Sentences with phrase «large oil sketch»

Featured alongside the works from the Museum's permanent collection is a large oil sketch by major American regionalist painter John Steuart Curry depicting the iconic Oklahoma Land Run.

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It tracks Elaine de Kooning's development as a first - rate, innovative portraitist through variously sized drawings, figure studies, trial sketches and small paintings across five decades, with each room dramatically highlighting the best of her large - scale oil paintings, some never exhibited publicly until now.

To make one of his large works, Katz paints a small oil sketch of a subject on a masonite board; the sitting might take an hour and a half.

Published on the occasion of her first exhibition at David Zwirner in fall of 2010, this beautifully designed and produced catalogue — with a text by noted curator and art historian Joachim Pissarro — features Suzan Frecon's most recent large - scale oil paintings, along with newly commissioned color photography of exhibition and studio installation views, as well as the artist's notebooks and sketches.

With no prior sketching or planned outcome, Huen's large - scale oil paintings are derived from observation of his own life, portraying quotidian experiences.

There were many surprising passes: Lot 87 was a thunderbolt design of fluorescent tubes by Dan Flavin that was one of his finest works in that it was an appropriate concept; Lots 122 and 130, large and excellent paintings by Sandro Chia (b. 1946); Lots 203 and 205, a good painting and a superb sculpture by Nancy Graves (1940 - 1995); Lot 223, a good gouache on paper by Sam Francis (1923 - 1994); Lot 242, a very good wood and paper collage by Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); Lots 279, 281A, 293, and 309, works by Andy Warhol, and Lot 299, «Fast Sketch Still Life With Abstract Painting,» a 60 by 90 inch oil on cut - out aluminum by Tom Wesselman (b. 1931), shown below.

The small, energetic oil on canvas sketches made shortly before the artist's death, are juxtaposed with earlier, large - scale abstract work.

Small oil paintings such as this one are sketched from life and often intended to be scaled up into larger works, but their economic execution and visible brushstrokes reveal an intimate side to his practice.

The Edinburgh exhibition serves as a Trinidad retrospective for Doig, with a score of large paintings, supplemented by oil sketches and other studies.

With no prior sketching or planned outcome, Huen's large - scale oil paintings are derived from observation of his own life, portraying quotidian experiences through a fresh set of aesthetic strategies.