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CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
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...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wild Meeting VII - Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Located in London, GB
Muramuzi JohnBosco 1991 - Current Wild Meeting VII, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 120 x 120 cm 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Got You - textural blue, grey, beige and white oil painting with birds on a wire
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Lala is well known for her palette knife oil paintings of Birds on a Wire. She explores the larger, intangible questions of our existence simply depicting birds quietly resting ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Graphite

Shuai Liu Animal Original Oil Painting "Chant Goose"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Chant Goose Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 12 x 15.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Anniversary
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

Bo
Located in Columbia, MO
John Selburg was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He holds a BFA in Drawing, Sculpture, and Graphic Design from Bradley University (2006), and an MFA from the University of Misso...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Kiss the Sky
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Tailor s Stool
Located in Columbia, MO
Ashlee received her BFA with a Minor in Art History from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2012 and has been exhibiting and selling her artwork for the past twelve years. When she’s not making art, Ashlee loves to get lost in her garden with her four year old son where they battle pirates on lost islands, fly with dragons around kingdoms in the sky, and search lush jungles for purple tigers.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Orange Crush - Gyotaku Style Japanese Sumi Ink Painting, Large Orange Octopus
Located in Chicago, IL
A Gyo-Tako print of large octopus is seen here in Jeff Conroy's work entitled "Orange Crush". To achieve this remarkable painting, the artist inks the octopus using traditional sum...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper

Sioux #4B
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil

"Native to Brazil", Contemporary, Hummingbird, Oil, Acrylic, Collage, Painting
Located in Franklin, MA
"Native to Brazil", by Anne Sargent Walker, is a deliciously yellow green oil, acrylic and collage painting on stretched canvas depicting tropical flora of vines and flowers surround...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Canvas

Eluere I, contemporary landscape painting, birds flying
Located in Deddington, GB
An original work by Henry Walsh titled Eluere I. Painted in acrylic on deep canvas. 120 x 150cm Unframed but ready to hang. Signed on reverse. “My work begins with snapshots of bus...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Arcadia, Winter Moon 2, Shimmering, Atmospheric Contemporary Landscape, 12x16 in
Located in New York, NY
Arcadia Winter Moon presents a quiet, contemplative landscape where slender trees rise through a hushed, snow-like ground beneath a muted, moonlit sky. The composition feels both spa...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Galloping Spirit - Horse racing, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Garth Bayley Garth Bayley. Out of the Gates -Horses Racing Original pen, watercolour and ink painting on watercolour paper Pen and ink on paper Image size: H24 cm x W32 cm x D 0.1cm ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Pastel, Oil

Hunt Slonem "Whalen" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Whalen Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 16" Framed Dimensions: 24.5" x 20.5" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Edition:...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

June Rider (black white, horse, animal painting, patterns)
Located in New York, NY
Oil and ink on panel
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"CRISTO" Figurative Painting 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"CRISTO" Figurative Painting 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo Medium: oil, oil pastel, and aerosol on wood ABOUT THE ARTIST: Isaac Pelayo is a head on crash collision between The R...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Wood, Oil Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint

Zodiac Flora - 21st Century, Oil Painting, Realism, Animal world
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“Zodiac Flora” is a mesmerizing fusion of nature and surrealism, depicting a fantastical scene where fauna and flora coexist harmoniously in a dreamlike landscape. Dominated by vivid...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Captive Audience - Oval Landscape Child Giraffe Tree Blue Ivory, 2019
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful landscape scene is set in shades of blue with pale yellow and ivory in this oval encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting with oil, pigments from Morocco and India, volcanic...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel

Sky above Kuraszewo - Polish Master Of Art, Abstract acrylic on paper, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANDRZEJ FOGTT (born in 1950) He graduated from the PWSSP in Poznań in 1974 where he studied in the studios of prof. Z.Kępiński and M. Abakanowicz. Initially, his art was considered t...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Frida Kahlopus: Green Sheet - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making over a playful background of black and white images of Frida Kahlo. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil

Heartfelt Meeting
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Hunt Slonem "Old Stile" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Old Stile Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Edition: ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Bull III by Christophe Dupety - Animal painting, abstract, violet, vivid colours
Located in Paris, FR
Bull III is a unique acrylic on paper painting by contemporary artist Christophe Dupety, dimensions are 65 × 50 cm (25.6 × 19.7 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes wi...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Angus Drawing #230
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil

Warm in the Sun
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

"Green Deer", Contemporary, Trees, Ferns, Yellow, Brown, Acrylic Painting
Located in Franklin, MA
Anne Sargent Walker’s “Green Deer” is a 30 x 40 inch predominantly green acrylic painting on stretched canvas, framed in black satin wood. A silhouetted young deer in soft black stan...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled" Oil on canvas by Jiaranai Apaipak
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Untitled" is an original artwork by Jiaranai Apaipak. It's an oil painting on canvas. The piece measures 10”h x 10”w. Born in Thailand, Jiaranai grew up in India,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

June
Located in Columbia, MO
John Selburg was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He holds a BFA in Drawing, Sculpture, and Graphic Design from Bradley University (2006), and an MFA from the University of Misso...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Blue Refugee" Pelican on blue, gold gilded armchair, contemporary surrealist
Located in New York, NY
This large scale oil painting depicts a pelican with a bird in his beak standing on top of a gold gilded cerulean blue ornamental armchair. 48"x36" signed on the reverse by the arti...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Night Rabbit_2023, America Martin_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Animal Portrait_Black/Gray
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin "Night Rabbit" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 18 x 18 in. ; 19.75 x 19.75 in. Framed ______________ Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Owl Tech - Owl Bird Yellow Flowers Blue Mushrooms Futuristic Landscape, 2021
Located in Kent, CT
A futuristic animal hybrid is the focus of this fantastical landscape in acrylic ink on Arches watercolor paper by Peter Hamlin. The meticulously detailed owl-like creature in shades...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Uscita - Large Scale Trompe L oeil Gardenscape Inspired by Ancient Roman Frescos
Located in Chicago, IL
"Uscita" takes Inspiration from ancient Italian frescos originally found at the Villa di Livia outside of Rome. The trompe l'oeil frescos were from a subterranean room used for dining. The lush gardens gave the dinner guests the illusion of dining alfresco. Here Pylant took particular notice of the flora and fauna painted over 2000 years ago only to discover they were species that were also present at her then North Carolina studio. The artist adds an architectural element to the gardenscape to suggest a portal from the past into the present. This exploration of the ancient world and its connection to the present is a central theme running through Pylant's work. Carol S. Pylant Uscita oil and acrylic on canvas 40h x 62w in 101.60h x 157.48w cm CSP035 CAROL PYLANT Resume Title Artist / Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Education 1979 M.F.A. Painting, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 1977 B.F.A. Painting, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Academic Appointments 1996 - 2011 Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1991-96 Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1987-91 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1985 Instructor, Simmons College, Boston, MA 1984 Instructor, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA 1984 Instructor, DeCordova Museum and School, Lincoln, MA 1984 Instructor, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA 1982-84 Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach, CA 1978-82 Instructor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI International Teaching 2011 Professor, UW- Madison, Villa Corsi Salviati, Sesto-Fiorentino, Italy 2006,7 Visiting Affiliate Professor, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy International Artist Residencies 2017 Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, (Gallifa) Spain 2015 Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, (Gallifa) Spain 2002 Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, (Gallifa) Spain 1990 The Tyrone Guthrie Center, Co. Monaghan, Ireland 1990 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus,Schwandorf/Fromberg, West Germany 1987 Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy 1987 The Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France International Research Awards 2010 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Villa di Livia Frescos, Museo Nazionale, Rome, Italy" 2005 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Romanesque Art in France" 2004 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings Inspired by Romanesque Art in France" 2002 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Pagan or Christian, Romanesque Art in Spain" 1998 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings of Neolithic Monuments in Brittany" 1996-7 Vilas Associate Award, University of Wisconsin System, "Paintings of Prehistoric Stone Circles, Ireland and the British Isles 1995 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings of Celtic Ceremonial Sites in Ireland and the British Isles" 1993 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Egg Tempera Paintings in Florence, Italy" 1992 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Paintings of Ireland" 1990 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Figure and Environment: Ireland" 1989 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Figure and Environment Painting: Germany" 1988 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Figure and Landscape Painting: Umbria, Italy" Other Awards 2008 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison 2007 Sabbatical, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2006 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison 2002-3 Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Named Professorship, University of Wisconsin 2000 Alumni Arts Achievement Award, Wayne State University Dept. of Art & Art History, Detroit, MI 2000 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison 1999 Faculty Research Fellowship, UW-Madison, "Past /Present: Paintings based on Celtic Imagery" 1999 Sabbatical, University of Wisconsin 1998 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship 1993 Faculty Development Grant, "Figurative Sculpture" University of Wisconsin System 1991,93 Visual Arts Development Grant, The Wisconsin Arts Board 1989 Visual Arts Fellowship for Painting, The Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, WI 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Arts Midwest 1986 Residency, Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, NY 1985 Residency, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY 1985 Residency, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA 1985 Milton and Sally Avery Award for Painting, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH 1984,5,6 Residency, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH International Exhibitions 2010 Handmade Artist's Journals, Villa Corsi Salviati, Sesto-Fiorentino, Italy 2008 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany 1995-99 Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland 1994 "Exquisite Corpse" Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland 1992 "Faces and Places of Ireland" Ulster Bank, Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland 199l "Ardara Annual Show" Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland 1988 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf/Fromberg, West Germany 1988 "Art .... Made in USA" Stadische Galerie, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Regensberg, West Germany 1987 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy One and Two Person Exhibitions 2005 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2001 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2000 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI 1999 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (with John Sayers) 1998 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI 1997 Barbara Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, MI 1993 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1993 Carey Gallery, Rochester, MI (with Jo Powers) 1993 J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, N.Y. 1990 Pennsylvania School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Lancaster, PA (with Dan Gihooley) 1990 Hobe Sound Gallery, Brunswick, ME 1990 Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, MA 1989 Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 1985 Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA 1982 Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 "Exquisite Corpse" Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 "Non-Stop" Invitational, Train Depot, Madison, WI 1989-2014 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2012 "Invitational Alumni Exhibition", Elaine Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 2002-10 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI 2008 Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 Chapman Museum of Art, Myrtle Beach, NC 2007 Carthage College, Kenosha, WI 2007 Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC 2007 "Real and Imagined" Elaine Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 2003-7 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003 "The Exquisite Snake" Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI 2002 Sonyia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1994 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI 1993 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1993 New York Arts Club, New York, N.Y. 1993 "Previews of l993" J. Cacciola Galleries, NY 1992 "Small Painting Exhibition" J. Cacciola Galleries, NY 1992 "Women in the Bowdoin Collection" Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, MA 1992 Steibel Modern, New York, NY 1984-91 Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, MA 1986-7 Portraits Inc., New York, NY 1985-6 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY 1981-4 Frumkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1984 "All California '84" Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA 1983 "Western States Figurative Realism" Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA 1982 "Atlas Building Artists" Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI 1981 "Michigan Artists 80-81" Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI 1981 Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI 1970 Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI Public Collections Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Gallifa/Barcelona, Spain American Express Corporation, New York, New York Ulster Bank, Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin The Block Museum of Northwestern University Malden Public Library, Malden, Massachusetts Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf/Fromberg, Germany Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia University of Wisconsin, The Graduate School, Madison, Wisconsin Carol Pylant Bibliography 2017 M is for Math, Museum and Manhattan Kansas, by Natasha Rozhkovskaya, Publisher: Tamara Rozhkovskaya Novosibrisk 2015 Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL. (Exhibition catalogue) 2013 "Remarkable Women Exhibit" by Mary Louise Schumacher, Journal Sentinel, online, Milwaukee, WI, June 25 2012 "Peltz Gallery Celebrates Remarkable Women" by Peggy Sue Dunigan, The Sheperd Express, Milwaukee, WI, July 7 2008 "Teachers Who Can, UW Faculty..." by Jacob Stockinger, The Capital Times, Madison, WI, February 2007 "Art in Nature" by Bill Robbins, Kenosha News, Kenosha, WI, September 14 2004 "Ambition clothes 'Remarkable Women'" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 7 2004 "Waxing enthusiastic over 'Colors'" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 18 2003 "Remarkable Women Celebrated" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 2003 "Art Lesson" by Jennifer Smith, Isthmus, Madison, WI, February 21 2003 "Installation Appreciation" by Kevin Lynch, The Capital Times, February 7 2001 "Pylant unites sketches with classical style" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 12 2001 "WSU Exhibit shows figurative painting" by Keri Guten Cohen, The Detroit Free Press, February 18 1999 "On Art" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel October 12 1999 "School of Art quadrennial exhibition" by John Aehl, The Wisconsin State Journal, January 24 1999 "Something old, something new" by C.R. Gabriel, Isthmus, February 5 1999 "Honoring our Own" Madison Magazine, January 1998 "The Madison Fifty" Madison Magazine, November 1997 "Back in the Game" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, Nov. 26 1997 "Three artists will charm at local shows" by Joy Hakanson Colby, The Detroit News, May 8 1997 "At the Galleries" by Keri Guten Cohen, The Detroit Free Press, April 27 1997 "Talent not gender, is focus at show", by James Auer, Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, December 11 1996 "Remarkable Women Exhibition" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, Jan 14 1994 "In Art, these 20 made an impression in '93" by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal, Jan 9 1994 "Window to the World" by Michelle Grabner, Milwaukee Magazine, Guide to the Arts, February 1994 "Art of Love: ..." by Elby Frieda Abbe, Milwaukee Sentinel, Let's Go. February issue 1993 "Variations on a theme", by Paul Pace, Rochester Clarion, Rochester, Mi, December 9 1993 "Work of women holds surprises in summer show", by Janice T. Paine, Milwaukee Sentinel, June 4 1993 "Remarkable Women has merit with or without it's gender theme", by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal, June 13 1993 "Irish Landscape" Cross Country, Country Living Magazine, March (feature article) 1993 "Ireland's Wild West" On the Road, Country Living Magazine, March 1993 "Short List SoHo Gallery Exhibitions, The New Yorker, February 14 & 22 1993 "SoHo Exhibitions", Gallery Listings, New York Magazine, February 7 1993 Gallery Listings, The New York Times, January 31 1993 Tandem Press: Five years of Collaboration by Drew Stevens, University of Wisconsin Press 1992 "From the World's Hot Spots to Ardara", by Michael McHugh, The Donegal Democrat, Co. Donegal, Ireland, August 6 1992 "Exhibits spotlight women", by Janice T. Paine, Milwaukee Sentinel, June 5 1992 " Women's show proves a strong one", by James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal, May 24 199l "Tandem Press foster diverse printmaking styles", by John Carlos Cantu, Ann Arbor News, December 1 1991 "Quadrennially yours...U W art faculty exhibit show vital, vibrant", by Katherine Rogers, Wisconsin State Journal, January 6 1991 Who's Who in the Midwest 23rd Edition, A.N. Marquis, MacMillian Directory Division, Wilmette, Illinois 1990 "Impressive Art on a Small Scale", by Nancy Stapen, The Boston Globe, December 20 1990 "View from the Tower", by James Rhem, The Isthmus, December 21 1990 "NEA Survives but Artists Shiver", by Bill Moore...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Canvas

Blue Blood - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of a Multi-Colored Octopus
Located in Chicago, IL
A small 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 extraordinary dimensionality. By printing it on Mulberry paper, which mimics the swirl of water, the artist achieves a beautiful aesthetic. The artwork is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options. Jeff Conroy Blue Blood...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil

Contemporary Naïve Style Animal Mini Oil Painting - King Charles Spaniel
Located in Bristol, GB
KING CHARLES SPANIEL Size: 33 x 43 cm (including frame) Oil on board A very endearing and engaging canine composition of a King Charles Spaniel, painted in a naïve style in oil onto...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Board

Large Horse Oil Painting. Contemporary Equestrian Oil Painting 220 x 180 cm
Located in ALP, ES
This large figurative oil painting is a reinterpretation of two paintings by John Vanderbank, A young gentleman riding a schooled horse, 1729 / Man on horseback, 1728. A unique oil p...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Raw Linen, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Pencil

Finding the Sun
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Fox II
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...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Metal

Remembering the Magic
Located in Bozeman, MT
My interest is in creating a permanent record of the impermanence of our world. In considering the exquisiteness of a moment shared, of a new connection, a new thought, an old memory, I am often stuck by the duality of permanence and impermanence all around us. My work engages the natural world through this lens. Images of birds...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Panel, Graphite

Hunt Slonem "Rovers Bunny s" Bunnies
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Rovers Bunny's Date: 2024 Medium: Oil on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 24.5" x 18" Framed Dimensions: 28.5" x 23" Signature: Signed Verso Edition: Uniq...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Hunt Slonem "Castle Grounds" Butterflies
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Castle Grounds Date: 2024 Medium: Oil on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 21" x 30" Framed Dimensions: 23.5" x 32.5" Signature: Signed Verso Edition: Uniq...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

African Series #2
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil

Ally - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Love, Fashion, Modern Art
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Life is about give and take, we should not be like the Dead Sea which keeps receiving but not giving back. Let's make good friends, let's impact each other positively. About Artist Emmanuel Ibitoye hails from Aiyedun in the Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State Nigeria. He developed an interest in art right from primary school. He further fuelled his passion for art at Osi Central Secondary School, Osi. He proceeded to Osun State College of Education Ila-Orangun where he studied fine and Applied art from 2012 to 2015. He is an Art Educator and a multi-media painter who uses his art to address issues such as environmental decadence, culture, and racism. He believes that art is a tool that can be used to bring about environmental and human sanity, cultural integration, and the breaking of racial barriers. He uses his art to project the black race in a dignified manner, he is the exponent of Neo- black Renaissance...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Large Mythic Nude Woman and Deer, Surreal Oil Painting in Gray, White, Red
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Anna Veriki’s My Freedom (2023) is a striking large-scale oil on canvas that merges nude female figures, a gray deer, and symbolic red markings in a surreal, dreamlike composition. P...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Above the Beach 7 - painting, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Rick Rivet’s powerful series of contemporary paintings called Above the Beach is designed to address the environmental threats against the Arctic and its people. Pollution, climate c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

The Owl - painting, acrylic and ink on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The distinctive shape of an owl draws the viewer’s eye to this charming painting by Aron Hill. The Calgary artist favours a bold modern colour palette and minimalist form. This recen...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Indian Summer, Hudson Valley, NY, 2020
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT Matt Kinney was born in Georgetown, Massachusetts. He attended Pratt Institute and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, graduating in 1998. After graduation, Kinney began in...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Bear Art, Bear Painting Fine Art Mixed Media Canvas 38x56"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bear Art, Bear Painting Fine Art One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic

Octopus - Oil Paint by Adriano Pompa - 2019
Located in Roma, IT
Octopus - 2019 - mixed media on canvas applied on cardboard (oil painting, china ink and paint) - 28 cm x 45,5 cm - original frame designed by the author ( 37 cm x 59 cm ).
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bald Eagle II
Located in Bozeman, MT
Reed borrows visual fragments from predominantly seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Northern European art, citing the artists of these works like a dutiful scholar. She copies and r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

"Black Miracle", Contemporary, Bird, Hand, Green, Acrylic, Oil Painting
Located in Franklin, MA
Sargent Walker's "Black Miracle" is a 12 x 12 inch acrylic and oil painting on wood panel. A small black and red bird sits atop a branch facing a human hand drawn in graphite against...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Donkey on Warm Grey Splash
Located in Napa, CA
Josh Brown has had a lifetime interest in creating art, most notably through his depiction of animals. He swiftly captures the mood of his subjects and brings the personality of each...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Dancing cranes II by Lumi Mizutani - Small Japanese style painting, gold, birds
Located in Paris, FR
Dancing cranes II is a unique painting by contemporary artist Lumi Mizutani. The painting is made with India ink, Japanese pigments and silver leaf on Japanese cardboard, dimensions ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Silver

"Goldfinch with Sunflower", Contemporary, Bird, Yellow, Oil and Acrylic Painting
Located in Franklin, MA
Anne Sargent Walker’s "Goldfinch with Sunflower" is part of a series of oil and acrylic paintings celebrating the beauty, complexity, and fragility of the natural world. A bright yellow finch bird...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Yellowstone River at Big Timber
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

Wanted - Original Children Book Illustration Painting For "Frog in Africa"
Located in Salzburg, AT
Original Illustration for published children's book "Frog in Africa" - "Żaba w Afryce" Grazyna Rigall, signet by artist, It is in a plain Ikea frame. Grażyna Rigall is a painter, ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Untitled (Cats Dogs No. 8)
Located in Columbia, MO
JERRY BERNECHE Untitled (Cats & Dogs No. 8) Charcoal on paper 30 x 22 inches
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Charcoal

[Edith Thayer Cromwell (1893-1962)] Elephant
Located in New York, NY
[Edith Thayer Cromwell (1893-1962)] Elephant n.d. Signed, u.r. Oil on canvas 23 x 29 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Hart of Mine, Deer Art, Stag Art, Contemporary Animal Art, Bright Scottish Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Hart of mine is an original oil painting by Sophie Harden. Contrasted blues and fawns on a coral background gives this piece a huge pop of colour and sense of movement the stag stand...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Hunt Slonem "Peach Georgia" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Peach Georgia Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Ed...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

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