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Item Ships From: Continental US
Fusen Yao Post-Impressionist Original Oil Painting "Autumn Memories"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Autumn Memories Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 27 x 27 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2000 C...
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21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

New York City, Office Party, Black and White Dance Party Photograph 1960s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Office Party by Leonard Freed is a 13" x 19" limited-edition photograph. The print 4/5 is signed verso (back of photo) by Brigitte Freed (wife of the phot...
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1960s Contemporary Continental US - Art

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...

Grace Jones for After Dark
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Grace Jones, 1975. Period print measures 8 x 11.75 inches; 10.25 x 13 inches framed. Artist studio stamp on ve...
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1970s Realist Continental US - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Woman Abstracted Figure, Palm, Acrylic on Canvas, Desert Oasis by Rebecca Jack
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rebecca Jack "Desert Oasis" Acrylic on Canvas 36 x 60 in. __________________________ Rebecca Jack, an intuitive painter, creates vibrant, figurative works that highlight the beaut...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Hatching XVI" (Abstract, Bold, Graphic, Black and White, Framed Painting)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
HATCHING XVI 2017 "Hatching XVI" (Abstract, Bold, Graphic, Black and White, Framed Painting) Contrasting tones of black and white, with hints of creme form this abstract, bold and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Glass, Paper, Acrylic, Wood, Oil Pastel

"residence" abstract cityscape, colorful rowhouses, geometric, marker, pencil
By Miriam Singer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "residence" is an original artwork made from pencil, maker, acrylic paint collage on panel by Miriam Singer. This piece measures 8"h x 8"w. Miriam Singer grew up i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Continental US - Art

Materials

Paint, Panel, Permanent Marker, Pencil

Mapplethorpe, Rose with Smoke, A Season in Hell (after)
By Robert Mapplethorpe
Located in Southampton, NY
Photogravure on papier gravure Cartiere Enrico Magnani à la main, mounted on papier Cartiere Enrico Magnani à la main moulé-pressé paper, as issued. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbe...
Category

1980s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Photogravure

Elvis Presley Petting Dog
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of Elvis Presley sitting in a living room, petting a dog. Elvis Presley, known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Known as the "...
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1950s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Icart, Composition, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Southampton, NY
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
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1930s Modern Continental US - Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Jasper Johns 'Edingsville' 1990- Pop Art Vintage
By Jasper Johns
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of Edingsville by renowned American artist Jasper Johns, published by Edition 5 in Germany, offers a faithful and striking representation of the original artwork. J...
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1990s Pop Art Continental US - Art

Materials

Offset

Dreaming of a Vineyard
Located in San Francisco, CA
How delightful to be a wine connoisseur! All those flavors emanating from the terroir through the grapes graced by the year’s sunshine (or rain). Then it’s building complexity with a...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

"MY BAD" Pithy Text-Based Paper in Wood Cradle Series with Floral Design
By Charles Clary
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"MY BAD" is an original wall-hanging sculpture by Charles Clary as part of the artist's popular "Text-i-monial" series. To create the artwork, Clary hand cuts a series of individual ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Paper, Wood Panel

Standing Female Nude
By Frederick Carl Frieseke
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude Drypoint, c. 1910 Unsigned Estate authentication on verso (see photo) Estate authentication verso by Frances Frieseke Kilmer (Mrs. Kenton Kilmer, 1914-1998) (see photo) Probably depicts the artist's wife, the artist's favorite model Extremely rare original drypoint by Frieseke Printed with selective inking to highlight the figure Condition: excellent Image/Plate size: 10 x 6 5/8 inches Frame size: 19 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches Provenance: Estate of the Artist By descent to his daughter Frances Hirschl & Adler Gallery, Stock No. APG 1106.3D-B (see photo) Biography Frederick Carl Frieseke was born on April 7, 1874, in Owosso, Michigan. After studying for a short while at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, Frieseke left for France in 1898, and almost all of his career was spent as an expatriate, with ties to the United States maintained through his New York dealer, William MacBeth, and by occasional visits to America. Following the pattern of innumerable young Americans, he enrolled at the Academie Julian where he studied with Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921). He appears to have had at least brief contact with and to have been influenced by James McNeill Whistler, who had recently opened his Academie Carmen in Paris. By 1900 Frieseke was spending summers in the town of Giverny, made famous by the residence of Monet and subsequently by other artists, among them many Americans. In 1906, the year after his marriage to Sarah O'Bryan, he leased a house once occupied by the American Impressionist Theodore Robinson. Although the property was adjacent to Monet's, Frieseke had only limited contact with the French master. Instead he apparently found Pierre Auguste Renoir the most influential of all the Impressionists. Frieseke's Giverny house and garden, as settings for a series of female models, provided nearly all of his subject matter for the next thirty years, although in 1930 he made a series of watercolors of Florida scenes remembered from his childhood and painted some Swiss landscapes. After World War I, the artist and his family settled in Normandy. Frieseke's career falls roughly into three stages. In the first, figures most clearly show his academic training and draughtsmanship. Gradually these evolve into the most common images of the next decade, comprised of loosely-applied blotches of bright color. The vast majority of these show their subjects in the garden, standing among the flowers, taking tea, or just basking in the sun. Others include models in colorful, light-filled interiors. In Frieseke's latest paintings, the figures very often appear indoors, their forms are given greater solidity, and the brushwork is less broken. At the height of his career, in the 1910s and early 1920s, Frieseke was perhaps the most popular of all living American artists. He received numerous awards and medals and saw his work purchased by private collectors and major museums. Decades after the initial introduction of Impressionism by Monet and his contemporaries, Frieseke assumed this style for his work, choosing to ignore the newer artistic movements of the early twentieth century. Nevertheless, his paintings were acclaimed in both the United States and in Europe. In 1904 he won a silver medal at the St. Louis Universal Exposition and a gold medal at Munich. He was elected a member of the Société National des Beaux Arts in 1908 and the National Academy of Design in 1912. Seventeen of his canvases were featured at the Venice Biennale in 1909 and he won the Grand Prize at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. He was commissioned to execute several murals, including one for the New York store of John Wanamaker, one of his most loyal patrons. He died on August 28, 1939, at his home in Normandy, in the town of Le Mesnil sur Blangy. In the decades following his death, however, after artistic tastes had changed considerably, his work was nearly forgotten until it received renewed attention as interest in American Impressionism grew in the 1960s Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington Etchings by Frederick Carl Frieseke include The Balcony and Standing Female Nude. Frieseke was an American Impressionist painter who was popular in the 1910s and 1920s. Etchings by Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Balcony: An etching by Frieseke from 1904 Standing Female Nude Other paintings by Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Garden Parasol...
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1910s American Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Drypoint

YES - large format photograph of conceptual motivational sign at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboard signs in iconic landscape of the American West YES by Frank Schott ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Continental US - Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Malachite, Abstract 3D, Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Malachite, Size: 48" x 13" x 4'' inch, 3...
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2010s Modern Continental US - Art

Materials

Metal

Original oil painting on canvas France, Paris, Triumphal Arch, S.Doren, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up For Sale is a Beautiful Original Oil Painting On canvas, depicting Parisian street Scene, famous historical place - Triumphal Arch. Signed In Lower right corner S. Doren. Presente...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

Greek Guitar Player
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract sculpture depicting a guitar player. Bronze on wood base measuring 15 x 9 x 4 inches. Actual cast piece without base measuring 17 x 7 x 3 inches. Signed indistinct...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Bronze

Greek Guitar Player
Greek Guitar Player
$900 Sale Price
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Front Porch Hedge, Oil Painting
By Brian McCarty
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
It’s an end-of-day moment, with the last bit of sunlight warmly illuminating the front porch and hedge of a Victorian house. The scene exudes a sense of cal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

Hunt Slonem, Under the sea rare unique 1980 oil on canvas painting signed Framed
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
Rare 1980 Hunt Slonem painting. The artist has painted - literally - thousands and thousands of bunnies (and almost as many birds and butterflies), but you won't easily find the li...
Category

1980s Naturalistic Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American Artist Richard Kerber Vintage oil painting on board, Seascape, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original vintage oil painting on board by Massachusetts Artist Richard Kerber depicting a nautical scene, with a large sailing ship in a choppy ocean. This is a classic ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

Marmo di Carrara - large format photograph of iconic Italian marble quarry
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed large scale original photograph of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and architecture, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details Marmo di Carrara...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Jean Rene Bazaine 'Composition VI' 1968- Lithograph Vintage
By Jean Bazaine
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This lithograph page by René Bazaine from Derrière le Miroir No. 170 features abstract forms inspired by natural elements like water and foliage. The artwork's rich colors and harmon...
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1960s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Sans titre, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Alberto Magnelli
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 19.3 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle sé...
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1960s Modern Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Listening, bronze sculpture, childs portrait, black granite base, green patina
By Troy Williams
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Listening, bronze sculpture, childs portrait, black granite base, green patina 35 lbs
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Granite, Bronze

Mickalene Thomas, Portrait de Priscilla Le Petit Chien official COA S/N, Framed
By Mickalene Thomas
Located in New York, NY
Mickalene Thomas Portrait de Priscilla Le Petit Chien, 2012 Pigment print on 100% cotton rag paper Edition 141/150 Frame included with official COA affixed to the back Hand numbered ...
Category

2010s Realist Continental US - Art

Materials

Laid Paper, Permanent Marker, Digital Pigment

Supermoon Seascape Original Oil Painting on Linen, Ready to Hang
By Karen Darbinyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Title: Supermoon Size: 15.5" x 21" x 0.8'' ...
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2010s Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Roy Lichtenstein Interior with Built-in Bar, Pop Art Vintage
By (after) Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage blank postcard published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn in 1992 for the Pop Art Show at Museum Ludwig Koln. Printed in Germany. Framed in a white wood frame with a front profile of 1...
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1990s Pop Art Continental US - Art

Materials

Offset

Cakebox Wildflowers
By Natasha Martin
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Natasha Martin is an LA-based photographer who loves color and infusing dreamy-nostalgia into her work. She has created work for Prada, Miu Miu, and 24 Sèvres, and...
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2010s Continental US - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

"Whydah" Black Bunnies, Birds & Butterflies on Gold Background Oil Painting
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies, Butterflies and Birds. This piece depicts 4 gestural figures of Bunnies, 11 Butterflies and 9 Whydah Birds a...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media

James Turrell, Key Lime, Scarce LACMA Museum Exhibition print offset lithograph
By James Turrell
Located in New York, NY
“Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.” - James Turrell James Turrell Key Lime, Rare LACMA Exhibition print, 2013 Scarce Offset lithograph pos...
Category

2010s Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

As the Sun Rises
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Leonor Fini 'La Serrure'- Vintage Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction poster of La Serrure by Leonor Fini captures the enigmatic and symbolic nature of the original artwork. Leonor Fini was known for her surreal and fantastical imager...
Category

1980s Surrealist Continental US - Art

Materials

Offset

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
Category

1990s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Sans titre (Duthuit 101), Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Matisse, Henri, et a...
Category

1940s Fauvist Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Squeeze - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Squeeze' part of the series 'Hands down' - 2019, 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label with certificat...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

"Le Jardin de Monet, II" (2023) by Leigh Ann Van Fossan, Oil Painting, Lily Pond
By Leigh Ann Van Fossan
Located in Denver, CO
Leigh Ann Van Fossan's "Le Jardin de Monet, II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impression of a lily pond. Van Fossan was born in Vail, Colorado, and began oi...
Category

2010s American Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

LOVE (Pink) sculpture, official replica with Indianapolis Museum of Art stamp
By Robert Indiana
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana LOVE (Pink), Artist Authorized, with Incised Indianapolis Museum of Art & Morgan Foundation Stamp and Artist Copyright, 2011 Brushed Aluminum (Pink) and Stamped with M...
Category

2010s Pop Art Continental US - Art

Materials

Metal

Le Serment des femmes (Bloch 267-272; Cramer 24), Lysistrata, Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Paper Size: 11.5 x 9 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Lysistrata, 1934. Published by The Limited E...
Category

1930s Cubist Continental US - Art

Materials

Etching

"La Madeleine" Impressionist 20th Century Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
In this piece, the artist depicts "La Madeleine" in an abstract and impressionistic way, capturing the magic of Paris from the 20th Century with much life. The flower sellers and tre...
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

TARKAY, ITZCHAK "LAKE CAFE" 2000, ORIGINAL ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36X48
By Itzchak Tarkay
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: TARKAY, ITZCHAK Title: LAKE CAFE Year: 2000-2010 Size: 36 X 48 INCHES Medium: ORIGINAL ACRYLIC ON CANVAS Edition: ORIGINAL 1/1 Description: Hand signed by the artist. The art...
Category

Early 2000s Art Deco Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Textured Abstract Painting on Canvas, by Serg Graff, "Spring Dragonflies", COA
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Bring joy, motion, and magic into your space with this one-of-a-kind original artwork by contemporary artist Serg Graff. Titled "Spring Dragonflies and Butterflies", this painting is...
Category

2010s Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Acrylic

Listed Italian Artist Renato Longanesi Large oil painting on canvas Clipper ship
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an amazing vintage original oil painting on canvas depicting Clipper ships in the stormy ocean by Listed Italian Artist Renato Longanesi (b.19...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

"Fly Away With Me" Multicolor Paper Butterflies Painting on Canvas w Shadow Box
By Laila Jalallar
Located in New York, NY
This piece is executed with hand cut butterflies, and comes displayed in an acrylic shadow box. These works conjure sensations of nostalgia, created from paper, cutting out colorful ...
Category

2010s Pop Art Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

ChagalRoméo et Juliette / Paris, Le Plafond de l'Opéra - Hand-signed "Pour Marc"
By (after) Marc Chagall
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original lithograph poster, printed by Mourlot and engraved by Sorlier, was produced in 1964 for the French Government Tourist Office in Paris. Referenced as Sorlier #96, it is ...
Category

1960s Modern Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Red Roofs, Abstract Painting
By Robert Hofherr
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A neighborhood transforms into a stylized vision. Geometric lines and shapes suggest houses and trees, while a dominant blue field contrasts with bright and m...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Acrylic

Vintage Oil painting on canvas, seascape, Sailing Ships, T. Orcelli, framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original vintage oil painting on canvas depicting Sailing Ship in the stormy sea. Presented in a nice wood frame. Frame has some scuffs and scratches. Painting overall is...
Category

2010s Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

Blue Sea
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Carol Sideman– American (1925-2021) Title: Blue Sea #57 Year: circa 1975 Medium: Acrylic paint, gouache, chine colle on heavy watercolor paper Si...
Category

1970s Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board, Oil

American Impressionist Artist Karl Rudolph Krafft oil painting Winter Scene
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Winter Scene oil/canvas 20 x 24 image size, 23.75 x 27.50 framed Here is a very nice winter snow scene oil painting on canvas by Midwest American Artist Karl Rudolph Krafft. Origina...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

"Almost Home" Solebury Bucks County PA Twilight Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist winter pastoral scene of a quaint snow covered home by Solebury, Bucks County PA. Willett has portrayed this charming scene in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and h...
Category

20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil, Board

'Man and Horse' by Harold Stevenson, Lithograph
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 28" x 32" lithograph was produced by Harold Stevenson in 1988. This print features a skeletal figure and horse. The skeleton, with elongated and angular features, is centrally p...
Category

1980s Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Cows, Landscape, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
By Karen Darbinyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Landscape, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2023 Style: Impressio...
Category

2010s Academic Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

THE FAMILY Signed Lithograph, Black Family Portrait, Collage, African American
By James Denmark
Located in Union City, NJ
THE FAMILY is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist James Denmark, printed using hand lithography on Arches paper 100% acid free. Rich, vi...
Category

1980s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Wild things (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Things (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Columnar I - Original Silver Sculpture
By Atticus Adams
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Atticus Adams' organically composed modern metal sculptures embody the transformative power of contemporary art, illustrating the creation of beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial materials. Using mostly aluminum mesh—generally found in screen doors, windows, and filters—he creates contemporary abstract sculptural artworks and installations, which resemble flowers, clouds, and other natural phenomena. Working in metal, Adams effortlessly transforms rigid material into airy, effervescent artworks. This 35-inch high by 10-inch wide by 8-inch deep tabletop sculpture created from aluminum mesh, gesso, acrylic paint, metal leafing, rivets, wire, and grommets on a metal stand. Size and price include stand. Atticus works spontaneously, feeling his way toward the objects that take shape in his mind as he shapes them almost entirely by hand. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Atticus grew up in West Virginia, steeped in traditional folk art. Several members of his family are self-taught artists, deeply involved in such crafts as wood carving and quilting. His formal art training includes stints at Yale, Rhode Island School of Design, and Harvard’s School of Architecture. Atticus has fond summer memories of screened-in porches back home and screen doors that practically dissolved the barrier between inside and outside, allowing the warmth and nature to permeate each day. This association continues to resonate in his art. “Metal mesh is a beautiful, flexible material that allows you to explore shadow and transparency in endless ways,” he says. “The material lends itself to these biomorphic shapes, which aren’t necessarily intentional . . . The sculptures seem fragile but are actually quite resilient—like nature itself.” A well-known sculptor, the organically inspired artworks of Atticus Adams are held in public and private collections and are exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States. REPRESENTATION Since 2014 Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles, CA SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021 Seeking Sanctuary, Zynka Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2021 My Hydrangea Kingdom By a Bird Bath Sea, Pittsburgh Botanic Garden, Pittsburgh, PA 2018 There’s a Pink Poodle in my Arcadia, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Summers of Green Apples with Salt, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA 2016 Mesh Werks, Desert Art Collections, Palm Desert, CA 2015 Shapes & Forms, Desert Art Collections, Palm Desert, CA Mesh Lab: The Experiments, The Mine Factory, Pittsburgh, PA 2014 Arcadia, BE Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA 2013 Summertime, BE Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA 2013 A Joggling Board...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Metal, Wire

Lay me down on the forest floor -Dreamy green waterfall forest abstract painting
By Jennifer L. Baker
Located in Silverthorne, CO
A dreamy, lush, atmospheric abstract landscape with a flowing waterfall and poetic space. Won't you lay down with me? On the forest floor? Among the newly born green and mist from t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

Mickey's Dreamland - Original Pop Art Painting with Cartoon Character
By Naguy Claude
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Naguy Claude mixes popular culture icons and street art with comic and cartoon characters, as well as famous superheroes, in his original layered mixed media paintings. His artworks ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

"Self Portrait" original lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1960 by the Mourlot Freres atelier. Size: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (320 x 242 mm). Not signed.
Category

1960s Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

La Baronessa - Framed Original Abstract Portrait Painting
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 Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Time Zone 3 - Multicolor Modern Acrylic Abstract 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 Continental US - Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

19th century English Antique Portrait of a terrier or toy dog
Located in Woodbury, CT
Edwin Loder – son of famous artist James Loder – originally enlisted in the 62nd Regiment of Foot in 1846 at the age of 19, serving mainly in India. After 20 years in the Forces, Ed...
Category

1860s Victorian Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil, Board

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