Melanie Parke

Green Wing, 2022, oil on canvas, impressionist interior and still life painting

2022

Melanie Parke’s latest selection of still lifes looks at quotidian interiors and imbues them with magic. All of the elements of the still life are present: a stem in glimmering glass...

Melanie Parke’s latest selection of still lifes looks at quotidian interiors and imbues them with magic. All of the elements of the still life are present: a stem in glimmering glass...

Melanie Parke’s latest selection of still lifes looks at quotidian interiors and imbues them with magic. All of the elements of the still life are present: a stem in glimmering glass...

Melanie Parke’s latest selection of still lifes looks at quotidian interiors and imbues them with magic. All of the elements of the still life are present: a stem in glimmering glass...

Melanie Parke’s latest selection of still lifes looks at quotidian interiors and imbues them with magic. All of the elements of the still life are present: a stem in glimmering glass...

Melanie Parke’s latest selection of still lifes looks at quotidian interiors and imbues them with magic. All of the elements of the still life are present: a stem in glimmering glass...

An oil painting of an interior soaked in hues of blue. A traditional wooden chair is pulled out from a small wooden table, where an open book,...

A fine impressionist still life with irises in a glass vase by contemporary American artist Stephen Motyka (b. 1964). Stephen was born in Rhode Island and started painting and drawin...

Unique still life of a table with geraniums and a lit cigar, with a framed painting of a nude in a forest setting in the background by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Pre...

Wonderful 1970s still life of Japanese irises and marguerite daisies by Winona Cappell (American, 20th century). Signed lower right corner. Unframed. Image size: 24"H x 18"W. Cappel...

"Winter Still Life" is an oil painting of drinks and clementines on rustic wooden table, Italy. A box of clementines, a silver espresso maker, a sack...

Wonderful mid century portrait of woman named Charlotte by Irinia Belotelkin Roublon (Russian/American, 1913 - 2009), circa 1960. Signed lower right corner and on verso. Unframed. Image size: 14"H x 11"W. Irina Belotelkin Roublon, née Roudakoff, was born in Elisavetgrad, Ukraine to the Russian noblesse ancienne, descendant of Catherine the Great, she was a student at the Mariinsky Noble Ladies' Institute , Novocherkassk, Russia. She was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after her father, General Paul Roudakoff, was fatally wounded in battle; 5 days later her mother died of typhus. Still unaware of her parents' death, and after witnessing her two sisters' deaths from starvation, the young Irina, then 8 years old, made her way over 1,000 kilometers, alone and through many privations to Moscow and the Estonian embassy there, with whom her Estonian uncle Volodya Blonsky had made arrangements. After a year in Moscow, and appeals to the Estonian consul, Irina was aided in a dramatic escape from the Soviet Union, to her aunt Anna Blonsky Lassburg (1882–1940) and her husband Doctor Genrick Lassburg in Tallinn, Estonia. Eventually, after in 1929, traveling through Ellis Island and admitted as a student, of voice studies, she joined her brother who had settled, in 1923, in the United States. Irina came to San Francisco during the Second World War, Among Irina's devotions were ballet and opera. She often entertained friends Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Sergei Leiferkus when they were in town. Natalia Makarova and Yuri Possokhov were often guests at Irina's Russian Christmas and Easter parties. From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, Irina studied and prolifically created still life and portrait paintings in oil and water color, excelling in flower compositions. She held studio and feature exhibitions; she competed and won prizes. Her work is in holdings throughout the San Francisco Bay area, Europe and Russia. In 1965 she undertook private study with two prominent Russian painters, including Serge Ivanoff; she executed a portrait of her two masters. She cherished her portrait as executed by Serge Ivanoff. Among her most accomplished pieces are those of iris and the large white Matilija...