1956 Thunderbird
1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
People Also Browsed
1990s American Modern Contemporary Art
Paper
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1940s Realist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Artist Comments
"These raucous birds arrive at my Santa Barbara feeder in flocks," shares artist Emil Morhardt. "They shoo away sparrows and house-finches and carry off mouthfu...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Artist Comments
"Great horned owls spend a lot of time sitting and intently watching, rotating their heads to look at whatever interests them, including me," shares artist Em...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Artist Comments
A curious buck gazes with gentle eyes. Artist Emil Morhardt captures with clarity a magnificent deer, its proud antlers shine under the early morning light. "I ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Casein
1950s Color-Field Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
A realistic rendering by artist Emil Morhardt of a calm but vigilant crow on a powerline in the early morning sun. The bird is painted against a foggy blue sky ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
"Bushtits are usually a collective enterprise with dozens invading a bush and scouring it for insects before quickly moving on," says artist Emil Morhardt. "Thi...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt depicts an Elegant Tern and a Forster’s Tern hanging together in the winter shallows of the Santa Barbara beach in California. Their even...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
Recent Sales
Early 2000s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Gouache
Early 2000s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Pop Art Color Photography
Inkjet
Finding the Right Paintings for You
Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract, landscape and still-life paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.
When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.
Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs. Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.
No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel. Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color?
On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive collection of paintings and other fine art for your home or office. Browse abstract paintings, portrait paintings, paintings by popular artists and more today.