Sentence examples for paintings sought from inspiring English sources

Although no longer employed by the New Zealand Company, Heaphy, emboldened by the success of his report and the public reception to his paintings, sought further opportunities for similar work.

Since then, she has built a career based partly on controversy, creating works ranging from eerie portraits in oil to an enormous sculpture, "Scallop", now sited on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk.These nine new paintings seek to capture the moment when the waves begin to disintegrate.

He wanted to decorate the new headquarters with nautical paintings, and sought expert help in finding works that reflected American military history.

Mrs. Goudstikker returned to the Netherlands with a little black book in which her husband had inventoried his stock of approximately 1,400 paintings and sought to recover what she could of the returned artworks.

By the time of van Eyck's death, his paintings were sought by wealthy patrons across Europe.

On display also are new mixed-media collage paintings that seek to locate, through the materiality of multilayered paint, the chaos that the 1980s AIDS crisis and ensuing epidemic left on the bodies of its victims, and on the collective psyche.

Just as art connoisseurs authenticate paintings, others seek wines and cheese and cupcakes that seem mystically authentic.

The breadth of the Ogden's collection is suggested by two very different paintings that seek to capture the skin tones of an African-American woman.

"It's a very different proposition than my paintings, which seek to deal with formal issues such as transparency, luminosity, iridescence, depth, illusion.

Mr. Richter's paintings are highly sought after and can command $20 and $30 million.

His paintings were widely sought by collectors and acquired by major museums in New York and elsewhere.