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Style: American Realist
"Kolbasa" contemporary oil painting of charcuterie meats, scallions, tablecloth
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a plate of a selection Kolbasa and accoutrements. On a plain plate is a spread of cut cured meat, including Russian sausage. Diagonally across the plate are three ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Poinsettia
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Poinsettia" is an oil painting of the signature red plant blossomed against a light backdrop, in a minimalist pot, a cement cube.
Painting dimensions: 16 x 12 inches
Framed dimensions: 18.5 x 14.5 inches
Matthew Weigle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Yosuke Matsoke, Time magazine cover illustration , July 7, 1941
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Ernest Hamlin Baker is an excepti...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Spring St. Market, framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis', NYC and LA galleries -- When I think about the conventions of painting -- a tradition I respect immensely -- I notice that my concern has always been...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
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 art. Executing 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. Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel - Robert Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chatham Marshes
By Lori Zummo
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lori Zummo Biography
American, b. 1962
Contemporary artist Lori Zummo paints in a style evocative of the American Barbizon School. She receiv...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Varsity Transit Inc., Realist Oil Painting by William Waithe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Born in Harlem, William Waithe studied painting, drafting and architecture at New York University and Queens College. He was known for painting outdoors, and is particularly identifi...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
San Diego Modern Pathway
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Usonia Afternoon
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Passing Protrusion
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Metaphysics
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
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Central Park Evening
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gowanus Canal, Barge and Crane
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Afternoon At The Glass House
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Totem
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
Roadside
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alex Roulette’s paintings depict false realities. The artist constructs landscapes from numerous source photographs, which he uses as references to create his finely-tuned oil painti...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Usonia House At Twilight
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Yellow Plug on Cedar Shake
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
John Morfis was born in Glen Cove, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetically pleasing, John made an extreme departure from his family life when he chose to base his life on art. Surrounded by mechanics, welders, and otherwise trade workers John had a tough time expressing his interest in a world much more utilitarian and much less expressive and impractical.
With an extraordinary desire to be an artist and a grant awarded, John was able to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of Hartford in 1998. While there John studied oil painting under American realist Stephen Brown.
John’s first solo show took place in 2007 at the Ellen Traut Collection Gallery in Hartford, CT and was a near sell out. Since then John has had success up and down the northeastern coast of the United States working with various galleries and collectors. His work has also appeared in various group shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Each painting, although a portrait of a tired hand...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait in Mirror
By Kate Sammons
Located in Denver, CO
Artist self portrait in mirror
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Down Easter
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 Arti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
A ray of light in the forest - Solitary Man Surreal Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
Hector Garrido is an American book cover illustrator. He illustrated numerous science fiction, horror and adventure book covers, including all the covers for the Baroness series of pulp novels, and covers for the Destroyer series. He also illustrated romance and gothic novels, and Nancy Drew and Hardy...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Usonia Visitors
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Canvas, Oil, Board
Simulate Direct Experience with Freeing Marks
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
No Swimming
By Kevin Frank
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
Canvas, Oil
Parker Center
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- I paint the reality of the Southern California environment: how structures once revered for their groundbreaking ideas in design and...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surf & Sailboat
Located in Fairfield, CT
Water does not have a form; it adapts to forms created by energy. There is something kind of futile yet exciting about capturing the effect of water in a painting. There is no start...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Morning Coffee
Located in Fairfield, CT
The primary subjects of my paintings are 21st century man's working monuments, which represent our culture's dedication to production and consumption. The essence of our way of life ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Storm Over Steps Beach
By Marla Korr
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...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Freeway 2
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. During his career the artist has discovered many different themes, but there is one theme in particular that Bucker...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Dissent
By Chester Arnold
Located in White Plains, NY
'Dissent' 2005 by American artist, Chester Arnold. Oil on canvas, 46 x 54 in. This painting presents a richly painted, aerial view of protesters circa 2005, in the midst of the Iraq ...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Uncle Sam
By Syd Cockell
Located in Missouri, MO
This is an original oil on velvet painting created c. 1942. Syd Cockell was an accomplished American illustrator during World War II.
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boats Stowed for Winter
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...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Humphrey's Cadillac
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cardinal 2, realist gouache on paper miniature bird portrait, 2023
By Dina Brodsky
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
Trio
Located in Fairfield, CT
Here oil on canvas images are photorealistic and gorgeous.
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Drugs
By Danny Heller
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boy With Oranges
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
Aspen Grove, landscap22x28, oil painting, in the Realism style, Texas artist
Located in Houston, TX
Aspen Grove depicts one of Texas' most popular landscapes in the style of Realist painting. The artist use the natural beauty of Texas as scenes for his Realist paintings. The artist brings us deep into the painting Autumn. Almost an escape from the world. These Aspens grow above 7,000 feet in the Guadalupe Mountains...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
White House by the Bay
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Buy American
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting of a door with a sign that says "No Admittance Except On Business Apply At Office"
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Humphrey's Gouache
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pale Green Zinnia
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Still Life with Yellow Beam
By Kevin Frank
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
Patterns II
By Kevin Frank
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
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Steel Beam
By Kevin Frank
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
Patterns
By Kevin Frank
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
Canvas, Oil
Indian Brook Falls
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unchanged for centuries, this idyllic water fall in Cold Spring, NY, one hour north of New York City by train, is hidden from view by the hilly landscape and a stone bridge.
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Advancing Cow
Located in Greenwich, CT
A native of New England, Peter Poskas III paints the charming countryside of coastal Maine and Connecticut, featuring rolling his and tranquil vistas and often local animals. Poskas imbues his paintings with a contemporary approach to color and form while remaining rooted in realist stylistic traditions.
Poskas earned a BA from Oberlin College...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Backyard Slide
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
Last Basket
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 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
Puppy Love
By Kevin Frank
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
Strings
Located in Greenwich, CT
Joel Carson Jones Biography
American, b. 1975
Joel Carson Jones lives, teaches, and paints in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1975. With the work-ethic of the Scran...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Autumn Landscape
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Best Friends
By Kevin Frank
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
Riding Home
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 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
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