Alan Church

Alan Church - 20th Century Oil, The Dockyard

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Oil on canvas. Presented in a wooden frame. Unsigned.

This charming scene depicts a child at the feet of his seated mother reading out loud from a book. The sister looks up at them both, smiling as she holds out her apron full of flower...

A striking scene depicting moored boats in a city harbour. The artist uses a mixture of oil paint and black ink to create a dynamic composition with expressive lines and shapes. The ...

This charming folk oil painting depicts a young child, possibly a boy or girl, in a straw hat holding a riding crop. They are sweetly dressed in a red dress and yellow coat with gree...

KAMILA GRUSZECKA ( born in 1989 in Kielce) studied under prof. Leszek Misiak at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She received her diploma in 2014. She w...

This painting entitled "The Prophet Returns" is semi nude male. His hard chiseled body contrasts with the soft flower crown and halo he wears. It is beautifully balanced on the de...

Joshua Shaw was a farmer’s son, born in Billingborough, Lincolnshire, and orphaned at the age of seven. After a boyhood of privation, he tried a number of occupations, until he finally apprenticed to a sign painter and found his métier. Shaw went to Manchester to study art, and by 1802 was in Bath, painting landscapes. In that year he began to exhibit his work at the Royal Academy in London. Essentially self-taught, Shaw achieved an impressive level of competence and versatility, producing portraits, floral compositions, still lifes, landscapes, and, cattle pieces. Shaw continued to send works for exhibition at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the Suffolk Street Gallery, all in London, until 1841. (Although Shaw is regularly mentioned and frequently illustrated in a host of general books on American art history, as well as included in numerous historical survey exhibitions, the only monographic study of this artist is Miriam Carroll Woods, “Joshua Shaw [1776–1860]: A Study of the Artist and his Paintings” [M.A. thesis, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971]. Apart from short biographical sketches in various dictionaries and museum collection catalogues, the two most interesting references, both contemporary, are John Sartain’s personal recollections in The Reminiscences of a Very Old Man, 1808–1897 [1899; reprint 1969] and an article in Scientific American from August 7, 1869, “Joshua Shaw, Artist and Inventor.” The article quotes extensively from an autobiographical document in the possession of Shaw’s grandson that Shaw prepared for William Dunlap...

Oil on canvas Signed, u.l. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Price includes framing. “Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure in the modern art movement. He ...