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Joan of Arc
, Paris, Salon d’Automne, Section d
Or, Group of Thirteen, Benezit
By Jais Nielsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Joan of Arc' (Jeanne d'Arc) by Jais Nielsen, 1923.
Paris, Salon d’Automne, Section d'Or, Group of Thirteen, Benezit
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Signed lower right 'Jais' for Jais Nielsen (Danish, 1885-1...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
Bathers by Richard E. Miller
Located in New Orleans, LA
Richard E. Miller
1875-1943 American
Bathers
Oil on canvas on board
Emanating the radiant beauty that defines American Impressionism, Bathers captures Richard Edward Miller at hi...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Archetypes-The Mother, Maiden, Queen, Huntress, Wise Woman, Mystic, Oil Painting
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Symbols abound in this monumental painting by Bruno Surdo. Each of the subjects on this canvas is dependent upon the other. They require the presence of the others for balance and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Glimpse of Something That Seemed All Potential - Nude Original Oil Painting
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Female Bather (Nude Women)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ann Brockman (1895–1943) was an American artist who achieved success as a figurative painter following a successful career as an illustrator. Born in California, she spent her childhood in the American Far West and, upon marrying the artist William C. McNulty, relocated to Manhattan at the age of 18 in 1914. She took classes at the Art Students League where her teachers included two realist artists of the Ashcan School, George Luks and John Sloan. Her career as an illustrator began in 1919 with cover art for four issues of a fiction monthly called Live Stories. She continued providing cover art and illustrations for popular magazines and books until 1930 when she transitioned from illustrator to professional artist. From that year until her death in 1943, she took part regularly in group and solo exhibitions, receiving a growing amount of critical recognition and praise. In 1939 she told an interviewer that making money as an illustrator was so easy that it "almost spoiled [her] chances of ever being an artist."[1] In reviewing a solo exhibition of her work in 1939, the artist and critic A.Z Kruse wrote: "She paints and composes with a thorough understanding of form and without the slightest hesitancy about anatomical structure. Add to this a magnificent sense of proportion, and impeccable feeling for color and an unmistakable knowledge of what it takes to balance the elements of good pictorial composition and you have a typical Ann Brockman canvas."[2]
Early life and training
Brockman was born in Northern California in 1895 and spent much of her youth in nearby Oregon, Washington, and Utah.[1][3] She met the artist William C. McNulty in Seattle where he was employed as an editorial cartoonist. They married in March 1914 and promptly moved to Manhattan where he worked as a freelance illustrator.[4][5] At the time of their marriage, Brockman was 18 years old.[6] Over the next few years, her career generally followed that path that her husband had previously taken. His art training had been at the Art Students League beginning in 1908; she began her training there after moving to New York in 1914.[1] After an early career as an editorial cartoonist, he freelanced as a magazine and book illustrator beginning in 1914; she began her career as a magazine and book illustrator in 1919.[7] He embarked on a teaching career in the early 1930s and not long after, she began giving art instruction.[8][9] While they both adhered to the realist tradition in art, their usual subjects were different. His prominently depicted urban cityscapes in the social realist whereas hers generally focused on rural landscapes. He was best known for his etchings and she for her oils and watercolors.[8][10]
Brockman returned to the Art Students League in 1926 to take individual instruction for a month at a time from George Luks and John Sloan.[1] Despite their help, one critic said McNulty's "sympathetic encouragement and guidance" was more important to her development as a professional artist.[11]
Career in art
In the course of her career as illustrator, Brockman would sometimes paint portraits of celebrities before drawing them, as for example in 1923 when she painted the French actress Andrée Lafayette who had traveled to New York to play title role in a film called Trilby.[12] She would also sometimes accept commissions to make portrait paintings and in 1929 painted two Scottish terriers on one such commission.[13] During this time, she also produced landscapes. In 1924 she displayed a New England village street scene painting in the Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings in the J. Wanamaker Gallery of Modern Decorative Art.[14] Available sources show no further exhibitions until in 1930 a critic for the Boston Globe described one of her portraits as "well done" in a review of a Rockport Art Association exhibition held that summer.[15]
Between 1931 and her death in 1943, Brockman participated in over thirty group exhibitions and five solos.[note 1] Her paintings appeared in shows of the artists' associations to which she belonged, including the Rockport Art Association, Salons of America, Society of Independent Artists, and National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[17][19]Between 1932 and 1935, her paintings appeared frequently in New York's Macbeth Gallery.[20][23][25][27] She won an award for a painting she showed at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1940.[41] In 1942, the Whitney Museum bought one of the paintings she showed in its Biennial of that year.[10] Critical praise for her work steadily increased during the decade that ended with her untimely death in 1943. In 1932, her painting called "The Camera Man" was called "a clever piece of illustration."[21] Three years later, a painting called "Small Town" gave a critic "the impression of freshness, honesty, and skill".[29] In 1938, a critic described her "Folly Cove" as "masterful" and said "Pigeon Hill Picnic" was "sustained by excellence of execution".[48] At that time, Howard Devree of the New York Times saw "evidence of gathering powers" in her work and wrote "she imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Three years later, a Times critic reported Brockman had "set herself a new high" in the watercolors she presented,[52] and another critic said the gallery where she was showing had not "for some time" shown "so outstanding a solo exhibitor as Ann Brockman."[2] Shortly before her death, a critic for Art News maintained that she was "one of America's most talented women painters".[46]
After she had died, a critic said Brockman's paintings "displayed real power", adding that she was "highly rated among the nation's professional artists" and was known to give "aid and encouragement, always with a smile," both artists and to her students.[10] in reviewing the memorial exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries held in 1945, reviewers wrote about the strength and vibrancy of her personality, the quality of her painting ("every bit as good, possibly better than people had thought"),[53] called her "one of the best of our twentieth century women painters", and credited "her sense of the vividness of life" as a contributor to "the unusual breadth that is so characteristic of her work.[11] One noted that her work was "widely recognized throughout the country" and could be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[54] Writing in the Times, Devree wrote, "even those who had followed the steady growth of this artist for more than a decade, each successive show being at once an evidence of new achievement and an augury of still better work to come, may well be surprised at the combined impact of the selected paintings in the present showing,"[55] and writing in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A.Z Kruse said she had made "extraorginary accomplishments", painted with "inordinate distinction" showing a "lyrical majesty," and possessed "a keen esthetic sense which did not deviate from truth."[54]
Artistic style
(1) Ann Brockman, undated drawing, black chalk on paper, 18 x 22 inches
(2) Ann Brockman, High School Picnic, about 1935, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 44 1/4 inches
(3) Ann Brockman, untitled landscape, about 1943, watercolor and pencil on paper, 15 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches
(4) Ann Brockman, North Coast, undated watercolor, 21 1/2 x 30 inches
(5) Ann Brockman, On the Beach, 1942, watercolor on paper, 16 1/2 x 20 inches
(6) Ann Brockman, Lot's Wife, 1942, oil on canvas, 46 x 35 inches
(7) Ann Brockman, New York Harbor, 1934, watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches
(8) Ann Brockman, Youth, 1942, oil on board, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
Brockman was a figurative painter whose main subjects were rural landscapes and small-town and coastal scenes. She worked in oils and watercolors, becoming better known for the latter late in her career. Most of her paintings were relatively small. Although she made figure pieces infrequently, the nudes and circus and Biblical scenes she painted were seen to be among her best works. In 1938, Howard Devree wrote: "Her gray-day marines and coast scenes are familiar to gallery goers and are favorites with her fellow artists. Her figure pieces have attained a sculptural quality without losing warmth or taking on stiffness. One spirited circus incident of equestriennes about to enter the big tent compares not unfavorably with many of the similar pictures by a long line of painters who have been fascinated by the theme. She imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Similarly, a critic for Art Digest wrote that year: "Fluently and virilely painted, [her] canvases suggest a close affinity between nature and humans. The artist takes her subjects out in the open where they may picnic or bathe with space and air about them. A fast tempo is felt in the compositions of restless horses and nimble entertainers busily alert for the coming performance. Miss Brockman is also interested in portraying frightened groups of people, hurrying to safety or standing half-clad in the lowering storm light."[56]
Her palette ranged from vivid colors in bright sunlight to somber ones in the overcast skies of stormy weather. Of the former, one critic spoke of the rich colors and "sun-drenched rocks" of her coastal scenes and another of her "summery landscapes of coves and picnics."[11][50] Of the latter, Howard Devree said she "painted so many moody Maine coast vignettes of lowering skies and uneasy seas that artists have been heard to refer to an effect as 'an Ann Brockman day'".[57]
Brockman's handling of Biblical subjects can be seen in the oil called "Lot's Wife", shown above, Image No. 6. Her watercolor called "On the Beach" and her oil portrait called "Youth" may both indicate the "sculptural quality" that Devree said was typical of her figure pieces (Image No. 8, above).
An example of Brockman's bright palette in a typical summer theme is the oil painting called "High School Picnic" shown above, Image No. 2. Next to it is a painting, an untitled landscape of about 1943 whose medium, watercolor on paper, shows off the sunny palette she often used (Image No. 3).
Among the darkest of her works was an untitled 1942 drawing she made in black chalk (shown above, Image No. 1). In a book called Drawings by American Artists (1947), the artist and art editor Norman Kent noted that this study influenced her painting through its use of "forms" that were "elastic" and suggested "color". He said its "massing of dark and light" created "a definite mood" that was "impressionistic" and had "the strength of a man's work".[58] Brockman's undated watercolor called "North Coast" (shown above, Image No. 4) is an example of the paintings to which Kent referred.
Illustrator
(9) Ann Brockman, cover, March 12, 1917, Every Week magazine
(10) Illustration of an article, "The Taking of a Salient" by Henry Russell...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
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Abstract Expressionist Female Nude
By Michael Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique expressionist nude figure by Michael Eggleston (American, 20th Century). From a collection of his works. Unframed. Measures 40"H x 30"W.
Eggleston is a San Francisco Abstract...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Blake of Night" (2012) By John Tarantola, Original Nude Oil Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Blake of Night" (2012) is a beautiful surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts an athletic nude male figure crawling forward on a slab o...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Samskaras" Figurative, Nude, Oil painting
By Lauren Rinaldi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Samskaras" is an original oil painting by Lauren Rinaldi, debuted at the artist's solo exhibition, "At Arms Length". Lauren Rinaldi works using unbiased portraits of women’s bodies ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Oracle" (2024) By Allen Williams, Original Oil Nude Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Oracle" (2024) by Allen Williams is an original oil painting on a sealed illustration board that depicts an eerie portrait of a nude female figure. Thi...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Young Woman Sleeping (artist showed in major Paris exhibitions), Framed
Located in New Orleans, LA
For me, this reclining nude spectacularly captures 1920's Paris, in life and art, at least as I understand it from the many books I have read focusing on that magical period. The mo...
Category
1920s Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,800 Sale Price
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Blonde Nude Leaning on a Stool in Oil on Canvas
By George Wishon
Located in Soquel, CA
Blonde Nude Leaning on a Stool in Oil on Canvas
Beautiful modern impressionist figure painting of a nude woman by bay area artist George Wishon (American, b.20th Century). A contras...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,800 Sale Price
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Nude in Interior (Woman on Top) large oil painting Paula Craioveanu 39x27in
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Nude in Interior - Woman on Top" - original large art by Paula Craioveanu in Contemporary Expressionist style.
Original, large, unique painting, oil on canvas, 39x27in / 100x70cm . ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Nude Woman American Impressionist School 1940s by Fred Yost
Located in Soquel, CA
Seated Nude Woman American Figurative School 1940s
Mid-century American impressionist painting of a woman by American artist Frederick "Fred" Yost (American/Swiss, 1888-1968). He studied: at Mt. Union Col., Alliance, OH; American Students League, New York, and with Homer Boss, John Sloan, Robert Henri, R. Lahey. The painting gleans much form his studies with John Sloan and Robert Henri in the French post-impressionist style.
Image 24"H x 18"W
Frame, 30"H x 24"W x 1.5"D
Signed "Yost" lower right
Painter, lithographer, teacher, lecturer
About Fred's life: by Hal Fry of the Herald
“Fred Does Whatever He Likes” was a title given to a biography
written about Fred Yost by Hal Fry of the Herald. The following is
taken directly from this column: “Fred Yost’s living style is like his
painting style. He has fun with it. Fred John Yost was born in
Switzerland, he’ sure, on November 6, 1889, he thinks.
His father John brought the family to his country when Fred was
about a year old—first to New York and later to
Canton, Sebring and finally Alliance, where Yost Sr.
loaded freight for a railroad. Fred like drawing and painting
so far back he can’t remember how or when it started—it was
always that way. But through the public schools in Alliance
he didn’t think of this as a career possibility. He wanted to be a
newspaperman. He worked his way through Mt. Union College,
finishing, he thinks, about 1912. Then he beat it for New York and
after kicking around for a time got a job as a proofreader for the
Wall Street Journal. He combined this and art school until
World War I took him into the Army. In infantry, field artillery and
ordnance duties he served with the 27th New York Division
through St. Mihiel and the Argonne and the rest—in the process
getting his hearing clobbered by blasts from his outfit’s own guns.
Coming out a Sergeant in 1919, he went back to the
Wall Street Journal briefly—then caught on as a staff artist for the
(New York) Herald. For several years, when he felt like it,
Yost would take a bus to the Mexican border and switch to a
Mexican bus to carry him way down south, then make it any way
he could to the places he wanted to see. On these trips he
virtually becomes a peon, disappearing totally from those who
know him—living with, like and clearly thoroughly liked by the
people among whom he moves.” Yost was a graduate of the
Art Students League and past president of the Ohio Watercolor
Society. Fred Yost, a man who eminently loved the Mexican
landscape,
Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1928, 1930-33; MMA, 1945; AIC; Butler AI, 1947-1951; Ohio WC Soc.; PAFA, 1948-1950; Akron AI, 1947-1951, 1958; Fla. Southern Col., 1952; Ohio Univ., 1950; Columbus Gal. FA, 1947-50; AWCS, 1958; Salons of Am.; 3 solo: Canton AI; Akron AI, Springfield Mus. A. Contributor to Ford Times, 1958-59. Awards: prizes, Massilon Museum, 1944; Ohio Watercolor Society, 1944, 1948; Indianapolis, Ind., 1944; Tri-State Pr. M., 1945, 1946; Butler AI, 1946; Youngstown Pub. Schools, 1946 (prize); Ohio Univ., 1950; Ethel Printz award, 1950; Fla. Southern Col., 1952; Akron AI, 1952, 1956-1958; Canton AI, 1961, 1963; medal, Phila. Pa., 1950
Member: Ohio Watercolor Society (president)
Work: Massillon Mus.; Youngstown Pub. Sch. Coll.; Butler AI; Akron AI; Kennedy & Co., NY; Beaver Col., Beaver Falls, Pa.; Block Gal., Indianapolis; Prospect Park, NY; murals, Sioux City Steak House; Sioux City A. Center; City Hall, Sioux City; Akron AI; Evangelical Church, Akron; Rockefeller Center; Radio City, NY; Brooklyn Zoological Park. Affiliated with NYC Park Dept. Mural Projects.
Comments: Came to U. S. in 1889. Position: teacher, Butler AI; Akron AI; instr., Akron AI, Akron, Ohio; cur. Historical House of Refuge...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Period Male Nude Surrealist Masterpiece Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Amazing early American surrealist nude male portrait landscape. Painted by Charles W St Clair. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 24L x 30H. Super detailed and rare!
Category
1930s Surrealist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Weightless, Timeless: Oil Painting of Two Women Swimming in Pool
By Samantha French
Located in Hudson, NY
Horizontal figurative photo-realist painting of women swimming in an aqua blue pool
"Weightless, Timeless," painted by Hudson Valley artist, Samantha French, is 2019
oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
Sides are cleanly painted white so additional framing is optional
Excellent condition and ready to hang as is
This photorealist figurative painting captures a peaceful water scene of a women leisurely floating in a crisp, aqua blue pool. The sunlight reflecting off their sun kissed skin complements the cool color palette, making for a serene visual experience. The brush work is highly detailed with little texture (impasto) on the surface. The horizontal painting on canvas is currently unframed and has clean, white painted sides, so additional framing is optional.
About the Artist:
Born and raised in north central Minnesota, Samantha French graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2005. French’s current body of work explores the idea of escape, the tranquility and nostalgia for the lazy summer days of her childhood. The series is inspired by Samantha’s own reflections and memories of her childhood summers spent in the lakes of Northern Minnesota. French actively exhibits her paintings and is included in many private and public collections throughout the country while her work has garnered extensive international and national press. She is a full-time painter and keeps a studio in New York’s Hudson Valley.
"My current body of work is focused on swimmers underwater and above. Using vague yet consuming memories from my childhood summers spent immersed in the tepid lakes of northern Minnesota, I attempt to recreate the quiet tranquility of water and nature; of days spent sinking and floating, still and peaceful. These paintings are a link to my home and continual search for the feeling of the sun on my face and warm summer days at the lake. They are my escape, a subtle reprieve from the day-to-day. At the same time, I am drawn to an idealistic time before my own, where swim caps and wool swimsuits were commonplace. This combination of memory, observation and photography has allowed me to preserve the transitory qualities of water and remembrance."
Artist Resume:
2019 Winter Swim, Rubine Red...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1986 Intimate Couple Portrait by Mystery Artist
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist
Tennessee, 9/12/86
Oil on canvas
34 x 43 3/4 x 1 in.
Titled and inscribed upper left
Category
1980s Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Threshold - Large Scale Painting of a Nude Male Seated on a Green Chaise Lounge
Located in Chicago, IL
An intimate moment is interrupted as the viewer gazes upon this scene. Thresholds, a portrait of a nude male sitting upon a green chaise lounge with his eyes cast down in deep thought, is illuminated by an unknown light source highlighting his finely sculptured physique. This use of strong directional light is a hallmark of Hall's paintings.
Nathan Brad Hall...
Category
2010s Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
A Captivating Modern Seated Nude in a Studio Interior by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A captivating, Modern portrait painting of a female nude seated in a quiet studio interior by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A sensitive, skilled portrait of ...
Category
1940s American Modern Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Posing Nude, Modern Oil Painting by Mikhail Turovsky
By Mikhail Turovsky
Located in Long Island City, NY
Posing Nude by Mikhail Turovsky, Russian (1933)
Date: 2001
Oil on Masonite, signed lower left
Size: 48 x 30.5 in. (121.92 x 77.47 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Modern Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
The Space Between - Large Portrait of Bearded, Shirtless Male, Original Oil
Located in Chicago, IL
Nathan Brad Hall's work comes together in this show to build an undeniably jaw dropping experience for viewers. “Undercurrents,” says Hall, “is about ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Let Go 3 - Original oil painting - Zack Zdrale
Located in Chicago, IL
Let Go 1, 2, 3 (Series)
In these paintings, Zdrale depicts multiple figures—often iterations of the same man—locked in a cycle of struggle. The ropes that coil around or extend from ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sheba Raven Cloak, Hatshepsut - Original Painting of Egyptian Goddess Figure
By Oliver Hazard Benson
Located in Chicago, IL
Oliver Hazard’s paintings are produced directly from his imagination and deals with a mixture of imagery he has witnessed in his travels, dreams, and read about in literature. The ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Nude
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Nude" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas board by noted Mexican artist Luis Ricardo Amendolla Gasparo, 1928-2000. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist....
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figure 1
By Matthew Durante
Located in Denver, CO
Matthew Durante's "Figure 1 2021" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a blue-toned nude female model superimposed over a pink and purple background.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Panel, Pencil
Their Whole Private Selves - Two Nude Bodies Entwined, Original Oil on Panel
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Female Figure, Flora, Classical Art, Eve In Blue and White by America Martin
By America Martin
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Eve In Blue and White"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 42 inches
120.5 x 42.5 inches framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$28,800 Sale Price
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The Oracle, Nude Female with Hands Covering Her Breasts, Long Dark Hair
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Oracles provide wise, insightful counsel and were thought to be portals through which the gods spoke directly to people. In Bruno Surdo's "The Oracle", the central female character ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Female and Male Figure, Flora, Adam and Eve In Blue and White by America Martin
By America Martin
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Adam and Eve In Blue and White"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 84 inches
120.5 x 85 inches framed ( 120.5 x 42.5 inches framed each)
Signature is in the lower left o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$57,600 Sale Price
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"Untitled" (2014) - Oil Painting of Nude Reclining Female Figure
By Rebecca Venn
Located in Denver, CO
Rebecca Venn's (US based) "Untitled" is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas paper that depicts a nude female model laying on her back.
This pai...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$645 Sale Price
25% Off
Four Dancing Nude Men Gouache Painting 1976
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6011b Four nude male dancers gouache painting set in a brown matt in a brass frame
Image 16.5x21.5"
Category
1970s Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Post-Impressionist Mythical Landscape Nude Bathers and Swans, American Painter
By Bertram Hartman
Located in Yardley, PA
An exceptional example of Hartman’s early post-impressionist works.
This lovely work depicts several female bathers alongside various birds in an enchanting landscape. In the lower ...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Female Nude Study Black Pencil Drawing by G. Debotoiyche, 1923
Located in Atlanta, GA
G. Debotoiyche, Nude Study, 1923
This masterful carbon pencil drawing by Russian artist G. Debotoiyche exemplifies the stripped-down elegance of early 20th-century modernist draftsm...
Category
1920s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Charcoal
Cubist Female Nude Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Nude Woman, 1946, 9.25 x 12.5 inches. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Excellent condition.
Born in N...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Muscles1111
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: paint chip sample mosaic on panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in De...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media
Gorgeous Abstract Expressionist Figures by Syril Frank
Located in New York, NY
Syril Frank (American, 1929-2021)
Untitled, c. 1970s/80s
Oil on canvas
Framed: 21 3/4 x 25 2/3 x 1 in.
This fantastic painting in the abstract expressionist style loosely depicts a ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Paris School Nude Female Bathers Double Sided Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist nude woman portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Impressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
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Antique American Early 1900s Nude Women
Swans Deco River Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist nude women landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed "Wolfe". In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding....
Category
1920s Impressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Aura" Oil Painting
By David Cheifetz
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Aura" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude woman's torso in profile overlaid with blue and green colors around her hands.
About the Artist:
D...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wonderfully Stylized, 60s Mid-Century Modern Oil of Standing Male Ballet Dancers
Located in Chicago, IL
A Wonderfully Stylized, 60s Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting of Standing Male Ballet Dancers by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Painted in the 1960s, this captivating dance stu...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Morning" Nude Couple in Bed - Figurative Composition in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate and expressive depiction of a nude couple by Byron Richard Rodarmel (American, 1932-2007). A couple is intertwined on a bed, rendered in a soft palette of peach, yellow, pin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938) In the Locker Room, Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938) In the Locker Room, Contemporary Queer Figurative Painting
n.d.
Signed in red, u.l.
Oil on canvas
60 x 36 inches
$8,000 + $750 framing
This work is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Susannah (Without the Elders) /// Old Masters British Nude Bath Biblical Story
By Frederick Goodall R.A.
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Frederick Goodall (English, 1822-1904)
Title: "Susannah (Without the Elders)"
*Monogram signed and dated by Goodall lower left
Year: 1885
Med...
Category
1880s Victorian Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil, Gesso
Male Figure, Flora, Classical, Adam In Blue and White by America Martin
By America Martin
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Adam In Blue and White"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
120 x42 inches
120.5 x 42.5 inches framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$28,800 Sale Price
20% Off
"Somewhere in Paris" Oil Painting
By Suchitra Bhosle
Located in Denver, CO
Suchitra Bhosle's "Somewhere in Paris" is an original, hand made oil painting that depicts a feminine model in a translucent white shift reclining on a background of white.
About th...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Nude in Venice - original large interior oil painting Paula Craioveanu 55x40in
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Nude in Venice" - original large art by Paula Craioveanu - Contemporary Expressionism
Original, large, unique painting, oil on canvas, 55x40in / 140x102cm.
Shipped rolled in a tube...
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled (Seated Nude) — Black Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ann Graves Tanksley, Untitled (Seated Nude), oil and marker, 1984. Signed and dated, lower right. A fine, expressionist rendering, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper, painted to the sheet edges, in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size/sheet size: 24 1/16 x 18 inches (611 x 457 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“Her work reflects the influence of her travels, the residential colors, the simple work habits, the loneliness, and the love and devotion to one’s spiritual beliefs. There is a oneness of artist and concept. Her love of life, despite social barriers and frustrations, is promoted in her work for audiences to witness and accept... Her paintings evoke a spiritual awakening. One is drawn to the intensity of color that prevails and identifies the moods of feasts and celebrations. ...Life is full of anticipation and dedication, of acceptance and hope, of faith and survival. These are all present in the works of Ann Tanksley.”
—Robert Henke, The Art of Black American Women: Works of Twenty-Four Artists of the Century, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1993.
Ann Graves was born in 1934 and raised in the Homewood community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Drawn to art at an early age, Tanksley graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1956 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Following graduation from college, she married fellow Homewood native John Tanksley, and the couple moved to Brooklyn, New York. He worked as a photo retoucher in the advertising industry. Tanksley devoted herself to raising her daughters while working as an art instructor before fully pursuing her artistic pursuits. She was an art instructor at Queens Youth Center for the Arts from 1959-62, the Arts Center of Northern New Jersey in 1963, and a substitute art instructor at Malvern Public Schools in 1971. She also served as an adjunct art instructor at Suffolk County Community College from 1973-1975.
Tanksley continued her art education with studies at the Arts League of New York, The New School, the Paulette Singer Workshop in Great Neck, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, where she learned monotype printmaking. In addition to Blackburn and Singer, Tanksley studied with several renowned artists throughout her career, including Norman Lewis (artist), Balcomb Greene, and Samuel Rosenberg (artist).
Tanksley was one of the first members of Where We At: Black Women Artists, Inc., a New York-based women’s art collective founded by artists Kay Brown...
Category
1980s Expressionist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Exhale" by Brian O
Neill, Oil painting, Male Nude
Located in Denver, CO
Brian O'Neill's (US based) "Exhale" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude male figure stooped over and keeling on the ground, with his back exposed and bowing his...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
"Holding Back the Moon" (ca. 2018) By John Tarantola, Nude Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Holding Back the Moon" (ca. 2018) is a beautiful surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts an athletic nude young male figure, with his a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Studio Sketch of Ella", Surrealist, Cream, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Studio Sketch of Ella” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in creams and browns. The painting is from the “Studio Visitors” series. When Ella a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage American Cubic Nude Oil Pastel Signed Framed
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5157 Vintage Cubic nude oil pastel
Signed lower right
Category
1970s Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
$300 Sale Price
47% Off
Classical Myth Painting After Peter Paul Ruben
s
The Last Judgement of Paris
Located in Houston, TX
Classical mythological painting by Houston artist Edsel Cramer. Known for his classically inspired portraits of prominent Houstonians, this work featuring the myth of the Judgement o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Baroque Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Modernist Nude" Mid Century Bold Colorful Abstract Nude Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the 1950s by Russian, American painter Helen Stein. Mostly known for her abstract figures on canvas, this piece...
Category
1950s Modern Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
City - 4 , 1977 Large Painting
By Hilo Chen
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Hilo Chen
Title: City - 4
Year: 1977
Painting oil on canvas
Size 54 x 54 inches
137 x 137 cm
Contemporary photo-realist painter Hilo Chen (Yee-Lum) was born in 1942 in Taiwan and later became an American citizen. He is noted for his paintings of nudes and flowers. Chen's as painter is nothing less than superb. The skin tones of his nudes seem more "real" than life itself. You feel as though you can almost touch these women who are so oblivious to being observed.
Chen's work is held in public collections at: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA...
Category
1970s Photorealist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Surreal Signed Nude Figures Framed Original Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract nude landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
"Venus of Los Angeles (Olympia)" by Dave Seeley, Seated Nude
Located in Denver, CO
Dave Seeley's mesmerizing oil painting, "Venus of Los Angeles (Olympia)," is a contemporary masterpiece that pays homage to the timeless beauty of the female form. Created in 2023, t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Reclining Man" (2015) By John Tarantola, Surrealist Nude Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Reclining Man" (2015) is a beautiful surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts a young man lying in the nude, against a surreal scene of ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Three Male Nudes Embracing Blue Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6063 Blue figures,contemporary acrylic on board,displayed in a black wood frame,signed lower left by Veron .Image size 9.5 H x 7.5 W
Category
1980s Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$325 Sale Price
56% Off
Girl in a Chair, Large Painting by Bill Wiman
By Bill Wiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bill Wiman, American (1940 - )
Title: Girl in a Chair
Year: 1978
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 82 x 83.5 in. (182.88 x 212.09 cm)
Frame: 83 x 84.5 inches
Category
1970s Photorealist Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus /// KPM after Peter Paul Rubens Baroque
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Manufacturer: Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM), (Founded 1763, Berlin, Germany)
Title: "The Rape of the Daughters of Leuci...
Category
1880s Baroque Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Nude in the Studio, in Front of the Mirror - Portrait in Oil on Artist
s Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude in the Studio, in Front of the Mirror - Portrait in Oil on Artist's Board
Elegant seated nude woman by Pau Milosevich (American, b. 1936). A woman is seated in a studio, in fro...
Category
1980s Contemporary Continental US - Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board





