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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sunday Morning Shadows, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- When I think about the conventions of painting -- a tradition I respect immensely -- I notice that my concern has always been with ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
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
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
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
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
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
Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- When I think about the conventions of painting -- a tradition I respect immensely -- I notice that my concern has always been with ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blueberry Lake
Located in Greenwich, CT
Landscape oil painting of Blueberry Lake in Vermont's Mad River Valley.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"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
"Elephant Butte - Monument Valley" Landscape Painting
By David Caton
Located in Houston, TX
Painting of the Elephant Butte rock formation in the Monument Valley of Arizona by David Caton circa 1970s.
Artist Biography:
David began the study of painting during his high schoo...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Standard Grill at The High Line, Acrylic on Masonite, New York City
By Charles Ford
Located in Southampton, NY
This painting on Masonite measures 17.5 x 25.5 and was painted in 2011. Mr Ford was so impressed by The High Line in New York City that in 2011 he created a series of realistic pai...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Hay Farm Scene with Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Painting has a horse moving a cart of hay in a field with others working in the background. Signed in the bottom right hand corner. Framed in a dark wooden frame.
Dimensions without the frame: H 8.5 in. x W 15.5 in.
Artist Biography: Eugène Fromentin...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
April Thaw
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting of a bridge in Central Park
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, 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
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
Lakeside Birch, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Landscape painting by artist Richard Orient.
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Garment District
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
View of Hellgate Bridge and Randalls-Ward Island from Astoria Park
By Todd Gordon
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --As a perceptual, realist painter, I am committed to the tradition and rigorous practice of working only from observation. The ind...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Central Park
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
Rescue Ladder: Gapstow Bridge
Located in Greenwich, CT
Winter scene of the Gapstow Bridge in Central Park
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Blue Falcon
By Tony Peters
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
FRAMED: 9.875" x 15.875" x 1.375" UNFRAMED: 16" x 24"
Artist's Statement:
"While driving south on the 5 Freeway, I spotted this classic 1965 Falcon Futura convertible and had to follow it for a while. The design was beautiful -- sleek and moderne with personality and character. The light blue color blended into the perfect southern California sky...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fences Have Holes
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- When the mind is uncertain the body decides. In the morning I woke to see yesterday’s landscape obscured by fog. I was trekking throu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Idealistic Fall Texas Landscape
By Dollie Nabinger
Located in Houston, TX
Pastel colored landscape of Texas in the fall. Signed by the artist in the bottom left hand corner. Framed in an elegant gold frame.
Artist Biography: Landscape artist Dollie Spidle Nabinger was born in Commerce, Texas, raised in Victoria, Texas. Even as a young girl Dollie wanted to be an artist. Her parents supported her from the very start, enrolling her in a Catholic school. Her father personally stretched her first canvases. Dollie credited that loving support for her eventual success as an artist. When Dollie was 13, her talent was already evident. J.F. McCan, a well-known Victoria artist, accepted her as his apprentice. She studied with him for seven years. Next she was off to the Art Students' League in New York for two years' instruction; later, in San Antonio, she studied with Jose Arpa and Harry Anthony DeYoung. In 1955 she spent a summer at the Academie Julian in Paris, France. Dollie was married to Jack E. Nabinger, who handmade and carved many of her frames. They retired in Fredericksburg Texas...
Category
1950s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Walk
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
Taped Sky
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor painting by American artist Catherine Koenig.
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
A Place in the Sun
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
Downtown
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
New Street, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Sweet Spot
Located in San Francisco, CA
Oil on canvas
Born and raised in Michigan, Debra Reid Jenkins’ art has been greatly influenced by her strong connection to nature. Although initially focusing on illustration in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night Climb
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- When the mind is uncertain the body decides. In the morning I woke to see yesterday’s landscape obscured by fog. I was trekking throu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Organic Material, Oil
Sink Hole Floating
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- When the mind is uncertain the body decides. In the morning I woke to see yesterday’s landscape obscured by fog. I was trekking throu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Old Wall in Aroniadika
Located in New York, NY
The focus of this artwork is a subject very dear to Tzannes: the timeless, spiritual quality of ancient ruins. The beautiful stone-wall of an Ancient Greek house, so up-close and alm...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Choosing Sides
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- When the mind is uncertain the body decides. In the morning I woke to see yesterday’s landscape obscured by fog. I was trekking throu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
View from Morgan Ave and Harrison Place
By Todd Gordon
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- a perceptual, realist painter, I am committed to the tradition and rigorous practice of working only from observation. The indu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Down Town
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Tile, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Abalone, Framed
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shadow Play
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- When the mind is uncertain the body decides. In the morning I woke to see yesterday’s landscape obscured by fog. I was trekking throu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Ruined Wall at Paliochora
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
Canvas, Oil
FDR 2, Framed
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Side Effect
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
Leaves Close
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- When the mind is uncertain the body decides. In the morning I woke to see yesterday’s landscape obscured by fog. I was trekking throu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
San Miguel
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 "D...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Park
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Commute
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
Mobile, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Verdant, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
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