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Style: American Realist
The Highlands Point Lobos Carmel California 1930 Thomas O. Sheckell Original Oil
Located in Soquel, CA
Thomas Owings Sheckell (1883 - 1943) was active/lived in New York. Thomas Sheckell is known for Trees, landscape, snow scenes, coastal view and industrial scene painting, photography...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carmel by the Sea - Beach, California Coastline 1927 Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Carmel by the Sea - Beach, California Coastline 1927 Oil on Linen
Seascape oil painting of the Carmel coastline by Charles Henry Harmon (American, 1859-1936). Vibrant blue Pacific w...
Category
1920s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
$1,722 Sale Price
35% Off
"The Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas
Stately portrait of a boy by William Robert Shulgold (Russian-American, 1897-1989). The subject is looki...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Joe D'Allesandro
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Joe D'Allesandro, ca. 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Measures 12 x 15 inches framed. Studio...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Red Grapes Study
Located in Wenham, MA
Dale Zinkowski is a master of still life. His work, reminiscent of Golden Age Dutch still life painting, glows with light and subtle, quiet beauty. This original oil painting shows a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Waves of Clouds, Deep Blue Cyanotype Print, Pleasant Cloudy Sky, Large Triptych
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These triptychs are large pieces that feature lush blues, making them an impressive addition to any beautifully designed space.
Each triptych is printed by hand and carefully crafted to capture the unique essence of these natural environments, with a focus on the interplay of light and shadows, and the subtle nuances of tone and texture.
The beach and ocean scenes depict the dynamic beauty of waves crashing against the shore, with the cyanotype process lending a dreamy, ethereal quality to the images. Similarly, the forest and wood scenes...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Rag Paper
Blackfeet Indians, Great Northern Railway 14 prints
By Winold Reiss
Located in Spokane, WA
A group of 14 Blackfeet Indians prints created by the artist Winold Reiss. The Great Northern Railway printed and released these prints in c. 1940. This is for the entire group...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$576 Sale Price
20% Off
A Sunny Day in New York
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel. It features cheerful yellow flowers and a graphic black and white background--one in a series of pieces where the artist has used the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
'Negro' — California WPA Social Realism – Slavery
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Nicholas Panesis, 'Negro', 1934, color lithograph, edition 18. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 8/28 in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper, with margins (1 1/8 to 2 3/8 inches). Minor glue staining at the extreme sheet edges verso, where previously taped (not visible recto), otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 10 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches; (270 x 216 mm); sheet size 14 13/16 x 10 15/16 inches (376 x 278 mm).
Created for the California Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project (WPA). Scarce.
Impressions of this work are held in the public collections of La Salle University Art Museum (Philadelphia), U.S. General Services Administration, and Weisman Art Museum (University of Minnesota).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Massachusetts, Nicholas Panesis (1913-1967) studied art at Syracuse University, NY, and went on to teach ceramics at Alfred University, NY.
Panesis moved to San Francisco in the early 1930s shortly before settling in Los Angeles, where he worked for different animation studios...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Scalp, American Realist Bronze Sculpture after Frederic Remington
By Frederic Remington
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine later casting of the famous Frederic Remington sculpture "The Scalp", cast in the 1970's or 1980's.
Description: After Frederic Remington, American (1861 - 1909) - The Scalp...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
'Plowing It Under' — WPA Era American Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Hart Benton, 'Goin' Home', lithograph, 1937, edition 250, Fath 14. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white, wove pape...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"End of Day" Original Limited Edition Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
"End of Day" Original Limited Edition Etching by John McGrath (Irish/American b.1884 d.1942).
This etching depicts a man with a tool slung over his shoulder walking along a path th...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint, Etching
$520 Sale Price
35% Off
Inga Lindgren And Poodles, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen,...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
"6 and Two" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Zack Zdrale's (US based) "6 and Two" is an oil painting that depicts two male figures with an obscured faces arching their backs and extending their arms a...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Vitrum Umbrae 03, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A realistic painting of an assortment of glassware set atop a wooden desk by artist Christopher Garvey. A fitting muted back...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Pomegranate, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A minimalist realistic still life of an open pomegranate by artist Christopher Garvey. The tart fruit is cut in three portions with its seeds scattered around...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
LIGHT AND SHADE TAXCO - J. T. Arms Mexican Masterpiece with Striking Detail
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOHN TAYLOR ARMS (1887 – 1953)
LIGHT AND SHADE TAXCO, 1946 (F. 394: (#2 from the Mexican series.)
Etching and aquatint signed and dated in pencil. Image 10 ½ x 13 5/8, sheet 14 1/...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Antique Lure
Located in Wenham, MA
An original oil painting on linen panel of an antique fishing lure, framed in a hand-made frame by one of New York's finest frame makers.
Master...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
In Gratitude, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jo Galang says this piece was inspired by a lovely bouquet she received from her son and his girlfriend on Mother's Day. "It was so beautiful, and the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Original Oil Plein Air Landscape of Western Nevada
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Antique Western Nevada Desert Oil Landscape by Phoebe K. Higgins
A mid-century desert oil landscape of Western Nevada by Phoebe K. Higgins (American, 1895 - c 1960), circa ...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Board
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Pin Up Girl with Red Hat, untitled, original pinup vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Pin-Up Girl with Red Hat vintage pin-up poster. Artist: Billy Devorss. Size: 15.25" x 20". Archival linen backed in mint condition; ready to frame.
This striking original poster displays a graceful model wearing a vibrant red sun hat against a light blue background. This is truly a lovely piece!
Billy DeVorss (1908 – 1985) was a self-taught illustration artist who started his commercial career in 1933. He was well known throughout his career for the voluptuous figures and attractive faces of his images. This poster is one of those great pin-up style images created by DeVorss.
Alone among the pin-up artists in being entirely self-taught, Billy De Vorss sold his first three published pin-ups to the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company in St. Paul in about 1933. Until that time, he had been working as a teller in a bank in St. Joseph, Missouri. There, he met the stunning woman Glenna, who became his wife and first official model. Encouraged to develop his talent by Gene Sayles, the manager of Brown and Bigelow...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$311 Sale Price
20% Off
Perfection, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Perfection is what comes to mind when looking at the work of the Almighty," says artist Jo Galang. "I found these captivating, perfect beauties at the grocer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"The Slope Near the Bridge" Paul Sample, Mid-Century, American Snowy Landscape
By Paul Sample
Located in New York, NY
Paul Sample
The Slope Near the Bridge, 1950
Signed in pencil lower left
Lithograph on wove paper
Image 8 15/16 x 12 15/16 inches
Sheet 11 5/16 x 15 1/16 inches
From the edition of 25...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Stunning Antique American Oil Painting Lake Original Frame Signed Illegibly Rare
Located in Buffalo, NY
This tranquil landscape captures a sunlit autumn morning along a quiet stream. Delicate mist softens the background, while a weathered split-rail fence leads the eye through a grove ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original "For Your Boy, YMCA, vintage WW1 1918 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. YMCA for Your Boy. Acid-free original vintage poster in excellent condition with archival linen backing, ready to frame. Certificate o...
Category
1910s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Wyeth, New Leaves, The Four Seasons (after)
By Andrew Wyeth
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Art in America, New York in an edition of CDVII/D. From the folio, The Four Se...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
"Harbor Rainbow" Colorful Boat With Deep Blue Water Reflections Serigraph
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Harbor Rainbow" with rippling water reflections of the blue boat floating in the sea is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful hand pulled 90 color ...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Screen
$180 Sale Price
70% Off
Here with Bhakti
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to life through landscape, still life, portraiture, and abstraction. Restlessly creative, he has explored these varied genres with equal concentration…..”
Bob Stuth-Wade’s method of painting is uniquely his own, having taught himself technique; his only formal training was as a teenager with Dallas artist Perry Nichols...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Strike Breakers — social realism, Great Depression
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Daniel Ralph Celentano, Untitled (Strike Breakers) pencil, c. 1934. Signed, lower right. A fine, social-realist drawing, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches), in...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Pencil
Blue Tones Triptych, Serene Gorgeous Clouds, Handmade Cyanotype Watercolor Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of w...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...
Original James Dean Rebel Without a Cause vintage Swiss movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original James Dean, Rebel without a Cause vintage Swiss movie poster. Linen backed ready to frame. Grade A excellent condition. Size: 50" tall by 36" wide.
Own a piece of mo...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Save Freedom of Worship original 1943 Four Freedoms vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Save Freedom of Worship (S) Artist: Normal Rockwell. Archival linen backed. Original fold marks touched up at the time of b...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Life is Just a Basket of...
Located in Wenham, MA
Dale Zinkowski is a master of still life. His work, reminiscent of Golden Age Dutch still life painting, glows with light and subtle, quiet beauty. This original oil painting shows ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Spring Serenity, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
After arranging the composition for this floral still life, artist Nicole Lamothe was immediately attracted to the soft warm lig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
'Counselor at Crime' original 1973 movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Shock and awe! Original Counselor at Crime vintage movie poster.
'Good with the Law, Better with a Gun! Paper, original theater fold.
Very good condition without any paper loss or tears. 1973
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio (Martin Balsam) agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the melee and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson (Tomas Milian) becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime. This Italian movie was filmed in English in San Francisco, California, and Palermo, Sicily.
This is a man-cave vintage poster, one that you very seldom see or have the chance to purchase. Printed in black and white with red to grab your attention. Italian movie in English.
The poster was originally folded, like all early movie posters, so that it could be sent to the movie theater. Original fold marks. Some small scuff marks at the fold marks. No tears. The original fold marks are not classified as flaws in old movie posters...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
$135 Sale Price
20% Off
Wyeth, Early October, The Four Seasons (after)
By Andrew Wyeth
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Art in America, New York in an edition of CDVII/D. From the folio, The Four Se...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Terminus no. 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
Breathtaking impressionistic ocean scene with large cumulus cloud rising where the mountains meet the ocean. Tranquil blue water with filtered early evening light captured on the canvas where time stands still. Ready to hang unframed with its edge painted in a reddish brown patina for which the artist is known. Artist signed, titled and dated. Condition is excellent / as new.
Brooks Anderson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique Still Life with Fruit and Melon
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique Still Life with Fruit and Melon
Traditional European style still life with harvest fruits, figs, pears, grapes, and cantaloupe. The range of to...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Vitrum Umbrae 02, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Christopher Garvey presents a group of varying glassware in different colors, sizes, and shapes. Set against a tonal background, the focus is drawn to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne (1907-1991)
"Snowy City Scene"
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas. c. 1930s
Signed lower lef...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th century Bunny Rabbits
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming 19th century oil on canvas of bunny rabbits. The painting appears to be unsigned. It measures 15 inches wide by 10 inches high. The period frame...
Category
19th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Ann Nooney, (Loading the Lumber Barge, NYC)
By Ann Nooney
Located in New York, NY
The dimensions are for the image. There are large margins. Signed in pencil.
A native New Yorker, Ann Nooney (1900-1970), recorded the urban scene while on the Works Progress Admini...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original 1942 "CASABLANCA" vintage Academy Award winning movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1942 CASABLANCA vintage movie poster. Archival linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. The original production fold marks have been touched up and restored. This is an authentic vintage 1942 issue of Casablanca for sale.
"Casablanca" is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in cinema history. It received critical acclaim upon its release and won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Michael Curtiz, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The cast's performances, memorable dialogue, and timeless romance have contributed to the film's enduring popularity. "Casablanca" remains a cultural touchstone and is often referenced in popular media.
• Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart): The owner of Rick's Café Américain, an establishment known for its lively atmosphere. Rick is initially portrayed as detached and cynical, but his past is revealed as the story progresses.
• Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman): A Norwegian woman with a complicated history with Rick. She is caught in a love triangle between Rick and her husband, Victor Laszlo.
• Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains): The corrupt and witty French police captain in Casablanca. He adds a layer of humor to the film and undergoes a moral transformation as the story unfolds.
Over the years, the Casablanca poster...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Cigar Store Indian, Early 20th Century, Carved Wood With Polychrome Decoration
Located in Cotignac, FR
A 20th Century wood carved male figure, a 'Cigar Store Indian' with original polychrome decoration.
A now controversial subject, but none the less charming rendition, of a native North American man originally probably used as an advertising figure. Wonderful quality of carving capturing the stance of the man looking out to the distance, hair flowing to his back and plait to the side, all the details of his costume, his native dress and hairpipe breastplate (suggesting he is possibly a Comanche) and chest ornament, apron, trousers, mocassins, shield and arrows. The original Polychrome decoration has weathered beautifully as has the wood itself to present a sculpture that would adorn any collection or interior.
Because of the general illiteracy of the populace, early store owners used descriptive emblems or figures to advertise their shops' wares. American Indians and tobacco had always been associated because American Indians introduced tobacco to Europeans. As early as the 17th century, European tobacconists used figures of American Indians to advertise their shops.
Because European carvers had never seen a Native American, these early cigar-store "Indians" looked more like Africans with feathered headdresses and other fanciful, exotic features. These carvings were called "Black Boys" or "Virginians" in the trade. Eventually, the European cigar-store figure...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
$3,158 Sale Price
44% Off
"Maine Sunrise" Glowing Morning Light
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Misty Sunrise" with soft pastels and glowing water reflections in a peaceful harbor is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful oil exhibits all of t...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Destination Unknown 1979 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Ernie Barnes
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Ernie Barnes
Title: Destination Unknown
Year: 1979
Print - Lithograph
Size: 25" x 19 ½" inches
Edition: Pencil signed and numbered 24/300
Unframed
‘Destination Unknow...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Summer Ballet
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel. It was painted on location at an early 20th century garden at a historic estate. Featuring the white-flowered plumes of cimicifuga ra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"ALONG THE NUECES" COWBOY ON HORSE BACK FRAMED 40X50
Located in San Antonio, TX
David Sanders
(1933-2013)
Austin Artist
Image Size: 30 x 40
Frame Size: 40 x 50
Medium: "Pastel"
"Along the Nueces"
David Sanders (1933-2013)
Known for his oil pastel landscapes, Dav...
Category
20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Pastel
John Taylor Arms, Study in Stone, Cathedral of Ourense
Located in New York, NY
John Taylor Arms was known for making such finely drawn etchings that commercial tools were not good enough: He regularly used sewing needles with corks ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
The Wide Open Spaces
Located in San Francisco, CA
If you’ve been dreaming of owning a piece of Wyoming or Montana, this wide-horizons painting deserves a spot over your stone fireplace. Photographic in its crisp detail, the artist c...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Interior Scene with Desk, Doll, & Sunflowers
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming and brightly colored French Impressionist watercolor, depicting an interior scene in great detail with an antique desk full of books, a bouquet of sunflowers, and a doll by ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,625 Sale Price
35% Off
Blueberries
Located in Wenham, MA
Dale Zinkowski is a master of still life. His work, reminiscent of Golden Age Dutch still life painting, glows with light and subtle, quiet beauty. This original oil painting shows ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Original "United Airlines Hawaii" vintage tropical travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Hawaii, United Airlines Hawaii travel poster.
Linen-backed, excellent condition. Ready to frame.
Great price for an archival linen-backed poster of this Hawaii United Airlines vintage...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Late July 2
By Alex Katz
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Alex Katz (b. 1927) has been dedicated to art-making since the 1950's - however, it wasn't until the 60's when he established his signature 'flat' figurative style. Over the succeedi...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$11,000
Vintage Army Military Oil Painting Portrait done in Germany, 1954 Cold War Era
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is an interesting portrait of a military person related to the Prinz Heinrich Kaserne complex in Germany after World War II. Apparently there were internal conflicts happening a...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Spring Break
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
High schoolers picnic on the beach at Bonita Springs, Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Spring Break
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Nu...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Emulsion, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Industry and Commerce, 1936, tempera on panel, 16 ½ x 39 ½ inches, signed verso “John Ballator, Portland Ore.” provenance includes: J.C. Penney Company, represented by Russell Tether Fine Arts Assoc.; presented in a newer wood frame
About the Painting
Industry and Commerce is a prime example of WPA Era muralism. Like a Mediaeval alter, this mural study is filled with icons, but the images of saints and martyrs are replaced with symbols of America's gospel of prosperity through capitalism. Industry and Commerce has a strong narrative quality with vignettes filling the entire surface. Extraction, logistics, design, power generation, and manufacturing for printing, chemicals, automobiles and metal products are all represented. To eliminate any doubt about the mural's themes, Ballator letters a description into the bottom of the study. Ballator also presents an idealized version of industrial cooperation, as his workers, lab-coated technicians and tie-wearing managers work harmoniously toward a common goal in the tidy and neatly designed environments. Although far from the reality of most industrial spaces, Ballator's study reflects the idealized and morale boosting tone that many mural projects adopted during the Great Depression.
About the Artist
John R Ballator achieved success as a muralist, lithographer, and teacher during the Great Depression. Born in Oregon, he studied at the Portland Museum Art School, the University of Oregon and at Yale University where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. In 1936, Ballator was commissioned to paint a mural panel for the new Department of Justice Building in Washington DC, an important project that spanned five years with several dozen artists contributing a total of sixty-eight designs. Ballator completed murals for the St. Johns Post Office and Franklin High School, both in Portland, Oregon. He also contributed to the 1938 murals at Nathan Hale School in New Haven, Connecticut. During the late 1930s, Ballator taught art for several years at Washburn College in Topeka, Kanas, where he completed a mural for the Menninger Arts & Craft Shop before accepting a professorship at Hollins College...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Tempera
'Westminster Abbey' — Royal Church, London
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Westminster Abbey', etching, edition not stated, 1927. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-i...
Category
1920s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
INSTRUCTION
Located in Santa Monica, CA
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
INSTRUCTION 1940 (Fath 41)
Lithograph, signed edition of 250 as published by Associated American Artists.
10 ¼” x 12 ¼”. Full margins, deckle edges....
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Beach at Long Branch
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Beach at Long Branch
Woodengraving, 1869
Signed in the block lower right "WH" ( see photo )
Published in Appleton’s Journal of Literature, Science and Art, August 21, 1869
Condit...
Category
1860s American Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
American Realist art for sale on 1stDibs.
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