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
Below Ceide Fields
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Panel
Naples, 1934
By Joseph Lindon Smith
Located in Soquel, CA
View overlooking Naples and Mt. Vesuvius by artist Joseph Lindon Smith (American, 1863-1950). Titled "Napoli" in pencil bottom left. Signed "Jos. Smith '34" in pencil lower right. Di...
Category
1930s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Paint
Ford Plant, Dearborn, Michigan
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated, l.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City
Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of Cali...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Cross Road II
By Peter Poskas
Located in Greenwich, CT
A house on a hill during winter.
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Boatyard Large Oil On Canvas
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Boatyard large oil on canvas.
Size: 30"x40" framed 38"x48"
Tom Nicholas was born in Rockport, Massachusetts in 1963. He has studied at John Terelak’s Glo...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nabi Musa (Prophet Moses) at Ramadan; Judean Desert
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Description
"The mosque of Nabi Musa (Prophet Moses) in the Judean Desert is an important Muslim pilgrimage site in Palestine. According to Islamic tradition, the many-domed building marks the burial site of Moses."
— Sara Campbell...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Sailing at Dusk" Realist Oil Painting on Canvas 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
Canvas, Oil, Board
Flowers Above the Cove
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Exhibitions
Crystal Cove Alliance, 2008 Coastal Splendor Invitational Art Show and Sale
Dimensions: Unframed 16" x 20"; ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Garden of Latrun Monastery Looking West
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Description
In December 1890, the Latrun Monastery was established by Trappist monks. This view overlooks the fertile Ayalon Valley. It is dedicated to Notre Dame de Sept Douleurs (Our Lady of the...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Highland Cattle by a Mountain Stream
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Robert Watson was an accomplished painter of Highland scenes depicting sheep or cattle. There was much demand for Watson’s work as Scottish scenes were extremely fashionable in late nineteenth century Europe, partly due to Queen Victoria’s extended summer visits to Balmoral Castle...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sailboats at Dana Point
By Calvin Liang
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Exhibited
A Collector's Feast, American Legacy Fine Arts, November 16 – December 15, 2018
Dimensions: Unframed 20" x 16"...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Desert Landscape Painting of Three Pronghorn Antelopes
Located in Houston, TX
Realist desert landscape oil painting of pronghorn antelopes with a mountain range in the distance by Houston artist Cal Dean Hill Jr. in 1975. Sign...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Steven Paddack, Mount Vernon, realist acrylic on board miniature painting, 2017
Located in New York, NY
The realist acrylic on board miniature painting, "Mount Vernon," 2017, is an intimate travelogue panel by midwestern artist, Steven Paddack. Anyone who has been on a road trip knows ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Thicket 42 Innsbrook, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery in New York City. Jeffrey Vaughn, from Alton, Illinois, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1978 from Washington University, St. Louis, ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Backing Down
Located in Greenwich, CT
A steamboat at Hudson River Pier.
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Up the Kennebec
Located in Wiscasset, ME
John Folinsbee (1892-1972) was born in Buffalo, New York and, after finishing his studies at the Art Students League in 1916, moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania where he joined a renown...
Category
1940s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sun's Rays, Westhampton Beach
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
9 x 12 inches
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City
Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at Univ...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Purple Wonder; Irvine Land Preserve
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
FRAMED: 31.5" x 37.5" x 3" UNFRAMED: 24" x 30"
Description
After a good winter's rainfall, spring in California proclai...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sailing on the Open Seas" 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
Board, Oil
View of Mount Zion from our Balcony at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Description
Adams painted the view from his hotel balcony. Mt. Zion and The Church of the Dormition can be seen in the background in the left.
Watch the video on “Peter Adams: Inspirations for the Fourteen Stations of the Cross and Sacred Themes” on YouTube.
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Exhibited
"Inspirations From the Fourteen Stations of the Cross and Sacred Themes" - USC Caruso Catholic Center, Los Angeles, March 26 - June 16, 2018
"Jerusalem Journey - Walking the Sacred Path" - Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Study for the 6th Station; Veronica
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Description
As Veronica wipes the face of Jesus she receives from the impression the image of Christ’s face on a cloth. The scene reminds us of the sixth Beatitude: “Blessed are the ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Sailing After the Storm" 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 and nurtured his passion for miniature sailboats...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Morning Sun, Shark Harbor; Catalina Island
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Artist Statement
"This unique vantage point could only be accessed by jeep.
I was set-up before sunrise so was able ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Fawsley, Northants
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Daniel Van der Putten was born in a small farming village near Leyden in Holland and is completely self-taught, he was truly inspired by the finest Dutch landscape painters of the Du...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
William Logsdail, Trinity College Gateway, Oxford, Oil painting c. 1900
Located in London, GB
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Category
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sailing at Sunset" Realist Oil Painting on Canvas 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 and nurtured his passion for miniature sailboats...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Steven Paddack, Wright City, MO, realist acrylic on board miniature, 2017
Located in New York, NY
The realist acrylic on board miniature painting, "Wright City, MO," 2017, is an intimate travelogue panel by midwestern artist, Steven Paddack. Anyone who has been on a road trip kno...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Two Horses with a Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Realistic painting of two horses in front of an old-fashioned building. The painting has a river or lake in the background with another horse.
The painting is framed in a dark wooded frame.
Dimensions without frame: 15.5 in W x 8.5 in H
Artist Biography: Eugène Fromentin...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Steven Paddack, Decatur County Monochrome, realist acrylic on board miniature
Located in New York, NY
The realist acrylic on board miniature painting, "Decatur County Monochrome," 2018, is an intimate travelogue panel by midwestern artist, Steven Paddack. Anyone who has been on a roa...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Steven Paddack, Boone County Pastoral, realist acrylic on board miniature, 2017
Located in New York, NY
The realist acrylic on board miniature painting, "Boone County Pastoral," 2017, is an intimate travelogue panel by midwestern artist, Steven Paddack. Anyone who has been on a road tr...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Steven Paddack, Morning in Pierron, realist acrylic on board miniature, 2017
Located in New York, NY
The realist acrylic on board miniature painting, "Morning in Pierron," 2017, is an intimate travelogue panel by midwestern artist, Steven Paddack. Anyone who has been on a road trip ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Landscape Silhouette, Portuguese Bend
By Amy Sidrane
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Description
Painted on plein air in the artist's community of Portuguese Bend, this is a f...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Jerusalem International YMCA Tower and Concert Hall
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Description
The YMCA building, across from the King David Hotel, was designed in the late 1920’s by Arthur Loomis Harmon, whose architectural form des...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Faithful; St. Malo Beach, Oceanside
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Artist Statement
“I am particularly interested in unique lighting effects and how these effects reflect, refract, diffuse...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Morning Mist
By Frank Corso
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting of a man fishing at a river
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Running Waters; Taos, New Mexico
By Tim Solliday
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Description
“Running Waters” is a plein air painting done in Taos, New Mexico. Solliday depicts the Rio Peublo de Taos, a tributary of the Rio Grande, as flowing abundantly after the winter thaw...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
View of the Church of the Visitation from the Church of St. John the Baptist in
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Description
"Saint Luke (1:39-41) relates that, “Mary set out at that time and went quickly as she could to a town in the hill country of Judah. She went into Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. Now as soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.”
The Church of the Visitation is said to be built over the home of St. John the Baptist’s parents and commemorates this meeting between the Virgin Mary and Elizabeth, the mother of St. John."
—Sara Campbell...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Flatiron on a Sunny Day, Oil Painting on MDF Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a beautiful one-of-a-kind original realism painting. The piece ships framed and ready to hang with artist signature on the front.
This item ships from the United States.
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ojibwe Sunrise
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Artist Statement
"Both my large field paintings, 'Ojibwe Sunrise' and 'Splintered Hemlock," were created on Mad...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pedestrian Walkway, PCH
By Tony Peters
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Description
Reminiscent of Roger E. Kuntz's geometric paintings of the Los Angeles Freeways created between 1961 and 1963...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Casa Grande from Juniper Flats
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Balliol College, Oxford - Joseph Murray Ince (attributed)
Located in London, GB
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Category
1830s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fleeting Moment, Nantucket
Located in Greenwich, CT
Small boats with multi-coloured sails near a schooner off Nantucket Isle.
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Philosophers' Wall; Shasta Caves
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Artist Statement
"As I am fascinated with lighting, I often carry colored lights with me when I paint in order to illuminate scenes. This work was pain...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
William Logsdail New College Oxford Cloisters oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Category
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snow Flake
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --The primary subjects of my paintings are 21st century man's working monuments, which represent our culture's dedication to produc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Matin d'Hiver en Russie
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Lapchine
1885-1951 Russian
"Matin d'Hiver en Russie" (Winter Russian Morning)
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Canvas : 21 5/8" high x 28 3/4" wide
Frame: 29 7/8" high x ...
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Extreme Loafing & Idling #8, Oil Painting on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a beautiful one-of-a-kind original oil painting on wood panel. In the ''Extreme Loafing & Idling series'' the artist tries to evoke a Zen landscape using Haboku (flung/broken...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Splintered Hemlock
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Artist Statement
"Both my large field paintings, 'Ojibwe Sunrise' and 'Splintered Hemlock," were created on Madeline Isla...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Paris : Winter Day at Montmartre - Original signed gouache painting - Cerificate
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice UTRILLO
Paris : Winter Day at Montmartre
Original gouache painting
Signed bottom right
40 x 32 cm at view (c. 16 x 13")
Painted c. 1934-36
Presented in a golden wood frame ...
Category
1930s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"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
Under the Standard Hotel, Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
''From my series on the High Line in the meatpacking district of Manhattan, this beautiful sunny day highlighted the contrast of the High Line park above versus the Meatpacking District below, now also home to chic boutiques. The serenity of parkland grasses against the grit of city streets below under the newest architecture of the famous Standard Hotel...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of the Roman Forum - "Colonna di Foca" - Original Watercolor 1885 ca.
By Settimio Giampietri
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 50 years ago by an artist who has died requires a licence for export re...
Category
1880s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint, Watercolor
Lac de Montagne en Bolivie
Located in Paris, FR
Svetovar M. Franciscovich
1913-1955 Russian
Lac de Montagne en Bolivie (Mountain Lake in Bolivia)
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Canvas: 39 1/2" high x 56 1/2" wide
Frame: 55 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Last Rays, c. 1924
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
On consignment with the gallery from a private Los Angeles collector; Morseburg Galleries, Los Angeles; The Lukits Estate
FRAMED: 20.125" x 24.125" x 1.5" UNFRAMED: 11" x 15"
Exhibitions
"Theodore N. Lukits (1897-1992): An Aesthetic Realist and Peter Adams and Tim Solliday: Continuing the Lukits Legacy" at Palos Verdes Art...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Mexico
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original realist egg tempera painting by American artist Catherine Koenig created during her travels to Mexico. This work will be featured in the gallery's upcoming exhibition "Dr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Landscape - Plate XIV from "Campi Flegrei"
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful plate from the volume "Campi Flegrei" by William Hamilton including 59 plates by Pietro Fabris.
Hamilton was one of Fabri's most important patrons. "Campi Flegrei" was pub...
Category
18th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
"Monument Valley" Totem Pole Realistic Landscape Painting
By David Caton
Located in Houston, TX
Realist painting of the Totem Pole rock formation in the Monument Valley of Arizona framed in a wooden frame.
Artist Biography:
David began the study of painting during his high sc...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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