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Three Pelicans, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt displays an impressionist portrait of three brown pelicans. The birds sun themselves in the Sea of Cortez against a subtle greenish-blue late afternoon sky. "I hadn't thought about pelicans having a 3D vision like hawks until I was looking over my photos and saw one of the birds staring straight at me," shares Emil. He references his photographs from a National Geographic Zodiac that the pelicans seemed curious about, allowing very close viewing.
About the Artist
Emil Morhardt is an acrylic painter from Santa Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He paints at home in a studio room that has large windows and a north-facing view of the mountains. He observes the animals from this window, watching roadrunners, foxes, bobcats, deer, and coyote run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Emil paints bird portraits reminiscent of those by artist John James Audubon. He bases his paintings off hundreds of photographs he takes of birds in the wild and at wildlife recovery centers. Emil captures the freedom and inquisitiveness that birds display in the natural world. Before painting birds, he painted landscapes of San Francisco and the Eastern Sierra. Emil was raised in the high desert of California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Crossing" (2015) Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Aaron Li-Hill's "Crossing" is an original, handmade acrylic and aerosol painting that depicts a stylized monochrome Owl in flight.
About the Artist:
Li-Hill is a Canadian visual artist currently based out of Brooklyn, who employs painting, illustration, stenciling, and sculptural elements within his works. With a background in graffiti and mural painting and a degree in Fine Arts, his works range from smaller multiples to enormous murals...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
"The Cautious Guardian, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Louis Recchia's (US based) "The Cautious Guardian" is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas.
About the Artist:
Louis Recchia has been producing contemporary art in Denver fo...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Violin Player, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Louis Recchia's (US based) "Violin Player" is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas.
About the Artist:
Louis Recchia has been producing contempo...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New Jungle By Marc Zimmerman - Landscape Animal Art
Located in Carmel, CA
New Jungle By Marc Zimmerman - Landscape Animal Art
Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, whether deep mysterious jungle or delightfully whimsical florals. His color palette exp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thunder, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"This painting was inspired by the idea that we are shaped by outside forces, but remain unchanged, we persist in the face of adversity," says Shao. "It is what makes us human." Shao's energetic paintings of stallions explore and illustrate movement through nature. This work represents an immigrant's journey, filled with strength and perseverance. Shao incorporates both contemporary watercolor and traditional ink calligraphy styles into this series of oil paintings.
About the Artist
Art has been with Shao Yuan Zhang for the majority of his extraordinary, and at times difficult, life journey. Raised in communist China...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
CONFRONTATION (!the art-work is readable for blind people by touch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
This art - work is part of the project DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIPS.
The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili Zianko based acrylic painting on canvas using a var...
Category
2010s Art Nouveau Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Nine of Swords, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Rachel Srinivasan presents a surreal portrayal of the nine of swords tarot card. A majestic and mysterious white bison remains strong as a falling blad...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist More Art
Materials
Oil
221 W by Vasili Zianko, author
s volume-contour technique
Located in Zofingen, AG
This art - work is part of the project TIME AS X-RAY.
The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili Zianko based acrylic painting on canvas using a variety of te...
Category
2010s Abstract Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Blue Ring of Cape Fourcroy - Gyotaku Painting of Octopus on Nautical Chart
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
An octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored pencil to convey an extraordin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Blue Sky Horse White Horse Mixed Media on Canvas Irena Orlov
By Irena Orlov
Located in Los Angeles, CA
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas
Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand painted with acrylic, 3D painting, ink, acrylic gels, texturing mediums, Stucco, crackle paste and varnishes over-painting.
This body of work focuses on a combination of texture, color, and composition. Each piece is manipulated with a unique surface finish of textures. Irena Orlov...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Down by the Pier
Located in Burlingame, CA
'The Wind Whipped Up and They Welcomed Its Offering' - seagulls stand against an abstracted beach scene in this contemporary oil on canvas painting, 'Contemplating Progress II', by artist Diana Tremaine, whose series of paintings that depict abstracted birds and natural elements is called "Navigating Crosscurrents". The 45 x 45 inch painting beautifully bridges abstraction with realism via a calming palette of warmth and layers of paint.
Tremaine's dynamic, representational and nature-centric oil paintings reflect a search for truth and meaning. The artist develops brushstrokes and marks by adding and then obliterating some of the story in a free-association editorial process of discovering what is most important and lasting. The melancholy images echo her experiences in an autobiographical fashion, but they are also universal and touch upon and evoke our collective memories like ghosts of what was. Created with a limited palette, there is visual poetry in her surfaces, including the tension that exists when simultaneously holding on and letting go.
Diana Tremaine's Artist Statement for this series, 'Navigating Crosscurrents': "I am often taken aback by the might shown by tiny little songbirds managing the winds and rains that at times surround them. In my “Navigating Crosscurrents” series, the birds stand as metaphors for the human experience while the abstraction around them represents the forces - both internal and external, natural and man-made - that act around and within each of us every day. Life is a balancing act – at times breezy and light, at others cacophonous and overwhelming. These images speak metaphorically to the delicate balance and fortitude required as we journey down our respective paths."
The bicoastal New York City-born artist studied and taught in both Northern and Southern California. She later moved to Montana—in a search for spiritual space and room to breathe—where she works and lives with her family, dogs and horses.
'Down by the Pier...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red,
by XVALA, Acrylic, Oil Stick and Spray Paint on Canvas Painting
By XVALA
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This large scale 76" x 90" mixed media canvas painting by XVALA features a Basquiat-style large red creature predominantly placed on the canvas against a light blue background. Other colors include varying blues, golds and black. Acrylic paint, spray paint and oil stick were used on a linen canvas.
XVALA's art illuminates the hidden fallout spawned from our high tech Internet age. His 'Fear Google' campaign exposed the decay of privacy and 'No Delete' used hacked nude celebrity photos to highlight loss of control over personal information. The artist has worked with trash from the homes of Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and others, as well as dirt from the graves of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. The dirt appears in the New World Order collection as part of a pyramidal, 3D printed, living ant farm...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic
$8,640 Sale Price
20% Off
GUTTA-PERCHA HUNTER (diptych)
Located in Zofingen, AG
The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili Zianko based acrylic painting on canvas using a variety of textures, washes, the finest glazing, volumetric contours...
Category
2010s Art Nouveau Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Jockey, Wife,
Lion" Modern Naturalistic Figurative Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern naturalistic portrait painting by well-known Houston-based artist Herb Mears. The work features a detailed rendering of a jockey wearing a yellow and blue outfit standing next to his wife and a young lion. Signed by the artist in the front lower right corner. Retains the original DuBose Gallery label on the reverse. Currently hung in a complementary frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 48 in. x W 54 in.
Artist Biography: Born in New York City in 1923, Herb Mears was interested in art from a young age. He studied under Fernand Leger in Paris and went on to paint and study in various studios in France and Italy before his arrival in Houston in 1951. With colleague David Adickes, whom he had met in Paris, Mears decided to open an art school. Their Studio of Contemporary Arts finally settled in an old building on Main Street with Mears and Adickes hoping to give classes to potential students. However money was tight and Mears found himself as a draftsman for Houston Lighting and Power Company, a job he excelled at and enjoyed. Later, Mears was involved in the Contemporary Arts Association, frequently making trips to ensure security in addition to enjoying the art scene the Association provided. From the CAA to the Art League of Houston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Mears began to gain recognition. An abstract, or non-objective piece as he called it, won a prize at a competition held by the Museum of Fine Arts, earning him a teaching position at the Museum School. Mears also taught at the Contemporary Arts Museum, University of Houston...
Category
20th Century Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pair of Fanciful Paintings on Canvas of Monkeys
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Whimsical acrylic paintings on canvas, one depicting a monkey peeling a banana and the other of a monkey holding an ice cream soda and both are wearing Asian Style hats and lounging on leopard print...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Harbinger, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Che Leviathan (US based) "Harbinger" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an Appaloosa horse's white face and Black and White speckled coat...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$5,800 Sale Price
42% Off
"Exposed" (2015) Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Aaron Li-Hill's "Exposed" is an original, handmade acrylic and aerosol painting that depicts a stylized monochrome Deer Buck with antlers turning to look over its shoulder.
About the Artist:
Li-Hill is a Canadian visual artist currently based out of Brooklyn, who employs painting, illustration, stenciling, and sculptural elements within his works. With a background in graffiti and mural painting and a degree in Fine Arts, his works range from smaller multiples to enormous murals...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Mentor (surrealist oil painting wood horse équine relic monochrome grey )
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
A fragmented horse form hovers in a quiet, pale expanse, its body held together by delicate cords that feel both protective and restraining. Textured surfaces—reminiscent of aged woo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Runner (surrealist oil painting wood rocking horse équine relic gold medallion)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In Runner, Rudolf Kosow transforms a vintage wooden rocking horse into a striking example of contemporary object portraiture, where childh...
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Egon the Bull" Acrylic on Canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Melinda has studied life and its movements, developing a remarkably keen artistic technique with her flowing expressionistic style. Growing up in the Midwest she was enamored with n...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large Surrealist Painting Royal College Art Women LGBTQ+ Pink Blue Tiger Palms
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences whi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Can
t Stop, Can
t Hold
Located in Zofingen, AG
Can't Stop, Can't Hold
The work is devoted to the struggle of the Belarusian people against the dictatorship. Hundreds of thousands of citizens took to the streets to express their ...
Category
2010s Aesthetic Movement Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Horse No. 1, 2002
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Horse No. 1, 2002' by John Goodman. The artwork is 18 x 48 inches and it is framed in a wooden frame. Signed and dated by artist. Excellent condition. From Andra Norris Gallery in C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Faithful Companion
By Mari ten Kate
Located in Wiscasett, ME
This wonderful painting features a loyal dog watching over a napping baby in a sunny courtyard. It is an oil on board and features a period, possibly original, frame and is signed in...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Figurative Painting "I Have The Horse. Am I a knight?" by Pogodina
Located in Zofingen, AG
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"I Have the Horse. Am I a Knight?" weaves a narrative of self-inquiry and identity. The central figure, a woman astride a majestic horse, is painted with warm, ear...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Approach of a Rider, Western Oil Painting by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Approach of a Rider
Noel Daggett, American (1925–2005)
Date: 1980
Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.44 cm)
Frame Size: 35 x 41 inches
Category
1980s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eight of Swords II, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Rachel Srinivasan's surrealistic piece combines the traditional symbolism of the tarot card with the image of a white bison and eight crossed swords. T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist More Art
Materials
Oil
Objekt №1. CITRUM (5) by Vasili Zianko, author
s volume-contour technique
Located in Zofingen, AG
This art - work is part of the project REFLEXUS.
The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili Zianko based acrylic painting on canvas using a variety of texture...
Category
2010s Art Nouveau Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Objekt №2. SERRASALMUS (1) by Vasili Zianko, author
s volume-contour technique
Located in Zofingen, AG
This art - work is part of the project REFLEXUS.
The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili Zianko based acrylic painting on canvas using a variety of texture...
Category
2010s Art Nouveau Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Objekt №2. SERRASALMUS (5) by Vasili Zianko, author
s volume-contour technique
Located in Zofingen, AG
This art - work is part of the project REFLEXUS.
The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili Zianko based acrylic painting on canvas using a variety of texture...
Category
2010s Art Nouveau Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Brave One, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Using thick brushstrokes and dripping paint, artist Alana Clumeck rendered this white stallion in a powerful and intuitive pose. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stitch on Cloth, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Blue by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
By Jyotirmoy De
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jyotirmoy De - Stitch on Cloth
Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 36 inches
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS :
1) 2 YEAR CERTIFICATE COURSE IN DESIGN, FROM KALA BHAVANA, VISVA BHARATI, SANTINIKETA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fierce, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A lone wolf trots in the snow, encircled with a red halo. In the background, herring swim among a flower pattern, inspired from her childhood memories growing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Dancing Horse Blue
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you and that that you decide to follow.
Shipping: Please note this artwork will be shipped in a professional, wide art tube and will be sent rolled. The cost for shipping will therefore be considerably cheaper than that quoted
Artwork Details:
Isabel Rock, The Dancing Horse of the Day, mixed media on archival paper , 153cm x 122cm, unframed, 2013
The Long Story of the Dancing Horse of the Day
In Rock's own words,
'With seven long strides I traversed a might ocean, the salt spray dried my throat and crusted my lips with crystals. With eight huge hops I vaulted a vast desert of sand dunes, hot sand blew in my eyes, blocked my nostrils and burnt my hooves. With nine large leaps I scaled a stone wall that stretched to the skies, the cold grey lumps seemed to penetrate my heart with their silent indifference. I had come to dance before the Queen who had heard rumours of my beauty. I knelt before her in the great long throne room.
'Your majesty,' I said, 'I will dance for you but you must know that this comes with a price. How great the price will be I cannot tell, it will depend on your deepest heart.'
'Dance,' she commanded, 'I care not for such things. There is no price, I am the Queen.'
So I tapped my hooves and jiggled my legs, I tossed my mane and I shook my head. I danced and I danced. My body shimmered and shone, radiant in the light of the chandeliers. As I danced a rumble began, it got louder and louder as the walls of the castle crumbled and fell around me. I carried on dancing until nothing was left and the Queen was nowhere to be seen. I assumed she was crushed under the rocks, but I had given her fair warning...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
TASTE OF POMEGRANATE by V.Zianko - !readable for blind people by touch
Located in Zofingen, AG
The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili Zianko based acrylic painting on canvas using a variety of textures, washes, the finest...
Category
2010s Art Nouveau Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Emperors and Albert Bridge - surrealist wildlife animal oil painting- modern art
By Nathan Neven
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Outer Reef by Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Out on the outer reef the wind howls through the surf as cresting waves peel and churn in a white froth, while the seas rough, textured surface contrasts in various shades of blue ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Five of Swords, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Rachel Srinivasan manifests a representation of a tarot card. She paints a robust white bison in the center of five silver swords, standing on a pentagram in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist More Art
Materials
Oil
Looking Toward Oyster Pond, Montauk, Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Looking Toward Oyster Pond, Montauk
Year: 1983-2001
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 42 x 60 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed rect...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$46,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Family Farm
Located in Lexington, KY
Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie’s, London, 5 June 1998, lot 32 (25,300 Euro), Signed, Oil on Canvas.
Son of John Frederick Herring Sr. The Junior Herring painted farm and equestria...
Category
19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Elephant Rustic Grey Mixed Media Painting on Canvas 60 x 40"
By Irena Orlov
Located in Los Angeles, CA
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas
Artwork:
Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Grey Whale Eating Kelp
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful close up portrait of a gray whale named "Pearl" feeding on kelp in the dark blue ocean by Aptos, California artist Lise Lang Crowley (American, 20th century). Great texture...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Cuddly Bison: Two of Swords, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"This painting is a part of both my Tarot series and my Power Bison series," shares artist Rachel Srinivasan. "In tarot, the two of swords is about decisions,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist More Art
Materials
Oil
The Herd
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This painting was inspired by the idea that we are shaped by outside forces, but remain unchanged, we persist in the face of adversity. It is what makes us human. My energetic oil paintings of stallions explore and illustrate movement through nature. This work represents an immigrant journey or strength and perseverance. I incorporate both contemporary (watercolor) and traditional (ink calligraphy) painting styles into this series.
About the Artist
Art has been with Shao Yuan Zhang for the majority of his extraordinary, and at times difficult, life journey. Raised in communist China...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist More Art
Materials
Oil
Gone in 60 seconds
Located in Riga, LV
Gone in 60 seconds
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,598 Sale Price
20% Off
Oil Painting Rat "Unicorn #3"
By Manon Cleary
Located in Washington, DC
Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse Manon Cleary and titled Unicorn #3.
Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art.
Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets.
As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance.
Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations.
She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.”
Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years.
In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon.
“She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.”
Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year.
As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.”
She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001.
In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side.
She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh.
After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility.
Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley...
Category
1990s Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,850 Sale Price
30% Off
White Rustic Farmhouse Horse Oil Painting on Canvas 50Hx72W Horse Portrait Art
By Irena Orlov
Located in Los Angeles, CA
White Rustic Farmhouse Horse Oil 50H x 72W"
Unstretched (Rolled) Canvas.
Stretching is free upon Request.
Artist Irena Orlov. Signed
Certificate for authenticity.
Irena Orlov is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Union, " Abstract Hummingbird Painting
By Ned Martin
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint and aluminum on board. It features two blue and green birds, one at the top right-hand corner and one at the bottom left, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Three Whimbrels in Conversation, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"The two nearer whimbrels look to me," shares artist Emil Morhardt. "They look as though they might be discussing whether or not to let junior fly to Florida ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Stitch on Cloth, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Blue by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
By Jyotirmoy De
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jyotirmoy De - Stitch on Cloth
Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 36 inches
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS :
1) 2 YEAR CERTIFICATE COURSE IN DESIGN, FROM KALA BHAVANA, VISVA BHARATI, SANTINIKETA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Queen" - Modern Abstract Figurative Oil Textural Woman and Snake Artwork
Located in Carmel, CA
Frida Willis (Swedish, born 1971)
"The Queen" 2021
Oil paint, Canvas, Stretcher bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
In "The Queen," Frida Wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
"Flirtation, " Abstract Painting
By Ned Martin
Located in Westport, CT
This horizontal abstract painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint and 24K gold leaf on aluminum. The artist's signature square and rectangular patterned composition serves as a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal, Gold Leaf
Heron, Large Modern Oil Painting by Daniel Maffia
Located in Long Island City, NY
Heron
Daniel Maffia, French/American (1937)
Date: 1985
Oil on Canvas, signed lower right
Size: 71.5 x 36 in. (181.61 x 91.44 cm)
Category
1980s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Goldfish
By Greg Decker
Located in Atlanta, GA
Greg's witty and charming oil painting on aluminum comes framed in a floater frame which adds 1.75 inches all the way around. "Greg Decker is a visionary painter. His work epitomize...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Metal
$5,200
English late 20th century, field mouse in a landscape eating a nut.
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful English late 20th century Field Mouse in a landscape.
Signed and dated 1981
Chris Howells was born in 1947 and passed away in 2013. He studied Graphic Design at Stourbrid...
Category
1980s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Leopards
by Byron Z. Tripp - Large Striking Wildlife Leopard Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
‘The Leopards’ is a striking masterpiece that captivates the viewer with its dynamic interplay of black, white, and yellow. The artist’s exceptional use of color and line work transp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Homage to Rousseau - Nude Painting - Contemporary Art By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
A contemporary twist on Rousseau's painting " The Dream" with bright ,whimsical flowers and foliage is just pure fun and fancy. The artist is a great fan!
Homage to Rousseau - Nude...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woven Jungle - Landscape Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
In a dense tropical jungle a strange animal timidly peaks out from the foliage. Deep blues rich greens and burgundys set the color tones of this fantasy jungle.
Woven Jungle - Lands...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
With Gold II, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Symbols of home and family juxtaposed with adventure, discovery and flight are re-occurring themes in Candice's work. A hummingbird boldly flies away from its...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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