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Style: American Realist
Rubenesque nude woman . full figure Nude Regionalism - "Hilda Nellis"
Located in Miami, FL
Plump, fleshy, or a voluptuous nude - you describe it as you see it. Signed, titled, and dated lower left: John Steuart Curry / 1934 "Hilda Nellis". The present work depicts a natur...
Category

1930s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Yellow Plug on Cedar Shake
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

Fading Light Winter
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 process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings. My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Birch

Lavender Petunia
Located in Fairfield, CT
Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by technology. Most art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Nantucket Backyard Garden
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1962 Contemporary artist Lori Zummo paints in a style evocative of the American Barbizon School. She received her BFA from Syrac...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Outcropping
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

Canvas, Oil

Brooklyn Bridge Evening
Located in Fairfield, CT
For the past dozen years or so I’ve focused on bridge elements by selecting portions of bridge structures and painting segments in a realist style. Previous shows at the Billis Gal...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Berlin's Mayer Reuter, Time Magazine Cover - Lucian Freud
Located in Miami, FL
The Board measures 13.5 x 12.5 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, Er...
Category

1950s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Dollar Car Wash
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

Linen, Oil

Philip Evergood, Little Rock, Oil on Canvas, 1955 - "Civil Rights."
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 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...
Category

1950s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Nantucket Peonies
Located in Greenwich, CT
Still life of a vase full of peonies in front of a map of Nantucket.
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Mahogany, Acrylic

Delayed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Karen Woods paints a traveler’s view through the window of a moving vehicle rendered in subtly nuanced gestures in oil on canvas or panel. These views from the front seat of a car lo...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Oar Locks
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life in his connecticut studio, John Moris paints two metal oar locks. These tools are normally attached to the sides of a row-boat, and lock in the oars with which a sailor would row. Hanging fro a tiny metal nail, dangling from a small white thread, before an off-white, monochromatic backdrop. Framed in a simple black frame, as pictured. Frame dimensions are 24 x 20 inches. Painting dimensions are 19 x 15 inches. 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

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

In the Distance
Located in Greenwich, CT
American b. 1939 Renowned Impressionist painter Shirley Cean Youngs is a native New Yorker who now lives on a family compound in Connecticut surrounded by nature and those she loves...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Footbridge, 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 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Aluminum

Cardinal 1, realist gouache on paper miniature bird portrait
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

Cardinal 3, realist gouache on paper miniature bird portrait
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

Desert Temples
Located in Fairfield, CT
Ron Rizk’s paintings depict the intimate personal history of locales from his life. Ethereal and yet grounded in reality, the paintings tell the stories of very real places as seen ...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Panel #16 from "The Century of Progress Museum: The Robert Moses Project
Located in Fairfield, CT
Lawrence Gipe's work addresses themes of power, propaganda, with the goal of analyzing semiotics and codes of meaning in authoritarian visual culture. Gipe’s work encompasses painti...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

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

Canvas, Oil

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

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Forest
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

Canvas, Oil

Barcelona Bikes
Located in Park City, UT
"My work is often described as realism, and sometimes photorealism, but I don’t think of it that way. I do use photographs as reference, and the finished paintings have a photographi...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

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

Linen, Oil

Martin Luther King Jr.
Located in Fairfield, CT
From the artist statement, "When asked about my work, my mantra used to be, “The subject matter of my work is not as important as how I paint it. Whether it be people, places, or thi...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Central Park Evening
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

After Sunset
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...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Watercolor, Gouache, Wood Panel

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

The Witch
Located in Greenwich, CT
Frame: 24 1/2 x 37 in. Realist painter John Falato is known for the stunning detail of his vividly-rendered landscape paintings depicting such timeless subjects as country farms, r...
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Fork
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA --The process of endless building and reconfiguring transcends the mere physical and encompasses the spiritual and symbolic. The scars a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Active Runway
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

Oil, Panel

Pine Bank Arch, Central Park
Located in Greenwich, CT
Central Park during winter 1946
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

InPublic: Shade
Located in Greenwich, CT
Scott Duce Biography American, b. 1956 Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Painted Walls
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...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Dune and Clouds
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

First Light
Located in Fairfield, CT
Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on the road, and 1960s West Coast art. His main subj...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

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

Watercolor, Gouache

Usonia Afternoon
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

Usonia Afternoon
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Afternoon At The Glass House
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

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

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

"Morning at Menemsha"
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

View from the Creeks
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1962 Contemporary artist Lori Zummo paints in a style evocative of the American Barbizon School. She received her BFA from Syrac...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

West Cork Landscape ( Kealkil)
Located in Fairfield, CT
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

Canvas, Oil, Panel

Patterns II
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

Bantry House, Cork
Located in Fairfield, CT
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

Canvas, Oil, Board

Noir Crime Drama Shooting - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post Illustrator Thornton Utz captures the peak moment of action in this Noir Crime Drama, Shooting illustration on an interior page in the famed magazine in 1958 —...
Category

1950s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Pilot
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

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas
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

Linen, Oil

"Tuesday, Country in Summer"
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

Linen, Oil

Converse Hi-Top Plaid
Located in Fairfield, CT
From the artist statement, "When asked about my work, my mantra used to be, “The subject matter of my work is not as important as how I paint it. Whether it be people, places, or thi...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Movie Poster Illustration for "American Pop"
Located in Miami, FL
McLean's consummate skill as a portrait artist, graphic designer and master of composition is on full display in the complex narrative work. This work contains 41 portraits including those of Bette Midler, Jimi Hendrix, and Benny Goodman...
Category

1980s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Passing Protrusion
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

2nd Ave, 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 air ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Aluminum

Southland Booths
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 idea of emptiness, as both a suggestion of solitude and as a state rife with the possibility of change and fulfillment. As a painter, he seeks out familiar, evocative scenes and concentrates on capturing the stillness of an empty room or vacant chair. His paintings can be seen as solitary, or as simply aberrant pauses between moments of frantic activity. The works are imbued with a quality of light that brings simple, content-rich objects into sharp focus. Condron attempts to establish not so much a connection to a chair or a room, but the feeling created by the wide embrace of emptiness. Ultimately, Condron creates scenes - part representation of real places, part invention from deep in his mind. The openness of his works invites the viewer to share the moment of quiet with him. By choosing places that seem to have been abruptly vacated, he attempts to awaken a connection to the moment before, or to the quietude he preserves inside himself in the form of memories. Matt Condron was born in 1967 in Simi Valley...
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Yellow Grid
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, lif...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

No Swimming
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

No Swimming
$4,160 Sale Price
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Best Friends
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

The Hatchet - Movie Moment of High Drama
Located in Miami, FL
High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event. Signed lower left From the Estate of Charles Martignette. Most likey for the Sa...
Category

1950s 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...
Category

1950s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

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