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Style: American Realist
"Lakeside in Autumn"
By A.D. Greer
Located in Austin, TX
By Texas artist A.D. Greer
This Autumn landscape depicts a peaceful lake in the morning. A large tree with orange leaves towers in the foreground and hazy, blue and pink mountains gl...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pool Party
By Zoe Hawk
Located in Columbia, MO
Zoe Hawk Artist Statement
My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Appetite
By Zoe Hawk
Located in Columbia, MO
Zoe Hawk Artist Statement
My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Watchers
By Zoe Hawk
Located in Columbia, MO
Zoe Hawk Artist Statement
My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Floor is Lava
By Zoe Hawk
Located in Columbia, MO
Zoe Hawk Artist Statement
My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"LLANO BLUES" BLUEBONNET TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
Located in San Antonio, TX
Don Elmore
Image Size: 14 x 27
Frame Size: 25 x 38
Medium: Oil
"Llano Blues" Bluebonnet
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Factory Worker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Factory Worker, c. 1936, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 18 ¼ x 36 inches; exhibited in City ...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Near Canaan
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Measures 20" x 22" painting and 21.75". x 23.75". including the frame. Provenance: Harmon Meek Gallery Naples, Florida Weinstein Gallery, Robert Kipniss, 21st Century...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
St, Louis River Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
St, Louis River Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA
Jo Cain (1904-2003)
The Drama of the St. Louis Great River
23 1/4 x 25 ½ inches
Gouache on board c. 19...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Division Street at Night - 2023, American realist nocturne by Carl Bretzke
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
American realist painter Carl Bretzke is particularly adept at nocturne scenes which ooze in darkness, reminiscent of Edward Hopper. Bretzke remarks: “What most people don’t notice i...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Jack Levine WW11 Painting
By Jack Levine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jack Levine: 1915-2010. Well listed American social realist painter with auction results over $220,000. This fabulous gem was most likely painted between 1942 and 1945 as he was serv...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tao Yu Impressionist Original Oil Painting "Early Spring II"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Early Spring II
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12 x 16 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting is unstretched
Year: 2000 Circa
Artist: Tao Yu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American Realist Figurative Bird in Branch Blue Jay
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American realist figurative Blue Jay on a branch. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Santa Claus Christmas Eve original Southern Air Transport Illustration
Located in San Francisco, CA
Incredibly detailed Original illustration of Santa Claus on what I imagine is Christmas Eve. He must be falling behind schedule as he has commandeered planes instead of reindeers. I ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Intermediary, Original Painting
By Sally Adams
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Sally Adams depicts a red cardinal perching on a thin branch. She paints the bird with refined detail and realism. "Its appear...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Poker Players NYC Mid 20th Century Modern WPA American Scene Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Poker Players NYC Mid 20th Century Modern WPA American Scene Social Realism
Philip Reisman (1904-1992)
Poker Players
12 x 16 oil on board
Signed and dated 1949 lower right
BIO
Phi...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Early 20th century Horse with Feedbag
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming late 19th or early 20th century oil on board. This little gem has great detail of a horse with a feedbag in a landscape. It is signed or initialed but I cannot make it out. ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Unexpected Blessing II
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good in...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
COUPLE Realist Light and Shadow Sheep Texas Longhorn Oil on Canvas Frame
By Luke Autrey
Located in Houston, TX
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Couple is an 20 X 16 oil on canvas painting of a sheep and a longhorn who look as if they are in search of something. Couple is by Texas arti...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Schooner Off Shore
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1964
Michael Harrell focuses on capturing natural light in both landscapes and cityscapes while working with nautical themes, especially ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Farm Mural Study
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Farm Mural Study, c. 1940, oil on Masonite, signed lower right, 15 x 42 inches; presented in a newer wood frame
About the Painting
A delightful regionalist composition, Cecil Head’s Farm Mural Study features a tidy and verdant farmscape where the animals outnumber the farmer and remind the viewer of an idealized fecundity of the American Midwest. Head gained early recognition for his mural designs in 1934 when his work was selected to represent Indiana in a Public Works of Art Project exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Head excelled at rural Indiana scenes and the present work bears comparison to his most famous painting, Potato Planters, a 1936 work, which won first prize at the Hoosier Salon and was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute in 1941. Both works feature hard-working farmers in straw hats standing against the back drop of farm buildings. A critic's commentary about Potato Planters also applies to Farm Mural Study, "the various farm objects...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Grand Canyon Series
By Sheldon Parsons
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Grand Canyon Series" is an oil on panel painting by Sheldon Orrin Parsons, painted in 1943. The work is signed in the lower left, “Sheldon Parsons 16”...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Studio Interior Mid 20th Century American Scene Modern WPA Still Life Realism
Located in New York, NY
Studio Interior Scene Mid 20th Century American Modern WPA Still Life Realism
The painting measures 10 x 12 inches. Framed, the work is 13 1/4 x 15 1/...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Long Beach WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Located in New York, NY
Long Beach WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Daniel Ralph Celantano (1902-1980)
"Long Beach"
8 x 10 inches
Oil on artist board
Signed lower left:...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
On the Balcony - American Scene Female Artist
By Louise Lue Osborne
Located in Miami, FL
Female artist Louise Lue Osborne paints a classic composition with an interaction of two women and a child soaked in golden late light. The figural gro...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Synthetic Resin, Fiberboard
Navajo Camp
By Gerard Curtis Delano
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Navajo Camp" is an oil on panel painting by Gerard Curtis Delano. The painting is signed lower left "Delano". The framed piece measures 31 x 36 3/4 x 1 7/8 inches.
Delano was a pai...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Letter to the Sixth Poet (diptych)
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Altarpiece
Located in Burlingame, CA
Alterpiece. Oil on canvas, meticulously painted by Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in the artist's signature style. Lovely to behold from every angle. Singed, titled, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ten Mile Beach (diptych)
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offerings — specifically, the play of light as it touches upon water and earth — her nature-inspired works bridge realism and abstraction, and they convey a thin veneer of the of human spirit. Complex, rich, and slow in the making, the paintings, with their serene simplicity, are intended to be viewed and enjoyed over time.
Ten Mile Beach...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sailboat Study No. 1
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery - Born in Spokane, WA (1986), Tamalin Soleil Baumgarten paints quiet landscape scenes with a tonal, melancholic realism. She received her MFA fro...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cupola Study
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery - Born in Spokane, WA (1986), Tamalin Soleil Baumgarten paints quiet landscape scenes with a tonal, melancholic realism. She received her MFA fro...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
QUESTIONING Sheep Realist Light and Shadow Oil on Canvas Framed
By Luke Autrey
Located in Houston, TX
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Questioning is an 16 x 20 oil painting of two sheep who look as if they are in search of something. Questioning is by Texas artist Luke Autr...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
National Geographic Artist CAT W/ FISH TANK
Located in New York, NY
We have a fantastic interior painting for sale that has a cheeky orange cat rubbing up against the glass of a fish tank. This picture displays the artist's skill at portraying animal...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
DONE FOR THE DAY WITH MY RADIO FLYER Realist Light and Shadow Oil on Panel
By Luke Autrey
Located in Houston, TX
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Done for the Day is an 11 x 14 ( 17 x 20 framed ) oil on panel painting of the famous Radio Flyer Red Wagon that m...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Champagne Cat
Located in Columbia, MO
ASHLEE SELBURG
Champagne Cat
Ink and pencil on paper
20 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Ink
Circus Wagons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This watercolor is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Circus Wagons, 1927, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left, 10 x19 ¾ inches (sight), provenance includes Stary-Sheets Art Gallery (Gualala, CA); J. Ralph & Louis Stone Foundation; presented in a newer metal frame behind glazing
About the Painting
Millard Sheets was only twenty years old and in his third year of studies at the Chouinard Art Institute when he painted Circus Wagons. Despite his youth, Sheets was already an accomplished artist who had publicly exhibited his work and won prestigious prizes. Within several years, he would have his first solo exhibition at one of Los Angeles’ premiere galleries and become a painting instructor at his alma mater. In Circus Wagons we already see Sheets deft handling of the watercolor medium and his interest in the California Scene. In this case, Sheets captures a back lot view of a traveling circus, a subject he sometimes returned to, including in a color screen print in the collection of the National Gallery. Sheets made a career by painting what he knew and observed firsthand. This approach allowed Sheets to capture with authenticity the details of each narrative. Even with a narrowly limited palette and an economy of brushstrokes, Sheets effectively depicts the southern California scene with its strong and mysterious shadows, as well as the workers and circus animals. Seen through the hindsight of his six-decade long career, Circus Wagons offers a fascinating insight into the early development of California Scene painting which would by the mid-1930s become the best recognized style on the West Coast.
About the Artist
Millard Sheets was the dean of California watercolorists. His list of accomplishments is so extensive that his entry in Who was Who in American Art is over forty lines. Born in Pomona, California, Sheets became a painter at an early age, winning a prize at the Los Angeles County Fair in 1918. By the mid to late-1920s, Sheets became a regular at art exhibitions in the western part of the United States, winning several additional prizes before he reached the age of twenty-five. Sheets studied at the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute from 1925 through 1929 with Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle and had his first solo show with Los Angeles’ Dalzell Hatfield Gallery in 1929. During the 1930s, Sheets was invited to exhibit at almost every major American Museum and in many ways, his work came to represent the California watercolor school...
Category
1920s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sailboat Study No. 2
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery - Born in Spokane, WA (1986), Tamalin Soleil Baumgarten paints quiet landscape scenes with a tonal, melancholic realism. She received her MFA fro...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
A Painting of Adaline Glasheen as a Writer's Muse
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: 'A.Brook '59'.
Painted in Sag Harbor, Long Island in 1959. Adeline (Adaline) Glasheen was a writer. She was a friend of the artist and worked in literary circle...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
Located in New York, NY
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
Victor Arnautofff (1896 – 1979)
City Street
12 x 14 inches
Oil on board, c. 1930s
Signed lower left
BIO
Born in the Ukraine of Russia, Victor Arnautoff became one of the most influential muralists in San Francisco in the 1930s and worked for the Federal Arts Project, WPA, in the expressive, social protest...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Wetlands at Sunset by Robert Hamblen
Located in Larchmont, NY
Robert Hamblen (American, 1932-2017)
Untitled, c. 20th century
Oil on board
12 x 15 3/4 in.
Framed: 16 x 19 3/4 x 1 3/4
Signed lower right: Hamblen
Robert Hamblen was a self-taught ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Daydream (WPA Era Oil Painting on Canvas)
Located in New Orleans, LA
What is she dreaming about? Something in the book that is open in front of her? And who are the other characters in this moody, quiet, lovely scene? Not only a wonderful painting, but really captures that WPA period feel. A pensive painting sure to bring you peace. With frame it measures 33" x 27"; canvas measures 30" x 24". Frame has some weathering (probably original) but is still serviceable. The following is some bio information about the artist I pulled from AskArt:
"Born in Swerzen, Russia, Bernard Green came to the US at a young age and settled in the New York City area. He studied art at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League, the College of the City of New York and NYU, exhibiting at the NAD as early as 1910, where he won a prize both in 1910 and 1913, as well as at the ASL, winning another prize in 1914.
Highly accomplished both as painter and etcher, Green continued exhibiting at the NAD throughout the years 1913-1946, at the Pan-Pacific Exposition in California in 1915, and at various galleries and other venues including a solo show at the Roerich Museum in 1930. His style was early 20th-century American Impressionist, and his interests covered a wide range from landscapes and still life to portraiture, including black subjects...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Boats at Dock', by C. Hjalmar Amundsen, Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
C Hjalmar Amundsen's 'Boats at Dock' is a Mid-20th Century Oil on Canvas painting depicting a sailing vessel docked next to a couple of wharf buildings. The colors are rich values of...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Frozen Winter Wonderland by American Artist Francis Dixon
Located in Larchmont, NY
Francis Dixon (American, 1879-1967)
Untitled (Winter Landscape), 20th Century
Oil on canvas
12 1/4 x 16 in.
Framed: 18 5/8 x 22 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed lower right: Francis Dixon
Thi...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Yellow
Located in Blacksburg, VA
Hani Naji original work. mesmerizing realistic work color pencils. it was created in 1996 and signed in 2006. the prizes won several prices. there are prints available in different...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Westport Point Church
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery - Born in Spokane, WA (1986), Tamalin Soleil Baumgarten paints quiet landscape scenes with a tonal, melancholic realism. She received her MFA fro...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
PLAYTIME WITH MY MERCURY WAGON Realist Light and Shadow Oil on Panel
By Luke Autrey
Located in Houston, TX
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"Playtime" is a 16 by 20 oil on panel painting of the famous Mercury Wagon that many children had growing up in the USA. Here is the history ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pink Flowers
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank is represented by George Billis Gallery. Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new master...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Modernist Oil Painting Still Life Tableaux with Lobster, Pineapple and Clock
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on artist's board, 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures a still life table top kitchen scene. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Industry and Commerce, 1936, tempera on panel, 16 ½ x 39 ½ inches, signed verso “John Ballat...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Modernist Oil Painting Social Realist Kids and Cat in Red Wagon WPA Style
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on artist's board, 20th century, signed Paul Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures a group of tenement children of mixe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Turquoise
Located in Blacksburg, VA
Turquoise, Hani Naji original portrait artwork of beautiful model.
The work is about the interaction of the turquoise color of the dress with model amazing skin colors. The size of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
'Sketching Wisconsin' original oil painting, Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
John Steuart Curry
"Sketching Wisconsin," 1946
oil on canvas
31.13 x 28 inches, canvas
39.75 x 36.75 x 2.5 inches, frame
Signed and dated lower right
Overall excellent condition
Presented in a 24-karat gold leaf hand-carved wood frame
John Steuart Curry (1897-1946) was an American regionalist painter active during the Great Depression and into World War II. He was born in Kansas on his family’s farm but went on to study art in Chicago, Paris and New York as young man. In Paris, he was exposed to the work of masters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Eugène Delacroix and Jacques-Louis David. As he matured, his work showed the influence of these masters, especially in his compositional decisions. Like the two other Midwestern regionalist artists that are most often grouped with him, Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942) and Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975), Curry was interested in representational works containing distinctly American subject matter. This was contrary to the popular art at the time, which was moving closer and closer to abstraction and individual expression.
Sketching Wisconsin is an oil painting completed in 1946, the last year of John Steuart Curry’s life, during which time he was the artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The painting is significant in Curry’s body of work both as a very revealing self-portrait, and as a landscape that clearly and sensitively depicts the scenery of southern Wisconsin near Madison. It is also a portrait of the artist’s second wife, Kathleen Gould Curry, and is unique in that it contains a ‘picture within a picture,’ a compositional element that many early painting masters used to draw the eye of the viewer. This particular artwork adds a new twist to this theme: Curry’s wife is creating essentially the same painting the viewer is looking at when viewing Sketching Wisconsin.
The triangular composition of the figures in the foreground immediately brings focus to a younger Curry, whose head penetrates the horizon line and whose gaze looks out towards the viewer. The eye then moves down to Mrs. Curry, who, seated on a folding stool and with her hand raised to paint the canvas on the easel before her, anchors the triangular composition. The shape is repeated in the legs of the stool and the easel. Behind the two figures, stripes of furrowed fields fall away gently down the hillside to a farmstead and small lake below. Beyond the lake, patches of field and forest rise and fall into the distance, and eventually give way to blue hills.
Here, Curry has subverted the traditional artist’s self-portrait by portraying himself as a farmer first and an artist second. He rejects what he sees as an elitist art world of the East Coast and Europe. In this self-portrait he depicts himself without any pretense or the instruments of his profession and with a red tractor standing in the field behind him as if he was taking a break from the field work. Here, Curry’s wife symbolizes John Steuart Curry’s identity as an artist. Compared with a self-portrait of the artist completed a decade earlier, this work shows a marked departure from how the artist previously presented and viewed himself. In the earlier portrait, Curry depicted himself in the studio with brushes in hand, and with some of his more recognizable and successful canvases behind him. But in Sketching Wisconsin, Curry has taken himself out of the studio and into the field, indicating a shift in the artist’s self-conception.
Sketching Wisconsin’s rural subject also expresses Curry’s populist ideals, that art could be relevant to anyone. This followed the broad educational objectives of UW’s artist-in-residence program. Curry was appointed to his position at the University of Wisconsin in 1937 and was the first person to hold any such position in the country, the purpose of which was to serve as an educational resource to the people of the state. He embraced his role at the University with zeal and not only opened the doors of his campus studio in the School of Agriculture to the community, but also spent a great deal of time traveling around the state of Wisconsin to visit rural artists who could benefit from his expertise. It was during his ten years in the program that Curry was able to put into practice his belief that art should be meaningful to the rural populace. However, during this time he also struggled with public criticism, as the dominant forces of the art market were moving away from representation. Perhaps it was Curry’s desire for public acceptance during the latter part of his career that caused him to portray himself as an Everyman in Sketching Wisconsin.
Beyond its importance as a portrait of the artist, Sketching Wisconsin is also a detailed and sensitive landscape that shows us Curry’s deep personal connection to his environment. The landscape here can be compared to Wisconsin Landscape of 1938-39 (the Metropolitan Museum of Art), which presents a similar tableau of rolling hills with a patchwork of fields. Like Wisconsin Landscape, this is an incredibly detailed and expressive depiction of a place close to the artist’s heart. This expressive landscape is certainly the result of many hours spent sketching people, animals, weather conditions and topography of Wisconsin as Curry traveled around the state. The backdrop of undulating hills and the sweeping horizon, and the emotions evoked by it, are emphatically recognizable as the ‘driftless’ area of south-central Wisconsin. But while the Metropolitan’s Wisconsin Landscape conveys a sense of uncertainty or foreboding with its dramatic spring cloudscape and alternating bands of light and dark, Sketching Wisconsin has a warm and reflective mood. The colors of the foliage indicate that it is late summer and Curry seems to look out at the viewer approvingly, as if satisfied with the fertile ground surrounding him.
The landscape in Sketching Wisconsin is also revealing of what became one of Curry’s passions while artist-in-residence at UW’s School of Agriculture – soil conservation. When Curry was a child in Kansas, he saw his father almost lose his farm and its soil to the erosion of The Dust Bowl. Therefore, he was very enthusiastic about ideas from UW’s School of Agriculture on soil conservation methods being used on Wisconsin farms. In Sketching Wisconsin, we see evidence of crop rotation methods in the terraced stripes of fields leading down the hillside away from the Curry’s and in how they alternate between cultivated and fallow fields.
Overall, Sketching Wisconsin has a warm, reflective, and comfortably pastoral atmosphere, and the perceived shift in Curry’s self-image that is evident in the portrait is a positive one. After his rise to favor in the art world in the 1930’s, and then rejection from it due to the strong beliefs presented in his art, Curry is satisfied and proud to be farmer in this self-portrait. Curry suffered from high blood...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Interior
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery -- 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...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Portrait of Loti-kee-yah-tede of the Laguna Pueblo by Paul Surber
Located in Paonia, CO
Loti-kee-yah-tede, a Laguna woman who often posed in that same fringed costume and jewelry for photographer Carleton Moon is a Paul Surber acrylic painting on a board in an ornate gold frame from one of those photographs. Loti-kee-yah-tede, was the chief’s daughter of the Laguna Pueblo, when she was photographed wearing Ka-waik clothing with a belt and beaded necklaces by Carl Moon in about 1905. The Laguna Pueblo is located in the semi-arid lands west-central New Mexico, near Albuquerque. From 1905-1906, Moon had a short-lived partnership in Albuquerque with businessman Thomas F. Keleher, called the Moon-Keleher Studio. After the partnership dissolved, Moon continued working, photographing carefully selected Indian “subjects” in a romantic, posed style. His photographs began appearing in magazines and he exhibited at the Museum of Natural History in New York. President Theodore Roosevelt invited Moon to exhibit his Native American photographs...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Knight’s Lodging
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Knight’s Lodging, 1941, oil on canvas panel, signed and dated lower left, 16 x 20 inches, exhi...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
William Gropper (1898 - 1977)
Unemployed
20 x 16 inches
Oil on canvas, 1937
Signed lower right
Provenance: E...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No Swimming
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank is represented by George Billis Gallery. Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new master...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black Angel - African American Artist - Black Artist
Located in Miami, FL
This powerful and graphically composed image of a black man with white angel wings was painted in a realist style by African American artist Thomas Blackshear...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
American Realist paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic American Realist paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including James Oliver, Gregory Frux, John Morfis, and Stephen Capogna. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Acrylic Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large American Realist paintings, so small editions measuring 0.99 inches across are also available. Prices for paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $51 and tops out at $2,750,000, while the average work sells for $4,192.
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