Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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
Untitled (Standing Male Nude Facing Right)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Ink on paper
Signed and dated, l.c.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now...
Category
1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Drawing School #1
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Drawing School" 2013 is a ink and ink wash drawing on paper, by noted American artist Richard Benjamin Royce, born 1941. It is signed and dated at the middle right by the artist. The artwork size is 13.75 x 10.85 inches, framed is 21 x 17 inches. It is custom framed in wooden silver frame. it is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
After getting his BA and MA in fine art at the University of Wisconsin, Richard Royce went to France to study with Stanley W. Hayter, On returning to the US he opened a studio where he produced etchings, cast paper, paintings and sculptural commissions of his own work while at the same time helping other artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Rivers, Marisol, George Segal, Raphael Soyer, Francoise Gilot and Jim Rosenquist to realize works in various media.
Selected collections
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, New York
International Paper Corporation, New York
Isla Center, University of Guam, Micronesia
Byer Museum of the Arts, Evanston, Illinois
Musee du Petite Format, Couvin, Belgique
Uyasuda Life Insurance Company, Japan
Selected solo exhibitions
1991 Prestige Gallery, Danvers, MA
1989 Watermark/Cargo Gallery.. Kingston, NY
1986 ARRAS Gallery, NYC, NY
1985 The Tremellen Gallery, Lancaster, PA
1982 Linden Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR
Keller Gallery, Salem, OR
The Tremellen Gallery, Lancaster, PA
1970 Ventura College, Ventura, CO
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1969 Comsky Gallery, Boston, MA
Ohio University, OH
1968 Thompson Gallery, Boston, MA
The Galor Hagen Gallery, Dallas, TX
University of Southern California Gallery
Selected group exhibitions
2004 Living Space Gallery, Cornville, AZ
2001 Rodman Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1997 Dalton Fine Art, Boston, MA
Boston Corporate Art, Boston, MA
Prestige Gallery, Atelier Royce Group Show, Danvers, MA
1996 Copley Society Gallery, Group Sculpture Show, Boston, MA
1995 Barbara’s Hang Up Gallery, Group Show, Beverly, MA
1991 Creative Framing Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 5e Exposition International "Petit Format de Papier" Cul-Des-Arts (Couvin), Belgique
1988 Premiere Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format (Traveling show to museums throughout France)
1987 "Eight Upstate Sculptors", Woodstock Artist Assn., NY
1986 First International Biennial of Paper Art, Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Dueren, Germany
1985 '85 Mini-Exhibition, Isla Center, University of Guam, Micronesia
1984 Paperworks: A National Invitational, Chevey Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
Paper, Canvas & Glass, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA
Atelier Royce Group Show, Eclipse Gallery, New York
Contemporary Paperworks, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT
1983 Paper As Images - Traveling exhibition: Six galleries throughout England
1982 Papermaking USA, American Crafts Museum, New York
Atelier Royce Group Show, State University, Purchase, NY
New American Graphics 2, Art Museum Association of San Francisco Traveling...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
woman sitting
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Woman Sitting" 2013 is a pencil drawing on paper, by noted American artist Richard Benjamin Royce, born 1941. It is signed and dated at the...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Untitled (Reclining Female Nude)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Conté crayon on paper
Signed, l.c.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York City. His works ...
Category
1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Untitled (Nude Man with Black Hair)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Conté crayon on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York City. ...
Category
1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
"Silvia", Nude Drawing by Gianfranco Fusari
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Franco Fusari, Italian
Title: Silvia
Year: 2009
Medium: Conte Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 19.7 in. x 10.2 in. (50.04 cm x 25.91 cm)
Frame Size: 31.5 x 17.5 inches
Category
Early 2000s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Paola I", Nude Drawing by Franco Fusari
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Franco Fusari, Italian (1945 - )
Title: Paola I
Year: 2009
Medium: Conte Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 14 in. x 19.3 in. (35.56 cm x 49.02 cm)
Frame Size: 22.5 x 30 inches
Category
Early 2000s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt ...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Wax Crayon, Rag Paper
Cross Up
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original realist pastel drawing by American female artist Catherine Koenig.
Category
1990s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
"Anna I", Nude Drawing by Gianfranco Fusari
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Franco Fusari, Italian
Title: Anna I
Year: 2009
Medium: Conte Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 8.3 in. x 19.7 in. (21.08 cm x 50.04 cm)
Frame Size: 18.5 x 29 inches
Category
Early 2000s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Seated Nude" Nude drawing by San Antonio Texas Artist
Located in San Antonio, TX
Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 17 Frame Size: 30 x 24 Medium: Pencil Drawing Date: 1932 "Seated" Nude
Biography
Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995)
A Virginia native, Helen Ferne Slimp was a lifelong artist, who worked in oils, lithography, stained glass and china painting. She was a friend of Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzam Borglum and art patron Marion Koogler McNay, painted alongside the Onderdonks and was a teacher to Porfirio Salinas.
“She liked that modern stuff,” Slimp said of McNay in the Express-News in 1990, on her 100th birthday. “I never cared for it myself. I thought an apple should look like an apple.”Chester Slimp died in 1965, but Helen Slimp lived to be 105, dying Oct. 29, 2005.
Helen Ferne Slimp's instructors were a "Who's Who" of American artists including Randall Davey, Ernest Lawson, Fremont Ellis, Gerald Cassidy, Harry Anthony De Young, and Jose Arpa.
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Category
1930s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
"Bather" Nude drawing by San Antonio Texas Artist
Located in San Antonio, TX
Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 17 Frame Size: 30 x 24 Medium: Pencil Drawing 1931 "Bather" Nude
Biography
Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995)
A Virginia native, Helen Ferne Slimp was a lifelong artist, who worked in oils, lithography, stained glass and china painting. She was a friend of Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzam Borglum and art patron Marion Koogler McNay, painted alongside the Onderdonks and was a teacher to Porfirio Salinas.
“She liked that modern stuff,” Slimp said of McNay in the Express-News in 1990, on her 100th birthday. “I never cared for it myself. I thought an apple should look like an apple.”Chester Slimp died in 1965, but Helen Slimp lived to be 105, dying Oct. 29, 2005.
Helen Ferne Slimp's instructors were a "Who's Who" of American artists including Randall Davey, Ernest Lawson, Fremont Ellis, Gerald Cassidy, Harry Anthony De Young, and Jose Arpa.
Please view my store front for other Great Vintage Texas Paintings...
Category
1930s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Seated Nude
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing one of a pair of stunning antique realist drawings by well listed Viennese artist August Gerasch.
This piece was created with superb...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Board, Graphite
Remains and fragments - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Nude Oil Painting
By Jan Szczepkowski
Located in Warsaw, PL
PROVENANCE
Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery.
The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist.
The Gallery of Katarzyna Napiorkowska is one of the first private a...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study of a Young Boy - Original Signed Sanguine Charcoal Drawing - 1903
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Study of a Young Boy, 1903
Original sanguine charcoal drawing
Signed bottom right
on tinted paper 30 x 23 cm (c. 19 x 13 in)
Stamp of the Estate auctio...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
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