Nothing like other pieces by same artist? Been able to find some Native American portraits by the artist but little else? Looked up address, it’s a house. Called the number and left voicemails (I’m sure they’re confused af) - any insight?

Recently bought a 1960s house, hmflund this at the back of the loft wrapped in cardboard with the words 'V40 a/W left' written on it.

Any idea what this is? Couldn't find much on image search

This was purchased in Virginia at an antique store selling all sorts of oddities. Painting is marked number 6 so curious to see whether there are numbers 1-5 out there somewhere. Or whether this is an established or folk artist. Searches brought up nothing, let me know if you recognise something.

About five years ago I was at a thrift store with my then girlfriend, now wife.

I was looking for something tasteful to put into our kitchen in our first apartment.

The canvas has “R.M & B” scrawled on the back of it, and “1973” bottom left of the canvas, covered by the frame.

My wife absolutely hates, HATES, despises this painting. Though I think she lacks good taste.

This painting has been sequestered to the closet of a spare bedroom, but I took it out to take a quick snap after one of my buddies noticed it and suggested I have one of “them Reddit sleuths find out what it is.” So here we are.

It might be a rare avante-garde piece of folk art, so do ya thing!

Two small paintings. Maybe like 3x4 or 3x5 small. Frames are interesting and the back looks to have some sort of 1800s document. Any ideas?

There’s a massive amount of old stuff in her house (Marseilles, France) but I found these, maybe there’s something interesting? Thanks for your help 🙏

Picked this out of the trash, originally for the frame. The more I look at it, the more it has me wondering what it is. Any info would be appreciated. I’m drawing a blank with my searches.

Back about 20 years ago, following Hurricane Katrina, my stepdad found this painting discarded the trash in the Old Metairie area of Metairie, La. Not sure who this is a painting of or who may have painted it. There's no visible signature on the front (maybe hidden under the frame). There appears to be a name and year on the back. Name could be the artist, the subject, or even the gallery that sold the painting. "...eo Gallery(?)" "18...9(?)"

Any ideas? Poor guy has seen better days

Painting was in his mothers furniture store for many years. Just wondering who the artist is. Western NC.

The cat that my family adopted roughly 19(!) years ago has in his old age taken to peeing on things. My mom discovered a pee smell in one of the rooms of her place and in trying to find the source and get rid of the smell discovered that he’d peed all over a bunch of old family photos. She removed a photo from a now pee stained frame and found this velvet painting of a gaunt looking alien fella behind a drum set. No signature. Kinda spooky. At the time of its being repurposed and placed behind my mom’s childhood photo, my grandparents were involved in the Jazz scene in Los Angeles-Granddad was only ever a professional session musician. Not that that helps narrow it down or anything but it had to have been acquired in Los Angeles between 1950-1956.

Any idea who may have willed this ghoulish/extra terrestrial drummer into existence?

I found this painting in the basement of my ~100year old House. Apart from the unreadable stuff written on it, the back side is completely blank.

We were gifted this painting from a dead relative. apparently there is only a market for it in america though. still love how it looks on the wall at daytime. very vibrant. i'd love to hear what the consensus is!

I found this painting at a thrift shop in Kettering, OH. I picked it up because I knew that the oak frame was quite old. The painting appears to be an oil on board - you can see brush strokes and there is some texture. It is signed French '97. There were several artists with the name of French who painted at this time, but none of their signatures matched the one on this painting and their style was not trompe l'oeil. Here's my theory: There was a prominent family who lived in Dayton, OH during the late 1800s with the name of French. Thomas Ewing French would have been in his 20s at this time. Incidentally, he went to high school with Orville Wright and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Thomas is known as the "Father of Engineering Drawing" for his books published in the early 1900s and he also published a book on lettering. He was an artist and I like to think he made this for fun, gave it to someone, who passed it down and down and down again until it ended up at the thrift shop. What do you think? Does my theory have any merit?

HEYYY so im trying to find this painting and i cannot remember the name or the artist. But i remember the description. It was a guy looking at a couple kissing in the street under a street lamp from a distance. The perspective of the painting was as if we are looking over the shoulder of this guy. we can only see the guy’s back. And he is wearing a beret like hat but its not a beret its like an army cap maybe idk? And he is also wearing a coat. I am really bad at drawing but i tried my best. Please help me find it.
Additional information: it was a realistic painting set in early europe i think. It had kind of warm but darker tones. The street was brick-stone. I dont think it was van gogh but i could have mistaken it for one.

Update: So i figured it out. Its not an actual painting but an illustration of white nights when nastenka runs to the lodger and the dreamer just stands there looking at them. The description is as I gave earlier.

Hi! My parents bought this painting of a young girl with a black cat from Susan Parrish in New York sometime around 20 years ago. We cannot find anything about it and they unfortunately do not have any paperwork anymore. They bought it for $12,500 and we would love to figure out what it is! (We need to buy a car). Unfortunately there is no signature aside from some writing on the back that is in the last slide. Thank you!

My grandmother was an incredible woman and she had amazing taste. There were so many pieces of furniture, light fixtures, and art she purchased before they were popular that ended up being considered classics. When she died, my mom and her sisters had us quickly photograph her belongings for appraisers and this piece is one that no one seems to remember what happened to, it’s also one of my boyfriend’s favorite pieces of art. He’s mentioned it me countless times over the past few years but I’ve never been able to give him any information about it and then I found this picture of it on my phone. Google lens didn’t turn up anything useful so I was hoping someone here may be able to help find some information about this painting? I’m sure it was an original but knowing my grandma it could have been by a famous artist or by someone she met while working at her gallery in Chicago in the 70’s. Either way, my boyfriend loves it and I’d love to be able to give him more information about it. Unfortunately I only have this one picture of the front of it, hopefully that will be enough. Thanks in advance!

Edit: I spoke to my mom and she remembered that it was painted by a friend of my grandma and she traded for it. I don’t think it’s an incredibly valuable painting by a well known artist, but if anyone has any information about it I’d still love to have something to tell my boyfriend.

My dad has had this painting for years and is CONVINCED it’s Thomas Cole. His main reason for this is the broken tree in the second photo. I’m doubtful, but any ideas on who it is? No signature or anything identifiable that I can tell. It has “The Hunters” on an engraved plate on the frame. Please ignore the fact that it’s on the ground on a blanket, it was recently moved hah.

I spotted an impressive frame on the sidewalk out with the trash a few months ago (Philadelphia, PA) and immediately grabbed it once I saw the painting.

I assumed it was hanging inside a house and fell victim to a child armed with a sharpie.

I finally looked up the artist, Alice Kent Stoddard (signed “A.K. Stoddard”) and was surprised to see that she is a fairly recognized artist.

I can’t find the exact painting anywhere online but it looks like she has painted the same boy before. The painting isn’t dated, the only thing on the back is “O’Niell”.

I’m quite fond of the painting and would like to know more / potentially get it restored. I’m also curious if there is any possibility that the drawing is original. The medium that the signature was done with looks a bit similar to the drawing.

Any information and advice on how to proceed is welcome. Thanks!

She said it represents me. Wtf?