The Studios and Houses
Three families under one roof. The Agency galleries are our own editions for the traditional room; the Provenance houses restore public-domain works and name the institution that holds each original; the Painted studios make new work on one subject each. Everything here sells in one cart.
The Agency Galleries
689 pieces
Southwest and PastelSouthwest art and pastel art: the high desert under a dome of sky, mesas at dusk and clouds seen from above, in the manner of chalk and of oil.
WesternWestern art, bold and flat: the bronco, the longhorn and the saguaro, one figure on coloured paper.
Sun and SkyA giant sun over blue mesas, grained like an old photograph, and the cloud floor seen from high above.
City PostersCities around the world as bright posters: the name set big, the view printed in two inks, and a flat sun over it all.
MenagerieGiraffes, zebras, flamingos and highland cattle in hot brights or sugared pastels, with the look of paint laid on thick with a knife.
AbstractsBig gestural canvases in pink, coral, aqua and gold: worked wet, scraped back and left to drip.
PsychedelicThe colour of the 1960s ballroom posters without a word on them: a cat under stars, a peacock in rings, a face in halftone.
PoolsideSwimming pools in hard afternoon light: wobbling lines of white on turquoise, a diving board, two loungers.
Line PortraitsOne sitter, one or two colours, cream paper: digital drawings in the manner of red crayon, black brush or blue and red pencil.
Open WaterThe open sea painted thick: turquoise swells under a pink sunset, and dark water with one break of light.
Wildflower MeadowsPoppies along a lane, cornflowers in the wheat and one oak standing in the hay, in a loose manner taken from oil painting.
Winter and ChristmasSkaters at dusk, a village under snow with its windows lit, a cardinal on a snowy branch: the season in the manner of oil and gouache.
The FishmongerOysters on ice, a lobster on marble, sardines in an open tin: the kitchen still life in the manner of dark oil and bright gouache.
Neo DecoLeaping gazelles, a greyhound at full stretch and fan arches in a colonnade: the 1925 decorative panel in black, jade, coral and ochre.
Après-SkiA skier carving through powder, a chairlift over the pines and a chalet lit at dusk: the 1930s alpine poster without a word on it.
French CountrysideA plane-tree avenue in dappled light, a chateau over its moat and lavender before a stone farmhouse: France painted out of doors.
The Bath HouseA clawfoot tub by a tall window, towels folded on a chair and the tiled baths of the 1930s: the bathroom as a still life.
Deco NowThe same rays, arches and ziggurats put to the court, the gridiron and the machine: a jump shot, a spiral, a sunrise wired as a network, a chip drawn as a temple plan.
Deco WestA streamliner on a timber trestle, wild horses running in echo, a coyote under a ringed moon and a windmill throwing its rays across the sky: the American West in stepped Pueblo Deco.
Deco JapanThe rabbit pounding rice on the full moon, a vermilion gate standing in the tide, five cranes flying in chevron and an express crossing a viaduct under the snow peak: Japan in indigo, vermilion, sakura pink and gold leaf.
Deco ChinaSearchlights crossing over the Bund, a junk under three fan-ribbed sails, a red-crowned crane above a pine and a canal bridge whose arches close into circles: China in black lacquer, cinnabar, jade, gold and porcelain blue.
Deco FranceThe iron tower astride a rising sun, a liner with three stepped funnels, a peacock in full display and striped cabins on the Riviera sand: Paris 1925 and the coast in black, ivory, gold and rose.
The Lily PondThe water garden painted in the manner of Monet’s late water lilies: pads adrift on a mirrored sky, willow fronds in the water and a green footbridge under wisteria.
The Summer HouseThe French country summer painted after Manet: sails on the Seine, a bench under lilac, asparagus on straw and peonies in a glass, with black used as a colour.
Pont-AvenBrittany in the flat colour and dark contours of Gauguin’s Pont-Aven years: vermilion fields, chrome-yellow trees, granite farms, geese at the gate and the coves of Le Pouldu.
The Turning SkyProvence in the swirling impasto of van Gogh’s Starry Night, carried into sunset and sunrise: a sower under a tangerine sun, a cypress burning over a sleeping village and sunflowers turned toward a lemon dawn.
Trade WindsHawaiʻi as Gauguin might have seen it had he sailed north from Tahiti, in hotter colour: paniolo on a coral-pink beach, taro terraces under green valley walls and lava pouring into the sea at night.
OrphicThe colour discs of Robert Delaunay’s Orphism, Paris 1912, turned fluorescent: a quartered disc that hums, the iron tower breaking into rings and a biplane’s propeller spinning into a wheel of colour.
Deco GeometryThe 1925 vocabulary cut in flat ink: the sunburst, the fan, the ziggurat, the chevron and the bolt, first in five muted inks and then in six bright ones.
Skein and SwirlDigital paintings with the look of paint poured and flung across raw canvas or a black ground, in hard primaries, bone white and black, crossing from edge to edge.
Shell and SkySoft digital abstracts in shell pink, blush, pale aqua, sky blue, lilac and butter yellow, with the look of paint laid on with a knife, scraped back and left to drip.
SherbetPastel digital abstracts, each in a palette of its own: mint and lemon, lavender and apricot, powder blue and peach, pistachio and lilac, with the look of thick paint laid on with a knife.
CadmiumBold digital abstracts led by red at full strength: cadmium red under ultramarine, scarlet into orange and lemon, crimson against emerald, with the look of paint worked with brush and knife.
The Provenance Houses
1,580 pieces
The Picture PalaceGerman Expressionism: shadow printed to the stone.
The RegattaThe age of sail, at leisure and at speed.
Best in ShowArt has always known who the good ones are.
The PaddockWhistlejacket: the horse as the entire subject.
The FlorilegiumThe great flower books, printed for your wall.
The Old MastersThe paintings everyone knows: the summit of the canon.
The MasterworksOld masters from the open-access collections of the Met, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Cabinet of CuriositiesThe old world’s book of wonders, for your wall.
BacchanalThe wildest room in Roman art, reproduced faithfully.
The Floating WorldJapanese woodblock prints, from ukiyo-e to Yoshitoshi, Goyō, Hasui and Yoshida.
The HermeticaThe esoteric tradition’s emblems, astrological figures and the old charts of palmistry and phrenology.
The ConjurorThe poster promised the impossible, and the printing delivered it.
The TerracesBefore television, the game was ink.
Cartographer’s DreamThe world, as the great mapmakers dreamed it.
The Poster AtlasThe national-parks series: the parks belonged to everyone, and so did the art.
The FirmamentThe heavens, drawn in gold: every star, god and beast the old astronomers mapped.
The Lost BarAbsinthe is the hero collection, and every mark here is dead.
The LinksColf and kolf on the ice: the game’s frozen ancestor.
Angels of the AndesHeaven, armed and in lace.
The ScriptoriumKnotwork, spiral, and the beast that becomes a letter.
The AlembicGold, the sun and the alchemist’s Great Work in eight surviving miniatures.
The ComplicationHuygens’s pendulum, Harrison’s chronometer engravings and the astronomical tower.
Rex VinorumThe museum wall of wine.
The Anatomy TheatreThe masterworks of anatomy, as fine art and as the history of medicine.
The Painted Studios
1,082 pieces
FeverglassTwo art traditions, welded into one object, and nobody pretending a machine didn’t help.
Thunder LizardsTwelve dinosaurs, each painted twelve ways: paleoart, old-master oil, woodblock, mosaic, stained glass, Deco.
Painted ZodiacYour sign, painted the way the old atlases drew it.
NightfablesThe monsters, legends and fairy tales we never stopped telling.
Counting HouseSets of four for one room: an anchor, a companion, a quiet piece and a texture.
The Departure BoardTravel posters drawn in the old airline and railway manners, one city at a time.
Painted MythsThe world’s great myths, painted and ready to hang.
The NurseryThe pictures you remember before you remember reading.