$1,500 Study in Diamonds 24" x 36" Textured oil on Canvas.

$1,250 Baby Quilt 24" x 36" Thick, textured oil on canvas. If you look at any of the triangles, you will see that they tumble across the piece. For instance, the blue triangle in the upper left-hand corner, it is on the bottom; in the next section, blue is on the left; in the next section, blue is on the top; and so on... with every color. Big deal, right?

SOLD: Reflection, 24" x 36", oil on canvas. This is a painting of a Mexican tin mirror. The red circle is another painting across the hall, reflected in the mirror. This piece is in New Mexico.

SOLD: Black Squares, 48" x 60". Thick oil on canvas. This is one of my earliest paintings. I broke the canvas down into 3" squares and simply altered the strokes. As simple as it is, it's a pretty powerful piece. This piece is in El Paso, TX.

SOLD: Flowers w/Black Arch, 24" x 36", oil on canvas. One of my favorite pieces; it is the first 'straight-line' piece I did. Meaning that the flower stems are perfect. I used a toothpick as a paintbrush for the flowers and a piece of ⅛" wooden dowel for the red centers. And then, out of nowhere, a swooshed the unbalanced archway in there. At first, I was like, "Dude, you f'd it up." But I actually like it. It's not perfect. This piece is in Syracuse, NY.

$1,500 African Diamonds 36" x 24". One of my earliest pieces...one of my personal freehand favorites as well. I first painted the diamonds using a metal framing square to line them up as best I could, but it needed something else, so I added the green dots. It still wasn't enough, so I added the red dots, and that locked it up. Oil on canvas.

SOLD: The Opening, oil on canvas, 36" x 24". This is an amazing piece. I love the blue, on-the-spot circles, and the green burst is really something. This is one of those paintings that I just did right there. No waiting for anything to dry. This piece is in Nedrow, NY.

SOLD: Green Circles on Black, oil on ⅛" glass, 24" x 36". This is the first glass painting I did. It was like a miracle. It is a reverse of itself. By this I mean that the black line between the two outer green circles is the same width as the inner green circle. The second black line, between the second and third outer green circles, is the same width as the second inner green circle, etc. The third black line...the third inner green circle. Get it? I hope so. This piece is either in El Paso, TX, or somewhere in New Mexico.

$250 Eclipse 12" x 16", oil on Russian linen, 2007. This piece morphed into existence after a few tries. It was all yellow dots around the sun at first, and then I scraped most of them off after they were almost dry and repainted the surface that beautiful brown. I used a rubber eraser head from the end of a pencil as a paintbrush. And the bottom of a jar or the jar top for the circle.

$1,500 The Weave 24" x 36". An early piece, freehand. I love this piece. Oil on Canvas. Again, I am quite sure I used my 24" framing square to guide my straightness, and a 48" metal straightedge as well. I really like this piece.

$750 Branches 24" x 36". There was something special about painting this piece. It's so simple and beautiful. It was the first time I tried mixing colors, regarding the green colors. I'd never done that before. And the two black branches? There they are. Oil on Canvas.

$1,500 Oval in Squares, oil on 1/8" Glass, 24" x 36", 2015. One of the very few pieces painted on glass. It is somewhat of an optical illusion. In reality, each little square is a painting within itself. It's pretty magical really. Sometimes things just happen. This is one of those times.

$1,500 Shades of Pink 24" x 36", oil on 1/8" glass, 2016. Somewhere, I have a video of the process involved in painting this. I really enjoyed working on glass. On each of the glass pieces, the main color, the background, is painted on the back of the glass. The designs are painted on the front. There is a lot more texture to the circles than you see here. It's a great piece.

$2,500 Textured Red Circle 4' x 5', oil on canvas, 2006. My second painting ever. This is where it all began. I love it. Single colors because I'd never painted before so I was keeping it simple. I'm sure I drew a few corcles on the canvas to keep things circular, but what I remember most is just slopping the paint on there and letting the chunks of paint fall where they may. It took tubes and tubes of red paint. This is the painting hanging across the hall from the Mexican mirror in my painting called Reflections, the third painting in this group.

Roses, 30" x 24", oil on canvas, $3,000. A gift to the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY. I hope they didn't throw it out. It's just a great piece. I really love it. It was my best piece to date when it was completed it. So I gave it to my hometown museum. Not that they care. I never heard from them after I sent it to them.

Roses Close-up. No big deal, I guess.

Water's Edge 24" x 36", oil on canvas, 2009. My son, Ian, and I painted this piece. We held ⅛" twine across the canvas and slopped on the reverse colors. It was fun. NFS

SOLD Avant 2, 24"x36" Oil on canvas. I gave this to my friend Lynn Kelleher. I did three of these types of paintings in a row. Avant stands for avant-garde. They were different from anything I had in the past. This piece was used for the cover of my instrumental jazz CD, Diddle. Again, there is more to it than this photo reveals. In person, it's really something. This piece is in Syracuse, NY.

$750 Avont I, 24" x 36", oil on canvas, 2017. My first attempt and random designs on a canvas. The brushstrokes don't show up in the photo, and they do make a difference in real life. It is an interesting piece.

$5,000. Includes the next five pieces. Check the video: https://jamesrobertmurphy.com/industrial-art-jazz-in-color. Jazz in Black and White Master - This is a very interesting series. It consists of this: the Master Piece, meaning the 'main' piece that includes the following four pieces. The following pieces, 1-4, are the Master Piece dismantled. It is a clever deconstruction, if I do say so myself. These are design pieces that have not been manufactured. A video illustrating this can be viewed here: https://jamesrobertmurphy.com/industrial-art-jazz-in-color.

Part 1 of the Master Piece. Cool Jazz 1, 24" x 36", metal fusion, $1,000. Check the video: https://jamesrobertmurphy.com/industrial-art-jazz-in-color

Part 2 of the Master Piece. Cool Jazz 2, 24" x 36", metal fusion, $1,000. Check the video: https://jamesrobertmurphy.com/industrial-art-jazz-in-color

Part 3 of the Master Piece. Jazz 3, 24"x36" Metal Fusion. Check the video: https://jamesrobertmurphy.com/industrial-art-jazz-in-color

Part 4 of the Master Piece. Jazz 4, 24"x36" metal fusion. $1,000. Check the video: https://jamesrobertmurphy.com/industrial-art-jazz-in-color

SOLD: Blue Star, 24" x 36". This piece is similar to my work, The Opening. The same color scheme. Both are unique. This piece is in El Paso. I think Ruli bought it.

SOLD: Yellow Ovals, woodblock, oil on canvas, 24" x 36". Yes, I used a woodblock from a pine tree I carved to this size and then did the dabbing. This piece is in the state of Georgia I believe.

Primitive Work, Green w/ Red Dots, oil on Russian linen, 12" x 16", 2007, $250. I believe I used an eraser on the end of a pencil as the vehicle used for the dots.

SOLD: The Leaf, 11" x 13", oil on Russian Linen. This is an early piece. My first attempt at using this type of texture. I'd used it before, but it was a great piece. I have no idea where this piece is. I had it in a restaurant here in El Paso, and someone purchased it.

SOLD: Edwards' Pond, oil on canvas, 36" x 24". I wanted to create something of a landscape. This was also an early attempt at blending colors - black and white in this case. It's dark and wintery-looking and remminded my of the pond down below Bailey Drive in Nedrow. My friend, Ian Edwards, owned the property at the time. This is in Nedrow, NY.

Rainbow 24" x 36" Oil on Canvas. There is a distinct pattern here. One I've used again and again. Look at the color sequence in the first two bottom rows. The third and fourth rows follow the same pattern, but the yellow piece has been moved to the end of the sequence. Rows 5 and 6 begin with the brown color - the third color in the first row....etc., etc. No big deal, but that is the sequence. I used paper plates to create the circles and used ⅛" wooden dowel to make the dots.

$2,500 Blue Circles on Yellow, 48"x60" Oil on canvas. This is a big piece. I used the bottoms of my wife's new pot and pan set for the inner three circles. I actually painted the bottoms of the pans and squished them onto the canvas. For the four outer circles, I used pieces of that year's Christmas tree trunk and branches.

$1,500 Mount Franklin Rock Study 24"x48" Oil on canvas. I live at the base of the Franklin Mountains on the east side. I hike into the mountains nearly every day. I saw a pattern similar to this somewhere up there, and this reminds me of it.

$750 Rooster Flower, woodblock, oil on canvas, 24" x 36". In this series, I painted neat flower stems and then used carved woodblocks to paint the flowers. The circle is a carved circle from the old pine tree. The flower on the right reminded me of a rooster - thus the name.

$750 Flowers 2 24" x 36" Oil on Canvas. Another in the flower series. Neat stems, woodblock flowers, with the little thingies on the flowers painted with a toothpick. The stems are a bit out of context...meaning, for instance, the two stems in the middle, the little ones, should be thinner to add depth, but I goofed up.

$750 Cowboy Flowers 24" x 36" Oil on Canvas. Another in the flower series. The use of neat stems again. I'm not sure what I used to paint the center of the flower, but ⅛" wooden dowels were used for the circles. I call it Cowboy Flowers because it is brown. It just came to me, and that was that.

Beatle Flowers 24" x 36" Oil on Canvas. I saw Peter Max at the El Paso Museum of Art, and he inspired this piece. Large plant bottoms, thin stems, and a zingy flower on top. More than likely, I used a toothpick to paint the circles.

Early Geometric Work 36"x24" Oil on canvas. This is the first time I used painter's tape to create straight lines.

Glass Weave 2 (2015), 24"x36 Oil on glass. So, let's see. The back of the glass is painted a yellow/green. I can't remember how I laid this out. I know I used painter's tape, bor the life of me, I can't remember. Now, what I may have done was cover the entire surface with painter's tape, lay it out, and then remove the tape in the areas that I wanted to paint. It has some good depth to it. and It is a bit of an illusion.

$1,000 Texas Zinnia, 30" x 24", oil on canvas. I had a picture of this flower. This is an early piece. It came out pretty good, except maybe for the center. All in all, I guess it isn't very good, but it was a new experiment for me.

$250 The Chosen One, 24" x 36" Oil on canvas, Mexicans love their avocados, and I do live in El Paso, so I thought I would paint a religious avocado for the people. It looks like something the Pope might wear.

$1,500 (2017) Arbol de la Vida (Tree of Life) 24" x 36", oil on canvas. This is a real beauty. I really like the tree bark, the leaves, and the sky is very cool, and the flowers are awesome, and the rolling hill. It's a good one.

$750 Glass Flowers, (2015) 24" x 30", oil on 1/8" glass. This may have been inspired by Peter Max also. I really like it.

SOLD: The Jesus Cross, oil on canvas, 24" x 36". This was purchased from a show I did at the International Museum of Art here in El Paso. A Texas lady bought it for her caretaker. Of course, we know what it symbolizes. I like the sky. I think the thin cross carries more weight than a thick cross. You can't see it, but there is a little blood on the ground.

$1,250 The Rosary, seven 9" x 12" panels, Wine cork and woodblock, oil on Russian Linen. It is pretty beat up and not very shiny anymore. I've had it hanging in my dining room for years, and the sun has taken its toll. But it looks good all beat up and faded.

$1,500 Red Squares 48"x60" Oil on canvas. This is the first piece I ever painted. I was so naive; I went and bought a single tube of red paint, and it ran out almost immediately. I think I went through five tubes. My thought was to atart with a ¾" by ¾" square in the middle and take it from there. But the chunkiness of the paint falling off the brush caught my eye, and I continued to do it, and I have used it in several other works. It ain't perfect, but it's pretty cool. The big red circle came next.

$1,500 Texas Star, 48" x 60", oil on canvas. I wanted to pay tribute to Texas.

$350 Green w/tan spiral, 12" x 36", woodblock, oil on canvas. I used a carved piece of the Christmas tree branch as my woodblock. It's the old "start in the middle and work your way out" technique.

$250 Bottle Cap 24" x 36" Oil on Canvas. This is a very early piece. I hadn't carved the woodblocks yet, so I used the plastic cap off of some liquid container...I can't remember what it was. It was an early experiment.

$150 Cork and Eraser 24" x 36" Oil on Canvas. Another early experiment, this time with a wine cork and a pencil eraser head. I'm just figuring stuff out.

$150 Center, 11"x13" Oil on Russian linen. I was using that chunky brush style I was liking at the time. I still like it. There's a little depth in there. It's an innocent piece.

SOLD: Into Heaven, oil on Russian Linen, 11" x 13". If I were to read into this piece. There is a lot of dirt and filth all around us, every day. It clutters our otherwise perfect lives. But in the end, we will see the break in the sky, and we will find our way to our heavenly life. I don't know where this piece is.

%400 (2008) Our First House 24" x 36", oil on canvas. What is your first house? It's a fixer-upper. It isn't square and shiny. Everything is a little bit crooked. It's not the right color. It's a little house with little windows sitting in the middle of a little yard surrounded by trees and greenery. But it sure was nice when we finished it. It's the last house on the right on Bailey Drive.

SOLD: Red Burst, oil on canvas, 24" x 36". This is one of the first pieces I sold. I don't even know who bought it. It's the same painting technique I've been using, but then I tried to make a smooth circle in it, and again, I used an ⅛" dowel for the dots. I would love to know where these pieces are. I would buy them back if they were sitting in someone's closet.

$250 Sunday Morning 24" x 36" Oil on canvas. This piece was created for the TV show Sunday Morning. Is it still on? They used to feature work from artists, so I sent this to them, but I never heard back. That was decades ago. I'm still waiting for a positive reply from them. Come on, MAN! Do I have to call Biden? The sun rays are a really nice texture, and I like the colors. The clouds??? Not so sure.

SOLD. It's here in El Paso. Starburst, 24" x 36", oil on canvas. I did a lot of my work wet. By this, I mean I didn't wait for the paints to dry; I nudged different colors together while they were still wet. Not all of the time; that would be impossible, but a lot of the time. It's really the only way you can work with oils. The purcgaser wanted me to touch up the dark section on the outer ring at 3 o'clock. Instead of whining like a real artist would and DEMANDING that I leave it in its original state. I 'fixed' it and matched the colors.

$500 The Shift, 24" x 36", oil on canvas. This piece reflects my view of the solar system....any solar system. The inner core rotates from right to left. The second layer rotates lfet to right. The third band rotates right to left....and as you can see, the third layer boundary is fragile and breaking up. One segment has all but deteriorated. We are somewhere in the fourth ring. Where? I'm not sure, but things look pretty healthy.

Yellow Woodblock on Purple 36"x24" Oil on canvas

Yellow Woodblock Close-up

South Onondaga, 36"x24", Oil on canvas

South 40, 36"x12" Oil on canvas

SOLD: South 40, close-up

Marilyn Rose 36" x 12", oil on canvas, 2007

Goes with previous Marilyn Rose, Both sold as one piece, 16" x 20" unknown artist, $1,000 for both

The Quilt, 4' x 5', oil on canvas, 2014, $2,500

Ascend 48" x 60", oil on canvas, 2007, $2,500

Red Sun on Blue, 12" x 36", oil on canvas, $250

The Symphony 36"x24" Oil on canvas

SOLD Avont 3, 24" x 36" Oil on Canvas

Blue Pyramid, 24" x 36", oil on canvas, 2017, $750

Lakeside 24" x 36", oil on canvas, 2017, $500

The Universe 36"x24" Oil on canvas

Milky Way 36" x 24", oil on canvas, 2017, $500

The Continents Close up

The Continents 60"x48" Oil on canvas

Triangle Fusion, 1/16" metal plate, $750

Jazz in Black and White, 12' x 42" metal fusion. Visit my Video page - click on Jazz in Color for a better understanding of the piece. $12,500

Blue Jazz Master

Blue Jazz in Color 2, 12' x 42", metal fusion, $12,500

Blue Jazz 1, 24" x 36", metal fusion, $850

Jazz 2 24" x 36", metal fusion, $850

Blue Jazz 3, metal fusion

Blue Jazz 4, 24" x 36", metal fusion, $850

Fuzzy Jazz Master, 24" x 36", metal fusion, $1,000

Fuzzy Jazz in Color, 12' x 42" metal fusion. Visit my Video page - click on Jazz in Color for a better understanding of the piece. $12,500

Fuzzy Jazz 1

Fuzzy Jazz 2

Fuzzy Jazz 3

Fuzzy Jazz 4