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
Impressionistic Sunrise Seascape Oil Painting by Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Sunrise Seascape
oil/canvas
9 x 12 image
Sunrise Seascape is an oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a beautiful beach scene cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Untitled Landscape" (2024) By Lucong, Original Abstract Landscape Oil Painting
By Lucong
Located in Denver, CO
Lucong's "Untitled Landscape" (2024) is an oil painting created in 2024 depicting an abstracted and colorful landscape. This piece is framed and ready to hang. The artist has signed ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled
Located in Warren, NJ
Neil McAuliffe realistic oil on canvas, signed and framed.
Image size: 35in x 23in
Category
1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Working the Pile
Located in Greenwich, CT
Nicholas Berger Biography
American, b. 1949
In his more than three decades as an artist, Nicholas Berger (b. 1949) has created an outstanding body of work that continues to evolve a...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Furies, Oil Painting
By Jesse Aldana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A lone cypress, bathed in the golden light of sunset, stands tall against the rising sea. The cool, dark foreground contrasts with the warm, glowing backgroun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snow field
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This piece, titled "Snowy Field," captures the serene beauty of a snow-covered plain in the heart of winter.
The scene depicts snow gradually melting under the influence of sunny ye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Le soir a Venise
Located in New York, NY
Legout Gérard was born in Saint-Lo Normandy, France on the 24th October 1856 and died in Paris on the 14th August 1924. He began his career as a banker, but around 1890 he discovered...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Afternoon. Workers with tractor by the river. Oil on canvas, 60, 5x78, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Afternoon. Oil on canvas, 60,5x78,5 cm
Work in the socialist realist manner. People workers and tractor by the river
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1940s Philippino Masterpiece
Located in San Francisco, CA
I believe this powerful painting is by the very talented Philippines artist Virgilio Daclan. He was born in 1920 in Cebu city. He studied art in 1951 a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sagres II Ship Portrait 20th Century, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sagres II, 1937
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board
framed
Framed size: 18.25 x 13.75 inches
Superb oil painting by the well listed French marine artist Louis Letouche (1924-2015). The painting portrays a Portugese Ship from the early 20th Century, titled: Sagres II.
The three-masted ship was launched under the name Albert Leo Schlageter on 30 October 1937 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. The ship was named after Albert Leo Schlageter, who was executed in 1923 by French forces occupying the Ruhr area. Her first commander was Bernhard Rogge. Sagres is a sister ship of the Gorch Fock, the Horst Wessel, and the Romanian training vessel Mircea. Another sister, Herbert Norkus, was not completed, while Gorch Fock II was built in 1958 by the Germans to replace the ships lost after the war.
Following a number of international training voyages, the ship was used as a stationary office ship after the outbreak of World War II and was only put into ocean-going service again in 1944 in the Baltic Sea. On 14 November 1944 she hit a Soviet mine off Sassnitz and had to be towed to port in Swinemünde. Eventually transferred to Flensburg, she was taken over there by the Allies when the war ended and finally confiscated by the United States.
In 1948, the U.S. sold her to Brazil for a symbolic price of $5,000 USD.She was towed to Rio de Janeiro where she sailed as a school ship for the Brazilian Navy under the name Guanabara. In 1961, Ambassador Teotónio Pereira of Portugal, who was also a man of the sea...
Category
1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snow in the Deposits II
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
Nevada en los Depósitos II captures the ephemeral essence of winter, freezing a moment in time where nature and civilization coexist in perfect harmony. It is an invitation to pause,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Wood Panel
Oxen by Anna Abys-Lotz - Oil on Canvas/Board - 43x30 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Anna Abys-Lotz (1861–1945) was a Swiss painter born on October 10, 1861, in Basel, where she also passed away on July 4, 1945.
She specialized in watercolor paintings, focusing on la...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Coffee Run
Located in Atlanta, GA
This item is in excellent condition, only shown in a gallery.
Griselda Ferrandez was born in the city of Barcelona, a cosmopolitan and open city. From her balcony she could contempla...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wildlife Landscape Painting by Michael Budden Wolves Animals
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
High Vantage, Wolves is an acrylic painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a beautiful pair of wolves over looking their territory. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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
Echoes on the Homestead, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A small house stands alone on the vast Utah prairie, once home to a hardworking homesteading family. The laughter and gospel songs that once echoed inside have ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Saint Marks Square", 19th Century oil on canvas of Venice by Antonio Reyna
Located in Madrid, ES
ANTONIO REYNA MANESCAU
Spanish, 1859 - 1937
SAINT MARKS SQUARE
signed & located "A. Reyna, Venezia" (lower right)
oil on canvas
15-1/2 x 21-3/8 ...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tranquil Irish Coastal Scene with Green Fields, Rocky Shore & Expansive Sky
Located in Preston, GB
Tranquil Irish Coastal Scene with Green Fields, Rocky Shore & Expansive Sky. Vintage Original Oil Painting by 20th Century Irish Artist, Louis Humphrey. Humphrey was born in 1955 in ...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Beach Ocean Impressionistic Seascape Oil Painting Oxford Md Boat Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Severn Study I is an oil painting on panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a beautifully lit marine scene at the Severn Marina created in an impres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Bass Rocks
Located in Greenwich, CT
Designated a living master by the Art Renewal Center and widely regarded as a leader of the American landscape school, Joseph McGurl is one of the most important realist painters today.
McGurl works almost exclusively with oil paint, capturing marine and landscape scenes in his native New England as well as other areas of the Eastern US. Along with his childhood as a muralist’s son, McGurl’s days as a sailor and his studies under Robert Cormier...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, 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
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
Rural Field Landscape Oil Painting of an Idyllic English Countryside Scene
Located in Preston, GB
Rural Field Landscape Oil Painting of an Idyllic English Countryside Scene, by British Artist Dennis Harper, ( b. 1940)
Harper is best known for his Rea...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ancient Wall with Stone-filled Window
Located in New York, NY
George Tzannes is an American painter of Greek origins. In his twenties he visited Kythera, the Greek island of his father's birth. Since that time, Greece and the island of Kythera ...
Category
1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
"Ferrobús Street" Original Oil and Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Conrado López's "Ferrobús Street," a 2023 primary market piece, is an evocative acrylic and oil creation on canvas, measuring 116 x 89 cm (45.67 x 35.04 inches). This original handma...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
SUMMER TIME BLISS Plainair oil painting Nature landscape countryside Sunny day
Located in Zofingen, AG
This art piece was creating in wonderfull summer day on plain air.
Will be sent with decorative frame.
The artwork are treated with a lightly glossy top coat that seals and prote...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Carpathian landscape"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
LANDSCAPE SERIES
Everyone knows that a coin has two sides. One depicts an heads, and other tails. The
two sides are different, but they are folded into one indivisible coin.
So is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"One for Two"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
"One for Two" is an oil painting that captures a heartfelt — and slightly cheeky — scene from the natural world. Two sparrows, perched on a radiant sunflower, are caught mid-date, ro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
European Port At Sunrise
Located in Jacksonville, FL
"European Port at Sunrise" by Charles Kuwasseg is a painting that immediately draws you into its serene and enchanting world. As the first light of dawn breaks over a tranquil Europe...
Category
1860s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape With Mill at Sunset by Swedish Artist Mauritz Lindström
Located in Stockholm, SE
The small yet stirring painting "Landscape With Mill at Sunset" showcases the remarkable talent of Swedish painter Mauritz Lindström. He was a resp...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Tranquil Lake Scene with Boats & Swan in the Mountains of the Scottish Highlands
Located in Preston, GB
Tranquil Lake Scene with Boats & Swan in the Mountains of the Scottish Highlands by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, Howard Shingler.
Art measur...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Studio Series (Chair with Sheet and Brick Wall), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: Studio Series (Chair with Sheet and Brick Wall)
Year: 1979
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 78 x 114 inches
Inscription: Signed, dated by the art...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Always in my Dream-original abstract landscape oil painting- modern Artwork
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Step into the enchanting world of "Always in my Dream" by the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rome from the Victoriano, Framed
By Kenny Harris
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kenny Harris's latest body of work was informed by two recent residencies in Tuscany, at Borgo Finocchieto and Monteverdi. Inspired by the heavy Tuscan light, Harris paints the lands...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Crossing the Water. Mid 19th Century Realist Painting. Ecouen school.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th century Realist ink, watercolour and gouache portrait on paper of a young man in a field by John George Todd. The painting is signed G Todd bottom left as was his usual mann...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink, Gouache
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
Impossible Series (Owl), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: Impossible Series (Owl)
Year: 1985
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 20 x 20 inches
Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, verso
LOWELL NESBIT...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New York City Snow Painting Michael Budden Grand Army Plaza Central Park
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Central Park Grand Army Plaza
oil/panel
8 x 10 image unframed 12.63 x 14.5 framed
is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden. This is o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Mears Peak", Mark Pettit, Original Realistic Landscape, Oil on Canvas, 30x46
By Mark Pettit
Located in Dallas, TX
"Mears Peak" by Mark Pettit (b. 1955) is an original oil on canvas and measures 30x46 inches. The realistic painting is a mountain view of Mears Peak locat...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Offshore Weather, Oil Painting
By Jesse Aldana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The setting sun casts a golden glow over the shore as a massive rogue wave crashes against a lone cypress, a striking contrast to the otherwise calm sea. Dark...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winter Panorama, Oil Painting
By Jill Poyerd
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The painting highlights the beautiful blue-violet tones often seen in snowy landscapes. Subtle pale gold on the horizon complements and adds warmth to the coo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Impressionistic Seascape Painting Michael Budden Beach Sunrise
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Morning Drama
oil/panel
image 8 x 10 unframed, 14.5 x 16.5 framed is an oil painting on panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a dramatic sunrise se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Boy in Garden - British Edwardian Slade School oil painting
Located in London, GB
This very interesting British Edwardian portrait oil painting is by noted Slade School artist Algernon Cecil Newton. Newton became primarily a landscape artist and exhibited numerous...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Serene Countryside Scene with Trees, a Tranquil Pond and a Charming Cottage
Located in Preston, GB
Serene Countryside Scene with Trees, a Tranquil Pond and a Charming Cottage by 20th Century German Artist, Krahn.
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame measures 24 x 20 inches
This pa...
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Sara MacCulloch "Beach Inlet" - Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Sara MacCulloch
Beach Inlet, 2021
oil on canvas
60 x 60 in.
(macc089)
This original oil painting on canvas by Sara MacCulloch depicts a serene and beautiful coastal beach inlet in s...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“MARISMA“. Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscape, waterscape, earth
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscapa, waterscape, pastel colors, earth colors
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Acrylic
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
“Bruyères en fleurs” 1949, 20th Century oil on canvas by William Didier-Pouget
By William Didier-Pouget
Located in Madrid, ES
WILLIAM DIDIER - POUGET
French, 1864 - 1959
BRUYÈRES EN FLEURS
signed and dated “Didier-Pouget / 1949” (lower right)
inscribed, located and signed ““Le Malin dans la vallée du Lot.”...
Category
1940s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
West Wind, Nantucket
Located in Greenwich, CT
Louis Guarnaccia Biography
American, b. 1958
Louis was born in Omaha, NE in 1958. At the age of nine he began painting in oil, and at 14, he began studying painting, drawing, and ar...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Winter Morning" (2024) By Michael Miller, Midwestern Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Michael Miller's beautiful original photorealist Midwestern landscape painting "Winter Morning" (2024) depicts a snowy ranch during sunrise.
Artist Bio/Statement:
Michael Miller’s ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Panel
Yaquina Head Light, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Capturing the timeless majesty of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, this painting conveys the rugged beauty of the Oregon coastline. The structure stands as a steadf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"European genre painting"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This evocative 19th-century oil painting presents a tranquil yet atmospheric riverside scene, capturing a group of figures engaged in daily life. The composition is masterfully arran...
Category
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the Pizzeria - Large Scale City Scene Urban painting Edward Hopper inspired
Located in San Francisco, CA
At the Pizzeria is a captivating 36 x 72 inch oil painting by Christina Kent, inspired by the quiet tension and cinematic lighting of Edward Hopper’s urban scenes. Set in San Francis...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Presque Isle (Day 123), June 27, 2024" by Primary Hughes, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Presque Isle (Day 123), June 27, 2024" by Primary Hughes (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is created on location or en plein air. The piece is framed, and ready...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Secret Pond, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This oil painting captures the warmth of an evening sunset, casting a golden glow over a serene pond. The rich hues of the trees contrast with the vibrant ref...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Yosemite Falls River View - Landscape Realism By Dante Rondo
Located in Carmel, CA
Any novelist battling through writer’s block might be excited to encounter Dante Rondo, whose life has been a collage of free-spirited experiences that would satisfy the most vicario...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carmel Beach Sunset Surf - Landscape Painting - Oil On Canvas By Dante Rondo
Located in Carmel, CA
Any novelist battling through writer’s block might be excited to encounter Dante Rondo, whose life has been a collage of free-spirited experiences that would satisfy the most vicario...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
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.
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