Portraits & Interiors | Hank Grebe

• The Oldies Guitar Player

  Oil, Canvas, 30" x 20" x 1.25". A modernized version of Pablo Picasso's "The Old Guitar Player", exchanging the old acoustic with an electric guitar and Fender amplifier.

• Arrangement with Black and White TV

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16" x .5. A modern update of James McNeill Whistler's "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1", also known as "Whistler's Mother". I have added an old black and white TV illuminating the quiet woman and h…

• "Shakti Devi"

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 16" x .5

• Power Couple

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 16" x .5. "Lady and Her Panther", version 1, December 2025.

• The Frontier Knitter

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 16" x .5. Woman dressed in traditional early American colonial clothing knitting in the German house at the Frontier Culture Museum located in Staunton, Virginia. Based on photographs taken by the art…

• Portrait of Emely

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 9" x .5. Portrait of a live model initiated in Nic Thurman's Tuscany workshop, October 2024 and completed in the home studio November 2024.

• Amore Toscano

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16 x .5"

• Study of Mary K

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 16" x .5. Portrait of an artist friend using as a reference a black and white photograph I took in 1973 in her room in Cambridge, MA.

• "Present Moment"

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16 x .5. Study of a young woman lit dramatically from a window providing a strong range of darks and lights. She is within a stark and simple scene eliciting consciousness of a solitary moment of conte…

• "Impermanence"

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 16" x .5. A dramatically lit composition with a young woman in a darkened room looking out her window at an approaching tornado. A thought provoking scene of a solitary moment.

• Head of Thomas Jefferson Floats Above Monticello

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 12" x .5. The second of my portraits of U.S. Presidents from Virginia.

• Woodrow Wilson: The War Is Over

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 12" x .5. “Woodrow Wilson: The War Is Over”, a 12x16” oil painting observing the the death of the 28th President of the United States 100 years ago. Wilson’s birthplace is Staunton, Virginia where I n…

• Hank Wesselman's Bowl of Light

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 20" x 5/8". "Hank Wesselman's Bowl of Light", 16 x 20" oil on canvas. Based on Hank Wesselman's book about Hawaiian spirituality, "Bowl of Light". I had an idea about painting a rendition of a bowl of…

• Rod Serling: Fear Not, You Feel Me?

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 9" x 0.5". Portrait of Rod Serling, writer and host of "The Twilight Zone" television series.

• "Il Sangue è la Vita" (The Blood is the Life)

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 9" x .5. "Il Sangue è la Vita" (The Blood is the Life) was begun as a portrait of a model from life. The original portrait went badly wrong, in my opinion, so I changed the subject into a horror chara…

• Man Photographing A Hopper Painting

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 30" x 0.5". Oil painting based on the 1957 Edward Hopper painting “Western Motel.” Hank photographed museum goers during a show in January 2020 at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, “Edward Hop…

• The Safe Distance

  Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40 x 5/8". Version 2 of "Woman Looking at Photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto." This painting is larger and contains more color than two other versions (sold), which are rendered in monochromatic grays.

• The Safe Distance #4 (Woman Looking at Photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto)

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 24" x 2". This is the fourth version of this painting I have done. Based on a photograph I shot at a design show at San Francisco's pier. Please contact artist about price and availability.

• Woman Looking at Photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto #5

  Oil, Canvas, 22" x 26" x 1.5". This is my fifth rendering of this painting. All four previous paintings have been sold.

• Woman Looking at a Photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto (Version 3)

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 24" x 1.5". This is the third painting based upon a photo I took of a woman gazing up at a large photo print by Hiroshi Sugimoto.

• Woman Looking At Photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 24 x 1.5". While attending a design show in San Francisco I took a photo of a woman with white hair wearing a black outfit gazing up at a large photo print by Hiroshi Sugimoto. I've been looking forwar…

• Purple Cabbage

  Oil, Canvas, 9" x 12" x 0.5". Still life painted in one afternoon sitting, July 2019. Framed. Please contact artist about price and availability.

• Still Life with Beets and Onions

  Oil, Canvas, 9" x 12" x 0.5"