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Item Ships From: Florida
Marché Cluny - Market at Cap-Haitien - Haitian Street Art
Located in Miami, FL
A bustling street scene of everyday life in front of the famed Marché in Cap-Haïtien is rendered in Sénèque This is a relatively early work by Obin's signature brightly colored and flat naive style.
Signed lower right.
Provenance: Galerie Issa - Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - Owned by Issa El Saieh of later named El Saieh Gallery
Sénèque Obin...
Category
1950s Outsider Art Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Ramon Poch 17 Especting original acrylic painting
By Ramon Poch
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
R. Poch. 121 original acrylic painting
Born in Badalona (Barcelona).
Photographer and advertising film director.
Founding partner of the advertising production company La Cosa de la...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Voodoo Devils Take the Sick - The Fight of Good vs Evil - Vodou
By Wilson Bigaud
Located in Miami, FL
Devils depicted. Artist Wilson Bigaud paints a graphic narrative of mid-century life in Haiti without modern medicine. A man is dying yet there is no doctor present. In the struggle...
Category
1950s Outsider Art Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Balaguer 10 Racing Car Red Ferrari 246. original
By Alex Balaguer
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Froilan Gonzalez. Ferrari 246. original painting
During early childhood, Àlex Balaguer began to sketch motorcars symbolic of Maranello’s trademark vehicle.
Self-taught in the art wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Savage Garden
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Timothy Berry (b.1948). Savage Garden, 1996. Oil on canvas, 34 x 32 inches. Sigh on verso. Original gallery label affixed on verso. Canvas stretched over...
Category
1990s Surrealist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
COMPOSITION
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil painting on canvas. Unsigned. Canvas size 23.875 x 16.75 inches. Custom framed as pictured.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included....
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Surprising Visit" 19th Century Antique European Oil Painting on Canvas
By Eduardo Leon Garrido
Located in Jacksonville, FL
A Surprising Visit" by Eduardo León Garrido (Spanish, 1856-1949) invites viewers into a sumptuous journey through 19th-century European luxury. Eduardo León Garrido, a distinguished Spanish artist born in 1856 and leaving an artistic legacy until 1949, displayed a remarkable ability to capture the essence of his time through his brushstrokes.
This antique masterpiece, rendered in oil on panel and measuring 22 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches, unveils a world of opulence within a Royal European...
Category
19th Century Academic Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Chinese Contemporary Abstract Art Mixed Media Collage Painting Wang Tao
Located in Surfside, FL
Wang Tao (Chinese, 1943)
"Blue Clouds with Dragons (Untitled)," 2007,
Acrylic and vintage antique paper collage on canvas,
Hand signed and dated L/R,
Verso inscribed and dated
Di...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Acrylic
R. Poch. 5Two Women in Armchair with Cat and Window. original acrylic painting
By Ramon Poch
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
70 R. Poch. Two women in armchair with cat and window. original acrylic painting
Born in Badalona (Barcelona).
Photographer and advertising film director.
Founding partner of the adv...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Romanian Israeli Modernist Oil Painting Expressionist Figures Mothers and Babies
By Risa Propst Kraid
Located in Surfside, FL
Risa Propst Kraid (Romanian - Israeli, 1894-1983) Jewish Israeli Woman artist. enigmatic picture of either women picnicking or refugees huddling together.
Painting and Sculpture We...
Category
1960s Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Orchestra Musical Gouache Painting Boston Expressionist
By David Aronson
Located in Surfside, FL
Very vibrant, dynamic orchestra scene reminiscent of the work of Mopp (Max Oppenheim)
David Aronson, (1923-2015) son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigrated to America at the age of five. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts where he studied at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts under Karl Zerbe, a German painter well known in the early 1900s. Aronson later taught at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts for fourteen years and founded the School of Fine Art at Boston University where he is today a professor emeritus. An internationally renowned sculptor & painter, Aronson has won acclaim for his interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Talmud and Kabala. His best known works include bronze castings, encaustic paintings, and pastels. His work is included in many important public and private collections, and has been shown in several museum retrospectives around the country. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th century American artists.
At twenty-two David Aronson had his first one-man show at New York's Niveau Gallery. The next year, six of his Christological paintings were included in the Fourteen Americans exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art where Aronson’s work was included alongside abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell and Isamu Noguchi. In the 1950s, Aronson turned more toward his Jewish heritage for the inspiration for his art. Folklore as well as Kabalistic and other transcendental writings influenced his work greatly. The Golem (a legendary figure, brought to life by the Maharal of Prague out of clay to protect the Jewish community during times of persecution) and the Dybbuk (an evil spirit that lodges itself in the soul of a living person until exorcised) frequently appear in his work.
In the sixties, Aronson turned to sculpture. His work during this period is best exemplified by a magnificent 8’ x 4’ bronze door which now stands at the entrance to Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Foundation Conference Center for the Arts in Racine, Wisconsin. In the seventies and eighties, Aronson continued his work in pastel drawings, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring religion and the frailties of man's nature. During this time, in addition to a traveling retrospective exhibition and many one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston at the Pucker-Safrai Gallery on Newbury Street, Aronson won many awards and became a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. Two years ago he retired from teaching to work full-time in his studio in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
included in the catalog
Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art
Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974.
Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.
Selected Awards
1990, Certificate of Merit, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Design
1976, Joseph Isidore Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize in Drawing, Albrecht Art Museum
1975, Isaac N. Maynard Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design
1973, Samuel F. B. Morse Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1967, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Fine Arts
1967, Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design
1963, Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of Philadelphia
1961, 62, 63, Purchase Prize, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1960, John Siimon Guggenheim Fellowship
1958, Grant in Art, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1954, First Prize, Tupperware Annual Art Fund Award
1954, Grand Prize, Third Annual Boston Arts Festival
1953, Second Prize, Second Annual Boston Arts Festival
1952, Grand Prize, First Annual Boston Arts Festival
1946, Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
1946, Purchase Prize, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1944, First Popular Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
1944, First Judge's Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Bryn Mawr College
Brandeis University
Tupperware Museum, Orlando, Florida
DeCordova Museum
Museum of Modern Art Print Collection, New York
Atlanta University
Atlanta Art...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"A Pompeiian Love Song" 19th Century Realism Antique Oil on Canvas
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Provenance:
Sold: Jackson's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Cedar Falls, Iowa, December 8, 2009, Lot 4
A Pompeiian Love Song" by Antonio Rivas (Spanish, 1845-1911) transports viewers back ...
Category
19th Century Academic Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fragmentos, Collage. Portrait Mixed Media.
By Roberto Fonfria
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fragmentos, 2023
Solvent transfers and acrylics on canvas
Image size: 40 in. H x 30 in. W x 1.5 D
Mixed media
Mounted on a stretcher.
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Roberto Fonfrí...
Category
2010s Pop Art Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
Supernova
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Christina Allan
Title: Supernova
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 42 x 38 inches (106.7 x 96.5 cm)
Year: 2022
Notes: Hand Signed on Verso. Exh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
FRANCOISE WITH HAMSTER
By Angel Botello
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on board. Hand signed on front by the artist.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Florid Thoughts, Figurative Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Florid Thoughts, 2022 by Ramonn Vieitez
Oil on cotton canvas
Size: 39.3 in DM
Unique
Signed on the back by the artist
Mounted on a stretcher
Weight: 3 kg
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Ramonn Vieitez is a se...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figures Running - Early Abstract Expressionism like Willem de Kooning
By Salvatore Grippi
Located in Miami, FL
Salvatore Grippi was my art professor at Ithaca college from 1970- 1971
Who was doing paintings like this in 1950? Jackson Pollack, Willem De Kooning and Salvatore Grippi, and a few...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Manning de Villenueve Lee Early 20th Century India
Located in San Francisco, CA
Manning de Villenueve Lee:1894-1980. Well listed American painter and illustrator with Auction records up to $22,500. This spectacular painting is one of our favorites. Probably pain...
Category
1940s American Realist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Modernist Oil Painting Nude Male on Beach WPA Artist Group of 10
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Rabbi Israeli judaica Oil Painting
By Nicky Imber
Located in Surfside, FL
Nicky Imber (Vienna, Austria, 1920 -1996) was a multidisciplinary Jewish artist best known for his sculptures on Jewish themes. Grand nephew of Naftali Herz Imber, author of the Isra...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Hungarian Jewish Rabbi Judaica Oil Painting Portrait
By Lajos Polczer
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Pre World War II (Pre Holocaust) Judaica Art. European Judaic art from this period is exceedingly rare.
Polczer was an Hungarian artist, his foundations of painting were taught by a painter Bertalan Karlovszky. His works were exhibited in the National Salon and the Art Hall from 1928. His works are held by the Hungarian National Gallery. In his later years he worked in the United States, he was working in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1960s. Known for his Jewish genre scenes, Chess scenes and other early 20th Century salon style nude paintings. In the tradition of Moritz Oppenheim...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Framed Chinese Emperor and Empress Reverse Glass Paintings
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Immerse yourself in the regal allure of Chinese history with this captivating pair of framed reverse glass paintings depicting a Chinese Emperor and Empress...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass
"Taking Tea" 19th Century Orientalism Portrait Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Jacksonville, FL
"Taking Tea" by Jan-Baptist Huysmans, an accomplished Orientalist painter of the 19th century, unveils a captivating world in his oil painting on panel. Born in 1826, Huysmans was re...
Category
19th Century Realist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nude Boy Discovered in Barn - Gay Interest
By Norman Mills Price
Located in Miami, FL
Norman Mills Price depicts a handsome, nude blond boy with classical good looks. He is lying on his stomach in straw in the loft of a barn with his buttocks exposed. The artist captu...
Category
1910s Academic Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Board
The Boy With Pollen Allergy, Figurative Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Boy With Pollen Allergy, 2022 by Ramonn Vieitez
Oil on cotton canvas
Size: 80cm DM
Unique
Signed on the back by the artist
Mounted on a stretcher
Weight: 2,5 kg
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Ramonn Viei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polish French Ecole de Paris Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Clown Juggler
By Abram Krol
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Abraham Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland.
Abram Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the Universit...
Category
1950s Modern Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art Deco Costume Design - Eva
By Georges Lepape
Located in Miami, FL
The paper in some of these photos looks overly textured due to the sharpness of the high-res digital camera.
In person, with the human eye, the paper looks reasonably smooth with out blemishes.
For this fashion illustration, Georges Lepape paints a stunning abstract pattern for the subject dress that is repeated in her hair. The work represents an early use of metallic paint, with silver metallic in the dress and bronze metallic in the blouse. Lepape's highly detailed drawing becomes more evident the closer you look. It's quite amazing how deftly he rendered facial feature on such a small scale. "Eva" 1918 Gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper Signed and dated, lower right: '1918' Inscribed, verso: "Costume for L'enfantement du mort, (miracle en pourpre, et or.). Devised by Marcel L'Herbier and performed at the Théatre Edouard VII and the Comédie des Champs-Elysées, 1919" Provenance: Ex-collection Lucien...
Category
1910s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"Free Mind" Painting 48" x 60" inch by Alina Shimova
By Alina Shimova
Located in Culver City, CA
"Free Mind" Painting 48" x 60" inch by Alina Shimova
ABOUT
Alina Shimova is a young and ambitious artist from Moscow, Russia.
Her creative journey b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Princess and Prince, Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina Fairy Tales
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti paints a charming fantasy scene. It's of an extreme closeup of a tiny crowned and winged Prince and Princess They are standing upright in a dand...
Category
1950s Surrealist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Spanish Catalan Modernist Oil Painting Drummer Boy Figurative Abstraction
By Artur Duch
Located in Surfside, FL
Artur Duch Puig, born 1951 in Sitges
In 1971 he started studying at the St. Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona.
There he developed his artistic skills in the fields of sculptu...
Category
20th Century Post-Modern Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art
By Red Grooms
Located in Surfside, FL
Red Grooms (American, b. 1937).
Keystone Kops to the Rescue III. 2006.
Triptych color monotype created by the artist with lithographic ink on plexiglass plates, and then hand-colored by the artist.
Printed by master printer Bud Shark.
Printed on White Rives BFK.
A unique impression, signed by the artist in pencil lower right.
3 sheets. Each sheet is 30 x 44 ½ ”. Overall: 30 x 133 ½ ”
This has all the wonderful components of a Red Grooms piece, Keystone Kops policemen, Circus, Cactus, Cowboys, Hollywood sign etc.
Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown's Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann.
Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee during the middle of the Great Depression. Red Grooms came of age in the shadow of the Abstract Expressionists. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at Nashville's Peabody College. In 1956, Grooms moved to New York City, to enroll at the New School for Social Research. A year later, Grooms attended a summer session at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There he met experimental animation pioneer Yvonne Andersen, with whom he collaborated on several short films. Grooms follows in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, who were canny commentators on the human condition. In 1969, Peter Schjeldahl compared Grooms to Marcel Duchamp, because both embodied "a movement of one man that is open to everybody."
In the spring of 1958, Grooms, Yvonne Andersen and Lester Johnson each painted twelve-foot by twelve-foot panels, which they erected with telephone poles on a parking lot adjacent an amusement park in Salisbury, MA. Inspired by artist-run spaces such as New York's Hansa Gallery and Phoenix, and Provincetown's Sun Gallery, Grooms and painter Jay Milder opened the City Gallery in Grooms' second-floor loft in the Flatiron District. When Phoenix refused to show Claes Oldenburg, Grooms and Milder dropped out of Phoenix and City Gallery presented Oldenberg's first New York exhibition, as well as that of Jim Dine. Other artists who showed at City Gallery include Stephen Durkee, Mimi Gross (daughter of Chaim Gross and Red Grooms wife), Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, and Alex Katz. Grooms never developed the detached stance of such Pop Art practitioners as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein or James Rosenquist. Instead he painted his own life, and became, literally, an actor on the stage of life -- in this case the art-as-life "happenings" of the downtown New York scene. Inspired by George Méliès...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Monoprint, Monotype
Balaguer Car "Bugatti Type 35 1924 French GP Lyons" original acrylic
By Alex Balaguer
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Artwork by the Spanish artist BALAGUER
Signed And Certified
Perfect state
BALAGUER , Alex ( Barcelona 1968 )
During early childhood, Àlex Balaguer began to sketch motorcars symbolic ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Israeli Judaica Shtetl "The Lesson" Rabbi Studying Scene Naive Art Oil Painting
By Natan Heber
Located in Surfside, FL
Natan Heber was trained by his father in Poland to be a ritual slaughterer. In 1925, he joined the Zionist movement "Mizrachi" and in 1936 immigrated to Palestine where he opened a poultry shop in Haifa. He began to paint at the age of sixty-one, after ill health forced him to retire. Driven by a need to memorialize his family and their shtetl community lost in the Holocaust, he drew scenes of traditional Jewish life. Unfamiliar with the conventions of scale and perspective, he set his heavily outlined frontal figures on steeply rising surfaces and often portrayed his father in monumental size to mark his importance. One of Israel's greatest naive-style painters. Along with Shalom of Safed, Kopel Gurwin and Gabriel Cohen, He is renowned as one of Israel's greatest living naive-style folk art painters, The Haifa Museum of Art will be opening the first ever Outsider Art exhibition (also known as Art Brut) in Israel in January 2013.
He was included in the show of Outsider art at Haifa Museum The exhibition included works by Classical Outsider artists, none of them have ever been shown in Israel - Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Adolf Wölfli, Aloïse, Hauser, Carlo Zinnelli, Bill Traylor, Minnie Evans, William Hawkins and Sam...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Balaguer Car Rally Montecarlo 1977. Seat 124 Special. original painting
By Alex Balaguer
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
A. Zanini. Rally Montecarlo 1977. Seat 124 Special. original painting
BALAGUER , Alex ( Barcelona 1968 )
During early childhood, Àlex Balaguer began to sketch motorcars symbolic of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Israeli Judaica Folk Art Oil Synagogue Interior Malkos Lashes Erev Yom kippur
By Yitzchak Roman
Located in Surfside, FL
Yitzchak Roman, Israeli Folk Artist Painting and sculpture, born in Safed, 1913, known for his naive depictions of Jewish life and biblical scenes...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Family Interior Shtetl Scene
By Peter Horowitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Peter Horowitz, painter, born 1922, Poland. Lived in Hod Hasharon in Israel.
Studied at the Art Academy, Krakow. died in 2005.
Studies: Art Academy, Cracow. Peter Horowitz was born...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Israeli Modernist Watercolor Landscape Signed in Hebrew
Located in Surfside, FL
In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted, and there is a deft blending of them.
Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladizhinsky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin.
Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective.
One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso.
Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide.
Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art.
There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee).
At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries.
The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius.
Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924)
Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States
Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008)
Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels
Art en Marge Museum in Brussels
MADmusée in Liege
International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro
Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo
Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog
Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb
Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
Category
1980s Modern Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Judaica "The Rebbe's Visit" European Hasidic Rabbi Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Realistic portrait of an older rabbi visiting and blessing a child in a European marketplace. Here the artist conveys a sense of quiet grandeur th...
Category
20th Century Realist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Balaguer Car Races Ken Miles&Denny Hulme. Ford GT40MK.II. original painting
By Alex Balaguer
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
. original painting
BALAGUER , Alex ( Barcelona 1968 )
During early childhood, Àlex Balaguer began to sketch motorcars symbolic of Maranello’s trademark vehicle.
Self-taught in the a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Folk Art Naive Oil Painting Workers in Vineyard, Les Vignes aux Gitans
Located in Surfside, FL
Max Savy Oil on canvas painting depicting a village scene with winemakers in a vineyard by artist Max Savy (French, b. 1918). Signed in the lower right. Frame measures 24.5 inches x 28 inches. canvas is 18 X 22 inches.,
Perfect for a wine cellar or cave.
Max Savy (French, 1918-2010) painted scenes of everyday life in the French Corbieres region, which garnered much success during his life. Though the artist remained silent about his early life, it's known his father instilled in him a belief in the humanist socialism philosophy of French Socialist Party leader, Jean Jaures. In 1938, at age 20, he moved to Carcassonne to attend school. There, he married and settled into a teaching position, joining the French Resistance during World War II and earning the Cross of the Combatant. After the war, he created the work for which he is most admired. Max Savy paintings are part of France's heritage collection, and the artist became a knight of the National Order of Merit in 1973. Max Savy's paintings and artworks include scenes of peasants in the fields. Max Savy was active/lived in France. Max Savy is known for folk art style painting of village architecture, vintners, figures in landscape, wine makers, marine scenes. His work is similar in style to the naive, folk art paintings of Michel Delacroix and Fanch Ledan. This is quite similar to a work I had titled "Les Vignes Aux Gitans" (the gypsy grape vines)
So i assume this is also a vineyard painting...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Judaica Oil Painting 1945 Palestine Old Jewish Man Polish Israeli Artist
By Ozer Shabat
Located in Surfside, FL
Ozer Shabat 1978-1901
Ozer Shabbat was an Israeli painter, a resident of Haifa. Belonged to the Palestine Expressionist group of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Shabbat was born in Wolbrom, Poland. At the end of the First World War he went to Holland for agricultural training in the framework of the HeChalutz movement, prior to his immigration to Palestine. In 1920 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and joined the Hulda group. Later he joined the Merhavia group and there he began painting. Because of his desire to study drawing, he left the group and moved to Jerusalem. In 1921, he wrote articles in the newspaper "HaSadeh" on the subject of agriculture and Dutch cheese.
Ozer Shabath won the first prize in a competition for the design of the Dutch Consulate's Garden in Jerusalem, enabling him to travel to Paris in 1923 to study painting. Until 1925 he studied painting at the Grande Chaumiere Academy in Paris. This year he returned to Eretz Israel and settled in Haifa, where he lived until his death.
In 1928 he participated for the first time in an exhibition of Eretz Israel artists at the Tower of David. Since then he has participated in all the general exhibitions of Israeli artists. In 1934, together with painters Menachem Shemi, Avraham Mohar, Zvi Meirovitch and others, he founded the Haifa Artists' Group. In 1935-36 he toured Europe and visited Italy, France and England. During his visit, he maintained contacts with artists from the Jewish school of Paris.
He has exhibited in several solo exhibitions, represented Israel in exhibitions in Europe and participated in international exhibitions in New York, Johannesburg and Zurich. In 1958 he represented Israel in the Venice Biennale. In 1960, Shabat, together with Elchanan Halpern he represented the Israeli Painters Association at the International Congress of Plastic Arts held in Vienna, Austria . In the 40s and 50s he focused on landscape pictures. However, despite the focus on the Israeli landscape, the approach is universal in the framework of the post-Impressionist painting school. In the 1960s, his approach changed and he turned more to abstraction. The abstract direction gradually evolved. The point of departure of the abstract approach is the architectural landscape, but this view loses its real character and becomes only imaginary: the buildings lose their real character and turn into exclusive geometric areas that are usually set against a dark background. Over time, architecture captured the lion's share of his paintings. Cities like Safed, Jaffa and Jerusalem are the subject of many pictures.
He taught painting and art at the schools of the kibbutzim in Ramat Yochanan and Kfar Yehoshua, in high schools in Haifa and in the IDF and Gordon seminars.
His paintings were purchased and are in the permanent collection of the Bezalel National Museum (now the Israel Museum), Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa Maritime Museum, Acre Municipal Museum.
Select Solo exhibitions
1936 - Nadler Gallery, Haifa.
1943 - The Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
1952 - Artists House, Haifa.
1953 - Bezalel House, Jerusalem.
1955 - Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland.
1955 - The Writers' Club, Haifa.
1959 - Artists House, Haifa.
1960 - Museum of Modern Art, Haifa.
1962 - Museum of Modern Art, Haifa.
1963 - Gallery 220, Tel Aviv.
1968 - The Municipal Museum of Beit Emanuel, Ramat Gan.
1979 - Memorial exhibition marking the first anniversary...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Virgen del Carmen
Located in Miami, FL
Colonial School, Mexico, XVIII Century
"Virgen del Carmen"
Oil on canvas
70 x 40 in
Category
18th Century Old Masters Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peruvian Expressionist Oil Painting Miguel Aybar Modernist Latin American Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Dimensions: (Frame) H 28.5" x W 35.5" (Painting) H 22" x W 30"
Miguel Ángel Aybar Llauca, an artist specializing in expressionist painting, was born in Huancavelica and lives in the city of Ica where he began drawing from a very young age, drawing from its beautiful valleys and customs. In 1970 he began his studies in Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at the Regional School of Ica. He is a graduate of the National Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts of Peru (1971-1976) with honorable mention, forming the promotion "Juan Manuel Ugarte Eléspuru".
"Iqueño Expressionism" is the title of the exhibition that will be available to the public from May 25 to June 13 in the "Paracas" Room of the "Adolfo Bermúdez Jenkins" Regional Museum of Ica. Av. Ayabaca block 8°.
Miguel Angel Aybar is a painter who characterizes expressionism in Ica without a doubt. His songs speak of longing, and secret friendships with the hurango, the palm tree of Huacachina or the silent and still sand of Ica. His work is primarily characterized by color. The contrasts between the intense dark contrasted with the radiance of reds, oranges, yellows or greens, achieve a positive effect on the observer. Its warm tones reach high levels like an Ica sun at noon. However, among those quasi Servulian colors , Andean prints maintain their presence. Hats, ponchos or skirts hidden from a root bound by blood or memories.
The perfect textures of his works give him the seal, the personality that characterizes a curdled and experienced Aybar who no longer needs to dialogue with the brush; they just flow, hand and brush. When entering the exhibition hall, you do not need to read the signature, he is an Aybar. There is no room for confusion. Although there are not a few artists from Ica who use these boiling tones, and I translate it as a tribute to that Sérvulo that touches you in the depths of your being, if you are an artist and you live in Ica, you want to be possessed by the ghost of the disturbing Sérvulo Gutiérrez turned legend. Servulus still catches the spectator being absorbed, as if observing a volcano, fearing that it might erupt, but with an inexplicable delight that he stops you next to him and captures you.
However, Aybar no longer needs Servulo's shadow, he has gained an important space in the artistic world of Ica. He is an artist and a close friend of poets and musicians. Painter recognized by the Ica society and deserving of all the medals and recognitions by the different institutions. He not only paints with mastery, as Alberto Dávila predicted, when he said that his maturity would give him the position that corresponds to him. He now sings in public to the delight of his closest friends. Ica recognizes him as a son and has given him the place that corresponds to this remarkable painter whom I congratulate.
DATA ABOUT THE ARTIST
Miguel Angel Aybar Yauca, was born in 1952 in Huancavelica. He has lived in Ica since he was very young; he began his art studies at the Ica Regional School of Fine Arts. He later moved to Lima to study at the National Autonomous School of Fine Arts of Peru from where he graduated in 1976.
His teacher Alberto Dávila described him as: a restless, imaginative young man with a sober and dramatic color. His forms acquire poise and great eloquence . Aybar also had the painter Carlos Aitor Castillo...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Encaustic Painting Portrait Boston Expressionist
By David Aronson
Located in Surfside, FL
Bears old label verso from Raydon Gallery in New York city.
Aronson, David 1923-
David Aronson, son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigrated to America at the age of ...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Balaguer Car Races Jacky Ickx Le Mans 1969 Ford GT40 original painting
By Alex Balaguer
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
BALAGUER , Alex ( Barcelona 1968 )
During early childhood, Àlex Balaguer began to sketch motorcars symbolic of Maranello’s trademark vehicle.
Self-taught in the art world, Balaguer d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Judaica Watercolor Gouache Bar Mitzvah Boy Rabbi Painting Russian Artist
By Ben Zion Magal
Located in Surfside, FL
Ben Zion Magal (1908 - 1999)
Ben Zion Magal was born in 1908 in Kishinev - Russia and there, years later, graduated from the Art Academy. He arrived to Erertz Israel together with hi...
Category
1960s Neo-Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era
By Emanuel Glicenstein Romano
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Landscape with figure of horse, driver and wagon
Medium: Oil
Surface: wood Board
EMANUEL ROMANO
Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984
Emanuel Glicen Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897.
His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born. His father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland.
In 1926 Emanuel Glicenstein Romano and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later.
Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame.
In 1936 Romano was worked for the WPA Federal Art Project creating murals. ( there were many jewish artists active with in the WPA period. notably Chaim Gross, Ben Shahn, Isaac and Moses Soyer, Abraham Rattner and many others. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida.
Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel.
In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York.
Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicenstein Museum.
COLLECTIONS
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston Fine Arts Museum
Fogg Museum
Musée Nacional de France
Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams...
Category
1930s American Modern Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Israeli Cubist Modernist Oil Painting "Rosh Shiryon Abir" Armor
By Shlomo Zafrir
Located in Surfside, FL
Shlomo Zafrir is active/lives in Israel, France. Shlomo Zafrir is known for cubist painting.
Shlomo Zafrir is a painter and, at the same time, the owner of a nightclub called Omar K...
Category
1960s Cubist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Folk Art Mexican Girl "Emborrachate" Oil Painting on Burlap
By Jose Maria de Servin
Located in Surfside, FL
The sweetness that characterizes the work of Mexican painter Jose Maria de Servin (1917-83) is a melancholy and placid one. While he worked in the most modern of styles, he adapted i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
French Jewish Post Holocaust Abstract Painting Manner of Hundertwasser Art Brut
By Jichak Pressburger
Located in Surfside, FL
Jichak Pressburger, Painter. b. 1933, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. A concentration camp survivior. Came to Israel aboard the ship, "The Exodus". 1964 Went to Paris. In 1979 Returned as new immigrant.
Education Tel Aviv University, B.A. in art, with Marcel Janco and Isidor Ascheim at Avni art school.
Beaux Arts, Paris with Professor Coutaud.
Itzchak Pressburger
Stays in Paris from 1963 – 1979, Resident of the “Cité des Arts” 1969-1972. Lives and works in Jerusalem since 1979.
One-Man Exhibitions
1963 Gallery Dugit, Tel-Aviv
1968 Cultural Center Enkhuizen, Netherlands
1968 Gallery Zunini, Paris (chosen by the art critic of « Opus : Jean-Jacques Lévèque)
1970 Gallery Zunini, Paris
1973 Gallery Maitre Albert, Paris. Cultural Center Verfeil sur Seye, France
1974 Gallery Maitre Albert, Paris
1976 Gallery Mundo, Barcelone
1980 Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1981 Gallery Alain Gerard, Paris
Group Exhibitions
1966 Rathaus Charlottenburg, Berlin. (The first show of Israeli painters in Germany
Artists Center of Silvarouvres, Nantes, Ffance
XXXth Salon of Finances at “l’Hotel des Monnaies”, Paris
1969 Maison de Culture, Le Havre, France
1968 Gallery Zunini, Paris (chosen by the art critic of « Opus : Jean-Jacques Lévèque)
Salon « Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui », Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Nantes, France
Cultural Center Vitry, France
Gallery Il Giorno, Milan
Cité des Arts, Paris
1972 Salon “Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui”, Paris
Salon de Mai, Paris
1973 Städtische Galerie, Siegen, Germany
1974 Jewish Cultural Center, Paris
Publicis, Paris
1975 Réalitiés Nouvelles, Paris
1976 Salon de Mai, Paris
1977 “Perspectives Israeliennes”, Grand Palais, Paris
1981 Salon Alain Gerard, Paris
1984 Artists’ House, Jerusalem
Publication
1990 Haggadah Yom Kippour (Hebrew/French) Abraham Bliah (private edition), Paris
Acquisitions
1968 The City of Paris
1972 The State of France
The Yitzchak Pressburger artist was born in Bratislava – known for centuries by its German name of Pressburg – but the outbreak of World War II found him and his family in Prague. His father realized they had to escape from the Nazi occupiers and tried to get the family across the border into Hungary. However, they were caught near the crossing point, arrested and incarcerated overnight at the nearby railway station. The Czechs put them on a train to Hungary early the next morning. That was their first miracle in their quest for survival.
They survived with relative ease until late 1943, when the father was taken away to a forced labor camp. He subsequently died in a death march. Things became even more precarious in early 1944, when the Holocaust made its full-blown presence felt in Hungary.
“It wasn’t the Germans, it was the Hungarian Nazis who did the dirty work,” Pressburger points out. The family lived in so-called “safe houses” that were protected by Switzerland, Finland and Sweden. The havens were dismantled in late 1944, and the Pressburgers moved into one of the two Jewish ghettos in Budapest. The Nazis had found two houses with Jews, including the one where we had been, and took them all out and shot them next to the Danube. Today there is a monument by the river [called Shoes on the Danube Bank]. We should have been with the Jews who were killed by the river,” he says.
After the war, Pressburger and his siblings were farmed out to various orphanages run by the Jewish Agency, and things took a decidedly better turn.
“We finally had food to eat,” he recalls. “After a while we were put on trains that were protected by the Jewish Brigade [of the British Army], and we were sent to Austria, and then to Germany.”
“My uncle was a famous artist, and I learned a lot from him,” he says. While in Germany, Pressburger also took some lessons with a local artist.
His mother managed to get him and two of his siblings berths on the Exodus, which set sail from Marseilles for Palestine in July 1947. Pressburger was 13 at the time and clearly recalls the aborted attempt to get to the Promised Land.
“It was so crowded on the boat. This was a ship that was made to ply rivers in the United States, with a few hundred people on board, and we had over 4,500 passengers crammed in.”
As we know, the British prevented the Exodus from docking in Palestine, and the passengers were shipped – in three far more seaworthy vessels – back to France. After the French government refused to cooperate with the British, Pressburger and the others found themselves back in Germany. The teenager eventually made it here in 1948, just one month before the Declaration of Independence.
After a short furlough in Tel Aviv, during the first lull in the fighting in the War of Independence, he moved to Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin, where he worked in the cowshed. All the while he continued feverishly drawing and honing his artistic skills, which he says came in handy when he joined the IDF.
After completing his military service, which included a spell as one of the founding members of the Flotilla 13 naval commando unit, he worked in Sdom for a while at the Dead Sea Works before starting his formal arts training in earnest.
I was in the first group of students at the Avni Institute [in Tel Aviv],” he says. “There was quite a famous bunch of students and teachers like Moshe Mokadi and Isidore Ascheim and Aaron Giladi.”
In such illustrious company, one might have thought Pressburger was set to unleash his burgeoning talents on art connoisseurs across the globe, but it was a while before that happened.
Pressburger arrived in the French capital in 1964 and spent close to 15 years there, with a short interlude in Germany, before returning to Israel. His time in Paris was a professionally rewarding period of his life, and he also found love.
“[Avni Institute teacher] Yochanan Simon gave me the name and address of a French-Israeli family in Paris, but when I got to the house, a young woman opened the door and told me the family was on vacation in Israel,” he explains. Despite missing his expected hosts’ welcome, he and the German-born young lady who greeted him soon fell for each other, and romance quickly led to wedding bells. By all accounts, Pressburger did well in Europe. He secured a rare three-year berth at Cité Internationale des Arts, where artists are normally provided with accommodation and studio space for between two months and a year. He was also accepted to the prestigious Beaux Arts academy of fine arts, mounted solo exhibitions, and took part in group shows all over Europe.
One of these last was a group exhibition at Rathaus Charlottenburg in Berlin in 1966 – the first exhibition of Israeli artists in Germany after the Holocaust. When he arrived in Berlin, the lineup for the Israeli show was already signed and sealed, but somehow his work came to the attention of the German culture minister, who arranged for him to join. The Pressburgers’ year-long sojourn came to an abrupt end following an encounter he had one day while walking through the crowded Berlin streets...
Category
1960s Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s Academic Realistic Study of Hands Oil Painting Signed Stuart Whyte
Located in Surfside, FL
1950s Academic Realistic Study of Hands Oil Painting Signed Stuart Whyte
In the manner of Auguste Rodin.
Category
1950s Modern Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Joseph Maresca Encaustic Wax Oil Painting and Tile On Board Still Life w Fruit
By Joseph Maresca
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Maresca (American, b. 1946).
Still life rendering on wood mounted tiles.
Flowers, Plant and fruits.
Green X Ray
Oil and wax encaustic on tile
Gallery label and hanging wire at back.
Dimensions:
Height: 12 inches / 30.48 cm
Width: 12 inches / 30.48 cm
This one is not signed but its companion piece is hand signed and dated in black pigment verso.
I am selling them individually but they make a lovely pair.
Joseph Maresca was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1946, and currently resides in Rhinecliff, Rhinebeck, NY. He received his BFA in industrial design from Pratt Institute, and a master’s degree in arts education from New York University. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Katonah Museum of Art, and even the White House—in honor of his design for an official White House tree ornament depicting Vanderbilt Mansion. Academically, Maresca has taught as an adjunct professor at New York University and at City University of New York, and has authored a book—WPA Buildings: Architecture and Art of the New Deal (2017)—about the influence of Works Project Administration architecture. The book examines the social impact on American cities of the imposing government buildings that were funded by the WPA to restore public confidence during the Great Depression. Maresca has been represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY and Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery in New York City.
Education BFA Pratt Institute, New York, NY
MFA NYU, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2006 Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA
2004 Haddad Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA
2002 Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Zimmerman -Saturn Gallery, Nashville, TN
OK Harris Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1991 OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Zimmerman -Saturn Gallery, Nashville, TN
OK Harris Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1990 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Oil
Large Judaica Oil Painting Samuel Grodensky Hasidic Rabbi, Children in Jerusalem
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Grodensky (1894-1974)
"Hassidim"
Hand signed and dated "Grodensky '62" u.l.,
Titled verso in pencil on stretcher
31" x 27" canvas , 35 1/2" x 31 1/2" framed.
Large Fauvist Expressionist Jewish Family Oil Painting
This is done in an Expressionist style in Fauvist colors. Influenced by the Judaic artists of the early Israeli...
Category
1960s Expressionist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Santa Claus Christmas Eve original Southern Air Transport Illustration
Located in San Francisco, CA
Incredibly detailed Original illustration of Santa Claus on what I imagine is Christmas Eve. He must be falling behind schedule as he has commandeered planes instead of reindeers. I ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Children Playing on The Slide, Ashcan School - Lower East Side
By Jerome Myers
Located in Miami, FL
Immigrant children from New York's Lower East Side are joyfully captured whizzing down on a slide. From the window of a tenement building, a lone adult with child witnesses the foli...
Category
Early 1900s Ashcan School Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Francisco Javier
Located in Miami, FL
Colonial School, Mexico, XVIII Century
"San Francisco Javier"
Oil on canvas
18 x 14 in.
Category
18th Century Old Masters Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mom in Love" 19th Century Academic Realistic French Oil Painting on Canvas
By Emile Munier
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Émile Munier, a French academic artist born in 1840, was renowned for his exquisite depictions of children and domestic scenes during the late 19th century. "Mom in Love," a masterpi...
Category
19th Century Realist Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Indira with Red Hair. Color Photograph mounted on aluminum and plexiglass
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Indira with red hair by Efren Isaza
Archival pigment print
Measures: 58.5 in. H x 46 in. W
Mounted on aluminum/plexiglass
Isaza, one of Colombia’s most influential fashion photogra...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Florida - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal