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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
Nineteenth Century Landscape of a River Bank by an Unknown Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Unknown (American, nineteenth century) River Bank Oil on canvas, 9 x 13 1/2 inches Framed: 13 1/2 x 18 inches (approx.)
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Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"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...
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1970s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Shore
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
The Shore, a small format painting that invites contemplation and reflection. In this oil on panel, the sea emerges as the undisputed protagonist, displaying its powerful presence an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

"Pool and Forest" Small landscape with blue swimming pool in bottom half
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Pool and Forest" Oil on Canvas, 18 x 14 Inches, is a small landscape with lush green foliage in the top half and a bright blue swimming pool dominating the bottom half. Reminisc...
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1980s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"Waterfall, Spray, Clouds" Small landscape/waterscape dusk clouds sky blue pink
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Waterfall and Spray #3" Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 3/4 Inches, is a meticulously painted rendition of the spray from a waterfall at dusk against a brilliant blue sky with bursts of...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Bromoil

Palacio La Magdalena
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This painting presents an evocative depiction of the Palacio de La Magdalena, located on the peninsula of the same name in Santander. A dirt path visually guides us toward the majest...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Salem Wharf
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed dimensions are 16 x 20 inches Without an overt theme, Errol Barron’s recent work seeks primarily to convey the pleasures and mysteries of curiosity, speculation, and reflecti...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

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...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Santander Lighthouse
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This oil on board, titled Faro de Santander and created in 2017, captures the melancholic atmosphere of a gray day on the Cantabrian coast. With a cold color palette, the work convey...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Dory, Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia (Original Landscape Painting, 2019)
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: The small lobster fishing village of Blue Rocks on the Gulf of Maine in Nova Scotia. About the artist: Richard Levine, born in Newark, NJ, is a painter and photographer whose professional career has spanned more than 30 years in the graphic arts working for prominent design firms and corporate clients. He studied oil painting for four years with artists Alan Turner and Andrew Lattimore and photography with Gary Winogrand...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Gouache

Chekhov's Bay. 1976, canvas, oil, 90x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Chekhov's Bay. 1976, canvas, oil, 90x100 cm Born 18 June 1925 in Saratov, Polyakov Vitaly Anatolyevich was a renowned master of socialist realism. Vitaly Anatolyevich graduated with...
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1970s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Confluence - Old and Red Rivers
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed dimensions are 16 x 20 inches Without an overt theme, Errol Barron’s recent work seeks primarily to convey the pleasures and mysteries of curiosity, speculation, and reflecti...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Mataleñas Beach
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This vertical piece transports us to Mataleñas Beach in Santander, capturing the luminous atmosphere of the place. The painting reflects the daylight with a warm palette, where coast...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Morning Light
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....
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

The Standard Grill at The High Line, Acrylic on Masonite, New York City
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...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic

The Coming Storm
Located in White Plains, NY
'The Coming Storm' in 2010 by American art, Purdy Eaton. Oil and collage, 36 x 54 in. In ‘The Coming Storm’, Purdy Eaton recreates American painter Geor...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

This is a Real Place! 3: large painting of lake or river w/ blue water & bridge
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"In the series “This is a real place!” I was fascinated by how the underside of the pier at Saint Simons Island, GA was like a readymade collage. The way the pilings and rails divide and frame the spaces between them looks artificially imposed on the scene until you notice the way the waves bounce off the pilings and the railings cast shadows on the water. In some iterations, I chose to simplify the structures of the pier and lighten the values so that it would emphasize the detail in the water. Likewise, I omitted a family of starlings and their droppings in favor of highlighting the geometry of the architecture and the colors and patterns of the water. Making paintings in a series allows me to investigate the results of making different decisions about an image. How I crop or stylize it, the manner in which I apply the paint, what gets included or excluded all add shades of meaning to each piece. Additionally, depictions of the same subject in different weather, seasons, times of day, and tides allows me a deeper understanding. I notice more relationships, colors, and details every time I paint the subject. Every painting is a pile of decisions. Playing with removing more and more details to see what is truly important sometimes improves the painting. The fewer elements you include in an image, the more each one means, and the more important it is to get each thing perfect. At times I like to paint every single detail I can find in a scene, and other times I feel like the unadorned components are sufficient to hold each other in a satisfying composition. I often add simplified shapes to my paintings to highlight the presence of absence or to heighten the importance of each area by creating stark visual contrasts. ⁠The physicality of the paint also plays a role. I used highly textured, thickly applied paint to construct the solid structural elements, and luminous layers of thinly glazed paint for the delicate linework and subtle blending of the water." - Brooke Lanier...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

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 ...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"The Neighborhood" Oil painting, parking lot, americana, cars, historic houses
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A winter day in one little corner of the neighborhood, where a minivan is parked in a mostly empty lot. Colorful traditional homes are in the background. A typical scene in American ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

PATIO DE VIELHA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

RAMBLA DE BARCEONA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

New York Nail Salon, 17x26", Acrylic on masonite
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. This painting depicts S&S nail salon in New York City. From the g...
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Early 2000s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic, Masonite

TIGERS
By Ron Balaban
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offer...
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Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

TIGERS
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Unspeakable. Oil on canvas, 2022 80x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Antra Ivdra (1966) The member of Artist association in Latvia (2004), Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques (2008), Association of Creativity, Latvia (2006). Art education...
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pyrenees
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
A view of the Pyrenees mountains. A visit I was able to make a few years ago at a time when there was not much snow, but it is of a spectacular beauty. The time that it reflects had ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

Summer Garden Study II by Dylan Lloyd, Botanical painting, original oil painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Summer Garden Study II by Dylan Lloyd [2022] original and hand signed by the artist Oil on Canvas Image size: H:30 cm x W:24 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:24 cm x D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Pier Parking Sag Harbor" oil painting, streetscape in village w windmill & flag
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A small oil painting by Carl Bretzke. A fleeting moment on Sag Harbor's Long Wharf in springtime, magnolia tree is in full bloom behind the historic windmill. The american flag is ra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Flyover No. 4
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This work depicts a serene landscape of the Tablas de Daimiel, (Ciudad Real, Spain) a unique and UNESCO protected wetland, known for being an important passage point for migratory bi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Venice I
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
I painted this view of the Venice canal on a foggy gray morning, playing with the chromaticism of the scene to alter the colors and create a special luminosity. I used soft tones to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

May. The Lobe River flows into Ogre. Oil on canvas, 40x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
May. The Lobe River flows into Ogre. Oil on canvas, 40x50 cm "I like to observe nature, animals, birds, landscapes. I depict my observations in paintings. Painting helps me to see, ...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Winter day. 1969. Paper, watercolor, 15x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Winter day. 1969. Paper, watercolor, 15x21 cm Janis Brekte (1920.15.VIII – 1985.27.XII) Janis Brekte his first artistic education got in drawing courses of K. Brencens (1936 – 39). ...
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1960s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"Summer Nights" 2020 painting of starry night over trees in Italy. Oil on copper
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Summer Nights is a small painting, oil on copper, depicting a dark blue sky over a green landscape, in Fiesole, Italy. Melissa Franklin Sanchez softly merges warm tones with cool ton...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Copper

Blue railing
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This painting presents a fragment of a calm sea and a railing post on a promenade. The scene serves as a pretext for combining a harmony of cool and warm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

View of Mataleñas
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This painting captures the serenity and vastness of the Mataleñas landscape in Santander. From a balcony, the view opens toward a cliff, where a construction post in the foreground h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Wall Street
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Terminal Drive
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed dimensions are 16 x 20 inches Without an overt theme, Errol Barron’s recent work seeks primarily to convey the pleasures and mysteries of curiosity, speculation, and reflecti...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

A Boat and a Bird
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: The pelican couldn't figure out how to start the motor so time to leave... Keywords: Caribbean, water, boat, pelican Artist Biography: Robert Crooker was born in Massachusetts in 1951. A life long Red Sox fan, he saw the likes of Frank Malzone, Yaz, George Scott, Rico, Jim Lonborg all play in years gone by. He has been married for over 27 years with 4 children, and 2 grandchildren. In the Mid-1970’s, Robert started collecting Vintage Disney Collectibles...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Dawnlight, Red Gold And Green, Lee Tiller, Original Landscape Field Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Dawnlight, red gold and green. [2021] original Oil on stretched canvas Image size: H:61 cm x W:76 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:61 cm x W:76 cm x D:1.8cm Sold Unframed Pl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Ward House Turret
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: This is part of a series of 3 small paintings: the boat, the water lily and the loon. After creating bigger pieces combining these 3 elements, I wanted to explore...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Gallantin River", Tony Eubanks, Original Oil on Canvas, Landscape, 24x48 in.
By Tony Eubanks
Located in Dallas, TX
"Gallantin River" By Tony Eubanks is an original landscape painting measuring 24x48 in. It is framed in a gold ornate frame with a white liner and gold slip. Tony Eubanks' talent is recognized and understood in the genre of contemporary western painting...
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1990s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Rig Fantasy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed dimensions are 16 x 20 inches Without an overt theme, Errol Barron’s recent work seeks primarily to convey the pleasures and mysteries of curiosity, speculation, and reflecti...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Rig Fantasy 3
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed dimensions are 16 x 20 inches Without an overt theme, Errol Barron’s recent work seeks primarily to convey the pleasures and mysteries of curiosity, speculation, and reflecti...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Christmas Star" contemporary oil on copper painting, tuscan landscape at night
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Christmas Star" is a luminous oil on copper painting of a vast horizon after sunset. A deep blue sky above, meets an orange and bright red, glowing hor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Copper

San Angelo Castle II
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This painting is a small study of the Roman landscape, highlighting the bridge over the Tiber River and the iconic Castel Sant'Angelo. To the right, the tower of the castle stands ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Wave Strike
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
The wave breaking against the building in an inlet on the beach in the city of Santander on the beach of the city of Santander in Spain. The noise, the smell it causes, I could spend...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shore with green stones
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This work captures a fragment of the coast of Santander on a somewhat gray day. Through a careful composition, it presents a shore dotted with green stones, gently lapped by the sea ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

Snow in the park I
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This work captures the serenity and stillness of a winter landscape. The scene unfolds with a man wrapped in coats, accompanied by two dogs, wandering along the winding path in the p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil, Wood

Point to the Sky
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Based on Chicago, Point to the Sky is the amalgamation of architectural genres that thrive in dense, urban environments, and present a human cliff on many a city b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Highland Cattle in a Mountain Glen, original oil on canvas, 19thC British
Located in Naples, Florida
This is a stunning artwork entitled a ‘Landscape with Highland Cattle’. It is circa 20th Century and is an original oil on canvas painting by the English Artist William Perring Holly...
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Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Snow in the park II
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
The painting captures an instant frozen in time, where nature is clothed in the white mantle of snow. In "Snow in the Park II", the artist invites us to e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

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Wood Panel, 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,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

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Wood, Wood Panel, Oil

Snow in the Deposits I
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
"Nevada en los Depósitos I" seems to capture the serenity and beauty of a snowy landscape on a sunny day. The composition in two planes adds depth to the piece, while the contrast be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil, Wood

Cantábrico
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This painting captures a fragment of the immense Cantabrian Sea, immortalizing one of the countless waves reaching the shore. With a delicate and precise treatment of blue, green, gr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

San Angelo Castle.
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This painting splendidly captures the landscape of Rome on a sunny day. The canvas shows the bridge of St. Angelo over the Tiber River leading the eye to the imposing castle of St. A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Wood

Autumn mood. Oil on cardboard, 38 x 48, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Autumn mood. Oil on cardboard, 38x48,5 cm Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I) His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine and G. S...
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1980s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

The Dance
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
One of a kind, original oil painting on canvas by Michael Albrechtsen. Signed lower right. Framed Dimensions: 45 X 47
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Backing Down
Located in Greenwich, CT
A steamboat at Hudson River Pier.
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Cherry Chocolate Cupcake
Located in Fairfield, CT
The bold flowers and repeating geometric patterns in this series of paintings are lushly modeled in oil paint, and are coupled with the use of inlaid wood. Surrounding the colorful and whimsical bouquets and garlands is a border of complimentary colors rife with kaleidoscopic floral images to further entice the eye. Influences of Persian miniatures and French Baroque are prevalent, as well as traditional floral painting which was used to document nature’s beauty. The artist states, “By using subject matter that is historically decorative and painterly, I seek to explore the medium’s more ethereal content.” The paintings become visually intense and hallucinatory as different varieties of flowers and leaves dance and intertwine in the geometry of the surrounding patterns. Traditionally mysticism was effectively communicated in painting through an assortment of lyrical, painterly indulgences, creating a supernatural, as well as an escapist experience. Matt Jacobs...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

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