Wisconsin - Paintings

"Spring Spirit Garden" is an original watercolor painting on Japanese rice paper by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This piece utilizes the wet-on-wet ...

This piece was primarily inspired by the pinwheels. My goal for this piece was to create new relationships between color, proportion, texture, and scale. I never alter the color of t...

As both formal, abstract art objects and expressions of feminism, traditional American patchwork quilt are designs I find familiar and comforting. I piece together this salvaged wood ...

This piece began with squares on point. At some point, I decided to add smaller triangles. The randomness of these shapes felt like dancing firefly wings. Laura Petrovich-Cheney: L...

Pls note that the artworks are possible to purchase separately (2500Euro/artwork). I titled my work "Upstairs and Downstairs," drawing inspiration from the daily climb or descent of...

This piece began with squares on point. At some point, I decided to add smaller triangles. The randomness of these shapes felt like dancing firefly wings. Laura Petrovich-Cheney: L...

"Koi" is an original oil painting on canvas created by Thomas Buchs. Artwork Size: 36" x 36" Artist Statement: "I attended Layton School of Art and bec...

"Red Sails in the Moonlight" is an original oil painting created by Thomas Buchs. Artwork Size: 18" x 18" Frame Size: 22 1/8" x 22 1/8" Artist Stat...

"Earth and Sky" is a modern, abstract landscape of layers of simple forms and gestural lines to create depth and vibrancy. Underpainted in blue and green, its contrasting slate blue ...

"Windswept Farm" is an original oil painting on panel created by Thomas Buchs. Artwork Size: 12" x 16" Frame Size: 17 3/8" x 21 3/8" Artist Statement: ...

"Bouquet" is an original oil painting created by Thomas Buchs. Artwork Size: 16" x 20" Frame Size: 20 1/8" x 24 1/8" Artist Statement: "I attended Layt...

"River Crossing" is an original oil painting created by Thomas Buchs. This piece features a view from a riverbank peeking out of a thicket. Buchs shows a...

"Mississippi Working Barge" is an original oil painting created by Thomas Buchs. This is a plein air painting that Thomas Buchs did on his travels. Buchs ...

"Plum Blues" is an original acrylic painting created by Thomas Buchs. Artwork Size: 20" x 20" Frame Size: 21 1/2" x 21 1/2" Artist Statement: "I attend...

"Peach Stoned" is an original painting in mixed media by the Midwestern non-objective artist John Colt. Colt's paintings are often filled with small figures ...

"Portrait of a Soldier from Tehran" is an original oil painting by Cyrus Afsary. The artist signed the painting in the lower right. This piece depicts an Iranian man with a white head scarf, a Keffiyeh. Artwork Size: 27 1/2" x 19 3/4" Frame Size: 34 1/4" x 26 1/4" Artist Bio: Cyrus Afsary studied art under the strict discipline of the Russian Realist style of painting, graduating with two degrees. He has won numerous awards, including the Best of Show at the C M Russell show of Original Western Art and the Exceptional Merit Award from the National Arts Club at the 1986 Pastel society of America show. He has also received gold and silver medals from the National Academy of Western Art and was the first recipient of the coveted Lougheed Memorial Award. Cyrus won the Painting Award for “ mystical Transformation” at the Buffalo Bill Art Show in 2006 and also shared in the choice award. In 2007 he was awarded the Best of Show at the Eiteljorg Museum and in 2009 at the Charles Russell Museum he received the staff choice award, for “Entrance to Shrine” and in 2010 the Williams Award for Collectors’ reserve at the Gilcrease Museum. Oklahoma. Cyrus is an artist /member of the Cowboy Hall of Fame. He participates annually in the Prix de West invitational, and the Masters of the American West Exhibition at the Autry Museum in CA. The Eitejorg Museum in Indianapolis, IN and also the Buffalo Bill show in Cody Wyoming. Cyrus was featured in the 2002 Gilcrease Museum Rendezvous in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is also a member of the Northwest Rendezvous Group. Cyrus and his work appear in numerous publications, including American Artist, Art of The West, South West Art...

"Vestido de la Region (Regional Costume) - Cuzco" is an original oil painting on canvas by Abelardo Marquez. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This painting depicts a w...

"She Is" is an original oil painting on canvas, created by Alayna Rose. In this painting, Alayna Rose uses her abstract language to create the figure of a nude woman. The composition...

"Room Interior" is an original acrylic painting on masonite by David Barnett. The artist used bright, non-mimetic colors to create an abstracted interior scene. Artist signed piece o...

'Neon-A-Go-Go I and II' is an original mixed media diptych on canvas by Alayna Rose. The pair are an excellent example of her abstract language. Allowing washes and layers of paint t...

Gum - 8"x10" Mixed Media Painting on Canvas in Vintage Repurposed Solid Wood Frame My work is inspired by the beauty that I find in the ordinary and imperfect; it tells a short st...

"Caterina d'Alexandria (Saint Catherine of Alexandria)" is an original oil painting on wood panel, likely painted by Italian artist Giampietrino (Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli). The painti...

Wisconsin artist, Cathryn Ruvalcaba creates images of classic midwestern farm scenes by zooming in on the animals that populate these fields. Her use of oil paint on gesso board offe...

"Vieja del Sitio (Old Woman) - Cuzco" is an original oil painting on canvas by Abelardo Marquez. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This painting depicts an elderly woma...

"Les Artistes du Cirque" is an original painting in ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper by leading Fauvist artist Kees Van Dongen, signed in the lower right. In the piece, two circus performers stand against against a wall. On the left, a pale woman in a blue leotard with red flowers on the shoulder stands with her arms crossed, looking out at the viewer. The painter fills in her tights with delicate white brushstrokes, lending them an almost iridescent appearance. Her strawberry blond hair is piled on top of her hair according to the fashion of the period. On the right, an African man stands in a vivid orange toga, looking somewhere off to the left. His feet are clad in bright white shoes...

"Vendiendo Frutas," ("Selling Fruit") is an original oil painting on canvas signed by the Peruvian artist Ernesto Gutierrez. Visible is a vibrant rainbow o...

Wisconsin artist, Cathryn Ruvalcaba creates images of classic midwestern farm scenes by zooming in on the animals that populate these fields. Her use of oil paint on gesso board offe...

Wisconsin artist Cathryn Ruvalcaba creates images of classic midwestern farm scenes by zooming in on the animals that populate these fields. Her use of oil paint on gesso board offers a realist lens of these subjects. While her style nears photo realism, there is an added level of playfulness that sets her work apart. The bright, almost neon brush strokes that accent the scene bring out the life that exists within what a Wisconsin native would otherwise see as mundane. She personifies the animals she creates, making her subjects seem almost fantastical. Yet the familiarity of the species she paints roots these animals in reality. For example, she has endowed the sheep in this painting with the name "Earl". The eye contact...

'Dabs 4' is an excellent example of the experimental paintings of Daniel Klewer. As Klewer works on his other paintings, such as from his 'Linear Tactility' series and floral works, ...

Autumn - 16"x20" Mixed Media Painting on Canvas in Vintage Repurposed Solid Wood Box Frame My work is inspired by the beauty that I find in the ordinary and imperfect; it tells ...

"Burnt Orange Acorn" brings a feeling of wearing a warm sweater as fall settles in. This piece stands out against Daniel Klewer's other works as he has dulled the colors. As opposed ...

Wisconsin artist, Cathryn Ruvalcaba creates images of classic midwestern farm scenes by zooming in on the animals that populate these fields. Her use of oil paint on gesso board offe...

'Dutch Canal' is an original oil painting by an artist in the school or circle of Dutch Golden Age painter Aert van der Neer. Based on the labels on the artwork, the painting has bor...

Wisconsin artist, Cathryn Ruvalcaba creates images of classic midwestern farm scenes by zooming in on the animals that populate these fields. Her use of oil paint on gesso board offe...

Wisconsin artist, Cathryn Ruvalcaba creates images of classic midwestern farm scenes by zooming in on the animals that populate these fields. Her use of oil paint on gesso board offe...

Blue - 11"x14" Mixed Media Painting on Canvas in Vintage Repurposed Solid Wood Frame My work is inspired by the beauty that I find in the ordinary and imperfect; it tells a short ...

Martha - 8"x10" Mixed Media Painting on Canvas in Vintage Repurposed Solid Wood Frame My work is inspired by the beauty that I find in the ordinary and imperfect; it tells a short...

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...

"Bilberry Bourbon" is a bright explosion of colors. Daniel Klewer shows a wonderful array of vibrant colors laid in layers with this piece. A wonderfully piece reminding one of ice c...

Yu - 8"x 10" Dipped Mixed Media Painting on Canvas in Vintage Repurposed Solid Wood 3.5" Frame with black finish. Dimensions with frame 14.5" x 16.5" My work is inspired by the be...

Light blue to teal to a creamy white gradient abstract painting. Daniel Klewer makes his medium stand out against gravity to create wonderful movement and illusions in his art. The m...

This small painting of the Forest at Fontainebleau in France is an excellent example of the Barbizon School. The Barbizon School of artists were working in France roughly between 182...

John Steuart Curry "Sketching Wisconsin," 1946 oil on canvas 31.13 x 28 inches, canvas 39.75 x 36.75 x 2.5 inches, frame Signed and dated lower right Overall excellent condition Presented in a 24-karat gold leaf hand-carved wood frame John Steuart Curry (1897-1946) was an American regionalist painter active during the Great Depression and into World War II. He was born in Kansas on his family’s farm but went on to study art in Chicago, Paris and New York as young man. In Paris, he was exposed to the work of masters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Eugène Delacroix and Jacques-Louis David. As he matured, his work showed the influence of these masters, especially in his compositional decisions. Like the two other Midwestern regionalist artists that are most often grouped with him, Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942) and Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975), Curry was interested in representational works containing distinctly American subject matter. This was contrary to the popular art at the time, which was moving closer and closer to abstraction and individual expression. Sketching Wisconsin is an oil painting completed in 1946, the last year of John Steuart Curry’s life, during which time he was the artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The painting is significant in Curry’s body of work both as a very revealing self-portrait, and as a landscape that clearly and sensitively depicts the scenery of southern Wisconsin near Madison. It is also a portrait of the artist’s second wife, Kathleen Gould Curry, and is unique in that it contains a ‘picture within a picture,’ a compositional element that many early painting masters used to draw the eye of the viewer. This particular artwork adds a new twist to this theme: Curry’s wife is creating essentially the same painting the viewer is looking at when viewing Sketching Wisconsin. The triangular composition of the figures in the foreground immediately brings focus to a younger Curry, whose head penetrates the horizon line and whose gaze looks out towards the viewer. The eye then moves down to Mrs. Curry, who, seated on a folding stool and with her hand raised to paint the canvas on the easel before her, anchors the triangular composition. The shape is repeated in the legs of the stool and the easel. Behind the two figures, stripes of furrowed fields fall away gently down the hillside to a farmstead and small lake below. Beyond the lake, patches of field and forest rise and fall into the distance, and eventually give way to blue hills. Here, Curry has subverted the traditional artist’s self-portrait by portraying himself as a farmer first and an artist second. He rejects what he sees as an elitist art world of the East Coast and Europe. In this self-portrait he depicts himself without any pretense or the instruments of his profession and with a red tractor standing in the field behind him as if he was taking a break from the field work. Here, Curry’s wife symbolizes John Steuart Curry’s identity as an artist. Compared with a self-portrait of the artist completed a decade earlier, this work shows a marked departure from how the artist previously presented and viewed himself. In the earlier portrait, Curry depicted himself in the studio with brushes in hand, and with some of his more recognizable and successful canvases behind him. But in Sketching Wisconsin, Curry has taken himself out of the studio and into the field, indicating a shift in the artist’s self-conception. Sketching Wisconsin’s rural subject also expresses Curry’s populist ideals, that art could be relevant to anyone. This followed the broad educational objectives of UW’s artist-in-residence program. Curry was appointed to his position at the University of Wisconsin in 1937 and was the first person to hold any such position in the country, the purpose of which was to serve as an educational resource to the people of the state. He embraced his role at the University with zeal and not only opened the doors of his campus studio in the School of Agriculture to the community, but also spent a great deal of time traveling around the state of Wisconsin to visit rural artists who could benefit from his expertise. It was during his ten years in the program that Curry was able to put into practice his belief that art should be meaningful to the rural populace. However, during this time he also struggled with public criticism, as the dominant forces of the art market were moving away from representation. Perhaps it was Curry’s desire for public acceptance during the latter part of his career that caused him to portray himself as an Everyman in Sketching Wisconsin. Beyond its importance as a portrait of the artist, Sketching Wisconsin is also a detailed and sensitive landscape that shows us Curry’s deep personal connection to his environment. The landscape here can be compared to Wisconsin Landscape of 1938-39 (the Metropolitan Museum of Art), which presents a similar tableau of rolling hills with a patchwork of fields. Like Wisconsin Landscape, this is an incredibly detailed and expressive depiction of a place close to the artist’s heart. This expressive landscape is certainly the result of many hours spent sketching people, animals, weather conditions and topography of Wisconsin as Curry traveled around the state. The backdrop of undulating hills and the sweeping horizon, and the emotions evoked by it, are emphatically recognizable as the ‘driftless’ area of south-central Wisconsin. But while the Metropolitan’s Wisconsin Landscape conveys a sense of uncertainty or foreboding with its dramatic spring cloudscape and alternating bands of light and dark, Sketching Wisconsin has a warm and reflective mood. The colors of the foliage indicate that it is late summer and Curry seems to look out at the viewer approvingly, as if satisfied with the fertile ground surrounding him. The landscape in Sketching Wisconsin is also revealing of what became one of Curry’s passions while artist-in-residence at UW’s School of Agriculture – soil conservation. When Curry was a child in Kansas, he saw his father almost lose his farm and its soil to the erosion of The Dust Bowl. Therefore, he was very enthusiastic about ideas from UW’s School of Agriculture on soil conservation methods being used on Wisconsin farms. In Sketching Wisconsin, we see evidence of crop rotation methods in the terraced stripes of fields leading down the hillside away from the Curry’s and in how they alternate between cultivated and fallow fields. Overall, Sketching Wisconsin has a warm, reflective, and comfortably pastoral atmosphere, and the perceived shift in Curry’s self-image that is evident in the portrait is a positive one. After his rise to favor in the art world in the 1930’s, and then rejection from it due to the strong beliefs presented in his art, Curry is satisfied and proud to be farmer in this self-portrait. Curry suffered from high blood...

Lillian- 16x20 Dipped Portrait Painting on Canvas. - My work is inspired by the beauty that I find in the ordinary and imperfect; it tells a short story and leaves the viewer with a ...

"Lake Michigan Shore" is an original oil painting on board by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist shows the impact of Impressionism in his landscapes from around 1930. "Lake Michigan Shor...

Woven silk and embroidered textiles have been popular in China and sought after the world over for thousands of years. Embroidered textiles are called xiuhua (or zhahua) ("making dec...

"Footwork at Random - Variation I" is a mixed media acrylic painting on canvas by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the artwork lower right. It depicts two figures dancing. Reggie K...

Jane - 40x30 Dipped Mixed Media Painting on Canvas in Solid Wood Box Frame with Natural Pine Finish. My work is inspired by the beauty that I find in the ordinary and imperfect; it...

"Descanso, Peru (Woman)" by Ernesto Gutierrez, 1986, oil on jute canvas, signed lower right. 25" x 30" art 35" x 40" frame Artist Bio: Ernesto Gutierrez was born in Lima, Peru in ...

"La Familia" (The Family) is an original oil painting on jute by Ernesto Gutierrez. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. It depicts a family of people walking through a de...

"Feria de Sombreros (The Hat Market)" is an original oil painting on jute signed in the lower right by the artist Ernesto Gutierrez. It depicts multiple figures in purple shawls and ...

Acrylic Paint on a deep profile stretched canvas. Painting is wired on the back, ready to hang as-is. The sides of the canvas are painted white. Your painting will be carefully pa...

"El Baile" by Ernesto Gutierrez, 2005, oil on jute. Signed by the artist in the lower right. Painting Size: 18" x 14" Frame Size: 26 7/8" x 22 7/8" Ernesto Gutierrez was born in Li...

18 x 18 inches Acrylic paint on paper Ready for you to mat and frame Frame is not included, framed images are for example only Painting will be carefully packaged, rolled and sh...

"Kicking Bear, Dakota" is an original oil painting on canvas by Ernesto Gutierrez. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. It depicts the Lakota band chief Kicking Bear. Pa...

"Log Cabin Humble Beginnings" is a watercolor painting created by Barbara Kohl-Spiro. From 1984 this comes from a series of paintings based on quilt designs. This example depicts the...

"Sun Totem" is an original acrylic painting on canvas signed and dated lower center by the artist Prospere Pierre Louis. It depicts a few contorted human figures in a totem pole arra...

'Blue Landscape' is an original painting by the master of Haitian art Antonio Joseph. In the painting, Joseph works with magic realist themes: The landscape is a deep and saturated blue, with greens and yellows covering the Haitian mountains as they emerge out of the sea. The mountains are likewise dotted with the colorful houses so emblematic of Haitian vernacular architecture. The viewer looks out toward at these features while seemly contained within a set of sea walls. In the immediate foreground, pushed up against the picture plane, a mysterious vine grows out of the hard industrial ground, with nearly a dozen different flowers bursting from the same vine. The impossibility of these flowers perhaps relates the artist's work to the strong Latin American surrealist artists, like Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo, while also referencing Haitian folk culture and spirituality. caesin on masonite 23.88 x 36 inches, artwork 26.38 x 38.25 inches, frame signed "Antonio Joseph" lower right and dated 53 inscribed "172" in green ink, on reverse, center inscribed "380- 91-150" in white chalk, on reverse, center left inscribed "13" in graphite, on reverse, center right Overall good condition; some dust accumulation to surface; tidemarks on reverse; some scratches and surface losses to vintage frame. Presented in a mid-century modern profile wood moulding with gold leaf bevel and 1-inch linen liner. Antonio Joseph was born on April 15, 1921 in Barahona, Dominican Republic to Haitian parents. In his youth he was trained as a tailor and also attended Varones' "La Escuela Graduata" and studied at the Santa Cecilia Music Academy. When he was seventeen, at the time of the "perejil" massacre where thousands of Haitians were murdered, he was smuggled out of the Dominican Republic with his mother, brother and sister. When he arrived in Haiti, he first lived thanks to the practice of tailoring. In 1944, he was the first student and member registered at the Art Centre upon the official opening of the institution. There he studied geometric design and watercolor with DeWitt Peters, who recognized his potential as the Centre's first "discovery" and an asset to the nascent institution. He also practiced sculpture with Jason Seley, ceramics with Edith Wegard, and silkscreen printing with Franck Jacobson. He learned the first notions of composition and perspective with the French sculptor Pierre Bourdelle, who came to Haiti to oversee the creation of the murals of the Cité de l'Exposition in Port-au-Prince. From 1945 to 1949, he worked with Bourdelle on the enormous state-funded project, conceived as part of the festivities commemorating the bicentenary of the founding of the city of Port-au-Prince. In 1952, Paul Keene, an artist from Philadelphia taught and exhibited at the Art Center. While there, he passed on to Antonio Joseph the techniques of casein painting, which combine the virtuosity of oil painting with the possibilities of watercolor. This discovery was instrumental in Antonio Joseph’s career, and he then entered an intense production phase. He at that time produced a series of paintings for which, in 1953, the Guggenheim Foundation awarded him a prestigious research and development grant. He was the first Haitian artist to receive this scholarship in the field of "creative painting...