San Francisco - Paintings
2010s Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
Artist Comments
This painting is part of Tatiana Iliina's latest series, Abstract Landscapes. Each artwork presents a stunning view with bold colors and often multiple planes...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
This is a piece in my Memory Stones series. These are inspired by rocks and pebbles I collected while sitting at the lake one day, listening to the soft lappi...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
1950s San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
More and more I love to experiment with abstraction. It's amazing how realism with some abstraction somehow looks more true than when rendered using just real...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
As waves break on shore, a sailboat heads out to sea under the early morning sky. A series of oil glazes were used to ...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century San Francisco - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
Artist Comments
Part of David Shepherd's latest series of hyperrealist paintings focusing on women's faces. A sensual portrait rendered in extremely precise painting. Among o...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century San Francisco - Paintings
Plywood, Oil
Artist Comments
This piece is an abstracted cityscape painting, completed entirely with a palette knife. This work is on a gallery wrapped canvas with finished black edges. I...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Abstracted landscape just after sunset marked by brilliant orange and red clouds in the dark blue background. Layers of blues, purples, greens and orange in h...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
"This piece was inspired by an early morning hike through a lush meadow filled with summer flowers," says Crystal. "The sun was just starting to creep in over...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"I painted this piece after a smaller version of the image, which sold before I even had a chance to title it," says Benjamin. "One of my peer painters remark...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
The Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC on a bright summer afternoon. The brilliant green lawn and trees in the foreground ...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
In a quiet forest, a woman catches a taxi cab while another hails the next one. This painting brings together the city and nature ...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
A puddled hillside path reflects the sky's brilliant light just after an afternoon shower. The light gives the fall trees a soft backlit appearance. "I love t...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"Enlightenment can be like a breakthrough of light, a blossoming in the dark, or a fire's reflection in the deep of night," says Agata. A bright splash of pin...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Evening in an italian town. The title "Passeggiata" refers to a leisurely stroll often taken after dinner where friends meet up on the street. Dramatic lighti...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
This is an original palette knife flower painting. The sides of the canvas are painted dark gray.
About the Artist<...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
A stand of trees on a hill overlooking a pond during a sunny day with blue skies. The scene is framed with a deep red abstraction characterized by a very thic...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Jenn painted this piece using Golden Open Acrylics, which take longer to dry and therefore allow for more blending time. Jenn uses this technique to give the painting a dreamy and hopeful essence. "I am more passionate than ever about painting peaceful, reflective art that provides serenity and beauty," she says. This piece was painted on Arches heavyweight paper and includes a 1 5/8" border around the edge for ease of framing.
About the Artist
Jenn Williamson expertly evokes the scenery of British Columbia in her soft abstract landscapes. She utilizes defining horizontal and vertical strokes, coupled with a skillful handling of color, to create significant depth in each piece. Her paintings, though abstracted, clearly convey the atmospheric attributes of the scene–rain, wind, clouds, fog. Jenn’s muted color palette transports the viewer to the Canadian west...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
This piece was inspired by the vibrant cheerful colors. Metallic and interference colors were used to create a vibrant effect. This piece is on gallery wrapp...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
This ethereal portrait of a woman represents a fleeting encounter that fades away. Rendered with soft light, the painting mimics the quality of a dream disapp...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
A quiet landscape at dusk, rendered in expressionist strokes of greens, blue and white and highlights of reddish orange. The river refl...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This piece was inspired by the vibrant cheerful colors. Metallic and interference colors were used to create a vibrant effect. This piece is on gallery wrapped canvas and the painting continues around the sides. It comes varnished and ready to hang.
About the Artist
Courtney Jacobs...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
City and country, and east and west meet in this surreal scene. A group of figures perform agricultural activities outside a city. Man pulls a tractor, woman ...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This piece is one of two images of Metamorphosis. This one is the metamorphosis of a bud into a flower. The second painting, Metamorphosis II, is the metamorp...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
I love the rich transparent tones of that rusty brown pigment called iron oxide, says Karen Hansen. And that;s where I started, adding other earth tones as I ...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
The bare branches and textured grasses in this piece were painted mostly with a palette knife, giving it the broken, wild feeling of nature. In addition to th...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Part of Sheila's Fantasy Garden series of 20 paintings. Swirling pink, red, yellow, violet, blue and green intimate a vibrant su...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Colorful autumn grasses light up this mountain hillside. Part of Nancy's signature series of nature scenes. She spends a lot of tim...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"This painting is the first in a new series exploring coastal life and memories," says Marie-Eve. "It's all about summer, all year-round. Palm trees, beaches,...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Pastel
Artist Comments
Candice was deeply inspired after a visit to Yellowstone National Park. The central landscape image was created using a photographic transfer method while the landscapes on either side were created with paint applications. "The abstracted compositional areas serve as windows or doors to memories, to secrets, to hidden worlds," Candice says.
About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: forest, pine trees, hudson river school, lock and key...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Building up many layers of color in oil paint and cold wax medium, Valerie then used scrapers to reveal the tree trunks in an abstract landscape. Warm orange and yellow trees standing in front of a cool blue and green background. Heavy texture complements the expressionist palette. The piece is part of a series of three works. Although Valerie did not create them as triptych, the three hang well close together.
About the Artist
Valerie Berkely uses her finger tips as brushes to create her abstract paintings. For Valerie, the art is all about the process, the paint, her mood, and the moment. She admires the artist Wolf Kahn, who once said, “the picture is the conclusion of an experiment in which the hint of an image becomes actuality." Like Kahn, Valerie’s paintings combine pictorial landscapes with painterly abstraction. The vibrant primary colors capture the hues of the sun rising and setting, and the texture of her fingers across the surface divides sea, land, and sky. There is something very dreamy about these works, exemplified by their color, texture, and atmospheric quality. Valerie’s first “art epiphany” was seeing Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the Art Institute of Chicago. “Bowled me over! I actually fell down. And I knew I was to become a painter.”
Words that describe this painting: woods, forest, trees, nature, expressionism, nature, non-representational, oil painting, blue
Bare Trees...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
While the artist painted this scene from life, the aroma of lavender filled the studio. "The atmosphere seemed to calm the storms of the day," Pamela recalls....
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Emil Morhardt photographed this tern from the National Geographic Orion cruise ship off Tahiti in May 2019. These birds, he says, are large, beautiful, extrem...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
In Sunrise at Malibu, I wanted to capture the rich plum silhouettes of the Santa Monica mountains just after dawn. On clear days after the sun rises, the cap...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
When the Dawn Will Come was inspired by glowing clouds rising at dusk. The underpainting process I use lends itself to creating organic forms, which I then t...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Willets are usually at the edge of the surf, poking into the wet sand as they follow each wave in and out. This one, when I came on him, was standing above th...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Allan P. Friedlander
Acrylic painting on stretched canvas
Finished black edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Early 2000s San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Hadley encountered this heart-shaped arrangement of candles during San Francisco's Day of the Dead Festival of Altars. "Flowers, a photograph and colorful candles were lovingly placed on the ground in a park with many other personal altars...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
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