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Style: American Realist
Departure Beat
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, lif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hells Gate
By Roland Kulla
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
$11,200
Umbrellas
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
Rooftops
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
Resting Fuselage
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
Linen, Oil, Panel
Mustard
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
118th St., 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
Cruise #5
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$4,000
Beautiful Blond Hair and Blue Eyed Woman - Mid Century Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This brilliantly rendered female portrait by a major American post-war illustrator known for his stunningly glamorous women. Notice how all the elements of the composition work tog...
Category
1960s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Fiberboard, Graphite
Guggenheim + TBird, limited edition print
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- 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 on the cultural centers and glamorous institutions that signaled its strength – and enchantment – in the 1950s and 60s. Covering such bewitching landmarks as Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim, and 5th Avenue stalwart Bergdorf Goodman, this series delves into how high design from this groundbreaking Modern period shaped metropolitan society and reinforced New York as a cultural capital. When viewed individually, each painting showcases an aspect of booming avant garde design, be it the Metropolitan Opera’s Sputnik Chandeliers, the high fashion displayed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Giclée
End of Inning
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, lif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses - Photo Realism
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
Red Earth and Spotted Cows
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sixty East 83rd Street
By Lori Zummo
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
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...
Category
19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Springtime Melody
Located in Miami, FL
Mabel Rollins Harris was among other things an illustrator who specialized Children's art. Looking at her work today her pictures take on an almost surreal quality. She posed ...
Category
1920s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Man on Floor Illustration
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Miami, FL
Man on Floor Illustration
ca. 1950–1959
Paintings, gouache on board
8 x 26.25 in. (20.3 x 66.7 cm.)
Modern
Magazine Story Illustration
Heritage, Morris Weiss CollectionSunning work w...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
"Big Sky"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower right.
Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1948)
Peter Sculthorpe was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1948. His talent was evide...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$14,375
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
A Lion Mangled Me - A Man Eating Lion
Located in Miami, FL
Using brilliant compositional devices and late afternoon light, Frank McCarthy captures a man at the precise moment before death.
The scene is staged wi...
Category
1960s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Casein, Board
$20,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Catch n Carry
Located in Greenwich, CT
Still life painting of a basket
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
North Woods Waterfall, Central Park
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1949
In his more than three decades as an artist, Nicholas Berger (b. 1949) has created an outstanding body of work that continues to evolve and excite viewers. Best kn...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
O MARA'S MUNICIPAL TAVERN - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
O MARA'S MUNICIPAL TAVERN - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Supreme technical skill allows the artist to realistically capture an...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
"Skies of Autumn"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower right.
Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame.
Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1948)
Peter Sculthorpe was born in O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yellow Calla Lily
Located in New York, NY
In his long and productive career, Clarence Holbrook Carter followed an independent course. He incorporated an unlikely mixture of stylistic influences, drawing from such disparate s...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine
By Harry Lemon Parkhurst
Located in Miami, FL
Harry Lemon Parkhurst
American, 1876–1962 was a pulp illustrator for crime and detective stories.
The works depicts an art thief caught at a pe...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blossoming Pear
Located in Greenwich, CT
A native son of New England, Peter Poskas III—like many American artists before him—derives inspiration from the charming towns and tranquil landscapes of coastal Maine and Connectic...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
Grizzly Adams, Grizzly bear attacks Frontiersman
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait of a man and bear this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graf...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
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
$12,800 Sale Price
20% Off
"Elegant Still Life of Umbrella with Golden Polka Dots"
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Elegant Still Life of Umbrella with Golden Polka Dots"
Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant and beautiful cups, plates, teapots, and dishes, but there...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A ray of light in the forest - Surreal Man in 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
Grand Mother and Grand Son Read Emotional Letter
Located in Miami, FL
Crockwell is as good as Rockwell. Many would agree with that statement including the editors of the Saturday Evening Post in which both artists were frequent contributors. In fact, ...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
"Elkins Valley - Elkins Farm, King Ranch"
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Gifted
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A painting of carefully wrapped packages against a vibrant background. Each package is wrapped in a differently patterned paper. There is an air of anticipation, the edges close are sharply painted as if with bated breath and the edges along the horizon softly blurring out like a sigh thats been held, finally released. The vibrancy between magenta ground and the phthalo blue green background hum. The painting brings to mind the excitement of a child's birthday party, a wonderful sense of joy and nostalgia.
Painting dimensions: 24 x 24 inches
Frame dimensions: 28 x 28 inches
Framed in a wide silver frame
Artist Bio
Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received instruction and support from wonderful and generous members of the East End artistic community. Working exclusively in oils, Lucas sets out almost daily to create plein aire landscapes and seascapes. In her studio, she works directly from life and captures the beauty of natural light as it transforms ordinary objects into visual delights.
Lucas wants her work to celebrate all that is well with this world and brilliant in this life, despite its pockets of darkness.
For me, she says, I know I am in the Presence of something beautiful, when it steals my breath, silences my mind, pushes out everything else and draws me in. I trust That. I use That to guide my hands as I arrange a still life or scan a landscape to determine where to set down my easel. Ultimately, That is what drives me to paint.
Becoming evermore skilled as an oil painter is another of Lucas goals. To that end she remains teachable, finding it refreshing and vital for her own growth to paint with others. She has studied with favorite artists including Michael Klein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Eastern Moon"
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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
Breakwater
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
Egg Tempera
"Beacon Head, Georgian Bay, Ontario"
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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
$4,320 Sale Price
20% Off
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 III
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
$5,040
Pink Flowers
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
$4,600
Pink Roses
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
$4,600
Jade Roses
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
Takeoff
By Karen Woods
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...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,680
Big Foam
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
Dream House
By Ron Rizk
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
$15,200
John Coltrane
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
The Time Traveler
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery NYC. In my work I explore family objects as “families” of objects—individual silver heirlooms that are related to one another in a single collec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
See Saw
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
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
Linen, Oil
The Minton Majolica Ewer
By Kenny Harris
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kenny Harris is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC. The artist has traveled around the world, painting on location. He is fascinated with subtle light effects and expressive p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Canvas
Woodland Lake
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Wood, Birch
Views of the Valley
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the proces...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Birch, Lacquer
Iron Clad
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
Arm
Located in Fairfield, CT
Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas can easily frame the everyday. But my task is to t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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