Charles Culver created a wide variety of art over a number of decades. Some of his work is shown here. Images marked available may be purchased. Inquiries can be made via email from the contact page.

Culver’s work began with oils.  He later switched primarily to watercolors. He created works in various themes; animals, stones, weeds, and a tongue-in-cheek series recreating old master paintings he called paraphrase.

Culver rarely painted in oil after the 1930s. The early oils tend to focus on the dark, somber colors of construction and industrial sites, farmland and old barns around southern Michigan, and a few experimental abstracts. A trip to Mexico in 1935 generated paintings both in oil and watercolor. Portraits of family members and still lifes were also done in oil during those years.

Having painted in oil during much of his early career, by the beginning of the 1940’s he had begun the transformation to watercolor, and by late 1948 had switched permanently to watercolor, with very few exceptions. Culver’s watercolors were focused on two genres: landscape and animals.