Sold works | Brenda Behr

• A Garden Gathering

  Oil, Linen, 18 x 24. //

• Spring Abtract

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• Purple Ladies

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Dropping Her Seeds

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Painted Lady

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• The Road Home

  Oil, Panel, 5" x 7"

• Willow

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 6"

• For My Sweet

  Oil, Canvas, 6" x 6"

• Eastern Shore

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"

• White Lady

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 6"

• Santa Belly 2021

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 6"

• Bee Mine Valentine

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 6"

• Hydrangeas in a Window

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 24"

• Clouds Moving In

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• I Dream in Lavender

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Crossing to Radio Island

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• Day's end at a cotton field

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 16. Price includes frame.

• Cliff in Roussillon

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• Carolina Blue

  Oil, Paper, 8 x 10"

• Blue Spruce in Jackson Hole

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8". It’s been forever since I posted here. Since then, I have done paintings in Minnesota, Wyoming, and Charleston, SC. I am almost living the life I want, combining my two greatest passions—painting an…

• No egrets

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14

• '64 Chevy Impala

  Oil, Canvas, 9" x 12". Painted three weeks ago in Grand Marais, Minnesota. An old friend there supplied me with the 9x12” canvas. I hadn’t planned on anything larger than 6x8” when I packed my oils for the trip, so my b…

• Ken’s in late afternoon

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12". Here’s the second painting I’ve done of Ken’s Grill, a popular barbecue joint on Hwy 70 just west of Kinston, NC. Click on Strength in numbers to see a field of sunflowers, another of my recent work…

• Red-roofed barn

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Late last Saturday afternoon, with thunderstorms pending, I painted this old barn on US 13. I’d done a larger painting of this barn as part of my Highway 13 Revisited series. See Red Tin Roofs and…

• Backyard paradise

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Coming upon this scene Saturday in a backyard in Greenville [NC] was about like stumbling onto the Taj Mahal. Wow! I felt like I was suddenly in Beverly Hills. I had agreed to be one of the Greenvi…

• Poppies near McIntyre's Books

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Someday when either my ship or my Prince comes in, I’m going to stay at the Fearrington House Inn. Last year for the twelfth time, Forbes Travel Guide gave the Inn its Five Star Award. Part of the…

• Young wheat at the old tenant's house

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Amaryllis Minerva

  Watercolor, Paper, 5.5" x 8.5". Price includes 11x14" archival mat and hardwood frame. Each year when I start painting amaryllis it’s a pretty sure sign that plein air painting has taken a back seat. Not so this year, n…

• Sweet 16, an Ice Cream Parlor

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.

• Backed Up to the Big Oak

  Watercolor, 5.5" x 9.25". Price includes 11x14" frame and archival mat.

• Remembering Car Hops

  Watercolor, 6.75" x 8.75". Price includes 11x14" frame and archival mat.

• Big Rock High Hopes

  Watercolor, 9" x 6". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.

• Big Rock Landing

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.

• Sanitary Street View

  Watercolor, 5.5" x 8.5". Price includes 11x14" archival mat.

• Lillie, last of the flower ladies

  Watercolor, 24" x 18"

• Not Forgotten

  Oil, Linen, 20" x 16"

• Annahita's Heels

  Watercolor, Paper

• Familiar Landmark

  Watercolor, Paper, 6" x 9". Price includes acid-free archival mat and backing.

• Master Class

  Oil, Panel, 16" x 20". Recently juried into the 2016 Oil Painters of America Salon Show, and was selected for a purchase award by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. The painting shows a glimpse of a demo by portrait artist M…

• Brothers Barn

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". One year I made it a project to paint as many tobacco barns as I might find. My mother used to say “. . . better paint them; they’re disappearing fast.” She was right. Many of the barns I have pain…

• Here's looking at you, kid

  Oil, Canvas, 18" x 24"

• Sunday morning at Lake Radnor

  Oil, Canvas, 8" x 10"

• Sheep Barn

  Oil, Canvas

• Duke Gardens in late May

  Oil, Panel

• Spreading its arms

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". Price includes gold plein air-style frame.

• Red shrimper

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"

• Lunch hour at Sutton's

  Watercolor, Paper, 9" x 7". Price includes archival mat and backing.

• January bloom

  Watercolor, Paper, 19.5" x 19.5". Price includes 26x26" archival double mat and hardwood frame. The painting is featured in a Jan. 2014 BehrPath newsletter. http://brendabehr.com/nl/?nid=47122&type=html

• Down the creek in autumn

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"

• Autumn abstractions

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• Famous Doughnut Haunt

  Watercolor, Paper, 14" x 18". Includes frame, archival mat and backing. Framed, the painting measures approximately 21x25"

• The Fishhouse

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 21½". Includes frame, archival mat and backing. Framed, the painting measures approximately 21x29"

• Like Bees to Honey

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16". Here is the result of Day 1 of this year’s poppy field painting. I’ve painted these poppies before. The gallery owner who carried (and sold) my first painting of this scene titled the painting Appr…

• Roadside poppies

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Yesterday at the Old Well

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. I thought I couldn’t paint it again, but when the azaleas come into bloom around the Old Well on the campus of UNC at Chapel Hill, I find it irresistible. My count of Old Well paintings I’ve done and…

• The Lady and Her Park House

  Oil, 14" x 18". price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Fearrington Color

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Spanish moss at Airlie Gardens

  Oil, Paper, 11" x 14"

• Julian’s 2010

  Watercolor, 7" x 10"

• Live oaks at Airlie Gardens

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Docked in New Bern Again

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 12"

• The Sister's Garden, Springtime

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 18"

• July Salt Marsh

  Panel, 11" x 14". price includes gold plein air style frame.

• All together now, “Good morning”

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• Sunny morning on Marsh Street

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• Road to the beehives

  Oil, 16" x 20"

• Close to graduation time at The Old Well

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 9.5". I love painting at The Old Well in Chapel Hill in the spring of the year. The azaleas, vibrant with color, further build the attraction of this famous landmark at the University of North Ca…

• Uncle Ben's

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8"

• Old tenant house, 10 a.m to 1p.m.

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• Old tenant house, 9a.m. to noon

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• First flower, second bloom

  Mixed media, Paper, 21" x 13". Spot color is just one way I’ve found to add emphasis or define a focal point. I left the graphite smears thinking they make for a more interesting drawing. The orchid which is producing i…

• North view in January

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Reflections on a brook

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• A jump on the competition

  Watercolor, 28" x 17"

• A Drink from the Well

  Watercolor, 24" x 18"

• Office of the Magistrate

  Watercolor, Paper, 5.5" x 8.5"

• Watercolor study for “Reading Day at Carolina Union”

  Watercolor, 9" x 12"

• Summer Afternoon at Natty Greene’s

  Watercolor, Paper, 6" x 9"

• Fog on a Hayfield

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. A painting of this subject matter and this size should not be created en plein air (outside). And for obvious reasons, neither should a rainy scene or a night scene or a day with high winds. The su…

• Tobacco Road

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. Setting out to find the perfect tobacco field, I’d made the decision to paint one in bloom before its lovely pink flowers were “topped”. This field was next to a row of trees. I knew the trees woul…

• Wades’ Collards Patch

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. Collards are such a part of the culture in Eastern North Carolina. In my travels home from Minnesota, collards signs welcomed me — hand painted COLLARDS for sale. I believe that people, who really,…

• Vespa at Vespa

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 10"

• Doughnut Factory in Winston-Salem

  Watercolor, 7" x 9.5". includes 11x14" archival mat and clear maple wood frame

• At home in Winston-Salem

  Watercolor, 6" x 9.5". includes 11x14" archival mat and clear maple wood frame

• The Lodge

  Watercolor, 8.25" x 10"

• Love & Peace

  Watercolor, 6" x 9"

• Bovine Vista

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"

• Old packing barn in late afternoon

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Good to Go

  Watercolor, Paper, 11" x 15.5". Price includes wooden frame.

• Gifts from Her Garden (s)

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 18"

• Playing Second Fiddle

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36"

• Orange canoe

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 16"

• Barn with boy toys

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Nutcracker at the Paramount

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 12"

• Tar Heel Tailgaters

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Live Oaks, St. Simons Island

  Oil, Panel, 18" x 14"

• Home game, Kenan Stadium

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Rose-trellised Lane

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• Live Oak in Georgia

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12"

• Facing east on Market Street

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 9". Price includes gold plein air frame

• Van Gogh's tobacco barn

  Oil, 8" x 10". Price includes gold plein air style frame

• Rose Garden View, Morehead Planetarium

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Reading Day at Carolina Union

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Spring walkway, Coker Arboretum

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• At home in Winston-Salem 2

  Watercolor, 6" x 9.5". includes 11x14" archival mat and clear maple wood frame.

• Bakers in Old Salem

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 30"

• Surrounded by cotton

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14"

• Stand tall

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• Lobby entrance, Carolina Inn

  Watercolor, 24" x 18"

• Rain on Blues Guitar

  Watercolor, 7" x 5". painted in the rain, Fargo Blues Festival 2006

• A Graduation Ritual

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Corner of Franklin and Columbia Street

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Observance

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". painted en plein air, State Capitol, Raleigh, Sept.11, 2009

• Homecoming Step Show

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Crook’s Corner

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Carolina Blues

  Watercolor, Paper, 24 x 18

• Chi Psi

  Watercolor, 18" x 24". Now available as a signed giclée reproduction. Two sizes, 18x24" ($150) or 12x16" ($125).

• Phi Gamma Delta

  Watercolor, 18" x 24". Now available as a signed giclée reproduction. Two sizes, 18x24" ($150) or 12x16" ($125).

• Sun-drenched dunes

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". This beach scene, I painted in South Carolina under the watchful eye of my gracious Beaufort [SC] host and artist, Jerry Stocks. Price includes gold plein air frame.

• Morning marsh 2

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 18". Price includes gold plein air style frame. Comment written by Lois Griffel who juried this painting into the 30th Annual Wilmington [NC] ARt Association Juried Spring ARt Show & Sale, April 2012:…

• Ellen’s Daffodils

  Acrylic, 7 x 4.5. Price includes a 9x12" archival mat.

• Morning marsh 1

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 18". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Joggin’ off those Krispy Kremes

  Watercolor, 7 x 9. in 11x14" archival mat

• Marsh on an autumn afternoon

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Main entrance, Carolina Inn

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Hanging Out at Woody’s

  Watercolor, 7 x 10

• River edge on a rainy day

  Panel, 11 x -. Judged Best in Show, March 2013, Kinston Community Council for the Arts 32nd Annual Competitive Exhibition, Kinston, North Carolina

• Mordecai on a summer morning

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• July 4th, Atlantic Beach

  Oil, 8" x 6"

• Saturday noon hour, Sutton’s Drug Counter

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Marina at Wrightsville Beach

  Watercolor, 7 x 9

• Gimghoul Castle

  Watercolor, 18" x 24"

• Winter Salt Marsh

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. in 3" gold wood frame

• Mid-October cotton field

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. Price includes gold plein air frame. I just shared five new oils on my newsletter that comes out weekly. All of them were done in the five-day plein air workshop I recently took with impressionist pa…

• The Sisters’ Garden

  Watercolor, Paper, 18 x 24"

• Midas' Touched Marsh

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. in 3" gold wood frame

• Cast light on another day

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10"

• Toward the Intracoastal Waterway

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. The painting above I painted my last day on the island. It received many favorable comments. 24x30" is larger than I normally paint en plein air. The light changes drastically in the time it takes…

• Carolina Lawnmowers

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. in wood frame

• Shaded Creek

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9"

• Reflections on a Creek

  Oil, 24 x 30. in 3" gold frame

• Fearrington Village whirligig

  Oil, Panel, 10 x 8

• RetroBus

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". Saw this bus one year when I was preparing for a show in Calabash, NC. Feeling totally compelled to paint it, I chased it over a bridge to nearby Sunset Beach. Taking a clue from the license plate t…

• Dancing in Memphis 1

  Watercolor, 7" x 5"

• Springtime at the Old Well

  Oil, 9 x 12

• Lake view, cloudy afternoon

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 9"

• Heron

  Watercolor, 9 x 6. Minneapolis Art Institute selection for Art Per Chance, "Heron." The great blue heron was perched on a log along the Mississipi River when I was plein air painting scenes of the Minneapolis skyline. I…

• Tobacco Barn 1216

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Lake view, sunny morning

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 9"

• Churchyard, Late Afternoon, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 12"

• View from the Walker 1

  Watercolor, 4" x 12". The painting features a partial Minneapolis skyline. I painted it on one of my journeys back to Minnesota. The tallest building on the right is the IDS building, which is actually also the tallest…

• Let It Rain

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36. Few Raleigh residents will forget the drought of 2007. A day like this in Raleigh that year was relished. This view was near Hibernian Restaurant and Pub, looking north on Glenwood Avenue.

• Lake view 3

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 9". This lake scene, painted during the last week of September in Cary, North Carolina, will give you a pretty good idea of how light, sky conditions, and time of year affect the color of our surroundin…

• A Sweet Story

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12"

• Carousel Primers

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12"

• Afternoon shade

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"

• Quail Ridge Reprieve

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12"

• Churches of New Bern

  Watercolor, 18" x 14"

• A road less traveled

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". Price includes gold plein air style frame.

• Bluegrass Jam 2

  Watercolor, 24" x 18". LaGrange Arts Council 2005 Garden Spot Festival Art Exhibition and Sale

• Bluegrass Jam 1

  Watercolor, 18" x 24". Watercolor Society of North Carolina 60th Juried Exhibition 2005

• Morning Heron

  Oil, 14" x 11'

• Early autumn on the lake

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. This lake scene, painted during the last week of September in Cary, North Carolina, will give you a pretty good idea of how light, sky conditions, and time of year affect the color of our surrounding…

• Rainy Day Trucker

  Oil, 24" x 30"

• Waiting for Gulldot

  Watercolor, 8" x 10". Second Place, 2-dimensional, Small Works Art Show & Sale, Circle 10 Art Gallery, Oriental, NC, September 2006

• Soon Forgotten

  Oil, 24" x 30"

• Shades of Mauve

  Oil, 18 x 24

• Harkers Island Trees

  Oil, 16" x 20"

• Shades of Emerald

  Oil, 16" x 20"

• Not Quite Twin Peaks

  Watercolor, 9" x 6.5"

• Beaufort Boatbuilding Challenge

  Oil, Panel, 19" x 8.5"

• Ocracoke Island Icon

  Oil, gallery-wrapped canvas, 8" x 24" x 1.5"

• Late afternoon, the daffodil field

  Oil, Panel, 14" x 11"

• Obsessed

  Acrylic, 5.5 x 7.5. Price includes an 11x14" archival mat.

• Garden Arbor

  Watercolor, Paper, 18" x 12"

• Cloud Burst over Retro Lube

  Watercolor, 7" x 9"

• Lenoir County Hot Spot

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. price includes frame

• Passionate about dancing

  Watercolor, 8" x 6". In an 14x11" archival mat

• Old Shad Factory

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"

• Where Vietnam meets Raleigh

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". painted en plein air, State Capitol, Raleigh, Sept. 11, 2009

• Trees and marsh

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"

• On the Waterfront

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8". painted en plein air in Beaufort, NC

• The Mason Jar Drinkers

  Watercolor, 16" x 12". The Mason Jar Drinkers was painted on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. Street musicians, like the herons and egrets I’ve painted, are not something one plans on; you happen on them.* And me, I can’…

• Parked at Sanitary Restaurant

  Oil, Panel, 6" x 8"

• Toward St. Anthony Falls

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". Painted en plein air along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Price includes archival mat.

• El’s Land-In

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 6"

• Hard Corn

  Watercolor, 3.5 x 7.5. Price includes 8-ply archival mat, 9x12"

• Tree by a marsh

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 6. Plein air landscape. Painted late in the afternoon in coastal North Carolina.

• SUTTON’S

  Watercolor, 6 x 9. Includes 11x14" archival mat A history of the painting is available a http://brendabehr.blogspot.com/

• Path to the Old Well

  Watercolor, 8 x 6". Painted en plein air on a recent trip to Chapel Hill, home of the Univesity of North Carolina. The base coat was painted before a downpour, the calligraphic lines, when the sky cleared.

• Elroy’s, all dressed up for Halloween

  Watercolor, 7" x 9"

• Go to the Flag

  Watercolor, 6" x 9". Price includes frame.

• View from Gold Medal Park

  Watercolor, 6 x 9. Price includes archival mat.