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Style: American Realist
Relic, Mystical Woodland Scene with Reflections and Mystery, Surreal Landscape
Located in New York, NY
From the artist: The water tank in the painting was purchased by a farmer (neighbor) from a tanning mill that had closed and repurposed as a spring fed tank for holding water for the...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Encaustic, Panel

Egret in the Creeks
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...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Still Life with Peaches
Located in New York, NY
Lilly Martin Spencer was a professional artist for over sixty years, painting portraits, still lifes, miniatures, and genre scenes. In the 1850s to mid-1860s her genre scenes depicti...
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19th Century American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Citrus III
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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Oil, Panel

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sunset Interior
Located in Fairfield, CT
Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what he sees, as use his surroundings as a point of departure for poetic homages to...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Saint-Malo, Brittany
Located in New York, NY
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...
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19th Century American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, 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...
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1950s American Realist Paintings

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Oil

Champ
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a gallery wrap, oil on canvas piece. It could be framed if someone wished to do so.
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Oil

"By the Lagoon" Oil painting of tropical swimming cove, figures in bathing suits
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Large American Modernist Oil Painting Baseball Game the Tryout Sidney Goodman
Located in Surfside, FL
Sidney Goodman (1936-2013) The Tryout Oil on Canvas Hand signed lower right Dated 1965 Provenance: bears labels verso from Terry Dintenfass Gallery (partial label) George Krevsky Ga...
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1960s American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Pumpkin Heart" - Contemporary Realism - Still Life - Manet
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Pumpkin Heart" is an oil painting featuring hues of blue, purple, yellow, white and orange. 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...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cement Factory, Winter
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daug...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s
Located in New York, NY
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...
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1930s American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"In the Neighborhood" Urban Oil Painting of a City Street in Shadows
Located in Denver, CO
Ken Valastro's "In The Neighborhood" is an original, handmade oil painting.
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Oil Portrait of Lady
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
The 19th century American school portrait of a lady embodies the elegance and refinement of the era's portraiture. Painted with meticulous attention to detail, the portrait reflects ...
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19th Century American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

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Acrylic, Panel

Distant Island
By Frederick Waugh
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
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...
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1920s American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fishing Camp on the Labrador Coast
Located in New York, NY
In 1852, twenty-nine year old William Bradford was a failing shopkeeper in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. With a wife and child at home, Bradford, by his own admission, “spent too much time in painting to succeed” in business. Rescued from insolvency by his well-to-do in-laws, this is not the beginning of a narrative that generally leads to a happy ending. Not so with Bradford, who ultimately found international fame and fortune as a painter of arctic seascapes and dramatic marine paintings. William Bradford, the artist, was a lineal descendant of the 17th-century Separatist leader William Bradford, a founder of the Plymouth Plantation, signer of the Mayflower Compact and Governor of the Plymouth Colony. Our Bradford born to a New Bedford ship outfitter in Fairhaven, Massachusetts By the nineteenth century, this line of Bradfords were Quakers, living on the tract purchased nearly two centuries earlier by their pilgrim ancestor. Fairhaven, across the mouth of the Acushnet River from the whaling center of New Bedford was described by a New York journalist in 1857 as “the Brooklyn of New Bedford” (Home Journal, January 3, 1857). Young Bradford displayed an early predilection for the arts, but his Quaker parents were disinclined to support this particular pursuit. After working in his father’s business and then for a dry goods merchant in New Bedford, by 1849 Bradford had set up in New Bedford as a “merchant tailor” offering outfits for “those going to California,” “seamen’s clothing,” custom-tailored “piece goods...
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19th Century American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, 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

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Oil, Board

Impressionist Coastal Fisherman Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Gouache painting by William Hoey featuring a small fisherman walking to the coast. Circa 1970s. Dimensions of painting without frame: H 6.5 in. x W 8.5 in. x D .25 in. Artist Biogr...
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1970s American Realist Paintings

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Gouache

Birthday Wish
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...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Poppies" contemporary realist oil painting, red wildflowers birch tree green
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a poppies in front of a rock wall. The setting sun shines through the petals making them glow golden orange against the darker foliage. The sun cuts shadows into t...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

Sunflower Realism Oil on Canvas Framed Floral 20" x 20" Sunlight Native Plant
Located in Houston, TX
Sunflower by Susan Meeks was painted in 2024 as part of her floral collection. Sunflower is framed. and free shipping is offered at checkout. The common sunflower (Helianthus an...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American Joseph Edward Knowles (1907-1980) "Study for Industry Mural, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara, CA" 19 1/2 x 50 1/2 inches Oil on board, c. 1930s. Estate stamp verso Framed: 27 x 60 inches The completed mural is currently hanging on the wall, part of the building actually, at the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Barbara. A photo of the work insitu is included in the attached photos. BIO Joseph Edward Knowles was born in Kendall, Montana, on June 15, 1907. He grew up in San Diego, California. At age twenty, two years before the beginning of the Great Depression, he moved north to another town on the coast of California---Santa Barbara. There he began studying fine art at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts* (1927-1930), under the supervision of Frank Morley Fletcher, previously director of the Edinburgh College of Art. Fletcher, who was trained in portraiture, landscape painting, and woodblock* printing, was a great influence on young Knowles. It was there that Knowles learned the art of color woodblock printmaking, a medium in which he showed great skill. Not long after completing his studies with Fletcher, Knowles began teaching art. For a period of thirty years, from 1930 to1960, he taught at the Cate School in Carpinteria, California. In 1934-1935, Knowles traveled throughout Europe, further developing his artistic skills in England, France, and Italy. Upon his return, he continued to teach art at various schools and institutions: Cate School, Crane Country School, extension classes at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA). Knowles also served as an art education consultant for the County of Santa Barbara. In addition, he was founding co-director and president of the Santa Barbara Fine Arts Institute (1969-1972), which later developed a specialization in photography and became the Brooks Institute of Photography. Knowles died at his home in Santa Barbara on September 8, 1980. Much of Knowles' watercolor work is associated with what has been termed the "California School*," a loose grouping of artists throughout the state that included such figures as Millard Sheets, Phil Dike, Dong Kingman, George Post, and the Santa Barbara painters Dan Lutz and Standish Backus, Jr. The California School artists, including Knowles, were known for their fresh, direct, spontaneous style of watercolor painting. Knowles and other members of the school found inspiration in nature and the built environment alike, emphasizing elements of design in their exuberant, boldly stated, colorful scenes from everyday life. While painting in a representational* manner, Knowles generally avoided photographic realism, preferring subjective interpretation of his subjects. In this, as well as in his experimental approach and vigorous brushwork, he displayed a strongly modern sensibility. Knowles often used the wet-on-wet watercolor technique as he painted seascapes and landscapes, mostly along the California coast. He also employed dry-brush* techniques in many of his paintings, often leaving some of the white of the watercolor paper exposed. Some of the latter depict trees and other forms in a broken and airy manner that recalls Cezanne. Knowles' colored woodblock prints are more reserved and exact in their draftsmanship than his paintings. Spare, clean, lyrical lines are drawn to illustrate floral motifs and boat scenes with a touch of asymmetry conjuring Japanese woodblock prints. His murals from the post-World War II period are considerably more modern in their approach and show an emphasis on design and color. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS California Watercolor Society (1940 - 1955) Santa Barbara Art Association (Vice President - 1952) ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) - San Francisco, California San Diego Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA) - San Diego, California Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) - Santa Barbara, California Cowie Galleries - Los Angeles, California Gallery de Silva - Santa Barbara, California Bradley Galleries - Santa Barbara, California MURALS Westmont College - Ellen Porter Hall Mural - Santa Barbara, California Safeway Grocery (now Vons Grocery on West Victoria Street) - Exterior Tile Mosaic - Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara Bank & Trust - Interior Mosaic Panels, Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara Girls Club - Interior Mosaic Mural - Santa Barbara, California Ernest Righetti High School - Mosaic Mural - Santa Maria, California Shell Oil Company - Mosaic Panel - California Beckman Instruments, Corporate Headquarters - Mosaic - Fullerton, California STAINED GLASS WINDOWS, WALLS and PANELS Katherine Thayer Cate Memorial Chapel - Cate School, Carpinteria, California William S. Porter Memorial Chapel - Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, California La Rinconada Building - Santa Barbara, California ILLUSTRATIONS "California's Wonderful Corner: True Stories for Children from the History of the Santa Barbara Region," by Walter A. Tompkins (1962 & 1975) China Designs: Two sets of dinnerware for Winfield China...
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1930s American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Peek-a-Boo
By Seymour Joseph Guy
Located in New York, NY
In the latter half of the nineteenth century and into the first decade of the twentieth, New York City art aficionados could count on finding recent work of Seymour Joseph Guy hanging on the walls of the city’s major galleries. Primarily a genre artist, but also a portraitist, between 1859 and 1908 Guy showed more than seventy works at the National Academy of Design. From 1871 to 1903 he contributed over seventy times to exhibitions at the Century Club. From 1864 to 1887, he sent about forty pictures to the Brooklyn Art Association. A good number of these works were already privately owned; they served as advertisements for other pictures that were available for sale. Some pictures were shown multiple times in the same or different venues. Guy was as easy to find as his canvases were omnipresent. Though he lived at first in Brooklyn with his family and then in New Jersey, from 1863 to his death in 1910 he maintained a studio at the Artist’s Studio Building at 55 West 10th Street, a location that was, for much of that period, the center of the New York City art world. Guy’s path to a successful career as an artist was by no means smooth or even likely. Born in Greenwich, England, he was orphaned at the age of nine. His early interest in art was discouraged by his legal guardian, who wanted a more settled trade for the young man. Only after the guardian also died was Guy free to pursue his intention of becoming an artist. The details of Guy’s early training in art are unclear. His first teacher is believed to have been Thomas Buttersworth...
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19th Century American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ready the Horses, American Western Art Oil on Canvas Painting by Jalal Gharbi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian/American (1920 - 2005) - Ready the Horses, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm), Description: An oil painting of Co...
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1970s American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Lady and the Dove" is an artwork that encapsulates the beauty, gentleness, and harmony found in the relationship between humans and nature. The title itself suggests a depiction of a lady and a dove, symbolizing a connection between the human spirit and the serene world of birds...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Waterfall with Spray" Small Landscape of Waterfall and Rocks, Beautiful Light
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Waterfall with Spray," 12 x 12 x 3/4 Inches, is a beautiful small painting of Niagara Falls, part of a larger series of 12 x 12 inch waterfall paintings as seen from various vantag...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Wood 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...
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19th Century American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Gourds
Located in Boca Raton, FL
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...
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Early 2000s American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Wetlands at Sunset by Robert Hamblen
Located in New York, NY
Robert Hamblen (American, 1932-2017) Untitled, c. 20th century Oil on board 12 x 15 3/4 in. Framed: 16 x 19 3/4 x 1 3/4 Signed lower right: Hamblen Rob...
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20th Century American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Pilot Boat Adams No. 4
Located in Greenwich, CT
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Light on the Horizon
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 and Jimmy Ernst. She has also s...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Indian sacrificial ceremony - Aztec Human Sacrifice
Located in Miami, FL
The sacrificial ceremony, Freemans The Collection of Philip Desind Signed Three times Riggs l.r. A powerful account of moments a tribe member is cut open and the heart is handed over to a young brave, There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. That's easy. To execute a portrait with a great depth of anatomy and structure takes years of academic training. In Riggs's time there were teachers who knew how to pass on this knowledge. He studied at the Art Students League and the Académie Julian . Today, they are very few and far between. - Robert Riggs was a Gay Artist...
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1950s American Realist Paintings

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Mixed Media

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...
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19th Century American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“The Passing”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on linen canvas painting by the contemporary American realist artist, Claire Klarewicz-Okser. Signed lower right by the artist and dated 1987. Titled on label verso. ...
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1980s American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

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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

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Linen, Oil

"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...
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20th Century American Realist Paintings

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Oil

Sunset Over Steps Beach
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 and Jimmy Ernst. She has also s...
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2010s American Realist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Frosty Weeds
Located in Columbia, MO
Nora Othic is considered one of the top regionalist painters in the Midwest. She builds on a legacy from her artistic predecessors such as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and the WPA ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Hungry Wolves Hunt a Women Up a Tree at Night - Gay Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Trailblazing Gay Female illustrator of the Golden Age Ida Waugh paints and powerful narrative of a woman cowering in a tree while a hungry pack of wolves wait beneath her for dinner feast. Signed lower left. Framed under glass, Ida Waugh (October 24, 1846 – January 25, 1919) was an American illustrator of children's literature who often collaborated with her lifelong companion, Amy Ella Blanchard. Personal life Ida Waugh was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 24, 1846, the daughter of painter Samuel B. Waugh and his first wife, Sarah Mendenhall, therefore she was half-sister of painter Frederick Judd Waugh. Her step-mother was Mary Eliza Young Waugh, a miniaturist. She attended Académie Julian and Académie Delécluse in Paris, studying with Georges Callot, Paul-Louis Delance, and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.In 1868 she attended the first "Ladies Life Class" at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; in the same class there were Emily Sartain and Catherine Ann Drinker. Career Ida Waugh collaborated with her partner Amy Ella Blanchard in publishing children's books, Waugh as illustrator and Blanchard as writer. Waugh also published books on her own Other than a children's book illustrator, Waugh was an award-winning painter. In 1869 she exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts two works, "The Bargain" and a portrait bust of Carl Gaertner. Her self-portrait and another painting, "Little Cosette" (1870), are in the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, both donated by Mrs. John S. Haug in 1961.They were part of the exhibition "Women and Biography" in 2014, including: Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, Edith Emerson, Anne Minich, Catherine Mulligan, Mitzi Melnicoff, Alice Kent Stoddard, Aubrey Levinthal, Martha Armstrong...
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1980s American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Illustration Board

"Secret Beach" oil painting, path to a lighthouse, realist seascape in frame
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Secret Beach" is an oil painting of a path towards the beach, and a lighthouse in the distance. Dunes make up the foreground, and a sandy path leads us to a body of water. Small painting with a vertical orientation. Signed "MKW" in upper right corner. Painting dimensions: 12 x 8 inches Framed dimensions: 14 x 10 inches Matthew Weigle...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Triumph" oil painting of old automobile found amongst trees in the forest
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Linen

"An Actor" George Luks, Ashcan Portrait, Interior Scene of Seated Actor
Located in New York, NY
George Luks An Actor Signed lower left Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches Provenance Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, 1985 Manoogian Collection, Michigan Artist George Luks was one of a group...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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

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Oil, Panel

Empty Pool
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- "When asked what kind of paintings I make, I usually call my work "Urban Landscapes" to distinguish them as paintings about areas o...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

San Juan Bowl
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"San Juan Bowl" is an oil on panel painting by William Acheff. The work is signed and dated lower left, "Wm. Acheff 1986". The framed size is 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 1 1/8 inches. Provena...
Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

You are my sweet strawberry berry.
Located in Zofingen, AG
Charming, delicious still life with ripe fruits of strawberries. I just want to reach out and take a red fragrant berry. I specially applied the technique of painting, putting a deli...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic, Cardboard

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

Si Tu Disais
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in San Pedro, California in 1969, Francis DiFronzo has been painting and exhibiting his artwork in the United States for more than thirty years. "I discovered at a young age that art had the ability to transport me out of my world and into the lives of artists I admired. When I looked at paintings by Andrew Wyeth or Edward Hopper, I felt as though I was momentarily living in the worlds they created. I wanted to do the same thing. I wanted my work to have that power." After receiving his B.F.A in 1994 from California State University, Fullerton, DiFronzo moved to Philadelphia, PA where he continued his studies in drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There he worked and learned under the guidance of artists Murray Dessner, Jan Baltzell, Sidney Goodman, Vincent Desiderio and Irving Petlin. Di Fronzo...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Watercolor, Gouache, Wood Panel

"Mary in the Garden" Oil painting Garden w Holy Statue Icon, American Cowboy
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a rural property on a sunny day in the United States. A man wears a cowboy hat, a denim shirt, bandana over his face, and boots, while holding a shotgun. He's walking with determination to the left of the scene, with a medium sized black dog following him in tow. The bed of a pickup truck catches light in the distance, parked beside the residential structure. A farmhouse with a metal roof, and a wide-hooded porch, stands tall, offering shade and comfort, especially with cushioned armchairs to sit on out-front. A few electrical poles reach up towards the sky, confirming the contemporary time frame. In the foreground, a garden is fenced in with wire and wood. A statuette of the Virgin Mary is placed within this fenced garden, absorbing sunlight alongside the plants. An apt depiction of contemporary Americana...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

"Sailing on the Hudson River" American Oil Painting on Board of Ships at Sea
Located in New York, NY
A Fine depiction of a Sailing Ship in the Hudson River. For this wonderful depiction, Nemethy uses a Fine technique which depicts the figures on the boat in a miniature way. With joyful colors, this piece is bright and peaceful. This painting is signed by the artist lower left and it comes comes housed in a beautiful simple wood frame and ready to be displayed with hanging wire on verso. This painting measures 8 x 14 inches Framed measures 13 x 19 inches PROVENANCE: Lilac Gallery...
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

American SouthWest INDIAN TEEPEE Tonalist SUNSET Landscape OIL PAINTING
Located in New York, NY
Michael Coleman (b 1946), is known for his landscapes of rich colors in a combination of realism and atmospheric styles, often with animals depicted and the suggestion of natural har...
Category

1970s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Tempera

Carne Tagliata, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Part of Onelio's ongoing series centered around people occupied in various simple tasks. This painting depicts a butcher at work in his shop - it could be a s...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

In the Calm, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Gary Leonard juxtaposes a realistic figure clothed in a floral dress against a dreamy background that hints at a wild garden. The spotlight heightens her reserved gesture and timid expression while giving her skin a soft glow. Shadows on her face, neck, and body create a striking contrast to the lighter tones of the composition. "This work creates an atmosphere of calm, blending the woman's soft countenance and pastel greens of nature. "


About the Artist
Through composition, color, texture and more, Gary Leonard celebrates beauty. His works start with the subject, but then he lets the work evolve into a more complex composition. Oftentimes, he enjoys merging figures with abstract images and varying textures. He hopes that his works will leave the viewer with a sense of warmth and peace. When he's not making art, he enjoys listening to music and learning how to play the piano.


Words that describe this painting: figurative, figure, people, woman, fashion, standing, peaceful, oilpaint, dreamy, vertical, realism, people, realism, oil painting, beige


In the Calm...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Blond and Blue Eyed Ballerina in Tutu against Chinese Screen
Located in Miami, FL
Prolific Saturday Evening Post Cover Illustrator Pearl L. Hill Worthington paints a stunning portrait of a Ballerina in a tutu with underlighting. She sits on a decorative Chinese ...
Category

1920s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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