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Style: American Realist
American New Mexico NAVAJO Realist South Western Portrait American Indian Man
Located in New York, NY
Jimmy Abeita B. 1947 painting is oil on canvas Image 9x12 Overall with frame 15x18 inches Signed lower right Housed in original Frame Gallery labels: Adobe Gallery and Brandywine gal...
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1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Woman Listening" Honore Sharrer, Magical Realism Landscape with Flora & Figure
By Honore Sharrer
Located in New York, NY
Honore Sharrer (1920 - 2009) Woman Listening Signed lower right Caseine on paper 15 x 20 inches Provenance: Forum Gallery, New York Private Collection ...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Casein

"Transformation" Contemporary oil female nude metamorphosis, Venus allegorical
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A contemporary female nude hovering a hairs breath over a lily pond, blue butterflies swirling around her, possibly lifting her into the twilight sky with them. Her arms are extende...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Third Class Carriage (Down South)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Third Class Carriage (Down South), c. 1942 - 45, oil on canvas, 24 x 29 inches, labels verso read: "Painting by Mervin Honig [with address included]" and inscribed verso: "Title: Thi...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida" Beatrix Sherman, American, Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Beatrix Sherman Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida, 1947 Signed lower right Oil on canvasboard 16 x 20 inches Beatrix Sherman (1894-1975), who changed her first name from Beatrice by...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Modernist Oil Painting Still Life Tableaux with Lobster, Pineapple and Clock
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on artist's board, 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures a still life table top kitchen scene. ...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right and verso 8 x 10 inches oil on board. BIO The son of a men's haberdasher, Mervin ...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Boy with Fish, Oil Painting on Board by Thomas Kerry
Located in Long Island City, NY
Boy with Fish Thomas Kerry, British/American Date: circa 1970 Oil on Board, signed and dedicated verso Size: 24 x 20 inches Frame Size: 29 x 25 inches
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1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Teacher's Strike, Oil Painting by William Waithe
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting by William Waithe depicts a teachers strike, possibly the infamous teachers' strike in 1970 by Newark teachers which at the time was the longest teachers' strike in the...
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1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Reflection", oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Wang Kun's "Portrait of Qiang Woman" is an oil painting created in 2023 that depicts a traditional Qiang woman. kun Wang(王琨), was born in Jilin Province of China in 1970. His legs...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Devil's Backbone" Original Oil Painting, Desert landscape
Located in Denver, CO
"Devil's Backbone" by Diego Glazer is an original painting depicting rock formations bathed in warm light. About the Artist: For as long as I can remember, I have been on a quest t...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Raphael Soyer "George the Iceman Woolf"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Raphael Soyer: 1899-1987. Very important and well listed American artist. One of the early social realist painters. He was born in Russia, but his family was deported by the Tsar in ...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
Located in New York, NY
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) "Union Square" 24 x 36 inches Oil on canvas, c.1940s S...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Forest Landscape - an Antique Oil Painting by 19th Century American Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Forest Landscape - an Antique Oil Painting by 19th Century American Artist, Clara Davis Inness (1874-1932) Art measures 16 x 12 inches Frame measures 21 x 17 inches Oil on Canvas, ...
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1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Antique American Oil Painting Portrait Young Woman Necklace Period Frame Rare
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful and rare antique American portrait of a young woman in a stunning period frame, likely original to the piece. Unsigned but beaut...
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1890s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Black Angel - African American Artist - Black Artist
Located in Miami, FL
This powerful and graphically composed image of a black man with white angel wings was painted in a realist style by African American artist Thomas Blackshear...
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Early 2000s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Spanish Carnations
Located in Denver, CO
Flora in Vase, with red interior
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Saturday Evening Post cover, August 29, 1959. - Americana
Located in Miami, FL
This classic Post cover combines the vastness of the American West landscape with the intimacy of iconic Americana: two kids swimming in a rura...
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1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Harold “Red” Grange, The Galloping Ghost - Football Oil Painting by Thomas Allen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas B. Allen, American (1928 - 2004) Title: Harold “Red” Grange, The Galloping Ghost Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 30 x 40 in. (76...
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1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Sirens" Hyper-Realist Contemporary Oil Painting, blue swimming pool at night
Located in New York, NY
This evocative fine art painting captures the quiet allure of a backyard swimming pool at night, its glowing blue-green water illuminating the surrounding darkness. The carefully pla...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Varnish

Girl Sitting on Wall
Located in Marco Island, FL
Clyde Singer was a master of capturing the small and significant moments of everyday life. This painting, titled Girl Sitting on Wall, 1956, is one of those perfect scenes that he d...
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1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Elk River" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gordon Brown's (US based) "Elk River" is an oil painting that depicts trees on a green river embankment. Bio/artist statement: "My paintings are all about light and mood," says Co...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Women's City Club, Youngstown, Ohio. American Historical Scene Painting.
Located in Marco Island, FL
An accomplished American Scene painter, Clyde Singer successfully captured everyday life during his long career. A unique aspect of American life is depicted in this painting, entitl...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s
Located in New York, NY
Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s An artist on the WPA mural project, Deutsch was born in Lithuania and died in Los Angeles. Works of Boris Deutsch are housed in Carnegie Institute, National Museum of American Art, Los-Angeles County Museum of Art, Scribal Museum, Pomona College...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hotel Chelsea
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed lower right Unframed dimensions: 30 x 52 inches Framed dimensions: 39 x 61 inches Paul G. Oxborough studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Atelier Lesueur, a 4...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Black Angel - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
This powerful and graphically composed image of a black man with white angel wings was painted in a realist style by African American artist ...
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Early 2000s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Girl Reading Card-American Realist Portrait-Mid-Century Original Oil Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
Clyde Singer was a master of capturing the small and significant moments of everyday life. This painting, titled Girl Reading Card, 1948, is one of those perfect scenes that he docu...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

The Pool Hall
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A realist painting of people in a pool hall. The red pool table is the centerpiece of the painting, seemingly illuminating the space, and particularly t...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Ham Rock" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Harrison's (UK based) "Ham Rock" is an oil painting that depicts an arid landscape with clouds and towering rock formations. Sometimes they are silent epic landscapes of the D...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Red Coat - Mid-Century Figurative American Painting. Woman in New York City.
Located in Marco Island, FL
American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, Red Coat, where he depicts a woman walking down the street towards her destination in 1956. An accomplished American Scene pa...
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1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

Seascape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Seascape" c. 1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted artist June Nelson, 20th Century. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artis...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Two Sisters
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Two Sisters" is a contemporary realist painting of two young women sitting at a bar. One sister looks a bit reserved, her hair down, clasping her hands in...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Painter Friend and Friends" contemporary realist figurative painting w Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A painting of painter, Ben Fenske, his muse, Beatrice, and his dog. Sitting in front of and underneath Fenske's 2009 painting, "The Break Up." The artist comforts the dog with a nice...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

"Self Portrait at 43, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Self Portrait at 43
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Private Island, Mid Day Swim
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

”Wading at Sand St. Beach” oil painting, woman in the water, signed and framed
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Square format oil painting, framed in natural wood floating frame. Doug Reina is a two time Pollock-Krasner grant recipient whose studio is in Setauket, New York. Reina is a full-...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Coral Cove Rock" oil painting, beach sunbathers gathering around large boulder
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Coral Cove Rock" is an oil painting by contemporary artist, Carl Bretzke. Coral Cove is located in Jupiter Florida, known for it's large rocks along the b...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Linen, Panel

Industrial Railroad WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Rural Modern Realism
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Railroad WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Rural Modern Realism Large oil on canvas genre painting depicting laborers working on a railroad, with rural landscape in the...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"See No Evil" oil painting, self portrait of artist covering her eyes with hands
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"See No Evil" is an oil painting. It depicts a woman, the artist, Maryann Lucas covering her eyes with her hands. The two tone composition represents the artist's astrological sign, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Speak No Evil" oil painting, self-portrait of artist covering mouth with hand
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Speak No Evil" is an oil painting. It depicts the artist, Maryann Lucas covering her mouth with her hand. The two tone composition represents the artist's zodiac, Gemini, and the in...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

World War II Invades Central Park
Located in Los Angeles, CA
World War II Invades Central Park, 1943, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 30 x 36 inches, literature: Barton, Phyllis, Cecil C. Bell, McGrew Color Graphics (Kansas City, MO, 1976),...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Irises
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, a grouping of irises stand tall against a black backdrop. A classical painting subject and style, with a fresh and intriguing touch. Iris blossoms range from buds ...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

St, Louis River Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA
Located in New York, NY
St, Louis River Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA Jo Cain (1904-2003) The Drama of the St. Louis Great River 23 1/4 x 25 ½ inches Gouache on board c. 19...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
Located in New York, NY
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF Victor Arnautofff (1896 – 1979) City Street 12 x 14 inches Oil on board, c. 1930s Signed lower left BIO Born in the Ukraine of Russia, Victor Arnautoff became one of the most influential muralists in San Francisco in the 1930s and worked for the Federal Arts Project, WPA, in the expressive, social protest...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

George Washington Marine Procession New York Presidential Inauguration, Life Mag
Located in Miami, FL
"The Great Man Comes to Take His Oath" Life Magazine Spread, July 4th, 1960, This epic narrative depicts the celebration of George Washington's inauguration, en route to Federal Hall...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Market Place, Taxco Mexico, Oil Painting by Fil Mottola
By Fil Mottola
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Fil Mottola, American (1915 - 2008) Title: Market Place, Taxco Mexico Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r. Size: 30 x 40 inches [76 x 102.5 cm] Framed: 38 x 48 inches [96.5 ...
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1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

"Relapse" - contemporary oil painting on found object, humorous swan smoking cig
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Ackrill paints directly onto found objects, seamlessly blending painting and sculpture. In "Relapse" Ackrill depicts a swan in water, humorously smoking a cigarette. Green li...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Found Objects, Oil

"Tuscany Hillside" Oil painting of rural Italian landscape, dirt road on green
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a landscape in Tuscany. Rolling hills, a winding dirt-road, Cyprus trees, and a small farm-house cottage, underneath a pale blue sky. Rows of vines descend the hil...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Linen, Panel

"House of Refuge Museum" oil painting of Historical Society Martin County FL
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a landscape in Florida. The House of Refuge Museum showcases historic work from entrepreneurs and inventors. Bretzke captured it on ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Table Elegance
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Table Elegance" c.2010, is an oil painting on panel by noted American impressionist artist Douglas Paul Morgan, 1948-2021. It is signed at the lower right corner...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"The Poor Little Bridesmaid" - Female Illustrator - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
"The poor little bridesmaid ... in her pink cotton gown ... though doubtless, there never was such a pretty girl." A kitchen scene is depicted with a young bridesmaid admiring her f...
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1910s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper, India Ink, Pen

"Idols, Not Masters" (2025) Oil Still-Life Painting on Canvas Panel
Located in Denver, CO
Julie Beck's "Idols, Not Masters" is an oil painting on canvas panel that measures 18 x 18 inches framed and is ready to hang. Artist Biography: Julie Beck was born and raised in We...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

"Angels in the Architecture" (2025) Oil Still-Life Painting on Canvas
Located in Denver, CO
Julie Beck's "Angels in the Architecture" is an oil painting on canvas that measures 17 x 14 inches framed and is ready to hang. Artist Biography: Julie Beck was born and raised in ...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Branching out
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a tomato still life. On a neutral background sits a larger tomato and 6 smaller tomatoes still attached to a vine. The two groups are divided by a diagonal slash of branch. Painting dimensions: 6 x 13 inches Framed dimensions: 12 x 19 inches John Morfis was born in Bayville, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetically pleasing, John made an extreme departure from his family life when he chose to base his life on art. Surrounded by mechanics, welders, and otherwise trade workers John had a tough time expressing his interest in a world much more utilitarian and much less expressive and impractical. With an extraordinary desire to be an artist and a grant awarded, John was able to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of Hartford in 1998. While there John studied oil painting under American realist Stephen Brown...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

American Indian - Androscoggin River Falls, Manufacturers National Bank Study
Located in Miami, FL
If there ever were a perfect work in the canon of art history, this masterpiece study by Dean Cornwell would be it. Every line has meaning and not a line out of place, as Cornwell d...
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1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Pastel, Pencil

"Guardian Angels" Original Oil Painting, Cemetery in Atlanta, GA
Located in Denver, CO
"Guardian Angels" by Diego Glazer is an original oil painting. Artist Statement: Painted on location at a beautiful old cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. About the Artist: For as long...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Blushing Bouquet
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a group of roses in a slender glass vase; a black background. Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received ins...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Herbert Davidson Magical Realism Boy Finds Nude Woman Sand Sculpture Beach 1970s
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
An amazing, magical realism painting by renowned artist, Herbert Laurence Davidson (1930-2018). This painting depicts a young boy’s innocent discovery on the beach of a sand sculptur...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

"Pollonia Beach" small plein-air seascape painting of beach in Greece
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, from a beach, looking across a little harbor full of brightly colored boats towards a little whitewashed town. Along the shoreline are the remnants of a child’s sandcastle. Signed "Personett" lower left corner. Framed in a traditional black frame w gold trim. Framed dimensions: 13 x 12 inches Rachel Personett was born in Hawaii, but raised in Colorado. Being the daughter of a pilot she has always traveled extensively. She has studied part time at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Angel Academy of Art, and finally settled on the Florence Academy of Art, graduating in 2015. In January 2016 she apprenticed the painter Odd Nerdrum in Norway for eight months. Rachel Personett works strictly from life, and enjoys the challenged of painting the ephemeral. Working from life provides the opportunity to travel around the world painting the ever changing people and landscapes. Artist Statement My mother had studied advertising in college, so she knew a lot about arts and good craftsmanship. She did talks at my elementary school each week and on a different artist. I remember being very moved by the images of Van Gogh and Andrew Wyeth. At the Florence Academy I really liked Sargent, Sorolla, Willard Metcalf, Henri Fantin-Latour and Velazquez. At Odd Nerdrums I gained new respect for Rembrandt and was introduced to other Scandinavian painters...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

'Prophet', Chouinard Art Institute, Biblical, Old Testament, Early Christian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'H. R. Williams' for Homer Ross Williams (American, 1901-1954), and painted circa 1925. Displayed in a substantial, incised and water-gilded frame of the period. F...
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1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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