Italian artist Vittorio Maria Di Carlo, 1939-2015. It is hand signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Between You and Me
By Myron Stephens
Located in Burlingame, CA
In this cinema noir series of original oil and acrylic painting on wood panels, Myron Stephens realistically recreates images of people and often mundane objects that are masterfully...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Honey Dust, Oil Painting
By David Shepherd
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Part of David Shepherd's latest series of hyperrealist paintings focusing on women's faces. A sensual portrait rendered in extremely precise painting. Among o...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Personal Throne
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
"A Personal Throne", a figurative work in multi color, including mainly gray and blue with red. Acrylic on paper, 30 x 22.5 inches / framed 35 x 27.5 inches. John Casado’s painting...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Aleppo
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Aleppo' by Willard Dixon, These paintings are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from Willard Dixon’s daily reading of the news. He changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.” Willard Dixon 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 2020: Evening Light, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rat Tales
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Rat Tales' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Slip Stream
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Slip Stream' narrative oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose contemporary oil paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Swamper / acrylic painting - framed
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Abstracted figurative nude painting in mainly greens with purple from Kim Frohsin's "Figures WIth Edges" series. Frohsin, third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—from the movemen...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache

Simply Cool Hues
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Simply Cool Hues' is a figurative portrait by multi-disciplinary artist Kim Frohsin. Professionally framed in a painted black hardwood floater frame, with an opening on the back, to reveal the artist's signature, title of the painting, and year of its making - 2008. Ready for hanging and also suitable to sit of a table as a sculpture. Frohsin’s work is held by the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Office of the Governor, State Capital, Sacramento, and the United States Department of State. Her work is also in numerous corporate and private collections, among them the Morgan Flagg Family Collection, Buck Fine Arts, Adobe Systems, Inc Neiman Marcus and the Gap, Inc. Frohsin began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri and Stephen De Staebler in an exhibit of "Four Figures from the Bay." With Wayne Thiebaud as the juror, she won the California Society of Printmakers' Award in 1996, and the following year exhibited at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in "Bay Area Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Pigment

Coastal Scene with Cypress
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Coastal Scene with Cypress" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963.Signed at the lower right corner by the art...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

SAFFO - circular contemporary portrait oil on canvas
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
'SAFFO' is a contemporary portrait of a young woman created in oil on round wood panel. from Russian American Elena Zolotnitsky who is Inspired by the concepts of beauty, adolescence...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel, Archival Paper

Parisian Flip / assemblage painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Woman with billowing skirt and french curls in red, blue and black, 'Parisian Fllip' from multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin, who created the series, 'Dancers and Athletes',...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

The Road to Commerce
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Road to Commerce" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas after American artist Gail Sherman Corbett, 1871-1952. It is signed at the lower left corner by another hand. The canvas size is 20 x 24 inches, framed is 28 x 32 inches.. Framed in a antique style frame. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Gail Sherman Corbett, sculptor, painter and art teacher, was the daughter of Frederick Coe and Emma Jane (Ostrander) Sherman and was born in Syracuse, New York. Her father was descended from Philip Sherman of Dedham, Essex, England, who came, in 1633 to Roxbury, Massachusetts, and afterwards, with eighteen others, founded the town of Portsmouth and the Colony of Rhode Island. He was the Second Secretary of that colony. Corbett's mother was a descendant of Michael Dyckman, one of the framers of the New Amsterdam Charter in 1623. Gail Sherman was educated at the Syracuse High School and the Anne Brown School, New York. She began her studies in sculpture at the Art Students' League in New York under Augustus Saint Gaudens, George DeForest Brush and others, and was later a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. She was given her first large commission in 1901, and, between then and 1914, when her work was interrupted by the War, she executed many memorial tablets, portrait busts, bas-reliefs, sundials, fountains, and medals. Her work received a medal and mention at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco in 1915. Her best known groups are the Hamilton S. White Memorial, Syracuse, New York (1905), the Kirkpatrick Memorial Fountain, Syracuse (1908), and the bronze doors of the Municipal Building, Springfield, Massachusetts (1913). Miss Sherman was married at Syracuse, June 28, 1905, to Harvey Wiley Corbett, a New York architect. They had two children: Jean and John Maxwell Corbett. During 1915-1917, Mrs. Corbett gave her services to the Woman Suffrage Party, and in 1916-1917 she was Chairman of the Chelsea Branch of the Woman's Municipal League. She was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the American Numismatic Society, the Woman's Municipal League, the New York Women...
Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Invitation to the Paradise #11
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sakurai Takami - Japanese (1928-2016) Title: Invitation to the Paradise ST#11 Year: circa 1972 Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight size: 18 x 24 inches. Framed size: 21 x 27 inches Signature: Unsigned. Label on old frame Condition: Very good Frame: Framed in original frame. Frame in poor condition This oil on canvas is by the noted avant garde Japanese artist Sakurai Takami (1928-2016). It was created sometime between 1971, when Takami lived in San Francisco and was a member of and exhibited with the “Konnyaku Commune” and 1978 when he exhibited with the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco. This painting was purchased from the Vorpal Gallery. The painting is in very good condition. It is unsigned, but the title is on the side of the metal frame. The frame is fine, but the mat is stained and in poor condition. I will include the frame for protection and provenance. Sakurai was a main member of the avant-garde art group “Kyushu-ha”. Kyushu-ha” created a major trend among contemporary art in post-war Japan, which spread from Fukuoka to the whole country and also France, the United States and other overseas countries. Throughout his life he was very dramatic; his enormous and diverse works are energetic and face us with the true meaning of expression. Initially his main focus was on informal paintings, but it gradually expanded towards anti-artistic objects and performances. His works are characterized by the usage of materials that are connected with the smell of a workers life, such as coal tar, asphalt, woven mats and dungarees (jute bag). Shortly after Kyushu-ha disbanded in 1968, Sakurai Takami moved to San Francisco. From 1973 onward, he lived in France. The people and faces in Sakurai’s paintings are coloured red, so that the colour, a symbol of heat, becomes a “social sign”. Each person has a life of their own, while at the same time expressing the colourful life of human communities, like the hippies. His theme may be drawing “humanity and the universe” with a loving embrace of “peace” and “life”. 1953 graduated Fukuoka Liberal Arts University 1955 40th Nika Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 1956 Persona Exhibition, outer west side of the Fukuoka prefectural office 1957-68 part of Kyushu-ha 1965 went to the United States (~’67) 1970 “Kanousei e no Ishi“ Kitakyushu Hachiman Museum of Art Kyushu: Trends in Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Bunka Hall Sakurai Takami solo exhibition, Fukuoka Bunka Hall went to the United States for the second time, started working with the konyaku commune (San Francisco) 1971 Konyaku Revolution Art Exhibition (San Francisco) 1973 Nagoya mayor nominating election convention, Azabu public hall moved to France 1974 formed the group “Kusuguri” (Paris) 1975 7th...
Category

1970s Other Art Style Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Catwoman
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Catwoman' is a figurative portrait by multi-disciplinary artist Kim Frohsin. Professionally framed in a white ash hardwood floater frame, with an opening on the back, to reveal the artist's signature, title of the painting, and year of its making - 2007. Ready for hanging and also suitable to sit of a table as a sculpture. Frohsin’s work is held by the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Office of the Governor, State Capital, Sacramento, and the United States Department of State. Her work is also in numerous corporate and private collections, among them the Morgan Flagg Family Collection, Buck Fine Arts, Adobe Systems, Inc Neiman Marcus and the Gap, Inc. Frohsin began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri and Stephen De Staebler in an exhibit of "Four Figures from the Bay." With Wayne Thiebaud as the juror, she won the California Society of Printmakers' Award in 1996, and the following year exhibited at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in "Bay Area Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Pigment

Wrestling the Shadows
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Wrestling the Shadows' is a figurative portrait by multi-disciplinary artist Kim Frohsin. Professionally framed in a white ash hardwood floater frame, with an opening on the back, to reveal the artist's signature, title of the painting, and year of its making - 2007. Ready for hanging and also suitable to sit of a table as a sculpture. Frohsin’s work is held by the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Office of the Governor, State Capital, Sacramento, and the United States Department of State. Her work is also in numerous corporate and private collections, among them the Morgan Flagg Family Collection, Buck Fine Arts, Adobe Systems, Inc Neiman Marcus and the Gap, Inc. Frohsin began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri and Stephen De Staebler in an exhibit of "Four Figures from the Bay." With Wayne Thiebaud as the juror, she won the California Society of Printmakers' Award in 1996, and the following year exhibited at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in "Bay Area Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Carbon Pencil, Pigment

Vintage "Adam and Eve" Original Oil Painting by Sam C.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage "Adam and Eve" Original Oil Painting by Sam C.1970 Original oil painting on canvas board Canvas board dimensions 30" wide x 40" high The painting is housed in a rabbet and...
Category

Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

California
By Justyna Kisielewicz
Located in Burlingame, CA
Justyna Kisielewicz's elaborate, vibrant and full of zest, oil on European linen painting depicts a young woman — in this cast, the artist herself — in California, The figure wears v...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

European Cityscape #1
By Henry Ramirez
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "European Cityscape" c. 1990 is a oil painting on hard board by Argentinian artist Henry D. Ramirez. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The hard board ...
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Under the Bridge
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Bridge" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by American artist Bert Pumphrey, 1916-2000. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas ...
Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Landscape with House, California
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Lanscape with House" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963.Signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Backflipping Stop / assemblage painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Diver diving, doing a backflip, in the blue and black, grey and green vertical work of original art, 'Backflipping Stop' from multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin, who created...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

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