Boston - Figurative Paintings

Dave Seeley's "Audrey #1" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude female model reclining on blue velvet fabric as she turns her face away from the viewer.

Canvas measures 21 x 13 inches. Signed at left, above the model’s leg: “H. Dudley Murphy” and with artist’s monogram.

Signed lower right: 'C.E.L. Green'. Two labels verso: 'Brockton Art Center/Fuller Memorial/Cat. #19/C.E.L. Green:/Shore and Landscape/Painter of Lynn and Newlyn/Sept.9-Nov.1, 1980'; ...

Label verso: "Portrait of a Lady / Oil / MUC / Beatrice Whitney Van Ness / unsigned / size 30h x 25w ". From the estate of the artist. Beatrice Whit...

Signed lower right: “Irwin D. Hoffman”.

Thomas Darsney’s paintings reveal a palpable tension between the tactile sensuousness of fabric and the subdued brushstrokes of paint made flesh. United by this visual juxtaposition,...

Gammell Trust #W126. Signed and dated in pencil lower right: "R.H. Ives Gammell, Paris, 1917". This is a very early work and despite the fact that it is squared off for enlargement,...

Thomas Darsney’s paintings reveal a palpable tension between the tactile sensuousness of fabric and the subdued brushstrokes of paint made flesh. United by this visual juxtaposition,...

Dave Seeley's "Fiona #1" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model holding purple velvet fabric tightly around her form to reveal the curves of her figure. ...

An auto-didactic artist, Darsney draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including The Boston School and iconic masters such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Degas. These artists’ att...

Signed lower right: “Herbert Barnett”. Published: Art Digest, November, 1939. Exhibited: Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, 1939. The Institute of Contemporary Art, “Art of New England”, 1939. Contemporary Arts, Inc., New York, November, 1939. Herbert Barnett was an American artist whose life and work was closely tied to New England, and yet, his distinctive style of painting draws upon both the American tradition of representation and the artistic innovations of the Cubists. He is known as a painter of extraordinary ability and a virtuoso draftsman. Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, Barnett grew up in Providence. While still in high school, he began to study painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. From 1927-31, he studied at the Boston Museum School and soon acquired a reputation for technical proficiency. At seventeen, he had his first one-man show at the Grace Horne Gallery in Boston and was already teaching private classes. After art school, where he won the Paige Travelling Fellowship, Barnett spent three years traveling and studying in Europe. In the late 1930s, Barnett's bold and expressive figure paintings and Cape Ann landscapes...

Signed lower center: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "Jacob Kainen/ 1966". Hemphill Fine Arts label verso.

Hannah Barrett’s paintings imagine a colorful, absurdist world inhabited by eccentrics of ambiguous genders and time periods. With tongue-in-cheek nods to the past, Barrett combines...

Signed verso. As Darsney’s work has developed, his compositions and influences have evolved. An auto-didactic artist, Darsney draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including The Boston School and iconic masters such as Vermeer, Rembrandt and Degas. These artists’ attention to detail and adherence to classical ratio, coupled with Darsney’s own innate sense of structural integrity, inform his vision. He is also particularly influenced by the art on view in Boston museums and collections as seen here with his portrayal of The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit...

Signed and dated top right: “Norris (c) 1982”. With label verso: “Ben Norris, 1982 / Coronation / watercolor, 52 x 31 1/4 inches”. As a teacher, academic, and artist, Ben Norris had...

Hannah Barrett’s paintings imagine a colorful, absurdist world inhabited by eccentrics of ambiguous genders and time periods. With tongue-in-cheek nods to the past, Barrett combines...

Signed and dated lower right: “Trachtman 6-6-73”. From the estate of the artist. Though much of his art was political in nature, Arnold Trachtman also...

Hannah Barrett, American (b.1966), Fall Hunters, 2014 Hannah Barrett’s paintings imagine a colorful, absurdist world inhabited by eccentrics of ambiguous genders and time periods. ...

Artist: Greg Ludlow Title: Pocket Full of Roofing Nails Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 84 x 72 inches Year: 2020 Greg Ludlow is a Canadian artist who li...

Artist: Leslie Bostrom Title: Blackbird and Fence Size: 72 x 90 inches Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2013 Leslie Bostrom is a Professor of Art at Brown University who is primarily int...

Signed and dated lower right: “Jason Berger ’99”. Titled verso: “DaFundo (Lisbon)”. From the estate of the artist. Boston Expressionist painter Jason Berger is revered for the vivid...

Dave Seeley's (US based) "Dawn #5 Masquerade" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model looking over her shoulder as her dark hair curtains her face.

Artist: Greg Ludlow Title: Chalkboard Series - Forecast Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 48 x 72 inches Year: 2021 Greg Ludlow is a Canadian artist who li...

Signed lower right: 'A.Brook '59'. Painted in Sag Harbor, Long Island in 1959. Adeline (Adaline) Glasheen was a writer. She was a friend of the artist and worked in literary circle...

Pair of paintings each in original American Federal Period white pine gilded scoop frames with inner row of beads. Framed Dimensions: 24 x 29 1/2 inches. Provenance available upon request. Michele Felice Cornè, considered to be Salem, Massachusetts’ most versatile early nineteenth century artist, painted this remarkable pair of paintings about a decade after he arrived in America from Naples, Italy. Cornè worked and lived in Salem from 1800-06 when he moved to Boston. During his Boston tenure (1807-22) the artist was noted for painting portraits of Boston ships and naval battles of the War of 1812, as well as taking on major mural commissions. This charming pair of paintings, each of two children playing, were possibly intended as overdoor decorations for a Federal period house. Cornè’s most ambitious decorations were the wall murals which he painted for the Sullivan Dorr house in Providence in 1810. And this pair of paintings seems to date from about the same period. From 1822 to his death in 1845 he lived in Newport, Rhode Island. The pair of paintings of Children playing was long in the famous Americana collection of Benjamin Flayderman. Flayderman was said to have set the standard for collecting in American furniture and decorative arts in the 1920s. Much of his collection was sold at a legendary sale at the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries (predecessor of Parke-Burnet and Sotheby’s, New York) in April of 1931. These paintings, however, were retained by Flayderman and descended in his family. Cornè was instrumental in transferring current Neapolitan painting techniques as well as Italian landscape themes to America. On the subject of Cornè's non-marine work, Nina Fletcher Little, the Cornè expert, stated: “Although Cornè's claim to twentieth century recognition has rested chiefly on his marine subjects, it is becoming increasingly apparent that he was equally successful in the charming landscapes he placed upon overmantles, fireboards, and framed canvases. Many depict the rolling countryside of his native Italy, which he copied from romantic engravings. These compositions, featuring grazing cows and frolicking peasants, are extremely colorful and picturesque. Arched bridges, steepled churches, crenellated castles, and round stone towers form most decorative backgrounds.” The two paintings: Two Children at Play with a White Bird and Two Children Playing recall earlier European and Italian models. Cherub paintings were popular throughout western Europe in the last quarter of the 18th century. But these Cornè paintings also recall the Renaissance paintings of putti such as the little angels by Raphael, painted as part of his Sistine Madonna, and lately enjoying greatly renewed popularity and notice. Cornè often used Italian old master models as a basis for landscape or figure paintings. Cornè was born on the island of Elba in 1752. During the Napoleonic Wars, he sought refuge and sailed to America on the ship Mount Vernon commanded by Elias Hasket Derby, Jr., at whose father's house Cornè resided in Salem. The artist arrived in Salem, Massachusetts in July of 1800. Derby, impressed by the Neapolitan marine paintings that he had seen and collected during his Mediterranean voyages of the late eighteenth century, sought to make the same skills available in Salem by encouraging Cornè to live and work in that town. Cornè was quite successful in transferring the current Neapolitan decorative painting to America, and his popularity grew rapidly. Cornè attracted the patronage of many in Salem, and was introduced to Samuel McIntire with whom he worked on many of Salem's houses. Between 1807 and 1809 he was at 27 Hanover Street in Boston, but by 1810 the city directories list him at 61 Middle Street. By 1822, he was settled in Newport, Rhode Island and received enough patronage to support him the rest of his life. Cornè is well represented in public and private collections including the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, the Peabody-Essex Museum of Salem, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, New Haven Colony Historical Society, the New York Historical Society, Newport Historical Society, Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Rhode Island Historical Society, the Smithsonian Institution, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, the United States Department of State, the United States Naval Academy...

Artist: James, Clarence Title: For Sight Date: 2023 Medium: Acrylic, Aerosol, Oil Stick on Canvas Unframed Dimensions: 40" x 30" Signature: Signed Edition: Unique Provenance: ...

Signed lower left: "Darsney".

With artist frame

Signed verso: "Robert Vickrey". Titled verso: "The Blue Top". In fine condition.

Artist: James, Clarence Title: i am. (all) Date: 2022 Medium: Acrylic, Aerosol, Oil Stick on Canvas Unframed Dimensions: 40" x 30" Signature: Signed Edition: Unique

Signed lower left: “Freeman”. Artist’s frame.

Gammell Trust #T137. After completing his major allegorical sequence, the Hound of Heaven, in 1956, Gammell felt compelled to revisit certain themes and figurative compositions in l...

Signed lower left: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "Park Musicians- Discussion Jacob Kainen '65".

Michael Azgour's work has been extensively collected, awarded and celebrated worldwide. He is a painting and drawing teacher at Stanford University and his works can be seen in publi...

Gammell Trust #W126. Signed and dated in pencil lower right: "R.H. Ives Gammell, Paris, 1917". Sheet measures 12 1/2 x 10 inches. This is a very early work and despite the fact that...

Signed verso. Based in New York, John MacConnell received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and his MFA from the School o...

Artist: Leslie Bostrom Title: In Spite of Everything Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas and Plywood Size: 110 x 140 inches Year: 2017 Leslie Bostrom is a Professor of Art at Brown Univer...

Signed top left: "Polonsky". Titled verso: "The Wagner Mirror".

Signed and dated top left: Raphael Jaimes-Branger '99. Medium: Silver leaf and acid on four wood panels. Each panel measures 25 x 25 inches.

Artist: Greg Ludlow Title: Images of Valley Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 7 x 6 feet Year: 2021 Greg Ludlow is a Canadian artist who lives in London, O...

Artist: Greg Ludlow Title: Lac (Lake) Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 60 x 84 inches Year: 2021 Greg Ludlow is a Canadian artist who lives in London, Ont...

Signed lower right: "Zerbe". In fine condition

Signed lower right: "Flood". Titled, dated, and signed verso: "Scouting with Kevin / 2016/19 / Sean Flood".

Michael Azgour's work has been extensively collected, awarded and celebrated worldwide. He is a painting and drawing teacher at Stanford University and his works can be seen in publi...

"Milan" is an exceptional example of Michael's most recent body of work, continuing his exploration of perception vs. reality. Michael's work has received many accolades and awards, ...

Signed and dated verso: "Jorge R. Pombo / 20-4/6". Inscribed verso: "81 x 65 cms / Oil on linen and old Venetian fabrics". Titled verso: "Variation on Singer Sargent's 'The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit' (6)". JORGE POMBO...

Signed lower left: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "U Street Capriccio/ Jacob Kainen 1967/ 24x30".

Hannah Barrett’s paintings imagine a colorful, absurdist world inhabited by eccentrics of ambiguous genders and time periods. With tongue-in-cheek nods to the past, Barrett combines...

Acrylic on canvas. Hannah Barrett’s paintings imagine a colorful, absurdist world inhabited by eccentrics of ambiguous genders and time periods. With tongue-in-cheek nods to the pas...

Dated verso: "July 12, / 2001". Inscribed verso: "422". Label on stretcher: "422 The church and Lavender Fields/ 30" x 40", Oil on linen/ Prov July 2001".

Artist: Greg Ludlow Title: Location, Location, Location Size: 72 x 72" Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2021 Greg Ludlow is a Canadian artist who lives in...

Artist: Leslie Bostrom Title: Flicker Medium: Acrylic and oil on canvas Size: 36 x 48 inches Year: 2018 Leslie Bostrom is a Professor of Art at Brown University who is primarily i...

Artist: Greg Ludlow Title: Pila de Clavos Medium: Acrylic and Pencil on Canvas Size: 72 x 50 inches Year: 2021

Artist: Greg Ludlow Title: Undertow Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 6 x 6 feet Year: 2021 Greg Ludlow is a Canadian artist who lives in London, Ontario. ...

"Garden on Paradise" is an exceptional example of Michael's most recent body of work, continuing his exploration of perception vs. reality. Michael's work has received many accolades...

"Creature Comforts" is featured in the exhibition "Andrew Fish: Retro Pictures". The exhibition explores Fish’s upbringing, adolescence, and adulthood as ...

Artist Commentary: This piece is part of a series I've been working on about my recent trip visiting family in the Philippines. The paintings all contain layered elements of plants, ...

Artist: Leslie Bostrom Title: Red Rabbit Size: 36 x 42 inches Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2013 Leslie Bostrom is a Professor of Art at Brown University who...