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Style: American Realist
George Washington Marine Procession New York Presidential Inauguration, Life Mag
Located in Miami, FL
"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...
Category

1930s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Morning Light
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Subway no. 1 - Beijing
Located in Burlingame, CA
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Two Sisters
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Two Sisters" is a contemporary realist painting of two young women sitting at a bar. One sister looks a bit reserved, her hair down, clasping her hands in...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blue Notes
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Herbert Davidson Magical Realism Boy Finds Nude Woman Sand Sculpture Beach 1970s
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
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...
Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

"Seeking Solace" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Adair's (Germany based) "Seeking Solace" is an oil painting that depicts a figure in an industrial interior space Linda Adair is a contemporary figu...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Boy with Molotov Cocktail, Russia Invades Germany - Like Norman Rockwell
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category

1940s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Pigeon Landing, 2023, miniature realist animal painting
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist painter. Known for her miniaturist style, her highly detailed depictions of urban interiors, natural environments, and unsuspecting human and animal subjects are evocative of renaissance portraiture and landscape. Brodsky often paints on small circular surfaces, forcing viewers to move closer to the work. She was drawn to miniature painting from her study of Islamic miniature art and medieval illuminated manuscripts, whose techniques she combined with those of classical painting. She is amongst a group of contemporary realist painters, such as Timothy Barr...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Eastern Yacht Club Annual Cruise, Defender "Merlin" Jubilee, Marblehead 1895
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unframed dimensions: 25 x 44 inches Framed dimensions: 31 x 50 inches Born and raised on the Adams Shore section of Quincy Bay in Massachusetts, Richard Loud cannot remember a time ...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

PRIVATE ISLAND SERIES, “Passing Storm"
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

After The Last Wave
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Midnight Swim
Located in Fairfield, CT
"When asked what kind of paintings I make, I usually call my work "Urban Landscapes" to distinguish them as paintings about areas of human habitation rather than landscapes that re...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sailboat Study No. 1
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in Spokane, WA (1986), Tamalin Soleil Baumgarten paints quiet landscape scenes with a tonal, melancholic realism. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2015 and h...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Table by the Window
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamp (on back, on original stretcher): Estate of/ Edmund Quincy/ 1903-1997 ///
Category

20th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Devil's Backbone" Original Oil Painting, Desert landscape
Located in Denver, CO
"Devil's Backbone" by Diego Glazer is an original painting depicting rock formations bathed in warm light. About the Artist: For as long as I can remember, I have been on a quest t...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Flower Market, Lima Peru
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
John Hanlen (1922-2003). Flower Market, Lima Peru, ca. 1950. Tempera on paper, sheet measures 14.25 x 22.5 inches. Measurement with matting: 18.5 x 26.5 inches. The piece is unfra...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Paper, Tempera

Errant Bride
Located in Burlingame, CA
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Afternoon Sun
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Awards 2013 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor/ Allied Artists of America, 100th Annual Exhibition at the National Arts Club 2011 Mary Bryan Memorial Medal / Allied Artis...
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera

"Guardian Angels" Original Oil Painting, Cemetery in Atlanta, GA
Located in Denver, CO
"Guardian Angels" by Diego Glazer is an original oil painting. Artist Statement: Painted on location at a beautiful old cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. About the Artist: For as long...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Potomac Falls" Original Oil Painting, Rushing River Waters
Located in Denver, CO
"Potomac Falls" by Diego Glazer is an original oil painting depicting a river with rushing waters. Artist Statement: Painted on location during a trip to Virginia. About the Artis...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

At the Clinton Station Diner, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The Clinton Station Diner is one of New Jersey's landmark diners. I was seated in this particular room that is actually a salvaged train dining car. I could n...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid-Century Mod PSP
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Flower Garden, Cape Cod, Mid-Century Cleveland School Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
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...
Category

1940s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Milk and Crackers
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new masters help to create unique modern images. As with all enc...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Wood Panel

[Studies in Fragility] – Oil on Canvas Still Life by Paul Gorka, circa 1965
By Paul Gorka
Located in Miami, FL
PAUL GORKA – UNTITLED [STUDIES IN FRAGILITY] Oil on Canvas ⚜ Signed Lower Right ⚜ Custom Conservation Frame A COMPLEX, SYMBOLIC STILL LIFE OF MIDCENTURY AMERICAN INTROSPECTION Untit...
Category

1960s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Relapse" - contemporary oil painting on found object, humorous swan smoking cig
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Ackrill paints directly onto found objects, seamlessly blending painting and sculpture. In "Relapse" Ackrill depicts a swan in water, humorously smoking a cigarette. Green li...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Found Objects, Oil

Cowboy on Horseback in the Rain
By Bob Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Oil on Board painting for American Weekly Magazine November 15, 1953. The decisive moment of a Cowboy and Horse is captured. As a determined team, t...
Category

1950s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Hopeful of the Dream City
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Ink

Elevated Innocence, Oil on Linen, circa 1970 by Lumen Martin Winter
Located in Long Island City, NY
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...
Category

1970s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

"Snow Geese", Larry Fanning, Original Oil on Canvas, 30x60, Realistic Wildlife
Located in Dallas, TX
"Snow Geese" By Larry Fanning is an ideal paintings for the wildlife lover. Five white snow geese are flying low at a rough oceans edge for the winter. ...
Category

1990s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Passing Storm
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1950 Marla Korr attended Brooklyn College, earning both a B.A. and a M.F.A. There she studied with Philip Pearlstein, Lennart Anderson ...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

1st Avenue
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

'Still Life with Fruit, ' by Cletus Smith, Watercolor Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 21.5" x 17.25" watercolor on paper painting, 'Still Life with Fruit,' is by Oklahoma artist Cletus Smith. The subject matter include a brown b...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Outdoor Restaurant" 24"x28" oil on canvas, signed on reverse
By Amy Hill
Located in New York, NY
24"x28" oil on canvas, signed on reverse. This painting features a scene at andoutdoor restaurant with two figures being served drinks under the canopy of patio umbrellas. Amy Hill...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Arctic Stream in Forest Landscape with Lush Green by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Arctic Stream in Forest Landscape with Lush Greens & Blues by 20th Century British Artist, Jack Strickland Art measures 16 x 20 inches Frame measure...
Category

1970s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

The Troubadour's Love
Located in Zofingen, AG
"A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). The texts of troubadour songs deal mainly with themes of chivalry and ...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Truck
Located in Fairfield, CT
Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas can easily frame the everyday. But my task is to t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Square Triangle Circle, Original Oil Painting, Rock Climbing, 2020
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: The colors and their locations are meant to form triangles that reside inside the perfectly square canvas walls. The one bold yellow hold located at the bottom is meant to carry the eye around and around the canvas. Hence it's title, SquareTriangleCircle. Keywords: colorful, rock climbing...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Masks We Wear, Wanting to Grow", Rhinoceros with a Mask Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
3rd Version's (Ben Patterson) "Masks We Wear, Wanting to Grow" is a 2022 oil painting on cradled panel measuring 10 x 10 x 1.5 inches. The work is unframed and ready to hang. This co...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

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

Reclaimed Land, Riverside Drive-Large New York City Impressionistic Oil Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
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...
Category

1910s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Harry Gottlieb with Standing Nude, Realist Oil Painting by Moses Soyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Moses Soyer, American (1899 - 1974) Title: H.G with Standing Nude Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 24 x 20 inches Frame: 32 x 28 inches ACA Galleries label verso.
Category

1960s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Manhattan III
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- We are creatures of habit. Routines help us organize our lives and provide necessary structure to daily existence. The same holds true in the built environment. The city grid...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

14 Sisters
Located in Greenwich, CT
This painting by Jenness Cortez features recreations of the following works, clockwise from upper left: 1. “Girl with a Red Hat,” Johannes Vermeer, 1665-1670, Collection of National Gallery, Washington, DC 2. “Daughters of Revolution,” Grant Wood, 1932, Collection of Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH 3. “Arrangement in Gray and Black-Number One,” James McNeill Whistler, 1871, Collection of Musee d’Orsay, Paris 4. “The Gleaners,” Jean Francois Millet, 1890, Collection of Musee d’Orsay, Paris 5. “Sha-Ko-Ka” (”Mint,” A Pretty Girl), George Catlin, c.1832, Collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum,Washington, DC 6. “Atalanta” (Bronze sculpture), Paul Manship, 1921, Collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC 7. “Purple Robe and Anemones,” Henri Matisse, 1937, Collection of Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD 8. “Parvati,” South Indian Bronze...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Mahogany, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Stillwater
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Stillwater' - oil on canvas is 12 x 36 inches, meticulously painted by Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's signature style. Lovely to behold from every angle....
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Brooklyn Bridge
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marla Korr Biography American, b. 1950 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 E...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Hail Victoria
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hail Victoria, by 1955, oil on Masonite, signed lower left, 20 x 16 inches, exhibited 26th Annual Exhibition of Paintings of Contemporary New England Artists, Jordan Marsh Company, B...
Category

1950s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Board

Champion
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. This most recent body of work is inspired by Tom Gregg's fascination with objects and the powerful resonance that they ...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Clipper Mill Chimney
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Much of Bennett Vadnais’ subject matter comes from his surroundings in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With a strong background in plein air ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Panel

Charity
Located in Astoria, NY
Henry L. Richter (1870-1960), Charity, Oil on Canvas, 19th century, depicting a woman giving change to an invalid inside a church, signed lower right, unframed. 32.5" H x 19.75" W.
Category

Late 19th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Grande Serre II / oil on canvas - contemporary lush Pairs 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

Mongols
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel There is from frame burn and scattered surface abrasions but they are minor. Additionally, there are a 3 or 4 very fine hair line scratches not visible unless you look very closely. The work is varnished and has a reflective quality to it that makes it hard to photograph. In person the viewing experience is much better. You can see more detail in the shadow areas. The colors are rich, deep and saturated. Riggs was very particular in researching the tribal costumes...
Category

1940s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Mongols
Mongols
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Figure in a Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): DJ [monogram]; (on back): David Johnson 1865
Category

Mid-19th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Girl and Kitten"
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Kluth spent all of his adult life living and painting in Brooklyn, NY. He was a founding Member of the Brooklyn Society of Artists (member 1888-1920) Ridgewood Council After growing...
Category

20th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Subway no. 3 - Beijing
Located in Burlingame, CA
BING ZHANG's Subway no. 3, 48 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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Early Hours, Impressionist Nude Oil Painting by Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991) Title: The Early Hours Year: circa 1964 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 44 in. x 21 in. (111.76 cm x 53.34 cm) Frame Size: 50 x 27 inches
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1960s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Parody Portrait: Piero della Francesca Italian Renaissance Hispanic Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
This is a parody portrait of the famed Duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro, by Piero della Francesca, in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence. Hispanic Illustrator Ignacio Gomez pain...
Category

1970s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Putting Up Birdhouses, Original Cover for The Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The Saturday Evening Post cover, June 9, 1951 'John Clymer, while migrating through Wyoming in a motorcar, was amazed at the variety of birds that go there summers to keep house....
Category

1950s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Women's City Club, Youngstown, Ohio. American Historical Scene Painting.
Located in Marco Island, FL
An accomplished American Scene painter, Clyde Singer successfully captured everyday life during his long career. A unique aspect of American life is depicted in this painting, entitl...
Category

1940s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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