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Item Ships From: Continental US
"Boulevard de la Madeleine, Paris" Impressionist Scene Oil Painting on Canvas
By Jean Salabet
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Jean Salabet. Salabet was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His wor...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1870's Antique Italian Hunting Scene trompe l’oeil Oil Painting Birds Game Gold
Located in Buffalo, NY
This striking 19th-century painting signed "A. Malevolti 1877 Florence" is a fine example of the trompe l’oeil tradition, in which artists skillfully render imagery that "tricks the ...
Category
1870s Photorealist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th Century Original Oil Malaysian Fishermen and Schooner
Located in Soquel, CA
19th Century Impressionist Original Oil Painting of Malaysian Fishermen and Schooner by Alberto Bonghi
The painting is a depiction of a scene in Malaysia with a Schooner in backgro...
Category
1890s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
"Erosion" - Oil Landscape Painting of Alpine Rocky Mountain Lake
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer’s 2025 painting "Erosion" is a luminous oil on panel landscape that captures the raw majesty of a high alpine lake nestled beneath rugged mountain peaks. This original, h...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Two Boys (Art Deco Knickers Suit Bicycle riding Attire Fashion Illustration).
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Marc-Luc (French, active 1920s-30s). Boys Fashion Illustration, ca. 1920s. Watercolor and pencil on paper, image measures 8 x 11 inches on panel measuring 12.5 x 18 inches. Signed lo...
Category
1920s Art Deco Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
Yellow Nude. Portrait. Painting Pastel, pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Paper, Pastel, Ink
"View of Venice Canal" Orientalist & Impressionist Marine Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in New York, NY
A masterful oil painting depicting a view of a Venice Canal by Grace Paterson. As an Impressionist and orientalist painter, she was known for her detailed works depicting scenes from...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Maria" Portrait of a Girl New Hope Pennsylvania Artist Edna Gass
By Edna Gass
Located in Soquel, CA
"Maria" Portrait of a Girl New Hope Pennsylvania Artist Edna Gass
"Enfant" portrait of a child by New Hope Artist Edna Gass (American, 1904–1993).
This portrait is one of rare Monoty...
Category
1930s French School Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board, Monotype
$1,202 Sale Price
35% Off
Death of Marat
By David Molesky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Molesky’s latest body of work approaches art history with wit and irony. Drawing from classical themes and the heroic narrative, he subverts these traditions by casting the banana as...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Sweetness
By Roman Frances
Located in Atlanta, GA
Small limited edition run of 49 and 6 E.A."s (Edition of the artist). Each canvas reproduction is crafted by a skilled printer under the supervision of the artist. Román Francés has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Giclée
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
"Montmartre Hill" Parisian Street Post-Impressionist Oil Painting Canvas Framed
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a city scene at the Montmartre Hill in Paris France, a popular subject of the times painted by many important Post-Impressionists 20th Century painters. This pi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Autumn Landscape" Colorful Pastoral Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
By Robert Waltsak
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful impressionist pastoral landscape in the Autumn season with beautiful color tones throughout. Waltsak has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Whisperers, Oil Painting
By Onelio Marrero
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
When artist Onelio Marrero's grandchildren visit, they love spending time in his spare bedroom, playing games, dressing up, and pretending. One of their favor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
17-18 century, Original Antique Oil Painting in canvas, Genre Scene, Gold Frame
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a compelling and atmospheric original antique oil painting on canvas, depicting a poignant genre scene. A gentleman dressed in formal black robes—likely a figure of au...
Category
Mid-18th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,625 Sale Price
35% Off
Adam Shaw - "Astronaut Dream" - Contemporary Space Exploration Oil Painting 2022
Located in Denver, CO
Adam Shaw's "Astronaut Dream" is an original, handmade oil painting on board created in 2022. This captivating contemporary artwork measures 20 x 16 inches (50.80 x 40.64 cm) and is ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Prosperous Family: Academic Figurative Painting by Mark Beard aka Bruce Sargeant
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style figurative painting on canvas of a family and red tractor against a classic American farm field
"Prosperous Family", painted by Mark Beard under his fictitious persona, Bruce Sargeant
84 x 58 inches unframed, 91 x 65 x 3 inches with a gold painted wood frame
Excellent condition, ready to hang as is
This Academic style figurative oil painting on canvas was painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant, a pseudonym in homage to the fashion photographer, Bruce Weber, and figurative painter, John Singer Sargeant. Here, the artist captures a blue collar American farming family in their field with an old red tractor. The man and woman stand stoically with their young child, dressed in simple white garments, perhaps to symbolize their purity. Rolling mountains...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Budapest Street Scene" 20th Cen. Hungarian Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by Hungarian artist, Hugo Matzenauer. Matzenauer was a painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude in the Studio, in Front of the Mirror - Portrait in Oil on Artist's Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude in the Studio, in Front of the Mirror - Portrait in Oil on Artist's Board
Elegant seated nude woman by Pau Milosevich (American, b. 1936). A woman is seated in a studio, in fro...
Category
1980s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
"Brunch at Tartine" Colorful Impressionistic Oil Painting in Soho Restaurant
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
"With shades of Pierre Bonnard’s Parisian street vistas and Edward Hopper’s New York shopfronts, American impressionist Cindy Shaoul’s oil paintings depict the much-loved locales and...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Seaweed Harvestor II
By Ryan Reynolds
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Seaweed Harvester II', 2021 is a gorgeous painting of two men gathering seaweed on the beach. The multiple blues of the sky and sea are reflective of the ephemeral time and moment t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sympathy - Blue Suits Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas
By Darwin Estacio Martinez
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Born in 1982 in Manzanillo, Cuba, artist Darwin Estacio Martinez honed his artistic skills at the Professional Academy of Fine Arts "El Alba" i...
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Summer Day at the Beach" Oil Painting Scene with Figures, Umbrellas & Boats
By Niek van der Plas
Located in New York, NY
This captivating summer day beach scene is a remarkable display of Van der Plas's true passion for outdoor genre paintings. A wonderfully rich beach scene executed in the 21st Centur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"The Red Bush" Gabriel Godard, Painting, Oil on canvas, French artist, 1979
By Gabriel Godard
Located in New York, NY
Gabriel Godard (1933-2023)
The Red Bush, 1979
Oil on canvas
Artwork: 28 x 20 1/2 in. l 71 x 52 cm
Framed: 31 1/2 x 24 in. l 80 x 61 cm
Signed lower left
Condition: Perfect condition...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Parisian Cafe Street Scene" 20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Paint Canvas
Located in New York, NY
In this piece, the artist depicts his subject in an abstract and impressionistic way, capturing the Cafés busy street scene with the moulin rouge portrayed in the distance. The arti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Times Square N.Y.C." Impressionist Snow Scene in New York City Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist New York City winter city-scene depicting Times Square in New York City. This piece is done in a most intimate, yet energetic way. Christopher is known for capturing th...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th century English landscape with Cottage
By Charles Morris
Located in Woodbury, CT
Charles Morris (British, active mid-19th century)
Rustic Landscape with Herdsman and Cottage, ca. 1860–1870
Oil on canvas
In this tranquil rural view, Charles Morris presents an idy...
Category
1870s Victorian Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Top Songbirds - Surrealist Figurative Portrait Painting
By Carlos Gamez de Francisco
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian governed academia setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
20th century Spanish Cafe scene with dancing and drinking figures in a bar
By Alfredo Opisso
Located in Woodbury, CT
This captivating mid-century Spanish painting by Alfredo Opisso immerses the viewer in the lively atmosphere of a café or bar, where figures gather to drink, sing, and dance. Rendere...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Nude Lora Figurative Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vadim Zang
Title: Lora
Medium: Oil on Linen
Year: 2014
Style: Figurative Impressionism
Dimensions: 14" x 11" x 0.8" inch (36 x 28 x 2c...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
A Radiant 1950s Mid-Century Modern Studio Portrait of a Seated Female Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Radiant, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Studio Portrait of a Seated Female Nude Model. Painted in a sensuous color palette of wonderful, expressive reds an cool creams, the painting exem...
Category
Mid-20th Century Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surfin' USA - Original Abstract Figurative Surfer Girls Blue Ocean Painting
By Kathleen Keifer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer's original artworks represent one of the most significant expressions of New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her colorful scenes of everyday ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fluido Vitale - 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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Paris, Montparnasse" French Impressionist Street Scene Oil Painting on Canvas
By Anatol Bouchet
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by French artist, Anatol Bouchet. Bouchet was an French painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. This paint...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th century French Impressionist scene, A Busy Street in Paris
Located in Woodbury, CT
This vibrant 20th-century French Impressionist painting by Charles Ducant captures the timeless allure of a bustling Parisian street scene, immersing the viewer in the charm and ener...
Category
1990s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rise and Fall" Portrait of Tattooed Woman in Black Lingerie in Green Background
By Lauren Rinaldi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This female nude piece titled "Rise and Fall" is an original artwork made from oil on panel by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece measures 24”h x 18”w.
Lauren Rinaldi (b. 1983, Brooklyn, NY...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
18th Century Italian Old Master Tempera on Panel Painting "Jesus Road to Emmaus"
Located in Portland, OR
An important 18th century Italian Old Master tempera on copper panel Baroque painting, "The Road to Emmaus", circa 1700.
The painting represents the early resurrection biblical story...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
"Orange Wrapped in Plastic" Oil Painting by Kelly Birkenruth
By Kelly Birkenruth
Located in Denver, CO
Kelly Birkenruth's "Orange Wrapped in Plastic" (2023) is an original oil painting on panel, measuring 5 x 5 x 1 inches. This captivating still life features an orange wrapped in a tr...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
“Money Lenders” after Flemish Painter Quentin Matsys (1466-1530)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Well-fed, well-dressed, and well satisfied, counting and accounting for the money. The unknown painter--although the name Quentin Matsys was scratched into the verso of this work pro...
Category
19th Century Northern Renaissance Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
19th century English Fishing boat at sea with Sun rise or Sunset
By Adolphus Knell
Located in Woodbury, CT
Adolphus Knell
19th-century English fishing boast at Sea.
Owning in a 19th-century English fishing boat captured at sea circa 1880 by Adolphus Knell, with the sun rising or setting...
Category
1880s Victorian Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Southern Colorado Skies" by Michael Magrin, Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Michael Magrin's ( US based) "Southern Colorado Skies" is an original, handmade oil painting of a vast sky above the Colorado plains. This piece is fram...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Wood Panel
Tammi's Tattered Handmade Paper
Located in Dallas, TX
ink on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Forest Never Sleeps
By Deb Komitor
Located in Denver, CO
Deb Komitor's "The Forest Never Sleeps" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an evening landscape where the full moon's bright light illuminates the foliage and underbr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1930's. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, panel measures 19 x 15 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...
Category
1930s Realist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
$1,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Carriage Ride
By Americo Makk
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. Item includes frame; framed dimensions are approximately 27x33 inches.
Americo Makk...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,500 Sale Price
22% Off
844 - Tall Skinny Red Abstract Figurative Textured Artwork on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Blurring the distinction between figure and abstract paintings, Swiss artist Edith Konrad’s spectral forms - human in shape - inhabit muted abstract environments punctuated by vivid ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Willow
Located in Atlanta, GA
Eva Makk has been called “the world’s foremost living impressionist painter”. She is celebrated for graceful, light-infused compositions executed with shimmer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,900 Sale Price
39% Off
Mt Shasta Spring Stroll on the River Beneath the Mountain Original Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Mt Shasta Spring Stroll on the River Beneath the Mountain Original Oil on Linen
A solitary hiker on a trail with Northern California's Mt. Shasta in the distance by Joseph John Engl...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The Soda Fountain (New Yorker Magazine cover proposal)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). The Soda Fountain, ca. 1950s. Watercolor and ink on paper, 9 x 12 inches; 13 x 16 inches framed. Signed lower right. Exc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$2,000 Sale Price
33% Off
"Ocean IV" (2022) Original Painting by Elena Degenhardt, Pastel Seascape
By Elena Degenhardt
Located in Denver, CO
Elena Degenhardt's "Ocean IV" is a poignant representation of the relentless and eternal spirit of the sea. Crafted in 2022, this exquisite original artwork measures 4 x 6 inches, rendered in soft pastel on paper, and comes elegantly framed in a custom 8 x 10-inch frame that complements the hues of the ocean's waters. Degenhardt's mastery in pastel techniques...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"View of Venice" Impressionist Oil Painting with Figures and Boats along Venice
By Niek van der Plas
Located in New York, NY
This captivating scene of Venice from the 20th Century is a wonderful display of Van der Plas's true passion for outdoor genre paintings. The vibrant colors and impressionistic brush...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Just Think of It"
By Michael Carson
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
"Just Think of It" is a moody, figurative oil painting that layers soft pale blues against deep grays and black, creating a quiet tension. A stylish man sits at the edge of a couch, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
August 13, 1998 (98-99 Series), Original Painting
By Mark Cudd
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A woman gazes sideways, her eyes twinkling. The black-and-white palette adds depth to her emotion. 1998–1999 marked a particularly tumultuous chapter for arti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Broken Ice, Large Mid-20th Century Gouache, Op Art Cleveland School Artist
By Edwin Mieczkowski
Located in Beachwood, OH
Edwin Mieczkowski (American, 1929-2017)
Broken Ice, 1976
Gouache and pencil on paper
Signed, dated (Feb. 2, 1976) and titled lower right
27.5 x 37.75 inches
35 x 45 inches, framed
Edwin Mieczkowski, born in Pittsburgh, was a leader of geometric and perceptual abstraction during the latter part of the 20th century. Mieczkowski's work first came to prominence in "The Responsive Eye" exhibition, the nation's first major exhibition of perceptual art, held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965.
Mieczkowski was also featured in the 1964 article in Timemagazine that first used the term "Op Art" to describe paintings that manipulated visual cues in order to reorder and excite viewers' perceptual responses.
With a complex aesthetic that over time has transcended mere tricks of optical art, Mieczkowski has spent nearly four decades producing geometrically paintings, drawings and sculptures, a genre of modern art that is known broadly as perceptual abstraction.
His output of static and dynamic forms create a body of work, still largely intact, that uses visually disorienting, meticulously arranged lines, dazzling kaleidoscopic colors, and alluring juxtapositions of hue and tone, to playfully and seductively present new challenges for the viewer's eyes. The desired result is an optical effect of perpetual motion, harmonics and rhythm. . . .
Along with Frank Hewitt and Ernst Benkert, Mieczkowski was a co-founder in 1959 of the Anonima* group that worked together in Cleveland and New York and declared itself free from the pressures of the art market and the pursuit of personal fame. Members of Anonima often left their works unsigned and vowed to shun the usual art market venues such as commercial galleries, biennials and competitions. Instead, they engaged in a rigorous, self-imposed program of painting exercises to explore the effects of geometry and color on visual perception.
Although Mieczkowski's work hung side-by-side in the MOMA "Responsive Eye" exhibition with such colleagues as Josef Albers, Victor Vasarely, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Carlos Cruz-Diaz, Ad Reinhardt and Bridget Riley, all of whom went on to considerable fame and fortune, Mieczkowski chose to eschew commercial exhibition and career promotion. Instead, he spent 39 years teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art and quietly executing a number of public art commissions while independently pursuing his own intuitive explorations in geometric abstraction.
Mieczkowski pursued virtually no commercial sales of his work. Consequently, the body of work he left behind consists of hundreds of paintings, drawings and sculptures only recently viewed...
Category
1970s Op Art Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Monopoly Man
By Alec Monopoly
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an early oil on newsprint, laid on canvas by American street artist Alec Monopoly.
"Monopoly Man", is an original oil on newspaper, laid on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century English marine of Dutch or English boats off a coastline
By James Webb
Located in Woodbury, CT
This James Webb English marine painting, circa 1870, is a masterpiece of atmospheric charm and technical precision that would appeal profoundly to an interior designer or fine art co...
Category
1870s Victorian Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Meringues" (2015) by Suzy Smith, Original Oil Painting, Portrait
By Suzy Smith
Located in Denver, CO
Suzy Smith's "Meringues" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a female nude set against a backdrop inspired by a Wayne Thiebaud pie painting...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Game Face: Original Street Art Painting Large Colorful Neo-Expressionism Artwork
By Soren Grau
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Drawing inspiration from cultural icons and global events, Soren Grau's street art-infused Neo-expressionism invites art enthusiasts to be a part of a narrative larger than life. In ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Ocean III" (2022) Original Painting by Elena Degenhardt, Pastel Seascape
By Elena Degenhardt
Located in Denver, CO
Elena Degenhardt's "Ocean III" is a poignant representation of the relentless and eternal spirit of the sea. Crafted in 2022, this exquisite original artwork measures 4 x 6 inches, rendered in soft pastel on paper, and comes elegantly framed in a custom 8 x 10-inch frame that complements the hues of the ocean's waters. Degenhardt's mastery in pastel techniques...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Paris, Rue De Norvins" 20th Century Impressionistic Oil Painting on Canvas
By Jacques Bouyssou
Located in New York, NY
A stunning depiction of a lively village scene with houses and figures throughout. There is a cafe situated near the busy street as people look through the neighboring shops' window....
Category
20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Red Plum & Pitcher" Original Oil, Teapot with Plum, Grapes, Still-Life Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Red Plum" by Blair Atherholt is an original, hand made painting depicting a teapot with grapes and a warmly lit red plum
Blair Atherholt is an award-winning contemporary realist oi...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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