Realist Landscape Paintings
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Chianti Farmhouse , Landscape oil painting, Classical Realism Italy
Located in Houston, TX
Chianti Farmhouse is Realist Landscape painted from life, searching for accuracy beyond physical appearance . This is oil on canvas with a custom made archival frame.
Chianti Fa...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Entering Beaver Meadow; Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
By Brian Blood
Located in Pasadena, CA
Consigned to the gallery by H&N Fine Art as part of the Katherine A. Norris Legacy Collection
FRAMED: 25.75" x 29.5" x 1.125 UNFRAMED: 19.5" x 23.75
Exhibited
Early California Mas...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Reflecting Stillness - contemporary, realist, waterscape, acrylic on canvas
By Ciba Karisik
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This acrylic landscape painting captures a peaceful river.
In this acrylic and charcoal piece by Ciba Karisik, the Canadian artist evokes an almost tangible sense of the stillness o...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Summer day in the old town
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting depicts a corner of an old European city on a hot summer day. The sun illuminates the ground and the roof tiles almost to whiteness. The wall of an ancient cathedral and...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunflowers in a Mediterranean Landscape
Located in Preston, GB
Sunflowers in a Mediterranean Landscape
Art measures 24 x 20 inches
Frame measures 26 x 22 inches
Sunlit Reverie Among the Sunflowers
Original oil painting by Vinny (inspired by ...
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$265 Sale Price
30% Off
Tranquil countryside scene with farmhouse, open fields, soft light & nostalgia
Located in Preston, GB
Tranquil countryside scene with farmhouse, open fields, soft light & nostalgia of the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Michael Morris (1938-2010)
Art measures 10 ...
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Fish Cove, Point Lobos
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Frame: 18.5" x 15.5" x 1"; Unframed: 14" x 11"
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Jules Pages 1867 - 1946 American Impressionist, California, France Marine Scene
By Jules Pages
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Jules Pages, American Impressionist
Marine, La Rochelle, France
oil/canvas signed LL
13 x 16 unframed, 18 x 21 framed.
An oil painting on canvas by Jule...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Swans on a River with Wild Flowers in the English Countryside by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Swans on a River with Wild Flowers in the English Countryside by British Artist, Andrew Grant Kurtis M.A.(Lon) B.Des.(Hons) L.S.I.A.D.
Art measures 24 x 20 inches
Frame measures 32...
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Idyllic Cottage by River with Sheep in the English Countryside by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Idyllic Cottage by River with Sheep in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Jason Threlfall
Art measures 14 x 10 inches
Frame measures 22 x 18 inches
Signed Vin...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Gates of the old fortress
Located in Oslo, NO
This landscape was painted from life in Würzburg (Bavaria, Germany) near the ancient medieval fortress of Marienberg. On the right we see the gates and part of the fortress wall that...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Remnants - Serene Oil Landscape of Rural Barns in Winter Light, 2017
Located in Denver, CO
Dave Santillanes' "Remnants" (2017) is a masterfully rendered oil painting that captures the quiet beauty of a rural landscape transitioning between seasons. Measuring 24 x 40 inches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bakersfield II", Hyper-realistic oil painting, graffiti landscape, photorealist
By Jessica Hess
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Bakersfield II" is an original 24in x 24in photorealist oil painting on canvas by American artist Jessica Hess.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jessica Hess now li...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aftermath of a Tyne River Storm
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Painted with unsurpassed detail, Robert Salmon's works are desirable to collectors the world over, due to the impressive amount of historic subject matter presented through artistic compositions of the highest order. As an artist Salmon was one of the most important to come out of England and immigrate to America in this period, influencing the art of Fitz Henry Lane...
Category
1840s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"La hora del té", 19th Century oil on canvas by Ricardo Brugada y Panizo
Located in Madrid, ES
RICARDO BRUGADA Y PANIZO
Spanish, 1867 - 1919
LA HORA DEL TÉ
signed & dated "Ricardo Brugada. 1897." (lower left)
oil on canvas
22-1/8 x 31.5 inches (5...
Category
1890s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean Beach Seascape Oil Painting Children Playing Michael Budden Summer Play
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Summer Play, Sailboats and the Jetty
6 x 8 unframed, 9.75 x 11.75 framed
Summer Play is a study oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flock and Zinnia (Pink Zinnia Still Life with Sheep and Cloud Landscape)
Located in Hudson, NY
Flock and Zinnia (Pink Zinnia Still Life with Sheep and Cloud Landscape)
Made is 2021, by Berkshire based artist Ann Getsinger
oil on linen, 14 x 11 inches
Signed, lower left
Ann G...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Impressionistic Marine Oil Painting Allen D Cochran Salmagundi Club Gloucester
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Allen Dean Cochran (American 1859-1938) oil on canvas board seascape, titled Turning of the Tide, signed lower right, "Quiet Cove - Gloucester"; c. 1950; Oil on Board; 8 x 10 image, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Prismagourd (Realist Still Life Oil Painting of Green and Orange Gourd on Side)
Located in Hudson, NY
Prismagourd (Realist Still Life Oil Painting of Green and Orange Gourd on Side)
Made is 2022, by Berkshire based artist Ann Getsinger
oil on linen, 11 x 14 inches
Ann Getsinger is ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Green Valley, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A gentle stream meanders through a valley, its calm water reflecting the sky and trees. The setting sun cast a soft glow in the distance, leaving the foreground...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"004 - Plein Air-O'Fallon Park, CO" (2022) By Judd Mercer, Gouache Painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's ( US based) "004 - Plein Air-O'Fallon Park, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a peaceful snowy forest.
Artist bio/statement
Judd Mercer is a contemporary landscape p...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Moment of Serenity
Located in Zofingen, AG
From the series «Summer Memories “
This painting captures the serene setting of a pool at a villa in the Tuscan region of Italy. The tranquil blue water reflects the surrounding lan...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Northwest of Heaven, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Time stands still at a derelict farm nestled in a sweeping valley. A meandering stream adds movement and direction to the scene. Towering mountains rise in the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Scottish Landscape Scene, ' by E.J., Watercolor Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This one-of-a-kind watercolor landscape painting was created in 1910 by artist E.J. The artist perfectly captures the tranquility of the scene, featuring a palette of pastel colors, ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Orchard Antler (Realist Still Life of White Pitcher and Antler with Misty Fog)
Located in Hudson, NY
Orchard Antler (Realist Still Life of White Pitcher and Antler with Misty Fog)
Made is 2021, by Berkshire based artist Ann Getsinger
oil on linen, 14 x 11 inches
Signed, lower right...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Swiss Landscape, original oil on canvas, c1870, Austrian realist painter
Located in Naples, Florida
This beautiful oil on canvas painting of a Swiss Landscape is circa 1870 and is by the artist Eduard Boehm (1830 - 1890).
Austrian landscape pain...
Category
1870s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of the Giudecca Island. Venice.
Located in Oslo, NO
This painting was painted from life on a winter Venetian morning. It is a view from the Zattere embankment onto the Giudecca Canal and the island of the same name in the distance. We...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Fragile Beauty, " Southwestern Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"A Fragile Beauty" by Lorenzo Chavez (US based) is a handmadeoil painting that depicts a country road leading to an adobe house bathed in warm afternoon light.
“A Fragile Beauty”. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Front Range Skies" (2025) Oil Painting, Colorado Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Michael Magrin's ( US based) "Front Range Skies" is an original, handmade oil painting of a brilliant blue sky contrasted with billowing white clouds. This piece is framed and is rea...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
Promise of a Brighter Day-original impressionism landscape painting-contemporary
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
“Promise of a Brighter Day” by Harry Brioche is a stirring ori...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pastel Umbrellas-original impressionism seascape oil painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
"Pastel Umbrellas" by Lenny Cornforth is a captivating origina...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Silver
Colorado River, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Golden autumn trees line the Colorado River, flowing beneath a cloudy sky. Sunlight filters through the branches, enhancing the leaves' golden hues. The turbu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Dessert Painting by Michael Budden Eclairs
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
An oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a pair of eclairs. Image is 6 x 8 unframed, 11.5 x 13.5 framed.
SELLERS STATEMENT
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape With Blue Mountains by Albert Liedbeck, Oil on Canvas, Free Shipping
By Albert Liedbeck
Located in Stockholm, SE
Albert Liedbeck (1881 - 1955) Sweden
Landscape With Blue Mountains
oil on canvas
canvas dimensions 22.04 x 30.70 inches (56 x 78 cm)
frame 24.40 x 31.67 inches (62 x 83 cm)
signed ...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frari bell tower in the fog
Located in Oslo, NO
The landscape was painted directly from life in Venice. It depicts a typical Venetian canal on a foggy winter day. In the water there are old buildings with peeling plaster exposing ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the vicinity of Main in winter
Located in Oslo, NO
The work is in an unusual vertical format for a landscape. Fallen snow is depicted. A rare phenomenon for Europe. A provincial town in Bavaria on the banks of the Main, to which the ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Far Away, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Joseph McGurl's "Far Away" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a vast landscape of valleys and mountains in the distance under the orange and yellow glow of sunrise or...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ragged, Oil Painting
By Jesse Aldana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Fog rolls gently against the steep walls of Big Sur, softening the rugged cliffs. A faint line traces the path of Highway 1 as it winds north from Ragged Poin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
New York City Painting Winter Snow Brooklyn Bridge by Michael Budden Ferry Boat
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Brooklyn Bridge Winter
oil/panel
12 x 16 image
Brooklyn Bridge Winter is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden. It is a quiet scene of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
NOCTUNO EN CADAQUES
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Secret Passage" - Original Oil Seascape by Adam Hall, Dynamic Wave Art
By Adam Hall
Located in Denver, CO
"Secret Passage" by Adam Hall, a 2023 oil on panel painting, measures 24 x 24 inches with a sophisticated frame extending to 31 x 31 inches. This artwork captivates with its portraya...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Serengeti Leopard, original 30x48 realist wildlife landscape
By Larry Felder
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Deep in the heart of Africa, where wildlife remains king, is the Serengeti Park preserve, still home to the Serengeti Leopard! The leopard roams and reigns supreme with his signatur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Coconut Palm Trees and the Blue Sky, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Towering coconut palm trees stretch into a vibrant blue sky, their fronds swaying gently in the breeze. Expressive strokes and texture bring out the details o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sailing in the Afternoon" Realist Oil Painting on Board of Sailboat in Open Sea
Located in New York, NY
George Nemethy finds his inspiration in moments of quiet and solitude. Where he finds himself one with the sea and the sky and the tranquil world which he freely escapes to. Trained from an early age by his father Albert Nemethy, a world-renowned painter known best for his large scale steamer boats, George found...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Honeybrook, PA Lancaster County
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful landscape by American artist, David Shevlino (b.1962). Oil on wood panel measures 14 x 15.5 inches. Signed and dated lower right. Signed, titled and dated en verso.
Category
1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$850 Sale Price
29% Off
"September Tree Colors Near Pinyon Mesa" By David Grossmann, Original Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Grossman's (US based) "September Tree Colors near Pinyon Mesa" is an oil on linen panel created in 2025 depicting an abstracted Colorado landscape.
About the artist:
David G...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Sunset in the forest oil paint on canvas seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Born in Valencia but with German and Mediterranean roots, his artistic work has been focused on exhibitions around the idea of "landscape", within a formal pictorial and drawing po...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$524 Sale Price
53% Off
New York City Evening Theater Painting by Michael Budden Phantom of the Opera
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Mystical Phantom is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden. It is a "play" on "drama" that is unfolding as theater goers line up on a ra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Evening mood
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting was painted from life. It depicts an evening motif, a view from the artist's window. We see a warm summer evening. In the sky, the last pinkish and bright orange rays of...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Giants Shadow, " Oil painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Giants Shadow," is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a pastoral landscape of pasture and agriculture fields of yellow and green surrounding a ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Venice Seascape Oil Painting Gondola Ride by Michael Budden Beautiful Light II
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Beautiful Light II, Venice
oil/panel
6 x 8 unframed, 12.5 x 14.5 framed
Beautiful Light II, Venice is an oil painting on panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Impressionistic Landscape Seascape Oil Painting by Michael Budden Late Light
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Late Light is an oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a unique composition of late afternoon light over the water created in an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Times Square at Night, Empire and Loews signed Oil & acrylic painting on canvas
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas is the world's foremost architectural muralist. He was profile by CBS News Sunday Morning Arts program with Jane Pauley
Richard Haas
Times Square at Night (Empire and Lo...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Gateways
By Peter Poskas
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1939
Prominent 21th Century American landscape artist Peter Poskas has been painting New England for more than three decades. While his earliest pieces were reminiscent of Edward Hopper...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$32,500
Bridge to Sunset, Oil Painting
By Nick Savides
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A figure crosses a bridge that overlooks the Hudson River and Jersey City. The vertical stains on the structure mirror the city skyline, while the clouds echo t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Way It Was - original modern impressionism cityscape London painting-Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
In The Way It Was, David Wilson masterfully captures the time...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
I'll Find You Later- original modern impressionism cityscape London painting-Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
David Wilson’s I’ll Find You Later portrays the quiet grandeu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Walking on By-original impressionism NYC Cityscape painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Embark on a visual journey through the bustling cityscape wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Avila, Oil Painting
By Jesse Aldana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Soft light illuminates a foggy bay as the sun rises over California's central coast. Gentle ripples in the water reflect the pastel sky, while anchored boats ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Watergate Bay- Original Impressionism Cornish seascape painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Dive into the tranquil beauty of the coast with "Watergate Bay...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Realist landscape paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist 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, purple, orange, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Gordon Brown, and Shawn Krueger. 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 Realist landscape paintings, so small editions measuring 1 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 $1 and tops out at $203,475, while the average work sells for $2,858.