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Item Ships From: Louisiana
"Atrocity Exhibition" - Contemporary Framed Collage Figurative Painting
By Gunner Dongieux
Located in New Orleans, LA
A painting (elaborately framed) with collage by important emerging artist Gunner Dongieux (New Orleans, San Francisco). As with many of his paintings, he's in the scene, depicted in a red Stanford sweatshirt, observing a scene with apparent horror that appears to be a game of "beer pong...
Category
2010s Pop Art Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Portrait of a Lady (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - 20th Century
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this watercolor are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparke...
Category
Early 1900s Romantic Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Blackstone Cigars
By Norman Rockwell
Located in New Orleans, LA
A charming relic of a bygone era, this rare oil is the work of the inimitable American illustrator, Norman Rockwell. The iconic artist’s ability to render the details and nuances of ...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Pompeian Lady
By John William Godward
Located in New Orleans, LA
John William Godward
1861-1922 British
A Pompeian Lady
Signed and dated "J.W. Godward 1904" (lower right, partially covered by frame)
Oil on canvas
One of the last and greatest Victorian neoclassical painters, John William Godward is celebrated for his flawlessly executed images of graceful women posed in idealized ancient settings. In this work, entitled A Pompeian Lady, a classical beauty is caught idling in a moment of quiet, solitary reflection. Godward's elegant subjects are depicted with a degree of technical mastery that remains unsurpassed, and the work's dramatic palette, luxurious fabrics and classical vision are all characteristics of his unique take on the neoclassical style.
Godward was unmatched in terms of his technical skill and attention to detail. A master of contrasting textures, he paints a diaphanous gown draping against the model’s smooth, milky white skin, which sits against the painstakingly rendered individual hairs of a tiger’s pel. Scintillating color permeates the canvas as well, energizing the otherwise static scene. Each element is given careful attention, and the overall effect is one of both immaculate technique and sensual tactility.
Along with his contemporary and mentor, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Godward set the tone for the Victorian neoclassicist movement. He built his career upon creating images of idealized feminine beauty infused with a Greco-Roman-inspired style. Though greatly influenced by Alma-Tadema, Godward distinguished himself through his predilection for the solitary female figure. His fame rose dramatically in the first few years of the 20th century, when the present work was completed, due to the burgeoning strength of the British Empire and the Victorian society’s preoccupation with ancient Rome. To many of the newly affluent, Roman society was, as Iain Gale writes, “a flawless mirror of their own immaculate world.” The sensuality and mystery of Godward’s maidens, combined with his impressive antique backdrops...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
See Me Slopeside
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
ARTIST STATEMENT
RUTH OWENS graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of New Orleans after leaving her medical practice of 25 years. She is represented by Jonathan Ferrara G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Casein, Paper
At the Mirror
By Frederick Carl Frieseke
Located in New Orleans, LA
the most important American Impressionists of his age. While many of his contemporaries focused on the landscape, Frieseke gained his inspiration from the figural, and in particular the theme of femininity. His works capture female figures engaging in traditionally feminine roles — strolling in the garden or posed in a domestic interior. At the Mirror...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
La femme aux fleurs (Portrait de Mathilde See)
By Paul César Helleu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul César Helleu is regarded among the most sought-after society portraitists of his era, and his Belle Époque works rival those of his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini. He is best remembered for capturing the era's most beautiful socialites, including Consuelo Vanderbilt, the Duchess of Marlborough, the Comtesse de Loriol Chandieu and the Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles, among others. This work, however, stands out in that it captures the charming likeness of one of his art world cohorts, Mathilde See, a Parisian-born decorator and painter of floral still lifes. She is the essence of the modern woman, captured in her fashionable dress as she strolls along the flower-lined streets of Paris.
Commanding in size, Portrait de Mathilde See fully displays Helleu's mastery over the medium of pastel. The muted palette of greys and blues is typical of the artist, bringing a harmony and cohesiveness to the composition. Furthermore, Helleu cleverly alludes to See's own artistic output with a backdrop of vibrant floral blooms, enlivening the canvas and complementing the greens and blues of the peacock feather adorning her hat.
The portrait is all the more significant thanks to its provenance. It was previously in the collection of A. Alfred Taubman, one of America's most successful entrepreneurs and one-time owner of Sotheby's. Considering Taubman encountered some of the most noteworthy and beautiful works of art ever made through his auction house, the fact that he chose this portrait by Helleu to grace his collection is a testament to its import.
Born in Brittany in 1859, Helleu moved to Paris in 1876 in order to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. Like so many other artists of his generation, he was trained there under the Academic master Jean-Léon Gérôme. That same year, he also attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition...
Category
20th Century Modern Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Pastel
La lecture au jardin (Lesson in the Garden)
By Georges d'Espagnat
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Post-Impressionist painter Georges d’Espagnat captures a charming moment between a mother and her child in this vibrant oil on canvas. Rendered with a studied use of complementary colors and bold brushstrokes, the painting showcases the artist's unique Post-Impressionist style. Remembered as one of the most individualistic artists of the 20th century, his distinctive canvases bring together the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the bold color palette favored by the Fauves. Together, they achieve a vibrant spontaneity that lends itself well to the carefree subjects of the present work.
Masterfully composed, La lecture au jardin moves beyond the Impressionist instinct to capture a fleeting moment on canvas. Rather, d'Espagnat succeeds in creating a deep feeling of harmony in the work. Warm colors are perfectly balanced with cool tones, while vertical and horizontal lines are softened by the curves of the foliage and his subjects' figures. Through his simplification of forms and intentional use of color and line, he creates a scene that is carefully designed and thoroughly modern. A similar view of a mother and her child by d'Espagnat is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).
The Post-Impressionist painter was an individualist since his youth, choosing to forgo traditional schooling in order to independently study the Old Masters in the Louvre. He soon became involved with the most prominent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the age, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac, who themselves existed outside the traditional norms of French Academic training. In 1891, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, and again the following year at the Salon des Indépendants.
By 1895, he held his first one-man show in Paris, and just three years later his success earned him a solo show at the prestigious Durand-Ruel Gallery. Between 1905 and 1910 he made several trips to visit Renoir on the Côte d’Azur. Their close friendship resulted in a group exhibition at Marcel Bernheim...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rapture" - Contemporary Woman Portrait
By Louis Braquet
Located in New Orleans, LA
Finally got my hands on something by Louis Braquet. He has multiple commissions this year and I've been unable to get anything new. He had held on to thi...
Category
2010s Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"The Red Umbrella" - Contemporary Impressionist Woman Portrait
Located in New Orleans, LA
A delightful portrait of a young lady in motion, umbrella in hand, with sure brushstrokes and wonderful mastery of color.
Proudly presented by Guy Lyman Fine Art...
Category
2010s Realist Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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By Adrienne Brown-David
Located in New Orleans, LA
These paintings are images taken directly from life with my daughters. They each represent a fragment of their childhood that is rapidly disappearing. I have chosen to create visual images that celebrate all that comes with the evolution from girlhood to womanhood.
ADRIENNE BROWN...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
kambili - Let Me Live
By REWA
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of her artwork...
Viewers largely label me under “Contemporary African Art”. I label my work as Igbo Vernacular Art. The reason for this is that I believe that I have...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
The Letter
By Andrea Landini
Located in New Orleans, LA
A red-robed cardinal chuckles at the letter in his hand in this oil on canvas by the Italian painter Andrea Landini. The vibrantly hued piece illustrates the artist’s genius at rendering charming narratives in remarkable detail. Entitled The Letter, the work is a superb example of Landini's technical virtuosity — from the finely carved and upholstered chair to the neoclassical painting in the background, every detail is meticulously depicted.
Such works satirizing the clergy would have been severely censured just a generation earlier. Yet, by the time Landini picked up the brush, the European public had grown discontent with the hypocrisy of the clergy, many of whom enjoyed lavish lifestyles. Cardinal paintings such as this became highly popular during the period, and Landini emerged alongside Georges Croegaert, Marcel Brunery and Jehan Georges Vibert as the leading painters of the genre.
Born in Florence in 1847, Andrea Landini trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, first under the animal painter Riccardo Pasquini and later with religious painter Antonio Ciseri...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Napoléon before the Battle of Moscow
Located in New Orleans, LA
Emperor Napoléon I was and remains one of the most legendary military and political figures in history, having held, for a brief period, the fate of the Western world in his hands. Composed by the French painter Joseph Franque...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John
By Domenico Puligo
Located in New Orleans, LA
A masterful example of Italian Mannerist painting, this exceptional panel was composed by the renowned Florentine painter Domenico Puligo. Alongside Jacopo Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino, Puligo is remembered as one of the foremost figures of the Mannerist movement that rose to prominence during the 16th century in Florence. This panel of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child and Saint John the Baptist is a characteristic example of his celebrated devotional images, which grace museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museo del Prado (Madrid), Palazzo Borghese (Rome), and Palazzo Pitti (Florence), among many others.
Puligo’s skill with color is fully demonstrated in the beautifully preserved work. Considering its age, the vibrancy and the sheer range of color is remarkable. The Virgin Mary’s crimson dress...
Category
16th Century Mannerist Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Demoiselle" - Framed Early 20th Century Pastel Woman Portrait
Located in New Orleans, LA
I apologize for the reflections on the glass of this exquisite Gaston Bouy pastel drawing. It's in a very nice frame in great condition, and I did not want...
Category
Early 1900s Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Saint Cosmas And Saint Damian Attributed To Bonifacio Bembo
By Bonifacio Bembo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Attributed to Bonifacio Bembo
c.1444-1477 Italy
Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian
Tempera on panel
These exceptionally rare early Renaissance panels of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian are an extraordinary new discovery. Based on the research of art historians Marco Tanzi and Andrea de Marchi, it is believed that these represent the missing panels from the famed polyptych formerly displayed on the altar of the Chapel of San Nicola da Tolentino in the Church of Sant’Agostino in Cremona, Italy. To find two matching early Renaissance panels outside of a museum or church, particularly in such remarkable condition, is an extraordinary rarity.
The central and left-sided panels of the original five-part polyptych are currently in the collection of the Museo Civico Ala Ponzone in Cremona. These panels have luckily remained intact, and respectively portray the Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels and Donor, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (the chapel’s namesake) and Saint George.
While the present panels have since been reduced, that they belong to the Cremonese altarpiece is confirmed by a number of stylistic elements. All five panels contain the same rich decorative arabesque pattern on their stamped gold background, while the figures’ knurled haloes are identical in both their fineness of line and use of perspective. The proportions of the figures coincide perfectly; Saints Cosmas and Damian would have originally also been depicted as full-length figures, fitting into the vertical, Gothic style of the altarpiece.
According to the Christian religion, Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian were 3rd century physicians born in Arabia. Little is known about their lives except that they were reputedly twin brothers and that they were martyred in Syria during the persecution of Emperor Diocletian. It was believed that the saints were skilled in healing, and when their medicines failed, their faith and prayers could always perform miracles. Thus, the saints are often depicted with their medical equipment while wearing the traditional medieval doctor’s garb of crimson robes and distinctive round red hats.
The saints are similarly depicted in the present panels, though considering the manner in which they have been cut, their medical tools are not immediately evident. The saints were highly popular as patrons of wealthy families during the Gothic and Renaissance eras, particularly the Medici, and thus they occur frequently in art from the era. The twins, for instance, are found in the famed San Marco Altarpiece by Fra Angelico in the San Marco Museum (Florence), as well as in a set of Medici panels crafted by Filippo Lippi...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Portrait of Napoléon II
Located in New Orleans, LA
The son of the legendary Napoléon Bonaparte, Napoléon François Charles Joseph, takes a spirited stance in this remarkable oil painting attributed to the Austrian portraitist Johann Peter Krafft. Believed to have been exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, this work stands as a testament to both Austrian artistry and the legacy of one of the most powerful men in history.
After Napoléon's exile to the island of Elba in 1814, his son was seen by many of his supporters as the last hope of France. The child was named the ruler of half of Europe, holding the titles of Napoléon II...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Femme aux Souliers Noir (Woman in Black Shoes)
By Jules Pascin
Located in New Orleans, LA
This intimate portrait was composed by the Bulgarian-born French Expressionist painter Jules Pascin. Known as the "Prince of Montparnasse," Pascin made a name for himself throughout ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Fool
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Jan Matejko’s Stańczyk, 1862
I’ve heard that in centuries past, the jester – or fool – was often one of the only people able to speak truth to power. Because of their inherent ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Lack of Consequence
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642
Forgive and forget. That’s what we’re taught to do ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
Distorted Perspectives
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: Jan Veth’s “Portrait of Cornelia, Clara, and Johanna Veth” from 1885.
ADAM MYSOCK was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
David and Sweet Ann
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her childhood was complicated by restrictions to mixed fam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Repetition
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A red-and-green parrot.
For a lie to gain real power, it must continue its existence separate from its creator. If it can be repeated by others, retold in a variety of contexts, it ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
An Exciting Unknown
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Sasquatch (Harry from Harry and the Hendersons, Universal Pictures, 1987)
Developing almost simultaneously with my appreciation of mannequins, I fell in love with what...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
Wally and Husband (study)
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Casein
A Reliable Pardon
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652
As we invariably test the waters of lying, we quickly learn to recognize the more forgiving...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Counter Example
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln
We’ve assigned a great deal of responsibility to our shared cultural figures when it comes to teaching lessons about truth, fiction, and morality. We u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
An Allowance to Try Again
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of the Wizard from The Wizard of Oz, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939
Whenever I’ve watched The Wizard of Oz, I’ve always been struck by the same thing – that the actor who play...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Weak Compromise
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A donkey, symbol of the Democratic Party
Democrats promote themselves as consistently ethical. So, when they inevitably get caught lying, the fault i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Cautionary Tale
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Pinocchio from Pinocchio, Disney, 1940
Are there any more recognizable stories about the difficulties that can accompany lying than that of Pinocchio? For the puppet-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
An Automated Message
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From a series of paintings by Ed Valigursky.
Our technology is staggering. We now have computers that can lie for us. For proof you only need to head over to any online comment boar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Platform
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Ted Turner, founder of CNN and by extension a 24-hour news cycle
I’ll blame everything wrong with America on Ted Turner. Don’t misread me – h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Horrifying Self-Actualization
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875
At some point the lying has to stop, right? But when? I’m no longer convinced that any external stimulus...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Tutor
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Kellyanne Conway
While the statement for this show indicates that there are no formal teachers of proper lying technique, it doesn’t deny that there are individuals ou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Tentative Probe
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642
The search for limits is an ongoing endeavor. Circu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
An Audience Unaware
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Johannes Vermeer’s A Girl Asleep, 1656-57
Learning to lie is a bit like learning how to play a game. There are strategies. There’s an opponent. It can be fun because it’s a cha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Bit Too Far
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875
As we seek this fine line separating safe lying from detrimental misdirection, we often have to cross it...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A False Prophet
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of news anchor Brian Williams
Similar to the regular fall of the Democrats, Brian Williams positioned himself as a figure worthy of our trust nightly. He convinced us tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Sense of Guilt
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers
I suppose I like to believe that liars know they’re lying. I like to believe it’s a controlled activity. And if they...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Pretty Face and a Nice Body
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Lance Armstrong
We tend to exercise differing levels of tolerance for different liars. Some people get called out immediately, while oth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Role Model
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Charles Ponzi
When we combine the power of lies to persuade with their ability to establish a false hierarchy, we end up with Charles Ponzi – the eponym of the Ponzi S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
An Overreach
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From an illustration by Arthur Rackham for Alice in Wonderland – “They all crowded round it panting and asking, ‘But who has won?’” 1907
There’s a fear of inferiority that lies behi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Seduction
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From John William Waterhouse’s A Mermaid, 1900
We have a wonderful capacity to impose fictions on others in order to make them desirable. We o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
An Opportunity to Test
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875
Knowing what we do about insufficient consequences, we will always test the limits of acceptable lying. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A First Apology
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Mark McGwire
If we are caught lying, it is the suddenly being singled-out that proves most unsettling. We are temporarily relieved of our ability to define our own pub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Frail Attempt
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, 1484-86
We desire attention, but no one likes a show-off. So, we’ve sharpened our ability to practice false modesty. We pretend to cover ours...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Bid to Gain Attention
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Baron Munchausen from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Columbia Pictures, 1988
The concept of Munchausen Syndrome offers another per...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
An Attempt at Morality
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve, 1507
Akin to the historical narratives we’re fed in an attempt to steer us away from a life of lies, the narrative of Adam, Eve, and the serpent ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Constant, Attractive Artifice
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A mannequin
For some reason, mannequins seemed to be everywhere when I was growing up. Maybe it was growing up during the heyday of malls in America. Nevertheless, with their clearl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Brush With Justice
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652
Sooner or later, we get caught lying. For most of us, it’s incredibly early in life, and the falsehood detected is innocuou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
Gravida 7, Para 3
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Half Brothers
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
How?
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tante Tilly
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Looking for new experiences - mw4mw - 2925 (San Francisco)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
paint chip sample mosaic on panel and vintage swing frame
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Coll...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
If I paint us (in gold) II.I
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: gold gouache on paper
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
sexy couple - mw4mw (Cincinnati)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: oil on panel, vintage frame
Dimensions -
HIM: 26.5 x 18.25 in
HER: 27.5 x 17.25 in
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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Cecilia Vicuña Merges Politics, Science and Spirituality in Her Poetic Art
The Chilean creator, who has been living in exile in New York for decades, is having a major moment, receiving the biggest exhibitions, commissions and awards an artist could dream of.
In Christopher Spitzmiller’s New York Homes, His Love of Dogs Is on Full Display
The ceramist, designer and gentleman farmer tells us about the collection of antique dog art he has spread across a New York City apartment and a Greek Revival farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.
This Wiener Werkstätte Master Made Everything into Art
Koloman Moser smashed the conservative conventions of art and design in fin-de-siècle Vienna. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Austrian designer is being celebrated for his radically modern creations.
A Rare Q&A with American Legend Alex Katz
On the eve of a new exhibition just north of New York City, the nonagenarian contemporary-art icon talked with ‘Introspective’ about his long and ongoing career, the development of his signature style and his rather malleable definition of realism.