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Art Subject: Plant
"Castle Grounds, " Oil painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Castle Grounds," is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the green shore of land that casts a reflection of its emerald hued trees and foliage into the water.
About the Artist:
Judd Mercer is a watercolor painter based in Denver, Colorado. After attending art school for industrial design, Judd pursued a career in digital design and user experience and is co-owner of Elevated Third, a Denver-based digital agency.
After committing to writing and illustrating a full-length fantasy novel in his spare time, Judd began watercolor painting around 2014, studying with teachers such as Alvaro Castagnet, Joseph Zbukvic...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Chalandiere a Briere - Impressionist River Landscape Oil by Pierre Montezin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled oil on canvas riverscape by sought after French impressionist painter Pierre Eugene Montezin. The work depicts a view of a river in autumn. The trees that line the ...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bit of Teazle" (2023) by Sheri Farabaugh, Original Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Bit of Teazle" by Shari Farabaugh (United States) is a handmade oil painting that depicts a close up view of green teazle.
Sheri Farabaugh began painting after successful careers ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude by a Waterfall
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed lower right
Lillian Genth was an important American figurative painter. She studied in the U.S. and in Paris, under James McNeil Whistler. Genth ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Table with vase- 21st Contemporary Hyper Realistic Still-life painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Dutch artist Heidi Von Faber lives and works in The Hague.
The Stillllifes she paints are modern but made according the tradition of the old masters. Her still-life paintings show ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Drummer - green, blue, garden, boy, figurative acrylic, oil and pigment on jute
By Peter Hoffer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The figure of a drummer boy in blue is set against the backdrop of a cultivated garden in this haunting image by Peter Hoffer. In his paintings, Hoffer evokes nostalgia for classical...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Jute, Oil, Acrylic, Pigment
Coffee Espresso #22
#20, diptych, Coffee on paper, Cycling, Original
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Espresso #22 by Eliza Southwood is an original artwork by Eliza Southwood. It features one cyclist painted in coffee, combining cycling culture with the love of a good coffee ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Coffee
MAURICE MAZEILIE - FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST OIL - HAZY SUMMER GREEN MEADOW PASTURES
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Green Meadows"
by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
oil painting on card, unframed
painting: 6.5 x 8.5 inches
A delightful original oil painting by the 20th ce...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Magic of Blooming
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting captures the vibrant summer flowers blossoming in a garden at the heart of Tuscany, Italy. Every detail, from the delicate shades of pink and red petals to the lush gre...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Bluebird - Figure Fishing Sage Blue Green Water Forest Lake Landscape, 2022
By KK Kozik
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary painting in oil on linen, a fair-haired figure with a ponytail wearing green waders and a baseball cap stands knee-deep in inviting, light blue green water while...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Irises. Floral still life acrylic painting, Classic, Realistic, Polish artist
By Janusz Szpyt
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative floral still life acrylic on board painting by Polish artist Janusz Szpyt. Artwork style is classic and realistic achieved with wide brush strokes.
Janusz S...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Back to the source, Oil painting on Canvas, Water Reflections, Leafs, Realistic
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Unique Work. Handmade artwork. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Oil and Acrylic painting on Canvas.
Artist : Deniz Bayav
Subject : Retour à la source (Title / F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lazarus, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Bright pink petals frame a close-up portrait. For artist David Shepherd, the eye—like a fingerprint—uniquely identifies a person, yet their identity, orig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Floral Daydream
Located in Deddington, GB
Floral Daydream by Jan Rogers [2022]
original
Acrylic on Canvas
Image size: H:61 cm x W:45.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:1.5 cm x W:61 cm x D:45.5cm
Sold Unframed
Pleas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Watercolor Landscape of Natural Bridge, Virginia
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
William Guy Wall, a renowned artist of the early 19th century, is celebrated for his exquisite landscape paintings, and particularly with this watercolor. This painting, titled, "Nat...
Category
Early 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Sunflowers II", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Yana Beylinson's (US based) "Sunflowers II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts impressionistic flowers of red and yellow melding together with green leaves.
Artist ...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Encounter" Indian
bear. Santa Fe Utah Colorado, Wyoming, Montana 1930s. Large
Located in San Antonio, TX
Frank Hoffman
(1888-1958)
New Mexico, Illinois Artist
Image Size: 27 x 41
Frame Size: 37 x 50
Medium: Oil
Circa 1930s - 1940s
"The Encounter" Indian & Bear
Frank Hoffman (1888-1958)
Growing up in New Orleans where his father raced horses, Frank Hoffman developed a great love for these animals, which was reflected in his paintings. He worked as an illustrator for the "Chicago American" newspaper, which gave him an opportunity to draw many subjects from opera to prize fights, and eventually he became head of the department. During that time, he took formal art training from J. Wellington Reynolds, a portrait painter.
In 1916, having been rejected for military service because of poor eyesight, he went West and lived with cowboys and Indian tribes and served as public relations director for Glacier National Park. Eventually he settled on a ranch near Taos, New Mexico, and became part of that art colony and studied with Leon Gaspard, who encouraged him to use color freely.
Advertisers including General Motors, General Electric, and the Great Northern Railway hired him because they loved his bold, broad brush work and striking colors. He also did magazine illustrations, specializing in western subjects. Because of the spaciousness of his ranch that he called Hobby Horse Rancho, he kept live models of cow ponies, thoroughbred horses, longhorn steers, several breeds of dogs, eagles, a bear and burros.
From 1940 Brown & Bigelow Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minnesota had him under exclusive contract, and during the next 14 years, he produced 150 paintings for that company.
Source:
Walt Reed, The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000
Known as a traditional Western illustrator, painter and sculptor, Frank Hoffman was born in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up around his father's New Orleans, Louisiana, racing stables.
Through a family friend, Hoffman was hired to make sketches for the Chicago American, later becoming head of the art department. While working for the paper, he had five years of formal art training in private lessons from J. Wellington Reynolds, a portrait painter. In 1916, Hoffman went West to paint, living with the Indian tribes and the cowboys. During that time, he also worked as public relations director for Glacier National Park, where he met noted artist John Singer Sargent.
In 1920, Hoffman joined the young art colony in Taos, New Mexico. He studied with Leon Gaspard, learning the use of color. Although focusing on his fine art, Hoffman also painted for corporate advertising campaigns and illustrated Western subjects for the leading national magazines in the 1920's.
Hoffman became the best-known New Mexico illustrator of the time. As his success grew, he bought his own Hobby Horse Rancho, where he raised quarter horses and kept as live models the longhorns, dogs, eagles, burros, and even a bear that he had begun to sculpt in the 1930's.
Later, beginning with 1940, Hoffman was under exclusive contract to Brown and...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blooming Pond
Located in PARIS, FR
An original and unique painting by contemporary artist Eric Alfaro.
Painting is signed by the artist, accompanied with it's certificate of authenticity and sold framed with a wooden ...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Aurora" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kierstin Young's (US based) "Aurora" is an oil painting that depicts a grouping of barren trees surrounded with fog and ambiguous green and blue light
Artist Statement/Bio:
(b. The ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Pretty in Pink- 21st Century Still-life painting, Pink Peonies in a Square Vase
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Erik van Elven is a modern painter with a romantic and impressionistic style. Both his brushstrokes and use of color are fresh and done in a fluid way.
Erik started years ago to pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
“Children of Fire and New Hope”
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting is ready to hang, the painting has no decorative frame.
Children of Fire and New Hope is a painting filled with the symbolism of rebirth and resilience. The proteas, de...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Aspen Autumn II", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Aspen Autumn II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a forest of Aspen trees in Fall colors of orange and yellow.
Bio/artist statement:
Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, when he would watch Bob Ross...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lost Sheep
By Martin Mull
Located in New York, NY
Martin Mull is a singular artist whose iconography directly translate the American culture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$60,000
Oil Painting, Lawrence Kelsey, Central Park, Spring Afternoon
Located in White Plains, NY
'Central Park, Spring Afternoon' 2009 by American artist, Lawrence Kelsey. Oil on panel, 19.5 x 13.5 in. / Handmade gold frame: 24 x 18 in. Depicting a view of Central Park in New Yo...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Evenings Glow" Oil Painting
By Deb Komitor
Located in Denver, CO
Deb Komitor's (US based) "Evenings Glow" is an oil painting that depicts sunlight streaking in through the canopy of a dark and heavy thicket illuminating little saplings and undergr...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Angel
s Trumpet" By Fred Wessel
By Fred Wessel
Located in Denver, CO
Angel's Trumpet
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Féith", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Lindsey Kustusch’s (US based) "Féith" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a Great blue Heron bird perched on a fountains with red floral designs in the background.
A...
Category
2010s Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
WALK TO THE LAKE - Italian oil on canvas painting by Jean Louis Richard
Located in Napoli, IT
Walk to the lake - Jean Louis Richard Italia 2002 - Oil on canvas mis.70x100
This painting is inspired by the works of the great master Pierre André Brouillet.
Pierre Aristide André...
Category
Early 2000s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Purple Rose of Cujo" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Pug with purple flowers
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Twilight
s Gentle Shelter
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Night Garden
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas in six parts
With each subsequent exhibition, Green has expanded the botanical content from single trees, bushes and weeds to now entire gardens--teeming with growth and rich with animal and plant life. Depicting plants blooming and thriving during the night, her cast of anthropomorphic characters includes Starlings, Stargazer Lilies, King and Queen Proteas, Peace Lilies, Royal Mushrooms and Monarch Butterflies. Enveloped in darkness yet illuminated by the starry sky, Green’s lush and mystical environments invite viewers to sit amidst the gardens of metaphors and uncover the stories within. The crown jewel of this series is the monumental and eponymous painting The Night Garden...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Bouquet of flowers - Original Oil on Canvas, Impressionist Marie Lucie Valtat
Located in New York, NY
Marie Lucie Nessi-Valtat
Bouquet of flowers, ca. 1950
Oil on canvas
Paper: 15 7/10 × 12 3/5 in l 40 × 32 cm
Frame: 20 3/4 17 1/2 l 53 x 45 cm
Marie-Lucie Nessi Valtat was a French p...
Category
1950s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cycle, Oil Painting on Canvas, Plant, Contemporary Realistic, Nature walks
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Unique Work. Handmade artwork. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Oil painting and acrylic on Canvas.
Artist : Deniz Bayav
Subject : Cycle (Title FR)
Signature :...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Flower Pots, original painting, contemporary, landscape, floral
By Trevor Waugh
Located in Deddington, GB
I painted this on one of my many trips to France at a place called Narbonne. A quiet town with winding streets and flowers on the doorsteps. This particular step caught my eye becaus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
End of December - Photo-realistic Oil Painting, Autumn, Close-up Nature Scene
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Unique Work. Handmade artwork. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Oil and Acrylic painting on Canvas.
Artist : Deniz Bayav
Subject : Fin de décembre (Title / FR) ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Gardens of Delight 32 - Figurative acrylic painting Animals Bright colours Birds
Located in Warsaw, PL
Magdalena Nałęcz (b. 1970) She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1995. She received numerous scholarships and prizes: in 1997 the scholarship of the city of Cracow...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pond With Growing Flowers
Located in PARIS, FR
An original and unique painting by contemporary artist Eric Alfaro.
On display at our Parisian gallery.
Painting is signed by the artist, accompanied with it's certificate of authent...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Voice
Located in Brecon, Powys
“The voice” (120 X 100cm). Julian’s love of the garden setting with its delicate mystery as well as its floral abundance and richness of colour is shown clearly here in this shaded s...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Kindred Souls - Painting by Svetoslav Stoyanov - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting realized by Svetoslav Soyanov in 2018.
Excellent condition.
"In this creation, I've poured my soul into blending the grounding reality with the dreamscape of surrealism....
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Provance 12 - 21st century, Colourful Landscape, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Magdalena Nałęcz (b. 1970) She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1995. She received numerous scholarships and prizes: in 1997 the scholarship of the city of Cracow...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Forest landscape bathed in sunlight / - The Monumentality of the Forest -
Located in Berlin, DE
Wilhelm Feldmann (1859 Lüneburg - 1932 Lübeck), Sunny forest landscape, c. 1900. Oil on canvas, marouflaged on wood, 37 cm x 48 cm (inside dimensions), 42.5 cm x 53.5 cm (frame), sig...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"In love"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Self-portrait of the artist, painted at the moment of falling in love. The painting radiates femininity, love, warmth.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Transplanting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I used the activity of transplanting tree saplings as a way to connect the city and the country in this painting. I'm interested in surreal scenes where peopl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Meadow Landscape Impasto Oil Painting with Tree by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Summer Meadow Landscape Oil Painting with Tree by British Artist - a unique original by British En Plein Air Artist Colin Halliday.
Colin Halliday is a highly respected contemporary landscape painter, influenced by the Romantic traditions of Turner & Constable. He has been represented by our gallery since 2007, and throughout that time we have seen him evolve and mature as an artist. His collectors include Oscar-Winning Helen Mirren, and other Hollywood Actors...
Category
2010s Land Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media
$3,227 Sale Price
20% Off
Still Life with Flowers - Oil Paint - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Stil life with flowers is an artwork realized by an artist of the mid-20th Century.
Oil on panel, 35 x 48 cm with frame; panel 20 x 32 cm.
Good conditions
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of a hill slope across a stretch of water; A View from Keitele or Ruovesi
Located in Stockholm, SE
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Björneborg 1865–1931 Stockholm)
View of a hill slope across a stretch of water; A View from Keitele or Ruovesi
Signed and dated “AXEL GALLEN 1904”
Oil on can...
Category
Early 1900s Symbolist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Winter Rose - Painting by Lea Monetti - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Egg tempera on canvas realized by Lea Monetti (1939) in 1990s.
Hand signed and titled on lower center and on rear.
Very good condition.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Egg Tempera
$522 Sale Price
20% Off
Walking in Hampstead Heath - contemporary impressionism London oil painting
Located in London, GB
Based in his homeland of Australia, David has painted extensively throughout his travels in the United States and the UK, where he is regularly represented by select commercial galle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sprite and Anemone - Flying Fairy Figure Botanical Pink Flowers, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this fantastical contemporary oil painting on canvas, an angel like fairy figure with wings and outstretched arms and dark brown pants floats against a botanical background of pal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Waterfall, Connecticut" Natalie Van Vleck, Modernist Woods Cubist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Natalie Van Vleck
Waterfall, Connecticut, 1929
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, North Carolina
Natalie Van Vleck was born i...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers - Oil Paint - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an original oil painting on canvas realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Good Condition with discoloration and aged margins.
The artwork is represented beautiful...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"The Deer Herd" Pablita Velarde, Pueblo Native American, South-Western Art
Located in New York, NY
Pablita Velarde
The Deer Herd, circa 1965
Signed lower right
Earth pigments on sand board
9 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, New Mexico
Santa Fe Auction
Private Co...
Category
1960s American Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Board, Pigment
Summer Evening in The Garden With Irises, Original Landscape Painting Floral Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Summer evening in the garden with irises. This work is unframed Mixed media. Inspired by a friend’s garden a recent summer evening when the sun was setting over the irises.
Natalie ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Four seasons, Rebecca Tucker, Original landscape painting, Contemporary art
Located in Deddington, GB
I am keen to capture the sense of calm we all feel when we are in nature, looking up through leaves into the sunlight. My consistent focus for several years has been to explore the b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Still Life w/ Daises", Henni de Korte, 23x27, Oil on Canvas, Impressionism
Located in Dallas, TX
"Still Life with Daisies" by Henni de Korte measures 23x27 and is available for $9,500. Daises over flow a green vase sitting on top of a gold and red t...
Category
1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Henriette Chabot with Peonies
Located in Mc Lean, VA
This painting was owned by Comte Robert de Montesquiou (1855–1921), Paris
Literature:
Jane Roberts, Jacques-Émile Blanche (2012), pg. 47 (color illus.), p. 191.
Included as no. R...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lucht Land Water Riet Oil Painting on Canvas Nature Modern Sky Outdoors In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Lucht Land Water Riet Oil Painting on Canvas Nature Modern Sky Outdoors In Stock
Born in Valthermond, 1971 - The Netherlands
During his studies decided Gertjan to leave the concep...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Greece - Oil Paint by Elena Mardashova - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Original oil painting 'Greece', by Elena Mardshova, realized on canvas 60 x 50 cm.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vineyard
Located in PARIS, FR
An original and unique painting by contemporary artist Eric Alfaro.
On display at our Parisian gallery.
Painting is signed by the artist, accompanied with it's certificate of authent...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Wild Rose, Original painting on paper, Nature, Rose, Flower
Located in Deddington, GB
This drawing is one in a series of botanical line drawings depicting the seasonal flowers of English gardens and the countryside.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Colour Pencil on Paper
Sold...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
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