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Realist Art

REALIST STYLE

Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world. 

Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history. 

By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.

Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.

Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.

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Style: Realist
Night Stand II
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. ARTIST STATEMENT: My work delicately renders familiar domestic comforts that we use to feel secure. Examining the identities of heirloom textil...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Farmyard Scene
By Aaron Draper Shattuck
Located in Raleigh, NC
A beautiful barnyard scene featuring cows an chickens set in a New England (likely Connecticut) landscape with the original period frame in good condition considering its age. Frame...
Category

1870s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Peter Handel - "Stefanie 2" - giclée print - nude - signed
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Peter Handel - "Stefanie 2". Giclée on Hahnemühle Velvet, handsigned. High-quality art print after the original painting: Peter Handel transforms nude photographs painterly into h...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Giclée

On the table, Original Realist Still-life Oil painting by Irina Trushkova
Located in Zofingen, AG
The picture is painted on a quality 100% linen canvas with an oil color of high quality. The painting technique is many-layer. "I love the way the silver and glass objects are reflec...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Shells, realistic image cool subtle blues and earth tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Realist painter Doug Newton says, "Inspired by my collection of sea shells. The subtle colors and textures of the shells are challenging to capture in oil paint. I paint directly fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blooming
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. ARTIST STATEMENT: My work delicately renders familiar domestic comforts that we use to feel secure. Examining the identities of heirloom textil...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Detritus
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. ARTIST STATEMENT: My work delicately renders familiar domestic comforts that we use to feel secure. Examining the identities of heirloom textil...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

My Ship (Ship and Clouds)
Located in Zofingen, AG
My ship is a hymn to individuality and personal freedom. It seems to me that this is especially relevant now, in our time. At the same time, the painting is made in soft, calm tones....
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Night Stand
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. ARTIST STATEMENT: My work delicately renders familiar domestic comforts that we use to feel secure. Examining the identities of heirloom textil...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Young Girl - Scottish art early 20th century oil painting female portrait
Located in London, GB
A fine Scottish portrait oil painting of a young girl in a red dress with pretty collar. This is a quality portrait and dates to circa 1900 and is housed in a fine Watts frame. A bea...
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

'Ode to Donald Judd' Brazilian Modernist Contemporary Photography
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An Ode to Donald Judd. Photography. Limited Edition. Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood wh...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

"Quiet Descent"
Located in Denver, CO
"Quiet Descent" is a digital print on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader.
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Panel, Digital

Portrait of a Lady - British Art Deco 30's drawing young woman good provenance
Located in London, GB
A fine and detailed Art Deco pencil, black, red and white chalk portrait of a young woman by Hubert Williams. The work dates to circa 1930 and is very skilful in its execution. A bea...
Category

1930s Realist Art

Materials

Chalk, Color Pencil

A girl who loves the sea
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sunny contrasting girl portrait at the sea coast. The waves crushing and the seagulls flying around. An artwork which brings summer and sea in to your home all year round. Profession...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Lotus interior wall painting emerald green purple pink present botanical floral
Located in Zofingen, AG
STRENGTH. REBIRTH. PURIFY - the main meaning of wonderful lotus flower and the name of this painting. Lotus are one of my favourite flowers. And I was painting them with all my love...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nude in New Mexico
Located in New York, NY
PHILIP PEARLSTEIN Nude in New Mexico, 1984 Lithograph on art paper 31 3/5 × 40 3/4 inches Signed, titled, dated and numbered in graphite pencil from the limited edition of only 65. (48/65) Unframed Philip Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1924. In 1941, his junior year in high school, he received his first recognition when awarded first and third prizes in Scholastic Magazine's 14th National High School Art Exhibition. Upon graduation from high school in 1942, he enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology but the draft limited his attendance to one year. After discharge from the army in 1946, he returned to Carnegie Tech where he studied with Robert Lepper, Balcomb Green and Samuel Rosenberg...
Category

1980s Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bird Rocks, Laguna Beach California by Robert Wood
Located in Raleigh, NC
Rgrfinearts presents Robert Wood' painting "Bird Rocks, Laguna Beach, California" in an appropriate frame in excellent condition. The art is actually slightly darker than appears i...
Category

1950s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Tulips
Located in New York, NY
Donald Sultan Tulips, 1990 Silkscreen on wove paper 23 × 22 inches Pencil signed, titled and dated and numbered 22/125 on the front margins Unframed Richly colored silkscreen of tuli...
Category

1990s Realist Art

Materials

Screen

Starling
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Starling" c.1990, is a color woodblock print on paper by noted Canadian/Japanese artist Suezan Aikins, b.1952. It is signed and numbered 82/150 in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 10 x 23.25 inches, framed size is 17.25 x 30.25 inches. Custom framed in a silver metal frame, with double off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some small minor rubs. About the artwork: This artwork required 3 different carved wood blocks and 7 layers of colors to complete. About the artist: Born in Montreal in 1952, Suezan was influenced early in her life by the works of modern Japanese woodblock printmakers which hung throughout her parents’ home. She attended the Fine Arts programme at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (1969 - 1971), The Ontario College of Art (1971-73), L’ ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts (1974), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design -BFA (1975) as well as a very intensive year of study with Toshi Yoshida in Tokyo (1984-85). She has exhibited extensively in both public and private galleries throughout North America and Japan. Recent exhibitions include solo shows in Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, and Boston with group exhibitions at the Wenniger Gallery, Boston, Royal Canadian Academy in Toronto and the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Her paintings and woodblock prints are found in many collections such as The Canada Council Art Bank, The Nickle Art Museum, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Royal Bank of Canada, Prince Takamanonamiya Norihito, the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, The Thomas Moore Institute as well as private collections. Suezan Aikins was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant in 1983, Nova Scotia Department of Culture - Development Grants in 1980, 1987 and 1988. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1990 and received the Canadian Progress Club- Women of Excellence Award for Culture in 1993. Her work has been featured in a number of television documentaries as well as many Canadian magazines. STUDIES: Yoshida Woodblock Print Studio Tokyo, 84-85 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, 74-75 BFA Ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal, 74 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 71-73 Mt. Allison University, 69-72 SELECTED SOLO SHOWS: 25 Year Retrospective of Woodblock Prints traveled to three Public Galleries in Germany: Dornum Castle; Tollhousverein, Leer; Rastede Palace, Oldenberg 2000-2001 color catalog and reviews. Private Exhibitions, Falmouth, Mass., July 1996; Montreal, November 1996; Gibson Island, Md., April 1999. Gold Paintings and Woodblock Retrospective, travelling: Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo; Genkan Gallery, Tokyo American Club; Blue Nile Gallery, Osaka; Kanda's Gallery BOQ, Okinawa; May 1994 (color catalogue) Edo Gallery, Boston, November 1992, Private Exhibitions, Chatham, Mass, July 1992, Toronto, Oct. 1991 New Paintings and Woodblocks Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo, May 1991, and also in 1987. Japanese Garden and Pavilion Foundation, Montreal, September 1990, Ownens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University 1988 Zwickers Gallery, Halifax, NS, 1979; Gallery 78; Fredericton, November, 1983; Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, November, 1982 SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: "A New Leaf" 30 foot instalation of mixed media/ goldleaf reliefs, Artsplace, Annapolis Royal, N.S., 2000 color catalog "Far and Wide" Juried Bienials, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; 1996 to '99, travelling, catalogs "Moku Hanga Travelling Exhibition: Contemporary Japanese Woodcuts...
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Woodcut

Antonio Soler, "Rolling Tide" 39x39 Beach Wave Seascape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This meditative landscape by artist Antonio Soler, "Rolling Tide" is a 39x39 oil painting on canvas. Depicted is a crashing wave, perfectly crested and c...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Daisies, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Jose Luis Bermudez captures a verdant tapestry of nature where dainty daisies dominate the scene. "This represents natu...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Promenade at Southport - British 19th century art coastal landscape watercolour
Located in London, GB
This charming 19th century watercolour painting is of the promenade at Southport. Painted circa 1842 the view is of the original Victoria baths on the left, built 1839, then Victoria...
Category

19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Season of the Soul, Moon Art, Astrology Artwork, Soulful Art, Realist Style Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Season Of The Sail by Charlotte Elizabeth [2021] Original painting Acrylic paint on canvas Image size: H:120 cm x W:120 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:120 cm x W:120 cm x D:4cm...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

It Was a Land of Plenty, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"It Was a Land of Plenty" by Shawn Krueger (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Wonder, or The Plane of the Invisible - blue trompe l'oeil oil painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In the trompe l'oeil panel painting, "Wonder, or the Plane of the Invisible," a comic cut-out of Wonder Woman sits between two spatial planes—the top, very flat plane is cut out in the shape of a plane as a play Wonder Woman's famous "Invisible Plane." The silly way the comic book character would sit in an imaginary seat flying through the air would force the artist to wonder, “how do you represent an invisible plane”. Here, we see a bright blue canvas, sprinkled with glittery paillettes; an outline of an airplane beneath an outline of the word “SKY”, an infantile depiction of the sun made of masking tape, and finally, the hero, Wonder Woman, her comic clipping taped onto the invisible plane. A very believable, naturalist blue sky with puffy white clouds is visible through the letters and the invisible airplane. It feels like we can reach into the invisible plane to find the natural world…yet atop the plane is an old cartoon of the first female superhero. She overlaps the realistic atmosphere, and even casts a shadow onto it. The planet’s orbit is dedicated to the sun, and all living things need the light to survive…yet this most important element is made up of a crude array of tape strips, asymmetrical, and even torn in-half. This sun refers back to Pablo Picasso’s sun...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Gesso, Panel, Wood Panel, Board

Autumn vibes still life green oil painting gold frame interior realistic light
Located in Zofingen, AG
This is one of my favorite artworks painted from nature. I like the wonderful light play in it. Comes with aged gold frame, but can be sent without it too. Painting are on str...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

River Landscape - Arun Sussex - British art 1950 landscape oil painting Arundel
Located in London, GB
This superb large oil on canvas painting of a river landscape is by British artist William Thomas Wood. Painted in 1950, the river is the Arun near Arundel in Sussex. Wood beautifull...
Category

1950s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Dr. Lecter
Located in Natchez, MS
"Dr. Lecter" is a portrait based on Anthony Hopkin's iconic portrayal of the character in Silence of the Lambs. Dr. Hannibal Lecter, though an absolute monster, had a charming side ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

White Amaryllis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beauty in all its strangeness. Manch...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper, Graphite

Floral Arrangement - British art 1920's oil painting still life lilies flowers
By Margaret Evangeline Wilson
Located in London, GB
A large oil on canvas of a stunning floral arrangement by female artist Margaret Evangeline Wilson. Wilson exhibited at the Paris Salon and won the Medaille d'Or at the Paris Salon i...
Category

20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

South Boulder Meadow #6, Original Painting
Located in Boston, MA
South Boulder Meadow #6 Mixed Media Painting 36 x 48 inches Artist's Commentary: "What can I say? I am in love with the meadows in Colorado!" About the Artist: I specialize in...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Antique American School Signed 19th Century Nautical Seascape Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American nautical ship oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category

1870s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pierre's Winter Salad and Amaryllis, Original Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Pierre's Winter Salad and Amaryllis Mixed Media Painting 60 x 48 inches Artist's Commentary: "This is a great salad recipe including grapefruit, avocado and peppermint. My kitty...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas

Hasbrucken Wald Altenberg Germany - The Forest - Dutch 19thC wooded landscape
By Cornelius Springer
Located in London, GB
A stunning large drawing, signed and dated 1880, by Cornelius Springer. It is house behind glass in a fine frame. A huge heroic Ruisdael tree empowers this picture. Beneath it, worke...
Category

19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Pencil

Felix Culpa, or Must be a Woe - trompe l'oeil oil painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Continuing his affinity for Malevich’s geometric paragon is Felix Culpa or ‘Must be a Woe,” this time, in red. Three red squares hover above Christ suffering on the cross—one of the most recognizable images in art history—yet here, no wooden cross is in sight. Christ simply floats against a white wall. The three “Red Squares” map the edges of the invisible crucifix, and an old violin...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

Italian Landscape - British 19th century art landscape oil painting hills Italy
By Ramsey Richard Reinagle
Located in London, GB
An original British large oil painting on canvas by Ramsay Richard Reinagle which is signed and looks to be dated 1832. Lovely rich colouring depicting a mountainous Italian panorama...
Category

Early 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Close of Day - British 1900 Victorian art pine trees landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely large Victorian landscape oil painting is by noted British artist Daniel Sherrin. Painted circa 1900 the painting is entitled Close of Day. The composition details a land...
Category

Early 1900s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Asagiri
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Asagiri" c.1990, is a color woodblock print on paper by noted Canadian/Japanese artist Suezan Aikins, b.1952. It is signed and numbered 150/200 in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 11.25 x 23.25 inches, framed size is 18.65 x 30 inches. Custom framed in a silver metal frame, with double off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some small minor rubs, barely visible. About the artwork: This artwork required 7 different carved wood blocks and 21 layers of colors to complete. About the artist: Born in Montreal in 1952, Suezan was influenced early in her life by the works of modern Japanese woodblock printmakers which hung throughout her parents’ home. She attended the Fine Arts programme at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (1969 - 1971), The Ontario College of Art (1971-73), L’ ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts (1974), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design -BFA (1975) as well as a very intensive year of study with Toshi Yoshida in Tokyo (1984-85). She has exhibited extensively in both public and private galleries throughout North America and Japan. Recent exhibitions include solo shows in Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, and Boston with group exhibitions at the Wenniger Gallery, Boston, Royal Canadian Academy in Toronto and the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Her paintings and woodblock prints are found in many collections such as The Canada Council Art Bank, The Nickle Art Museum, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Royal Bank of Canada, Prince Takamanonamiya Norihito, the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, The Thomas Moore Institute as well as private collections. Suezan Aikins was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant in 1983, Nova Scotia Department of Culture - Development Grants in 1980, 1987 and 1988. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1990 and received the Canadian Progress Club- Women of Excellence Award for Culture in 1993. Her work has been featured in a number of television documentaries as well as many Canadian magazines. STUDIES: Yoshida Woodblock Print Studio Tokyo, 84-85 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, 74-75 BFA Ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal, 74 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 71-73 Mt. Allison University, 69-72 SELECTED SOLO SHOWS: 25 Year Retrospective of Woodblock Prints traveled to three Public Galleries in Germany: Dornum Castle; Tollhousverein, Leer; Rastede Palace, Oldenberg 2000-2001 color catalog and reviews. Private Exhibitions, Falmouth, Mass., July 1996; Montreal, November 1996; Gibson Island, Md., April 1999. Gold Paintings and Woodblock Retrospective, travelling: Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo; Genkan Gallery, Tokyo American Club; Blue Nile Gallery, Osaka; Kanda's Gallery BOQ, Okinawa; May 1994 (color catalogue) Edo Gallery, Boston, November 1992, Private Exhibitions, Chatham, Mass, July 1992, Toronto, Oct. 1991 New Paintings and Woodblocks Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo, May 1991, and also in 1987. Japanese Garden and Pavilion Foundation, Montreal, September 1990, Ownens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University 1988 Zwickers Gallery, Halifax, NS, 1979; Gallery 78; Fredericton, November, 1983; Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, November, 1982 SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: "A New Leaf" 30 foot instalation of mixed media/ goldleaf reliefs, Artsplace, Annapolis Royal, N.S., 2000 color catalog "Far and Wide" Juried Bienials, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; 1996 to '99, travelling, catalogs "Moku Hanga Travelling Exhibition: Contemporary Japanese Woodcuts...
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Woodcut

A Geological Landscape - British art 1920's landscape oil painting female artist
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous and vibrant early twentieth century British landscape oil painting is by Margaret Maitland Howard. Painted circa 1920 the landscape is of a rocky out crop or escarpment...
Category

1920s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

La Mirada Matilija Poppy
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beauty in all its strangeness. Manch...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Pastel, Archival Paper, Crayon

Portrait of a Lady in Turquoise Dress - Scottish female portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish artist David Cowan Dobson, better known as Cowan Dobson. Painted circa 1950 it is a bust length oil painting of a sophi...
Category

1950s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

By the Streets of the Old Lviv Town
Located in Zofingen, AG
Fifteen paintings have been donated to a charitable foundation for auctions in various European countries to support the army. It's been four months of work. Now I'm working twice a...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

The Maiden - British Newlyn exhib art nude Laura Knight portrait oil painting
By Harold Knight
Located in London, GB
This stunning exhibited nude portrait oil painting is by noted British Newlyn School artist Harold Knight. `The Maiden` was painted at Dozmary. The Belgrave Gallery catalogue 1986 suggests the sitter is in fact his wife, Laura Knight the noted artist. The sensuous understanding of the flesh tones and anatomy reveals the qualities that established Knight's reputation as a leading portrait painter after the War. This picture may be dated to c.1916. A really lovely portrait by a much sought after artist. Signed lower left. Provenance. Fifty Years Ago Exhibition, RWS Galleries, June 1965, no. 200. Miles Lamdin Gallery, London. Belgrave Gallery February 1986 which suggests in their catalogue the sitter is Laura Knight. Shades of British Impressionism...
Category

1910s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

White Amaryllis with Dragonfly
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beauty in all its strangeness. Manch...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Conté, Pastel, Archival Paper

Newlyn Harbour Seascape - British Edwardian Newlyn School Cornish oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning British Edwardian Impressionist Newlyn School seascape is by noted Cornish artist Algernon Talmage. Painted in 1909 it is a beautiful coastal seascape of Newlyn harbour...
Category

Early 1900s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas

Sweet Pea and Dock in Chautauqua Park, Original Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Sweet Pea and Dock in Chautauqua Park Mixed Media Painting 36 x 48 inches Artist's Commentary: "These sweet pea vines overwhelmed me as a walked along the dirt road west of the C...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Au Louvre II
Located in Natchez, MS
Girbent's realistic charcoal drawing of a woman in the Louvre is highly evocative and transmits a moodiness in shades of gray.
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

"Silent Echoes" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Shelli Langdale's "Silent Echoes," created in 2023, vividly depicts a woman with flowing dark red hair as she shares a moment with a white horse, set against a striking blue sky scat...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Acrylic

Academic nudes painter - 20th century figure drawing - Pencil paper Italy
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (c. 1920) - Academic male nude. 26 x 23 cm without frame, 29 x 26 cm with frame. Charcoal drawing on paper, in a wooden frame. Condition report: Paper and drawing ...
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Paper

Nova Car - Marfa Texas - Vintage Car Photograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Pasta Jay's, Original Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Pasta Jay's Mixed Media Painting 48 x 36 inches Artist's Commentary: "I painted this to honor all the romantic and fun and sexy nights we have all had at our favorite restaurants...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Fragrantissima
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beauty in all its strangeness. Manch...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Conté, Graphite

Tulip: Summer Evening
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beauty in all its strangeness. Manch...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Conté, Pastel, Archival Paper, Graphite

Tulip: Summer Afternoon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beauty in all its strangeness. Manch...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Conté, Graphite, Pastel, Archival Paper

Summer Seeds, Original Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Summer Seeds Mixed Media Painting 36 x 48 inches Artist's Commentary: "I am as enthralled with spent flowers as I am with blooming flowers. The seed heads lend all sorts of stil...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Alfred Stevens - 19th Century British Bronze Figure of Judith
Located in London, GB
ALFRED STEVENS (1817-1875) Judith Bronze 22 cm., 8 ¾ in. high Provenance: Handley-Read Collection; Fine Art Society, London, 1979; Collection of Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan. ...
Category

Mid-19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Bronze

Yarrow and Hen, Original Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Yarrow and Hen Mixed Media Painting 60 x 48 inches Artist's Commentary: "I am always bowled over by the romantic nature of the yummy pastel umbels...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Haying
Located in Raleigh, NC
Rgrfinearts presents a rare WPA mural study by the African American artist Carl G. Hill. Mr. Hill was a student at the National Academy of Design and also at the Harkem Community School where he studied under Riva Helfond. During WW2 he enlisted in the Merchant Marines...
Category

1930s Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

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