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PLAY, BOY BUNNY - Contemporary Realism / Humorous Still Life
By Elizabeth McGhee
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Elizabeth McGhee
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

"East Coast Summer" Painting, Oil on Linen
By Annika Connor
Located in New York, NY
This painting is unique
, signed on verso, and includes a certificate of authenticity. Annika Connor is a modern-day Renaissance woman. Primarily known as a Contemporary Romantic pa...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Santa Barbara Rooftops
By Don Perlis
Located in New York, NY
Rooftops of Santa Barbara under a cloudy sky.
Category

20th Century New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Keith Haring Free South Africa poster 1985
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Free South Africa 1985: Original 1985 Keith Haring Free South Africa poster- a key historical Keith Haring activist poster ...
Category

1980s Pop Art New York - Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

"Palimpsest" Painting, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Crystals on Canvas, Earth Tones
Located in New York, NY
I am inspired by ornament, an ancient visual language used in various cultures for centuries." Sarupa Sidaarth (Indian, b.1976) studied at Sir J.J. School of Art and received her MFA at Academy of Art in San Francisco. Her studio practice flows predominantly from an intuitive and emotional approach. Inspired by ornament, her latest body of work explores social issues through the examination of creative and artistic practices. She engages in a thought-provoking dialogue and emphasizes on the idea of peaceful coexistence. Her work has been exhibited extensively in India, Europe and United States, including at the Bombay Sapphire...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Sketching Among the Irises by George Herbert McCord (American: 1848-1909)
By George Herbert McCord
Located in New York, NY
"Sketching Among the Irises" by George Herbert McCord (1848-1909) is oil on canvas and measures 20 x 16 inches. The painting is signed by the artist at the lower left.
Category

19th Century Hudson River School New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
2018 Watercolor and ink drawing on bamboo paper 19 x 15 in. Signed and dated in pencil Unframed, excellent condition
Category

2010s Abstract New York - Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Singapore Noon 1.3
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Canvas
Category

2010s Abstract New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Splinters of a Secret Sky - Splinters
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on verso): AF/2021
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Oil, Acrylic

Lake, MO, 2017
By Iliana Ortega
Located in New York, NY
Lake, MO 2017. Is a piece that belongs to a larger series of photo paintings consisting of about 52 total. This piece is made with; ink, and enamel on...
Category

2010s Post-Minimalist New York - Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Untitled
By Isabel Turban
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Turbán layers paintings with transfers, acrylic, charcoal, and other mixed media onto canvas or paper. Her abstract paintings manifest memory, cultural experience, and politi...
Category

2010s Abstract New York - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

No Title
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media on canvas 78.79 x 86.60 in unstretched
Category

2010s New York - Art

Materials

Oil

Crying Clown
Located in New York, NY
Portrait
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Oil

Japanese Propaganda War Kimono
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Woman’s haori. Meisen (warp-dyed) silk with gold metallic threads in the weft, shibori (tie-dyed) silk lining, unique purple color, with an abstraction of the battleship Mikasa, 42 x 48”, circa 1934. Almost perfect condition. The rarest type of propaganda kimono. Japanese propaganda...
Category

1930s Abstract New York - Art

Materials

Fabric, Textile, Silk

Map
Located in New York, NY
2015 Monotype, ink drawing, and collage on Japanese paper 57 x 37 in. (145 x 95 cm) Signed and dated in pencil Unframed, excellent condition
Category

2010s Abstract New York - Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Monotype

"Dove Diptych" Black and White Diptych Painting, Watercolor on Board, Framed
By Annika Connor
Located in New York, NY
Annika Connor is a modern-day Renaissance woman. Primarily known as a Contemporary Romantic painter, her work uses strong symbolism and passionate imagery to ignite the imagination. ...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paint, Board

Anges’ Cousin in America, expressive, monochrome, expressive
Located in New York, NY
This photogravure by Carol Munder, 16 x 16" framed; has a beautiful sense of light that creates an expressive image for the viewer, depicting a quiet scene divided in foreground, middle ground, and background that draws the viewer into the atmospheric perspective. In the foreground there is a haunting figure making eye contact, followed by some houses that create a gap to reveal another figure in the background that is out of focus, all if these aspects come together creating an engaging narrative. Carol Munder (b. 1953) is a Key West based photographer and lithographer. Munder graduated from Colombia College in 1973 with a focus in photography. In 1986, she was the recipient of the NEXUS PRESS Book Competition residency. From the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, she created large-format black and white prints of nineteenth-century statuary and Etruscan figurines utilizing a simplistic camera with a plastic lens. After she acquired a gravure press, Munder taught herself the art of photogravure. Munder explains, "This [plastic] lens produces a soft focus image that is evident in my work…The tree then branches as I work with the process if photogravure. Photogravure is a 19th century technique used to transfer an image to a copper plate by means of photomechanical process... the plate is [then] inked and printed on paper using a gravure press. My current imagery is focusing on wooden sculptures that have been found in French flea markets"
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Photogravure

Adentro
By Duane Bousfield
Located in New York, NY
2022 Acrylic on paper 24 x 19 inches Unique Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse
Category

2010s Minimalist New York - Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Abstract Landscape Painting by Victor Manuel Gomez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large Format Abstract Pink & Black Mixed Media Painting by Cuban Artist Victor Manuel. Victor is an emerging talent born and raised in Havana. With a great sense of Havana’s always ...
Category

2010s Abstract New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Two Seated Men
By Henri Lebasque
Located in New York, NY
Two Seated Men” by Henri Lebasque (1865-1937) Pencil and watercolor on paper 6 x 5 inches unframed (15.24 x 12.7 cm) Signed on bottom right Description: In ...
Category

20th Century New York - Art

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Untitled, abstract, landscape, horizon
Located in New York, NY
Abstract landscape painting in green, red, blue, and brown. Russell Sharon was born on a farm in Minnesota. He studied in Mexico City, Boston and New York. He is known for his wildly colorful works with imagery drawn from the Minnesota landscape...
Category

Early 2000s Minimalist New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dude
By Paul Fuentes
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas. Man on beach. About the artist: “There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern f...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Portrait of a Lady" Steel Sculpture, Plasma Cut and Welded
By Indira Cesarine
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions 17.5in x 14in x 9in Unique, Signed on verso, includes a certificate of authenticity. Indira Cesarine is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, video, pain...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Steel

KPM Porcelain Allegorical Plaque Of Admiration Late 19th Century Plaque
Located in New York, NY
Berlin Porcelain Allegorical Plaque of Admiration KPM, Late 19th CENTURY The three-quarter-length portrait depicting a brunette woman with blue eyes in light ecclesiastical robes supporting palms crossed over chest and looking up over right shoulder - in a landscape immersed in powder blue sea holly...
Category

19th Century New York - Art

Materials

Porcelain, Paint

Sid Vicious- Mustard & Black, 2007
By Russell Young
Located in New York, NY
Mug Shot of Sid Vicious. Hand pulled acrylic, enamel screen print and diamond dust on linen. Would ship rolled. About the Artist: Russell Young curre...
Category

2010s Pop Art New York - Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Pink Carnations" Antique Victorian Photo Album page, C-type Print, Figurative
Located in New York, NY
"Pink Carnations" Antique Victorian photo album page with c-type print, and framed. Dimensions: Artwork 8.125 x 11.125 in, Framed 17 × 13 × 1 in This ...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

C Print

Lucky Strike In The Mirror (Lucky Strike I)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Lucky Strike In The Mirror (Lucky Strike I), 1961 Lithograph on paper 30 x 22 1/4” Edition of 20
Category

1960s New York - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Modular Shapes (Bleu, Rose et Opaline)
Located in New York, NY
Jonas Noël Niedermann Modular Shapes (Bleu, Rose et Opaline), 2021 Blown, carved, and etched glass 13.50h x 9w x 4d in 34.29h x 22.86w x 10.16d cm
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Brass

#22-14 - Abstract Floral Painting with Vivid Color
By Annette Davidek
Located in New York, NY
Annette Davidek creates paintings that look like gorgeous biomes full of naturalistic forms, enticing viewers to enter a domain that is as familiar as it is strange. Variously sugges...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Birch, Oil, Panel

Fuzzy Fish
By Alexander Ross
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Ross Fuzzy Fish, 2020 Graphite on paper 11 1/4 x 15 inches 28.6 x 38.1 cm Signed, titled and dated (verso) -- Best known for his mysterious biomorphic paintings...
Category

2010s New York - Art

Materials

Graphite

Lake
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in New York, NY
Isca Greenfield-Sanders Lake, 2022 Mixed media oil on canvas 17 x 17 inches 43.2 x 43.2 cm Signed, dated, titled (verso) -- Greenfield-Sanders’ landscape paintings invite the viewer into nostalgia, to forge a connection to their own experience. Using found vintage photography as a starting point, she creates several iterations of each image, which she alters with pencil and watercolor, and finally paints over with oil. They emerge simultaneously familiar yet enigmatic. She elaborates, stating, “All of my paintings are based on amateur slides from seventy years ago. I am interested in the ‘comfortably familiar’ nature of the images and how the elapsed time allows them to ‘prickle with new meaning’ to connect that which was worth capturing with that which is worth painting, at present.” The paintings require a great deal of forethought and groundwork, but still appear unlabored and fresh. Her style of painting, which prizes color, representation and evocation, is activated by both individual experience and collective memory. Isca Greenfield-Sanders (b. in 1978 in New York City) received her dual BFA and BA degree from Brown University. The artist lives and works in New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include “The Things I Can’t Forget,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Ocean Eyes of Blue,” Michael Reid...
Category

2010s New York - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, 2019 Acrylic and graphite on hardboard 11 x 14 in
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric New York - Art

Materials

Acrylic, Board, Graphite

Improvisation
Located in New York, NY
Painted, Welded -Aluminum Kinetic Sculpture. Blue and red colors. About the Artist: Studied engineering and sculpture at Stony Brook University. Steve has created sculptures of welded bronze or aluminum and have installed them around the world, including Hong Kong, Tokyo, England, France, Germany, Israel, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Grand Cayman...
Category

2010s Abstract New York - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Ditch plains
By Janet Jennings
Located in Fairfield, CT
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Warhol Coca Cola
Located in New York, NY
Fun, vibrant mixed media piece. Homage to the late great Andy Warhol. And Coca Cola. On wood. About the Artist: Allen's work has gained recognition w...
Category

2010s Pop Art New York - Art

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

Pyromaniac's Pyre mixed media work by Mary Spencer Nay
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed and dated "Mary Spencer Nay '74" lower left. Titled "Pyromaniac's Pyre" verso. Exhibited: 1976-1977 "Mary Spencer Nay: Recent and Retrospective Works". J.B. Speed Art Museum...
Category

1970s Modern New York - Art

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Rubber, Wood, Oil

Waves of Blue
Located in New York, NY
Abstract. Painted, Welded -Aluminum Kinetic Sculpture. Blue colors. Moves in the wind. About the Artist: Studied engineering and sculpture at Stony Brook University. Steve has created sculptures of welded bronze or aluminum and have installed them around the world, including Hong Kong, Tokyo, England, France, Germany, Israel, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Grand Cayman...
Category

2010s Abstract New York - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Sprite Girl
Located in New York, NY
Fun, vibrant mixed media piece featuring woman in vintage bathing suit. On wood. About the Artist: Allen's work has gained recognition world-wide for it's complex layering of mixed media works that create a narrative of modern American culture. His work today is a culmination of many years of painting, thinking and experiencing. He blends urban street art with his background of typography, mixed media collage, and abstract expressionism into each of his urban pop expressionist works. The son of fine artist / commercial artist Harrison Allen, Mark learned a lot very early from his talented father. His think training also includes a bachelor degree in commercial art from Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. He continued study at Parson's School of Design in New York City where he had an apartment across the street from Andy Warhol's factory (they met in 1982.) He continued study later at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Allen is represented in galleries throughout the world. Museums he has shown in include The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum - Cleveland, OH; Experience Music Project - Seattle, WA; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art, and Acadian Museum - Lafayette, LA. He was a major figure in the graphic design community for over two decades. Much of his celebrated work is from the entertainment industry doing graphic design work for high profile clients including the 'Yu-Gi-Oh' logo, 'The Wizard of Oz' 60th Anniversary logo, redesigned Coca-Cola bottles, designed 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' logo for Disney and art directed for recording artist Sean 'P Diddy' Combs record label, Bad Boy Records. Promotion work for Pepsi, Diet Coke...
Category

2010s Pop Art New York - Art

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

Kissing Horses-Edition of 18
By Bob Tabor
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful shot of brown horses against black background. Diasec. Face mounted on acrylic. About the Artist: Known for his large format prints of equestrian portraits - commissi...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Marc and Lisa, No. 6" Laser Cut Cork on Board, Mixed Media, Figurative, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Katie Commodore is an interdisciplinary artist who concentrates on creating intimate portraits of her friends, often focusing on how they express their sexuality. In 2000 Commodore received her BFA in illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2004 she obtained her MFA in printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design where she is currently an adjunct professor. Commodore has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, including England, Italy, Germany, and Greece. Her work has been previously featured in a number of group shows presented by The Untitled Space...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Mixed Media, Board

"Distorted Portrait #4" Figurative Painting, Watercolor on Paper, Wood Panel
Located in New York, NY
This artwork was featured in The INNOVATE Exhibition at The Untitled Space from September 12 - October 2, 2021. Martha Zmpounou is a visual artist and a lecturer (University of the A...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Watercolor, Wood Panel

Joseph Margulies, Portrait of a Girl Oil Painting
By Joseph Margulies
Located in Larchmont, NY
Joseph Margulies (American, 1896-1984) Untitled (Portrait of a Girl), 20th Century Oil on canvas (or possibly linen?) 29 3/4 x 25 in. Framed: 33 3/4 x 26 x 1 1/2 in. Signed lower rig...
Category

20th Century American Realist New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

At The Wall
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas. Engaging. Female centric. About the artist: “There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern feeling of refl...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

El Lado Obscuro
By Isabel Turban
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on canvas 50 x 30 in Unstretched Isabel Turbán layers paintings with transfers, acrylic, charcoal, and other mixed media onto canvas or paper. Her abstract paintings ma...
Category

2010s Abstract New York - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

"Obliteration" Oil and Alkyd Painting on Wood Panels, Yellow, Red, Orange
By Grace Graupe-Pillard
Located in New York, NY
Grace Graupe-Pillard has concentrated on portraiture since her early charcoal drawings which she exhibited at The Drawing Center, NYC in 1981. Her work, which has been exhibited at notable institutions such as MOMA PS1 and galleries including Cheim & Read Gallery (NY) and Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago), has evolved from over the years from pastels to large-scale oil paintings and installations of people who she describes as “having not been integrated into mainstream society.” Her more recent paintings, inspired by selfies and iPhone photographs, attempt to convey the vitality and diversity of 21st century contemporary culture while capturing the ineffable moments in our lives. “The sensuality and radiant beauty of youth and ethnic diversity are depicted in my choice of subjects, as well as the ravages of time which are imprinted on our being. All stages of life are filled with humanity that both elevates and dissipates the spirit.” Her work has been written about in The NY Times, Art News, The Village Voice, The Star-Ledger, Newsday, Flash Art...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Oil, Alkyd, Paint, Wood Panel

DIGITAL - Contemporary Tokyo Cityscape / Urban Lights / Realism
By Alexandra Pacula
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by New York painter Alexandra Pacula. A city painting in a contemporary style with vivid colors and shapes. Pacula has been collected throughout the US, Europe,...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A LARGE BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN PLAQUE, THE PRODIGAL SON
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in New York, NY
Finely painted after Rembrandt with a self-portrait of the artist and his spouse, Saskia, in a tavern, in the guise of the Prodigal Son LATE 19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCE...
Category

Late 19th Century New York - Art

Materials

Porcelain

Heart Breaker (diptych)
Located in New York, NY
2022, Encaustic on wood
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist New York - Art

Materials

Wood, Encaustic

Candle Box
By Willard Boepple
Located in New York, NY
2022 Vinyl 20 x 22 in. (50.8 x 55.9 cm) Edition of 5 Signed and numbered in pencil, verso
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric New York - Art

Materials

Vinyl

Joseph McCarthy as Baby New Year on a Hobbyhorse
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
ink on beige sight size: 254 x 317 mm. PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist by Edward Laning (who inherited Marsh's studio) to Jack Henderson...
Category

1950s Other Art Style New York - Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Klari Reis, Bliss, Mixed Media and epoxy polymer on wood panel
By Klari Reis
Located in London, GB
Mixed Media and epoxy polymer on wood panel 40.6 x 40.6 cm 16 x 16 in ----------- Klari Reis uses the tools and techniques of science in her creative proces...
Category

2010s Abstract New York - Art

Materials

Polymer, Mixed Media, Wood Panel

Jimi Hendrix
By Seek One
Located in New York, NY
Homage to Jimi Hendrix. One-of-one mixed media work on paper. (Vintage media, aerosol, acrylic, graphite & wheat paste) - Hand made Indigo cold-pressed 300gsm paper with deckeled e...
Category

2010s Pop Art New York - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Japanese Children with Tortoise
By Harry Humphrey Moore
Located in New York, NY
Harry Humphrey Moore led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, dividing his time between Europe, New York City, and California. This globe-trotting painter was also active in Morocco, and most importantly, he was among the first generation of American artists to live and work in Japan, where he depicted temples, tombs, gardens, merchants, children, and Geisha girls. Praised by fellow painters such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Moore’s fame was attributed to his exotic subject matter, as well as to the “brilliant coloring, delicate brush work [sic] and the always present depth of feeling” that characterized his work (Eugene A. Hajdel, Harry H. Moore, American 19th Century: Collection of Information on Harry Humphrey Moore, 19th Century Artist, Based on His Scrap Book and Other Data [Jersey City, New Jersey: privately published, 1950], p. 8). Born in New York City, Moore was the son of Captain George Humphrey, an affluent shipbuilder, and a descendant of the English painter, Ozias Humphrey (1742–1810). He became deaf at age three, and later went to special schools where he learned lip-reading and sign language. After developing an interest in art as a young boy, Moore studied painting with the portraitist Samuel Waugh in Philadelphia, where he met and became friendly with Eakins. He also received instruction from the painter Louis Bail in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1864, Moore attended classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and until 1907, he would visit the “City by the Bay” regularly. In 1865, Moore went to Europe, spending time in Munich before traveling to Paris, where, in October 1866, he resumed his formal training in Gérôme’s atelier, drawing inspiration from his teacher’s emphasis on authentic detail and his taste for picturesque genre subjects. There, Moore worked alongside Eakins, who had mastered sign language in order to communicate with his friend. In March 1867, Moore enrolled at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, honing his drawing skills under the tutelage of Adolphe...
Category

Late 19th Century New York - Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Harriet" Neon Wall Sculpture Featuring Harriet Tubman, Mounted on Plexiglass
By Indira Cesarine
Located in New York, NY
Indira Cesarine is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, video, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. A graduate of Columbia University with a triple major in Art Hi...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York - Art

Materials

Glass, Plexiglass, Neon Light

Japanese Girl Promenading
By Harry Humphrey Moore
Located in New York, NY
Harry Humphrey Moore led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, dividing his time between Europe, New York City, and California. This globe-trotting painter was also active in Morocco, and most importantly, he was among the first generation of American artists to live and work in Japan, where he depicted temples, tombs, gardens, merchants, children, and Geisha girls. Praised by fellow painters such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Moore’s fame was attributed to his exotic subject matter, as well as to the “brilliant coloring, delicate brush work [sic] and the always present depth of feeling” that characterized his work (Eugene A. Hajdel, Harry H. Moore, American 19th Century: Collection of Information on Harry Humphrey Moore, 19th Century Artist, Based on His Scrap Book and Other Data [Jersey City, New Jersey: privately published, 1950], p. 8). Born in New York City, Moore was the son of Captain George Humphrey, an affluent shipbuilder, and a descendant of the English painter, Ozias Humphrey (1742–1810). He became deaf at age three, and later went to special schools where he learned lip-reading and sign language. After developing an interest in art as a young boy, Moore studied painting with the portraitist Samuel Waugh in Philadelphia, where he met and became friendly with Eakins. He also received instruction from the painter Louis Bail in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1864, Moore attended classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and until 1907, he would visit the “City by the Bay” regularly. In 1865, Moore went to Europe, spending time in Munich before traveling to Paris, where, in October 1866, he resumed his formal training in Gérôme’s atelier, drawing inspiration from his teacher’s emphasis on authentic detail and his taste for picturesque genre subjects. There, Moore worked alongside Eakins, who had mastered sign language in order to communicate with his friend. In March 1867, Moore enrolled at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, honing his drawing skills under the tutelage of Adolphe Yvon, among other leading French painters. In December 1869, Moore traveled around Spain with Eakins and the Philadelphia engraver, William Sartain. In 1870, he went to Madrid, where he met the Spanish painters Mariano Fortuny and Martin Rico y Ortega. When Eakins and Sartain returned to Paris, Moore remained in Spain, painting depictions of Moorish life in cities such as Segovia and Granada and fraternizing with upper-crust society. In 1872, he married Isabella de Cistue, the well-connected daughter of Colonel Cistue of Saragossa, who was related to the Queen of Spain. For the next two-and-a-half years, the couple lived in Morocco, where Moore painted portraits, interiors, and streetscapes, often accompanied by an armed guard (courtesy of the Grand Sharif) when painting outdoors. (For this aspect of Moore’s oeuvre, see Gerald M. Ackerman, American Orientalists [Courbevoie, France: ACR Édition, 1994], pp. 135–39.) In 1873, he went to Rome, spending two years studying with Fortuny, whose lively technique, bright palette, and penchant for small-format genre scenes made a lasting impression on him. By this point in his career, Moore had emerged as a “rapid workman” who could “finish a picture of given size and containing a given subject quicker than most painters whose style is more simple and less exacting” (New York Times, as quoted in Hajdel, p. 23). In 1874, Moore settled in New York City, maintaining a studio on East 14th Street, where he would remain until 1880. During these years, he participated intermittently in the annuals of the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, exhibiting Moorish subjects and views of Spain. A well-known figure in Bay Area art circles, Moore had a one-man show at the Snow & May Gallery in San Francisco in 1877, and a solo exhibition at the Bohemian Club, also in San Francisco, in 1880. Indeed, Moore fraternized with many members of the city’s cultural elite, including Katherine Birdsall Johnson (1834–1893), a philanthropist and art collector who owned The Captive (current location unknown), one of his Orientalist subjects. (Johnson’s ownership of The Captive was reported in L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist,” New York Times, July 23, 1893.) According to one contemporary account, Johnson invited Moore and his wife to accompany her on a trip to Japan in 1880 and they readily accepted. (For Johnson’s connection to Moore’s visit to Japan, see Emma Willard and Her Pupils; or, Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary [New York: Mrs. Russell Sage, 1898]. Johnson’s bond with the Moores was obviously strong, evidenced by the fact that she left them $25,000.00 in her will, which was published in the San Francisco Call on December 10, 1893.) That Moore would be receptive to making the arduous voyage across the Pacific is understandable in view of his penchant for foreign motifs. Having opened its doors to trade with the West in 1854, and in the wake of Japan’s presence at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, American artists were becoming increasingly fascinated by what one commentator referred to as that “ideal dreamland of the poet” (L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist”). Moore, who was in Japan during 1880–81, became one of the first American artists to travel to the “land of the rising sun,” preceded only by the illustrator, William Heime, who went there in 1851 in conjunction with the Japanese expedition of Commodore Matthew C. Perry; Edward Kern, a topographical artist and explorer who mapped the Japanese coast in 1855; and the Boston landscapist, Winckleworth Allan Gay, a resident of Japan from 1877 to 1880. More specifically, as William H. Gerdts has pointed out, Moore was the “first American painter to seriously address the appearance and mores of the Japanese people” (William H. Gerdts, American Artists in Japan, 1859–1925, exhib. cat. [New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1996], p. 5). During his sojourn in Japan, Moore spent time in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Nikko, and Osaka, carefully observing the local citizenry, their manners and mode of dress, and the country’s distinctive architecture. 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Late 19th Century New York - Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract New York - Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

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Located in NEW YORK, NY
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Category

1980s Pop Art New York - Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper, Offset

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By Seek One
Located in New York, NY
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Category

2010s Pop Art New York - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

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