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Summer Landscape III
By Peter Milton
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Summer Landscape III" 1962, is an original drypoint etching by noted American artist Peter Winslow Milton, b.1930. It is hand signed, dated, titled and numbered ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Fallscape
By Peter Milton
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Fallscape" 1961, is an original drypoint etching by noted American artist Peter Winslow Milton, b.1930. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 15/40 in pencil by ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Winter Vignette
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Miguel Dominguez – American (1941-)
Title: Winter Vignette
Year: ca. 2000
Medium: Watercolor
Image size: 14 x 22.5 inches.
Framed size: 22.5 x 31.5 inches
Signature: Signe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Animated Street in French Quarter, New Orleans
By Homer Costello
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Animated Street in French Quarter, New Orleans 1954, is a palette knife oil painting on wood panel by noted Louisiana artist Homer Costello...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paisence
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Paisence" c.1960, is an original colors etching and aquatint on Wove paper by noted Belgian artist Rene Marcel Carcan, 1927-1993. It is hand signed, titled and n...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled, Abstract Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled, Abstract Landscape" c.1960, is an original colors etching and aquatint on Wove paper by noted Belgian artist Rene Marcel Carcan, 1927-1993. It is hand signed ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Anatomy
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Anatomy" 1993, is an original colors woodcut on paper by noted Japanese artist Akira Kurosaki, 1937-2019. It is hand signed, dated, titled and numbered 64/95 in ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Yellow Flower
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Yellow Flowrer" c.1990, is an acrylic painting on handmade paper by noted American artist Mona Dukess, 1936-2025. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Merry Couple
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Merry Couple" c.1980 is an original etching by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed and numbered 6/300 in pencil by the artist. The ...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Pipe Smoker
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Pipe Smoker" c.1960, is a watercolor on creme color paper by noted Japanese artist Tadashi Nakayama, 1927-2014. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nature Morte aux Vases
By René Genis
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Nature Morte aux Vases" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on wove paper by noted French artist Rene Genis, 1922-2004. It is hand signed and numbered 67/10...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
W225
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "W225" 1996, is an original colors woodcut by noted Japanese artist Akira Kurosaki, 1937-2019. It is hand signed, dated, titled and numbered 30/100in pencil by th...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Aries
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Aries" 1993, is an original colors woodcut by noted Japanese artist Akira Kurosaki, 1937-2019. It is hand signed, dated, titled and numbered E.1/2 in pencil by t...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Three Personages
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Three Personages" 2010, is an oil painting on canvas by noted Ugandan artist Edison Mugalu, b.1983. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Composition in Blue
By Mihail Chemiakin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Composition in Blue" c.1990, is an original colors lithograph on paper by renown Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered 21/99 in...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sunrise
By Erté
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: (Romain De Tirtoff) Erte (Russian, 1892-1990)
Title: Sunrise
Year: 1984
Medium: Color serigraph, with stamped gold foil
Paper: Wove
Edition: Numbered 285/300 in pencil
...
Category
1980s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$1,650
Speaks with Forked Tongue
By Gordon Phillips
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Speaks with a forked tongue" c. 1970, is a bronze sculpture by renown American Western artist Gordon Dale Phillips, 1927-2011. It is signed and numbered 37/40 on...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Venetian Scene with Arches
By James Hamilton Mackenzie
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Venetian Scene with Arches" c.1910, is an original etching on paper by noted Scottish artist James Hamilton Mackenzie, 1875-1926. It is hand signed at the lower right c...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Arch of Titus" Large colors etching.
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Arch of Titus" created 1923 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower center by the artist's estat...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Confiding
By Itzchak Tarkay
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Confiding" 2008 is an original color serigraph on Wove paper by Israeli artist Itzchac Tarkay 1935-2012. It is hand signed and numbered E.A 63/80 in pencil by t...
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Coastal Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: John L. Loughlin – American (1931-2004)
Title: Coastal Scene
Year: 1990
Medium: Oil on Panel
Sight size: 9.5 x 13.5 inches.
Framed size: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Signature: Signe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Harvesting Sap
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Harvesting Sap" c.1950, is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Herbert Vincent Olsen, 1905-1973. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape with house
By Victor Rousseau
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Victor Rousseau (Belgian, 1865-1954)
Title: Landscape with house
Year: Circa 1910
Medium: Oil on cardboard
Board size: 6 x 7.85 inches
Signature: Signed lower r...
Category
Early 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Quarter, New Orleans
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "French Quarter, New Orleans" c.1950, is a watercolor on paper by noted New Orleans artist Hubert Hanush, It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. Th...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pirate
s Alley, New Orleans
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pirate's Alley, New Orleans" c.1950, is a watercolor on paper by noted New Orleans artist Eugene E. Loving, 1908-1971. It is signed at the lower center by the ar...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Composition VI
By Johnny Friedlaender
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Abstract Composition VI" 1974 in an original color etching and aquatint on Wove paper by noted Polish artist Johnny Friedlaender, 1912-1992. It is hand signed and numb...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Girl at the Docks
By Nicola Simbari
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Girl at the Docks" c.1980, is an original colors serigraph by noted Italian artist Nicola Simbari, 1927-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 76/150 in pencil by ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Sunday Morning, Village in Provence.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sunday Morning, Village in Provence" 1950, is a watercolor on paper by American artist Henry Edmiston, 1897-1975. It is signed at the lower left corner by the a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Head in the Evening
By Mihail Chemiakin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Head in the Evening" 1980, is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by renown Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered 81/20...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Valery Panov
By Mihail Chemiakin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Portrait of Valery Panov" c.1979, is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by renown Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin, b.1943. It is hand signed and inscrib...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tightrope and Fiddle
By Charles Cobelle
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Tightrope and Fiddle" c.1975, is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by noted French/American artist Charles Cobelle, 1902-1994. It is hand signed and numbered 117/500 in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 34.5 x 22.25 inches, framed size is 43.25 x 30.5 inches. Custom framed in a gold ornate frame, with off-white matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Charles Cobelle, born Carl Edelman (1902–1994), was a modern French master of painting, lithography and a fine muralist, who was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France. He is considered the last link to the great tradition of the Open Line School of Paris.
Biography
Cobelle received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Munich and continued his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Much more influential in his development, however, were his private studies with Marc Chagall and his apprenticeship in the studio of Raoul Dufy in Menton on the Riviera.
Cobelle lived and painted in Paris until the late 1920s and established himself within the great tradition of the School of Paris.[2] In the late 1920s, Cobelle moved to the United States, where his paintings were immediately sought after by galleries and private collectors alike. Cobelle became a U.S. citizen before the outbreak of World War II. In the late 1940s to 1950s, Cobelle lived in Westport, Connecticut.Charles Cobelle lived in Ridgefield CT in a private lake community called Twixt Hills until his death.
By the 1950s, spurred by the commercial success of his mentor, Dufy, Cobelle had achieved phenomenal success commercially with his Parisian-influenced style. Much like contemporary artists and designers at the time, his designs graced a number of pottery patterns for various pottery companies, including Midwinter Stylecraft, Universal Potteries and Homer Laughlin China...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paris, Le Sacre Coeur
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Paris, Le Sacre Coeur" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by noted French impressionist artist Emile Lesaout, 1926-2001. It is signed at the lower left corner b...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Homage to Nureyev" large lithograph
By Mihail Chemiakin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Homage to Nureyev" c.1993, is an original colors lithograph on wove paper by renown Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered 48/17...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Le Cirque Russe" Large serigraph
By Mihail Chemiakin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Cirque Russe" c.1987, is an original colors serigraph on wove paper by renown Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered 25/195 i...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
"Le Cirque Russe" Large serigraph
By Mihail Chemiakin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Cirque Russe" c.1987, is an original colors serigraph on wove paper by renown Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered 25/195 i...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Between Vertical and Horizon – Paper Between a Stone and Brook
By Shoichi Ida
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Shoichi Ida (Japanese, 1941-2006)
Title: Surface is the Between – Between Vertical and Horizon – Paper Between a Stone and Brook
Series: Surface is the Between
Year: 1983
Medium: Lithograph, screen print, printed both sides with Chine-collé
Paper: Fabriano and Mino Usu Kozo
Image size: 35.55 x 25 inches
Sheet size: 37.5 x 27.75 inches
Signature: Signed lower right
Edition: 75. This one: 7/75
Condition: Very good
This print is by Shoichi Ida, a noted Japanese artist. It is from his extensive and important series titled “Surface is the Between’.
One of Ida Shōichi...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Handmade Paper, Lithograph, Screen
Autumn Oaks
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Autumn Oaks" 1996, is a watercolor on paper by Chinese/American impressionist artist Douglas Chun, 1932-2017. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Wine Country #2
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Wine Country" 1996, is a watercolor on paper by Chinese/American impressionist artist Douglas Chun, 1932-2017. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the ar...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Wine Country #1
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Wine Country" c.1990, is a watercolor on paper by Chinese/American impressionist artist Douglas Chun, 1932-2017. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. T...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pleasanton Hotel, Pleasanton California
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Pleasanton Hotel, Pleasanton, California" 1987, is a watercolor on paper by American artist William E. Hamilton, b.1940. It is signed and dated at the lower right corne...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Kolin Building, Pleasanton, California
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Kolin Building, Pleasanton, California" 1987, is a watercolor on paper by American artist William E. Hamilton, b.1940. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape" c.1970, is an oil painting on board by noted American (Oregon) artist Harold Alvin Sims, b.1935. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The ar...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wild Flowers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Wild Flowers" 1977, is an oil painting on canvas board by noted Canadian artist Ernest Eidersdorf, 1901-1998. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The ...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunrise
By Arthur Secunda
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sunrise" c.1980, is an original colors screen print by noted American artist Arthur Secunda, 1927-2022. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 131/200 in white p...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Aegean XI
By Jacob Kainen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jacob Kainen– American (1909 - 2001)
Title: Aegean XI
Year: 1981
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 48 x 60 inches
Framed size: 49 x 61 inches
Signature: Signed, dated lower right. ...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$27,500
Trafalgar, London
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Thelma Speed Houston – American (1914-2000)
Title: Trafalgar
Year: unknown
Medium: Watercolor on heavy watercolor paper
Sheet size: 18 x 24 inches
Signature: Signed lower lef...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Opryland U.S.A (The Guitar Player)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Opryland (The Guitar Player)" 1995, is a bronze sculpture by noted American artist Mark Hopkins, b.1965. It is signed, titled, dated and numbered 30/2500 on the ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kramer the Framer (The Frame Shop)
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Kramer the Framer (The Frame Shop)" c.1980 is an original etching by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed, and numbered 43/150 in pencil by...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Fifth Hole (Kapalua Resort Hawaii)
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Fifth Hole (Kapalua Resort Hawaii)" c.1985, is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and numb...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Che (Che Guevara cutting canes)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Che (Che Guevara cutting cane) 1962 (printed later) is a gelatin silver print by noted Cuban artist Ernesto Fernandez Nogueras, b.1939. It is signed, titled and dated at the lower margin. The photograph size is 10 x 6.5 inches, framed size is 17.85 x 15.85 inches. Custom framed in a black frame, with white matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Ernesto Fernandez trained under the tutelage of several established photographers during the 1950s in Havana. He is one of the four great photographers of the Revolutionary period of Cuba.
As a young man he witnessed both the excesses of Havana as a “playground” of the USA, and the poverty that produced the hotbed of revolutionary thought and action. He was in the Cuban capital as the revolution reached its climax, and his pictures document a time of great hope. They are celebrations of youth’s ability to bring about change and to reinvent a new world.
Alongside Korda, Salas and Corrales, Fernandez documented the heady days of the Triumph of the Revolution and continued to photograph Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and other leading lights of the new system, including some wonderfully intimate studies of Alicia Alonso...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fidel C. (Fidel Castro Cutting Canes)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Fidel C. (Fidel Castro cutting cane) 1968 (printed later) is a gelatin silver print by noted Cuban artist Ernesto Fernandez Nogueras, b.1939. It is signed, titled and dated at the lower margin. The photograph size is 11.75 x 10.25 inches, framed size is 17.85 x 15.85 inches. Custom framed in a black frame, with white matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Ernesto Fernandez trained under the tutelage of several established photographers during the 1950s in Havana. He is one of the four great photographers of the Revolutionary period of Cuba.
As a young man he witnessed both the excesses of Havana as a “playground” of the USA, and the poverty that produced the hotbed of revolutionary thought and action. He was in the Cuban capital as the revolution reached its climax, and his pictures document a time of great hope. They are celebrations of youth’s ability to bring about change and to reinvent a new world.
Alongside Korda, Salas and Corrales, Fernandez documented the heady days of the Triumph of the Revolution and continued to photograph Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and other leading lights of the new system, including some wonderfully intimate studies of Alicia Alonso...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Horse Ride, Hawaii
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Horse Ride, Hawaii" c.1985, is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and numbered 065/300 in pencil by t...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sugar Cane Day, Hawaii
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sugar Cane Day, Hawaii" c.1985, is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and numbered 404/425 in ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Honolulu Shaved Ice
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Honolulu Shaved Ice" 1986, is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and numbered P.P. 2/5 in penc...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pineapple Hill, The old Day, Kapalua Maui.
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pineapple Hill, The old Day, Kapalua Maui" 1986, is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and num...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Boy Climbing a Structure
By Gunnar Donald Anderson
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Boy Climbing a Structure" c.1990 is an oil painting on panel by noted American artist Gunnar Donald Anderson, b.1927-2022. It is s...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Aloha Lahaina (Lahaina Harbor)
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Aloha Lahauna (Lahauna Harbor)" c.1990 is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and numbered A/P ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pau Hana
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pau Hana" c.1990 is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and numbered H.C. 1/10 in pencil by the...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Madame Butterfly
By Margaret Keane
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Madame Butterfly" 1986, is an original color serigraph with gold addition by noted American artist Margaret Keane, 1927-2022. It is hand signed and numbered HH 109/150 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 24 x 24 inches, framed size is 39.5 x 38.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with green fabric matting, gold color bevel and three different colors fillet. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some minor restorations, barely visible.
About the artist.
Margaret D. H. Keane was born 1927 in Tennessee, and attributes her deep respect for the Bible and inspirations of her artwork to the relationship with her grandmother. She later became one of Jehovah's Witnesses, which she said changed her life for the better.
In the 1960s, Margaret Keane's artwork was sold under the name of her husband, Walter Keane. He locked her in a room and forced her to paint,while taking credit for her work. Conflict over that issue was cited as one of the reasons they divorced. Neither wanting to relinquish rights to the artwork, Walter and Margaret's divorce proceedings went all the way to federal court. At the hearing, Margaret created a painting in front of the judge to prove that she was the artist. Walter declined to paint before the court, citing a sore shoulder. In 1986, the courts sided with her, enabling her to paint under her own name.
Her works while living in her husband's shadow tended to depict sad children in a dark setting, but after divorcing, moving to Hawaii, and becoming one of Jehovah's Witnesses, her paintings took on a happier, brighter style. Keane is a fixture in popular culture. Some of her well-known fans over the years have included actresses Joan Crawford and Natalie Wood, whom she painted portraits of; filmmaker Tim Burton, who commissioned Keane to paint Lisa Marie; and animator Craig McCracken, whose characters the Powerpuff Girls are based on Keane's 'waifs'; additionally the Girls' schoolteacher is named "Ms. Keane".
Cultural references
• The American television comedy show Saturday Night Live once had a skit that featured her work, during the time when it was thought to be by her husband, as a parody of the reaction against modern art (e.g., Cubism or the New York Armory Show). "People don't look like that!" one comedian shrieks, before the picture in question was shown to the camera and audience as the punch line.
• In Woody Allen's 1973 comedy Sleeper, the people of the future consider Keane to be one of the greatest artists in history, one of many references mocking the popular culture of the seventies.
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien has "bumper" art in her style depicting a glum Conan O'Brien at his desk, next to a dog.
• Weird Al Yankovic's song Velvet Elvis, in which the narrator says he needs "no pictures of Mexican kids with those really big eyes or dogs playing poker".
• In season 3, episode 20 of 90210 (Women on the Verge), Annie is described as looking "like a Keane painting...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Ship in the Fog
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Ship in the Fog" c.1990, is an oil painting on canvas by noted Nantucket artist Gregory Hill, b.1944. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas si...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
