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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Style: American Realist
Style: Street Art
Still Life with Eucalyptus Leaves
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At Thirty Thousand Feet no. I
Located in Burlingame, CA
Oil painting by Willard Dixon featuring flying above the scattered clouds. Willard Dixon, who is one of the finest American contemporary realist painters today, has painted coastal landscapes for 35 years, capturing the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. The painting, with its atmospheric light and calm palette is contemporary and serene. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his work is collected Internationally. Artist signed and dated. A classic Dixon that will sure to bring those who view it a life time of pleasure.
At Thirty Thousand Feet no. I, painted in 2023. the canvas is 54 X 43 inches. Oil on canvas. Condition is new and excellent. Artist signed and dated. Ready to ship. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Selected Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
San Francisco Art Commission
Shaklee Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA
Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il
Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA
SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Airport
Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX
California First Bank, San Francisco, CA
United Pipeline, Houston, TX
Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA
Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Atlantic Richfield Corporation
Shell Oil, Houston, TX
First National Bank of Seattle
RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Texas Heritage Society
Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Sohio Corporation
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY
Chemical Bank...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Fossil
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Prairie Rose
Located in Columbia, MO
NORA OTHIC
Prairie Rose
2023
Acrylic on canvas on panel
4.75 x 3.5 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Tesuque Jar
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Tesuque Jar" is an oil on panel painting by William Acheff. The work is signed and dated lower right, "WM Acheff 1986". The framed size is 17.5 x 17.25 x 1.75 inches.
Provenance:
P...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Still Life with Green Ornament
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Magnolia after the Rain Realism 24 x 36 Oil Canvas Floral Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Magnolia After the Rain is 24 x 36 oil on canvas . Gallery Wrapped
Susan is a native Houstonian. She is passionate about oil painting, specializing in large scale florals. She was inspired to start painting florals when she began photographing flowers on her daily walks. Susan is an early childhood educator and teaches at a private school in Houston. She is a member of the Lassaulx studio in Houston, Texas.
Susan graduated from HCC with honors with a degree in Fine Arts. She studied at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Susan Meeks...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Talisman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Talisman' - oil on canvas is 24 x 60 in (60.96 x 152.40 cm), meticulously painted by American Realist Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's signature style. Lov...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cluster
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shikantaza, 2023
Located in Burlingame, CA
Oil painting by Willard Dixon featuring a massive sculptural rock. Willard Dixon, who is one of the finest American contemporary realist painters today, has painted coastal landscape...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Giant Magnolia Realism 36 x 36 Oil on Canvas Gallery Wrapped Floral
Located in Houston, TX
Susan is a native Houstonian. She is passionate about oil painting, specializing in large scale florals. She was inspired to start painting florals when she began photographing flowers on her daily walks. Susan is an early childhood educator and teaches at a private school in Houston. She is a member of the Lassaulx studio in Houston, Texas.
Susan graduated from HCC with honors with a degree in Fine Arts. She studied at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Susan Meeks...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life Watercolor of Irises, Mary Cassatt & Goldfish by Cathy Folk-Williams
Located in Plainview, NY
A still life watercolor painting with Irises, Mary Cassatt & Goldfish by Cathy Folk-Williams ( American, 1948). The original work features vivid colors and conflicting patterns, a si...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Galatea: Calm Seas- (folding screen)
Located in Burlingame, CA
Breathtaking ocean scene, 'Galatea: Calm Seas' on a folding Japanese screen' 2022
oil on a Japanese screen, 24 x 48 inches, Deep blue water with filtered ear...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
'The Artist's Garden', Munich Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, PAFA, Corcoran
By Julius Moessel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Moessel' for Julius Moessel (American, 1872-1960) and dated 1943; additionally titled verso, 'In the Artist's Garden'.
A substantial, mid-century horticultural oi...
Category
1940s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spiritus
Located in Burlingame, CA
Spiritus - oil on canvas is 24 x 24 inches, meticulously painted by Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's signature style. Lovely to behold from every angle. Sin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Angles: Above and Below
Located in Burlingame, CA
Breathtaking ocean scene, 'Angles: Above and Below' 2020
oil on canvas, 18 x 36 inches, Here, deep blue water with filtered early evening light is captured on the canvas. Ready to ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stillwater
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Stillwater' - oil on canvas is 12 x 36 inches, meticulously painted by Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's signature style. Lovely to behold from every angle....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Magenta Magnolia Realism 36 x 36 Oil Canvas Gallery Wrapped Floral Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Susan is a native Houstonian. She is passionate about oil painting, specializing in large scale florals. She was inspired to start painting florals when she began photographing flowers on her daily walks. Susan is an early childhood educator and teaches at a private school in Houston. She is a member of the Lassaulx studio in Houston, Texas.
Susan graduated from HCC with honors with a degree in Fine Arts. She studied at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Susan Meeks...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Life´s to short to take advice from a cushion", 2019.
By Banksy
Located in Helsingør, DK
Aerosol spray via stencil on second hand cushions. Including all paperwork from GDP plus original shipping Receipt from Pest Control to first owner.
Ca 40 x 40 cm each (2)
Original...
Category
2010s Street Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Fabric
Humboldt County no. 4
Located in Burlingame, CA
Humboldt County ocean beach scene - oil on canvas is 24 x 36 inches, meticulously painted by Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's signature style. Lovely to beh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eggs, Bacon & Coffee
By Matt Condron
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having spent many years as a photographer, Matt Condron is trained to recognize the importance of a moment or the preciousness of a fleeting opportunity. He is captivated by the idea of emptiness, as both a suggestion of solitude and as a state rife with the possibility of change and fulfillment. As a painter, he seeks out familiar, evocative scenes and concentrates on capturing the stillness of an empty room or vacant chair. His paintings can be seen as solitary, or as simply aberrant pauses between moments of frantic activity.
The works are imbued with a quality of light that brings simple, content-rich objects into sharp focus. Condron attempts to establish not so much a connection to a chair or a room, but the feeling created by the wide embrace of emptiness. Ultimately, Condron creates scenes - part representation of real places, part invention from deep in his mind. The openness of his works invites the viewer to share the moment of quiet with him. By choosing places that seem to have been abruptly vacated, he attempts to awaken a connection to the moment before, or to the quietude he preserves inside himself in the form of memories.
Matt Condron was born in 1967 in Simi Valley...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Pipe
Located in Wenham, MA
Le Pipe, is an original oil painting on panel. It is framed in a handmade, black frame with pale gold lip. The overall dimensions with the frame included are approximately 12x10.5 inches. A master of Trompe l'oeil, the artist here has depicted an antique smoking pipe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cathedral
Located in Burlingame, CA
Cathedral - Oil on canvas, meticulously painted by Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's signature style. Lovely to behold from every angle. Singed, titled and d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Close Up Magnolia in the Rain Realism 40 x 30 Oil Canvas Floral Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Close up of Magnolia after the Rain is 40 x 30.. Gallery Wrapped
Susan is a native Houstonian. She is passionate about oil painting, specializing in large scale florals. She was inspired to start painting florals when she began photographing flowers on her daily walks. Susan is an early childhood educator and teaches at a private school in Houston. She is a member of the Lassaulx studio in Houston, Texas.
Susan graduated from HCC with honors with a degree in Fine Arts. She studied at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Susan Meeks...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Stonewall Riots (NYC 1969) - Queer Street Art Stonewall Riots Sign
By Jeremy Novy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jeremy Novy (b. 1979) is a California-based street artist known for his stencils of koi fish and efforts in support of gay activism. Novy’s stencil art is remarkably complex for its ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Cooper Do-nuts Riot (LA 1959) - Queer Street Art Cooper Do-nuts Riot LA
By Jeremy Novy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jeremy Novy (b. 1979) is a California-based street artist known for his stencils of koi fish and efforts in support of gay activism. Novy’s stencil art is remarkably complex for its ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Black Nite Brawl (Milwaukee 1961) - Queer Street Art Black Nite Brawl Sign
By Jeremy Novy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jeremy Novy (b. 1979) is a California-based street artist known for his stencils of koi fish and efforts in support of gay activism. Novy’s stencil art is remarkably complex for its ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Ducks, A still life teacups and objects
Located in Greenwich, CT
In Ducks in the Studio Schmitt reveals the influence of the Impressionists and the Pointillists by adopting their bright and pure colors. However, he chose not to paint with small do...
Category
1970s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Canvas
Compton's Cafeteria Riot (SF 1966) - Queer Street Art Compton's Cafeteria Riot
By Jeremy Novy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jeremy Novy (b. 1979) is a California-based street artist known for his stencils of koi fish and efforts in support of gay activism. Novy’s stencil art is remarkably complex for its ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Le Romaine
Located in Wenham, MA
Le Romaine is an original oil painting on panel. It is framed in a water-gilded gold frame. The overall dimensions with the frame are approximately 10x14 inches.
Master Still Life painter Dale Zinkowski was born in New York and his earliest memories of painting and drawing were from his Grandfather's own work, which hung throughout the home. Fascinated by the world around him, and the ability to capture fleeting moments on paper, he began to draw and paint from nature almost exclusively.
From 1993-97, he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he studied the Reilly method with both Marvin Mattelson and John F. Murray. Inspired by the techniques, and hungry for more information, he began copying from the old masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
When Murray moved his studio to Tucson, Arizona, Dale followed and focused his studies on the palettes, methods, and materials of artists such as Velazquez and Rembrandt.
In 2012, Dale attended the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, where he pushed his understanding of traditional techniques and materials even further while drawing and painting master copies in museums and painting landscapes in the countryside.
In 2013, Dale returned to New York City, where he immersed himself in the full-time program at Grand Central Atelier studying under Jacob Collins, Ted Minoff, Will St. John and Colleen Barry...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Still Life with Shaving Brush
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Low Season
By Matt Condron
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having spent many years as a photographer, Matt Condron is trained to recognize the importance of a moment or the preciousness of a fleeting opportunity. He is captivated by the idea of emptiness, as both a suggestion of solitude and as a state rife with the possibility of change and fulfillment. As a painter, he seeks out familiar, evocative scenes and concentrates on capturing the stillness of an empty room or vacant chair. His paintings can be seen as solitary, or as simply aberrant pauses between moments of frantic activity.
The works are imbued with a quality of light that brings simple, content-rich objects into sharp focus. Condron attempts to establish not so much a connection to a chair or a room, but the feeling created by the wide embrace of emptiness. Ultimately, Condron creates scenes - part representation of real places, part invention from deep in his mind. The openness of his works invites the viewer to share the moment of quiet with him. By choosing places that seem to have been abruptly vacated, he attempts to awaken a connection to the moment before, or to the quietude he preserves inside himself in the form of memories.
Matt Condron was born in 1967 in Simi Valley...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Pot de Confiture
Located in Wenham, MA
Le Pot de Confiture is an original oil painting on panel. It is framed in a handmade, black frame with gold lip. The overall dimensions of the framed piece are approximately, 14x16 inches.
Master Still Life painter Dale Zinkowski was born in New York and his earliest memories of painting and drawing were from his Grandfather's own work, which hung throughout the home. Fascinated by the world around him, and the ability to capture fleeting moments on paper, he began to draw and paint from nature almost exclusively.
From 1993-97, he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he studied the Reilly method with both Marvin Mattelson and John F. Murray. Inspired by the techniques, and hungry for more information, he began copying from the old masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
When Murray moved his studio to Tucson, Arizona, Dale followed and focused his studies on the palettes, methods, and materials of artists such as Velazquez and Rembrandt.
In 2012, Dale attended the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, where he pushed his understanding of traditional techniques and materials even further while drawing and painting master copies in museums and painting landscapes in the countryside.
In 2013, Dale returned to New York City, where he immersed himself in the full-time program at Grand Central Atelier studying under Jacob Collins, Ted Minoff, Will St. John and Colleen Barry...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Southland Booths
By Matt Condron
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having spent many years as a photographer, Matt Condron is trained to recognize the importance of a moment or the preciousness of a fleeting opportunity. He is captivated by the idea of emptiness, as both a suggestion of solitude and as a state rife with the possibility of change and fulfillment. As a painter, he seeks out familiar, evocative scenes and concentrates on capturing the stillness of an empty room or vacant chair. His paintings can be seen as solitary, or as simply aberrant pauses between moments of frantic activity.
The works are imbued with a quality of light that brings simple, content-rich objects into sharp focus. Condron attempts to establish not so much a connection to a chair or a room, but the feeling created by the wide embrace of emptiness. Ultimately, Condron creates scenes - part representation of real places, part invention from deep in his mind. The openness of his works invites the viewer to share the moment of quiet with him. By choosing places that seem to have been abruptly vacated, he attempts to awaken a connection to the moment before, or to the quietude he preserves inside himself in the form of memories.
Matt Condron was born in 1967 in Simi Valley...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painted Cave
Located in Burlingame, CA
Breathtaking ocean scene / landscape in early evening light. 'Painted Cave, 2023
oil on canvas, 24 x 48 inches, Here, deep blue water with filtered light at the edge of the sea is ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Ice Block Tongs
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of an antique pair of tongs, meant for use during ice fishing. Suspended from a small rope, hanging from a single nail, against a grey backdrop. Brushstrokes can be seen in the gray of the background, but are harder to make out on the subject. Morfis paints in an extremely refined, realist approach.
Painting dimensions: 25 x 19 inches
Framed dimensions: 30 x 24 x 1.5 inches
Available at Grenning Gallery.
BIOGRAPHY
John Morfis was born in Glen Cove, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetically pleasing, John made an extreme departure from his family life when he chose to base his life on art. Surrounded by mechanics, welders, and otherwise trade workers John had a tough time expressing his interest in a world much more utilitarian and much less expressive and impractical.
With an extraordinary desire to be an artist and a grant awarded, John was able to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of Hartford in 1998. While there John studied oil painting under American realist Stephen Brown.
John’s first solo show took place in 2007 at the Ellen Traut Collection Gallery in Hartford, CT and was a near sell out. Since then John has had success up and down the northeastern coast of the United States working with various galleries and collectors. His work has also appeared in various group shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Each painting, although a portrait of a tired hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Nocturnal Lotus" oil on canvas, 1981
Located in Southampton, NY
Lowell Nesbitt's paintings are in most major museum collections.
In the 1950s he dabbled in Abstract Expressionism for a short time. However, It wasn’t until 1962, that he created hi...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Social Distancing
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented By George Billis Gallery. As the practitioner of a non-verbal art, Jarvis Wilcox’s first objective is to intrigue the viewer into spending enough time with the painting t...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Pink Rose" - floral painting - rose still life - Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Pink Rose (Pandemic)" is an oil painting featuring hues of pink, red, black and grey.
Jim Wise is inspired by the works of Georgia O'Keeffe, Rene Magritte, J...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Gin and Tonic" - oil painting, contemporary realist, cocktail seaside with lime
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by American Realist painter, Steven Levin. Here, Levin depicts a still life that transports viewers to a tropical island with his realist image of gin and...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Katherine Reclining with iMac - original female realist still life portraiture
Located in London, Chelsea
Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a composition of portraiture and a still life arrangement presented in an interior scene. The artist applies traditional rea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nina Reclining with Guitar - original female realist still life portraiture oil
Located in London, Chelsea
Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a composition of portraiture and a still life arrangement presented in an interior scene. The artist applies traditional realist paint work to an environment which references modern subject matter. Rendering directly from life, Conklin imparts an original artwork that is imbued with narrative and character. This piece is painted in oils on panel, hand signed by the artist and ready to be displayed.
Andrew S. Conklin, a native of Chicago, Illinois, is a visual artist, painter and draftsman. He studied painting and design at Chicago’s American Academy of Art and painting and printmaking at the National Academy of Design School in New York City. Conklin received additional instruction from portraitist Aaron Shikler and painter and illustrator David Levine. He holds an MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. Conklin’s figurative paintings have been exhibited throughout the USA and have won him a number of major awards. He has shown work at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in NYC, The Terra Museum of American Art, Fairfield University, and the National Academy of Design, where he received a Julius Hallgarten Prize. A three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Conklin has also won a John F. and Anna Lee Stacey...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Girl with iMac, Skull and KAWS - original realist still life portraiture artwork
Located in London, Chelsea
Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a composition of portraiture and a still life arrangement presented in an interior scene. The artist applies traditional realist paint work to an environment which references modern subject matter. Rendering directly from life, Conklin imparts an original artwork that is imbued with narrative and character. This piece is painted in oils on linen, hand signed by the artist and ready to be displayed.
Andrew S. Conklin, a native of Chicago, Illinois, is a visual artist, painter and draftsman. He studied painting and design at Chicago’s American Academy of Art and painting and printmaking at the National Academy of Design School in New York City. Conklin received additional instruction from portraitist Aaron Shikler and painter and illustrator David Levine. He holds an MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. Conklin’s figurative paintings have been exhibited throughout the USA and have won him a number of major awards. He has shown work at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in NYC, The Terra Museum of American Art, Fairfield University, and the National Academy of Design, where he received a Julius Hallgarten Prize. A three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Conklin has also won a John F. and Anna Lee Stacey...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
A Pair of Brick Wall Paintings the Size of a Wall
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of large contemporary paintings depicting a brick wall and window in a realist style. The paintings measure 72 x 30.5 inches each and are in basic wood-slat frames.
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Homage to David Bowie - original celebrity realist still life portrait oil human
Located in London, Chelsea
Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a composition of a beguiling mix of portraiture and a still life arrangement, suggesting a celebration of the renowned David...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Lilacs and Book" - contemporary realist painting, purple flora and literature
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
American realist painter Steven Levin continues his "Books and Butterflies" series with this still-life. Butterflies flit around cut lilacs and an open book. The wings of the butterf...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Peonies with Locket" contemporary surrealist still life painting, sunset
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A moody and surrealistic still life of peonies. While the scene seems to take place outside, the reflection in the vase reveals a window with light streaming into a dark room. As alw...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Ornament
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Lure
Located in Wenham, MA
An original oil painting on linen panel of an antique fishing lure, framed in a hand-made frame by one of New York's finest frame makers.
Master...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Crabapples
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery in NYC. Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Blue Teapot and Roses, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist John Jaster paints a realistic still life of a teapot and flowers. White roses blossom, some with open petals and some still in their colorful buds. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Still Life with Sake Bottle
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Lotus Bowl
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rockaway's Playland
Located in Burlingame, CA
New iconic American painting, Rockaway's Playland, by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings and watercolors. Torlakson’s photorealism subject matter and imagery have centered on “every day” America including trucks, railways, amusement parks, waterfronts, fireworks booths, deserted drive-in theaters and coastal landscapes. His oil paintings, watercolors, aquatint etchings and drawings have been exhibited nationally since 1971 within United States and Internationally, with works housed in the permanent collections of many American Museums, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum of California, Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum; New York Public Library’s print...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with S
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Domino
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Four Vintage Cameras
Located in Fairfield, CT
Stott’s work is almost object portraiture, applying traditional still life compositions and lighting but ventures beyond time honored subject m...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Gold Cup
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Still-life paintings work as part of the decor in nearly every type of space.
Still-life art, which includes work produced in media such as painting, photography, video and more, is a popular genre in Western art. However, the depiction of still life in color goes back to Ancient Egypt, where paintings on the interior walls of tombs portrayed the objects — such as food — that a person would take into the afterlife. Ancient Greek and Roman mosaics and pottery also often depicted food. Indeed, still-life paintings frequently feature food, flowers or man-made objects. By definition, still-life art represents anything that is considered inanimate.
During the Middle Ages, the still life genre was adapted by artists who illustrated religious manuscripts. A common theme of these paintings is the reminder that life is fleeting. This is especially true of vanitas, a kind of still life with roots in the Netherlands during the 17th century, which was built on themes such as death and decay and featured skulls and objects such as rotten fruit. In northern Europe during the 1600s, painters consulted botanical texts to accurately depict the flowers and plants that were the subject of their work.
Leonardo da Vinci’s penchant for observing phenomena in nature and filling notebooks with drawings and notes helped him improve as an artist of still-life paintings. Vincent van Gogh, an artist who made a couple of the most expensive paintings ever sold, carried out rich experiments with color over the course of painting hundreds of still lifes, and we can argue that Campbell’s Soup Cans (1961–62) by Andy Warhol counts as still-life art.
While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.
As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, a still-life painting can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a space.
When shopping for a still-life painting, think about how it makes you feel and how the artist chose to represent its subject. When buying any art for your home, choose pieces that you connect with. If you’re shopping online, read the description of the work to learn about the artist and check the price and shipping information. Make sure that the works you choose complement or relate to your overall theme and furniture style. Artwork can either fit into your room’s color scheme or serve as an accent piece. Introduce new textures to a space by choosing an oil still-life painting.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of still-life paintings in a wide range of styles and subject matter.