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Sale Items
Model with Mandolin in Ink and Charcoal on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Model with Mandolin in Ink and Charcoal on Paper
Black and white painting of a woman by acclaimed bluegrass musician Katherine "Kathy" Kallick (American, b. 1952). A woman is sitting in a chair, with a mandolin in her lap. She is shown in profile, looking to the viewer's right. Next to the chair is an end table with a vase of flowers.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Paper size: 22.5"H x 28.38"W
Katherine Kallick...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Tug of War
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
Here is David Shevlino's magnetic 'Tug of War', oil on canvas, 43 x 65 inches, painted in 2022, created with a minimal range of colors, and featuring the ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$23,200 Sale Price
20% Off
The snake and the apple by Vivaldo Martini - Oil on canvas 50x65 cm
By Vivaldo Martini
Located in Geneva, CH
His first name sounds like a concerto. Vivacious, its name is reminiscent of an aperitif or a cyclist. The addition of the two evokes the Italianate. Indomitable and unavoidable. Mor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Baroque Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,592 Sale Price
63% Off
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a nude black woman seated on a chair
Located in Woodbury, CT
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a nude black woman seated on a chair
The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during the 1950s-1...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Abstract Female Nude - The Watcher
By Lilian Coket
Located in Houston, TX
Striking acrylic abstract of two nude female figures seated by a winged statue by Spanish artist, Lilian Coket, 2000. Signed lower margin.
Original artwo...
Category
Early 2000s Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$325 Sale Price
61% Off
Black and White Figurative Nude - Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Black and White Figurative Nude - Oil on Canvas
Black and white figurative nude by F Vasquez (20th C). The nude torso of a woman takes up the canvas. Her right hand is on her hip wh...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$784 Sale Price
20% Off
Seated Nude Woman Bay Area Figurative School Abstract Expressionist
Located in Soquel, CA
Seated Nude Woman Bay Area Figurative School Abstract Expressionist
Seated wearing a hat by Santa Cruz and San Francisco artist Heather Speck (American,...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
$1,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude Female Portrait - Susannah - British 20's Impressionist art oil painting
By Philip Wilson Steer
Located in London, GB
This charming oil on canvas Impressionist painting is by British artist Philip Wilson Steer and has excellent provenance. The painting is circa 1920 and of a demure seated nude young...
Category
1920s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Muse - Original Watercolor on Paper
By Louis Nadalini
Located in Soquel, CA
The Muse - Original Watercolor on Paper
Original black and white watercolor on paper depicting a reclining nude by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). The woman is laying on her ...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Sisters in Bloom, Gardens of Resilience by Tetiana Pchelnykova
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Sisters in Bloom" is a poignant portrayal that delves into the profound bond shared between siblings amidst the vibrant tapestry of nature. As part of the 'Gardens of Resilience' se...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$820 Sale Price
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Fauvist Abstracted Dancer
By Chris Hamamoto
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist painting by Southern California artist Chris Hamamoto (American, 20th century). Image, 40"H x 30"W. Unframed.
Chris, a native of Southern California, has enjoyed creating artwork since childhood. After trying various media, he decided to specialize in painting on canvas and paper with acrylic paints. He is inspired by the works of Monet, Van Gogh, Sergeant, and Diebenkorn. Chris displays and sells his paintings in art festivals throughout California, Arizona, and Nevada.
Education:
Los Angeles Valley...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude Bathers, 19th Century School of HENRY SCOTT TUKE (1858-1929)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Nude Bathers, 19th Century
School of HENRY SCOTT TUKE (1858-1929) - signed indistinctly
Large Early 20th century scene of nude swimmers at the beach, oil on canvas, signed indistin...
Category
19th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,583 Sale Price
35% Off
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Grey Figurative
By Louis Nadalini
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist nude figure by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). Signed "Louis Nadalini" in the lower right corner. Signed "Louis Ernie Nadalini" on verso. Unframed. Image...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Canvas, Oil
$945 Sale Price
30% Off
"Lift Off", Underwater female swimmer and soothing green water, Oil on canvas
By Patsy McArthur
Located in Dallas, TX
"Lift Off" is a stunning oil on canvas by Patsy McArthur, showing an underwater nude female swimmer surrounded by refreshing, cool turquoise green water.
Scottish artist Patsy McArt...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Abstract Celebrating Figures)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Celebrating Figures)
Year: 1963
Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper
Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance:...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$2,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American School Boudoir Scene Nude Female Interior Portrait Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 11L x 9H.
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
"Transformation" Contemporary oil female nude metamorphosis, Venus allegorical
By Anthony Ackrill
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A contemporary female nude hovering a hairs breath over a lily pond, blue butterflies swirling around her, possibly lifting her into the twilight sky with them. Her arms are extende...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$20,000 Sale Price
51% Off
Antique Modernist Nude Portrait Surreal Signed Ancient Style Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and well painted modernist nude composition. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18H by 24L inches.
Category
1930s Abstract Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Lovers - Nude Couple in Bed - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovers - Nude Couple in Bed - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Expressive depiction of a nude couple by Byron Richard Rodarmel (American, 1932-2007). A couple is intertwin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Aion, God of Time & The Orb, 19th Century French School
Located in Blackwater, GB
Aion, God of Time & The Orb, 19th Century
French School
19th Century French School depiction of Aion and the Orb, oil on panel. Excellent quality and co...
Category
19th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$3,564 Sale Price
35% Off
Seated Nude Model in Art Class - British 40's Slade School portrait oil painting
By E.A. Jay
Located in London, GB
This superb Post Impressionist Slade School female full length seated nude portrait oil painting is by female artist E A Jay. Painted in the 1940'...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Nude Study of Red Haired Woman Seated in Chair
By Patricia Gren Hayes
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern nude study of woman seated in chair by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). Red haired women with side view of same woman with asymmetrical composition circa 1970.
Unsigned.
Provenance: Purchased as part of larger collection of artist's work
Unframed.
Canvas size: 29"H x 29"W
Patricia Gren Hayes (American, b. 1932) is a Bay Area Figurative & Feminist Art Movement artist who studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950. She received early recognition in Museum and Gallery competitions and exhibitions and was awarded a Special Education in Art recognition by the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Art, and was awarded a scholarship to the Banff College of Fine Art. Further studies were at The University of Manitoba.
She was a Member of Winnipeg Free Press Sketch Club and was a Cartoonist and paste-up for a French-English bi-weekly, in Eastern Canada;
She studied outdoor impressionism in New York in 1960; in 1962, attended The California College of Arts and Crafts, and in 1976 B.A., U.C. Berkeley where she studied under Elmer Bischoff, David Simpson, Joan Brown, Felix Ruvolo, Yolanda Lopez and Vincent Perez.
She started a freelance commercial art business in 1963; copyrighted a National Cartoon, 1976, and served as Exhibition Director for San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976-1978. She was a workshop instructor at the San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery, 1977-1985; and was Manager/Owner Stanton Art Gallery, Alameda, CA, 1976-1982.
Solo Exhibitions:
Berkeley Marina, 1974;
Oakland Center for The Visual Arts, "Images of Women", 1979
Group Exhibitions:
Oakland's Dept of Education, 1963, Studio One;
Alameda County Fair, 1975, 1976, 1978;
San Francisco Art Festival, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1978;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976, 1977, 1978;
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery Exhibition, award winner - 1970, 1977, 1978;
Hayward Bay Fair Art Festival, award winner - 1971;
Capricorn Assunder Gallery, 1973;
Oakland Art Festival, 1973, 1974;
Alameda Art Association, 1978;
El Cerrito...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
"Moonlight Sonata" Figurative Nude Original Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Striking nocturnal nude figurative fine art painting by California artist John Bowler (American, 20/21st Century), 2001. Signed and dated Bowler 2001 lower right corner (photo image enhanced). Presented in pewter-toned wood frame under glass. Image size: 22"H x 15"W. Framed size: 33"H x 23.50"W. A Granite Bay...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Summer Frolic - British Post Impressionist 30's art nude oil painting Slade Sch
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
This charming Post-Impressionist Art Deco oil painting is by noted British prolific Royal Academy exhibitor and Royal Academician William Dring. It is possible that our painting was exhibited in 1954, No. 207 and entitled Summer rather than Summer Frolic. The painting is a garden scene of 4 girls enjoying the sun and one is dancing in the nude.
Signed and dated William Dring 1931 lower right.
Provenance. Bonhams, Modern Pictures and Illustrations, 11 November 2008, Lot 99.
Condition. Oil on canvas, image size 24 inches by 20 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in a complementary frame, 30 inches by 26 inches framed and in good condition.
William Dring RA (1904-1990) - a painter, draughtsman and teacher, he was born Dennis William Dring, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring, he married the painter Grace Elizabeth Rothwell...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Howard Barnes (1937-2017) - Contemporary Oil, Abstract Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking abstract study of a nude model on a vibrant pink background. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a silver gilt frame On canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$428 Sale Price
20% Off
"Awakening" allegorical oil painting, Garden of Eden-esque nude in nature framed
By Anthony Ackrill
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of an Eve-like figure in the classical reclining pose with one toe dipped in a lily pond. Her arm is intertwined with an auburn snake as they make eye-contact with ea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man 1, 120x55cm, oil on canvas
By Tatiana Levchenko
Located in Yerevan, AM
Man 1, 2021, 120x55 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,725 Sale Price
25% Off
Reclining Woman, Mid Century Bay Area Nude Figurative with Red Drape
By Marjorie Cathcart
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century Bay Area figurative painting of a reclining nude by Berkeley artist Marjorie Cathcart (American, 1918 - 2014), circa 1964. The woman reclines on a bright red drape, stretching diagonally across the horizontal canvas...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Power Play, Nude, Oil Painting, Green, Brown colors by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Sajal Sarkar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sajal Sarkar - Untitled - 72 x 48 inches (unframed size)
Oil on canvas
Inclusive of shipment in a roll form.
Style :
In his paintings, the male nude form has fascinated him and has...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Demure Nude Figurative in Library by Margaret Wherry Ziegler
By Margaret Wherry Ziegler
Located in Soquel, CA
A nude portrait of a demure young lady seated on an antique couch in a library setting by Margaret Wherry Ziegler (American, 1909-1989). Signed with monogram "MWZ" top right, and on verso. Unframed. Image, 24"H x 12"L.
Ziegler studied at Cincinnati Art Academy, Minneapolis Art...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Three Nudes, Dancers Fauvist Figurative
By Doris Ann Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative fauvist watercolor with three nude figures by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). From the estate of Doris Warner. Signed "Warner" lower right. Unframed. Image, 15"H x...
Category
1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Female Nude Figures, Homage to Botticelli's Spring Time by America Martin
By America Martin
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Homage to Botticelli's Spring Time"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
80 x 100 inches (Diptych, 80x50 each canvas)
81.5 x 103 inches framed (81.5 x 51.5 inches each framed pie...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
$30,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Signed Indonesian Nude Woman Religous Original Framed Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage Indonesian modernist nude oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Modernist Surreal Sunset Abstract Nude Woman Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist surreal landscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1981. Signed on verso. Image size 30L x 18H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Seven Sisters
By Patrick Collins
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Acrylic on canvas w/charcoal and pastels
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$7,680 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude at the Beach - Abstract Figurative
By Michael William Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Figure in red, green, blue conte crayon by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). Unsigned, from a collection of his works. Image size: 24"H x 18"W....
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude in Life Class with Green Shoes - British 40's Slade School art oil painting
By E.A. Jay
Located in London, GB
This superb Post Impressionist Slade School female full length seated nude portrait oil painting is by female artist E A Jay. Painted in the 1940'...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Morning. Women's act. 1959. Oil on cardboard, 95x71 cm
By Alfejs Bromults
Located in Riga, LV
The morning hour. Act.
1959. Oil on cardboard, 95x71 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J....
Category
1950s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$3,615 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Framed Original Vintage Abstract Nude Woman Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American exhibited cubist nude portrait oil painting. Oil and casein on board. Framed. Signed. Exhibition label verso.
Category
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Hey there. 2018. Paper, mixed media, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil
$375 Sale Price
20% Off
Clifford Hanley (1948-2021) - 20th Century Oil, Nude With Spiky Curtain
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking nude, maybe one of the most impressive portraits from the collection, this 20th Century life study shows a seated woman with pastel toned skin sitting against a dramatic b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,452 Sale Price
20% Off
The Bather
By Roland Wheelwright
Located in St. Albans, GB
ROWLAND WHEELWRIGHT
A beautiful painting by Roland Wheelwright in keeping with his traditional subject matter. This piece is a large and important example of his work and is not oft...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$31,802 Sale Price
20% Off
"Lounging Figure" by Maura Petersen - Colorful Textured Abstract Woman Resting
Located in Carmel, CA
Maura Petersen (American, born 1956)
"Lounging Figure" 2019
Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
In "Lounging Figure", Maura Petersen en...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
John Foulger (1943-2007) - Framed 1979 Acrylic, Nude Study
Located in Corsham, GB
An original acrylic study by 20th century British artist, John Foulger (1943-2007). Well-presented in smart wood frame. Signed 'J. Foulger' to the lower r...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$328 Sale Price
20% Off
The Cosmic Dream - Visionary Figurative Nude Composition in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
The Cosmic Dream - Visionary Figurative Nude Composition in Acrylic on Masonite
Flowing and stylized figurative work by Kimberlee Kuwica (American, b. 1967). A figure is floating th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
How Did We Get Here? - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. (Issues b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Look at me. 2018. Paper, mixed media, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil
$375 Sale Price
20% Off
Figurative Nude with Swan Circular Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Leda" Circular Oil on Canvas Figurative Nude with Swan
Detailed painting of Nude and Swan by Jose Garcia Arroyo. Jose is form Northwestern Mexico and sett...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Expressionist Figurative -- Seated Nude Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstract expressionist nude with heavy impasto of seated woman. Bay area find. Signed on verso "Swan," circa 1990. Unframed. Image size: 24"H x 18"W.
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
"Large Seated Male Nude" - Modern Pastel Portrait
By Kittie O'Meallie
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exquisite nude by Kittie O'Meallie, an artist out of the famous Newcomb arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans which beginning in the early 20th century led the Southern "...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Self-portrait 8 Male nude 2009, canvas, acrylic, felt tip pen 140x98 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Self-portrait 8
2009, canvas, acrylic, 140x98 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Juris U...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Felt Pen
$6,469 Sale Price
20% Off
Dreamer (Mid-Century Impressionist European Nude Man Portrait Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A beautiful painting I acquired when I was buying things from Russia and Ukraine maybe 7 or 8 years ago. It's painted on very heavy cardboard, as I'd say the majority from the Soviet...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Female Nude in a Studio
By Bertalan Karlovszky
Located in Houston, TX
"Female Nude in a Studio" circa 1910. 19 X 13 1/2 inches, oil on wood panel. Etched signature lower right. Well listed Hungarian artist. Spent his student years under the guidance o...
Category
1910s Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Female Bather (Nude Women)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ann Brockman (1895–1943) was an American artist who achieved success as a figurative painter following a successful career as an illustrator. Born in California, she spent her childhood in the American Far West and, upon marrying the artist William C. McNulty, relocated to Manhattan at the age of 18 in 1914. She took classes at the Art Students League where her teachers included two realist artists of the Ashcan School, George Luks and John Sloan. Her career as an illustrator began in 1919 with cover art for four issues of a fiction monthly called Live Stories. She continued providing cover art and illustrations for popular magazines and books until 1930 when she transitioned from illustrator to professional artist. From that year until her death in 1943, she took part regularly in group and solo exhibitions, receiving a growing amount of critical recognition and praise. In 1939 she told an interviewer that making money as an illustrator was so easy that it "almost spoiled [her] chances of ever being an artist."[1] In reviewing a solo exhibition of her work in 1939, the artist and critic A.Z Kruse wrote: "She paints and composes with a thorough understanding of form and without the slightest hesitancy about anatomical structure. Add to this a magnificent sense of proportion, and impeccable feeling for color and an unmistakable knowledge of what it takes to balance the elements of good pictorial composition and you have a typical Ann Brockman canvas."[2]
Early life and training
Brockman was born in Northern California in 1895 and spent much of her youth in nearby Oregon, Washington, and Utah.[1][3] She met the artist William C. McNulty in Seattle where he was employed as an editorial cartoonist. They married in March 1914 and promptly moved to Manhattan where he worked as a freelance illustrator.[4][5] At the time of their marriage, Brockman was 18 years old.[6] Over the next few years, her career generally followed that path that her husband had previously taken. His art training had been at the Art Students League beginning in 1908; she began her training there after moving to New York in 1914.[1] After an early career as an editorial cartoonist, he freelanced as a magazine and book illustrator beginning in 1914; she began her career as a magazine and book illustrator in 1919.[7] He embarked on a teaching career in the early 1930s and not long after, she began giving art instruction.[8][9] While they both adhered to the realist tradition in art, their usual subjects were different. His prominently depicted urban cityscapes in the social realist whereas hers generally focused on rural landscapes. He was best known for his etchings and she for her oils and watercolors.[8][10]
Brockman returned to the Art Students League in 1926 to take individual instruction for a month at a time from George Luks and John Sloan.[1] Despite their help, one critic said McNulty's "sympathetic encouragement and guidance" was more important to her development as a professional artist.[11]
Career in art
In the course of her career as illustrator, Brockman would sometimes paint portraits of celebrities before drawing them, as for example in 1923 when she painted the French actress Andrée Lafayette who had traveled to New York to play title role in a film called Trilby.[12] She would also sometimes accept commissions to make portrait paintings and in 1929 painted two Scottish terriers on one such commission.[13] During this time, she also produced landscapes. In 1924 she displayed a New England village street scene painting in the Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings in the J. Wanamaker Gallery of Modern Decorative Art.[14] Available sources show no further exhibitions until in 1930 a critic for the Boston Globe described one of her portraits as "well done" in a review of a Rockport Art Association exhibition held that summer.[15]
Between 1931 and her death in 1943, Brockman participated in over thirty group exhibitions and five solos.[note 1] Her paintings appeared in shows of the artists' associations to which she belonged, including the Rockport Art Association, Salons of America, Society of Independent Artists, and National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[17][19]Between 1932 and 1935, her paintings appeared frequently in New York's Macbeth Gallery.[20][23][25][27] She won an award for a painting she showed at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1940.[41] In 1942, the Whitney Museum bought one of the paintings she showed in its Biennial of that year.[10] Critical praise for her work steadily increased during the decade that ended with her untimely death in 1943. In 1932, her painting called "The Camera Man" was called "a clever piece of illustration."[21] Three years later, a painting called "Small Town" gave a critic "the impression of freshness, honesty, and skill".[29] In 1938, a critic described her "Folly Cove" as "masterful" and said "Pigeon Hill Picnic" was "sustained by excellence of execution".[48] At that time, Howard Devree of the New York Times saw "evidence of gathering powers" in her work and wrote "she imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Three years later, a Times critic reported Brockman had "set herself a new high" in the watercolors she presented,[52] and another critic said the gallery where she was showing had not "for some time" shown "so outstanding a solo exhibitor as Ann Brockman."[2] Shortly before her death, a critic for Art News maintained that she was "one of America's most talented women painters".[46]
After she had died, a critic said Brockman's paintings "displayed real power", adding that she was "highly rated among the nation's professional artists" and was known to give "aid and encouragement, always with a smile," both artists and to her students.[10] in reviewing the memorial exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries held in 1945, reviewers wrote about the strength and vibrancy of her personality, the quality of her painting ("every bit as good, possibly better than people had thought"),[53] called her "one of the best of our twentieth century women painters", and credited "her sense of the vividness of life" as a contributor to "the unusual breadth that is so characteristic of her work.[11] One noted that her work was "widely recognized throughout the country" and could be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[54] Writing in the Times, Devree wrote, "even those who had followed the steady growth of this artist for more than a decade, each successive show being at once an evidence of new achievement and an augury of still better work to come, may well be surprised at the combined impact of the selected paintings in the present showing,"[55] and writing in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A.Z Kruse said she had made "extraorginary accomplishments", painted with "inordinate distinction" showing a "lyrical majesty," and possessed "a keen esthetic sense which did not deviate from truth."[54]
Artistic style
(1) Ann Brockman, undated drawing, black chalk on paper, 18 x 22 inches
(2) Ann Brockman, High School Picnic, about 1935, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 44 1/4 inches
(3) Ann Brockman, untitled landscape, about 1943, watercolor and pencil on paper, 15 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches
(4) Ann Brockman, North Coast, undated watercolor, 21 1/2 x 30 inches
(5) Ann Brockman, On the Beach, 1942, watercolor on paper, 16 1/2 x 20 inches
(6) Ann Brockman, Lot's Wife, 1942, oil on canvas, 46 x 35 inches
(7) Ann Brockman, New York Harbor, 1934, watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches
(8) Ann Brockman, Youth, 1942, oil on board, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
Brockman was a figurative painter whose main subjects were rural landscapes and small-town and coastal scenes. She worked in oils and watercolors, becoming better known for the latter late in her career. Most of her paintings were relatively small. Although she made figure pieces infrequently, the nudes and circus and Biblical scenes she painted were seen to be among her best works. In 1938, Howard Devree wrote: "Her gray-day marines and coast scenes are familiar to gallery goers and are favorites with her fellow artists. Her figure pieces have attained a sculptural quality without losing warmth or taking on stiffness. One spirited circus incident of equestriennes about to enter the big tent compares not unfavorably with many of the similar pictures by a long line of painters who have been fascinated by the theme. She imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Similarly, a critic for Art Digest wrote that year: "Fluently and virilely painted, [her] canvases suggest a close affinity between nature and humans. The artist takes her subjects out in the open where they may picnic or bathe with space and air about them. A fast tempo is felt in the compositions of restless horses and nimble entertainers busily alert for the coming performance. Miss Brockman is also interested in portraying frightened groups of people, hurrying to safety or standing half-clad in the lowering storm light."[56]
Her palette ranged from vivid colors in bright sunlight to somber ones in the overcast skies of stormy weather. Of the former, one critic spoke of the rich colors and "sun-drenched rocks" of her coastal scenes and another of her "summery landscapes of coves and picnics."[11][50] Of the latter, Howard Devree said she "painted so many moody Maine coast vignettes of lowering skies and uneasy seas that artists have been heard to refer to an effect as 'an Ann Brockman day'".[57]
Brockman's handling of Biblical subjects can be seen in the oil called "Lot's Wife", shown above, Image No. 6. Her watercolor called "On the Beach" and her oil portrait called "Youth" may both indicate the "sculptural quality" that Devree said was typical of her figure pieces (Image No. 8, above).
An example of Brockman's bright palette in a typical summer theme is the oil painting called "High School Picnic" shown above, Image No. 2. Next to it is a painting, an untitled landscape of about 1943 whose medium, watercolor on paper, shows off the sunny palette she often used (Image No. 3).
Among the darkest of her works was an untitled 1942 drawing she made in black chalk (shown above, Image No. 1). In a book called Drawings by American Artists (1947), the artist and art editor Norman Kent noted that this study influenced her painting through its use of "forms" that were "elastic" and suggested "color". He said its "massing of dark and light" created "a definite mood" that was "impressionistic" and had "the strength of a man's work".[58] Brockman's undated watercolor called "North Coast" (shown above, Image No. 4) is an example of the paintings to which Kent referred.
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(9) Ann Brockman, cover, March 12, 1917, Every Week magazine
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