Photorealist Landscape Paintings
PHOTOREALISM
A direct challenge to Abstract Expressionism’s subjectivity and gestural vigor, Photorealism was informed by the Pop predilection for representational imagery, popular iconography and tools, like projectors and airbrushes, borrowed from the worlds of commercial art and design.
Whether gritty or gleaming, the subject matter favored by Photorealists is instantly, if vaguely, familiar. It’s the stuff of yellowing snapshots and fugitive memories. The bland and the garish alike flicker between crystal-clear reality and dreamy illusion, inviting the viewer to contemplate a single moment rather than igniting a story.
The virtues of the “photo” in Photorealist art — infused as they are with dazzling qualities that are easily blurred in reproduction — are as elusive as they are allusive. “Much Photorealist painting has the vacuity of proportion and intent of an idiot-savant, long on look and short on personal timbre,” John Arthur wrote (rather admiringly) in the catalogue essay for Realism/Photorealism, a 1980 exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At its best, Photorealism is a perpetually paused tug-of-war between the sacred and the profane, the general and the specific, the record and the object.
“Robert Bechtle invented Photorealism, in 1963,” says veteran art dealer Louis Meisel. “He took a picture of himself in the mirror with the car outside and then painted it. That was the first one.”
The meaning of the term, which began for Meisel as “a superficial way of defining and promoting a group of painters,” evolved with time, and the core group of Photorealists slowly expanded to include younger artists who traded Rolleiflexes for 60-megapixel cameras, using advanced digital technology to create paintings that transcend the detail of conventional photographs.
On 1stDibs, the collection of Photorealist art includes work by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Charles Bell and others.
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Style: Photorealist
Reflections on Forest Pond in the English Countryside with Warm Yellows & Browns
Located in Preston, GB
Reflections on Forest Pond in the English Countryside with Warm Yellows & Browns, by 20th Century British Artist, Christopher Osborne.
Art measures 12 x 10 inches
Frame measures 18 ...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Traditional English Farm with Horses, Figures, Trees & Lake by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
English Farmhouse with Horses, Figures, Fields, Trees & Lake entitled 'Winters Morn' by 20th Century British Artist.
Art measures 36 x 24 inches
Frame measures 41 x 30 inches
Ch...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Country Lane to Farmhouse & Birds in English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Country Lane to Farmhouse & Birds in English Countryside by 20th Century Artist Christopher Osborne.
Art measures 12 x 8 inches
Frame measures 16 x 12 inches
Signed, oil on board, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Farm in the Woods at Winter in the English Countryside with Warm Brown Colours
Located in Preston, GB
Farm in the Woods at Winter in the English Countryside with Warm Brown Colours by 20th Century British Artist, Christopher Osborne.
Art measures 12 x 8 inches
Frame measures 16 x ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moon Shot (NASA official commission—74 x 114 inches), Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original oil painting on canvas, 1970. Size: 72 x 108 inches. Signed, titled, dated on verso. Provenance: Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY. Notes: This is one of the resulting lunar paintings from Lowell Nesbitt’s commission as the official artist for the NASA Apollo 13 space mission. In 1969, artist Lowell Nesbitt was invited by NASA to create artwork to commemorate the Apollo 9...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Elevated View of a Sussex Town in the Countryside of South England in Summer
Located in Preston, GB
Elevated View of Sussex Town in the Countryside of the South of England in Summer, by 20th Century British Artist, Christopher Osborne.
Art measures ...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Light from the Past, 1st version, 1985, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original acrylic painting on double layered Masonite, 1985. Size: 21.5 x 18 inches. Inscription: Signed, recto; signed, dated, and titled, verso. Provenance: Armstrong Gallery (57th ...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled (Scottish Pastoral Landscape), circa 1982, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original acrylic painting on canvas, circa 1982. Size: 16 x 20 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: From a series of landscape paintings by Ian Hornak...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Primeval Landscape, 1985, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original acrylic painting on double layered Masonite, 1985. Size: 16 x 19 inches. Inscription: Signed, recto; signed, dated, and titled, verso. Provenance: Armstrong Gallery (57th St...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Waiting for the Barbarians, 1985, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original acrylic painting on Masonite with artist’s painted wood frame, 1985. Size: 37 x 31 inches. Inscription: Signed, recto; titled, and double signed and dated, verso. Provenance...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite, Panel
Domain of Asmodeus, 1985, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original acrylic painting on Masonite with artist’s painted wood frame, 1985. Size: 31 x 37 inches. Inscription: Signed, recto; titled, and double signed and dated, verso. Provenance...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite, Panel
'Glistening Tide' Contemporary seascape painting of the beach, waves, blue
By LINARES
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Glistening Tides' truly conveys Linares amazing attention to detail. The sea foam is extraordinary and the beautiful detailing in the water and skis. Like looking through a window. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Summer Scene on Tree Lined River with Cattle in English Countryside in Sunshine
Located in Preston, GB
Summer Scene on a Tree Lined River with Cattle in the English Countryside in beautiful Sunshine, by 20th Century British Artist, Christopher Osborne.
Art measures 12 x 8 inches
Fram...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Farm in the Woods at Sunset in the English Countryside with Warm Brown Colours
Located in Preston, GB
Farm in the Woods at Sunset in the English Countryside with Winter Trees and Warm Brown Colours, by 20th Century British Artist Christopher Osborne.
Art measures 12 x 8 inches
Fra...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Perkiomen October" Hand-Colored Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"A Perkiomen October" Hand-Colored Photograph
Brightly oil paints colored black and white photograph of a pond by Wallace Nutting (American, 1861 - 1941). The viewer looks out across a glass pond, reflecting the scenery above. The pond is surrounded by trees that have been tinted in various shades of yellow, red, and green. Beyond the trees, puffy white clouds hang in a soft blue sky.
Signed in the lower right, below the photograph, on the backing mat: Wallace Nutting
Titled in the lower left, below the photograph, on the backing mat: A Perkiomen October
Tag on verso from the artist.
Presented in a wood frame with a tan backing mat.
Frame size: 18.5"H x 22.5"W
Image size: 10.5"H x 13"W
Wallace Nutting (American, 1861-1941) was an American minister, photographer, artist, and antiquarian, who is most famous for his landscape photos of New England. He also was an accomplished author, lecturer, furniture maker, antiques expert and collector. His atmospheric photographs helped spur the Colonial Revival style.
Nutting graduated from high school in Augusta, Maine. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, Hartford Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. He graduated from Harvard with the class of 1887. Nutting earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from Whitman College in 1893. He received an honorary doctor of Humanities from Washington & Jefferson College in 1938.
Nutting began his career as a Congregational minister in several towns including Minneapolis, Seattle, and Providence and Fryeburg, Maine, but he was forced to retire at age 43 because of poor health. He suffered from neurasthenia, and turned to bicycling as a means of relaxation and improving his health. It was on these bicycle rides in the countryside that Nutting started taking photographs. In 1904 he opened the Wallace Nutting Art Prints Studio on East 23rd Street in New York. After a year he moved his business to a farm in Southbury, Connecticut. He called this place "Nuttinghame". In 1912 he moved the photography studio to Framingham, Massachusetts, in a home he called "Nuttingholme". That year he published a catalog of prints that was 97 pages and included about 900 images. By 1915, Nutting claimed to be earning $1,000 per day.
Nutting's photographs ranged in subject and price to suit a variety of tastes. His catalog included pastoral scenes such as views of abbeys, cathedrals, bridges, mountains, flowers, and winding roads. One of his most common themes was "Colonials", which were photos of women...
Category
Early 20th Century Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Photorealism acrylic paint on board, Dutch coastline island Texel, Paal 15
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Peter van der Ploeg (Rhenen, The Netherlands, 1954)
'Paal 15' (Texel, The Netherlands)
Signed P04
Acylic paint on board
55 x 105 cm.
Peter van der Ploeg turns to landscape to find h...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
English Farmhouse with Horse & Cart amidst Fields & Trees in the Autumn Sunshine
Located in Preston, GB
English Farmhouse Cottage with a Horse & Cart amidst the Fields & Trees in the Autumn Sunshine by 20th Century British Artist. This painting masterfully captures the late summer light as it travels across the rolling countryside of this rural corner of England.
Art measures 22 x 16 inches
Frame measures 27 x 20 inches
Christopher Osborne...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Floating Between Wars - Contemporary, Cityscape, Skate, Woman, Winter, White
By Mihai Florea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Floating Between Wars, 2021
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 H x 19 11/16 W in.
60 H x 50 W cm
The painting imagines a city in a continuous present in which elements of the past intertwine with...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Stanford University Memorial Church, Hand Tinted 1930s Color Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely detailed hand tinted color landscape photograph of Stanford Memorial Church produced by Bear Photo Service (American, 1930s). Photographer is unknown. Numbered 904 bottom right. Displayed in a rustic gilt-toned wood frame with antique glass. Image size: 7"H x 11"W.
Stanford Memorial Church is located on the Main Quad at the center of the Stanford University...
Category
1930s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Oil
Daffodil Fields English Landscape Painting by Contemporary Photorealist Artist
By Nicholas Smith
Located in Preston, GB
Daffodil Fields English Landscape Painting by Contemporary Photorealist Artist, Nicholas Smith.
Art measures 8.5 x 3.5 inches
Frame measures 11.5 x 6....
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Georgetown Movie Theatre, Photorealist Painting by Charles Ford
By Charles Ford
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Ford, American (1941 - )
Title: Georgetown Movie Theatre
Year: 1985
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated l.l.
Size: 40 x 30 inches...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
"Rt. 30 - Caledonia, PA" - Contemporary Americana Road Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
An astonishing work of photorealism. I think it speaks for itself, right? In fact, it's probably hard to tell from the pics that it's not a photograph. The artist, Jim Thomson, has p...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fishing port oil on canvas painting seascape boats European art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing port Essaouira Morocco oil on canvas painting seascape boat
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Hollywood Roosevelt - Original Iconic Architecture Inspired Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer's original artworks represent one of the most significant expressions of New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her colorful scenes of everyday ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fishing port oil on canvas painting seascape boats European art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing port Essaouira Morocco oil on canvas painting seascape boat
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Barreiro Portugal oil on canvas painting seascape beach boats
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ruins in the snow
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
Ancient houses in ruins, blanketed by a layer of snow, stand as remnants of bygone days. In the foreground, a wall with a window and two openings, one of them sealed, rises as a test...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Kiss - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Love, Joyful, Realism, Minimalism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey:
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with c...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oporto Portugal oil on canvas painting seascape boats Porto
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Snow in the park I
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
In this work, the artist captures the serenity and stillness of a winter landscape with mastery that invites contemplation. The scene unfolds showing a man wrapped in coats, accompan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Aguas Cristalinas -original modern realism waterscape painting -contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
Alina Hubarenko’s “Aguas Cristalinas” mesmerizes with its portrayal of pristine, crystalline waters. The canvas bursts with hues of azure and teal, capturing the ocean's dynamic move...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clarity - original modern realism waterscape painting -contemporary interior art
Located in London, Chelsea
Alina Hubarenko’s “Clarity” invites viewers into a realm of profound serenity, reminiscent of the depths of the ocean. The canvas is awash in deep, mesmerizing tones of blue, capturi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
What is Love by K Husslein Botanical Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of a colour gradient in the background.
Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing port Morocco oil on canvas painting seascape boats
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Our Love to be One by K Husslein Botanical Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of a colour gradient in the background.
Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oporto Portugal oil on canvas painting seascape boats
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Never such Love by K Husslein Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of dark background.
Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting full elegance and ti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meeting at Night by Katharina Husslein Botanical Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of a colour gradient in the background.
Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A man and his boat Spain oil on canvas painting seascape beach
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frame size 75x66 cm.
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Beverly Hills III - Original Iconic Car Hotel Architecture Inspired Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. With a high level of technical virtuosity Keifer creates...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Boat Spain oil on canvas painting seascape beach
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frame size 75x64 cm.
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cadaques Spain oil on canvas painting seascape boats beach
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frame size 47x69 cm.
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boats in the lake oil on canvas painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frame size 50x42 cm.
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sailor and sunset oil on canvas painting seascape boats
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing port France oil on canvas painting seascape boats
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Coruña Spain oil on canvas painting seascape boats beach
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing port Essaouira Morocco oil on canvas painting seascape pier boats
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing port Essaouira Morocco oil on canvas painting seascape boats
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing port Essaouira Morocco oil on canvas painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sports boats oil on board painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frame size 42x50 cm.
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fishing port France oil on canvas painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Rose of the World by K Husslein Botanical Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of a colour gradient in the background.
Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
She walks in Beauty like the Night by K Husslein Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of dark background.
Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting full elegance and ti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Day I Fall in Love by K Husslein Botanical Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of a colour gradient in the background.
Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chroma sky (Blue key) 10 - Contemporary, Blue, Minimalist, Figurative, Landscape
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Chroma sky (Blue key) 10, 2007
Acrylic and oil on canvas
(Signed on reverse)
23.62 H x 31.49 W in
60 H x 80 W cm
The artist wrote about how he conceives this work:
"The transformat...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"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
Photorealist landscape paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Photorealist landscape 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 landscape 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, green, purple, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Ian Hornak, Lynette Cook, Kathleen Keifer, and James Van Fossan. 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 Photorealist landscape paintings, so small editions measuring 5 inches across are also available. Prices for landscape 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 $200 and tops out at $585,000, while the average work sells for $4,950.