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Item Ships From: California
Field of Image I - Large Original Boho Minimalist Abstract Floral Calm Artwork
By Peter Kuttner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The organic aesthetic and textures of Peter Kuttner’s original boho minimalist artworks are the result of patient layering and original uses of media. Through a combination of paint and collage, Kuttner is able to find personal expression in the clear colors and contrasting soft textures he creates. With a focus on subtle textures, Kuttner separately creates the colorful detailed top layers of each artwork in a separate process. Each of these applied mini paintings within the larger composition is a unique cutout of paint created with a flow of colors on an intermediary glass surface.
This one-of-a-kind mixed media painting measures 40 inches high by 60 inches wide. It is wired and ready to hang. It is signed by the artist on the front and back. The sides of this artwork are painted as a continuation of the front and it does not require framing. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and International shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included.
Kuttner uses familiar yet abstract details to suspend the viewer in contemplation of the universality of imagery. Using negative shapes, repetition, and emphasizing spatial relationships, he carefully considers scale and balance. Works in this series are meant to be contemporary, clean, sophisticated, colorful, uplifting, soothing, and filled with positive vibrations.
Kuttner’s artworks have been featured in Architectural Digest Magazine as well as in popular films and television shows including Two and a Half Men, Californication, and Nashville. Presently, Kuttner’s work is on display in a large number of private, royal, museum, and corporate collections worldwide.
Artplex Gallery has been representing and exhibiting Kuttner's original artworks since 2021. The gallery has been a 1stdibs partner since 2014 with consistently excellent reviews from clients worldwide. The gallery exhibits a well-curated selection of original artworks representing a broad spectrum of major international artists. Artplex Gallery is known to provide accurate descriptions, images, reliable services, communication, and delivery.
REPRESENTATION
Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 “Outlook of Entity”, Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Affordable Art Fair New York, NY
Winter Salon, Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Studio E Gallery, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
2020 Grace Renee Gallery, Cave Creek, AZ
2018 McVarish Gallery, Portland, OR
Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Ormond Art Museum, Ormond Beach, FL
Kelsey Michaels...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Tissue Paper
Mountain Lake Landscape
By Joseph Kleitsch
Located in Soquel, CA
Southern California Lake. Signed "J Kleitsch," which could possibly be by Joseph Kleitsch. Oil on canvas in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 16"H x 28"L.
Joseph Kleitsch was c...
Category
1920s Hudson River School California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Dinner Set - Expressive Abstract Colorful Mixed Media Dining Still Life Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Valerie Etitinwo's unique approach to abstract figurative painting celebrates the unconventional beauty found in imperfection and awkwardness. The Nigerian-Swiss artist uses bold col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Going to Bolinas - Realism oil on canvas painting - California Coast still life
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Going to Bolinas - An iconic rural scene from Northern California's quintessential highway 1, while heading north to the town of Bolinas. A traditional landscape blending urban — manmade street signs and roadway — with nature. The painting depicts early evening light — the artist's favorite. Created in 2020 from celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as the Oakland Museum of California.
The work comes framed in a California redwood frame. Artwork is 30 x 30 inches. With framing the outer dimension is 31 x 31 inches.Signed and dated by the artist.
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 Contemporary California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brooklyn - Framed Original Colorful Abstract City Landscape Artwork on Canvas
By Maria C. Bernhardsson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C Bernhardsson's original artworks are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Born in Sweden, Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Fusion, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nestor Toro
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic abstract blue, purple, some yellow expressive contrasting color field painting. Textured and layered with fluid translucent acrylics and iridescent mediums. ORIGINAL FINE ...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Desert View, Landscape, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2022
Style: Impressionism,
Subject: Desert View...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Pescadero Coast Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Midcentury seascape of the Pescadero, California coast by Helen Skelton (American, 20th Century). Titled "Pescadero Coast" and signed "Helen Skelton" on verso. Unframed. Image size: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Flowers in a Vase
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Flowers in a Vase" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963.Signed at the lower...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
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 California - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vase With Flowers - Floral Painting By Marc Zimmerman
By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Floral - Abstract Painting - Oil On Canvas By Marc Zimmerman
Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, whether deep mysterious jungle or delightfully whimsical florals. His color ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vibrant Summer, landscape, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind
Medium: Oil on canvas
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism,
Title: Vibrant Summer
Size: 9" x 14" x ...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1918
By Jane Kim
Located in Burlingame, CA
When competing desires collide, which one wins?
At the turn of the 20th century, North American bird populations were plummeting, hitting a nadir with the extinction of the Passeng...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Latex, Acrylic
$36,000
Innocence - Framed Original Abstract Portrait Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Alessandro Casetti's paintings metaphorically represent all the emotions, fears, and hopes that populate our daily life inside and outside of our own bodies. Through a...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
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 California - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Chanel Who - Layered Contemporary Abstract Pop Art
By Marion Duschletta
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swiss artist Marion Duschletta transforms luxury objects and urban landscapes from around the world into unique layered artworks. She combines an intriguing mixture of urban photogra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
'Untitled' by Steven H. Rehfeld - Large Vibrant Still Life Painting with Flora
By Steven H. Rehfeld
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, 1954)
'Untitled' 2015
Oil paint, canvas, stretcher bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
About the Artist:
Introducing Steven H. Rehfeld, a d...
Category
2010s Outsider Art California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Summer Field, Landscape impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Summer Field
Size: 20" x 32" x 0....
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yosemite
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Yosemite" 1952, is an oil painting on board by noted California artist Jean Martin (Eugenia Victoria Weir Martin) 1906-1986. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (board) size is 16 x 20 inches, framed size is 24.25 x 28.25 inches. Framed in original wooden gold with grey patina frame, with fabric liner. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Eugenia "Jean" Victoria Weir Martin
1906-1986
San Diego, California
Landscapes, Seascapes artist
Eugenia Victoria Weir Martin was a painter and art instructor in Southern California. She was born in Tennessee on March 7, 1906. "Jean", as she was called, was brought to La Jolla, California as a small child by her parents, and remained in that area the rest of her life.
Her Father was a businessman in the early stages of the development of La Jolla. He operated a General Store in the early village. They resided in "Windemere", which is now the home of the La Jolla Historical Society. At the age of 10 she studied art with a Mrs. Fletcher, an artist in residence at the 1916 California Exposition in Balboa Park. She also studied at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts.
Early in her career she also studied with Maurice Braun, Alfred Mitchell, Edward Langley...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Hill, Landscape Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2022
Style: Impressionism,
Subject: Summer Hill...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lilies, Flowers, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism,
Title: Lilies,
Size: 23" x 43" x 1'' inc...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interior with Mexican Chair
By Jim McVicker
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Category
2010s Realist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"this is not a place" (III) - Vertical Fauvist Landscape in Acrylic on Canvas
By Devon Brockopp-Hammer
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted landscape by California artist Devon Brockopp-Hammer (American, b. 1986). The bold orange underpaint has been allowed to shine through the co...
Category
2010s Fauvist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Charcoal
Brainiac X, Contemporary Large-Scale Abstract
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-scale abstract with neon green brains layered on a textured grey and black background by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Unsigned, but was acquired with a co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$3,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Spring Trees, Landscape Impressionism, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
By Vahe Yeremyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2024
Style: Impressionism
Title: Spring Trees,
Size: 43.5" x 37" x ...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bombshell Bright 1 - Oil Pastel Abstract Figurative Portrait
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Inspired by her background in fashion, artist Lindsey McCord creates vibrant portraits that encapsulate the confidence that comes with the fun of being stylish and chic. Her figures ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Cityscape, Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Peter Tovpev
Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Style: Post Impressionism
Title: Cityscape
Size: 23.5" x 27.5" x ...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Untitled ' oil on canvas by Masri
By Masri Hayssam
Located in Carmel, CA
A Lebanese born, Italian artist ,Masri has developed a style that captures mideastern mood with A Lucien Freud brush touch. His work is varied and known e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Man of Industry
By Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in drawing and painting.
Zorthian we...
Category
1930s Realist California - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Little Girl with the Love Balloon Explosion - Textural Original Figure Painting
By Virginie Schroeder
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Playing with the interaction between positive and negative space, and strong colors on neutral backgrounds, Canadian artist Virginie Schroeder creates pop art portraits and iconic po...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Mid-Century Modern Floral Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Elegant mid-century modern floral abstract in blues and earth tones with impasto paint application by unknown artist, Rawlins (American, 20th century)....
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Happy Family", Mid Century Sepia Figurative Interior Scene, Illustration Art
Located in Soquel, CA
"Happy Family", Mid Century Sepia Figurative Interior Scene, Illustration Art by Charles Kinghan
A classic and heartwarming mid-century sepia toned figurative interior scene by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). Circa 1940's. This mid-century piece exemplifies the classic style of illustrations and advertisements from the period, and depicts a family gathered in their living room.
Signed "Kinghan" in the lower right corner. Acquired with other works by the artist.
Displayed in a period giltwood frame.
Linen size: 36"H x 30"W.
Framed size: 45"H x 38.5"W x 2"D.
Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984) was born in Anthony, KS on January 18, 1895. A teacher, he moved to Wichita as a teenager and did sign painting for the Western Sign...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Color Shot 2
By Leonardo Aguirre
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Uruguayan artist Leonardo Aguirre creates visually animated surreal scenes in a theatrical environment. Aguirre rearranges whimsical components into unexpectedly harmonious ways of surreal settings that could only exist in an alternate dimension. The idea of a colorful atmosphere with everyday recognizable signs and elements allows the art aficionado to imagine scenes one day and discover another story the next day. His work is a post-constructivist style that has roots in the legacy school of Torres-García.
This one-of-a-kind 29-inch square original artwork is stretched, wired, and ready to hang. The sides are painted. It does not require framing and is signed by the artist on the front of the artwork. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Convenient local Los Angeles area shipping. Affordable U.S. and global shipping is also available.
Aguirre's architectural training is evident in his expert use of planes of color and precise brushwork to construct immersive, surreal environments that transport viewers to alternate dimensions. His whimsical rearrangement of everyday objects and recognizable signs creates unexpectedly harmonious settings that are visually stunning and emotionally evocative. Aguirre's artworks invite viewers to explore his mini-universes and discover new stories with each visit.
Aguirre was born and lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. His works have been exhibited in Italy, Uruguay, Belgium, the UK, Argentina, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
REPRESENTATION
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Celebrating Latinx Artists”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2021 “Light On Your Feet”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2020 “Hidden Keyholes”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
2017 Art for the People Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
2016 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Bohemian Art Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay
2015 Rhizome Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
2014 Chicago Art Space Gallery, Chicago, USA
2014 10 años Trifecta Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
2013 Chicago Art Space Gallery, Chicago, USA
2013 Galeria Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay
2012 Trifecta Gallery, “6191”, Las Vegas, USA
2011 Golf Club, Montevideo, Uruguay
2011 Colectiva Bolosano Arts Hotel Piazza Mazzini 35
2010 Castells Art Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay
2010 Nuestro norte es el sur Venice, Italy
2010 Ristoranti Cultural Space “il Simposio”, Trento, Italy
2010 Trifecta Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
2009 Mvd Art Gallery, The Famous Grouse, Montevideo, Uruguay
2009 Wallione de Bruxelles (Grand Place), Belgium
2009 Lido de Venezia Muestra Colectiva, Italy
2009 Agosto Torri del Benaco, Italy
2009 Palazzao della gran Guardia, Verona, Italy
2009 Museo Rawson, Pedro Meyer, Luis Camnitzer
2009 Lla Patagonia, Argentina
2009 Woburn Gallery Studios, United Kingdom
2008 Basilicata Collective Show, Italy
2007 100 Años Punta del Este...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Light - unframed
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Spring Light' 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 California - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fall Landscape, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2018
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Fall Landscape
Size: 24" x 30" x 0...
Category
2010s Academic California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative_Portrait_Song For The Animals_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic
By America Martin
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Song For The Animals"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
61.5 x 41.5 in. Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspirati...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$15,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Six O'Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Six O-Clock, c. 1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches, signed and titled several times verso of frame and stretcher (perhaps by another hand), marked “Rehn” several times on frame (for the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York City, who represented Craig at the time); Exhibited: 1) 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings from March 21 to May 2, 1943 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #87, original price $450 (per catalog) (exhibition label verso), 2) Craig’s one-man show at the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York City, from October 26 to November 14, 1942, #10 (original price listed as $350); and 3) Exhibition of thirty paintings sponsored by the Harrisburg Art Association at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in March, 1944 (concerning this exhibit, Penelope Redd of The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) wrote: “Other paintings that have overtones of superrealism inherent in the subjects include Tom Craig’s California nocturne, ‘Six O’Clock,’ two figures moving through the twilight . . . .” March 6, 1944, p. 13); another label verso from The Museum of Art of Toledo (Ohio): original frame: Provenance includes George Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
About the Painting
Long before Chris Burden’s iconic installation outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Urban Light, another artist, Tom Craig, made Southern California streetlights the subject of one of his early 1940s paintings. Consisting of dozens of recycled streetlights from the 1920s and 1930s forming a classical colonnade at the museum’s entrance, Burden’s Urban Light has become a symbol of Los Angeles. For Burden, the streetlights represent what constitutes an advanced society, something “safe after dark and beautiful to behold.” It seems that Craig is playing on the same theme in Six O-Clock. Although we see two hunched figures trudging along the sidewalk at the end of a long day, the real stars of this painting are the streetlights which brighten the twilight and silhouette another iconic symbol of Los Angeles, the palm trees in the distance. Mountains in the background and the distant view of a suburban neighborhood join the streetlights and palm trees as classic subject matter for a California Scene painting, but Craig gives us a twist by depicting the scene not as a sun-drenched natural expanse. Rather, Craig uses thin layers of oil paint, mimicking the watercolor technique for which he is most famous, to show us the twinkling beauty of manmade light and the safety it affords. Although Southern California is a land of natural wonders, the interventions of humanity are already everywhere in Los Angeles and as one critic noted, the resulting painting has an air of “superrealism.”
About the Artist
Thomas Theodore Craig was a well-known fixture in the Southern California art scene. He was born in Upland California. Craig graduated with a degree in botany from Pomona College and studied painting at Pamona and the Chouinard Art School with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Barse Miller among others. He became close friends with fellow artist Milford Zornes...
Category
1940s American Modern California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,500
Fuego 6 - Modern Acrylic Geometric Resin Artwork
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric California - Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"The Family Hearth" - Turn of the Century Cozy Interior Figurative Scene
By Charles Everett Johnson
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming turn-of-20th Century interior painting that takes the viewer back to simpler times with grandmother, grandfather, mother sewing and a young girl playing with her greyhound a...
Category
Early 1900s Realist California - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Blue Star" by Maura Petersen - Green and Blue Contemporary Abstract Woman Model
Located in Carmel, CA
Maura Petersen (American, born 1956)
"Blue Star" 2019
Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
In "Blue Star", Maura Petersen uses expressiv...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
Chelleneshin 50 (Abstract painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Chelleneshin 50 (Abstract painting)
Oil on panel — Unframed
Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementary mysti...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Corps de Ballet
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Signed, original, 1994, oil–on-canvas painting, Corps de Ballet by significant
American artist, Wolf Kahn (b. 1927). Winner: Fulbright and Guggenheim
Fellowships. Award in Art from...
Category
Late 20th Century California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$185,000
Embrace - Original Abstract Figurative Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Melissa Chalhoub, a 2014 graduate of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, seamlessly navigates the realms of cinema and visual art. With a background in directing and sound design for ...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Harbor Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Harbor Scene" c.1975 is an oil painting on canvas by Austrian artist M. Edward Griff. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Hawaiian Symbolism -- Stairway to Destiny
By Marguerite Blasingame
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Hawaiian Symbolism -- Stairway to Destiny
Symbolic figurative abstract with climbing stairway in bright spring colors by Marguerite Loui...
Category
1940s Futurist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Pablo Bay / oil on canvas
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
"San Pablo Bay" 2016 is 28 x 56 inches. Painted by one of the finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon. He has painted Northern Californi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist California - Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Aloft
By Jennifer Moses
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist.
FRAMED: 30.375" x 30.375" x 1.125" UNFRAMED: 20" x 22"
Artist Statement
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in ...
Category
2010s Realist California - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
$10,800
Portrait Magenta - Hyperrealistic Figurative Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas
By Jose Carlos Zubiaur
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Combining photorealistic oil painting on canvas with the illusion of computer-rendered graphics, Jose Carlos Zubiaur’s original artworks transcend the depth of a hyperrealistic three...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Estuario
By Brooks Anderson
Located in Burlingame, CA
The impressionist land and water scene from Brooks Anderson. This estuary scene of Marin captures you and takes you on a journey from stream to ocean. Artist signed, titled and dated...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist California - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Resurrection Lillies (Unframed)
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Resurrection Lillies' - unframed by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Breathed cold, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Boris Serdyuk
Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Style: Impressionism
Year: 2020
Title: Breathed cold
Size: 16.5" x 23.5" x ...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape with Flowers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Flowers" c.2000, is an oil painting on canvas by Chinese/American artist W.Eddie, b.1955. It is signed at the lower...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ghost Rave - Colorful Pac Man Graffiti Abstract Original Painting
By Amber Goldhammer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Ventura River Channel; Santa Ana Road, Ojai Valley
By Ray Roberts
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
UNFRAMED: 24" x 30" FRAMED: 30.75" x 36.625" x 1.5"
Artist Statement
"The dramatic Scenery surrounding Ojai and the coastal range made for some tough choices as to what to paint. Add to that, the changing light throughout the day and the marine layer coming and going, made options even greater. I have always been attracted to waterways when scouting for paintings. This scene overlooking the Ventura River deeply spoke to me as a big fan of the geology and plant life of the Ojai Valley."
— Ray Roberts
Category
2010s Realist California - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Sunset look at Venice, contemporary oil painting of Venice.
By Narek Arakelyan
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The oil painting size is 17.5"x29.5", with framed size is 20x32".
Narek Arakelyan captures the timeless beauty of Venice in this oil painting, where the sunset paints the sky with r...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Lilies, Flowers, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Peter Tovpev
Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2017
Style: Impressionism
Title: Still Life with Lilies
Size: 27.5" x ...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Our Easy, Mixed Media OIl on Canvas by Beth Park-Field
Located in Pasadena, CA
Mixed media on canvas, framed.
EXcondition
Exploring the common properties of shaping, firing, and glazing clay along with creating collage works with encaustic medium and acrylic has inspired Beth Field to create a wide range of creative pieces.
She draws on her love for color, pattern, and old things of all kinds to craft individual pieces that carry an echo of another time and place.
Beth Fields has followed a wandering path before finding her heart home in McKinney, TX.
After growing up in the North Dallas suburbs, Beth received a BA from Eugene Lang College in NYC, NY and a MEd from Boston College...
Category
1970s Contemporary California - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper
$450 Sale Price
70% Off
Autumn at the Cottage in the Woods - Landscape in oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Lush landscape of an autumn forest by Evelyn Campbell (Australian, 20th Century). A path runs from the lower right of the composition through an open gap in a wood fence, with a wago...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
"Natural Bridges" Santa Cruz Plein Air Landscape
By Brian Rounds
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene plein air landscape in oil of Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz, California, by Brian Rounds (American, b. 1968). Signed in the lower right corner by...
Category
2010s American Impressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$552 Sale Price
35% Off
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