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Style: American Realist
Branching out
By John Morfis
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...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Three Magenta Peonies" contemporary realist oil painting pink flowers on black
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Three Magenta Peonies" is contemporary realist oil painting pink flowers on black background. A classical painting subject and style, with a fresh and intriguing touch.
Signed "Personett" lower left corner.
Framed in a traditional black frame w gold trim.
Framed dimensions:
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...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
A Painting of Adaline Glasheen as a Writer's Muse
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: 'A.Brook '59'.
Painted in Sag Harbor, Long Island in 1959. Adeline (Adaline) Glasheen was a writer. She was a friend of the artist and worked in literary circle...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peek-a-Boo
By Seymour Joseph Guy
Located in New York, NY
In the latter half of the nineteenth century and into the first decade of the twentieth, New York City art aficionados could count on finding recent work of Seymour Joseph Guy hanging on the walls of the city’s major galleries. Primarily a genre artist, but also a portraitist, between 1859 and 1908 Guy showed more than seventy works at the National Academy of Design. From 1871 to 1903 he contributed over seventy times to exhibitions at the Century Club. From 1864 to 1887, he sent about forty pictures to the Brooklyn Art Association. A good number of these works were already privately owned; they served as advertisements for other pictures that were available for sale. Some pictures were shown multiple times in the same or different venues. Guy was as easy to find as his canvases were omnipresent. Though he lived at first in Brooklyn with his family and then in New Jersey, from 1863 to his death in 1910 he maintained a studio at the Artist’s Studio Building at 55 West 10th Street, a location that was, for much of that period, the center of the New York City art world.
Guy’s path to a successful career as an artist was by no means smooth or even likely. Born in Greenwich, England, he was orphaned at the age of nine. His early interest in art was discouraged by his legal guardian, who wanted a more settled trade for the young man. Only after the guardian also died was Guy free to pursue his intention of becoming an artist. The details of Guy’s early training in art are unclear. His first teacher is believed to have been Thomas Buttersworth...
Category
19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$110,000
The Race
By William John Hennessy
Located in New York, NY
William John Hennessy was born in Ireland. He came to America in 1849 with his mother and brother a year after his father had fled their homeland after taking part in the unsuccessful Young Ireland Party uprising. The Hennessys settled in New York, and when young William came of age, he decided upon a career as an artist. At the age of fifteen, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design, where he learned to draw from the antique, and the following year he was granted admission to the Academy’s life-drawing class.
Hennessy first exhibited at the National Academy in 1857, starting a continuous run of appearances in their annuals that lasted until 1870, when he expatriated himself to Europe. During his time in America, Hennessy was principally known as a genre painter and prolific illustrator for such publications as Harper’s Weekly and a number of books, including illustrated works of William Cullen Bryant...
Category
19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
London Round House-Mid-Century Industrial American Scene Oil Painting
By Jack Steele
Located in Marco Island, FL
A mid-century American Realist scene of children playing on the railroad entitled, London Round House. The chaotic scene of children rambunctiously playing is suspected to be set in...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grisha Sleeping
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a man resting on a bed. His arms reach to the left of the panel, and one leg bent, the other extending towards the end of the bed and the viewer. The edges of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$3,120 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Villa After Dark" realist nocturne painting of Italian farmhouse & dinner party
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Villa After Dark" is a realist nocturne painting of Italian farmhouse & dinner party under the lights.
Framed.
Signed at bottom left.
Carl Bretzke is a representational painter who specializes in urban scenes, nocturnes, and plein-air landscapes. He is a member of the Plein Air Painters of America since 2021. Carl's work has been exhibited extensively in Minnesota and California, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Carl's work has been described in the Washington Post as "simultaneously intimate and detached…The artist's unadorned style recalls Edward Hopper and The Ashcan school."
Carl holds an MD degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Colorado...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Portrait of Chinese Couple. Pearl S. Buck Tiger Tiger Illustration Cosmopolitan
Located in Miami, FL
Among the many accolades I would grant Dean Cornwell, the one that rises to the top would be that he is one of America's greatest portrait painters. With a few strokes, he captures h...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Circus Wagons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This watercolor is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Circus Wagons, 1927, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left, 10 x19 ¾ inches (sight), provenance includes Stary-Sheets Art Gallery (Gualala, CA); J. Ralph & Louis Stone Foundation; presented in a newer metal frame behind glazing
About the Painting
Millard Sheets was only twenty years old and in his third year of studies at the Chouinard Art Institute when he painted Circus Wagons. Despite his youth, Sheets was already an accomplished artist who had publicly exhibited his work and won prestigious prizes. Within several years, he would have his first solo exhibition at one of Los Angeles’ premiere galleries and become a painting instructor at his alma mater. In Circus Wagons we already see Sheets deft handling of the watercolor medium and his interest in the California Scene. In this case, Sheets captures a back lot view of a traveling circus, a subject he sometimes returned to, including in a color screen print in the collection of the National Gallery. Sheets made a career by painting what he knew and observed firsthand. This approach allowed Sheets to capture with authenticity the details of each narrative. Even with a narrowly limited palette and an economy of brushstrokes, Sheets effectively depicts the southern California scene with its strong and mysterious shadows, as well as the workers and circus animals. Seen through the hindsight of his six-decade long career, Circus Wagons offers a fascinating insight into the early development of California Scene painting which would by the mid-1930s become the best recognized style on the West Coast.
About the Artist
Millard Sheets was the dean of California watercolorists. His list of accomplishments is so extensive that his entry in Who was Who in American Art is over forty lines. Born in Pomona, California, Sheets became a painter at an early age, winning a prize at the Los Angeles County Fair in 1918. By the mid to late-1920s, Sheets became a regular at art exhibitions in the western part of the United States, winning several additional prizes before he reached the age of twenty-five. Sheets studied at the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute from 1925 through 1929 with Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle and had his first solo show with Los Angeles’ Dalzell Hatfield Gallery in 1929. During the 1930s, Sheets was invited to exhibit at almost every major American Museum and in many ways, his work came to represent the California watercolor school...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Oasis (Pool Opens in Three Days)" Contemporary Oil Painting, Hamilton Fish Pool
Located in New York, NY
This large scale painting by Linda Griggs features the community pool of Lower Manhattan's Hamilton Fish park. oil, wold wax and selective varnish on canvas) 48” x 48” (2025) signe...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"By the Lagoon" Oil painting of tropical swimming cove, figures in bathing suits
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a tropical landscape. Crystal teal-blue water is surrounded by verdant bushes and palm trees, which cast dappled shadows onto the sand. A few figures splash around...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Manet Revisits the Folies Bergère
Located in Greenwich, CT
This painting by Jenness Cortez is an homage to artist Édouard Manet (1832-1883) and several of his paintings, including:
“A Bar at the Folies Bergère,”...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mahogany, Acrylic, Wood 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...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spice Market, Marrakesh Morocco
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
John Hanlen (1922-2003).
Spice Market, Marrakesh, Morocco, ca. 1950.
Tempera on paper, sheet measures 18.5 x 23 inches. Measurement with matting: 26 x 32 inches. The piece is unfr...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Puddle Jumper. Woman With Umbrella Original Oil American Rainy Scene Painting.
Located in Marco Island, FL
An ordinary scene of a woman walking down a sidewalk in the rain is elevated to a little gem of a painting. American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, Puddle Jumper (...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jack Henderson, Exit
Located in New York, NY
The frame adds a few inches to the size and was selected by the artist.
Jack Henderson (1931-1998) taught at the Art Students League for many years and had a studio in at 30 East 14th Street, New York City. In that building were many other artists including Henderson's teacher and long-time collaborator, Edward Laning. A Kansas City native, Henderson was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He continued the Miller/Laning tradition of travel to Italy to study the masters of the Renaissance and the goal of fine figure painting as the ultimate artistic achievement. A version of his monumental triptych, New York in Ruin, 1967, is in the collection of the New York Landmarks Commission. Work by Jack Henderson was shown at the Susan Teller Gallery...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Movie Theatre Nocturne II
By Max Ferguson
Located in Greenwich, CT
Born in New York City in 1959, Max Ferguson started as a filmmaker, making
award-winning animated films as a teenager. But it was while he was a visiting
student at an art school in ...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sam Murti
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
In his current series, “In Your Room”, Alex Blas explores modern day life by examining the private spaces of his friends. In these paintings, Blas carefully considers the shadows, co...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,000
"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...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Horseman and cattle
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Horseman with Cattle" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist John Stanford. It is signed at the lower right corner by...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Subway no. 2 - Beijing
Located in Burlingame, CA
BING ZHANG's Subway no. 2, 48 x 36 inches, oil on canvas. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Bing Zhang’s Subway painting series explores themes of class, labo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Jack Henderson, The Winners
Located in New York, NY
The frame adds a few inches to the size and was selected by the artist.
Jack Henderson (1931-1998) taught at the Art Students League for many years and had a studio in at 30 East 14th Street, New York City. In that building were many other artists including Henderson's teacher and long-time collaborator, Edward Laning. A Kansas City native, Henderson was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He continued the Miller/Laning tradition of travel to Italy to study the masters of the Renaissance and the goal of fine figure painting as the ultimate artistic achievement. A version of his monumental triptych, New York in Ruin, 1967, is in the collection of the New York Landmarks Commission. Work by Jack Henderson was shown at the Susan Teller Gallery...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Subway no. 1 - Beijing
Located in Burlingame, CA
BING ZHANG's Subway no. 1, 36 x 48 inches, oil on canvas. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Bing Zhang’s Subway painting series explores themes of class, labo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circus Acrobats - ( Friends with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo )
Located in Miami, FL
As they take center stage, four acrobats are depicted, forming an architectural structure composed of contorted human bodies. The small gallery of onlookers displays a variety of ex...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Café Renée
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed lower right
Unframed dimensions: 36 x 48 inches
Framed dimensions: 44 5/8 x 56 5/8 inches
Paul G. Oxborough studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Atelier Lesue...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Milk and Crackers
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new masters help to create unique modern images. As with all enc...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
(Untitled) A Scandalous Tea with a Stranger in Leiderstein
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the depths of the Great Depression, American women sought escape from their worries. For 25¢,“Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan” magazine delivered. The magazine published ficti...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower Market, Lima Peru
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
John Hanlen (1922-2003).
Flower Market, Lima Peru, ca. 1950.
Tempera on paper, sheet measures 14.25 x 22.5 inches. Measurement with matting: 18.5 x 26.5 inches. The piece is unfra...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Arctic Stream in Forest Landscape with Lush Green by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Arctic Stream in Forest Landscape with Lush Greens & Blues by 20th Century British Artist, Jack Strickland
Art measures 16 x 20 inches
Frame measure...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Love Story. Mid Century Desaturated Color
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
Most likely for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Collier's Weekly, Good Housekeeping or Macall's
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
J.P. Morgan
Located in Storrs, CT
A 20th-century American School oil painting on board featuring American banker and financier J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) seated at his desk. Light streams throug...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$750 Sale Price
25% Off
Reclining Nude Figure in the Morning Light
Located in Soquel, CA
Reclining Nude Figure in the Morning Light
Reclining nude figure in bed by Elliot, a Santa Cruz County artist (American, 20th Century). A figure is laying facedown in bed, with thei...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$1,560 Sale Price
35% Off
Palace Bar
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed upper right
Unframed dimensions: 21 x 28 inches
Framed dimensions: 28 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches
Paul G. Oxborough studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Atelier Lesue...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
George Washington Marine Procession New York Presidential Inauguration, Life Mag
By Robert Riggs
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...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$92,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Jack Henderson, Circus
Located in New York, NY
This painting is signed at the lower right. The frame adds a few inches to the size and was selected by the artist.
Jack Henderson (1931-1998) taught at the Art Students League for many years and had a studio in at 30 East 14th Street, New York City. In that building were many other artists including Henderson's teacher and long-time collaborator, Edward Laning. A Kansas City native, Henderson was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He continued the Miller/Laning tradition of travel to Italy to study the masters of the Renaissance and the goal of fine figure painting as the ultimate artistic achievement. A version of his monumental triptych, New York in Ruin, 1967, is in the collection of the New York Landmarks Commission. Work by Jack Henderson was shown at the Susan Teller Gallery...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
The Troubadour's Love
Located in Zofingen, AG
"A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). The texts of troubadour songs deal mainly with themes of chivalry and ...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rowing to Shore - Nautical Seascape in Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Noble nautical scene of a small rowboat coming to shore from a larger sailing vessel by George A. Robbins (American, 1918-2010). In the foreground, sever...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Potomac Falls" Original Oil Painting, Rushing River Waters
Located in Denver, CO
"Potomac Falls" by Diego Glazer is an original oil painting depicting a river with rushing waters.
Artist Statement: Painted on location during a trip to Virginia.
About the Artis...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Study
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Study" c.2000, is an oil painting on canvas by noted American impressionist artist Douglas Paul Morgan, 1948-2021. It is signed at the lower left corner by t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Within and Without, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In this hyperrealistic painting of a close-up view of an eye framed by delicate white flowers, artist David Shepherd investigates taking people out of gender....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Subway no. 3 - Beijing
Located in Burlingame, CA
BING ZHANG's Subway no. 3, 48 x 48 inches, oil on canvas. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Bing Zhang’s Subway painting series explores themes of class, labo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Under the Surface
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Alex Roulette’s paintings depict false realities. The artist constructs landscapes from numerous source photographs, which he uses a...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Green House
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Green House" c.2000, is an oil painting on panel by noted American impressionist artist Douglas Paul Morgan, 1948-2021. It is signed at the lower right corner by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"In the Neighborhood" Urban Oil Painting of a City Street in Shadows
Located in Denver, CO
Ken Valastro's "In The Neighborhood" is an original, handmade oil painting.
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Cliffs of Vernazza" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Cliffs of Vernazza" is an oil painting that depicts a seaside city on the precipice of a steep cliff
Bio/artist statement:
...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Kiss, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Part of David Shepherd's latest series of hyperrealist paintings focusing on women's lips. A sensual portrait rendered in extremely precise painting. Among ot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand Illustration
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. ...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Knight’s Lodging
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Knight’s Lodging, 1941, oil on canvas panel, signed and dated lower left, 16 x 20 inches, exhi...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Summer School, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Stephanie Buer's (US based) "Summer School" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a grey exterior wall of a school with a graffitied phrase.
Stephanie Buer, now based ...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"The Ordell, Brooklyn Bridge" Margaretha E. Albers, New York Urban Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
Margaretha E. Albers
The Ordell, Brooklyn Bridge
Signed LR
Oil on artist board
12 x 16 inches
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Private Collection, New York
St. Lifer Art, New...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mongols
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
There is from frame burn and scattered surface abrasions but they are minor. Additionally, there are a 3 or 4 very fine hair line scratches not visible unless you look very closely. The work is varnished and has a reflective quality to it that makes it hard to photograph. In person the viewing experience is much better. You can see more detail in the shadow areas. The colors are rich, deep and saturated. Riggs was very particular in researching the tribal costumes...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
$26,000 Sale Price
23% Off
Film Still #4 (portrait, western movie, cowboy, Hat, shadow, monochrome art)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
With eyes obscured and hat lowered, this figure is both iconic and unknowable—a faceless cowboy adrift in a pale, open void. Kosow distills the visual codes of Americana and cinemati...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Valley of the Rocks" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Harrison's (UK based) "Valley of the Rocks" is an oil painting that depicts an arid landscape with clouds and towering rock formations.
Sometimes they are silent epic landscap...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Hopeful of the Dream City
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Hopeful of the Dream City" invites viewers to delve into the depths of the young lady's aspirations. Her gaze is fixed on a distant horizon, eyes filled with a mixture of excitement...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Ink
$1,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Charity
Located in Astoria, NY
Henry L. Richter (1870-1960), Charity, Oil on Canvas, 19th century, depicting a woman giving change to an invalid inside a church, signed lower right, unframed. 32.5" H x 19.75" W.
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower Garden, Cape Cod, Mid-Century Cleveland School Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carl Frederick Gaertner (American, 1898-1952)
Flower Garden, Cape Cod, c. 1940s
Gouache on illustration board
17.5 x 29 inches
27 x 39 inches, as framed
Carl Gaertner was one of the greatest painters to emerge from the Cleveland School...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"At Long Last" (2020), Oil on Linen Human Portrait Painting by Burton Silverman
Located in Denver, CO
Burton Silverman's "At Long Last", an oil on linen portrait painting dated 2020, is a masterful realist capturing of a contemplative young woman with short hair in modern casual clothes...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
American Realist figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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