Modern Art Paintings

Bright Toh's creative vision is driven by a deep-rooted appreciation for his African heritage and a desire to pay homage to the intrinsic ties between the people of Africa and their natural surroundings. "Higher Life" stands as a testament to the exquisite synergy that exists between man and wildlife, shedding light on the harmonious relationship they share within their common ecosystem. The central figure in the artwork, a man adorned with the head of a bird, serves as a powerful representation of the mystical connection between humans and nature. The bird, with its freedom to soar through the skies, symbolizes the aspirations of the African people to rise above challenges and embrace a higher state of being. This metamorphosis of man into a bird-like form underscores the spiritual journey of self-discovery and cultural understanding that lies at the heart of African traditions. Toh's meticulous attention to detail and masterful use of colors breathe life into the canvas. The vibrant hues mimic the rich landscapes of Africa, from the lush greenery of the savannahs to the striking plumage of its avian inhabitants. Through a harmonious blend of traditional and contemporary artistic techniques, Toh weaves together a tapestry that celebrates the convergence of African heritage and its intertwined relationship with wildlife. The concept of totems holds immense significance in various African cultures, where ancestral reverence is deeply ingrained. In "Higher Life," the man's bird head serves as a totemic representation of his connection to his ancestors, carrying with it the wisdom and experiences of those who came before him. The totem acts as a guiding force, leading the man on a journey of self-discovery and connection to his roots. As viewers immerse themselves in "Higher Life," they are invited to contemplate the timeless relationship between man and nature. Toh's artwork urges us to recognize the importance of preserving our shared environment and the imperative role of cultural heritage in shaping our identities. In a world marked by rapid urbanization and detachment from nature, "Higher Life" serves as a poignant reminder of the intrinsic bond between humanity and the animal kingdom. Bright Toh's artistic prowess in "Higher Life" transcends cultural boundaries, beckoning audiences from all corners of the globe to appreciate the profound unity between humans and wildlife. It is a testament to the enduring legacy of African traditions and an encouragement to embrace our roots as an essential part of who we are. In conclusion, "Higher Life" is not just a stunning work of art; it is an exploration of our place in the world and the intricate ties that bind us with our environment and cultural heritage. Through the captivating portrayal of a man with a bird...

Francoise with brush in hand, Colors dance at her command. Canvas whispers tales untold, In vibrant hues, her stories unfold. :: Painting :: Abstract Expressionism :: This piece c...

Outsider artist Scott Harbison imagines a world of curious alien beings and wide-eyed mutant animals, naively navigating unknown territory. His mischievous figures are activated by s...

NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural Ernest Fiene (1894-1965) Cityscape 36 x 30 inches Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1930. lower right Provenance Estate of the artist. ACA Galleries, New York Exhibited New York, Frank Rehn Gallery, Changing Old New York, 1931. New York, ACA Galleries, Ernest Fiene: Art of the City, 1925-1955, May 2-23, 1981, n.p., no. 5. BIO Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923. Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925. In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. The first monograph from the Younger Artists Series was published on Fiene in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects. By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene’s paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene’s paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene’s paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City. With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled “Changing Old New York,” in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene’s oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well. Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene’s Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy. On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes. Fiene’s landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. Through the fall and winter of 1935-36, Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings...

Edgar STOEBEL Paris : Old Windmill in Montmartre Original oil on canvas Signed On canvas 65 x 81 cm (c. 26 x 32 in) Presented in wood frame 77 x 94 cm (c. 31 x 37 in) Very good c...

"Untitled (Censor Painting Pink)" is a nude figurative acrylic on inkjet board painting by Richard Prince in 2009. The artwork is 35 1/2 x 30 inches and 37 1/2 x 32 x 1 1/2 inches wi...

"Salinas Valley Farm" - Fauvist Landscape in Oil on Artist's Board Bright and saturated landscape by Will H. Light (American, 1926-2004). The viewer stands at the edge of a farm, lo...

There is a literary saying: "For Ukrainians, the heart is in children, the soul is in songs, and life is in gardens." The "Gardens of Resilience" series embodies the enduring will an...

Oil on artist board mounted on wood panel. Tschacbasov sunset sets the trees ablaze in this beautiful painting done in the late 1950's while two small figures in the lower right side...

Frame size 80x69 cm. Joan Cruspinera Muñoz was born in 1945 in Tiana, Barcelona. This Catalan artist is a painter, draftsman and painter. His training...

Martin Koole Museum visit II 120 x 120 cm Acryl on canvas Martin Koole's paintings are distinguished from the work of other painters by his very headstrong way of applying the pain...

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...

Self-portrait 11 2009, canvas, acrylic, 98x140 cm Juris Utāns (1959-2022) was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially ...

Sunrise in the Caribbean - acrylic painting on canvas, 2024 55cm x 39cm, (21,5" x 15.3") The brush strokes are thick and impressionistic, alive with color and motion. This acrylic painting was created on canvas, with the painting continued around the edges. Morning illuminates the summer sunrise...

Original PAINTING by DARIA KUSTO The magic flow reality.. Acrylic on canvas Shipped From Spain.

This bold, expressionist impasto portrait depicts a circus bear tamer rendered in gestural brushstrokes against a dominant, rich emerald green background. A small, tethered bear appe...

Provenance Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist); Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Sale #2326, 27 January 1965, Lot 168; Private Collection (acquired from the abo...

越波飛翼 (Yuè bō fēi yì) by 朱永 Surmounting Waves Flying Wings by ZhuYong Image, 26.5"H x 40.5"W Frame, 35.5"W 49.5"W . 1.5"D A Chinese painting featuring two cranes in flight against a backdrop of stylized waves. The painting is rendered in traditional Chinese style, with flowing brushstrokes and a muted color palette dominated by blues, whites, and earth tones. The cranes are depicted with detailed plumage, their wings outstretched as they soar through the air. The waves are represented in a swirling, abstract manner, suggesting movement and energy. Chinese painting is known for its emphasis on capturing the essence of the subject matter rather than a literal representation, and this piece exemplifies that approach. The use of ink and color on silk or paper is typical of this art form, as is the focus on natural themes such as birds and landscapes. he style is reminiscent of traditional Chinese ink wash painting, which emphasizes brushwork and capturing the spirit of the subject. The swirling water and mountain details could also be interpreted as fractal art...

My paintings and sculptures bridge ancient and modern sensibilities. The subjects are often classical figures and portraits, but my use of materials is pure expressionism. I am mos...

This artwork is sold framed. Available for presale. Please note: this artwork will be exhibited during Ashvin Harrison’s solo show (Nov 29–Dec 7) and can be collected or shipped af...

Original artwork by DARIA KUSTO. the magic flow reality. Acrylic and markers on canvas Shipped rolled in a tube From Spain.

This Original impasto painting was created in the impressionism style on canvas 30/40 cm. The artwork was painted in the open air while ...

Acrylic and oil on wooden panel Marie-Pierre Autonne is a French artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Angers, France. She studied at Penninghen in Paris, France. She worked for ...

Home is a large oversized painting 190 cm H x 150 cm W on canvas. It is 4 cm deep. Home is where we find our balance, the point which connects us with the heart. So home has more ...

Omidan a yoruba name for a young woman or damsel. Omidan a lady with virtues My gaze fixated on the first Her face was dazzling, but not a mirage. Her hair mesmerizes my eyes The p...

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 ...

Contemporary abstract expressionist acrylic on canvas of a Provençal landscape by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed and dated to the b...

"Self-Perception: Night and Day" is a vibrant work by Ukrainian artist Tatyana Pchelnikova, part of her signature series of paintings "Self-Perception." The painting, executed in oil...

Bay Area Expressionist Standing Nude from Behind in Oil on Cardboard Standing nude woman from behind by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Bold...

Landscape Impressionism oil Painting, large size, one of a kind Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2019...

ITEM DETAILS The edges are painted Some parts of the picture glow under blue light ABOUT THE ARTWORK This piece reflects a moment of magic where the heart melts in the embrace of peace and comfort, allowing itself to believe in a fairy tale. The image of the cat adds warmth and serves as a guide to a world of dreams where every wish becomes a reality. The combination of violet, lavender, and gold tones suggests a benevolent enchantment, while the night covers the sky like a black velvet canvas. This work has the power to transport the viewer to a realm where dreams come true...

Fields of Joy no.1 [2023] Rolling Hill no.3 [2023] original Oil Paint on Canvas image size: H:100 cm x W:100 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:100 cm x W:100 cm x D:3.5cm As shown...

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Monsoon Ganeshpuri Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 28" x 20" Framed Dimensions: 34" x 26" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso ...

Title: Cyclists Racing On Velodrome Track French Modernist Watercolor Gouache Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on artists paper, unframed Size (H ...

ABOUT THE ARTWORK Entitled "FLORA," this painting is a serene contemplation of nature's restorative embrace. The subject, a solitary figure melded with avian elements, sits peaceful...

Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) inscribed verso oil painting on canvas 16 x 13 inches. All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artists estate ...

A Fauvist-inspired contemporary life study by the St Ives artist Cynthia Davis. Unsigned. On paper.

An expressive mid-20th century life study by the artist Madeleine Flaschner (1933-2022). Signed to the lower left. Further signed verso. On canvas ...

A strikingly bright and bold study of a nude seated in a sun chair by French artist Pierre Neveu. Captured in a relaxed and natural pose, the subject exudes quiet confidence. Neveu’s...

Ravens flying in the moonlight, I had an urgent need to paint birds and use acrylics. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow. They’re inspired by Georges Braque, he did the be...

Artist: Kyohei Inukai (aka Earle Goodenow), American (1913–1985) Title: Three Nudes Year: 1938 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 14.5 x 10 inches Frame Size: 18 x 14 inches

Ulrich Gleiter's (EUR based) "Burgundy in Spring (Fulvy)" is an original, handmade oil painting on linen, depicting a bridge across a small creek in a dense French forest. This piece...

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/ edge tear...

Title: Wave Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23 x 15.5inches Frame: Framing options available! Age: 2000s Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This paint...

Illustrated in "Joseph Barrett, The Prime Years 1970s - 1990s", pg. 41, plate #047 Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Joseph Barrett (1936 – ) Joseph Barrett was born in Midland, North Carolina, in 1936 and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Barrett, now of Lahaska, Pennsylvania, has been painting his entire adult life. His favorite subjects include the landscape surrounding New Hope and many local landmarks often encompassing figures into his compositions. Barrett utilizes a heavy impasto and his palette bears similarities to that of Fern Coppedge and George Sotter. Barrett’s paintings are always found in unique and somewhat charming handmade frames designed by the artist and finished in metal leaf. A living contemporary of the no longer living “New Hope School” impressionist painters, Joseph Barrett resides outside of New Hope above his old-fashioned antique shop and studio. Entering Barrett’s shop is like taking a step back in time. Inside this cluttered and dusty haven of treasures from the past, is a studio spanning only four by eight feet. This little studio, containing cans of old brushes and hundreds of used paint tubes...

This painting, created between reality and abstraction, is capturing the mood of a beautiful summer scene. The colors are warm and bold - pink, purple, yellow and touches of cool gre...

A sensitive life study in oil by the artist Bernard Myers (1925-2007), with areas of thick impasto. Signed verso. On paper.

Interesante óleo sobre lienzo, que representa a un pájaro. Firmado y fechado arriba en la parte central. En buen estado general solo convendría una limpieza para relucir más los co...

Large square French fantasy naive oil on canvas by Jean Henry Brossat. Signed to the front and bearing a title in Russian (?) script to the rear. In a plai...

America Martin "The Pitcher" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 111 x 48.25 inches 112.5 x 49.5 inches framed Signature located in the lower left of the painting. Exploring the identity of bo...

Orange juice is an original painting on canvas 70x90 cm. The work is decorated with gold leaf (imitation), contains collage elements. This decorative panel dedicated to the beauty ...

“Forest” is not just a landscape, but embodied silence in which you can hear the breath of the earth. The viewer is presented with a pristine space, free from the hustle and bustle o...

Approxiate dimensions of this painting are 140 x 110 cm, unstretched canvas is 157 x 113,5 cm Abstract painting by Polish artist living in USA Monika Rossa. Painting in style of ges...

Sunflower is a symbol of Ukraine. This incredibly bright flower is a sign of the sun. It brings people strength and well-being, is considered the embodiment of solar energy, good lif...

Colorful prints, easy day :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Si...

Original acrylic on wood panel