American Realist Paintings
Style: American Realist
Color: Black
Strange Catch
By Kate Sammons
Located in Denver, CO
Eel and Floral Element
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
African Tribal Celebration: Alex Haley Roots for Readers Digest
By Noel Sickles
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and detailed epic scale history painting of an African tribal celebration with an on looking king. The work has an abundant amount o...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Blue Shadows, Oil Painting by Harry Lane
By Harry Lane
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Harry Lane, American (1891 - 1973)
Title: Blue Shadows
Medium: Oil on Board, signed l.r.
Size: 15 in. x 11 in. (38.1 cm x 27.94 cm)
Frame Size: 19 x 15 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed - work is unframed. - Riggs was a Gay Artist.
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Two Godwits at Night, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"These two glowing marbled godwits are painted at the edge of the surf on a soft late evening on a Santa Barbara beach," sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Gem III
By Gregory Frux
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mansard Window, Oil on canvas, cityscape
Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Dr. Rowland S. Russell PhD. writes about his experience directly witnessing Greg's practice as a “plein a...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Irreversibility (vintage old car wreck nostalgia light blue auto oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; 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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Saturday In Savannah" Colorful Market Scene
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Saturday In Savannah" is a colorful sun lit scene of the Saturday market in this charming city, and is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful oil p...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hey Friend, Why the Long Face?, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"These two friends were at the Santa Fe rodeo grounds, early in the morning, just after they were fed," shares artist Heather Foster. "They were relaxed toget...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Monika's Lilies American Realist painter, floral painting, Representational
Located in Houston, TX
Monika's Lilies is painted in the style of American Realism. This floral painting has won several awards in Realism contests in the USA.
Gary J. Hernandez is an internationally reco...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Film Noir. Pulp Mystery That police officer knows you. Saturday Evening Post
By Paul Rabut
Located in Miami, FL
Film noir crime drama painted in a single frame. In narrative art, telling a story in a single image is harder than doing it in episodes. "'That police officer...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Afternoon by the Riverside, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A quiet riverside scene, with lush greens and leisurely moving water. Just above the treeline, billowing clouds linger before revealing a soft blue sky. "I find...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Storm Swell" Oil Painting
By Gordon Brown
Located in Denver, CO
Gordon Brown's (US based) "Storm Swell" is an oil painting that depicts rolling, tumultuous waves crashing against a rocky shore with storming clouds over...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Uncle Sam
By Syd Cockell
Located in Missouri, MO
This is an original oil on velvet painting created c. 1942. Syd Cockell was an accomplished American illustrator during World War II.
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gem II, mysterious window image, dark colors
By Gregory Frux
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mansard Window, Oil on canvas, cityscape
Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Dr. Rowland S. Russell PhD. writes about his experience directly witnessing Greg's practice as a “plein a...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cliffs of Vernazza" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Cliffs of Vernazza" is an oil painting that depicts a seaside city on the precipice of a steep cliff
Bio/artist statement:
...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Self Portrait in Mirror
By Kate Sammons
Located in Denver, CO
Artist self portrait in mirror
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dead Pine Evening, Oil Painting
By Jay Jensen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I've painted this scene a couple of times before. There a lots of dead pines facing the channel that separates the coast of Maine from Grand Manan Island, exc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rabbi with Torah, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman, Romanian/Israeli (1923 - 1977)
Title: Rabbi with Torah Scroll
Year: Circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dedicated verso
S...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Useless (painting vintage old car wreck nostalgia light blue auto oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, representation painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary realist painting, dreams, symbolic composition, tonalist, grey, monochrome, nostalgic, vintage, early century, illustration, car, automobile, tractor, old car wreck...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Passing Ships in the Night, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Provocative hyperrealist oil painting created with breathtaking detail. Artist David Shepherd explains that he used the glass surface in this piece as a light...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Halloween
Located in Burlingame, CA
Halloween - an iconic American painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torlakson’s photorealism subj...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
West Cork Landscape (Ahakista)
By Kenny Harris
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kenny Harris is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC. Kenny Harris’ new paintings evoke the light and mood of architectural spaces from his travels around the world. He is fascin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Contemporary Quirky Portrait of Party People with Incredible Carpet Detail
By Nancy Lamb
Located in Fort Worth, TX
The Menthol Mood, 2009, Nancy Lamb, Oil on canvas, 48 x 85"
Nancy Lamb (American, born 1956), sculptor and painter. Formally trained at Texas Christian Uni...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
Woman in Yellow Dress
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original painting by Harry McCormick from circa 1980. In an excellent gold frame.
Artist: Harry McCormick, American (1942 - )
Title: Woman in Yellow Dress...
Category
1980s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moon Over Back Lot
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a boat yard at nighttime. Boats at rest behind a locked chain-link fence. Street lights glow with hot orange auras. The full moon peeks out glowing a cool bright w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Good Morning Sunshine, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"The promise of a new day, and the beauty of sun passing through early mists are the hallmark of this work," says Kent. "Glazes of Sap Green, and scumblings of Titanium White and Cadmium Yellow help make the warmth of the sun as it burns off the early fog."
About the Artist
There are more places Kent Sullivan would like to paint than he ever will be able. Employing many of the Hudson River School methods in his landscapes, Kent captures the ephemeral interactions of clouds, sun and earth with his delicate use of color and gesture. His work is published in two prominent books: "Art of the National Parks" and "Picturing Florida." He has lectured at museums and been sought after by many large corporations. “Several years ago I had the incredible fortune of being part of the NASA art program. Five paintings are now part of the Smithsonian Collection. At one gathering at the Kennedy Space Center, Leonard Nimoy came up and asked me for my autograph!”
Words that describe this painting: Herzog, landscape, forest, sun, mist, trees, nature, realism, representational, oil painting, green
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Blanket II" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Zack Zdrale's (US based) "Blanket II" is an oil painting that depicts a female figure with dark brown hair drawing a traditional Serape blanket closer arou...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish Carnations
By Kate Sammons
Located in Denver, CO
Flora in Vase, with red interior
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Outrunning Karma" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Adair's (Germany based) "Outrunning Karma" is an oil painting that depicts a lone female figure shrouded by darkness on all sides.
Linda Adair is a...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
American Diner Americana Series USA by Leading British Urban Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
American Diner Americana Series USA by Leading British Urban Landscape Artist.
Art measures 24 x 18 inches
Frame measure 29 x 23 inches
Angela Wakefie...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint, Board
"Painter Friend and Friends" contemporary realist figurative painting w Fenske
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A painting of painter, Ben Fenske, his muse, Beatrice, and his dog. Sitting in front of and underneath Fenske's 2009 painting, "The Break Up." The artist comforts the dog with a nice...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Vanitas with Marine Corps Coin" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Vanitas with Marine Corps Coin" is an oil painting that depicts a human skull situated with an orange, a Marine Corps coin, ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
19th Century American School Oil on Board
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming 19th Century oil on board. Adorable young child either daydreaming or posing while leaning on a fence with the moon in background. Looks like it could possibly
be done by ...
Category
19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seated Woman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raphael Soyer, American (1899 - 1987)
Title: Seated Woman
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 29 x 25.5 inches
Category
1960s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rockaway Shell
Located in Burlingame, CA
Rockaway Shell - an iconic American painting depicting a Shell Gasoline Station by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Philip Evergood, Little Rock, Oil on Canvas, 1955 - "Civil Rights."
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
National Gallery, London - museum interior, London, paintings by Turner and more
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of the interior of The National Gallery museum in London. A multi-figure composition, of people inside a grand room filled with some of the world's most famous paintings, including John Constable's 1821 painting "The Hay Wain", and J.M.W. Turner's moody 1801 painting "Dutch Boats...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Torn Poster - oil on canvas
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Torn Poster' 47 1/2 x 36 inches, iconic trompe l'oeil fireworks still life oil on canvas painting from internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson, whose work depicts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Monk King II
Located in Greenwich, CT
Self portrait of the artist as a monk.
American, b. 1927
Artist Michael Aviano has been drawing since childhood. His first oil paintings were done when he was in junior high schoo...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Window w/Curtain & Hill
Located in New York, NY
Robert Kipniss created the oil painting entitled "Window w/Curtain & Hill" in 2013. The canvas size for this piece is 36 x 25 inches – the framed size is slightly larger. This paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
John Duffin, Blackheath, London Art, Cityscape Painting, Statement Art, Bright
By John Duffin
Located in Deddington, GB
John Duffin
Blackheath
Original Cityscape Painting
Oil Paint on Canvas
Canvas Size: H 76cm x W 102cm x D 3cm
Framed Size: H 80cm x W 106cm x D 4cm
Sold Framed in a Black Float Frame
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Moment, Oil Painting
By Lisa Nielsen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A young woman caught in a moment of warmth, relaxation and peace. "The feeling one gets sitting outside at a cafe on a beautiful day," says Lisa. Painted in b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Feeling the Light
Located in Denver, CO
Lone figure by window
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"That obvious true, there is many of you..." Oil Painting
By Anna Wypych
Located in Denver, CO
Anna Wypych (Poland based) "That obvius true, there is many of you..." is an oil painting that depicts the shadowy forms of two red-headed female figures holding a lamp of light in the lonesome wilderness.
Artist Statement:
“I take Inspiration from what I see around me, but my personal thoughts are only the starting point and inspiration for the research on the man and his condition.”
Anna Wypych, based in Poland, paints realistic portraits in the traditional oil technique. Her art contains elements of hyperrealism, surrealism and pure imaginative. Characteristic of her are philosophical texts, which always complements her works. Artist concentrates on the human condition and her powerful women portraits show a variety of inner strength which can be found in people seen from the positive point of view.
Anna Wypych – winner of Purchase Award „14th International ARC Salon” Art Renewal Center. Her paintings are in permanent collections of: of the European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona in Spain, and the National Museum in Gdansk, Poland. She presented her works at many juried exhibitions including: „BP Portrait Award 2014”, National Portrait Gallery, London; „Modportrait 2014, 2016 and 2018 Foundation Bantierra and IAACC Pablo Serano Zaragoza; and MEAM, Barcelona; 11th International 2014-2015 ARC Salon” the Salmagundi Club, New York, NYC, USA. Her works were published in such magazines like American Art Collector, PoetsArtists, Revista Ophelia, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, The Guide Artists, Klassik Magazine, Hyperrealism Magazine, Artysta i Sztuka. The Paintings of Anna Wypych are inncluded in prestigious collections such as The Bennett Collection, The Basil Alkazzi & Halima Nalecz...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chestnut Racehorse with a Jockey Up On a Training Strap
By Henry H. Cross
Located in New York, NY
It was Henry Cross's portraits of horses belonging to the prominent breeders and trainers of the second half of the nineteenth century that won the artist renown as an animal painter. Born and raised in upstate New York, Cross's proficiency in both drafting and caricature was revealed while he was still a student at the Binghamton Academy, New York. In 1852, when he was only fifteen years old, Cross joined a traveling circus that took him to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and to the first of many Indian encampments that he would draw upon for subject matter throughout his career. Biographers differ as to the year Cross left for Europe, however, he was in Paris from 1852 to 1853 or 1854, where he studied with Rosa Bonheur, a highly esteemed French painter of horses. Upon Cross's return to the United States he was commissioned to paint the studs of wealthy horsemen, including those of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert Bonner, the owner-publisher of The New York Ledger, and "Copper King" Marcus Daly, whose 18,000 acre stock farm was reputed to be the greatest and most valuable horse ranch in the world.
Although Cross received the highest pay of any equine artist of his day (up to $35,000. for one order, according to The Horse Review of April 10, 1918, p. 328), he frequently joined traveling circuses and painted the locales where they visited. He also painted portraits of notable contemporaries, such as President Abraham Lincoln, ex-president Ulysses S. Grant, King Edward VII of England, W. F. "Buffalo Bill...
Category
19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Light and Mystery" Mixed media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Light and Mystery" is an mixed media painting that depicts a woman reclining into the dark background with green, blue and orange patterning.
Biogra...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
La Grande Serre / oil on canvas - contemporary lush Parisian garden scene
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Silence of Light" Mixed media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "The Silence of Light" is an mixed media painting that depicts a woman with full curly black hair with vivid fall leaves of orange, yellow and blue cas...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Saxophone #2, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This is a piece I painted after I did a photo shoot in my backyard. I was interested in photographing the saxophone on a bright sunny day with a field of grass ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Quoting Sagan" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Quoting Sagan" is an oil painting that depicts a human skull situated with books and letter blocks, and other various object...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Grizzly Adams, Grizzly bear attacks Frontiersman
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait of a man and bear this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graf...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
"Can I Borrow Your Wings" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Adair's (Germany based) "Can I Borrow Your Wings" is an oil painting that depicts a figure in an urban city space
Linda Adair is a contemporary figu...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Empty Afternoon
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Raphael Soyer "George the Iceman Woolf"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Raphael Soyer: 1899-1987. Very important and well listed American artist. One of the early social realist painters. He was born in Russia, but his family was deported by the Tsar in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Untold" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Adair's (Germany based) "Untold" is an oil painting that depicts an angel like figure in an interior space
Linda Adair is a contemporary figurative ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cowboy Hanging, Killer's Trail Illustration
By Victor Kalin
Located in Miami, FL
The old west depicted in a graphic and dramatic manner. Paperback Novel Cover Painting Original Art (Avon, 1963). Work has a matted image area of 12.5" ...
Category
1960s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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