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Style: American Realist
West Cork Landscape (Ahakista)
By Kenny Harris
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kenny Harris is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC. Kenny Harris’ new paintings evoke the light and mood of architectural spaces from his travels around the world. He is fascin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Woman on a Park Bench, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman, Romanian/Israeli (1923 - 1977)
Title: Woman on a Park Bench
Year: Circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, unsigned
Size: 24 x 24 in. (60...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
With a View to the Water, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I would love to live in a house with a view like this; distant hills and sailboats gliding by. These places are often very receptive to growing lush blooming la...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Oliver No.3
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Stott’s work is almost object portraiture, applying traditional still life compositions and lighting but ventures beyond time honore...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Trophy
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Whimbrel and Plover, Oil Painting
By Jesse Aldana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In this dramatic seascape, Jesse Aldana describes a stormy evening on the coast near Santa Barbara, CA. A cloudburst races across ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fortress
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC. 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 ea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
African Tribal Celebration: Alex Haley Roots for Readers Digest
By Noel Sickles
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and detailed epic scale history painting of an African tribal celebration with an on looking king. The work has an abundant amount o...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Piercing Blues
By Ryan Morse
Located in Denver, CO
Portrait with blue eyes
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Icebergs
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC. 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 ea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
African Tribal Celebration: Alex Haley Roots for Readers Digest
By Noel Sickles
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and detailed epic scale history painting of an African tribal celebration with an on-looking king. The work has an abundant amount o...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Allegory of Defense Industry (figurative male illustration)
By Frank Godwin
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Frank Godwin (1889-1959). Allegory of Defense Industry, 1919. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Image measures 20.75 x 26.25 inches. The canvas measures 24 x 36 inches in total. Ann...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Galleon
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
La Campagna
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Snow Squals, Parmelee Farm"
By Peter Poskas
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Left
Poskas was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, a small industrial city set on the banks of the Naugatuck River. He was interested in art as a child, but on entering ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amphitheatre
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC. 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 ea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
The Dipping Pool, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Jo encountered this peaceful scene at the edge of a river while on a road trip. "All that green and blue color gives a relaxing feeling after a long day's dri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stump
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to 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 Nichols...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Dead Pine Evening, Oil Painting
By Jay Jensen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I've painted this scene a couple of times before. There a lots of dead pines facing the channel that separates the coast of Maine from Grand Manan Island, exc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Construction of the Key Bridge, Washington DC
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left & dated 1920
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, also known as the Key Bridge, is a concrete arch bridge traffic across the Potomac River be...
Category
1920s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Silent Bliss, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The Coquitlam River near Jo's home in British Columbia is a favorite painting subject. She enjoys regularly walking the riverbanks from one end to the other w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saxophone #2, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This is a piece I painted after I did a photo shoot in my backyard. I was interested in photographing the saxophone on a bright sunny day with a field of grass ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Panel #16 from "The Century of Progress Museum: The Robert Moses Project
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Lawrence Gipe's work addresses themes of power, propaganda, with the goal of analyzing semiotics and codes of meaning in authorit...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
I'd Love to See You Before I Go
By Kate Sammons
Located in Denver, CO
Blonde figure holding small butterfly in interior
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Containers
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Projects
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Snow Shadows
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts of the canal with its solidly geometric shapes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Goat Bells" - Contemporary Realism - Still Life - Manet
By Marc Chatov
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Goat Bells" is an oil painting featuring hues of blue, white, grey and orange.
Marc Chatov is inspired by the work of Diego Velasquez, Édouard Manet, Willia...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Whispers of Spring, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
While on a summer hike in the woods, Jo discovered this stream and small pool of water. She says she couldn't resist stopping and dipping her feet in the cool...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
John Duffin, Blackheath, London Art, Cityscape Painting, Statement Art, Bright
By John Duffin
Located in Deddington, GB
John Duffin
Blackheath
Original Cityscape Painting
Oil Paint on Canvas
Canvas Size: H 76cm x W 102cm x D 3cm
Framed Size: H 80cm x W 106cm x D 4cm
Sold Framed in a Black Float Frame
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Breath of Every Small Child
Located in Denver, CO
Hummingbird in flight
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Moon Over Back Lot
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a boat yard at nighttime. Boats at rest behind a locked chain-link fence. Street lights glow with hot orange auras. The full moon peeks out glowing a cool bright w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Sustension, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Provocative hyperrealist oil painting created with breathtaking detail. Artist David Shepherd used water and flowers to create a feeling of life, and to serve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Day is Done, the Coast of Maine
Located in Greenwich, CT
Joseph McGurl is regarded as a leader of the current American landscape school. This has been confirmed by his inclusion in several important museum shows and his successful relation...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Turkish Yataghan, Illustration of Baby, Collier's Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Baby caring a horse shoe on his shoulders reminiscent of the famous J. C. Leyendecker Baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. This is a cover illustration/ painting for Collie...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Vase of Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Vase of Flowers
Oil on tin, 13 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.
Signed (at lower left): C. Eaton
Category
19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Yellow Dress
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original painting by Harry McCormick from circa 1980. In an excellent gold frame.
Artist: Harry McCormick, American (1942 - )
Title: Woman in Yellow Dress...
Category
1980s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Halloween
Located in Burlingame, CA
Halloween - an iconic American painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torlakson’s photorealism subj...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Lily, Photorealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: White Lily
Year: 1982
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 26 in. x 26 in. (66.04 cm x 66.04 cm)
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Raging Waters, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Inspired by a view from the lower part of Shannon Falls in British Columbia, Jo captured the mesmerizing power of the cool water rushing over the sunny rock bed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Morning Coffee, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A twinkling, realist still life of strong black coffee. Fine detail in the many shadows and shiny surfaces. "A morning cup of coffee is on many people's agendas," says Kristine. "Hot, black, the perfect jolt of caffeine in a classic porcelain cup and saucer, this eye-opener is ready 24 hours a day."
About the Artist
For Kristine Kainer, recreating her emotional attachments to subject matter, whether a still-life or landscape, is paramount. Her goal is to emotionally trigger a response in the viewer. But, "this response does not need to replicate my own feelings; instead, I hope to make the viewer pause for a moment, reflect upon, then respond to my work in a personal, meaningful way."
Words that describe this painting: coffee, breakfast, food, kitchen, still life, cuisine, realism, representational, oil painting, grey
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Swift Water, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"This sweet spot can be found around the base of Shannon Falls in British Columbia, the third highest falls in the province," explains Jo. "There you'll also ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pilot Boat Adams No. 4
Located in Greenwich, CT
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Portrait of a Rancher "Pete"
By Patience Hilda Street
Located in Soquel, CA
Oil portrait of a rancher with cowboy hat, by Patience Street (née Lloyd) (English, 1905-2010). Signed by the artist in the lower left corner. There are multiple notes on the frame o...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Chair with Linen Curtains
By Kenny Harris
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Kenny Harris's latest body of work was informed by two recent residencies in Tuscany, at Borgo Finocchieto and Monteverdi. Inspired by the heavy Tuscan light...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Private Island, Mid Day Swim
By Wes Hempel
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
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Yesterday and Today
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This is another in a series of paintings I have executed over the years exploring ponds, waterlilies, koi and goldfish. The lilies on my pond tend to flower f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Grapes
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An antique serving platter with a miniature realist painting by American surrealist artist, Anthony Ackrill. Tiny trompe l'oeil, still-life of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Oil
Rockaway Shell
Located in Burlingame, CA
Rockaway Shell - an iconic American painting depicting a Shell Gasoline Station by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Velocity, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"How do you capture movement in a picture? How do you give off that feeling of joy you experience revving an engine?" says David Shepard...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Street Scene: "King George Dies"
Located in New York, NY
Fransioli was born in Seattle, Washington, and received a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1930. He worked with John Russell Pope on plans for the exhibition galleries at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which he pinpointed as the beginning of his interest in painting. World War II interrupted a promising career in architecture. Fransioli served in the Pacific Theatre from 1943 until 1946, and was among the first American soldiers to survey Hiroshima after the atomic bomb’s detonation in August 1945. He returned to civilian life and took up painting, basing himself in Boston, but working up and down the eastern seaboard.
Thomas Fransioli’s cityscapes are crisp and tidy. Buildings stand in bold outline, their forms squarely defined by stark light and long shadows. Saturated color permeates every corner of his canvases, from vibrant oranges and greens to smoky terra cottas and granites. Even the trees that line Fransioli’s streets, parks, and squares are sharp and angular, exactly like those in an architect’s elevation rendering. But Fransioli’s cities often lack one critical feature: people. His streets are largely deserted, save for parked cars and an occasional black cat scurrying across the pavement. People make rare appearances in Fransioli’s compositions, and never does the entropy of a crowd overwhelm their prevailing sense of order and precision. People are implied in a Fransioli painting, but their physical presence would detract from the scene’s bleak and surreal beauty.
Magic Realism neatly characterizes Fransioli’s artistic viewpoint. The term was first broadly applied to contemporary American art in the 1943 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, American Realists and Magic Realists. As exhibition curator Dorothy Miller noted in her foreword to the catalogue, Magic Realism was a “widespread but not yet generally recognized trend in contemporary American art…. It is limited, in the main, to pictures of sharp focus and precise representation, whether the subject has been observed in the outer world—realism, or contrived by the imagination—magic realism.” In his introductory essay, Lincoln Kirstein took the concept a step further: “Magic realists try to convince us that extraordinary things are possible simply by painting them as if they existed.”
This is Fransioli, in a nutshell. His cityscapes exist in time and space, but certainly not in the manner in which he portrays them.
Fransioli—and other Magic Realists of his time—was also the heir to Precisionism, spawned from Cubism and Futurism after the Great War and popularized in the 1920s and early 1930s. While Fransioli may not have aspired to celebrate the Machine Age, heavy industry, and skyscrapers in the same manner as Charles Sheeler, his compositions tap into the same rigid gridwork of the urban landscape that was first codified by the Precisionists.
During the 1950s, Fransioli was represented by the progressive Margaret Brown...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
By the Lagoon
By Carl Bretzke
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Shall We Dance?, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
When artist Jo Galang moved to Vancouver many years ago, she and her family settled in the city near Stanley Park. "On frequent visits to the park, we would o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Copley Square, Boston
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Fransioli’s cityscapes are crisp and tidy. Buildings stand in bold outline, trees are sharp, and saturated color permeates the scene. But Fransioli’s cities often lack one critical feature: people. His streets are largely deserted, save for the rare appearance of figure and the occasional black cat scurrying across pavement. Instead, humanity is implied. Magic Realism neatly characterizes Fransioli’s viewpoint. First applied to American art in the 1943 MoMA exhibition “American Realists and Magic Realists...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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...
Category
19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Washington Square Park - Summer Evening, Oil Painting
By Nick Savides
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Washington Square Park on a summer evening. Several pairs of figures sit, absorbed in their phones, books and computers. Warm, pinkish orange light illuminate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Red and White Fuchsia
Located in Soquel, CA
Acrylic painting of white, red, and pink "Swingtime" varietal of fuchsia flowers, hanging from a vine on grey art board by Barbara Gibson (20th Century). Signed by the artist in the ...
Category
1980s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Acrylic
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
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