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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Figure no. 10, 2020
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Figure no. 10, 2020' by John Goodman. The artwork is 8 x 5 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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Green Man Picks a Flower
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio
Green Man Picks a Flower, 2022
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches
This one-of-a-kind oil painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Who Are These Angels CXVI
By Naoko Paluszak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This is Who Are These Angels CXVI, an original oil painting.
About the Artist
Naoko Paluszak began her career by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
He Said What?
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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Lovers / oil on wood - twin sisters conjoined surreal two heads
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Lovers' a mysterious and fascinating portrayal of a women with two heads and singular body draped in an intricately painted multicolored kimono. The scene includes interior architec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Vessel no. 3
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Vessel no. 3' 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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Untold Story no. 8
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untold Story no. 6
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figure no. 2
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dad's Lesson / oil on canvas - skateboard father and son
By William Rushton
Located in Burlingame, CA
Father and son skateboard together. One wonders who is teaching who, in this vibrant impasto painting by William Rushton. Oil on canvas and framed in a clear maple hardwood floater f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untold Story no. 32
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Untold Story no. 17
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untold Story no. 22
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Van Gogh
By Jack Hooper
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jack Hooper
Portrait of Van Gogh, ca. 2005
Oil on cardboard
Unframed dimensions: 35 x 28 inches
Framed dimensions: 40 x 33 in
This one-of-a-kind contemporary portrait of Vincent Van...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Oil, Cardboard
No Way Up No Way Down
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
'No Way Up No Way Down' 2019, is a figure of a man. Acrylic on paper 14 x 11 inches unframed and 15 x 12 inches framed, Part of the artist's new Face to Face series started in 2017 a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Portrait of a British Officer on the Eve of WW1
Located in San Francisco, CA
In life, so much is a matter of timing. German and English portraitist Fritz von Kamptz signed and dated this picture in 1915 at age 49 when he was at the height of his powers. Havin...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Mid 19th Century Woman in Black Dress and Lace Cap Original Oil Painting c.1840
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 19th Century Woman in Black Dress and Lace Cap Original Oil Painting c.1840
A fine portrait of an elegant matron with the lappets of her cap held together by a fancy brooch
Ori...
Category
Mid-19th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Island of Broken Toys (diptych)
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Island of Broken Toys' 2019, a diptych contemporary oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Hubert Wackerman (1945-Active) Native American Portrait
Located in San Francisco, CA
Hubert Wackerman (1945-Active)
Beautiful Native American Portrait, 1978
Oil on canvas board
Unframed: 15" x 24"
Framed: 16.75" x 25.75"
Category
1970s Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wicked Witch of the East
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Wicked Witch of the East' is a masterfully painted oil on panel, that features a long haired, young and nude woman with a scar down her stomach. I bird atop her head gazes down at a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
So Long / oil on wood - contemporary portrait woman red and bold
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'So Long' a mysterious and fascinating portrayal of a young women standing inside of a ring of red flowers, in front of a heavy velvet gold and red drape, that is falling on either ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Resurrection
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Resurrection' features the head of a reclining young reddish blond haired women wearing a cloak of lady bugs. It is 6 x 8 inches, unframed, wired and ready to hang. Condition excell...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Innocent Love
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Innocent Love' is a masterfully painted oil on panel, that features a young topless woman with a tattoo on her arm that read "kiss my ass". She is draped in a blanket and holding a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sings the Tune Without the Word
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sings the Tune Without the Words' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious them...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Tick Tock
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tick Tock' is a masterfully painted oil on canvas. The painting is 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches unframed. Tick Tock is wired and ready to hang and enjoy. Conditio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Linen
Early 19th Century Portrait "Countess Margaret Spencer"
Located in San Francisco, CA
JOHN HOPPNER R.A. (British, 1758–1810), "Countess Margaret Spencer," oil on canvas, canvas (relined): 36" x 28", overall (framed): 35" x 43". John Hoppner, R.A. plaque mounted cente...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Void / oil on wood panel
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Void' features the face of a young woman with ladybugs and intricately patterned queen's lace. The painting in red-orange, sea green and white and is 16 x 12 1/2 inches, unframed, w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Pistil
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Pistil' A young ladies body changing from childhood to adulthood along with caterpillar to butterfly. Her innocence is tarnished with a vine of thorns that surrounds her body. Condi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Figure no. 8, 2020
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Figure no. 8, 2020' by John Goodman. The artwork is 7 x 5 inches. Artist signed, dated in ink verso. Condition is excellent, as new.
Goodman’s signature restrained palette and im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Figure no. 5, 2020
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Figure no. 5, 2020' by John Goodman. The artwork is 7 x 4 inches. Artist signed, dated in ink verso. Condition is excellent, as new.
Goodman’s signature restrained palette and im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Mid 20th Century "Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of Captives" Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 20th Century "Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of Captives" Original Oil Painting
Circa 1950 - Relined Canvas
Dimensions 23" wide x 33" high.
Good condition with a few spo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
My Little Valentine
Located in Burlingame, CA
'My Little Valentine' 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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Anna Morell Blix Sjöberg by Astrid Kjellberg (1877-1965, Swedish)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautiful portrait of Anna Morell Blix Sjöberg painted by Astrid Kjellberg-Juel, 1899
Oil on masonite
15.5" W x 19.5" H
Frame: 18.5" W x 22.75" H
ASTRID KJELLBERG-JUEL (1877 - 1965)
Kjellberg-Juel studied art for Julius Kronberg...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Halloween
Located in Burlingame, CA
Halloween - an iconic American painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torlakson’s photorealism subj...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Miles Davis
Located in San Francisco, CA
Portrait of Miles Davis, 1998
C.E. Miller
Category
1990s Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Up, Up and Away
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Up, Up and Away' 2022, a contemporary oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
You Are the Answer When the Question Is About You
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
A portrait of a lady. Acrylic on paper 21.75 x 18 inches unframed and 29 x 25 framed, Part of the artist's new Face to Face series started in 2017 and featuring real and imagined ano...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Blue Vinyl
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Blue Vinyl' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with seriou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Sunny
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sunny' 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 warming...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$3,600
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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady
By Elizabeth Barlow
Located in Burlingame, CA
Collection of an array of items that epitomize beauty, this still life painting celebrates romance and joie de vivre, by Elizabeth Barlow, who meticulously creates oil "portraits" that feature still life objects to represent the essence of her subject. In this case the artist depicts the concept of "beauty" through the placement of various beloved items and their shadow as a "portrait" of a lady...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Sitting Duck
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sitting Duck' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with seri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Head No. 11, 2018
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
Head No. 11, 2018' by John Goodman. The artwork is 12 x 12 inches. Artist signed, dated in ink verso. Condition is excellent, as new.
Goodman’s signature restrained palette and im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Lady in Blue Original Portrait Painting By Henri Plisson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Portrait painting of an elegant lady in a blue dress and coordinating hat by listed artist Heni Plisson (French, 1908-2002)
Original oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Canvas dimensio...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Control Top
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Control Top' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Panta One
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Panda One' by contemporary artist Tamera Avery was painted in 2022, in oil on canvas. Often depicting curious situations with ambiguity, wit and wisdom, and often dealing with serio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$12,000
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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Control Top no. 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Control Top no. 2' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Infanta - oil and gold leaf Contemporary Art
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Infanta' is a contemporary portrait of a young woman created in oil and gold leaf on wood panel. from Russian American Elena Zolotnitsky who is Inspired by the concepts of beauty, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
Shero
By Justyna Kisielewicz
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Shero' is a bright and brilliant painting with commentary on modern daily life. The artist uses her own image for this "Icon" painting that reflects feminism today (as well as histo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Woman with Cel Phone
By Mary Robertson
Located in Burlingame, CA
“Mary Robertson’s joyous and meditative paintings are are colorful simulations of contentment and sacred play.” Wayne Thiebaud.
Steeped in the Bay Area figurative movement, Mary...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pointillist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, 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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
We Believe
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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Whisper
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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Flesh and the Kiss
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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
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 - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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