American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...

Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...

Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...

Figure Study No. 2 c. 2016 Charcoal on paper 30 x 16 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy ...

John Aldrich Ruthven American Painter Bison in a Snow Blizzard Watercolor and Gouache on Paper signed lower left

American Impressionist

Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...

Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...

Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...

Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...

Margot Glass’s rendering of detail demands close attention. Her play with positive and negative space—the almost imperceptible shade of translucence between leaf veins, or the rich p...

Highly detailed rendering of a kimono by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). The ribbons in this piece have a metallic quality to them. Signed "Patricia A Pearce" in the bottom r...

'A Suspiciously Low Tide, 2001', the original painting is 20 x 40 inches and the outer dimensions of the frame is 30 x 50 inches. Artist signed, titled and dated. Condition is excell...

'Paragon park, 1997' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 10 inches ...

'Fast Eddies, 1996' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 15 inches a...

TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 2 10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy....

'Bay no. 4 (nocturnal), 1981' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 11 x 16 inches and 15 x 20 inches pro...

Margot Glass reimagines color and tone, using luminescent ink to translate vivid shades into bursts of white-gold. Ever-interested in fragility and ephemerality, Glass lingers over t...

Margot Glass reimagines color and tone, using luminescent graphite to translate vivid shades into bursts of silvery-gray. Ever-interested in fragility and ephemerality, Glass lingers...

Margot Glass reimagines color with her newest specimen, anemones, using luminescent ink to translate vivid shades into bursts of white-gold. Ever-interested in fragility and ephemera...

Margot Glass reimagines color with her newest specimen, anemones, using luminescent ink to translate vivid shades into bursts of white-gold. Ever-interested in fragility and ephemera...

'Yoga / Arms' a highly collectable original watercolor 19.5 x 27.5 inches with the images being 16 x 20 inches. The watercolor painting is by Internationally acclaimed American Reali...

The drawings and paintings of Dozier Bell are at once deep evocations of natural environments culled from memory and experience past, and reflections of a life of philosophical inqui...

The drawings and paintings of Dozier Bell are at once deep evocations of natural environments culled from memory and experience past, and reflections of a life of philosophical inquiry and keen observation that merge in her work as marvels of virtuosity and poignant imagery. Her work is a visual autobiography of a sort, one that recalls generations of a Maine family that worked the land, kept the wilderness at bay, planted tree farms...

Artist: Jon Carsman, American (1944 - 1987) Title: Blue Waves Year: 1976 Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated Size: 39.5 x 28 in. (100.33 x 71.12 cm)

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...

Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...

This artwork titled "Daydreaming in Tiger Land" is a watercolor and gouache on paper by artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is signed at the lower right c...

Phone booths at the Doggie Diner- an iconic American original watercolor painting - 24 x 16 inches - by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings. Doggie Diner Booths...

Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...

'Palmistry Readings' a highly collectable original watercolor 17 3/4 x 21 1/2 inch painting by Internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. Currently unframed however ...

Phantom Fireworks - an iconic American painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings. Torlakson’s photoreal...

Empty Booth - an iconic American original watercolor painting - 36 x 24 inches - by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings. Empty Booth depicts the inside of an empty fireworks booth with a Red Devil...

Represented by George Billis Gallery NYC. Burned pieces by Paul Chojnowski. I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that t...

These elegant graphite dandelion drawings belie the rigor of their process. Once the surface of the paper is prepared, Glass uses a stylus to carefully delineate the lacy quality of ...

Car Wash - an iconic American watercolor painting by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intagli...

There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait of a man and bear this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graf...

This artwork is a watercolor on paper by noted artist Carolyn Bullis Blish, born 1928. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 17 x 26 inches, framed is 28 x 37 inches. Framed in his original wooden gold and mahogany color frame. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition, with very minor small dents and scratches, hardly visible. About the artist. A former model, actress, and newscaster, artist Carolyn Blish is known primarily for her watercolor landscapes. She received a very short training in painting under the tutelage of artist Edgar...

Nicolino Calyo's career reflects a restless spirit of enterprise and adventure. Descended in the line of the Viscontes di Calyo of Calabria, the artist was the son of a Neapolitan army officer. (For a brief biographical sketch of the artist see Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, exhib. cat. [1976], pp. 299-301 no. 257.) Calyo received formal training in art at the Naples Academy. His career took shape amidst the backdrop of the political turbulence of early nineteenth-century Italy, Spain, and France. He fled Naples after choosing the losing side in struggles of 1820-21, and, by 1829, was part of a community of Italian exiles in Malta. This was the keynote of a peripatetic life that saw the artist travel through Europe, to America, to Europe again, and back to America. Paradoxically, Calyo’s stock-in-trade was close observation of people and places, meticulously rendered in the precise topographical tradition of his fellow countrymen, the eighteenth-century vedute painters Antonio Canale (called Canaletto) and Francesco Guardi. In search of artistic opportunity and in pursuit of a living, Calyo left Malta, and, by 1834, was in Baltimore, Maryland. He advertised his skills in the April 16, 1835 edition of the Baltimore American, offering "remarkable views executed from drawings taken on the spot by himself, . . . in which no pains or any resource of his art has been neglected, to render them accurate in every particular" (as quoted in The Art Gallery and The Gallery of the School of Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, 350 Years of Art & Architecture in Maryland, exhib. cat. [1984], p. 35). Favoring gouache on paper as his medium, Calyo rendered faithful visual images of familiar locales executed with a degree of skill and polish that was second nature for European academically-trained artists. Indeed, it was the search for this graceful fluency that made American artists eager to travel to Europe and that led American patrons to seek out the works of ambitious newcomers. On June 16, 1835, the Baltimore Republican reported that Calyo was on his way north to Philadelphia and New York to paint views of those cities. Calyo arrived in New York, by way of Philadelphia, just in time for the great fire of December 1835, which destroyed much of the downtown business district. He sketched the fire as it burned, producing a series of gouaches that combined his sophisticated European painting style with the truth and urgency of on-the-spot observation. Two of his images were given broad currency when William James Bennett reproduced them in aquatint. The New-York Historical Society owns two large Calyo gouaches of the fire, and two others, formerly in the Middendorf Collection, are now in the collection of Hirschl & Adler Galleries. From 1838 until 1855, Calyo listed himself variously in the New York City directories as a painter, a portrait painter, and as an art instructor, singly, and in partnership with his sons, John (1818-1893) and later, the younger Hannibal (1835-1883). Calyo also attracted notice for a series of scenes and characters from the streets of New York, called Cries of New York. These works, which were later published as prints, participate in a time-honored European genre tradition. Calyo’s New York home became a gathering place for European exiles, including Napoleon III. Between 1847 and 1852 Calyo exhibited scenes from the Mexican War and traveled from Boston to New Orleans with his forty-foot panorama of the Connecticut River. Later, he spent time in Spain as court painter to Queen Maria Christina, the result of his continuing European connections, but he was back in America by 1874, where he remained until his death. The Passaic River rises in the hills just south of Morristown, New Jersey, marking a serpentine eighty-mile course before it empties into Newark Bay. It flows north-northeast to Paterson, where it falls seventy feet in a spectacular cataract before continuing south through Passaic and Newark. William Gerdts, in Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey (1964, pp. 51-2), describes the falls as: the most important [landscape] subject in New Jersey during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. . . . The Passaic Falls remained a popular spot, particularly during the romantic period. Indeed, newspapers, periodicals, and gift books contain many accounts of visits to the Falls, sentimental poems written about them or about a loved one visiting the Falls, or even, occasionally, in memory of one who perished in the waters of the Falls — usually intentionally. . . . Waterfalls . . . were popular among travelers in the period and the Passaic Falls were only surpassed by Niagara Falls and Trenton Falls...

This meticulously rendered work depicts a three-quarter view of a young woman lost in deep introspection. Inscribed on verso: " The Captain's Lady" Leslie of ____________ St. ...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed lower left. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame. Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1948) Peter Sculthorpe was born in ...

This meticulously rendered work depicts a three-quarter view of a young woman lost in deep introspection. Inscribed on verso: " The Captain's Lady" Leslie of ____________ St. ...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Watercolor. Signed lower left. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame. Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1948) Peter Sculthorpe wa...

A watercolor by Gregory Sumida. "Fence Support" is a watercolor executed in greens, blues yellows and browns and depicts a pair of barren trees against a barbed wire fence...

A watercolor by Gregory Sumida. "Branches" is a watercolor on paper executed in browns, greens, yellows and blue and depicting a tree trunk with bare branches set against a landscape...

Artist: Ralph Hulett, American (1915 - 1974) Title: Funeral Range Year: circa 1970 Medium: Watercolor on Cardboard, signed Size: 12.75 x 39.25 in. (32.39 x 99.7 cm) Frame Size:...

Artist: Gary van der Steur, American Title: Typewriter (Original Illustration for Playgirl Magazine) Year: 1975 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed l.r. Image Size: 24 in. x 19 in. (60.9...

Kristin Musgnug Fallen Trees, 2015 oil on paper, 22 x 30 inches unframed 25 x 33 framed (framed in white washed maple, with OP3 glazing)

Hirsch, Joseph (American, 1910-1980). STUDENT. Charcoal drawing on paper, not dated, but before 1980. Signed lower left, "J Hirsch." 17 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (framed to 25 x 19 inches)...

Jane Starks immerses herself in the history and archaeology of the places she loves to paint: wilderness areas of Texas, New Mexico, and Utah. The paintings are begun and completed o...

I am Human Watercolor, ink on paper 49"x42" framed Keith Carrington Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid a...

William Robinson Leigh "The Noble Bull" Watercolor on Paper Signed Lower Left Site Size: 20 x 15 inches Framed Size: approx. 33.5 inches x 27 inches Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Leigh became one of the foremost painters of the American West with a career of seventy-five years. Some people referred to him as the "Sagebrush Rembrandt". He was the son of impoverished Southern aristocrats and took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell (1830-1915) at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as one of the best students in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama. In 1896, he began working as a magazine illustrator in New York City for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine, and he also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes. However, he was not a very successful artist in those years in New York. Trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he made an agreement with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, to paint the Grand Canyon in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting...