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Style: Photorealist
Style: Op Art
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'Orange Pumpkin' Photorealist painting of pumpkins, on a blue, teal cloth
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Orange Pumpkin' Still Life painting with pumpkins on a blue and teal table cloth. Amazing in any interior setting.
Lijftogt was born in Amsterdam and at the age of 19 decided to p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Oil Painting Rat "Unicorn #3"
By Manon Cleary
Located in Washington, DC
Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse Manon Cleary and titled Unicorn #3.
Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art.
Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets.
As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance.
Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations.
She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.”
Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years.
In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon.
“She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.”
Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year.
As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.”
She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001.
In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side.
She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh.
After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility.
Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley...
Category
1990s Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Primeval Landscape, Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Primeval Landscape
Year: 1985
Medium: Acrylic on double layered Masonite
Size: 16 x 19 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, ...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite
The Angel Concert, Variation II
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: The Angel Concert, Variation II
Year: 1979
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36 x 48 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed, dated, and t...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled I, Abstract Geometric Acrylic Painting on Graph Paper by David Roth
By David Roth
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting was created by American artist David Roth. Roth's images are proportioned according to a strict mathematical formula - the pictures are composed according to horizontal and vertical divisions on the graph paper...
Category
1970s Op Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
In the rain. 1990, cardboard, oil, 90x140 cm with minor defects
Located in Riga, LV
In the rain. 1990, cardboard, oil, 90x140 cm with minor defects
Liga Purmale (1948)
Was born on October 4, 1948 in Dundaga. She graduated from the secondary art school of Janis Rose...
Category
1990s Photorealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Baker's Dozen", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Baker's Dozen" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts twelve glazed donuts in a white pastry box.
About the artist:
When Dianne Massey...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"1959 Red BMW Isetta 300" (2022) By Shan Fannin, Original Acrylic Painting
By Shan Fannin
Located in Denver, CO
Shan Fannin's (US based) "1959 Red BMW Isetta 300" is an acrylic painting that depicts a red 1959 Red BMW Isetta 300.
Born 1969 in California, artist Shannon “Shan” Fannin brings v...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Board
"Life is Not a Game, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Francisco Collado's "Life is Not a Game" is an original, handmade hyper realistic oil painting that depicts a still life of a skull with a magnifying glass and a small ball with push...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Framed Peonies
Located in Indianapolis, IN
A beautiful trompe l'oeil still life.
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Warm sunset over the ocean., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Warm sunset over the ocean. Blue water, sea, ocean, waves, sun glare on the water, clear warm sky, warm sand, beach create an atmosphere of relaxation and romance. Light flickers on ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Mollie's Spoons", Oil Painting
By Scott Fraser
Located in Denver, CO
Scott Fraser's "Mollie's Spoons" is an oil painting created in 2020 that depicts varying fine silver spoons scattered across a warm grey surface.
About ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled, Geometric Abstract Acrylic Painting by David Shapiro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Shapiro (American, b. 1944)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1978
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated l.l.
Size: 12 in. x 95 in. (30.48 cm x 241.3 cm)
Category
1970s Op Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Of Ships and Men" - Nautical Trompe l'Oeil Composition in Oil on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
"Of Ships and Men" - Nautical Trompe l'Oeil Composition in Oil on Board
Maritime still life by Russell Tripp (American, 1942-2025). This hyper-realistic painting captures a collecti...
Category
1990s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Luminalia" Oil Painting
By Mia Bergeron
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Luminalia" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a candle with a dusky evening sky.
Mia Bergeron's interest in art was cultivated early on, b...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wax
Roanheads Scotland 2, oil on birch panel, rural arcitecture
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original oil on birch-wood panel is a signature work of Roanheads, Scotland by painter and master print-maker Agnes Murray. Ms. Murray is notable for capturing the crystalline ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Wonder Woman (large signed giclee on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed lower right by Doug Bloodworth. Hand numbered 24/150 lower right. Canvas size 38 x 50 inches. Canvas is not stretched.
Artwork is in excellent co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Brazil - 21st Century, Figurative Painting, Green, Flag, Bikini Bottom
By Mihai Florea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Brazil, 2010
Oil on canvas (Signed, front right middle)
14.96 H x 18.11 W in.
38 H x 46 W cm.
The contemporary society is seen as an "extra-wrapped" society by the artist Mihai Flor...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Surprised Wood Duck - Photorealistic Bird Portrait, Yellow Background
By Rick Pas
Located in Chicago, IL
Painted with such exacting detail it is hard to believe a human hand can be so exacting. This piece is framed in a simple wooden frame measuring 15 x 18 inches.
Rick Pas
The Surprised Wood Duck
acrylic on panel
12h x 15w in
30.48h x 38.10w cm
15h x 18w x 1d in (framed)
RPA023
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Creating is an addiction. With all the highs and lows you would expect. I am interested in the surface textures and creating paintings that portray them in realistic detail. Hopefully a viewer will feel they can run a hand over the feathers and moss, or grasp an object in the painting. This detail is usually composed in an abstract design. The design can occur naturally or be arranged by me.
RESUME
Rick Pas
b. 1958, Flint, MI
Education
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Pearson Art Scholarship
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, Take Flight
William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom & Winter
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, Western Visions
Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Braveheart
2021 William Baczek Fine Arts, 25th Anniversary Exhibition
2020 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer
Gallery Victor Armendariz, The Palette of Pride
2019 The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, Environmental Impact II
Lovetts Gallery, Realism, Reveries, & Rhapsody
Gallery Victor Armendariz, New Work
2018 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Front and Center
Corporate Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, Portraits and Places: Redefining Realism
William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom
Lovetts Gallery, Rear Window
2017 William Baczek Fine Arts, Winter, Animal Kingdom, Summer
Lovetts Gallery, The Good, the Bad, and the WTF? & Red
2016 William Baczek Fine Arts, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Summer, & Landscape Exhibition
Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Group Exhibition
Lovetts Gallery, Cauldron
2015 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer
JW Marriott, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT, Small Works
Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL, Ann Nathan Gallery Satellite Exhibition
RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, A Magical Menagerie
2014 William Baczek Fine Arts, Spring & Landscape Exhibition
2013 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, Environmental Impact
Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Interspecies
2012 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland, MI, The Nature of Art: An Invitational Exhibition
William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Exhibition
Ann Nathan Gallery, Group Exhibition
Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI, A Natural Selection
Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, Art and the Animal
Gallery Project, Extremes & Umvelt
2010 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition
San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, Art and the Animal
2009 West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Michigan Fine Arts Competition
Gallery Project, Shrines and Altars
Ann Nathan Gallery, Fall Group Exhibition
2008 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition
Gallery Project, Animal Intelligence
Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI, The Natural Eye
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, Art and the Animal
2007 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition
2006 WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI, New Dimensions in the Natural World
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art and the Animal
Gallery Project, Nature Reperceived
2005 Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Animal House
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art of the Animal Kingdom
The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO, AMERICAN BIRDS: A Flight Through Time
WARD Gallery, Summer Celebration
2004 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, Contemporary Realism
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ, Art and the Animal
Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, Fifth Year Celebration
2003 Fraser Gallery, Georgetown International
2001 Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, 57th Juried Exhibition
Wild Wings, Lake City, MN, Fall Festival
2000 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Birds in Art (Also 1983-85, 1987, 1992, 1994)
Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI, Midwest Winter
Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, National 2000
1993 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wildlife: the Artist's View (Also 1990)
1992 National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks (Also 1990)
1989 College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Untitled 030 (Hammer and Iron)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original diptych painting by American contemporary conceptual painter Bruce Adams from the artist's Untitled series.
Each work measure 24" x 24' and comes framed in a silver meta...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shady Hollow Motel, Green River, Utah, US Highway 50
By Lloyd Brown
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on three shaped ragboard panels in artist-made frames.
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Rag Paper
Silver placer., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Silver placer. Blue water, waves, serene views, ocean shine, glare on the water create an atmosphere of relaxation, romance. Made in the style of realism. Part of a permanent series ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Cast Shadow
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on linen by artist Joseph McGurl. Framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Calls in the Manitou Passage - Photorealistic Painting of Bald Eagle Screeching
By Rick Pas
Located in Chicago, IL
A male bald eagle screeches to be heard above the stormy backdrop of Lake Michigan's Manitou Passage in Northern Michigan. Extraordinarily painted with such realistic detail, this majestic bird's feathers beg for the viewer to come in for a closer look at its plumage. The piece is framed in a simple black wooden frame measuring 31 x 51 inches.
Rick Pas
Calls in the Manitou Passage
acrylic on panel
28h x 48w in
71.12h x 121.92w cm
RPA022
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Creating is an addiction. With all the highs and lows you would expect. I am interested in the surface textures and creating paintings that portray them in realistic detail. Hopefully a viewer will feel they can run a hand over the feathers and moss, or grasp an object in the painting. This detail is usually composed in an abstract design. The design can occur naturally or be arranged by me.
RESUME
Rick Pas
b. 1958, Flint, MI
Education
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Pearson Art Scholarship
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, Take Flight
William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom & Winter
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, Western Visions
Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Braveheart
2021 William Baczek Fine Arts, 25th Anniversary Exhibition
2020 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer
Gallery Victor Armendariz, The Palette of Pride
2019 The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, Environmental Impact II
Lovetts Gallery, Realism, Reveries, & Rhapsody
Gallery Victor Armendariz, New Work
2018 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Front and Center
Corporate Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, Portraits and Places: Redefining Realism
William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom
Lovetts Gallery, Rear Window
2017 William Baczek Fine Arts, Winter, Animal Kingdom, Summer
Lovetts Gallery, The Good, the Bad, and the WTF? & Red
2016 William Baczek Fine Arts, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Summer, & Landscape Exhibition
Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Group Exhibition
Lovetts Gallery, Cauldron
2015 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer
JW Marriott, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT, Small Works
Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL, Ann Nathan Gallery Satellite Exhibition
RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, A Magical Menagerie
2014 William Baczek Fine Arts, Spring & Landscape Exhibition
2013 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, Environmental Impact
Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Interspecies
2012 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland, MI, The Nature of Art: An Invitational Exhibition
William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Exhibition
Ann Nathan Gallery, Group Exhibition
Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI, A Natural Selection
Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, Art and the Animal
Gallery Project, Extremes & Umvelt
2010 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition
San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, Art and the Animal
2009 West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Michigan Fine Arts Competition
Gallery Project, Shrines and Altars
Ann Nathan Gallery, Fall Group Exhibition
2008 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition
Gallery Project, Animal Intelligence
Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI, The Natural Eye
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, Art and the Animal
2007 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition
2006 WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI, New Dimensions in the Natural World
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art and the Animal
Gallery Project, Nature Reperceived
2005 Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Animal House
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art of the Animal Kingdom
The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO, AMERICAN BIRDS: A Flight Through Time
WARD Gallery, Summer Celebration
2004 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, Contemporary Realism
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ, Art and the Animal
Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, Fifth Year Celebration
2003 Fraser Gallery, Georgetown International
2001 Sioux City...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
"Owl/Búho". Contemporary, Realism, hyperrealims, figurative, bright, vivid, anim
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, Realism, hyperrealims, figurative, bright, vivid, animal
Category
2010s Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Pequena Italia (Little Italy) NYC
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.
Jesús Navarro was born in Jerez, (Cadiz), located in southern Spain, in 1952. By the age of tw...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Garden Sounds, Oil Painting on Linen, Interior With Landscape View, Bird
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade artwork, Unique Work. Framed in Solid wood floater frame with oak wood stain finish. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Oil painting on stretched Linen.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Seanergy I -original modern realism waterscape painting -contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Seanergy I" captures the visceral power of a wave mid-crash, i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liesenbruken, Abandoned Train Bridge, Contemporary Photorealist Painting
By Roland Kulla
Located in Chicago, IL
A bridge to nowhere has been taking no one there for almost 70 years. The Liesenbrücken bridge has been rusting with iron will and doing little else since it was abandoned in favor o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ten Lollipops, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Grace Diehl
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is composed with colorful Tootsie Roll lollipops in a glass canisters. The studio lighting is set up to create wonderful shadows cast onto the surfaces. An interesting ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Manon Cleary "Rat"
By Manon Cleary
Located in Washington, DC
Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse "Cleary". Painting is stretched on aluminum stretcher and dates to the 1990s.
Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art.
Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets.
As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance.
Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations.
She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.”
Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years.
In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon.
“She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.”
Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year.
As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.”
She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001.
In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side.
She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh.
After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility.
Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley Cleary-Cooper, is an artist in Helena, Mont.
She was a 1964 graduate of Washington University in her home town and, for the rest of her life, was proud of having been a member of the Pi Phi...
Category
1990s Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Driving in the Rain II", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Driving in the Rain II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a cascading pattern of rain drops on a car windshield which obscures...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ogni Giorno, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Brand new painting entitled Ogni Giorno, Italian for Every Day. Inspired by a trip to Agrigento, Sicily. It shows a man working in a supermarket. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Glare on the waves, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Glare on the waves. Blue water, ocean shine, glare on the water, small waves create an atmosphere of relaxation, romance. Made in the style of realism. Part of a permanent series of ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Chlorine Dreams, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Abi Whitlock
Located in Yardley, PA
Shattered light, rainbows and bubbles give this piece an dream like feel. The water almost looks like glass made liquid. I wanted to capture the same feeling one gets when submerged ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Anne Wolff, "Sunlight", Equine Portrait Oil Painting on Canvas
By Anne Wolff
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This equine racing painting "Sunlight" by artist Anne Wolff is a 12x16 original oil painting on canvas. The black background adds a dramatic note to the painting, and contrasts the ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Iridescence, super realistic oil painting of colorful iridescent ribbons
Located in Brooklyn, NY
colorful ribbons
Oil on canvas
Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can...
Category
2010s Photorealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waterloo Station - London
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.
Jesús Navarro was born in Jerez, (Cadiz), located in southern Spain, in 1952. By the age of tw...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rose of Sharon, super realism, colorful, flowers, food, still life
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Doug Newton’s hyper-real oil paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our perceptions....
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
100-10
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a collaboration between Marshall Simpson (1900 – 1958) and Roslynn Estelle Middleman (1929 – 2003), 100-10, by 1958, oil on Masonite, signed and titled verso, 22 x 30 inches,...
Category
1950s Op Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Hotchkiss Storm" contemporary realist Northeastern U.S. water and landscape
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Hotchkiss Storm" is a contemporary realist Northeastern U.S. water and landscape.
Frame Dimensions 14 x 16 inches
Edward Minoff Graduated with honors from NYU's Tisch School of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
New York Times (large signed giclee on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed lower right by Doug Bloodworth. Hand numbered 36/150 lower right. Canvas size 44 x 55 inches. Canvas is not stretched.
Artwork is in excellent co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Reeds by the Shore - original realism seascape oil painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Reeds by the Shore by Olga Calado evokes a sense of calm and qu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cracker Jacks (huge original painting)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated lower front by Doug Bloodworth. Canvas size 48 x 60 x 2 inches (stretched).
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of au...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Red Spirals, colorful ribbon and candy, super realism neutral toned background
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil paint on canvas colorful whimsical
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fort Mott, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Landscape at sunset. Grassy field, hills, goldenrod. Abstracted realism. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Swamp Thing (large signed giclee on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed lower right by Doug Bloodworth. Hand numbered 8/150 lower right. Canvas size 38 x 48 inches. Canvas is not stretched.
Artwork is in excellent con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life No. 7
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jeanette Pasin Sloan
Title: Still Life No. 7
Year: 1979
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 46 in. x 62 in. (116.84 cm...
Category
1970s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Riders Through Time and Space
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on linen by artist Joseph McGurl. Framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Afternoon splendor
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
The subtle and brilliant work of art is meticulously hand painted by Lynette Cook, who realistically depicts scenes that she sees during her morning walks through the city, yet her p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Second Light 32″ x 57″
By Randy Ford
Located in Boca Raton, FL
One cannot appreciate this painting on a computer screen; in real life, it is absolutely amazing. Because you cannot appreciate it on a computer screen, our gallery has a unique policy. When purchasing from us, the buyer has sixty days to determine if they want to keep the artwork. If not, the buyer returns the piece to us for full refund, and we pay the shipping both ways!
A collector should consider several factors when deciding from whom to purchase artwork online.
Check the location of the seller. When one buys from a foreign seller, one also has to consider the problems of getting the piece through Customs. There are often delays and considerable fees to pay in order to import the item. When purchasing from us, we ship the same day and you receive it via FedEx the next day, no problems or hassles.
When one purchases from an auction house, one pays a buyer’s premium of anywhere from 23% to 28% over the “hammer price”. So when one “wins” an auction for $20,000, the actual price paid is more like $25,000. By contrast, when purchasing from us, the price agreed to is the price paid by the buyer, no hidden fees.
Secondly, when one purchases from an auction house, the buyer pays the packing and shipping fee, which are usually exorbitant. By contrast, when purchasing from us, the price includes packing and shipping.
Thirdly, when one purchases from an auction house, the sale is final. If one receives the piece and is not 100% satisfied with it, there is nothing the buyer can do about it. They are stuck with it. By contrast, when purchasing from us, the buyer has sixty days to determine if they want to keep it. If not, the buyer returns to piece to us for full refund, and we pay the shipping both ways.
About Randy Ford
Exhibitions of Ford’s work have taken place at Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, Editions/Line Gallery, Marlton, NJ, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY, Galería artelibre Zaragoza,Spain, Hughes Gallery, Boca Grande, FL, J. Willott Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, Jones & Terwilliger Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY, M.A Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Plus One Gallery, London, England, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY, Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY, Trudy Labell Fine Art, Naples FL...
Category
2010s Photorealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peonies, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Peonies, 2023 year :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signatur...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Malaysia Beef Jerky, 16x19.5, acrylic on masonite
By Charles Ford
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Another wonderful painting by Charles Ford that captures the great lighting and shadows of ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
The High Line, 16x17x1.5", acrylic on Masonite
By Charles Ford
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
Another outstanding painting by Charles Ford that focuses on the High Line in New York City ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite
Red peonies on a turquoise background, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Red peonies on a turquoise background , 2022 :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Return to Earth", R. W. Hedge, Original Oil on Canvas, 44"x60", Grand Canyon
By R. W. Hedge
Located in Dallas, TX
Ronnie Hedge's artwork, "Return to Earth," masterfully captures the tranquility and grandeur of one of nature's most iconic landscapes—the Grand Canyon. Through his hyperrealistic te...
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Line Study For Angles and Curves, Duo of Art Deco Shapes, Pastel Palette Rouge
Located in Barcelona, ES
These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art Deco shapes of the 30's, 40's and 50's. The subtle but chic color combinations will combine beautifully with both vintage and modern furniture without overtaking spaces that are carefully crafted by designers.
Natalia Roman was born in 1984 in Girona, Spain. She has exhibited in galleries across Europe and her colorful, abstract paintings are part of private collections all over the world.
Details:
Title: Line Study...
Category
2010s Op Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Oil Crayon
"Ciruelas / Plums". Contemporary, Realism, food, figurative
Located in MADRID, ES
"Ciruelas / Plums". Contemporary, Realism, food, figurative, hyperrealism, photorealim
Category
2010s Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor