American Paintings

Absolutely stunning original oil on board landscape by listed artist Martha Eleanor Nicholson Hurst, circa 1960s. Hurst studied under An...

In a superb example of Art Deco decorative painting influenced by Medieval motifs, this frieze painting by famous muralist Dunbar Beck is saturated wit...

19th Century American Antebellum Portrait of a Lady, Original Giltwood Frame Oil on Canvas 36-inches high x 30-inches wide Apparently Unsigned USA, Circa 1850s This 19th-century ...

Absolutely Stunning! MID CENTURY EXPRESSIONIST SEASCAPE Large Approx. 29" x 41" Beautiful Mid Century Wood Frame This is a wonderful and eye-catching seascape! This print and frame is in fine vintage shape with age appropriate wear. It is a most romantic and vibrant seascape combining the unrelenting power of the sea with the sun lit heavens! Vintage mid century prints...

Selection of large scale nude female oil paintings by Philip Sherrod, American, circa 1960s. Great thick impasto technique. From left to right, as seen...

Make a bold statement with this Vintage Boho Original Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas. Featuring vibrant colors and dynamic brushwork, this one-of-a-kind piece captures the essence o...

Impressionist and scenic New Hope Pa, a fresh morning on the bridge. Depicting bridge street in full bloom! The water peacefully streams by as visitors take in the beautiful Bucks co...

American Victorian ebonized framed oil portrait, painting of 19th Century lady in blue and red dress.

Vintage Jonas Gerard Abstract Painting "Collage Symposium" Offered for sale is an abstract collage painting by Jonas Gerard (American, 1941–2020). The work is bold and striking. I...

American Mid-Century abstract expressionist style wall art of footprints crossing a black background with star shaped paint splatter on opposing corners, in a stained wooden frame (A...

This collectible painting is by Mary Blair, legendary animator for Walt Disney Studios, is of a pair of dancing rabbits in coat tails. The unframed...

American contemporary abstract composition of pink, beige, grey and black acrylic on canvas (LARRY BENTLEY)

Fantastic whimsical oil on canvas painting of a 19th century woman in a dancers costume by artist Ira Yeager (American 1938-2022). The vibrant colorful painting depicts a 19th centur...

Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Wildlife artist Julie Jeppsen is known for her paintings combining realism and atmosphere of wild animals in landscape. Julie is a self-taught ar...

An American oil on board dog painting from the late 19th century in giltwood frame. How not to melt in front of this heartwarming scene? A russet and white dog is comfortably resting...

Subdued in palette but gorgeous in subtle detail, this painting of a seated male nude from behind captures the sensuality and beauty of the human figure. The painter, Roberto Lupetti...

Modern Double Sided Oil Painting of Foxes in Antique Frame by Anthony Barham Small oil painting of a beautiful fox on the front with a whimsical amorphous fox dressed in hunting gea...

Magnificent reverse painting on glass and mixed-media collage on very large old church window. Homage to the iconic Renaissance woman, artist, design...

Monumental 1960s Lee Reynolds Mid Century Modern Impressionist Framed Oil Painting of Colorful, Detailed, Delicate Dancing Wildflowers Swept up by a Breeze. Focal and masterfully ...

A companion painting to another piece in our gallery, this painting -- "Truth and the Seven Deadly Sins" -- served as a study by Eugene Savage for a major mosaic proposed for the new...

National Gallery of Art, Washington by John Walker. Published by Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, New York, NY, 1975. Hardcover with dust jacket. Director Eme...

MOTEL SUITCASE SERIES 6034 by JORGE FICK Born in 1932 and passing in 2004 in the vibrant artistic community of Santa Fe, New Mexico, this artist was a prominent figure in the world of high color abstraction. His unique approach to abstract expressionism was deeply influenced by the teachings and mentorship of renowned artists Franz Kline, Jack Tworkov, Phillip Guston, and Joseph Fiore...

A large, Mid-Century Modern abstract painting featuring beautiful brown, yellow, and beige hues in varying intensities. This piece has a dark brown wood frame with a gold trim. Sign...

Midcentury abstract oil painting framed in simple wood frame.

Eric Alfaro is an established, listed and well renowned contemporary artist known for his vibrant and colorful paintings depicting various themes. This Rabbit in soft orange tones c...

JOHN R. WATTS (Unknown/Unidentified Artist) - Folk art watercolor and gouache landscape painting on paper - unframed - twice signed and dated lower right (one with applied paper stam...

A beautiful, relatively large, colorful abstract artwork painting, oil or acrylic, on a hand-stretched canvas finished with a modern or mini...

Extremely rare and important, this painting by Eugene Savage served as the preparatory study for one of six monumental Art Deco murals commissioned by the Matson Shipping company in ...

Condition: Original Vintage Condition Materials: Oil On Canvas Style: Realism

Framed Surrealist Seascape painting, oil on canvas with linen matting by California artist Robert Watson. Titled #27 Shoreline. Retains the original paper label from a San Francisco ...

Copy of Orientalist painting of two harem girls resting by a fountain in a courtyard.

Condition: Original Vintage Condition Designer: Wanda S. Neumann Manufacturer: Wanda S. Neumann Materials: Oil On Canvas, Wood Frame Style: California Realism

Selection of Mid-Century jazz themed paintings, American, circa 1930s-1970s. From left to right, they are: 1) New Orleans jazz watercolor by Leo Meirsdorff...

Great original drawing by Robert Loughlin on cardboard. Image of 'the Brute' with cigarette facing to the right. Signed RL on the back. Water stain on bottom right. Over 20 original ...

Oil on canvas painting signed on verso "B. Raab 5/75" After the famed "Homage to the Square" by Josef Albers Measures 30-1/4" X 30-1/4" square. Original aluminum frame. Colors are b...

Midcentury American Dorothy Draper-esque Hollywood Regency bedroom design painting, in oil or acrylic on paper. Gilt wood frame. Dimensions: width 77.5cm, height 58.5cm

Antique oil on canvas portrait of an unknown 19th Century Virginian Gentleman, beautifully framed to retain its sense of time and place. Rich brush strok...

Striking large abstract painting with multiple layers of rectangles that overlap and blend in a textural melodic interplay. Colors are muted and earthy with brown, navy, black, celad...

Abstract Painting

An original signed pencil and watercolor of a nude figure entering a bathtub, circa 1960. Depicted in the pop art style with bold colors and patterns of the period including gaudy pi...

Drenched with sun and full of optimism, this depiction of a shirtless farm worker, with scythe in hand, is a high-spirited paean to the American laborer, at a time when the Works Progress Administration and other institutions were commissioning murals that celebrated industry, agriculture and commerce. Here, the worker is lean and strong, and his face shows signs of sunburn from his hours in the open. The painter was Allyn Cox, son of the famous muralist Kenyon Cox...

Extraordinary pair of massive art nouveau leather inset panel screens featuring flora and fauna embossed and painted designs. The leather panels ar...

Expressionist Surrealist Landscape Painting in the style of Gertrude Abercrombie singed and dated: LW Cochran, June 2, 1966 in original wood frame "a haunting empty landscape with...

Beautiful watercolor abstract cityscape by Rodolfo, 1986. The work is beautifully framed in a white edged acrylic box-frame. Measures 48 x 40 x 2" deep.

A handsome and sophisticated mixed media on canvas by American artist John Rigsby. Found in a original state of preservation. His works are few and far between. The following biography was submitted by John David Rigsby, Jr., son of the artist. The author is Lisa Rigsby Peterson, daughter of the artist, and owner of the copyright of the biography. John David Rigsby was born on October 10, 1934, the seventh child of an Alabama Depression-era sharecropper's son. He and his family moved frequently, from one one-room structure to another, often with no running water, no plumbing, no heat but the stove. His father was killed in a car accident when Rigsby was just 9 years old. Life for the remaining eight family members proved tumultuous and difficult -- food wasn't plentiful, nor money. The family moved from place to place, following work -- Rigsby attended 30 different schools before graduating from high school. Despite living in poverty, Rigsby demonstrated academic and artistic aptitude at a young age. Two oil paintings on covers ripped off of old books that he painted when he was eight years old show the promise of an imaginative and gifted eye. Rigsby was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1953. As he later wrote, "When basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, was over, I was told to go out and find a job. Jasper Johns was painting visual aids for the 28th Regimental Headquarters. He suggested the Band Training Unit." Rigsby played the clarinet in that unit, and after 2 years of service, he enrolled at the University of Alabama on the G.I. Bill to study art. After just two years, he left school and followed his mentor (and one of the greatest and longest-lasting influences on his art), Japanese artist and U of A art instructor Tatsu Heima, to New York City. Heima introduced him to Isamu Noguchi and suggested that Rigsby work as Noguchi's assistant. Instead, Rigsby chose a job as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, since "the notion of seeing all of that art appealed more to me than the boring task of studio assistant." The opportunity was a rich one for Rigsby. He had a chance to study the masters, and cited Rembrandt with his simplicity and elegance as another of the most important influences on his work. In the years between 1957 and 1963, when Rigsby eventually earned his BFA in sculpture, the artist traveled back and forth between New York and Tuscaloosa, alternating study with forays into the fertile New York art scene. Rigsby exhibited some of his early sculpture work in 1958 at a small New York gallery, which was also exhibiting the work of Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Theodore Stamos. Shortly thereafter, searching for an educational venue closer to New York City, Rigsby visited New Haven, Connecticut, and spent an afternoon speaking with Josef Albers at Yale. Albers agreed to accept Rigsby into the Yale program on the condition that he take freshman drawing all over again. A brilliant opportunity, but, in Rigsby's words, "When it was time to register, I was hitchhiking back to Alabama, looking for food and shelter." Rigsby had his first one-man show at the University of Alabama in 1959. A visiting critic from New York, J.F. Goosen, reviewed the show and wrote "here is a talent which produces art because that is the thing for a gifted person to do. In his effortless ease of conception and execution, he has already achieved a goal that eludes many artists for a lifetime." Finally, in 1963, Rigsby received his degree in sculpture, dissolved a short-lived marriage, visited his family, packed up his car and headed permanently for New York. That year, his work was included in a group show at the Delgado Museum in New Orleans - which led to a one-man exhibit at the Delgado in 1964. During 1964, Rigsby took drawing classes at Columbia University, and worked at the General Post Office at night. He met his future wife, Linda Palmieri, and married. In 1965, his daughter Lisa was born, followed in 1966 by the birth of his son, John David Jr. In 1966, Rigsby had a successful one-man show at the Pietrantonio Gallery in New York. Shortly thereafter, he and the family moved to Tunis, Tunisia at the suggestion of a colleague, who urged him to "come paint by the light of Klee." Rigsby worked for the United States Information Agency as a teacher, and he spent the next year and a half painting over ninety paintings inspired by the smells, light, and Phoenician and Roman art surrounding him. He also executed a number of character and landscape drawings, capturing the Tunisian way of life. During his time in Tunisia, Rigsby's work was shown there in two major exhibits. Upon the family's return to the U.S. in 1968, Rigsby once again exhibited at the Pietrantonio Gallery. Later that year, Rigsby enrolled in Southern Connecticut State College's Urban Studies program, earning a master's degree in 1970. During his time at SCSU, Rigsby worked as the city of Bridgeport's Curator of Exhibits, driving a mobile art gallery from schools to neighborhood fairs and housing projects. After completing his degree, Rigsby had an exhibit at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia. This exhibit caught the attention of a member of the search committee looking to hire an artist for a newly-developed program in neighboring South Carolina. In 1970, Rigsby was selected as the first Artist-in-Residence in the state of South Carolina for the National Endowment for the Arts Artists in Schools program. His work with the newly-integrated students at Beaufort (SC) High School over the term of his residency precluded substantial work on his own art. He did, however, set up a studio in downtown Beaufort, and was able to create a modest number of paintings, which were included in exhibits at the Columbia Museum in South Carolina in 1971 and Yale University in 1973. At the end of his residency in 1974, Rigsby was named the National Visual Arts Coordinator of the Artists in Schools program for the NEA, a post he held for two years. In this position, Rigsby traveled the country, reviewing grant applications, meeting with state leaders in government, education and the arts to promote program concepts and explore local opportunities. The message he repeated over and over again echoed that of one of the other major influences on Rigsby as an artist - Ruth Asawa Lanier, whose words taught him that all of the work that the artist does is the artist's work, not simply the paintings he creates. In his capacity as National Coordinator, as well as many times in the future, Rigsby stressed that artists function in the same way as any other person in society, and deserved the same respect and place for their work as did all other professions. After two years traveling the country, Rigsby was ready for a change, saying "for the first time in my adult life, there was not a body of paintings to show for the years put into my work." In 1976, a summer retreat to the mountain community of Central City, Colorado, led to a permanent relocation. Eventually settling in the small town of Evergreen, Rigsby followed his own advice about artists becoming actively involved in their communities, and he established the Evergreen Visual Arts Center. The Center provided working space for artists, classes for adults and children, and, most importantly, a place for Rigsby to create his own work. Buoyed by the opportunity to concentrate once again on his art, and inspired by his new surroundings, Rigsby entered an extremely prolific period in his career. In 1977, he organized a traveling exhibition of his paintings, which showed at the Kimball Arts Center in Utah, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Arvada Center in Colorado. 1978 brought more exhibits, notably in Aspen and Denver, as Rigsby's work continued. He took an extended trip to visit his mentor, Tatsu Heima, in Japan, where he climbed Mt. Fuji, followed by travels to Tehran, Delhi, and several European countries. He chronicled his impressions from his travels in a small collection of paintings upon his return to the U.S. - the beginning of a practice which would continue through the rest of his life. In 1979, Rigsby's marriage failed, and at the same time he lost the lease to his Evergreen studio to redevelopment plans. In response to the personal chaos around him, Rigsby began a series of what he called "hard-nosed process paintings," the watercolor paintings of dots which marked his work from this period. The paintings gained him an NEA Individual Artist grant in 1980, as well as a Yaddo fellowship in 1981. The polka dot paintings were followed by a series of cupcake-like images, again examining space and color. During the early 1980s, Rigsby lived in a suite of old dentists' offices in a rundown part of Denver, with a studio in an area that reminded him of the Bowery in New York. In 1984, Rigsby founded the Progreso Gallery in the building where he lived, using the space both to show his own work and also to mount shows of the work of many Colorado artists. The gallery also served as a focal point for Denver's local arts community, hosting weekly discussion groups and classes. In 1984, Rigsby traveled to the Baja Peninsula and then in 1985 to Yugoslavia. After each sojourn, Rigsby returned to create vibrant and explosive paintings based on his experiences, showing them at his Progreso gallery and another alternative gallery in Denver, the Edge Gallery. The economic recession of the mid-eighties hit the art market and Rigsby hard, however, and although he continued to create new works of art, major exhibitions were difficult to come by. In 1987, Rigsby decided to leave Denver and spent six months in Barcelona, Spain. It was an electrifying trip for him. Rigsby wrote of that time: "The streets alone are a visual feast, and the additions of museums from Saarinen, Picasso and Miro to 12th century icons produced artistic indigestion. My paintings are always about the way things look and feel. Barcelona was a time machine extending those sensory and emotional concerns back to the Middle Ages. I felt the need to reduce my work to essential elements of color, scale, drawing and format. The [resulting] color studies speak eloquently for themselves, and in doing so, redefine all of the work I've done in the past 35 years of painting." Rigsby completed over a hundred paintings while in Barcelona - color studies, street portraits of the characters he encountered on a daily basis, and a number of dark landscape paintings. He found time to run with the bulls in Pamplona, and began writing stories about his adventures that were later published. Upon his return to Denver in 1988, Rigsby continued to explore the alter egos of the color studies - he concentrated on a series of dark paintings, all prominently featuring back. He commented about these black paintings that he " decided it was time to explore the perception of the eye and physical space as defined by low -light conditions…I find these paintings elegant, joyous and light-filled, with no feeling of heaviness at all." In mid-1988, Rigsby moved permanently to Houston, Texas, where he would spend the last five years of his life. Once in Houston, Rigsby made a discovery that would serve as the inspiration and material for some of the last works of his career. In 1989, he discovered a salvage yard filled with scrap rubber, and he began working on black rubber sculptures, as well as paintings with rubber elements incorporated. He made strong connections in the Houston alternative arts scene, and became a regular contributor and art critic for a local weekly newspaper, The Public News. From 1989 through 1992, he exhibited his sculptures and paintings at Houston's Brent Gallery, Fountainhead Gallery, and Blaffer Gallery. He also produced an installation of his rubber sculptures on the roof of the Diverse Works Gallery in Houston. 1992 also marked Rigsby's return to Denver when he exhibited his sculptures at the Payton-Rule Gallery in Denver, leading to an Absolut Rigsby commission by Carillon Importers. The 1990s were a tremendous struggle for Rigsby, with financial crises compounded by physical trauma (he accidentally sawed off the top joint of the index finger of his left hand while working in his studio). Although his work was being shown, it wasn't selling, and the tremendous financial pressure he felt weighed heavily upon him. He spent an increasing proportion of his time going to flea markets and garage sales, rehabilitating and repairing the things he bought there, and then re-selling them simply to raise enough money to keep a roof over his head. He had little time to paint or sculpt, the things in life that had always, no matter what the circumstances, brought him joy. Rigsby's final works were a series of intricate paintings and drawings on used books that he purchased at the flea market. Most of these drawings, which he referred to as sculptural form drawings, were executed on page after page of science texts, music books, and a Korean bible and fill hundreds of pages. Additionally, Rigsby created an exquisite book he titled 28 de los Angeles, in which his twenty-eight simple and elegant drawings of angels resonated with the influence of Rembrandt he had so admired in his early days. In a sense, Rigsby's final works, art created on used books which were the only materials he could afford, brought his work and life full circle from his childhood days. Rigsby's life, though begun and ended in adversity, was nonetheless illuminated and enriched by the irresistible impulse he had to create art and beauty. John David Rigsby was killed in a one-car accident in Colorado in August, 1993. Biography from the Archives of askART Following is a review by Michael Paglia of the artist's July 2004 retrospective at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. It was submitted by John Rigsby, Jr., son of the artist. There's a magnificent retrospective at Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art devoted to the work of the late John David Rigsby, who was a major powerhouse in Colorado's art scene. "Dots, Blobs and Angels" surveys more than forty years' worth of the remarkable artist's paintings and sculptures. The year 1993 was strange, and by that I mean terrible. Many of the city's galleries closed because of bad economic times, and then the artists started dying. In a matter of a few months, Denver lost three significant artists: Rigsby, experimental photographer Wes Kennedy...

Day in the Country: Impression and French Landscape Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Reunion Des Musees Nationaux (France). Published by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984. 1st Ed softcover exhibition catalog. 375 pp. Numerous b/w and color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1984-1985 exhibition series of impressionistic art by 17 artists. With a variety of texts by Richard Brettel, Scott Schaefer, Sylvie Gache-Patin, and Francoise Heilbrun. The artists are: Frederic...

Acrylic painting on canvas of a tropical scene with palm trees, houses, and boats executed with bold strokes and vivid colors, signed Hawk and presented...

Large 1945 John Sennhouser Abstract Oil Painting On Canvas, Framed and Signed Offered for sale is a large 1945 John Sennhouser ((Swiss-American 1907-1978) abstract oil painting on ...

Own a moment of timeless beauty with "Whispers of Innocence," an original oil painting on canvas by Cuban artist Lesver de Quiros ,that exudes tranquility and charm. This exquisite ...

Striking original oil of horses, zebra and camel running in the wind. Canvas size 24" 30". This extraordinary piece is probably one of the best you will find of this artist work.

Sophisticated and playful at the same time, this important painting by Eduard Buk Ulreich returns to one of his favorite themes: a group of frolicking horses in the landscape, overflowing with high spirits. Ulreich came to fame as one of the muralists who decorated the lounges and public rooms of Radio City Music Hall...

Impressive antique wall panels crafted in hardwoods and paint decorated in floral motifs retrieved as architectural remnants from an Addison Mizner Palm Beach Estate.

Mid century figural study painting on paper by Ezio Martinelli (American, 1913-1980). It has been professionally framed in a clean lined black lacquer wood gallery frame under UV res...

Pair of rare and exceptional "Classical Plaques" in patinated and engraved bronze and pewter with mythological scenes incorporating hand-applied enamels in shades of blue and green b...

Oil on canvas signed in the upper right. Measurements listed include the frame. The canvas measures 30" x 40". It is in excellent condition and ready to hang. Born in 1934 in B...

Great Houses On A Budget By Trulove, James Grayson Hardcover Book. For the typical American homeowner, Great Houses on a Budget presents case studies from across the country that ac...

Striking modernist painting on canvas with a hot palette that conveys a strong reference to the sun's energy. Signed in the upper left C. Rosenberg and titled on the back "Hot Sun".  

Monumental, colorful and very graphic op-art pop art painting dated 1969 (acrylic on fiberboard) by Robert Bidner in a spectrum of greens and yellow. Robert D. H. Bidner, American, ...

A framed portrait painting of a man in the nude on wood. With wonderful texture, and muted greens, beiges, and browns, this painting will be a...

1999 Limited Edition Print on Canvas of “Carmel, Sunset on Ocean Avenue” by Thomas Kinkade. This limited EP edition is #418 of 680 and features a romantic, nostalgic street scene of ...