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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Style: American Realist
Style: Street Art
Vase & Spouted Ewer with Handle, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Two Chinese vases lay on a background of different shades of gray in artist Guigen Zha's piece. The still life references cultural relics from the Song Dynasty ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Buddha Head Vase, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In the style of contemporary realism, artist Guigen Zha paints a porcelain vase of Buddha's head. A bouquet of blue lotus flowers blooms in the oriental still l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Artist Studio Pallet & Brushes" Photorealist Turquoise Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in New York, NY
A surrealistic Nemethy from a brand new series which fuzes photorealism with surrealism in a most interesting current style. With the finest details, Nemethy creates an atmosphere th...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Three Magenta Peonies" contemporary realist oil painting pink flowers on black
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Three Magenta Peonies" is contemporary realist oil painting pink flowers on black background. A classical painting subject and style, with a fresh and intriguing touch.
Signed "Personett" lower left corner.
Framed in a traditional black frame w gold trim.
Framed dimensions:
Rachel Personett was born in Hawaii, but raised in Colorado. Being the daughter of a pilot she has always traveled extensively. She has studied part time at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Angel Academy of Art, and finally settled on the Florence Academy of Art, graduating in 2015. In January 2016 she apprenticed the painter Odd Nerdrum in Norway for eight months. Rachel Personett works strictly from life, and enjoys the challenged of painting the ephemeral. Working from life provides the opportunity to travel around the world painting the ever changing people and landscapes.
Artist Statement
My mother had studied advertising in college, so she knew a lot about arts and good craftsmanship. She did talks at my elementary school each week and on a different artist. I remember being very moved by the images of Van Gogh and Andrew Wyeth. At the Florence Academy I really liked Sargent, Sorolla, Willard Metcalf, Henri Fantin-Latour and Velazquez. At Odd Nerdrums I gained new respect for Rembrandt and was introduced to other Scandinavian...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Three Hats" classical still life with birds nest and egg
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Three Hats" is part of Levin's "plumage" series, where he contrasts hats to birds nests, put feathers on and in both. Here he has added a blue egg in one of the silky hats. This is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vitrum Umbrae 02, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Christopher Garvey presents a group of varying glassware in different colors, sizes, and shapes. Set against a tonal background, the focus is drawn to th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Gros Prunes, plums still life
By Adam Lehr
Located in Greenwich, CT
This still life of Plums is a top notch example of 19th century still life painting! Beautiful quality and striking but also spare and honest in nature which is what typified Americ...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rousseau's Garden
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Rousseau's Garden', 2018 is 30 x 30 inches. By focusing on a single subject, the artist immerses herself in the nuanced lines, shapes, and tones that the oil paint offers. Contempor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Terminus no. 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
Breathtaking impressionistic ocean scene with large cumulus cloud rising where the mountains meet the ocean. Tranquil blue water with filtered early evening light captured on the canvas where time stands still. Ready to hang unframed with its edge painted in a reddish brown patina for which the artist is known. Artist signed, titled and dated. Condition is excellent / as new.
Brooks Anderson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Midnight Garden
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Midnight Garden', 2019 is 25 x 18 inches. By focusing on a single subject, the artist immerses herself in the nuanced lines, shapes, and tones that th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Quadracolored Bottles" Original Gary John Colorful Pop Artwork on Poster Board
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board
Garden Dibble
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of an antique tool, a Garden Dibble, which is a long stick-like tool used to make holes for seeds, to make sure they are sufficiently buried in the soil without damage. This particular object that Morfis chose to paint has a wooden handle, and a metal point. The dibber rests atop a nail, against a gray wall. Bright studio-light casts a sharp shadow directly beneath the tool. Painted in the academic realist style of "trompe-l'oeil" which is French for "trickery of the eye".
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
Linen, Oil
"St. Michaels Mount Nocturne" oil painting of landmark illuminated at nighttime
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting depicting the St. Michaels Mount, in Cornwall, England. This nocturne shows the silhouette of a hill rising out of the water and glowing against the night sky. Reflec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Transition
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Transition', 2011 is 30 x 30 inches. By focusing on a single subject, the artist immerses herself in the nuanced lines, shapes, and tones that the oil paint offers. Contemporary and mysterious monochromatic and inspired by the garden at night...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Green Refuge
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Green Refuge', 2021 is 50 x 50 inches. By focusing on a single subject, the artist immerses herself in the nuanced lines, shapes, and tones that the oil paint offers. Contemporary a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Leaves
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Leaves', 2006 is 16.5 x 13.5 inches, framed 24 x 21 inches. By focusing on a single subject, the artist immerses herself in the nuanced lines, shapes, and tones that the oil paint o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil
"Kolbasa" contemporary oil painting of charcuterie meats, scallions, tablecloth
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a plate of a selection Kolbasa and accoutrements. On a plain plate is a spread of cut cured meat, including Russian sausage. Diagonally across the plate are three ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Poppies" contemporary realist oil painting, red wildflowers birch tree green
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a poppies in front of a rock wall. The setting sun shines through the petals making them glow golden orange against the darker foliage. The sun cuts shadows into t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Canvas
Urban Retreat
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Urban Retreat', 2021 is 50 x 50 inches. By focusing on a single subject, the artist immerses herself in the nuanced lines, shapes, and tones that the oil paint offers. Contemporary ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Grande Serre
Located in Burlingame, CA
Contemporary and mysterious oil painting inspired by 'La Grande Serre' gardens in Paris, France, at dusk. The lush work in mainly forrest greens with floating flowers and splashes of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Two Bottles" American Scene Realism Mid 20th Century Female Artist WPA 1940's
By Helen Clark Oldfield
Located in New York, NY
"Two Bottles" American Scene Realism Mid 20th Century Female Artist WPA 1940's
Helen Clark Oldfield "Two Bottles," 1943. Signed “Helen Oldfield” lower right. Oil on canvas board, 18 x 14 inches. Provenance: Estate of the Artist.
Helen Clark Oldfield was born in Santa Rosa. Her father, James E. Clark, invested in local hops farms. He was a director of the first Santa Rosa Bank.
Oldfield lived at 547 Mendocino Avenue, in one of the finest custom-built homes in town. She was the oldest child of the family. They spent summers in their beach cabin at Jenner-by-the-Sea.
She was a good student and graduated from DeWitt Montgomery High in Santa Rosa with college standard grades. Unfortunately, this idyllic situation tumbled down suddenly. due to a fraud scandal at the Bank, her father forfeited most of his assets in order to make good on his client's losses.
At the time when her high school friends were going east to college, Oldfield followed her family to a new life of farming. She found this life frustrating as there was little time for her interests after conclusion of her daily duties. Here she developed her natural gift for sophisticated needle work. At the time she also took a correspondence course in industrial design and became an expert tailor.
Her family was not happy with the farming arrangement. They decided to move to Oakland. In 1921 they purchased a home at 318...
Category
1940s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Outside of Inside
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Outside of Inside" by Philip Barlow, oil, 14 x 11 inches (Framed size: approx. 17 x 14 inches), c. 2009, $1,200.
Philip Fisher Barlow (1933-2018) alway...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Open Water , no. 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
Breathtaking ocean scene with soft clouds melting into the horizon of the ocean. Tranquil blue water with filtered early evening light captured on the canvas where time stands still. Ready to hang unframed with its edge painted in a reddish brown patina for which the artist is known. Artist signed, titled and dated. Condition is excellent / as new.
Brooks Anderson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Asleep at the Wheel
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Asleep at the Wheel, 2021' a highly collectable 20 x 35 inch oil on canvas painting by Internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson.
Ja...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Truth about Beauty
Located in Burlingame, CA
For Elizabeth Barlow, painting the intricate details of a flower is a meditation that promotes a deep reverence for all living things. The artist imbues her works with a radiant ligh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Vitrum Umbrae, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Christopher Garvey presents a realistic display of glassware and ceramics set atop a wooden table joined by billiard balls....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady
Located in Burlingame, CA
Collection of an array of items that epitomize beauty, this still life painting celebrates romance and joie de vivre, by Elizabeth Barlow, who meticulously creates oil "portraits" that feature still life objects to represent the essence of her subject. In this case the artist depicts the concept of "beauty" through the placement of various beloved items and their shadow as a "portrait" of a lady...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Log Loader
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Log loader' is a watercolor painting, created in 1980 by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torlakson’s p...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Canvas
Car Wash
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Car Wash' a highly collectable 48 x 48 inch oil on canvas painting by Internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson, framed in a contempo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pineapple Frosted Cookie, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist McGarren Flack paints a pineapple frosted cookie on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?†asks McGarren. In his Sweets series, he draw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Twix Mix Cookie, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist McGarren Flack paints a twix mix cookie on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?†asks McGarren. In his Sweets series, he draws every p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Frosted Snickerdoodle Cookie, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist McGarren Flack paints a frosted snickerdoodle cookie on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?†asks McGarren. In his Sweets series, he ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Present Perfect" contemporary oil painting of a wrapped gift, pretty in pink
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A painting of a perfectly wrapped white package against a magenta background. Centered in the composition sits a white polka dot wrapped box, sitting with the edge directly down the middle of the canvas, and topped with a shiny magenta ribbon. The white of the present reflects a bit on the ground, as if the ground is slightly shiny.
Painting dimensions: 12 x 12 inches
Frame dimensions: 13 x 13 inches
Framed in a white floating frame
Artist Bio
Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received instruction and support from wonderful and generous members of the East End artistic community. Working exclusively in oils, Lucas sets out almost daily to create plein aire landscapes and seascapes. In her studio, she works directly from life and captures the beauty of natural light as it transforms ordinary objects into visual delights.
Lucas wants her work to celebrate all that is well with this world and brilliant in this life, despite its pockets of darkness.
For me, she says, I know I am in the Presence of something beautiful, when it steals my breath, silences my mind, pushes out everything else and draws me in. I trust That. I use That to guide my hands as I arrange a still life or scan a landscape to determine where to set down my easel. Ultimately, That is what drives me to paint.
Becoming evermore skilled as an oil painter is another of Lucas goals. To that end she remains teachable, finding it refreshing and vital for her own growth to paint with others. She has studied with favorite artists including Michael Klein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dutch Masters
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Dutch Masters, 2021' a highly collectable 40 x 60 inch oil on canvas painting featuring the Dutch Masters logo from the side of a metal walled panel truck by Internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Swedish Peppermints, super realistic red and white candy on neutral color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Four Swedish red and white peppermints on a light background. I was intrigued by the variety of patterns in the Swedish version. American peppermints are much more uniform. They were...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Winter River" contemporary realist plein air oil painting, snowy landscape
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a winter scene. Soft short brushstrokes create a sense of movement in the icy water.
Painting dimensions: 24 x 18 inches
Framed dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5 x 1 inches
Framed in a traditional-style frame (see pictures).
Artist Bio
Rachel Personett was born in Hawaii, but raised in Colorado. Being the daughter of a pilot she has always traveled extensively. She has studied part time at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Angel Academy of Art, and finally settled on the Florence Academy of Art, graduating in 2015. In January 2016 she apprenticed the painter Odd Nerdrum...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Island of Red Flowers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Island of Red Flowers
Year: 1979
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated verso
Size: 7...
Category
1970s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Anthony Ackrill - Enlightened Apple, Surrealist Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Anthony Ackrill applies his classical training at Florence Academy of Art to create still life studies which are both realistic and dramatic. Enlightened Apple
is a perfect example ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Coffee, Fireworks, and Amphetamines
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Coffee, Fireworks, and Amphetamines" is an oil painting of the titled items, a to-go coffee cup is the focal point, a few red firecrackers resemble miniature dynamite sticks. Pills scattered about the tabletop in capsules and tablet forms. A single match with a red tip rests along the table's edge, ready to ignite a spark. A diagonal shadow dissects the composition. A hole in the wall can be found on the upper right.
Painting dimensions: 11 x 14 inches
Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 16.5 inches
Matthew Weigle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Panel
Vitrum Umbrae 03, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A realistic painting of an assortment of glassware set atop a wooden desk by artist Christopher Garvey. A fitting muted backgr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gifted
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A painting of carefully wrapped packages against a vibrant background. Each package is wrapped in a differently patterned paper. There is an air of anticipation, the edges close are sharply painted as if with bated breath and the edges along the horizon softly blurring out like a sigh thats been held, finally released. The vibrancy between magenta ground and the phthalo blue green background hum. The painting brings to mind the excitement of a child's birthday party, a wonderful sense of joy and nostalgia.
Painting dimensions: 24 x 24 inches
Frame dimensions: 28 x 28 inches
Framed in a wide silver frame
Artist Bio
Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received instruction and support from wonderful and generous members of the East End artistic community. Working exclusively in oils, Lucas sets out almost daily to create plein aire landscapes and seascapes. In her studio, she works directly from life and captures the beauty of natural light as it transforms ordinary objects into visual delights.
Lucas wants her work to celebrate all that is well with this world and brilliant in this life, despite its pockets of darkness.
For me, she says, I know I am in the Presence of something beautiful, when it steals my breath, silences my mind, pushes out everything else and draws me in. I trust That. I use That to guide my hands as I arrange a still life or scan a landscape to determine where to set down my easel. Ultimately, That is what drives me to paint.
Becoming evermore skilled as an oil painter is another of Lucas goals. To that end she remains teachable, finding it refreshing and vital for her own growth to paint with others. She has studied with favorite artists including Michael Klein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Grandma's Window"
Located in Austin, TX
Bart Lindstrom
"Grandma's Window"
12 x 18 (not including frame)
Watercolor on paper
A lovely still life picturing a kettle and a jar of preserves in fr...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Focus, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Being a single father and working a full-time job limits the time I have to paint," shares artist Christopher Garvey. "This p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roll with Four Objects, Oil Painting, Realism, 24 x 24 , Free Shipping , Realist
Located in Houston, TX
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David Harrison, is a master in the style of Realism painting. Roll with Four Objects shows the simple beauty of Realism paintings. Gallery Wrapped so no need for a fram...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Single Peony
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, a single pink peony blossoms amidst green leaves against a black backdrop. A classical painting subject and style, with a fresh and intriguing touch.
Signed "Personett" lower left corner.
Framed in a traditional black frame w gold trim.
Framed dimensions: 13.25 x 11.75 inches
Rachel Personett was born in Hawaii, but raised in Colorado. Being the daughter of a pilot she has always traveled extensively. She has studied part time at the Savannah College of Art and Design...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Square Triangle Circle, Original Oil Painting, Rock Climbing, 2020
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
The colors and their locations are meant to form triangles that reside inside the perfectly square canvas walls. The one bold yellow hold located at the bottom is meant to carry the eye around and around the canvas. Hence it's title, SquareTriangleCircle.
Keywords: colorful, rock climbing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chesapeake Oysters
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Though I live in Texas, I consider Virginia my home and long for the shellfish I would get from the Chesapeake Bay. Since I can no longer eat oysters there, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roses in a Copper Bowl
Located in Greenwich, CT
This elegant and rare still life of red roses is by one of America's finest still life artists. It is framed in a fine Empire style 24 karat gilded and carved frame. Roses in a Copper Bowl represents the pinnacle of still life painting as Carlsen has described it above. Before painting marine landscapes, Carlsen was first known as one of the finest still-life painters of his era. Painted in 1893 during Carlsen’s period in New York, this canvas also draws comparisons to the work of John LaFarge, John White Alexander...
Category
1890s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Three Shells, realistic still life sea shell subtle grey, tan composition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A still life painting of three sea shells from my collection. They are softly lit from the left, and painted from life in painterly realism.
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Meat" contemporary realist oil painting by American artist, raw, uncooked, chef
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Meat" is an oil painting of two raw cuts of meat resting on a wooden cutting board, atop a rickety wooden tabletop. A perfect painting for the kitchen or pantry. Painted from life, using classical techniques.
Painting dimensions: 12 x 16 inches
Framed dimensions: 14.5 x 18.5 inches
Framed in a black frame with silver trim.
Matthew Weigle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Panel
Basilica de la Sagrada Familia
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting depicting the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia. This nocturne shows the beautifully sculpted spires of a cathedral designed by architect ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Sunflower Medley for Blues, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A happy and bright still life featuring a handful of sunflowers arranged in a white ceramic vase by artist John Jaster. The vibrant colors of green and yellow i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Virga
Located in Burlingame, CA
Glowing wave under virga clouds - oil on canvas is 40 x 60 inches, meticulously painted by Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Pilgrimage" - floral painting, still life, realism - Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Proof of Concept" is an oil painting featuring hues of orange, pink, yellow and grey.
Jim Wise is inspired by the works of Georgia O'Keeffe, Rene Magritte, ...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Log Bridges
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a log bridge spanning a stream in the woods. Soft dappled light filters through the dense woods onto the path. In the distance the path leads to another log bridge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Metal
"Babylon" - rose painting, still life, botanical realism - Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Babylon" is an oil painting featuring hues of green, orange, pink, yellow and tan.
Jim Wise is inspired by the works of Georgia O'Keeffe, Rene Magritte, Jam...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Shop Still-Life Paintings on 1stDibs
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.