Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Bernard Payet was born in Lyon in 1950 and spent all his childhood in France. He studied and trained at the Academie ALPA of Lyon from 1974-1976, having been inspired by his visits t...

"Oopsie" by Joy Taylor in 2022 42 71 x 1 inches, currently unframed while the sides reveal the raw canvas so framing is optional Acrylic on Canvas, diptych (2 separate canvases that...

Drew Young's (BC based) "Unclasp" in an original, handmade acrylic and oil painting that depicts a pink and white floral element with green leaves seen thro...

“Never taking anything for granted, I am so grateful to be able to paint every day.” Anne Harney is a representational painter beginning her work from observation and concluding wit...

Inspired by the J. R. R. Tolkien quote "Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost" from the poem "All That is Gold Does Not Glitter" from "The Lord of the Rings." The poem reads: "All th...

Eryngium. Contemporary botanical mixed-media, oil and acrylic on board by Dutch artist Menno Modderman, signed and dated 2022 to the bottom right. Wo...

'Morning Light' from Stephanie Peek, who makes her home in California, is beautifully rendered with a sense of depth, intellect, timelessness, and mystery. An elegant painting refere...

This still-life is made by Dutch painter Erik Zwaga. The painter started in the style of the romantic school, Erik Zwaga began to search more and more for his own visual language...

This still-life is made by Dutch painter Erik Zwaga. The painter started in the style of the romantic school, Erik Zwaga began to search more and more for his own visual language...

Botanical imagery layered with shapes in mauve, sapphire, yellow and green form a playful narrative in this acrylic painting by Fiona Ackerman. The painting is part of a series inspired by the narratives and botanical drawings of women...

'Schwanken' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Cotton Canvas 95 x 70 cm -2009 Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, t...

Photographically accurate realism and conceptualism, peacefully coexisting on the canvases of Pavel Polanski. His canvases are gray with different depths of tone, almost monochrome a...

Still life with lemons, cruet and teaspoon is one of the best works by the artist Marco Fariello. It is made on wood panel, painted in oil in 2021. The subject of the work is the re...

A charming old fashioned toy racing horse dominates this classic oil painting by Dmitry Yuzefovich. With every beautifully detailed trompe-l'oeil pie...

Title: The Crane Flower Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24 x 19.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painti...

Flowers is an original modern artwork realized by Andrea Capasso in the late 20th century. Mixed colored oil painting on board. Includes frame. Hand signed on the lower margin.

Jodi Gerbi's (US based) "Keeping the Secret" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a pile of rubbish and brightly colored refuse. Currently r...

English Country Garden Landscape Art with Bee on Flowers by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original uses a limited palette of sky bl...

Contemporary pastel toned hyperrealist still life painting of a light switch by Texas-based artist Michael J. Abraham. Recently featured in "Michael J. Abraham: Quasi-Realism" at Ree...

Black Necked Stilt, by one of the finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon, who has painted western landscapes and nature-scenes for 35 years, capturing the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. This painting depicts a Black Necked Stilt walking through a marsh or bog. It is a quiet and contemplative early morning scene in water grey, blue, white and green-brown. Lovely moving water in this painting. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California. Signed front - Also signed, dated and titled Verso. oil on canvas - 48 x 58 inches. A wonderful contemporary work of original art by Willard Dixon. Comes framed in a minimal hardwood strip frame. Born: Kansas City MO, 1942 Education: Art Students League, New York, NY Cornell University Brooklyn Museum School San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969 Awards and Commissions N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989 California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998 Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998 Teaching 1989-90: San Francisco State University 1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar 1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA 1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA One Man Exhibitions 2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield 2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY 2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY. 2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA 2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY 2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA 1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA 1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery) 1994: Fischbach Gallery 1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery 1992: Fischbach Gallery 1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1990: Fischbach Gallery 1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1987: Fischbach Gallery 1987: Gallery 454 North 1986: William Sawyer Gallery 1985: Fischbach Gallery 1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx 1984: William Sawyer Gallery 1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery 1981: William Sawyer Gallery 1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery 1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish, Irene Zweig, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 2015: REAL with Elizabeth Barlow Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2014: Stillness and Activity / A father and daughter exhibition, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2013: Outwin Boocher Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Hey Everybody / Portraits, Diablo Valley College 2012: Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge”, George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA. Introduction Two/ Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2011: California: A Landscape of Dreams/ Fresno Art Museum 2010: Self Portrait Invitational/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT 2009: On Beauty /I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA. 2008: At Water’s Edge / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA. 2007: San Francisco Scenes/ George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA Ten Years- A Retrospective/ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, S.F., CA. 2006: Our Planet, Our Home/ SFMOMA Artists Gallery, S.F. CA 2005: 2005 Spring Group Show/ Earl McGrath Gallery, L.A., CA 2002: H2O’02, Paintings of Water/ Fischbach Gallery, NYC Scene in Oakland 1852-2002 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA The Garden/ Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA The Moving Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY Bay Area Printmakers/ works from Trillium Press, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA California Landscape Paintings/ College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA Bay Area Printmakers/ SF Museum of Modern Art/Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA Visions: Northern California/ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA 2001: Opening Exhibit: Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY 2000: Hackett Freedman Gallery Artists/ Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, Ca 1999: Homage to the Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American Culture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999: What is Art For? What are Museums For? What are You For? curated Curated for the Oakland Museum by William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster, Oakland, CA 1998: Paintings of Marin County Past and Present/ The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997: 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Hackett Freedman Gallery, S.F., CA 1996: Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas/ Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (traveling exhibition) Contemporary American Realist Painters/ Halls Crown Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1996: Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute/ One Bush St., S.F., CA 1996: New Work by Selected Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Flower Paintings/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA 1995: Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area / De Young Museum, S.F., CA Contemporary Still Life Painting/ David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1994: Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY New Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA A Room with a View/ The North Point Gallery, S.F., CA 1993: Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA Vanishing Point: A Look at Contemporary Landscape Painting”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Tribute/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, S.F., CA Contemporary Realism: Central and Northern California Landscapes/ Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism/ a traveling exhibition curated by Alan Gussow and Babcock Galleries, N.Y., NY 1992: A Day in the Country, California Landscape Painting / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA West Art and the Law/ Weat Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN(traveling ex.) The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY In Support of Contemporary Bay Area Artists / One Market Plaza, S.F., CA 1991: The Landscape in 20th-Century American Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art/ New York, NY, National Traveling Exhibit 1990: Contemporary Landscapes/ 21st Anniversary Exhibition Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 1990: New Bay Area Painting Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA 1989: The Modern Pastoral/ Robert Scholekopf Gallery, New York, NY 1988: Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988: Ten Artists from the William Sawyer Gallery / Shasta College Gallery, Redding CA Works on Paper/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1987: The Contemporary American Landscape/ Swain Gallery, NJ 1986: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape/ Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1985: The Bay Area Seen/ Bay Area Regionalists Show, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA Large Scale/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX A City Collects/ Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA American Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984: San Francisco Bay Area Painting/ curated by George Neubert for the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE American Landscape Painting/ California State University, L.A. CA Western Landscape Painters/ The Museum of the West, Houston, TX The Urban Landscape / One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA 1982: Collectors Gallery 16/ McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX Thirty Approaches to Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1981: Views of California Past and Present/ Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA Landscapes/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX 110th Anniversary S.F. Art Institute Alumni Group Show/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1980: Realism/ Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 1979: Bay Area Artists Exhibition/Sale/ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Omnium Gatherum/ Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA California Viewpoints/ Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA 1978: New Work/ Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1977: Contemporary California Artists/ Marshall-Meyers Gallery Alternative to the Whitney Annual/ James Yu Gallery, N. Y, N.Y. San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gallery, Seattle, WA Faculty Show/ California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1975: Realism in Painting and Ceramics/ Helen Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA 1975: A Tribute to the Art Institute/ Hansen Fuller Gallery, S.F., CA California Artists/ Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT 1974: Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water/ by Alfred Frankenstein Expo 74, Spokane, WA A Sense of Place/ curated by Alan Gussow for the Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE The Discovery Gallery, Montclair, N.J. 1973: College of Marin Gallery, Kentfield, CA California Artists/ Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA 1972: Visiting Artists/ California State University, Hayward, CA 1970: Drawing Invitational/ Emanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA 1970: San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA 1967: Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Annual, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA 1966: California Landscape Painters/ San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA. Selected Collections The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Oakland Museum The Utah Museum of Fine Art San Francisco Art Commission Shaklee Corporation Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA San Francisco International Airport Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX California First Bank, San Francisco, CA United Pipeline, Houston, TX Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA Atlantic Richfield Corporation Shell Oil, Houston, TX First National Bank of Seattle RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA Texas Heritage Society Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA Sohio Corporation Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY Chemical Bank, NY Swissre Corporation, NY The Insurance Company of North America First National Bank of Midland, Texas Commerce Bank AMA Headquarters, Washington, DC Hughes Tool, Houston, TX ATT, NY Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, San Francisco, CA IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL Smith Kline and French Corp., Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA Republic National Bank Chevron Trammel Crow Company, Dallas, CA U.S. Insurance Group, N.J. Southwestern Bell Corp., MO Union Bank Pacific Bell United States Trust Company, NY The United Bank of Denver, CO Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, PA Atlantic Richfield Corp., Los Angeles, CA Show, Pittman, Pots and Trobridge, Washington, DC San Francisco Zen Center Hughes Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, CA Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN Bank of America, NY Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City,MO Robinson Humphrey/American Express, Atlanta, GA Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA Goldman Sachs, NY Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NY Victoria Bank and Trust, Victoria, TX NYNEX, NY Coca Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta, GA TransAmerica Corporation Pacific Telesis Group Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison Exxon Corporation U.S. Trust Selected Private Collections Estate of Ahmet Ertegun, New York, NY Mr. Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, CA Estate of Irving Lazarr, Los Angeles, Ca Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holzer, New York, NY Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asher...

Dmitry Yuzefovich’s charming, intimate and curated compositions often seem hauntingly familiar. His realistic paintings tell a story—this one of a be...

'Silent Gestures' is a brilliant and original work of art from Kenyan born African-American artist Stephen Namara who is widely known for creating paintings and masterful drawings cr...

Edie Nadelhaft “Shift Focus” Oil on canvas, 45 x 47 inches. Offered unframed. Edie Nadelhaft's bold, large-scale, colorful monolithic oil paintings of bodega flowers were born from ...

Floral - Abstract Painting - Oil On Canvas By Marc Zimmerman This orange and green abstract floral painting is abundant in color and form creating luxury wall art enhancing any spa...

Keimpe van der Kooi Daffodils 70 x 22 cm Framed: 75x 27cm ( This frame is included) Oil on wood panel This Painting is made by Dutch Artist Keimpe van der Kooi. He likes to paint s...

Title: Purple Iris Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19.75 x 23.5inches Frame: Framing options available! Age: 2000s Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: ...

Neige de Nuit (Night Snow) — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 32 x 24 inches. French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and country...

Sea urchins is an original artwork realized in the mid-20th Century by Giovanni Omiccioli (February 25, 1901 – March 1, 1975). Original Colored oil on canvas. Includes frame Hand-signed on the lower right corner Includes frame Giovanni Omiccioli (February 25, 1901 – March 1, 1975), was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana...

Keimpe van der Kooi Autumn 122 x 100 cm framed: 132x 110 cm ( This frame is included) Oil on wood panel This Painting is made by Dutch Artist Keimpe van der Kooi. He likes to paint...

Bob Stuth-Wade (American, Born 1953) "Vidya Maya," 2006 charcoal and acrylic on paper 55 1/2 x 46 inches signed "Bob Stuth-Wade" at lower right Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator a...

Still life with onions. 2005, oil on canvas, 60x73 cm Still Life in red colors Kristine Kvitka (1983) Kristine Kvitka is a Latvian artist, born in Riga in 1983, currently lives and...

Title: Poker Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 27 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2000 Circa Arti...

Snow covered mountains by American Realist Peter Loftus who is known for captivating color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light, via his oil on canvas paintings that breathe life while reflecting natural western environments, including oceans, mountains, babbling brooks, mountain ridges and their vistas. 'Sierra Buttes...

ROBINSON, Geoffrey (b.1945) Green Table 2000 50.7 x 67.3 cm Collage on board, Unframed Geoffrey Robinson trained at Bournemouth College of Art in the 1960’s, before a career in adv...

Marie Gardeski grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and currently lives i...

Oil painting on canvas realized by Elena Mardashova, 40x40 cm. , realized in 2022. Excellent condition.

"Ritual is an original oil painting on linen measuring 30" high x 24" wide x 1.25" deep by Ekaterina Popova, founder of Create Magazine. She uses vibrant, saturated pigments in her serene and inviting candlelit bath scene...

A moment in time is captured in intimate detail in this realistic painting by Dmitry Yuzefovich. Known for his nostalgic trompe l’oeil work, this composition of an entryway features a lovingly worn straw hat in the center surrounded by a flurry of handwritten notes pinned to the wall, an umbrella sitting on the shelf above it all...

Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade artwork, Unique Work. Medium : Oil painting on stretched Linen. Artist : Jade Boissin Subject : Le lapin (Title) Signature : The work is signe...

Most of Deborah’s paintings concentrate on a single bloom, large in size, so stunning that they command the view of the audience. With great affection she takes care to capture every...

Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova, 60x50 cm. Excellent condition.

Pocket Night Light is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still li...

Pocket Autumn Leaf 5c is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still life painting. The paintings are...

In this series of trompe-l'œil oil and acrylic paintings, Myron Stephens realistically recreates images of mundane objects taped to what appears to be chalkboards covered with free s...

Willard Dixon still life with collection of objects that the artist has painted over the years in this tranquil, grey and neutral oil on canvas painting. "With the perspective affo...

"Anniversary No. 42" is a framed oil on canvas painting by Joseph Adolphe, depicting a still life of a wine glass stuffed with a linen napkin. The artist's use of painterly brushstro...

This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, whether deep mysterious jungle or delightfully whimsical florals. His co...

Single pink rose created in an experimental and exploratory work of art in mixed media, that includes oil paint and tape on mylar, mounted to diBond board. Abstracted pink rose is a ...

Depiction of the Walkie Talkie building opposite The Shard across the river Thames Short listed for the RA Summer Exhibition 2023 Additional information: Acrylic paint on Canvas 20 ...

'Bright Light' from Stephanie Peek, who makes her home in California, is beautifully rendered with a sense of depth, intellect, timelessness, and mystery. An elegant painting referencing dried eucalyptus leaves that the artist piled up in her studio and studied under a variety of natural and man-made lighting arrangements, as well as at various times of day and night. Oil on panel with natural alabaster ground into the pigments. The painting celebrates natures abstract qualities with a realist's approach. Peek has floated tulips, roses and other flowers and leaves from 17th century still life paintings through the dark smoky atmosphere of her paintings of night...

Lee Tiller Evensong Original Contemporary Landscape Painting Oil Paint on Canvas Image Size: H 45.7cm x W 61cm Framed Size: H 63cm x W 80cm x D 3cm Sold Framed in a White Wooden Fra...

Artist: Yankel Ginzburg, Khazakhstan-American (1945 - ) Title: Still Life with Spices Year: 2003 Medium: Acrylic on Wood, signed lower right Size: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm) Frame...

The original painting by Adrienne Sherman in oil on panel with a lacquer-like luster. depicting a Florida Grasshopper Sparrow with eggs in her nest. Oil on wood panel,, 8 x 8 inches,...