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20th Century French Cubist Painting Female Nude Blue Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Lady
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/...
Category
20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Sheba Raven Cloak, Hatshepsut - Original Painting of Egyptian Goddess Figure
Located in Chicago, IL
Oliver Hazard’s paintings are produced directly from his imagination and deals with a mixture of imagery he has witnessed in his travels, dreams, and read about in literature. The ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French 17th Century Baroque Period Old Master Oil Painting Archery Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Baroque Landscape with Figures
French School, 17th century
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 29.5 x 23.5 inches
Canvas : 25.5 x 19 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition...
Category
17th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
British School Mid 20th Century Oil - Seated Male Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine mid-century still life of a seated male nude in an artist's studio. Unsigned. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nu Feminin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Henri Montassier was born at Courlon near the River Yonne on July 27th 1880.
As a young man he studied under Luc -Oliver Merson and began his career painting primarily landscapes,
ma...
Category
1920s Art Deco Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Figurative Oil Painting "A Family Man
s Fantasy"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5150 French oversized Surreal oil on canvas A Man's Fantasy
Framed
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
V.B.: Her Rain Hat
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'V.B.: Her Rain Hat' by celebrated figurative artist Kim Frohsin, painted in 2018. The artwork is 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches and it is professionally framed, 20 3/4 x 17. 1/2 inches in a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
A Captivating Modern Seated Nude in a Studio Interior by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A captivating, Modern portrait painting of a female nude seated in a quiet studio interior by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A sensitive, skilled portrait of ...
Category
1940s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Nude
By Byron Browne
Located in Columbia, MO
Byron Browne (American, 1907 - 1961) was a painter, muralist, and teacher who played a central role in the development of abstract and modernist art in the United States. Born in Yon...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
$9,900
La Toilette - Post-Impressionist Nude Oil Painting by Georges D
Espagnat
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on original canvas nude circa 1914 by French post impressionist painter Georges D'espagnat. The work depict a nude woman standing beside a wash basin in a boudoir.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 45"x34"
Unframed: 37"x26"
Provenance:
Private collection - Netherlands
From the beginning of his career, it was a constant concern of Georges d'Espagnet to assert his originality. His studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, did not last very long, for he wanted immediate independence and decided to follow courses in the private academies of Montparnasse. In about 1900, he became acquainted with Maurice Denis, Bonnard and Vuillard, and his collaboration with Denis led to a renewal of religious art in France.
In 1903, d'Espagnet was one of the founders of the Salon d'Automne, and was appointed professor in charge of studios at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1934. He illustrated a number of books: Rémy de Gourmont's Evil Prayers ( Oraisons mauvaises) (1896), The Saints of Paradise ( Les Saintes du paradis) (1898), Simone (1907), Sistine ( Sixtine) (1922); Alphonse Daudet's The Immortal ( L'Immortel) (1930); André Gide's The Pastoral Symphony ( La Symphonie pastorale); Francis Jammes' Clearings in the Sky ( Chairières dans le ciel) (1948).
D'Espagnet belongs to the group of artists who made the Courrier Français so successful. The drawings of his which are published in it are strongly expressive and some bear comparison with the designs of the great Renaissance masters. He also contributed to L'Image. He often placed cheerful nudes in a landscape, reminding us that, though he moved away from the Fauves, he retained their freedom of colour and arabesque. He painted many portraits, including those of Albert André, André Barbier, Victor Boucher, Déodat de Séverac, Albert Marque, André Marty and Albert Roussel. He also painted mural decorations, including a wall for the Palais de la Découverte (1937), the ceiling of the Victor Hugo Room in the Palais du Luxembourg (1939), a decorative panel for the Palais de Justice, Toulouse (1941) and interior decorations for private houses. His landscapes are Impressionist in inspiration, and work for a certain sobriety, an intimacy, both in their composition - one, two or three sketched figures and large open spaces - and in the choice of colours and treatment with the special hazy brushstroke that marks his style.
D'Espagnet took part in a number of annual Parisian exhibitions, including the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Salon d'Automne (from 1903 to 1949, except in special circumstances), the Salon de la Libre Ésthétique, Brussels (1899, 1901), the Berlin Secessionists (1940). He also exhibited at the first Salon de la Société de la Gravure sur Bois. Among other exhibitions were 1912, A Century of French Art ( Centenaire de l'art français), St Petersburg; 1916, Kunstverein, Winterthur; 1918, 1926, Galerie M. Bertheim, Paris; 1930, Contemporary French Art...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Adjacent Worlds Female Nude with Braids Looking at Her Reflection Thru a Portal
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
A female nude stares at what we are to believe is her reflection yet at closer look we see what looks like a cosmic portal. Is she really staring at her reflection or is this an adjacent world as Bruno would suggest with it's title?
Bruno Surdo
Adjacent Worlds
oil on canvas
60h x 36w in
152h x 91w cm
BRS068
Bruno A. Surdo
b. Chicago, 1963
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Realities, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY
SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art
2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN
Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR
Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY
2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
The Art Show, New York, NY
Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL
2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL
Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI
1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL
AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL
Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL
Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL
John Robert Wiltgen Design
Shoemaker Ruud Collection
Julie & Thomas Danilek
Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver
Benjamin Fernandez
Tom Braake
Betsy Colburn
Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose
Michael Staab & Kathy Brock
Bruce Leep
Frank Tzurect
Mary Foley
Rosalyn Carlson
Mimmy Turney
Janet Long Halstead
Billy Hunt
Carol Galli
Myles Kerrigan
Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman
Theodore Gage
Northrop Art Museum
Past Present & Future Company
Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler
Salvatore Monastero
Nix & Virginia Lauridsen
Joel Miller
David & Marlene Zerkel
Ann & Andy Abel
Claudia Rush
Marc Miller
Leonard Goldberg
Lawrence Pucci
Howard Tullman Collection
Susan & Manny Kramer
James Rinnert
Richar Interiors
Michael & Nancy Colt
Khalid Altijir
Dr. Joe Grodman
Beryl & Jack Gore
Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle
Chuck Wolandi
Jack Schwab & David Sandelin
Thomas Kaczmarek
Marti Dinerstein
Craig & Michael Golden...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Cubic Nude Oil Pastel Signed Framed
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5157 Vintage Cubic nude oil pastel
Signed lower right
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
$300 Sale Price
47% Off
Semi nude figurative portrait painting of a woman with arrows "Marks"
By Aaron Nagel
Located in East Quogue, NY
Striking realistic portrait painting of a semi-nude woman with arrows titled "Marks" by Aaron Nagel. Oil on canvas. Size 46 x 30 inches. Unframed.
Aaron Nagel is inspired by the co...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charles PICART LE DOUX, The Beautiful Girl, Oil on Canvas, 1939
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Charles PICART LE DOUX (1881-1959), France, 1939. The Beautiful Girl. With frame: 85.5x72.5 cm - 33.7x28.5 inches ; without frame: 73x60cm - 28.75x23.6 inches. 20F f...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s French Post Impressionist Nude Lady Artists Studio In Red Gown
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$848 Sale Price
38% Off
Girl in stockings
Located in Edinburgh, GB
"You can teach a girl femininity for a long time, but stockings will do it instantly."
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Nude in Yellow Skirt, Modern Oil Painting by Jan De Ruth
By Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991)
Title: Seated Nude in Yellow Skirt
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower left
Size: 36 in. x 24 in....
Category
1960s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
After the Bath Large Nude
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6084 After the bath oversized female nude
Category
1970s Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting Oil On Canvas, Nude before a mirror by French artist Auguste Leroux
Located in Gavere, BE
Nude before a mirror by French artist Auguste Leroux
Beautiful oil on canvas, French school from the 1920' .
The painting is not framed
Title: " Nude before a mirror "
Medium: or...
Category
1920s French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Nude model" Original figurative painting . Oil on canvas.Nudes across mediums
Located in Oslo, NO
In this oil painting, I evoke the raw essence of nature and the human form, blending them through impressionistic strokes. The composition captures the interplay of light and shadow,...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Rolex Submariner
Located in London, GB
About the artwork
Having always had a love for vintage watches, Martin thought it was about time he painted a couple. Here we have a timeless classic the Rolex Submariner.
Launched ...
Category
2010s Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
French School of the 20th Century Female Nude Signed in Frame
Located in Pistoia, IT
Robert Falcucci (1900-1989), "Nude Study on Palette," oil on canvas signed lower right, titled and dedicated on back. With great decorative impact, it is ready to hang.
Robert Falc...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Seated Nude) — Black Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ann Graves Tanksley, Untitled (Seated Nude), oil and marker, 1984. Signed and dated, lower right. A fine, expressionist rendering, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper, painted to the sheet edges, in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size/sheet size: 24 1/16 x 18 inches (611 x 457 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“Her work reflects the influence of her travels, the residential colors, the simple work habits, the loneliness, and the love and devotion to one’s spiritual beliefs. There is a oneness of artist and concept. Her love of life, despite social barriers and frustrations, is promoted in her work for audiences to witness and accept... Her paintings evoke a spiritual awakening. One is drawn to the intensity of color that prevails and identifies the moods of feasts and celebrations. ...Life is full of anticipation and dedication, of acceptance and hope, of faith and survival. These are all present in the works of Ann Tanksley.”
—Robert Henke, The Art of Black American Women: Works of Twenty-Four Artists of the Century, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1993.
Ann Graves was born in 1934 and raised in the Homewood community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Drawn to art at an early age, Tanksley graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1956 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Following graduation from college, she married fellow Homewood native John Tanksley, and the couple moved to Brooklyn, New York. He worked as a photo retoucher in the advertising industry. Tanksley devoted herself to raising her daughters while working as an art instructor before fully pursuing her artistic pursuits. She was an art instructor at Queens Youth Center for the Arts from 1959-62, the Arts Center of Northern New Jersey in 1963, and a substitute art instructor at Malvern Public Schools in 1971. She also served as an adjunct art instructor at Suffolk County Community College from 1973-1975.
Tanksley continued her art education with studies at the Arts League of New York, The New School, the Paulette Singer Workshop in Great Neck, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, where she learned monotype printmaking. In addition to Blackburn and Singer, Tanksley studied with several renowned artists throughout her career, including Norman Lewis (artist), Balcomb Greene, and Samuel Rosenberg (artist).
Tanksley was one of the first members of Where We At: Black Women Artists, Inc., a New York-based women’s art collective founded by artists Kay Brown...
Category
1980s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blonde Nude Female In Green Interior Mid Century French Impressionist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984)
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed
Size : 21.5 x 18 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: The painting is in over...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Covet" - Dark Expressionist Figurative - Nude Seated Woman in Japanese Oni Mask
Located in Carmel, CA
Rizaldy Celi Jr. (American, Filipino-Vietnamese, born 1983)
"Covet" 2023
Oil paint, Varnish, Wood
The artist signed the back of the painting.
"Covet" by Rizaldy Celi Jr. is a striking exploration of expressionist-disrupted realism, depicted on a 48" x 36" wood board. This provocative piece challenges traditional norms of beauty and desire by juxtaposing a nude woman donning an Oni mask...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Varnish
"Symbiosis" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kierstin Young's (US based) "Symbiosis" is an oil painting that depicts branches and foliage emerging from a female figures nude back and hands with a bright pink background
Artist ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Beautiful Oil On Canvas, Female Nude By V Tsvetkov Sold without frame
Located in Gavere, BE
"Realistic Oil On Canvas, Female Nude By V Tsvetkov "
Original contemporary painting by Bulgarian artist V Tsvetkov, depicting a beautiful female nude
Signe...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,272 Sale Price
20% Off
An intriguing Lucretia by the Follower of the Master of Female Half Lengths
Located in PARIS, FR
This painting depicting the suicide of Lucretia intrigues us with its strangeness. Although inspired by the artworks of the Master of Female Half-Lengths, it differs from them in its...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Nude Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
1960
s Original French Pastel Sketch Standing Nude Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
signed chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
double sided
size: 19.5 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be en...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
$219 Sale Price
20% Off
Persuader - Original oil painting - Zack Zdrale
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting captures a moment of reckoning—the body collapsing toward the earth, fists clenched in a visceral acknowledgment of defeat. The figure’s surrender is both physical and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of a Semi-Nude Male Figure
Located in Astoria, NY
John Knox Dillon (American, 1903-1974), Portrait of a Semi-Nude Male Figure, Oil on Canvas, 1958, signed lower right, signed, dated, and inscribed "Brackman" to verso, giltwood frame...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris Montparnasse, the Bohemian life, the artist
s model resting female nude
Located in Norwich, GB
this painting perfectly encapsulates the artistic Parisian Montparnasse bohemianism of the 1920s and 30s. We see a beautiful but certainly nonchalent woman seated on a day bed in the...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Morris’s lover 8” Vertical figurative oil painting Nudes across mediums
Located in Oslo, NO
This captivating artwork features a woman seated amidst an intricate tapestry of vibrant flora. Her serene expression and relaxed posture convey a sense of peace and introspection. S...
Category
2010s Art Nouveau Nude Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Hebe with Zeus mythological nude by Eduard Buchler 19th Century
Located in Gavere, BE
Hebe with Zeus mythological nude by Eduard Buchler 19th Century
Hebe is the daughter of Zeus and his sister-wife Hera.
Pindar in Nemean Ode 10 refers to her as the most beautiful of...
Category
1880s Pre-Raphaelite Nude Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
$12,332 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French oil painting of a nymph playing pipes, a female nude
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Charles Cres (French, 1850-1907)
A Wood Nymph playing the pipes
signed and dated `Ch. Crès/ 1884’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
25.7/8 x 15.1/2 in. (65.8 x 39.4 cm.)
Charles Cres was born in Briare in the province of Loiret. As early as 1875 he exhibited at the annual Paris Salon and was subsequently awarded...
Category
19th Century Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Aura" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Aura" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude woman's torso in profile overlaid with blue and green colors around her hands.
About the Artist:
D...
Category
2010s Photorealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Expressionist Figurative -- Seated Nude Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstract expressionist nude with heavy impasto of seated woman. Bay area find. Signed on verso "Swan," circa 1990. Unframed. Image size: 24"H x 18"W.
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Female Bather (Nude Women)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ann Brockman (1895–1943) was an American artist who achieved success as a figurative painter following a successful career as an illustrator. Born in California, she spent her childhood in the American Far West and, upon marrying the artist William C. McNulty, relocated to Manhattan at the age of 18 in 1914. She took classes at the Art Students League where her teachers included two realist artists of the Ashcan School, George Luks and John Sloan. Her career as an illustrator began in 1919 with cover art for four issues of a fiction monthly called Live Stories. She continued providing cover art and illustrations for popular magazines and books until 1930 when she transitioned from illustrator to professional artist. From that year until her death in 1943, she took part regularly in group and solo exhibitions, receiving a growing amount of critical recognition and praise. In 1939 she told an interviewer that making money as an illustrator was so easy that it "almost spoiled [her] chances of ever being an artist."[1] In reviewing a solo exhibition of her work in 1939, the artist and critic A.Z Kruse wrote: "She paints and composes with a thorough understanding of form and without the slightest hesitancy about anatomical structure. Add to this a magnificent sense of proportion, and impeccable feeling for color and an unmistakable knowledge of what it takes to balance the elements of good pictorial composition and you have a typical Ann Brockman canvas."[2]
Early life and training
Brockman was born in Northern California in 1895 and spent much of her youth in nearby Oregon, Washington, and Utah.[1][3] She met the artist William C. McNulty in Seattle where he was employed as an editorial cartoonist. They married in March 1914 and promptly moved to Manhattan where he worked as a freelance illustrator.[4][5] At the time of their marriage, Brockman was 18 years old.[6] Over the next few years, her career generally followed that path that her husband had previously taken. His art training had been at the Art Students League beginning in 1908; she began her training there after moving to New York in 1914.[1] After an early career as an editorial cartoonist, he freelanced as a magazine and book illustrator beginning in 1914; she began her career as a magazine and book illustrator in 1919.[7] He embarked on a teaching career in the early 1930s and not long after, she began giving art instruction.[8][9] While they both adhered to the realist tradition in art, their usual subjects were different. His prominently depicted urban cityscapes in the social realist whereas hers generally focused on rural landscapes. He was best known for his etchings and she for her oils and watercolors.[8][10]
Brockman returned to the Art Students League in 1926 to take individual instruction for a month at a time from George Luks and John Sloan.[1] Despite their help, one critic said McNulty's "sympathetic encouragement and guidance" was more important to her development as a professional artist.[11]
Career in art
In the course of her career as illustrator, Brockman would sometimes paint portraits of celebrities before drawing them, as for example in 1923 when she painted the French actress Andrée Lafayette who had traveled to New York to play title role in a film called Trilby.[12] She would also sometimes accept commissions to make portrait paintings and in 1929 painted two Scottish terriers on one such commission.[13] During this time, she also produced landscapes. In 1924 she displayed a New England village street scene painting in the Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings in the J. Wanamaker Gallery of Modern Decorative Art.[14] Available sources show no further exhibitions until in 1930 a critic for the Boston Globe described one of her portraits as "well done" in a review of a Rockport Art Association exhibition held that summer.[15]
Between 1931 and her death in 1943, Brockman participated in over thirty group exhibitions and five solos.[note 1] Her paintings appeared in shows of the artists' associations to which she belonged, including the Rockport Art Association, Salons of America, Society of Independent Artists, and National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[17][19]Between 1932 and 1935, her paintings appeared frequently in New York's Macbeth Gallery.[20][23][25][27] She won an award for a painting she showed at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1940.[41] In 1942, the Whitney Museum bought one of the paintings she showed in its Biennial of that year.[10] Critical praise for her work steadily increased during the decade that ended with her untimely death in 1943. In 1932, her painting called "The Camera Man" was called "a clever piece of illustration."[21] Three years later, a painting called "Small Town" gave a critic "the impression of freshness, honesty, and skill".[29] In 1938, a critic described her "Folly Cove" as "masterful" and said "Pigeon Hill Picnic" was "sustained by excellence of execution".[48] At that time, Howard Devree of the New York Times saw "evidence of gathering powers" in her work and wrote "she imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Three years later, a Times critic reported Brockman had "set herself a new high" in the watercolors she presented,[52] and another critic said the gallery where she was showing had not "for some time" shown "so outstanding a solo exhibitor as Ann Brockman."[2] Shortly before her death, a critic for Art News maintained that she was "one of America's most talented women painters".[46]
After she had died, a critic said Brockman's paintings "displayed real power", adding that she was "highly rated among the nation's professional artists" and was known to give "aid and encouragement, always with a smile," both artists and to her students.[10] in reviewing the memorial exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries held in 1945, reviewers wrote about the strength and vibrancy of her personality, the quality of her painting ("every bit as good, possibly better than people had thought"),[53] called her "one of the best of our twentieth century women painters", and credited "her sense of the vividness of life" as a contributor to "the unusual breadth that is so characteristic of her work.[11] One noted that her work was "widely recognized throughout the country" and could be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[54] Writing in the Times, Devree wrote, "even those who had followed the steady growth of this artist for more than a decade, each successive show being at once an evidence of new achievement and an augury of still better work to come, may well be surprised at the combined impact of the selected paintings in the present showing,"[55] and writing in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A.Z Kruse said she had made "extraorginary accomplishments", painted with "inordinate distinction" showing a "lyrical majesty," and possessed "a keen esthetic sense which did not deviate from truth."[54]
Artistic style
(1) Ann Brockman, undated drawing, black chalk on paper, 18 x 22 inches
(2) Ann Brockman, High School Picnic, about 1935, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 44 1/4 inches
(3) Ann Brockman, untitled landscape, about 1943, watercolor and pencil on paper, 15 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches
(4) Ann Brockman, North Coast, undated watercolor, 21 1/2 x 30 inches
(5) Ann Brockman, On the Beach, 1942, watercolor on paper, 16 1/2 x 20 inches
(6) Ann Brockman, Lot's Wife, 1942, oil on canvas, 46 x 35 inches
(7) Ann Brockman, New York Harbor, 1934, watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches
(8) Ann Brockman, Youth, 1942, oil on board, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
Brockman was a figurative painter whose main subjects were rural landscapes and small-town and coastal scenes. She worked in oils and watercolors, becoming better known for the latter late in her career. Most of her paintings were relatively small. Although she made figure pieces infrequently, the nudes and circus and Biblical scenes she painted were seen to be among her best works. In 1938, Howard Devree wrote: "Her gray-day marines and coast scenes are familiar to gallery goers and are favorites with her fellow artists. Her figure pieces have attained a sculptural quality without losing warmth or taking on stiffness. One spirited circus incident of equestriennes about to enter the big tent compares not unfavorably with many of the similar pictures by a long line of painters who have been fascinated by the theme. She imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Similarly, a critic for Art Digest wrote that year: "Fluently and virilely painted, [her] canvases suggest a close affinity between nature and humans. The artist takes her subjects out in the open where they may picnic or bathe with space and air about them. A fast tempo is felt in the compositions of restless horses and nimble entertainers busily alert for the coming performance. Miss Brockman is also interested in portraying frightened groups of people, hurrying to safety or standing half-clad in the lowering storm light."[56]
Her palette ranged from vivid colors in bright sunlight to somber ones in the overcast skies of stormy weather. Of the former, one critic spoke of the rich colors and "sun-drenched rocks" of her coastal scenes and another of her "summery landscapes of coves and picnics."[11][50] Of the latter, Howard Devree said she "painted so many moody Maine coast vignettes of lowering skies and uneasy seas that artists have been heard to refer to an effect as 'an Ann Brockman day'".[57]
Brockman's handling of Biblical subjects can be seen in the oil called "Lot's Wife", shown above, Image No. 6. Her watercolor called "On the Beach" and her oil portrait called "Youth" may both indicate the "sculptural quality" that Devree said was typical of her figure pieces (Image No. 8, above).
An example of Brockman's bright palette in a typical summer theme is the oil painting called "High School Picnic" shown above, Image No. 2. Next to it is a painting, an untitled landscape of about 1943 whose medium, watercolor on paper, shows off the sunny palette she often used (Image No. 3).
Among the darkest of her works was an untitled 1942 drawing she made in black chalk (shown above, Image No. 1). In a book called Drawings by American Artists (1947), the artist and art editor Norman Kent noted that this study influenced her painting through its use of "forms" that were "elastic" and suggested "color". He said its "massing of dark and light" created "a definite mood" that was "impressionistic" and had "the strength of a man's work".[58] Brockman's undated watercolor called "North Coast" (shown above, Image No. 4) is an example of the paintings to which Kent referred.
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