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
Echo Loses Narcissus
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Echo Loses Narcissus
Year: 1978
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36 x 48 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed, dated, and titled by th...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Holiday Boating near Dungarvan
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander McKenzie, Australian (1971 - )
Title: Holiday Boating near Dungarvan
Year: 2001
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled, and dated verso
Size: 48 x 48 inches
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
725 CLE Series: Winter Work/Hulk w/Five Birds
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the geometric landscape of his hometown Thomas Roese has created a photorealist series using acrylic, graphite and colored pencil.
Since graduating from the Cleveland ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Mark of Zorro / acrylic painting
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
Photorealistic still life street scene that features an American flag and resist sticker in the window of a home. Brown with red, white and blue. The street numbers are 8102 (2018 in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Old Black Woman - Contemporary, Blue, Green, Tigers, Black, Lady, Dream
By Mihai Florea
Located in Berlin, DE
The Old Black Woman, 2019
Oil on canvas
55 1/8 H x 47 1/4 W in.
140 H x 120 W cm
The artwork was part of the solo show ONIRIX.
ONIRIX is a project about how we remember and inter...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"On the Mountain in Snow at Dusk" Medium sized Landscape of Winter Scene, Dusk
Located in Wellesley, MA
"On the Mountain in Snow at Dusk," Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 Inches is a highly realistic landscape of a bank of evergreens covered with snow at the top of a white mountain against th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cle Series: Lift w/Ladders.
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the geometric landscape of his hometown Thomas Roese has created a photorealist series using acrylic, graphite and colored pencil.
Since graduating from the Cleveland ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
"Waterfall with Spray and Shrubs" Small Landscape with Waterfall, Sky, Greenery
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Waterfall with Spray and Shrubs," Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 3/4 inches, is a meticulously painted rendition of a waterfall on a summer day. The top half of the painting is dominate...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
725 CLE Series: Edge.
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the geometric landscape of his hometown Thomas Roese has created a photorealist series using acrylic, graphite and colored pencil.
Since graduating from the Cleveland ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
"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
725 CLE Series: Tank, Hopper w/Yellow Ladder.
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the geometric landscape of his hometown Thomas Roese has created a photorealist series using acrylic, graphite and colored pencil.
Since graduating from the Cleveland ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
"Aerial Sun Through Clouds" Medium Sized Landscape of Fields and Sky at Sunset
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Aerial Sun Through Clouds," Oil on Canvas, 44 x 40 Inches is a highly realistic landscape in blues, grays, pinks, lavender and white which depicts a sunset over water and a burst ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"California Field at Sunset" Medium Sized Landscape with Setting Sun
Located in Wellesley, MA
"California Field at Sunset," Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36 Inches is a highly realistic landscape which depicts a deep green field and dusky sky punctuated...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
First Presbyterian Church, Hillsboro, Ohio; US Highway 50
By Lloyd Brown
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on a shaped ragboard panel in an artist-made frame.
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"An Iron Gate, " Oil on Canvas signed by Gregory D. Steele
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
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
Hazen Market, Hazen, Nevada, Alternate US Highway 50
By Lloyd Brown
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on four shaped ragboard panels in artist-made frames.
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Rag Paper
"Anonymous Collaborators", Hyper-realistic, oil painting, graffiti landscape
By Jessica Hess
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original oil painting on canvas by Jessica Hess measuring 30in x 30in.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jessica Hess now lives and works in San Francisco, Californ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shady Hollow Motel, Green River, Utah, US Highway 50
By Lloyd Brown
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on three shaped ragboard panels in artist-made frames.
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Rag Paper
Malaysia Beef Jerky, 16x19.5, acrylic on masonite
By Charles Ford
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Another wonderful painting by Charles Ford that captures the great lighting and shadows of ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
"Over the Finger Lakes" Aerial Landscape View of at Dusk in Blues and Whites
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Over the Finger Lakes," Oil on Canvas, 40 x 44 Inches is a highly realistic landscape which depicts a series of the fingers lakes in New York State seen from an aerial view in deep blues and greens, with a streak of white light that divides the image into sky with a suggestion of clouds and water...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The High Line, 16x17x1.5", acrylic on Masonite,
By Charles Ford
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
Another outstanding painting by Charles Ford that focuses on the High Line in New York City ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite
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
"Sea and Sky in Hazy Sun" Highly Realist Large Beach Landscape Purple/Pink/Blue
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Sea and Sky in Hazy Sun," Oil on Canvas, 60 x 46 Inches, is a large beach painting of the shoreline at sunset dominated by a dramatic sky of bl...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Annecy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Harry McCormick, American (1942 - )
Title: Annecy
Year: circa 1990
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 50 in. x 60 in. (127 cm x 152.4 cm)
Frame Size: 57 x 67 inches
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sea and Sky in Moonlight" Large Photo-Realist Beach Landscape Dark Blue/White
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Sea and Sky in Moonlight," Oil on Canvas, 60 x 46 Inches, is a large nocturne of the shoreline dominated by a highly dramatic sky of deep blues, grays, lavender and white, with bril...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lexington Windows
By Brian Cobble
Located in Dallas, TX
"He [Cobble] has come to accept the fact that low production can lead to under appreciation in the short run, but he also knows that his gifts of perception and discrimination are ra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Cosmo
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
Lexington Backyard
By Brian Cobble
Located in Dallas, TX
Brian Cobble’s landscapes tend to particularly focus on the interplay of man and his surroundings, whether natural or built. A signature attention to the liminal aspects of a scene, ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Louis Robbe, Landscape With Barn, Sheep & Goats, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This exquisite mid to late-19th-century oil painting by Belgian artist Louis Robbe (1806-1887) depicts three finely rendered sheep, a lamb and two goats before a landscape with dista...
Category
1910s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Jen Starling", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Daniel Sprick's (US based) "Jen Starling" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female portrait with a landscape background colored with pink and blue hues.
About the artist:
"Upon first glance, viewers might think Daniel's works are photographs because of their stunningly realistic elements. However, the longer we look at one of his paintings, the more we become aware that they are anything but a part of our world. We encounter Sprick's paintings not so much as statements, but more as experiences, whereby we engage deeply with his creativity. - Timothy J. Standring, exhibition curator and Gates Foundation Curator at the Denver Art Museum. Daniel Sprick's Fictions: Recent Works includes more than 30 examples of the Colorado artist's portraiture and still life paintings that blur the line between realism and abstraction. His meticulous representation of everyday objects and stirring interpretation of the human form provide viewers a new way to look at the world.
Born:
May 1, 1953, Little Rock, Arkansas
Education:
AA-Mesa College, Grand Junction...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sunset Limited", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Daniel Sprick's (US based) "Sunset Limited" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a mountain landscape colored with the orange hues of twilight.
About the artist:
"Upon first glance, viewers might think Daniel's works are photographs because of their stunningly realistic elements. However, the longer we look at one of his paintings, the more we become aware that they are anything but a part of our world. We encounter Sprick's paintings not so much as statements, but more as experiences, whereby we engage deeply with his creativity. - Timothy J. Standring, exhibition curator and Gates Foundation Curator at the Denver Art Museum. Daniel Sprick's Fictions: Recent Works includes more than 30 examples of the Colorado artist's portraiture and still life paintings that blur the line between realism and abstraction. His meticulous representation of everyday objects and stirring interpretation of the human form provide viewers a new way to look at the world.
Born:
May 1, 1953, Little Rock, Arkansas
Education:
AA-Mesa College, Grand Junction...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Blue Vista' Contemporary Seascape painting of rocks, blue skies, sunlit water
By Marc Esteve
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Blue Vista' is a realist Contemporary Seascape Painting by Marc Esteve. Sea, sand and waves make for a composition that is beautiful and tranquil. You can hear the rolling waves and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waterfall VI
Located in New York, NY
Leign Wen’s works reflect her personal and cultural histories. Having grown up on the island of Taiwan, she has a deep affinity for the elemental power of water and the forces of nat...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
To Be a Bat
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
Lynette Cook, 'To Be a Bat', 30 x 24, Acrylic on canvas. One of the artist's new 'To Be' paintings that is a recognition of our urban spaces coexisting with nature. Diving deeper, t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid July
By Tom McKinley
Located in San Francisco, CA
Oil on panel
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
'Sparkling Crest' Photorealist painting of a blue, turquoise wave, sea foam
By Marc Esteve
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Sparkling Crest' is a realist Contemporary Seascape Painting by Marc Esteve. Sea, sand and waves make for a composition that is beautiful and tranquil. You can hear the rolling wave...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Roaring seas' Contemporary powerful blue seascape painting of a crashing wave
By Marc Esteve
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Roaring Seas' is a realist Contemporary Seascape Painting by Marc Esteve. Sea, sand and waves make for a composition that is beautiful and tranquil. You can hear the rolling waves a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Soccer Players in Central Park
By Hilo Chen
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Hilo Chen from 1973. A photo-realistic scene of a park in midday overlooking a soccer field from a sidewalk vantage point. Signed and dated verso, framed in a natural wood frame.
Artist: Hilo Chen
Title: Soccer Players...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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.
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