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Style: American Realist
Willard Dixon 'Near San Quentin' Contemporary Realism Landscape Painting
Located in San Rafael, CA
Willard Dixon (American, born 1942)
Near San Quentin, 1976
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left
Dated lower right
41in H x 62in W
In a natural float frame: 42....
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arne Charles BESSER 1970s American Realist Gay Interest Male Nude
Located in New York, NY
Arne Charles Besser (1935-2012) was a Mid-Century Gay American Realist Painter whose work showed in galleries throughout Europe and North America.
This 1970s painting showcases Besser's ability to capture the intricacies of human and animal figures, with the musculature of the horse and nude...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Light and Dark
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
Untitled
By Judith Klausenstock
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Judith Klausenstock– American (1928- )
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1995
Medium: Watercolor
Sight size: 17 x 27.75 inches.
Framed size: 26.25 x 36.25 inches
Signature: Signe...
Category
1990s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
From the Ridge
Located in Burlingame, CA
"From the Ridge", 2022, is 48 x 58 inches and depicts a scene from the Norther California hills by celebrated artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the und...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Oil Painting Framed Fruit Table Still Life Pineapple Strawberry
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American realist still life featuring pineapple and strawberries on a table. Oil on canvas. Incredible detail and masterfully painted.
Signed illegibly, last n...
Category
1890s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Coastal Farm Landscape - oil on canvas
Located in Burlingame, CA
Coastal Farm Landscape. Oil on canvas painting, created in 1972 by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torla...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Green Ornament
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Playground, Carl Schurz Park" George Picken, New York City, East River, UES WPA
Located in New York, NY
George Picken
Playground, Carl Schurz Park, 1938
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
28 x 36 inches
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
A native New Yorker, George Picken was born in 1898. His father, an artist and photographer, emigrated from Scotland; his mother came from Wales. They joined other European immigrants settling in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. Picken enlisted in the army during World War I and saw action at Verdun. After the war, he stayed in France and like many Americans returning from the vibrant Paris art scene, was inspired by the radical movement known as Impressionism. Upon his return Picken decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an artist.
George began his studies in 1919 at the Art Students League during Robert Henri, Max Weber, and John Sloan’s tenure. There he took classes in studio art, illustration, and etching through 1923 studying extensively with George Bridgman. The writings of French philosopher Henri Bergson were widely circulated among the artistic community and looking at Picken’s early paintings one cannot help but wonder if as a young artist he was influenced by Bergson’s ideas. Bergson said, "[There are] two profoundly different ways of knowing a thing. The first implies that we move round the object; the second that we enter into it. The first depends on the point of view at which we are placed and on the symbols by which we express ourselves. The second neither depends on a point of view nor relies on any symbol. The first kind of knowledge may be said to stop at the relative; the second, in those cases where it is possible, to attain the absolute.”
Picken’s recognition came early with showings of his work while he was a student. His drawings were published in the New Masses, a significant left-wing publication. The New York Public Library honored him with one-man shows in 1924 and 1928 and his work was included in group exhibitions at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Whitney Studio Club, Montross Gallery, and the Art Students League. During this time Picken married Viola Carton, one of Reginald Marsh’s models, and they lived in Westchester. Later they moved to Yorkville in Manhattan between 82nd street and East End Avenue where they began their family. Picken’s grandson Niles Jaeger recalled that, “Grandpa’s home and studio were in a five-story walk-up apartment, heated only by a coal stove. But there were wonderful views of the East River and the Queensborough Bridge...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$22,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Realist Landscape Original Oil Painting- Small Green Tonal Midwestern Scene
Located in Marco Island, FL
This is a great American landscape painting by the artist, Clyde Singer. Gorgeous tonal shades of green and grey depict a stormy midwestern landscape.
Framed 16 x 24 inches
Canva...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Pablo Bay / oil on canvas
Located in Burlingame, CA
"San Pablo Bay" 2016 is 28 x 56 inches. Painted by one of the finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon. He has painted Northern Californi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Doubtful Sounds, New Zealand
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
"Colonial Sand and Stone Company, New York, " Industrial WPA Scene, Precisionist
Located in New York, NY
William Sharp (1900 - 1961)
Factory on the River
Oil on canvas
20 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches
Initialed lower left: WS
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Private Collection, New York
Swann Auction Galleries, American Art, June 13, 2019, Lot 178
Private Collection, New York
Colonial Sand and Stone Co., founded by Generoso Pope, was once the country’s largest sand and gravel business, providing the concrete for much of New York City’s skyline, including the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, airports and subways.
William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry. He later studied in Kraków, Poland, and in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Sharp began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals. He served in the German army during World War I. After the war he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher.
Sharp drew political cartoons that were bitterly critical of the growing Nazi movement. As the influence of National Socialism intensified, he began to contribute drawings, under a pseudonym, to publications that were hostile to Hitler. After Hitler assumed power, Sharp was confronted with these drawings and told that he would be sent to a concentration camp. However, in 1934, he escaped to the United States.
His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
"Vanitas with Marine Corps Coin" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Vanitas with Marine Corps Coin" is an oil painting that depicts a human skull situated with an orange, a Marine Corps coin, ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique Lure
Located in Wenham, MA
An original oil painting on linen panel of an antique fishing lure, framed in a hand-made frame by one of New York's finest frame makers.
Master...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ship Breaking
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Ship Breaking' by Willard Dixon. These paintings are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from Willard Dixon’s daily reading of the news. Dixon changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.”
Willard Dixon
Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2020: Evening Light, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Portrait Painting of a Lady of the Verplanck Family
Located in Houston, TX
The painting features a 3/4 bust portrait of a refined lady from the Verplanck family of Orange County, New York. The painting shows a young woman seated for her portrait in a fine b...
Category
1820s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Oil Painting Portrait Young Woman Necklace Period Frame Rare
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful and rare antique American portrait of a young woman in a stunning period frame, likely original to the piece.
Unsigned but beaut...
Category
1890s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hungry Wolves Hunt a Women Up a Tree at Night - Gay Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Trailblazing Gay Female illustrator of the Golden Age Ida Waugh paints and powerful narrative of a woman cowering in a tree while a hungry pack of wolves wait beneath her for dinner feast. Signed lower left. Framed under glass,
Ida Waugh (October 24, 1846 – January 25, 1919) was an American illustrator of children's literature who often collaborated with her lifelong companion, Amy Ella Blanchard.
Personal life
Ida Waugh was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 24, 1846, the daughter of painter Samuel B. Waugh and his first wife, Sarah Mendenhall, therefore she was half-sister of painter Frederick Judd Waugh. Her step-mother was Mary Eliza Young Waugh, a miniaturist.
She attended Académie Julian and Académie Delécluse in Paris, studying with Georges Callot, Paul-Louis Delance, and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.In 1868 she attended the first "Ladies Life Class" at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; in the same class there were Emily Sartain and Catherine Ann Drinker.
Career
Ida Waugh collaborated with her partner Amy Ella Blanchard in publishing children's books, Waugh as illustrator and Blanchard as writer. Waugh also published books on her own
Other than a children's book illustrator, Waugh was an award-winning painter. In 1869 she exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts two works, "The Bargain" and a portrait bust of Carl Gaertner.
Her self-portrait and another painting, "Little Cosette" (1870), are in the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, both donated by Mrs. John S. Haug in 1961.They were part of the exhibition "Women and Biography" in 2014, including: Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, Edith Emerson, Anne Minich, Catherine Mulligan, Mitzi Melnicoff, Alice Kent Stoddard, Aubrey Levinthal, Martha Armstrong...
Category
1980s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Sam Bass Canyon, Set Ranch
Located in Dallas, TX
The overall dimensions, including the blond wood float frame, are 21 3/8 x 17 5/16 inches.
The painting is oil on canvaspanel.
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to life through landscape, still life, portraiture, and abstraction. Restlessly creative, he has explored these varied genres with equal concentration…..”
Bob Stuth-Wade’s method of painting is uniquely his own, having taught himself technique; his only formal training was as a teenager with Dallas artist Perry...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Moonlit Magnolia Realism 36" x 36" Oil on Canvas Gallery Wrapped Floral
Located in Houston, TX
Moonlit Magnolia
Susan Meeks
oil on canvas
36" x 36"
Susan is a native Houstonian. She is passionate about oil painting, specializing in large scale florals as seen in The Magnolia ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Raven Couple, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Common Ravens are a friendly lot, hanging around in large groups at an abundant food source or pairing off to wander as a couple," ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Red Coat - Mid-Century Figurative American Painting. Woman in New York City.
Located in Marco Island, FL
American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, Red Coat, where he depicts a woman walking down the street towards her destination in 1956. An accomplished American Scene pa...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Underwater Whale
Life Illustration published, c. November 7, 1953
1...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Evening Beach, 2023
Located in Burlingame, CA
Oil painting by Willard Dixon featuring figures enjoying an evening at a beach. Willard Dixon, who is one of the finest American contemporary realist painters today, has painted coas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean Beach, 2023
Located in Burlingame, CA
Oil painting by Willard Dixon featuring figures enjoying a day at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Willard Dixon, who is one of the finest American contempora...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pitcher, Plums and Wine
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Pitcher, Plums and Wine, by artist Frédéric Choisel, who lives and works in Paris, France, painted this dramatic and creamy white pitcher with a plums and glass of wine. Professiona...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Rider in the Dust" Rodeo Cowboy on Bucking Bronco
Located in Austin, TX
By M.A. Bhatti
24" x 18"
Oil on Canvas
Framed Size: 31" x 25.25"
This exciting rodeo scene depicts a cowboy on a bucking horse surrounded by dust.
About the Artist:
Dr. Mohammad A...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Under the Viaduct American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
Under the Viaduct American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne (1907-1991)
Under the Viaduct
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas. c. 1930s
Signed lower left
...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Quiet Morning
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel. It features pale pink peonies in a glass bottle. The piece is framed in a pale gold frame, made in Italy. overall measurements are ap...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cerro Castellan, Narrow View
Located in Dallas, TX
This painting is acrylic on canvas. The overall dimensions including the frame are 62 1/2 x 56 1/2 inches.
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to life through landscape, still life, portraiture, and abstraction. Restlessly creative, he has explored these varied genres with equal concentration…..”
Bob Stuth-Wade’s method of painting is uniquely his own, having taught himself technique; his only formal training was as a teenager with Dallas artist Perry...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Washington Square Park - Summer Evening, Oil Painting
By Nick Savides
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Washington Square Park on a summer evening. Several pairs of figures sit, absorbed in their phones, books and computers. Warm, pinkish orange light illuminate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pale Blue and Gold
Located in Wenham, MA
An original oil painting on panel by artist Ginny Williams. This moody still life features a Spode pitcher, a gold cup, books and paper. The slanting lig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pink and Blue Trophies, Modern Still Life Diptych of Ancient Ceramic Pots, Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This modern still life diptych by Gio Bellagio is inspired by ancient Greek ceramic vessels. The pots are adorned with minimalist patterns reminiscent of Greek geometry, emphasising...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Winter Veil" Oil Painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's "Winter Veil" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a winter landscape dotted with trees and yellow grass peeking out from beneath the snow.
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Eucalyptus Leaves
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"6 and Two" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Zack Zdrale's (US based) "6 and Two" is an oil painting that depicts two male figures with an obscured faces arching their backs and extending their arms a...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rapid City Nocturne
By Stephen Hannock
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A sweeping landscape of Rapid City, South Dakota. Lights glow against a dark atmosphere filled with cliffs and mountains.
Artist Bio
Stephen Hannock's formal artistic training began at Bowdoin and led him to participate in the Twelve College Exchange, where at Smith College he came under the influence of Leonard Baskin, the renowned sculptor, illustrator, printmaker, and graphic artist. Hannock is deeply influenced by the great American landscape painters of the nineteenth century, especially Thomas Cole, whose sweeping vistas of rugged Eastern terrain were imbued with a sense of the romantic and the sublime. Hannock's dramatic neo-Luminist paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vase with Peony and Butterflies, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Guigen Zha paints a realistic still life of lotuses in different stages of development. He props them on Chinese ceramic vases against a background of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
NEXUS / realism hyperreal acrylic painting - home, pink house
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
Painting in canvas is 24 x 18 inches. Beautifully framed in a contemporary pale hardwood floater frame with an outside dimension of 25 x 19 inches. Lynette Cook’s shadow-centric sce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"MR. HANDSOME" TEXAS LONGHORN
Located in San Antonio, TX
Dane Ellsworth
Texas Artist
Image Size: 38 x 44
Frame Size: 39 x 45
Medium: Oil
"Mr. Handsome" Texas Longhorn
Biography
Dane Ellsworth
Dane Ellsworth enjoys all things Texan. Whether it's an old west character or a depression era car his painting backdrop is the Lone Star State. He has been wielding a crayon, pencil or brush as far back as he can remember. In his junior year, due to a long list of dubious events, Dane wound up on the verge of homelessness. Between a longsuffering landlord and a horse rancher who took him under his wing he was able to finish high school. Once he graduated, he moved to the ranch and started working with horses and developed a love for that majestic animal. It was about this time he met and became friends with Fred Olds...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Ornament
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Above Big Pine
Located in Burlingame, CA
This American realist western landscape, "Above Big Pine", depicts a scene from the majestic Sierra Nevadas in an area above Big Pine in Inyo County from celebrated artist Willard Di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life With Cockatiel and Nautilus
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Still Life with Cockatiel and Nautilus, oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches (Framed size: 20 x 24 inches) $3,250
Sandy Freckleton Gagon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a preeminent re...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Awakened, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The sky and sea converge in artist Jenn Williamson's arresting panoramic piece. She explores light and darkness, searching for beauty in quiet, unnoticed places, thus creating a spiritual oasis. "I painted this piece during a season of spiritual and personal awakening from a season of trials," shares Jenn. She expresses the peace and tranquility in her soul for which she is genuinely grateful.
About the Artist
Jenn Williamson expertly evokes the scenery of British Columbia in her soft abstract landscapes. She utilizes defining horizontal and vertical strokes, coupled with a skillful handling of color, to create significant depth in each piece. Her paintings, though abstracted, clearly convey the atmospheric attributes of the scene–rain, wind, clouds, fog. Jenn’s muted color palette transports the viewer to the Canadian west coast...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
One Day at a Time
Located in Wenham, MA
An original oil painting by GC Williams. Williams has a degree in art history which gave her an understanding of, and appreciation for, not only the art of the past, but the histori...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Scouting
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Scouting" is an oil on canvas painting by Frank Tenney Johnson. The framed piece measures 23 3/4 x 27 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches.
Johnson was well-known for his work of the American west, particularly for his portrayal of cowboys at night, lit by moonlight. Johnson utilized knives and fingers when painting, so his work is recognizable for its distinctive marks.
Provenance:
Biltmore Galleries, Scottsdale...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$65,000
Ring-necked Pheasants, Wildlife Painting by Peter Darro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Boldly unique in the field of wildlife art are the paintings of artist and naturalist Peter Darro. His rare ability to achieve meticulous accuracy in his subjects, without sacrificin...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seabreeze Journey, Oil Painting
By Gail Greene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A soft burst of pastels paints the evening sky in this delightful seascape by artist Gail Greene. "A setting sun creates a mystic feeling of enchantment," sha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harry Roseland “Silent Treatment”
By Harry Herman Roseland
Located in San Francisco, CA
Harry Roseland: 1866-1950. Well listed American artist with auction results over $250,000. This fabulous incredibly detailed oil on board measures 11 inches wide by 8 inches high. Th...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with S
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative portrait of a young girl "GirlFriends #1"
Located in East Quogue, NY
Figurative portrait oil painting on panel of a young girl by Judith Raphael
Size: 7 x 5 inches (unframed)
Judith Raphael creates portraits invented from various sources, including photos from family albums, children, grandchildren, cell phone snaps of friends, magazines, and always art history. Influenced by European painters like Balthus, Lucien Freud, and Paula Rego. Raphael portrays young girls whom she adapts in aggressive postures to gently mock the macho stance of classical male sculpture...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
A Glimpse of Hope, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Hope is the belief that things will work, most especially when it seems otherwise," says artist Jo Galang. "Deep, never wavering hope is what we need to clin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Shop Fan" by Elizabeth Zanzinger Original Oil Painting, Colorful Still Life
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Shop Fan" is an oil painting that depicts a whimsical still life of a brightly colored, vintage teal fan.
Elizabeth Zanzinger is an award-winning ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
"Farm Near Brandywine" Original Oil Painting, PA farm landscape
Located in Denver, CO
"Farm Near Brandywine" by Diego Glazer is an original oil painting depicting a quaint farm scene.
Artist Statement: Painted en plein air on the drive back to the Brandywine Museum ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Important Modenist Oil Pastel Will Barnet Emily Dickinson Black & White
By Will Barnet
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern realist painting by American artist Will Barnet from the artist series of works created to accompany the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
rom Bever...
Category
1980s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Gust Front, realist landscape Americana oil painting, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Karl Hartman gives primacy to the sparsity of form in his Mid-Western prairie landscapes. Simple and earnest, saturated primary hues and decisive lines ad...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Factory on the River" Modernist and Precisionist WPA Industrial New York Scene
Located in New York, NY
William Sharp (1900 - 1961)
Factory on the River
Oil on canvas
17 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches
Initialed lower right: WS
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Private Collection, New York
Swann Auction Galleries, American Art, June 13, 2019, Lot 178
William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry. He later studied in Kraków, Poland, and in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Sharp began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals. He served in the German army during World War I. After the war he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher.
Sharp drew political cartoons that were bitterly critical of the growing Nazi movement. As the influence of National Socialism intensified, he began to contribute drawings, under a pseudonym, to publications that were hostile to Hitler. After Hitler assumed power, Sharp was confronted with these drawings and told that he would be sent to a concentration camp. However, in 1934, he escaped to the United States.
His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
$5,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Cathedral
New Yorker cover proposa...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
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