Oklahoma - Nude Paintings

This large scale 80" x 72" oil painting by George Oswalt features a summertime theme of women and girls at the beach with a beachball and seagull in the ...

The full frontal female figure is suspended in mid-air with both arms in motion, seemingly about to jump off the canvas. The blurred figure is set against a clear, graphic backdrop of reds, black and other dark tones with a turquoise rectangular box framing the torso of the figure. A simple black wooden frame frames the work. "I have been active in telling stories with images for over 45 years. My fascination with shapes and textures are my earliest memories and everything I have done in my adult life has revolved around these interests. I learned a lot about color, composition and story telling by stripping all sentimentality from these elements and using them for more than 25 years as a designer. Although I enjoy the challenge and variety of commissions, my own work is very personal. My work has always been about expressing the otherness and mystery just underneath everyday life. Reacting to the ephemeral nature of life and mortality. All of my personal paintings are just different ways of expressing one moment, one feeling. I’m describing a place I’ve never been with a language I’ve never spoken but I’ve spent my whole life trying to get there because its my home." -- Mark Gilmore...

This framed 20" x 14" painting in a surrealist style by artist Leonard Kaplan depicts three nude figures crowded together, sitting and standing with a white bird obscured by the dark shadows. Predominant colors are red, orange, black, and cream. The painting is on paper and masonite framed behind glass in a silver metal frame. Leonard Kalan is known for surrealism and figure paintings. He died in California in 2008. Leonard was born January 15, 1922 in New York City and won a scholarship in 1940 to study at the Art Student League under Reginald Marsh and William Pair. He won an art scholarship to New York University in the late 1930's. He studied art at the Henry Street...

In this framed oil painting by Frederick Herrera, a reclining female nude in a stretching pose is featured. The face is not detailed and there is white drapery over the mid-section...

This 32" x 28" oil on canvas painting, 'Midcentury Science of Material Traces,' by artist George Oswalt features a redheaded nude woman standing near a ...

African-American artist Nathan Lee has brought to life an underwater Botero-esque female nude figure swimming with her small hands brough together in a pray...

Loretta Hirsch, IT'S TIME TO TELL STORIES, ink marker pencil, liquid ink, on German Card stock Paper, 11.70 X 8.30 in, $740.00 (unframed) Born in Oklahoma and educated at the Atlant...

Loretta Hirsch, BURNING DESIRE, ink marker pencil, liquid ink, gold leaf, on German Card stock Paper, 11.70 X 8.30 in, $740.00 (unframed) Born in Oklahoma and educated at the Atlant...

Loretta Hirsch, LOVE CHAINS, ink marker pencil, liquid ink, gold leaf, on German Card stock Paper, 11.70 X 8.30 in, $740.00 (unframed) Born in Oklahoma and educated at the Atlanta C...