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Item Ships From: San Francisco
Style Of William Aiken Walker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous oil on canvas in the style of the famous William Aiken Walker. The details of this painting are amazing and is the same subject matter of...
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1970s Folk Art San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

Xavier Cugat (1900-1990, Spanish) "Monkey Business"
By Xavier Cugat
Located in San Francisco, CA
Xavier Cugat (1900-1990, Spanish) "Monkey Business" Serigraph on Canvas Board 7.5" x 9.5" unframed 13.25" x 15.25" framed
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20th Century San Francisco - Paintings

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Canvas, Board

Summer Light, Oil Painting
By Nancy Merkle
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Evening sunlight sifting through a stand of tree. The grass reflects the warm color of the summer day, and the trees cast a shadow as a reminder that night is...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

Monterey Pier
By Gregory Kondos
Located in San Francisco, CA
Untitled (Cityscape) is an oil on canvas created by Gregory Kondos (American, b. 1923), one of the world's most prominent California landscape artists. The artwork is signed in the lower right corner and was created circa 1950. The canvas size is 24 x 47.75 inches. Overall in good condition. Framed in a gold wooden frame. The size including frame is 33 x 56.75 inches. Gregory Kondos has spent decades depicting California’s unique, majestic beauty, from its rolling farmland to its varied coastline, to the forests and peaks of Yosemite, where he has often served as artist-in-residence. He has been drawn as well to the deserts around Santa Fe, and to Europe, especially Greece, the country from which his parents emigrated. Now in his nineties, he is celebrated as one of the world’s foremost landscape painters, known for his light-filled palette and intuitive, organic forms that seem like effortless extensions of nature. Kondos describes his paintings as possessing a sense of quietude and cleanliness while maintaining a necessary lonely quality: “Less is more…and what is left out makes the picture more understandable.” His distilled images tend to feature a solitary element—a lone boat, a mountain peak, a house standing away from the others—that projects a contemplative sense of being alone in thought. His simple yet lively palette and elegant lines, influenced by artists like Willem de Kooning, Cezanne, and Gauguin, allow us to place ourselves within the space of the painting. Chief curator and associate director at Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum, Scott A. Shields, who organized “A Touch of Blue: Landscapes by Gregory Kondos” at the museum in 2013, remarks: “His paintings simultaneously celebrate the terrain's inherent formal, abstract properties, as well as the beautiful possibilities of the paint itself." Kondos’ lifelong achievements place him in the great tradition of American landscape painters such as Albert Bierstadt, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O’Keefe. He has won numerous prizes and awards, including a lifetime achievement award from International Bienniale in Florence, Italy, and has been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York. Collections of Kondos’ work are displayed in museums around the world, including the Shanghai Art Museum in China, the Phoenix Art Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The gallery at Sacramento City...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Der Fluss Rhein (Rhine River)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Der Fluss Rhein (Rhine River)" 1950, is an oil painting on canvas by German artist Adolf Gerhard, 1910-1973. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

Carol Aus Portrait of a Lady In Spectacular 19th Century Frame
Located in San Francisco, CA
Carol Aus: 1878-1934 Listed artist born in Norway and lived in Chicago. She studied in Paris at Julien Academy. She painted 7 covers for the Saturday Evening Post. She was also we...
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Early 20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

Raphael Soyer "George the Iceman Woolf"
By Raphael Soyer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Raphael Soyer: 1899-1987. Very important and well listed American artist. One of the early social realist painters. He was born in Russia, but his family was deported by the Tsar in ...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

Landscape with Houses and Pond, California
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Houses and Pond, California" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left cor...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

F. M. Hollams (1877-1963) Jack Russells in a Barn Oil on Canvas Board Painting
By Frances (Florence) Mabel Hollams
Located in San Francisco, CA
F. M. Hollams (1877-1963) Jack Russells in a Barn Oil on Canvas Board Painting 24" x 18.5"H 24" x 28"H
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21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Axel Hansen (Dutch, 1896-1936) Country Farm Landscape w/ Cattle c.1920s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Axel Hansen (Dutch, 1896-1936) Country Farm Landscape w/ Cattle c.1920s Fine impressionist oil painting by Danish painter Axel Hansen. The painting shows...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ralph Chapotean (Haitian, 1954-Active)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ralph Chapotean (Haitian, 1954-Active) Surrealist landscape Oil on Massanet 16 x 24 unframed, 17.5 x 25.5 framed
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20th Century San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Portrait of a Young Man Sitting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rendered with the etherial background and casual elegance of a mid-century society woman’s portrait slated for her Palm Beach master suite, the subject of this work is instead a youn...
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1950s American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Ice Blue Lake and the Horizon, Abstract Oil Painting
By Srinivas Kathoju
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Abstracted landscape just after sunset marked by brilliant orange and red clouds in the dark blue background. Layers of blues, purples, greens and orange in h...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

Benjamin Stahl Illustration
By Benjamin Stahl
Located in San Francisco, CA
Benjamin Stahl: 1910-1987. Well listed illustrator with auction records over $10,000. I bought this fabulous illustration 15 years ago and it has been hanging on my wall ever since....
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Mid-20th Century San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Repules XVI
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Laszlo Dus – Hungarian/American (1941- ) Title: Repules XVI Year: 1988 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 16 x 12 inches Framed size: 24 x 20 inches Signature: Signed lower right Condition: Very good. Frame in fair/poor condition This abstract oil on canvas painting is by the well-known Hungarian/ American artist Laszlo Dus (1941-). The painting is in very good condition. The frame is in fair/poor condition. The linen inner mat is stained and should be replaced. The very nice silver wooden frame has a chip on the right bar near the bottom. There is also a tiny chip in the lower left corner. Please see pictures. The painting is signed in the lower right. On the reverse is information about this painting and some biographical information about Dus. Laszlo Dus (Born 1941) Laszlo Dus was considered a brilliant young artist behind the Iron Curtain before moving to the United States at the age of thirty-three, having already exhibited in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Holland. Dus' achievements and abilities have been recognized across the U.S., where his works have found a place in many major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), The National Gallery of Fine Arts (Washington, D.C.), the Chicago Art Institute and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1941 Born in Zalaegerszeg on July 15th 1956-60 Attended the Fine Art High School, Budapest 1962-67 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, pupil of Aurel Bernath, Budapest 1967 Director of the Town Art Program at the Town Council, Zalaegerszeg 1968 Founder of the Egervár Artists’ Colony 1971 Study trip to the USA 1974 Emigration to the USA 1976 Artist–in–Residence at Clarion State College 1977-92 Association with Park West Galleries, Detroit 1992 Organization of the Kunst Atelier International, Cleveland 1993-99 Association with AL Galerie, Stuttgart 1999 Settled in Los Angeles as well as in Budapest, Százados út Artist Colony Collections (selected) Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (USA) Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit (USA) Flint Institute of Arts, Flint (USA) Library of Congress, Washington D. C. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NASA Space...
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1980s Abstract San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Paysage de Provence
By Patrick Reault
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Paysage de Provence" c.1990, is a oil painting on canvas by noted French artist Patrick Reault, born 1955. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 21.75 x 18 inches, framed size is 28.85 x 22.5 inches. it is framed in original wooden painted white frame. it is in excellent condition. About the artist: After growing up on the banks of the Dordogne , in 1975 he became a theater actor and musician in a group formed in Clermont-Ferrand . In the early 1980s , he moved to Marseille where he began his career as a painter, after observing a watercolor artist on the Place aux Huiles . Self-taught, he paints in his cellar, drawing inspiration from the painters Nicolas de Staël and William Turner . He sells his first watercolors on the quays of the Old Port of Marseille, and Cassis . He then moved to Paris, where he continued painting. Patrick Reault exhibits in Asia, the United States and France. The first of his lithographs was published in 1994 by Art Cadre Paris. The Hazan publish posters of his Provençal landscapes. He now exhibits permanently at Opera Gallery. Patrick Reault paints Provençal and colorful landscapes in his so-called Provençal period and proclaims his love for the skies and their spray in his maritime paintings. He used different painting techniques, having started with watercolor, then continued with oils for about ten years. Since then he has mainly used acrylic . Exhibitions • April 1982 : Galerie La Poutre, Marseille • 1984 : Giorgione Gallery, Clermont-Ferrand • 1984 : Group exhibition in Cannes , Aix-en-Provence , Le Lavandou and Nice • 1986 : Mont d'Arbois under the initiative of Baron de Rothschild • 1986 : International Consortium of the Arts. Art Expo in New York . • 1988 : Menton , Galerie Montgibello. • 1988 : Group exhibition Geneva, Switzerland, Consortium des Arts. • 1989 : Front de Mer Gallery La Baule...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Be at Rest II, Abstract Painting
By Jenn Williamson
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Jenn painted this piece using Golden Open Acrylics, which take longer to dry and therefore allow for more blending time. Jenn uses this technique to give the painting a dreamy and hopeful essence. "I am more passionate than ever about painting peaceful, reflective art...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings

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Acrylic

(Untitled) A Woman of Consequence
Located in San Francisco, CA
The realist portrait is of a no-nonsense woman. A mystery woman, one accustomed to being respected. By her subdued costume, not selected to flatter her, as well as by her analytical ...
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1890s Realist San Francisco - Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Visions in the Night
By Morgan Fite
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
From my series called Lessons from Winter, inspired by my process of discovering and embracing the beauty, mystery, and warmth of the coldest and darkest season of the year.

About the Artist
Abstract artist and Tennessee-native Morgan Fite paints delicate compositions that allude to natural forms and changing light. She paints with neutral tones and feathery brushstrokes that give her art its soft and dreamlike quality. She is inspired by her travels and cites the earthy tones of Central Africa and the textures of Roman architecture as particularly influential. For each piece, she begins her process by selecting a color palette from her collection of flowers and rocks. Throughout her portfolio, Morgan strives to make art that invites, moves, and inspires.

Visions in the...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sunshine on the Waterfront
By Carl Thorp
Located in San Francisco, CA
We’ve all seen the practical, plain and dreary structures of a fishing village somewhere at water’s edge. And we recognize the mindset: in lean circumstances something is good enough...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Three Nuns
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Three Nuns" 1964 is an oil painting on hardboard by Italian artist Leonardo (Leo) De Magistris, 1933-2010. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by th...
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Mid-20th Century Modern San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fishing Boats at Dock
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Glenn Dodenhoff – American (1936- 2012) Title: Untitled – Boats at Dock Year: circa 1975 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24 x 30 inches. Unframed ...
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1970s Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Group of Three 19th Century Framed Painted Silhouettes
Located in San Francisco, CA
Group of Three 19th Century Framed Painted Silhouettes Framed in black: Male: 6.25x7.75, unframed 5.5x7 Framed in black: Female: 4.75x6.25, unframed 2.x2.75 Gilded frame: Female: ...
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19th Century San Francisco - Paintings

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Ink

Green House
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Green House" c.2000, is an oil painting on panel by noted American impressionist artist Douglas Paul Morgan, 1948-2021. It is signed at the lower right corner by...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Quais Des Orfevres, Paris
By Albert Horel
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Albert Horel (French, 1878-1964) Title: Quai Des Orfevres, Paris Year: Circa 1920 Medium: Oil on canvas Canvas size: 15 x 18 inches Signature: Signed lower left by the arti...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

South Cascade
Located in San Francisco, CA
This bold abstract painting has the strong gestures one associates with the best of Abstract Expressionist painting. It is a mid century work, done by Tom Ide ...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

The Road to Commerce
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Road to Commerce" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas after American artist Gail Sherman Corbett, 1871-1952. It is signed at the lower left corner by another hand. The canvas size is 20 x 24 inches, framed is 28 x 32 inches.. Framed in a antique style frame. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Gail Sherman Corbett, sculptor, painter and art teacher, was the daughter of Frederick Coe and Emma Jane (Ostrander) Sherman and was born in Syracuse, New York. Her father was descended from Philip Sherman of Dedham, Essex, England, who came, in 1633 to Roxbury, Massachusetts, and afterwards, with eighteen others, founded the town of Portsmouth and the Colony of Rhode Island. He was the Second Secretary of that colony. Corbett's mother was a descendant of Michael Dyckman, one of the framers of the New Amsterdam Charter in 1623. Gail Sherman was educated at the Syracuse High School and the Anne Brown School, New York. She began her studies in sculpture at the Art Students' League in New York under Augustus Saint Gaudens, George DeForest Brush and others, and was later a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. She was given her first large commission in 1901, and, between then and 1914, when her work was interrupted by the War, she executed many memorial tablets, portrait busts, bas-reliefs, sundials, fountains, and medals. Her work received a medal and mention at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco in 1915. Her best known groups are the Hamilton S. White Memorial, Syracuse, New York (1905), the Kirkpatrick Memorial Fountain, Syracuse (1908), and the bronze doors of the Municipal Building, Springfield, Massachusetts (1913). Miss Sherman was married at Syracuse, June 28, 1905, to Harvey Wiley Corbett, a New York architect. They had two children: Jean and John Maxwell Corbett. During 1915-1917, Mrs. Corbett gave her services to the Woman Suffrage Party, and in 1916-1917 she was Chairman of the Chelsea Branch of the Woman's Municipal League. She was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the American Numismatic Society, the Woman's Municipal League, the New York Women...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

Colours
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Colours" c.1990, is an oil painting on panel by Australian artist June Roberts. it is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork (panel) size is ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

Untitled - San Francisco in the Fog
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Richard Danskin – American (1936-2012) Title: Untitled Year: ca. 1970 Medium: Oil or acrylic on masonite Sight size: 11.75 x 15.75 inches. Fr...
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1970s Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

Grigory Stepanyants Hilton Head Island Lighthouse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Grigory Stepanyants: 1927-2007. Listed artist born in Odessa in the Soviet Union. He studied art in Russia and Paris. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1976. He lived n NYC and than in Hil...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

At the Window, Original Painting
By Ruth-Anne Siegel
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Swirling, abstracted roses emerge from a deeply layered background. Bright red and pink blossoms on highly saturated blues, greens and purples. "As I painted,...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Picket Fences
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Picket Fences" c.2000, is an oil painting on panel by noted American impressionist artist Douglas Paul Morgan, 1948-2021. It is signed at the lower right corner ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Letter
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "TheLetter" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Miguel Montaner, 1917-2006. It is signed at the lower right corner by t...
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Late 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Dance Upon the Sky
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dance Upon the Sky" 2013, is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Frederick Michael Wood, b.1944. It is signed at the lower right corner by the art...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

Animals on their Way to the Assembly
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gabriel Mendoza Animales rumbo a la asamblea (Animals on their Way to the Assembly), 2025 Gold leaf and black bole on wood panel 15.75 x 23.62 x 1 inches This one-of-a-kind painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Geometric Figure #23
By Dave Fox
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Fox (American, 1920-2011) Title: Geometric Figure #23 Year: 2003 Medium: Acrylic on paper Paper: Watercolor paper Image size: 9.75 x...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist San Francisco - Paintings

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Acrylic

On Stearns Landing, Kezar Pond, Lowell, Maine
Located in San Francisco, CA
It seems that Stearns Landing on Kezar Pond in Lowell (today Fryeburg), Maine has passed into history. But how lovely it was on that silvery overcast day in 1907 when the little Arka...
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Early 1900s San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Harold Booth (American, 20th C.) "Glacier Bay Original Watercolor C.1970s
By Harold Booth
Located in San Francisco, CA
Harold Booth (American, 20th C.) "Glacier Bay Original Watercolor C.1970s Glaciers come spilling out of the mountains and into Glacier Bay A fine watercolor by listed artist Harold...
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Mid-20th Century San Francisco - Paintings

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Watercolor

Patricia Sedlak California Wharf Painting, 1984
Located in San Francisco, CA
Patricia Sedlak California wharf painting Acrylic on canvas 1984 35 x 40 unframed, 30.5 x 40.5 framed
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1980s San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Red Houses
By Judson Reynolds Briggs
Located in San Francisco, CA
This colorful artwork "Red Houses" 1936 is an oil painting on canvas by American impressionist artist Judson Reynolds Briggs, b.1906. It is signed and dated ...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

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Oil

The Man of Action
Located in San Francisco, CA
Here’s a man’s life in three volumes. In paint. On one canvas. And what a life! On the left, Volume 1, the labor movement against the monopolizing “Octopus” railroads and smoke-stack...
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1950s Outsider Art San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Pheasants Aloft at Dawn
Located in San Francisco, CA
At dawn on a beautiful morning, two pheasants take flight out of their roosting cover. Were they flushed out by sudden noise, or are they simply heading out to their feeding areas? T...
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1970s Naturalistic San Francisco - Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Warning
Located in San Francisco, CA
Copenhagen-born American artist Soren Edsberg (1945-2021) combined abstraction with impressionism in this vision of Armageddon. The son of a Danish painter, Edsberg converted in 1961...
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Late 20th Century Abstract San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Raising the Flag” by R. Kamal
Located in San Francisco, CA
You won’t find many wooden one-room schoolhouses these days—more likely utilitarian blocks of concrete and glass, fluorescents above, linoleum below, to do the job. The early schoolh...
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20th Century Folk Art San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Cityscape Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original vibrant cityscape painting by Lucette Barth (American, 1894-1986) Oil on canvas Titled "New York at Night"/"City at Night" 25.5" H x 31" W
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1960s Abstract San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bertus de Meij Original Oil Painting "Dutch Harbor" c.1940s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Oil Painting "Dutch Harbor" by Bertus de Meij/Bertus de Mey (1915-1994) Though undated, this impressionist oil painting appears to be from the 19...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Soulful Modernist Portrait
By Boris Deutsch
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a portrait of an unknown sitter who is rendered with profound dignity yet lifted from gloomy solemnity by a vibrant and intriguing background. Notably, artist Boris Deuts...
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1950s American Modern San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Point Lobos
By Brian Blood
Located in San Francisco, CA
This oil on board is by the well-known California plein air artist Brian Blood (1962-). The painting depicts Point Lobos, just south of Monterey Bay. It m...
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1990s American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Lone Star, Oil Painting
By Shao Yuan Zhang
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"This painting was inspired by the idea that we are shaped by outside forces, but remain unchanged, we persist in the face of adversity," says Shao. "It is what makes us human." Shao's energetic paintings of stallions explore and illustrate movement through nature. This work represents an immigrant's journey, filled with strength and perseverance. Shao incorporates both contemporary watercolor and traditional ink calligraphy styles into this series of oil paintings.


About the Artist
Art has been with Shao Yuan Zhang for the majority of his extraordinary, and at times difficult, life journey. Raised in communist China...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Hidden Valley, San Anselmo, Marin County, California
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jack Wisby– American (1869 - 1940) Title: Hidden Valley, San Anselmo, Marin, California Year: 1909 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 20 x 28 inches. Fram...
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Early 1900s Realist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Corner Store, Near Mendocino
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Corner Store, Near Mendocino" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963.Signed at the lower right corner by th...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Landscape with people fishing
By Morris Katz
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with People Fishing" 1978, is an oil painting on hard board by Polish/American artist Morris Katz, 1932-2010. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (Hard Board) size is 20 x 24 inches, framed size is 28 x 31.75 inches. Framed in original wooden gold frame, with fabric liner and gold trim. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition. About the artist: On May 9th, 1988, the New York artist set a new world record by painting a 12- by 16-inch canvas of a child in the snow in just half a minute. (It took an additional eight seconds to frame it.) And that wasn’t the only distinction granted to Katz by the Guinness Book of World Records—his name appeared alongside Pablo Picasso’s under the heading for “Most Prolific Painters.” The Spanish master is estimated to have completed some 13,500 paintings in his life; when Katz died in 2010 at age 78, he was credited with 225,000. Katz’s preposterously productive career began in the small Polish village where he was born in 1932. He started studying under a German painter at age 13, but following World War II he earned a diploma in carpentry instead. In 1949, at the age of 17, he travelled to the United States. It was there that he picked up a paintbrush again, while studying at the Art Students League of New York and showing in the Village. “Soon, I decided I was good enough—compared to others, excellent enough—to make my living as an artist,” he said. It was during those years that he developed the techniques that would eventually land him in the record books. He tossed out his paintbrushes and replaced them with palette knives and toilet paper, which he used to stipple the paint. “Soon I picked up speed,” Katz said. “If you know which way you’re travelling, then you can run.” He made art in bulk, buying up canvases by the thousands and paint by the gallon. He went through some 10,000 rolls of toilet paper per year; he often wore out palette knives. Katz branded his method as “instant art.” Charles Salzberg, writing in New York magazine in 1978, urged readers, “Think of him, if you will, as the McDonald’s of the art world”—fast, cheap, and ubiquitous. He wore a green beret, paint-splattered pants, and a shirt emblazoned with the words “Morris Katz - World’s Most Prolific Artist.” It was a title that came with a price—he worked 18-hour days into his 60s, sometimes from his Greenwich Village studio and other times as a performer at hotels across the Catskills. He would often visit three different hotels in the same day, waking up at 7 a.m. and returning home as late as 1 a.m. His show was as much about the painting as it was the one-liners: “These are the highlights—you can tell because they’re high up on the painting,” he might say. Audiences gobbled up the jokes and the works, often paying less than $50 for a painting. “I give them a fresh painting like a fresh bagel,” he said. Photographer David M. Spindel first met Katz on assignment. “They’d call him mashugana—that’s the Yiddish word for a little bit crazy,” he told Artsy. The pair soon became friends, and Spindel ended up attending several of the artist’s hotel shows. “There were a lot of people from the hotel who were sitting in the room and he set up his easel and his toilet paper and paints and knocked out paintings one after another,” Spindel said. “Just a couple of minutes for each painting, usually. If he was kibitzing with the people in the audience then it took a lot longer. He was always clowning around.” His act was ready-made for television; he appeared on 60 Minutes, David Letterman, and Oprah, among other programs. And Katz didn’t just make instant art—he taught it as well. In 1987, the New Yorker sent a writer to attend one of his speed-painting classes at the Notre Dame School on West 79th Street. A dozen eager students watched in admiration as he whipped up a mountain landscape, asking for advice on how, exactly, to hold their toilet paper for maximum artistic effect. For those who couldn’t make it to Manhattan for a lesson, he published a book—Paint Good & Fast (1985)—with a title as straightforward as his philosophy on art. “Life goes faster and faster,” he wrote. “The fine arts must keep pace. This art will one day be...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Landscape with Trail
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Trail" c.1930 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Frederick Ernest Swedlun, AKA: Ernest Fredericks (18...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Interno
By Umberto Bianchini
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Interno" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Umberto Bianchini, 1934-1990. It is signed at the lower lef...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Landscape With Two Spheres
By Clayton Anderson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Clayton Anderson – American (1943- ) Title: Landscape With Two Spheres Year: 1989 Medium: Liquitex with Polymer on 300lbs Arches Sight size: 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Sheet size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches Framed size: 22.5 x 28.5 inches Signature: Signed lower left in image and incised lower left of sheet Condition: Very good Frame: Framed in original maple frame. Frame in fair to good condition The painting is in very god condition. The frame is in fair to good condition with some scratches on the side bars. Clayton Anderson is a surrealist painter and a prominent member of the California Visionary Artists Group. He has been on the spiritual path his entire adult life. The quiet meditative quality that permeates his work is a genuine expression of his transcendental quest. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and worked with Ben Kimihira, Walter Stuempfig...
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1980s Surrealist San Francisco - Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic Polymer

Oculus, Oil Painting
By David Shepherd
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Part of David Shepherd's latest series of hyperrealist paintings focusing on women's faces. A sensual portrait rendered in extremely precise painting. Among o...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Landscape
By Bernhard Kretzschmar
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape" is an oil painting on canvas by noted German artist Bernhard Kretzschmar 1889-1972. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner. The canvas size is 17.25...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bouganvillia
By Ovanes Berberian
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Bouganvillia" c.1990, is an oil painting on Cardboard panel by noted Armenian/American artist Ovanes Berberian, b.1951. It is signed at the lower left corner by ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bosque Autumn
By Tara Zalewsky-Nease
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This painting was based on a reference photo Tara took at the Bosque del Apache Wildlife refuge in New Mexico. It was October, and the afternoon light set the...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Oil

18th century garden/park scene with fountain, animals, and figures
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th century garden/park scene with fountain, animals, and figures. Tribute to Jacques De La Jove. Oil on canvas. No visible signature. 18 x 24 on framed, 23 x 30.75 framed.
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18th Century San Francisco - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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