New paintings.

New additions to Dana Ellyn's body of work that has grown to approximately 4,500 original paintings since 2002. Several of the newest works below — the pigs, the sprats, the trussed chicken — were painted for a September 2026 exhibition in Riga, Latvia.

Featured / New work

Little Pig (Cūciņa), acrylic painting by Dana Ellyn, piglet standing in a bowl of grey peas with a garnish skewer, 12x18

Little Pig (Cūciņa)

12" x 18" · acrylic on mat board

$180

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Sprats on Rye, acrylic painting by Dana Ellyn, two golden smoked sprats on dark rye bread with a blue cornflower, 12x18

Sprats on Rye

12" x 18" · acrylic on mat board

$180

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Trussed, acrylic painting by Dana Ellyn, white chicken in a roasting pan with one leg tied to kitchen twine, 12x18

Trussed

12" x 18" · acrylic on mat board

$180

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Skewered, acrylic painting by Dana Ellyn, pink piglet with its feet threaded onto vegetable kebab skewers, 11x15

Skewered

11" x 15" · acrylic on watercolor paper

$160

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Playing Favorites, oil painting by Dana Ellyn, three girls holding a bulldog, a rabbit, and a piglet, 15x15 inches

Playing Favorites

15" x 15" · oil on canvas

$450

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Selective Compassion, oil painting by Dana Ellyn, girl carrying a piglet, chicken and fish in shopping bags, 15x30 inches

Selective Compassion

15" x 30" · oil on canvas

$500

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Tug of War, oil painting by Dana Ellyn, painter at easel tethered by rope to anonymous figures pulling against her, 23x31 inches

Tug of War

23" x 31" · oil on watercolor paper

$280

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Origin Story, oil painting by Dana Ellyn, two men at a bar table sketching a crude mammoth on a napkin, 22x26 inches

Origin Story

26" x 22" · oil on watercolor paper

$280

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I Want It Now, oil painting by Dana Ellyn, girl in red dress holds golden ticket, herd of woolly mammoths follows, 18x24 inches

I Want it Now

24" x 18" · oil on watercolor paper

$260

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Sunday, oil on paper by Dana Ellyn. Woman in a blue dress and pink shoes standing at the foot of a staircase. 23 x 31 inches.

Sunday

23" x 31" · oil on watercolor paper

$280

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Best Day Ever, oil painting by Dana Ellyn, a giant grinning child gripping a toy stick horse, 30x40 inches

Best Day Ever

30" x 40" · oil on chipboard

$600

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Grinning child in blue dress holds oversized rabbit against vivid red-orange background, acrylic on mat board.

Best in Show

15" × 22" · acrylic on mat board

$180

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Child leans tenderly into a young calf in quiet connection against vivid red-orange background, acrylic on mat board.

Making Friends

15" × 22" · acrylic on mat board

$180

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Ecce Homo, oil on canvas by Dana Ellyn. Jester in red cap with half-lit face, seated in pink and yellow. 17 x 27 inches.

Ecce Homo (Become Who You Are)

17" x 27" · oil on canvas

$380

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The Pink Palace, oil on illustration board painting by Dana Ellyn, three figures sprawled on a Brooklyn rooftop with the Manhattan Bridge rising in the background, 30 in. x 40 in.

The Pink Palace

30" x 40" · oil on illustration board

SOLD

Joy Ride, abstract oil painting by Dana Ellyn, bold black gestural lines over turquoise, red-orange, and yellow, 18x24 inches

Joy Ride

18" x 24" · oil on mat board

$190

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Fight Night (at the White House), oil painting by Dana Ellyn, two bare-foot UFC fighters grappling beneath a patriotic arch, the floodlit White House standing silent witness, 30x30 inches

Fight Night (at the White House)

30" x 30" · oil on canvas

SOLD

Love Seat, acrylic painting by Dana Ellyn, a couple sitting on couch enjoying drink and smoking, the scene on a bright orange background.

Love Seat

12" x 18" · acrylic on mat board

On view in Los Angeles through July · available to reserve

Over His Head, acrylic painting by Dana Ellyn, a woman dancing with sculpture of Charles Bukowski held overhead.

Over His Head

11" x 14" · acrylic on cardboard

$120

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Sunday Song, acrylic painting by Dana Ellyn — a Sunday School choir child soaked by the storm she sings down over a single lit birthday candle, 12 × 12 in

Sunday Song

12" x 12" · acrylic on album cover

$240

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Viral News, oil painting by Dana Ellyn, terrified woman on chair surrounded by rats and crouching reporters, 30x40 inches

Viral News

30" x 40" · oil on canvas

$700

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Three Way, oil painting by Dana Ellyn, figure fragmented across three mirror panels in pink blue and gold with bold black linework, 16x20 inches

Three Way

20" x 16" · oil on canvas

$290

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Second Nature, oil painting by Dana Ellyn, haloed figure amid flowers bees and butterfly beside linear schematic forms, 30x40 inches

Second Nature

30" x 40" · oil on chipboard

$600

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an abstract ink painting of overlapping figures in black contour and gray washes on mat board by Dana Ellyn

St. Vitus' Dance

15" × 23" · ink, gesso and oil on mat board

$160

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Free Range, an abstract oil painting in vivid reds, yellows, and purples with swirling organic forms against a cool gray ground by Dana Ellyn

Free Range

12" × 16" · oil on canvas board

$240

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Expressive oil portrait of a dark-haired woman in blue against a rose and teal background by Dana Ellyn

Otherwise Engaged

14" × 18" · oil on canvas board

$240

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Round and Round, a vibrant abstract acrylic painting with swirling figures in red, blue, pink, and yellow by Dana Ellyn

Round-and-Round

22" × 34" · acrylic on canvas

$500

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Oil painting of a blonde girl clutching a golden carousel pole next to a white horse with bared teeth against a teal background

Worry-Go-Round (1)

15" × 17" · oil on mat board

$260

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Oil painting of a dark-haired child gripping a yellow carousel pole beside a wide-eyed white horse with an open mouth in blue and teal tones

Worry-Go-Round (2)

15" × 17" · oil on mat board

$260

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Blue-toned figure gripping the neck of a golden upright bass, oil on watercolor board by Dana Ellyn

Blue Note

20" × 30" · oil on watercolor board

$280

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Fowl Play, 13x22 oil on masonite by Dana Ellyn — two seated figures in expressionist style, one with a chicken leg foot

Fowl Play

13" × 22" · oil on masonite

$220

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Oil painting of a field worker harvesting carrots with a sleeping baby holding an anchor nestled in the basket among the crop

Harvest

30" × 30" · oil on canvas

$600

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Small Pierrot figure in ruffled costume and red cape standing in oversized black Florsheim dress shoes on raw chipboard.

The Gift

30" × 40" · oil on chipboard

$580

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Expressive double portrait of a couple — partnership, shared purpose, and looking ahead together.

Where We're Going

20" × 30" · oil on chipboard

$280

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Expressive double portrait of a couple — partnership, shared purpose, and looking ahead together.

The Happy Couple

20" × 30" · oil on chipboard

SOLD

Woman in a red dress clutching a teddy bear while more bears fall and scatter around her against blue

This Should Be Enough

15" × 23" · oil on mat board

$220

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Laughing woman at a restaurant table with multiple cocktails, in a velvet green booth, and an empty place setting across from her

Occidentalist

14" × 18" · oil on canvas

$300

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Two women in period dress kneel beneath red drapery, one holding a candle as both focus on a glowing smartphone placed on the floor

Ritual

16" × 20" · oil on canvas

$400

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Woman lit with a single lightbulb and a glowing phone just out of reach

Coexist (Left)

12" × 16" · oil on canvas

$300

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Woman lit with a single lightbulb and a glowing phone just out of reach

Coexist (Right)

12" × 16" · oil on canvas

$300

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Meltdown

9" x 12" · acrylic on cardboard

$160

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Woman seated on a rolling studio chair painting at an angled easel from an elevated viewpoint

Everyday. Always.

12" × 24" · oil on canvas

$280

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