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
The Promise Of Peace, Lee Tiller, Original Waterscape Oil Painting, Affordable
By Lee Tiller
Located in Deddington, GB
The Promise of Peace [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
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dawnlight, Red Gold And Green, Lee Tiller, Original Landscape Field Painting
By Lee Tiller
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tree Of Hope 2020, Lee Tiller, Original Landscape Floral Tree Painting, Nature
By Lee Tiller
Located in Deddington, GB
Tree of Hope 2020 [2020]
original
Oil on stretched canvas
Image size: H:60 cm x W:76 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:76 cm x D:1.8cm
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflections Of Delius, Lee Tiller, Original Landscape Painting, River Artwork
By Lee Tiller
Located in Deddington, GB
Reflections of Delius [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
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
And The Bridge Is Love (Crossing Over), Lee Tiller, Original Landscape Painting
By Lee Tiller
Located in Deddington, GB
and the bridge is love (crossing over) [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 Unframe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
It's raining like in the Midsummer. 2017, mixed media on canvas, 60x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
It's raining like in the Midsummer. 2017, mixed media on canvas, 60x50 cm
Janis Zingitis born in 1973 in Riga, Latvia (then Soviet Union).
Attended Janis Rozentals...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Rig Fantasy 3
By Errol Barron
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
MARBELLA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Embankment. 1974, paper, etching, 26, 5x20, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Embankment. 1970, paper, etching, 26,5x50,5 cm
Jazeps Delvers (1910-1984)
Jazeps Delvers born in Daugavpils in postal workers family. In Daugavpils he received secondary education....
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Etching
A Backlit Rose
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. There is a sense of freedom that I experience when painting landscape. The quality of these kinds of images allows for expression and interpret...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Ethereal Symphony: Vibrations of 5D Mushroom- butterfly contemporary realism
Located in London, Chelsea
Ethereal Symphony: Vibrations of 5D Mushroom Ascension" is a captivating artwork that transports us into a mystical realm where the ethereal and the earthly converge. This painting i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ascension-butterfly blue contemporary realism negative space acrylic paint
Located in London, Chelsea
This original painting by Mandii Pope takes a unique painterly approach to the butterfly motif. Pope here contrasts the traditional painterly portrayal of the butterfly against a mod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Sunset Music
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
One of a kind, original oil painting on canvas by Michael Albrechtsen.
Signed lower right.
Framed Dimensions: 32 X 43.5
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Beef & Lobster
Located in Belfast, GB
Beef & Lobster
Oil on Canvas
18 x 28 in
45.7 x 71.1 cm
"Growing up in the countryside, he developed a great love and appreciation for the beauty of nature around him, which evidentl...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
MARBELLA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17 East 83rd Street
By Lori Zummo
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1962
Contemporary artist Lori Zummo paints in a style evocative of the American Barbizon School. She received her BFA from Syrac...
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
Venice Marsh
By Errol Barron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed dimensions are 20 x 24 inches
Without an overt theme, Errol Barron’s recent work seeks primarily to convey the pleasures and mysteries of curiosity, speculation, and reflecti...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
The Grid
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Born in 1970, Derek Buckner at present lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and their two sons. The artist graduated from LaGuard...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
On a Stormy Sea
Located in Greenwich, CT
The famed whaling ship, Essex, on a roiling and stormy sea.
The Essex is arguably the most famous Nantucket whaling ship in history. The Essex was a su...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rig Fantasy
By Errol Barron
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Harvesting, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated 1950.
Category
1950s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
All The Time
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
Mad River View
Located in Greenwich, CT
Landscape oil painting of a clearing along Vermont's famed and picturesque Mad River. The scene shows a shallow part of the river with sandy shores and a small ford or waterfall by a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Doñana en otoño". Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscape, waterscape
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscapa, waterscape, pastel colors, earth colors
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Carrollton Bend
By Errol Barron
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Sentinel 2
By Errol Barron
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Notturno Marino, 2019
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
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
Linen, 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
Linen, Oil
"Afternoon Drink", Robert Fobear, Oil on Linen, Wildlife, Forest, Bear, Creek
Located in Dallas, TX
"Afternoon Drink" is an original oil on linen and measures 30x46 inches. This realist painting is wildlife scene of a bear approaching a creek to get a drink of water. The brown bear...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
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
18 Broad Street
Located in Greenwich, CT
Winter view of Broad Street, Manhattan, NYC
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mahogany, Acrylic
Summer Olive Tree
By Scott Duce
Located in Greenwich, CT
Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, with several solo exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Boston, ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
FACADE WICKER PARK
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Audrey Barrett grew up in Queens, New York. It was there that her fascination with the urban landscape began. Audrey, a self-taught artist, studied art history and became known for her landscapes and botanical subjects.
Audrey Barrett worked as a package graphic designer for 25 years while painting large botanical paintings...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Backing Down
Located in Greenwich, CT
A steamboat at Hudson River Pier.
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Landscape with Cottage, original oil on canvas, realist style, 20th Century
Located in Naples, Florida
This very well executed landscape scene (one of a pair) is by the early 20th century English artist George Hider. These paintings, which can be found in their original swept gilt frames, both feature a cottage set...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cowtown - Framed Calgary Downtown Acrylic Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Cowtown
20.0 x 24.0 x 0.25, 20.0 lbs
Acrylic on canvas
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
“'Cowtown' is a striking portrayal of Calgary’s dynamic skyline, capturing the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dawn in Central Park 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
Linen, Oil
Heading Out
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sailboat headed out past the Block Island Coast Guard station.
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nashville Wharf
By Errol Barron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed sized is 16 x 20 inches. Framed in a white oak frame.
In any landscape there are places and objects of quiet monumentality so ingrained into the scene that they are nearly invisible or regarded only as ordinary or outdated artifacts of the past. Some are small in scale, and some suggest a kind of architectural grandeur mixed with a pathos stemming from their obsolete utility and the evidence they bear of the passage of time. Some, like the abandoned oil rigs in and around the Gulf of Mexico, are poignant reminders of environmental optimism and tragedy.
Primarily encountered on trips around our region, stretching up as far as the delta of northwestern Mississippi and southeastern Arkansas and as far south as the mouth of the Mississippi, these places and objects evoked the curiosity and affection, which prompted this show. The paintings, the result of a labor-intensive technique requiring many layers of color, are intimately sized though they often deal with subjects of great scale.
Trained as an architect and a practicing architect until 2016, Barron now works primarily as a painter. For many years he has taught at the Tulane University School of Architecture and is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. In 2012, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Louisiana Architects Association and in 1995 was awarded the prestigious Gabriel Prize from the Western European Architecture Foundation.
Errol Barron...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
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
Canvas, Oil
Butterfly Garden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billlis Gallery. 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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Soon At Night, 2018
Located in Atlanta, GA
I was born in 1972 in Chartres. I live and work near Orleans. After having taken courses at the Beaux Arts in Orléans in drawing of live models, sculpture and painting, I decided to devote myself entirely to painting.
Education
ARTISTIC APPROACH:
When the day fades, the truth appears in the light of the twilight. The whole being, invaded by the padded silence of the advancing night, sees his humanity bend under the awakening of his senses. He becomes again more instinctive, more animal, more true in the beauty of his solitude ... and the return to nature that the twilight imposes, then sends him back an exact image of himself...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
TAMARIU
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Imaginary Rose Garden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billlis Gallery. 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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Williamsburg
By Roland Kulla
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- We are creatures of habit. Routines help us organize our lives and provide necessary structure to daily existence. The same holds true in the built environment. The city grid...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
MARINA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ATARDECER EN COSTA BRAVA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grand Army Plaza
Located in Greenwich, CT
Grand Army Plaza in Central Park, NYC
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
ESPERANDO LA PESCA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orchardsman's House
By Peter Poskas
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1939
Prominent 21th Century American landscape artist Peter Poskas has been painting New England for more than three decades. While his earliest pieces were reminiscent of Edward Hopper...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Les cerfs qui ce battent dans la foret
By Karl Bodmer
Located in Atlanta, GA
Swiss-born Karl Bodmer (1809–1893) was one of the first and most accomplished European artists to document the landscape of the North American interior and its Indigenous peoples. He...
Category
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
CADAQUES
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s 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
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