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Style: American Realist
Drugs
Located in Fairfield, CT
"Drugs" by Danny Heller draws inspiration from a pharmaceutical store on a busy avenue corner in NYC. See second image for the real life referenced location. My latest series openi...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Drugs
Drugs
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Sunrise at Monomoy
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 ...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Randall's Island, Framed
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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Aluminum

Nina Reclining with Guitar - original female realist still life portraiture oil
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a co...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Under the Surface
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Alex Roulette’s paintings depict false realities. The artist constructs landscapes from numerous source photographs, which he uses a...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Cerro Castellan from Costolon
Located in Dallas, TX
The overall dimensions including the frame are 13 3/8 x 17 3/8 inches. 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 life through landscape, still life, portraiture, and abstraction. Restlessly creative, he has explored these varied genres with equal concentration…..” Bob Stuth-Wade’s method of painting is uniquely his own, having taught himself technique; his only formal training was as a teenager with Dallas artist Perry...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Keeler" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Harrison's (UK based) "Keeler" is an oil painting that depicts an arid landscape with clouds and road leading to a small unassuming building. Sometimes they are silent epic lan...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

"High School Dance" WPA Mid-20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
"High School Dance" WPA Mid-20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Heusing (20th Century) "High School Dance" 27 x 32 inches Oil on canvas Signed and dated '47 Lower Righ...
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1940s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Norway I, blue tones, seascape and mountain
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 air” artist: Whether he’s portraying quiet scenes from Brooklyn’s Prospect Park or the Botanical Gardens, intriguing remnants of New York’s varied industry (grain silos...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Marina Grande, Capri
By Charles Temple Dix
Located in New York, NY
Charles Temple Dix was born in Albany, New York, the youngest son of the distinguished statesman and soldier, General John Adams Dix. Having already visited Europe as a child, Dix re...
Category

19th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Freight Train in Shadow
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Chidlaw is an American realist seeking, and finding, profundity in the realm of the commonplace. She takes aims at dignity and a dur...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The 11 Gauge Shotgun - Saturday Evening Post illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post interior illustration Signed lower right
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1950s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Redhead Nude, Oil Painting by Nathan Wasserberger
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nathan Wasserberger, Polish/American (1928 - 2012) Title: Blonde Nude Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Image: 46 in. x 32 in. (...
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1960s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Breeze, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A lotus flower sways in the breeze among the high and low leaves. Artist Guigen Zha pictures a cultural symbol of purity in a poetic interpretation. "It is li...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Brooklyn Rooftops, abstracted urban city scape
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This urban rooftop image by Tom Hagen is an example of his signature painting style. There is no charge for the frame
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Building No. 41
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Humanity is archival, like the strata that compose the earth. Our structures and art, superfund sites to cathedrals, exist because o...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Burning Off
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1939 Prominent 21th Century American landscape artist Peter Poskas has been painting New England for more than three decades. While his earliest pieces were reminiscent of Edward Hopper...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Sam Murti
Located in Fairfield, CT
In his current series, “In Your Room”, Alex Blas explores modern day life by examining the private spaces of his friends. In these paintings, Blas carefully considers the shadows, co...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

(Untitled) A Scandalous Tea with a Stranger in Leiderstein
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the depths of the Great Depression, American women sought escape from their worries. For 25¢,“Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan” magazine delivered. The magazine published ficti...
Category

1930s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Morning on Buck Run Bend"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed lower right. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame. Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1948) Peter Sculthorpe was born in O...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pink Field
Located in Fairfield, CT
The starting place for Golightly’s work is decades old found photos. The stillness of a photo belies an anticipation to know what happened before and what is to come next. These imag...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Mt. Etna from Taormina
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Fransioli, born in 1906 in Seattle, Washington, trained as an architect at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as an architect before his service in World War II. Largel...
Category

20th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Beach Cloudscape VIII, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Working from observation and imagination, artist Nancy Hughes Miller paints an early morning coastal sky. A cloud moves across the ocean as the sunlight casts...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Café Renée
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed lower right Unframed dimensions: 36 x 48 inches Framed dimensions: 44 5/8 x 56 5/8 inches Paul G. Oxborough studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Atelier Lesue...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Rousseau's Garden
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Rousseau's Garden', 2018 is 30 x 30 inches. By focusing on a single subject, the artist immerses herself in the nuanced lines, shapes, and tones that the oil paint offers. Contempor...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"The Ordell, Brooklyn Bridge" Margaretha E. Albers, New York Urban Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
Margaretha E. Albers The Ordell, Brooklyn Bridge Signed LR Oil on artist board 12 x 16 inches Provenance Kennedy Galleries, New York Private Collection, New York St. Lifer Art, New...
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1930s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"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

Oil, Wood Panel

LANDSCAPE
Located in New York, NY
Fall landscape of field of wheat or long grass. yellow, beige and brown colors. American
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Late 20th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Antique Rooster Weathervane" 2013 Lamb trompe l'oeil of brass weathervane
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of an antique weathervane in the shape of a rooster. Situated on a rustic wooden trunk, and lit from above, Lamb makes a refined i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Simple Joys
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel. It features a colorful bouquet of dianthus, Sweet William, flowers in a vintage ceramic cup. A white cloth drapes over the side of th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bethesda Terrace
Located in Greenwich, CT
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...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Tree Striation #2
Located in Fairfield, CT
New Landscapes is a series of landscapes painted over the past year. It includes the artist’s observations of oceans, wooded hills, and ponds in different seasons. In these landscap...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shoreline Cloudscape, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Nancy Hughes Miller paints a majestic seaward skyline with tinges of periwinkle. Inspired by her time on the coasts of North Carolina, she displays a d...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mill Houses
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

Acrylic, Panel

Cafe Panino
Located in Fairfield, CT
I think of my work as being like a visual journal- observations and interpretations of people, places and things I experience day to day. Translating that experience into two dimensi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Woman
Located in Astoria, NY
American School, Portrait of a Woman, Oil on Canvas, 19th century, unsigned, inscribed "J Harrison / 1836" to verso, giltwood frame. Image: 23"H x 19.25" W;...
Category

1830s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Floral Still Life with Roses, Lilacs, and Zinnias
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning floral still life by A.D. Greer features a bouquet of vibrant red and white roses, purple lilacs, and red and orange zinnia flowers. Measuring a sizable 36 x 48 inches,...
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20th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category

1950s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Approach of a Rider, Western Oil Painting by Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Approach of a Rider Noel Daggett, American (1925–2005) Date: 1980 Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.44 cm) Frame Size: 35 x 41 inches
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1980s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Kiss, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Part of David Shepherd's latest series of hyperrealist paintings focusing on women's lips. A sensual portrait rendered in extremely precise painting. Among ot...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
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 who symbolizes evil - 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...
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1950s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tribesmen with Headdresses - Gay Artist
Located in Miami, FL
"Riggs openly identified as gay to his friends in the Philadelphia art community, but did not disclose his orientation to his employers." - Woodmere Art Museum 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...
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1940s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Tempera

"Pay Day" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Located in New York, NY
"Pay Day" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid 20th Century Modern Workers Don Freeman (1908-1978) Pay Day 20 x 30 inches Oil on board, c. 1940s Signed lower right BIO Illustr...
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1940s American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Board

African Tribal Celebration: Alex Haley Roots for Readers Digest
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...
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1970s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Gouache

“Winter Surf”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting by the renowned marine realism artist, Rinaldo Skalamera. Condition is new. Signed lower right. Executed in 2024. Framed in a contemporary gold leaf ...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

No one but the bees
Located in Zofingen, AG
Bright flowers, juicy fruits and of course the helpers of our garden: hardworking bees. They also love the juice of ripe pears. Being behind a canvas woven from my thoughts and emoti...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West )
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
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1950s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Casein

Portrait of Chinese Couple. Pearl S. Buck Tiger Tiger Illustration Cosmopolitan
Located in Miami, FL
Among the many accolades I would grant Dean Cornwell, the one that rises to the top would be that he is one of America's greatest portrait painters. With a few strokes, he captures h...
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1930s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Arm
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Lamp Post
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

"Sam, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Derek Harrison's (US based) "Sam" is an oil painting that depicts a nude female model with pink hair and shaved sides. "Sam" is a secondary market work with one previous owner. Artist Biography: Derek Harrison has worked as an artist almost all of his life. It all began with experimental art in various mediums. These ranged from watercolor to spray paint, tattooing, illustration and eventually to oil painting. A full spectrum of mediums experimented with as an artist beginning to learn his craft. In early 2010 Derek began taking workshops with very accomplished painters. This exposure opened his eyes and mind to what the possibilities are in the fine art world. After a very short amount of time, Derek began to take an extreme interest in classical/traditional art. This interest would lead him to study at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art. After formal training, many classes and workshops outside of the school and a very important session of weekly classes with artist Jeremy Lipking, Derek Harrison has become one of the most exciting new talents in the field of representational painting. He has shown in galleries all over California and as distant as Amsterdam. His paintings sit in many collections across the country including musician Richie Sambora...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Birches in the Glen
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the proces...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

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Birch, Lacquer

Fruit
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Mooers writes of his work, “My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Two Pears with Grapes and Shallot
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Stunning 21st century American realist portrait of a an American Boxer mix dog
Located in Woodbury, CT
Stunning 21st-century American realist portrait of an American Boxer mix dog Simply outstanding quality. The artist has portrayed the animal with great sensitivity and skill. The a...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Red Mountain, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Guigen Zha pictures a lotus flower in realistic detail. The red mountain beyond renders a crimson glow on the soft green peta...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Forest Interior No. 7
Located in Burlingame, CA
Robert Gamblin’s intent as an artist is to reach for transcendence through his color-centric oil paintings that capture the majesty of light as it graces the Earth. In this series, o...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

J.P. Morgan
Located in Storrs, CT
A 20th-century American School oil painting on board featuring American banker and financier J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) seated at his desk. Light streams throug...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings

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Oil

J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan
$750 Sale Price
25% Off
Jack Henderson, Circus
Located in New York, NY
This painting is signed at the lower right. The frame adds a few inches to the size and was selected by the artist. Jack Henderson (1931-1998) taught at the Art Students League for many years and had a studio in at 30 East 14th Street, New York City. In that building were many other artists including Henderson's teacher and long-time collaborator, Edward Laning. A Kansas City native, Henderson was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He continued the Miller/Laning tradition of travel to Italy to study the masters of the Renaissance and the goal of fine figure painting as the ultimate artistic achievement. A version of his monumental triptych, New York in Ruin, 1967, is in the collection of the New York Landmarks Commission. Work by Jack Henderson was shown at the Susan Teller Gallery...
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1960s American Realist Paintings

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Oil

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