Animal Paintings
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
Early 2000s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
1870s Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Expressionist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
2010s Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Lacquer, Acrylic
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
1980s Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
2010s Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
2010s Expressionist Animal Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Cardboard
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
1990s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
1980s Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt depicts a family of aquatic birds he saw in a northern Iceland lake. "The mother bird saw me and swam across to proudly show off her chick," says Emil. With near-photographic detail, the subjects stand out vividly against a clean white background.
About the Artist
Emil Morhardt is an acrylic painter from Santa Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He paints at home in a studio room that has large windows and a north-facing view of the mountains. He observes the animals from this window, watching roadrunners, foxes, bobcats, deer, and coyote run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Emil paints bird portraits reminiscent of those by artist John James Audubon. He bases his paintings off hundreds of photographs he takes of birds in the wild and at wildlife recovery centers. Emil captures the freedom and inquisitiveness that birds display...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Mixed Media, Board
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Lacquer, Acrylic, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
1870s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Cotton, Wax, Oil
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Animal Paintings
Oil
Early 2000s Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
1990s Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Animal Paintings for Sale
Animal paintings depict the beauty and power of nature in an elegant way that can complement any room. Interacting with animals has long captured the imagination and has been interpreted in diverse artistic media.
Some of the oldest works of art have included animals, such as a cave painting found in Indonesia dating back more than 45,500 years that shows a wild pig in red ocher pigment. Animals have continued to appear in every era and style of art, from realism to Pop art and everything in between.
Some paintings portray animals in their natural habitat, highlighting the majesty of wild creatures roaming the plains, forests and jungles. These paintings often feature deer, tigers, wild mustangs and other wildlife. Others focus on domestic animals such as dogs — pay a visit to the Museum of the Dog if you don’t believe us — as well as cats and how they interact with the world and their owners.
Picking the right animal painting for a room — as well as knowing how to arrange your new wall art — can take time. But, in the end, it will tastefully reflect your interests and passions. While an expansive landscape painting helps open up a small space, hanging a horse painting in a den shows a love for equine culture and can invite interesting conversation.
There is animal art to fit every collection on 1stDibs. Explore a wide selection of animal paintings and animal prints in a range of styles and designs to match any home or office.