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Style: American Realist
"American Busker" Street Performer San Francisco "Being Human" vs "Human Being"
Located in San Antonio, TX
Samuel Wilson
(1986-Present)
Texas Artist
Image Size: 30 x 40
Medium: Oil
"American Busker"
When you see the paintings below in photos you will say WOW!
When you see them in person ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Profile
By Ryan Morse
Located in Denver, CO
Portrait in profile
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Masquerade" Figurative Narrative "Being Human" vs. "Human Being"
Located in San Antonio, TX
Samuel Wilson
(1986-Present)
Texas Artist
Image Size: 27 x 20
Medium: Oil
"Masquerade"
When you see them in person you will say UNBELIEVEABLE.
From his series
"Being Human" vs. "Huma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Seeking Solace" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Adair's (Germany based) "Seeking Solace" is an oil painting that depicts a figure in an industrial interior space
Linda Adair is a contemporary figu...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Piercing Blues
By Ryan Morse
Located in Denver, CO
Portrait with blue eyes
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Self-Portrait in the Studio
By Moses Soyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Moses Soyer, American (1899 - 1974)
Title: Self-Portrait in the Studio
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 20 inches
Frame: 32 x 28 inches
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Scale 1920s Portrait of Florence Foster Jenkins, Amateur Soprano Singer
Located in Soquel, CA
A fine, large-scale portrait of a Philadelphia lady, fabled soprano singer Florence Foster Jenkins, by Richard Langtry Partington (American, 19...
Category
1920s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West )
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Casein
The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine
By Harry Lemon Parkhurst
Located in Miami, FL
Harry Lemon Parkhurst
American, 1876–1962 was a pulp illustrator for crime and detective stories.
The works depicts an art thief caught at a pe...
Category
1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Page 207 (Van Dyck Series)
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- For decades, Wes Hempel has been committed to re-envisioning the depiction of masculinity in contemporary art. By setting psychologically acute portraits of modern-day men against backdrops appropriated from such disparate sources as neoclassical history...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Tyler G. Wilson
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
In his current series, “In Your Room”, Alex Blas explores modern day life by examining the private spaces of his friends. In these paintings, Blas carefully considers the shadows, co...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Time magazine cover, April 6, 1946
Located in Miami, FL
This work is meticulously and brilliantly rendered to capture not only the likeness of the sitter but spirit as well. The image is pushed to the forefront of the composition and s...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
Seated Woman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raphael Soyer, American (1899 - 1987)
Title: Seated Woman
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 29 x 25.5 inches
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clown Musicians
Located in Boston, MA
Anne Lyman Powers, American (b. 1922), Clown Musicians, 2014. Signed and dated lower right: "Powers/ 2014".
Anne Lyman Powers was born in 1922, and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Yosuke Matsoke, Time magazine cover illustration , July 7, 1941
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Ernest Hamlin Baker is an excepti...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Texas Speckled Trout Acrylic Painting
By Terry Burleson
Located in Houston, TX
Lovely acrylic painting of a Texas speckled trout by Texas artist Terry Burleson in the 20th century. Signed in lower left corner. Labeled as a design for wildlife stamps on reverse....
Category
20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sam Murti
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
In his current series, “In Your Room”, Alex Blas explores modern day life by examining the private spaces of his friends. In these paintings, Blas carefully considers the shadows, co...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Simone 2, Realism Oil Painting, Contemporary Portrait, Painting of Girl
By Jim Salvati
Located in Naples, FL
Oil on canvas.
Realist oil painter, Jim Salvati, utilizes texture to add emotion and depth to his panels. His paintings usually depict a lone figure, but are not so much portraits a...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Champagne for the Honeymoon
Located in Miami, FL
Pruett Carter captures the quintessential look of the 1950's in this loosely rendered but charming work for Redbook. Bright, punchy colors define each object and are arranged in a simplified but complex composition of intersecting and overlapping planes of color.
The double portrait of the girl expresses a peak moment of introspection. She ponders her situation while preparing to get dressed for her special occasion. The whole scene is imbued with suspense about her future. Carter is a great academic painter. With just a few light touches of the brush, he quickly defines the form of the subject and achieves the X factor of the work. The profile and frontal view of the girl clearly are the same person. He nails her look. This is hard to do. Do not underestimate it. Sadly, there is a reason why there are very few contemporary artists can actually paint and draw without tracing photographs or resort to naive painting. It's hard to do. It's hard to be a painter. You can not fake...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Trainyard No. 12
By Sharon Feder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Humanity is archival, like the strata that compose the earth. Our structures and art, superfund sites to cathedrals, exist because o...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Connie in Old Studio Chair
By Max Ginsburg
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1931
Max Ginsburg received his BFA from Syracuse University and his MFA from City College of New York. Since then, his true to life New York City sidewalk scenes have received numerous awards including, Christopher Award, Pauline Law Award, The Edith Lehman Prize, and honorable mentions from both Audubon and Salamagundi. Ginsburg Is an active member of the Allied Artists and the Society of Illustrators and his work has been commissioned by New York Times Magazine, Fortune Magazine, Harper Collins Publications, Dial Books/Penguin Publications and many others. His paintings also hang in many prominent collections, such as New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, Martin Luther King Labor Center, H. J. Heinz Company and those of Jules Bernstein, Dom DeLuise, Edgar Bronfman, Harvey...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maid in Japan
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Miami, FL
Oil on board
Signed lower left
Provenance: Everett Oehlschlaeger Galleries, Chicago, IL
Exhibited: Everett Oehlschlaeger Galleries, Chicago, IL
Ten portraits of plastic toys attach...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mongols
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
There is from frame burn and scattered surface abrasions but they are minor. Additionally, there are a 3 or 4 very fine hair line scratches not visible unless you look very closely. The work is varnished and has a reflective quality to it that makes it hard to photograph. In person the viewing experience is much better. You can see more detail in the shadow areas. The colors are rich, deep and saturated. Riggs was very particular in researching the tribal costumes...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Day at the Ranch
Located in Austin, TX
“Day at the Ranch” is a painting by Dr. M.A. Bhatti executed in oil on canvas; measuring 11 x 14 inches. The painting depicts a cowboy on horseback from a low angle, with the horse'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
modern sketch of woman in pastel tone
Located in Greenwich, CT
Beautifully executed sketch of a young woman done in watercolor in pastel tones. A 1929 Simkhovitch, depicting a stylish young woman with a bob. He was later an American WPA period a...
Category
1920s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Ecce Homo / Behold the Man
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Ecce Homo (Behold the Man)' by Willard Dixon. These paintings are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from Willard Dixon’s daily reading of the news. In 'Ecce Homo', the image was taken from a story where Palestinian medics evacuate an injured protester who clashed with Israeli security near the boarder Dixon changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.”
Willard Dixon
Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2020: Evening Light, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Home (Syria)
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Home' by Willard Dixon, These paintings are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from Willard Dixon’s daily reading of the news. He changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.”
Willard Dixon
Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2020: Evening Light, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mary Vincent and the Convict, Good Housekeeping Illustration - Mid Century
By Al Parker
Located in Miami, FL
Al Parker was one of America's greatest and most inventive illustrators. He did work for magazines such as: Chatelaine, Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion. ...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Gouache, Pencil
Movie Poster Illustration for "American Pop"
Located in Miami, FL
McLean's consummate skill as a portrait artist, graphic designer and master of composition is on full display in the complex narrative work. This work contains 41 portraits including...
Category
1980s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
American Realist portrait paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic American Realist portrait 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 portrait 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, green, orange, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Raymond Logan, Christopher Clark, Willard Dixon, and Robert Riggs. 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 American Realist portrait paintings, so small editions measuring 1.75 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait 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 $350 and tops out at $145,000, while the average work sells for $5,200.
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