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
Cecropia Moth on Tree Bark - Life-Like Original Acrylic Painting, Framed
By Rick Pas
Located in Chicago, IL
Michigan based artist Rick Pas paints images from nature in microscopic detail. Here a brightly colored Cecropia moth rests on highly textured tree bark. The Cecropia is the largest ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Study for Calico 1
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Oil on paper painting of Calico mountains, Las Vegas
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil
Island Path VI, Dylan Lloyd, Contemporary Landscape Painting, Vibrant Art
By Dylan Lloyd
Located in Deddington, GB
Dylan Lloyd
Island Path IV
Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Oil Paint on Canvas
Framed in a White Box Frame
Image size: H 30cm x W 24cm x D 0.5cm
Framed Siz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, 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
"Through a Rainy Window II", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Through a Rainy Window II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a window dotted with rain that obscures and abstracts the gray ov...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"A Long Day's Work", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "A Long Day's Work" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts construction workers gathering around a pit in the street lined with caut...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"A Moment in Time", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "A Moment in Time" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts Times Square in New York City bustling wit...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Eight Men Working", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Eight Men Working" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts construction workers laying fresh cement in th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Driving in the Rain II", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Driving in the Rain II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a cascading pattern of rain drops on a car windshield which obscures...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marine Layer - Gray Seaside Seascape Landscape Ocean 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
"Cement and Tree Shadows", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Cement and Tree Shadows" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts construction workers laying fresh cement in the shade of a tree wit...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Scraping", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Scraping" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a construction worker smoothing freshly poured cement in a developing urban landscape.
About the artist:
When Dianne Massey...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arie Azene Israeli Photo Realist Oil Painting Manhattan New York Street Scene
By Arie Azene
Located in Surfside, FL
Arie Azene, Israeli painter, born in Germany, 1934
Arie (Eisman) Azene was born in Hamburg, Germany. He immigrated to the Land of Israel with his parents soon after birth. In 1958, after studying art in Paris, he settled on Kibbutz Tzova in the Judean Hills...
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Forever Sunset - Palm Tree Red Original Landscape Painting California Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to her colorf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
June Twilight - Original Palm Tree Gray Painting Landscape California Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to her colorf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dylan Lloyd, Island Path Diptych, Bright Contemporary Art, Landscape Painting
By Dylan Lloyd
Located in Deddington, GB
Dylan Lloyd
Island Path Diptych
Original Oil Paintings on Canvas
Oil Paint on Canvas Board
Framed in a White Box Frames
Image size: H 30cm x W 20cm x D 0.5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Over The Beach - Landscape Ocean Original 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
Contemporary landscape oil painting forest trees outdoors road gate sky signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"An Iron Gate" is an original oil painting on canvas by Gregory Steele. The piece is signed and dated in the lower left and titled on verso. This piece depicts a decaying iron gate i...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Modern Minimalist Landscape Pool Painting - Crisp Angled Water
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to her colorf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
At the Airport
Located in Miami, FL
Before there was Photorealism, there was Austin Briggs.
Done in 1951, this work has all the hallmarks of the 1970's fine art movement and more.
Briggs is using photographs as a refer...
Category
1950s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ocean Gaze No. 4
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Steven Nederveen's art is a testament to the complex and ever-evolving relationship between humans and nature. His vivid nature scenes, often seemingly uplifting and idyllic, also reveal the darker aspects of our connection with the natural world. Through his work, Nederveen explores the dualities of our relationship with nature - the love and destruction that can coexist within us. His masterful use of color and light illuminates the beauty and mystery of natural environments such as oceans and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"King's Highway Deep", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Heather Neill's (US based) "King's Highway Deep" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a dirt trail leading into the forest where fall has s...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cool and Deep - Landscape Pool California Art Pop Abstract
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to her colorf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Raindrops", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Raindrops" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a cascading pattern of ripples in a puddle from a heavy rainfall.
About the art...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Three Dinghies, original 36x48 contemporary landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Adorable dinghies awaiting their chance at some action, bobbiing up and down, stirring up the waters below. Verging on popart, this contemporary, original oil painting is a joy to b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
8 Track I - Graffiti and rust covered bridge contemporary photorealist painting
By Roland Kulla
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting captures a graffiti and rust covered steel bridge with bright blue skies and a sliver of green trees in and urban architectural setting.
Rolland has always been fascinated by the built environment. Reflecting on what the structures tell about their builders as well as their interaction with nature and the results of time. He focuses on the engineering ingenuity that created Chicago’s many bridges. Structural elements are abstracted from their context and painted with a hard-edged realism on a scale that highlights the monumentality of the forms and the creativity necessary for their existence. Shown here is “Eight Track”
Roland Kulla
8 Track...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Soft Morning - Palm Tree Original Painting Yellow Gold California Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to her colorf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Italy, Garden, Coming Rain, Oil Painting by Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ian Hornak, American (1944 - 2002)
Title: Italy, Garden, Coming Rain
Year: 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso
Image Size: 28.75 x 38 in. (73.03 x 96.52 cm)
Canvas Siz...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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 France 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 boats
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
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
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
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
Sand Dunes -original realism seascape oil painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Sand Dunes by Olga Calado takes the viewer on a visual journey across a sunlit beach, where rolling sand dunes stretch towards a clear blue sky. The intricate patterns of the wind-sw...
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
Au bord de l'eau, Seascape Oil Painting, Seaside with Clouds, Contemporary Art
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade artwork, Unique Work. Framed in Solid wood floater frame with white finish. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Oil painting on stretched Linen.
Artist : ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Green Glow of the Sea-original realism seascape oil painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
In "Green Glow of the Sea," Lia Madsen transports viewers to the mesmerizing realm where land meets water, capturing the essence of the ocean's verdant embrace in stunning realism. T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
A single Soul inhabiting two Bodies 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
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
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
Ciel et Terre - Oil Painting, Landscape, Seaside
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Original Oil painting on Wood panel - Contemporary Landscape painting, Seaside Painting. Unique Work. Framed in Solid naturel wood floater frame with light finish. The work can be pl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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
"Rainy Day" (2024) By Michael Miller, Original Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Michael Miller's beautiful original photorealist landscape barn painting "Rainy Day" (2024) depicts a Midwestern cattle pasture in the midst of a misty spring storm.
Artist Bio/Stat...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
And when you came into my Life, Eternity - 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
Last Song: Beim Schlafengehen—Going to Sleep (homage to Richard Strauss)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Last Song: Beim Schlafengehen (Going to Sleep)
Year: 1985
Year: 1985-2001
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, with Artist Painted Frame
Size: 47 x 59 i...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Last Song: Im Abendrot—In Evening‘s Glow (homage to Richard Strauss)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Last Song: Im Abendrot (In Evening’s Glow)
Year: 1985-2001
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, with Artist Painted Frame
Size: 47 x 59 inches
Condition: ...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
(Connecticut Landscape) Untitled, Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Connecticut Landscape)
Year: 1983
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 60 x 43 inches
Condition: Excellent
Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, N...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
Looking Toward Oyster Pond, Montauk, Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Looking Toward Oyster Pond, Montauk
Year: 1983-2001
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 42 x 60 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed rect...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
The best in life is to hold onto each other 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 Rose Annual - 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
As the dawn knows the day, may my love be - 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
"Barn in the Golden Hour" (2024) By Michael Miller, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Michael Miller's beautiful original realist landscape barn painting "Barn in the Golden Hour" (2024) depicts a Midwestern barn post-storm in the golden sunlight of evening, resting a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the Edge of Reality VII-original, modern realism seascape-still life painting
Located in London, Chelsea
The concluding artwork in the series, "At the Edge of Reality VII," maintains its size at 70x70 cm, wherein the orange and red buoys now cast elongated, profound reflections on the w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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.