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
Installation of the Liberty Bell at Independence Hall, Philadelphia
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Louis Roberts Dougherty (American, 1876-1948)
Installation of the Liberty Bell at Independence Hall in 1754, c. 1915
Oil on canvas, 34 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches; Framed: 43 1/2 x 33 3/4 i...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Spring in the Garden" realist painting of cherry blossom blooming
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Spring in the Garden" is a realist painting of cherry blossom blooming, standing w support of a wooden post. In the real world, beautiful ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Copper
Dahl Taylor, "Walking in the Stable", 22x30 Equine Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Walking in the Stable", by artist Dahl Taylor is a 22x30 equine oil painting on canvas featuring the interior of the stables behind the famou...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Del Bourree Bach, "Sunday Graze", 12x17 Rural Barn Sheep Landscape Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Sunday Graze", is a 12x17 acrylic painting on board by artist Del Bourree Bach featuring a peaceful rural landscape. A large white gambre...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Leslie Peck, "Supper Time", 24x30 Farm Animal Chicken Coop Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Supper Time", is a 24x30 oil painting on board by artist Leslie Peck featuring a brood of chickens pecking about the yard waiting on feeding time. A larg...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mataleñas Beach Cliff
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This vertical painting captures a serene view of the Mataleñas cliff. The landscape combines the calm of the water reaching the shore on a day of gentle tide, moss-covered stones eme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Rügen, Kreidefelsen
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists s...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Colors in the Wind
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 and excite viewers. Best known for his industrial, waterfront scenes of New York between 1930-1970, Berger effortlessly captures a period when the technology and landscape of the city was rapidly changing. Although he paints scenes of a bygone era, Berger draws inspiration from the waterfronts near his home in New York’s Hudson River Highlands as well as historical sources in museums. Berger holds BFA and MFA degrees from Alfred University.
Earlier in his career, the artist painted representational landscapes rendered in watercolor, a medium in which he achieved great success, sharing a sellout two-person show in Tokyo with Andrew Wyeth. In the mid-2000s, Berger transitioned to his signature industrial scenes of the city, employing oil on panel in a painterly manner influenced by the Hudson River and Brandywine schools...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Contemporary 10x8 Oil Painting of Rainy City Street with Fog and Figure
Located in San Francisco, CA
Crossing is a 10 x 8 inch oil painting on flat panel that captures a quiet, rainy moment in the city. The composition features a lone figure crossing a distant street, their form sof...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary 8x8 Oil Landscape Painting of Lush Green Spanish Countryside
Located in San Francisco, CA
Asturias Fields is an original 8 x 8 inch oil painting on flat panel, depicting the lush, rain-soaked countryside of Asturias, Spain. Vibrant greens fill the composition, where field...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Small contemporary landscape painting green peaceful meadow oil painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Chain of Lakes Meadow is a vibrant 8 x 10 inch oil painting on flat panel, celebrating the peaceful energy of a sunlit meadow in spring or early summer. Expressive palette knife mark...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Paraje natural II". Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscape, watersca
Located in MADRID, ES
Triptych 3 x (25 x 25) cm
Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscapa, waterscape, pastel colors
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Fisherman unloading their catch at Scheveningen Beach, Louis Reckelbus, Signed
Located in Knokke, BE
Fisherman unloading their catch at Scheveningen Beach
Reckelbus Louis
Bruges 1864 – 1958
Belgian Painter
Bruges School
Signature: Signed bottom right
Dimensions: Image size 38 x 25...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Marie Channer, "Foggy Morn", 30x40 Equine Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Foggy Morn", is a 30x40 equine oil painting on canvas by artist Marie Channer. Featured is a pasture in the early morning hours. Horses graze in the cool summer air, sil...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,680 Sale Price
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Star Island, Isles of Shoals
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Star Island, Isles of Shoals is a fine example of Warren Sheppard’s great love and respect for the sea. As an expert navigator and yachtsman, Sheppard had a deep reverence for the oc...
Category
1880s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Berlin, Osthafen, Getreidespeicher
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$20,360 Sale Price
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"Stone House & Windmill", W.A. Slaughter, Original, Oil on Canvas, 24x36 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
"Stone House and Windmill" by W.A. Slaughter is a rare original oil on canvas painting measuring 24x36 in. The sun is going down on the Texas Hill country creating shadows among a sm...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Bad Weather
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Herbstwald, Wildschweine
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists s...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$17,360 Sale Price
20% Off
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Leba/Polen
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists s...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$15,520 Sale Price
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German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Eberswalde Finow, Schiffshebewerk
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists s...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$20,360 Sale Price
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German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Groß Dölln/Uckermark, Grünes Hais
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$8,720 Sale Price
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German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Berlin Osthafen, Reigen der Kräne
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$19,200 Sale Price
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German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Berlin, alte Glasfabrik Stralau
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$19,200 Sale Price
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Dutch Vase
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
$1,760 Sale Price
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Dahl Taylor, "After the Bath", Equine Barn Oil Painting on Canvas, 24x34
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This realistic equine piece, "After the Bath", by artist Dahl Taylor is a 24x34 oil painting on canvas featuring a brown horse after bath time, coat glistening in the warm sunlight. ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Uckermark, Eissee, Diesig
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$19,680 Sale Price
20% Off
"Setauket Harbor" oil painting, plein-air seascape of sailboats at rest in cove
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of a Long Island seascape. A calm bay plays host to a variety of small boats, anchored still in their slots. The horizon is met with distant land, green trees flank eith...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"The Sound of Silence" Oil painting on copper, luminous interior w neutral tones
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An Oil painting by Melissa Franklin Sanchez.
Hammershoi’s successful influence is felt in Franklin’s “The Sound of Silence” as she paints an interior with more profundity than befo...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Copper
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Dover/Nationalpark, Fanbay im Nebel
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$6,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Be A Part
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
$4,000
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Rheinschiefer
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists s...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$15,520 Sale Price
20% Off
Sir Walter Scott’s Caretaker’s Cottage in Abbotsford, Scotland
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Artist Statement
"Painted en plein air, this quaint cottage was painted on the grounds of Abbortsford Castle in Scotland,...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Dahl Taylor, "Morning Workout", Realistic Equine Oil Painting on Canvas, 24x30
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This vibrant and realistic equine piece, "Morning Workout", by artist Dahl Taylor is a 30x24 oil painting on canvas featuring a jockey out on the dirt trac...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sesachacha Afternoon
By Lori Zummo
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lori Zummo Biography
American, b. 1962
Contemporary artist Lori Zummo paints in a style evocative of the American Barbizon School. She receiv...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Hamburg, Blohm & Voss, Nordic Hunter
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$7,320 Sale Price
20% Off
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Hamburg, Blohm&Voss
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists s...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$7,320 Sale Price
20% Off
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Berlin, alte Botschaft, Macht & Tod
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$19,360 Sale Price
20% Off
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Groß Dölln, Boris mäht
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Berlin, auf der Oberbaumbrücke
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$17,360 Sale Price
20% Off
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Rapswellen
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$19,000 Sale Price
20% Off
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Sylt, Morsum Kliff 5
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Sylt, Moorsum Kliff 6
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
East 42nd Street, Framed
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Freeway Exit
By Tony Peters
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Description
The subject of this painting depicts the northern segment of California Interstate 110 passing the town of Hi...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Winter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Canvas, Oil
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Gray Paradise
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor on paper
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor
Faro Barra do Douro III
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
Faro Barra do Douro-III is the third piece in a series dedicated to this iconic lighthouse at the mouth of the Douro River, Portugal. The painting presents a perspective of the main ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shore 1
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This vertically oriented painting captures the serenity of a seascape in northern Spain. The calm water stretches to the shore, creating an atmosphere of tranquility. The color palet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Joyces
Located in Belfast, GB
Joyces
Oil on Canvas
36 x 46 cm
14 1/8 x 18 1/8 in
"Growing up in the countryside, he developed a great love and appreciation for the beauty of nature around him, which evidently in...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beth Parcell, "A Narrow Lead", 14x18 Equine Steeplechase Race Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This horse racing piece, "A Narrow Lead", is a 14x18 equine oil painting on canvas featuring five jockeys wearing colorful silks atop their horses during a ste...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Small nineteenth century oil painting of Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Charles Lewis Fussell
(American, 1840–1909)
Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn
Oil on canvas, 8 x 11 ½ inches
FRAMED: 15 x 19 inches (approx.)
Signed and inscribed at lower left: "C. L. FUSSEL...
Category
1890s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moving Water
Located in Greenwich, CT
Vermont landscape oil painting depicting small rapids in a river.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Morning Mist
By Frank Corso
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting of a man fishing at a river
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Morning Light
By Joe Altwer
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A tree growing at the edge of a beach in early morning light.
Artist Bio
Joseph Altwer is a traditional realist oil painter born in California in 1984....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
“Lilies” realist oil paint still life with landscape in background en plain air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Melissa Franklin Sanchez was born in 1984, in Warwickshire, England. In 2002 she graduated from her humanistic studies: Art, Music, English Literature, Performing Arts and Ballet. In...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Copper
French Tempera on Canvas Four Panels Folding Screen with Seascape View
Located in Firenze, IT
This French early 20th Century folding screen is made up of four canvases entirely painted with textured tempera featuring a marine l...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Tempera
"Olive" surrealist oil painting on silver tray of cocktail olive floating in sky
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Olive" is a surrealist oil painting on a silver tray of a cocktail olive floating in the sky. The antique serving platter serves as both the c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Silver
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.