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Island, Burma
By Monica Denevan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For many years, I have made portraits of fishermen and their families in small villages in Burma/Myanmar. The country has a long, troubled histo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Escape Through the Window
Located in Sante Fe, NM
This series of images reflects a time when I was caring for my mother, who was rapidly declining into dementia, in my home.
Each morning before the long day...
Category
2010s Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Photographic Paper
Umbrellas no. 1, Druidale, Isle of Man
By Thomas Jackson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, sch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mina, Study 3, Japan
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Ten years ago, after a particularly tumultuous period in his life, Michael Kenna quietly made a decision to expand his photographic practice to include the human form. Kenna is well known for his minimalistic landscapes, and has been vocal in the past about the absence of the human figure in his photographs stating, "I feel they gave away the scale and became the main focus of the viewer’s attention." But, believing "fixed dogma is not a creative tool...
Category
2010s Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Adrift #1
By Magda Biernat
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo hunting cabins, it offers a res...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Archival Pigment
Red Hills Near Abiquiu
By Elaine Holien
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Red Hills Near Abiquiu
22 x 30" image size watercolor, 32 x 40" framed in a whitewash profile with museum quality glass
red green blue yellow
I document the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Watercolor
"The Polo Player" Pierre Bosco (Italy/France) 1909-1993) circa 1950s
By Pierre Bosco
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Polo Player"
Pierre Bosco, (1909-1993)
Oil n canvas
Signed lower right
15 x 12 inches
Pierre Bosco showed an interest in art at an early age. His commitment and dedication to ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Santa Fe
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Unbashed (diptych)
By Julie Schumer
Located in East Hampton, NY
Large Abstract
About the Artist: Julie Schumer, a native of Los Angeles, California, and born in 1954, lives and paints in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She discovered her love of abstract ...
Category
2010s Abstract Santa Fe
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Glow Sticks no. 2
By Thomas Jackson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Archival Pigment
Antique Italian School Late 17th - Early 18th "Cherubs (B)" Pen drawing of Putti
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Cherubs" (B)
Pen and Ink drawing of Putto
Italian School
Late 17th early 18th century.
Pen and ink on paper
6 ½ x 17 ½ (22 ½ x 11 ½) inches
Antique scenes of putto and a faun cele...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Santa Fe
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Dark Hours Horizon 28
By Christopher Colville
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Yohaku No Bi (The Beauty of Empty Space)
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen
oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel
coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust, navy, blue
Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kans...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique Horse "Heads, Hooves, Rump 1838" Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Study
"Heads, Hooves and Rump, 1838"
Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Pencil on paper
Signed and Dated "W Verschuuur 1838"
10 x 6 1/2 (17 1/2 x 14 frame) inches
In his time Wouterus Verschuur was an acclaimed and celebrated painter of horses. Through careful observation he learned to capture their physique and movement to perfection. As a true-born romanticist he was also interested in their character, thereby painting powerful carthorses in their stable, thoroughbred saddled horses during an afternoon ride or harnessed horses in action.
He was born to an Amsterdam jeweler and received his training from the landscape and cattle painters Pieter Gerardus van Os and Cornelis Steffelaar. As part of this education Verschuur had to copy works by the 17th century painter Philips Wouwerman. Like Wouwerman, Verschuur's subjects consist mostly of stable scenes, landscapes with horses and coastal landscape. These works reflect the enduring influence of the northern Baroque masters on nineteenth century art, revealing the artist's close study of his Dutch and Flemish predecessors harking back to Peter Paul Rubens.
Showing talent from a very early age, at 15 Verschuur had a painting exhibited at the "Exhibition of Living Masters" at Amsterdam in 1828. In 1832 and 1833 he won the gold medal at the annual exhibition at Felix Meritis. In 1833 he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. In 1839 he joined the artists' society, Arti et Amicitiae.
His reputation was also considerable abroad. He was often featured in the annual exhibitions which travelled the large European cities at that time. In 1855 Napoleon III purchased one of his paintings at the Exposition Universelle* in Paris.
The Verschuur horse revels in its physicality, like a quintessential Baroque horse...
Category
1830s Romantic Santa Fe
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Fenomenos, Guapalo, Ecuador
By Carl Moore
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Amazed by the quality and expression of a wall painting in the town square of Kumbaya, Carl Moore began photographing street art during his first visit to Ecuador. Moore's images ser...
Category
2010s Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Digital Pigment
Rosed-Breasted Grosbeak
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In 1834, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) saw that silver salts darkened in the sun and invented a photographic process he called “photogenic drawing” — in which images were made...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Soup
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Known for her whimsical and intuitive style, Taylor uses digital technology to build evocative photomontages of what she terms "dreamlike worlds inhabited by everyday objects." Inspi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Archival Pigment
Scene 6
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she began working in encaustic in 2001. Mary grew u...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Santa Fe
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Four Lemons
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be make in the nuclear reactor of stars.
It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –sta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Gold Leaf
War of the Worlds
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
photo-eye Galley is excited to debut 9 new images form Mitch Dobrowner's STORMS series.
Dobrowner has always been drawn to weather and in 2009 he actively started seeking out temp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Study from Nature Made in Montfaucon 1846" François Bonvin (1817-1888)
By François Bonvin
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Study from Nature Made in Montfaucon 1846
(Etude d'après Nature Faite à Montfaucon, 1846)
François Bonvin (French, 1817-1887)
Oil on canvas, original hand carved wood frame.
Signed, dated and inscribed F. Bonvin 1846 a Montfaucon (ll); inscribed indistinctly Etude... F. Bonvin...montfaucon on the stretcher
6 3/8 x 8 5/8 (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 frame) inches
Provenance:
Ex Collection Auguste Péquégnot
Paul Prouté
André Watteau
Charles Sadler
Galerie Berès, Paris
Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Beres, Francois Bonvin, Nov. 20, 1998 - Jan. 9, 1999
Literature:
International Herald Tribune, Nov. 28-29, 1998, p. 9, illus.
Bonvin's work has been compared with that of the eighteenth-century artist Chardin, whom Bonvin greatly admired, and from whose work he often borrowed particular motifs. Amongst the artists he personally encouraged were Théodule Ribot and Fantin-Latour.
He was one of a group of artists who challenged the idea that still-life was a mode of artistic expression inferior to the lofty genre of history and religious painting. Bonvin championed the Realist conviction that everyday subject matter was the trues form of artistic expression.
Bonvin was known for keen observation skills and great restraint. In his paintings, you can almost feel the moment between breaths as the subject matter is contemplated and then committed to canvas. This a superb, very personal and very quiet study of the village of Montfaucon on what appears to be an afternoon in the Argonne region in Northeastern France known its deep valleys and dense woodlands.
François is one of the most interesting painters of the 19th century. Bonvin was born in humble circumstances in Paris and had a very difficult childhood. He was the son of a police officer and a seamstress; when he was four years old his mother died of tuberculosis. Young François was left in the care of an old woman who underfed him. Soon his father married another seamstress and brought the child back into the household. Nine additional children were born (one of whom was his half-brother, the painter Leon...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Santa Fe
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Expressionism "A Vase of Flowers" Gen Paul (French, 1895-1975)
By Gen Paul
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"A Vase of Flowers"
Eugene Paul aka Gen Paul (French, 1895-1975)
Oil crayon on paper
20 1/2 x 14 (28 x 21 1/2 frame) inches
"Gen Paul is undoubtedly the greatest representative, and...
Category
1960s Expressionist Santa Fe
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Grayscale 1
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she began working in encaustic in 2001. Mary grew u...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Santa Fe
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Antique Etching Le Lion Qui Marche by Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796-1875)
By Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Le Lion Qui Marche
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796-1875)
Circa 1880
Etching on laid paper after the original bronze by master etcher Abel Lurat (F...
Category
1880s French School Santa Fe
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
Meditations with Yellow ll
By Julie Schumer
Located in East Hampton, NY
Works on Paper
About the Artist: Julie Schumer, a native of Los Angeles, California, and born in 1954, lives and paints in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She discovered her love of abstract ...
Category
2010s Abstract Santa Fe
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Shifting Power
By Cynthia Young
Located in Santa Fe, NM
marsh, water, calm, green, blue, teal, aqua, dusk, lake, trees, reflection
Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Pedernal Blue
By Martha Mans
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans
7 x 7 image size and 16 x 16 matted and shrink-wrapped
The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Watercolor
Wings to Fly
Located in Santa Fe, NM
My paintings are glimpses into my perception of life along the coast of Maine and the high desert of Taos, N.M. Using rich color and employing the dramatic light of the coast and...
Category
2010s Santa Fe
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antoine Louis-Barye "Walking Tiger" Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot ca. 1870
By Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Walking Tiger"
Antoine Louis-Barye
Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot
Circa. 1870
11 1/3 x 7 3/4 (21 3/8 x 17 1/2 frame) inches
This is "Walking Tig...
Category
1870s Realist Santa Fe
Materials
Black and White
Protector Spirit
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Artist Statement
I absolutely love working with clay. Creating forms with a chunk of moist earth is a tangible way to cultivate beauty and delight. Through my work, I hope to touch ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Santa Fe
Materials
Ceramic
Peter Callas Vase w/ Sgraffito
By Peter Callas
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Peter Callas contemporary ceramicist with a life of work behind him already.
With roots in Kansas City, Callas was studio assistant to Peter Voulkos during his time in the Mid West ...
Category
1980s American Brutalist Vintage Santa Fe
Materials
Pottery
Peter Callas Pottery Vase
By Peter Callas
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Peter Callas spent years in Kansas City and is often relate to the town this is also where he met and assisted Peter Voulkos for a time this relationship is apparent in his work the ...
Category
1980s American Brutalist Vintage Santa Fe
Materials
Pottery
Mountain Puzzle #2
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Lynn Sanders is an artist excited by beauty: architecture, foliage, landscapes, seascapes, interiors. She finds palettes and shapes in her environment and propels them into her work,...
Category
2010s Abstract Santa Fe
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Acrylic
White Horse and Rider with Blue
By James Koskinas
Located in East Hampton, NY
James Koskinas_
White Horse and Rider with Blue, 60 X 48 acrylic on canvas
Not framed. Does not need to be framed.
This large scale painting of a head hints at Picasso.
Both technic...
Category
2010s Cubist Santa Fe
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Power (People)" 1970 Olaf Karlsen
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Power (People)" 1970
Olaf Karlsen (b. 1947)
Oil on canvas
Signed front and back.
28 1/4 x 40 inches (frame)
Olaf Karlsen has managed to remain a m...
Category
1970s Abstract Santa Fe
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sitting on the Seawall with Sand in Your Suit (Devereux Beach)", Print, 2023
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Natick, MA
Patty deGrandpre’s “Sitting on the Seawall with Sand in Your Suit (Devereux Beach)” is a contemporary 31 x 40 x 1 inch digital inkjet print on aluminum representing the coastline of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Metal
Abiquiu Chamisa
By Martha Mans
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans
lavender gray white blue green yellow peach brown orange
framed in brown frame
The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In Time 3
Located in Santa Fe, NM
The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consume like spices, foods, coffee, wine, etc. This process creates an intimacy with my material.
The laborious un-twining of the threads is an act of rewinding time. A going back to 'origin'.
The threads become the lines I draw with. I embed these threads into beeswax-coated MDF panels to create varying experiences of landscape. The viewer, as I am, is either experiencing it up close or from a distance; zoomed in or zoomed out.
Katey Berry...
Category
2010s Santa Fe
Materials
Yarn, Wood, Wax
A Hope Sighed
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen
oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel
coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust
Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kansas where vas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Gold Leaf
November Sage
By Martha Mans
Located in Santa Fe, NM
oil on panel
MARTHA MANS
A master realist painter, she was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she attended Carlow University and received a degree in art and art education. Later she studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the University of Southern California.
At the beginning of her career she worked as an art teacher and art department head in Maryland and California. After becoming a full-time artist she taught watercolor and oil painting workshops in the United States and abroad. After moving to Colorado she became a master instructor for a branch of the Art Student’s League in Colorado Springs and then set up her own classes in her studio where she presently teaches on a weekly basis.
She was director for many years of large adventure workshops combining painting and exploring. Some of these adventures include Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, where Georgia O’Keefe painted, a yearly excursion on a Clipper Ship in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas stopping at many ports to paint and an exciting workshop in Salvador, Brazil, painting the colorful region and people there. It was due to these painting trips on which the artists had to carry around all their painting equipment that she put together a compact painting travel kit that she marketed and that many plein air artists use as they travel to their many painting locations.
Martha’s work has been featured in many art publications such as: Southwest Art Magazine, Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Artist’s Magazine and Art Collector’s Magazine. Her work has been used in several books on painting; “Making Your Watercolors Look Professional,” by Carole Katchen, The Best of Watercolor Series, Rockport, Press, “How to Paint Better Watercolor Paintings,” by Jerald Brommer and Jerald Brommer’s Art Education Posters for High Schools.
Her work has received many awards in national juried competitions including numerous best of shows awards. Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, New Mexico Watercolor Society, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Rocky Mountain Watercolor Society, Pikes Peak Watercolor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Land Santa Fe
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pencil and Gouache Drawing of Fontainebleau Forest, France 19th century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Drawing of Fontainebleau Forest
Barbizon, France
Pierre Auguste Brunet Houard (1829 - 1922)
19th century
Pencil, colored pencil, gouache, paper
8 x 4 1/2 (16 3/8 x 12 1/4 frame) inc...
Category
1860s Barbizon School Santa Fe
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Arts and Crafts Lounge Chairs Oak Pair
By George Grant Elmslie
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Arts and crafts spindle lounge chairs in the Prairie School style.
Solid Oak frames w/ a walnut stain re- upholstered in leather.
Condition is good, standard use and wear are prese...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Santa Fe
Materials
Leather, Oak
Ghost Ranch Encantado 11
By Elaine Holien
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Ghost Ranch Encantado
22 x 22" image size watercolor, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board.
I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Watercolor
Navigation IV
By Martha Rea Baker
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Red white beige khaki orange brown rust maroon black
Martha Rea Baker’s technique of choice is driven by her selection of mediums. She has successfully moved between the unique pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Santa Fe
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Console Table 1
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Purple Heart Ash strip
It’s all about the materials.
That simple thought keeps me grounded in the moment. It’s how I stay focused on my art and approach to creating furniture that...
Category
2010s Santa Fe
Materials
Steel
Cerulean Fields 2
Located in Santa Fe, NM
mixed media on panel
In his current body of work, Tim uses large gestural drawings to create energetic abstractions. The layered process of his pieces creates a rich textured surfac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Your Breath, Mine
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen
oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel
coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust, navy, blue
Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kans...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Oil, Panel
Summer Moon
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she began working in encaustic in 2001. Mary grew u...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Santa Fe
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
"Day Pass", Contemporary, Abstract, Mountain, Trees, Ski, Landscape, Monoprint
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Natick, MA
Cropped and double exposed images of ski lift chairs, mountain terrain, pine trees and a rustic wood walkway are represented on 12 x 12 inch Red River photo p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Paper, Color, Digital
"The Japanese Bridge, 1928" François Beauck (Belgian, 1876-1946)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Japanese Bridge, 1928"
François Beauck (Belgian, 1876-1946)
Oil on cardboard
Signed and dated with inscriptions on the back
27.25 x 13.5 (33 x 19...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Santa Fe
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Antique Rare Ceremonial Shoulder Cloth (Kain Nyulam), South Sumatra
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Rare Ceremonial Shoulder Cloth (Kain Nyulam), South Sumatra
This fully embellished and intricately embroidered shoulder cloth (kain nyulam) is a rare and unique example of t...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Santa Fe
Materials
Cotton, Silk, Sequins
Maggie
Located in Santa Fe, NM
My paintings are glimpses into my perception of life along the coast of Maine and the high desert of Taos, N.M. Using rich color and employing the dramatic light of the coast and...
Category
2010s Santa Fe
Materials
Gold Leaf
Powder Room 1
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Brown, Orange, Blue, Pink, Green, Yellow, Red
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she be...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Santa Fe
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Antique Bolognese Dog- Dresden Porcelain- after Meissen Johann Gottlieb Kirchner
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bolognese Dog- Dresden Porcelain-
After Meissen master artist Johann Joachim Kändler (1706-1775).
Carl Thieme founded Saxon Porcelain Manufactory in 1872 in the city of Pot...
Category
Early 1900s Rococo Santa Fe
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze
Full House
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she began working in encaustic in 2001. Mary grew u...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Santa Fe
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Antique Ainu Sword Holder (Emushat), Japan
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Ainu Sword Holder (Emushat), Japan
Emushats were worn over the shoulder and served to limit movement of a short sword and keep it in place. Mostly constructed of linden fibe...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Santa Fe
Materials
Cotton
Fine Antique Woman’s Mantle (Awayo), Bolivia
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Fine Antique Woman’s Mantle (Awayo), Bolivia
This exceptionally fine woman’s awayo, or mantle, displays three groups of tightly patterned vertical bands and colored stripes separate...
Category
Late 19th Century Bolivian Tribal Antique Santa Fe
Materials
Wool
Antique Horse Study; Legs and Rumps, 1838" Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Study
"Legs and Rumps, 1838"
Wouterus Verschuur l (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Pencil on paper
Signed and Dated "W Verschuur 1838"
10 x 6 1/2 (17 1/2 x 14 frame) inches
In his time Wouterus Verschuur was an acclaimed and celebrated painter of horses. Through careful observation he learned to capture their physique and movement to perfection. As a true-born romanticist he was also interested in their character, thereby painting powerful carthorses in their stable, thoroughbred saddled horses during an afternoon ride or harnessed horses in action.
He was born to an Amsterdam jeweler and received his training from the landscape and cattle painters Pieter Gerardus van Os and Cornelis Steffelaar. As part of this education Verschuur had to copy works by the 17th century painter Philips Wouwerman. Like Wouwerman, Verschuur's subjects consist mostly of stable scenes, landscapes with horses and coastal landscape. These works reflect the enduring influence of the northern Baroque masters on nineteenth century art, revealing the artist's close study of his Dutch and Flemish predecessors harking back to Peter Paul Rubens.
Showing talent from a very early age, at 15 Verschuur had a painting exhibited at the "Exhibition of Living Masters" at Amsterdam in 1828. In 1832 and 1833 he won the gold medal at the annual exhibition at Felix Meritis. In 1833 he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. In 1839 he joined the artists' society, Arti et Amicitiae.
His reputation was also considerable abroad. He was often featured in the annual exhibitions which travelled the large European cities at that time. In 1855 Napoleon III purchased one of his paintings at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
The Verschuur horse revels in its physicality, like a quintessential Baroque horse...
Category
1830s Romantic Santa Fe
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Ghost Ranch 36
By Martha Mans
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans
7 x 7 image size and 16 x 16 matted and shrink-wrapped
The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started painting in oil until now. Each stage had to be experienced and has led to a deeper understanding of what my expression in paint is all about. Painting traditional realism with good design as an important element was where I began.
Now, the evolution of my painting process has brought me to a point in which the subject, the texture of the oil medium and the physical application of the brushstrokes have become profoundly intertwined. All are so necessary to the finished work that if one were to be taken away the work would be left incomplete.
My hope is that the synthesis of the subject, design, expressive brush strokes and the texture of the paint come together to create a work of art in which the viewer experiences all of these elements at once in a powerful statement on canvas.
“New Mexico is a land of earthy colors and textures. Rocks, dirt, twiggy plants, reds and ochres against blue grays, dry, wet, cold, hot, mostly hard and rough create a movement in visual and tactile rhythms that surround me. There are times when I am standing in the New Mexico landscape on a warm day when I want to lay down and embrace it. I can’t help but be madly in love with the textures of everything around me. I am drawn to the irresistible forces that seem to bring me closer to the earth. The more I experience these textural qualities of the land, the more I am compelled to use them to express what I want to say. “
Martha was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she attended Carlow University and received a degree in art and art education. Later she studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the University of Southern California.
At the beginning of her career she worked as an art teacher and art department head in Maryland and California. After becoming a full-time artist she taught watercolor and oil painting workshops in the United States and abroad. After moving to Colorado she became a master instructor for a branch of the Art Students League in Colorado Springs and then set up her own classes in her studio where she presently teaches on a weekly basis.
She was director for many years of large adventure workshops combining painting and exploring. Some of these adventures include Ghost Ranch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Santa Fe
Materials
Watercolor
Mimesis Noir III
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Robert Kelly exists in an edition of 30. Paper size is 35"h x 47"w with an image size of 26"h x 37"w.
Rob...
Category
2010s Abstract Santa Fe
Materials
Pigment
Early 20th Century 3-Panel Chinese Minority Wedding Bed Cover, Miao People
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early 20th Century 3-Panel Chinese minority wedding bed cover, Miao People
A rare and early example of a brocade-woven Miao wedding bed cover from ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Tribal Santa Fe
Materials
Cotton, Silk
