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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Style: Minimalist
Style: Photorealist
Tomatoes - Still Life, Fruit & Vegetables, South Africa, Realistic
By Mark Midgley
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Tomatoes by Mark Midgley. Original Oil on Canvas.
The Cape Town artist, Mark Midgley, is originally from Leeds in the UK. He moved to South Africa in 1979, where he started a silk...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
The Winter Iris, Large Flower Painting by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: The Winter Iris
Year: 1986
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 54 in. x 54 in. (137.16 cm x 137.16 cm)
Fra...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lemons and Limes on Quilt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Title: Lemons and Limes on Quilt
Year: 1988
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 39 in. x 48 in. (99.06 cm x 121.92 cm)
Frame Size: 40.25 ...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Texas Exotic, Large Painting by Bill Wiman
By Bill Wiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bill Wiman, American (1940 - )
Title: Texas Exotic
Year: 1977
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 56 x 59.5 in. (142.24 x 151.13 cm)
Frame: 57 x 61 inches
Category
1970s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peaches
Located in Greenwich, CT
Peaches in a bag
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Bag of Marbles - Photorealistic Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stuart Dunkel has spent decades refining his hyper-realistic style. He paints realistic imagery based on real world inspirations. His paintings show that the everyday object can be f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
It's A Case -- Original Oil Painting -- Please watch attached video
By Mark Schiff
Located in Boca Raton, FL
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About Mark Schiff -- Animated by photographs that reflect his personal life, Mark Schiff’s paintings are fueled by what makes him happy. Through his open touch and signature blending method, he lends his artistic perception to the original photographic compositions captured on his Leica.
Mark’s creative vision has been alive since he was a boy. As a child he spent his summers observing life as he rode the trolley back and forth to art classes at the Pratt Institute. During his future travels to Europe, Mark’s eye for light and photography merged with his passion for painting at the Jeu de Paume in Paris; which triggered his career in photorealism.
Mark is well known for painting objects that people can identify and emotionally connect with. His work is distinctly marked by a rich palette and the luminous range of light he paints into his compositions. Each painting is a true extension of his vision and can take up to 200 hours to complete.
Mark Schiff’s work has been commissioned by the well-known brands The Hershey Company and Tropicana. His private collectors include A-list celebrities and also corporate collectors in the US and abroad.
Possessing a strong philanthropic nature, Mark donates both his time and works to charitable organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Ronald McDonald House, Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Humane Society and the Special Olympics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
8 Track I - Graffiti and rust covered bridge contemporary photorealist painting
By Roland Kulla
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting captures a graffiti and rust covered steel bridge with bright blue skies and a sliver of green trees in and urban architectural setting.
Rolland has always been fascinated by the built environment. Reflecting on what the structures tell about their builders as well as their interaction with nature and the results of time. He focuses on the engineering ingenuity that created Chicago’s many bridges. Structural elements are abstracted from their context and painted with a hard-edged realism on a scale that highlights the monumentality of the forms and the creativity necessary for their existence. Shown here is “Eight Track”
Roland Kulla
8 Track...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Cheers for Two
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to Contempora...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas
Three Pairs
Located in Greenwich, CT
Hyper-realist painting of pears in a box
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
20158
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original oil on canvas; signed with artist's initials lower right.
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oracle, Contemporary Art Photorealist Memento Mori Oil Painting by Matthew Bober
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oracle
2016
Oil on Panel
9" x 12" unframed
16 1/2" x 19 1/4" framed
Taxidermy monkey head sits atop a brick wrapped in plastic. Many of the artist's ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Gardenia, Realist Flower Painting by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting was created by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he crea...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Reflection, Contemporary Photorealist Painting of Japanese Figure & Vervet Skull
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Reflection
2015
Oil on Panel
9" x 12" unframed
15" x 18" framed
Photorealist oil painting of a black pedestal in black reflection pool with floating flowers, vervet skull wrapped in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
To The Three
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original oil on canvas; signed with aritst's initials lower right.
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peach Tart
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stuart Dunkel has spent decades refining his hyper-realistic style. He paints realistic imagery based on real-world inspirations. His paintings show that everyday objects can be fasc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Strawberry Sundae" Delicious Photo Realism of Vanilla Cream & Whipped Cream
Located in Wellesley, MA
Mary Ellen Johnson
"Strawberry Sundae"
2018
Oil on Panel
39.75 x 34.25 Inches
Note: This painting is framed in dark cherry wood.
Mary Ellen Johnson is internationally recognized as one of the top Photo Realist painters working today whose extraordinary area of expertise is images of food. Johnson actually describes herself as a ‘Precision Realist’ whose primary subject is food - cheesecakes, PB & J sandwiches, parfaits, pancakes, banana splits, ice cream, hot dogs, cupcakes, waffles, muscles, sushi, etc.. These brilliantly painted works capture every nuance and are rendered with amazing precision. Stunningly beautiful and incomparably 'real,' her paintings are a delight in terms of subject matter, color, perfect composition, and whimsy, with an approachable quality that elevates them far beyond expertly executed mechanical renderings.
Unequaled for their brilliance and dramatic depictions of mundane subjects with their connotations of nostalgia, comfort and tradition, it is also her scale, cropping and extraordinary technical skill that render these works so overwhelmingly appealing. Johnson's paintings are acknowledged by the leading collectors in the country to represent the very best of the Photorealist tradition:
“I make the panels large to give a monumental feeling to the painting when viewed. These large images not only confront the viewer with their size but with their tremendous sense of extravagance. My work explores the deep connection that food has with humanity.” Mary Ellen Johnson
Included among the many accolades received for Johnson's work is a commission by the Canadian Government to paint 5 of Canada's favorite foods, images which were then translated into stamps, as well as a commission from The Cheesecake Factory's chain of restaurants for a "Strawberry Cheesecake with Whipped Cream" for their corporate headquarters in California.
MARY ELLEN JOHNSON
Born: 1967, West Long Branch, NJ.
Education: Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, 1989.
Exhibitions:
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
Beth Urdang...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Crane: Large Photo-Realist Painting of Industrial Red Ball & Grey Crane on Blue
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, vertical photo-realist painting on canvas of industrial red ball and steel grey crane on a sky blue background by Joseph Richards
oil on canvas,...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Eupholus Shoenherri, Contemporary Art Photorealist Oil Painting by Matthew Bober
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Eupholus Shoenherri
2019
Oil and metal leaf. on panel
5" x 7"unframed
8.25" x 8.25" framed
Eupholus Shoenherri is a species of beetles from New Guinea. Many of the artist's works a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Metal
Scripsit No 21 - bright, vivid detail, realist, still-life oil on canvas
By Ciba Karisik
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A cache of handwritten letters, stamped, and torn open creates a nostalgic composition in this realistic oil painting by Ciba Karisik. Known for his mas...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Telescoping #2 (Large Photorealist Oil Painting of a Red & White Crane on Blue)
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, photo-realist painting on canvas featuring a fire engine red and white industrial crane against a bright sky blue background
69 x 48 x 2 inches
oil on canvas, thin wood stripping
signed verso, "Joseph E. Richards"
Hangs with wire installed on the back
Excellent condition, ready to hang as is
This precisely detailed photo-realist painting was made by Joseph E. Richards in 1992. The artist painted this piece when he was 71 years old during a long career of painting trains, cargo ships, and industrial machinery. Richards served in the US Navy during WWII and went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia before showing with Ivan Karp of O.K. Harris Gallery in NYC. The artist moved upstate to Hillsdale, NY for the later years of his life.
This painting captures one of Richards' most beloved subjects, industrial cranes. With a photo-realist approach to the subject, Richards was able to capture detailed changes in light and shadow, shape and form. The red and white crane, painted with extreme detail and focus, vividly contrasts against a bright blue sky. Areas of brown rust, attesting to the machine's power and longevity, are captured with immaculate precision.
Since the painting has a very smooth surface, one could easily confuse this painting with a photograph. It is not until you examine the painting up close, do you realize the artist's calculated brushwork.
The painting is framed with natural wood stripping. The work is lightweight and easy to hang with pre-installed wire. The artist's signature is located on the back of the canvas.
About the artist:
Joseph Richards...
Category
1990s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pink Ball & Hook (Photorealist Oil Painting of Industrial Equipment on Blue)
Located in Hudson, NY
Vertical photo-realist painting on canvas of pale pink ball with steel colored hook on a bright sky blue background
72 x 36 x 1.5 inches
oil on canvas, thin wood stripping
signed "Richards" on bottom right corner in yellow paint
wire is installed on the back for easy hanging
This precisely detailed photo-realist painting was made by Joseph E. Richards in 1981. The artist painted this piece when he was 60 years old during a successful career painting trains, cargo ships, and industrial machinery. Richards served in the US Navy during WWII and went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia before showing with Ivan Karp of O.K. Harris Gallery in NYC. The artist moved upstate to Hillsdale, NY for the later years of his life.
This painting captures one of Richards' most beloved subjects, close up views of industrial equipment against a vivid blue sky. With a photo-realist approach to the subject, Richard was able to capture detailed changes in light and shadow, shape and form. The pale pink colored ball and steel colored hook, down to each screw and bolt, is completed with extreme focus and precision. One could easily confuse this painting with a photograph since it was completed with a very smooth application of paint, with no texture built upon the surface. It is not until you examine the painting up close, do you realize the artist's calculated brushwork.
The painting is framed with natural wood stripping. The work is lightweight and easy to hang with wire installed on the back.The artist's signature is located on the front and back of the canvas.
About the artist:
Joseph Richards’ precisely painted canvases of giant cranes, cargo booms, propellers and train engines are fueled with a fascination like that of a six-year old boy. Working directly from photographs, Richards unites light and color together as one element, evident in the reflective surfaces of steel. The otherwise mundane signs of corrosive wear are magnified; rust stains glow on the canvas and yellow painted pulleys radiate like beacons against a bright, blue sky. Richards finds beauty in their dramatic color, resilient texture, definitive form and functionality. Richards paints sections of these objects in grand scale, with canvases up to 6 feet long and eye-popping color, calling attention to their massive proportions and exceptional strength.
Richards had solo exhibits in New York City, Scottsdale AZ, and Washington DC, and his work is found in private and corporate collections here and abroad, e.g., the Tucson Museum of Fine Arts, Mobil Oil, Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia, and E. Jean Belloni in Geneva, Switzerland.
Resume:
Born in 1921 in Des Moines, Iowa, Joseph Richards left for Chicago after high school to pursue a career in art. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1942 – 1945, he went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He eventually settled with his wife, Betty, in New York City. In 1969, longtime dealer Ivan Karp opened The OK Harris Gallery on West Broadway in Manhattan’s SoHo. Karp was at the forefront of the Photorealism movement, showing artists such as Duane Hanson and Manny Farber...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Love Letters
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her hyperrealistic ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Sapphire"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
John Schieffer graduated in 1995 from Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The salutatorian entered the world of illustration at Mercer Mayer Productions as a children’s book illustrator. It was a job where he used his artistic abilities although it was not an outlet for a serious painting career. (He has a written and illustrated a book of his own that is awaiting a publisher). John then worked in the field of graphics at Leslie Roy...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wood Cap
Located in Park City, UT
Oil on panel; framed in natural wood frame.
"My paintings are an exploration of the phenomena of light. The light that exists within the environment and the light that falls over t...
Category
2010s Minimalist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Heirloom / oil on linen
By Mimi Jensen
Located in Burlingame, CA
Persimmons, cobalt blue table linens and silver are the focus of this elegant and dramatic still life. Colors include silver, orange and blue. Photorealist oil painting on canvas. T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Oils
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting of a canvas on an easel depicting oil paints.
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Rosa Ignea IV (Red Rose), " Oil on Canvas Still Life signed by Maria Colombier
By Maria Esther M. Colombier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Rosa Ignea IV (Red Rose)" is an original oil painting on canvas by Maria Esther M. Colombier. It depicts a single red rose in a glass vase. The artist used a hyper-realistic style a...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Victory Corset shop, acrylic on canvas, 36x30 Vintage New York City image
By Charles Ford
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. A wonderful rare early painting (1982) by Charles Ford of the classic "Victory Corset" shop in New York City...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Giverny Series: 10 April 1995, " Oil on Paper Lily Pads signed by Leslie Parke
By Leslie Parke
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Giverny Series 10 April 1995" is an original oil painting on paper by Leslie Parke. The artist signed and titled the work lower right. This piece depicts a lily pad with blooming fl...
Category
1990s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Calabazas", Still Life Oil Painting by Armando Ahuatzi, 1995
By Armando Ahuatzi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Armando Ahuatzi, Mexican
Title: Calabazas
Year: 1995
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 18.5 x 27 inches
Frame Size: 29 x 37.5 inches
Category
1990s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mark of Zorro / acrylic painting
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
Photorealistic still life street scene that features an American flag and resist sticker in the window of a home. Brown with red, white and blue. The street numbers are 8102 (2018 in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Peaches II, Photorealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Gustavo Schmidt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gustavo Schmidt
Title: Peaches II
Year: 2007
Medium: Oil on Canvas with Varnish, signed l.r.
Size: 36 x 28 inches
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Canvas, Oil
Peaches I, Photorealistic Oil Painting by Gustavo Schmidt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gustavo Schmidt
Title: Peaches I
Year: 2013
Medium: Oil on Canvas with Varnish, signed l.r.
Size: 38 x 42 inches
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Oil, Canvas
Plums
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stuart Dunkel has spent decades refining his hyper-realistic style. He paints realistic imagery based on real world inspirations. His paintings show that the everyday object can be f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Revel Restaurant, Acrylic on Panel
By Charles Ford
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. His "City Paintings" have a very realistic color palette, very true to life. His colors are...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Orange Cupcakes
Located in Fairfield, CT
Framed size: 9.5x12.5"
I love junk food. Who doesn’t? In my latest series of paintings, I am presenting snippets of childhood.. images that I like to look at. Presenting these ob...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Silver Bowl
By Steven Jones
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Steven Jones, American
Title: The Silver Bowl
Year: 2001
Medium: Oil on Linen on Panel, signed, titled, and dated verso
Size: 42 x 60 inches
Frame Size: 43.5 x 62 inches
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Black Square / yoga - oil on cancas
Located in Burlingame, CA
Woman doing yoga, stretching, leaf, torn paper color composition featured in this delightful still life oil on canvas painting. In this series of trompe-l'œil oil paintings, Willard...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Contemporary female artist still life gouache painting vase flowers signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Gloxinia & Slice of Torte" is an original gouache painting by Alicia Czechowski. It depicts a basket of lush flowers and a slice of a dessert painted in a photorealist style.
20 1/...
Category
1990s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Backstage / oil on linen
By Mimi Jensen
Located in Burlingame, CA
Theatrical reflective and feathered objects dramatically lit, sitting upon a wooden table with a black background. Colors include silver, red and black with touches of yellow and bro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Canvas
Vuelo Nocturno (Night Flight)
By Gabriel Berlusconi
Located in Kensington, MD
Exhibited 2003: Salon Nacional, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)
Gabriel Berlusconi was born in La Plata, Argentina in 1954. He graduated with a degree in visual ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Cherry Cheesecake" Photo-Realist Still Life, Cheesecake Slice in Red and White
Located in Wellesley, MA
Mary Ellen Johnson
"Cherry Cheesecake"
Oil on Panel
38 x 27 1/2 Inches
Note: This painting is framed in dark cherry wood.
Mary Ellen Johnson is internationally recognized as one of the top Photo Realist painters working today whose extraordinary area of expertise is images of food. Johnson actually describes herself as a ‘Precision Realist’ whose primary subject is food - cheesecakes, PB & J sandwiches, parfaits, pancakes, banana splits, ice cream, hot dogs, cupcakes, waffles, muscles, sushi, etc.. These brilliantly painted works capture every nuance and are rendered with amazing precision. Stunningly beautiful and incomparably 'real,' her paintings are a delight in terms of subject matter, color, perfect composition, and whimsy, with an approachable quality that elevates them far beyond expertly executed mechanical renderings.
Unequaled for their brilliance and dramatic depictions of mundane subjects with their connotations of nostalgia, comfort and tradition, it is also her scale, cropping and extraordinary technical skill that render these works so overwhelmingly appealing. Johnson's paintings are acknowledged by the leading collectors in the country to represent the very best of the Photorealist tradition:
“I make the panels large to give a monumental feeling to the painting when viewed. These large images not only confront the viewer with their size but with their tremendous sense of extravagance. My work explores the deep connection that food has with humanity.” Mary Ellen Johnson
Included among the many accolades received for Johnson's work is a commission by the Canadian Government to paint 5 of Canada's favorite foods, images which were then translated into stamps, as well as a commission from The Cheesecake Factory's chain of restaurants for a "Strawberry Cheesecake with Whipped Cream" for their corporate headquarters in California.
MARY ELLEN JOHNSON
Born: 1967, West Long Branch, NJ.
Education: Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, 1989.
Exhibitions:
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
Beth Urdang...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
September 10, 11 East 71: Architectural Oil Painting Realistic Building Exterior
Located in Hudson, NY
30 x 40 inches
horizontal photo realist oil painting on canvas of neo-classical architecture
Mr. Britell's subject matter is drawn from the world of pre-modernist architecture. Wha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harmony / oil on canvas
By Mimi Jensen
Located in Burlingame, CA
Sophisticated shades of grey and white still life with vases, shell, box and marble. Wonderful complex patterns throughout the oil painting on canvas. In excellent condition. Signed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tulip, Photorealist Watercolor by Hilo Chen
By Hilo Chen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hilo Chen
Title: Tulip
Year: 1988
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 9 x 6.5 in. (22.86 x 16.51 cm)
Frame: 16 x 13 inches
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Dominos
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original oil on canvas, signed.
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life No. 7
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jeanette Pasin Sloan
Title: Still Life No. 7
Year: 1979
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 46 in. x 62 in. (116.84 cm...
Category
1970s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Volupté
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original oil on linen, signed.
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Attributes of Art
By Dana Loomis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dana Loomis
Title: Attributes of Art
Year: 1984
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and titled in marker
Size: 40 in. x 46 in. (101.6 cm x 116.84 cm)
Frame Size: 41 x 47 inches
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Window 2
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary realist oil painting by American artist A.J. Fries.
Artist’s Statement:
My paintings are less about the images or scenes that they depict and more about my state o...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
No. 11 (White Industrial Machinery in Modern Photo Realist Style on Bright Blue)
By Joe Richards
Located in Hudson, NY
contemporary hyper realist painting of industrial white pulley against a bright sky blue background
still life painting, oil on canvas
Neve...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Malaysia Beef Jerky, 16x19.5, acrylic on masonite
By Charles Ford
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Another wonderful painting by Charles Ford that captures the great lighting and shadows of ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
The High Line, 16x17x1.5", acrylic on Masonite,
By Charles Ford
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
Another outstanding painting by Charles Ford that focuses on the High Line in New York City ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
BEYOND THE PALE - Photorealism / Still Life / Glass and Light
By Steve Smulka
Located in New York, NY
Steve Smulka creates hyperrealistic and photorealistic still life paintings that capture glass bottles in natural light and interprets the illumination in dramatic compositions.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
C Sørensen, Still Life With Trollius, Tea Cup & Books, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist C Sørensen depicts an arrangement of trollius with a vase, tea cup and books.
Little is known about C Sørensen, which ...
Category
1930s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Psychotropic Splendor of Utopian Intoxication
Located in Greenwich, CT
Still life of grapes, wine and foliage against an ocean background
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Party of Two"
By Jane Jones
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
In our quick paced culture, we are hyper-stimulated with visual media, which has caused our sense of vision to become blind to many things of incredible loveliness and consequence, s...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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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.