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Style: American Realist
Grizzly Adams, Grizzly bear attacks Frontiersman
Located in Miami, FL
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...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Graphite

Near Pueblo Canyon, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, Watercolor on Paper Landscape
By Peter de la Fuente
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Near Pueblo Canyon" is a watercolor on paper landscape by American artist Peter De La Fuente. The painting is matted and framed under glass, it is signed "Peter De La Fuente" in the lower left and comes from the Estate of the Artist, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pueblo Canyon is a deep gash in the Pajarito Plateau that runs through the center of Los Alamos...
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Early 2000s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Petite Treat, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"My wife has been baking pecan pies for the holiday season," shares artist Dwight Smith," which inspired me to paint the still life. I love the warm colors of...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Al Hirschfeld "Beat the Band" New York Times Broadway Theatre Illustration 1940s
Located in New York, NY
Framed size: 22 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. Published in The New York Times, October 11, 1942. In collaboration the Al Hirschfeld Foundation Al Hirschfeld’s drawings stand as one of the mo...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Board

Coast of Main
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Awards 2013 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor/ Allied Artists of America, 100th Annual Exhibition at the National Arts Club 2011 Mary Bryan Memorial Medal / Allied Artis...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Dollass
Located in Kansas City, MO
Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has been supporting local Kansas City Artists for the past 40 years. The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC), is a non-profit, artist-centered, artist-run alternative space, supporting artists at every level in their career through exhibitions, continuing education and artist studios. Artist: Joseph Broghammer Title: “Dollass” Materials : Chalk pastel and pencil on Arches Paper Date : 2018 Dimensions : 42 x 43 in. Omaha based artist Joseph Broghammer is as much of a storyteller as he is an artist. His one-of-a-kind pastel drawings in “Animals” are chronicles of his life. The creatures Broghammer creates are vehicles to uncover the varying characteristics of the artist’s personal identity. Hence, Broghammer’s “Animals” translates as a flowing stream of consciousness. The different birds and livestock staring back at the viewer are ornamented with iconographic symbols – small surprises along the way. These trinkets are keys to understanding the stories Broghammer is sharing. Broghammer began mastering his “dry painting” technique during his B.F.A. in Visual Art at the University of South Dakota. He graduated in 1986 and a year later went on to study his M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin. In 2009, he studied at Creative Capital in Omaha, Nebraska. As storytellers often do, Broghammer later went on to become an educator himself, teaching at WhyArts? and becoming an Artist Assistant at Vera Mercer...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk, Pastel, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil

Head of a Gentleman sketch, mid modern
Located in Greenwich, CT
A superbly executed work, this work would have been done for reproduction in a book or magazine. Simkhovitch received quite a number of illustration jobs and could adapt his style t...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Mid-Century Scenic House with Tree Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century watercolor landscape of a charming house with porch rendered in crisp detail, and a sprawling verdant green yard with large tree and sheds by Joseph Yeager (ear...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

Dodge and Truck, New York City
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Davis Title: Dodge and Truck Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.r. Image Size: 18 x 24 inches Frame Size: 24.75 x 30.25 inches This watercolor by American artist Don ...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Barnyard Chat
By John B. Lear
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper Signed and dated, l.r. 13.5 x 10.5 inches, sheet 21.25 x 17.25 inches, frame This drawing is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. John Lear is an America...
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1990s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Graphite

Final Light on the Mountain, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
I really enjoy combining realism with very impressionistic, almost abstract brushwork. The areas of this painting that are loosely interpreted are meant to e...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

"S.S. Blackman at Dock"
By Joseph DiGemma
Located in Southampton, NY
Exhibited original watercolor on paper painting by American artist, Joseph DiGemma. Signed lower right and dated 1949. Overall framed and matted (white) in natural maple frame 26 by 32 inches. Exhibition label verso: "Shared Aesthetic, Artists of Long Island North Fork, 2009". From the estate of Countess Consuelo Crespi. Joseph Paul DiGemma was born in New York City and studied at the Pratt Institute and the Arts Students League. His engravings are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Astor-Lenox Collection. Several of his wartime paintings...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Police Line, New York City - Photorealist Watercolor by Don David
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Davis Title: Police Line Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed lower right Image Size: 18 x 24 inches Frame Size: 24.5 x 30.25 inches The viewer is at the edge of the acti...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

The Captain's Lady. style of Andrew Wyeth
Located in Miami, FL
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. ...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Country Life Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Early work when Stuart Davis was an illustrator. Christie's, New York Catalogue Raisonné
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1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Pencil

Standing Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude Ink on paper Signed by the artist with his initials lower left "AB" Related to numerous drawings of the same model illustrate...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Mid Century Autumn Harvest Watercolor Still-Life with Gourds & Purple Corn
Located in Soquel, CA
Exceptionally detailed mid century watercolor still-life depicting an autumn harvest, with bumpy gourds spilling out of a basket, several ears of deep purple corn, and a fringed blan...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

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...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Couple at a Table, Pastel Drawing by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland Title: Couple at Table (Self-Portrait) Year: circa 1970 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed u.l. Size: 19.75 in. x 25.5 in. (50.17 cm x 64.77 cm)
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Car Wash - original unique watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
Car Wash - an iconic American watercolor painting by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intagli...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Backyard Bench - original watercolor 1974-2016
Located in Burlingame, CA
Backyard Bench - an iconic American watercolor painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint in...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Outside the Deck by Joseph Yeager
Located in Soquel, CA
Outside the Deck by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. Signed "Joseph Yeager" lower right. No frame. Estate of Joseph Yeager on verso. Image, 22.75"H x 30.25"W Signed, lower right "Joe Yeager" Provenance; from the Joseph Yeager estate. Joseph "Joe" Yeager (American, 20th Century) was raised in Cleveland Ohio, where he went to art school at night and started his art career at 19. He was a commercial artist for the Cleveland Press...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Building New York
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Building New York Watercolor on paper, c. 1915 Signed by the artist lower right (see photo) Partial watermark: "MADE IN ENGLAND... LINEN FIBER" Excellent, COLORS FRESH AND VIBRANT Br...
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1910s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Mid-Century Cottage in the Woods Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century watercolor landscape of a cottage in the woods, executed with phenomenal attention to detail, by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor ...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Landscape with Cattle
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Cattle" c.1930 is a watercolor by noted American artist Raphael Senseman, 1870-1966 It is signed at the lower right ...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Mid-Century Hillside Trees Landscape Watercolor (unfinished)
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century landscape watercolor with a tall, stately tree in the foreground, its many forking branches depicted with exceptional detail, and a verdant background of rollin...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Shipping Cranes, Evening Light
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daug...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

The Captain's Lady
Located in Miami, FL
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. ...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Portrait of a Woman - Lourdes, Drawing by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999) Title: Portrait of a Woman - Lourdes Year: circa 1970 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed Size: 24 in. x 19.75 in. (60.96 cm x 50.17 cm)
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Annual Lavatera a native of Spain
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): FJK [partial]
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Early 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Seated Nude, Charcoal Drawing by Leon Kroll
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leon Kroll, American (1884 - 1974) Title: Seated Nude Medium: Charcoal on paper, signed Size: 10.25 x 11 inches Frame Size: 24 x 24 inches
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Country Life
Located in Miami, FL
Early work when Stuart Davis was an illustrator. Christie's, New York Catalogue Raisonné
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1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Pencil

Peacock, contemporary realist gouache on paper miniature animal portrait
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky's realist animal miniature, Peacock, is an updated, humorous take on Renaissance portraiture. The peacock's gleaming jade, aqua, and royal blue plumage sweeps around him...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Dina Brodsky, Bluebird, realist animal watercolor on paper, 2019
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky pairs gouache and watercolor to achieve the luster of her subject's plumage. The rich royal blue reflects in a dreamy glow off the bird's perch. Each carefully defined f...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Winter Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Winter Landscape " c.1930 is a watercolor by noted American artist Raphael Senseman, 1870-1966 It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is ...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Stone Monument to a Forest Cabin, Mid-Century Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Stone Monument, a mid-century landscape by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. No frame. Unfinished, unsigned work. Estate of Joseph Yeager on Verso. Joseph "Joe" Yeager (American, 20th Century) was raised in Cleveland Ohio, where he went to art school at night and started his art career at 19. He was a commercial artist for the Cleveland Press...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Black-Bellied Plover #9
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Why is this bird with a clearly white breast so named? Because it's never in breeding plumage in Santa Barbara - I guess you have to go to the high Arctic to ...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Mid Century Seashells and Coral Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed still life or seashells and coral on a wood table by Joseph Yeager (American, early-mid 20th Century). Background has an ocean scene with a sailboat and palm trees. Y...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Big Red
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Awards 2013 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor/ Allied Artists of America, 100th Annual Exhibition at the National Arts Club 2011 Mary Bryan Memorial Medal / Allied Artis...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Illustration signed by J. Meyers, Elegant couple dated (19) '04 Pencil on Paper
Located in Hallowell, ME
Pencil on paper. Note I bought this work sight unseen as Jerome Meyers. That is clearly wrong. Sadly I paid $1300 for it and then another 150 to a paper restorer and now and new f...
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Early 1900s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Woman in Blue, Pastel by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999) Title: Woman in Blue Year: circa 1970 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed Size: 21.5 in. x 17 in. (54.61 cm x 43.18 cm) Frame: 27 x 22.5...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Nude Girls Dance Playboy cartoon "They Say Every Little Gesture Has Meaning
Located in Miami, FL
"They Say Every Little Gesture Has a Meaning", Playboy cartoon illustration, August 1968 Pen and watercolor on board 12.5 x 9.5 in. (image) Signed...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Pen

Listen
Located in Denver, CO
Rock formations in landscape
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Sable, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
I love creating figurative paintings in watercolor! I like to work as quickly as possible adding color upon color while still wet and forming spontaneous com...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Long Tailed Sylph, blue and green realist gouache miniature animal portrait
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Paper

Funeral Range, Watercolor by Ralph Hulett
By Ralph Hulett
Located in Long Island City, NY
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:...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Daisies, grey realist graphite on paper floral drawing, 2020
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly explores the full tonal depth of graphite in her nature drawings and landscapes. She finds all of the soft subtleties of gray as she shifts seamlessly from branch to pebb...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Graphite

The New Dreamliner: Biggest Baby News in Years!
Located in Miami, FL
Published Thayer Stroller advertisement, 1951 Watercolor and gouache on board Signed lower left
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Yellow Bird Akimbo, contemporary realist gouache miniature animal portrait
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky's realist miniature gouache painting, Yellow Bird Akimbo, is kinetic and visceral. Clinging to diverging branches, the little yellow shock of a bird is caught betwixt an...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Black Turnstone #3
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Black turnstones are small hyperactive solitary shorebirds that, on Leadbetter Beach in Santa Barbara where they can be found in abundance in early winter, ra...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Standing Pregnant Nude, Original Drawing by Moses Soyer 1965
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Moses Soyer, American (1899 - 1974) Title: Standing Pregnant Nude Year: 1965 Medium: Pastel on paper, signed l.l. Size: 24 x 15.5 in. (60.96 x 39...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Fishing Boats in the Harbor with Monterey Wharf Fish Market, Maritime Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishing Boats in the Harbor with Monterey Wharf Fish Market, Maritime Landscape Highly detailed watercolor of fishing boats in the harbor along a w...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Crosswalk, New York City, Photorealist Watercolor on Paper by Don David
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Davis Title: Crosswalk Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed lower right Image Size: 27.5 x 19.5 inches Frame Size: 35 x 27 inches Amid construction that constantly reinve...
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1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Tree Trunk and Barn
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A watercolor by Gregory Sumida. "Tree Trunk and Barn" is a watercolor on pressed board executed in earthy browns, yellows, whites and blues and depicting a bare branched, tree trunk ...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Board

Osprey, contemporary realist gouache on paper animal miniature
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Vacated
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A watercolor by Gregory Sumida. "Vacated" is a watercolor on watercolor board executed in blues, yellows, greens, browns and whites and depicting a dilapidated and abandoned home set...
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1970s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Board

Crested Bird, contemporary realist gouache on paper miniature animal portrait
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky's realist animal miniature, Crested Bird, is a rich melange of hues and textures. The bird's plumage is a blaze of brick red and burnt orange. His tail and crest are pun...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Edam, Holland
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Fransioli’s cityscapes are crisp and tidy. Buildings stand in bold outline, their forms squarely defined by stark light and long shadows. Saturated color permeates every corner of his canvases, from vibrant oranges and greens to smoky terra cottas and granites. Even the trees that line Fransioli’s streets, parks, and squares are sharp and angular, exactly like those in an architect’s elevation rendering. But Fransioli’s cities often lack one critical feature: people. His streets are largely deserted, save for parked cars and an occasional black cat scurrying across the pavement. People make rare appearances in Fransioli’s compositions, and never does the entropy of a crowd overwhelm their prevailing sense of order and precision. People are implied in a Fransioli painting, but their physical presence would detract from the scene’s bleak and surreal beauty. Magic Realism neatly characterizes Fransioli’s artistic viewpoint. The term was first broadly applied to contemporary American art in the 1943 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, American Realists and Magic Realists. As exhibition curator Dorothy Miller noted in her foreword to the catalogue, Magic Realism was a “widespread but not yet generally recognized trend in contemporary American art…. It is limited, in the main, to pictures of sharp focus and precise representation, whether the subject has been observed in the outer world—realism, or contrived by the imagination—magic realism.” In his introductory essay, Lincoln Kirstein took the concept a step further: “Magic realists try to convince us that extraordinary things are possible simply by painting them as if they existed.” This is Fransioli, in a nutshell. His cityscapes exist in time and space, but certainly not in the manner in which he portrays them. Fransioli—and other Magic Realists of his time—was also the heir to Precisionism, spawned from Cubism and Futurism after the Great War and popularized in the 1920s and early 1930s. While Fransioli may not have aspired to celebrate the Machine Age, heavy industry, and skyscrapers in the same manner as Charles Sheeler, his compositions tap into the same rigid gridwork of the urban landscape that was first codified by the Precisionists. During the 1950s, Fransioli was represented by the progressive Margaret Brown...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

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