American Realist Paintings

Oil on canvas painting titled "Winter in Washington Square, New York" depicting a peaceful snowy 1952 day in the one of the city's most beloved parks. The composition in bathed in a ...

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...

Signed lower right Unframed dimensions: 30 x 52 inches Framed dimensions: 39 x 61 inches Paul G. Oxborough studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Atelier Lesueur, a 4...

The career of William Stanley Haseltine spans the entire second half of the nineteenth century. During these years he witnessed the growth and decline of American landscape painting, the new concept of plein-air painting practiced by the Barbizon artists, and the revolutionary techniques of the French Impressionists, all of which had profound effects on the development of painting in the western world. Haseltine remained open to these new developments, selecting aspects of each and assimilating them into his work. What remained constant was his love of nature and his skill at rendering exactly what he saw. His views, at once precise and poetic, are, in effect, portraits of the many places he visited and the landscapes he loved. Haseltine was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prosperous businessman. In 1850, at the age of fifteen, he began his art studies with Paul Weber, a German artist who had settled in Philadelphia two years earlier. From Weber, Haseltine learned about Romanticism and the meticulous draftsmanship that characterized the German School. At the same time, Haseltine enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, and took sketching trips around the Pennsylvania countryside, exploring areas along the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers. Following his sophomore year, Haseltine transferred to Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard in 1854, Haseltine returned to Philadelphia and resumed his studies with Weber. Although Weber encouraged Haseltine to continue his training in Europe, the elder Haseltine was reluctant to encourage his son to pursue a career as an artist. During the next year, Haseltine took various sketching trips along the Hudson River and produced a number of pictures, some of which were exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the spring of 1855. Ultimately, having convinced his father that he should be allowed to study in Europe, Haseltine accompanied Weber to Düsseldorf. The Düsseldorf Academy was, during the 1850s, at the peak of its popularity among American artists. The Academy’s strict course of study emphasized the importance of accurate draftsmanship and a strong sense of professionalism. Landscape painting was the dominant department at the Düsseldorf Academy during this period, and the most famous landscape painter there was Andreas Achenbach, under whom Haseltine studied. Achenbach’s realistic style stressed close observation of form and detail, and reinforced much of what Haseltine had already learned. His Düsseldorf training remained an important influence on him for the rest of his life. At Düsseldorf, Haseltine became friendly with other American artists studying there, especially Emanuel Leutze, Worthington Whittredge, and Albert Bierstadt. They were constant companions, and in the spring and summer months took sketching trips together. In the summer of 1856 the group took a tour of the Rhine, Ahr, and Nahe valleys, continuing through the Swiss alps and over the Saint Gotthard Pass into northern Italy. The following summer Haseltine, Whittredge, and the painter John Irving returned to Switzerland and Italy, and this time continued on to Rome. Rome was a fertile ground for artists at mid-century. When Haseltine arrived in the fall of 1857, the American sculptors Harriet Hosmer, Chauncey B. Ives, Joseph Mozier, William Henry Rinehart...

Ken Valastro's "In The Neighborhood" is an original, handmade oil painting.

"They Say Every Little Gesture Has a Meaning", Playboy cartoon illustration, August 1968 Pen and watercolor on board 12.5 x 9.5 in. (image) Signed...

This piece is an original oil painting on panel. It was painted en plein air, on a hot day in August, behind the artist's studio. A riot of various shades of green, overlaid with the...

Signed lower right: 'A.Brook '59'. Painted in Sag Harbor, Long Island in 1959. Adeline (Adaline) Glasheen was a writer. She was a friend of the artist and worked in literary circle...

This atmospheric fine art painting presents an intimate indoor hot tub scene, where warm, ambient lamp light contrasts with the deep, glowing blue water of the spa, in the shape of a...

Mickey Finn Youth Club, 1951, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower right, signed, titled and dated verso, 20 x 24 inches, presented in an older frame Edgar Kiechle was a Los Ange...

Charles Caleb Ward was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, the grandson of a New York Ward who had left for New Brunswick around the time of th...

An oil painting of a tropical landscape. Crystal teal-blue water is surrounded by verdant bushes and palm trees, which cast dappled shadows onto the sand. A few figures splash around...

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...

Frederick Waugh was a prolific seascape artist who generated 2,500 paintings of the sea and shore. Although it was never published, he penned a ten chapter book on marine painting. S...

Gourds by Mark Schiff This beautiful painting by famed photorealist Mark Schiff cannot be appreciated on a computer screen. In real life it is amazing. We guarantee that you will lov...

North Carolina native Jack Saylor received his degree in Art from Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina. Upon graduating he moved to Spain, then Italy w...

"Villa After Dark" is a realist nocturne painting of Italian farmhouse & dinner party under the lights. Framed. Signed at bottom left. Carl Bretzke is a representational painter who specializes in urban scenes, nocturnes, and plein-air landscapes. He is a member of the Plein Air Painters of America since 2021. Carl's work has been exhibited extensively in Minnesota and California, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Carl's work has been described in the Washington Post as "simultaneously intimate and detached…The artist's unadorned style recalls Edward Hopper and The Ashcan school." Carl holds an MD degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Colorado...

John Haberle (1856-1933) was an American painter in the trompe-l'œil period and was most commonly known for his skill of painting objects that were laid out so perfectly that they could be mistaken for the objects themselves. This artist is considered one of the three major artists of this period. Although he was most famous for his Still Life works, there are many portraits that he made. Mark Twain, a famous writer of the gilded age known for his many stories, especially The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...

Marla Korr attended Brooklyn College, earning both a B.A. and a M.F.A. There she studied with Philip Pearlstein, Lennart Anderson and Jimmy Ernst. She has also studied at Stevenson...

This large scale painting by Linda Griggs features the community pool of Lower Manhattan's Hamilton Fish park. oil, wold wax and selective varnish on canvas) 48” x 48” (2025) signe...

Gaylon Dingler 22" x 28" Acrylic on Canvas

Superior quality 22K gold gilt frame.

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed lower left. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame. Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1948) Peter Sculthorpe was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1948. His talent was evident even as a child and developed rapidly in high school, where he was awarded an art scholarship in his senior year. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Hussian School of Fine Art under William Palmer Lear. He is a recipient of the Daisy Jamison Art Scholarship. Sculthorpe's work is represented in private and corporate collections including General Electric, AT&T, DuPont, and Nabisco. His paintings are in the permanent collections of the Delaware Art...

Oil on canvas Dr. Rowland S. Russell PhD. writes about his experience directly witnessing Greg's practice as a “plein air” artist: Whether he’s portraying quiet scenes from Brooklyn...

Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Painted en plein air in the San Gabriel Mountains near the artist's home in the early summer of 2013. Description As part...

This striking fine art painting captures the stillness of an empty public pool at twilight, its vibrant blue water contrasting with the muted tones of the surrounding concrete deck a...

Jim C. Norton “Pipe Springs” Oil on Masonite Image: 12x16 inches Overall: 18x22 inches with frame Oil on Masonite Signed lower right and verso Up for sale is a wonderful Western pai...

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...

This is an original oil on velvet painting created c. 1942. Syd Cockell was an accomplished American illustrator during World War II.

Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s An artist on the WPA mural project, Deutsch was born in Lithuania and died in Los Angeles. Works of Boris Deutsch are housed in Carnegie Institute, National Museum of American Art, Los-Angeles County Museum of Art, Scribal Museum, Pomona College...

This is a beautiful original oil on linen panel painting by master painter, Donald Jurney. Donald Jurney (b. 1945) was educated at Columbia University, the Pratt Institute, and the...

This little gem by Kentaro Kato dates to 1910 and depicts Gloucester harbor as it looked then. The artist won the Halgarten Prize from the National Academy of Art in 1920, he was one...

This painting was created by American artist Lumen Martin Winter. Winter's figurative paintings sometimes play with the edge of abstraction, resulting in an expressionistic feel. Thi...

Signed (at lower left): W.R. Miller/ 1851

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...

An oil painting of a group of roses in a slender glass vase; a black background. Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received ins...

My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions. It is at this beginning stage that I operate under the Dadaist dictate that “anything can be art”, and at the same time I seek out a balanced and harmonious composition by way of line, shape, and color. I work according to my whimsy, sometimes seeking to assert some form of narrative however personal or ambiguous, and other times I am simply satisfied with the hint of a human presence. Once I have my compositions the paintings then very quickly become about work, a very labor intensive work that forces me to focus my mind and slow things down (which I feel is relevant especially in this day and age of high-speed everything). A great amount of effort is spent on trying to get to the highest level of finish that is possible according to my current skill level. For inspiration I have drawn from the past four centuries of object specific paintings, from the ontbijtjes (laid tables) of the 17th Century Dutch masters such as Willem Kalf, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Abraham van Beijeren...

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...

BING ZHANG's Subway no. 2, 48 x 36 inches, oil on canvas. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California. Bing Zhang’s Subway painting series explores themes of class, labo...

"The Great Man Comes to Take His Oath" Life Magazine Spread, July 4th, 1960, This epic narrative depicts the celebration of George Washington's inauguration, en route to Federal Hall...

Signed lower right Lori Zummo Biography American, b. 1962 Contemporary artist Lori Zummo paints in a style evocative of the American Barbizon School. She received her BFA from Syra...

American, b. 1964 Michael Harrell focuses on capturing natural light in both landscapes and cityscapes while working with nautical themes, especially ...

This artwork "Horseman with Cattle" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist John Stanford. It is signed at the lower right corner by...

"Cocoa" is a small oil painting featuring hues of brown, blue and green. Marc Chatov is inspired by the work of Diego Velasquez, Édouard Manet, William Bouguereau. Renowned portrait painter Marc Chatov was born in Key Largos, Florida in 1953 to a family of artists, musicians and stage professionals. Chatov’s father was the great Roman Chatov of the Chatov Studio (which was founded with his brother, also a portrait painter and trained concert pianist, Constantin Chatov...

Sweet and Sour by Mark Schiff We guarantee that you will love this painting. If not, you can return it for a complete refund, no questions asked. This beautiful painting by famed ...

Carl Frederick Gaertner (American, 1898-1952) Flower Garden, Cape Cod, c. 1940s Gouache on illustration board 17.5 x 29 inches 27 x 39 inches, as framed Carl Gaertner was one of the greatest painters to emerge from the Cleveland School...

This dynamic New York scene was painted during a period of intense development in Manhattan. In an impressionistic style, Leon Kroll captures the reshaping of the city. The paintin...

Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. With a high level of technical virtuosity Keifer creates...

Reclining Nude Figure in the Morning Light Reclining nude figure in bed by Elliot, a Santa Cruz County artist (American, 20th Century). A figure is laying facedown in bed, with thei...

This work sells itself. Just look at it and an elaborate explanation is not required. There is virtually no one alive who can paint a picture like Crockwell. Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Signed lower left Provenance: National Museum of American Illustration , Newport, Rhode Island Crockwell gives us a complex and inventive composition by showing two wonderful portaits in the foreground and beyond a broken wall...

An amazing, magical realism painting by renowned artist, Herbert Laurence Davidson (1930-2018). This painting depicts a young boy’s innocent discovery on the beach of a sand sculptur...

BING ZHANG's Subway no. 1, 36 x 48 inches, oil on canvas. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California. Bing Zhang’s Subway painting series explores themes of class, labo...

Having spent many years as a photographer, Matt Condron is trained to recognize the importance of a moment or the preciousness of a fleeting opportunity. He is captivated by the ide...

Jeffrey Vaughn, from Alton, Illinois, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1978 from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and his Master of Arts degree in 1981, and Master of Fine Arts degree in 1983 from the University of Dallas. Vaughn has focused his energies as an artist working in landscapes for over thirty years. Vaughn approaches his work with a quiet contemplativeness that reflects the serene aspects of the natural world and reveals the underlying spiritual nature that can be found in the environments he portrays. His paintings have been published in New American Paintings and reviewed in the American Arts Quarterly and the St. Louis Post...

Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...

An oil painting of a verdant, wooded area, painted en-plein air in Arkansas. An old, rusted, abandoned race-car, a BMW Triumph, is the focal point behind a time-honored stone wall. D...

"Hopeful of the Dream City" invites viewers to delve into the depths of the young lady's aspirations. Her gaze is fixed on a distant horizon, eyes filled with a mixture of excitement...

"Laid Bare" is a landscape painting featuring hues of grey, green, blue and yellow. Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale. Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...