The landmark Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting exhibition featuring a dozen artists at the Oakland Art Museum in 1957 had all the major names — Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Elmer Bischoff — ...

New York is a city that quickly cycles through artistic trends, so it's been surprising that figurative painting has hung on ...

Philip Pearlstein is an American painter widely regarded as one the greatest figurative artists of the last century. Pearlstein’s work is often composed of multiple nude models in complex interiors, ...

Zach Feuer Gallery Drawing inspiration from late-19th-century French history painting, Barnaby Furnas mixes figurative elements with techniques adapted from Abstract Expressionism and from ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...