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Janet Crawford, "#3", 16x20 Equestrian Portrait Oil Painting on Canvas
By Janet Crawford
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This equestrian piece, "#3", is a 16x20 oil painted portrait of a dark brown horse dressed in a saddle and blinkers.
About the artist:
The artwork of Janet Crawford depicts the equestrian lifestyle. Working from her studio in the Berkshires, Janet focuses on classic portraiture of horses, dogs and people. Her original artwork captures the candid moments of the horse world. A trademark of the artist's work is the portrayal of the true nature of the horse.
Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cum Laude
Concentration: Painting
Rhode Island College, 1991
Press:
2000 - Featured artist in Equine Image article, Aug/Sept issue, 2000.
Selected Awards:
2012 - National Distinguished Service Award, American Hackney Horse Society
1995 - Horse World Magazine Morgan Artist of the Year
1993 - Harness Tracks of America Art Competition, 2nd Place
1991 - AMHA Art Contest 1st Prize, Morgan Art
1990 - Special Talent Award, Rhode Island College
Special Projects:
Present - Designer and Painter, Berkshire Carousel Project
Present - Program Cover and Horse Show Poster Artist for the Fleet Jumper Classic, Sept. 2000.
Present - Poster Artist for the Hampton Classic, Aug. 27-Sept. 3rd.
Present - Program Cover Artist since 1996 for UPHA Spring Premiere
Present - Illustrator, Horse World Magazine
2012 - Artist for the American Hackney Horse Society Logo
2011 - Cover Artist for the Pfizer Million Dollar Grand Prix Horse Show Program
1999 - Cover Artist, The Chronicle of the Horse
1999 - Cover Artist, Horse America (Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar)
1999 - Exhibition "The Horse in Art" Hartford Fine Art & Frame
1997 - Opening of the Equestrian Collection Gallery
1996 - New England Morgan Horse...
Category
2010s Realist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,360 Sale Price
20% Off
About Money! (Scrooge McDuck Richie Rich), original painting
By Jozza
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed on front; signed and titled on verso by Jozza. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authentici...
Category
2010s Street Art USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,500 Sale Price
50% Off
Ray Simonini, "Cinnamon" 10x8 Impressionist Brown Cow Farm Animal Oil Painting
By Ray Simonini
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This painting by artist Ray Simonini titled "Cinnamon" is a 10x8 farm animal oil painting on canvas featuring a portrait of a cinnamon colored...
Category
2010s Impressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"KAMA SUTRA", surrealist oil painting, gender, sexuality, vagina dentata, myth
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"KAMA SUTRA", 2013, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 57x39". Characteristic of the artist's best work, it's composed as a t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
By Haddon Hubbard Sundblom
Located in Miami, FL
This painting is as much about the artist's brilliant painting skills and technique as it is about the subject matter. Sundblom's quick bravura brush strokes seem abstract on close i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
PERIOD American Antique Civil War Portrait of Officer and His Horse
Located in New York, NY
American artist Franklin Briscoe (1844-1903) known for his hirtorical and portrait paintings, paints a Civil War piece; it is a portrait of an officer with his white horse.
The brus...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Taxi Galaxy
By Anita Kapraljevic
Located in New York, NY
Anita Kapraljevic
Pepsi Generation
2010
Oil on canvas
150 x 119 cm
signed, titled and dated on verso
Anita Kapraljevic is born in Mostar and lives in Berlin. She studied in Nürtinge...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brave Girl II
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most notorious wine regions in Eu...
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Portrait of a Young Man, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
By Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman
Title: Portrait of a Man
Year: Circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 11.5 x 8.5 inches
Frame: 14 x 11 inches
Category
1950s Modern USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Woman Reading - Bay Area Figurative School Abstract Expressionist
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman Reading - Bay Area Figurative School Abstract Expressionist
Abstracted portrait of a woman reading by San Francisco artist Heather Speck (American, b. 1978). A w...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Foam Board, Canvas
Unknown
By Richard Hayley Lever
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Richard Hayley Lever (1876-1958)
Original portrait done on paper and mounted on cardboard. Signed on back of the cardboard by artist.
Lever was born in Australia studied art in bo...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Sketch for Reclining Nude, June
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A loose sketch for a larger painting with the same name and composition.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
29th century English, Portrait od a seated Siamese Cat
Located in Woodbury, CT
J. Foley (British, 20th Century)
Siamese Cat
Oil on canvas
Signed on the reverse
This elegant portrait captures the distinctive grace and poise of the Siamese cat, renowned for its ...
Category
1970s Realist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Miss Matched
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original black and white acrylic portrait painting is inspired by the mid-century masters.
Framed in an ornate vintage gold frame, 10.5 in. wide x 13.5 in. high, ready to hang
Category
2010s Abstract USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Lily of the Valley" by I. Chikezie - Vibrant Portrait of a Woman - Contemporary
Located in Carmel, CA
Innocent Chikezie (Nigerian, born 1982)
"Lily of the Valley" 2021
Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the bottom right of the pai...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
"Alpha" 2024
By David Paul Kay
Located in New York, NY
David Paul Kay "Alpha" 2024
18x24 inches ink on paper, framed.
About the Artist
David Paul Kay is an American contemporary artist based in New York City. With a focus on vibrant l...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
American Social Realist Portrait Painting of a Coal Mine Owner by Jesse F. Reed
By Jesse F. Reed
Located in Baltimore, MD
This highly stylized portrait depicts a well dressed man in front of a mining property likely in West Virginia. It is very much in the manner of earlier American artists such as Gra...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hispanic woman with jewels Latin female Art Deco
By Federico Beltran Masses
Located in Miami, FL
Long-necked, elegant, slender fingers and spellbinding eyes define a quintessential Latin beauty. The painting is has a simple, architectonic composition of vertical and horizontal e...
Category
1930s Art Deco USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Goddess Animalia" by Dave Seeley, Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dave Seeley's "The Goddess Animalia" is an exquisite original oil on print artwork, presenting a breathtaking fusion of the human form with the animal kingdom. Spanning a substantial...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Self Portrait with Green Cape" Post Modern oil painting, artist w thick paint
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Self Portrait with Green Cape" is a post modern, oil on linen painting. It is a colorful self portrait of Yektai wearing a green cape. “Self Portrait with Green Cape” started as an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"PALOMA" Painting (FRAMED) 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo
By Isaac Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"PALOMA" Painting (FRAMED) 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo
Medium: Oil stick & aerosol on paper
Size framed: 43.5" x 33.5" inch
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Isaac Pelayo is a head on crash c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Baroque USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Spray Paint
Shoe repairman, colorful, character
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are...
Category
2010s Outsider Art USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Man with Beard & Blue Eyes, Brown" Modern Cubist Inspired Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Cubist inspired portrait painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features a bearded, curly haired man against black with an antiquity inspired bord...
Category
1960s Modern USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Choker + Chain_Anja Van Herle_Acrylic/Swarovski Crystals on Panel_Figurative
By Anja Van Herle
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
ANJA VAN HERLE
"Choker + Chain"
Acrylic & Swarovski Crystal on Panel
12 x 12 inches.
Born in Belgium in 1969, Anja Van Herle combines a European sense of high fashion in her artwork...
Category
2010s Pop Art USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Maya Angelou by important late career artist Badgley Arnoux
By Elaine Badgley Arnoux
Located in Burlingame, CA
Here is internationally acclaimed visual artist Elaine Badgley Arnoux's 'Portrait of Maya Angelou', who is an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Resin
Teofimo, oil, ARC Salon Finalist, Portrait Society of America, Florence, Italy
By Matthew James Collins
Located in Houston, TX
Teofimo was painted over several days in the artist studio in Florence, Italy. The painting measures 16 x 12 with a handmade frame from Italy. This is oil on a linen panel which mos...
Category
2010s Realist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Chaise 36, Minimalist, Pop Art, painting, Figurative, Pool, Female Figure, Paper
By Jeffrey Palladini
Located in Riverdale, NY
Chaise #36 by California artist Jeffrey Palladini is a minimalist figurative painting on paper and framed. It is textured Oil and Charcoal on paper. It is 22" x 30". With the white...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Wood Panel
The Color of Music, Original Painting
By Robin Okun
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Bold shapes and vibrant colors depict a bass player in a lively, home-like setting. The interplay of shape, color, and line creates a sense of playful rhythm, e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Boy with Molotov Cocktail, Russia Invades Germany - Like Norman Rockwell
By Spencer Douglass Crockwell
Located in Miami, FL
This work sells itself. Just look at it and an elaborate explanation is not required. There is virtually no one alive who can paint a picture like Crockwell. Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Signed lower left
Provenance: National Museum of American Illustration , Newport, Rhode Island
Crockwell gives us a complex and inventive composition by showing two wonderful portaits in the foreground and beyond a broken wall...
Category
1940s American Realist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Champ, oil, ARC Salon Finalist, Portrait Society of America, Florence
By Matthew James Collins
Located in Houston, TX
The Champ was painted over several days in the artist studio in Florence, Italy. The painting measures 16 x 12 with a handmade frame from Italy. This is oil on a linen panel which ...
Category
2010s Realist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Brigitte Bardot Icon IV /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Actress Fashion Model
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Brigitte Bardot Icon IV"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2022
Mediu...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Cafe Breakfast
By Matthew Crane
Located in Buffalo, NY
Matthew Crane is a figurative painter whose work seeks to find a balance between violence and grace. As a self taught artist, Matthew merges abstract exp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sandy"
By Robert Henri
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Robert Henri (1865 - 1929).
Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1865. At the ...
Category
1920s Other Art Style USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$218,750
A Nap Before Entering the Synagogue Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Hasidic Rabbi
By Mark Siegband
Located in Surfside, FL
Judaic oil painting by Krakow, Poland born artist Mark Siegband.
Signature on top left. Framed w title plaque on frame.
He is one of many great Jewish Polish artists that included Leopold Gottlieb...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boit Girls in Gold
By Thomas Darsney
Located in Boston, MA
Signed verso.
As Darsney’s work has developed, his compositions and influences have evolved. An auto-didactic artist, Darsney draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including The Boston School and iconic masters such as Vermeer, Rembrandt and Degas. These artists’ attention to detail and adherence to classical ratio, coupled with Darsney’s own innate sense of structural integrity, inform his vision. He is also particularly influenced by the art on view in Boston museums and collections as seen here with his portrayal of The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Spanish Tavern
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Miami, FL
There is no one alive that can paint and draw like Dean Cornwell. How can that be? They do not train artist the way they did. Dean Cornwell in his day was as famous as Normal Rockwell...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Wild Thing You Make My Heart Sing, You Make Everything Groovy" Mixed media
By Janice Frame
Located in Edgartown, MA
"As an African-American artist in today’s world, I embody the vast differences found in our collective backgrounds. I view them as cultural assets. We are always self discovering and these self discoveries take us in surprising directions. We must gain strength from what we learn from each other as well as listen to that persistent, ever present, intuitive self. The connection of one’s own rich heritage and person growth will travel into the inevitable and critical connection between African Americans and Africa. These connections are rich and very important. They Exist! My work, I hope, will serve as a creative connection between the African diaspora and western culture. It is this connection that cause my creative forces to react."
Janice Frame...
Category
2010s USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Magazine Paper
Unbridled (Mrs. Clinton)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$10,000 Sale Price
28% Off
Female Face Icon XII /// Contemporary Pop Street Art Portrait Matisse Picasso
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Female Face Icon XII"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso
Year: 2024
Medium: Or...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
"Stardust" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Stardust" is an oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form in profile wearing blue in a blue interior ...
Category
2010s Realist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
"Polly in White"
By Rae Sloan Bredin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Rae Sloan Bredin (1881 - 1933).
Rae Sloan Bredin, short lived at only fifty-two years of age, was unquestionab...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
By Fletcher Martin
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period -
Midtown Galleries label on verso, Unframed Signed and date...
Category
1940s Art Deco USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Mood in Orange, " Oil Painting
By Suchitra Bhosle
Located in Denver, CO
Suchitra Bhosle's "Mood in Orange" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a dark haired woman, in vivid orange clothing, tilting her head a...
Category
2010s Impressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Gustav Klimt Sketch of a Woman Catalogued
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Dallas, TX
Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918)
Frauenkopf nach rechts, 1916
Pencil on paper
Dimensions: 22.5 x 14.75 Inches (57.2 x 37.5 cm) (sheet)
Stamped lower right: GUSTAV / KLIMT / NACHLAS...
Category
1910s Aesthetic Movement USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper
$41,600 Sale Price
20% Off
20th century oil painting portrait realism female subject dark background signed
By Francesco Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Signed lower right by the artist.
Francesco J. Spicuzza, born in Sicily on July 23, 1883, came to America at the age of 8. He supported himself as a fruit peddler until a newspaperman gave him $4 a week to go to school...
Category
1910s USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Man, Modern Oil Painting on Glass by Josip Horvat
By Josip Horvat
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josip Horvat, Yugoslavian (1939 - 1981)
Title: Portrait of a Man
Year: 1967
Medium: Reverse Oil painting on Glass, signed and dated l.l. ...
Category
1960s Folk Art USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Glass, Oil
Self Portrait of Addison Thomas Millar at Desk
By Addison Thomas Millar
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Self Portrait of Addison Thomas Millar at Desk" is a captivating painting by the American Impressionist artist Addison Thomas Millar. This self-portrait offers a glimpse into the in...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Vintage American Modernist Portrait of a Man Original Signed Painting
By Barry Johnson
Located in Buffalo, NY
American school abstract painting. Watercolor on paper, circa 1970.
Signed. Image size, 5.5"L x 8.5"H.
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
$199 Sale Price
20% Off
Influence of Red (male portrait)
By Gilbert Lewis
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Gilbert Lewis (b.1945). Influence of Red (male portrait), ca. 1990s. Oil on masonite panel, 16 x 20 inches. Signed upper right. Excellent condition. Measures 18 x 22 inches in custom gold leaf float frame. Original gallery labels affixed on verso.
Provenance: estate of the artist.
Artist statement:
Figurative art is a vital active process. The image has its own meaning; not storytelling, not just a picture of a face or a flower. Neither is it simply an exercise in the arrangement of shapes or colors. I want to translate my immediate impression into paint to present the image of an outstretched branch of flowers or a face – direct and simple.
My art reflects human concerns expressed symbolically, through fantasy and in a more concrete manner in the process of making the representation itself.
Art is my response to the image, the end result of an active process of exploration of the limits of the paint on paper within the confines of representation. The painting of a face is not just a face. My feelings are expressed through these images. My paintings speak to anyone in touch with their own humanity; to anyone else my art may be dismissed as “to personal”.
Biography:
Gilbert Braddy Lewis born September 25, 1945 in Hampton, Va. Son of David Blake Lewis (born in Atlanta, Ga.) and Gladys Louise Braddy [Lewis] (of Sanford, Fl.); brother of David Blake Lewis (Jr.) and Linda Lewis [Hunter]. The family resides at 3 South Linden Street, Hampton, Va.
1953 until 1962
“I studied from the age of seven, in Virginia, with two well-known Tidewater artists, Jean Craig and the late Allan Jones. The teaching methods of carefully observed studies from nature in charcoal or tempra paint, derived, of course, from the original French academic model, conveyed its impact on my early development; however, my eye and consciousness were mostly activated by the reproductions on the studio wall of works by Botticelli, Da Vinci, and Michelangelo.” Gilbert Lewis in Contemporary Philadelphia Artists: A Juried Exhibition, (Philadelphia Museum of Art 2000), p. 145
1963-68
Studies at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Franklin Watkins, Hobson Pittman, Morris Blackburn, and Walter Stuempfig. While a student at PAFA he shares apartment [261 South 21st Street] with PAFA students, Jody Pinto and Barbara Sosson. In 1967 he receives PAFA’s: Bergman Prize in Painting; M. Herbert Syme Prize; and Samuel Cresson Memorial Travelling Scholarship. The latter award enables Lewis to travel to Europe during the summer of 1967 where he visits museums.
“In 1967, after having seen the Italian master’s work while on scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy, I was to realize my great influences and to discover the earlier Sienese masters whose clarity and energy still move me.” Gilbert Lewis in Contemporary Philadelphia Artists: A Juried Exhibition, (Philadelphia Museum of Art 2000), p. 145
1968
Horizontal painting [of an interior with a seated woman and cat by a large window] reproduced in black and white in school catalog for Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1968-1969, p. 24. Other students whose works are reproduced include Clayton Anderson, Barkley...
Category
1990s Realist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Monumental Chinese Ancestor Portrait, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Reflecting the role that ancestor worship played in Chinese culture, this Qing-dynasty painting depicts several generations of family, dressed in intrica...
Category
20th Century Qing USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Wood, Paint, Pigment
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
William Gropper (1898 - 1977)
Unemployed
20 x 16 inches
Oil on canvas, 1937
Signed lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Bio
Throughout his life, William Gropper used his artistic talents to protest social injustice. Born in New York City, he grew up there in poverty and left high school to work as a dishwasher and delivery boy. He eventually began a career in art and was able to study with Robert Henri and George Bellows from 1912 to 1915. He adopted their realistic painting style, and his own work expressed sympathy for common laborers and outrage at society's ills.
In 1919 Gropper established a reputation as a political cartoonist working for the New York Tribune. His blunt, forceful style attracted the attention of other publications, and he provided illustrations and cartoons for a variety of magazines, from the left-wing New Masses to mainstream Vanity Fair. Like many social realist artists of the 1930s, Gropper supported liberal political causes, depicting subjects such as the plight of migrant laborers and striking factory workers.
In his first gallery exhibition in 1936 at ACA Galleries, Gropper's work was so well received by critics, collectors, and artists that the following year he had two one-man exhibitions at ACA Galleries. In 1937, Gropper traveled west on a Guggenheim Fellowship and visited the Dust Bowl and the Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams, sketching studies for a series of paintings and a mural he painted for the Department of the Interior. That same year he had paintings purchased by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.
Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art Institute of Chicago (1935-49), Carnegie International (1937-50), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1939-48), and National Academy of Design (1945-48). He was a founder of the Artists Equity Association and member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
From 1940 to 1945 William Gropper was preoccupied with anti-Nazi cartoons...
Category
1930s American Realist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Rattle
By Will Barnet
Located in New York, NY
Oil and charcoal on canvas, 1984. 1220x790 mm; 48x31 inches. Signed and dated in charcoal, upper right recto.
Provenance: Babcock Galleries, New York, with the label; estate of the ...
Category
1980s American Modern USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil
"Resist" Oil Painting
By Mia Bergeron
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Resist" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a woman, with straight across bangs, in profile where the bright light from a window casts her s...
Category
2010s Realist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
18th Century European Portrait of Saint John the Baptist as a Child.
Located in SANTA FE, NM
18th Century European Portrait of a Child Saint John the Baptist
Oil on Canvas
19 x 14 1/4 inches
This lovely and sensitively painting has been examined by a professional restorer w...
Category
18th Century Old Masters USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Women Watch Eclipse by America Martin, Oil and Acrylic, Figurative, Nude, Orange
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Women Watch Eclipse"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
61.5" x 62" Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$16,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Family Portrait, Figures, contemporary art.
By KOKO HOVAGUIMIAN
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
"Family Portrait", sighed lower right KOKO and artist certificate of authenticity is included. 48"x60" oil on canvas.
Los Angeles artist Koko Hovagumian now celebrating 20 Years of...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Female Face Icon XI /// Contemporary Pop Street Art Portrait Matisse Picasso
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Female Face Icon XI"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso
Year: 2024
Medium: Or...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Oil portrait of woman and child
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Edwin Howland Blashfield was born in New York and as he grew up, he prepared for a life as an engineer: studying at Harvard, Boston, and MIT. He later grew into a love of art and beg...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Gold Hat
Located in Columbus, OH
Evocative, contemporary portrait of a woman wearing a hat by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Washes of thin, gold-colored paint, which we bel...
Category
1980s Contemporary USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Self-Portrait On Brown Original Oil On Canvas
By Masri Hayssam
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri is a passionate Italian, US-based artist whose work has been exhibited in USA, the UK, Germany, Lebanon, Italy and Norway. His work is varied and known especially in Europe, and in Major collections - Ellen Degeneres, Ringo Starr, Al Gore and many more.
Harnessing an insatiable desire for artistic discovery, innovation and perfection, he dives into experimentation with openness and enthusiasm. The works he produces as a result are bright, expansive and bold.
Masri has developed a style that captures Mideastern mood with A Lucien Freud brush touch.
The painting comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal.
Artist statement:
"I live four seasons every day - it is a humongous world of perceptions, conceptions, and achievements; a world of renewable psychological input and output fraught with flowing emotions, endurance, and pain. "
Represented by American Art Gallery...
Category
2010s Expressionist USA - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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