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Item Ships From: Dallas
Untitled
By Hugh Henry Breckenridge
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "Hugh H. Breckenridge" at lower left
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coral Bean Wildflower, Goose Island State Park
By Jim Stoker
Located in Dallas, TX
Jim Stoker
Coral Bean Wildflower, Goose Island State Park, 2017
oil on linen
32 x 40 inches
33 3/8 x 41 inches including frame
Texas artist Jim Stoker began developing his confetti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Unfolding Temporal Manifestation
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
Short Statements on Painting by Jim Woodson (in no particular order):
Remember less, Explore More
Learn then forget, then look and discover
Move Thought into Thinking
A verb is more...
Category
2010s American Realist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fruit and Glass Still Life
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald S. Vogel's work has entered the collections of the following institutions:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Beaumont Museum of Fine Art, Beaumont, Texas
Charle...
Category
1950s Post-War Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Summer Studio
By John Hartell
Located in Dallas, TX
Valley House Gallery is honored to present a selection of paintings from the estate of American artist, John Hartell (1902-1995). John Hartell taught two disciplines at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York: freshman architecture and graduate painting. He was a much-loved professor there from 1930 until his retirement in 1967; one of his most illustrious students is the architect Richard Meier. As an artist, Hartell's first solo exhibition was in 1937 at Kleeman Gallery in New York. He exhibited at Kraushaar Galleries in New York for four decades, beginning in 1943. The Hartell Gallery at Cornell University, under the Sibley Dome, is named for him. In describing John Hartell, the artist Michael Boyd...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eve's Frame
By David A. Dreyer
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil
Chert and Limestone, Guadalupe River Bottom, Cypress Needles in October
By Jim Stoker
Located in Dallas, TX
Jim Stoker describes himself as an Artist-Naturalist, endeavoring to express his reverence for wildlife through his richly-colored paintings. In his love for the vivid and varied col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Morning
By Allison Gildersleeve
Located in Dallas, TX
In her work, Allison Gildersleeve addresses the theme of memory, exploring the phenomenon of past and present becoming collapsed or entwined by the emotional experience.
Gildersle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Buddies in the house
By Lindy Chambers
Located in Dallas, TX
This painting is from Lindy Chambers' 2023 series "Animal Love."
Born in Tennessee, Lindy Chambers, an identical twin, spent her youth drawing and riding horses with her twin sister LeeLee Brazeal before moving to Texas in 1972.
Lindy has loved animals forever, and her favorite paintings and drawings are of animals. However, she has avoided painting horses until now because she knows horses so well. Lindy's new series includes all variety of animals, including horses.
Lindy Chambers says:
"When I start to paint, the color is intuitive, and the process is spontaneous. I try to listen to the canvas and react to it. I follow the river of the subconscious - it is all about exploration and revelations along the way. My attention is drawn to the relationship of forms - and to unrecognizable shapes that are thought provoking and unworldly."
Lindy Chambers has had solo exhibitions at the Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas; Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas; Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas; and Pelham Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Henri Matisse Drawing Of A Nude Torso From Matisse Estate
By Henri Matisse
Located in Dallas, TX
Henri Matisse (French 1869-1954) Pencil Drawing Of A nude torso Catalogued as Number Z 542 in the Artist Archives Pencil on paper, c. 1900.
Sheet: 9 3/8 x 11 3/4 in.
Framed: 22...
Category
Early 1900s Aesthetic Movement Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Paper
Wildflowers, Cleburne Lake
By Jack Barnett
Located in Dallas, TX
Jack Barnett's skyscapes and landscapes reflect the quiet sensual joy of looking at—and being in—nature. Both expansive and intimate, the paintings survey areas he explores, and thei...
Category
2010s Realist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Boxed In
By Allison Gildersleeve
Located in Dallas, TX
Allison Gildersleeve addresses the theme of memory, exploring the phenomenon of past and present becoming collapsed or entwined by the emotional experience. Gildersleeve states: “In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grop #2
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lunar Wisdom
By Robert Cocke
Located in Dallas, TX
ARTIST STATEMENT
"Since I began painting more than 30 years ago, my work has evolved dramatically in terms of style and subject matter. Underlying all the changes has been a consi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Often I Wander, Five Vessels
By David A. Dreyer
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He has had solo exhibitions at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas and The Gra...
Category
2010s Abstract Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Graphite
Cerro Castellan from Costolon
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
The overall dimensions including the frame are 13 3/8 x 17 3/8 inches.
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to life through landscape, still life, portraiture, and abstraction. Restlessly creative, he has explored these varied genres with equal concentration…..”
Bob Stuth-Wade’s method of painting is uniquely his own, having taught himself technique; his only formal training was as a teenager with Dallas artist Perry...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Four Miles West of Cleburne
By Jack Barnett
Located in Dallas, TX
Jack Barnett's skyscapes and landscapes reflect the quiet sensual joy of looking at—and being in—nature. Both expansive and intimate, the paintings survey areas he explores, and thei...
Category
2010s American Realist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Studio Objects II
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cerro Castellan, A.M.
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
This painting is oil on aluminum panel. It is not framed.
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to life through landscape, still life, portraiture, and abstraction. Restlessly creative, he has explored these varied genres with equal concentration…..”
Bob Stuth-Wade’s method of painting is uniquely his own, having taught himself technique; his only formal training was as a teenager with Dallas artist Perry...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Soul of the Opossum
By Barnaby Fitzgerald
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Birch, Egg Tempera
Puzzle #120: Large Colorful Geometric Abstract Wall Sculpture in Wood and Resin
By David E. Peterson
Located in Dallas, TX
David E. Peterson – Puzzle #120 (2022)
Acrylic, Koa wood, Art Resin 23 x 44 x 3 inches
Dynamic, architectural, and deeply textural, "Puzzle #120" by David E. Peterson seamlessly b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Resin, Wood, Acrylic
Awakening
By Allison Gildersleeve
Located in Dallas, TX
"Behind my canvases, collages, and drawings lies a singular proposition: places are not inert; they are repositories for all that passes through them. My work is an inquiry into the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quilted Dream, Clear Passage, Through Needle's Eye, Dance of Night
By David A. Dreyer
Located in Dallas, TX
Dallas artist David A. Dreyer’s eighth solo exhibition at Valley House Gallery was presented early in 2021, accompanied by an exhibition catalogue. His recent paintings are inspired ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Chalk, Charcoal, Oil, Graphite
Cerro Castellan
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
This painting is oil on panel. It is not framed.
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to life through landscape, still life, portraiture, and abstraction. Restlessly creative, he has explored these varied genres with equal concentration…..”
Bob Stuth-Wade’s method of painting is uniquely his own, having taught himself technique; his only formal training was as a teenager with Dallas artist Perry...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
First Presbyterian Church, Hillsboro, Ohio; US Highway 50
By Lloyd Brown
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on a shaped ragboard panel in an artist-made frame.
Category
2010s Photorealist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Time
By Vera Barnett
Located in Dallas, TX
Inspired by the quote "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations." - Faith Baldwin
In her recent series, "The Painted Word," Vera Barnett has turned to the written word for...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$4,600
Girl in Green
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1940s American Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Releasing the Dove
By Fred Nagler
Located in Dallas, TX
Fred Nagler was born in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he first studied wood carving. From 1914 to 1917, he studied at The Art Students League of New York, where his profe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Studio Objects III
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of Young Girl
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Shaded Bench
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Friendly Visitor
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Honeycomb Limestones, Guadalupe River
By Jim Stoker
Located in Dallas, TX
Texas artist Jim Stoker began developing his confetti-splatter technique of painting in 2000 to depict his interpretations of the unique flora along the Guadalupe River...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Interior 2
By Allison Gildersleeve
Located in Dallas, TX
"Behind my canvases, collages, and drawings lies a singular proposition: places are not inert; they are repositories for all that passes through them. My work is an inquiry into the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
As An Elephant's Eye
By Allison Gildersleeve
Located in Dallas, TX
"Behind my canvases, collages, and drawings lies a singular proposition: places are not inert; they are repositories for all that passes through them. My work is an inquiry into the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Earthen Vessel
By David A. Dreyer
Located in Dallas, TX
"The art I make does not tell a direct story, but prompts one to find things truly unseen. The works develop through intuitive improvisations, actions upon surface, and lines perpetu...
Category
2010s Abstract Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Graphite
Interspersed Field Realization, Big Bend, TX
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
"Interspersed Field Realization, Big Bend, Texas," by artist Jim Woodson is oil on canvas. The unframed dimensions are 24 x 48 inches. The artist signed and titled the painting on ve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Crepe Myrtle
By Barnaby Fitzgerald
Located in Dallas, TX
“Barnaby Fitzgerald’s outrageously gorgeous paintings are a guilty pleasure - yet the guilt is unnecessary, for they do not cloy or fatten us. They are as intellectually challenging ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Birch, Egg Tempera
Mother and Child
By William Eric Horsbrugh-Porter
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed "HP" at lower right, and inscribed "Eric Horsbrugh-Porter / Phyllida one week old" on verso.
The overall dimensions, including the frame, are 17 x 21 5/8 inches.
Category
1930s Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cerro Castellan, Narrow View
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
This painting is oil on gessobord panel. The overall dimensions including the frame are 17 x 14 inches.
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to life through landscape, still life, portraiture, and abstraction. Restlessly creative, he has explored these varied genres with equal concentration…..”
Bob Stuth-Wade’s method of painting is uniquely his own, having taught himself technique; his only formal training was as a teenager with Dallas artist Perry...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pink Tops
By David Collins
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen, Wood Panel
Last Quarter II
By David A. Dreyer
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Graphite, Oil
Divining Intelligence, Earth Bound, Eclipsed Shadows
By David A. Dreyer
Located in Dallas, TX
"I want my paintings to be a celebration of pure nature and moment––homage to the sacred spaces of memory. I begin with small automatic drawings, a practice of intuitive organization...
Category
2010s Abstract Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Chalk, Charcoal, Oil, Graphite
Rain with Blue Sculpture
By Mary Vernon
Located in Dallas, TX
"In the world of still life and landscape, conceptual events meet one another – the structural meets the narrative, the small stands in the space of the large, and color has a chance...
Category
2010s Abstract Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Chrysler Building, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I love to paint architecture. New York City has always been an unlimited resource for my inspiration. I hope that other people will enjoy this painting as much as I enjoyed the creat...
Category
2010s Abstract Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil
San Agustin - Zacatecas (From Azotea of Hotel)
By Loren Mozley
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "Mozley" at lower right
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Cart Bay
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Gulf Stream Overlay, The Delta
By David A. Dreyer
Located in Dallas, TX
In his essay about David A. Dreyer's work, Philip Van Keuren writes:
"He distills infinite visual and sensory stimuli he encountered while working in the field into the relatively...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Tornillo Creek
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to life through landscape, still life, portraiture, and abstraction. Restlessly creative, he has explored these varied genres with equal concentration…..”
Bob Stuth-Wade’s method of painting is uniquely his own, having taught himself technique; his only formal training was as a teenager with Dallas artist Perry Nichols...
Category
1990s Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Garden Gate
By Allison Gildersleeve
Located in Dallas, TX
Allison Gildersleeve received her BA from the College of William and Mary and her MFA from Bard College. She has exhibited across the United States and abroad, including New York Cit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Clouds Came In
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to life through landscape, still life, portraiture, and abstraction. Restlessly creative, he has explored these varied genres with equal concentration…..”
Bob Stuth-Wade’s method of painting is uniquely his own, having taught himself technique; his only formal training was as a teenager with Dallas artist Perry Nichols...
Category
2010s Realist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Ties
By Dan Wingren
Located in Dallas, TX
"My head is somewhere near the intersections of the fields of art, history, psychology, engineering, and religion," Dan Wingren was quoted as saying, when he was named the Meadows Di...
Category
1980s Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,400
Still Life with Studio Objects I
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Below Ceide Fields
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Panel
Oars
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1950s American Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nude with Green Hair
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1970s American Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Nudes with Still Life
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1950s American Modern Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1960s Abstract Oil and Encaustic Painting on Board by TX Modernist Walter McCown
By Walter Edwin McCown
Located in Dallas, TX
Abstract oil and encaustic on board by Walter McCown executed in the mid-1960s. From the corporate collection of a private Texas bank.
Walter Edwin McCown...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Paint
Greenhouse Yellows
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Faces which Ring with Refuge 5
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it...
Category
2010s Abstract Dallas - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
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