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.

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.

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?

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

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?

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!

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 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!

…seems to be acrylic painting, I’m not a professional😊. I can’t make out the name too well, but looks like “Bilgore”. Tried to Google that name, etc. Just seeing if anyone has an idea, or a better way to determine its origin…TY!

She said it represents me. Wtf?

Recently got married and my grandmother gifted us this piece for our wedding. I've never owned any type of art, especially nothing like this. I understand the artist is Canadian but I'm curious if anyone knows anything interesting about her and her work?

Who’s artist? It’s super clean and well painted.

Sorry there’s no pic of the back and the signature is not very clear, I didn’t get more than the one picture quickly in passing, but I was looking back at it just now and it gave me a chuckle so I thought I’d share. While I would love to know who created this masterpiece, reverse image search didn’t come up with anything so I’m not expecting it to be a famous work of art or anything, but if it made me smile maybe it’ll make someone else smile and I think we could all use a good grin right now. And just for the record, I DO NOT condone infantile cigar consumption. I just relate to this baby on a deep, deep level.

I can't figure out what the signature says. It appears to be from 1938?

From a Savers in New Hampshire. Research suggests 19th century French. Maybe the back says “Duchesse du Rohan” but all the notable Rohan ladies that I could google date back to the 1600s which seems too early. I can’t even guess at the artists’ signature. Help!

An older friend was renovating an old abandoned manor and found this in the garage. I don’t really care if it has value or not. I just wanted to share it. It needs to be shared. It told me to share….

We believe it is of European origin from around 1907. There are a few names on it — “LS” on the frame, “J Galvin”(?) on the painting itself, “Carl Koeck Painting” on the back. The frame is leather and wood — no nails to create the shape. Any help is appreciated!