American Realist Art

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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.

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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...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Three Tulips on Black Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edit...

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Artist Guigen Zha pictures a lotus flower in realistic detail. The red mountain beyond renders a crimson glow on the soft green peta...

Artist: John Ross Title: City of Dreams Medium: Collagraph, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil Edition: AP Size: 38.5 x 27.5 in. (97.79 x 69.85 cm)

Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931) At Dawn, 1975 Pencil on paper 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. Framed: 14 2/3 x 11 1/3 in. Signed upper right: Kipniss '75 Verso bears Hirschl & Adler Galleries Label Robert Kipniss, painter and printmaker, was born in New York City in 1931. He creates essentially monochromatic*, stylized vistas with natural and architectural elements intended to evoke an elegiac, nearly surrealistic mood in haunting, silent landscapes; the melancholy of nostalgia. Trees, in mid and far-distance, form clusters or act as misty individuals containing a haunted, indefinable presence, witnesses to the foreground drama of more specific shape, form and detail, often a close-up tree. Kipniss studied at the Art Students League* in 1947; Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, 1948-50; and the University of Iowa, receiving a BA degree in English literature in 1952, and an MFA in painting and art history in 1954. The artist employs a meticulous technique combining a multiplicity of specific strokes, whether with brush, pencil or print-maker's needle and burin*, to create the essence of his generalized, non-specific forms. Light and darkness are clearly Kipniss' compositionally constructive elements. They also exist as contestants in the emotional drama at the heart of each work of art. The contrast, and sometimes combat, between these two opposites, symbolically represent with blackness -- ideas of threat, fear, trouble, evil; with whiteness safety, redemption, fulfillment and good. In Kipniss' 1995 mezzotint*, Clear Vase and Landscape, with a foreground image of precisely leafy stalks, the vase holding them, nearly invisible in its transparency, suggests an almost Salvador Dali-like surrealist device. This central image dominates but seems to invite association with, and commentary from, the surrounding clumps and individual round-topped, yet cedar-like trees. His mezzzotint, For Stella," 1997, depicts a gently twisting, curving, pale and smoothly-barked foreground, leafless tree limb or trunk, like a female human body, suggesting weakness, fatigue, an inability to deal with the staccato background screen of textured bush that seems to uncomfortably impinge upon it. This print is arguably a metaphor for a delicate soul struggling to overcome the prickly difficulties of domineering life. The classic mezzotint process, invented in the middle of the 17th Century, is the reverse of most of the other print-making media, since the artist works from a black ground to increasingly lighter areas. The copper plate is first roughened by a "rocker," creating a burr over the entire surface (the more burr left intact, the more ink it holds, the darker the final finished print). The artist, Robert Kipniss, in this instance, gradually burnishes, smoothes down the burr in varying degrees to produce the gradations of lights and darks of the final design. The deepest darks in the final picture are those areas on the plate that have been little touched after the initial roughening. Mezzotint relies on shade and tone rather than outline for its effect, which fits the Kipniss style of atmospheric* masses of value. A recent oil painting by Robert Kipniss, Hillside Silhouettes, 2001, 40 x 29, is somewhat more complex in composition than many, with four cubically-constructed houses each set in their own zones, seemingly unrelated to one another, with receding hills and similarly isolated, increasingly misty trees beyond. In his career, Robert Kipniss has had over 40 one-man shows since the first in New York in 1951, including an important retrospective exhibition at the Associated American Artist Gallery, New York in 1977. Many of these one-man exhibitions have been mounted by over 50 museums in the United States, South America and Europe, including the Chicago Art Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modem Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of Congress and British Museum in London. Robert Kipniss is represented in the permanent collections of the institutions above, among many others, as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Detroit Art Institute; Yale University Museum; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He was elected to the National Academy of Design* in 1980, and to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London in 1998 Robert Kipniss can be referenced in numerous publications, including Who's Who in American Art from the 1950s to the present, and multiple reviews in periodicals like Art News, Art in America and Art Forum. There are also three important catalogues raisonne published on his work. Robert Kipniss has received many awards: 1965 - Ohio University National Drawing Show, Purchase Prize 1976 - National Academy of Design, New York City, The Ralph Fabri Prize 1978 - The Print Club of Philadelphia, Charles M Lea Prize 1979 - Charlotte Printmakers Society, Purchase Award 1979 - Society of American Graphic Artists, Printmaking Award 1979 - Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, Honorary Doctorate 1980 - Elected to the National Academy of Design, New York City 1980 - Audubon Artists, New York City, Silver Medal 1980 - National Academy of Design, New York City, The Leo Meissner...

Linda Lillegraven was born at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1948. She received her BA in art from San Diego State University in 1970, and a BS in zoology, also from San Diego State, in 1...

Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Last of the Strays, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 40, Image Size: 20 x 26 inches, Size: 22.5 ...

Rowboat at the Edge of the Pond in Watercolor on Paper Serene watercolor by Barbara Jablin (American, b. 1922). A small rowboat is tied up at a small dock in a calm lake. There are ...

Night Doorway, Oil on panel, nocturne Park Slope, Brooklyn Dr. Rowland S. Russell PhD. writes about his experience directly witnessing Greg's practice as a “plein air” artist: Whet...

This drawing reveals the artist's mastery of the medium and her connection to her subjects. In this one, we peek beach-strewn seashells from her travels to Sanibel Island boast bubbl...

Dining Room Interior Scene in Oil on Masonite Inviting and warm interior dining room scene by S. Spencer (American, 20th Century). Lovingly painted scene of a dining table with orna...

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...

Jimmy Abeita B. 1947 painting is oil on canvas Image 9x12 Overall with frame 15x18 inches Signed lower right Housed in original Frame Gallery labels: Adobe Gallery and Brandywine gal...

This late-1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Manuela Boraomanero (left) and Emanuela Beghelli holiday in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Amp...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Alex Roulette’s paintings depict false realities. The artist constructs landscapes from numerous source photographs, which he uses a...

Flight by Zolton Sepeshy This is an important, large painting of an approaching storm on the sand dunes that line Michigan's coast, entitled Flight. Zolton Sepeshy, who lived and p...

Black and white landscape photograph of a Monterey pine tree partially silhouetted against a cloudy sky, by possibly Jim Deike (American, 20th Century). Signed illegibly lower right....

A Winter Morning-Shoveling Out Wood engraving, 1871, with grey ink wash added later by a skillful artist Signed with the artist's initials lower right (see photo) Signed in type fac...

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...

This piece a holiday card with hand painted print by the Social Realist artist Moses Soyer. Here, the artist depicts the figure of a dancer assuming different ballet poses and works ...

C-Print on Argentic paper Others sizes are available upon simple request Shipping of the artwork will be done in a tube or flat in a crate with or without American box frame. Additional fees will be requested for this type of frame + shipping Hugo Pondz...

Nora Othic is considered one of the top regionalist painters in the Midwest. She builds on a legacy from her artistic predecessors such as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and the WPA ...

Harry Schaare, American (1922 - 2008) - Gloucester Fisherman, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 50, Image Size: 29.5 x 22 inches, S...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Osprey, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 24 x 17 i...

Harry Schaare, American (1922 - 2008) - The Seagull, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 50, Image Size: 21 x 29 inches, Size: ...

John Beerman, American (1958 -) - Sea Outlook, Year: 1985, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 4/5, Image Size: 7 x 9 inches, Size: 15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 3...

Manning de Villenueve Lee:1894-1980. Well listed American painter and illustrator with Auction records up to $22,500. This spectacular painting is one of our favorites. Probably pain...

1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking st...

Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian/American (1920 - 2005) - Native American Portrait, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm), Description: An unfinished...

Stevan Dohanos: 1907-1994. Very important American painter and illustrator. He has auction record over $200,000 just 2 months ago. He has sold for much more through galleries. This h...

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 ...

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. T...

This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959. This ...

Iconic portrait photograph by midcentury society photographer Slim Aarons, capturing young Jackie Kennedy (Jacqueline Onassis) (1929 - 1994) wife of Senator Jack Kennedy, at a 'April...

The sacrificial ceremony, Freemans The Collection of Philip Desind Signed Three times Riggs l.r. A powerful account of moments a tribe member is cut open and the heart is handed over to a young brave, There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. That's easy. To execute a portrait with a great depth of anatomy and structure takes years of academic training. In Riggs's time there were teachers who knew how to pass on this knowledge. He studied at the Art Students League and the Académie Julian . Today, they are very few and far between. - Robert Riggs was a Gay Artist...

Tony Cipriano, After - Portrait of a Man, Year: 1908, Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and date inscribed at base, Size: 12 x 6.75 x 4 in. (30.48 x 17.15 x 10.16 cm)

Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of tiger lilies, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist De...

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Artist Guigen Zha displays elegant lotuses with broad fleeting leaves. He paints the poetic piece with his unique style dubbed virtu...

This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 w...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Bob White Quails II, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 22 x 18 inches, Siz...

This classic Slim Aarons photograph depicts a couple basking under the sun at the renowned Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. The woman in the forefront sports a vintage orange swimsuit and a chic straw sunhat adorned with a vibrant red ribbon. Dominating the scene is a tropical holiday tree and candy cane themed umbrella, situated between two palm trees, further accentuated by a tray filled with neatly wrapped holiday gifts. The creative interplay between the inverted triangle of the chair and the conventional triangle of the umbrella culminates in a balanced yet dynamic composition. With the midcentury tropical beach setting and warm orange color palette, this festive Slim Aarons photograph transcends seasons, making it a timeless piece to appreciate year-round. Slim Aarons Palm Beach Idyll...

Simon’s automotive illustrations have been featured in Road & Track, Sports Car International, Automobile, Thoroughbred and Classic Cars, Classic and Sportscar, and Vintage Motorsport magazines. Favorite projects document automotive racing history, and he has designed over 60 original automotive racing posters for such clients as UNOCAL, Michelin, BF Goodrich, SVRA’s Bahama Vintage Grand Prix, and a series of Monterey Auction posters. Simon designed and illustrated the cover of the Indianapolis 500...

John McNulty, Irish/American (1949 - ) - Waves, Year: 1984, Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed and titled in pencil, Edition: 175, Image Size: 18 x 24 i...

"Natalie's" - Plein Aire Pastoral Landscape in Pastel on Sandpaper Serene plein aire landscape with cows by Clive R. Tyler (American, b. 1958). This composition depicts a farm in Fort Collins, Colorado, with a large white barn at the top of the hill. There are several cows grazing in a bright green pasture. A partially broken fence is directly in front of the viewer - a symbol of the artist's desire to portray the realism of the scene, including imperfections. This piece is executed on sandpaper, a trademark of Tyler's work. Signed "CL Tyler" in the lower left corner Signed, notated, titled, and dated on verso (see photo). Presented in a silver colored frame. Frame size: 11.25"H x 14"W Paper size: 9.5"H x 12"W Clive R. Tyler (American, b. 1958) studied Fine Art and Design at Kent State University (Ohio) with a double major and was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Art degree. Twenty years later after a successful design career, he is now known as one of the best Pastelists on a national level. Master Member of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society 2016 Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Plein Air Festival, NM 2015 Best Quick Draw Award, Buffalo Bill Museum Art Auction, Cody Wy 2015 Best of Pastel Award, American Impressionist Society 2015 Brinton Museum, Invitational Miniature show. Sheridan. Wy 2015 Invitational Heart of the West, Masters art show. Coeur d’Alene Resort, Id 2014 Booth Museum Cartersville Ga. Acquisition and Teaching 2014 Coors Foundation purchase Aspen 3 series. Corporate Collection Denver, Co 2013 American Impressionist National Show, Award of Excellence. 2013 Artist Choice Award Easton Maryland...

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...

This artwork titled "Soaking Up" c.1970 is an original lithograph on Wove paper by noted western artist Tom (Thomas) Ryan, 1922-2011. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 68/100 in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 12.25 x 17.35 inches, sheet size is 17.5 x 21.65 inches. It is in excellent condition About the artist: Tom Ryan was born Jan. 12, 1922, in Springfield, Ill., to William Martin Ryan — whose family immigrated to Illinois from Ireland in the 1880s — and Sarah Helen Behrens, whose ancestry predates the Revolutionary War. They had nine children — six boys and three girls. He began drawing before he went to school. "I was 4 years old and drawing airplanes, and an older brother was helping me," Ryan told the Reporter-Telegram in a 2002 interview at the Haley Library's going away party held in his honor. "Those were my first art lessons." He did not decide to be an artist until after his service in World War II. While in the U.S. Navy during the war, he "made quite a bit of money" drawing portraits of his shipmates and other servicemen. After being discharged in 1945, he picked up a Life magazine that carried an article about N.C. Wyeth. "I read the article, and I liked what I read, and I loved the pictures reproduced from his paintings in the article," Ryan said in 2002. "I decided then and there to be an artist." Following his graduation from the American Academy of Art, an education made possible through the GI Bill, he returned to Springfield where he married Jacqueline "Jacquie" Harvey, daughter of a local doctor. She died in 1998. The Ryans moved to New York City where he continued his studies at the Art Students League. During his second year at the Art Students League, he won a contest. His winning painting became the cover for Western writer Ernest Haycox's novel The Outlaw. "Every month after that I also received an assignment from this publisher, and they would be Western novels," Ryan said in 2002. "So that's what I did for the next six or seven years. Then I started exhibiting at the Latendorf Gallery on Madison Avenue. What I sold mainly were the book covers. They would be published and I would get paid by the publisher, and I'd take them to the gallery, and I'd get paid again." Ryan began making trips west in the late 1950s. He would stay three or four months painting, sketching and photographing scenes he'd need later. At that time, his works centered around historical events and places. "I particularly liked to do some of the trail drive things that I did, like the old longhorns," Ryan said in 2002. In the early 1960s, a work by Norman Rockwell and one by Ryan appeared in the same catalog. Rockwell, who was doing the Boy Scouts calendars for Brown and Bigelow, the premiere calendar publishing company in the United States, told the calendar company about Ryan. "The art director gave me a call and asked if I'd like to do a contemporary cowboy...

Lorna Patrick, American - Kiva, Medium: Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: CXXIII/CLXV, Image Size: 35 x 24 inches, Size: 42 x 34 in. (106.68 x 86.36 cm), Fra...

Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Blanket Signals, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 22.5 x 18 inches, Size: 25 i...

In addition to having his work in museums and fine corporate collections, Alabama artist Donny Finley showed for years at prestigious Bryant Galleries on ...

Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) Cowboy 33 3/4 x 36 inches Oil on paper, c. 1930s Signed...

1930s Zeppelin Over San Francisco Landscape Bright and evocative 1938 painting of burning Zeppelin by Ethel Grace Arpin Harlo Lynn (American 1881-1960). This was original painting w...

In the 1880’s Smith made a trip to Italy, which added a whole new dimension to his work. His tight style was highly suited to the depiction of the majestic architecture and complex c...

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This piece depicts the colorful Rainbow Gardens area near Las Vegas. While sheltering in place, artist Crystal DiPietro found peace and solace in these hills ...

Lambert Cove was painted en plein-air in Lambert Cove, Massachusetts. A very refined and tight hand from Minoff creates a most-realistic landscape. Unf...

Four Sheep in the Field, Realist, Light/ Shadow Oil Painting 36" x 24" Farm The third and fourth photos show thow this painting will look after being professionally taken by 2/23...

Subway 43 by John Conn was originally photographed in New York City between 1975 and 1982. Each black and white photograph is signed and numbered. Edition of 15. It is a 20x30 ima...

Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Market Flowers V" is a masterfully created realistic oil still-life. This painting measures at 12 x 12 inches, and is framed in a thin black frame ...

Artist: Stanley Borack, American (1927 - ) Title: The Sentry's Vigil Year: 1977 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. Size: 22 x 27 inches Frame: 33 x 37 inches

Robert Monell Pratt (1811-1880) was a Rare New york Artist whose artworks were commissioned by wealthy merchants and Exhibited in museums The current work was deaccessioned from the...

Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...