San Francisco - Paintings
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
"This ghostly portrait of a man represents a transitory experience and movement between places," says Kristen. Rendered with soft light, the painting mimics t...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
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...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
An evening storm clears over a rural field, the setting sun casts soft yellow light across the scene. "This landscape depicts the sky and land after a spring rain...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
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 that provides serenity and beauty," she says. This piece was painted on Arches heavyweight paper and includes a 1 5/8" border around the edge for ease of framing.
About the Artist
Jenn Williamson expertly evokes the scenery of British Columbia in her soft abstract landscapes. She utilizes defining horizontal and vertical strokes, coupled with a skillful handling of color, to create significant depth in each piece. Her paintings, though abstracted, clearly convey the atmospheric attributes of the scene–rain, wind, clouds, fog. Jenn’s muted color palette transports the viewer to the Canadian west...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Doug says of this pastoral American landscape, "On Highway 2 along the Androscoggin River in Maine is the village of Rumford Center, where there is a small United Church. Its simple design and white facade are an iconic symbol of 19th century America. The church hasn't changed over the years, but the surroundings have. This painting is how I perceive the church and things were back in the simpler times when agriculture was the primary livelihood of its parishioners."
About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: church, Maine, architecture, landscape, rural, farm , landscape, representational, oil painting, green
The White Church, Rumford Center
Doug Cosbie...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century San Francisco - Paintings
Gouache
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...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Part of a series inspired by Colette's journey through the french countryside. An abstracted foreground gives way to a small village scene, with the town chur...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Part of Natasha's signature circles series. Loose, geometric abstraction of the sun setting on a field of flowers. Warm yellow, pink, purple and shades of gre...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
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...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
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...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Crystal says this painting was inspired by the beautiful light and shadows after a rare desert snowstorm. She used a limited palette of blues and white and an...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Canvas is like a "Musical Instrument" to write lyrics with imagination, thoughts and emotions using paints and brushes.
About the Artist
Vibrant co...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Naoko says that when she came upon this scene, the willow tree - with its leaves turned yellow - looked like a huge sweet candied ginger. "Warm and transparen...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
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 ...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Candice was deeply inspired after a visit to Yellowstone National Park. The central landscape image was created using a photographic transfer method while the landscapes on either side were created with paint applications. "The abstracted compositional areas serve as windows or doors to memories, to secrets, to hidden worlds," Candice says.
About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: forest, pine trees, hudson river school, lock and key...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
This painting is of a black swallowtail butterfly. The butterfly is painted larger than life to show all of the detail. It has a mystical quality as the butterfly seems to float above the garden with a few stars beginning to appear on a lavender sky.
About the Artist
Kira Yustak paints fantastical scenes that come from her childhood memories, dreams, and the natural world. Each piece feels like part of a larger narrative of an alternative reality, rendered in a style she describes as comic realism. She feels art must trigger something inside the viewer’s soul.Kira currently lives in New Jersey and finds inspiration in the work of Lowbrow, Folk, and Surrealist artists.
Words that describe this painting: butterfly, insect, garden, stars, wings, animals, representational, acrylic painting, purple
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
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 ...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
1950s Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic, Panel
1950s Modern San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Inspired by spring gardens in Southern California.
About the Artist
Inspired by the great Impressionist painters, Claudia uses paint emotionally to...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
1970s San Francisco - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Cubist San Francisco - Paintings
Masonite, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
1960s Modern San Francisco - Paintings
Oil, Panel
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Paper, Pastel, Oil
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 ...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This piece is the first in Pat's new "Moon" series. The paintings explore the wonder of the moon in its ever changing aspects. "The full moon in June is known...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
I've painted this scene a couple of times before. There a lots of dead pines facing the channel that separates the coast of Maine from Grand Manan Island, exc...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Modern San Francisco - Paintings
Oil, Board
Artist Comments
The Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington State provided the inspiration for this semi-abstract landscape painting. A rug...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Wood, Oil
Artist Comments
The vibrant purple and orange of sunset often ripples like fire and smoke when reflected in the moving waters of the wetlands. I recreated the sunset's river...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
1980s American Realist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil Pastel
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
I used my finger tips to apply many layers of translucent cool colors in oil and wax. There is a softly calm feeling to the quiet distance of the winter trees in the background while one sturdy pine comes forth. Hints of apricot and lavender glow from beneath misty layers. My choice in this color palette lends itself to any season's decor, inspired by Wolf Kahn. The edges of this piece are natural wood. This piece is wired to hang.
About the Artist
Valerie Berkely uses her finger tips as brushes to create her abstract paintings. For Valerie, the art is all about the process, the paint, her mood, and the moment. She admires the artist Wolf Kahn, who once said, “the picture is the conclusion of an experiment in which the hint of an image becomes actuality." Like Kahn, Valerie’s paintings combine pictorial landscapes with painterly abstraction. The vibrant primary colors capture the hues of the sun rising and setting, and the texture of her fingers across the surface divides sea, land, and sky. There is something very dreamy about these works, exemplified by their color, texture, and atmospheric quality. Valerie’s first “art epiphany” was seeing Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the Art Institute of Chicago. “Bowled me over! I actually fell down. And I knew I was to become a painter.”
Words that describe this painting: Impressionism, Wolf Kahn, transparent, translucent, layers, abstract landscape, oil, wax, finger painting, impressionism, landscape, representational, oil painting, purple
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist James Hartman says this tranquil landscape was inspired by a stay at these cabins at the edge of Clear Lake in northern California. While there, he com...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
As waves break on shore, a sailboat heads out to sea under the early morning sky. A series of oil glazes were used to ...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"Tivona" means lover of nature. Nature inspires all of my work, but I saved the title for this one. It is a large, colorful abstract. Fluid acrylics were poured onto a horizontal canvas.
About the Artist
Krispen Spencer...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Paintings
Acrylic
Late 20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Paintings
Oil
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