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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Style: Art Deco
Style: American Realist
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
"Artichokes" contemporary realist oil painting still life, green and purple hues
By Sarah Lamb
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Artichokes" is a contemporary realist oil painting still life, with its green and purple hues dominating the neutral surroundings. A rustic wooden bowl holds two whole artichokes, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"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
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
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
"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
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
Medium Sized Contemporary American Oil of Hawaiian Girl/Hula Girl.
Located in Fort Worth, TX
'Aloha,' 2017
John Hartley discovered his life's passion while growing up in Piqua, Ohio. Encouraged to develop his talents in an academic environment, ...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
Perfection, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Perfection is what comes to mind when looking at the work of the Almighty," says artist Jo Galang. "I found these captivating, perfect beauties at the grocery ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
"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
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
Oil, Panel
The Blessing, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A closeup of a radiant bouquet of yellow, white and red roses. Artist Jo Galang received this floral arrangement as a gift from her children on her birthday. "Small and simple things can inspire and spark happiness," says Jo. "I decided to immortalize this gift so othe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
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
"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
"Welk" - shell painting, still life, realism - Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Welk" 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, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha and 17th...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
Doughnuts, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Chocolate? Sprinkles? Powdered sugar? They are all here - sweet snacks from the local bakery," says artist Kristine Kainer. An essential selection of donuts,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bouquet by Alexandre GOH - Watercolor on paper 62x45 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Beige wooden frame with glass pane
85 x 67 x 2,5 cm
Category
1910s Art Deco Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen, Gouache, Acrylic
Squash and Onions, warm earth tones food realistic still life
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our perceptions. His subject matter concentrates on still lives of food, toys, candy and household objects.
In addition to many group shows across the country, Mr. Newton’s show, “HARD CANDY and other confections” represents his fifth solo exhibition. His paintings have been collected in numerous private collections.
Mr. Newton resides in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY.
Dr. Sonia Coman writes in her essay, Doug Newton’s hard candy: the confection of painting
Doug Newton’s paintings are about… painting.
The hyperrealist technique of trompe l’oeil or “trick the eye” is knowingly playful. It simultaneously calls attention to the illusion of a different material—for example, translucent candy wrappers—and the reality of the layers of paint, masterfully applied to the canvas. In that, Newton’s paintings pay homage to an esteemed series of trompe l’oeil masters, from Inquisition-era Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán to Gilded-Age American painter William Michael Harnett...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Zinnias, Snapdragons and Fruit
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life in the artist's studio, a rustic, wooden basket overflows with bright colored flowers. Four apples scattered in the foreground, cast shadows, and reflect on the gro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Apples" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Apples" is a still life oil painting that depicts a glass bowl of reddish Apples sitting in situ with a knife and halved Apple slices in a dark interior. ...
Category
2010s 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
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
Carafe, pot and brau by I. Charles Goetz - Oil on cardboard 29x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on cardboard
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
"Norwegian Sunset" contemporary tonalist painting - sun sets beyond green trees
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a glowing sunset beyond a verdant patch of trees, painted en plein air, in Norway, while Personett was apprenticing at Odd Nerdrum's stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
"Sea of Stripes: Pears" - still life with pears, stripes - Raphaelle Peal
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Sea of Stripes: Pears" is a still life painting featuring hues of green, yellow, blue and white.
Jordan Baker is inspired by the works of Rachel Ruysch...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Glimpse of Hope, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Hope is the belief that things will work, most especially when it seems otherwise," says artist Jo Galang. "Deep, never wavering hope is what we need to cling ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carne Tagliata, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Part of Onelio's ongoing series centered around people occupied in various simple tasks. This painting depicts a butcher at work in his shop - it could be a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
Large bouquet by Henry Meylan - Oil on canvas
By Henry Meylan
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Firm and Flat, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A worn brick sits dramatically in the middle of an abstracted space. Rendered in detailed layers of coral, brown, blue, turquoise, white, and yellow. "I found...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pauls Jacket
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a vintage flannel zip-up. A classic red tartan plaid jacket, on a wooden hanger, hanging from a single nail, against a grey backdrop...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, 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
"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
"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
Petite Cheesecake
By Sarah Lamb
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A Still life painting of a small cheesecake, adorned with strawberries, blueberries, and cream. Placed upon a layer of parchment paper, against a grey backdrop. Sarah Lamb is known for her poetic still lifes that utilize classical painting techniques, yet are very contemporary in mood.
Framed dimensions: 17 x 25 inches
Sarah Lamb is a talented and dynamic realist painter. With classical skill—and through transparency, depth and texture—she captures the minute details of everyday objects in her dramatic still lifes and luscious landscapes. She makes us love the familiar and see beauty in the mundane.
Born in Petersburg, VA, with a passion for art and an appreciation for the past, Sarah spent a semester at the Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy before graduating from Brenau Women’s College with a BS degree in Studio Art in 1993. Following a summer workshop in Santa Fe, NM with renowned classical painter Jacob Collins, she spent two years painting at The Ecole Albert Defois in the Loire Valley with classical realist artist Ted Seth Jacobs.
In 1997 she moved to New York and spent the next 6 years studying and painting under Jacob Collins at the Water Street Atelier. During this time, she had successful one-woman shows in major galleries in Atlanta, Houston, and San Francisco and was represented in art galleries in Alexandria, VA, St. Simon’s Island and Gainesville, GA, Sag Harbor, NY and Madison, CT.
More recently, she has had sell-out, one-woman shows at the Spanierman Gallery in NY, the Meredith Long Gallery in Houston, TX and the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco. She has been featured in magazines such as American Artists, American Art Collector and Southwest Art as one of America’s most talented young painters.
British-born art critic, John A. Parks, wrote that “Sarah Lamb brings to her work a robustly sensual grasp of the world. Her keenness of eye and joyful brush make the whole enterprise feel freshly alive as she reminds us what the really wonderful things in life are.”
Sarah splits her time between Houston, Texas and in Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley with her husband, artist, David Larned...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Mid Century Still-Life with Fruit, Pineapple, and Pitcher
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant, colorful still-life of fruit arranged in front of a bowl and pitcher by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Circa 1940. This piece is partially incomplete. Unsigned, but...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
William Hubacek 'Cactus Plants' Still Life, Oil Painting
Located in San Rafael, CA
William Hubacek (American 1871-1958)
Cactus Plants
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left: 'Wm. Hubacek 1946'
18.75in H x 15.5in L
With a gilt frame: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"White Rose III" - floral painting - rose still life - Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in Atlanta, GA
"White Rose III (Pandemic)" is an oil painting featuring hues of yellow, white, black and grey.
Jim Wise is inspired by the works of Georgia O'Keeffe, Rene Ma...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Cherry Tomato
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Cherry Tomato" by Philip Barlow, oil, 12 X 16 inches (Framed size: 15.75 x 19.5 inches), c. 2009, $1,800.
Philip Fisher Barlow (1933-2018) always knew...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
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
Hibiscus Explosion, Oil Painting
By Jay Jensen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Hibiscus blooms are astonishing," says artist Jay Jensen. "The brilliance of color exceeds the range of oil pigments. They have fascinated me ever since I vi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Euonymus Branch
Located in Brooklyn, NY
still life artist Doug newton says, "A still life painting of a branch from a shrub in our garden. The shrub is a Euonymus, a Japanese evergreen variety. At the base of the glass vase are three tomatoes and a Mexican figurine...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
Relic 2.20 (vintage teal old rusty truck wreck nostalgia monochrome oil painting
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; rusty, teal, brown, earth tones, surrealism, car portrait, car accident, oil painting, representation painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary realist painting, dreams, symbolic composition, tonalist, grey, monochrome, nostalgic, vintage, early century, illustration, car, automobile, old car wreck...
Category
2010s 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
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
Summer. After Rain., Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A refreshing basket of juicy red apples after a rainstorm. Raindrops slowly dry under the warm sun as leaves rustle in the cool wind. Artist Nikolay Rizhankov...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Oil of Vintage, Antique, Collectable Toy Police Man on Motorcycle
Located in Fort Worth, TX
Man In Blue, 2017
John Hartley discovered his life's passion while growing up in Piqua, Ohio. Encouraged to develop his talents in an academic environme...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, 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.