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.
Find authentic realist paintings, sculptures, prints and more art on 1stDibs.
to
580
723
521
544
413
364
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
18
247
655
1,645
28
14
15
21
19
31
58
82
96
62
16
13,143
8,062
5,186
2,541
2,471
1,211
399
368
358
184
119
55
53
41
1,677
599
279
877
747
538
327
305
239
229
220
166
157
153
151
146
135
120
120
116
110
105
98
2,491
2,091
1,161
1,050
273
102
31
23
17
17
1,424
169
1,404
1,054
Style: Realist
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Shore 2
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This painting depicts a fragment of a beach in northern Spain, specifically in Santander. It is a small work with no great pretensions that captures the tranquility of low tide. Gree...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
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
Board, Oil
Pedrera II. (Arbotante)
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
The second piece in the series dedicated to Casa Milà, known as La Pedrera, by Gaudí. This painting captures a detailed view of the buttress of one of the rooftop towers, highlightin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Pedrera I (Tower).
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
Between 2001 and 2004, the artist produced a series of oil paintings on panel using as a motif the roof of the Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera, in Barcelona, one of the most em...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Bow Bridge, study in Spring
Located in Greenwich, CT
Bow Bridge, Central Park, NYC
Nicholas Berger’s career as an artist spans three decades and has brought him national and international acclaim for his paintings. A listed artist, hav...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Backing Down
Located in Greenwich, CT
A steamboat at Hudson River Pier.
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Waterfall and Spray #2" Small landscape/waterscape dusk clouds sky blue pink
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Waterfall and Spray #2" 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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
April Thaw
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting of a bridge in Central Park
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Castle of St. Angelo III
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
Castel Sant'Angelo III, is an evocative representation of the heart of Rome, capturing an eternal instant in which past and present coexist harmoniously. This small study offers a co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Study for Venice Canal I
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This work is an initial exploration of the iconic Venice canal, conceived as a preliminary study with the intention of developing it into a larger format in the future. In this study...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Wood Panel
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Chemin du Perche, 2014
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on canvas painting 'Mirror, blue hour (2023)'
Located in Oostende, BE
Oil on canvas painting. Was put in a new walnut frame.
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Hommage a Oscar Wilde, 2014
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
untitled, 2015
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
That the Night Show Begins, 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
What do you think? Right side or Left side?, 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
untitled, 2015
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
A Drink in Elliot Street, 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
"Nantucket"
By Paul Crosthwaite
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Left
Paul Crosthwaite (1911 - 1981)
Paul Crosthwaite was a respected member of the New Hope art community. He was born in Pelham Manor, New York and after studying in architecture for two years decided upon a career as an artist. With that in mind he enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City studying under John Sloan, Raphael Soyer, Yasuo Kunioshi and Morris Kantor.
In the mid-thirties he and artist John Sharp...
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Fair Haven
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 1
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
Terminal Drive
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
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Simple Pleasures
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Devotion
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cupcakes and Trees
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
LLANSA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PENISCOLA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
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
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
BLANES
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ROSAS
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
COSIENDO REDES
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
MIKONOS
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
MIRANDO AL MAR
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
REMENDANDO
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PESCADOR
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
REGOGIENDO LAS BARCAS
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Runoff
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
Shady Side
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
Calvin's Jeans
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
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
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
Along the East River, Framed
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Karen Woods, Along the East River, 2017, oil on linen, 9 x 17.5, $2,800.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Knotta Road Glen 2, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --New Landscapes is a series of landscapes painted over the past year. It includes the artist’s observations of oceans, wooded hill...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Triptyque Paravent ¨Nymans avec Noemi¨, 2015
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
La sieste sous le laurier
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
When the Night is Revealed, 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
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.
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Lake George Painting
19th Century Cattle Paintings
Eastern European Landscape Painting
Pacific Northwest Painting
English Countryside Oil On Canvas
Rockport Oil
Franklin Oil Painting
Wave Crashing Oil Painting
Mexican Boat Paintings
Lighthouse Oil Painting
Antique Ocean Painting
Beach Umbrella Painting
Lake Michigan Painting
Henry Hudson
Antique Seaside Painting
Field Of Wild Flowers Paintings
Russian Impressionist Snow
Paintings Flowering Trees