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Style: American Realist
Oculus, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Part of David Shepherd's latest series of hyperrealist paintings focusing on women's faces. A sensual portrait rendered in extremely precise painting. Among o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Holding, Surreal Landscape Painting, Green Field with Fence, Small Art
Located in New York, NY
Laura Von Rosk’s Holding (2024) from her evocative Fence series, invites viewers into a surreal landscape where order and tension meet in delicate balance. Featured in the Pushing Bo...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Panel
Check!, Oil Painting
By Jesse Aldana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"This painting shows live-action role players under a bright early evening sky as the day's story wraps up," describes artist Jesse Aldana. "The women in the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Icy River" Oil Painting
By Rick Howell
Located in Denver, CO
Rick Howell's "Untitled 2" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a snow lined stream reflecting the blue and rust colored shimmer of cold water melt flowing into the distance.
About the Artist:
Rick Howell's landscape paintings deftly fuse the influences of the Old Masters, the American Romantic Landscape movement, and the tonal colors, loose brushwork, and softness of form displayed in the Barbizon school. Howell’s art is notable for its poetic and atmospheric interpretation of the land, as derived from his direct on-site observations and impressions.
A master of light, color, and shadow, Howell creates highly ordered scenes which consciously juxtapose hazy or blurred elements with sharp and refined details. A master of the tonalist landscape, Howell often utilizes the overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist to elicit an emotional response. Howell’s work demonstrates extraordinary sensitivity to time and place, to the endless variety of forms and colors of landscape in the Southwest, and to expressing the quiet contemplative beauty of nature, capturing the nuances of place through his use of subtle gradations of color and light.
Howell often painted en plein air for weeks at a time, even in harsh winter months. While Howell was neither purely a realist nor an impressionist painter, his works convey both the earthly and the ethereal to capture the full essence of a locale as observed and felt on location. As a fourth-generation native of New Mexico, Howell had a deep connection with the Southwest; in particular, he drew considerable inspiration from the wilderness that surrounded his studio at the mouth of the Conejos Canyon in the Southern San Juan Mountains...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Minna Citron, Lambs' Creel
By Minna Citron
Located in New York, NY
This serene subject, the Lambs' Creel relates to Minna Citron's mural project focusing on the Tennessee Valley Authority. It was such a new ...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Native American Portrait, American Western Art Oil Painting by Jalal Gharbi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian/American (1920 - 2005) - Native American Portrait, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm), Description: An unfinished...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Never Going Back, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A hyperrealistic painting of a close-up view of an eye framed by glistening white and pink flower petals. Part of artist David Shepherd's series investigating...
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
One Perfect Rose, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Inspired by how the sunlight illuminated the petals of a rose, artist Sherri Aldawood paints a portrait of her model Alana holding a freshly cut bloom. She paints her enveloped in a warm glow, revealing her and the flower's ethereal beauty. The model poses tenderly in a white dress with a Bardot neckline. The colors of summer shimmer vibrantly in the background.
About the Artist
Sherri Aldawood didn't intend to always paint flowers, but over time her love of gardens started to permeate her art. She focuses on the light and color of the flowers on the canvas. Sherri prefers alla prima, working with wet layers of paint instead of letting them dry. She keeps the paint as wet as possible by using walnut and clove oil to extend the drying time.
Words that describe this painting: woman, female, people, portrait, face, figure, figurative, John Singer Sargent, rose, garden, Joaquin Sorolla, Susan Lyon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"American Busker" Street Performer in San Francisco California
Located in San Antonio, TX
Samuel Wilson
(1986-Present)
Texas Artist
Image Size: 30 x 40
Medium: Oil
"American Busker"
When you see the paintings below in photos you will say WOW!
When you see them in person ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary 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
...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
Jack Levine WW11 Painting
By Jack Levine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jack Levine: 1915-2010. Well listed American social realist painter with auction results over $220,000. This fabulous gem was most likely painted between 1942 and 1945 as he was serv...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th Century American School Oil on Board
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming 19th Century oil on board. Adorable young child either daydreaming or posing while leaning on a fence with the moon in background. Looks like it could possibly
be done by ...
Category
19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Painting Red Riding Hood Framed 19th Century
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original antique American painting by Samuel Knight Wright, depicting the fairytale character of "Little Red Riding Hood" on her way to gr...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fred Beaver Tempera Indian Warrior On Horseback
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fred Beaver: 1911-1980. Listed American Indian Artist mostly associated with Oklahoma. He has auction results as high as $4000 for a Tempera. This is defin...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Portrait of a Rancher "Pete"
By Patience Hilda Street
Located in Soquel, CA
Oil portrait of a rancher with cowboy hat, by Patience Street (née Lloyd) (English, 1905-2010). Signed by the artist in the lower left corner. There are multiple notes on the frame o...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
WPA Mural Study 1940 American Scene Modern Social Realism Figurative Mid Century
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study 1940 American Scene Modern Social Realism Figurative Mid Century
Michael Loew (1907-1985)
Detail for Mural (Social Security Building Washington D.C.)
24 x 24 inches ...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Migrants
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Migrants' by Willard Dixon. These paintings are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from Willard Dixon’s daily reading of the news. He changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.”
Willard Dixon
Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2020: Evening Light, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Man with Blue Eyes
Located in Soquel, CA
Realistic portrait oil painting on canvas of a man in a suite and tie by Ralph Edward Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned and unframed without glass. Image size: 24"H x 18"W.
M...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Raymond Howell, Chinese Dim Sum Feast, 1979, Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in San Francisco, CA
Raymond Howell, Chinese Dim Sum Feast, 1979
Oil on masonite
28" x 36" unframed, 35.5" x 43. 75" framed
Biography from Raymond Howell website:
Raymon...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Wading Log", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kevin Weckbach's (US based) "Wading Log" is an original, hand made oil painting that depicts a white log leaning against a grassy bank and partially submerged in the rippling water of a lake or river that reflects the vibrant green of the surrounding foliage.
Artist Statement:
"Subject matter to me is a vehicle for me to explore how I observe life. My urban influences are an assembly of varied fabrics stitched together to form a tapestry. It is not to resemble a literal story of what it is; moreover, it is a quilt that explains my visual expression. What I find particularly interesting in human intervention in nature is how we are still intertwined with it. Roads, buildings, and farmlands bend with the natural curves of mountains, hills, and streams. City nights are lit up like lightning bugs...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Storm Swell" Oil Painting
By Gordon Brown
Located in Denver, CO
Gordon Brown's (US based) "Storm Swell" is an oil painting that depicts rolling, tumultuous waves crashing against a rocky shore with storming clouds over...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Juliet Hyneman by American Artist Herman Hyneman
Located in New York, NY
Portrait of Juliet Hyneman by Jewish American artist Herman N. Hyneman
Signature lower left
Framed dimensions: 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.
The following is from Peter Jung who credits "a friend named Jeff Gold on Long Island."
Herman N. Hyneman (1849 - 1907) was born in 1849 to one of the most prominent Jewish families in Philadelphia. Unlike most Jewish families of the time, his embraced and encouraged his artistic talent. In 1874, Hyneman followed his first cousin Moses Ezekiel...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
Farm to Table
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of farm-fresh goods laid on a table with a plaid picnic-print tablecloth.
Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received instruction and support from wonderful and generous members of the East End artistic community. Working exclusively in oils, Lucas sets out almost daily to create plein aire landscapes and seascapes. In her studio, she works directly from life and captures the beauty of natural light as it transforms ordinary objects into visual delights.
Lucas wants her work to celebrate all that is well with this world and brilliant in this life, despite its pockets of darkness.
For me, she says, I know I am in the Presence of something beautiful, when it steals my breath, silences my mind, pushes out everything else and draws me in. I trust That. I use That to guide my hands as I arrange a still life or scan a landscape to determine where to set down my easel. Ultimately, That is what drives me to paint.
Becoming evermore skilled as an oil painter is another of Lucas goals. To that end she remains teachable, finding it refreshing and vital for her own growth to paint with others. She has studied with favorite artists including Michael Klein...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1962 "Nude with Ball" Original Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Artist: Natasia
"Nude with Ball"
1962
Watercolor, charcoal and ink on paper
22.25"x32.25" unframed
Signed and dated in ink lower right
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
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
"Sag Harbor Pier" American Realist landscape of boats and a sunset in small town
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Sag Harbor Pier" is an American Realist oil painting; a seascape of boats and a sunset in small town Sag Harbor, Long Island.
Framed. Signed.
Carl Bretzke is a representational pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Raggedy Ann Dolls by Grace Pischner Miller
Located in Soquel, CA
Grace Pischner Miller was born in Washington on January 12, 1912. She painted primarily in watercolors. She specialized in landscapes and seascapes of California.
Two paintings of "Raggedy Ann...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
American Diner Americana Series USA by Leading British Urban Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
American Diner Americana Series USA by Leading British Urban Landscape Artist.
Art measures 24 x 18 inches
Frame measure 29 x 23 inches
Angela Wakefie...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Acrylic, Board
American Portrait of the Artist's Wife by Herman Hyneman
Located in New York, NY
Herman Hyneman (1849-1907)
Portrait of the Artist's Wife, c. late 19th century
Oil on canvas
21 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.
Framed: 27 1/2 x 35 1/4 in.
The following is from Peter Jung who credits "a friend named Jeff Gold on Long Island."
Herman N. Hyneman (1849 - 1907) was born in 1849 to one of the most prominent Jewish families in Philadelphia. Unlike most Jewish families of the time, his embraced and encouraged his artistic talent. In 1874, Hyneman followed his first cousin Moses Ezekiel, National Academy member, to Europe to study. They first went to Germany and then to France where Hyneman began eight years of study with Leon Bonnat, the French Master.
In Paris, the twenty-five year old Hyneman resided in a studio building at 75 Boulevard Clichy, with expatriates Frederic Arthur Bridgeman, Charles Sprague Pearce, Milne Ramsey, and Edwin Blashfield. Hyneman was clearly exposed to the works of these more experienced artists, as well as that of Walter Gay.
In 1879, one of Hyneman's genre paintings, entitled "Desdemona", was accepted into the Paris Salon. That painting received favorable reviews both in Europe, and later in Philadlephia where it was exhibited alongside the works of other Philadelphia Artists exhibiting at the Salon that included Thomas Eakins, Pearce, Edward May...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'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. Framed Size: 25 x 20 x 2 inches.
A psychologically penetrating, early twentieth century, figural oil painting of a bearded young man...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Urban Stream", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kevin Weckbach's (US based) "Urban Stream" is an original, hand made oil painting that depicts an aerial view of an urban waterway, lined with concrete, cutting through a dense urban...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Lockdown Self-Portrait" contemporary realist portrait of artist in his studio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Lockdown Self-Portrait" is a contemporary realist portrait of the artist in his studio.
Framed Dimensions: 17 x 20 inches
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, Californi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Social Realist GREEN STAIRS Architectural Street Scene Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on artist's board, late 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures an architectural street scape...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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 ...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Guitar" oil painting, musician seated with instrument in cozy interior, framed
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by American Realist Painter Steven J. Levin. Levin presents a neutral-toned interior, where a man sits comfortably in a chair, back against the wall, playing a guita...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Portrait of Qiang Woman", oil painting
By Wang Kun
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...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Masks We Wear, Overtaking the Past", Masked Cayote Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
3rd Version's "Masks We Wear, Overtaking the Past" is an oil painting depicting a coyote with a fox mask in a desert landscape.
Artist Statement:
I am an artist from... well that i...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Elk River" Oil Painting
By Gordon Brown
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...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1959 Corvette, Oil Painting by John McCormick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John McCormick, American
Title: 1959 Corvette
Year: 1983
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 18 in. x 32 in. (45.72 cm x 81.28 cm)
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Page Ogden and The Kitchen
Located in Long Island City, NY
This oil painting is a portrait of artist Page Ogden capturing a moment in time when she was sitting at a table reading a book by American artist John Hardy.
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Indian Chief, 30's - gouache, 29x23 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Gouache on paper by the native american artist Mopope. Dimensions framed: 35x28 cm.
Stephen Mopope was born on 27 August 1898 near the Redstone Baptist Mission on the Kiowa Reservation in Indian Territory. Qued Koi was his Kiowa name, which translates as "Painted Robe," and is sometimes spelled, "Wood Coy." His maternal grandfather was Appiatan, a famed Kiowa warrior, and his great-uncles were Silver Horn and Oheltoint (Ohettoint), both of whom were accomplished artists. Oheltoint was one of the Fort Marion ledger artists.[1] Mopope's paternal grandfather was a Spanish captive, adopted by Kiowa chief Many Bears.
When Mopope was a young child, his relatives observed him drawing pictures in the sand, so the artists in his family taught him how to paint on hides in the traditional manner. His grandmother was also instrumental in his early education.
In 1916, Mopope attended St. Patrick's Indian Mission School in Anadarko, Oklahoma, where he received further art instruction under Sister Olivia Taylor, a Choctaw nun. In a move that contradicted US federal policy at the time, Susan Peters, the Kiowa agency field matron, arranged for Mrs. Willie Baze Lane, an artist from Chickasha, Oklahoma, to teach painting classes for young Kiowas in Anadarko. Recognizing the talent of some of the young artists, Peters convinced Swedish-American artist, Oscar Jacobson...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Sunlight in the Shop" Post Modern oil painting, sunbeams on a humble woodshop
By Joe Altwer
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Sunlight in the Shop" is a post modern oil on aluminium painting. It depicts a woodworker's shop full of tools and equipment. Sunlight is shining through the barn doors onto the equ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Leaving Sag Harbor by Boat" oil painting, seascape of powerboat sepia tone
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by American Painter Carl Bretzke. This waterscape was painted en plein air in Sag Harbor, NY. A boat heads away from the viewer, toward the tree-lined horizon at twi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Plantation Scene
Located in Austin, TX
A scene of a plantation in the mid 20th century by Charles Shaw.
Charles William Shaw was a multifaceted American Postwar & Contemporary artist from Austin, Texas. Primarily known f...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Social Realist Street Scene of Youth at Play (African American)
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on artist's board, late 20th century, signed "P. Zimmerman" lower right; [Sight: 8 1/2" x 20 1/2"; Frame: 12 1/2" x 25"]. Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA wo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Clowns: Aren't We All?" Henry Glintenkamp, WPA Era Circus Figures, Modern
Located in New York, NY
Hendrik (Henry) J Glintenkamp
Clowns: Aren't We All?, 1942
Signed lower left; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
Oil on Masonite
20 x 16 inches
The painter and illustrator Henr...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Standing Figure, " Nicholas Sperakis, Rhino Horn Group, American Realist
By Nicholas Sperakis
Located in New York, NY
Nicholas George Sperakis (American, b. 1943)
Standing Figure, n.d.
Oil and paper on canvas
60 x 42 inches
Signed and titled on the reverse
Nicholas Sperakis, the youngest of the original Rhino Horn...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
I am Human Watercolor on Paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
I am Human
Watercolor, ink on paper 49"x42" framed
Keith Carrington
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid a...
Category
1990s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
"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
"Aspen Light" Oil Painting
By Gordon Brown
Located in Denver, CO
Gordon Brown's (US based) "Aspen Light" is an oil painting that depicts dense cluster of aspens turning with colorful yellow leaves whose thick canopy blo...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Americana Oil Painting, "Paper Box" Robert Sarsony, ACA Gallery
By Robert Sarsony
Located in Surfside, FL
Robert Sarsony
Oil on gesso and masonite board.
Hand signed lower left.
Labels verso give artist, title "Paper Box", year 1971 and medium.
Bears label from ACA Gallery...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
American Realist figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic American Realist figurative paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including David Shepherd, Carl Bretzke, Christopher Clark, and Bruce Adams. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large American Realist figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 1.75 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $51 and tops out at $2,750,000, while the average work sells for $5,502.