Today's Journey
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. 23/30
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Bronze
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Today's Journey
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. 23/30
Bronze
Kimiko Bronze Sculpture, Realist Style, Ed/7, 54x19x20 Inches, 2000s
By Gary Alsum
Located in Loveland, CO
Kimiko by Gary Alsum Bronze ed/7, 54x19x20", comes with 3" high, 24" diameter sandstone round base as pictured in the garden images. Young woman in traditional attire holding an fan. Ideal scale for a garden setting. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Taking the knowledge passed on from artists such as Fritz White, Glenna Goodacre...
Sandstone, Bronze
Hollyhocks & Hummers
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. 37/45
Bronze
Which Came First
By Dan Chen
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. 11/23
Bronze
Double Rainbow
By Dan Chen
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. 11/32
Bronze
The Age of Innocence - New Sculpture bronze bust by Alfred Drury
Located in London, GB
ALFRED DRURY, RA (1856-1944) The Age of Innocence Signed: A DRURY Bronze on green marble base Height including base 45.5 cm., 18 in. Born in Islington...
Bronze
Pointer / - The elegance of the hunting dog -
Located in Berlin, DE
Anton Büschelberger (1869 Eger - 1934 Dresden), Pointer, around 1930, made by the Karl Ens porcelain manufactory in Volkstedt (Thuringia), model number 2478, 6. Porcelain with underg...
Porcelain
In a Class of His Own
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 10/25
Bronze
Double Shot of Wild Turkey
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. AP #3
Bronze
Bust of a young woman / - Beauty of youth -
Located in Berlin, DE
Anonymous, Bust of a young woman, c. 1900, artificial marble and gray onyx marble. 37 cm (height) x 37 cm (width) x 22 cm (depth), weight 17.2 kg. Signed “GURRINI” on the reverse. -...
Marble
Watcher of the Plains - Reproduction
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Reproduction Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature.
Bronze
A Little Me Time
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 16/25
Bronze
$3,600Sale Price|20% Off
Hippopotamus "lace" Bronze 6/8 by Sophie Martin
Located in Pasadena, CA
Animal sculptor Sophie MARTIN creates from inert clay a whole living animal kingdom. She freely observes the animal and captures and interprets a movement; and places it in nature and real life with a zest of fancy. Without humanizing the model, respecting the uniqueness of each one in its biodiversity. After studying three years of art history at the Ecole du Louvre, it was with her uncle and her aunt veterinarians, that her love for animals truly took shape in the clay; as with the first models animals on the examination table...
Bronze
$5,400
"Seated Frog Fountain" (2024) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Seated Frog Fountain" (2015) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a frog sitting on a rock. TONY HOCHSTETLER is a sculptor of unusual animals an...
Bronze
Them That Lean To Lonesome
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. 16/30
Bronze
$7,500
Untitled Bust of A Man With Closed Eyes Bronze Sculpture, Academic Style, 1989
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Untitled 1989 Bust of a Man With Closed Eyes Bronze on wooden base WILLIAM LUDWIG (1935-2011) Education: University of Connecticut, 1957-1961 Hartford Art School, University of Hartf...
Bronze
Le cheval demi-sang arabe
Located in Mc Lean, VA
A nineteenth-century cast of Antoine-Louis Barye's Le cheval demi-sang arabe (no. A125-Poletti; A148-Pivar), with nice patina. Poletti and Richarme, Barye: ...
Bronze
Vintage Italian Glazed Terra Cotta Wall Hanging Leopard Head
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Striking mid century Italian life size leopard head crafted in terra cotta, hand decorated and glazed, now and forever caught in mid growl.
Terracotta
$2,400
"Rough Skinned Newt" (2023) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Rough Skinned Newt" (2022) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a newt curiously looking upwards. Tony Hochstetler is a sculptor of unusual anim...
Granite, Bronze
"Bride stealing"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This bronze sculpture, entitled ‘The Abduction of the Bride’, depicts a scene from a traditional Caucasian custom: a man abducts a girl to marry her. It all looks as though ‘oh dear,...
Bronze
"Pitcher Plants and Frog" (2016) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Pitcher Plants and Frog" (2016) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a small frog standing under 3 pitcher plants. TONY HOCHSTETLER is a sculpto...
Bronze
Life Size Sculpture of Male Head in Terracotta Clay "Giorgi"
Located in New York, NY
Terracotta life-size male head. Rushton sculpts all of his busts using live models over the course of multiple sittings. While realistic and classical in character, his sculptures ...
Terracotta
New to Arizona
By Curt Mattson
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 8/9
Bronze
Carved in the West
By Curt Mattson
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 2/9
Bronze
Chameleon - original wildlife bronze sculpture - contemporary artwork
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Bronze
"Eucalyptus Candle Holder" (2024) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Eucalyptus Candle Holders" (2024) is an original handmade bronze candle holders that are made to look like eucalyptus plants. TONY HOCHSTETLER is a sculptor of u...
Bronze
$2,100
"Hot Wings Wall Mount" By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Wall Installation
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Hot Wings Wall Mount (8/21)" (2022) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a dried peppers with a bat flying downwards. Tony Hochstetler is a scul...
Bronze
"Honesty Plant" (2023) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Honesty Plant" (2023) is an original handmade sculpture made from bronze and dyed flamed maple. TONY HOCHSTETLER is a sculptor of unusual animals and botanical s...
Bronze
$450
"Spicy (14/21)" (2022) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Food Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Spicy" (2022) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a red chili. TONY HOCHSTETLER is a sculptor of unusual animals and botanical subjects. His r...
Bronze
"SAM HOUSTON" HORN CARVING 1936 TEXAS CENTENNIAL AMAZING WORK
Located in San Antonio, TX
Dan Super "SAM HOUSTON" (1873-1953) Houston Artist Image Size: 3 3/4 inches tall Medium: Carved Horn of Sam Houston to celebrate the Texas Centennial. Texas Centennial 1936 "Sam Houston Pin Cushion Holder" Biography Dan Super (1873-1953) Dan E. Super, Jr. (1873 – 1953) Dan Super had the eye of a sculptor, envisioning and then creating hundreds of objects from the elongated form of a Texas Longhorn’s tusk. At the age of six, Dan Super carved his first drawing into a piece of the horn of a Texas Longhorn. Over the next 56 years, he made utilitarian pieces like pencil cups, pin cushions, and backscratchers, realistic replicas of animals and birds, and imaginative carvings of elegant nudes. While these carvings resemble the traditional art of scrimshaw, carvings from whale bone, we’ve not been able to identify another carver who used the Texas Longhorn as his material. “My work is done with an ordinary pocketknife, hacksaw file and rasp,” Super wrote in 1937. He used the horn in every way conceivable; whole, allowing the shape to define the object he was making, flattened to make mosaic or inlay work. He incised and pierced it and carved in the round. His own hands polished the horn to a sheen. Daniel Super, Jr. was born in Houston on August 22, 1873. His father owned stock years, D. Super and Brothers Co., providing the young Super with ready access to his raw material. Throughout his life, he worked in the businesses key to the identity and success of young, booming Houston, cattle, oil, real estate and rail. In 1896 he married Lula, and took over the family business, expanding it to include a grocery. He closed the company in 1912 and got into the oil business...
Other Medium
The Great Escape
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. AP 2/20
Bronze
Bountiful River
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture inscribed by the artist with a signature and edition number. 19/20
Bronze
If Pigs Could Fly
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition Number. Open Edition #7
Bronze
Harvey Wallbanger
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition Number. Open Edition #29
Bronze
$46,200Sale Price|40% Off
"Metamorphosis", Frederick Hart, Figurative Bronze Sculpture, 37x29x7
Located in Dallas, TX
"Metamorphosis" by Frederick Hart is figurative bronze bust of a woman numbered 17/29. “Metamorphosis” was a journey of transformation for Hart. The work haunted and yet thrilled hi...
Bronze
Ocean's Cradle
By Kent Ullberg
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original sculpture signed(inscribed) by the Artist with an edition number. 7/20
Bronze
"Reclining Woman" Karl Bitter, Reclining Woman with Reddish Patina
Located in New York, NY
Karl Bitter Reclining Woman, 1897 Signed: Bitter 97 Stamped: GORHAM M F G CO. Bronze 10.25 x 10.25 x 4 inches Initially from Vienna, Karl Bitter first studied art at the city’s Kunstgewerbeschule and the Kunstakademie before being drafted into the Austrian army. He deserted his position in the military while on leave, and departed for New York City where he would discover considerable success. Early on, he won a competition for the Astor memorial bronze gates at Trinity Church, which awarded him enough capital to open his own studio. He went on to execute sculptures of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson at the Cuyahoga Courthouse in Cleveland; he also created portraits of Jefferson for the state of Missouri and the University of Virginia. These commissions caught the attention of sculptor Richard Morris Hunt (who famously designed the façade of the Metropolitan Museum), earning Bitter the duty of producing the portrait medallions that now appear near the top of the museum’s grand face. Notably, he presented at Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and directed the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. Over his career, his artwork became more flexible – his early academy training is easily identifiable within his work, but after moving to America, conventions of Modernism became more prevalent within his sculpture. In addition to many awards, Bitter presided over the National Sculpture Society in 1906-1907, and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Design, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Architectural League, and the Art Commission, New York. His public work can be found at the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC; Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA; Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, WI; United States Naval Academy...
Bronze
Hummingbird Spring
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 1/30
Bronze
A Figurative Impressionist Bronze Metal Sculpture, "Just A Minute"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 15x15x9 Figurative Impressionist Bronze Metal Sculpture. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purchase or delivery. Manuelita Brown is a San Dieg...
Bronze
Luna Song
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze signed/etched into base by Artist. 2/30
Bronze
'Portrait of Jesse Jackson' by Daniel Edwards, Polylactide and Wood
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 10.5" x 6" x 8" 3-D printed bust of Jesse Jackson was created by California based artist, Daniel Edwards. It is a unique 3D printed sculpture from the Civil Rights Portrait Seri...
Plastic, Polyester, Wood
First Saddle
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 30/35
Bronze
Fifth Position Resin Sculpture, Realist, Signed, 1985, 10x9x8 in.
Located in Aventura, FL
Original one of a kind resin sculpture. Initialed and dated "CJF 85" by Carole A Feuerman. Artwork in Excellent Condition. Please do not hesitate to ask us any further questions. ...
Resin
Black Rock Creek, 36" wide, mixed media wall relief
Located in Loveland, CO
Black Rock Creek by Leo E. Osborne Abstract Nature Wall Relief, Unique Carved Mixed Media (primarily wood) 20x36x6" nuthatch on wood carved to appear like g...
Wood, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
Among the Stones, Wall Relief Sculpture, Carved Mixed Media, 18x48
Located in Loveland, CO
Among the Stones by Leo E. Osborne Abstract Nature Wall Relief, best suited for interior placement Carved Canada Goose and Rocks - Unique Carved Mixed...
Wood, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
Horse is Out of the Barn
By Greg Kelsey
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze sculpture etched with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 5/25
Bronze
Field of Green
By Lisa Gordon
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 1/1
Bronze
By The River
By Kent Ullberg
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the piece with an edition number. 3/9
Bronze
Bronze Draught Horses Sculpture By Hager Albert (1857-1940)
By Albert Hager
Located in Gent, VOV
Two draught horses, 1925 A fine bronze sculpture with dark brown patina with a reddish undertone., representing two draught horses one grazing, one looking forward. Documented in En...
Bronze
$17,150Sale Price|30% Off
"Mother & Child", Frederick Hart, Acrylic Sculpture, 24x18x10 in., 43x150, white
Located in Dallas, TX
"Mother and Child" by Frederick Hart is an acrylic figurative sculpture of a woman and her baby numbered 43/150. Inspired by the birth of his own child, Frederick Hart masterfully ce...
Resin, Acrylic Polymer
$3,600Sale Price|20% Off
Bronze Colt 6/8 by Sophie Martin
Located in Pasadena, CA
Animal sculptor Sophie MARTIN creates from inert clay a whole living animal kingdom. She freely observes the animal and captures and interprets a movement; and places it in nature and real life with a zest of fancy. Without humanizing the model, respecting the uniqueness of each one in its biodiversity. After studying three years of art history at the Ecole du Louvre, it was with her uncle and her aunt veterinarians, that her love for animals truly took shape in the clay; as with the first models animals on the examination table...
Bronze
River King
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 11/20
Bronze
Cottontail
By Bryce Pettit
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture with an inscribed signature and edition number by the Artist on the bronze base of the piece. 20/20
Bronze
Quarter Horse Fiberglass Sculpture, Realist Style, 1990s, Unsigned
Located in Milwaukee, WI
A life-sized fiberglass sculpture of a horse, unsigned. This specific breed of horse the sculpture is based on is called Quarter Horse. Many visitors to ...
Fiberglass
Mother and Child - 20th Century British terracotta figure by Lady Muriel Wheeler
By Lady Muriel Wheeler
Located in London, GB
LADY MURIEL WHEELER, PSWA (1888-1979) Mother and Baby Signed and indistinctly dated 19-4 Terracotta on wooden base 44 cm., 17 ¼ in. high including base Muriel Bourne was born in ...
Terracotta
Chamisa Morning
By Greg Kelsey
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. 3/25
Bronze
Else FÜRST (1873-1943), Fasane Foundry stamp of the Berlin foundry Kraas
Located in Berlin, DE
Else Fürst was a German sculptor and medalist who was murdered by the Nazis. Biographical data: Bronze signed Foundry stamp of the Berlin foundry Kraas. 25 x 73 cm Born: June 25,...
Bronze
$4,400Sale Price|20% Off
Yawning Hippopotamus Bronze EA IV/IV
Located in Pasadena, CA
Animal sculptor Sophie MARTIN creates from inert clay a whole living animal kingdom. She freely observes the animal and captures and interprets a movement; and places it in nature and real life with a zest of fancy. Without humanizing the model, respecting the uniqueness of each one in its biodiversity. After studying three years of art history at the Ecole du Louvre, it was with her uncle and her aunt veterinarians, that her love for animals truly took shape in the clay; as with the first models animals on the examination table...
Bronze
King of the Forest
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 6/25
Bronze
$4,000Sale Price|20% Off
Head of a Woman, green patina cement head by Erzia
Located in New York, NY
Head of a Woman, ca. 1939. Stepan Dmitrievich Erzia, born Stepan Nefyodov on October 27, 1876, in Bayevo, Simbirsk Governorate, Russia, was a distinguished sculptor of Erzya Mordvin descent. He adopted "Erzia" as his artistic pseudonym to honor his ethnic heritage. Erzia's artistic journey began with apprenticeships in icon-painting studios in Alatyr and Kazan between 1892 and 1897. During this period, he decorated churches throughout the Volga region and attended the Kazan Art...
Concrete