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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Family Tree
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Family Tree' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with seriou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Meadowlands
By William Rushton
Located in Burlingame, CA
A cellist and violinist playing together in an out of door ensemble, are featured in the vibrant figurative oil painting by California artist William Rushton. Rushton's work reveals ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Backflipping Stop / assemblage painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Diver diving, doing a backflip, in the blue and black, grey and green vertical work of original art, 'Backflipping Stop' from multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin, who created...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
Becassine
By Etienne Ret
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Etienne Ret (French, 1900-1996)
Title: Becassine
Year : Circa 1950
Medium: Oil on board
Board size: 14 x 10 inches
Signature: Signed lower right by the artist
Condit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cahro Di Gnano
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cahro Di Gnano" c. 1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Lido Bettarini, 1927-2019. It is signed at the lower l...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Marseillaise
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Nude female figure in vibrant and bold red and white, with pink, grey, purple, painting from Kim Frohsin, who is a third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—from the movement that ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Do Whatever You Want
By Mark Cudd
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I have always been fascinated by images from the past that exist today divorced from their original intent or context. Clearly, someone believed the image was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
He Knows
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'He Knows' features the beautiful face of a boy with down syndrome encircled with lace and shrouded in dignified mystery. The small painting is 7 x 5 1/2 inches, framed 8 3/4 x 7 1/4...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Inside a Dream, Oil Painting
By Kristen Brown
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This hazy portrait depicts the sober expression of a woman in conversation. Soft surfaces and thin layers of paint create an enigmatic atmosphere that referen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eternal Inspiration
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Greenwich, CT
Eternal Inspiration is an oil on canvas painting, 31.5 x 39.25 inches, signed and dated 'KOSTABI 2007 - 2019' lower right in the image. Framed in a contemporary black frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape with River
By Irina Belotelkin Roublon
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork c.1970 is a oil painting by Russian artist Irina Belotelkin Roublon 1913-2009. It is signed lower right by the artist. The...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Legs at the MakeOut Room, Oil Painting
By Hadley Northrop
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Enjoying live music at the MakeOut Room in San Francisco, I found this view of the dancers' legs, mirror ball beams on the floor, and candles on the tables cl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Geisha in Training, Oil Painting
By Mary Pratt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A young maiko - a geisha in training - strolls in an abstract landscape, her delicate face decorated in traditional makeup. The organic patterning surrounding...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ponte Vecchio
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Ponte Vecchio" is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Lido Bettarini, 1927-2019. It is signed at the lower right corner by t...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Between You and Me
By Myron Stephens
Located in Burlingame, CA
In this cinema noir series of original oil and acrylic painting on wood panels, Myron Stephens realistically recreates images of people and often mundane objects that are masterfully...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Vase de Fleurs
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Vase de Fleurs" c.1990 is a oil painting on canvas by French noted artist Alain Ragaru, born 1949. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lemon Tree, Oil Painting
By Michael Wedge
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
City and country, and east and west meet in this surreal scene. A group of figures perform agricultural activities outside a city. Man pulls a tractor, woman ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rock in Open Sea
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Rock in Open Sea" 1964, is an oil painting on canvas board by Italian/American artist Xavier Barile, 1891-1981. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. Also signed, dated, and titled on the back. The canvas board size is 12 x 16 inches, framed size is 15.25 x 19.25 inches. Framed in original wooden gold and red frame. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Xavier J Barile was a Social Realist painter, teacher, lecturer, graphic artist, and writer. He was born March 18, 1891, in Tufo, Italy. His love of beauty manifested itself at a very early age. During his early teens, he used to design monograms for the young girls of his home town, Tufo, Italy, to embroider on their most precious possession, their hope chest and trousseau.
In 1907, his mother brought him, his two younger brothers and two sisters to New York, to join their father who had been in New York for several years, preparing the way. He quickly learned English and spent some time helping his father, who was earning a living for the family as a tailor.
Having learned English well, Barile then enrolled in the Evening Art Classes at Cooper Union Institute in New York. In due course he enrolled in the Art Students League, New York City. Here he came under the influence of John Sloan, Reginald Marsh and Victor Perard as teachers and George Luks, Robert Henri and Everett Shinn of "the Eight" as friends and colleagues.
In 1939 John Sloan dedicated his book, Gist of Art as follows, "To my old friend, first monitor of my first class at the Art Students League 1914." This friendship and mutual regard lasted until Sloan's death in 1951.
Of course, it was only natural that Barile should be a part of the "Ashcan School," painting the New York Scene. During this time that he was on his own he worked with all mediums - oil, watercolor, pastel, casein, charcoal, etc. - and he did some fine work with monotypes.
It was during these years, the 20's and 30's, that he began to exhibit in such places as the Whitney Studio Club (forerunner of the Whitney Museum of American Art), The Kit Kat Club, The Anderson Gallery, The Cincinnati Museum, The New Mexico Museum, National Society of Painters in Casein, The Salmagundi Club and many other exhibits throughout the United States. He is currently represented in The National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
In the mid 30's, like many another struggling artist, XJB worked on the WPA Art Project. One of the murals he worked on is in the U.S. Customs House, Bowling Green, N.Y.C. In this project he collaborated with Reginald Marsh who was the supervisor of this phase of the work.
The years until 1939 were spent working in all parts of the United States and in conducting his own classes for aspiring artists. In 1939, on the recommendation of John Sloan, he became the founder, first teacher and Chairman of The Department of Fine Arts, Pueblo Junior College, Pueblo Colorado...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Along the Shore, Staten Island, New York
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Along the Shore, Staten Island, New York" 1937, is an oil painting on canvas board by Italian/American artist Xavier Barile, 1891-1981. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. Also signed, dated, and titled on the back. The canvas board size is 12 x 16 inches, framed size is 16.25 x 20.25 inches. Framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold bevel and fabric liner. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age.
About the artist:
Xavier J Barile was a Social Realist painter, teacher, lecturer, graphic artist, and writer. He was born March 18, 1891, in Tufo, Italy. His love of beauty manifested itself at a very early age. During his early teens, he used to design monograms for the young girls of his home town, Tufo, Italy, to embroider on their most precious possession, their hope chest and trousseau.
In 1907, his mother brought him, his two younger brothers and two sisters to New York, to join their father who had been in New York for several years, preparing the way. He quickly learned English and spent some time helping his father, who was earning a living for the family as a tailor.
Having learned English well, Barile then enrolled in the Evening Art Classes at Cooper Union Institute in New York. In due course he enrolled in the Art Students League, New York City. Here he came under the influence of John Sloan, Reginald Marsh and Victor Perard as teachers and George Luks, Robert Henri and Everett Shinn of "the Eight" as friends and colleagues.
In 1939 John Sloan dedicated his book, Gist of Art as follows, "To my old friend, first monitor of my first class at the Art Students League 1914." This friendship and mutual regard lasted until Sloan's death in 1951.
Of course, it was only natural that Barile should be a part of the "Ashcan School," painting the New York Scene. During this time that he was on his own he worked with all mediums - oil, watercolor, pastel, casein, charcoal, etc. - and he did some fine work with monotypes.
It was during these years, the 20's and 30's, that he began to exhibit in such places as the Whitney Studio Club (forerunner of the Whitney Museum of American Art), The Kit Kat Club, The Anderson Gallery, The Cincinnati Museum, The New Mexico Museum, National Society of Painters in Casein, The Salmagundi Club and many other exhibits throughout the United States. He is currently represented in The National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
In the mid 30's, like many another struggling artist, XJB worked on the WPA Art Project. One of the murals he worked on is in the U.S. Customs House, Bowling Green, N.Y.C. In this project he collaborated with Reginald Marsh who was the supervisor of this phase of the work.
The years until 1939 were spent working in all parts of the United States and in conducting his own classes for aspiring artists. In 1939, on the recommendation of John Sloan, he became the founder, first teacher and Chairman of The Department of Fine Arts, Pueblo Junior College, Pueblo Colorado...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the Clearing, Oil Painting
By Michael Wedge
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In a quiet forest, a woman catches a taxi cab while another hails the next one. This painting brings together the city and nature ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Amiche
By Vittorio Maria Di Carlo
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Amiche" is an oil painting on canvas by Italian artist Vittorio Maria Di Carlo, 1939-2015. It is hand signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canv...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
TEAM No. 1 / 30 x 30 inch children beach play in sunlight
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Beach scene with children at play in the ocean water. Willard Dixon is one of the finest American contemporary realist painters who has painted western landscapes for 35 years. His ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Adelai Bischoff / oil on canvas - interior scene in vivid color
By William Rushton
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Adelie Bischoff sits in a chair while William Rushton looks on. The two artists met at an opening reception at the launch of an art exhibition both were participating in. Rush...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
California
By Justyna Kisielewicz
Located in Burlingame, CA
Justyna Kisielewicz's elaborate, vibrant and full of zest, oil on European linen painting depicts a young woman — in this cast, the artist herself — in California, The figure wears v...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The Donkey and the Horse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gabriel Mendoza
El burro y el caballo (The Donkey and the Horse), 2025
Gold leaf and black bole on wood panel
15.75 x 23.62 x 1 inches
This one-of-a-kind painting is mounted on wood...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Summer Flat - urban life with dog - oil on canvas
By William Rushton
Located in Burlingame, CA
People gathering at an urban city flat are depicted in this multi color oil on canvas painting created with primarily cool blue tones that are offset with the warmth of pale red and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Dad
s Lesson / oil on canvas - skateboard father and son
By William Rushton
Located in Burlingame, CA
Father and son skateboard together. One wonders who is teaching who, in this vibrant impasto painting by William Rushton. Oil on canvas and framed in a clear maple hardwood floater f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Under the Bridge
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Bridge" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by American artist Bert Pumphrey, 1916-2000. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figura Col Pappagallo
By Vittorio Maria Di Carlo
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Figura Col Pappagallo" is an oil painting on canvas by Italian artist Vittorio Maria Di Carlo, 1939-2015. It is hand signed at the lower right corner by the arti...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting by Numbers
By Robert Deyber
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting by Numbers (Wyeth - Christina's World) is an acrylic on canvas painting, 36 x 48 inches, signed 'DEYBER' lower right and framed in a conte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hooping it Up
By William Rushton
Located in Burlingame, CA
Colorful vibrant children at play in a figurative style featuring hoola hoops in motion from a boy an girl in yellow, green, purple, red with browns that captures the joy of youth an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
California Landscape in Autumn
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "California Landscape in Autumn" c.1980, is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Bill Shaddix, b.1930. It is signed at the lo...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early Spring Walk in Santa Fe, Oil Painting
By Warren Keating
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This painting was inspired by aerial footage of a walking path near Warren's studio in Santa Fe. He captured the image with his drone camera and then painted ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
(Untitled) Little Girl Cradling Her Black Cat, in Greens and Chestnut
Located in San Francisco, CA
Poignancy. A little girl hugging her black kitty rendered in any realistic palette would be cloying. But not here. You look longer. Tight little patterns bubble over in the backgroun...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Casa de Munecas
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Casa de Munecas" c.2000 is an acrylic painting on canvas by San Francisco artist Amy Nelder, b.1971. It is signed at the lower right co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Man in a Rowboat
By Mary Robertson
Located in Burlingame, CA
“Mary Robertson’s joyous and meditative paintings are are colorful simulations of contentment and sacred play.” Wayne Thiebaud.
Steeped in the Bay Area figurative movement, Mary ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Easy
By William Rushton
Located in Burlingame, CA
Men working together to put a fishing boat out to sea, featured in this moody grey blue water themed painting from California artist, William Rushton. Whether figurative or landsca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At Home on the Island
By William Rushton
Located in Burlingame, CA
Whether figurative or landscape, California artist William Rushton has within his work an interplay between color and shape - shapes that are often familiar and comforting, both in t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coastal Landscape
By Irina Belotelkin Roublon
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Coastal Landscape" c.1970 is a oil painting on canvas by Russian artist Irina Belotelkin Roublon 1913-2009. It is signed lower left by the artist. The canvas size is 18 x 24 inches. It is in very good condition.
About the artist.
Irina Belotelkin Roublon, née Roudakoff, was born in Elisavetgrad, Ukraine to the Russian noblesse ancienne, descendant of Catherine the Great, she was a student at the Mariinsky Noble Ladies' Institute , Novocherkassk, Russia. She was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after her father, General Paul Roudakoff, was fatally wounded in battle; 5 days later her mother died of typhus.
Still unaware of her parents' death, and after witnessing her two sisters' deaths from starvation, the young Irina, then 8 years old, made her way over 1,000 kilometers, alone and through many privations to Moscow and the Estonian embassy there, with whom her Estonian uncle Volodya Blonsky had made arrangements.
After a year in Moscow, and appeals to the Estonian consul, Irina was aided in a dramatic escape from the Soviet Union, to her aunt Anna Blonsky Lassburg (1882–1940) and her husband Doctor Genrick Lassburg in Tallinn, Estonia. Eventually, after in 1929, traveling through Ellis Island and admitted as a student, of voice studies, she joined her brother who had settled, in 1923, in the United States.
Irina came to San Francisco during the Second World War, Among Irina's devotions were ballet and opera. She often entertained friends Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Sergei Leiferkus when they were in town. Natalia Makarova and Yuri Possokhov were often guests at Irina's Russian Christmas and Easter parties.
From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, Irina studied and prolifically created still life and portrait paintings in oil and water color, excelling in flower compositions. She held studio and feature exhibitions; she competed and won prizes. Her work is in holdings throughout the San Francisco Bay area, Europe and Russia.
In 1965 she undertook private study with two prominent Russian painters, including Serge Ivanoff; she executed a portrait of her two masters. She cherished her portrait as executed by Serge Ivanoff.
Among her most accomplished pieces are those of iris and the large white Matilija poppy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seascape at Dawn
By Irina Belotelkin Roublon
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork depicting a coastal scene at dawn, c.1965 is a oil painting on canvas by Russian artist Irina Belotelkin Roublon 1913-2009. It is signed lower right by the artist. The ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Day
s End
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Day's End" 1988 is an oil painting on canvas by American artist Donald A. Peters, 1921-2002. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 16 x 20 inches, framed size is 22 x 26 inches. Framed in original wooden grey/brown frame, with grey fabric liner. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Since his birth in Indianapolis, Indiana on May 19, 1921, Don Peters has continually expressed his multifaceted talents. While serving in the US Marine Corps. at the age of 19, Don received his first international recognition from combat sketches made between 1942 and 1945. Exhibited in the National Galleries of London and throughout the US. These sketches earned Don a scholarship from the National Newspaperman's Association, metaphysics, spiritual space, romantic realism and miniaturism. His preference for the rapidly drying medium of acrylic allows Don to achieve drama in his color placement.
He began his career in Hollywood in 1953, where he worked with Walt Disney, M.G.M., Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brow., Columbia and Filmation. In 1964, Don won the Venice Film Festival award for his screenplay, "The Soldier." Also, in 1966, Don received the Academy Award Nomination for the original screenplay and story "Naked Prey". 1971 Don was a background Artists on the film Journey Back to OZ aka Return to OZ. Animated Musical Fantasy.
Don Peters' Mean Machine design
Peters later helped design the 1968-69 Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Wacky Races for Iwao Takamoto and Jerry Eisenberg, as Eisenberg recalled: "Iwao designed Penelope Pitstop and her car... And then there was some guy named Don Peters, who Iwao knew from his days at Disney, he was a designer. And he got Don to do some freelance help, and he designed that car that Dick Dastardly had, it looked like a Captain Nemo-type car, you know, like a submarine. Peters then worked on animated series Hot...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Can
t Be, Oil Painting
By Kristen Brown
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This portrait depicts a woman looking back against a night sky and a sea of wildflowers. Wearing an ambivalent expression, there is an unknown quality to the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Beagles" Early 19th C. Country People
Dogs. Rockefeller Provenance
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Originally the property of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., this watercolor scene, depicting a group of ordinary, early 19th-century English folk and their dogs resting in the shade, p...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Victor at Work
By Carl Lewis Bowman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Carl Lewis Bowman (American, 1909-1998)
Title: Victor at Work
Year: 1987
Medium: Oil on canvas board
Canvas board size: 12 x 16 inches
Signature: Signed and dated ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Patterns in White, Oil Painting
By Mary Pratt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The delicate features of the woman are accentuated as she peers into a bamboo-like pattern of contrasting muted whites and grays. Skin tones pop against the h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vele
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Vele c. 1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Lido Bettarini, 1927-2019. It is signed at the lower left corner ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blackwood Spring Runoff
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Blackwood Spring Runoff" 2016 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Andrew (Andy) Skaff, b.1945. It is signed at the lower right corner by the a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Who Are These Angels CXXXII, Oil Painting
By Naoko Paluszak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This piece is number 132 from Naoko's signature series "Who Are These Angels." A mysterious figure in a blue gown stands tall in an ethereal clearing. In the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Effortless
By Miranda Gamel
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
You can be a soft thing And still push through With the strength and power Found within mountains Effortlessly
About the Artist
The daughter of two...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tolumne, California
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Tolumne, California" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower right corner by the arti...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the style of Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa Beach Scene Oil Painting c.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the style of Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa Oil on Panel Beach Scene C.1920
Original oil on panel
Dimensions 23" wide x 20" high
The painting is in good condition - Signed in...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Grinding Coffee
By Norbert Schlaus
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Grinding Coffee" c. 1980 is a large oil painting on canvas by noted German/American artist Norbert Schlaus, 1927-2009. It is signed at the upper left corner by the arti...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Native Woman at the Well
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Native Woman at the Well" 1948 is a oil painting on canvas board by American artist Joseph Earl Schrack, 1890-1973. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork is 21 x 16.65 inches, framed size is 28.5 x 24 inches. Framed in original mahogany and gold frame, with light grey liner. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Joseph Earl Schrack American (1890-1973)
Born in Pottstown, PA on Feb. 26, 1890. Joseph Schrack studied at the AIC, Art Students League of NYC under Robert Henri. He later continued his studies at the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, the University of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Art Institute of Chicago, and courses with the Hans Hoffman School in Munich Germany. While he was in Europe in the early 1930's he also traveled to Capri, Italy.
In 1934 he travelled to San Diego, CA and continued to paint at the Balboa University and Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego. His illustrations appeared in Liberty, McCalls, and Century magazines. He taught at the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery for many years before his demise there on July 16, 1973.
Member:
Men's Art Inst. (San Diego); San Diego FA Society; La Jola AA. Exh: AIC, 1913 (prize); Audubon Artists, 1944, 1945; Carlsbad (CA) AA, 1954. Murals: First Federal Savings Bank (San Diego); First Nat'l Bank (El Cajon); La Jolla Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winter Scene, Lake Tahoe
By Irina Belotelkin Roublon
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork " Winter Scene, Lake Tahoe" c.1970 is a oil painting on canvas by Russian artist Irina Belotelkin Roublon 1913-2009. It is signed lower right by the artist. The canvas size is 16 x 20 inches. It is in very good condition.
About the artist.
Irina Belotelkin Roublon, née Roudakoff, was born in Elisavetgrad, Ukraine to the Russian noblesse ancienne, descendant of Catherine the Great, she was a student at the Mariinsky Noble Ladies' Institute , Novocherkassk, Russia. She was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after her father, General Paul Roudakoff, was fatally wounded in battle; 5 days later her mother died of typhus.
Still unaware of her parents' death, and after witnessing her two sisters' deaths from starvation, the young Irina, then 8 years old, made her way over 1,000 kilometers, alone and through many privations to Moscow and the Estonian embassy there, with whom her Estonian uncle Volodya Blonsky had made arrangements.
After a year in Moscow, and appeals to the Estonian consul, Irina was aided in a dramatic escape from the Soviet Union, to her aunt Anna Blonsky Lassburg (1882–1940) and her husband Doctor Genrick Lassburg in Tallinn, Estonia. Eventually, after in 1929, traveling through Ellis Island and admitted as a student, of voice studies, she joined her brother who had settled, in 1923, in the United States.
Irina came to San Francisco during the Second World War, Among Irina's devotions were ballet and opera. She often entertained friends Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Sergei Leiferkus when they were in town. Natalia Makarova and Yuri Possokhov were often guests at Irina's Russian Christmas and Easter parties.
From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, Irina studied and prolifically created still life and portrait paintings in oil and water color, excelling in flower compositions. She held studio and feature exhibitions; she competed and won prizes. Her work is in holdings throughout the San Francisco Bay area, Europe and Russia.
In 1965 she undertook private study with two prominent Russian painters, including Serge Ivanoff; she executed a portrait of her two masters. She cherished her portrait as executed by Serge Ivanoff.
Among her most accomplished pieces are those of iris and the large white Matilija poppy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Palomares Creek, California
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Palomares Creek, California, California" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower righ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Old Barn, Near Auburn
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Old Barn Near Auburn" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Mother and Child 19th century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Portrait of Mother and Child 19th century
Oil on canvas
Possibly German
16.5 x 21 unframed, 25 x 29 framed
No visible signature
Category
19th Century Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charles Levier (1920-2003) "Les Parisiennes" Oil Painting on Canvas
By Charles Levier
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charles Levier (1920-2003) "Les Parisiennes" Oil Painting on Canvas
Signed Lower Right and Verso with Title
24.25" x 36.25 unframed
33.25 x 45.75" framed
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
St Raymonds Church
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "St Raymonds Church" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with Roses
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Woman with Roses" is an oil painting on hardboard by noted American artist Katherine Gillespie, 1878-1945. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 13.5 x 11.5 inches, framed size is 18.25 x 16.25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with fabric and gold liner. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Born in Crawford County, MO on March 15, 1878. Katherine Miller was listed as an artist in the San Jose City Directory of 1900 and soon thereafter married Harvey Gillespie. She was a close friend and painting partner of artist Bertha Stringer Lee and served as maid of honor...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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