Bryant Chapin

Antique American Oil Painting Wig Wam by Bryant Chapin Original Glit Frame

1889

Antique American modernist abstract landscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Unsigned. Image size 60L x 36H. Unframed

Very finely painted early French impressionist street scene. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed and ready to hang!

Antique Italian oil painting of Venice. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 31L x 21H.

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 22L x 28H.

In this ninth decade of life, and as a working artist for nearly70 years, Suzanne Benton has become interested in the concept of Late Style as described by the literary theorist Edward Said. “Each of us can supply evidence of late works, which crown a lifetime of aesthetic endeavor,” Matisse had it with his renowned paper cuts. While nearly blind, Monet created the water lily paintings as his final legacy to the history of art.  Benton's Late Style arrived as a surprise during the Covid pandemic. The resultant aloneness from sheltering in place brought her to an uncanny level of solitude that only painting could voice. She reached for the purest of colors, and entered a celebratory world to create the Neo-Transcendental paintings titled All About Color. The disappeared narrative came as a surprise. It had been the mainstay of the masks and mask tale performances, monoprints and paintings. This time though, the artist needed to bring a vibrancy to canvas, and to make tangible this sense of sheer essence that had pressed into her inner self in that time of stillness. Well educated in color by John Ferren, the abstract expressionist painter who’d taught the year’s color study at Queen College. The sensitivity developed further through four lengthy art-working journeys to India, starting in 1976-77, continuing with a 1992-1993 Fulbright, and additional South Asia residencies in 1995, and 2011. Those and others in Africa brought an ever more attuned palette to decades of monoprints with Chine collé that featured imagery from world culture, as well as her Americana of 19th and 20th century women writers, educators, suffragists, and feminists. These Late Style artworks explore the cosmic realm. Its deceptive simplicity reminds Benton of Buffie Johnson’s late work. She, an early celebrator of Great Goddess imagery turned to circles in her latter years. similarly, Benton had drawn on rich Goddess imagery since the 1970’s...

Dartmouth Harbour, Trevor Waugh Original Oil Painting Size Unframed: H 50cm x W 70cm Price if Sold Unframed: £800 Size Framed: H 60cm x W 85cm Price if Sold Framed: £1000 Dartmouth Harbour is an original contemporary oil painting. This harbour scene is bright and quintessentially british, depicting the main habour on the River Dart. Trevor Waugh was born in 1952 and grew up in London. Trevor studied at The Slade School of Fine Art from 1970 -1974 (BA) under the guidance of Sir William Coldstream, Professor of The Slade at the time, Patrick George...

Land Lines is an original contemporary oil painting inspired by the light and landscape near to Laura Rich's home in Wiltshire. This piece features the bright blues, greens and subtl...

Vast, Snow Cloud Burst by Alyson Kinkade Abstract Landscape, Storm building over southern Colorado Oil on Linen 36x36" image 38x38" framed, black wood ABOUT THE ARTIST: “What better...